Simulating an Oracle error into the alert log

In an Oracle AWS RDS instance we do not have direct access to the server and hence we could not use our regular CRON scripts. I was testing an Oracle Stored procedure to replace this functionality and needed to simulate an error in the alert log. I found the below web site

Simulating ORA-errors

(nice site with a good explanation)

and used these commands:

alter session set events '942 incident(SIMULATED_ERROR)';
drop table tablethatdoesnotexist;
alter session set events '942 trace name context off';

The alert log contained:

ORA-00700: soft internal error, arguments: [EVENT_CREATED_INCIDENT], [942], [SIMULATED_ERROR], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

This was exactly what I needed for my testing.