TweetShareSharePin0 SharesTime 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 actual arguments does not matter, I took them from a forum post to just have an example. What we care about for what we’re […]
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SQL Access to the alert log
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesI’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 convenient. You may find that as the developer DBA you do not have access to the production server, or you have to log in […]
Multitable insert
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesMutlitable insert is a feature I’ve read about many times, but I’ve never taken the time to read up on it or play with the way this SQL statement works. I figure making a post about it will give me the reason I need to learn more about it. It is not so much a new statement as an extension of the existing INSERT statement. It allows you to insert into different tables and with different conditions from a […]
The WITH clause
TweetShareSharePin0 SharesTo mix the last post with something that may be easier to digest, I’ll make this one about one of my favorite keywords in SQL. It is the WITH clause. I can only think of one bad thing with it; it’s name. It’s virtually impossible to search for information on something with a name that results in over 4 billion hits on a Google search. One reason for why I like it is for how I learned about it’s […]