Re: DBMS_SUPPORT Versions blues

I've noticed the same disparity, and have also not found a later version.

Jared

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:13:06 -0500, Gogala, Mladen <mladen.gogala_at_aetn.com> wrote:
> Being one of those DBA geeks who always install DBMS_SUPPORT, even in the
> cases when I
> have not been given a direct advice from the Oracle Support, I was
> describing it to a colleague.
> He asked me about the package version function, and I went to see what's in
> it. Here is
> what the function returns:
>
> SQL> select dbms_support.package_version from dual;
>
> PACKAGE_VERSION
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> DBMS_SUPPORT Version 1.0 (17-Aug-1998) - Requires Oracle 7.2 - 8.0.5
>
> SQL> select * from v$version;
>
> BANNER
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
> PL/SQL Release 9.2.0.4.0 - Production
> CORE 9.2.0.3.0 Production
> TNS for HPUX: Version 9.2.0.4.0 - Production
> NLSRTL Version 9.2.0.4.0 - Production
>
> SQL>
>
> I may be wrong but 9.2.0.4.0 does not seem to fall in the required version
> range.
>
> Now, my question is whether there is a newer version. That is one of those
> secretive undocumented packages described nowhere
> except in little known books by Tom Kyte and Cary Millsap as well as in
> about a 100 or so notes on Metalink (if you enter
> DBMS_SUPPORT in the search field, then 127 results are found) and an article
> in Oracle Magazine for Jan 04 (Cary's hand, again)
> which means that it is only used by 50,000 or so database administrators in
> the world. Now that the cat is out of the bag, it would
> be nice to maintain it and add some new stuff, like the event 10053 and
> something to show me the name of the tracefile without
> resorting to oradebug.
>
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