RE: Compaq Server not releasing Memory

2001-03-16 Thread Yerpude
Is your Application performance affetced by this. I increased the SGA to 400MB from 80MB and then exceuted a simple count(*) from a table containing 1 recores. Eariler this was reducing the memory by 3-4% but amazing this time is was 20-30% in one select. I am monitoring it via system inform

RE: Offtopic: Canada and America

2001-03-16 Thread lerobe - Lee Robertson
Thats what we liked about Vancouver. Although not so much energy as the City of New York I think. Believe me, we will visit NY, if only to keep my wife happy, she is desperate to go there. -Original Message- Sent: 16 March 2001 14:26 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L but you must

Re: Script to know the size of each table in a schema ?

2001-03-16 Thread Paul Drake
Joe, I have an idea. What if we create a script that opens (with the user's default editor, of course) every .sql file in the folder: NT: %ORACLE_HOME%\rdbms\admin *nixif you can get through the *nix install - you know how to rtfm technically, it would be a virus - it could be the "man"

Re: Oracle DBA evolution path - please share your opi

2001-03-16 Thread Paul Drake
hey - bdbafh.com is still available ... Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dick, > > We should formalize this rant and post it and a web page > and publicize it. > > Almost without exception, databases for 3rd party software > are designed in the dark by drunken monkeys. > > In the past I'v

Re: Oracle DBA evolution path - please share your opi

2001-03-16 Thread Paul Drake
no shit. contact info removed out of courtesy. Registrant: STILL, JARED (DUHVELOPER-DOM) Domain Name: duhveloper.com Administrative Contact, Billing Contact: STILL, JARED (

Re:RE: RE: Oracle DBA evolution path - please share your opi

2001-03-16 Thread jkstill
Dick, We should formalize this rant and post it and a web page and publicize it. Almost without exception, databases for 3rd party software are designed in the dark by drunken monkeys. In the past I've toyed with the idea of offering a service of ERD and database design to 3rd party developers

Install Oracle on Solaris SOS

2001-03-16 Thread sinardyxing
Hi guys, This machine is use for my Oracle script testing and other small research. I have a Sun machine : - UltraSPARC -IIi 300 MHz - 128 Mb (Oracle recommend 256) - 4 Gig HDD I install Solaris 7 with : /-> 1200 MB (small ??) /appl-> 2??? MB (all of the available) swap

when does 'ora-1007 variable not in select list ' occur?

2001-03-16 Thread grace lim
hi gurus, in what instances 'ora-1007 variable not in select list ' occurs? i'm having difficult in tracing the cause of it in my process. because when i rerun the process w/ the same data set. it didn't occur again it's very intermitent. thanks Best regards, Grace Lim Suy Sing Comm'l Corp

Re: Fwd: RE: EXP-00008: ORACLE error 1555 encountered

2001-03-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
option 3 -- increase the rollback segments and redo with users in the database jumping in... yes of course an export will use a rollback segment.. to all intents and purposes, exporting a table is the same as doing a select * from that is written to a spool file. so it doesn't matter if you

RE: For You Sticky Developers out there.....

2001-03-16 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: For You Sticky Developers out there. >-Original Message- >From: Mohan, Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >get a version-specific glitch ( works in 816, fails in 805 ) >for a call to the DBMS_UTILITY.GET_TIME built-in: > >## >SQL> select dbms_utilit

Re: OT: Oracle *Chocolate* Monitoring Tools/Friday Recipe

2001-03-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
on second thought yes, it might very well mean something different. large, extra-large, jumbo? what size eggs? are they sized the same here and there? and yes, the size of the egg makes a differnce in baking. baking, unlike cooking, tends to need very precise measurements. I'll agree that

Re: OT: Oracle *Chocolate* Monitoring Tools/Friday Recipe

2001-03-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
sorry, no, of course not... but my eye immediately went to the grams and gas mark and ml measurements. that'll teach me to skim the recipe without reading it all. I SHOULD have said "most" of those measurements >From: Regina Harter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multipl

Re: Offtopic: Canada and America

2001-03-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
ooh, insult my city will ya :) people in NY are friendly -- I have never had a problem with smiling at someone and talking to them. I have had people rushing to help me when I have had a problem. Everyone I know who comes here expecting the stereotypical NYer, has been surprised to find out w

Re: Need Help For Installing Oracle On AIX

2001-03-16 Thread David A. Barbour
Neena, If I understand correctly, you have a server with the OS on it, and the DB on a set of external drives - right? Cable the external drives to the working server, reboot, and import the volume groups. Your database should be right there. Regards, David A. Barbour Oracle DBA Formerly wi

RE: OT: Oracle *Chocolate* Monitoring Tools/Friday Recipe

2001-03-16 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
What's muscovado sugar? It sounds like sugar from an avocado grown in Moscow. My wife, who hails from Bristol. knew it was a brown sugar, but didn't know what made it different froom other brown sugars. She didn't think it was simply a brand name. We have one child so cutting the cake into t

RE: changing passwords - Boneheads at MetaStink

2001-03-16 Thread John Dailey
Doug, not to butt in on this thread, but you can do this by placing a "wrapper" around the jobs w/ another dbms_job. Create a table called PERFORMANCE_STATS or something and create a new procedure for each job that inserts the sysdate (begin time) into the table, runs the job you want to run, the

Re: Classes12.zip for linux

2001-03-16 Thread Apps Sol
some times we don't have a choice but , to live with this monster .. Is there a way to get a Linux version of this file rk - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 2:01 PM > Of course it is not OK to pollute a n

Fwd: RE: EXP-00008: ORACLE error 1555 encountered

2001-03-16 Thread Paul Drake
2 options: 1. Option #1 - produce a real dump file - export a quiescent database shutdown immediate startup restrict call export job with user that has restricted session alter system disable restricted session; 2. Option #2 - create a garbage export. call export job without consistent=Y update

RE: Offtopic: Canada and America

2001-03-16 Thread Ari D Kaplan
I once did a year assignment in Syracuse. Luckily I did not get shot ;) Seriously, it is a beautiful town. Got exposed to some American culture. WWF, National Bowling Championship, Golden Glove Boxing Championship, and the like. Plus Skaneateles recently won the US "Olympics of the Mind" competit

Re: OT: Oracle *Chocolate* Monitoring Tools/Friday Recipe

2001-03-16 Thread Regina Harter
Are you saying 2 eggs means something different in England? ;) At 01:23 PM 3/16/01 -0800, you wrote: >not one of those measurements (especially not "gas mark 5") will work for >an American :) > > >>From: "Mark Leith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: Multiple recipients of

RE: Offtopic: Canada and America

2001-03-16 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
No way, you'd probably get shot. -Original Message- Beilstein Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 4:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I'm from Syracuse myself and the city is a nice place. Everything you want without the dog eat dog attitude of a major city like New York. Most of

Re:changing passwords - Boneheads at MetaStink

2001-03-16 Thread dgoulet
Rodd, What else is new! I've sent many a query to Oracle, along similar lines, and gotten a 'boneheaded' reply, even on TARs. You then have to get down and specific to finally get through the haze those guys work in, maybe it's a hang-over (hung over from what I do not want to know). Anywa

RE: For You Sticky Developers out there.....

2001-03-16 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: For You Sticky Developers out there. Ladies and Gentlemen, it is entirely possible i am missing the point. I am not even qualified to have my head shrunk and jabbed on a stick at an oracle developers potluck campfire, BUT It's not like I am doing something complicated. I

RE: Offtopic:DBA Math, Beer and OEM

2001-03-16 Thread Steve Orr
Hey Dave, Regarding... > Create a reporting schema, install perl DBI blah blah blah... Yeah, I've been getting ready to cobble together a better personal tool kit using perl DBI but they keep interrupting me with silly things to do like my daily job. ;-) Regarding Canada-US relationships... How

RE: Oracle Monitoring Tools

2001-03-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
you ask this of a chocoholic? Yes I remember.. I bought the book so I could drool over the pictures :) sigh, okay, I have the recipes in soft copy somewhere, I'll dig them out and post them, with Jared's permission :) >From: Henry Poras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To:

RE: HINTS , how to add correctly

2001-03-16 Thread Miller, Jay
Are you sure you don't have the explain plans reversed? I don't recall ever seeing the Rule Based Optimizer choosing to do a sort/merge when a nested loops was possible. Jay Miller -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 6:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L My q

RE: For You Slick Developers out there.....

2001-03-16 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
Oracle 8.0 and before requires that a function have the following in the header in order for it to work in a select statement: PRAGMA RESTRICT_REFERENCES(...) Oracle, in its infinite wisdom, didn't put the pragma in most of its internal functions... Oracle 8i got rid of this PRAGMA. You stil

changing passwords - Boneheads at MetaStink

2001-03-16 Thread Rodd Holman
Listers, Please forgive the length of this, but you had to see it for real. The question at stake here is... Are there any specific instructions or gotcha's when changing the passwords for the below listed default users. Particularly are there any shell scripts, etc that need changing if you

Re:RE: RE: Oracle DBA evolution path - please share your opi

2001-03-16 Thread Srini . Chavali
Amen !! [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fatcity.com on 03/16/2001 10:26:43 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Jacques, First things first, DON'T TAKE THIS PERSONAL. I am not trying to bro

Re: rdbms pricing

2001-03-16 Thread William Beilstein
Thats a no brainer. You get a single support contract for John Smith, which happens to be the name of everyone working there (wink). >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/16/01 10:41AM >>> At 06:05 AM 3/16/01 -0800, you wrote: >We have a support contract with IBM (for server support), and the support costs >

Amen to the Goulet Speech!

2001-03-16 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: Amen to the Goulet Speech! Dick, I couldn't agree more. In my experience, the majority of COTS dbms products are extremely poorly thought out and executed. As a wise man once said:  "Developers are the crabgrass on                 the emerald green of the database

Re: OT: Oracle *Chocolate* Monitoring Tools/Friday Recipe

2001-03-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
not one of those measurements (especially not "gas mark 5") will work for an American :) >From: "Mark Leith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: OT: Oracle *Chocolate* Monitoring Tools/Friday Recipe >Date: Fri,

RE: For You Slick Developers out there.....

2001-03-16 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: For You Slick Developers out there. Either does the 816 version.   But...i am on the casei *think* it is likely b/c they declared a global variable in the DBMS_UTILITY ::body:: versus the specification   ..just a guess. -Original Message-From: Norrell, Bri

RE: Offtopic: Canada and America

2001-03-16 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)
Title: RE: Offtopic: Canada and America Red Sox Fan?  Wait til next year? Ha!  Try being a die hard Cubs fan. "Do they still play the blues in Chicago when baseball season rolls around?" - A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request Matt Adams - GE Appliances - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doing l

Re: Offtopic: Canada and America

2001-03-16 Thread William Beilstein
I'm from Syracuse myself and the city is a nice place. Everything you want without the dog eat dog attitude of a major city like New York. Most of the time people even say hello to each other on the streets, try doing that in New York 8-) >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/16/01 01:06PM >>> Ari D Kaplan

Re: Oracle Monitoring Tools

2001-03-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I'll post them to the list, sometime this weekend >From: "Thater, William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Oracle Monitoring Tools >Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:41:01 -0800 > >Kathy Duret wrote: > > > > Do

RE: Problem in execution of Unix Shell script from Oracle Stored

2001-03-16 Thread Vadim Gorbounov
Hey, Sanjay, Check this http://osi.oracle.com/wa/ask/owa/ask_tom_pkg.display?p_dispid=952229840241   -Original Message-From: Sanjay Sinha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 1:00 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Problem in execution of

RE: Urgent - Help needed - Reports

2001-03-16 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Title: Urgent - Help needed - Reports I would agree with that, is it a networked PC that is being shared?  If so,  then the drivers need to be installed on the server. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dasko, DanSent: Friday, Mar

RE: Oracle DBA evolution path - please share your opinion

2001-03-16 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Oracle DBA evolution path - please share your opinion > -Original Message- > From: Mark Leith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > LOL William - had you not noticed that Jacques works for > Quest!! Don't know > abou you Jacques, but if I went to my management asking for > them

link to the free space .sql file

2001-03-16 Thread Joseph Testa
http://www.oracle-dba.com/backup/scripts/freespac.txt Use it as u please, edit, etc. its all yours. its a stored procedure, pretty straight forward, No i didnt give you an example of how to call it, make you think for your own a little bit, for those of you stuck, email me direct at [EMAI

RE: Classes12.zip for linux

2001-03-16 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Of course it is not OK to pollute a nice Linux installation with something coming from the MS world! Shame on you! -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 12:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Right now I am using a win2000 classes12.zip file for my linux (r6.2) or

Re: Is there anything called session specific tables

2001-03-16 Thread yong huang
Hi, Tapas, It's called TEMPORARY TABLE (reserved words). Create them by CREATE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE. Yong Huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I am facing a typical problem. In one of my D2K appliaction I need to first populate the data in a particular itermediate table and then run the report

RE: For You Slick Developers out there.....

2001-03-16 Thread Norrell, Brian
Title: For You Slick Developers out there. My guess is that the 805 version of the package doesn’t pragma restrict_references (RNDS,WNDS) like good programmers should…   Brian Norrell Manager, MPI Development QuadraMed 511 E John Carpenter Frwy, Su 500 Irving, TX 75062 (972) 831

Re: Oracle Monitoring Tools

2001-03-16 Thread Thater, William
Kathy Duret wrote: > > Do send the cheesecake recipe and chocolate mousse recipe to me! I love to > bake. If I can find my chocolate suicide cake I will send it to you... uses > over 1lb of chocolate...what a way to go... > kathy purr

RE: Batch SQL hangs on locked row

2001-03-16 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Batch SQL hangs on locked row Also I'll mention that the situation would be different for a SQL statement e.g. select, insert, update, delete. In that case if the statement were terminated with a semi-colon AND the following line contained a slash then the statement would be execute

RE: Offtopic: Canada and America

2001-03-16 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
I like NY, it's just the other 8 million people I can't stand, same thing here in Jersey! -Original Message- Carmichael Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 9:26 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L but you must come to NY as well! not just the city (although that's a requirement) but u

RE: Oracle Monitoring Tools

2001-03-16 Thread Kimberly Smith
I think we just found our recipes for the next two Fridays:-) -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 6:31 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I don't have that book... don't know if I need it, I'm somewhat domestic in my off-time anyway, I love to bake and do needlewor

RE: Oracle *Chocolate* Monitoring Tools/Friday Recipe

2001-03-16 Thread Scott . Shafer
Mark, My wife thanks you. She was just wanting chocolate cake... Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX "In /dev/null no one can hear you scream..." > -Original Message- > From: Mark Leith [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 9:27 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACL

Re: For You Slick Developers out there.....

2001-03-16 Thread Thater, William
My guess is that the 805 version of the package doesn't pragma restrict_references (RNDS,WNDS) like good programmers should... Brian Norrell Manager, MPI Development well then neither does the 7.3.4 version, but the 8.1.5 one works ok. -- Bill Thater Certifiable ORACLE DBA Telergy, In

WAY OT: Recipe

2001-03-16 Thread Diana Duncan
Well, since I'm really bored today and in a silly mood due to impending unemployment, I'll throw in a recipe. It's not dessert, because I can't do that from memory, but it's for my absolutely favorite soup. Enjoy! Kota Soupa Avgolemono (Greek Egg-Lemon Chicken Soup) The original Greek recipe

Re: Offtopic: Canada and America

2001-03-16 Thread Thater, William
Ari D Kaplan wrote: > > Upstate NY is great - Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Syracuse, and the best place > in the world: COOPERSTOWN. > > (For those not familiar with baseball, this is the Baseball Hall of Fame). > > -Ari and the Kodak museum in rochester, and the eversion museum [housed in an award

Need Help For Installing Oracle On AIX

2001-03-16 Thread NSC
Hi All, Our application is based on the twodatabases ( on two diff. servers , os AIX). One of these server is down since yesterday because of some hardware (motherboard) problem.Finding out the exact problem and solution will take time. AMC person might give a replacement server

RE: test

2001-03-16 Thread Kimberly Smith
Ha, we have one here and they give him a hard time anyway. I guess they figure he can take it. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 4:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Wow, you were a SEAL Bill? I bet your duhvelopers don't bother you on a regular basis huh? :)

RE: PVCS Dimensions

2001-03-16 Thread Kimberly Smith
Are you using it for just Tracker type stuff or are you using it for source control as well? We already use PVCS for the Tracker portion of the application and that does not use much space at all. Problem is, I can't tell from the doco if the deltas are stored in the database or is that stil

RE: STARTING A HOLY WAR: about NT versus unix Re: Java pools and

2001-03-16 Thread Gogala, Mladen
One Browser to rule them all, one Browser to find them One Browser to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 7:16 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L and 8i -- thats cause NT sux

RE: Offtopic: Canada and America

2001-03-16 Thread Gogala, Mladen
I'm particularly interested in seeing the two that would hold hands over the Niagara falls.. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 7:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Dave Morgan wrote: > > Fact: The longest undefended border in the wor

Re: sqlplus hanging on exit

2001-03-16 Thread jkstill
You may want to check v$session_wait while the session is exiting and see if it's waiting on a resource in the the database. If that doesn't reveal anything, you may want to try truss on the server process and see what is going on there. ( assuming you aren't using MTS ) Jared On Fri, 16 Mar

RE: Is there anything called session specific tables

2001-03-16 Thread Mark Leith
Yes there is, this is known as a Temporary Table. Only available in 8.1x and above I believe but am not totally sure. Temporary tables can be created either for the duration of a session or transaction. Likewise, you can also create indexes on these tables, that have the same life time as the temp

RE: Offtopic: Canada and America

2001-03-16 Thread Kimberly Smith
If you like the coast you really should go check out the Atlantic provinces. The nice thing about it is you can see 4 provinces in a relatively short time span. I would definitely go in the summer though (unless you are a huge fan of snow). -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 16, 2

RE: Long Problem??

2001-03-16 Thread Jim Conboy
Might find the URL below useful. Its a perl script for selecting or inserting LONG RAW but you should be able to adapt it without too much trouble. http://www.orafaq.com/scripts/perl/blob.txt Jim >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/16/01 10:15AM >>> Maybe you can do it from within PL/SQL -- the maximum

Re: rdbms pricing

2001-03-16 Thread Dennis Taylor
At 06:05 AM 3/16/01 -0800, you wrote: >We have a support contract with IBM (for server support), and the support costs >could be deceptive if you don't know how IBM works. The cost is on a per user >basis. So if you only got one support license, your company would only be allowed >to have one NA

RE: Compaq Server not releasing Memory

2001-03-16 Thread Hand, Michael T
This sounds like the memory leak/creep on our Compaq Alphas. It was a problem experienced under Tru64 40F with Oracle 8043. I was resolved when we upgraded to 8062. Maybe it's resurfaced in 8i. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 1:31 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORA

Re[2]: Oracle Monitoring Tools

2001-03-16 Thread dgoulet
Andy, I did not catch your reply by itself, but if Rachel doesn't come down on you like a ton of bricks... :-) Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Terry Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 3/16/2001 6:26 AM Oh, please do. Cholate, m. Terry

RE: RE: change unix user when running external procedure

2001-03-16 Thread jkstill
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, John Dunn wrote: > Apparently the way to do this is to set up a seperate external procedure > listener to run as the appropriate user. > > Unfortunately utl_file still seems to run as oracle > > John John, If you are having problems with access to files created by Oracle v

Offtopic - Read a MAC CD on an NT desktop

2001-03-16 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Is there any way to read a CD created on a MAC machine from my NT Desktop? Ron Smith Database Administration [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Smith, Ron L. INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX:

RE: Oracle DBA evolution path - please share your opi

2001-03-16 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Title: RE: Oracle DBA evolution path - please share your opi I have a question, why did sqlnav 4 get changed s much.  I don't mind it, but the duhvelopers her are very unhappy with it and reinstalled 3.28 blah blah. Just wondering, is it better, am I missing some fantastic stuff? Kev

Re:RE: RE: Oracle DBA evolution path - please share your opi

2001-03-16 Thread dgoulet
Jacques, First things first, DON'T TAKE THIS PERSONAL. I am not trying to brow beat anyone, just venting a common problem I have with third party software applications. I've had a couple interactions with Quest which for the most part have been uneventful. Over the last 5 years I've ha

RE: Is there anything called session specific tables

2001-03-16 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Tapas, If you're on 8i (I don't think they're available on 8.0, but not sure), look at Global Temporary Tables. They are permanently defined in the data dictionary so triggers and packages and views, etc. can reference them, but the rows inserted, updated, and deleted in them are visible only to

OT: Oracle *Chocolate* Monitoring Tools/Friday Recipe

2001-03-16 Thread Mark Leith
Well here goes then - Good job I went and got it just in case at lunch huh :0) I just knew that SOMEBODY would have to have a chocolate fetish on this list!! You guys are gonna love this one, it is soft & moist - a little like the good old American brownie, but it is essentially a Loaf Cake. Ing

Re: Offtopic: Canada and America

2001-03-16 Thread Jerry C
I'm suprised nobody has mentioned arguably the two greatest Canadians: Bob and Doug McKenzie Cooo - coo coo coo coo cooo cooo cooo... - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 12:25 AM > I was actually just in Can

Re: NT Batch processes continue to run

2001-03-16 Thread yong huang
Hi, Ron, Is this because you run batch files as CMD /K? If so, change it to CMD /C. If you're not using CMD command and if your script is not too long, please post it and we'll examine it for you. Yong Huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: We have several NT Dos batch scripts that execute sql sta

RE: Is there anything called session specific tables

2001-03-16 Thread Diana Duncan
In 8i there are "temporary" tables that you can create just for a session. Perhaps this is what you are looking for? -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 2:36 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello Listers, I am facing a typical problem. In one of my D2K appliacti

Re: Offtopic:DBA Math, Beer and OEM

2001-03-16 Thread jkstill
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Dave Morgan wrote: > > Create a reporting schema, install perl DBI, (not on the db > server, on a client somewhere) gnu-plot or a similar graphing > package (anyone know a good perl one?) and within a week > you have graphical historical reports. > Check out DBD::Chart http

RE: Script to know the size of each table in a schema ?

2001-03-16 Thread Feng, Jun
Hi, Is the analyze table required when dbms_space is used to calculate the space? I wrote a script to calculate space usage in the allocated space in the segments. Every time I run the script, the analyze table has to be run first. Jun -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 7:

RE: Oracle DBA evolution path - please share your opi

2001-03-16 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Oracle DBA evolution path - please share your opi > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > First things first, DON'T TAKE THIS PERSONAL. Good thing you said that! I was on my way over there to give you an atomic wedgie. :-> > (va

Re: Offtopic: Canada and America

2001-03-16 Thread Scott Canaan
If you are going to visit Rochester and Buffalo, then you should make the short trip to Jamestown and Chautauqua, especially during the summer when the season is in full swing at Chautauqua. Lucy fans can visit the Lucy-Desi Museum in Jamestown. "Thater, William" wrote: > Ari D Kaplan wrote: >

RE: EXP-00008: ORACLE error 1555 encountered

2001-03-16 Thread Scott . Shafer
Are you doing a consistent=y export? Was there significant activity on the system? Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX "In /dev/null no one can hear you scream..." > -Original Message- > From: Charlie Mengler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 8:42 AM > To: Multiple re

Re: Is "MetaWink" Doing Another Rip Van Winkle???

2001-03-16 Thread Rodd Holman
On Friday 16 March 2001 03:21, you wrote: > Hmmm, > The site support.oracle.com is running Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) > ApacheJServ/1.0 on unknown. > The site support.oracle.co.uk is running > Oracle_Web_Listener/4.0.8.2EnterpriseEdition on Solaris. > > -Mike > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/15/01 01:36

RE: EXP-00008: ORACLE error 1555 encountered

2001-03-16 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: EXP-8: ORACLE error 1555 encountered don't overlap with other work, whether live, or batched reports or. else grow the RBS -Original Message- From: Charlie Mengler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 9:42 AM To: Multiple recipients of lis

RE: Oracle DBA evolution path - please share your opinion

2001-03-16 Thread Diana Duncan
As someone who may very well be laid off next week, I'm very appreciative of the article. ;-) One caveat -- Junior DBA's don't fare as well. Everyone and their brother seem to want at least 2 years experience. Luckily for me I've been doing this for a long time, but some of my former employees

RE: Oracle JDBC driver

2001-03-16 Thread mai huynh
Yes, I think that if I use the thin driver, I don't have to install the Oracle client on it, but I can't make it works. I will install the Oracle client on it and hope that work on both types of driver. Thanks for all your helps >From: Diana Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTE

For You Slick Developers out there.....

2001-03-16 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: For You Slick Developers out there. I get a version-specific glitch ( works in 816, fails in 805 ) for a call to the DBMS_UTILITY.GET_TIME built-in: ## SQL> select dbms_utility.get_time from dual; select dbms_utility.get_time from dual    * ERROR at line 1:

RE: Offtopic: Canada and America

2001-03-16 Thread Henry Poras
Names for James Fenimore. It's been too long since I've been there. Maybe in a few years I can take my daughter. I've been turning her into a Red Sox fan. Little does she suspect what that means. Pretty soon I'll start teaching her 'wait until next year'. As far as visiting cities goes, I should p

RE: HINTS , how to add correctly

2001-03-16 Thread bruce . taneja
Yes, I did add statistics, though 'estimated' one only.. thanks, Bruce "Khedr, Waleed" To:

RE: Oracle Monitoring Tools

2001-03-16 Thread Henry Poras
Anybody remember the cooking show and associated book 'Death by Chocolate'? I can still picture the waves of ganache rolling down over the cakes. Henry -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 1:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I think we just found our recipes for

Re: Summary : Svrmgrl "connect internal" asks for password??

2001-03-16 Thread Rotimi O. Gbadamosi
Hi Allan: He appeared to have done it using the Registry forms. > > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand > this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. > > --_=_NextPart_001_01C0AD94.06F7EBD0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=

RE: Is there anything called session specific tables

2001-03-16 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Tapas, 8i release 2 has a concept of session temporary tables. By why that? We have solved a similar problems since Oracle 7 days by adding two columns to a pseudo-temp table. This table is permanent but the data is temporary. All data in the table can be identified by the userid and sess_seq col

Re: Is there anything called session specific tables

2001-03-16 Thread Igor Neyman
Check 'temporary' tables in oracle docs. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA Perceptron, Inc. (734)414-4627 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 2:35 AM > Hello Listers, > > I am facing a typical proble

RE: Oracle Monitoring Tools

2001-03-16 Thread Scott . Shafer
No recipes, but the occasional orneriness shows through. Wouldn't have it any other way - perfection is boring... Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX "In /dev/null no one can hear you scream..." > -Original Message- > From: Andy Duncan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001

Re: OT: Oracle *Chocolate* Monitoring Tools/Friday Recipe

2001-03-16 Thread Regina Harter
Well, I think I can manage the grams to cups and c to f, but can someone translate "muscovado sugar" for me? At 07:26 AM 3/16/01 -0800, you wrote: >Well here goes then - Good job I went and got it just in case at lunch huh >:0) I just knew that SOMEBODY would have to have a chocolate fetish on

Re: Script to know the size of each table in a schema ?

2001-03-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
there's a fairly good script using dbms_space in the Advanced Oracle Tuning and Administration book from Oracle Press (at least it was there in the first edition) >From: "Joseph S. Testa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Is there anything called session specific tables

2001-03-16 Thread Jim Walski
You could add a session_ID ( use dbms_sesssion.unique_session_id to get a unique id) to the report table and then pass that variable to the report. Then in the report add to the WHERE clause "AND v_session_id = whatever_the_id_is" This should only then return the rows for the specific user. hth

RE: Offtopic: Canada and America

2001-03-16 Thread Ari D Kaplan
Upstate NY is great - Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Syracuse, and the best place in the world: COOPERSTOWN. (For those not familiar with baseball, this is the Baseball Hall of Fame). -Ari On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Rachel Carmichael wrote: > but you must come to NY as well! not just the city (although th

RE: Urgent - Help needed - Reports

2001-03-16 Thread Dasko, Dan
Title: Urgent - Help needed - Reports Is the printer driver for that printer installed on the machine with the reports server?  That's the first thing I think of, but I've never actually had that problem. Dan -Original Message-From: Bathma Sivaraj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent:

Re: OT: STARTING A HOLY WAR: about NT versus unix Re: Java pools and 8i --

2001-03-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
joe, could you possibly be a little less verbose when you express your opinions? roflmaoapmp >From: "Joseph S. Testa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: OT: STARTING A HOLY WAR: about NT versus unix Re: Java

Classes12.zip for linux

2001-03-16 Thread Apps Sol
Right now I am using a win2000 classes12.zip file for my linux (r6.2) oracle 8.1.6 database. But I need to know if it's ok to use this ( techincally yes .. but ) on Linux OS .. Also , if someone can direct me to a place where I can get the correct version of this file. rk -- Please see

RE: Oracle Monitoring Tools

2001-03-16 Thread Kathy Duret
Do send the cheesecake recipe and chocolate mousse recipe to me! I love to bake. If I can find my chocolate suicide cake I will send it to you... uses over 1lb of chocolate...what a way to go... kathy -Original Message- Carmichael Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 6:31 AM To: Multiple recipi

RE: Oracle Monitoring Tools

2001-03-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I don't have that book... don't know if I need it, I'm somewhat domestic in my off-time anyway, I love to bake and do needlework. And I have a recipe for a chocolate mousse cake that will beat your chocolate cake recipe any day. :) And one for REAL NY cheesecake (none of that wimpy graham cra

RE: Is there anything called session specific tables

2001-03-16 Thread Dasko, Dan
I'm not sure I understand. Are both sessions updating the same data, or are they inserting new data? Or is the situation that A updates a row and expects to see that in the report and yet B updates the data to a different value before A's report runs and A cannot understand why his report didn't

RE: Offtopic: Canada and America

2001-03-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
but you must come to NY as well! not just the city (although that's a requirement) but upstate NY as well. one of the things I love best about living here is that I have the energy of the city, and I can also have the beauty and peace of the mountains upstate -- all within a 2 hour drive. Bu

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