Re: A question about error message

Thanks Alan, I never knew someting like this ever existed. Oracle never mentioned anything like this to me in the Education courses, and I never heard it mentioned before.

Thanks Again,
Satar Naghshineh

In article <6t5j2g$cje$1_at_schbbs.mot.com>,   "Alan D. Mills" <alanmNOSPAM_at_uk.europe.mcd.mot.com> wrote:
> You didn't mention your platform of installation. We have Oracle installed
> on AIX and this gives us a command line program to look up Oracle errors
>
> e.g. I would use
>
> %oerr ora 2298
> to give the response
>
> 02298, 00000,"cannot enable constraint (%s.%s) - parent keys not found"
> // *Cause: an alter table enable constraint fialed because the table has
> // orphaned child records.
> // *Action: Obvious
>
> and
>
> %oerr ora 933
>
> to give
>
> 00933, 00000, "SQL command not properly ended"
> // *Cause:
> // *Action:
>
> As you can see the responses are not always as helpful as you might like but
> it does save trawling through a manual of error messages.
>
> The first parameter to oerr is the message type. Presumablky it works for
> other types than ORA but that's all I use it for. The last parameter is the
> message number with no '-' (minus) sign.
>
> Don't know if this will help but...
>
> --
> Alan D. Mills

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