Re: When do system events become effective?

Uwe,

Does the approach at
http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com/2004/06/we-have-one-of-those-irritating-issues help? Note larry wolfson of this list pointed out that in 9i don't try to monitor errors not caused by sql statements with this approach.

cheers

Niall

On 5/2/07, Uwe Küchler <uwe_at_kuechler.org> wrote:
> Oracle 9.2.0.6, HP-UX 11.11
>
> Hello world,
> today I was trying to track down the SQL causing a full TEMP tablespace by
> tracing the 1652 event. I tried the following commands:
>
> - ALTER SYSTEM SET EVENTS '1652 trace name errorstack';
> - ALTER SYSTEM SET EVENTS = '1652 trace name errorstack';
> - ALTER SYSTEM SET EVENTS = '1652 trace name context forever, level 12';
> - oradebug event 1652 trace name errorstack
>
> on a running system, but no trace files have been generated, although the
> alert log was flooded with this event after enabling trace.
>
> I had the same effect with the 10046 event a while ago and supposed that
> it only comes in effect when a new session is started, but then "oradebug"
> would be usesless in this case. This cannot be. Unfortunately (as so
> often) I didn't have the time to research, but now i need some input from
> you folks!
>
> So, why is there no tracefile after enabling trace and clearly seeing the
> traced event happen?
>
> Regards,
> Uwe
>
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