Writing into Alert.log file helps in big way

What is Alert.log file?

When we define the alert.log file it can be found as “The Alert.log file speaks a log that records all the important information for errors, messages and those exceptions which occurs during database operations”. All the record saved in this file is in an order which helps to figure out the solution in easy manner. This Alert.log file informs you about different ORA errors, Database Starting and Shutdown, log switches, pointers to dump files and trace as well.

Core part for DBA

This Alert.log is the important place for Database Administrator (DBA), who will go straight away in this file if there are any errors found in the database. It has all the record of different errors faced by database.

An important source to monitor

There are many organizations which monitor the Alert.log file on daily basis; this file helps them for finding errors and exceptions. They also add errors in that particular file, if they found in database. It aids database administrator to sort out the problems and make things smooth and functional.

Extra features

• Oracle provides the facility to include manual recording into this Alert.log file and also make possible to trace files.
• Another procedure kdswrt in dbms_system package which provides benefit to writer to write personal messages in the Alert.log files, trace files or in both. This is first way where you can write your own text, the other one is text string, which is message itself.

Very important to use

Writing into this Alert.log file is really important and handy feature for exception handling and successful working progress of database. It can also be used for the purpose of PL/SQL procedures and Linux/Unix scripts. Whereas, it is also used for adding Alert.log messages from many different OS scripts.

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