Roland,
you can read the alert log file with vi (or notepad if you are on windows). It can be found in background_dump_dest (look in the init.ora for it). The naming convention is alert_<SID>.log. Oracle writes lots of information about what is going on in the database (e.g. tablespace modifications, log switches and tons more) into that file.
Trace files are written to background_dump_dest (for background processes), user_dump_dest (for user processes) or core_dump_dest (Oracle core dumps). All files are plain text files.
hth,
Helmut
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> But how do I use the alert log and where canI find the trace file?
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> Hi, you can find the reason in alert log or trace files.
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> Hi!
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> Is there a way to find out, why a database job failed?
> in dba_jobs (or user_jobs), I can only see that it failed,
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> This is 8.1.7 on Solaris.
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