Re: sqlplus question

2002-01-29 Thread Stephane Faroult
And if you are running an unavowable OS, you can probably turn your SQL*Plus script into a jPL/SQL procedure and schedule it using dbms_job. Weaver, Walt wrote: Cron? At? -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 3:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello,

LOB Help needed

2002-01-29 Thread Arslan Dar
Title: LOB Help needed Hi, Has anyone any document about implementation of Lobs/BFILES using Oracle Developer 6/6i as front end tool. Manulplating LOBs within the database is not a big problem, but getting them out to display it is what I need. I have found a doc which explains the

Re: AW: auditing tables

2002-01-29 Thread Stephane Faroult
Foelz.Frank wrote: TNX for your answers. What I need is exactly what Oracle doesn't support. Logging who changed what in a special area of our database. I think triggering the events will be much more specific and more easy to change. In case all our applications use the same

RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-29 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Amen! -Original Message- Sent: 29 January 2002 06:20 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The problem is that if you always ask the group for help, you never learn where the information is within the manuals or other reference documentation and the group also gets cluttered with

OFF TOPIC: RE: PL/SQL

2002-01-29 Thread Thomas, Kevin
When I arrive in the morning to a mailbox containing 150+ messages from this list, I'm almost certainly guaranteed that 10% of them will be questions that can easily be found via otn or a manual. That 10% usually comes from the same person!! No wonder I'm irritated!!! }:o| -Original

RE: sqlplus question

2002-01-29 Thread Rajesh Dayal
I was also trying to put some script on Oracle scheduler and successful too. But on Oracle 8 I failed. It was successful on Oracle 8i (8 doesn't support execute immediate). Would appreciate, if someone can give equivalent code for Oracle 8. Here is the code for Oracle 8i, create or

RE: PL/SQL

2002-01-29 Thread Thomas, Kevin
because DUDE! see my earlier explanation! I ask colleagues if I can't find it in the manual...such is the joy of the internet...the pages are bookmarked and are therein front...on my screenwhere I need them! It's not rocket science! -Original Message- Sent: 29 January 2002 03:55

RE: sqlplus question

2002-01-29 Thread Ghadge,Sameer
u can also create batch file if os is windows e.g. t.sql as set serveroutput on; select * from tab; exit; put this in some batch file eq bb.bat sqlplus fxsam/s@du @t and schedule bb.bat -Original Message- From: Stephane Faroult [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28,

Re: sqlplus question

2002-01-29 Thread Stephane Faroult
Rajesh Dayal wrote: I was also trying to put some script on Oracle scheduler and successful too. But on Oracle 8 I failed. It was successful on Oracle 8i (8 doesn't support execute immediate). Would appreciate, if someone can give equivalent code for Oracle 8. Here is the code for

RE: Need some help PLEASE on an ora 3113 in svrmgrl

2002-01-29 Thread SARKAR, Samir
Bill, I think u have some hung shared memory segments which need to b cleaned up before u can start ur instance. Do the following : At the Unix prompt, type : $ ipcs -mobs Then identify the segment id which has Owner = Oracle and Nattch = 0. Remove that segment using the following command :

Report Builder [32-bit]

2002-01-29 Thread nshah
I am trying to save a report at runtime in PDF format. I am getting the error REP-1249 : Column '...' has no pl/sql formula. I have Report Builder 3.0.5.8.0 Help. Nilesh P Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone No : 570 44 91 Ext : 6575 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com --

RE: OFF TOPIC: RE: PL/SQL

2002-01-29 Thread Daemen, Remco
Hear hear ! You tell 'm, Kevin ! I'm with you all the way. Anybody can ask me a simple question when they are looking for a quick answer, but you can't do a good job when you're always looking for quick answers. You have to LEARN. There's a difference between learning and constantly asking

Rman again. Long screen output included

2002-01-29 Thread nlzanen1
Hi , I copied jay's line for duplication until time exactly into my test script but recovering errors out in the end. I looked in the documentation for another example of the until time clause but no luck. Can anybody explain why this won't work. (the double single quotes to which it

Re: AW: auditing tables

2002-01-29 Thread Rachel Carmichael
triggers -- that do an insert into an auditing table. Been there, done that: Insert -- add a row to the auditing table of all the new values with one extra column type =I Delete add a row to the auditing table with all the old values and type=D Update -- add two rows to the auditing table --

RE: sqlplus question

2002-01-29 Thread Rajesh Dayal
Thanks Stephan, Your suggestion had motivated me and I wrote the code, after RTFM. Sameer, I didn't scheduled the job on OS because this should an Oracle Job, log switching has nothing to do with OS (you don't trouble a company GM when the work should be done by a Normal Manager

RE: bug in cursor FOR loops?

2002-01-29 Thread
I have seen something like this with application loop that open a new cursor for each iteration of the loop. Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Paul Baumgartel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mon, January 28, 2002 11:15 PM To:

OT : howto RTFM

2002-01-29 Thread Marin Dimitrov
http://www.microsoft.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]/nyheter/feb01/Q209354%20-% 20HOWTO.htm have fun, Marin ...what you brought from your past, is of no use in your present. When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to

RE: Public Privileges on system tables?

2002-01-29 Thread
Hello Ron I checked our 7.3.4 DB (on NT) and did not find these tables. I think that they may belong to a product that use these tables and so everyone who uses this product need them. Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Smith, Ron L.

Class does not exist error

2002-01-29 Thread Rick_Cale
Hi DBAs, Oracle 8.1.6, NT server, JServer 8.1.6, Win 200 client A list member sent me a pl/sql script for sending mail. It compiles ok when I run it I get the following error class oracle/plsql/net/TCPConnection does not exist Any ideas on how to correct this? I do not know if I have to do

RE: Rman again. Long screen output included

2002-01-29 Thread
Hello Jack The RMAN commandrecover database; is changed to be recover database until time '1999-03-05:11:33:00'; Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tue, January 29, 2002 12:15

INFORMIX 7.3 to ORACLE 8.1.7

2002-01-29 Thread Sonja ehovi
Hi! We inherited one Informix database, which we must put into our production Oracle database (new schema). Both databases are on AIX UNIX machines. We can do this by writing a scripts, but I'm wondering does any of you have some experiance in this, and could you suggest me some other (simpler)

Re: Class does not exist error

2002-01-29 Thread Stephane Faroult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi DBAs, Oracle 8.1.6, NT server, JServer 8.1.6, Win 200 client A list member sent me a pl/sql script for sending mail. It compiles ok when I run it I get the following error class oracle/plsql/net/TCPConnection does not exist Any ideas on how to correct

RE: OT : howto RTFM

2002-01-29 Thread Rajesh Dayal
Cant' believe that !!! -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 4:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L http://www.microsoft.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]/nyheter/feb01/Q209354%20-% 20HOWTO.htm have fun, Marin ...what you brought from your past, is

RE: Rman again. Long screen output included

2002-01-29 Thread nlzanen1
Hi Thomas, AFAIK this is generated code (by RMAN) based on the command duplicate that I issued. I sure didn't store any script yet. This is the next step when all secrets of RMAN are uncovered (than it's time to move to RMAN 9i) Jack Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 29-01-2002

RE: OFF TOPIC: RE: PL/SQL

2002-01-29 Thread Seefelt, Beth
Roland, Besides reading the manuals, take a look at www.lazydba.com. They also host an Oracle email list that might be a more appropriate forum for your questions. I think they have a higher ratio of new DBAs on their list, and seldom mind answering the beginner questions. HTH, Beth (was

Re: INFORMIX 7.3 to ORACLE 8.1.7

2002-01-29 Thread James Howerton
Sonja, Start here: http://otn.oracle.com/tech/migration/workbench/content.html ...JIM... [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/29/02 7:20:33 AM Hi! We inherited one Informix database, which we must put into our production Oracle database (new schema). Both databases are on AIX UNIX machines. We can do this

Re: RE: sqlplus question

2002-01-29 Thread Igor Neyman
'dbms_output.put_job '? What the heck was this about? Please, check your answers before posting to the list! Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:50 AM Well, you

RE: OT : howto RTFM

2002-01-29 Thread Witold Iwaniec
And you shouldn't... This is just a web trick - I mean it's not a Microsoft's site. You can see the same page, loaded even faster, if you remove: www.microsoft.comitem=q209354@ from the url. Just try: http://hardware.no/nyheter/feb01/Q209354%20-%20HOWTO.htm You can replace in the url

Re: Class does not exist error

2002-01-29 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi DBAs, Oracle 8.1.6, NT server, JServer 8.1.6, Win 200 client A list member sent me a pl/sql script for sending mail. It compiles ok when I run it I get the following error class oracle/plsql/net/TCPConnection does not exist Any ideas on

Re: INFORMIX 7.3 to ORACLE 8.1.7

2002-01-29 Thread orantdba
Hi Sonja, I would recommend you look at the oracle migration workbench product. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! We inherited one Informix database, which we must put into our production Oracle database (new schema). Both databases are on AIX UNIX machines. We can do this by writing a

RE: Class does not exist error

2002-01-29 Thread Vadim Gorbounov
Hi, Rick I'm not 100% sure, but it I think, the problem is Server/JServer version. The script will be OK on 8.1.7. 8.1.7 JVM is very different from 8.1.6 HTH Vadim -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi DBAs, Oracle

RE: RE: sqlplus question

2002-01-29 Thread Weaver, Walt
I'm lost here... --Walt -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 10:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Well, you can check the manual but use the package dbms_output.put_job that willfix it when you are inoracle but ifyoua re in unix environment you must use

RE: OFF TOPIC: RE: PL/SQL

2002-01-29 Thread Mohan, Ross
Kevin, I am sorry, but you didn't sound holier than thou on that last post. Could you do it a bit differently next time? ;-) WWJD? JWRTFM! -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 9:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hey I've helped this guy heaps of

RE: INFORMIX 7.3 to ORACLE 8.1.7

2002-01-29 Thread
There is a tool from DataBee that is used to copy integrated data from production to test (among other things). Maybe you can use it to copy ALL the data from one DB to the other. http://www.databee.com Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From:

Re: OFF TOPIC: RE: PL/SQL

2002-01-29 Thread Igor Neyman
beginner should start with RTFM, trying it on test box, and only than, if he still does not get it, post his question explaining his problems. Beth, you must not have seen Roland's questions. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list

Database Performance Question

2002-01-29 Thread SRAJENDRAN
Hello all: We have an application that is having slow response time against an 8i database, I would like to improve the response time. This is a web based application accessing the database with about 2000 users. Most of the application queries are based on complex joins on 4 big tables with

Re: AW: auditing tables

2002-01-29 Thread Jared Still
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 03:00, Rachel Carmichael wrote: Update -- add two rows to the auditing table -- first with old values and type = O second with all the new values and type =N Rachel, I don't think you need two rows for updates. The old values will be in the audit table, the new

RE: OT : howto RTFM

2002-01-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Nah it is a URL trick you need to discard everything between HTTP:// and first @ sign. The browser does it too. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is

RE: OFF TOPIC: RE: PL/SQL

2002-01-29 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Voting him off the island... uh? ;-) -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 7:45 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Roland, Besides reading the manuals, take a look at www.lazydba.com. They also host an Oracle email list that might be a more appropriate forum

RE: Mail from PL/SQL without Java

2002-01-29 Thread Gogala, Mladen
One of the neat tricks how to that is described in Tom Kyte's book in the chapter about UTL_HTTP. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 6:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Some of you may find this of interest: http://www.total-knowledge.com/progs/ora_mail/

RE: RE: sqlplus question

2002-01-29 Thread Mohan, Ross
Walt, don't worry. He's speaking WaReZ speak. You have to follow the White Rabbit to get out. For further instructions, see Kimberly. She enjoys questions like these. -Original Message- I'm lost here... --Walt -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 10:50 PM To:

Re: AW: Oracle Books

2002-01-29 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Tom Kyte's Expert One-on-One Oracle or whatever it's called is the best book written ever on Oracle. Reviewed by Jonathan Lewis and Steve Adams. Jonathan says it's the best book on the market, including his own. Very useful for developer types, too. As to specific Forms/Reports books I have

Default role all

2002-01-29 Thread Bill Becker
Hello, Env: 8.1.6 on Solaris 2.7 Does anyone know which data dictionary table stores the setting when you issue an ALTER USER user_name DEFAULT ROLE ALL COMMAND? I know that dba_role_privs has a default_role (YES/NO) field, but that is specific to each role. Is there another table that stores

RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-29 Thread JoJo Al-Zawawi
Title: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL) No offense to anybody, butI think this is rather arrogant. The list is for anybody (unless the list owner decides it's just for experienced dba's). I am brand new to Oracle, having just started learning it this week. I can easily foresee having

RE: OT : howto RTFM

2002-01-29 Thread Odell, Charles [Contractor]
Ross Mohan tried to pull this one on us before. C'mon Ross 'fess up. Is this your handywork? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 9:20 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Looks like good old MicroSlop got hacked, again!! Dick Goulet PS: I love it!!

RE: AW: auditing tables

2002-01-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Jared, I just put the old values in the audit table with an additional column which tells exactly which columns are changed. Ah the wonders of dynamic sql ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN

Re: AW: auditing tables

2002-01-29 Thread Igor Neyman
Is there some other reason for saving both in the audit table? Jared, You must be right. But, if for some 'crazy' reason primary key of the record gets modified, then you need both old and new in audit table. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple

RE: OFF TOPIC: RE: PL/SQL

2002-01-29 Thread Thomas, Kevin
LOL...where's me soapbox!! I'm having a bad week, and hot-dang if everyone else ain't gonna suffer to!! ;o) TFIC! -Original Message- Sent: 29 January 2002 14:50 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Kevin, I am sorry, but you didn't sound holier than thou on that last post. Could

RE: Database Performance Question

2002-01-29 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
You have done very nicely so far in tuning those joins... but... More questions to you : 1. Why do you think this is still a database problem? 2. Will partitioning those larger tables help the queries? 3. What have you checked to make sure that the bottleneck is not the web-server? 4. Are

RE:Hot backup and TEMP tablespace

2002-01-29 Thread Dave Morgan
ALWAYS BACKUP THE ROLLBACK TABLESPACE! or you will not be able to recover. How else will Oracle rollback a transaction in the works when the database went down. I do not back up TEMP or my INDEX tables spaces. I have scripts that recreate all of these. (150GB of indices, not worth the

NetSaint

2002-01-29 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Has anybody heard of/used/liked/hated NetSaint? One of our UNIX administrators is pushing this as a cheap alternative to CA UniCenter, and he wants to start using it to monitor systems and databases. Please let me know your opinions, thoughts, and locations of any resources you are aware of.

Re: Lookup Table Usage

2002-01-29 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Thanks, Connor. Oh, did I enjoy the Master Class this past week. A couple of situations: 14 people, including Millsap, Steve Adams, Jonathan Lewis, James Morle and what have you sitting around my oak table one evening when dinner is served. Most of the guys simply closed their laptops,

RE: INFORMIX 7.3 to ORACLE 8.1.7

2002-01-29 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Look here: http://technet.oracle.com/tech/migration/toolkits/content.html -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:21 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi! We inherited one Informix database, which we must put into our production Oracle database (new schema).

RE: OFF TOPIC: RE: PL/SQL

2002-01-29 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Has anyone read 'Oracle8i for Dummies' ?? I have checked it out from our local public library It's not a bad read, I am still in chapter 1, though.. learning some new interesting analogies to this techie stuff.. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:55 AM

Re: CHECKPOINT?

2002-01-29 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Log file sync is another name for commit. So have fewer commits or make them faster is the extremely short answer. But these values are taking out of context - if the time_waited for log file sync is small compared to the total response time, then who cares? :). Mogens Seema Singh wrote:

Re: OFF TOPIC: RE: PL/SQL

2002-01-29 Thread Igor Neyman
Kirti, Too much time on your hands? Does the one, who gets through it's last chapter, get 'Oracle Dummy DBA' sign? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:05 AM Has

RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-29 Thread Johnston, Tim
Title: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL) JoJo... You're missing the point... Most people have no issue with helping another list member... But, some members abuse this help and consistent ask questions that could be found in the manual without even attempting to find it... The list

RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-29 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Seriously though... You would of course get as much help as the next person here and I don't think it's out of place for me to say that newbies are always welcome! But it starts to get ridiculous when a poster continually posts questions that can be found on websites similar to your own without

Re: export the schema exclude two tables?

2002-01-29 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Well. I've done it several times, ie modify the exutab or exu7tab or whatever view to do something special like exporting all tables except ... or export of a tablespace (!), etc. As long as you modify the export views, run the modified catexp, do the export, then re-run the original catexp

RE: RE: sqlplus question

2002-01-29 Thread Mohan, Ross
AFAIK, Kimberly does everything. (Except move to Dallas) -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:41 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Kewl! That means I get to start taking drugs again. I am a happy boy. I'll whiz over to the OT list and give Kimberly a

Re: sqlplus question

2002-01-29 Thread Igor Neyman
So true! Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 10:05 AM Igor Neyman wrote: 'dbms_output.put_job '? What the heck was this about? Please, check your

Function In Select Statment

2002-01-29 Thread Hamid Alavi
Hi List, One of our developer using function in his select statment but the problem is when he is using order by one of the function results column the query is very slow, Is there any way to use hint for function or some thing to make quesry faster. Thanks in advance Hamid Alavi Office 818

RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-29 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Title: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL) yep, but a lot of us I am sure do not have time to answer these types of questions whilst holding down a full time job. I think this has gone a bit far anyway and I am sure Roland has been suitably chastised and even said himself that he went out

RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-29 Thread Thomas, Kevin
And your point caller?? TIC ;o) -Original Message- Sent: 29 January 2002 15:41 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L No offense to anybody, but I think this is rather arrogant. The list is for anybody (unless the list owner decides it's just for experienced dba's). I am brand new

RE: RE: sqlplus question

2002-01-29 Thread Weaver, Walt
Kewl! That means I get to start taking drugs again. I am a happy boy. I'll whiz over to the OT list and give Kimberly a ring. Does she like to climb mountains? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Walt, don't worry. He's

Re: Function In Select Statment

2002-01-29 Thread Ron Rogers
Hamid, Why not create a function based index on the column that is being and the data returned will be faster. I do not know if it will help the sort for the order by but the data returned will be available faster. What does your sort area look like? Is it to small to handle the sort and paging

Re: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-29 Thread Igor Neyman
Title: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL) JoJo, There is a difference between 'unable to find the answer' and 'not willing to find the answer through RTFM'. BTW, I didn't see any 'stupid or RTFM' kind of questions from you (unlike this other person). Igor Neyman, OCP DBA[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Public Privileges on system tables?

2002-01-29 Thread Johnston, Tim
Hi Ron... I found some info in the reference guide... PSTUBTBL This table contains information on stubs generated by the PSTUB utility so that an Oracle Forms 3.0 client can call stored procedures in an Oracle database.

RE: Database Performance Question

2002-01-29 Thread Godlewski, Melissa
Title: RE: Database Performance Question Partitions, Materialized views, bit map indexes. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 10:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Database Performance Question

RE: NetSaint

2002-01-29 Thread Weaver, Walt
We're using NetSaint here. Does the job for us, and it's a bit cheaper than CA Unicenter... --Walt Weaver Bozeman, Montana -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 9:12 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Has anybody heard of/used/liked/hated NetSaint? One of our

Oracle process causes High CPU

2002-01-29 Thread Nguyen, David M
We have problem with oracle process ora_snp0 that causes high CPU and core files on our system. Does someone have idea how to fix it? Please help. Below is information captured from a trace file: Dump file /export/home/oracle/product/8.0.5/rdbms/log/ssdb_snp0_16657.trc Oracle8 Enterprise

Install problem solved

2002-01-29 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Last week I posted the note below about installation problems we were experiencing. The Oracle installer just failed with no message. We have solved to problem and thought I would share the solution with the list. The installer was looking at a file '/usr/var/opt/oracle/orainst.loc',

RE: Class does not exist error

2002-01-29 Thread Jesse, Rich
This is supposed to be BUG# 1260358 and fixed in 8.1.6.1, but I can't find any info on that BUG... You may want to try to execute the $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/iniplsj.sql script as user SYS. This is normally called as part of initjvm.sql, but some releases skipped it. If I remember correctly,

Re: NetSaint

2002-01-29 Thread Eswar the MAD
Hi, As a alternative to TNG we tried that product, as a technitian i like the product and will again push it ;), but as a manager i wont go for that product cause of managability and scalability, TNG is very scalable and netsaint is not that much. just ask him who manages if he leaves (They

Business Intelligence Suites

2002-01-29 Thread Brian Haas
Does anyone have any experience with Brio, Cognos, or any other Business Intelligence Suites? If so,what are some pros and cons of them? I have looked at Oracle's data mining suite, but it looks like it requires heavy development to deploy reports and tools(We don't have an in-house Java

RE: Oracle trace file on/off

2002-01-29 Thread Mohan, Ross
Send them doggies home, KD, it's a done deal. ;-) -Original Message- You may turn the trace on or off that way, but how do you interrogate it to find its event settings? - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 6:42 PM To: 'Deshpande, Kirti'; [EMAIL

RE: Function In Select Statment

2002-01-29 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
That may indeed help, if you're very lucky. However forcing it to use that index could also result in an inefficient query path. Another possibility, also with drawbacks, is to have a materialized view which contains the function results as a column of the view. Ian MacGregor Stanford

Re: auditing tables

2002-01-29 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Oracle Designer will create journal tables, and the triggers to populate them. It might be worth capturing your DB design in Designer and using this feature (of course, I'm sure Designer isn't cheap, so that's a consideration as well). You'd gain the benefit of having your design stored in a

RE: OFF TOPIC: RE: PL/SQL

2002-01-29 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Kirti - I haven't read that book, but I haven't seen a bad book in the for Dummies series yet, so I would imagine it is pretty good, especially for beginners. Maybe after you have gone through it you can let us know your opinion, especially whether it is more for beginning Oracle developers or

Re: NetSaint

2002-01-29 Thread Gene Sais
we use big brother, free and it works. not sure of the others you mentioned. i've been forced to use ca-unicenter before and its not worth 1% of what they charged. basically it sux :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/29/02 11:12AM Has anybody heard of/used/liked/hated NetSaint? One of our UNIX

Top parent in START WITH...CONNECT BY

2002-01-29 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hi, On 8.1.7.2 (soon to be .3) on HP/UX 11.0, a developer needs to get the top parent associated with a lower level row. Expanding on Oracle's EMP example: EMP MGR LEVEL King1 Greenberg King2 Faviet Greenberg

Where to store BLOB's

2002-01-29 Thread
Hello all We are designing a new application. This application stores files that were FTP to the clients and keep then for resubmitting (if the user ask for them). There are two formats: 1) Standard records whose internal format is known. These files lets the user ask for a subset of the

RE: OFF TOPIC: RE: PL/SQL

2002-01-29 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Igor, It's a good night-cap :) However, I can use a sign like that, considering what we are going through lately.. Implementing a HUGE system converted to access Oracle RDBMS. Converted from old IDMS COBOL code, to Pro*COBOL programs. Each table has 4 copy-book routines that are called from

RE: Database Performance Question

2002-01-29 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Database Performance Question Parentitions and Maternalized Views are supposed to come out in 10i. (Paternalized views take longer, they required retrofitting onto the kernel command tree. ) -Original Message-From: Godlewski, Melissa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent:

NetSaint vs BigBrother (was: NetSaint)

2002-01-29 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 08:12:05AM -0800, Vergara, Michael (TEM) wrote: Has anybody heard of/used/liked/hated NetSaint? One of our UNIX administrators is pushing this as a cheap alternative to CA UniCenter, and he wants to start using it to monitor systems and databases. Please let me

RE: Database Performance Question

2002-01-29 Thread Ashoke Mandal
make sure you are not using any function like upper lower ... as part of the select statement. If yes then by creating function based index will improve the performance dramatically. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/29/02 10:35AM Partitions, Materialized views, bit map indexes. -Original

RE: Database Performance Question

2002-01-29 Thread SRAJENDRAN
Kirti: Thanks for the insight. Here are my Answers: 1. I feel database is the problem because when only a subset of the total data is used the performance is excellent (with one tenth of the total data). The no. of users are the same. Only amount data that is retrieved is enormous (almost 10

RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-29 Thread Mohan, Ross
I guess this is still on topic eh? LoL. -Original Message- And your point caller?? TIC ;o) -Original Message- Sent: 29 January 2002 15:41 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L No offense to anybody, but I think this is rather arrogant. The list is for anybody

Re: Function In Select Statment

2002-01-29 Thread Ashoke Mandal
For Oracle 8i use functiion based index. Thanks, Ashoke [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/29/02 10:05AM Hi List, One of our developer using function in his select statment but the problem is when he is using order by one of the function results column the query is very slow, Is there any way to use hint

Re: Database Performance Question

2002-01-29 Thread Casey Jordan
You may want to look at using materialized views. They are easy to setup and can be refreshed manualy or automaticaly. Thanks, cj SRAJENDRAN@nlf

RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-29 Thread Mark Leith
Title: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL) There is a good faq website listed at the base of each email sent to this list. Add to that *every* Oracle manual (authored by Oracle) is hosted in both pdf and (some) html format on the Oracle Technet site

RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-29 Thread Johnston, Tim
Title: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL) Hi Ken... Do they have an internet connection? http://docs.oracle.com or http://tahiti.oracle.com It goes a long way... And, as I mentioned in my other email... This person has been pointed at the exact manual on numerous occasions but

RE: Database Performance Question

2002-01-29 Thread Nicoll, Iain (Calanais)
How many rows are you bringing back from a typical query, how good is the best filter condition and are you filtering that first before joining to the other tables in the explain plan? What is the query and explain plan? Iain Nicoll -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002

RE: RE: sqlplus question

2002-01-29 Thread lhoska
What ring are you going to give to Kimberly? :-) -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:41 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Kewl! That means I get to start taking drugs again. I am a happy boy. I'll whiz over to the OT list and give Kimberly a ring. Does she

adpatch question

2002-01-29 Thread Bellows, Bambi
Hi Folks! I'm in the middle of an 11.5.5 upgrade. Now, if you've done that type of thing before, you know those suckers just run forever, and if you leave it running overnight, you generally come in the next day to find that things failed overnight. Well, that's where I was. I left this

Microsoft plans to bundle iFS copycat into it operating system

2002-01-29 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
FYI, http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/23852.html They seem to have decided that iFS is not a bad idea, and they will integrate it into their future OS. Same strategy as for Novell's NDS and the Windows Active Directory in Windows2000. A Netscape equivalent into Windows95. OS/2 HPFS

RE: Oracle process causes High CPU

2002-01-29 Thread Mohan, Ross
What job(s) are you running? and if you strings core | head -40, what do you get? Inquiring Minds want to know, etc. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:06 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We have problem with oracle process ora_snp0 that causes high

RE: OFF TOPIC: RE: PL/SQL

2002-01-29 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Will do.. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:26 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Kirti - I haven't read that book, but I haven't seen a bad book in the for Dummies series yet, so I would imagine it is pretty good, especially for beginners. Maybe

RE: Microsoft plans to bundle iFS copycat into it operating syste

2002-01-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Okay ... does anyone know what are Microsoft's own inventions? 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

RE: Oracle trace file on/off

2002-01-29 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Here you go... 1) Find the OSPID for the suspected user (other than pmon, smon and their famiy) select s.username, p.spid from v$session s, v$process p where s.paddr = p.addr; 2) Use oradebug to connect to that spid (here I have 26073, and the session was tracing event 10046) SVRMGR

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