Re: Writing into ALERT.LOG

dbms_system.ksdwrt(2,'A line of text');

Will write the text to the alert log.
Use 1 instead of 2 to write to the trace file Use 3 to write to both.

Works from about 7.3 onwards - can't
remember exact versions

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Jonathan Lewis
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Eugene Firyago wrote in message <84r27u$agq$1_at_bob.news.rcn.net>...


>Is there something within Oracle RDBMS that can facilitate generating


>ALERT.LOG file entries from PL/SQL.

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>Thanks for your input,

>Eugene.

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