RE: comparing null values

2003-01-30 Thread Witold Iwaniec
While I agree that it could return the rows, I also understand the system
side.
Null is nothing so it can not be compared to anything else, even another
null. It is something like:

"I don't know whether it is like '%STU%' or not because it is nothing - I
don't know what nothing is"

Witold


-Original Message-
Jackson
Sent: 30 January 2003 3:27 PM
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Why is this?? If I know that value X has no value, I certainly know that
value X is not like '%STU%' ?






>From: "Whittle Jerome Contr NCI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: comparing null values
>Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:15:33 -0600
>
>Gary,
>
>Null has no value. It can't be like or not like anything. If you want to
>see the null you'll need to add OR IS NULL to your Where clause.
>
>Jerry Whittle
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>
> > -Original Message-
> > From:   Gary Jackson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > Can anyone explain why it is that I seem unable to use 'like' and 'not
>like'
> > on columns containing null values. (I am unable to find information
> > regarding this on MetaLink.)
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > SQL> select * from tester2;
> >
> > COL1 COL2 WHATEVER
> >   
> > 11STUFF
> > 22STUFF
> > 33
> > 44
> >
> > SQL> select * from tester2 where whatever not like '%STU%';
> > no rows selected
> >
> >
> > My question is why does this not return the 3 & 4 columns?
> >


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RE: Using connection of another user

2003-01-21 Thread Witold Iwaniec
Dennis

Thanks for the reply.
Currently I have available versions 8.1.7 on Win 2000 and Sun Solaris, but
soon I may get 9i (9.2.0.1) installed.

Witold

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Witold - You didn't say which Oracle version you are on, but you may want to
look at "application role", "secure application role", "global application
context".

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Hi all

I wonder if an application can use an already opened connection but pass
credentials of the application user?

I would like to use a connection pool to increase performance of my
application by reducing opening and closing DB connections. So when my
application server starts up it would open let say 10 connections connecting
as APP_USER user. Then when user JDOE runs my application, the application
would use one of the already opened connections, but Oracle would know that
it should use JDOE's rights and any changes, also saved in an audit tables,
would be made as JDOE. Of course JDOE would also be a database user but the
application would not have to open new connection for JDOE.

I have done it differently - open connections as APP_USER and when JDOE
starts the application, I use one of the APP_USER's connections to verify
that JDOE is a valid user, but then use the APP_USER's connection to run
queries, make changes etc.

Can, what I am looking for, be done? If yes, could you pass references to
some info?

Thanks

Witold

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Using connection of another user

2003-01-21 Thread Witold Iwaniec
Hi all

I wonder if an application can use an already opened connection but pass
credentials of the application user?

I would like to use a connection pool to increase performance of my
application by reducing opening and closing DB connections. So when my
application server starts up it would open let say 10 connections connecting
as APP_USER user. Then when user JDOE runs my application, the application
would use one of the already opened connections, but Oracle would know that
it should use JDOE's rights and any changes, also saved in an audit tables,
would be made as JDOE. Of course JDOE would also be a database user but the
application would not have to open new connection for JDOE.

I have done it differently - open connections as APP_USER and when JDOE
starts the application, I use one of the APP_USER's connections to verify
that JDOE is a valid user, but then use the APP_USER's connection to run
queries, make changes etc.

Can, what I am looking for, be done? If yes, could you pass references to
some info?

Thanks

Witold

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RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

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Oracle traffic

2002-07-10 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Hi DBAs

Are there any tools that would show me the traffic coming in and out of the database 
when I run my application?
We have used sniffer software for the network traffic but sometimes we get questions 
related to the numbers from the database side. I believe the sniffers show what gets 
send over the network including the packets info, address, etc. I wonder if I could 
get 
the numbers just for the data?

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RE: Good Article on differences between ORACLE and SQLServer

2002-04-19 Thread Witold Iwaniec


If I find a file in Mac format and don't have a tool to open it, I guess I 
should blame Mac...

Witold


On 19 Apr 2002 at 8:13, Jesse, Rich wrote:

> Which, of course was written by MS in MS Wurd format, which promptly
> locked up when I tried to close it.  Figures.
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> > Hi
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> > Check the document below which discusses the
> > differences in Oracle and SQL Server databases.
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> > http://www.dbresources.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=86
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Oracle licensing

2002-04-19 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Hi

There have been some postings related to Oracle licensing.
An interesting article:

http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/2219532p-2613285c.html

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Re: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread Witold Iwaniec

I may open a can of worms - but don't intend to...

Sometimes DBAs and Sys Admins make tuning impossible or at least 
very hard for developers.

I am a developer and do a lot of tuning of statements used by our 
applications. I have, in our office, the luxury of DBA access to 
databases and access to UNIX servers. So life is not bad.

But I have been in places were security was very strict and:

- I had, in database, only user account with limited rights - I didn't have 
access to PLAN_TABLE so after writing my SQL I had to ask DBA to 
run it. And the same if I changed it, and then I may have changed it 
number of times...

- it was worse when I had to tune stored procedures. Again, I had only 
a user account but not the procedure owner account - so I wrote 
procedure, asked the DBA to compile it, run my statements, and 
maybe all over again...

- I didn't have account on the UNIX server so when the trace file was 
generated I had to ask the DBA to run TKPROF and send me the 
output. In an extreme case I run into junior DBA who had never run 
TKPROF before so it took even more time explaining why I wanted to 
use explain=... and sys=no etc. Occasionally he had to contact senior 
DBA and wait for his response.

On top of that DBAs had other tasks so sometimes it took quite some 
time to get a procedure recompiled, trace file generated, or run 
TKPROF. In one place there was a rule that DBAs had 48 hrs to 
respond to any request and sometimes it took that long.

Sometimes a very simple task, that could be completed in few minutes, 
took days because of all procedural things. At the end it cost 
companies lot of money.

In our company many developers have DBA access to databases and 
in fact nobody does anything stupid. I have found that if people don't 
know what they are doing, they ask. Nobody tries to drop or truncate 
tables because they have found the script that seesm cool and want to 
see what it does... Over my 8 years here only once we had a problem - 
a few tables were dropped by mistake but the tables were dropped by 
our DBA who run the wrong script. It took almost no time at all to 
rebuild it. And it happened in a test database.

I understand restrictions in production databases but more access to 
development and test would make life easier and am sure more happy 
faces around.

Witold

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RE: Make first character Versal

2002-03-27 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Actually both return the same (just tried in 8.1.7 on NT):
select substr (test_col, 0, 1) from my_table
select substr (test_col, 1, 1) from my_table

The problem may be with getting the VERSAL but don't know what it 
means

Witold




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> Roland,
> 
> Substr starts with 1
> 
> eg 
> 
> select (substr (namn,1,1)) from test will give you the 1 character
> starting from the first character.
> 
> Unfortunately I don't know what you mean by versal.
> 
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> Hallo,
> 
> I know this question sound a bit simple, but  can anyone give me a
> select statement which make the first character of the word in a field
> Would appreciate very much. I have checked the manual but cant get it
> right.
> 
> I am starting with this sql statement:
> 
> select (substr (namn,0,1)) from test to pick outthe first character
> and I want that first character to be a VERSAL.
> 
> 
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PO 9i and Windows Me

2002-03-21 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Hi everyone

Has anyone installed Personal Oracle 9i on Windows Me?

You could run PO 8.1.7 for Windows 98 on Windows Me. Friend of 
mine just installed PO 9i for Windows 98 on his Windows Me computer 
and run into problems. I wonder whether it doesn't run on Windows Me 
or it is his computer issue

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SQL Loader and decimals

2002-03-12 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Hello

There are few numeric formats when you load data from a file. I am 
looking for a way, if possible, to load a number from a field that doesn't 
have the decimal point. 
For example I may know that in my five-character field the first three 
characters always represent the most-significant digits and the last two 
are always the decimal values. Something like:

field  12345
would be loaded as 123.45

If, in data file, I have the value 123.45 I can use decimal external but 
wonder if I can avoid the decimal point in datafile. How can I define the 
field in control file?

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Re: outer join

2002-03-12 Thread Witold Iwaniec


You can have multiple outer joins in the where clause but one table 
can be outer-joined to one other table only.

For example you can write:

select tb1.col_1
from table1 tb1, table2 tb2, table3 tb3
where tb1.some_col = "some value"
and tb1.col_a(+) = tb2.col_a
and tb2.col_b(+) = tb3.col_b

but you can not write:

select tb1.col_1
from table1 tb1, table2 tb2, table3 tb3
where  tb1.some_col = "some value"
and tb2.col_a(+) = tb1.col_a
and tb2.col_b(+) = tb3.col_b

It depends how you need  to outer-join the tables
But last time I used outer joins it was in I believe Oracle 8.0.5
Maybe something has changed in 8i, or 9i

Witold

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RE: selecting on time

2002-03-06 Thread Witold Iwaniec

I guess you need to include the minutes as well:

   ... to_number(to_char(date_field, HH24:MISS')) > 14

otherwise the time 14:25:00 will not be greater than 1400

Witold

> 
> 
> One way would be the following
> 
> SELECT ...
> FROM table
> WHERE TO_NUMBER(TO_CHAR(date_field,'HHSS')) > 1400;
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> 
> I need to do a select based upon the time element in a date column.
> i.e, eg where the time is greater than 14:00
> 
> Can anyone provide an example of how to do this?
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Rollback Segments

2002-02-18 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Hello DBAs

Is there a command that tells me which rollback segment is being 
used by current transaction?
Also, can you force a session to use particular rollback segment? I 
have used in the past the command:

set transaction use rollback segment rbs_01 

but the named rollback segment seemed to be used until the end of 
tranasction. After a commit or rollback a different rollback segment 
could have been used by Oracle. I wonder if there is a way to make 
sure that once a user logs in, a particular rollback segment is used.

Thanks

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RE: Unbreakable Oracle - Metaslink

2002-01-30 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Must be entire Oracle - technet.oracle.com or www.oracle.com 
seem to be down too.

www.microsoft.com is alive ;-)
(I don't want to start another OT thread)

Witold


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RE: OT : howto RTFM

2002-01-29 Thread Witold Iwaniec

And you shouldn't...

This is just a web trick - I mean it's not a Microsoft's site. You can 
see the same page, loaded even faster, if you remove: 
www.microsoft.com&item=q209354@
from the url. Just try:

http://hardware.no/nyheter/feb01/Q209354%20-%20HOWTO.htm

You can replace in the url www.microsoft.com with whatever 
company you want and get redirected to the same page, try 
www.oracle.com ... It will take you to the same page...


http://hardware.no is website of a company in Norway and they 
have this page. Getting the graphics, style, etc and make a page 
look like Microsoft's is a piece of cake. While it may be funny I 
guess it's a poor joke to make pages and present as someone 
else's...

Witold


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RE: Raw I/O

2002-01-17 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Thanks Martin
I guess that's what we need...

Witold

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> Hey now, be nice :-).  The best thing is to point people towards
> the archives.
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> http://oracle-rescue.com
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> Real life opinion from me:
> Yes, Oxford is using it. Yes, it is faster. Yes it makes it practically
> impossible
> to backup without a 3rd party backup tool. Yes, it is boring to chew "raw
> vs. cooked"
> debate over and over again. Why doesn't someone come up with something new 
> and not yet discussed topic like "RAID implementations and oracle"?
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> Hi all
> 
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> people using it, is there really a performance gain? Any other pros, 
> cons?
> I have seen some info on Metalink but "real life" often is quite 
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Raw I/O

2002-01-16 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Hi all

I am looking for some "real life" opinions about Oracle raw I/O - are 
people using it, is there really a performance gain? Any other pros, 
cons?
I have seen some info on Metalink but "real life" often is quite 
different...

Thanks

Witold
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RE: Becoming a DBA questions

2002-01-07 Thread Witold Iwaniec
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Re: using hints on views

2002-01-04 Thread Witold Iwaniec

I would say it's a different way ;-)

It depends on the data, tables joined, and other things. It may look 
and work great in typical emp-dept example: few departments, few 
dozens employees. When you use GLOBAL hints you can overwrite 
hints used inside the view but I don't think you can change order of 
tables. Maybe you can? I don't know.

If you had tens of thousands departments and millions employees, it 
would make a big difference when you use ORDERED hint.

Also, if I use the view in different applications, I have to write hints in 
each applictaion. If the hints are inside a view, there is only one 
place.

Witold



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> There's a better way:  use global hints in the queries that select from
> the views.  From Designing and Tuning for Performance:
> 
> Global Hints
> Table hints (i.e., hints that specify a table) normally refer to tables
> in the DELETE, SELECT, or UPDATE statement in which the hint occurs,
> not to tables inside any views or subqueries referenced by the
> statement. When you want to specify hints for tables that appear inside
> views or subqueries, you should use global hints instead of embedding
> the hint in the view or subquery. You can transform any table hint in
> this chapter into a global hint by using an extended syntax for the
> table name, as described below. 
> 
> Consider the following view definitions and SELECT statement: 
> 
> CREATE VIEW v1 AS
> 
> SELECT *
> FROM emp
> WHERE empno < 100;
> 
> 
> CREATE VIEW v2 AS
> 
> SELECT v1.empno empno, dept.deptno deptno
> FROM v1, dept
> WHERE v1.deptno = dept.deptno;
> 
> 
> SELECT /*+ INDEX(v2.v1.emp emp_empno) FULL(v2.dept) */ *
> 
> FROM v2
> WHERE deptno = 20; 
> 
> 
> 
> The view V1 retrieves all employees whose employee number is less than
> 100. The view V2 performs a join between the view V1 and the department
> table. The SELECT statement retrieves rows from the view V2 restricting
> it to the department whose number is 20. 
> 
> There are two global hints in the SELECT statement. The first hint
> specifies an index scan for the employee table referenced in the view
> V1, which is referenced in the view V2. The second hint specifies a
> full table scan for the department table referenced in the view V2.
> Note the dotted syntax for the view tables. 
> 
>   
> --- Witold Iwaniec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > but you have to be careful. Hinting just the SQL statement that 
> > builds the view may be worse than no hinting at all. 
> > When you add hints you have to keep in mind how you will use the 
> > view. In result I ended up with few views, selecting the same 
> > columns from the same tables but hinted and ordered differently. It 
> > may look messy if you just look at the data dictionary but within 
> > application you know which button is clicked, what you query on 
> > etc... so you know which view you should use. 
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Re: using hints on views

2002-01-04 Thread Witold Iwaniec

I had to use hints inside views number of times and it worked well 
but you have to be careful. Hinting just the SQL statement that 
builds the view may be worse than no hinting at all. 
When you add hints you have to keep in mind how you will use the 
view. In result I ended up with few views, selecting the same 
columns from the same tables but hinted and ordered differently. It 
may look messy if you just look at the data dictionary but within 
application you know which button is clicked, what you query on 
etc... so you know which view you should use. 

HTH

Witold



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> i find the ordered hint extremely helpful...
> so i usually find myself using this hint...
> 
> what is your opinion on using hints inside views?
> 
> thanks.
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RE: Little OT: CLOB, Oracle Text, and ADO

2001-12-21 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Thanks for the reply

I have tried ctx_ddl.sync_index() but it can be used to synchronize 
ctxsys.context indexes only. In my case it is ctxsys.ctxcat index.
Since it gets updated properly when I use few different ways to 
insert records I believe it is something specific to the way 
ADODB.Recordset modifies database.

The index gets updated properly when I run, in any way, an INSERT 
statement. I guess the ADODB.Recordset works on a different level. 
It may be something similar to differences in loading data with SQL 
Loader using conventional load and direct load - issuing INSERT 
statements vs. writing directly to the table. It is just a guess...


Witold



On 21 Dec 2001 at 10:00, MacGregor, Ian A. wrote:

> Ctxserv has been deprecated.  Check the directory  $ORACLE_HOME/ctx/sample/script 
>for the approved ways of keeping the indexes in synch.
> 
> Ian MacGregor
> Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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> 
> 
> My experience with intermedia or context server, or whatever
> they call it this week, is in dealing with iFS, so I know just
> enough to be dangerous.  :)
> 
> It sounds like you need to have the context server running
> to periodically update the indexes.
> 
> On unix it's 'ctxsrv'.   I suggest you read the docs on this
> and do a search on metalink, there is some helpful
> information there.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Jared
> 
> 
> 
> 
>          
> 
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> 
> 
> Hello
> 
> It may be little OT but I am sure there are developers here. Also I
> hope some DBAs may know the answer...
> 
> I am experimenting with Oracle Text - need to use the field from a
> VB application.
> 
> I have a table with a CLOB column and a ctxcat index built on that
> column. If I insert records using SQL Plus, TOAD, or similar tool,
> the index is automatically updated so my query:
> 
> select note_oid from lrmi_note
> where catsearch(note_data, 'SomeValue', null) > 0;
> 
> returns records matching the condition.
> 
> In the application - if I use ADODB.Connection with parameters and
> execute my insert, the data is written, index automatically updated,
> and my query returns matching records.
> 
> But if I use ADODB.Recordset to write the record, the data is written
> but the index doesn't get updated. If I open SQL Plus and run:
> 
> select * from lrmi_note where note_oid = my_new_oid;
> 
> it shows me the record with the CLOB column filled. But if I query
> the CLOB column using catsearch(), it doesn't return the record. If I
> rebuild the index, the query with catsearch() will return the records.
> But one of the reasons to use ctxcat indes is that it is updated with
> each transaction...
> 
> While it may be specific to ADO I wonder if some Oracle gurus
> know, or can direct to some info, why Oracle doesn't update the
> ctxcat index even though the record is written and apears correctly.
> 
> Witold=

Re: Little OT: CLOB, Oracle Text, and ADO

2001-12-21 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Thanks Jared

I understood that ctxsrv affects the index of type ctxsys.context only 
while the ctxsys.ctxcat gets updated with transactions but certainly 
will do some more reading...

Witold


> 
> My experience with intermedia or context server, or whatever
> they call it this week, is in dealing with iFS, so I know just
> enough to be dangerous.  :)
> 
> It sounds like you need to have the context server running
> to periodically update the indexes.
> 
> On unix it's 'ctxsrv'.   I suggest you read the docs on this
> and do a search on metalink, there is some helpful
> information there.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Jared
> 
> 
> 
> 
>          
> 
> "Witold Iwaniec" 
> 
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> Hello
> 
> It may be little OT but I am sure there are developers here. Also I
> hope some DBAs may know the answer...
> 
> I am experimenting with Oracle Text - need to use the field from a
> VB application.
> 
> I have a table with a CLOB column and a ctxcat index built on that
> column. If I insert records using SQL Plus, TOAD, or similar tool,
> the index is automatically updated so my query:
> 
> select note_oid from lrmi_note
> where catsearch(note_data, 'SomeValue', null) > 0;
> 
> returns records matching the condition.
> 
> In the application - if I use ADODB.Connection with parameters and
> execute my insert, the data is written, index automatically updated,
> and my query returns matching records.
> 
> But if I use ADODB.Recordset to write the record, the data is written
> but the index doesn't get updated. If I open SQL Plus and run:
> 
> select * from lrmi_note where note_oid = my_new_oid;
> 
> it shows me the record with the CLOB column filled. But if I query
> the CLOB column using catsearch(), it doesn't return the record. If I
> rebuild the index, the query with catsearch() will return the records.
> But one of the reasons to use ctxcat indes is that it is updated with
> each transaction...
> 
> While it may be specific to ADO I wonder if some Oracle gurus
> know, or can direct to some info, why Oracle doesn't update the
> ctxcat index even though the record is written and apears correctly.
> 
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Little OT: CLOB, Oracle Text, and ADO

2001-12-21 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Hello

It may be little OT but I am sure there are developers here. Also I 
hope some DBAs may know the answer...

I am experimenting with Oracle Text - need to use the field from a 
VB application.

I have a table with a CLOB column and a ctxcat index built on that 
column. If I insert records using SQL Plus, TOAD, or similar tool, 
the index is automatically updated so my query:

select note_oid from lrmi_note 
where catsearch(note_data, 'SomeValue', null) > 0;

returns records matching the condition.

In the application - if I use ADODB.Connection with parameters and 
execute my insert, the data is written, index automatically updated, 
and my query returns matching records.

But if I use ADODB.Recordset to write the record, the data is written 
but the index doesn't get updated. If I open SQL Plus and run:

select * from lrmi_note where note_oid = my_new_oid;

it shows me the record with the CLOB column filled. But if I query 
the CLOB column using catsearch(), it doesn't return the record. If I 
rebuild the index, the query with catsearch() will return the records. 
But one of the reasons to use ctxcat indes is that it is updated with 
each transaction...

While it may be specific to ADO I wonder if some Oracle gurus 
know, or can direct to some info, why Oracle doesn't update the 
ctxcat index even though the record is written and apears correctly.

Witold==========
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Oracle text and CLOBs

2001-12-17 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Hi all

I am experimenting with Oracle Text and CLOBs in Oracle 8.1.7 and 
have run into something strange.

I have a table, LRMI_NOTE, with column NOTE_DATA that is 
defined as a CLOB.

SELECT NOTE_DATA FROM LRMI_DATA;

NOTE_DATA
==
this is starting test

I have built both ctxsys.context and ctxsys.ctxcat indexes. When I 
run:

select * from lrmi_note where contains(note_data, 'test') > 0
or 
select * from lrmi_note where contains(note_data, 'starting') > 0

I get back the record. But when I run:

select * from lrmi_note where contains(note_data, 'is') > 0
or
select * from lrmi_note where contains(note_data, 'this') > 0

I don't get anything back. The same happens when I used the 
catsearch() function.

I updated this column, set to various strings so that "this" and "is" 
were in different positions in the string, but couldn't get anything 
back using "is" or "this" in my queries.

Can anyone explain this?

Thanks

Witold

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Re: Create a database without using DbAssist

2001-12-17 Thread Witold Iwaniec
; > best
> > > > throughput. 
> > > > * first_rows specifies the cost-based approach and optimizes for
> > best
> > > > response time. 
> > > > * rule specifies the rule-based approach. (The rule-based
> > optimizer
> > > > does not use function-based indexes.) 
> > > > * choose causes the optimizer to choose an optimization approach
> > > > based
> > > > on the presence of statistics in the data dictionary. 
> > > > 
> > > > Is this correct?  If so, then I suppose I should set the init.ora
> > > > parameter
> > > > back to optimizer_mode=choose, and tell each developer to put an
> > > > alter
> > > > session statement on their clients to alter their sessions
> > > > automatically to
> > > > first_rows.  The developer using designer will then be able to
> > run it
> > > > in a
> > > > timely manner.
> > > > 
> > > > Please tell me if my suspicion is correct.
> > > > 
> > > > If correct, it begs the question:  why are first_rows and
> > all_rows
> > > > available
> > > > for the init.ora file???
> > > > 
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Re: Database link

2001-12-11 Thread Witold Iwaniec

db_domain in init.ora is commented out in both cases. I also set it 
to:
db_domain = ""

but it didn't make any difference.

Setting GLOBAL_NAMES to false helped but someone mentioned 
that it is not a good practice. Can anybody explain little bit why?

Thanks

Witold



On 10 Dec 2001 at 21:50, Nikunj Gupta wrote:

> Check for DB_DOMAIN..  in INIT.ORA
> else
> Set GLOBAL_NAMES to FALSE 
> ALTER SYSTEM SET GLOBAL_NAMES=FALSE;
> 
> HTH
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>   Subject: Database link
> 
> 
>   Hi DBAs
> 
> 
>   I have a problem with database links in one of the databases - the name of the 
>link gets us.oracle.com appended to it.
> 
> 
>   create database link test 
>   connect to test_user identified by test_pwd using 'test_db'
> 
> 
>   When I execute:
> 
> 
>   select * from my_table@test 
> 
> 
>   I get the ORA-02085 error message the the link test.us.oracle.com connects to test.
> 
> 
>   When I execute:
>   select * from global_name;
> 
> 
>   in the target database the result is: 
> 
> 
>   TEST
> 
> 
>   but in the database where I created the link the database name has the suffix:
> 
> 
>   NOVALIS.US.ORACLE.COM
> 
> 
>   I have no problem with database links in the TEST database but would like to know 
>which parameter causes the suffix to be appended in the NOVALIS database.
> 
> 
>   In both init.ora files the global_names is set to true and db_domain is commented 
>out. 
>   In both databases the command 
>   show parameters;
> 
> 
>   returns the db_domain as blank.
> 
> 
>   Actually both databases are on the same server - Oracle 8.1.6. 
> 
> 
>   What should I change to remove the US.ORACLE.COM suffix. I don't care too much 
>about the database, it's my test only, but don't want it appended in the links and 
>maybe other objects...
> 
> 
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> 
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Re: Adding intermedia Text to 8.1.6 database

2001-12-10 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Hi all

I have found my answer...

I have seen other people asking on other forums so the answer may 
help someone some day...

On NT the library is:
 %ORACLE_HOME%\bin\oractxx8.dll

Witold



> Hello
> 
> Can someone point me to documentation how to add intermedia text 
> to a database in Oracle 8.1.6 (on NT)?
> I installed interMedia and can use in the database created by the 
> setup but would like to add it to another database on the same 
> server. The documentation that I have found at OTN refers to 
> running few scripts that are in %ORACLE_HOME%\ctx\admin. 
> That's all clear but I don't have the ctx\lib directory and obviously the 
> libctxx8.so file required to build data dictionary. 
> The interMedia works in the default database - I can build index of 
> type ctxsys.context, do text search so all the libraries must be 
> installed. But search for file libct*.so on all my hard drives returns 
> nothing. Something else must be used...
> 
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Adding intermedia Text to 8.1.6 database

2001-12-10 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Hello

Can someone point me to documentation how to add intermedia text 
to a database in Oracle 8.1.6 (on NT)?
I installed interMedia and can use in the database created by the 
setup but would like to add it to another database on the same 
server. The documentation that I have found at OTN refers to 
running few scripts that are in %ORACLE_HOME%\ctx\admin. 
That's all clear but I don't have the ctx\lib directory and obviously the 
libctxx8.so file required to build data dictionary. 
The interMedia works in the default database - I can build index of 
type ctxsys.context, do text search so all the libraries must be 
installed. But search for file libct*.so on all my hard drives returns 
nothing. Something else must be used...

Thanks

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Database link

2001-12-10 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Hi DBAs


I have a problem with database links 
in one of the databases - the 
name of the link gets us.oracle.com appended to it.


create database link test 
connect to test_user identified by 
test_pwd using 'test_db'


When I execute:


select * from my_table@test 


I get the ORA-02085 error message 
the the link test.us.oracle.com 
connects to test.


When I execute:
 select * from global_name;


in the target database the result 
is: 


TEST


but in the database where I created 
the link the database name has 
the suffix:


NOVALIS.US.ORACLE.COM


I have no problem with database links 
in the TEST database but 
would like to know which parameter causes the suffix to be 
appended in the NOVALIS database.


In both init.ora files the global_names 
is set to true and db_domain 
is commented out. 
In both databases the command 
show parameters;


returns the db_domain as blank.


Actually both databases are on the 
same server - Oracle 8.1.6. 


What should I change to remove the 
US.ORACLE.COM suffix. I 
don't care too much about the database, it's my test only, but don't 
want it appended in the links and maybe other objects...


Thanks


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RE: Commit trigger

2001-10-25 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Thanks for the reply. 

I guess more details may be helpful.
I need to get data from one table into a text file. The file needs to 
be generated only once after any changes to the table. 

It's easy enough to write a program that queries the table and 
generates a file but I thought about automating the process so that 
the user does not need to run any program. I thought about writing 
a PL/SQL using the UTL_FILE package to generate the file (it's a 
small table). But I would want the trigger to fire only when changes 
are commited, not on every insert, update, or delete. And I need 
only the commited data. I guess I was wondering if there was a 
way to write something like COMMIT_CHANGES_TO_A_TABLE 
trigger.

I guess I will end up with small program but if there was a way to 
do it it would be a good learning.

Thanks

Witold


On 25 Oct 2001, at 8:30, Amar Kumar Padhi wrote:

> I am sorry, I actually couldn't understand your query?
> Do you want a gobal trigger for commit and rollback that would fire
> irrespective of the change involved at table/view level? Afaik, there is no
> such trigger. 
> Normally, your table/view level triggers would fire as per the event and
> apply the change only when commit is done. Same way the changes done via a
> trigger would be removed on rollback. 
> 
> Please let the list know what you would actually intend to do if such an
> option is provided.
> 
> rgds
> amar
> 
> 
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> Hello
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> My life would be easier ;-) if there was a commit (and rollback) 
> trigger - Oracle 8i. I did some research and found various database-
> level triggers but couldn't find COMMIT and ROLLBACK event 
> triggers. Can one actually write a code that would be fired only at 
> COMMIT and/or ROLLBACK event?
> 
> Thanks
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Commit trigger

2001-10-25 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Hello

My life would be easier ;-) if there was a commit (and rollback) 
trigger - Oracle 8i. I did some research and found various database-
level triggers but couldn't find COMMIT and ROLLBACK event 
triggers. Can one actually write a code that would be fired only at 
COMMIT and/or ROLLBACK event?

Thanks

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RE: OT -- the volume of job postings is way down

2001-08-01 Thread Witold . Iwaniec



Another sign of the times is that ITI is closing its US schools.
 For those who don't know - it is a computer training school. They started years
ago as a school in Atlantic Canada offering a 10 month course. Later they
expanded to few Canadian and US cities. Last year they advertised on TV and
radio about 400,000 unfilled positions in e-commerce etc. and offered-commerce
training. Yesterday I have heard that they are scaling back...

Witold


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RE: Version of personal oracle that runs on Window ME

2001-07-31 Thread Witold . Iwaniec



On this site you can find the steps - it solved my problem with installer

http://www.orafaq.com/msgboard/windows/messages/209.htm

Witold







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Do you know what change you had to make in win.ini to work properly? The
installer is not working
properly on ME.

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I have installed Personal Oracle 8i for Windows 98, on Windows Me, and it
runs.
There was a change required in win.ini to get the installer to work properly
but
other than that everything was OK.

Witold





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Hi All,

Does anyone know where I can get/download copy of Oracle that runs on Window
ME  I downloaded 8i for 98 but BSOD.


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Re: Version of personal oracle that runs on Window ME

2001-07-31 Thread Witold . Iwaniec



I have installed Personal Oracle 8i for Windows 98, on Windows Me, and it runs.
There was a change required in win.ini to get the installer to work properly but
other than that everything was OK.

Witold





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Hi All,

Does anyone know where I can get/download copy of Oracle that runs on Window
ME  I downloaded 8i for 98 but BSOD.


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OT: Encryption software

2001-07-30 Thread Witold . Iwaniec



Hi

We are looking for a product that can be used to encrypt an Oracle report. In
short a process will run a report, the file will be encrypted, and sent by
email. And we would like to be able to use the product from command line so that
the entire process can run automatically.

I have already looked at products from PGP but the only product that can be used
with the command line option is PGP E-business server for about $7000. The price
is way too high for the volume that we will have. I started to look at other
products and found a few

Has anyone used an encryption product and can share experience, good and bad?

Thanks

Witold


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Re: need to recreate database

2001-07-11 Thread Witold . Iwaniec



Lyuda

That's not terribly difficult and you mentioned registry so I guess it is NT.
Make sure the files were copied after the original database was shut down.
The easiest way would be to reinstall Oracle and create the default database
with the same SID as your original database (maybe you already have it done). It
will create the required services, generate the directory tree (if it is 8i)
etc. Then shut down your new database. copy your datafiles, control files, log
files, init file to right locations (just in case keep copies...) and restart
your database. If the directory structure is the same as on the old machine, you
should be all set. If the directory structure is different, you have to:
1. start server manager
2. connect as internal
3. execute: startup mount
4. let the database know where datafiles and log files are. I don't remember the
command but I believe it is:

alter database rename 'the_old_path\data01.dbf' to 'the_new_path\data01.dbf';

and you have to do it for each datafile and log file.
5. execute: alter database open
   or shutdown and startup


I have done similar things number of times on NT and never had problems...

HTH


Witold







>I need to recreate a database, basically make a complete copy of one of the
>existing databases on a new server.  My networking people already copied all
>datafiles, control file, log files, init file, etc to the target server.
>They also reproduced operating system directory structure.
>What I need to do is to make the second part of the task work, create the
>database, services, etc and make it run.
>I have not done it before and if I was doing it I would probably do
>export/import type of thing but the higher ups would like to have it done
>this way.
>One of the people has an idea suggesting just recreating the registry
>setting by exporting it from the existing machine to the new one.
>The other option is to reinstall Oracle but I am not sure how to make it to
>accept existing physical components(datafiles, control file, etc).
>If someone has a suggestion I would greatly appreciate it.
>Thank you in advance.
>
>Lyuda Hoska
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Re: Privilege problem ?????

2001-07-11 Thread Witold . Iwaniec



Andrea

I assume it is a shell (or batch) script, run from OS - you have "connect
internal" in your script so even if joe_doe runs the script, he connects as
internal, not as joe_doe. This can be your problem. Try it yourself - connect to
DB as internal (not yourself) and try to execute the commands that you have in
the script.

Or is it error related to OS permissions- if you are on UNIX, is the script's
mode set as executable by everyone or at least a group the users belong to?

I have done similar things many times and have my script run be users who were
not even database users. But I have used internal for DB
installation/configuration related tasks and different user for DDL or DML - the
table/procedure owners or user with proper privileges.
For example I have created setup programs for some products that required Oracle
database with set of tables, viewes, procedures, etc. Instead of sending the
scripts to build tables, views, synonyms, etc, which users often failed to do, I
included the database (datafiles, controlfiles, etc) in my install program.
During the setup I connected as internal and set up the database eg. modified
paths to datafiles, redologs etc and then connected as different user to modify
records in tables.

While internal is used to install, startup/shutdown, and other similar tasks I
am not sure if it has the same privileges as SYSTEM when it comes to tables,
views etc. DBA's can tell it better.

HTH

Witold






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Hi all,

I wrote a script for developers to run.  I have
svrmgrl, connect internal in the script.  The
developer got error since he doesn't have privileges.
So how to make the script runnable by non dbas???

Thanks.

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Re: Date / Time

2001-07-10 Thread Witold . Iwaniec



Hi

The script below may help you - it will display different components in separate
columns, modify it with your two dates and proper table name and remove what you
don't need

select sysdate,
   sysdate - to_date('0307200100', 'DDMMHH24MISS') diffr,
trunc(sysdate - to_date('0307200100', 'DDMMHH24MISS')) days,
trunc(mod(sysdate - to_date('0307200100', 'DDMMHH24MISS'), 1) *
24) hrs,
trunc(mod(mod(sysdate - to_date('0307200100', 'DDMMHH24MISS'),
1) * 24, 1) * 60) min,
round(mod(mod(mod(sysdate - to_date('0307200100',
'DDMMHH24MISS'), 1) * 24, 1) * 60, 1) * 60) sec,
to_char(trunc(sysdate - to_date('0307200100', 'DDMMHH24MISS')))
|| ' ' ||
lpad(trunc(mod(sysdate - to_date('0307200100', 'DDMMHH24MISS'),
1) * 24), 2, '0') || ':' ||
lpad(trunc(mod(mod(sysdate - to_date('0307200100',
'DDMMHH24MISS'), 1) * 24, 1) * 60), 2, '0') || ':' ||
lpad(round(mod(mod(mod(sysdate - to_date('0307200100',
'DDMMHH24MISS'), 1) * 24, 1) * 60, 1) * 60), 2, '0') Difference
 from dual

HTH

Witold



Sajid Iqbal wrote:

> Hello All
>
> I want to display the "time elapsed" between two dates - in days, hours,
> minutes and seconds.
>
> If I do "select date1 - date2", the result is : 12.0194907
>
> Is there a function that will turn the number of days into something more
> legible?  Ideally i'd like to do ;
>
> "to_char(12.0194907,'DD:HH:MI:SS')" but obviously that won't work.  Is
> there a solution other than writing a complex function myself which will
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RE: Select only one of three tables

2001-07-03 Thread Witold . Iwaniec



Hi Remco

Thanks for the reply. There can be more than one record that I should get. I
guess I could have been clearer - the rule is:
if there is one or more records in dept_one, return all matching records from
dept_one and don't look at other tables.
If there is no record in dept_one, check dept two and if there is one or more
records in dept_two, return the matching records  and don't check  dept three.
If there are no records in dept_two (so also no records in dept_one) check
dept_three

Originally I thought about decode but it will not work. Ater reading the
responses I think about using union with something like:

select dept from dept_one
 where emp_id =  TESTER_1'
UNION
select dept from dept_two
 where emp_id =  TESTER_1'
   and not exists (select 1 from dept_one where emp_id = 'TESTER_1')
UNION
select dept from dept_three
 where emp_id =  TESTER_1'
   and not exists (select 1 from dept_one where emp_id = 'TESTER_1')
   and not exists (select 1 from dept_two where emp_id = 'TESTER_1')


It should work but I have to look at performance. All I want is save some
network traffic - calls from application to the server

Thanks

Witold










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Hi Witold,

Try this:

select * from
(
select dept from dept_one
union all
select dept from dept_two
union all
select dept from dept_three
)
where rownum <=1 ;

HTH,  Remco

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Tom

Thanks for the reply.
The UNION would be good if I wanted all dept values from the tables. But the
rule is more complex - if there is eg. one record in table DEPT_ONE, I have
to
get back only this one record even though there may other/more records for
the
same employee in the other tables.
If there is no record in table DEPT_ONE and there is rcord in DEPT_TWO - I
want
back only what is in DEPT_TWO, regardless of what is in DEPT_THREE.

Witold






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Witold,

have you tried using the UNION operator?  like:

select  dept
from dept_one
union
select  dept
from dept_two
union
select  dept
from dept_three
order by 1;

this will give you only one occurrence of the value of dept from all three
tables.

hope this helps

Tom Mercadante
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Hello list

I have a scenario in which I have to check three tables. If there is record
in
table A, take it otherwise check table B, if there is record in table B,
take
it otherwise check table C. Let say I am looking for DEPT column and the
tables
are DEPT_ONE, DEPT_TWO, and DEPT_THREE. At the end I need only one DEPT
column.

While I can check each of the tables in order I would like to do it in one
statement. I have tried DECODE but it did not like combination of count and
column names - error ORA-00937. To make it simpler here is my query from two
tables only:

select  decode (count(d2.emp_id), 0, d3.dept, d2.dept) dept
  from dept_two d2, dept_three d3
 where d3.emp_id =  TESTER_1'
   and d2.emp_id(+) = d3.emp_id

Can someone recommend a solution?

Thanks

Witold


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RE: Select only one of three tables

2001-07-03 Thread Witold . Iwaniec



Tom

Thanks for the reply.
The UNION would be good if I wanted all dept values from the tables. But the
rule is more complex - if there is eg. one record in table DEPT_ONE, I have to
get back only this one record even though there may other/more records for the
same employee in the other tables.
If there is no record in table DEPT_ONE and there is rcord in DEPT_TWO - I want
back only what is in DEPT_TWO, regardless of what is in DEPT_THREE.

Witold






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Witold,

have you tried using the UNION operator?  like:

select  dept
from dept_one
union
select  dept
from dept_two
union
select  dept
from dept_three
order by 1;

this will give you only one occurrence of the value of dept from all three
tables.

hope this helps

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


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Hello list

I have a scenario in which I have to check three tables. If there is record
in
table A, take it otherwise check table B, if there is record in table B,
take
it otherwise check table C. Let say I am looking for DEPT column and the
tables
are DEPT_ONE, DEPT_TWO, and DEPT_THREE. At the end I need only one DEPT
column.

While I can check each of the tables in order I would like to do it in one
statement. I have tried DECODE but it did not like combination of count and
column names - error ORA-00937. To make it simpler here is my query from two
tables only:

select  decode (count(d2.emp_id), 0, d3.dept, d2.dept) dept
  from dept_two d2, dept_three d3
 where d3.emp_id =  TESTER_1'
   and d2.emp_id(+) = d3.emp_id

Can someone recommend a solution?

Thanks

Witold


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Select only one of three tables

2001-07-03 Thread Witold . Iwaniec



Hello list

I have a scenario in which I have to check three tables. If there is record in
table A, take it otherwise check table B, if there is record in table B,  take
it otherwise check table C. Let say I am looking for DEPT column and the tables
are DEPT_ONE, DEPT_TWO, and DEPT_THREE. At the end I need only one DEPT column.

While I can check each of the tables in order I would like to do it in one
statement. I have tried DECODE but it did not like combination of count and
column names - error ORA-00937. To make it simpler here is my query from two
tables only:

select  decode (count(d2.emp_id), 0, d3.dept, d2.dept) dept
  from dept_two d2, dept_three d3
 where d3.emp_id =  TESTER_1'
   and d2.emp_id(+) = d3.emp_id

Can someone recommend a solution?

Thanks

Witold


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Java, Vector, and PLSQL

2001-06-26 Thread Witold . Iwaniec



Hi

In a web application taht I write in java I need to pass a number of parameters
to a PL/SQL stored procedure. Since the number of parameters can be different a
Vector, ArrayList, or HashTable on the java side would be a good choice. Can you
pass a Vector to a PL/SQL stored procedure?

If I have to, I could write the stored procedures in java but PL/SQL is almost
done. A new requirement has come up and it requires a variable number of
parameters.

Thanks

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RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Witold . Iwaniec




Not 100% sure but I think only the table owner can use "TRUNCATE"

Witold





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Got these error ? may be my DBA restrict these ?

ORA-00903: invalid table name
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SYS_SQL", line 239
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SQL", line 32
ORA-06512: at line 8



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You can try the following , not sure if it will work though..let me know
if it does... :-)

DECLARE
myCur  number;
mySQL  varchar2(2000);

BEGIN
mySQL := 'TRUNCATE TABLE (table_name)';
myCur := DBMS_SQL.open_cursor;
DBMS_SQL.PARSE(myCur, mySQL, DBMS_SQL.NATIVE);
DBMS_SQL.CLOSE_CURSOR(myCur);
END;

Regards,
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 Hello guru , how can I execute a truncate table in  PL/SQL ?? It only work
for delete DML only ? why ?




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RE: SyncSort - Unix - Datawarehousing.

2001-06-15 Thread Witold . Iwaniec




Rajaram

Look at inline comments





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Hi,
 Thanks Witold  for the info. I have some more Q's.

1. For the Conversion part - I believe you must have used some other tools like
- FilePort  ( from the SyncSort company). Is it right?

No and yes...
No - I did not use any other third party tools
Yes - as I said I wrote some C++ programs according to our needs. The conversion
process was a mixture of our programs and syncsort. It was a project in which we
merged assessment, registry of deeds, and land information centre systems and it
included very serious remodelling. We used C++ programs to generate unique IDs,
find matching data in different files, create records in different formats,
extract/generate data that we needed, etc. And we used Syncsort to sort files,
eliminate duplicate reocrds, merge files in the same format. Syncsort ability to
work with tab-delimited files saved us a lot of space (and processing time). If
you have a few records it's not a big deal but if you have hundreds of millions
of records, a few spaces in each record make big difference...


2. Also, the conversion is from Mainframe flat file to Unix Flat file - but not
directly in Oracle DB  . Right?

That's correct. We received the data on tapes in EBCDIC format (some also as dfb
files or flat files - dump from Oracle databases) and ended up with
tab-delimited files that were loaded with SQL*Loader.

3. Last Q, Would I be right in saying that SyncSort replaces/enhances the
capability provided by awk in Unix?

My exposure to awk was very limited - few excersises at school so can not answer
this question.

HTH

Witold


TIA,
Rajaram


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Hi

I used Syncsort on UNIX few years ago working on a large data conversion project
- converting millions of records from mainframe to Oracle database.
Syncsort was a great tool and it has number of extra options. We used it to sort
files, eliminate duplicate records, merge files, extract certain columns only,
etc.
And many of the files were over 500 MB, maybe even close to 1GB in size.

In my case I mixed Syncsort with  C++ programs.

Should I ever work on a similar project, syncsort would definitely be part of it
- well, I would like it to be part of it...

HTH

Witold






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   I want some informarmation about SyncSort for Unix. If anyone is using
sincsort under unix - I need the following details:
1. What is the basic purpose of syncsort? ( I have gone thru
www.syncsort.com - So, I dont want this answer).
2. How is sync sort used in data loads or data warehousing? Is there any
documentation online? Any whitepapers?

TIA,
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RE: SyncSort - Unix - Datawarehousing.

2001-06-15 Thread Witold . Iwaniec



Hi

I used Syncsort on UNIX few years ago working on a large data conversion project
- converting millions of records from mainframe to Oracle database.
Syncsort was a great tool and it has number of extra options. We used it to sort
files, eliminate duplicate records, merge files, extract certain columns only,
etc.
And many of the files were over 500 MB, maybe even close to 1GB in size.

In my case I mixed Syncsort with  C++ programs.

Should I ever work on a similar project, syncsort would definitely be part of it
- well, I would like it to be part of it...

HTH

Witold






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Hi,
   I want some informarmation about SyncSort for Unix. If anyone is using
sincsort under unix - I need the following details:
1. What is the basic purpose of syncsort? ( I have gone thru
www.syncsort.com - So, I dont want this answer).
2. How is sync sort used in data loads or data warehousing? Is there any
documentation online? Any whitepapers?

TIA,
Rajaram






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Full user export

2001-05-25 Thread Witold . Iwaniec



Hi DBA's

What is the proper syntax of the exp command to get export of all objects owned
by a user - tables, views, stored procedures, synonyms, grants. And will the
import require special parameters too?

I have a small development database on Windows NT and would like to create a
copy on Windows Me running Personal Oracle for Win 98. When I duplicated the
database to anotehr Windows NT machine it was simple - copy all datafiles, mount
the database, update control files, etc. But here I have different operating
systems so can not simply copy files.

Thanks

Witold


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Re: What columns are in the Primary Key

2001-05-10 Thread Witold . Iwaniec



Helmut

ALL_CONS_COLUMNS contains columns and position for each constraint.
Similarly ALL_IND_COLUMNS contains columns for each index.

If you need to find the columns through SQL, use the views or join to them. If
you don't need the SQL, get a tool like TOAD (free version,
http://www.toadsoft.com) and you can find a lot through database - Schema
Browser

HTH

Witold






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Hi!

Is there a data dictionary view that gives me all the columns in a primary
key of a table?

I can query user_constraints to find out about all constraints on a table:

select * from user_constraints where table_name='TBACCOUNTS'


OWNER  CONSTRAINT_NAME C TABLE_NAME   SEARCH_CONDITION
-- --- -  -
VIVOUSER   SYS_C003011 C TBACCOUNTS   "COMPANYID" IS NOT NULL
VIVOUSER   SYS_C003012 C TBACCOUNTS   "STORELOCID" IS NOT NULL
VIVOUSER   SYS_C003013 C TBACCOUNTS   "ACCOUNTID" IS NOT NULL
VIVOUSER   PK_ACCOUNTS P TBACCOUNTS

How can I get what columns are in the primary key "PK_ACCOUNTS" ? I have
more NOT NULL columns in the table than in the PK.

Any idea?

This is 8.1.6 on Win2k.

Thanks,
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RE: date+time in milliseconds

2001-05-08 Thread Witold . Iwaniec



If you get milliseconds in the data and want to keep it, you have to store it in
a field different than date, If you don't need to keep the milliseconds, you can
use different functions to convert the data.
If you need to get the time in milliseconds, you can write a Java stored
procedure. You should in fact find the code in the list archives.

In either case more details would help someone to help you

Witold





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can anyone help me with date + time in milliseconds.
i want to inpurt the data from a user in this format.
rgds
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Re: call stored procedure from a stored procedure

2001-05-03 Thread Witold . Iwaniec




Let say you have my_procedure1 (param1 IN VARCHAR, param2 OUT VARCHAR);

In procedure2 code you could write:

PROCEDURE my_procedure2 AS

   par_1  VARCHAR2(10) := "My Test";
   par_2 VARCHAR2(5);

BEGIN

   my_procedure1(par_1, par_2);
   DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(par_2);
   -- etc

END;

HTH

Witold





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Please help,

Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question but I'm having a hard time finding
examples of how to call a stored procedure with IN and OUT parameters from
another stored procedure.  Any resources or examples.

TIA,

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RE: Performance of views

2001-05-03 Thread Witold . Iwaniec



Helmut

When you tune views you have to keep in mind how you select from the view - you
may tune perfectly the select statement that builds the view but when you select
from the view the query may be very slow. When you run "select * from myview"
the performance may be much different than "select * from myview where mycolumn
= somevalue"
Whenever I had to tune a view I used the view select statement but added the
condition that was going to be used later and tuned all together. If the view
was going to be used with two different conditions, we ended up with two
different views hinted in different ways. IN the final result the view select
statement may be slow but the select statement from the view has to be fast.

If you need more details, let me know

HTH

Witold
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> Hi!
>
> Some of our developers are having concerns about using views in the
> application. So they approached me and wanted to clarify some of their
> issues.
>
> When I issues a "select * from viewname", Oracle executes the underlying
> select statement of the view. This underlying statement should be
> optimized
> (using availabale indexes on tables etc.)
>
> If I issue a "select * from viewname where condition < 3" or the
> like, will
> the indexes still be used. Or how is this statement executed? Does Oracle
> first run the underlying select statement and then apply the "where
> condition < 3" to the returned result set? Or is the statement being
> rewritten internally?
>
> The Oracle documentation is not very clear on this. Any ideas would be
> appreciated.
>
> This is 8.1.6 on Win2k.
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> Thanks,
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Oracle Reports

2001-04-21 Thread Witold Iwaniec


Is there a version of Reports that runs on Windows Me? You can 
download only reports for NT, Sun, and Linux.

Thanks

Witold
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Oracle Reports - SQL

2001-04-19 Thread Witold . Iwaniec



Hi

I started to work with Oracle Reports (2.5.5). My first task to maintenance of
existing reports. On one of them I need to change the SQL - whenever I change
it, the data model changes - some columns get moved between groups. Is it the
reports' behavior or do I miss a setting?

Thanks

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RE: sql*loader default value

2001-04-03 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Sorry I misunderstood your request. Try something like this:

   THE_VAL POSITION(111:120) DECIMAL EXTERNAL 
"NVL(:THE_VAL, 33)"

It works for me - inserts 33 into numeric column when the datafile 
contains spaces or nothing (if it is the last field)

HTH

Witold


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> Thanx to Witold and Prakash for suggesting NULLIF and DEFAULTIF.  
> Unfortunately, it looks like both of those do basically the opposite of 
> what I'm trying to accomplish.  Essentially, I want to prevent 
> sql*loader from ever inserting NULL in a column (which may not be 
> numeric), substituting whatever value is appropriate for the given 
> application instead.  Something like using "nvl(:field,'unknown')" in 
> the field specification of the control file for conventional path loads.
> 
> As far as I can see, there's no way to do this within sql*loader 
> itself.  So the choices would be to run a cleanup just after the load 
> (which may or may not negate the speed benefits of using direct path), 
> or to somehow pre-process the data file to fill in the missing values 
> (perhaps an awk or perl script).  Of course, if I'm missing something 
> obvious please let me know... the sql*loader documentation seems 
> designed to confuse. (-:
> 
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Re: sql*loader default value

2001-04-02 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Try using in the control file:

NULLIF MY_COLUMN=BLANKS

eg:
MY_COLUMN   POSITION(24:535) CHAR  NULLIF 
MY_COLUMN=BLANKS

HTH

Witold



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> When using direct path loads, is it possible to have sql*loader insert a 
> default value in place of NULL for blank entries?  For conventional path loads 
> I can use the "nvl" function in my control file,  but that unfortunately 
> doesn't work with direct path.
> 
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Re: olap?

2001-03-27 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Go to Oracle web site and search for Olap...

Witold

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> Hallo,
>
> Can anyone tell me:
>
> What is OLAP and how does it work, a short description, thanks.
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RE: Which is faster??

2001-03-26 Thread Witold Iwaniec

As far as I remember direct load allows to load data into indexed 
table - it "disables" indexes for the loading time and builds the 
indexes once, after the load completes. Also it prepares binary 
array corresponding to the table layout and writes directly to the 
file. Conventional load basically creates an insert statement for 
each row of data to be loaded and executes it. It also modifies 
indexes after each record has been loaded. It makes big difference 
in time, of course depending on the volume

Witold


On 26 Mar 2001, at 7:31, Martin Kendall wrote:

> I know that Direct Path of sqlldr does not allow Indexes
> so what is the comparative performance of this suggestion if
> the given Table is indexed ?
> 
> Martin
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> If you're on 8.0 or higher, try
> 
> insert /*+ APPEND */ 
> into table
> select * from other_table;
> 
> where "table" is defined as nologging.  Then you won't
> hit either redo logs or rollback segments..Its the
> equivalent of a sqlldr direct load
> 
> hth
> connor
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> > than a bulk insert?
> > 
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OLAP again

2001-03-26 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Hi

Our product uses quite complex data model and we are looking for 
ways to speed up data access, especially large reports in the 
range of 25,000+ records.
One of the ideas was to look into OLAP, or now Business 
Intelligence, tools. After some reading it seems to me that OLAP is 
completely separate product - it is the Express Server that runs its 
own database, and tools like Express Objects, Express Analyzer 
that use the Oracle 9iAS and Express Server technology. You can 
still connect to your Oracle database or import/export the data for 
analysis, reporting, etc. but you have to set up completely new 
environment.

We hoped that we could use OLAP tools to point to Oracle 8i 
database and use it to provide faster access to our complex data 
model but it does not seems so straightforward. Or maybe I 
missed a tool. Could someone, please, correct me?

Thanks

Witold
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Re:

2001-03-22 Thread Witold Iwaniec


"Oracle 8i Utilities"

Witold


On 22 Mar 2001, at 12:10, Chesebro, Eric wrote:

> Any one know where to find good documentation on sqlloader?
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OLAP info

2001-03-22 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Hi all

I would like to learn about OLAP in Oracle. I have looked at OTN 
and found Express Objects and other Express ... tools. Is it a 
place to start or someone can recommend something better

Thanks

Witold
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Columns in triggers

2001-03-20 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Hi all

I would like to create an audit trial for particular tables within Oracle 
database and thought about using triggers. 

I would like to log changes to each column separately. Is it 
possible to find dynamically name of the columns that were 
updated?

I guess on INSERT I can check value of each column and if it is not 
NULL write the log, and on UPDATE I can compare the NEW and 
OLD values and write the log if different but wonder if there is 
better/nicer solution.

Thanks

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Re: If-statement

2001-03-20 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Hi

Look at TRANSLATE function
eg:

SQL> select 'blahblahblah' from dual;

'BLAHBLAHBLA

blahblahblah

SQL> select TRANSLATE('blahblahblah', 'a', '0') from dual;

TRANSLATE('B

bl0hbl0hbl0h

SQL>

HTH

Witold


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> Hallo,
>
> Do you have any good example on how to write a procedure, that checks if there is a 
>? in a column in tna table in te  database. If it is a ? then it will be put a "0" in 
>the place where it  is a ?. If it is not a ? then it will be the no change in
> that place.
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RE: Invoking svrmgrl

2001-03-01 Thread Witold Iwaniec


Thanks for the reply. It does the job.

I didn't try to invoke svrmgrl with script on the command line.
I tried:
svrmgrl connect system/manager@my_db

and the command failed with Server Manager Command Line error...

Thanks

Witold


On 1 Mar 2001, at 19:45, âÅÌÏ× éÇÏÒØ éÏÓÉÆÏ×É   Þ wrote:

> s1.bat
> 
> svrmgrl @s2.sql
> 
>
> s2.sql
> =
> connect system/manager
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> 
>
> my_sql.sql
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> select * from scott.emp
> /
> exit
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> 
>
> >  -Original Message-
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> > Hi
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> > In one of my applications, that connects to Oracle database, I
> > generate a package and have to compile it. The platform of the
> > application - Windows while database can be on a remote machine.
> >
> > I know that from my application I can call sqlplus to compile the
> > package. For example:
> >
> > sqlplus user/password@my_db @c:\temp\my_script.sql
> >
> > but I think in some minimal installations you may not have sqlplus
> > installed.
> >
> > I thought about calling svrmgrl but I don't think it accepts command
> > line parameters. I tried to write small batch file:
> >
> > svrmgrl
> > connect user/password@my_db
> > @c:\temp\my_script.sql
> >
> > But it is not going to work -  the problem is that the commands are
> > executed as three separate commands while I need to write the
> > batch file so that the connect... and @c:\tmp\... commands are
> > executed by server manager. Can anyone show me the correct
> > way to write the batch file?
> >
> > Or maybe there is another way - in my application I am already
> > connected to the database using ODBC API.
> >
> > Thanks
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Invoking svrmgrl

2001-03-01 Thread Witold Iwaniec

Hi

In one of my applications, that connects to Oracle database, I 
generate a package and have to compile it. The platform of the 
application - Windows while database can be on a remote machine.

I know that from my application I can call sqlplus to compile the 
package. For example:

sqlplus user/password@my_db @c:\temp\my_script.sql

but I think in some minimal installations you may not have sqlplus 
installed. 

I thought about calling svrmgrl but I don't think it accepts command 
line parameters. I tried to write small batch file:

svrmgrl
connect user/password@my_db
@c:\temp\my_script.sql

But it is not going to work -  the problem is that the commands are 
executed as three separate commands while I need to write the 
batch file so that the connect... and @c:\tmp\... commands are 
executed by server manager. Can anyone show me the correct 
way to write the batch file?

Or maybe there is another way - in my application I am already 
connected to the database using ODBC API. 

Thanks

Witold





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RE: Anyone using CA products?

2001-02-26 Thread Witold Iwaniec


A simple little thing - I asked for the Oracle 8i Data Dictionary 
poster. The QA Specialist said that she would be happy to send it 
to me and of course it hasnt arrived yet - about a year...

I can really live without the poster but it tells me something about 
the company. If they said they didn't supply it or run out of it or 
whatever else excuse that they can not send it, I would have had 
more respect for them. What's the point of making yourself looking 
very bad with such a little thing. It looks like the support is not 
much different...

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