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Alert log files
What are four errors found in an alert (error) log that can ruin a DBA's appetite and how can you avoid them?


  
Total Answers and Comments: 3 Last Update: July 07, 2009     Asked by: msvkrishna 
  
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Submitted by: gyanudba
 

If we are getting any issue regarding database while performing any activity we should check alert log file in dump destination.
1) Snapshot too old error (O1555)
2) Deadlock error
3) Any issue regarding backup & recovery



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vishawnath
February 06, 2009 08:20:17   #1  
gyanudba Member Since: January 2009   Contribution: 9    

RE: Alert log files

If we are getting any issue regarding database while performing any activity we should check alert log file in dump destination.
1) Snapshot too old error (O1555)
2) Deadlock error
3) Any issue regarding backup & recovery


 
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March 24, 2009 01:15:34   #2  
vishawnath Member Since: March 2009   Contribution: 1    

RE: Alert log files
Deadlock Errors
Oracle Internal errors
Backup and recovery errors
Snapshot too old error

 
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July 07, 2009 01:33:46   #3  
aravindhreturns Member Since: July 2009   Contribution: 5    

RE: Alert log files
I personally feel that more error we come across more stronger our roots become.
Errors are not gonna ruin the DBA's apettite. Both my pals above forgot the most notable 'ORA-00600 (Internal Error)'. They occur more than the most. :) And of course ORA-01578 (Block Corruption). We don't see them too often Do we? It is yet another error which can be
very much solved in a corporate environment since they have back-ups even for a mouse-click ;)

Now This error ORA-00060 (Deadlock) is not too tough to break through. You've got two options:- either rollback and rerun the statement (or) Wait till the statement is issue so that the resources are freed up. And
others are day-to-day alerts (Which can be pretty much ignored) like:


ARCx: Media recovery disabled


This message will be written into the alert.log if the arch process is started with the database being in noarchive log mode.


Ignoring SIGALARM Such a message is written into the alert log when a process that waited for a semaphoreThread 1 cannot allocate new log sequence 1558 Checkpoint not complete


This error message is written into the alert.log if a checkpoint cannot write all dirty db blocks to the online redo log.


 
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