Mail list for Oracle Applications 11.0 and 11i?

2001-12-13 Thread Don
I'm sure I have seen mention of one or more listservers for users that are in the Oracle Apps world. Would somebody be kind enough to post those listservers again, or point me where I could find them? Thanks. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Don I

ODBC CALL Failed

2001-12-13 Thread Roland . Skoldblom
Hallo, I am running an Access application with connection to Oracle. But when I run an access procedure I get the errormessage " ODBC Call Failed". This procedure has worked fine. last week but now I get this erormessage. All procedures in oracle ar e valid. What could have happen? The ODBC s

Re: SqlLoader

2001-12-13 Thread Nikunj Gupta
Title: SqlLoader Hope you have checked the SID.. and also check whether  LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set or not..     Make a FREE long distance call from your PC!http://www.eboom.com/free/ - Original Message - From: Burton, Laura L. To: Multipl

Re: Install of two client versions on same box

2001-12-13 Thread Nikunj Gupta
Title: Install of two client versions on same box I would go ahead one step and suggest keep ORACLE BASE also separate for each Oracle Version And also take care of INVENTORY FILE...     Make a FREE long distance call from your PC!http://www.eboom.com/f

Re: Oralce 8i/9i with Pentium4

2001-12-13 Thread Joe Raube
Oracle 8i is certified with Linux glibc version 2.1x Oracle 9i is certified with Linux glibc version 2.2x Which Linux distribution and version are you using? This is just one of the possible issues, but it is the most common. There are many discussion threads on this on the OTN Linux discussion

using Net8 through NAT router

2001-12-13 Thread Doug C
I am trying to connect to a database on the "inside" of a NAT. I get a tns connection time-out error. According to Oracle, I have to use Connection Manager. I find this a little hard to believe. I would think a CISCO router doing NAT would be smart enough to translate Net8 packet headers for

Oralce 8i/9i with Pentium4

2001-12-13 Thread Hussain Ahmed Qadri
Title: Oralce 8i/9i with Pentium4 Hi all, AOA A colleague of mine spent days getting Oracle 8i/9i installed on Pentium 4. It never opened the universal installer initially, but then through some work arounds (dumping the un-installed Oracle8i on the hard drive and running the setup from there)

RE: Slightly OT : RDA from Oracle

2001-12-13 Thread Alexander . Feinstein
Title: RE: Slightly OT : RDA from Oracle John, I am just trying version 2.71 on HP-UX 11 with Oracle 8.1.7.2. There are issues with security, collection certain types of statistics, etc. Will have more information next week. Alex. -Original Message- From: John Kanagaraj [mailto:

Re: Set Time Zone

2001-12-13 Thread Mike T
Thanks , I think about glogin.sql, login.sql and listerner.ora too. But when we use the internet connection, that we don't know where come from the connection. Mike T Jenner Mike wrote: > > Mike, > Here's a thing you may well be able to modify slightly to your > requirements. It will b

RE: relink SGI 64 bit Oracle 8.1.7 & Veritas Netbackup

2001-12-13 Thread Ron Yount
James, You need to have the library for the 64 bit of Veritas... on AIX, it is done as follows: ln -s /usr/openwin/netbackup/bin/libobk.a $ORACLE_HOME/lib64/libobk.a You need to be sure that your link command is pointing to $ORACLE_HOME/lib64/ HTH, -Ron- > -Original Message- > From:

Slightly OT : RDA from Oracle

2001-12-13 Thread John Kanagaraj
Hi all, I was looking at the recently released RDA (Remote Diagnostic Agent) from Oracle Support. Basically, this consists of a couple of scripts (one little script that sets up and one *large* script that actually does the stuff) that probes a lot of details (both OS and database) and writes thi

Oracle (systems) DBA Needed in Minnesota..

2001-12-13 Thread OraStaff
Position: Oracle DBA Location: Rochester, Minnesota Salary Range: 65-75K Description: This client company-a leader in its' field, needs an Oracle DBA to provide database support. This position includes support of all aspects of the Oracle relational database product (ASE) on primarily SUN Unix p

RE: which view used ?

2001-12-13 Thread Hand, Michael T
OK, The standard for as long as I can remember is that V_$ are SYS owner views on the underlying V$ object. On top of that are the V$blah synonyms for the V_$blah views. I assume that the same standard holds for X_$/X$ objects. Mike -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 1

RE: A tale of two tables (and recursive SQL)

2001-12-13 Thread Norrell, Brian
But PRIOR component = assembly, so did you try: SELECT LEVEL, assembly, component, qty FROM T1 START WITH assembly = 'ASSY01' CONNECT BY PRIOR component = assembly AND exists (SELECT partno FROM T2 WHERE partno

RE: Book Club ?

2001-12-13 Thread Mohan, Ross
try O'Reilly. They are pricey, but a great "club". www.oreilly.com As for Jave, that's a tough one. I am not familiar with that new technology. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 4:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I want to join a book club to ge

RE: A tale of two tables (and recursive SQL)

2001-12-13 Thread Jesse, Rich
Doh! A bit of confusion as I re-read my own post. The line: "don't want hierarchies in T2 whose "assembly" in T1 has "some_flag" set. In" has the tables reversed and *should* read: "don't want hierarchies in T1 whose "assembly" in T2 has "some_flag" set. In" Rich Jesse

RE: SQL*Loader-417 Error

2001-12-13 Thread Jesse, Rich
Without the ability to try this, would "SYSDATE + 18" (or is it "19"?) work in place of the "to_date"??? Wondering aloud... Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- Sent: Th

Re: relink SGI 64 bit Oracle 8.1.7 & Veritas Netbackup

2001-12-13 Thread James Howerton
Thanks Cherie, I've done a lot of searching on Veritas's web site. I think I found the section you mentioned, it doesn't show anything for 8.1.7. I called Veritas sales and they said there wasn't a different client for 64bit, but today I found a patch for V3.4 64 bit, so much for sales knowing wh

Meridian KSI Knowledge Center

2001-12-13 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Parallel Server Lads and Lasses, Are you using Meridian KSI Knowledge Centre™ Version 2.5For your training needs?   I am being told to set this apparently NT-centric COTS tool up in a Unix database for...er'loadtesting'.    In any case, if you have, sell, or use this too

SQL*Loader-417 Error

2001-12-13 Thread Ken Janusz
I am getting the following error for this line of code in my control file Any ideas of how I can get around this? When I try a conventional path load I get a FK constraint error (not on this field). creation_date "to_date('01/01/2002','dd/mm/')", SQL*Loader-417: SQL string (on column CREAT

Book Club ?

2001-12-13 Thread steven wndy
Hi, I want to join a book club to get benefit from the memebership deal. Does any one know a book club which has most Oracle, Jave books? Thanks for the info. Steven __ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your

Openworld paper on my site

2001-12-13 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Several listers asked me to post when my 2001 Openworld paper made it up onto my site. It is there now. Have at it. Rip it to shreds! http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton/oracle.html -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq

A tale of two tables (and recursive SQL)

2001-12-13 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey all, In 8.1.7.2 on HP/UX, a developer has tables T1 and T2 in our manufacturing (ERP) DB. T1 is a hierarchical bill-of-materials ("BOM") and T2 is the part master. Of course, we need to recurse down T1, like this: SELECT LEVEL, assembly, component, qty FROM T1 START

Re: relink SGI 64 bit Oracle 8.1.7 & Veritas Netbackup

2001-12-13 Thread Cherie_Machler
James, Have you tried Veritas's web site? It's at http://support.veritas.com/menu_ddProduct_NETBACKUP.htm Click on advanced search under Knowledge Base in the middle right part of the page. Search on the error message that you get. Try all the error numbers by themselves. You should get a

RE: Cannot bring tablespace online

2001-12-13 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Kevin, The only step missing now is "Drop Tablespace {tablespace_name}"; You cannot delete one file from a multi-file tablespace. Your only option is to either drop the tablespace or, if you still have data that you need to keep in this tablespace, restore from backup, export the data you wish t

relink SGI 64 bit Oracle 8.1.7 & Veritas Netbackup

2001-12-13 Thread James Howerton
DBA's Has anyone been able to get Veritas Netbackup to work with SGI 64 bit Oracle 8.1.7 The relink fails with ~/lib/libobk.so is o32 I've tried the following relink statements: make -f ins_rdbms.mk ioracle and make -f ins_rdbms.mk PL_FLAGS=-32 both fail Metalink/Oracle support is no

RE: SqlLoader

2001-12-13 Thread Stephen Andert
Laura, One idea, select username and status from dba_user. I would guess that should work, but ... Another thought, you say you can connect via sqlplus. Is your sqlplus connection of the form user/password@sid or just user/password? If it is the latter, your environment vairable ORACLE_HOME

RE: SqlLoader

2001-12-13 Thread Stephen Andert
Laura, One idea, select username and status from dba_user. I would guess that should work, but ... Another thought, you say you can connect via sqlplus. Is your sqlplus connection of the form user/password@sid or just user/password? If it is the latter, your environment vairable ORACLE_HOME

RE: which view used ?

2001-12-13 Thread Connor McDonald
I would propose the views such as "X_$.." ie with an underscore have been manually created - typically by statspack installation. The X$ and V$ views can pretty much be based on anything they want - sourced from memory, controlfiles, even normal database tables. Cheers Connor --- Mark Leith <[

Re: list grants

2001-12-13 Thread Cherie_Machler
select privilege from dba_sys_privs where grantee='USER_NAME_XXX'; Version 8i. Cherie Machler Oracle DBA Gelco Information Network John Dunn

RE: SELECT x FROM DUAL is bad for system performance?

2001-12-13 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Title: SELECT x FROM DUAL is bad for system performance? The problem is when you try to evaluate an expression by using: SELECT expression FROM dual If you do this sometimes in a query that utilizes PQO on a big table then this expression could be evaluated for every row retrieved!   Sometim

RE: which view used ?

2001-12-13 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Samir, No. X$objects are not tables. They are C structures and the values in X$tables are the current value of those structure. Few of the X$tables (or structures) query from control file/SGA when you select from them. Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan (408) 934 9310 -Original Message- Se

Cannot bring tablespace online

2001-12-13 Thread Kevin Bass
I attempted to bring a tablespace back on line but I have encountered a problem. I get an error message stating "Error changing tablespace statusORA-01113: file 10 needs media recovery . . . This datafile is not needed so I attempted to drop the datafile as follows: startup mount alter database

Re: Autostart of database and listener on Sun Solaris

2001-12-13 Thread Robert Eskridge
Helmut, Thursday, December 13, 2001, 9:50:31 AM, you wrote: D> Hi! D> Since I'm fairly new to Solaris, I have a rather basic question: D> how to I enable autostart of the database and the listener when the Solaris D> box is rebooted? D> This is 8.1.7 on Solaris 7&8. D> Thanks, D> Helmut The

Re: SELECT x FROM DUAL is bad for system performance?

2001-12-13 Thread Connor McDonald
I thinks it more that people often use it where it is not required. For example, they'll code (in PL/SQL) select some_expression into variable from dual instead of variable := some_expression; The other side of the equation is excessive use of SYSDATE or USER in PL/SQL, because x := sysdate;

Re: Convert TEMP tablespace to LMT?

2001-12-13 Thread Connor McDonald
The creation of the new tablespace (using a tempfile) will be virtually instantaneous - so what will matter is the time to drop the original one. You could probably get away with drop-then-create, but your latter option is probably the safest. hth connor --- David Wagoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

list grants

2001-12-13 Thread John Dunn
What query can i use to establish whether a user has been granted a specified privilege...e.g CREATE LIBRARY? John -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: John Dunn INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-50

RE: which view used ?

2001-12-13 Thread Mark Leith
Always been a bit confused about this to be honest - Maybe Steve Adams or someone can clear it up. The X$ type objects are actually listed under ALL_VIEWS as x_$BLAH, and not listed under ALL_TABLES.. Looking at a list of all of the objects within the SYSTEM tablespace there is also no mention of

RE: SqlLoader

2001-12-13 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: SqlLoader two_task is an environment variable that you can set for the "default" Net8 connection so users don't have to put "@gobbledeegoop.companyname.domain.com" after their password. -Original Message-From: Burton, Laura L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, De

RE: Oracle on Pentium 4 conflict

2001-12-13 Thread Mark Leith
Marin, This doesn't work either.. I can load the products.jar file in to the 8.1.7 installer, it then asks what I want to install (Database or Client), choose Database, it asks what kind of database (standard, enterprise etc.) I choose either standard or enterprise, click next to install, and th

RE: RE: Anybody have an opinion on!

2001-12-13 Thread Mark Leith
Bad salesman! Bad salesman! Mark (skulking back to his sale critter burrow) Leith -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 December 2001 16:00 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Nope, Just one of Marks associates in crime trying to plant the knife between his shoulders! :)

RE: Install of two client versions on same box

2001-12-13 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: Install of two client versions on same box This is very easy if you follow OFA standards for software installation.  The different versions are installed as sub-directories of the $ORACLE_BASE directories (i.e... /oracle/app/oracle/product/8160, /oracle/app/oracle/product/8172).  You

Re: Query to determine 32 or 64 bit?

2001-12-13 Thread Christian Trassens
Yes, it is there. And it means that your version is a 32 bit. If it were an 64, it would appear explicitly. Also, if your OS works with ELF's files, you could issue a file command over oracle bin. Fe: $ file $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle /oas/8.1.7/bin/oracle: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Ver

Re: Convert TEMP tablespace to LMT?

2001-12-13 Thread Christian Trassens
Should be created as temporary locally managed issuing the stmt: create temporary tablespace temp2 tempfile .. extent management local.. After that, drop the other one. Regards. --- David Wagoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the best way to convert a dictionary-managed > TEMP

Generate PK and FK - Script - error

2001-12-13 Thread ASCI
All,   I was creating a script for PK and FK generation and looks like I am stuck at this point ..   Problem: If the table has a primary key with combinaiton of colums , my script is not taking all , it's just taking the last position . In one case it shows all the column, but in another i

RE: select data using trigger

2001-12-13 Thread Henry Poras
I also heard this from Kevin and I believe he was talking about large data loads, not one or two rows. I think you need to get to the point of recursive SQL and internal index maintenance for the pain to be felt. Henry -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 4:56 PM To: Mul

Re:RE: Anybody have an opinion on!

2001-12-13 Thread dgoulet
Nope, Just one of Marks associates in crime trying to plant the knife between his shoulders! :) DickG. Reply Separator Author: Hallas John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12/12/2001 6:30 AM Dick, Your boss wasn't having a dig at you was he :-) John -O

Autostart of database and listener on Sun Solaris

2001-12-13 Thread Daiminger, Helmut
Title: Autostart of database and listener on Sun Solaris Hi! Since I'm fairly new to Solaris, I have a rather basic question: how to I enable autostart of the database and the listener when the Solaris box is rebooted? This is 8.1.7 on Solaris 7&8. Thanks, Helmut

Query to determine 32 or 64 bit?

2001-12-13 Thread David Wagoner
What’s the query to determine if the Oracle version is 32 or 64 bit?  I queried v$version but it’s not there.  I know there is a query because I’ve seen it before but don’t remember it.     david   David B. Wagoner Database Administrator Arsenal Digital Solutions Worldwide Inc. 4815

RE: SqlLoader

2001-12-13 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Title: SqlLoader   -Original Message-From: Burton, Laura L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 2:35 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: SqlLoader Hey, at this point nothing is stupid.  The problem is probably something 'stup

RE: Install of two client versions on same box

2001-12-13 Thread SARKAR, Samir
Title: Install of two client versions on same box Yes, u can but u will need to have two separate ORACLE_HOME, maybe one could be  /u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.6 and the other  /u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.7.   Samir   Samir Sarkar Oracle DBA - Lennon Team SchlumbergerSema Email :  [EMAIL

RE: SqlLoader

2001-12-13 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Title: SqlLoader TWO_TASK   Function   Sets the default Net8 connect string descriptor alias defined in the tnsnames.ora file     Is this set maybe ?? -Original Message-From: Burton, Laura L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Convert TEMP tablespace to LMT?

2001-12-13 Thread David Wagoner
What is the best way to convert a dictionary-managed TEMP tablespace to locally managed?   Here’s my situation, I created an 8.1.7 database with all dictionary-managed tablespaces.  Then, I converted all tablespaces to locally managed, except SYSTEM and TEMP.  The conversion packaged refu

RE: SqlLoader

2001-12-13 Thread Ron Rogers
Laura, We use a particular id/passwd to load the data using sqlloader. The xx.PAR file contains the userid and password along with the connect string to connect to the database. ex: sqlldr parfile=path/name.PAR name.par displays Userid=loadit/loadpasswd@connect string other commands... Has some

Install of two client versions on same box

2001-12-13 Thread Daiminger, Helmut
Title: Install of two client versions on same box Hi! Is it possible to install two client versions (8.1.6 and 8.1.7) on the same Sun Solaris box? The reason for that is that we are using BEA Weblogic, which requires a specific Oracle client version and our application needs another

RE: SqlLoader

2001-12-13 Thread Burton, Laura L.
Title: SqlLoader Hey, at this point nothing is stupid.  The problem is probably something 'stupid' that I am or are not doing.  Yes, I did try setting the Oracle_sid parameter when I started trying to figure out what was wrong.   Now for my stupid question.  What is Two_Task?   Thanks, Laur

RE: Set Time Zone

2001-12-13 Thread Jenner Mike
Mike, Here's a thing you may well be able to modify slightly to your requirements. It will be useful only for running the application through Unix. The following is taken from the .profile of an account I set up here in 1999 to test Y2K. Hope it helps - Mike J. ec

Re: Update table problem

2001-12-13 Thread Mohammad Siddique
hi, whether u want to update that row(with out space) or the entire column, if row alone means then the coding is update tbl set row = 'test1abc' where rname = 'test 1 abc' if u want to do for entire column make use of cursors or pl/sql by using trim for that column. ___

RE: Blocking "illegal" connections

2001-12-13 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
Is the development group(the illegal connections) on a different sub-net of the network? We just blocked the sql*net port (1521) at a router from the development subnet to the production environment... It wasn't fool proof-but made it more difficult to get to the production environment If

Re: Runing OS Commands from Stored Proc.

2001-12-13 Thread Charlie Mengler
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showNOT?p_id=109095.1&p_showHeader=1&p_showHelp=0 NOTE: 109095.1 > "Bunyamin K. Karadeniz" wrote: > > I want to write a procedure to run os commands . I have read somewhere that > I must : > Compile the java program. > Load it to the DB u

Re: Update table problem

2001-12-13 Thread Michal Zaschke
Maybe: update tbl set col=replace(col,' ',''); Harvinder Singh píše: > > Hi, > > We inserted data into 1 of the column as > test 1 abc > while the actual value is > test1abc without spaces. > There are about 1 million rows in a table. > Is there a way to update the table column and remove

SELECT x FROM DUAL is bad for system performance?

2001-12-13 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: SELECT x FROM DUAL is bad for system performance? On page 92 of Oracle Performance Tuning 101, there's a recommendation to avoid the use of SELECT X FROM DUAL, claiming that it can '..use up system performance in a hurry', but does not go on to elaborate as to exactly *why*. Could s

Re: Oracle 8.1.7 desupport date

2001-12-13 Thread orantdba
Hi all, Other than 7.3, for which support was extended forever due to y2k. Oracle, and other major vendors, have typically desupported a release within 12 to 18 months after it's replacement was released. Sound like in this case 9i will have been released for over 2 years when the terminal r

AW: TNS-12537 TNS:connection closed

2001-12-13 Thread Schoen Volker
Hi Stefan (ich schreib mal deutsch), ein Netzproblem ist es nicht, da ich mich auch lokal vom Server nicht mir SQL-Plus connecten kann. Der tnsping klappt normal. Die Services laufen auch normal. Gestern lief auch alles noch, bis der Server wegen eines Backup-Fails (kein Oracle), neu gebootet wer

RE: which view used ?

2001-12-13 Thread SARKAR, Samir
By the way, there r x$ indexes too as there r x$ tables. Samir Sarkar Oracle DBA - Lennon Team SchlumbergerSema Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone : +44 (0) 115 - 95 76217 EPABX : +44 (0) 115 - 957 6418 Ext. 76217 Fax : +44 (0) 115 - 957 6018 -Origin

Re: Blocking "illegal" connections

2001-12-13 Thread tday6
This is my whoison.sql - not mine but I don't remember where I got it. ttitle off set pages 40 lines 132 column value heading '' column sessions_current format 999,999,999 heading '# Currently Logged On' column sessions_highwater format 999,999,999 heading 'Most # Logged On' column pusername form

RE: which view used ?

2001-12-13 Thread SARKAR, Samir
Mark, The v$ objects r views but aren't the x$ objects tables ?? Do correct me if I am wrong. Samir Samir Sarkar Oracle DBA - Lennon Team SchlumbergerSema Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone : +44 (0) 115 - 95 76217 EPABX : +44 (0) 115 - 957 6418 Ext. 76217 Fax : +4

Re: TNS-12537 TNS:connection closed

2001-12-13 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi Volker, is this possibly a network problem ? I only get any kind of "End of File" related error messages when there is a problem with the underlying communication layer. Did you try a tnsping from the client ? Did you try to connect to the DB on the server via TCP/IP and bequeath ? Regards, S

Runing OS Commands from Stored Proc.

2001-12-13 Thread Bunyamin K. Karadeniz
I want to write a procedure to run os commands . I have read somewhere that I must :Compile the java program. Load it to the DB using LOADJAVA. Create a function call spec to call the program. Turn serveroutput and java output ON.   Question 1) What is loadjava? how is it used ?   

RE: An Oracle logic error....

2001-12-13 Thread Santosh Varma
the variable l_aayr_nm is anyway numeric. u r just converting bsmstr_rec.ful_rls_dt to character and storing the value in the numeric field. i think u got my point. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 2:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L A sound not right pr

RE: Anybody have an opinion on!

2001-12-13 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Well I'll not bother with this reply then ;o) Cheers, Kev. -Original Message- Sent: 12 December 2001 17:06 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Kevin, There are two versions of SQLExpert - Pro & Dev. Pro gives full functionality, allowing a DBA to scan the SGA for offensive SQL (

TNS-12537 TNS:connection closed

2001-12-13 Thread Schoen Volker
Dear Newsgroup, I have an Oracle Server 8.1.7.0.0 on an NT4-Server SP 6 platform. When I want to connect me with SQL-Plus I got the Error: TNS-12537 TNS:connection closed The Server has no configuration change. The listener is running and the oracle-service is running too. I have restated the serv

Re: An Oracle logic error....

2001-12-13 Thread G . Plivna
Raeson is implicit data type conversion ie. explicit conversion is when you use to_number, to_char etc implicit is when Oracle silently does the same more http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle8i/doc_library/817_doc/appdev.817/a76939/adg04typ.htm#418827 Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa

RE: which view used ?

2001-12-13 Thread Mark Leith
The v$ and x$ objects are views not tables, therefore they won't show up. HTH Mark -Original Message- Sent: 12 December 2001 20:50 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi which view is used to see all tables in database?I think all_all_tables right? Including v$ and x$ tables Tha

Tuning FAQ's

2001-12-13 Thread Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran
Title: Tuning FAQ's Hi gurus, I wish to know very familiar questions or usual questions related with Oracle Tuning and backup and recovery. Hope that everyone will input their ?'s. Rgds, nirmal.,

RE: An Oracle logic error....

2001-12-13 Thread Ganesh Raja
There is no Logical Error Here... It is perfectly Logical. The Char is Explicitly Converted into a Number if Oracle Finds that it has only Numbers and No Chars. happy Scouting for errors !!! Best Regards, Ganesh R Tel : +971 (4) 397 3337 Ext 420 Fax : +971 (4) 397 6262 HP : +971 (50) 745

RE: SqlLoader

2001-12-13 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Title: SqlLoader Stupid question I know but is the correct SID set ??   and watch out for TWO_TASK !!   Regards   Lee -Original Message-From: Burton, Laura L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 6:10 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject

ORA-06509

2001-12-13 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
Dear All, In one of our development server we are encountering ora-06590 error. Oracle documentation says ICD vector error, cause says that there is a version mismatch between an Oracle product and Oracle executable. This error is occuring in a procedure that reads data from a file using UTL_FI

ORA-06509

2001-12-13 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
Dear All, In one of our development server we are encountering ora-06590 error. Oracle documentation says ICD vector error, cause says that there is a version mismatch between an Oracle product and Oracle executable. This error is occuring in a procedure that reads data from a file using UTL_FI

RE: Patch sets

2001-12-13 Thread Kuijten, F. (Frank)
Denise, I've installed patch 8 on both the dev.stations as the webservers. I had to install the patch due to a bug with Reports not generating PDF-files correctly. Whether you have to install the patch on all systems depends on the reason for installing it. If it's a purely Developer issue (e.g

An Oracle logic error....

2001-12-13 Thread Raymond
A sound not right program to ask you all. I have declare l_aayr_nm to NUMBER(4); l_aayr_nm := TO_CHAR(bsmstr_rec.ful_rls_dt,''); and I insert l_aayr_nm into a table with INSERT INTO penm (yr ) values (l_aayr_nm); the declaration of the yr is NUMBER(4) also. But oracle did't give me a

RE: OCP

2001-12-13 Thread kranti pushkarna
Hi all, Please let me know the sites where I can get mock tests for OCP DBA. TIA Kranti -Original Message- Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 8:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I wouldn't suggest it. That's probably TOO much information to digest. Best, Ed On Su

RE: how delete "myfile*" in unix

2001-12-13 Thread peter . lomax
Hello Sinard, sometimes there are people who create files ll as well. rm 'myfile*' This should do the trick Regards Peter Lomax (Oracle DBA) Expertise Oracle ORANGE/DSI/SIMBAD/AT&P OrangeFrance Bureau: email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:(+33) (0)1 55 22 59 13 fax:(+33) (0)1 55 22 39 69 Simba

RE: Internal Password

2001-12-13 Thread Denham Eva
Title: Internal Password Thanks Ganesh, I actually thought I had done this, but obviously the stress of a downed system must have clouded my brain. It now works as described below.   Thanks Denham -Original Message-From: Ganesh Raja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, Dece