Use sql*loader

2001-06-21 Thread Ngo BaDu
Dear all, I have a text file of 70 rows. After using sql*loader to load it into my table, I select * from my table it only show 802 rows. Some people told me that's because of buffer. Who would like to show me how I ought to do? Thanks you and sorry for my bad english. BaoDuy

Re: Database in archivelog mode

2001-06-21 Thread Saurabh Sharma
u must mount the database in exclusive mode, before putting the cmd for alter database. just give. shutdown immediate startup mount exclusive alter database archivelog; alter database open; or do another shutdown immediate startup will do the problem solved. i've done it several times. -

9i on redhat 7.0 --help me

2001-06-21 Thread novicedba
Hi,   install.pdf reads Operating System: Oracle9i is certified on SuSe 7.1, Kernel 2.4.4 and the operating system library GNU Lib C 2.2. I have Redhat 7.0 with kernel 2.2.16--22   I think I need to upgrade my kernel to 2.4.4 but don't know how to, redhat site doesn't give great info nor di

Re: Database in archivelog mode

2001-06-21 Thread Ravinder_Bahadur
Well there is no need to specify the alter system archive log start as you have already done this by specifying the log_archive_start=true in the init.ora. Try 'alter system switch logfile' command a couple of times and see if anything is written to disk. Check using 'archive log list' comman

RE: Waits on cache buffers chains latch

2001-06-21 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Hi Gaja and thanks also to Riyaj, If I didn't make it clear before we were having a major performance problem. A package call that should (ie "normally" / used to) take less than 1 second starting taking between 20 - 60 seconds. I appreciate your comments on logical IO and will look into that a

Re: Waits on cache buffers chains latch

2001-06-21 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
Hi Johnson, I think you may be "reading just a tad bit too much" into what I wrote regarding the "SORT_AREA_SIZE increase" recommendation. The rationale for that was not based on "disk sorts are always faster than memory sorts or vice versa". It was based on the fact that data for "global tempora

Re: sql o/p to Excel

2001-06-21 Thread Ravinder_Bahadur
Dear Ravindra , You can use this output itself. Just select the fixed width option instead of the delimited option. Then put you own column lines where you want them to be. Regards

RE: Auditing

2001-06-21 Thread Anand
Thanks for giving the solution. Regards, Anand. -Original Message- Brian Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 9:03 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L aud$ is one of the few system tables that can have an owner other than sys. You can create it under another schema (like system) and gi

RE: OT - interviewing your superior(fun question)

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
Yes, the statement is different, but just based on the words in the sentence. "Playing a role in inventing"!= "inventing". Odd thing about words: they mean something. Hell, I play a role in the community on this listserv. I am certain Jared and Esteemed Company would make the semantic mistake

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Raymond Lee Meng Hong
I'm the owner of the table also, becoz I create it and I drop it before ? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:01 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You are right on this to a certain extent, you either have to be the schema owner, or you need to have been grant

Re: sql o/p to Excel

2001-06-21 Thread Viraj Luthra
Ravindra, Yep its possible to transform your o/p from spool into excel, but you will need to format your data before extraction. you can do this by select fieldname||chr(32)||fieldname from blah; where chr(32) represents the space character, which will help you to print in a different column

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Raymond Lee Meng Hong
Is this command avaiable in Oracle 7 ??? I got this error in TOAD. The following error has occurred: ORA-06550: line 6, column 11: PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "IMMEDIATE" when expecting one of the following: := . ( @ % ; -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Raymond Lee Meng Hong
Another thing is I can do a delete from ln01 in PL/SQL , but why don't truncate ? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L All, that's because there are special security rules attached to stored procedures and packages. from s

sql o/p to Excel

2001-06-21 Thread Ravindra Basavaraja
I have a sql script to generate a dialy report like this. 01-JUN-200107 84 17 18 11 *** - MAXIMUM No. 11 TOTAL 15 04-JUN-200108

RE: Clusters and IOT's

2001-06-21 Thread Khedr, Waleed
SYS objects could be a good starting point for clustered objects. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 8:17 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Stephane and Ivan, I've never experimented with clusters, mainly because of the reputation problems Stephane referred to.

RE: Clusters and IOT's

2001-06-21 Thread Larry Elkins
Stephane and Ivan, I've never experimented with clusters, mainly because of the reputation problems Stephane referred to. It seems like I remember, and it was quite some time ago, that someone mentioned clustering, the traditional method, a single table and saw some benefit data retrieval wise.

RE: Chris Spence's sig file

2001-06-21 Thread Christopher Spence
My sig is the least of my problems here. For someone who is working 100 hours a week, I feel like I am accomplishing absolutely nothing. Considering I get dragged into everything as they know I can get it done, I have absolutely no say in anything, even though I am the only dba type out of about

RE: Calculating of the Median of Data

2001-06-21 Thread Larry Elkins
Kevin, I don't have the answer. And my Celko book has variations on doing this. But, the first thought off the top of my head was that we might be able to make this real easy via some of the analytical functions that first came to be in 8.1.6. Anyway, I struggled with it a bit and decided to do a

RE: Calculating of the Median of Data

2001-06-21 Thread Khedr, Waleed
What about this: SQL> create table median ( c1 number ); Table created. SQL> insert into median values (1); 1 row created. SQL> insert into median values (1); 1 row created. SQL> insert into median values (3); 1 row created. SQL> insert into median values (5); 1 row created. SQL> insert

Interesting article on ongoing RedHat-Oracle feuding.

2001-06-21 Thread Charles Wolfe
Red Hat to play in Oracle's arenaJune 19, 2001, 5:50 p.m. PThttp://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6325676.html?tag=st.ne.1003.saslnk.sasemlThe Linux seller will announce new database software next week, hoping towhittle away at Oracle the same way it has with Microsoft.

Oracle Label Security

2001-06-21 Thread Peter Barnett
Is anyone using Oracle Label Security? If so, does it offer a more secure environment or just cost and overhead? Pete Barnett Oracle Database Administrator Regence BlueCross BlueShield [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Peter Barnett

Re: Comparing different instances for schema differences

2001-06-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Laura, New to Oracle, but not databases. (Laura and I worked together years back). There are products out on the market that will do this, Quest Software's Schema Manager comes to mind. What exactly are you looking for when you say differences? Columns? Column sizes? Ordering of the columns i

Re: Undocumented Init.Ora Parms

2001-06-21 Thread George Schlossnagle
And to get their values: select KSPPINM, KSPPSTVL ,KSPPDESC from sys.x_$ksppi ksppi, sys.x_$ksppcv ksppcv where substr(KSPPINM,1,1) ='_' and ksppi.indx = ksppcv.indx; - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: OT RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Figured life is hard enough! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 6:13 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Did someone pay you to say that? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 5:27 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oh! I swear I me

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
Yea, I second that. - Ross p.s. Chris, looks like Ron could use some moral support with his sig file, too. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 6:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Your right. What's even worse is when you post a solution (or idea) and nev

Chris Spence's sig file

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
Why not post his email address, and I'll have a chat with him. That should drive him from the IT business long enough for you to recover your (sig) expressions of creativity. You should sponsor a service where people can put in their suggestions for your sig file. It would be fun. I'll get

Re: Locks

2001-06-21 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
spool holding_session.lst column object_name justify c heading "Object|Name" format a32 column usernamejustify c heading "User|Name"format a7 column osuser justify c heading "OS|User" format a7 column pid justify c heading "Ora|Proc|ID" format 999 column serial# j

RE: Limiting Oracle Memory

2001-06-21 Thread Khedr, Waleed
The amount of memory (Virtual) that is used is proportional to the size of PL/SQL table. There is no solution for this b/c it's perfectly normal except that the amount of used memory is huge in comparison to the maximum amount of data in the table which could be a memory leak. You could estimate

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-21 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Yes, you are . I still remember my relaxed stay for 3 years in Amsterdam between 1984 to 1987. Have a nice time,always Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 06:00:50 -0800 Sounds like I'm working in one o

RE: Limiting Oracle Memory

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
yea, you're on the right trackif he says "I can't" claim you have found a guru who can and you want to bring him in for an interview. Then, watch the creativity unfurl from his puckered sphincter. As for DBMS_APPLICATION, it's a real thang. rtfm, it's interesting even if you don't use it

Calculating of the Median of Data

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin Lange
Does anyone have a handy function for calculating the Median of data ?? It seems like it should be simple ...but -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 5:32 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thank you Jeremiah -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 200

RE: Undocumented Init.Ora Parms

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin Lange
Thank you Jeremiah -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 5:01 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This used to work on other platforms and versions, but my HP-UX 64 bit binary doesn't have any interesting strings any more: strings $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle | perl -ne '

RE: Undocumented Init.Ora Parms

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin Lange
Jeremiah; First, thanks. NIce infor to have. Second, the first line works great on Solaris and Oracle 8.0.5. Third, the sql statement should actually be select KSPPINM, KSPPDESC from x$ksppi where substr(KSPPINM,1,1) = '_' Missed the ,1 parm off the substr. -Original Messa

Comparing different instances for schema differences

2001-06-21 Thread laura hardy
Hello, I'm fairly new to the Oracle world and have read a ton of books on the subject (and haven't even made a dent into the huge number of books out there). I thought I had seen scripts out there that would compare different database schemas for differences (such as test and production). Does

RE: OT - interviewing your superior(fun question)

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
Let's not get carried away, here, Jim.   Even if he said something perfectly reasonable in context, you can't deny people the right to obscure his words in a damaging way. That just wouldn't be right!   It's like: "I opened a socket, but didn't accept any packets" from the networking cla

RE: Locks

2001-06-21 Thread Christopher Spence
"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, June 21, 2001 5:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Does anyone have any script that will help me fi

RE: OT - interviewing your superior(fun question)

2001-06-21 Thread Speaks, Chuck W.
And this statement is ANY better??? I use "Software that Powers the Internet" therefore I guess I, in a way, run the darn thing. :) God bless the electoral college! Chuck Speaks, MCSE Database Administrator Lithonia Lighting 770-922-9000 x3450 http://www.lithonia.com -Original Message

RE: OT RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL ( a.k.a The Thread that Will Not D

2001-06-21 Thread Christopher Spence
Title: RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL Heh, you should have saw the post on LazyDBA.  "Christopher is on the other list, and all he is doing is promoting his website, how annoying".   I got a kick out of that one.  Most of them I laugh off though.   "Walking on water and developing software from a s

RE: Completely OT: Rental-car firm exceeding the privacy

2001-06-21 Thread Dennis Taylor
At 01:21 PM 6/21/01 -0800, you wrote: >get an idea of how fast they drove and how wreckless based on number of If reckless is a measure of bad driving, then wreckless must be a measure of good driving :-) Dennis Taylor Moral victories don't count -- Please see

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Ron Thomas
Your right. What's even worse is when you post a solution (or idea) and never get any response back. Oh well. If some people don't like it, tough. Ron Hypercom.

No Subject

2001-06-21 Thread Saravana Kumar
Hai Friends,     I have a small query.                                 I need formulae for calculating the   SGA. TABLESPACE SIZE TABLE SIZE INDEX SIZE ROLLBACK SEGMENT SIZE. It would be really kind enough to help me on this issue.   Thanks Regards Saravana.  

Re: Undocumented Init.Ora Parms

2001-06-21 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
I'm also happy to report that my favorite parameter is still there: Name Description - _nested_loop_fudgenested loop fudge -- Jeremiah Wilton http://w

RE: Limiting Oracle Memory

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
All right, I am not DBASTUD, you're using big words!!:) I am all over the idea of having him split up the code. I recommended doing it with script files that way we could end the session after the first run, free up the ram and the vm and then start the process again. But he says he can't do it

No Subject

2001-06-21 Thread Saravana Kumar
Hai friends,   Here is a interesting question.     My database is behind a firewall,the user access the db thru a web logic server residing  in a different m/c in the same domain where the db resides.I would like to get hold of the

RE: OT RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL (a.k.a. The World's Longest Thread

2001-06-21 Thread Christopher Spence
My boss yelled at me for rotating the message in my sig. As it offended someone one time. So I just stopped my sig total, I recently brought it back but I am not going to bother changing it, I would like to as I got some good ones. Somedays the sun doesn't shine, some days it pours, somedays yo

Re: Locks

2001-06-21 Thread Glen Mitchell
This one showed up on the list a couple of weeks ago.  It has heaps of good diagnostic info. set linesize 132 pagesize 66 break on Kill on username on terminal column Kill heading 'Kill String' format a13 column res heading 'Resource Type' format 999 column id1 format 990 column id2 format 99

Re: Undocumented Init.Ora Parms

2001-06-21 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
This used to work on other platforms and versions, but my HP-UX 64 bit binary doesn't have any interesting strings any more: strings $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle | perl -ne 'print if /^_[a-z]+_[a-z]/' | sort | uniq The typical location for underscore parameters is x$ksppi: (as SYS:) select KSPPINM,

RE: OT - interviewing your superior(fun question)

2001-06-21 Thread Jim Conboy
He also included something like "in the Congress" in his statement, so it was pretty clear he was speaking about providing political support as opposed to technological innovation.  If you read the transcript there's not much confusion.  But it does make for some good jokes.   Jim >>> [EMAIL

RE: RMAN - Veritas NETBackup

2001-06-21 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: RMAN - Veritas NETBackup Are you using Quick I/O or do any of your datafiles fronted by a link?  If so, RMAN is not backing up the links, just the data in the datafiles.  When restoring, you will have to precreate the links and/or the QIO files, if they have been lost.  That was a l

RE: OT - interviewing your superior(fun question)

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Maybe he was one of the first users or he knows someone that used it or he saw it being used or he heard that it was used or invented!! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 5:47 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L nope, he said "I played a role in inventing the Inte

OT RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
Did someone pay you to say that? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 5:27 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oh! I swear I meant nothing except sending a 'hello'! Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:12 PM To: Multiple rec

RE: Limiting Oracle Memory

2001-06-21 Thread Thater, William
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001,Kevin Kostyszyn scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: ->I would love to speak more of this mythical code, but that would require me ->to understand the cryptic inner sanctum of the code of P.Dorsey and his ->developers!! I will speak to the developer, see what I can squeez

RE: Completely OT: Rental-car firm exceeding the privacy limit?

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
We do donuts around here at very high speed. It's called "The Capital Beltway". -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 5:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hey, donuts your not speeding, -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Auth

RE: OT RE: Undocumented Init.Ora Parms

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Can't..control.laughter...stomach in.pain:) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 5:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I think Rachel has these. Also, Chris Spence has recently completed reverse-engineering the entire oracle binary set into assemb

Locks

2001-06-21 Thread Ravindra Basavaraja
Does anyone have any script that will help me find out the locks that are held in the database. We are facing a problem related to lock.One of the transaction is holding a lock on a table and there is another transaction wanting a lock on that table but waits for long time .Is there any lock time

RE: Limiting Oracle Memory

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
yea, have him break his code into modules and try to track it down that way. or, do it the right way and use dbms_application. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 5:27 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I would love to speak more of this mythical code, but tha

RE: OT - interviewing your superior(fun question)

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
nope, he said "I played a role in inventing the Internet" -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 5:27 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I thought he invented the internet. Just ask him. The best line was "I knew Jack Kennedy and You are no Jack Kennedy" said by Lo

RE: Limiting Oracle Memory

2001-06-21 Thread Scott . Shafer
Or flush the rows to a real table when you hit a certain threshold? Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 "I hate the country, all those animals walking around un-cooked." > -Original Message- > From: Mohan, Ross [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:03 PM > To:

RE: OT - interviewing your superior(fun question)

2001-06-21 Thread Gene Sais
I thought he invented the internet. Just ask him. The best line was "I knew Jack Kennedy and You are no Jack Kennedy" said by Loyd Benson to Dan Quayle. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/21/01 05:13PM >>> :), actually if you parrot Gore, it would be "I played a role in inventing certifications". Th

RE: Limiting Oracle Memory

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
I would love to speak more of this mythical code, but that would require me to understand the cryptic inner sanctum of the code of P.Dorsey and his developers!! I will speak to the developer, see what I can squeeze out of him without getting shot!! KK -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, J

OT RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL ( a.k.a The Thread that Will Not Die )

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL I personally notice a bunch of peole giving Chris their two cents on a fairly frequent basis. -Original Message-From: Bowes, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:36 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: R

OT RE: Undocumented Init.Ora Parms

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
I think Rachel has these. Also, Chris Spence has recently completed reverse-engineering the entire oracle binary set into assembler, C, and Sanskrit. You can get his results (including the cross compiler code ) at www.rosetta_stone.com . Also, aside from the "undocumented" parameters, maybe

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Oh! I swear I meant nothing except sending a 'hello'! Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:12 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oh boy, not this again. I left the last list because people complained I posted too much, and didn't like my view on

Re: Clusters and IOT's

2001-06-21 Thread Stephane Faroult
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Greetings to all. > I have to teach a small dba class tonight and we will be covering > clusters and index organized tables. I am a young dba and have never > used or managed either on. Can some one please give me some real > world examples of when its ideal to u

RE: Different behavior of Too_many_rows exception in pl/sql betwe

2001-06-21 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
Brian: Why don't you do what us "ubergeeks" do? Test. in a loop, try run each version, say 1000 times and tell us how long they take to run in your environment. (I want to know, but am too lazy to do this for myself right now!) Kevin -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:3

RE: Completely OT: Rental-car firm exceeding the privacy limit?

2001-06-21 Thread Christopher Spence
Hey, donuts your not speeding, and considering even goverment GPS can't detirmine anything within 3 feet because of the garbage purposely put in the air to make it harder for foreign countries to use our GPS for targeting they won't know. But you can tell from the tire wear. That is always the b

OT RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL (a.k.a. The World's Longest Thread )

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
Chris, Don't even respond to Ethan's post. Keep running. Let the baton remain in your grip. But how about a rotating message in the sig file? ;-> Ross -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Keep posting Chris, I think most

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Christopher Spence
Aye I took it the wrong way, we have talked in private mail. Still a little stung from Lazydba list. Not to mention this 100 hour / week stuff just running around patching things. Little edgy right now, my bad. "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Lisa Clary
Actually, I really like this idea. Just tried it out (works, of course), and it does provide better security. thanks for the tip! lc -Original Message- Tim Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 3:06 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L If possible, I prefer to create the procedure in th

Re: show block corrupted while importing???

2001-06-21 Thread Mike J Kurth
Did you ftp the export file while not in Binary Mode? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Mike J Kurth INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access /

RE: Limiting Oracle Memory

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
soa PL/SQL table?.can you say more about the code in question without violating the cryptic inner sanctum of Dulcian? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 3:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L DBMS_PIPE.down('Ross');, Thanks for not destroying me w

RE: Different behavior of Too_many_rows exception in pl/sql betwe

2001-06-21 Thread Connor McDonald
I would say that (A) will be the most performant because you are giving Oracle the EXTRA information that you only want one row. (b) and (c) could possibly produce a massive result set of which you only then fetch 1 row. hth connor --- "Norrell, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen c

RE: OT - interviewing your superior(fun question)

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
:), actually if you parrot Gore, it would be "I played a role in inventing certifications". The devil is in forgetting the details! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Or as Gore would say..."I invented certifications" C

Undocumented Init.Ora Parms

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin Lange
Hey gang; Is there any place that has a list of ALL the things you can put into the Init file and what they do ?? Not just the regular option strings I can get a list of these from a couple of web sites , but all of the hidden , and as far as I know, undocumented EVENT strings as well??

RE: Prompt in Korn shell

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin Lange
The sequence number is the number of commads in history I believe. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:41 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What do you use the sequence number at the end for? Ron -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:07

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Scott . Shafer
Easy, Chris. Back away from the ledge slowly. That's it. Just a little further... I'm sure Waleed meant that in jest. Just remember, its hard to determine "tone" via email. Believe me, your contributions are noted and appreciated. Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 "I hate the cou

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
I agree, Chris brings the goods!! Keep Posting! KK -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Keep posting Chris, I think most of us greatly appreciate the work you do both on the list and at home with your servers. I suggest you j

Re: Waits on cache buffers chains latch

2001-06-21 Thread Riyaj_Shamsudeen
Hi Bruce         You need to find what blocks are hanging from the particular latch. You could get this information by joining x$bh and v$session_wait tables while the sessions are waiting for this latch. select distinct ts#, file#, dbarfil,dbablk from x$bh where hladdr in   (select p1raw from v$

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL Yes, he does.  His pay for the incredible amount of help he provides is the simple thank you that the recipients of the help send him and he doesn't even ask for that... -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 3:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Post, Ethan
Keep posting Chris, I think most of us greatly appreciate the work you do both on the list and at home with your servers. I suggest you just let comments like that go to "/dev/null" and just keep doing what your doing, don't even break stride to comment. Thanks, Ethan -Original Message-

show block corrupted while importing???

2001-06-21 Thread Leslie Lu
Hi, I need to export data from one db and import it into another db. The table name, structure in both db are exactly the same. It's Oracle815 on Sun Solaris. I got error in index file. How does that happen? And what will be the possible solution? Thanks. Export file created by EXPORT:V08

RE: Different behavior of Too_many_rows exception in pl/sql betwe

2001-06-21 Thread Norrell, Brian
I have seen code that depends on the 8.1 behavior. It does bring up a question I have always wondered about. The question for the internals ubergeeks is: which of the following is best to use? (All should have the same result, so which one has the best performance and why?) A) declare y numb

Clusters and IOT's

2001-06-21 Thread Ivan_Rivera
Greetings to all.   I have to teach a small dba class tonight and we will be covering clusters and index organized tables. I am a young dba and have never used or managed either on.  Can some one please give me some real world examples of when its ideal to use these.  Also which tends to be

Re: Waits on cache buffers chains latch

2001-06-21 Thread Johnson Poovathummoottil
Hi Gaja, I notice that you have advised Bruce to increase SORT_AREA_SIZE to gain proformance lost due to frequent allocation of temp segments. I too belived in the theory that disk sorts are always faster than memory sorts untill I stumbled on my own problem which leaves me a little confused.

RE: Transportable tablespace problem in 817

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin Lange
Thanks Anita. I have just not thought much of it since then so I stayed away from it. Now that I am at a new job that is still on 8.0.5, I have not reason to look back into things. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 9:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevi

RE: new instances on Linux different from NT?

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin Lange
Thanks Rodd. Forgot that one. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 9:22 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Also need an entry in the /etc/oratab file for the new SID. >> Original Message << On 6/20/01, 8:10:19 PM, Kevin Lange <[EM

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Johnston, Tim
If possible, I prefer to create the procedure in the table owners schema and then grant execute to the user that needs to perform the truncate... That way you don't have to grant privileges like "DROP ANY TABLE"... Tim -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 2:44 PM To: Multipl

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Christopher Spence
Oh boy, not this again. I left the last list because people complained I posted too much, and didn't like my view on things. Yet they never complained when I helped everyone with many many problems. I answered 20% of the posts on the list, and I always got flak for them. You cannot win. "Wal

iAS 2-node installation

2001-06-21 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I have been asked to consider installing iAS as a "2-node", i.e. put most of iAS on one server and the application cartridges on the back end server. The course book for OAS mentions that this can be done, but I can't find any references to this in the iAS installation manual. In the meantime he

RE: OT - interviewing your superior(fun question)

2001-06-21 Thread Speaks, Chuck W.
Or as Gore would say..."I invented certifications" Chuck Speaks, MCSE Database Administrator Lithonia Lighting 770-922-9000 x3450 http://www.lithonia.com -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 2:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Or dubya would say ... "certific

RE: Limiting Oracle Memory

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
DBMS_PIPE.down('Ross');, Thanks for not destroying me with your mental powers:) I am concerned about the size because it is completely hosing the machine. The worst part is, it is ONE connection that is doing it. No one else is connected to the db, but once this migration begins, POW, t

Re: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
this is what happens when I post with insufficient blood levels of caffeine. take what I said and reverse it. You need DROP any table privilege, not delete any table. Early editions of the docs said you needed DELETE any table, they were wrong. Latest editions of the docs have been amended and

Re: cursor 0 in sql_trace and event10046 raw trace files

2001-06-21 Thread Greg Moore
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2001-06-21 Thread Prasada . Gunda1
We noticed a different behavior with too_many_rows exception in v7 and v8i. Is this a bug or that's the way it should work in 8i? I really appreciate your feedback on this. Thanks & Regards, Prasad declare v_table_nameuser_tables.table_name%TYPE; begin v_table_name := null; select table_na

Re: Limiting Oracle Memory

2001-06-21 Thread A. Bardeen
Kevin, Note 46001.1 "Oracle Database and the Windows NT memory architecture, Technical Bulletin" is an excellent resource. ORA_WORKINGSETMAX is set to a value in MB (complete details in the note). Do you have QSLICE (part of the NT resource kit) or another tool that will let you view the indivi

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Do you get paid for your daily number of posts? Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 2:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L It should only be drop any table. "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." Chri

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Christopher Spence
There are two problems. 1. You must have permissions (Not via a role) 2. Must use Dynamic SQL (DBMS_SQL/Execute Immediate) PL/SQL has had these restrictions for a long time, privileges will not work through roles and cannot execute DDL without using Dynamic SQL options. "Walking on water and de

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Lisa Clary
Thanks Tom & Kirti--- As an experiment I revoked the delete any table and granted the drop any table, and it worked. The drop any table is the key thanks to all! lc -Original Message- Thomas F Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 2:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Lisa, J

RE: Tuning in VXFS & Quick I/O

2001-06-21 Thread Christopher Spence
Qio does not increase performance of reads, it is mainly for writes. Although Cached quick io will give read performance boost in some areas due to the pre-fetch "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Christopher Spence
It should only be drop any table. "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, June 21, 2001 2:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Lisa, Just tri

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