Re: To set events or not set events, that is the question

  • From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:15:45 +0100

comments as always
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:06:33 -0600, Daniel Fink <daniel.fink@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I can't speak for Oracle (nor Sun), but my take is that often these events 
> are set for a specific purpose, then the reason for
> setting them disappears into the mist of time. I love the ones that reference 
> a TAR that you can no longer view and Support can't
> tell you why. Anytime a new version (even a bug fix) is installed, the event 
> may cause new problems.

I agree entirely. 

> 
> If there is any other way to deal with a problem, I would definitely do it.

And there is.... 

You can log the errors and associated statements, plus lots of other
goodies if you want to a table using a trigger and the system events
that are (I think) new in 9. It also has the advantage that you can
change what events you monitor, or enable/disable monitoring without
bouncing the database.

I have an example set of scripts on my site (utility for trapping
arbitrary server errors or some such wording) . Naturally since I
wrote the script we haven't had a single 1652 (which we were looking
for) but you'll get the idea.



-- 
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com

P.S. Dan - you might like to check out the creative commons licensing
for your intellectual property questions.
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