RE: VMS equivalent of ls -lrt

2001-11-21 Thread Steven Lembark
-- Hallas John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Top Man Rich. > > Works well and a satisfied user for the first time in my career!! > Nice bit of coding, especially the line formatting bit > > DCL is a nice language to work in I always found. Once you know what > lexicals are available it is amazing what

RE: applying patch 2032040 to Oracle Purchasing

2001-11-21 Thread Molina, Gerardo
There is a good article in Select Magazine (IOUG) Q4 2001 on Oracle Apps patching. Worth checking out. Gerardo -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 6:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L After applying the c.drv portion of the patch, I'm attempting to apply

Re: TNS Listener service question

2001-11-21 Thread Jonathan Gennick
If I understand you correctly, you are shutting down a listener on your NT box, and then, from your NT box, you are connecting to a remote database using SQL*Plus. Am I understanding you correctly? You shouldn't need to have a listener running on your NT box to connect to a remote database, so th

Re[2]: Odd Listener.ora Stanza

2001-11-21 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Wednesday, November 21, 2001, 10:56:45 AM, you wrote: DK> Mr. Gennick/Mr.Toledo talk about it in their Oracle Net8 book... Page 75, DK> 85-86 in particular. Yeah, but I don't have any experience with the GIOP presentation. Like Srini pointed out earlier, it allows the listener to handle the proto

Re: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.6

2001-11-21 Thread Jared Still
Yes, Oracle actually calls it an upgrade. I think the point everyone wanted to make though was it's not a good idea to just start your database with the 8.1 binaries. Jared On Wednesday 21 November 2001 16:40, Jeremiah Wilton wrote: > Correct me if I am wrong, but you don't migrate from 8.0 to

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.6

2001-11-21 Thread Barbara Baker
Ed: If you choose to upgrade your database from 8.0.5 to 8.1.6, there's a potential difficulty you need to know about. If you're not aware of the dictionary corruption problem, be sure you read the metalink alert (96117.1). This has something to do with block checking enabled in 8.1.6 Essen

Re: OT: X Win client

2001-11-21 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
Try xwin32 from starnet -- On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:15:25 Jared Still wrote: > >Yes, Xfree86. > >Just do a search on google. I use it to run Oracle >installs, so it works well enough. > >Jared > >On Wednesday 21 November 2001 01:40, Vladimir Barac - posao wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> Is there any f

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.6

2001-11-21 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Correct me if I am wrong, but you don't migrate from 8.0 to 8.1. You just start up on the new binaries and run u080005.sql or something. The migration utility is for 7.x to 8.x. Read the manual. Re-creating the database, then exporting and importing will take much longer than just running a coup

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.6

2001-11-21 Thread Ed
Thanks all. Ed -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ed INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists ---

Re: ftp tools

2001-11-21 Thread Bill Conner
At 02:10 PM 11/21/2001 -0800, you wrote: >not free, but ipswitch's ftp is nice and cheap ~$400. >very easy to admin. > >http://www.ipswitch.com/ www.cuteftp.com only $35 >gene > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/21/01 16:55 PM >>> >Does anyone know a site where one can get a FREE gui ftp tool? > >Th

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.6

2001-11-21 Thread Barbara Baker
Ed: If you track down the 8i migration manual, here's a comparison chart that shows the benefits of export/import versus migration (using the u scripts). It depends on your database configuration, but yes, the main benefit in using migration is speed. If your database is relatively small,

RE: ftp tools

2001-11-21 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
If you are using TOAD, there is one in there ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc. QOTD: Any clod can have f

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.6

2001-11-21 Thread Deepak Thapliyal
Yes it will save time as well ..all the upgrade does is mess the datafile headers so they are 816 format also the upgrade script will simply re-initialze the catalog to 816 is also quite fast and will complete in a few minutes .. if you have a 1TB db for e.g. upgrade would definitely be a far m

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.6

2001-11-21 Thread Kent Wayson
When I did this, the migration assistant was much quicker than export/import. Kent >Yes, I agree 100%, but people here are concerned that upgrading will "break" >the database, and we have to QUICKLY move everything over to 8.1.6. (Long >story). What I was really after in my original question

Re: ftp tools

2001-11-21 Thread Gene Sais
not free, but ipswitch's ftp is nice and cheap ~$400. very easy to admin. http://www.ipswitch.com/ gene >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/21/01 16:55 PM >>> Does anyone know a site where one can get a FREE gui ftp tool? Thanks, Terry Terry Ball, DBA Birch Telecom Work: 816-300-1335 FAX: 816-300-1801

ORA-4031 error on one instance but not on other

2001-11-21 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Hi all, I have two 9i instances, one of them consistently produces following error, whereas other doesn't. SQLException:61000java.sql.SQLException: ORA-04031: unable to allocate 1028736 bytes of shared memory ("shared pool","unknown object","hash-join subh","kllcqc:kllcqslt") ORA-06512: at "ESPN

RE: ftp tools

2001-11-21 Thread Suhen Pather
Terry, WS_FTP is a freeware Check www.tucows.com Regards Suhen Does anyone know a site where one can get a FREE gui ftp tool? Thanks, Terry Terry Ball, DBA Birch Telecom Work: 816-300-1335 FAX: 816-300-1801 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ball, T

Re: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.6

2001-11-21 Thread Jared Still
Ed, If your databases are more than a couple of gig, upgrading is faster. If over 10 gig, don't even think about importing it. Jared On Wednesday 21 November 2001 13:15, Ed wrote: > Yes, I agree 100%, but people here are concerned that upgrading will > "break" the database, and we have to Q

Re: ftp tools

2001-11-21 Thread Deepak Thapliyal
Terry, check out www.vandyke.com .. Deepak PS: more so check out google.com .. ;) --- "Ball, Terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know a site where one can get a FREE gui > ftp tool? > > Thanks, > Terry > > Terry Ball, DBA > Birch Telecom > Work: 816-300-1335 > FAX: 816-300-1801 >

Re: ftp tools

2001-11-21 Thread Bill Conner
At 01:10 PM 11/21/2001 -0800, you wrote: >Does anyone know a site where one can get a FREE gui ftp tool? Sorry it is http://www.jgaa.com. How about warftp i think that it is www.warftp.com. >Thanks, >Terry > >Terry Ball, DBA >Birch Telecom >Work: 816-300-1335 >FAX: 816-300-1801 > >-- >Ple

Re: ftp tools

2001-11-21 Thread Bill Conner
At 01:10 PM 11/21/2001 -0800, you wrote: >Does anyone know a site where one can get a FREE gui ftp tool? How about warftp i think that it is www.warftp.com. >Thanks, >Terry > >Terry Ball, DBA >Birch Telecom >Work: 816-300-1335 >FAX: 816-300-1801 > >-- >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: h

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.6

2001-11-21 Thread Ed
Yes, I agree 100%, but people here are concerned that upgrading will "break" the database, and we have to QUICKLY move everything over to 8.1.6. (Long story). What I was really after in my original question was: why is the upgrade script a better solution than just recreating the tablespaces in 8

ftp tools

2001-11-21 Thread Ball, Terry
Does anyone know a site where one can get a FREE gui ftp tool? Thanks, Terry Terry Ball, DBA Birch Telecom Work: 816-300-1335 FAX: 816-300-1801 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ball, Terry INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (85

RE: Fixing a DB

2001-11-21 Thread Miller, Jay
The only problem with this technique is that you won't reclaim the space in the first tablespace that used to be used by the indexes (since the high water marke will be set). If this isn't an issue (either lots of storage space or the data is expected to grow enough to use this space) then I agre

Discoverer 4i FYI

2001-11-21 Thread Seley, Linda
For those of us struggling with 9iAS and Discoverer If you've been using the note (131662.1) to manually install Discoverer 3i or 4i this note has been pulled from Metalink. Apparently, if you're lucky the manual install works. If you're not lucky you end up with a mess. All Discoverer ins

Re: OT: X Win client

2001-11-21 Thread Bill Conner
At 10:15 AM 11/21/2001 -0800, you wrote: >Yes, Xfree86. www.cygwin.com >Just do a search on google. I use it to run Oracle >installs, so it works well enough. > >Jared > >On Wednesday 21 November 2001 01:40, Vladimir Barac - posao wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > Is there any free (important: free)

RE: Problem Running DDL SQL Script

2001-11-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Problem Running DDL SQL Script The larger question is, why are you creating tables as system? -Original Message- From:   Ken Janusz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:   Wednesday, November 21, 2001 12:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:    Problem R

RE: Oracle and MQ

2001-11-21 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: Oracle and MQ The VB programs have data validation and standard error trapping for exceptions returned by the MQ API calls.  As for your question about accessing external procs, MQ provides the API to make calls from C which you can certainly use to code the external routines.  An

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.6

2001-11-21 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
I agree with you Kevin. This is a recipe for disaster. While the db may run ok, I can only imagine the recovery nightmare that *will* occur when something is eventually lost. And try calling Oracle Support with *this* scenario - we will be reading about it under "stupid upgrade tricks" somepla

Re: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.6

2001-11-21 Thread Deepak Thapliyal
Ed, the whole point of compatable is to mimick behaviour of an older release .. like optimizer plans etc. upgrading the db would be the way to go for this.. like many have already pointed out Deepak --- Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A DBA here is trying to upgrade several 8.0.5 > databases to

Re: Fwd: A problem

2001-11-21 Thread Scott Shafer
Try sumthin' like: EDATE=$(date +%C%y%m%d) FILENAME=name${EDATE}.dmp exp / file=${FILENAME} ... Do a 'man date' to see the different formatting options. HTH, Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX Jared Still wrote: > > -- Forwarded Message -- > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:34

Re[2]: RE:

2001-11-21 Thread dgoulet
In many a case on the list we don't have the information to fill in to all sql statements, like in this case the name of the tablespace. The common way to indicate that is to frame the variable with a set or '<>' brackets. What you need to do is replace the '' with the rean tablespace name, in y

Re: OT: X Win client

2001-11-21 Thread Jared Still
Yes, Xfree86. Just do a search on google. I use it to run Oracle installs, so it works well enough. Jared On Wednesday 21 November 2001 01:40, Vladimir Barac - posao wrote: > Hi all! > > Is there any free (important: free) X client software for NT? > > Regards, > Vladimir Barac -

RE: Odd Listener.ora Stanza

2001-11-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
"For all this means to me I might as well post it on the OT list." LOL!!! yeait makes sense, at least in terms of all of the acronyms being internally self-consistent. Yours in Inflating Acronyms, Ross -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 11/21/2001

RE: applying patch 2032040 to Oracle Purchasing

2001-11-21 Thread John Kanagaraj
Matt, I installed the whole HTML/PDF set of manuals that comes with the 11i CD Set onto my laptop. This then provides an indexed version of the manuals in PDF from a HTML page. FWIW, I am also one of those who recently (just about >1 year) 'migrated' from a normal DBA to doing Apps stuff, and th

Re: Fwd: A problem

2001-11-21 Thread Dias Costa
Hi ! May be this will help you (I hope). This solution is for Windows (X) but with some work it will do also in UNIX. A procedure called BackupOSC is created by the DBA in his schema. A job is created with at command, invoking the batch command file backup_OSC.cmd wich in turn calls SQLPLU

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.6

2001-11-21 Thread Henry Poras
You need to move the database to 8.1.6 (upgrade, run catalog et al). Compatible will just keep certain feature turned off. Henry -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 11:36 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L That's exactly what I was saying I think. ie. To qui

Re: RE:

2001-11-21 Thread Moucka otakar
I have next problem , syntax its ok. SQL> Startup mount alter database datafile '/data/db/database/core.dbf' offline drop; alter database open; drop tablespace including content; ORACLE instance started. Total System Global Area 178213024 bytes Fixed Size73888 bytes Variab

Have a good Thanksgiving--THANKSGIVING_LOAD.SQL

2001-11-21 Thread tday6
--THANKSGIVING_LOAD.SQL --T. Day, SAI, 21-NOV-01 --Run on WORLD.UNIVERSE using schema with DEITY role declare cursor c_thanksgiving is select PERSON_ID /* NOT SSN -- generated by sequence generator (Jared) */ ,RELATION ,CONDITION from YOUR.LIFE@WORLD where RELATION

RE: Re[2]: Index File Name

2001-11-21 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
That's precisely what I do.. I have *_user and _developer role with just what they need. No more. No less. However, certain developers will have direct access to tables for coding stored procedures, but those are very limited in number. Standard ksh script to add these users to the database, ac

RE: Reliable alerting system that is not so costly??

2001-11-21 Thread Kumanan Balasundaram
Hi, There is a free monitoring/alerting system with escalation that is commonly used and is called Netsaint. We are to try this out. Thanks to those who responded. Kumanan > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 21 November 2001 15:52 > To: K

RE: Oracle 9i and OEM

2001-11-21 Thread Kimberly Smith
Have you got all your instances defined in the oratab file? If not, define the missing one and restart the agent and see if that fixes your problem. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 8:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I have a problem with Enterprise

close_cached_open_cursors "error"

2001-11-21 Thread Denham Eva
Title: close_cached_open_cursors "error" Hello Guru's I hope someone can shed light on this problem, more a nuisance really. The below Alter Session statement has been appearing in the *alrt.log file. ALTER SESSION SET close_cached_open_cursors specifies an obsolete parameter ALTER SESSION

Re: Index File Name

2001-11-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
heck, I've occasionally logged in as system and forgotten to specify the tablespace. power is a dangerous thing --- Stephane Faroult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Leith wrote: > > > > Yeah but for a tightly controlled schema *owner* - what's the > problem? > > Wouldn't you *want* to hav

Problem Running DDL SQL Script

2001-11-21 Thread Ken Janusz
I have this script that will generate a DB with a number of create table and create index statements. When I try to run it in SQL*Plus I get this error: ORA-00959 tablespace SOS2_TBLSPC does not exist. ORA-00942 table or view doesn't exist Here is a sample of one of the create statements: DR

Re: SQL question

2001-11-21 Thread Stephane Faroult
"Malik, Fawzia" wrote: > > Hi, > > Can you tell me if its possible to write some sql to change some data. > Basically I need to run a scritp to change data of column: id from 12345678 > to the last four digits. Is this possible to do in sql/plsql?? > > Any advice/hints would be greatly apprecia

Re: Re[2]: Index File Name

2001-11-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
yeah that would work too :) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rachel, > > I create a role called 'developer' in each instance at create > time. Make it > look something like resource, but without the unlimited tablespace > priv, and use > it in place of resource. saves a step. > > Dick Goul

RE: SQL question

2001-11-21 Thread Nicoll, Iain (Calanais)
Fawzia, You should be able to use mod(field,1) to get the remainder of the number divided by 1, which should be the last four digits. Cheers Iain Nicoll -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 4:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, Can you tell m

Re: Odd Listener.ora Stanza

2001-11-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Marlene goes over it in the networking 101 book -- it's a new feature --- "Mohan, Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone seen this fecality in their listener.ora? It's a new one on > me, > but then again, what with all the "newfangled" features in this here > product, I am probably just lo

Re: SQL question

2001-11-21 Thread Jan Pruner
Or if id is number update table set column_name=TO_NUMBER(substr(TO_CHAR(column_name),-4,4)) JP On Wed 21. November 2001 17:45, you wrote: > Fawzia > > How about: > > > > update table >set column_name=substr(column_name,-4,4) > > > > Tom Mercadante > Oracle Certified Professional > > > -

RE: SQL question

2001-11-21 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Fawzia How about: update table set column_name=substr(column_name,-4,4) Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 11:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, Can you tell me if its possible to write some s

RE: parallize printing reports to different printers

2001-11-21 Thread Kevin Lange
Title: parallize printing reports to different printers You need to give more information when asking a question like this .       1) What are you using for the reports     2) Is this really a database issue ??  Is this some report that is coming from an oracle database or something ?  

RE: SQL question

2001-11-21 Thread Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran
Title: RE: SQL question update set id = substr(id,-4); eg: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> select substr('48900322',-4) from dual; SUBS 0322 1 row selected. Nirmal. -Original Message- From:   Malik, Fawzia [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:   Wednesday, November 21, 2001 7:04 PM To:

Oracle Financials DBA Team Leader Needed in Chicago..

2001-11-21 Thread OraStaff
We are searching for an Oracle Financials DBA Team Leader for a client located in downtown Chicago. The individual will perform DBA and supervisory duties for Oracle Financials Systems. Only candidates who already live in the Greater Chicago area can be considered. This is a full time staff po

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.6

2001-11-21 Thread Kevin Lange
I would not do that. Those migrate scripts change the catalog tables to support the 8.1.6 engine and do other things. I would never consider upgrading a system without doing that step. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 10:36 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACL

Oracle Database Group Manager Needed in Boston

2001-11-21 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: MetaLink Access: Solved (for me at least)

2001-11-21 Thread Jesse, Rich
Opera is a browser that follows the W3C standards and is available on multiple platforms, including MS Winders, Linux, Solaris, and Mac. Unlike IE (say it like you've just jumped off a cliff), Opera can render XHTML properly and according to standards. It's all on their website.

RE: MetaLink Access: Solved (for me at least)

2001-11-21 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I trialed it, I am not going to spend $$$ on a browser when there are free alternatives out there, including IE. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From: Mohan, Ross [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, Nove

parallize printing reports to different printers

2001-11-21 Thread Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran
Title: parallize printing reports to different printers Hi all, A report producing multiple 1000 (say 5000) pages producing and we want to print it. However we don't want the user to be idle until it completes. So we plan to reduce the printing time by distributing (say 1000 each) report pag

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.6

2001-11-21 Thread Cherie_Machler
I think that COMPATIBLE must be associated with whole, big chunks of functionality like new features such as function indexes. I don't think that it works for smaller revisions to pre-existing functions. For instance, we just did an upgrade to 8.1.7.2 and are having TEMP space issues with hash

Fwd: A problem

2001-11-21 Thread Jared Still
-- Forwarded Message -- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:34:27 +0100 I have created a job to export a user shema How can I tell Oracle each time it make the export to use lets say .dmp I mean for example if today is 21.11.2001 the exported file whoud have name21112001.dmp or somethi

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.6

2001-11-21 Thread Ed
That's exactly what I was saying I think. ie. To quickly move 8.0.5 to 8.1.6, set compatible and everything should run without doing anything else (including the u*.sql script). You can run migration later if you need new features of 8.1.6. Reasonable statement? Best, Ed -Original Me

Re: Odd Listener.ora Stanza

2001-11-21 Thread Srini . Chavali
Ross, It's CORBA stuff. See note 69043.1 on Metalink. HTH Srini Chavali Oracle DBA Cummins Inc "Mohan, Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@fatcity.com on 11/21/2001 10:15:27 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: MetaLink Access: Solved (for me at least)

2001-11-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
huh? Did you buy it, or just trial it? there are no "ads" in the regular version, AFAIK -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 10:26 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The only thing I don't like about Opera is the ads. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst

RE: Odd Listener.ora Stanza

2001-11-21 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Something to do with external procedure calls, Java support, GIOP support in 8.0.x versions ( < 8i) Mr. Gennick/Mr.Toledo talk about it in their Oracle Net8 book... Page 75, 85-86 in particular. Cheers! - Kirti > -Original Message- > From: Mohan, Ross [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sen

SQL question

2001-11-21 Thread Malik, Fawzia
Hi, Can you tell me if its possible to write some sql to change some data. Basically I need to run a scritp to change data of column: id from 12345678 to the last four digits. Is this possible to do in sql/plsql?? Any advice/hints would be greatly appreciated Rgds Fawzia **

RE: Oracle and MQ

2001-11-21 Thread YTTRI Lisa
Title: RE: Oracle and MQ Tony -   Do you have error handling built in to your VB program, or do you just load it into Oracle and then cleanse/validate the data there?   Do you think it would also be possible to access MQ via external stored procedures? -Original Message-From: Ap

RE: RE:

2001-11-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
Jaysus, note the date and time. It's a freaking miracle. ;-) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 10:54 AM To: Mohan; Ross; Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L OOPS! sorry, your right Reply Separator Author: "Mohan; Ross" <[EM

RE: Odd Listener.ora Stanza

2001-11-21 Thread Henry Poras
Ross, fecality? Is that the F in RTFM? Well, things are pretty slow here (who am I kidding. They have been, no wait. It has been pretty slow here for months) so I grabbed my Net8 book. Not that this makes a lot of sense, but this is what it says. PRESENTATIONIdentifies the presentation layer

Re[2]: Index File Name

2001-11-21 Thread dgoulet
Rachel, I create a role called 'developer' in each instance at create time. Make it look something like resource, but without the unlimited tablespace priv, and use it in place of resource. saves a step. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Rachel Ca

Re: Index File Name

2001-11-21 Thread Stephane Faroult
Mark Leith wrote: > > Yeah but for a tightly controlled schema *owner* - what's the problem? > Wouldn't you *want* to have unlimited tablespace for the schema owner - > which the users *should not* have access to anyway? > > (no this is not rhetorical - I have no production experience) > > Than

Re:RE:

2001-11-21 Thread dgoulet
OOPS! sorry, your right Reply Separator Author: "Mohan; Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11/21/2001 7:40 AM "cascade"? probably more abject ignorance on my part, but wasn't it "including contents"? -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, Novembe

Re: Index File Name

2001-11-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
standard create user script for a user who will own objects: create user identifed by default tablespace temporary tablespace quota unlimited on / grant connect, resource to / revoke unlimited tablespace from / I've gotten this drilled into my people's heads... and I check up on it :

RE: Odd Listener.ora Stanza

2001-11-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
Never mind, this is an IIOP operability hook. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 10:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Anyone seen this fecality in their listener.ora? It's a new one on me, but then again, what with all the "newfangled" features in thi

RE: Oracle 9i and OEM

2001-11-21 Thread Cherie_Machler
OEM does autodiscover based on what method of networking you told it to used when you configured autodiscovery: Names Server, tnsnames.ora, or directory server. We use tnsnames.ora and OEM looks to see what the SID names are in tnsnames.ora for sure. It may do this in conjunction with the o

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.6

2001-11-21 Thread Henry Poras
Ed, COMPATIBLE is there to allow backwards compatibility. If you upgrade from 8.0.5 to 8.1.6 and set COMPATIBLE=8.0.5 in your init.ora, new features will not be turned on, allowing an easier port back to 8.0.5 if necessary. Quoting from Oracle8i Reference Release: "COMPATIBLE lets you use a new re

RE:

2001-11-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
"cascade"? probably more abject ignorance on my part, but wasn't it "including contents"? -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 10:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Startup mount alter database datafile '/data/db/database/core.dbf' offline drop; alter datab

RE: MetaLink Access: Solved (for me at least)

2001-11-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
YES, it is a standard browser...follows all the rules. and so. any special tweaks that IE has given you over Netscape or over the browser standardare not supported.. Try it! My experience with it was very positive. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 1

RE: MetaLink Access: Solved (for me at least)

2001-11-21 Thread Mark Leith
It certainly does!! I run IE6, Netscape 6 & Opera 5.12 on a Win2K box. Opera is pretty cool! Though I sometimes have problems with things like DHTML in it.. Has anybody else seen this problem? Mark -Original Message- Gramolini Sent: 21 November 2001 15:10 To: Multiple recipients of list

Re: TNS Listener service question

2001-11-21 Thread Srini . Chavali
Patrice, SqlPlus uses the Bequeath protocol to access local databases if the "@" is omitted in the connect string. If the "@" is present (i.e. connect scott/tiger@db) then it uses Net8. See Note 118381.1 on Metalink. HTH Srini Chavali Oracle DBA Cummins Inc "Boivin, Patrice J" <[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: MetaLink Access: Solved (for me at least)

2001-11-21 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
The only thing I don't like about Opera is the ads. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From: Jesse, Rich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 10:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: Index File Name

2001-11-21 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
That depends. And you are lucky( no production experience, you say) If the production database has more than one 'production' schema owner, then I would rather keep them restricted to certain tablespaces of their interest (with unlimited quota). I have worked with many variations. Currently work

RE: Reliable alerting system that is not so costly??

2001-11-21 Thread Mark Leith
Hi Kumanan, We have a tool that I think will fit you requirements. It's called NORAD Surveillance Module (http://www.cool-tools.co.uk/Products/surveillance.html). The key aspect of NORAD is to provide server based monitoring of the instances, watching for issues such as space restrictions, blo

Odd Listener.ora Stanza

2001-11-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
Anyone seen this fecality in their listener.ora? It's a new one on me, but then again, what with all the "newfangled" features in this here product, I am probably just losing track.. (DESCRIPTION = (PROTOCOL_STACK = (PRESENTATION = GIOP) (SESSION = RAW) )

Re: MetaLink Access: Solved (for me at least)

2001-11-21 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Does this run on NT? Ruth - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 9:40 AM > There's an easier fix: > > http://www.opera.com > > :) > > Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator > [EMAI

RE: SQL query tuning problem

2001-11-21 Thread Hallas John
Title: Blank Henry,   I remember reading some reviews of it when it came out and thinking I would like it. I presume it includes function based indexes (indices?), more on partitioning etc. I also recall the book being about £40 UK whereas other comparable sized books such as Jonathan Lewis's

Re:

2001-11-21 Thread dgoulet
Startup mount alter database datafile '/data/db/database/core.dbf' offline drop; alter database open; drop tablespace cascade; Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: =?iso-8859-2?q?Mou=E8ka=20Otakar?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11/21/2001 5:40 AM Hel

RE: Index File Name

2001-11-21 Thread Mark Leith
Yeah but for a tightly controlled schema *owner* - what's the problem? Wouldn't you *want* to have unlimited tablespace for the schema owner - which the users *should not* have access to anyway? (no this is not rhetorical - I have no production experience) Thanks Mark -Original Message

TNS Listener service question

2001-11-21 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I noticed that if I leave the TNS Listener service stopped on my NT workstation, I can't access anything using the GUI tools. But my script that runs command line can successfully login to the remote databases to verify that they are accessible. It uses c:\oracle\ora81\bin\sqlplus.exe. Do the c

RE: MetaLink Access: Solved (for me at least)

2001-11-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
LOL! *yes* !! -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 9:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L There's an easier fix: http://www.opera.com :) Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inter

RE: Metalink gone to sleep ?????

2001-11-21 Thread Richard Ji
I have no problem accessing metalink in NYC. Could this be a local DNS, network issues to certain locations? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/21/01 08:35AM >>> This is strange..I could not log into Metalink using the link metalink.oracle.com. But I could log in using the link oracle.com/support/me

RE: Oracle 9i and OEM

2001-11-21 Thread HAWKINS, JAMES W [IT/1000]
Sepi, Just a guess - are all three instances listed in your /etc/oratab file? I'm pretty sure OEM looks at that to determine what instances the Agent should monitor. I could be wrong on this though - it's been a while since I've looked at OEM. JIm _

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.6

2001-11-21 Thread Mr. Clark
When I read through Oracle's migration info it looks to me like all init ora params from 8.0.5 are supported, though obsolete, in 8.1.6. What is the point of the "compatible" parameter then if you have to run the conversion script on the database? Thanks for answering. Best, Ed On Wed, 21 Nov

Re: Fixing a DB

2001-11-21 Thread Sunny Verghese
Sorry forgot the command in my earlier email To recap, here are the steps 1. create the new tablespace 2. For all indexes that need to be moved, run the fol command alter index . rebuild online tablespace ; >From: Ken Janusz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple rec

RE: Backup strategy

2001-11-21 Thread Ron Rogers
Bing, Please explain your reasoning for backing up the archivelogs when you backup the readonly tablespaces. One reason you change a tablespace to read only is to reduce the backup needed. After a tablespace is in read only mode no changes are made to the data and you only need to back it up o

RE: applying patch 2032040 to Oracle Purchasing

2001-11-21 Thread Srini . Chavali
Try clicking "Technical Libraries", then "Applications Install & Upgrade" under ERP Applications, then click "Documentation" link and viola ! HTH Srini Chavali Oracle DBA Cummins Inc "Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@fatcity.com on 11/21/2001 08:30:24 AM Please respond to [E

Re: Fixing a DB

2001-11-21 Thread Srini . Chavali
Ken, I don't think you will need steps 2 thru 5. After step 1, just write sql that will spool out "alter index rebuild tablespace " & run the resulting sql. Will that work ? HTH Srini Chavali Oracle DBA Cummins Inc Ken Janusz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@fatcity.com on 11/21/2001 08:25:34 AM Please

RE: Index File Name

2001-11-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Index File Name Alistair I think you'll find that packages don't get stored in a tablespace per se...  like you are describing below.  They are stored in the data dictionary.  So you don't need to allocate specific storage for them (other than the system tablespace) and for the most

RE: MetaLink Access: Solved (for me at least)

2001-11-21 Thread Jesse, Rich
There's an easier fix: http://www.opera.com :) Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 06:25 To: Multiple recipients of list ORA

RE: Metalink gone to sleep ?????

2001-11-21 Thread SARKAR, Samir
This is strange..I could not log into Metalink using the link metalink.oracle.com. But I could log in using the link oracle.com/support/metalink. Whats happening here, guysn and gals ?? Samir Sarkar Oracle DBA - Lennon Team SchlumbergerSema Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROT

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