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Oracle Concepts - List of Oracle Event Codes

Oracle Tips by Burleson Consulting

The Initialization File Event Settings

The SET EVENTS command in an init<SID>.ora file have generally been placed there at the command of Oracle support to perform specific functions. Usually these alerts turn on more advanced levels of tracing and error detection than are commonly available. Source 7 lists some of the more common events.

SOURCE 7: Example uses of Oracle event codes.

To enable block header and trailer checking to detect corrupt blocks:

event="10210 trace name context forever, level 10"  for tables
event="10211 trace name context forever, level 10"  for indexes

and to go with these the undocumented parameter setting:

 _db_block_cache_protect=TRUE

Which will prevent corruption from getting to your disks (at the cost of a database crash)

For tracing of a MAX_CURSORS exceeded error:

event="1000 trace name ERRORSTACK level 3"

To get an error stack related to a SQLNET ORA-03120 error:

event="3120 trace name error stack"

To turn on bitmapped indexes  in 7.3.2:

event="10111 trace name context forever"
event="10112 trace name context forever"
event="10114 trace name context forever"

and?set the initialization parameter COMPATIBLE to 7.3.2

To work around a space leak problem:

event="10262 trace name context forever, level 1024"

To trace memory shortages:

event="10235 trace name context forever, level 4"
event="600 trace name heapdump, level 4"

Events are also used as the SESSION level:

alter session set events '10046 trace name context forever level NN'

     where NN:

          1 ? same as a regular trace
          4 ? also dump bind variables
          8 ? also dump wait information
          12 ? dump both bind and wait information

To coalesce freespace in a tablespace pre-7.3:

alter session set events 'immediate trace name coalesce level XX'

     where XX:

                the value of ts# from ts$ table for the tablespace

A list of the Oracle Event codes is shown in Table 15.

Code

Description

10000

Control file debug event, name ?control_file?

10001

Control file crash event1

10002

Control file crash event2

10003

Control file crash event3

10004

Control file crash event4

10005

Trace latch operations for debugging

10006

Testing - block recovery forced

10007

Log switch debug crash after new log select, thread %s

10008

Log switch debug crash after new log header write, thread %s

10009

Log switch debug crash after old log header write, thread %s

10010

Begin Transaction

10011

End Transaction

10012

Abort Transaction

10013

Instance Recovery

10014

Roll Back to Save Point

10015

Undo Segment Recovery

10016

Undo Segment extend

10017

Undo Segment Wrap

10018

Data Segment Create

10019

Data Segment Recovery

10020

Partial link restored to linked list (KSG)

10021

Latch cleanup for state objects (KSS)

10022

Trace ktsgsp

10023

Create Save Undo Segment

10024

Write to Save Undo

10025

Extend Save Undo Segment

10026

Apply Save Undo

10027

Latch cleanup for enqueue locks (KSQ)

10028

Latch cleanup for enqueue resources (KSQ)

10029

Session logon (KSU)

10030

Session logoff (KSU)

10031

Row source debug event (R*)

10032

Sort end (SOR*)

10035

Parse SQL statement (OPIPRS)

10036

Create remote row source (QKANET)

10037

Allocate remote row source (QKARWS)

10038

Dump row source tree (QBADRV)

10039

Type checking (OPITCA)

10040

Dirty cache list

10041

Dump undo records skipped

10042

Trap error during undo application

10044

Free list undo operations

10045

Free list update operations - ktsrsp, ktsunl

10046

Enable SQL statement timing

10047

Trace switching of sessions

10048

Undo segment shrink

10049

Protect library cache memory heaps

10050

Sniper trace

10051

Trace OPI calls

10052

Don?t clean up obj$

10053

CBO Enable optimizer trace

10054

Trace UNDO handling in MLS

10055

Trace UNDO handing

10056

Dump analyze stats (kdg)

10057

Suppress file names in error messages

10058

Use table scan cost in tab$.spare1

10060

CBO Enable predicate dump

10061

Disable SMON from cleaning temp segment

10062

Disable usage of OS Roles in osds

10063

Disable usage of DBA and OPER privileges in osds

10064

Thread enable debug crash level %s, thread %s

10065

Limit library cache dump information for state object dump

10066

Simulate failure to verify file

10067

Force redo log checksum errors - block number

10068

Force redo log checksum errors - file number

10069

Trusted Oracle test event

10070

Force datafile checksum errors - block number

10071

Force datafile checksum errors - file number

10072

Protect latch recovery memory

10073

Have PMON dump info before latch cleanup

10074

Default trace function mask for kst

10075

CBO Disable outer-join to regular join conversion

10076

CBO Enable cartesian product join costing

10077

CBO Disable view-merging optimization for outer-joins

10078

CBO Disable constant predicate elimination optimization

10080

Dump a block on a segment list which cannot be exchanged

10081

Segment High Water Mark has been advanced

10082

Free list head block is the same as the last block

10083

A brand new block has been requested from space management

10084

Free list becomes empty

10085

Free lists have been merged

10086

CBO Enable error if kko and qka disagree on oby sort

10087

Disable repair of media corrupt data blocks

10088

CBO Disable new NOT IN optimization

10089

CBO Disable index sorting

10090

Invoke other events before crash recovery

10091

CBO Disable constant predicate merging

10092

CBO Disable hash join

10093

CBO Enable force hash joins

10094

Before resizing a data file

10095

Dump debugger commands to trace file

10096

After the cross instance call when resizing a data file

10097

After generating redo when resizing a data file

10098

After the OS has increased the size of a data file

10099

After updating the file header with the new file size

10100

After the OS has decreased the size of a data file

10101

Atomic redo write recovery

10102

Switch off anti-joins

10103

CBO Disable hash join swapping

10104

Dump hash join statistics to trace file

10105

CBO Enable constant pred trans and MPs w WHERE-clause

10106

CBO Disable evaluating correlation pred last for NOT IN

10107

CBO Always use bitmap index

10108

CBO Don?t use bitmap index

10109

CBO Disable move of negated predicates

10110

CBO Try index rowid range scans

10111

Bitmap index creation switch

10112

Bitmap index creation switch

10113

Bitmap index creation switch

10114

Bitmap index creation switch

10115

CBO Bitmap optimization use maximal expression

10116

CBO Bitmap optimization switch

10117

CBO Disable new parallel cost model

10118

CBO Enable hash join costing

10119

QKA Disable GBY sort elimination

10120

CBO Disable index fast full scan

10121

CBO Don?t sort bitmap chains

10122

CBO disable count(col) = count(*) transformation

10123

QKA Disable Bitmap And-EQuals

10145

Test auditing network errors

10146

Enable Oracle TRACE collection

10200

Block cleanout

10201

Consistent read undo application

10202

Consistent read block header

10203

Consistent read buffer status

10204

Signal recursive extend

10205

Row cache debugging

10206

Transaction table consistent read

10207

Consistent read transactions? status report

10208

Consistent read loop check

10209

Enable simulated error on control file

10210

Check data block integrity

10211

Check index block integrity

10212

Check cluster integrity

10213

Crash after control file write

10214

Simulate write errors on control file

10215

Simulate read errors on control file

10216

Dump control file header

10217

Debug sequence numbers

10218

Dump uba of applied undo

10219

Monitor multi-pass row locking

10220

Show updates to the transaction table

10221

Show changes done with undo

10222

Row cache

10223

Transaction layer - turn on verification codes

10226

Trace CR applications of undo for data operations

10227

Verify (multi-piece) row structure

10228

Trace application of redo by kcocbk

10230

Check redo generation by copying before applying

10231

Skip corrupted blocks on _table_scans_

10232

Dump corrupted blocks symbolically when kcbgotten

10233

Skip corrupted blocks on index operations

10234

Trigger event after calling kcrapc to do redo N times

10235

Check memory manager internal structures

10236

Library cache manager

10237

Simulate ^C (for testing purposes)

10238

Instantiation manager

10239

Multi-instance library cache manager

10240

Dump dba?s of blocks that we wait for

10241

Dump SQL generated for remote execution (OPIX)

10243

Simulated error for test %s of K2GTAB latch cleanup

10244

Make tranids in error msgs print as 0.0.0 (for testing)

10245

Simulate lock conflict error for testing PMON

10246

Print trace of PMON actions to trace file

10247

Turn on scgcmn tracing. (VMS ONLY)

10248

Turn on tracing for dispatchers

10249

Turn on tracing for multi-stated servers

10250

Trace all allocate and free calls to the topmost SGA heap

10251

Check consistency of transaction table and undo block

10252

Simulate write error to data file header

10253

Simulate write error to redo log

10254

Trace cross-instance calls

10256

Turn off multi-threaded server load balancing

10257

Trace multi-threaded server load balancing

10258

Force shared servers to be chosen round-robin

10259

Get error message text from remote using explicit call

10260

Trace calls to SMPRSET (VMS ONLY)

10261

Limit the size of the PGA heap

10262

Don?t check for memory leaks

10263

Don?t free empty PGA heap extents

10264

Collect statistics on context area usage (x$ksmcx)

10265

Keep random system generated output out of error messages

10266

Trace OSD stack usage

10267

Inhibit KSEDMP for testing

10268

Don?t do forward coalesce when deleting extents

10269

Don?t do coalesces of free space in SMON

10270

Debug shared cursors

10271

Distributed transaction after COLLECT

10272

Distributed transaction before PREPARE

10273

Distributed transaction after PREPARE

10274

Distributed transaction before COMMIT

10275

Distributed transaction after COMMIT

10276

Distributed transaction before FORGET

10277

Cursor sharing (or not) related event (used for testing)

10281

Maximum time to wait for process creation

10282

Inhibit signalling of other backgrounds when one dies

10286

Simulate control file open error

10287

Simulate archiver error

10288

Do not check block type in ktrget

10289

Do block dumps to trace file in hex rather than fromatted

10290

Kdnchk - checkvalid event - not for general purpose use.

10291

Die in dtsdrv to test controlfile undo?

10292

Dump uet entries on a 1561 from dtsdrv?

10293

Dump debugging information when doing block recovery?

10294

Enable PERSISTENT DLM operations on non-compliant systems?

10300

Disable undo compatibility check at database open

10301

Enable LCK timeout table consistency check?

10320

Enable data layer (kdtgrs) tracing of space management calls?

10352

Report direct path statistics

10353

Number of slots

10354

Turn on direct read path for parallel query

10355

Turn on direct read path for scans

10356

Turn on hint usage for direct read

10357

Turn on debug information for direct path

10374

Parallel query server interrupt (validate lock value)

10375

Turn on checks for statistics rollups

10376

Turn on table queue statistics

10377

Turn off load balancing

10379

Direct read for rowid range scans (unimplemented)

10380

Kxfp latch cleanup testing event

10381

Kxfp latch cleanup testing event

10382

Parallel query server interrupt (reset)

10383

Auto parallelization testing event

10384

Parallel dataflow scheduler tracing

10385

Parallel table scan range sampling method

10386

Parallel SQL hash and range statistics

10387

Parallel query server interrupt (normal)

10388

Parallel query server interrupt (failure)

10389

Parallel query server interrupt (cleanup)

10390

Trace parallel query slave execution

10391

Trace rowid range partitioning

10392

Parallel query debugging bits

10393

Print parallel query statistics

10394

Allow parallelization of small tables

10395

Adjust sample size for range table queues

10396

Circumvent range table queues for queries

10397

Suppress verbose parallel coordinator error reporting

10398

Enable timeouts in parallel query threads

10399

Use different internal maximum buffer size

10400

Turn on system state dumps for shutdown debugging

10500

Turn on traces for SMON

10510

Turn off SMON check to offline pending offline rollbacksegment

10511

Turn off SMON check to cleanup undo dictionary

10512

Turn off SMON check to shrink rollback segments

10600

Check cursor frame allocation

10602

Cause an access violation (for testing purposes)

10603

Cause an error to occur during truncate (for testing purposes)

10604

Trace parallel create index

10605

Enable parallel create index by default

10606

Trace parallel create index

10607

Trace index rowid partition scan

10608

Trace create bitmap index

10610

Trace create index pseudo optimizer

10666

Do not get database enqueue name

10667

Cause sppst to check for valid process ids

10690

Set shadow process core file dump type (Unix only)

10691

Set background process core file type (Unix only)

10700

Alter access violation exception handler

10701

Dump direct loader index keys

10702

Enable histogram data generation

10703

Simulate process death during enqueue get

10704

Print out information about what enqueues are being obtained

10706

Print out information about instance lock manipulation

10707

Simulate process death for instance registration

10708

Print out Tracing information for skxf multi instance comms

10709

Enable parallel instances in create index by default

10710

Trace bitmap index access

10711

Trace bitmap index merge

10712

Trace bitmap index or

10713

Trace bitmap index and

10714

Trace bitmap index minus

10715

Trace bitmap index conversion to rowids

10800

Disable Smart Disk scan

10801

Enable Smart Disk trace

10802

Reserved for Smart Disk

10803

Write timing statistics on OPS recovery scan

10804

Reserved for ksxb

10805

Reserved for row sort

10900

Extent manager fault insertion event #%s

10924

Import storage parse error ignore event

10925

Trace name context forever

10926

Trace name context forever

10927

trace name context forever

10928

trace name context forever

10999

do not get database enqueue name

Table 15: List of Oracle Event Codes

Source 7 shows how to use events

Source 7  Use of SET EVENTS  at the session level

How to dump a segment header - by Don Burleson

set heading off;
spool dump_em.sql;

select
'alter session set events ''immediate trace name blockdump level '||
to_char((header_file*16777216)+header_block)||''';'
from
dba_segments
where
segment_name = 'VBAP'; 

spool off; 

cat dump_em.sql
@dump_em

The segment header block dump will be in the user session trace file.

As with the undocumented initialization parameters, events should only be used under the direction of a senior-level DBA or Oracle support.

 


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