Need help

2003-06-03 Thread Jayaram Keshava Murthy (Cognizant)
Hi all, Can anyone tell me which of the following performs better in collecting statistics of a table:  Analyze command   or  Dbms_stats.gather_table_stats     I tried my queries with both the options -- but always Analyze is out-performing the dbms_stats. But i read in a doc

Need Help

2001-06-14 Thread kjanusz
I need some help. I was an Oracle DBA with ADC Telecomm in Minnesota and was laid off along with 7,000 other ADC employees. The job market here in the TC’s has been very slow. Any assistance finding another Oracle related position would be greatly appreciated. Please contact me directly

Need Help.

2001-04-19 Thread udaycb
Hi All, Recently we moved the database(Oracle 8.0.5) from NT to Sun machine. Now this database is going online very soon. When we were testing we observed that, the application (select statement) is running very slow. (I don't know how fast it was earlier). I have a feeling that it is not using in

RE: Need help

2003-06-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Kesh - What do you define as performance? 1. How fast a table is analyzed? 2. The performance of the queries that use the statistics that were collected? What Oracle version are you on? In theory, you can analyze tables when the system load isn't so great. In 9i you can even have Oracle decide when

RE: Need help

2003-06-03 Thread Jankovic, Djordje
uster statistics, and validating the structure.   Djordje -Original Message-From: Jayaram Keshava Murthy (Cognizant) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:50 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Need help Hi all, Can anyone tell me

RE: Need help

2003-06-03 Thread Jayaram Keshava Murthy (Cognizant)
Yes, I am talkin about the time it takes. The analyze command takes around 2 mins to esimate statistics of a table with a Million records whereas the dbms_stats package function is merely hanging !! And besides, Djordje is telling that they nearly take up the same time !! But i am not experi

Re: Need help

2003-06-03 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
shava Murthy(Cognizant) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June02, 2003 10:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of listORACLE-L Subject: Need help Hi all, Cananyone tell me which of the following performs better in collecting stati

SQL need help

2003-07-03 Thread Sinardy Xing
Hi, I have two tables 1. ALL_CUSTOMER CustNo: 1 to 100 OtherDetail: bla bla bla 2. ORDER CustNo TotalOrder DateOrder I want to display like this CustomerNo 1Total Order For This month = 101 or CustomerNo 1 Total Order For This month = 0 My SQL statement is like

Urgent: Need help

2001-07-29 Thread Viraj Luthra
Hello all, A very basic question; the background processes, smon, pmon, etc. do they have an executable name like smon* etc. or pmon* in some bin directory of oracle? Or how do they start? like eg. BMC' Patrol agent when it runs is run because there is an executable called PatrolAgent, is it t

BITAND need help

2002-03-14 Thread Sinard Xing
Hi, Can someone help me with this please What cause the error ? SQL> select bitand(4,4) from dual; ERROR: ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes no rows selected Sinardy -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Sinard Xing INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat Cit

Re: Need Help

2001-06-14 Thread Yosi Greenfield
Ken, Welcome to the club. Are we starting a trend? At least we're not competing against each other. Good luck, Yosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need some help. I was an Oracle DBA with ADC Telecomm > in Minnesota and was laid off along with 7,000 other ADC > employees. The job market here

RE: Need Help.

2001-04-19 Thread Vadim Gorbounov
Hello, Uday, First step, try ANALYZE TABLE ... COMPUTE STATISTICS for EVERY table participating your query(es). Check and compare execution plan before and after analyze. HTH Vadim Gorbounov Oracle DBA -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 3:32 PM To: Multiple recipients of l

RE: Need Help.

2001-04-19 Thread Claudio Roca
You have to ru explain plan for that statement. You first have to create the PLAN_TABLE, you can do that running the script $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/utlxplan.sql Then, login to sql and run th following statement: SQL> explain plan for your-sql ; then, run the following statement to obtan the e

RE: Need Help.

2001-04-19 Thread dieter . oberkofler
hi uday! i strongly would recommend you to have a look at the execution plan of your sql statement. you might also find my tool called top100 quite useful in helping you to look at the execution plans for all statement in your sga. have a look at my web page at: www.materialdreams.com do -O

Re: Need Help.

2001-04-19 Thread David A. Barbour
Uday, Your problem may have more than one component. There are three immediate things I'd try/look at, one of which will provide you with information, the other two that may or may not improve your performance. For information on your select statement, start a trace on the session, run the sele

Re: RE: Need help

2003-06-03 Thread rgaffuri
t ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Need help > > I have done some test before and found out that analyze is faster than dbms_stats > for smaller tables only (less than 10M) - and the difference was not that big (for > example very small tables dbms_stats would do a comput

RE: SQL need help

2003-07-03 Thread Jack van Zanen
select 'CustomerNo '||a.custno||' Total Order for this month = '||nvl(c.totalorder,0) from all_customer a, (SELECT b.custno as custno, sum(b.totalorder) as totalorder from orders b group by b.custno,to_char(b.dateorder,'mm') having to_char(b.dateorder,'mm')

Re: SQL need help

2003-07-03 Thread Guang Mei
Outer join? Guang On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Sinardy Xing wrote: > Hi, > > > I have two tables > > 1. ALL_CUSTOMER >CustNo: 1 to 100 >OtherDetail: bla bla bla > > 2. ORDER > CustNo > TotalOrder > DateOrder > > > I want to display like this > > > > CustomerNo 1Total Order For

Need help Reformatting output

2002-12-11 Thread Sergei
Title: RE: Active sessions chewing up a huge amount of RAM I am looking for a way to display rows as columns. For example: Id name    value 1  a  5 1  b  10 2  a  15 2  b  20   I need it as: name    1 

rep-1219 need help

2004-01-04 Thread Rohan Karanjawala
Hi friends wish u all a very happy new year i am getting the following error when i run my report REP-1219: '' has no size -- length or width is zero. but when i rebuild the report again it works well but when i save it and run it next time it again gives the same error and i have to rebuild it

trigger - need help writing

2002-10-21 Thread Eric Richmond
When detail_comments in the testable is inserted or updated too then I want it to update the various_comments column which is in the same table (testtable). What would be the most efficient way to write the trigger to do this? CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER ADD_TO_TESTTABLE AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE O

Unix scripting need help

2002-08-26 Thread Sinardy Xing
Hi all, For example, my files are like these mylogfile001.log mylogfile002.log I want to initialize my variables with those number, like this i=1 for all_file in `ls -1 /tmp` do file$i=all_file i=i+1 done file_tag1=`unix_command $file1 ` <--- help me here wh

LOBs Questions. Need help.

2002-09-10 Thread Meomeo Nguyen
Hi All, I want to load PDF files into the database and view the content of the lobs column.  Below is what I did step by step.  Anyone please point out what did I do wrong in my procedure.  I am still unable to view the content of the Lobs column.  I need you all for your help.  Please note that

Change language need help

2002-04-11 Thread Sinardy Xing
Hi all, I try to change the error message to French, What I did is SQL> alter session set nls_language = french; Session altered. SQL> select * from d; select * from d * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist The error message stil

huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-02 Thread lhoska
Hi List, I have a monster tablespace 36 G with two datafiles 32 G and 4 G. Don't ask me who created such a file because I don't know. I am trying to rescue the database that has multiple problems. Something you've never seen before. Bye the way, did anyone ever run a test how much stuff you ca

Re: BITAND need help

2002-03-15 Thread Connor McDonald
select bitand(4,4)+0 from dual; --- Sinard Xing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone help me with this please > What cause the error ? > > > > SQL> select bitand(4,4) from dual; > ERROR: > ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes > > > > no rows selected > > > > > Sinardy > -- >

RE: BITAND need help

2002-03-15 Thread Scott . Shafer
ommon sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate." > -Original Message- > From: Sinard Xing [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:48 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: BITAND need help &g

RE: BITAND need help

2002-03-15 Thread Scott . Shafer
15, 2002 9:49 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: BITAND need help > > Do a: > > desc dual > > SQL> desc dual > NameNull?Type > --- > DUMMY

RE: BITAND need help

2002-03-17 Thread Sinard Xing
cipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: BITAND need help > > Do a: > > desc dual > > SQL> desc dual > NameNull?Type > --- > DUMMYVARCHAR2(1) > &

sql loader need help

2001-05-29 Thread Mujeeb Chowdhry
Hi, I need some help...I am trying to use SQL loader to load a flat file into a table...the problem I have is that when trying to load a blank column into a date column... this throws out an error...and the loader fails...do you know of a way of how to get around this problem...how can I just

Urgent: OT Need Help

2001-06-05 Thread Viraj Luthra
Hello all, I need some urgent help, so please help in replying quick. I have some performance metrics here and I am trying to understand as to how this affects the systems performance. The performance metrics are File opens, no. of ports open, the sar queues, file system accounting statistics,

Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread Srini . Chavali
All, I need some help in tuning a select statement that performs a FTS. (The FTS is deliberate !) It takes over 5 hours to run in our prod instance, but takes less than 10 min in our QA instance. The QA instance was copied from prod about 6 weeks ago and is identical to prod, except for db_block_b

Need help getting started

2001-06-19 Thread Sllewnerak
This is kind of a different Oracle question. Does anyone have any suggestions how a person can land an entry level job. I do not work in the Technology field but would very much like to. I have been going to school at night for about two and a half years and have the first two OCP developers tes

PS enqueue waits - need help

2003-10-08 Thread Olga Gurevich
Hi. I have a query that seems to be waiting for a PS enqueu for about 2 days. When querying the v$session_wait, I'm getting the following: SID EVENT S-I-WT P1 P2 P3 - - -- -- --- -- 48 enqueu

Need Help for 9i OCP

2003-05-31 Thread Senthil Kumar D
Hi Group, I wanted to do 9i OCP. Any good sites are there to give free sample exam questions. (I want a full set not that 12 Question exams). Expecting ur help. Thanx For All, Senthil. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Senthil Kumar D INET: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Need help Reformatting output

2002-12-12 Thread Yechiel Adar
hish - Original Message - From: Sergei To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 4:59 AM Subject: Need help Reformatting output I am looking for a way to display rows as columns. For example: Id name

RE: Need help Reformatting output

2002-12-12 Thread Robson, Peter
rence'). The chapter is entitled 'DECODE - Amazing Power in a Single Word'.   peter edinburgh -Original Message-From: Sergei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 12 December 2002 02:59To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Need help Reformatting output I am

Re: Need help Reformatting output

2002-12-12 Thread Yechiel Adar
echiel Adar To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:38 AM Subject: Re: Need help Reformatting output You can try concatenation.   Pseudo code: c1 := null c2 := null c3 := null open cursor while not end-of-set c1 := i

Re: Need help Reformatting output

2002-12-12 Thread Walid Alkaakati
Hi Is this in a report if so i can help you else aim sorry. thanks -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Walid Alkaakati INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailin

RE: Need help Reformatting output

2002-12-13 Thread Steve McClure
SergeiSent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 6:59 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Need help Reformatting output I am looking for a way to display rows as columns. For example: Id name    value 1  a  5 1  b

need help with dynamic sql

2003-03-11 Thread rgaffuri
g_colName is a string of column names that I build earlier in the algorithm. My problem is how do I do the 'INTO' part of this cursor, since I do not know how many or of what type my columns are. The query is on the fly and totally dynamic. Anyway to do this without using DBMS_SQL package?

RE: Unix scripting need help

2002-08-26 Thread cosltemp-g . manoj
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Re: Unix scripting need help

2002-08-26 Thread Markus Reger
hi for a in *.log; do echo $A; done for a in $(ls /*.log); do echo $; done instead of echo use whatever you need. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/26/02 12:31 PM >>> Hi all, For example, my files are like these mylogfile001.log mylogfile002.log I want to initialize my variables wi

RE: Unix scripting need help

2002-08-26 Thread Steven Lembark
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > echo "$all_file" | sed 's/mylogfile//g' | sed 's/\.log//g echo $file | sed 's/[^0-9]//g' avoids problems if someone decides to add a dash or sometning into the name. -- Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer Workhorse Computing

Re: Unix scripting need help

2002-08-26 Thread Steven Lembark
> For example, my files are like these > > mylogfile001.log > mylogfile002.log > > I want to initialize my variables with those number, like this > > i=1 > for all_file in `ls -1 /tmp` > do > > file$i=all_file > i=i+1 > done > > file_tag1=`unix_command $file1 ` <--- help

RE: Unix scripting need help

2002-08-26 Thread kkennedy
Blimey! Doesn't anyone know korn shell out there any more. Perl perl perl -- that's all I ever hear anymore. It gets old... (I'm gonna have to buy Jared's book one of these days). x=${file1%.log} file_tag1=${x#mylogfile} Kevin Kennedy First Point Energy Corporation If you take RAC out of O

RE: Unix scripting need help

2002-08-26 Thread Ron Thomas
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RE: Unix scripting need help

2002-08-28 Thread Brian_P_MacLean
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RE: Unix scripting need help

2002-08-28 Thread Jared . Still
2:41 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: Unix scripting need help Blimey! Doesn't anyone know korn shell out there any more. Perl perl perl -- that's all I ever hear an

RE: Unix scripting need help

2002-08-28 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
I've been an Oracle DBA and developer for many years (more than 10) and I have also been a Unix Sys Admin (about 5 years). I am used to playing god with the server , where I am the DBA and the System Administrator. (Of course these days, a lot of companies and clients want a segregated environmen

RE: Unix scripting need help

2002-08-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Unix scripts is one thing I don't worry much and am taking my own time to learn those with Perl. We got a fantastic bunch of Unix admins who are just waiting for challenges and always deliver. It is bad (for me) and good (that I can spend more time on Oracle issues like chasing OWS personnel and

SQL+ need help (low priority)

2001-08-23 Thread Sinardy
Hi all, When I do Select * from v_$sga; NAME VALUE --- --- Fixed Size ### Variable Size ### Database Buffers### Redo Buffers##

SQL+ SELECT statement need help

2001-08-27 Thread Sinardy
Hi all, 1. I have table emp (ename, dept, sal) 2. I do SELECT 'NAME : ' || ename || ' DEPARTMENT : ' || dept || ' SALARY : ' || sal FROM emp; Result: NAME : JAMES DEPARTMENT : LAB ENGINEER SALARY : 2000 NAME : BOB DEPARTMENT : DRIVER SALARY : 2

Need Help Please - With Procedures

2001-11-28 Thread Viraj Luthra
Hello all, I have attached an sql file containing a set of sql's (6) of them, which gives me information regarding table fragmentation. What I need to do is instead of writing seperate sql's, I need to write a procedure, where in I pass the owner and table name and then the result comes out, a

Re: Change language need help

2002-04-11 Thread Stephane Faroult
Sinardy Xing wrote: > > Hi all, > > I try to change the error message to French, Don't do that. French-speakers have to translate back to English to understand what they mean. -- Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriole Software -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Aut

EXP-00010 I need help

2002-04-18 Thread Bernard, Gilbert
This is a valid user in database but not to export somebody has any idee o solve it. /sscedre/data/spcedw/admin/export[oracle]# exp userid=system/manager file=CTXSYS.dmp log=CTXSYS.log owner=CTXSYS Export: Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production on Thu Apr 18 17:43:10 2002 (c) C

Re: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Are you rebuilding indexes with unrecoverable/nologging and parallel clause or simple 'alter index index_name rebuild tablespace tbs_name', which is definately slow then using above options500/600MB indexes may take around 30/35 minutes depending of your parallel clause and cpu availabilit

Re: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread lyudah
Thank you everyone who replied. All suggestions were very helpful. I am bebuilding my indexes in a different tablespace. It runs very very slow.. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:51 PM > Lyuda; > 1.

Fw: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread lyudah
I meant EBUILDING. That is what a long day of slow rebuilding indexes can do to you.:-) - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 9:32 PM > Thank you everyone who replied. All suggestions were very helpful.

RE: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Kevin Lange
Lyuda; 1. Create a new tablespace for the indexes on a seperate drive. Make sure you do this with a much more reasonable datafile size. (Watch it here maybe they did the big size because they were running out of possible files -- see the max_datafiles parm on the Create Database command)

Re: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Peter Gram
Hi Lyuda This is not a nice situation to bee in, but the god new is that oracle can help you since you are using version 8.1.6 ! You can use the "ALTER INDEX REBUILD TABLESPACE ;" to move the index to a new tablespace and this can even be don online with "ALTER INDEX REBUILD ONLINE TABLESPACE

Re: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Ron Rogers
Lyuda, You didn't say if you have other disk space available or not. If you do I would create the index/indexes tablespace/s on different drives then drop them from the original location. After you get breathing room you can reorg the database to a more comfortable setup. When you have removed

RE: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
You can check alter index clause and you will find parallel option. You may use parallel 5 safely being default in initSID.ora. However it will start building 5 times extent in temp tablespace before completion of rebuilding. With rebuilding large indexes on regular basis we have to use all suc

RE: BITAND need help (Solved)

2002-03-14 Thread Sinard Xing
Hi, I solved this: SQL> select bitand(4,4)/1 from dual; BITAND(4,4)/1 - 4 Sinardy -Original Message- Sent: 15 March 2002 10:53 To: 'LazyDBA mailing list'; 'Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L' Subject: BITAND need help H

Re: BITAND need help (Solved)

2002-03-15 Thread Jonathan Lewis
The reason behind the oddity is probably that bitand() is defined (see standard.sql) to return a binary_integer (it used to return a number in earlier versions) and pure SQL does not recognise that type, so you need a method for coercing the result to a number. It is probably slightly cheaper

RE: sql loader need help

2001-05-29 Thread Lally, Tom (MA09)
Hi, Take a look at the nullif clause. tom -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 12:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I need some help...I am trying to use SQL loader to load a flat file into a table...the problem I have is that when trying to load a blank

Re: sql loader need help

2001-05-29 Thread Ron Rogers
In the CONTROL file that describes the columns to load from the data file you can load a FILLER type column desc into the destination table if the column does not exist in the source data file. If the source data column contains nulls then a NVL will convert a null to what ever you want to plac

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread Yosi
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Need help tuning FTS > > > All, > I need some help in tuning a select statement that performs a > FTS. (The FTS > is deliberate !) It takes over 5 hours to run in our prod > instance, but > takes less than 10 min in

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread Christopher Spence
I would recommend uping the parameter "_DB_BLOCK_HASH_LATCHES" by default after I believe 2000 block buffers, it defaults to 1024 all the way up to 10 blocks buffers if i remember correctly. This will generate alot of the #66 latch contention. This shouldn't equate to 6 hours compared to 10

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread Srini . Chavali
n the select statement, that might have a high cache value in QA, but a low cache value in prod? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:47 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Need hel

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread Srini . Chavali
Chris, Thanks for your input ! One difference between our prod and QA instances is that the QA instance is relatively idle - while average load on the prod instance is about 175 users, with less than 5% hitting the database hard at any given point in time. I am unable to figue out why there is su

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread John Kanagaraj
Srini, I am sure you have lots of users in Prod compared to QA :) Anyway, the point is that you are suffering from hot block contention which reflects itself in latch waits on 'cache buffer chain'. I remember that Steve Adams has a SQL at his site that identifies blocks that are 'hot' - I have

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread Srini . Chavali
John, Thanks for your input ! Unfortunately, this issue seems too weird ! (I know, I know, I shouldn't be saying that as a DBA !!). We have run that process three times today in prod in an effort to try and isolate the issue. We have run it when only one other user was hitting the prod database h

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread John Kanagaraj
Hi Srini, >isolate the issue. We have run it when only one other user was >hitting the >prod database heavily using a select stmt on unrelated tables - but the >problem still persists. There were no concurrent requests >running at the >time. The issue does not seem to be related to contention o

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread DBarbour
ali@C ummins.com To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: Need help

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-07 Thread Srini . Chavali
E-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: Need help tuning FTS m 06/06/2001 04:07 PM Please respond to ORA

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-07 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
A, but a low cache value in prod? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:47 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Need help tuning FTS > > > All, > I need some help in tu

create DBA user need help...

2001-06-19 Thread Sinardy Xing
Hi all, I recreated DBA role that provided by Oracle8i, 1. Create New_DBA_role identified by change_me; 2. Select 'GRANT ' || privilege || ' TO new_dba_role' FROM dba_sys_privs; Create new dba user 3.Create user new_dba identified by password default tablespace userdata

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-19 Thread Viraj Luthra
I dont want to sound rude here, and my comments are NOT directed at you personally. What is the standard of these OCP's, when a person who has not worked with oracle, can pass them, for the sake of discussion it does not matter which tests they were? It seems doing an OCP is a complete waste of

RE: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Sinardy Xing
luck       Sinardy -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, 20 June 2001 11:15 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Need help getting startedThis is kind of a different Oracle question. Does anyone

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Joseph S. Testa
Viraj, hahahahah, it couldnt have been said any better :), i've been thinking that way for years as well as a few others on the list :) joe Viraj Luthra wrote: > > I dont want to sound rude here, and my comments are NOT directed at you personally. > > What is the standard of these OCP's, when

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Pete Wang
Dear Viraj, I can totally understand how you feel. But I hope you can appreciate that it takes a lot of courage and perseverance for a person who doesn't know Oracle to take any of the OCP papers. Many of us have to do a lot of additional studies on top of the Oracle training material inorde

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread William Beilstein
My first question is what is your field of study in school? Is it computer related? Have you graduated, many employers want to see you graduate before they will hire you. Have you asked any of your larger companies about any IS extern programs that they might have. If you have graduated, have y

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Cherie_Machler
Sllewnerak@ao l.comTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: cc: ro

RE: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
I agree, if you have no experience and take the exams it will give you some level of knowledge about oracle. I have started taking these exams and recognize one issue with getting certified. It's great and all, but it's like any other test. You can study your arse off and pass with flying color

RE: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
t for many. Cheers! - Kirti Deshpande Verizon Information Services http://www.superpages.com > -Original Message- > From: Joseph S. Testa [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:25 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Re:

RE: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Need help getting started Karen, for what it's worth: What did you study in college?  Studying CSCI in college is absolutely not a prereq for getting into technology but it at least demonstrates that you can think that way.  I did study CSCI and I think half of it was a was

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Dennis Taylor
At 11:15 PM 6/19/01 -0800, you wrote: > >What is the standard of these OCP's, when a person who has not worked with oracle, can pass them, for the sake of discussion it does not matter which tests they were? It seems doing an OCP is a complete waste of time! > Uh, couldn't the same comment then b

RE: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Guy Hammond
Joe, I don't think we've enough information to state that she doesn't have Oracle running on her Linux machine at home, and hasn't diligently practiced and studied. I learnt Java in a similar way before getting my first Java developer job back in '96. I would expect people on this list to be a li

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Terry Ball
Just as an addendum to what others have said. Many goverment offices accept volunteers. Have you tried going to your city/county goverments and if possible state? Also, hospitals also accept volunteers. Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is kind of a different Oracle question. Does anyone

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread DBAtracker
I'm kind of in the same boat as Karen... except that I'm working as a developer right now (not Oracle).  My goal  of becoming a DBA has taken a year and a half to complete the certification track.  I know the effort it takes to get certified.  Granted, there are a lot of things I leaned and knew

Need help - Database link - Please!!

2001-02-05 Thread Smith, Ron L.
I have a public database link defined with userid-1. Userid-1 has update permissions on table-a in database-b. Userid-2 has no permissions on table-a in database-b. Userid-2, in database-a, calls a package that contains the database link and tries to update table-a in database-b. The result is an

OT: Need help with SQL*Server

2003-10-31 Thread Goulet, Dick
OK folks I'm out on the dark side, once again. Does anyone remember how MicroSlop's BCP utility in SQL*server works? I've got a user who bought a third party SQL*server application, I won't go there, and he needs to move some data from a desktop to a laptop SQL*server database. Dick Goulet Se

RE: Need help with SQL*Server

2003-10-31 Thread Rothouse, Michael
Not sure what you're asking here, but SQL Server Books Online (search on "bcp Utility") should give you that information. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 11:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L OK folks I'm out on the dark side, once again. Does anyone rememb

RE: Need help with SQL*Server

2003-10-31 Thread Kirtish P Gaonkar
you need to create a format file (.fmt) for the that as per your data file. -Original Message- Goulet, Dick Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 9:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L OK folks I'm out on the dark side, once again. Does anyone remember how MicroSlop's BCP utility in

RE: Need Help for 9i OCP

2003-05-31 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Senthil I hope you get a reply. But I have searched for the same and I don't think anyone will go to the trouble of creating a really good exam, then giving it away for free. As we discussed yesterday on this list, Couchman is a good author to use, and even he has a few glitches. But when you ar

RE: Need Help for 9i OCP

2003-05-31 Thread M Rafiq
Dennis, You are right. Nothing is free if t has a quality. Best option is to buy sts question which cosr normally $99 but they also offer sometimes at 25-30% discount. Alternately buy Daniels 9i new features comes with test question CD. I rather suggest Senthil to buy sts eaxm questions and the

RE: Need Help for 9i OCP

2003-05-31 Thread Rajesh Dayal
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Need help with a dynamic query

2003-03-10 Thread rgaffuri
This probably isnt that hard, but Im having a brain dead moment. My goal is to select data from a table in one schema and insert it into the same table in another schema. However, I am not 100% certain that the tables exist in both schemas or that the columns are the same. The columns can be d

RE: need help with dynamic sql

2003-03-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: need help with dynamic sql if you at-least know the source and destination tables will have same number of columns and data types ... you could just do something like insert into target.table select from source.table Raj

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