Mark,
Is this really necessary ? All you can find in the controlfile tracefile,
you can also find in the V$ views, and much easier : everything (and much
more) is there neatly organized and you can use simple SQL statements. Check
the "Server Reference" for more information.
Brgds,
Mark
Mark Wagner wrote:
> I am working on making a tool with perl DBI/DBD Oracle to document Oracle
> Databases... One of the things I want to do is back the control file
> up to the trace file then read the trace file.
>
> But heres the *hard* part:
> I am not running this locally so using sql*net to connect to Oracle with
> perl DBI/DBD, I need to make Oracle read the trace file in a way that
> I can have it accessible by perl to print out.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
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