RE: Analyze Question -- How CBO uses column statistics for non-in

2001-02-05 Thread Sam P. Roberts (ZADCO ITIS)
They most definitely non indexed will have influence on the CBO - there is the ANALYZE FOR ALL COLUMNS option anyhow, that is there for that reason. I think also likely used in conjunction with histograms on fields - DSS / Data Warehouse : Regards Sam -Original Message- Sent: Saturday,

Oracle on Unix

2001-02-05 Thread Nosie
Dear All, I've been working with Oracle on NT for years, never had the one on unix. Now, I am trying to use the one on Linux. I see that the installation screen is just the same as on NT. Is this also the same with other unix platform such as AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, etc? TIA Nosie -- Please see

Automatic Startup instance,Urgent!!!

2001-02-05 Thread Dash, Saroj (CAP,CEF)
Dear All, Question is: Oracle will startup automatically when the NT server will reboot. Currently I maually write the strtup command when the server will reboot But in control panel my service "oracle startup SVKH" is automatic. Where SVKH is Instance name. Please tell me where you can d

RE: Urgent: Number of Cursors Open Error

2001-02-05 Thread Eskov Anton
Initialization parameter: open_cursors (select * from v$parameter where name='open_cursors') The number of cursors currently open: select a.sid, b.name, a.value from v$sesstat a, v$statname b where a.statistic#=b.statistic# and b.name in ('opened cursors current', 'opened cursors cumulative')

Book Recommendation Please

2001-02-05 Thread Jones, David
Is this a good time to ask for a book recommendation? ;-) Can anyone recommend a good source for and idiots' guide to Oracle Standby Database? I'm working in 8.0, upgrading soon to 8.1, on NT. I'm experienced with Oracle and basic DBA but not high powered and no experience of Standby Database.

Designer/2000

2001-02-05 Thread Heikki Jantunen
Hi all, I am using Designer and while trying to generate a module I am receiving the following error: CDI-21600: A running Generator or Utility has failed. It is possible that the internal cache is now in an inconsistent state. You are therefore recommended to close and restart the applicatio

RE: Oracle on Unix

2001-02-05 Thread Mark Leith
If you are talking about the Universal (Java) Installer, then yes I believe the installation screen is just the same, there are a few different (read EXTRA) things you have to with UNIX, but they are all mapped out in the relevant installation guides. Regards -Original Message- Sent: Mon

RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mark Leith
Thanks Yong, Exactly what I was looking for! I'll let you and the list know what it's like when I'm done.. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 05:15 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, Mark, David Solomon has written a new book "Inside Microsoft Windows 2000" (

RE: Oracle on Unix

2001-02-05 Thread Rajesh Dayal
Yes, this is java based OUI (Oracle Universal Installer). This is same for all platforms NT, UNIX and even VMS. Cheers, Rajesh -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 12:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dear All, I've been working with Oracle on NT for years, n

RE: Automatic Startup instance,Urgent!!!

2001-02-05 Thread Rajesh Dayal
Hi Saroj, Just create following registry entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTEARE->ORACLE ORA_ORCL_AUTOSTART value TRUE (ORCL is SID name) If you have multiple Oracle Homes then this entry should be present in respective Oracle Home only. You might would have to add another r

how can be output of unix man pages converted to text fomat )

2001-02-05 Thread Arslan Bahar
how can be output of unix man pages converted to text fomat -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Arslan Bahar INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet ac

GCC and Proc 8.1.5

2001-02-05 Thread Arslan Bahar
is there anybody who used successfully gcc and proc 8.1.5 together -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Arslan Bahar INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public I

CTAS using distributed query

2001-02-05 Thread Sindu
Hi lists, I have a very strange situation here. In db A, I have table T1. In db B, I have table T2. I'm trying to create table T3 (CTAS) on db B based on join query between T1 & T2. We tuned the query to use remote view (because T1 is a very huge table, while T2 is small table), so we create vie

RE: how can be output of unix man pages converted to text format

2001-02-05 Thread Davies Sue
man SUBJECT > your_file.txt this will turn the man page output into a file you can ftp to wherever you want to keep it Suzanne Davies Technical Support Officer London Borough of Barking and Dagenham 020 8227 2737 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: how can be output of unix man pages converted to text fomat

2001-02-05 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
man ls | col -b > ls.man > -Original Message- > From: Arslan Bahar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 2:57 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: how can be output of unix man pages converted to text fomat > ) > > > how can be output of

RE: Waits on latch free for shared_pool & library Cache

2001-02-05 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Bull's eye . Will Check out the Steve Adams' Book & revert Thanks > -Original Message- > From: yong huang [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Waits on latch free for shared_pool & li

RE: ***Problem***

2001-02-05 Thread Mark Leith
select empid, empname, dept from employees where rownum = 3546; When you are looking for scott.. That is pretty unreliable, and I think that is what Bunyamin(?) was getting at.. Regards Mark -Original Message- Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 02:40 To: Multiple recipients of list

Re: ***Problem***

2001-02-05 Thread Bunyamin K.Karadeniz
Yes , Jusy As you say,Mark .. Thanks. Using = seems unreliable to use. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 1:41 PM select empid, empname, dept from employees where rownum = 3546; When you are looking f

Oracle startup script for Solaris

2001-02-05 Thread Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Services
Has anybody have a automatic startup script for oracle on Solaris? I.e., when the box is bounced, the database & listeners can start up automatically Kind Regards Johan Locke -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Johan Locke@i-Commerce Services INET: [EMAIL

RE: Oracle startup script for Solaris

2001-02-05 Thread lerobe - Lee Robertson
Look in $ORACLE_HOME/bin. dbstart and dbshut will get you there. > Lee Robertson > Acxiom > Tel: 0191 525 7344 > Fax: 0191 525 7007 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- Sent: 05 February 2001 11:20 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Has anybody have a automatic sta

RE: Oracle startup script for Solaris

2001-02-05 Thread Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Services
Thank you! Kind Regards Johan -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 1:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Look in $ORACLE_HOME/bin. dbstart and dbshut will get you there. > Lee Robertson > Acxiom > Tel: 0191 525 7344 > Fax: 0191 525 7007 > Email: [EMAIL PROTE

Upgrading Scheme versions

2001-02-05 Thread Ronen Levit
Hi all, We've developing using Oracle8i and Designer2000 tools. We've got one major scheme and need a methodology for updating the installed version with scripts. For example - I have my product version 1.0 installed and I want to upgrade it to version 2.0. I have scripts created by the desi

OT:Thunderstone.com: Texis

2001-02-05 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: OT:Thunderstone.com: Texis Good morning all - Anyone using this product?  If so please email me directly. (Yes, I am still employed and $50 poorer.  It's only money...) Lisa Rutland Koivu Oracle Database Administrator Qode.com 4850 North State Road 7 Suite G104 Fort Lauderdale,

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

RE: Thunderstone.com: Texis

2001-02-05 Thread Kathy Duret
Title: OT:Thunderstone.com: Texis Yes I have somewhat, context searches are fast.    You need to keep three copies of the data and indexes (things get corrupted easily).   If you do alot of updates, you will have the rebuild the tables and/or redo the indexes all of the time.    But it is

Re: Need help - Database link - Please!!

2001-02-05 Thread Ruth Gramolini
You should set up synonyms which define the tables@public_dblink in database b. Put these synonyms in database a. Then anyone can use the linked tables from the package in database a. HTH, Ruth - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monda

Re:Oracle Vs Tera Data

2001-02-05 Thread dgoulet
Surjit, I think your "hardcore Tera Data" fans are also bigots. I've a friend at Fidelity Investments where they swear by SUN & Oracle. The last time I talked to him their datawarehouse was fast approaching 2PB without any problems. They use all of 8i's datawarehousing stuff like partition

RE: OT NT2K vs Unix.

2001-02-05 Thread Holman, Rodney
We aren't doing any db work on the Linux platform YET, but we do run one of our mission critical apps on Red Hat. We have an app that dials every hotel that we are installed in every night to bring back our movie/game/service buys and the navigation summary stats from them. This process was run

Re:Oracle Vs Tera Data

2001-02-05 Thread bill thater
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001,[EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: ->There are two basic problems with data warehouses that I've seen & it should ->be noted that I'm in the middle of specing a re-wtite of ours. 1) people create ->then in a normalized manner, not in the idea of a s

ora-07445

2001-02-05 Thread achoto
I posted a question to the list last week regarding this error and didn't get any responses. I'm trying again. We're on Oracle 8.0.5.2.1, and Solaris 6. A few days ago we started receiving ora-07445 errors in the alert log. This happened when had to reboot the server. If we shutdown/restart th

Re:OT:Thunderstone.com: Texis

2001-02-05 Thread dgoulet
I owe, I owe so off to work I go. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: "Koivu; Lisa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2/5/2001 5:35 AM Good morning all - Anyone using this product? If so please email me directly. (Yes, I am still employed and $50 poor

RE: Who wants to build a tablespace...

2001-02-05 Thread Rocky Welch
A little more detail: I'm setting up a new application database for a customer who has hired a full-time dba. This system is on a Sun 4500 cluster with 2 D1000 disk arrays. This database will be no bigger than 50 gig with no more than 50 concurrent users. The full-time DBA inisists on 1 3gig dataf

RE: RE: controlfile schema global enqueue lock

2001-02-05 Thread Joan Hsieh
Steve, Thank you so much for taking time to reply. I did run couple of times the enque_lock script as you suggested. CF waiting is really minimum. I noticed the maximum enqueue comes from MR which is Media Recovery in share lock. Should I need to concern this or this is just a very normal symptom

RE: Thanks and another book request

2001-02-05 Thread Kimberly Smith
Yeah, but look at the cost of living. Salary does tend to be reflective how much it costs to live in that city. -Original Message- Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 9:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Rachel, $150/hour is an average? Dang, I need to get out of Kansas City an

Oracle SQL: The Essential Reference

2001-02-05 Thread Glenn Travis
I just got a solicitation for this book: Oracle SQL: The Essential Reference Reviews anyone? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Glenn Travis INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, Califor

RE: ora-07445

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: ora-07445 you show a file from your udump. what is in your bdump? including your alert log. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 9:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: ora-07445 I

RE: Need help - Database link - Please!!

2001-02-05 Thread Smith, Ron L.
I'm sorry. The error is not that the user cannot use the database link. The error is that Oracle does not want the user to update table-a in database-b even though the user has update permissions. Ron -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: Index Usage Monitoring

2001-02-05 Thread Vadim Gorbounov
Hi, Why not to use otrace? Of cource, you may need some space to save trace results, but you'll definitely get complete statistics. Vadim Gorbounov Oracle DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 3:57 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACL

User objects in System tablespace

2001-02-05 Thread Sanjay Kumar
Hi,   I have a situation where in all the user related objects (tables) have been created in System tablespace.   I believe there is no convention followed while creating these tables.   Now, how do I separate these user related objects and put them in Users tablespace?   Vinay

Pinning Tables

2001-02-05 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Hi all, I have been trying to find some reference on pinning tables in the SGA. I haven't found anything, all that I am finding is table caching and the keep buffer pool. Is this all that there is, can I "pin" a table in the memory? Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Kevin Kostyszyn DBA Dulc

RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Async I/O on Windows It may well be as you said, because Oracle Corporation thinks grouping all Oracle "processes" into one OS process makes it run faster on NT. But I'd like to see some kind of official answer from Oracle. ||  I do not have the ability or inclination to make thi

Re: ora-07445

2001-02-05 Thread Mike Killough
Did you try re-running catalog and catproc and then recompiling invalid objects? We were getting ora-7445 errors on one of our databases last week, and this fixed it. >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: o

OEM/IA and DB shutdown

2001-02-05 Thread Jesse, Rich
So, there I am, with an HP/UX server hosting 3 production Oracle DBs. The node is also running Oracle Intelligent Agent, and I have OEM events to e-mail/page me if there's problems with productions DBs and servers. Anyone else running something similar? How do you shutdown a single production D

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mark Leith
Title: RE: Async I/O on Windows WHOOO a SQLServer vs. Oracle debate again!!   Come on guys in the field, lets hear you comments from all those using both in the field. I personally have been trained in administration on both, and - like you Ross - have to agree that Oracle is my pers

OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Async I/O on Windows "NT still pants"...LOL!!!   It must be panting alot, It has BLOWN THE DOORS OFF of "Oracle on Unix" in running SQLServer on NT, as has DB2.   The general public ( and anyone else ) can wake up and smell the coffee at www.tpc.org.  Check out the Top Ten TPC

RE: ora-07445

2001-02-05 Thread achoto
Here is what I get in the alert log: Errors in file /oracle02/app/oracle/admin/ORTE/udump/orte_ora_15115.trc: ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [lxdgetobj()+60] [SIGSEGV] [Address not mapped to object] [1651271016] [] [] Mon Feb 5 12:55:20 2001 Errors in file /oracle02/app/oracle/admi

RE: Analyze Question -- How CBO uses column statistics for non-in

2001-02-05 Thread jkstill
Larry, You might want to give this a try using PL/SQL and bind variables. I don't know if this has changed in 8i, but in 8.x, queries using bind variables could not make use of histograms ( column statistics ) Jared On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, larry elkins wrote: > Sam, > > You had the right topic.

RE: Thanks and another book request

2001-02-05 Thread Yosi
Yeah, but Rachel, think of the FAME! Didn't I hear you were opening for Billy Joel and Elton John in LA on Feb 6? :-) Yosi > -Original Message- > From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 1:00 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Su

Re: OEM/IA and DB shutdown

2001-02-05 Thread Ruth Gramolini
I run about 20+ databases from one OEM session, albeit on NT, and I never shutdown the agent when I shutdown a database. You must have OEM sending email for all events. Just use email for selected events that you want to know about. OEM won't freak if you don't shutdown the repository database.

RE: Sar Loader Script?

2001-02-05 Thread Ferris, Shawn
> My problem is that the timestamp, which is just that--no date, is only on the > first record of each sample rather than every record and I don't want the blank > lines in between the samples. Perhaps this is a simple awk routine but > I don't know awk well enough to do this. awk '{ if (N

RE: OEM/IA and DB shutdown

2001-02-05 Thread Gary Weber
>>>If I kill IA, OEM freaks, and sends e-mail and pages about all the DBs and node being unavailable. If I SHUTDOWN NORMAL the production DB, like a good DBA, I need to manually kill the DBSNMP processes that are still connected. If I SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE, then STARTUP RESTRICT (in order to SHUTDOW

Re: Need help - Database link - Please!!

2001-02-05 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Doesn't your second example say that ' Userid-2 has no permissions on table-a in database-b'? Ruth - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:30 AM > I'm sorry. The error is not that the user cannot use the da

Group/Sort by date field

2001-02-05 Thread MooreMJ
Hi I am wondering about some results I am getting back when I am querying based on date fields. I have a large table partitioned on source year. When I run the following query the results are not correct results, it seems to be grouping the year incorrectly. select to_char(landed_dt,''), coun

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Async I/O on Windows LOL!!!   Amen!   -Original Message-From: Mark Leith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 12:25 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows WHOOO a SQLServer vs. Oracle debate

RE: Oracle Vs Tera Data

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Oracle Vs Tera Data Surjit, In my experience, Sun storage ( the A5000 stuff, etc. ) does not do the best possible job. But, then again, you may be on Fujitsu, EMC, or some other good storage vendor. (Dick, liked your comments about normalization and adjustment  expectations

RE: Pondering Question of the Day-RESPECT

2001-02-05 Thread Kimberly Smith
I have taken the stance with one junior that he now has to prove me wrong in anything I tell him. Loser buys the beer. He owes me quite a bit right now:-) -Original Message- Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 9:16 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Kimberly, I could say the sam

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Richard Ji
Title: RE: Async I/O on Windows Just because Oracle hasn't done a benchmark doesn't mean Oracle can't out perform SQL-Server or DB2.  Benchmark is very expensive to do, Oracle doesn't need to prove to the world every year that it is the best.  Oracle has the reputation that MS and IBM don't

Sar Loader Script?

2001-02-05 Thread Walter K
By chance, does anyone have a script that will reparse a collection of sar statistics, that came from "sar -d", into a file that can be used by SQL*Loader?My problem is that the timestamp, which is just that--no date, is only on the first record of each sample rather than every record and I d

Linux as a production machine

2001-02-05 Thread Dave Morgan
Hi Dick, A couple of campanies I consult for are using Linux and Oracle (8.0.5, 8.1.6) as production databases. Neither is really high transaction volume but one is holding about 1.5 GB of data. One install occured because Oracle on NT was choking

RE: Pinning Tables

2001-02-05 Thread Trassens, Christian
No, pinning is for the code: sql, procedures/functions/packages and sequences. Take a look of the package dbms_shared_pool. Regards. > -Mensaje original- > De: Kevin Kostyszyn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Enviado el: lunes 5 de febrero de 2001 16:36 > Para: Multiple recipients of list

(Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Eric D. Pierce
Ross & Mark, There are no major performance concerns here (and we get Oracle "free" {system wide educational site license} - unlike MS/SQL), so what I want to know is: does Oracle8 generally work well on Windows 2000 server (compared to running it on NT4)? We will be running on this hardware:

RE: Pondering Question of the Day-RESPECT

2001-02-05 Thread Kimberly Smith
Sounds like you more like the backup DBA then just a developer. Congrs, I believe you wear two hats. Now go ask for a raise. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 10:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You are exactly correct. I as a developer am usually the fi

Re: ora-07445

2001-02-05 Thread achoto
I recompiled invalid objects, but I haven't run catalog and catproc. I'll try it and see what happens. Thanks for your help Ana Choto. "Mike

RE: Pinning Tables

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Pinning Tables you pin the table as a namespace entity in the rowcache ( i think ) any time you use it...it can be flushed, though. None of this is under your control. you pin the table as a datasource through bufferpool and CACHE settings. hth Ross -Original Message---

Re: Sar Loader Script?

2001-02-05 Thread Charlie Mengler
#!/usr/local/bin/perl # file - sar-d.pl $sar_out = "/tmp/sar.out"; $sar_dat = ">/tmp/sar.dat"; # a file suitable for SQLLDR is created as /tmp/sar.dat system("sar -d > $sar_out"); open(INP,$sar_out); open(OUT,$sar_dat); $line_cnt = 1; while () { if ( ($line_cnt > 4) && (length($_) > 1) ) {

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Jeffery Stevenson
Title: RE: Async I/O on Windows Well, Oracle does have all three of the top spots in TPC-C for Non-clustered results...I wonder how a performance/square foot rating would turn out...hmmm...   :) Jeffery StevensonChief Databeast TamerMedical Present Value, Inc.Austin, TX -Original Me

RE: Pondering Question of the Day-RESPECT

2001-02-05 Thread Rocky Welch
Try this: "It sure would be a shame if all that work you did today were to somehow disappear. It would certainly be nice if somebody brought me a ." This works pretty well. -Rocky   Rachel Carmichael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hm, I like that. I've been working on training people here on the prop

RE: Linux as a production machine

2001-02-05 Thread Daniel . Curry
Thanks. I have been saying this for years, but just not limited to Oracle systems. Nice to have someone agree with you after years of saying pretty much the same thing. Daniel Curry Tsola, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 650.486.2624 -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 9:02 AM

RE: RE: controlfile schema global enqueue lock

2001-02-05 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Joan, You don't have a problem unless there is a session WANTING a lock on the resource. By "something interesting", I meant a session waiting for a lock on either the CF or ST enqueues. Then you run it repeatedly to see how long the problem persists. Because you are going to run it repeatedly

RE: ora-07445

2001-02-05 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Ana, I am trying to remember about this problem 2 years back with 7.3.4 and if I am not wrong it was application related problem which was fixed by our developers at that time. It was my previous assignment so I cannot provide any further details. ORA-7445 is also like ORA-600 for catch all sit

Re: Oracle Vs Tera Data

2001-02-05 Thread jkstill
Moving to TeraData was what caused me to leave my previous position. The idea that Oracle can't handle Terabytes of data is ludicrous. Pricing? Plan to spend 5x as much on a Teradata solution. Star schemas? Take a look at how Teradata does joins on a Star schema. It's ridiculous. 7-11 has

RE: Pondering Question of the Day-RESPECT

2001-02-05 Thread Rachel Carmichael
hm, I like that. I've been working on training people here on the proper bribes for the DBA, but they are SLOWWW learners. >From: Kimberly Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Pondering Quest

Re: Pinning Tables

2001-02-05 Thread John Carlson
What you have found is correct. You "pin" a package or stored procedure and you "cache" a table. HTH, John Carlson >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/05/01 07:36AM >>> Hi all, I have been trying to find some reference on pinning tables in the SGA. I haven't found anything, all that I am findi

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Jesse, Rich
Actually, not that it matters from what I can tell, but Oracle is tops if you consider clustered vs. non-clustered. It seems that Oracle doesn't even have tests for clustered systems. I wonder what happened to the VLDB tests in the huge DEC/Compaq Alpha cluster? As far as SQL (pronounced: "SQu

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Async I/O on Windows Well, that was certainly a interestingly-reasoned response. I haven't seen logic applied like that since...sincesincewell, I have never seen such a display of logic.     Just to recap, your arguments are:   1) "Just because they didn't do a benchmar

Re: User objects in System tablespace

2001-02-05 Thread exu
You can use export/import to move non-sys owned tables to a proper tablespaces. Eveleen Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Sanjay Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/05/2001 11:50:52 AM Message - From: "San

RE: User objects in System tablespace

2001-02-05 Thread Mark Leith
Roerg the tables, and specify the user tablespace.. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sanjay KumarSent: Monday, February 05, 2001 05:51To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: User objects in System tablespace Hi,

RE: Pinning Tables

2001-02-05 Thread Raj Gopalan
alter table cache; -Original Message- Sent: 05 February 2001 15:36 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all, I have been trying to find some reference on pinning tables in the SGA. I haven't found anything, all that I am finding is table caching and the keep buffer pool

RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Kimberly Smith
I am running ORacle8i on Windows2000 and for what I use it for I see no difference from NT. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 11:06 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ross & Mark, There are no major performance concerns here (and we get Oracle "free" {system w

RE: Ascii code of tab?

2001-02-05 Thread Guidry, Chris
I believe chr(9). -- Chris J. Guidry P.Eng. ATCO Electric, Metering Services Phone: (780) 420-4142 Fax: (780) 420-3854 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Viktor [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 11:57 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORA

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Troiano, Paul (CAP, GEFA)
You might want to check those results again. Oracle has the top three in the TP-C, nonclustered results. With the clustered results Oracle has the highest for 1 CPU/client. Everything above them has 2 CPU/client. The configuration is important. MS SQL Server's configuration for their highest ra

Re: Pinning Tables

2001-02-05 Thread exu
Only method (which I am aware of ) to pin objects in SGA is DBMS_SHARED_POOL package. However, this package does not support pinning tables and views. I am curious if there is a way to pin a table/view. Eveleen Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Kevin Kostyszyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

ORA-01187: cannot read from file 1 because it failed verification

2001-02-05 Thread Tony Guo
Title: RE: Async I/O on Windows Does anyone know what this error means?  What caused this error? TIA  SVRMGR> alter database open; alter database open * ORA-01187: cannot read from file 1 because it failed verification tests ORA-01110: data file 1: '/opt/oracle/oradata /system01.dbf'

RE: Need help - Database link - Please!!

2001-02-05 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Let me rephrase it. The user defined in the database link has insert permissions on table-a. The user calling the database link does not have any permissions on any table in database-b. Ron -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:11 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORAC

RE: ora-07445

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: ora-07445 nothing before or after? no checkpointing? no archiving?  whats was going on from, say, 12 noon  or so? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 1:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subjec

Bitmap index

2001-02-05 Thread Bala, Prakash
Hi DBAs, Oracle 8.1.6 on Sun; DW environment: Have a table that gets populated by SQL*Loader and thereafter lots of queries go against this table using different combinations of 4 columns (date, varchar2(6), varchar2(5), char(1)). Once a row is processed, the char(1) column gets updated from nul

Ascii code of tab?

2001-02-05 Thread Viktor
What is ascii code of TAB? Thanks __ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Viktor INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ascii code of tab?

2001-02-05 Thread Ari D Kaplan
It is CHR(9): SELECT column_1||chr(9)||column_2 FROM table_name; Best regards, -Ari Kaplan Independent Oracle DBA Consultant Founder/CEO, PocketDBA Systems -- Wireless Database Management Now www.pocketdba.com <-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-> <-> For 400+ Oracle tips, vis

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Scott . Shafer
> -Original Message- > From: Mohan, Ross [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 9:56 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows > > > Wanna drag? > > (heh heh heh) > > Well, I'd have to shave my legs, but

RE: Index Usage Monitoring

2001-02-05 Thread exu
I do know there is a way to tell which indexes are accessed most recently by query x$bh view. Is this what you want or something different? Sorry I forgot the initial posting of this issue. Eveleen Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vadim Gorbounov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/05/2001 09:3

RE: Ascii code of tab?

2001-02-05 Thread David Barbour
^I Dec - 9 Oct - 011 Hex - 09 David A. Barbour Oracle DBA - ConnectSouth 512-681-9438 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 12:57 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What is ascii code of TAB? Thanks __

RE: Pondering Question of the Day-RESPECT

2001-02-05 Thread Stephen Andert
Rachel: I miss a couple of my old jobs where I has other roles (developer/dba and network & admin/helpdesk/etc) where I got quite a few people trained real well :) I could count on a snack from several people a week. Although I guess that could be seen from their side as "We sure got this guy

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows LOL! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 2:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows > -Original Message- > From: Mohan, R

RE: ORA-01187: cannot read from file 1 because it failed verifica

2001-02-05 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Async I/O on Windows You may want to run dbverify on this and see if the datafile is corrupted. -Original Message-From: Tony Guo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 3:12 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: ORA-01187: cannot r

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows "TPC doesn't really matter"     -  You are correct: no single metric covers it all.        But, Oracle is sure all over the ad pages when it FINALLY manages to get one near the top. Which isn't often. And right now, hands do

RE: Pondering Question of the Day-RESPECT

2001-02-05 Thread Cherie_Machler
Rocky, I'm not sure whether this is bribery so much as it is extortion. Sort of DBAFather-ish ; ) I use the more suble "You owe me a xyx" when the grateful user/developer is expressing their gratitude for saving their hiney. Cherie Machler Gelco Information Network Try this: "It sure woul

RE: ORA-01187: cannot read from file 1 because it failed verifica

2001-02-05 Thread David Barbour
Title: RE: Async I/O on Windows H - did you mount the database first?   David A. Barbour Oracle DBA - ConnectSouth 512-681-9438 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Tony Guo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 2:12 PMTo: Multiple recipients of li

Re: Sar Loader Script?

2001-02-05 Thread Walter K
Thanks! I'm going to check this out. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 9:31 AM > #!/usr/local/bin/perl > # file - sar-d.pl > $sar_out = "/tmp/sar.out"; > $sar_dat = ">/tmp/sar.dat"; > # a file suitable for

Re: Ascii code of tab?

2001-02-05 Thread IlicR
see man ascii -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -

Alter session, NLS parameters

2001-02-05 Thread Radu Caulea
Hello list, Is there a possibility to know a specific session's NLS parameters querying from another session ? Regards, Radu Caulea Senior Oracle Consultant www.caulea.fr.st -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Radu Caulea INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat

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