ORA-04030 - Is it CLOB problem?

2001-11-09 Thread Prasad BAV
Hi List, We are using Oracle 8.1.7 on Windows 2000. System RAM is 3GB. We are using 1.5GB of SGA. System is 1GHz processor. We are getting sometimes problem with the error ORA-04030. Our DBA says this is the problem because of bug with Oracle 8.1.7 in Windows 2000 with CLOB datatype. We have de

RE: Oracle the best

2001-11-09 Thread Prasad BAV
Hi Rao, No, it is not running in MTS mode. It is running in shared server mode. Prasad BAV. --- "Rao, Maheswara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Prasad, > > Is the database running on MTS mode? > > Rao > > -Original Message- > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 9:00 AM > To: Multiple recipi

Re: index size calculation

2001-11-09 Thread Deepak Thapliyal
we generally go for 50% tablesize for indexes .. works for most of our medium sized game databases. for very large tables .. i go with 20% sise of table per index Deepak --- Ron Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg, > I usually insist on that information from the > development group then I

RE: I just submitted OEM feedback

2001-11-09 Thread John Kanagaraj
Jared/Patrice, We found that for its price, OEM was pretty good. I do agree that Perl/Ksh/SQL*Plus scripts is still more solid than OEM and its agents, but OEM 2.2 has come a long way since OEM 1.0. While there are many things that I do NOT like about OEM (i.e. stuck 'deregistrations', cumbersome

Data Warehouse Raid-5 Shark Environment

2001-11-09 Thread Bellefeuille, Wayne S
Anyone out there have any experience running an Oracle Data Warehouse on an IBM P660 (6M1) over a Shark/RAID-5/SAN environment? Work great? Any horror stories? Any gotchas? My concern in us potentially converting to this environment (from an AIX-SP/mirrored environment) has mostly to do with the

RE: Oracle software on RAID 5

2001-11-09 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Catherine - I passed your note along to our system administrator. One difference is whether you are looking at software RAID or hardware RAID. We use hardware RAID, and therefore our RAID5 experience applies only to that. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Messag

RE: Checkpoint Duration

2001-11-09 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Check v$system_event to see what are the most waited for things in your database. You can also check v$session_wait for the wait events in sessions coresponding to CKPT, DBW, LGW & SMON. Find those events in Oracle reference (available online) and see if those guys are waiting for anything special

Re: Urgent Fail Safe Question

2001-11-09 Thread Jared Still
Sure, have one on me. :) Jared On Friday 09 November 2001 13:39, Grabowy, Chris wrote: > Hmmm...doesn't that mean someone owes me a beer? > > -Original Message- > From: Jared Still [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 4:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Grabowy, C

Oracle Partnership Program

2001-11-09 Thread Orr, Steve
My company is an Oracle Partner (from the Oracle Partnership Program, "OPP") and damagement got an invite to a 1/2 day speel about OPP during OOW. Since I'll be at OOW it's thought that maybe I could see if there's any OPP opportunities we should know about. I'm skeptical that Oracle could actuall

RE: Urgent Fail Safe Question

2001-11-09 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Hmmm...doesn't that mean someone owes me a beer? -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 4:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Grabowy, Chris I must have been hallucinating, I can't find it now. Here are some interesting links I came across while looking: http://metalink.oracle.c

RE: pass a value from a shell script to a store procedure

2001-11-09 Thread Anne Yu
Thank you so much for your help. I was trying to pass 'yesterday's date' from unix thru a cron to a package. I took Guy's advise and created a procedure to call this pkg. It was easy and quick. Thank you again. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:51 AM To: Multip

Re: Urgent Fail Safe Question

2001-11-09 Thread Jared Still
I must have been hallucinating, I can't find it now. Here are some interesting links I came across while looking: http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=107487.1 http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database

RE: Oracle software on RAID 5

2001-11-09 Thread Jesse, Rich
We have some Oracle 8.0.5 DBs on a RAID5 set on our OpenVMS server. It works fine, but there is really not a lot of writes going to our DBs (read-only "legacy" data). You don't mention the type of database (OLTP/DW/Hybrid) or it's size, number of concurrent users, etc., so I'll be generic. Writ

Re: I just submitted OEM feedback

2001-11-09 Thread Thater, William
Jared Still wrote: > > >One tool that I thought was impressive was BMC Patrol. Anything >you could think of, it already did. Quite expensive and difficult >to install I understand. Never got the opportunity to use it. > i've gotten OEM to work, mostly anyway. i never got Patrol going even wi

RE: I just submitted OEM feedback

2001-11-09 Thread Kimberly Smith
Not familiar with BMC Patrol but I like I/Watch from Quest Software. I believe they are pretty similar though, especially in price. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Patrice, You're reinforcing my already low opinion

Re: I just submitted OEM feedback

2001-11-09 Thread Jared Still
Patrice, You're reinforcing my already low opinion of OEM. At a previous job we had one very competent DBA that spent quite a bit of time on OEM, and it would never work properly. I'm still sold on homebrew monitoring, in Perl, ksh, or whatever you're comfortable with. One tool that I thought

RE: OT : RE: Linux file locking question (semi-off topic)

2001-11-09 Thread Mohan, Ross
I still like the bit about the Tower Controller knowing Walt. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L "pounder", "hell bore." & "report from hades" sounds like an interesting place to work. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Pr

Re: index size calculation

2001-11-09 Thread Ron Rogers
Greg, I usually insist on that information from the development group then I can charge it off to their budget when it expands beyond the original space. Seriously, I build a table and indexes with init and next the DBBLOCK size and load a controlled amount of data. That will give you a good

DBASSIST in 9i

2001-11-09 Thread Harvinder Singh
Hi, We just install the custom 9i without the database option. But Now when we want to create database using dbassist we are not able to find the binary. Did the location changes in 9i or there is some tool now. Thanks -Harvinder -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com --

OT : RE: Linux file locking question (semi-off topic)

2001-11-09 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
"pounder", "hell bore." & "report from hades" sounds like an interesting place to work. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Wait...so...you got the SDS stuff goingand it w

Re: Pull NEXTVAL thru a DB_LINK

2001-11-09 Thread Igor Neyman
Workaround: On the remote system (where the sequence exists) create a view: create or replace view vSome_Seq as select some_seq.NEXTVAL from dual; Then, you can query it remotely: select nextval from vSome_Seq@db_link; Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To:

index size calculation

2001-11-09 Thread Greg Faktor
Hi All! I need to calculate/estimate index size for database. In 8.0.5 I used formula from Administrator Guide to calculate index size. Now this formula was removed because of it accuracy (see Metalink). Does some one has formula for 8i ? Thanks. Greg. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FA

RE: Linux file locking question (semi-off topic)

2001-11-09 Thread Mohan, Ross
Wait...so...you got the SDS stuff goingand it works...but you can't tell if it's faster? Aching for results, etc. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 2:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L (Acually 4X10 is THE answer for us. Walt's on a 4X10-4-days-off

RE: Pull NEXTVAL thru a DB_LINK

2001-11-09 Thread Kevin Lange
You just selected the next value from a local sequence called some_seq using the dual table located on the link. What you have to do is to select the next value from the sequence located on the link using the dual table from the local database. select some_seq.nextval@db_link from dual; I tri

How to get user lastname and first name when you have user logon

2001-11-09 Thread Nguyen, Tu
Title: How to get user lastname and first name when you have user logon id Unix Guru, I'd like to get all the user lastname and first name, and I can get the login id from the command "who /var/adm/wtmp" Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] S

Checkpoint Duration

2001-11-09 Thread Walter K
I have LOG_CHECKPOINTS_TO_ALERT set in my init.ora file and according to my alert log they are generally taking about 30 minutes to complete, sometimes only a couple minutes. Does that sound right? The database is about 20G and doesn't have much transaction activity. It's a development database a

RE: Linux file locking question (semi-off topic)

2001-11-09 Thread Orr, Steve
(Acually 4X10 is THE answer for us. Walt's on a 4X10-4-days-off weekend and is probably flying around somewhere as I write. We have a 4X10 schedule and we get to arrange the days to maximize our weekends. Hmmm... I was the one who made out the schedule so how is it that Walt got the 4 day weekend?

RE: Oracle software on RAID 5

2001-11-09 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
We have been RAID 5 on Compaq Tru64 for many years now. Make sure you have a good-sized battery-backed RAM cache. Is your system more toward the OLTP or data warehousing type environment? We have never compared performance, but it seems to work fine for our needs. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, In

RE: Oracle software on RAID 5

2001-11-09 Thread tday6
There's no reason not to install the Oracle vendor software on RAID 5. Now, where you put your database is another issue. Probably as long as it's not an OLTP database the overhead shouldn't be an issue. Let the RAID wars begin!!!

Pull NEXTVAL thru a DB_LINK

2001-11-09 Thread tday6
Is there any way to get the next value of a sequence via a db_link. I tried select some_seq.nextval from dual@db_link but it told me the sequence didn't exist. I went to the database where the sequence exists and, using the userid that is in the db_link, I was able to get the next value, so it

RE: Linux file locking question (semi-off topic)

2001-11-09 Thread Ron Rogers
NOTE. According to Tony Jambu author of "Oracle's New Pricing, Oracle 9i Features and Some Good Utilities" article in the 4qtr 2001 issue of Select. Page 42 (ironic about the page number) "The answer is 50 not 42 (for those HGTTG fans, you know what I mean)." Just another spin in the galaxy

RE: Oracle software on RAID 5

2001-11-09 Thread Browett, Darren
We use raid 5 for everything, haven't come across any problems yet. As for performance, I am not sure, as we don't encounter the same loads as most bigger organizations probably encounter. We are running oracle 8.0.5, 8.1.7, on clustered tru64 4.0f connected to a SAN (HSG80) Darren -Origin

Re: Oracle software on RAID 5

2001-11-09 Thread Steven Lembark
-- Catherine LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Anyone know of a reason > why RAID 5 would not be OK for the software? It works rather nicely if you tune the raid stripe to match the system page (usually 4k or 8k). A 4k page works nicely w/ 8 x 512byte chunks or 4 x 1K chunks, for example. RAID5 w

Re: good workaround for a ORA-2016?

2001-11-09 Thread Doug C
Unfortunately, I don't think I can do that.. they query itself has a limiting factor in the start with clause.. i.e. start with key = (select something from table_over_here,table_over_here2,table_over_here3,table_over_here4 where a bunch_of_stuff and x=:avaluethatchanges) I can't make a

RE: Forms6

2001-11-09 Thread Kirsh, Gary
How about using the create_timer built-in and a when-timer-expired trigger? Gary Kirsh Next Extent, Inc -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 10:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On occasion we'd like to be able to "broadcast" a message to folks who are access

RE: good workaround for a ORA-2016?

2001-11-09 Thread Miller, Jay
Not to mention select this,that :) -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 8:36 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I like your naming conventions :) but shouldn't it be from a_table_in_this_database ? --- Jeffery Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...and

Oracle software on RAID 5

2001-11-09 Thread Catherine LeBlanc
We are in the process of reorganizing and reconfiguring of our disk space in preparation for an Oracle 8.1.6 upgrade in production, and my sys admin wants to use RAID 5 for the drive on which the Oracle 8.1.6 software will be installed. Anyone know of a reason why RAID 5 would not be OK for the s

RE: Linux file locking question (semi-off topic)

2001-11-09 Thread Rachel Carmichael
well duh the answer to EVERYTHING is 42 --- "Orr, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK... it's 42! Nice kitty... > > > > -Original Message- > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 6:31 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Walt, > > but but but.. I didn't know the answer.

RE: OEM and Veritas backup agent for Oracle

2001-11-09 Thread Orr, Steve
Hi Patrice, For some time now we've been using RMAN, staging to disk, then using Netbackup to backup to tape. Works fine. Now, after a struggle, we've got RMAN backing up to tape directly via the Veritas Netbackup MML API stuff. We have a Linux Netbackup client and a Solaris Netbackup server an

RE: pass a value from a shell script to a store procedure

2001-11-09 Thread Guy Hammond
Why not just call the stored procedure with SYSDATE - 1? I don't think Unix's date command makes finding yesterday's date particularly easy. g -Original Message- Sent: 09 November 2001 16:56 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hey List, I need to pass a value `date - 1` t

RE: I just submitted OEM feedback

2001-11-09 Thread Mohan, Ross
OOPS! Got the EVENT count and the SERVER count confused. thx -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:37 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Not 30, about half that. That can't be a "big" setup! What do banks and multinational coporations do, if 15 servers i

RE: pass a value from a shell script to a store procedure

2001-11-09 Thread Bellows, Bambi
I'm sorry, I misunderstood. Were you trying to get Oracle to tell Unix what yesterday was? #!/bin/ksh sqlplus << EOF system/incredibly_secret_password_but_this_is_probably_overkill_why_not_use_ scott_tiger select 'YESTERDAY="||sysdate-1||'"' from dual set pages 0 set sqlprompt "" spool date_def

RE: I just submitted OEM feedback

2001-11-09 Thread Kimberly Smith
I don't know about this one. A couple of months ago I would agree but lately when I open a Metalink tar I always get a phone call. Even when I don't really need one. I am rarely at my desk to get it but they leave a very nice voice mail. As much as I like to complain about Oracle Support (a

RE: Memory Windows for HP-UX

2001-11-09 Thread Ron Thomas
I've had no problems with TNS, dblinks, etc. The only thing to watch out for is some monitoring packages (can't remember which ones) read the SGA structures directly from memory. They need to be started from the correct memory window. Never had the "pleasure" of MC ServiceGuard. Ron Thomas

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2001-11-09 Thread BINAY . KUMAR
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 c

OEM and Veritas backup agent for Oracle

2001-11-09 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Anyone using this combination to do their regular backups? If yes, I would be interested in hearing your experiences. Here we are doing colds and hots, doing incrementals would be nice. It might make enough difference to justify the cost of purchasing those Veritas agents. Sorry, I am on an OE

RE: I just submitted OEM feedback

2001-11-09 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Not 30, about half that. That can't be a "big" setup! What do banks and multinational coporations do, if 15 servers is a big setup? Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From: Mohan, Ross [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

Error during 9i installation

2001-11-09 Thread Harvinder Singh
Hi, We r trying to install 9i on sun 2.8 and getting error : error in writing to file /opt/oracle/OraHome1/Apache.jdk/bin/java_wrapper What might be the cause? Thanks -Harvinder -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Harvinder Singh INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Another Oracle DBA gets "The Bullet" in the - Sorry little long winded

2001-11-09 Thread Sakthi , Raj
Rao , Thanks for taking time and the suggestion. But obviously both Randy and you misinterpretted what I was attempting to sayPerhaps mine was a wrong choice of words...SO let me explainJared sorry if I am gobbling bandwidthcyber spank me if you want... I have been working an a DBA for

RE: session marked for kill

2001-11-09 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: session marked for kill Could be a bunch of things. Here's one thing I noticed in a development database yesterday (8.1.7.1.1 on Windows 2000) Stored procedure issues an "analyze table compute statistics". In the alert log there was an ORA-00600 caused by the analyze (and also a tra

RE: pass a value from a shell script to a store procedure

2001-11-09 Thread Anne Yu
Thank you so much for response to my email. I know we can do: Date= `date` but not `date -1`. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L So long as you embed your call to Oracle within your program, the program can pass variab

RE: Another Oracle DBA gets "The Bullet" in the UK - Seeking an O

2001-11-09 Thread Randy Kirkpatrick
RS It's very difficult to deal with people when you're kept s busy and isolated! I know that I can get very focused and forget about other people around me and their "menial" jobs when mine is the important job since I'm the DBA! Randy Kirkpatrick (303)772-7467 -Original Message- F

RE: I just submitted OEM feedback

2001-11-09 Thread Mohan, Ross
still, Patrice, "reboot the agents" is not the way this should be handled. That's very old-school Microsofty... -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:53 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oracle Support called me, I resolved the events stuck in de-registra

RE: I just submitted OEM feedback

2001-11-09 Thread Mohan, Ross
KS - what is the "size" of the environment that you are using OEM to monitor? Patrice has it on 30 odd servers, across several OSes, with double digit events set...a biggish layout, methinks. Me, I'd have a 'baby' install at first...a few instances under one unix OS. I guess it would likely be

Re: I just submitted OEM feedback

2001-11-09 Thread Brian McGraw
I agree. Too bad you have to pitch a fit these days to get that personal communication. "Boivin, Patrice J" wrote: > Oracle Support called me, I resolved the events stuck in de-registration > mode. > > There was a misunderstanding, they were telling me in writing that I had to > shut down the a

RE: pass a value from a shell script to a store procedure

2001-11-09 Thread Bellows, Bambi
So long as you embed your call to Oracle within your program, the program can pass variables to Oracle all day long. #!/bin/ksh DATE=`date - 1` DBA=`Anne Yu` sqlplus << EOF system/incredibly_secret_password select $DATE,$DBA from dual; exit EOF echo "Done!" -Original Message- Sent: Frida

Re: checking users's password

2001-11-09 Thread Brian McGraw
Funny, I wrote a perl script to do this same thing the other day. It is a perl script, runs under UNIX, and not only checks for defaults, but the default Oracle passwords as well. I was kinda proud of it, so I thought I'd pass it along. Not Jared-Still-Perl-Evangelist quality, but I'm happy. B

pass a value from a shell script to a store procedure

2001-11-09 Thread Anne Yu
Hey List, I need to pass a value `date - 1` to a store procedure from a shell script. Really appreciate if anyone can help. Thanks, -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Anne Yu INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-505

RE: I just submitted OEM feedback

2001-11-09 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Oracle Support called me, I resolved the events stuck in de-registration mode. There was a misunderstanding, they were telling me in writing that I had to shut down the agents on the nodes, and then remove the nodes. I thought that meant I had to do it for ALL the nodes, not just the ones with t

RE: checking users's password

2001-11-09 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Deborah: I don't have a script, but it should be fairly easy to create. In pseudo-script: For all Users Loop select current_password, current_profile into temp_var1, temp_var2; alter user profile default; alter user identified by username; select current_password into temp_var3; if te

RE: I just submitted OEM feedback

2001-11-09 Thread Kimberly Smith
Actually, I am not having any issues. My only issue with the tool is I cannot page someone else if I don't fix the problem but we are just going to direct the pages to Unicenter and leave it at that. Also, you cannot set a priority level. For example, there are times where I just want an email

Oracle Database Group Manager Needed in Boston

2001-11-09 Thread OraStaff
Boston, MA, Financial services company is looking for an Oracle Database Group Manager who MUST be a senior ORACLE database professional. The selected candidate will report to the Manager of Enterprise Technologies/Global Operations. *Candidates who are in the Greater Boston area only can be con

RE: good workaround for a ORA-2016?

2001-11-09 Thread Kimberly Smith
For a second there I thought it was Cobol. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 5:36 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I like your naming conventions :) but shouldn't it be from a_table_in_this_database ? --- Jeffery Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ..

RE: Forms6

2001-11-09 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
If you are running forms in client-server mode, then there is no easy solution, but if you have web deployment, then you could use PJC and hook into dbms_alert. This way, if you send a dbms_alert, you will be able to capture it at forms and display appropriate message. Now only if I could remembe

RE: I just submitted OEM feedback

2001-11-09 Thread Mohan, Ross
Bad RI? Unhandled, hanging events? This is a tool that people use? Boy, and i was *just* starting to consider reviewing it again... *sigh*.. Thanks, Patrice. Great post. Truly helpful. ross -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 10:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of l

checking users's password

2001-11-09 Thread Deborah Weatherspoon
Hi Everyone, Can anyone provide/share with me a script that will check the users password against their username. We are trying to verify that no one is using his/her username as the password. Thanks for any help -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author:

RE: v$session_wait event

2001-11-09 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Ignore this please. Another red herring. I give up.   I'm off to the countryside to grow mushrooms organically   -Original Message-From: Robertson Lee - lerobe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 09 November 2001 12:00To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: v$session_

RE: Another Oracle DBA gets "The Bullet" in the UK - Seeking an O

2001-11-09 Thread Sakthi , Raj
Randy , I am sourly lacking in people's skills..thats the point I was trying to make..(which didn't work..Obviously..!!). When I am working 42 hours continuously I don't have time to think about hurting somebody's delicate feelings. RS --- Randy Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RS > > Th

Re:session marked for kill

2001-11-09 Thread dgoulet
Rollback is one definite possibility, so is the Duhveloper shutting down the process on his/her client machine. In either case, finding the process id and killing that process at the Unix level will also release stuff a lot faster. Dick Goulet Reply Separator

Forms6

2001-11-09 Thread Charlie Mengler
On occasion we'd like to be able to "broadcast" a message to folks who are accessing the database via a GUI forms interface; either thick or thin client. What are some possible ways of implementing this feature? Since we own/write the application we are free to modify it any way we desire. --

RE: Linux file locking question (semi-off topic)

2001-11-09 Thread Orr, Steve
OK... it's 42! Nice kitty... -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 6:31 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Walt, but but but.. I didn't know the answer. I didn't even really understand the question! PLEASE tell me the answer, please? Pretty please? Pretty plea

RE: Another Oracle DBA gets "The Bullet" in the UK - Seeking an O

2001-11-09 Thread Rao, Maheswara
Raj, One small suggestion: If maintaining many db's leaves you with less time to attend to the developer's questions or developers' requirements, bring up this case to your boss. Put it to him in such a way that the company requires another DBA. In that way, you would be doing two services in t

RE:

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Leith
LOL.. What I *meant* to say was: I must say, your posts have left me feeling kind of empty lately! :) :P Ahh well.. It's Friday -Original Message- Sent: 09 November 2001 14:20 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I must your, your posts have left me feeling kind of empty lately

RE: I just submitted OEM feedback

2001-11-09 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
One more thing maybe it was a error on our side ... We setup OEM to monitor all production, ACPT and development servers and when all connections were specified, by mistake SYS user was used. Now OEM wouldn't let me use TOP SESSIONS etc on my 9i databases saying that I must connect as SYSDBA

I just submitted OEM feedback

2001-11-09 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
FYI, I just submitted feedback to Oracle re. their OEM 2.2. product. So far I have had to rebuild the repository three times. With fifteen servers, this is a major hassle. We have Oracle on NT, on Tru64 UNIX, and a mix of versions: 7.3.4.4 (on Tru64 in the process of being upgraded) and 8.1.7

RE: Oracle the best

2001-11-09 Thread Rao, Maheswara
Prasad, Is the database running on MTS mode? Rao -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 9:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, All of us believe Oracle is the best database server. We can keep our application data on Oracle and just forget the rest. I strong

RE: Urgent Fail Safe Question

2001-11-09 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Huh? Jared, did your search reveal that OFS is available for platforms other then Windows? The white papers and doc that I read stated Windows only because it's tied into Microsoft Cluster Server. IMHO, I think the Oracle folks took a look at MS Cluster Server and realized that it wouldn't be

RE: ftp

2001-11-09 Thread Tirumala, Surendra
Follow up... My SA says we you have Washington Univ version of FTP you can restrict the users from navigating... Is it the only way Suren -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 8:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi List, I think, sometime back, there wa

RE:

2001-11-09 Thread Mark Leith
I must your, your posts have left me feeling kind of empty lately! :) -Original Message- Sent: 09 November 2001 12:10 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L __ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com --

RE: Linux file locking question (semi-off topic)

2001-11-09 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
and chocolate obviously !! -Original Message- Sent: 09 November 2001 13:31 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Walt, but but but.. I didn't know the answer. I didn't even really understand the question! PLEASE tell me the answer, please? Pretty please? Pretty please with whipped

RE:

2001-11-09 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
I like your style, first it was the polar bear in the snowstorm now we get the airline jet in the snowstorm. The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this messag

Re:

2001-11-09 Thread Igor Neyman
Now, that was very informative! Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 7:10 AM > > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Find

Oracle the best

2001-11-09 Thread Prasad BAV
Hi, All of us believe Oracle is the best database server. We can keep our application data on Oracle and just forget the rest. I strongly believe I can do anything I want, with Oracle. We have a problem with Oracle. Ours is a small application with most hits. Lot of people will be using our solu

RAM Disk Redux. WAS RE: Linux file locking question (semi-off top

2001-11-09 Thread Mohan, Ross
Bunch of on-topic meanies, these guys are. ;-) So, please tell the tale of the RAM disk,...what happened...set up, surprises, percent improvements, next steps...etc -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 9:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Alright, I sen

RE: Linux file locking question (semi-off topic)

2001-11-09 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Walt, but but but.. I didn't know the answer. I didn't even really understand the question! PLEASE tell me the answer, please? Pretty please? Pretty please with whipped cream and TWO maraschino cherries on top? Rachel --- "Weaver, Walt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alright, I sent out a totall

RE: GMT TIME

2001-11-09 Thread Martin Kendall
Thank you Raj. My point stands wwhether using the "old" GMT mnemonic or the new UTC. -Original Message- Rajendra Sent: 08 November 2001 19:04 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Actually one should use UTC ... instead of GMT for reference Raj _

RE: good workaround for a ORA-2016?

2001-11-09 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I like your naming conventions :) but shouldn't it be from a_table_in_this_database ? --- Jeffery Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...and you created the view on the "other" side of the database link > where > none of the tables are remote tables? Basically, on the remote > system you

RE: Another Oracle DBA gets "The Bullet" in the UK - Seeking an O

2001-11-09 Thread Rachel Carmichael
good people skills -- you leave them smiling even when you tell them no they can't have what they want. You are not arbitrary about decisions, you explain WHY something won't work and offer an alternative that will. You smile at people, get to their work as quickly as you can, explain delays when

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2001-11-09 Thread Prasad BAV
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RE: ORA-01720 while trying to grant select on a view

2001-11-09 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: ORA-01720 while trying to grant select on a view See the Metalink Note below Subject: grant select on view with grant option RDBMS Version: 81511 Operating System and Version: nt 4 sp 5 Error Number (if applicable): ora-1720 Product (i.e. SQL*Loader, Import, etc.): Product Versi

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2001-11-09 Thread Prasad BAV
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Re: Import questions

2001-11-09 Thread Bill Buchan
If you want the objects to end up in the same tablespaces, then the names must be exactly the same (otherwise the default tablespace is used). If the filesystem and layout on box x is the same as box y then the full import will create the tablespaces using the datafile specs. in the dump file.

Re: Raw partition Vs File System

2001-11-09 Thread Connor McDonald
I have to agree - it was somewhat startling. Its the only *ever* test I've seen where raw was not the overall winner. Unfortunately I don't have Linux to play with Connor --- Bill Buchan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did anyone read Bert Scalzo's article in Pipeline > Newsletter this month

Re: ORA-01720 while trying to grant select on a view

2001-11-09 Thread Bill Buchan
You need to: grant select on sys.v_$instance to GCSS with grant option; This will allow GCSS to grant select on views based on v_$instance to other users. - Bill. At 01:35 09/11/01 -0800, you wrote: >Hi DBA Gurus, > > I am getting the below error while trying to grant select privilege

v$session_wait event

2001-11-09 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Anyone any idea what I am waiting for here. I know it seems obvious but I don;t know exactly what it means. Anyone who knows about such things care to enlighten me on where to dig next. This has been sitting like this for 2 days and I believe it maybe at the root of the long running SQL prob

Re: ORA-01720 while trying to grant select on a view

2001-11-09 Thread Christian Trassens
You must grant with grant option to give permission for granting an object. I mean as sys you should: grant select on v_$instance to gcss with grant option And the other grant. Regards. --- "Ranganath, Krishnaswamy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi DBA Gurus, > > I am getting the below

Re: session marked for kill

2001-11-09 Thread Christian Trassens
Yes, it was because of rollback activity done it by PMON. You needed to shutdown abort because an immediate do rollback too. Your case is an example of deferred transaction recovery. After startup SMON will do the work that PMON has left. Regards. --- "Daiminger, Helmut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: Raw partition Vs File System

2001-11-09 Thread Bill Buchan
Did anyone read Bert Scalzo's article in Pipeline Newsletter this month (http://www.revealnet.com/newsletter-v2/linux2.html)? He was benchmarking various filesystems under Linux (EXT2, EXT3, Reiser, IBM JFS and RAW). I was suprised (and so was he) to see worst performance on RAW devices. I

ORA-01720 while trying to grant select on a view

2001-11-09 Thread Ranganath, Krishnaswamy
Hi DBA Gurus, I am getting the below error while trying to grant select privileges on a view owned by a user by name GCSS to another user by name etldev: ORA-01720: grant option does not exist for 'SYS.V_$INSTANCE' I even granted select on sys.v_$instance to etldev. Sti

Re: Raw partition Vs File System

2001-11-09 Thread Connor McDonald
If you're using a volume manager (veritias, or disk suite), then raw is pretty much just as easy as file systems. You could always do this incrementally - for example, high io stuff (typically redo, temp, possibly rollback) on raw, and all the rest of file systems etc. hth connor --- Vasu Ra

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