Archive for April 22nd, 2011

Reading Alert Log

With Oracle 10g, external table was required to read alert log  but luckily Oracle 11g created a system table that can be used to access alert log from SQL:  X$DBGALERTEXT. Oracle reads the log.xml from alert directory (which contains all the data what alert.log does), parses it and returns the details back as rows. Beginning [...]

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