APPENDIX COracle Dumps and Traces

All of us have encountered ORA-0600 or ORA-7445 errors in our databases, and we all know how difficult it is to identify the root cause of such errors. Almost all the time you must contact Oracle Support to determine the root cause of these errors. Invariably, Oracle Support asks for additional trace files or various data or memory dumps, depending on the situation.

Dumping and tracing are integral parts of any advanced debugging processes. As a single piece of software, Oracle RDBMS is one of the most complex software packages, and debugging complex problems requires such traces and dumps so you can understand exactly what went wrong.

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