Oracle DBMS_WARNING_INTERNAL
Version 26ai

General Information
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Purpose Internal support package for PL/SQL Warnings and the DBMS_WARNING package
AUTHID CURRENT_USER
Data Types WARNING_SETTING_COLL
Dependencies
ALL_WARNING_SETTINGS DBA_WARNING_SETTINGS WARNING_SETTINGS$
CDB_WARNING_SETTINGS USER_WARNING_SETTINGS  
Documented No
First Available 10.1
Security Model Owned by SYS with no privileges granted
Source {ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/admin/prvtplsw.plb
 
SHOW_WARNING_SETTING
Undocumented ... and obviously not intended for DBAs and developers dbms_warning_internal(objno IN NUMBER) RETURN PIPELINED warning_setting_coll;
conn uwclass/uwclass@pdbdev

ALTER SESSION SET PLSQL_WARNINGS='ENABLE:ALL';

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE dead_code AUTHID DEFINER AS
 x NUMBER := 10;
BEGIN
  IF x = 10 THEN
    x := 20;
  ELSE
    x := 100;
  END IF;
END dead_code;
/

SP2-0804: Procedure created with compilation warnings

SELECT plsql_warnings
FROM all_plsql_object_settings
WHERE name = 'DEAD_CODE';

conn sys@pdbdev as sysdba

SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM dba_warning_settings;

 COUNT(*)
---------
      663


set linesize 121

SELECT owner, object_id, object_type
FROM dba_warning_settings
WHERE object_name = 'DEAD_CODE';

OWNER   OBJECT_ID OBJECT_TYPE
------ ---------- -----------
UWCLASS     75140 PROCEDURE


SELECT dbms_warning_internal.show_warning_settings(75140);

DBMS_WARNING_INTERNAL.SHOW_WARNING_SETTINGS(71895)(OBJ_NO, WARNING, SETTING, PROPERTY)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SYS_PLSQL_9DEB8363_32_1(SYS_PLSQL_9DEB8363_9_1(75140, -4, 1, 1))



SELECT * FROM TABLE(dbms_warning_internal.show_warning_settings(75140));

 OBJ_NO    WARNING SETTING PROPERTY
---------- ------- ------- --------
     75140      -4       1        1


desc dba_warning_settings

SELECT *
FROM dba_warning_settings
WHERE object_id = 75140;

OWNER   OBJECT_NAME  OBJECT_ID  OBJECT_TYPE  WARNING SETTING
-------- ----------- ---------- ------------ ------- -------
UWCLASS DEAD_CODE    75140      PROCEDURE    ALL     ENABLE

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