RE: 4 join methods?

2001-05-31 Thread Christopher Spence
i don't think it is considered a join, from what I remember it was called "merging indexes". "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 3:11 PM

RE: OT: Archiving not possible with SQL Server?

2001-05-31 Thread Gary Weber
Jared/all, A joke is exactly how I read it and is how I meant my request for HELP to come across :). Btw, thanks to everyone for interesting replies, reaffirming my grim suspicions about MS idea of "archiving"... Gary Weber Senior DBA Charles Jones, LLC 609-530-1144, ext 5529 -Original Mes

Re: select question

2001-05-31 Thread Ron Rogers
If you know the size of the number (in position count not value) you can use the RPAD(sum(field),count,0) to populate the right end of the return value to zero. ex. the sum value is = 2.5 and you want 2.50 rpad(sum(fd1,4,'0') return 2.50 BUT if the return value = 25.5 and you want 25.50 and ha

RE: Snapshot Logs Explanation Needed

2001-05-31 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
If you do a snapshot refresh then the snapshot log should be empty(correct?). Then I would think you could reorg the master table as long as you prohibit users from updating the master until the reorg and the recreating of the log is complete. Thus eliminating the need to do a complete refresh of

RE: Resizing Log file

2001-05-31 Thread Lisa Koivu
Title: RE: Resizing Log file Nirmal, you need to add new groups with a new redo log size, force the switch, and drop the small redo log groups once they are not active and have been archived.  Check the doco for exact syntax.  You can't just resize them iirc. Be sure to have at least two

RE: Partition Elimination

2001-05-31 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
At parse time, the optimizer determines that partition elimination can be done -- which partitions to use is determined after the values are bound to the query. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 3:17 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Can oracle do partition elimi

Resizing Log file

2001-05-31 Thread Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran
hi dba's, In my DB, oracle 816, NT4, the redolog member's size is only 50kb. I'm having only two groups with a single member each. I tried with alter database command, there is only options for adding and droping log group or member... How can i resize it.. to increase the size 5mb. Regards,

Re: About parallel server

2001-05-31 Thread Ray Stell
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:17:30AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ray > I think, you are referring to RAC, Real Application Cluster. Which > is same as OPS with cache fusion for all scenarios. Please see my previous > mail thread with the same subject.. -- index oracle-l The ar

RE: About parallel server

2001-05-31 Thread sheisey
Fernando, If your current resources are limited and the app is partitioned, you should have very few problems implementing the App in OPS (famous last words). If HA is a requirement and fast failover times OPS is a good pick. Just make sure the ends justify the means. Some people have good e

deadlock error in oracle8.1.7 on sun solaris

2001-05-31 Thread Seema Singh
Hi Some time I am receiving the following information in alert logs. "ORA-60: Deadlock detected." and .trc file generated.Let me know what to do to prevent such error. Thanks -seema _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at ht

RE: How to encrypt Password in Export script file ?

2001-05-31 Thread Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran
> -Original Message- > From: Fisher, Julie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 6:16 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: How to encrypt Password in Export script file ? > > I also did this on all my databases - works very slick. > > Ju

Re: How to send email from pl/sql in 806?

2001-05-31 Thread Jared Still
As Kevin Lange pointed out, you need the correct access to UTL_TCP. If you have access to this package through a role, you won't be able to do this. You must login as sys and give an explicit grant: e.g. grant execute on sys.utl_tcp to scott; Whe you say that the package is shown as valid i

RE: Rebuilding indexes

2001-05-31 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
No need to copy the whole file to the standby when adding a datafile! Just wait for recovery to fail on the new file (ORA-01670), then type on the standby (in 'mount standby database' mode): SQL> alter database create datafile '' as ''; As long as you are using identical paths on both primary a

OFF TOPIC: freeware search

2001-05-31 Thread Charlie Mengler
I'm looking for recommendations for Windows based s/w that does the equivalent of SCCS/RCS on Unix. A command line interface is a requirement; GUI is optional. TIA & HAND! -- Charlie Mengler Maintenance Warehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10641 Scripps Summit

RE: Rebuilding indexes

2001-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Richard, Thanks! Now let me know if the book is actually useful... I think you are going to have to bite the bullet and do the rebuild with logging. And, since this is something you may have to do over and over again, I'd create that extra tablespace and datafile and leave them there on both

RE: 4 join methods?

2001-05-31 Thread Khedr, Waleed
I think you mean bitmap join indexes which is a new feature in 9i. Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:08 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L There is certainly something new called an index join around in 8i. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wonder

Re: what's hash-join

2001-05-31 Thread Shevtsov, Eduard
Title: RE: what's hash-join Hi Lisa,   You're correct. I'm sure you know, but I'd like to add that hash join usually works faster than over methods when there are no good selective conditions in the clause WHERE.   Regards, Ed   Hi Kevin, It's quick if you have the temp space to s

digital tru64 unix

2001-05-31 Thread Lisa Koivu
Title: digital tru64 unix Hello everyone, Anyone out there running Oracle on this flavor of Unix?  If so can you please email me directly? I don't have a Unix box to play with and I have a few simple performance questions.   I'm also looking in the online doco and I don't see what I'm looki

Re: About parallel server

2001-05-31 Thread sheisey
Ray, Oracle9i RAC (Real Application Clusters) is or was (depending on your perspective) Oracle Parallel Server. Compaq is working with Oracle to pre-install and ship Oracle9i on there NT boxes (not sure about TRU64 or OpenVMS platforms), so you just turn it on and it works. Oracle9i replicati

Re: OT: Archiving not possible with SQL Server?

2001-05-31 Thread Jared Still
I thought everyone would realize this is a joke. It's been appearing with some regularity in a mocking tone of someone that posted it seriously a couple of weeks ago. Sigh... Maybe I am just having a bad day. Jared On Wednesday 30 May 2001 23:50, Jared Still wrote: > Are you an idiot? > >

RE: Implementing Stored Procedures

2001-05-31 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
We put the code in a file on Unix (our server platform) and in the change request form, provide the file name and location. The DBA will log in as the schema owner and simply run the file. Any errors are reported back to developer who requested the change. All the SQL code is archived using SCCS.

Re: How do I corrupt a block

2001-05-31 Thread Jared Still
It apparently is only on NT, and unless you have the password, which is known only to Oracle Support Personnel, you can't use it. http://www.ixora.com.au/q+a/0101/23224038.htm Jared On Thursday 31 May 2001 12:10, K Gopalakrishnan wrote: > Hi ! > > > The simple thing is you can edit the databl

RE: Auto Extend

2001-05-31 Thread lhoska
What do you mean by 'the system is not set up'. How do you verify that? We had problems with datafiles larger then 2 G and just turned autoextend off on all datafiles. I didn't know the system may or may not be set up to handle specific file size limit. Is it documented? Please explain. Thank y

RE: Auto Extend

2001-05-31 Thread Gary Weber
Never say never :) I opted for 4 GB files in a larger database which is living happily on EMC Sym box. If hardware and software allow for fewer, easier managed large files...why not? This is scratching the surface of course... Gary Weber Senior DBA Charles Jones, LLC 609-530-1144, ext 5529

Re: OT: Archiving not possible with SQL Server?

2001-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I want to know if it is allowable to kill programmers who say "these are the rules for data in this column" but then don't enforce those same rules. Rachel (rolling up her sleeves, putting on the rubber gloves to begin data scrubbing really BAD data) >From: Jared Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Re

Re: SQL problem: retrieve child records if existent

2001-05-31 Thread Stephane Faroult
Helmut Daiminger wrote: > > Hi! > > I have a SQL problem here, which I can't solve. > > I have a B-tree structure in a table (parentID, childID). > > If a parent has kids then select those kids. If not, select this parent. > > How do I code this in SQL? I tried using "connect by" but this doe

TOAD v/s PL/SQL Developer

2001-05-31 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Folks, Just got an e-mail from my Damager that there is a concern about the cost of TOAD licensees and an effort is being made to find a suitable replacement. Evaluation of PL/SQL Developer by Allround Automations is underway. Anyone knows the pros/cons of using this (PL/SQL Developer) product in

Re: About parallel server

2001-05-31 Thread Riyaj_Shamsudeen
Ray         I think, you are referring to RAC, Real Application Cluster. Which is same as OPS with cache fusion for all scenarios. Please see my previous mail thread with the same subject.. Thanks Riyaj "Re-yas" Shamsudeen Certified Oracle DBA i2 technologies   www.i2.com Ray Stell <[EMAIL

RE: About parallel server

2001-05-31 Thread sheisey
Rachel, OPS or in 9i RAC (Hate name changes confuses everyone) raw devices are a requirement of the OS not Oracle. So whether you are using 7, 8, 8i, 9i you can use filesystems for OPS (RAC) if the OS supports multiple concurrent mounts on the same filesystem from multiple nodes. This is the

Re: OT: Archiving not possible with SQL Server?

2001-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
nah. you aren't, the rest of us are :) >From: Jared Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: OT: Archiving not possible with SQL Server? >Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 11:38:08 -0800 > > >I thought everyone wo

Re: Snapshot Logs Explanation Needed

2001-05-31 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
Hi Anita, Ironically that is just what I am trying to do. (ie implement a storage plan which will address the issues discussed in the paper) To your other point, I understand oracle's position, but if I can prohibit changes to the master during the reorg/rebuild, is this still an issue?

RE: problem starting oracle database

2001-05-31 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Is it possible that there is an error in your init file? I have had this problem before with Oracle 8.0.5 on NT, I had to reboot :) the machine and then it worked, very strange. Kev -Original Message- Singh Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 12:52 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: 4 join methods?

2001-05-31 Thread Jared Still
On Thursday 31 May 2001 10:07, Mogens Nørgaard wrote: > There is certainly something new called an index join around in 8i. That wouldn't be considered a new type of join though would it? Just using indexes as a data source for the join. They shoulda done this a long time ago. Jared -- Pleas

Re: Re[2]: About parallel server

2001-05-31 Thread sheisey
Dick, I am not sure which platform you where using for OPS, but you have to use raw device's. Unless you are using OpenVMS or Compaq TRU64 v5.1 you have to use raw devices for datafiles, controlfiles and online redo logs. Archive logs have to go to a file system. Now there are some unsupporte

Re: How many times has an index been used?

2001-05-31 Thread Jared Still
Steve, If you are going to pull code from v$sqlarea, you will also want to use v$sqltext. In that case, look up the paper at www.hotsos.com about joining v$sqltext and v$sqlarea, as the hash_value is defined as a different data type in each. This affects all releases prior to 8.0.5. Also, yo

RE: Suggestions on SCSI

2001-05-31 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
I was thinking the 18's where a better idea now that everyone agrees. However, I can't go with more than 4 drives unfortunately, this is on a Dell Precision 410. I could try and add an additional scsi adapter, but I am not sure that I would have a place for the drive, unless I went external.

RE: Automating Outlook express

2001-05-31 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Call Oracle support and ask for a document "Cracking Outlook Express", this PDF will explain (thought not in complete details) how to implement this interface. I am not sure if this file is available through Metalink Libraries ... you can check though ... Raj _

RE: Snapshot Logs Explanation Needed

2001-05-31 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
If you do a snapshot refresh then the snapshot log should be empty(correct?). Then I would think you could reorg the master table as long as you prohibit users from updating the master until the reorg and the recreating of the log is complete. Thus eliminating the need to do a complete refresh of

RE: Partition Elimination

2001-05-31 Thread Hillman, Alex
Can oracle do partition elimination when ysing bind variables? Alex Hillman -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dave: Oracle does do partition elimination in this case...check out he partition_start and partition_stop column

Materialized Views

2001-05-31 Thread Ron Thomas
I've been expirementing with MV for a couple of days. Interesting gotcha's for fast refresh on commit, but otherwise cool stuff. Now for the question. If I have a base table of 1 millions rows of time series data and I want to produce MVs for day, month, and year aggregates, would it be bette

Re: Oracle Applications

2001-05-31 Thread Ron Rogers
Actually, Oracle 'Applications" or a flavor there of has been around for many years. 10 + I believe. What CD PACK are you looking for? ROR mª¿ªm >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/31/01 10:50AM >>> Still no response from Oracle Canada, I left a message again - they didn't know what to do when people orde

Re: 4 join methods?

2001-05-31 Thread PD Miller
At 9:07 -0800 31/5/01, Mogens Nørgaard wrote: >There is certainly something new called an index join around in 8i. An index join is a hash join on 2 or more indexes which between them contain all the columns required to fulfill the query. It is new to 8i, and is considered to be an access pathl b

Re: How do I corrupt a block

2001-05-31 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Hi ! The simple thing is you can edit the datablocks using BBED editor. It is shipped with Oracle and You need a password to use that utility. You can browse and edit the data blocks. $BBED will give the required details. BUT IT IS DANGEROUS --- novicedba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

RE: Partition Elimination

2001-05-31 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Yes it does. The scan will be range of partitions and the execution plan will show partition stop = key and partition start = key. Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 3:17 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Can oracle do partition elimination when

Re: Rebuilding indexes

2001-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
they should be, unless you do nologging operations -- which can mess up your standby database >From: "The Oracle DBA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Rebuilding indexes >Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:05:57

RE: select question

2001-05-31 Thread Lisa Koivu
Title: RE: select question I believe you'll want to rpad your return value. select rpad(26.5,5,0) from dual returns 26.50 or format it in SQL*Plus. HTH Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Administrator 954-935-4117 The information in the electronic mail message is Cendant confidential an

Cartesian

2001-05-31 Thread Paul Baumgartel
I guess this has already been answered, but to clarify: I believe "Cartesian" refers to a *product* ("Cartesian product"), not a join. -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Cartesian Join? -- Pleas

Oracle 8.1.7 and Apache

2001-05-31 Thread Ken Ballard
Hi Folks, I have just installed 8.1.7 on my HP-UX 11.00 box and have Apache running. Now what? How can I test to make sure apache is talking to oracle and vice-versa? The install documents don't really explain that part and I've tried searching metalink but don't know what I'm looking for. Help

RE: Listener problems

2001-05-31 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Take a look at /var/adm/messages for any reported errors -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 12:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Has anybody come across the following error message in the listener.log, and know what the resolution is. TNS-12500: TNS:listener

Re: Partition Elimination

2001-05-31 Thread Jay Hostetter
Check optimizer_mode in v$parameter for your session. I don't think it will eliminate partitions if it is RULE. Here is an explain plan from a simple select on a partitioned table. An index exists: SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=1.69535189333285 Card=32 Bytes=3488) PARTITION RANGE

RE: Auto Extend

2001-05-31 Thread Kimberly Smith
Title: RE: Auto Extend We had an issue here where we had the Sun box to except files over 2G but got bitten in the ass quickly by it.  We use HP OmniBack to backup all our Unix boxes and the agent on the Sun box could not handle the file size.  So there is more then just "Can the OS handle i

Re: Listener problems

2001-05-31 Thread Jared Still
You are out of space on that filesystem. Check the size of your log files, as they are likely responsible for consuming a lot of space. Also check in the cdump directory for core files. Jared On Thursday 31 May 2001 09:16, zabair ahmed wrote: > Has anybody come across the following error

RE: Suggestions on SCSI

2001-05-31 Thread Haskins, Ed
Kev, 1. I have never heard of a cache directly on the hard drive (Which certainly doesn't mean it doesn't exist). I have heard of a cache on the controller for the HD! 2. I assume that you are looking at upgrading one of the Dell Workstations, yes? If so, I highly recommend calling Dell and

RE: Oracle Applications

2001-05-31 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Thanks I just found it interesting that here in Canada no one has asked for the trial CD kit... and that Oracle Canada doesn't know what to do when we wish to order one. Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From: Shreter, Hilary [S

RE: Implementing Stored Procedures

2001-05-31 Thread Bala, Prakash
Lisa, This is what we did in my last project: 1. Developers had access to the application schema where they created and modified procedures/functions/triggers as needed 2. After their unit testing is done, the QA team would test it using the front-end application. 3. Once QA team approves the

RE: Suggestions on SCSI

2001-05-31 Thread Christopher Spence
18Gb with the cache all the way, I would recommend Seagate for this. The cost difference is small between the 9Gb and 18Gb plus 18Gb will be replaceable for longer time than 9Gb. I would recommend more than 4 disks though. Specially if your implementing raid of some sort. If at all possible.

RE: Rebuilding indexes

2001-05-31 Thread Richard Huntley
Rachel, First, let me say that I just bought your book, so I definitely appreciate any comments coming from you!! :) I'm simply trying to defrag the indexes tablespace of the primary database, which I've done in the past as I described below. Now that I have a standby database out there, I jus

Re: Snapshot Logs Explanation Needed

2001-05-31 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
Hi Anita, Ironically that is just what I am trying to do. (ie implement a storage plan which will address the issues discussed in the paper) To your other point, I understand oracle's position, but if I can prohibit changes to the master during the reorg/rebuild, is this still an issue?

RE: DB2 vs Oracle

2001-05-31 Thread John Lewis
Ditto -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 10:16 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I wouldn't mind a copy of that doc Mark? -Original Message- Sent: 31 May 2001 13:34 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi people, A few we

RE: Suggestions on SCSI

2001-05-31 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Now that sounds like a fantastic idea, now all that I have to do is figure out how you do that?:0 Kev -Original Message- McDonald Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:47 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L if you get 18's then you can just use the outer 9G portion of each drive to ge

RE: Automating Outlook express

2001-05-31 Thread Post, Ethan
This can be done using the Outlook object model. I have never done it with express but have created lots of stuff with outlook. Check out msdn.microsoft.com for information on the model and examples (look in the MSDN Library). - Ethan Post -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 20

RE: Listener problems

2001-05-31 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Listener problems > -Original Message- > From: zabair ahmed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Has anybody come across the following error message in the > listener.log, and > know what the resolution is. > > TNS-12500: TNS:listener failed to start a dedicated server process

RE: About parallel server

2001-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I have heard rumors that OPS on 9i will allow you to use cooked files. User group meeting next week, with a presentation on 9i new features. I'll ask Rachel >From: "Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[E

RE: Partition Elimination

2001-05-31 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Oracle could be doing partition elimination but the tools that you are using to see the execution plan is not showing you the details you're looking for. I usually do: Truncate table plan_table; explain plan for ; select * from plan_table; There should be two columns that indicate the partitio

No Subject

2001-05-31 Thread \"Himanshu H Shekhar\"
SET ORACLE-L NOMAIL --- The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user of the e-mail address to which it was addressed and may also be privileged. If you are not the addressee of this e-mail you should not copy,

RE: Unix File Open & Port Open

2001-05-31 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
I like lsof for this purpose. You can see which processes have which filehandles and ports open to which hosts. It is an excellent utility. ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/README -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Thu, 31 May 2001, Mohan, Ross wrote: > you c

RE: ORACLE NAMES /LDAP

2001-05-31 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hi Ed, Why do you say that OiD "is not cheap"? I haven't seen any associated costs, other than servers to put it on. Can you explain? The "complicated" part, though I definitely agree with! :) Thx! Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Automating Outlook express

2001-05-31 Thread Sergio Boix Moriano
Hi all, Does anybody knows how to autmotize the outlook express from a Form, to open a new mail and atach a file to it, leaving the subject and destiny in blank, to be filled by the user, or where can I find any guidelines to do it. I have searched it at metalink , oraclefaq and the OTN,

Re: Suggestions on SCSI

2001-05-31 Thread Connor McDonald
if you get 18's then you can just use the outer 9G portion of each drive to get better performance. The trick then is convincing management when more disk is needed that you don't want to use the inner portion hth connor --- Kevin Kostyszyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > Just thou

RE: Rebuilding indexes

2001-05-31 Thread Richard Huntley
Hatzistavrou, Thanks for you reply. It was about 4am when I ran into that and discovered what I needed to do, however, I knew it would take a while so I just stopped at that point. But, I was curious to find out if anyone had a BETTER way of doing it. It seems like a waste if I have to go thro

RE: Auto Extend

2001-05-31 Thread Lisa Koivu
Title: RE: Auto Extend Hi Ron, do you have large files enabled on your system? What unix are you running?  if large files are not enabled you're going to get an error but I can't tell you what it will be. Boy, autoextend reminds me of a monkey running around in your database.  I'd never d

RE: Auto Extend

2001-05-31 Thread Brian MacLean
Title: RE: Auto Extend See Note:62427.1, 2Gb or Not 2Gb - File limits in Oracle http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=62427.1 -Original Message- From: Connor McDonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 9:56 AM

Implementing Stored Procedures

2001-05-31 Thread Yttri, Lisa
Title: Implementing Stored Procedures Hi - I'd like some advice on implementing stored procedures containing application logic (ie. written by developers).  We have several applications where the developers use stored procedures for much of their coding.  We let the developers create or repl

RE: what's hash-join

2001-05-31 Thread Connor McDonald
The general school of thought is joining a large table to a small one. There is an article on Metalink thats a little out of date now, but it describes the good/the bad, and tuning of hash joins. Look for doc 67134.1 and 41954.1 hth connor --- Kevin Kostyszyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What'

RE: Fire your DBA's you don't need them anymore...

2001-05-31 Thread The Oracle DBA
I need to find the article I had saved about Oracle 6.0 (as we were preparing to upgrade from 5.1). It was something about how the 6.0 DBA would be bored and would now be able to help appdev. Cheers, Earl --- TheOracleDBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 25 May 2001 09:28:53 Vergara, Michael

Re: Snapshot Logs Explanation Needed

2001-05-31 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Correct. By the way: A good rule is to always keep the sequence "Table - Snapshot Log - Snapshot", ie. don't break the sequence, for instance by dropping and re-creating the snapshot log. If something happens to the snapshot log you should drop the snapshot, create the snapshot log, then re-creat

SQL problem: retrieve child records if existent

2001-05-31 Thread Helmut Daiminger
Hi! I have a SQL problem here, which I can't solve. I have a B-tree structure in a table (parentID, childID). If a parent has kids then select those kids. If not, select this parent. How do I code this in SQL? I tried using "connect by" but this doesn't include start point. Any idea? This is

problem starting oracle database

2001-05-31 Thread Harvinder Singh
Hi, When i am trying to start my database form svrmgrl .. i am getting error: ORA-00205 error in identifying controlfile, check alert log for more info there is nothing in alert.log... i have 3 control files all r in proper directory.. i am using proper SID i tryied with only i control

How do I corrupt a block

2001-05-31 Thread novicedba
hi,   This  may sound funny. I want to know how to corrupt a block. I want to test the different methods of identifying block corruption, but I don't have sample data blocks. Please help me   novice

RE: Partition Elimination

2001-05-31 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
Dave: Oracle does do partition elimination in this case...check out he partition_start and partition_stop columns of you plan_table. Kevin -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 12:01 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi All, Can anyone help me with this. I have r

RE: 4 join methods?

2001-05-31 Thread Scott . Shafer
Cartesian Join? Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 "And no amount of training or preparedness can eliminate the almost certainty that in the middle of your Angry Crane stance, as you transition to your Combative Monkey to administer the Coup de Grâce via your Ninja Death Touch, you step

Re: Rebuilding indexes

2001-05-31 Thread The Oracle DBA
However, if you rebuild all the indexes for schema SALES on PRIMARY, what happens on STANDBY? Are they rebuilt? Cheers, Earl --- TheOracleDBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 31 May 2001 08:16:06 Rachel Carmichael wrote: >there IS no way to do that with a standby database. Once you open it f

RE: Rebuilding indexes

2001-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
It adds the datafile NAME only, not the file itself. And if the physical file has not been moved before the archived log that has that redo in it is applied, the recovery dies. >From: Hatzistavrou Giannis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACL

Re: About parallel server

2001-05-31 Thread Ray Stell
I have heard from iouga attendees that there was is something called "Rack" from oracle/compaq on the horizon with 9i which is the next replication solution. Can folks comment on this? What is the architecture and how does this play with oracle? Is this just an OPS on some alphastation? Our co

RE: ORACLE NAMES /LDAP

2001-05-31 Thread Vikas Kawatra
Thanks ! A very useful link ! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 7:07 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Vikas Kawatra wrote: > > Anyone using this product as an alternative to Local Naming ? How about LDAP > ? > > Any info /suggestions/comments are welcome > >

RE: About parallel server

2001-05-31 Thread Fernando Papa
We have a couple of independent applications running over the same instance now (it's better to do it because our resources cant' support two instances over the same machine), we think if we use parallel server, we can make "partition" of this applications, one for each node or someting like that

Re: what's hash-join

2001-05-31 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
And it will skip partitions that it can see will not match any other corresponding partition. PD Miller wrote: At 0:16 -0800 31/5/01, Senthil Ganapathi wrote: could tell me what's that hash-join  Straight from the concepts manual:  To perform a hash join, Oracle follows these steps:   1. Oracl

RE: lsnrctl question

2001-05-31 Thread Kevin Lange
On unix you can look for the process running the listener. In our shop this is done by : $ ps -ef | grep tnslsnr oracle 413 1 0 May 18 ?2:36 /u03/home/oracle/product/8.0.5/bin/tnslsnr listener.1526 -inherit oracle 447 1 0 May 18 ?0:08 /u03/home/oracle/produc

Re: Auto Extend

2001-05-31 Thread nlzanen1
Hi, When using autoextend always set max size and monitor. Turn off auto extend if a small possibility exists to do so. Check if your OS has large file size enabled and there won't be any problems. jack

RE: Listener problems

2001-05-31 Thread Kevin Lange
Out of space on the file system I believe. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 11:16 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Has anybody come across the following error message in the listener.log, and know what the resolution is. TNS-12500: TNS:listener failed to sta

RE: Unix File Open & Port Open

2001-05-31 Thread Austin, Steve S
The only I know of way to see which process has a port open in Solaris is to use lsof (there's a package on sunfreeware.com -- including source). netstat and /proc aren't enough as far as I can see... It's not clear what exactly you need to know, but hope this helps... Steve -Original Messa

select question

2001-05-31 Thread Keith Myers
I have a select statement that is pulling a field called total, which represents a total value to charge a persons account. The total column in the db has the parameters Number(10,2) but when I pull the data out of the db the value for the total 26.50 looks like this 26.5. Is there away to force t

RE: DB2 vs Oracle

2001-05-31 Thread Garner, John (NESL-IT)
I wouldn't mind a copy of that doc Mark? -Original Message- Sent: 31 May 2001 13:34 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi people, A few weeks back somebody posted a message regarding an eval they are doing comparing Oracle/DB2/SQLServer. I came across a great document today for

Re: Auto Extend

2001-05-31 Thread Connor McDonald
"Depends" is the standard answer. Oracle can handle files over 2g, some unixes can, some unixes cannot, some say they can but cannot etc etc... To compound things, in some versions, Oracle will let the file go beyond 2g, only then to complain because the unix won't let Oracle get to the bits aft

RE: problem with trunc()

2001-05-31 Thread TCarlson
You seem to have lost your sig. Are you no longer a 'Wanton Kickboxing Goddess'? ;-) Todd Carlson Oracle 8i Certified DBA Bunge North America -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 F

Re: Rebuilding indexes

2001-05-31 Thread Connor McDonald
Adding a datafile does not cancel recovery - you just need to 'pause' it, transport the appropriate files to the standby and resume standby operations. hth connor --- Richard Huntley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those of you that have implemented a standby > database, what method do > you us

RE: problem with trunc()

2001-05-31 Thread Kevin Lange
I have always been told that using functions on fields would stop the efficient use of indexes so . what if you said WHERE it.transaction_date BETWEEN to_date('May-19-2001.00.00.00', 'Mon-dd-.hh24.mi.ss') AND to_date('May-28-2001.23.59.59', 'Mon-dd-') This would at

RE: How to send email from pl/sql in 806?

2001-05-31 Thread Kevin Lange
Saurabh; Have you looked at ALL of the packages involved ?? Does the SYS.UTL_TCP exist and does the ID using SEND_MAIL have the correct access to it ?? (I know these are basic questions, but its usually the basic ones that get us first !) Kevin -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May

Re: 4 join methods?

2001-05-31 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
There is certainly something new called an index join around in 8i. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wonder if their thinking of the star join?? > > Dick Goulet > > Reply Separator > Author: =?iso-8859-1?q?Connor=20McDonald?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date:

RE: Update Query

2001-05-31 Thread Buecherl Dieter (BUE)
Hi, I'm on DIGEST, so I don't know if that's been answered already, or not. But anyhow, what about: update ( select t.field1 f, t.field2 v, d.field1 g, d.field2 w from testtable1 t, testtable2 d where t.id = d.id) set f = g, v = w HTH Dieter Buecherl > From: "Eric D. Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

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