Oracle Diagnostic Events

Oracle diagnostic events can be considered the most powerful tools for DBAs who are involved in debugging. Most of these events are primarily used to produce additional diagnostic information, to change Oracle’s behavior, and to trace the inner workings of Oracle because these events can enable some of the undocumented features of Oracle.

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Diagnostic events should be handled with care because they can change the default behavior of the Oracle Database engine and will render the database useless and unsupported if used improperly.

Types of Diagnostic Events

Oracle diagnostic events can be classified in four major categories ...

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