Re: first there is a mountain, then there is no mountain...

2001-09-01 Thread Greg Moore
> I got calls from six different recruiters within two days So none of them had a handful of resumes on their desk from Oracle DBA's desperately seeking work ;-) -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Greg Moore INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Netwo

Re: Duhvelopers and DB-ehs?

2001-09-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
okay, I'm in awe here. >From: "Don Granaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Duhvelopers and DB-ehs? >Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:26:24 -0800 > >RE: Duhvelopers and DB-ehs?OK. I've resisted the temptation

RE: An Interesting Grouping Question

2001-09-01 Thread Larry Elkins
Ian, Stephane mentioned the possibility of using analytical functions. I know that you have used the analytical functions in the past so you may have already taken Stephane's idea and run with it, and maybe Stephane has as well. If not, here is Stephane's solution modified so that the DB function

Re: diff 8.1.6 & 8.1.7

2001-09-01 Thread Paul Drake
tran wrote: > > Hi Guy, > > Could someone kindly tell me what's difference between 8.1.6 & 8.1.7 > > Tran one of them is supported after 31-OCT-2001. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Paul Drake INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services

file/tablespace deleted at the OS level

2001-09-01 Thread Charlie Mengler
Oracle V9.0.1 Solaris 2.6 a development instance I made more than one mistake which resulted in me deleting a file that held single table tablespace. Now the instance won't STARTUP (naturally). Since I can easily recreate the data, I'd like to know how to convince Oracle to ignore the missing fil

Re: RE: Duhvelopers and DB-ehs?

2001-09-01 Thread Gary Weber
A modern day classic! - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 4:20 PM > I am in charge of 273 databases at sites throughout the world, some of them > in places with no electricity where we have an elephant on a tr

Re: file/tablespace deleted at the OS level

2001-09-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
startup mount alter tablespace offline drop; alter database open; drop tablespace including contents; create tablespace shutdown and do another backup offline drop tells oracle to ignore the fact that it's not there, you're going to get rid of it anyway. I'm doing this from memor

Re: file/tablespace deleted at the OS level

2001-09-01 Thread Joe Testa
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Re: file/tablespace deleted at the OS level

2001-09-01 Thread Paul Drake
Charlie, What I have used in the past in testing only. For this example, lets call them fodder_data and fodder_index. startup mount alter database datafile 'F:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TEST\FODDER_DATA01.DBF' offline drop; alter database datafile 'F:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TEST\FODDER_INDEX01.DBF' offline drop; a

Re: file/tablespace deleted at the OS level

2001-09-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I *said* I wasn't sure it was drop datafile or drop tablespace :) I sit corrected >From: Joe Testa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: file/tablespace deleted at the OS level >Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 09:46:

Re: !! Keeping the list alive

2001-09-01 Thread Jared Still
Just to add to my previous comment: I'm working at a company with small ( 40 or so ) IS shop. The weak do not survive in this environment. The developers I work with here are great. They're bright, hard working and un-egotistical. They are even will to take direction from the DBA in database

Re: An Interesting Grouping Question | One Solution

2001-09-01 Thread Jared Still
You got it. Jared On Friday 31 August 2001 15:40, MacGregor, Ian A. wrote: > One will definitely need a separator so one can tell course 111 from course > concat(course 1, course 11). I should have indicated that. If you are > asking why you used a colon specifically, I don't know. > > Ian M

Re: database consistency tools ?

2001-09-01 Thread Jared Still
Didn't?? Got news for you, they still need it. Jared On Friday 31 August 2001 11:45, Rachel Carmichael wrote: > oh, just about never :) but it would do basically the same thing. It's > just that Oracle rarely ever needs to do this and Sybase rarely DIDN'T need > to do this > > From: [EMAIL

RE: financial problems with fatcity.com

2001-09-01 Thread Jared Still
Hmm, lemme try again. S*u*b*s*c*r*i*p*t*i*o*n service is definitely not an option. Neither Bruce or I can manage something like that. Jared On Wednesday 29 August 2001 12:35, Jacques Kilchoer wrote: > -Original Message- > > >Alex, that is an excellent idea! I second that not

OT: financial problems with fatcity.com

2001-09-01 Thread Charlie Mengler
Another way of saying it - Nothing is impossible for the person who does NOT have to do it. Jared Still wrote: > Hmm, lemme try again. > > > > S*u*b*s*c*r*i*p*t*i*o*n service is definitely not an option. > > Neither Bruce or I can manage something like that. > > Jared > > On Wednesday

RE: !! Keeping the list alive

2001-09-01 Thread Dejam, Ruth
Jared, You are so incredibly lucky. I work for VoiceStream - a bazillion duhvelopers and DB-ehs?. ~Ruth Chaos, panic, and disorder - My work here is done! -Original Message- Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 4:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Just to add to my previo

Re: !! Keeping the list alive

2001-09-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
if 40 is small, is 16 microscopic? (and of that 16, 5 are consultants) >From: Jared Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: !! Keeping the list alive >Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2001 12:35:23 -0800 > > >Just to add

Datawarehouse suggestions?

2001-09-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Okay, first the rant they want me to build a new database to hold logs of every time someone hits a page on our website or uses one of the functions on the site. Without a new server or disk, on a box that currently holds the OLTP database, on a disk array that is RAID 5 and that EMC want

USE_HASH hint

2001-09-01 Thread Greg Moore
Does anyone know why a USE_HASH hint that's properly coded might not work? Without it my query uses nested loops, but with it the plan changes to sort-merge, not a hash join like I want. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Greg Moore INET: [EMAIL PROTECTE

sqlldr80- error

2001-09-01 Thread Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran
Hi gurus, Greetings. c:\> sqlldr80 userid=msalah/msalah@qtel control=c:\test.ctl ORA-12203: TNS:unable to connect destination SQL*Loader-704: Internal error: ulconnect : OCIServerAttach [-1] But am able to connect with SQL*Plus with the same username/password. Why it's showing this error, the