sort aggregate vs sort order by

2001-12-28 Thread nlzanen1
Hi All, I have tried the Oracle Doc's but can't find the answer to what is the difference between the two Anybody can explain?? TIA Jack === De informatie verzonden met dit E-mail bericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de

Exp / Imp Utility Questions

2001-12-28 Thread Ken Janusz
I'm doing a DB conversion to 8.1.7 on W2000. I have converted the old tables / data to the new application on my conversion server. Now I have to load it onto a test server at a different site. I will be using tables= parameter to a select group of tables / data. I have not found the answers

RE: Oracle registry

2001-12-28 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
change ... [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\ALL_HOMES] HOME_COUNTER=2 DEFAULT_HOME=OraHome81 LAST_HOME=1 to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\ALL_HOMES] HOME_COUNTER=2 DEFAULT_HOME=OraHome81 LAST_HOME=0 Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni

RE: sort aggregate vs sort order by

2001-12-28 Thread Larry Elkins
Jack, I assume you are asking this question in reference to the access path, or explain plan, for a query. Sort (Aggregate) -- Query returns a single row using a summary function but does not include a GROUP BY clause. Sort (Order By) -- Query includes an ORDER BY clause. Sort (Group By) --

RE: Exp / Imp Utility Questions

2001-12-28 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: Exp / Imp Utility Questions 1) You cannot have read the docs to well not to know the answer to Q1 Hint - look at the ignore parameter to imp 2) It all depends if the triggers have been run once to change the data that is now in the conversion db. You may have a trigger that adds 1

RE: Firing order of triggers

2001-12-28 Thread G . Plivna
Although there are already so many responses I would like to add one more You can of course put all logic in one trigger and then have control over events Sometimes it is impossible in the trigger because there is limitation of trigger size (32 K) So in that case You have to put logic in

Re: What's Oracle Trying to Hide ???

2001-12-28 Thread orantdba
Earlier versions of ORacle did not wrap the packages. Since the source code was available well meaning dba's decided to help Oracle by changing and recompiling these packages. This led to more than one corruption and many a confused support analyst.BTW, the wrapped package bodies

Re: Exp / Imp Utility Questions

2001-12-28 Thread Stephane Faroult
Ken Janusz wrote: I'm doing a DB conversion to 8.1.7 on W2000. I have converted the old tables / data to the new application on my conversion server. Now I have to load it onto a test server at a different site. I will be using tables= parameter to a select group of tables / data. I

RE: What's Oracle Trying to Hide ???

2001-12-28 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Not quite true. Wrapped packages take same space (in fact more in dictionary cache and same space in library cache). Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan (408) 934 9310 -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 6:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Earlier versions of

RE: Exp / Imp Utility Questions

2001-12-28 Thread Kimberly Smith
You can use imp to move just the data. Just set ignore=y so that when the object already exists it will move on. You are right about the FK's and disabling them. As for triggers, it really depends on whether or not you want them to fire... -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 28,

Re: What's Oracle Trying to Hide ???

2001-12-28 Thread orantdba
I havn't tested, and did use the very ambiguous "supposedly", this was in the documentation when they first came out. Thanks for the correction. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not quite true. Wrapped packages take same space (in fact more in dictionarycacheand same space in library

RE: Firing order of triggers

2001-12-28 Thread Kimberly Smith
Actually, you bring up a good point. I never put logic in my triggers. I always use packages. That way, you can modify one piece of logic without affecting the whole trigger. In many ways its much easier to maintain. -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28,

SQL Loader Parfile

2001-12-28 Thread Ken Janusz
Does anyone know how to put more than one control (.ctl) file in a single parfile? Thanks, Ken Janusz, CPIM Database Conversion Lead Sufficient Systems, Inc. Minneapolis, MN -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ken Janusz INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat

RE: RE: database administration questions

2001-12-28 Thread DBarbour
Evelyn WoodDavid A. BarbourOracle DBA, OCPAISD512-414-1002Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]12/27/2001 10:50 AM PSTPlease respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: bcc: Subject: RE: RE: database administration questions A

Training Recommendations

2001-12-28 Thread Pat Howe
I am looking at my 2002 training schedule and would like to know if you can recommend a class in any of the following dba topics : 1. RMAN Setting and configuring RMAN Backing up using RMAN Recovery using RMAN Note that I have taken the Oracle Backup and Recovery class for 7.3 before they

RE: RE: database administration questions

2001-12-28 Thread Orr, Steve
Is she an OCP DBA? ;-) -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 10:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Evelyn Wood David A. Barbour Oracle DBA, OCP AISD 512-414-1002 Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/27/2001 10:50 AM PST Please

What's the DBA_DML_LOCKS.LAST_CONVERT column ??

2001-12-28 Thread Orr, Steve
What's the DBA_DML_LOCKS.LAST_CONVERT column ?? In catblock.sql for the DBA_LOCKS view it's described as follows: last_convert - time (in seconds) since last convert completed. What precisely does that mean? (Is it a religious term? :-) Steve Orr Snowing nicely in Montana now and the

RE: What's the DBA_DML_LOCKS.LAST_CONVERT column ??

2001-12-28 Thread Khedr, Waleed
I think the number of seconds since the lock was established (or converted from/to) in this mode. My guess. Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 1:15 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What's the DBA_DML_LOCKS.LAST_CONVERT column ?? In

Upgrade question

2001-12-28 Thread Godlewski, Melissa
List, I plan to upgrade to 9.0.1 soon, and looking through the documentation it is not clear to me whether the 9.0.1 listener needs to be running prior to the upgrade migration utility or not. My thinking is it should be running and tested prior to the upgrade. TIA M.Godlewski

DBA_TAB_MODIFICATIONS - Performance impact?

2001-12-28 Thread Brian MacLean
Title: DDL alter in execute immediate pl/sql procedure - dynamic sql Anybody using the "ALTER TABLE tablename MONITORING;" functionality? Just wondering what the performance impact of implementing the features outlined in MetaLink Doc 102334.1 was. Or is this another performance debate like

Re: DDL alter in execute immediate pl/sql procedure - dynamic sql

2001-12-28 Thread Stephane Faroult
Hagedorn, Linda wrote: If someone has a few minutes to read through this, I'd be most appreciative. I could use a second set of eyes looking this over. This procedure is designed to maintain a table/sequence map, executed after an import and increment any sequences which have a lower

Re:RE: DBA_TAB_MODIFICATIONS - Performance impact?

2001-12-28 Thread dgoulet
Of course Ross. How else do we know how long sadists like you are at work?? :-) Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Mohan; Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12/28/2001 12:55 PM LoL timed sadistics -Original Message- Sent: Friday,

RE : RE: DBA_TAB_MODIFICATIONS - Performance impact?

2001-12-28 Thread Stephane Faroult
LoL timed sadistics Must be a RDBSM. -- Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriole Ltd -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Stephane Faroult INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego,

Re: DBA_TAB_MODIFICATIONS - Performance impact?

2001-12-28 Thread Jared . Still
I've seen references that it is less than 1% impact, though I haven't tried it myself. You might try Steve Adams' site at www.ixora.com.au. Jared Brian

Re: Training Recommendations

2001-12-28 Thread Joe Testa
Pat, thats easy, geekcruises.com. www.geekcruises.com, oracle odyssey, may 2002. i personally will be talking about backup/recovery concepts(which will include rman), oracle 9i data guard(failover, etc), both of those 3 hr presentations. check out the .pdf brochure, i'm sure what you are

Re: Training Recommendations

2001-12-28 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Joe, when people ask questions during these presentations, do you reply: a. RTFM b. Try it yourself and see c. nope ? ;-) --- Joe Testa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pat, thats easy, geekcruises.com. www.geekcruises.com, oracle odyssey, may 2002. i personally will be talking about

Table MONITORING

2001-12-28 Thread Paul Baumgartel
The DBMS_STATS.GATHER_SCHEMA_STATS procedure (with the GATHER STALE option), which uses the information produced when a table is in MONITORING mode, does not work properly in any current release of Oracle (see bug 1890016 on MetaLink). __ Do You

Re: Training Recommendations

2001-12-28 Thread Joe Testa
D: all of the above. joe Paul Baumgartel wrote: Joe, when people ask questions during these presentations, do you reply: a. RTFM b. Try it yourself and see c. nope ? ;-) --- Joe Testa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pat, thats easy, geekcruises.com. www.geekcruises.com,

ORA-00904 on a valid view when using count(*)

2001-12-28 Thread Maria Aurora VT de la Vega
we have view named gain_view which was created with this sql SELECT co.name, sec.alias, sec.security_name, sec.security_symbol, sq.open, sq.high, sq.low, sq.close, sq.previous, sq.last_trade_price, sq.total_volume, sq.total_value, (((sq.last_trade_price - sq.previous)/sq.previous) * 100) AS