What is an alert log file?
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What is an alert log file?
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An alert log file is a text file that records significant database events and messages. It stores information about block corruption errors, internal errors, and non-default initialization parameters. It also stores information about database start-up, shutdown, archiving, recovery, tablespace modifications, rollback segment modifications, and data file modifications.
An alert log file is created during the start-up of a database. Its name is operating system-dependent. The location of an alert log file is specified by the
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