作为Oracle用户，你应该对OERR工具不陌生。这是一个非常实用的工具，利用该工具可以迅速获取Oracle的错误信息，帮助解决问题。如：
$ oerr ora 1652
01652, 00000, "unable to extend temp segment by %s in tablespace %s"
// *Cause: Failed to allocate an extent of the required number of blocks for
// a temporary segment in the tablespace indicated.
// *Action: Use ALTER TABLESPACE ADD DATAFILE statement to add one or more
// files to the tablespace indicated.
Cause描述的是导致错误的原因，Action描述的是错误解决方案。对于ORA-XXXXX错误，当你不知道如何解决时，我相信你都会去使用OERR工具来帮助解决。但是，你可能不知道，OERR的用途不仅仅在于ORA错误，它还能用于其它类型的错误。如：
$ oerr lrm 112
112, 0, "multiple values not allowed for parameter ‘%.*s‘"
// *Cause: An attempt was made to specify multiple values for a parameter which
// can take only one value.
// *Action: Do not specify more than one value for this parameter.
这是在使用expdp时使用directory参数不当时可能会产生的错误。你同样也可以使用OERR工具来获取详细的错误信息。再比如：
$ oerr exp 91
00091, 00000, "Exporting questionable statistics."
// *Cause: Export was able export statistics, but the statistics may not be
// usuable. The statistics are questionable because one or more of
// the following happened during export: a row error occurred, client
// character set or NCHARSET does not match with the server, a query
// clause was specified on export, only certain partitions or
// subpartitions were exported, or a fatal error occurred while
// processing a table.
// *Action: To export non-questionable statistics, change the client character
// set or NCHARSET to match the server, export with no query clause,
// export complete tables. If desired, import parameters can be
// supplied so that only non-questionable statistics will be imported,
// and all questionable statistics will be recalculated.
$ oerr imp 17
00017, 00000, "following statement failed with ORACLE error %lu:"
// *Cause: Import failed to execute the statement from the export file
// because of an Oracle error.
// *Action: Look up the accompanying Oracle message in the ORA message
// chapters of this manual and take appropriate action.
这是在使用EXP和IMP时可能产生的错误，同样的，我们也可以使用OERR工具来检索错误信息。
以上只是举例，OERR能检索的错误还有很多，包括CLSR、OCI、TNS、UDE等等。但是这些在Oracle官方文档里并没有说明，还需要各位自己去多多实践。
原文：http://blog.itpub.net/13885898/viewspace-1651585/