One of the easiest ways is to use diagnostic events:
alter session set events 'sql_trace {callstack: fname xctend} errorstack(1)';
Where does the commit or rollback happen in PL/SQL code?
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:1 and SP2-0553: Illegal variable name “1”.
You may know that some applications generate queries with bind variables’ names like :1 or :”1″, and neither SQL*Plus nor SQLCl support such variables:
SQLPlus:
SQL> var 1 number;
SP2-0553: Illegal variable name "1".
SQLCL:
SQL> var 1 number;
ILLEGAL Variable Name "1"
So we can’t run such queries as-is, but, obviously, we can wrap them into anonymous PL/SQL blocks and even create a special script for that:
Continue readingORA exceptions that can’t be caught by exception handler
I know 2 “special” exceptions that can’t be processed in exception handler:
- “ORA-01013: user requested cancel of current operation”
- “ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel”
- and + “ORA-00028: your session has been killed” from Matthias Rogel
Tanel Poder described the first one (ORA-01013) in details here: https://tanelpoder.com/2010/02/17/how-to-cancel-a-query-running-in-another-session/ where Tanel shows that this error is based on SIGURG signal (kill -URG):
-- 1013 will not be caught:
declare
e exception;
pragma exception_init(e,-1013);
begin
raise e;
exception when others then dbms_output.put_line('caught');
end;
/
declare
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01013: user requested cancel of current operation
ORA-06512: at line 5
Another interesting troubleshooting case
Got an interesting question today in RuOUG:
Some very simple PL/SQL procedures usually are completed within ~50ms, but sometimes sporadically longer than a second. For example, the easiest one from these procedures:
create or replace PROCEDURE XXXX (
P_ORG_NUM IN number,
p_result OUT varchar2,
p_seq OUT number
) AS
BEGIN
p_seq := P_ORG_NUM; p_result:='';
END;
sql_trace shows that it was executed for 1.001sec and all the time was “ON CPU”:
Continue readingSQL*Plus tips #9: Reading traces and incident files
@tracefile_read_last_by_mask filemask [regexp] [ignore_regexp]
– finds last trace by filemask and filters rows by regexp and filters out rows by ignore_regexp:
@ tracefile_by_mask.sql [mask] – finds and shows last 10 trace files by mask
Continue readingOracle diagnostic events — Cheat sheet
Oracle diagnostic events is a great feature, but unfortunately poorly documented and nonintuitive, so it’s difficult to remember all events/actions/parameters and even read its internal documentation using oradebug. So I decided to compile its internal doc as a more convenient html-version (https://orasql.org/files/events/) and make a cheat sheet of some unknown or little-known use cases.
Example 1:
alter system set events
'kg_event[1476]
{occurence: start_after 1, end_after 3}
trace("stack is: %\n", shortstack())
errorstack(2)
';
- kg_event[errno] – Kernel Generic event in library Generic for error number events, which instructs to trace ORA-errno errors;
- {occurence: start_after X, end_after Y} – is a filter, which instructs to skip X event checks and trace just Y times;
- trace(format, str1, str2, …, str15) – is a function from ACTIONS for printing into a trace file;
- shortstack() – is a function from ACTIONS , which returns a short call stack as a string;
- errorstack(level) – is a function from ACTIONS, which prints extended info (level: 0 – errorstack only, 1 – errorstack + call stack, 2 – as level 1 + processtate, 3 – as level 2 + context area). You can get more details with PROCESSSTATE or SYSTEMSTATE. If you need just a call stack, you can use CALLSTACK(level) , with function arguments in case of level>1.
Example 2:
alter system set events
'trace[SQL_Compiler.* | SQL_Execution.*]
[SQL: ...]
{process: ospid = ...}
{occurence:end_after 3}
controlc_signal()';
v$blog #funny #friday
select title, short_url
from v$blog
where pubDate>=systimestamp - interval '5' month;
with v$blog as (
select
title
,to_timestamp_tz(pubDate,'DY, dd mon yyyy hh24:mi:ss TZR') pubDate
,short_url
,description
from xmltable(
'/rss/channel/item'
passing
xmltype(httpuritype('https://orasql.org/feed/').getclob())
columns
title varchar2(70) path 'title'
,pubDate varchar2(40) path 'pubDate'
,url varchar2(128) path 'link'
,short_url varchar2(50) path 'guid'
,description varchar2(500) path 'fn:substring(./description,1,500)'
)
)
select title, short_url from v$blog where pubDate>=systimestamp - interval '5' month;
pySyncOracleStandby – Simple sync service for Oracle manual standby
I created this simple service a couple of years ago. It’s pretty simple, small and intuitive Python app, so you can easily modify it to suit your own needs and run on any platform: https://github.com/xtender/pySync
Format SQL or PL/SQL directly in Oracle database
Obviously we can format/beautify SQL or PL/SQL code using external tools, but sometimes it would be more convenient to format it directly in database, for example if we want to see few different sql_text’s from v$sqlarea. And thanks to Oracle SqlCL and Oracle SQL Developer, we can easily use oracle.dbtools.app.Format function from their Java library dbtools-common.jar, so if you use SqlCL or SQL Developer, you can use the same formatting options.
1. load appropriate java library into Oracle
You may have already installed SQLDeveloper or SqlCL on your database server, just check $ORACLE_HOME/sqldeveloper or $ORACLE_HOME/sqcl directories. If – not, you need to download appropriate SqlCL version that matches your java version in Oracle. For 12.2 – 19.8 you can download latest SqlCL 20.3. In fact we need just dbtools-common.jar from lib directory. I put it into $ORACLE_HOME/sqlcl/lib directory on the server and load it using loadjava:
Continue readingFunny friday Oracle SQL quiz: query running N seconds
Write a pure SQL query with PL/SQL that stop after :N seconds, where :N is a bind variable.
My solution
[sourcecode language=”sql”]
with v(start_hsecs, delta, flag) as (
select
hsecs as start_hsecs, 0 as delta, 1 as flag
from v$timer
union all
select
v.start_hsecs,
(t.hsecs-v.start_hsecs)/100 as delta,
case when (t.hsecs-v.start_hsecs)/100 > :N /* seconds */ then v.flag*-1 else v.flag+1 end as flag
from v, v$timer t
where v.flag>0 and t.hsecs>=v.start_hsecs
)
select delta
from v
where 0>flag
/
–end
[/sourcecode]
[collapse]
SQL> var N number
SQL> exec :N := 3 /* seconds */;
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> select...
DELTA
----------
3.01
1 row selected.
Elapsed: 00:00:03.01
Another my solution using sys.standard.current_timestamp, so some internal pl/sql…:
select count(*) from dual
connect by sys.standard.current_timestamp - current_timestamp <= interval'3'second;