Thursday 3 May 2012

11g DIAGNOSTIC_DEST Initialization parameter

Checking the background_dump_dest for alert log files and user_dump_dest for trace files and errors are going to be a past.

I was excited to know about the new oracle11g initialization parameter DIAGNOSTIC_DEST which replaced BACKGROUND_DUMP_DEST, USER_DUMP_DEST and CORE_DUMP_DEST parameters.

All the trace informations are stored in a single location specified using DIAGNOSTIC_DEST. This helps the Oracle 11g database advisors to have a single point of contact for all the information required to auto tune the SQL or database.

If we do not specify a location for this initialization parameter then it will default to the $ORACLE_BASE/diag

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