drove me crazier!!!

2001-02-13 Thread MOHAMMAD AMER
hi pals, I defied my customer that this won't work,and thanks to you it worked!! Now,I have to convince him that what I had said to him was wrong!! thanks folks!

RE: !!**** Urgent HELP (Table Deleted In Production )

2001-02-13 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
When Attempting point in time recovery :- 1) Let Control File Online Redo Logfiles be the Latest ( Current ) Ensure that you have WRITE Permission to the Online Redo logfiles so that In case When the Database is Opened with RESETLOGS After Completion of Recovery , the Online Redo Logfiles

recover datafile

2001-02-13 Thread Bjorn Naessens
hey dba ppl, anyone had a problem with recovering a datafile? Doesn't seem very hard if you have the archive log asked for... but what IF u haven't? running oracle 7.34 and 8.16 on ibm rs/6000 aix thx for any help

Re: drove me crazier!!!

2001-02-13 Thread Bunyamin K.Karadeniz
REALLY IT WORKED??? HOW , CAN YOU WRITE THE SCRIPT.. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 10:50 AM hi pals, I defied my customer that this won't work,and thanks to you it worked!! Now,I have

off topic : gathering information

2001-02-13 Thread Bjorn Naessens
hello fellow dba's we are currently running a project for updating our database management tools. We want a pro-active and easy-to-use graphical tool with a lot of possibilities ( db difference, performance manager, top sessions, lock managers, ... ). So i was wandering what all of you

RE: locking tables

2001-02-13 Thread Mark Leith
You can lock a table with: lock table scott.emp in exclusive mode This should lock that table for the session you are in, not sure what permissions you need for it though? Mark -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 07:31 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L hi

RE: Urgent! Alert file Displays this Message...

2001-02-13 Thread O'Neill, Sean
Larry, MetaLink doc 1057885.6 will be of interest to you regarding this message. HTH, Sean :) Rookie Data Base Administrator [0%] OCP Oracle8i DBA [0%] OCP Oracle9i DBA Organon (Ireland) Ltd. http://www.organon.ie E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Consistent Gets?

2001-02-13 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Paul, Thanks for sending the V$MYSTAT data offline. Try this explanation ... The first query is fetching all the rows using an array size of 15. The V$MYSTAT data showed a difference of about 25000 'user calls', and the 'SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client' data below matches that. The number

Re: Resouce Allocation

2001-02-13 Thread Saurabh Sharma
but i did'nt find any bytes column in user_tables analyzed table in compute mode.. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 9:05 PM analyze the table in compute mode. Then select bytes from user_tables where

************Urgent Help me !!!**************

2001-02-13 Thread Dash, Saroj (CAP,CEF)
Dear All, In one of database the developer had deleted a table and commited it. database is in online backup but no export backup or table backup Please tell me how can I recover the the table . please guide me the exact detailed ed steps to recover the table . We have online backup

RE: Oracle ASP Tools ?

2001-02-13 Thread Abdul Aleem
To my understanding, Oracle tools support for JSP, but applications developed in ASP do run on OAS HTH! Aleem -Original Message- From: Eriovaldo do Carmo Andrietta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 5:15 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

Re: Oracle ASP Tools ?

2001-02-13 Thread Eriovaldo do Carmo Andrietta
If you will get some material, please send to me ... I am also interested to know about this. Eriovaldo do Carmo Andrietta[EMAIL PROTECTED]Widesoft Sistemas Ltda.Limeira/SP - BrasilF. +55 19 451 6300ICQ #102604225 - Original Message - From: Sanjay Sinha To: Multiple

No recovery situation

2001-02-13 Thread Beatriz Martinez Jimenez
Hello list, I know that the answer to my question its going to be a negative one, but I have to try to do all that I can do. Until yesterday I was doing some attempt with an Oracle installation, without a backup copy. And, unfortunately, I had to format my computer (!!!). Now I have the data

RE: FULL Scanned Tables' Identification , within a Tablespace

2001-02-13 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Arun , Bingo , will Check for the Same using the Following SQL script :- select b.sid, substr(a.segment_name,1,25) OBJ_NAME, a.segment_type OBJ_TYPE, b.p1, b.p2 BLOCKID, b.p3 BLOCKS, b.event fromdba_extents a, v$session_wait b where b.p2 between

RE: locking tables

2001-02-13 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
Kris: There is no native way of doing this. You would need to write your own data-access methods -- maybe a stored procedure that returns a ref-cursor. The procedure would attempt to lock a table before performing the select. The DML operations on the table would have to lock the same table

Re: ************Urgent Help me !!!**************

2001-02-13 Thread nlzanen1
Hi, Try restoring an old backup first. Make sure that the newest datafile is older than the point you want to return to. Than do your PITR again. MAKE OFFLINE BACKUP FIRST BEFORE ANY CHANGES. ANother option is to restore on a different machine, export the table and import the table on the

Re: ************Urgent Help me !!!**************

2001-02-13 Thread Praveen Gautam
Did you restore the data files from the last hot backup? Praveen "Dash, Saroj (CAP,CEF)" wrote: Dear All, In one of database the developer had deleted a table and commited it. database is in online backup but no export backup or table backup Please tell me how can I recover the the

Opinions on OLTP

2001-02-13 Thread Sherrie . Kubis
I am starting a Data Warehouse project, possibly using Oracle Warehouse Builder. One of the databases that I must bring together comes from IBM DB2 database. We have reverse engineered a piece of their database so that we can produce an ER diagram so that we can start understanding their data.

Default Export buffer size NT

2001-02-13 Thread O'Neill, Sean
Hi Folks, I'm trying to find out the default "buffer" parameter size Export utility on NT O.S., 8i Rel 3. The utility manual says see your Oracle operating system-specific documentation which I have done, or at least I believe I have covered all manuals, but to no avail. Anyhow, anyone know

Re: export dump name for tape

2001-02-13 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
As I have not received any response to my following message, I am posting it again for UNIX GURUS.. My question ius whether is it possible to give name to export dump while sending it directly to tape? If yes how Thanks Rafiq Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:25:26 -0800 Hi, Can somebody guide

db_block_checkpoint_batch

2001-02-13 Thread elain he
Hi, Has anyone seen database performance degradation by setting this to a high value? We set this value to 128 from the default value 4 and noticed a lot more free buffer waits event. All database writers (DB01-10) are waiting for Null Event. The seconds_in_wait time from v$session_wait is

RE: Off Topic: Row Locking - Row Id

2001-02-13 Thread Riyaj_Shamsudeen
Hi Johan Will this work ? Person A books the product he wants with 'select * from t1 for update'. At this point, he has lock on the row. Person B comes in, looks at the product and does a 'select * from t1 for update nowait' If the row is locked for update then person B will

RE: ************Urgent Help me !!!**************

2001-02-13 Thread Martin Kendall
You will have to use your last Hot Backup file set and create a new database (use the alter database backup controlfile to trace for the create db statement). Then apply all the arch. redo files since THAT backup, UPTO the point before the Table was dropped. Then extract the Table data and

RE: Opinions on OLTP

2001-02-13 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Any system with online 'live' updates as opposed to saving up all the updates and running them through a batch process would be considered an OLTP application. Ron Smith Database Administration [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 13,

RE: Oracle 816 on linux

2001-02-13 Thread Juan Marra
Title: Oracle 816 on linux Recompiler Kernel withnew values in semaphores. (values is in technical notes) The Red Hat 7.00 not recompiler Kernel.Have a bug. Recomended RedHat 6.2 Kernel 2.2.14 or 2.2.16, this Kernel recompiler an works fine with Oracle 8.1.6 or 8.1.7 - Original

RE: Enqueue types

2001-02-13 Thread jfedock
As was pointed out to me a few weeks ago, this info is in Oracle8 Reference Release 8.0 A58242-01 TX, Transaction Not sure about the others. They are not in my manual (8.0.x) John -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 11:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

Public Synonym SYSTEM causing Problem with Export

2001-02-13 Thread Nisha Patel
Hi All, I have a really wierd problem with a client who has tried to export the whole database. They get errors because there is a public synonym called System created by a user FCAADMIN. This public synonym caused several oracle supplied objects to go invalid resulting in the failed Oracle

Re: No recovery situation

2001-02-13 Thread Riyaj_Shamsudeen
Hi How did you find you have corrupt blocks ? Did you have any ORA-1578 errors ? Any alert log messages for the same ? I would first find out which objects exist in that particular corrupted block (or ) alternatively you could analyze all the objects in the system tablespace like this.

re : Opinions on OLTP

2001-02-13 Thread MOHAMMAD AMER
hi dba , I went through the same problem here,where I reverse engineered a system with no relations or integrity constraints and it was hell,since I guessed the business rules and asked people from anywhere about the business of this system,I don't want to remember this period of my life. I 'm

Re: export dump name for tape

2001-02-13 Thread Ron Rogers
Rafiq, It has been a while since I dumped to tape but I'll try and lead you in the right direction. 1. To dump different table one after the other you can list the table in a parfile and call the parfile from your script or 2. you cal execute your exp script each time for a different table

HELP - Insert/Update trigger

2001-02-13 Thread Fred Smith
Listers, I am attempting to write a trigger on a table that will have batch inserts nightly. I want each insert to check to see if a record with that primary key exists, and if it does, update the record. If the primary key does not yet exist in the table, insert the record. The batch

RE: Off Topic: Row Locking - Row Id

2001-02-13 Thread jkstill
Depending on your application design, you may find a locking scheme useful. Below is an example that uses rowid to take out a lock. Note that this is not a lock on an object, but simply a lock identified by a rowid. As the demo is setup, the locks are automatically released on rollback or

RE: HELP - Insert/Update trigger

2001-02-13 Thread Norrell, Brian
Not with a normal table trigger. Try creating a non-updateable view with an "instead of" trigger for the insert. Brian Norrell Senior Software Engineer QuadraMed 972-831-6600 -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 9:26 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: db_block_checkpoint_batch

2001-02-13 Thread Riyaj_Shamsudeen
Hi elain I have not personally encountered performance degradation setting this to high value. But I will attempt to help you. DBWR process is waiting for the IPC messages from the background process or from the server processes, for the requests to write the dirty buffers. That's how

Doubt about charecter

2001-02-13 Thread Eriovaldo do Carmo Andrietta
Title: Oracle 816 on linux I have a problemwhere in a statment of sql the DB Oracle doesnt get the line in the follow situation : select name from table1 where field = 'AAA #989'; I think that between A and # exist some strange character that i cant identify it .. How canI do it ?

Re: export dump name for tape

2001-02-13 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Ron, Thanks for guidance. I am also working with my UNIX admin to work out some solutions for distinct file name for each table export. Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:20:43 -0800 Rafiq, It has been

Unix Memory Question

2001-02-13 Thread Schoen Volker
Hi list, I have a question about Unix and Oracle memory allocation. I have to say that Unix isn't my platform, so I think for most of you this will be easy answerd. I have a HP Unix machine with follwing memory infos: Memory Information: physical page size = 4096 bytes, logical page size =

Mailing from Oracle Procedure....

2001-02-13 Thread Shankar Shanmugaswamy
Hi Everybody, I wanted to forward a mail to a particular Id thru an Oracle Procedure , can anybody tell me whether I can do that thru an Oralce Procedure if so pls inform how to do the same. I dont want to mail to a Unix Login id , I want to mail to a mail server For e-g [EMAIL

OCI

2001-02-13 Thread Ravindra Basavaraja
We are implementing OPS for our production database.We are aware that only the select statements(query) gets failover in case of a node failure. But I have been told, to achieve 100%TAF from our application side i.e the user w/o reissuing a transaction(update and etc) we need to implement OCI in

RE: Oracle 816 on linux

2001-02-13 Thread Ferris, Shawn
To get a better error messages make sure your ORACLE_HOME environment variable is set. It appears in your case that 'export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/OracleHome' would be appropriate. Error number #6 (from /usr/include/asm/errno.h) is "No such device or address". Make sure your kernel is compiled

Re: db_block_checkpoint_batch

2001-02-13 Thread elain he
Riyaj, Thanks for your response. The thing that puzzles me is that the seconds_in_wait time for all slaves dbwr processes equals to the time since the database was started. I would expect the seconds_in_wait time for slaves dbwr to be less than the database uptime. Does that mean that all

no alert.log

2001-02-13 Thread Kris Austin
hi list we had a major outage at exodus lastnight. blew up both machines with 6 production databases. SAs have brought most of the disks back up but not $ORACLE_BASE (or $ORACLE_HOME). how can our databases be up if the alert.log(s) live on the unmounted disks? doesn't an oracle database have

RE: off topic : gathering information

2001-02-13 Thread Glenn Travis
Please post your findings to the group. I'm sure we'd all welcome it. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bjorn NaessensSent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 10:02 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: off topic :

RE: HELP - Insert/Update trigger

2001-02-13 Thread Fred Smith
What is the purpose of the non-updateable view? -FS From: "Norrell, Brian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: HELP - Insert/Update trigger Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:56:15 -0800 Not with a normal table trigger.

RE: HELP - Insert/Update trigger

2001-02-13 Thread Dasko, Dan
Dang it, Brian you're right, I didn't read the original post thoroughly. Instead of batch inserts, do batch updates and in the exception handler, do the insert. Or you could use the %FOUND flag based on a select PK from table. Dan -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001

Re: Unix Memory Question

2001-02-13 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Use glance(preferable) or top and see memory usage. Based on free memory you can decide about increase of your buffers. If your db_block_size is 8K, adding 1000 block means addition of 8MB in your SGA. If still not sure check with your Unix Admin. HTH, Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL

RE: off topic : gathering information

2001-02-13 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Have you thought of Precise Software? I am evaluating the Precise / Savant tools now, next will be OEM 2.1. Am looking for something that compares schemas or databases for integrity after maintenance or Oracle upgrades. www.precise.com http://www.precise.com www.savant.com

RE: HELP - Insert/Update trigger

2001-02-13 Thread Dasko, Dan
Yes, it can be done, I'd write the trig to do a select on that PK and if %FOUND is true, update otherwise in the exception handler for that block, do the insert. begin .. begin select PK from table; UPDATE exception INSERT end .. end Dan -Original Message- Sent:

Re: Public Synonym SYSTEM causing Problem with Export

2001-02-13 Thread William Beilstein
How about removing the public synonym and create a private one in the schemas that need it. Except for a table or procedure that is truly global, making a public synonym is never a good idea. "Nisha Patel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/13/01 09:55AM Hi All, I have a really wierd problem with a

Re: no alert.log

2001-02-13 Thread Ruth Gramolini
To be clearer I should have said if the udump destination is present. If there are no errors I ofter delete the alert logs to make room. Ruth - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 1:21 PM hi list we had

Re: Doubt about charecter

2001-02-13 Thread Ruth Gramolini
How about using this statement: select name from table1 where field like 'AAA% #989'; The % represents any character. HTH, Ruth - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 12:25 PM Oracle 816 on

RE: no alert.log

2001-02-13 Thread Henry Poras
Kris, Try doing something to force a write to the alert log (e.g. switch logfile or backup controlfile to trace). Of course to start up the database there should also be writes to the alert log. Also, what did it use for init.ora? That should also be under $ORACLE_BASE. You can check v$parameter

RE: Offline doubt - Exclusive OR operator in PL/SQL??.

2001-02-13 Thread Elliott, Patrick
The only reference I found in the documentation was in the UTL_RAW package. BIT_XOR Function This function performs bitwise logical "exclusive or" of the values in RAW r1 with RAW r2 and returns the "xor'd" result RAW. If r1 and r2 differ in length, then the "xor" operation is terminated after

RE: Unix Memory Question

2001-02-13 Thread Brian D. Silverio
There is a Oracle running on this box. Hit statistics show me that I have to increase the db_block_buffers. What I like to know is, how much more memory can I give oracle? There are about 50 User working with this instance. The bottom line is that you can increase db_block_buffers until the

Re: Unix Memory Question

2001-02-13 Thread exu
I believe that there are no easy answer to you how much memory that you can add to your SGA. You need to some experimental work to find out how many memory that you can take away from system without dragging it down(or over burden it). You can use 'vmstat' and 'sar -w' to monitor memory

RE: Database Startup Trigger is not pinning all packages

2001-02-13 Thread Elliott, Patrick
That is correct. In 8.0 the package does not need to be in memory to pin it. -Original Message- From: Ray Feighery [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 4:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Database Startup Trigger is not pinning

RE: HELP - Insert/Update trigger

2001-02-13 Thread Norrell, Brian
I have never worked directly with "instead of" triggers, but their intent is to be used on a non-updateable view. For instance: SQL create view all_emps as select * from emps UNION select * from archived_emps; SQL insert into all_emps (...); The RDBMS then says "Which real table does this

Oracle vs MS Access

2001-02-13 Thread Maria Freytag
We are developing web database standards in my workplace. I need to identify advantages/disadvantages of using Oracle verses MS Access for web databases. Does anyone know of any good resources for gathering this info (web sites, articles, etc)? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

listner.log cannot be generated

2001-02-13 Thread exu
Hi list, About a month ago, I moved and compressed listener.log file to a different directory because this file accumulated to a huge size over past year or two. Since that point, nothing is able to write to listenr.log file even though i did not change an writing permission of this file and

RE: listner.log cannot be generated

2001-02-13 Thread Carle, William T (Bill), NLCIO
Have you bounced the listener since you moved the log file? Bill Carle ATT Database Administrator 816-995-3922 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 2:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:listner.log cannot be generated

RE: Offline doubt - Exclusive OR operator in PL/SQL??.

2001-02-13 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
I said it was a bit xor. Your first message was not very specific. There is no general xor operator in Oracle. However under Oracle 8i you can create one. Look at the create operator command. You could also do something like (select x from A where y = 2 union select x from A where z = 2)

top n or top n%

2001-02-13 Thread Leslie Lu
Hi listers, I remeber vaguely there is a way to select top n or top % rows of a select statement. But I cannot find it anywhere. Could somebody let me know? Thank you. Leslie __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail

system command hangs from external pl/sql

2001-02-13 Thread Myszkowski.Mark
Title: system command hangs from external pl/sql Hi I am trying to implement printing from pl/sql on our system. We are running Tru64 Unix and Oracle 8.0.5. I have configured an external procedure listener and created a shared library by following some of the documentation in Metalink. The

Problems with database link - 8.1.6

2001-02-13 Thread Manas Dasgupta
Hi: I'm having problems setting up and using database link. My create statement looks as follows: create database link PROD connect to xuser identified by xpwd using 'TRNGPROD'; I then execute : select * from sysadm.employees@PROD. and get the following error: ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve

RE: no alert.log

2001-02-13 Thread Kris Austin
thanks, but this is what i get when i try to cd to $ORACLE_HOME: db1:PHYS:/ora1_app cd $ORACLE_HOME bash: cd: /ora1_app/product/8.1.6: No such file or directory db2:CONC:/ora2_app cd $ORACLE_HOME bash: cd: /ora2_app/product/8.1.6: No such file or directory or an ls on $ORACLE_BASE:

RE: no alert.log

2001-02-13 Thread William Dong
Hi: If the specified bdump is not accessable, oracle may write the alert_log to $ORACLE_HOME/dbms or dbs directory by default. I am sure you can find it somewhere in oracle_home. |+--- || Henry Poras | || Henry.Poras@| ||

Oracle JDBC Thin Driver Licensing Issue

2001-02-13 Thread Sanjay Kumar
hi, Does anyone know whether Oracle JDBC Thin Driver can be shipped to the clients without getting any license from Oracle?. Is it free for shipping? Sanjay

Re: listner.log cannot be generated

2001-02-13 Thread Riyaj_Shamsudeen
Hi I think, you removed the listener log file while the listener is up and running. When you removed the listener log, listener was having a file pointer open. Since the file pointer is not closed, the listener is still writing to the same node. If you stop and start the listener, you

SQL Text

2001-02-13 Thread Sanjay Kumar
hi, I want to see the latest SQL Statements that I sent to Database. I know that I can make use of V$sqlarea but it restricts only tofirst 1000 characters. But my query is more than that. Any help. Sanjay

RE: SQL Text

2001-02-13 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Hi Sanjay, Try the following: -- this one will be faster but only shows the first 1000 characters of the SQL select username, q.* from v$session s , v$sql q where q.address = s . sql_address and q.hash_value = s.SQL_HASH_VALUE and s.username = 'user'

Urgent! Change Character Set from WE8IS088591 to UTF8

2001-02-13 Thread Larry Taylor
I have a 8.1.6.0.0 database. What is the best way to change Character Set from WE8ISO8859P1 to UTF8 from: NLS_CHARACTERSET WE8ISO8859P1 To: NLS_CHARACTERSET UTF8 Thanks

Degree of Parallelism: 0?

2001-02-13 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: Degree of Parallelism: 0? Hello all, I've purposely got PQO off. But I was shocked to see I've got some parallel query slaves out there. I checked to see which objects they are, listed below. I'm not concerned about the sys/system stuff, Im worried about CTX (my intermedia text

RE: Oracle vs MS Access

2001-02-13 Thread David Barbour
Please try to be gentle with this soul. Maria - Access should not even be on your short list. The underlying architecture is not designed for simultaneous use by multiple sessions. What type of "web database" application(s) will you be creating? How many concurrent users do you expect for

Help optimize statement

2001-02-13 Thread adm-unix
Hello, I have this user statement below which is very long in a 8.1.6.2 database. Any ideas to optimize it is wellcome. Best Regards Philippe ** SELECT PLT_LISTE_DES_AGENTS_PL97.SEXE, PLT_FORMATION_AGENT_PL74.PL0PL009_COLLEGE,

Re: SQL Text

2001-02-13 Thread Gregory Conron
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Sanjay Kumar wrote: hi, I want to see the latest SQL Statements that I sent to Database. I know that I can make use of V$sqlarea but it restricts only to first 1000 characters. But my query is more than that. Use v$sqltext or v$sqltext_with_newlines. Simple join

RE: A Solaris question on memory usage

2001-02-13 Thread Nguyen, Long
Thanks David. You are right, I did not notice that the private figure actually included the SGA size as well. Regards Long -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, 8 February 2001 7:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Long pmap seems to include portions of the SGA in the Private

Re: No recovery situation

2001-02-13 Thread Allan Nelson
With a corrupt system tablespace and no backups you have no further recovery options. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 6:30 AM Hello list, I know that the answer to my question its going to be a negative

Re: Oracle vs MS Access

2001-02-13 Thread Allan Nelson
I don't know of any comparisons but unless you have only a very tiny amount of data and you expect only one connection to the database at a time I would not use Access. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 2:11

Re: Urgent! Change Character Set from WE8IS088591 to UTF8

2001-02-13 Thread Allan Nelson
I think export and import are the only way you can do this. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 5:40 PM I have a 8.1.6.0.0 database. What is the best way to change Character Set from WE8ISO8859P1 to UTF8

Re: top n or top n%

2001-02-13 Thread Saurabh Sharma
do you mean to find top rows based on some coplumn values.. will this help..it will fetch u the nth row based on some value of particular column. select * from tablename a where position_salary-1= (select count(distinct col1) from tablename where col1a.col1) order by col1; can modify it

Renaming a Column

2001-02-13 Thread Heikki Jantunen
Hi all, I need to rename some columns on my table. Any idea how to do that... Thanks in advance, Hessu _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Output in 1 line in the spool file from a sql statement - please help

2001-02-13 Thread Viraj Luthra
Hello, I need some help. I need all the columns values on 1 line only. that is in the end of this mail you will see the result as, - V$ACCESS SYNONYM 8 PUBLIC

RE: automatic startup and shutdown of LISTENER

2001-02-13 Thread Viraj Luthra
Hello, If I want to achieve the following in a shell script, how can I do that:- I put the following in a shell:- USERID=$1 PASSWD=$2 su - $USERID -c $ORACLE_HOME/bin/lsnrctl eof start listener

Compilation of Pro*C code on WINNT:-Urgent

2001-02-13 Thread bipin sahani
Hi all, How to compile a pro*C code on winnt? I'm able to precompile it and get .c file from it. But unable to get executable from this .c file. Any guidance in this respect will be great help to us Regards Bipin Do You Yahoo!? Get

RE: Off Topic: Row Locking - Row Id

2001-02-13 Thread Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Services
Hi Jared Thanx for the reply. I'll do some stress testing, and keep you up to date. (I'm not too optimistic though) Cheers JL -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 6:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Depending on your application design, you may find a

RE: Renaming a Column

2001-02-13 Thread Suhen Pather
Hessu, One of the ways: create table newtable (newcolumn1,newcolumn2,newcolumn3,...) as select * from oldtable ; rename newtable to oldtable; HTH Suhen Hi all, I need to rename some columns on my table. Any idea how to do that... Thanks in advance, Hessu

Re: Renaming a Column

2001-02-13 Thread Saurabh Sharma
CREATE THE TABLE AGAIN WITH AS SELECT CLAUSE.. SELECTING ONLY COLUMN DEFINITION WHILE SUPPLYING THE NEW COLUMN NAME URSELF. apply constraints if any. reinsert the data from old table. drop old table . rename new table as old one. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list