Quite a while ago I wrote about how to setup the alert log as an external table. Since then 11g has been introduced and is now widely used. It of course changes the location and makes the alert log an xml file. While it is possible to select from it using xml functions like Laurent…
Instead of having to look at your different alert logs for ORA-00600 errors frequently, why not have them come to you? This post will, as promised, show the Perl code needed to publish a feed with ORA-00600 errors. This is building on the previous two posts that shows how to create an external table for…
Time to expand on the last post. As promised this will be about how to get the ORA-00600 information out of an external table for the alert log. We will use the same user and setup as we had in that post. Lets first review how an ORA-00600 is represented in the alert log. The…
I’m going to discuss how to get SQL access to your alert log in this entry. I will then build on that to make it even more useful in future posts. Browsing the alert log can be convenient if you’re already on the server. However, it is often not possible or at least not overly…
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