Introduction: Oracle Alerts is something that can be used to Notify/Alert to one or multiplepe rsons about an activity or change that

occurs in the system. The alerts can also be used to call a procedure, run some sql script etc.There a re 2 types of alerts 1) Periodic Alert 2) Event AlertPeriodic Alerts: These alerts are trigger periodically, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly etc basedu pon how it is setup to be triggered. When alert runs and the condition(SQLQuery etc.) in the alerts fetches record, t hen the events specified in the alert are triggered. Ex. 1) Daily alert to send notification on the sales order on which credit check hold is applied for a day 2) Hourly alert to send notification on all the concurrent request that complete dwith error 3/If you want to know list of items created on that day at the end of day you ca nuse periodic alerts repeating periodically by single day. This alert is not based onany chages to database. this alert will notify you everyday regardless of data existsor not that means e ven if no items are created you wil get a blank notification. Event Alerts: These Alerts are fired/triggered based on some change in data in the database.Th is is very similar to the triggers written on the table. Unlikely, event alerts canonly fire on After Insert or After Update. Ex. 1) An alert that sends notification when new item is created. Ex: If u want to notify your manager when you create an item in the inventory yo u can use event based alerts. When you create an item in the inventory it willcretae a new record in mtl_syste m_items_b, here inserting a record in the tableis an event so when ever a new record is ins erted it will send the alert. In same alert you can also send the information related to that particular item. What can be done with Alerts :1.You can send notifications 2.You can send log files as attachments to notific ations 3.You can call PL/SQL stores procedures 4.You can send approval emails and get the results 5.Print some content dynamically