Re: designer6i vs. designer2000

2002-01-20 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Oh, how I've missed these discussions between bittet, old men and women :). Usually people just ARE more productive with linemode or text based applications compared to GUI and webstuff. It could - theoretically - be connected to the response times of the applications and the need constantly t

Re: Raw I/O

2002-01-20 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
One of the funnier arguments for raw I heard a year ago was this (from a DBA): "I always use raw files, because it makes it highly unlikely that anybody will delete a datafile by accident, since it's so hard to get rid of raw devices." :-). Dejam, Ruth wrote: >I had responded to Witold privat

Re: SAME, WAFL and RAID

2002-01-20 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Certainly. I had forgotten about the attachment policy. Please find James' paper on http://miracleas.dk/DBF/Morle/Sane_SAN_WP.pdf  . I've CC'ed James, who's an old friend of ours. He's the guy who wrote Scaling Oracle8i which is not a half bad book. Mogens C.S.Venkata Subramanian wrote:

RE: New user having problem using dbassist

2002-01-20 Thread אדר יחיאל
Hello Rene Can you explain more? What exactly happened, what errors you get etc. Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: MightDuck [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Fri, January 18, 2002 5:20 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L >

Re: How to calculate user load on the system

2002-01-20 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Yep. And we also found logoff-triggers in 8i to be useful for the same (and additional) purposes. But if I had to guess, I'm sure the answer would be 42 :-). Mogens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Raj, >Maybe another option would be to "audit session" for the database. For >each logon/logoff you w

Re: Lookup Table Usage

2002-01-20 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
And in 8i there's a column in x$bh which counts the number of times the buffer is touched (as I recall) called XNC or something? Rachel Carmichael wrote: you could turn auditing on on the table and count the number of timesit was selected--- Whittle Jerome Contr NCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

RE: Help

2002-01-20 Thread אדר יחיאל
Hello Shreeni I you are talking about Magic - application development tool, we are working with it. It is used in Israel and somewhat in Europe. It usually use Btrieve but can use Oracle as a database. In fact, the question that I posted about partitioning on part of a field is converting one of

OT - Solaris 9 OE Customer Early Access Available

2002-01-20 Thread Andrey Bronfin

Databases on Solaris: Online Forum Jan. 22-28

2002-01-20 Thread Andrey Bronfin

Re: Database Views

2002-01-20 Thread Jay Wade
If you can't use a DW idea look into Snapshots. If you don't need an up to the second view of the data that is. or schedule the report run time. Most reporting packages have the ability to do so. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: Why doesn't Oracle kill dead connections?

2002-01-20 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Agreed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I believe in your case no since the browser is not connected to the database, >but the web server is and is alive. The real issue is does the web server know >that the client closed his/her browser and terminate the session. I doubt it. > >Dick Goulet > >-

Re: Standby Instance questions and HA

2002-01-20 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
To be truly contrary to anyone else :) here are some thoughts we've been trying to think recently here at Miracle regarding clusters and OPS/RAC from Oracle: There can be three main reasons for using clusters (I think): - High availability. But how often does a Unix or Windows2000 server crash

Re: DBA Experiences with Oracle and RAID 0+1

2002-01-20 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Diego, I agree with you 100% and didn't express myself correctly in my email. The more spindles the better. What I meant to say was that you must never buy disks by taking your total needed amount of space and divide by the number of big disks you can get hold on :). It's the number of IO's req

Re: SPACE FREE HOW?

2002-01-20 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
And finally: Why do you want to reclaim the space?Yes, too high a HWM will be wasteful w.r.t. table scans, but if you're so lucky as to have mostly indexed access to the table it doesn't matter. If you have space problems on the disk, that's of course another matter. And finally, in 9i, there

Re: HP vs SUN for a UNIX box

2002-01-20 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Funny. IBM is currently winning the Unix processor war, I think, with new designs that HP, Compaq, HP and others will not catch up with for a couple of years. But a Pentium 4 often outruns a couple of Unix processors, and that's pretty scary to an old VMS fan. So running Linux on Pentium 4's o

Re: PeopleSoft

2002-01-20 Thread Edward Lock
Kind of a broad question.  Along with PeopleSoft SA, GL and Financials, we just implemented HRMS HR and Payroll 7.5 and 7.6 for E&G.   The interface with GL was hairy, and we're still dealing with clean-up issues from legacy.   Expensive?  Yep, so we always recommend minimal modifications.  Change

Re: HP vs SUN for a UNIX box

2002-01-20 Thread Steven Lembark
-- Mogens Nørgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Funny. IBM is currently winning the Unix processor war, I think, with new > designs that HP, Compaq, HP and others will not catch up with for a > couple of years. But a Pentium 4 often outruns a couple of Unix > processors, and that's pretty scary to an

RE: designer6i vs. designer2000

2002-01-20 Thread Kimberly Smith
I don't complete disagree with you but it is possible to design front end interfaces to have a choice between mouse and keyboard.  As a general rule of thumb I do not use my mouse unless I have to.  It annoys me when I am not given a choice.  I am sure there are some tools that make this har

Re: Data Subset Tool?

2002-01-20 Thread Dale Edgar
Hi Jared > I've seen some pretty ugly schemas in Oracle, from third > party apps in particular. > > It would be most interesting if an automated tool could > subset these. They do get ugly don't they - however, I would be very suprised if DataBee was not able to cut a subset. DataBee is quite s

TNS-12500 intermittent errors

2002-01-20 Thread Jo King
Environment NT4 4Gb RAMPage Filesize 4.5GbOracle Version 8.0.5.1.1   We have recently been experiencing intermittent TNS-12500 Listener unable to create a dedicated server process messages. It does occur when we have around 300 + processes, but even then it appears hit and miss. It has all

Re: Codde's Rules and Oracle

2002-01-20 Thread Jared Still
Chuck, Yeah, I enjoy complexity and challenging work as much as most DBA's. I spent a couple of weeks fooling around with 'instead of' triggers last year at the behest of the Chief Data Architect ( at Enron, guess it won't do them much good now ) and I didn't like them too much. This was wi

Re: Standby Instance questions and HA

2002-01-20 Thread Jared Still
On Sunday 20 January 2002 06:45, Mogens Nørgaard wrote: > > Here's something else I've been wondering about: If the rather smart > folks at the various Unix vendors (they're hardly any stupider than us > on this list, do you think?) cannot get this stuff to work after having > tried for many years

Re: Data Subset Tool?

2002-01-20 Thread Jared Still
Do you know if anyone has successfully used this tool on an SAP database? That would be *truly* impressive. Jared On Sunday 20 January 2002 10:55, Dale Edgar wrote: > Hi Jared > > > I've seen some pretty ugly schemas in Oracle, from third > > party apps in particular. > > > > It would be most

Re: DBA Experiences with Oracle and RAID 0+1

2002-01-20 Thread Jared Still
Mogens, In regard to the number of spindles issue: James Morle has some excellent discussion on that in 'Scaling Oracle 8i'. ( I think it's that book ) When some of the newer larges drives are used in a given configuration, they mabe be able to outperform older drives in a similar configur

Re: designer6i vs. designer2000

2002-01-20 Thread Jared Still
My experience in going from Oracle CASE 5 to Oracle Designer 2000 made it very clear to me that character mode was much faster, at least in this case. Using the same functionality in Designer 2000 took *much* longer in D2k than it ever did in CASE 5. Part of this was due not to the move from

Re: TNS-12500 intermittent errors

2002-01-20 Thread Stephane Faroult
> Environment NT4 > 4Gb RAM > Page Filesize 4.5Gb > Oracle Version 8.0.5.1.1 > > We have recently been experiencing intermittent TNS-12500 Listener > unable to create a dedicated server process > messages. It does occur when we have around 300 + processes, but even > then it appears hit and miss.

Re: How to calculate user load on the system

2002-01-20 Thread Jared Still
If the question is "Which episode of Star Trek was 'The Trouble with Tribbles'", then yes. ;) Jared On Sunday 20 January 2002 01:30, Mogens Nørgaard wrote: > Yep. And we also found logoff-triggers in 8i to be useful for the same > (and additional) purposes. > > But if I had to guess, I'm sure

RE: How to calculate user load on the system

2002-01-20 Thread JoJo Al-Zawawi
Speaking of "42" ... "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. " --Douglas Adams Cheers, JoJo -Original Message- Still Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 1:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Server mode

2002-01-20 Thread Craig Munday
Bunyamin,   Are the clients connected directly to the database or do they connect through some type of application server like JBoss or Web Logic?  If they are connecting to an application server then you can get away with a lot less connections and use dedicated servers.  The theory goes th

Re: How to calculate user load on the system

2002-01-20 Thread Rachel Carmichael
or, of course, the answer to life, the universe and everything is? --- Jared Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If the question is "Which episode of Star Trek was 'The Trouble with > Tribbles'", then yes. ;) > > Jared > > On Sunday 20 January 2002 01:30, Mogens Nørgaard wrote: > > Yep. And

DBD::Oracle: "" vs NULL, and a possible change to the ChopBlanks attribute

2002-01-20 Thread Tim Bunce
It's well know that Oracle#s state of the art database server can rarely tell the difference between an empty string and a NULL (I presume that's not changed recently, though I'd be very happy to be told otherwise). So people who don't want empty strings being stored as NULLs in their fields tend

RE: Standby Instance questions and HA

2002-01-20 Thread Kimberly Smith
I would not say any vendor. I have yet to have an issue with HP and failover. Its worked every time and is relatively easy to setup and use. I have no experience with any other vendor in that area though. -Original Message- Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 1:35 PM To: Multiple recipients o

Re: DBA Experiences with Oracle and RAID 0+1

2002-01-20 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Jared, Good thought! We're running our annual Miracle Master Class (this year with Jonathan Lewis) this week and Cary Millsap (and his gang), Jonathan and James will arrive tomorrow (Monday), while Steve Adams, Lex de Haan, Stephan Haisley and a bunch of other guys will arrive on Tuesday. I'll

Database Replication

2002-01-20 Thread systems_ho/VGIL
Hi All We have got two Oracle Databases physically connected.We want to replicate one database with the other database.We are quite new to this subject.Kindly guide us with the procedure of replication and the conditions to be considered for replication. Thanks in advance Regards Systems

Re: Database Replication

2002-01-20 Thread Joe Raube
Oracle 8i Replication Manual http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle8i/doc_library/817_doc/server.817/a76959/toc.htm ;-) -Joe At 10:15 PM 1/20/02, you wrote: >Hi All > >We have got two Oracle Databases physically connected.We want to replicate >one database with the other database.We are q

Re: Database Replication

2002-01-20 Thread Peter . McLarty
Firstly I would go read all Oracle Documentation regarding Replication before doing anything else, This is an area that need a high level of understanding. Do you want a hot standby, are you trying to replicate GL entrys from a database into Financials. After a read of the documents and when you

OT:Developer 6 Problem

2002-01-20 Thread Arslan Dar
Hi list,   Our developers are having problems with Developer 6 while printing simultaneously at 2 printers, Basically it's a pharmacy module and after entering the data INVOICE is sent to one printer, while the Labels for the medicine are sent to the other (label printer).  Now the probl

RE: RE: HP vs SUN for a UNIX box

2002-01-20 Thread Sinard Xing
Oracle Magazine have alot "Oracle for HP" articles, I think they are switching from Sun to HP -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 January 2002 06:16 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sergey, I asked my SA to add his 2 cents, guess he's not inclined. Anyway, I'v

How to insert records into a Database table from an Email ?

2002-01-20 Thread FAIZ QURESHI
Hello All: I have a situation where emails sent to an Email Id should get inserted into a database 1,e some part of the email should get inserted as records in a particular table. Like for example the Person's Name(who sent the email) should get inserted in the Name field of the table, Subject

OT:Developer 6 Problem

2002-01-20 Thread Arslan Dar
Title: OT:Developer 6 Problem Hi list, Our developers are having problems with Developer 6 while printing simultaneously at 2 printers, Basically it's a pharmacy module and after entering the data INVOICE is sent to one printer, while the Labels for the medicine are sent to the other (label

Re: Database Replication

2002-01-20 Thread Eswar the MAD
Hi, What do u want to achive by replication ?? HA - High avilability OR LB - Load Balancing For HA what you can do is go for a standby. For LB u hv to go to OPS or even OPFS can do both Regards OraEtM!! >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of lis

RE: How to calculate user load on the system

2002-01-20 Thread אדר יחיאל
Sorry, you missed. The question is: what is the meaning of life, the universe and all the rest? Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Jared Still [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sun, January 20, 2002 11:30 PM > To: Multiple recipients of

RE: How to insert records into a Database table from an Email ?

2002-01-20 Thread Sinard Xing
Hi, I think of JAVA. Sinardy -Original Message- QURESHI Sent: 21 January 2002 14:30 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello All: I have a situation where emails sent to an Email Id should get inserted into a database 1,e some part of the email should get inserted as records i