ORACLE LOG ERRORS - Bug in oracle??

Hi,
we are using oracle log errors to capture oversized err records for varchar2 type fields. Sql is something like:
INSERT INTO abc (col1,col2) VALUES ('asdsass','weqwewqee') LOG ERRORS INTO abc_err('1') REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED;
But, data captured in abc table is trimmed data. Right spaces present in source are being trimmed by oracle while capturing this error table. I have the following queries:
-Has anyone else experienced this type of behavior?
-Is it a bug in oracle log errors functionallity??
-Is there any workaround to use oracle log errors functionality to catch untrimmed data?
thanks,
Edited by: user7036480 on Dec 11, 2008 4:22 PM

user7036480 wrote:
-Has anyone else experienced this type of behavior? Yes, described in that issue while "log errors into g_logtest_err(1) reject limit 1" (is it you?)
-Is it a bug in oracle log errors functionallity?? Raise a SR to know.
-Is there any workaround to use oracle log errors functionality to catch untrimmed data?No.
Nicolas.

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Regards, Pierre

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at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:703)
at oracle.javatools.internal.ui.EventQueueWrapper._dispatchEvent(EventQueueWrapper.java:169)
at oracle.javatools.internal.ui.EventQueueWrapper.dispatchEvent(EventQueueWrapper.java:151)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:154)
at java.awt.WaitDispatchSupport$2.run(WaitDispatchSupport.java:182)
at java.awt.WaitDispatchSupport$4.run(WaitDispatchSupport.java:221)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.awt.WaitDispatchSupport.enter(WaitDispatchSupport.java:219)
at java.awt.Dialog.show(Dialog.java:1082)
at java.awt.Component.show(Component.java:1651)
at java.awt.Component.setVisible(Component.java:1603)
at java.awt.Window.setVisible(Window.java:1014)
at java.awt.Dialog.setVisible(Dialog.java:1005)
at oracle.bali.ewt.wizard.WizardDialog.runDialog(WizardDialog.java:382)
at oracle.bali.ewt.wizard.WizardDialog.runDialog(WizardDialog.java:298)
at oracle.ide.dialogs.WizardLauncher.runDialog(WizardLauncher.java:51)
at oracle.ideimpl.webupdate.wizard.UpdateWizard.runWizard(UpdateWizard.java:261)
at oracle.ideimpl.webupdate.WebUpdateController.checkForUpdates(WebUpdateController.java:24)
at oracle.ideimpl.webupdate.WebUpdateController.handleEvent(WebUpdateController.java:31)
at oracle.ideimpl.controller.MetaClassController.handleEvent(MetaClassController.java:53)
at oracle.ide.controller.IdeAction$ControllerDelegatingController.handleEvent(IdeAction.java:1482)
at oracle.ide.controller.IdeAction.performAction(IdeAction.java:663)
at oracle.ide.controller.IdeAction.actionPerformedImpl(IdeAction.java:1153)
at oracle.ide.controller.IdeAction.actionPerformed(IdeAction.java:618)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2018)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2341)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:402)
at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:259)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:376)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(BasicMenuItemUI.java:833)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased(BasicMenuItemUI.java:877)
at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6505)
at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3320)
at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6270)
at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2229)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4861)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2287)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4687)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4832)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4492)
at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4422)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2273)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2719)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4687)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:735)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$200(EventQueue.java:103)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:694)
at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:692)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:87)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:708)
at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:706)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:705)
at oracle.javatools.internal.ui.EventQueueWrapper._dispatchEvent(EventQueueWrapper.java:169)
at oracle.javatools.internal.ui.EventQueueWrapper.dispatchEvent(EventQueueWrapper.java:151)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:150)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:146)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:138)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:91)
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I'm getting an error message when trying to install the Oracle Rdb Extension (7.3).
I'm not sure if that extension has been upgraded for sql developer 4. Extensions written for previous versions won't work in sql developer 4 - they need to be modified to support the OSGI framework.
Leave the thread open until one of the sql developer team members can answer this.
Here is the note from the sql developer exchange home page
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/extensions-083825.html
Special Note Regarding Extensions Developed Prior to SQL Developer
v4.0:
With the new release of SQL
Developer 4.0, an extension that was written for a previous version of SQL
Developer will no longer work. SQL Developer is built on the JDeveloper
Framework. We have updated the framework to be current with the JDeveloper 12c
release. With JDeveloper 11gR2, they switched to an OSGI framework. The JDeveloper team has published instructions for updating your extensions to be compatible with
the new framework and SQL Developer v4.0.
The Check for Updates interface
has been updated to hide any 3rd party extensions to avoid confusion with
extensions not loading. Once you have updated your extension for version 4 and
beyond, let us know, and we'll update the system to make it available again. For
questions regarding the process of going from the old to new framework, we have
started a dedicated
thread on the Forums. You can also email the Product Manager, Jeff Smith, to
setup a call with one of our developers for additional assistance.
As that note says if that extension is NOT for version 4 it shouldn't show up on the list of updates.

Oracle 9.2i - Log Errors in a Merge Statement

Hi all,
I want to log errors in a merge statement in way to allow the statement to finish without rollback. I see that in Oracle 10g2 it is possible with "LOG ERRORS INTO err$_dest ('MERGE') REJECT LIMIT UNLIMITED;" instruction but, apparently, it's not possible in Oracle 9.2i.
Is there another way to solve this problem?

Depending on what type of errors you expect, you may be helped by deferring your constraints: unique, foreign key and check constraints can be deferred; that means they are only enforced when you commit.
You could defer all constraints, perform the bulk insert and then instead of committing you first try to set all constraints to immediate. If this fails, there are errors. If it does not, you can commit.
To find the exact errors, you can try to switch all deferred constraints back to immediate one by one. The ones that succeed are not violated by your transaction, oinly the ones that fail to switch to immediate are not met by your transaction.
For the violated constraints, you can find the offending records by simply selecting them. For example if the check constraint states Col X + Col Y < 10000 you will find the offending records by selecting all records where not (Col X + Col Y < 10000 ). Unfortunately we have no better mechanism than this for finding the records that are in violation of the rules.
best regards
Lucas

Does oracle log general errors

Dear experts,
I am using Oracle 11.2.0.3. I am researching on random ORA-00900:     invalid SQL statement error that we are seeing in production. Does oracle log such errors in alert.log or any tables? If not can we configure to log such errors?
Thanks.

Dont understand.... you are seeing ORA-00900 in production but don't know where to search this error? where do you see it?It is being logged from application in event log which I do not have access to. I wanted to check if oracle also logs such error some where.
SQL Banner : SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Wed Nov 28 12:12:25 2012
SQL :
SELECT
overload,
DECODE (
position,
0,
'RETURN_VALUE',
NVL (argument_name, CHR (0))
) AS name,
DECODE (
in_out,
'IN', 1,
'IN/OUT', 3,
'OUT', DECODE (argument_name, NULL, 6, 2),
1
) AS direction,
DECODE (
data_type,
'BFILE', 101,
'BLOB', 102,
'BYTE', 103,
'CHAR', 104,
'CLOB', 105,
'DATE', 106,
'DECIMAL', 107,
'DOUBLE', 108,
'INT16', 111,
'INT32', 112,
'INT64', 113,
'INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND', 114,
'INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH', 115,
'LONG', 109,
'LONG RAW', 110,
'NCHAR', 117,
'NCLOB', 116,
'NVARCHAR2', 119,
'RAW', 120,
'REF CURSOR', 121,
'SINGLE', 122,
'TIMESTAMP', 123,
'TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE', 124,
'TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE', 125,
'VARCHAR2', 126,
'XMLTYPE', 127,
'NUMBER', 107,
126
) AS oracleType,
DECODE (
data_type,
'BLOB', 0,
'CHAR', 0,
'CLOB', 0,
'LONG RAW', 0,
'NCHAR', 0,
'NCLOB', 0,
'NVARCHAR2', 0,
'RAW', 0,
'VARCHAR2', 2048,
0
) AS length,
NVL (data_precision, 255) AS precision,
NVL (data_scale, 255) AS scale
FROM
all_arguments
WHERE
data_level = 0
AND data_type IS NOT NULL
AND owner = :schemaName
AND package_name = :packageName
AND object_name = :methodName
ORDER BY
overload, position
******************** EXCEPTION PROPERTIES ********************
Errors: Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleErrorCollection
Source: Oracle Data Provider for .NET
Number: 900
ErrorCode: -2147467259
Data: System.Collections.ListDictionaryInternal
TargetSite: Void HandleErrorHelper(Int32, Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OracleConnection, IntPtr, Oracle.DataAccess.Client.OpoSqlValCtx*, System.Object, System.String, Boolean)
Edited by: spur230 on Nov 28, 2012 12:13 PM

Oracle Failsafe error and logs

Since I don't see any oracle failsafe forum I post here. Please let me know it this is wrong o there is a better section.
Sometimes when I try to take offline my instance I receive this error:
FS-10890: Oracle Services for MSCS failed during the offline operation
FS-10013: Failed to take the cluster resource ORAWHITE offline
FS-10728: Resource ORAWHITE timed out trying to go offlineThis is very strange since looking the alert log I see that the shutdown takes less than one minute while the timeout is 3 minutes..
Failsafe has any logs that can be investigated?
Hope you can help me.
Cheers
Adriano

user10388158 wrote:
Hi,
i need a little help..
for some reason, my prodcution listerner crashes.. but when looking into the logs of my listener, no error is shown.
even if i check the time stamp, there is no error of the log.forgive me, but I need to ask a simple question.
what proof exists that outage was not an Operating System crash?
if the system crashed, then the Oracle listener would no longer be available to log any connection requests.
Handle:     user10388158
Status Level:     Newbie
Registered:     Mar 10, 2010
Total Posts:     25
Total Questions:     9 (8 unresolved)
why do you waste time here when your questions RARELY get answered?

LOG ERRORS in Oracle 10G R2

Hi all,
I am learning this new feature. I am having two tables
CREATE TABLE source_tab (col1 number, col2 varchar2(5))
CREATE TABLE taget_tab(col1 number, col2 varchar2(4))
taget_tab.col2 length is one character less compared with source_tab.col2
INSERT INTO source_tab VALUES (1,'AAA');
INSERT INTO source_tab VALUES (2,'BBB');
INSERT INTO source_tab VALUES (3,'CCCCC');
INSERT INTO source_tab VALUES (4,'ddd');
Now, I want to insert data from source table to target table. As data shows, source_tab.col1 with col1=3 will throw error, as its col2
size is more than the target table, but i want to continue with the execution and log the this value(3) in log table(logtmp) by using LOG ERRORS
feature of 10Gr2.
I have created log table like this manually
create table logtmp
ORA_ERR_NUMBER$ NUMBER ,
ORA_ERR_MESG$ VARCHAR2(2000),
ORA_ERR_ROWID$ ROWID,
ORA_ERR_OPTYP$ VARCHAR2(2),
ORA_ERR_TAG$ VARCHAR2(2000),
col1 number
Is this possible, if so, please give me the idea.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks,
Pal

See the following example.
/* Table creation */
CREATE TABLE source_tab (col1 number, col2 varchar2(5));
CREATE TABLE target_tab(col1 number, col2 varchar2(4));
execute DBMS_ERRLOG.create_error_log (dml_table_name => 'TARGET_TAB', err_log_table_name => 'LOGTMP');
desc logtmp;
INSERT INTO source_tab VALUES (1,'AAA');
INSERT INTO source_tab VALUES (2,'BBB');
INSERT INTO source_tab VALUES (3,'CCCCC');
INSERT INTO source_tab VALUES (4,'ddd');
commit;
/* Insert that runs into errors */
insert into target_tab
select * from source_tab
log errors into LOGTMP reject limit unlimited;
select * from logtmp;
/* cleanup */
drop table source_tab;
drop table target_tab;
drop table logtmp;Consider to run this step by step.
And here is the relevant output from it.
desc logtmp
Name            Null Typ
ORA_ERR_NUMBER$      NUMBER
ORA_ERR_MESG$        VARCHAR2(2000)
ORA_ERR_ROWID$       UROWID()
ORA_ERR_OPTYP$       VARCHAR2(2)
ORA_ERR_TAG$         VARCHAR2(2000)
COL1                 VARCHAR2(4000)
COL2                 VARCHAR2(4000)
ORA_ERR_NUMBER$ ORA_ERR_MESG$ COL1 COL2
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Hi,
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This error has started coming only after we have migrated to Oracle 10g from Oracle 9i. Earlier the same code used to work properly. And also on Oracle 10g, its not happening every time. Sometimes it gives error while sometimes it works.
Does anybody know about any such bug in Oracle 10g. Our cursor is a parametrized cursor accepting a VARCHAR2 parameter and the value we are passing to it is also character.
Our database is Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production and is running on UNIX server.

And also on Oracle 10g, its not happening every time. Sometimes it gives error while sometimes it works. This is typically due to
a) environment settings that differ from session to session
b) or more often, data
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Hi,
My concurrent request failed due to
Program was terminated by signal 6
Concurrent Manager encountered an error while running Oracle*Report
stat_low = 6
stat_high = 0
emsg:was terminated by signal 6
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
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# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xf7176d3e, pid=17695, tid=4096898752
# JRE version: 6.0_32-b05
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (20.7-b02 mixed mode linux-x86 )
# Problematic frame:
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# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
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Thank You

Hi,
Please provide your environment details.
Is this a custom program? was this report working fine? If yes, what changes were made lately?
Thanks &
Best Regards,

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I'm newbie on oracle, but I think that I found out a bug in Oracle SQL Developer version 3.0.04 on the "generating DLL" tool using "comments".
I will describe the steps that I gave:
I created a view, but after I test it I had to change my “where” condition, so I comment the old code and then I wrote the new “where” condition below. After I done that I tried to look at the sql code of my view using “generating DLL” tool, but oracle sql developer only shown me half of the code, a lot of code were missing. Then I began with some test trying to understand what happen and I notice that if I put an invalid sql code in my comment the generating DLL start working with no problems, for example(pseudo-code):
(COMMENT WITH VALID SQL CODE the "Generating SQL" don't work:)
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW <user>.<view_name> ( <column1>,<column2> )
AS
SELECT column1, column2
FROM table1
INNER JOIN
(SELECT
FROM table2
INNER JOIN .....
INNER JOIN ....
--where time_stamp = (select max(time_stamp) from .....)
WHERE time_stamp >= TRUNC(sysdate)
) t1 ON t1.ID = ....
AND ..... >= TRUNC(sysdate)
ORDER BY ....
Generating DLL returns this(when the error occurs):
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW <user>.<view_name> ( <column1>,<column2> )
AS
(COMMENT WITH VALID SQL CODE the "Generating SQL" work with no problems:)
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW <user>.<view_name> ( <column1>,<column2> )
AS
SELECT column1, column2
FROM table1
INNER JOIN
(SELECT
FROM table2
INNER JOIN .....
INNER JOIN ....
--where
WHERE time_stamp >= TRUNC(sysdate)
) t1 ON t1.ID = ....
AND ..... >= TRUNC(sysdate)
ORDER BY ....
I believe that "Generating DLL" tool have some problem with the comments, I also used /*...*/ to comment but the problem is still active.
I notice as well that if I started to add some more comments along the code, the conditions migth change, so I think the problem is related with "comments" code.
Would you mind telling me if this is a real bug or if I'm doing anything wrong.
Thank you in advance,
Rodrigo Campos
Edited by: 894886 on 3/Nov/2011 5:29

Hi Rodrigo,
Thank you for reporting this. The only bug I see currently logged on a comment affecting the generated View DDL involves ending the last line of the definition with a comment, which treats the ending semi-colon (even if on a different line) as part of the comment. That is actually related to a low-priority bug against an Oracle database API.
Unfortunately, your pseudo-code is a bit complex. Trying a few quick, simpler tests against the standard HR schema did not reproduce the issue. I tried INNER JOIN, and nested SELECTs. It would help greatly if you could provide a test case compilable against one of the standard schema, like HR or SCOTT.
Regards,
Gary
SQL Developer Team

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