RE: Ever seen any of these errors?

2001-08-02 Thread Seley, Linda
Good point but no. I'm the only one who can get into this server, the last time I ran anything like this was when I built it in September. H, I just checked the test environment, which is a clone, everything there is owned by sys. Thanks! Linda -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-02 Thread Gogala, Mladen
With RSX and KED? May be some good, old VT100 and VT220? Oh, that makes me nostalgic! > -Original Message- > From: April Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:35 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdin

Re: OT RE: Dangerous AIX Bug - Gene's afraid of RMAN

2001-08-02 Thread Ruth Gramolini
I use RMAN to do incremental backups every day. It works great! Have a little faith, Ruth - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 12:11 PM Lisa - I don't think there is enough beer for me to trust RMAN to do in

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-02 Thread Norwood Bradly A
Title: RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff Thanks, Ivan. Most of us are probably from some 'hood.  Mine was the barrio of East L.A. as a first generation Mexican-American. The great equalizers are self-education, self-esteem and self-motivation. When you are famo

RV: Ever seen any of these errors?

2001-08-02 Thread Natalia Laracca
hi; error: ORA-06553 : PLS-213 : package STANDARD not accessible. I believe that you must connect as sys to do SELECT * FROM DBA_OBJECTS WHERE OWNER = 'SYS' AND OBJECT_NAME = 'STANDARD'; If you to find the status is "INVALID" and I believe that you try to recompile it by use command ALTER PACK

Re: part of the table export (incremental?)

2001-08-02 Thread JOE TESTA
and the incremental/cmulative options in export are only there for backwards compatibility w/scripts, my understanding is they are not really supported anymore.   joe   >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/02/01 10:30AM >>>if you are running 8i, you can use a where clause on the export.incremental expor

RE: transportable tablespaces

2001-08-02 Thread JOE TESTA
Matt, 8i admin guide, search for transport, in that chapter is limitations, they are all listed there.   joe >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/02/01 09:21AM >>> Rachel,     Which doc did you find that in? Matt Matt Adams - GE Appliances - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doing linear scans over an associativ

RE: Ever seen any of these errors?

2001-08-02 Thread Seley, Linda
STANDARD was not invalid (there were only two things invalid, both 'acceptable'). When I tried to compile STANDARD (actually I recreated it altogether) it wored without errors but I still got the error when logging into SQL*Plus. This whole thing was just really odd! Linda -Original Messag

RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest

2001-08-02 Thread Garner, John (NESL-IT)
Toppa result Only Villa to beat and we are in Europe.. -Original Message- Sent: 02 August 2001 13:52 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Wahey, Good result last night. -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 August 2001 11:50 To: Multiple recipi

Re: Seeking SQL*Reportwriter 1.0 antiques

2001-08-02 Thread paquette stephane
Sorry I just have rpt/rpf (joking !) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > A client of mine is moving off some ancient hardware > (with ancient > software) and needs for the short term to run > SQL*Reportwriter 1.0 > for DOS, then convert those files to version 1.1 of > the same. If > anybody is

Re: part of the table export (incremental?)

2001-08-02 Thread Rachel Carmichael
if you are running 8i, you can use a where clause on the export. incremental export does not export only the changed rows but will export the entire table if even as little as one byte in one row has changed. >From: "Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROT

RE: grants to schema query

2001-08-02 Thread Paul Baumgartel
You have to do them individually, but you can use SQL to write the script, as follows (use SQL*Plus to log in to Oracle as the schema owner): set pages 0 feedb off trimspool on lines 200 wrap off select 'grant update on '||table_name||' to ;' from user_tables spool grantem.sql / spool off @grant

RE: grants to schema query

2001-08-02 Thread Page, Bruce
Privileges have to be granted one object at a time. My preferred method is to grant the privileges to a role and then grant the role to the user. Then if you need to do the same to another user, you just grant them the role also. > -Original Message- > From: O'Neill, Sean [mailto:[EM

Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-02 Thread tday6
In 1981 my oldest child was 2 and I was working on a very primitive RDBMS at Boeing. As a pre-teen I was making a crystal radio and wondering why anyone would pay for batteries or electricity to power the radio when you could get all the energy that you needed from the broadcast itself. As a sum

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-02 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
"What does APL stand for? What was very bad practice in APL that other languages use? What was used instead?" A Programming Language. Not sure of the other questions, but I remember learning the greek alphabet when I was using APL. Very powerful vector-oriented language. You could write one-li

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-02 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Has anyone worked on IBM's punch card sorter? And IBM-1401 Mainframe? Talk about un-breakable stuff. The 1401 cabinet had tumbled down 10 steps during its move to the new computer room (we did not have lifts/elevators in the building then). But came to life without any problems when it was hooked

Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-02 Thread Steve . Parker
I thik LOGO was based on LISP. Steve Parker Technical Consultant LIS -- Logistics & Internet Systems Ltd. --

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-02 Thread Rachel Carmichael
we called that 52 card pickup -- take deck, throw in air, run like the devil was after us. I learned EARLY to draw intricate designs on the top of the deck so as to make putting it back together simpler. When projects were due, I'd cut every class but the computer ones, and stay in the comput

RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest

2001-08-02 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Wahey, Good result last night. -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 August 2001 11:50 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The Geordies get everywhere Aa The Blaydon races.. -Original Message- Sent: 02 August 2001 08:00 To: Multiple re

Oracle Beta

2001-08-02 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Hi all, Does anyone know the URL for the Oracle 9i Beta program. I need to download the NT version of 9i. Thanks in advance:) Sincerely, Kevin Kostyszyn DBA Dulcian, Inc www.dulcian.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Kevin K

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-02 Thread Page, Bruce
And the question (still yet to be properly answered) is "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?" > I remember a turtle, BUT he spoke to Mr. Owl, and the answer was 3. > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Page, Bruce INET: [E

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-02 Thread Page, Bruce
And just think about the PC being an advanced system for some of us. Wait until we again start talking about using paper tapes and having to use scotch tape to put them back together to run them through. Or even the older guys that talk about switch boards. I am not as old as them. My comput

grants to schema query

2001-08-02 Thread O'Neill, Sean
Hope there is not an obvious answer to this. I want to grant UPDATE priv to all objects in a schema to a user. Do I need to grant to each object or can I somehow wildcard all the objects?. What are my option(s)?. I'd appreciate example grant statements! Sean :) Rookie Data Base Administr

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-02 Thread Thater, William
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001,Boivin, Patrice J scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: ->Was CP/M the OS that Bill Gates bought just before making his big deal with ->IBM? Can't remember. -> ->Regards, ->Patrice Boivin ->Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -> -> -Original Message- ->

Re: Documentation for pricing database

2001-08-02 Thread Ron Rogers
Mark, The closest guestimate on the price is found at the Oracle Store. I do not know if they updated it with the pricing schema talked about on the OTN home page. Call your rep and get a price quote, wait a week and call again. The price might go down. ROR mª¿ªm >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/01/01

RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest

2001-08-02 Thread April Wells
Then when the sun REALLY comes up, the ice (a plant version of a heavy jacket) melts and keeps the cells from bursting. Added feature... the whole field sparkles in the sunrise! -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 5:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On Wed,

Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-02 Thread Pat Hildebrand
> > On Thu, 2 Aug 2001,Boivin, Patrice J scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: > > ->Was CP/M the OS that Bill Gates bought just before making his big deal with > ->IBM? Can't remember. > -> > ->Regards, > ->Patrice Boivin > ->Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) > -> > ->-Origina

Seeking SQL*Reportwriter 1.0 antiques

2001-08-02 Thread cjgait
A client of mine is moving off some ancient hardware (with ancient software) and needs for the short term to run SQL*Reportwriter 1.0 for DOS, then convert those files to version 1.1 of the same. If anybody is an antique collector and still has either the install disks or runtime of these prog

Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-02 Thread Thater, William
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001,Pat Hildebrand scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: ->When I saw the question about boot disks I figured that the answer ->would be very dependent on the computer because I know there were ->computers at that time that didn't use disks. However, the computer ->that I got in

Re: part of the table export (incremental?)

2001-08-02 Thread Joe Testa
exp help=y look for query= joe "Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane)" wrote: > > Hi dba's > > can anybody tell me how to do export part of the table.. > > i.e. incremental data. > > when i exported at 10 am it has 1000 rows ( i did full exp) > > 100 rows newly added in the 2 hrs > > when i do

Re: RAID 5/Oracle

2001-08-02 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi, that's correct. The rule of thumb is that RAID5 is usually the "Sys Admin's choice" whereas the "DBA's choice" is more like 1-controller-per-disk-per-datafile ;) James Howerton schrieb: > > I lost the battle. We have Hitachi raid 5 hooked-up to a Sun E10K and write >performance does "SUCK"

RE: transportable tablespaces

2001-08-02 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)
Title: RE: transportable tablespaces Rachel,     Which doc did you find that in? Matt Matt Adams - GE Appliances - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doing linear scans over an associative array is like   trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. - Larry Wall (creator of Per

RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest

2001-08-02 Thread April Wells
And they don't weigh you on the way in and the way out? =) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 5:21 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Where I live we have many strawberry farms where the customer picks their own berries. We picked about 50 pounds and then I mad

Re: index

2001-08-02 Thread Ron Rogers
Shahid , set autotrace on, run your query, view the explain plan. It should show you exactly what is happening with the query in question. Make sure that you follow all of the requirements to use the command( Plan Table, Ultxplan.sql.etc} ROR mª¿ªm >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/02/01 01:30AM >>> Hi

RE: Help, processes won't die

2001-08-02 Thread O'Neill, Sean
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 12:01:40 -0400 >> Subject: Help, processes won't die >> >>I need some assistance ASAP. Our nightly batch process seems to have hung >>up for some strange reason (ok no biggie my boss says kill it and start it >>again). The problem is I have ki

Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT

2001-08-02 Thread Ron Rogers
Tucked away in my safe I have 6 tapes for the Atari. Each tape is a different game and you had to use a tape player to load them rather than the plugin cartridge. I tried one of the games and the visuals were great. The tape version had more info than was on the chip. As far as the answers to t

RE: upgrade

2001-08-02 Thread Malik, Fawzia
yup thanks for this, I found this late last night aswell..: ) !!! Good old oracle bugs, Life wouldn't be as exciting without them!!! -Original Message- Sent: 01 August 2001 19:32 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I found this on MetaLink which describes exactly what you are getti

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-02 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
I love this stuff(being a nerd wannabe), but I don't have a frickin clue what any of you are talking about:) KK -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Kevin Kostyszyn INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-505

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-02 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Was CP/M the OS that Bill Gates bought just before making his big deal with IBM? Can't remember. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- CP/M [or is it CPM i've seen it written both ways.] -- Please see the official ORA

RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest

2001-08-02 Thread Garner, John (NESL-IT)
The Geordies get everywhere Aa The Blaydon races.. -Original Message- Sent: 02 August 2001 08:00 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I guess thats one of the things we have going for us in little old England. Where I live in the North East of England (Northumberlan

RE: Help Need

2001-08-02 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
Title: Help Need Are all the columns in user repeated? I doubt it because you would just remove duplicate records.  I am assuming userid is key field. You could try   CREATE TABLE usercheck AS SELECT * FROM user; ALTER TABLE usercheck ADD(repeated NUMBER); UPDATE usercheck a SET repeated

Re: index

2001-08-02 Thread Joe Testa
its called explain plan, tuning guide. joe "Shahid Malik(IT)" wrote: > > Hi friends, > How can I find that, is my query using index or not? > > TIA > Shahid . > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Shahid Malik(IT) > INET:

Language Clarification

2001-08-02 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
Dear All, I have some queries. How can we store non-English characters in Oracle database? e.g.) Simplified Chinese. I created a Oracle database with character set JA16SJIS. But it is allowing me to enter only english and european languages. Pl clarify. Thanks in Advance Regards Venkata sub

RE: Largest Oracle Databases

2001-08-02 Thread Guy Hammond
In Larry Ellison's bio, it's explained that the name "Oracle" came from a data storage system they were working on for the govt. It was based on magnetic mylar strips or something. They took the name with them when they struck out on their own. Their govt. connection got them bumped up the waiting

RE: cleaning up oracle homes on NT

2001-08-02 Thread O'Neill, Sean
>> From: "Boivin, Patrice J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 07:38:51 -0300 >> Subject: cleaning up oracle homes on NT >> >>Andrea asked about removing NT services. >> >>What about Oracle homes? The Oracle Universal Installer appears to be >>doing a poor job of cleaning those up wh

RE: Help Need

2001-08-02 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Hi, This statement will get you the userid and the number of times it is duplicated. Then it's just a case of inserting the value at the desired location. Although this does mean that you are either going to have a column with lots of null values or lots of repeated values...Doesn't really make

Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-02 Thread Rachel Carmichael
that settles it, I'm quietly packing up my desk and leaving the list. I don't belong here. I vaguely remember working with some of this stuff but not all. I either: 1)never had a memory for anything 2)was sleepwalking through most of my life 3)am not and was not a nerd 4)all of the above I th

Help Need

2001-08-02 Thread Deewaker G.V.
Title: Help Need Hi DBA Gurus, I have a table called user.. It has userid, firstname, lastname, city, address, telephone, email There are some userid which have been reentered .. I would like to insert a column called repeats and take the number of times the userid is repeated How to I

part of the table export (incremental?)

2001-08-02 Thread Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane)
Hi dba's can anybody tell me how to do export part of the table.. i.e. incremental data. when i exported at 10 am it has 1000 rows ( i did full exp) 100 rows newly added in the 2 hrs when i do exported at 12 am ( incremental) it exporting all the rows(1100) of the table but i need only the r

RE: import table from SQL server To Oracle

2001-08-02 Thread Mark Leith
This is also by far the easiest way I have found of doing this. There are a couple of things to bear in mind here though: 1) If you have two "large" data fields in the same table in SS, the transformation sometimes tries to create the Oracle tables with multiple LONG data types - which can't be d

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-02 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
-Original Message- > What famous character was used to first advertise the IBM PC? Charlie Chaplin, easy one. correct. > Was it possible to connect two screens to the original IBM PC? How? I believe I did one through a Hercules graphics card, but

RE: Oracle vs. MySQL

2001-08-02 Thread Sinardy
I think, you can design an application that aware of those non rollback tech things and reverse the contain back properly, quite a lot of work need to be done here. regards, Sinardy -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2001 2:56 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L True,

Re: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-02 Thread Joe Testa
hth=hope that helps. joe -- Joe Testa Performing Remote DBA Services, need some backup DBA support? For Sale: Oracle-dba.com domain, its not going cheap but feel free to ask :) -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Joe Testa INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat

OT:(Unix Q): Re-executing an old command

2001-08-02 Thread Ross Collado
I'm using ksh. From the Unix prompt I do history which displays the last 170 commands I did. I would like to re-run #55 in the list (which happens to be a rm with a lot of arguments). How do I do it? I tried doing ESC-K then /rm to find it but it didn't. Usually it does. Thanks, Ross --

ip restriction help

2001-08-02 Thread Xiaohong Yang
Hi Gurus, I would like to get your recommendation for connection restriction to the databases via tcp/ip based on ip addresses. The restriction is required for only the databases that is served by one listener, not the other. Any suggestions are welcome: OS, Oracle, network... Sun Solaris 2.7

Re: SQL Question

2001-08-02 Thread Pat Hildebrand
> select table_name from dba_tables where table_name like 'EDL_WORK_%' > and I received the following > > TABLE_NAME > - > EDL_WORKSTATION_LOCATION > EDL_WORK_AR_ENTITIES > > Why would I be receiving the first record (EDL_WORKSTATION) if I > try EDL_WORK_A% I get the co

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