RE: sending email via pl/ sql using query

2002-02-01 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Suhen, You should be able to pass in the values returned from your query as a 'variable' to the utl_smtp.write_data command. I've used an example from the asktom.oracle.com website ( http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:457115::NO::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID,F 4950_P8_CRITERIA:2118740358226,%7But

Converting 32bit to 64bit /Oracle 8172

2002-02-01 Thread peter . lomax
Hello Gerado, At our site our machine was a new fresh install. We installed Solaris 2.8 64bit and Oracle 8172 64bit We have then received from our supplier a compressed database on tape. This database came from a tar of a cold copy of their system validation department. They have Solaris 2.8 64bit

Anyone used 10810 to trace ORA-01555?

2002-02-01 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Have any one used the event 10810 to trace 'snapshot too old' errors. I would be interested in knowing the dumps/traces.. Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan Bangalore, INDIA _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.

RE: Problems with Installing Oracle 9i.

2002-02-01 Thread אדר יחיאל
Hello Neil I had problems installing 9i on NT as well. Called support and they sent me (about two weeks ago) a new install with correction. The second install was OK. It was cd pack v2. Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Neil Khot [SMTP

RE: sending email via pl/ sql using query

2002-02-01 Thread אדר יחיאל
Hello Suhen We are using smtp to send mail with attached file. Maybe you can write the letter to file and send the file as attachment. Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Suhen Pather [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Fri, February 01, 20

Re: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Stephane Faroult
I am afraid we have seen too many 'flavour-of-the-month' fads already. I fear that Larry is about as clueless as I am about the immediate future of IT and Oracle's 'strategy' has more or less been a succession of more or less well inspired tactical moves. I have known Oracle when distribution of e

RE: What tools for Oracle Data Warehouse ETL

2002-02-01 Thread אדר יחיאל
Hello Chuan Please, some more info. What is the source/target of data, what machines/Os, local/remote, sizes etc. Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Chuan Zhang [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Fri, February 01, 2002 12:45 AM > To: Mu

RE: ALTER ROLLBACK SEGMENT rbs SHRINK

2002-02-01 Thread Sinard Xing
Hi all, I did a test and my conclusions are: 1. You can shrink your rollback segment down to (next + initial + a bit of header (not so sure the size)) not down to initial * minextents this will cause ora 1555 for sure What I did for test "ALTER ROLLBACK SEGMENT rbs SHRINK TO 1M; to

RE: Oracle Tunning

2002-02-01 Thread SARKAR, Samir
Well Mogens, Niemiec's book does have its plus points as well. What we basically want from Oracle is improved response times and faster performancewhich is all about how many hits we r getting and improving the hit ratio is something any DBA will try to attain. There is a wonderful

RE: Anyone used 10810 to trace ORA-01555?

2002-02-01 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Please ignore the mail. I have got the trace files. Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan -Original Message- Gopalakrishnan Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Have any one used the event 10810 to trace 'snapshot too old' errors. I would be int

RE: Oracle Tunning

2002-02-01 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Samir,   I cannot resist anymore. I was the one who raised this issue in this list and few other discussion groups…in which few of Rich’s colleagues also participate. It is one of the incorrect irrelevant books in the Oracle Performance Tuning. I can find ludicrous errors in every chapte

RE: Oracle Tunning

2002-02-01 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Continuing my previous mail :   Since you (as I always) have high respect for Steve Adams, Check what Steve says about that tip (in p607 Oracle Performance Tuning tips and techniques.. Richard Niemic)  in his Ixora Q & A on buffer cache at http://www.ixora.com.au/q+a/cache.htm   The on

EXP flashing a couple of errors?

2002-02-01 Thread Abdul Aleem
Hi, To export data as a backup of my oracle 8i server I did the following: 1- Executed the script catalog.sql from user "sys" 2- Created a parameter file with following parameters #Userid=system/manager Log=c:\backups\[date folder]\log.txt File=c:\backups\[date folder]\exp_data.dmp

RE: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
We had a small discussion yesterday about Oracle moving to Linux (possibly), so my SA asks ... "Is there any OS vendor left in the market that Uncle L hasn't pissed off yet? Sun was dumped in favor of HP, they already pissed off IBM because of DB/2, not dumping HP they move to Linux". So I told hi

Re:SQL Injection and Oracle?

2002-02-01 Thread dgoulet
Nope, you could do it with any sql based database unless your forms have protection built in. Thankfully our WEB guys did that by accident. Namely when they accept a data value they have certain rules that they apply to all fields, like max length, no unlimited length fields, comment data manipu

Re: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
it's not just Oracle, this tends to be a trend in all businesses. Just as there are fads in clothing (shorter hemlines, longer hemlines etc), there seem to be fads in the "right" way to manage your computer systems. I've seen the cycle turn a number of times "centralize all software and systems,

RE: What tools for Oracle Data Warehouse ETL

2002-02-01 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Steve, you said: "Ideally you'd want to avoid sql-loader like the plague and have the product load directly. Every project I've been on that used Oracle's loading software got bottlenecked to the point of severe pain." Just curious, why was using sql-loader in the process so painfull - or was th

Re[2]: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread dgoulet
Jonathan, I remember reading an article in Oracle Magazine about a year to year & a half ago, where Uncle Larry was prostelatizing us to create one large database vs. having lots of small ones. So the screw turns once more!! Also I remember Oracle being torqued at RedHat some time ago & fin

RE: ALTER ROLLBACK SEGMENT rbs SHRINK

2002-02-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
but the rollback segment could be shrunk to optimal in the course of Oracle going about its business in the database (say another user is assigned to that rollback segment and needs to extend, Oracle will first shrink it before extending). and if no one is accessing the data in the rollback segme

Re:Questions on DB Design

2002-02-01 Thread dgoulet
Long, If your interviewing a DB designer you might want to add a question on normalization, namely how they view the process. I've seen what IMHO is both ends of the spectrum, namely every thing absolutely normalized to the N'th degree and absolutely no normalization at all. In case 1 you e

RE: ALTER ROLLBACK SEGMENT rbs SHRINK

2002-02-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
if you don't have optimal set, you need to manually monitor the size of your rollback segments or you can hit maxextents on them or run out of room in your rollback tablespace. It's best to size the rollback segments so that most of the time they don't need to extend. Then when you add optimal, i

Re: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Stephane Faroult
In a previous life in the 1980s, an IBM salesman has told me a funny story about an IBM marketing guy who was a specialist of strategy speeches, future of IT, etc. The salesman took a customer to a presentation once, and was very impressed by the speech in which the marketing man was demonstrating

RE: sending email via pl/ sql using query

2002-02-01 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Suhen,   Using PL/SQL cursors, you can build any kind of dynamic string you want, place the result in a PL/SQL variable, and email it to whomever you want.   Give an example of your sql select statement, and I'll be glad to help.   Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Origin

RE: Re[2]: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
The irony is that Microsoft plans to put a built-in rdbms in the OS that will come out two versions after .NET Server. The rdbms will be in the OS, not the other way around. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- Sent: Friday, February 01,

RE: OPS$ / default accounts

2002-02-01 Thread Grabowy, Chris
In other words, there arguing about who is writing the code (the fun part) and who is writing the book (the not so fun part)... Sorry J, I couldn't resist... -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 4:46 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Yes, Andy Duncan and I are

RE: Re[2]: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Uurrgghh !!! prostelatizing - could you not have said preaching. Alphabetti Spaghetti for lunch ??? :-) -Original Message- Sent: 01 February 2002 13:45 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Jonathan, I remember reading an article in Oracle Magazine about a year to year & a ha

RE: Re[2]: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Michael Kline
The "consolidate, don't consolidate" goes to those areas where companies may have broke up a large site into smaller "hubs". These helped the processing because a hub would normally be closer than "central" and dedicated lines were VERY expensive and they still did a ton of printing. So, we bre

OT: DB2

2002-02-01 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
After my request last night I found the following link for online docs for DB2 admin. http://www-4.ibm.com/cgi-bin/db2www/data/db2/udb/winos2unix/support/document.d2w/report?fn=db2v7d0frm3toc.htm Regards Lee   The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only

Re: STORAGE PARAMETER?

2002-02-01 Thread Igor Neyman
Seema, This changes will affect the next (and all the following) extent created for the table/index. 'Old data' extents will stay the same. If this causes fragmentation in the tablespace (not certanly), you can do export/import or 'alter table ... move', depending on your Oracle version. Igor Ne

RE: Re[2]: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Weaver, Walt
I think Larry lives in his own dream world. We're currently using Oracle on inexpensive Linux servers, but that probably won't last for long. Our Oracle licenses cost over $65,000 per server. The servers cost about $30,000 each, and the OS is essentially free. Makes no sense at all. If Oracle con

Re: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread orantdba
Hi All, I don't think anything here indicates that we are going back to hundreds of smaller databases. I does indicate that he is pushing the Real Application Clusters on thes smaller boxes so that they can continue to support large databases. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Jonathan, > >

RE: Re[2]: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
I think eventually MS will come out a kitchen sink (called .MSKitchenSink) in .NET software, but every time you run the garbage disposal, everyone in the world will know about it. Some people shouldn't be allowed to innovate ... by law. Raj __ R

RE: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Orr, Steve
On a contrarian note with all the Larry hype aside... Linux is much more that just a fad. In a relatively short time it has already put a very significant dent in MS server software sales and I'm sure it's going to affect Sun/HP regardless of Oracle's IT infrastructure strategies. Linux/Intel is

Oracle DBA Needed in Kansas City, Kansas area

2002-02-01 Thread OraStaff
If you enjoy interesting work, then join this Major Consulting Firm in the Kansas City, Kansas area that needs an Oracle DBA to provide client database support. This is a Staff position and the first project is for 6 months with extensions in Overland, Kansas. *Only candidates in Kansas or nearb

Unix Book

2002-02-01 Thread Hamid Alavi
Hi, Anybody knows any good book for Unix Beginner people, If yes Please let me know I really appreciate Hamid Alavi Office 818 737-0526 Cell818 402-1987 The information contained in this message and any attachments is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is add

RE: ALTER ROLLBACK SEGMENT rbs SHRINK

2002-02-01 Thread Johnston, Tim
You are completely correct... I read his original questions as "Can a shrink cause a ORA-1555"... Not "Will a shrink cause a ORA-1555"... A shrink CAN cause a ORA-1555 in the correct set of circumstances... A shrink WILL NOT always cause a ORA-1555... Sorry Tim -Original Message- Sen

Re:RE: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread dgoulet
Steve, As one of the GREAT MicroSlop bashers, I pray you are more than correct. May the Penguin rule!! BTW: I've experimented with Oracle 8 & 8i on Linux, RedHat's variant, & I'll agree it is stable, easy to use, and very supportable. The problem is the cost of Oracle on a Linux box.

Re: Questions on DB Design

2002-02-01 Thread Bjørn Engsig
You clearly also need to ask these persons about application design. Together with the database design, poor application design is the source of countless performance problems. The good application developer is fully aware of how Oracle handles SQL statemens, how he should and should not wri

RE: Unix Book

2002-02-01 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Hamid, I use the "Unix in a nutshell" by O'Reilly (ISBN 1-56592-427-4). It pretty much covers all of the basics. Cheers, Kev. -Original Message- Sent: 01 February 2002 16:16 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, Anybody knows any good book for Unix Beginner people, If yes Pleas

RE: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Jesse, Rich
I think that the LVM announcement in the link below is the lynchpin for getting Linux "Enterprise-wide" (man, I hate buzzwords!): http://www.veritas.com/news/press/PressReleaseDetail.jhtml?NewsId=9483 Now if I could only get Oracle on Linux for Alpha, I'd be set! Rich Jesse

Re: DB2

2002-02-01 Thread Marin Dimitrov
  check out these:   DB2 Developer Domain   DB2 links at SearchDatabase.com (faqs + mail lists) IBM DB2   DB2 knowledge base - DB2 Universal Database   DB2 Magazine - http://www.db2mag.com/     hth,       marin "...what you brought from your past, is of

Stored procedure Question

2002-02-01 Thread Lance Prais
All, Currently I run a stored procedure and manually take the results and save them to a xls file. I have few questions: 1. Is it possible to automatic this? 2. Is it possible to save is as an access file? 3. If it possible to do either of the above. Does anyone have examples that I could use

RE: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread John Kanagaraj
> I've seen the cycle turn a number of times "centralize all > software and > systems, one data center to serve them all, standards cross-company" > then suddenly it's "decentralize, one big center makes no sense, we > don't get the things we need fast enough from them" I always think that think

Re[2]: SQL Injection and Oracle?

2002-02-01 Thread Robert Eskridge
d> Nope, you could do it with any sql based database unless your forms have d> protection built in. Thankfully our WEB guys did that by accident. Namely when d> they accept a data value they have certain rules that they apply to all fields, d> like max length, no unlimited length fields, comment

Re: Oracle Tunning

2002-02-01 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
It's very true that we want improved response times, better performance, more colorful sunsets and a few other things I shall not mention here :-). However, the problem with Niemich' book is that it contains incorrect information which will lead you to wrong conclusions and down paths you shoul

ODBC OUI install - where's my driver??

2002-02-01 Thread Baker, Barbara
OK, perhaps I've really lost it this time. Here's my problem. I need a new odbc driver with an MTS patch. This apparently means I need an 8i odbc driver. The odbc drivers we had been using were 8.0 drivers or older, and could be installed from the old oracle installer. The new drivers require

EOUG

2002-02-01 Thread Mark Leith
Hi All, Anyone know where and when the EOUG conference will be held this year? Cheers Mark === Mark Leith | T: +44 (0)1905 330 281 Sales & Marketing | F: +44 (0)870 127 5283 Cool Tools UK Ltd | E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==

RE: EXP flashing a couple of errors?

2002-02-01 Thread Baker, Barbara
Aleem: You need to run ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/catqueue against your database as user SYS Barb > -- > From: Abdul Aleem[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 5:55 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subje

RE: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Grabowy, Chris
I thought it also put a dent in HP/UX & Solaris sales...easier to migrate UNIX to Linux. I believe Amazon is a good example. For the record, I have no love for MS. Congrats on your ReplayTV, it will blow your mind once you fully grasp it's usefulness. I love my TiVo, and I can't live without i

RE: Re[2]: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread George Hofilena
>become an all-MySQL shop As we are here now. Aaagh! We are planning to buy PeopleSoft and my boss has practically decided on his own that we should buy SQL Server. And if not for the fact that our other applications here couldn't run on SQL Server Oracle would have been history here. I hate

Re: Unix Book

2002-02-01 Thread Steven Lembark
-- Hamid Alavi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > Anybody knows any good book for Unix Beginner people, If yes Please let me > know > I really appreciate O'Reilly Press has several, "Learning Unix" is probbly a good place to start. "Learning to Use the VI Editor" is probbly another good item. -- Ste

RE: Unix Book

2002-02-01 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Hamid - I agree with Kevin that Unix in a nutshell is an excellent book and I use it all the time. Highly recommended. However, it is more a reference book. If you already have a basic understanding of Unix, everything is there. I have found beginners sometimes need something that is more a tutori

RE: ODBC OUI install - where's my driver??

2002-02-01 Thread John Kanagaraj
Barb, > However, it doesn't show up when I bring up the odbc data source > administrator. When I click the "drivers" tab, there's no > such driver. Did you restart the PC after installation? It may be as simple as not having the new 8i Home/bin in the PATH. If this doesn't work, I would sugges

Re:Stored procedure Question

2002-02-01 Thread dgoulet
Reply Separator Author: "Lance Prais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2/1/2002 8:35 AM All, Currently I run a stored procedure and manually take the results and save them to a xls file. I have few questions: 1. Is it possible to automatic this? -->

RE: RE: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Gogala, Mladen
There are rumors that Red Hat is buying Microsoft? -Original Message- Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:16 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Steve, As one of the GREAT MicroSlop bashers, I pray you are more than correct. May the Penguin rule!! BTW: I've experimente

RE: EOUG

2002-02-01 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
I believe EOUG is co-hosting the Oracle Open World in Copenhagen this year. Here is a letter from their web site, www.eoug.com Dear Oracle User The EOUG is being restructured, and we are currently working on a new business plan with enhanced User and Partner services. We will also use the oppor

RE: Stored procedure Question

2002-02-01 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Lance, As far as Excel workbooks are concerned, you can create any kind of tab-delimited file, name the file something.xls, and you can directly open it via excel. So, in your case, you could do something like: set head off set serveroutput on set out.xls declare in_param number; out_param1

RE: Unix Book

2002-02-01 Thread Nancy McCormick
O'Reilly has a CD Bookshelf of 6 Unix books. Very good and priced right. It has the books already mentioned as well as others like "Learning the Korn Shell" and "sed & awk". I have found it very useful. Nancy -Original Message- Lembark Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:25 AM To: Multi

RE: Oracle standby strange behavior

2002-02-01 Thread Yuval Arnon
Title: Oracle standby strange behavior Hi, FYI , the problem is an Oracle bug 1504967 described as Inconsistency between Dictionary Cache and Dictionary on Standby DatabaseSee Metalink for Doc id 150222.1  for explanation how to workaround it.   Yuval. -Original Message-From: Vadim

RE: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Orr, Steve
For a different perspective step into Larry's shoes for a minute, (O... that's scary!)... "Hmmm... the less they have to spend on servers the more money left over to spend on me, er, my products..." Oracle will get away with their pricing as long as the competition isn't so stiff that they h

RE: RE: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Grabowy, Chris
It's not a rumor, it's true...MS is letting themselves become aquired by Red Hat, they figure that all the lawsuits will have to be dropped, and there going to put the Windows GUI onto RH Linux. A killer combo. A brillant move by Bill Gates. https://www.usatoday.com/current/0201/am/rhmspur.ht

RE: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
"Not selling my Oracle stock... yet." now is the time to buy! it's cheap! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 1:42 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L For a different perspective step into Larry's shoes for a minute

Sending email from Unix

2002-02-01 Thread Sona
Title: Oracle standby strange behavior Hi I want to send an email from Unix with an attachment .does anyone know how to do this?   TIA

Re: Sending email from Unix

2002-02-01 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > I want to send an email from Unix with an attachment .does anyone know > how to do this? > > > > TIA > man mail and/or man mailx -- -- Bill "Shrek" Thater ORACLE DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Sending email from Unix

2002-02-01 Thread Ron Thomas
On our HP systems, I use a utility named mpack. Ron Thomas Hypercom, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Hit any PHB to continue..." sona_us@hotma

Re: Unix Book

2002-02-01 Thread Cherie_Machler
O'Reilly now publishes a Pocket Reference called Unix for Oracle DBAs that might be helpful to you. I use Unix in a Nutshell by O'Reilly quite a bit for basic DBA stuff. Cherie Machler Oracle DBA Gelco Information Network

Re: PMON CRASHED INSTANCE

2002-02-01 Thread Ashoke Mandal
Seema, Do you have any idea about the BUG no.? Thanks, Ashoke >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/31/02 03:45PM >>> AShoke Its oracle Bug which fixed in 8.1.7.During the time may be yours IOWAIT was high. Thx -Seema >From: "Ashoke Mandal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple

Re: EOUG

2002-02-01 Thread Stephane Faroult
>From what I have heard from a board member of the Norwegian OUG in Madrid two years ago, Oracle's marketing strategy is quite the opposite of Larry's: instead of having a single, mega 'OracleWorld' event in the US, they have gone for several ones (including, if I remember well, parallel 'OracleWo

Re: Sending email from Unix

2002-02-01 Thread Stephane Faroult
> Sona wrote: > > Hi > I want to send an email from Unix with an attachment .does anyone know > how to do this? > > TIA man mailx -- Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriole Ltd -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Stephane Faroult INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fa

RE: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread George Hofilena
>now is the time to buy! it's cheap! True. But it's not going to get any higher either (my own prediction) :) George -Original Message- Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:52 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L "Not selling my Oracle stock... yet." now is the time to buy! i

Re: Sending email from Unix

2002-02-01 Thread Robert Pegram
On Solaris I have used uuencode - check the man page for more details. uuencode $FILE $FILE | mailx -s "subject" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Pegram Oracle DBA --- Sona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oracle standby strange behaviorHi > I want to send an email from Unix with an attachment > .does anyo

RE: Sending email from Unix

2002-02-01 Thread Kempf, Reed
Title: Oracle standby strange behavior use PINE, that is the best and easiest email program on UNIX (IMHO).  Easy to send attachments :)   HTH   ReedK -Original Message-From: Sona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:07 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list

is it f*ing f*day yet? / ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 032

2002-02-01 Thread Eric D. Pierce
rant: "bcoz" "u" ?? "shud" "ur" ?? maybe I'm just being an *sshole, but does anyone else find this kind of "cutsie" mutiliation of the english language nauseating, insipid, banal, inane, egregious, atrocious, deplorable, heinous, monstrous, outrageous, prepostero

RE: RE: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Jesse, Rich
Erm, what drugs are you taking and do you have any left over for me? usatoday.com doesn't use SSL and that link without SSL isn't on their site... Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Orig

Re: Sending email from Unix

2002-02-01 Thread Sona
Title: Oracle standby strange behavior I want to send an email with an attachment from shell script .How do i do that?     - Original Message - From: Kempf, Reed To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:26 AM Subject: RE: Send

Re: Sending email from Unix

2002-02-01 Thread Casey Jordan
I use uuencode in a AIX 4.3.2 environment, see below... # cat | uuencode | mail Thanks, cj "Sona"

RE: is it f*ing f*day yet? / ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Num

2002-02-01 Thread Jon Baker
Title: RE: is it f*ing f*day yet? / ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 032 It ain't just you.  it distracts me from being able to read more quickly because my brain must translate this c-r-a-p. It's not cute, it is just down right annoying.  I always figured it was just me and just trie

Re: Unix Book

2002-02-01 Thread Greg Moore
It may be a mistake to consider yourself a UNIX beginner. You can buy many books aimed at beginners, but they mainly attempt to teach you many commands you can issue from the command line. Even if you're a rank beginner, I'd suggest the book on the Korn Shell from O'Reilly publishing. It's easy

Re: ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 032

2002-02-01 Thread Eric D. Pierce
ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 032 > The > author was a bit confusing about using the Internet to get answers. One > item was not to rely to heavily on the Internet and then he followed up > with multiple items on the proper use of the internet. There is no "confusion" in the article. I

RE: Sending email from Unix

2002-02-01 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Geesh... Your Q made me nostalgic. Reminded me of the days when I used to uuencode files and mail them over. Have a look a uuencode, and mailx. Raj "Kempf

RE: is it f*ing f*day yet? / ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Num

2002-02-01 Thread Bellows, Bambi
Yer jist not lookin at it from tha rite perspective. Take a look at rock lyrics... " 'Cause I'm the only one who'll walk across the fire for you " Now translate it literally into French... " 'rseque Je'm le seulement on qui'll march une croix un feu pour tu " Modify it so it rhymes (classic

Re: Sending email from Unix

2002-02-01 Thread Sona
I tried mailx but it doesn't have the facility to send attachments.How do I send attachments? - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 11:30 AM > > Sona wrote: > > > > Hi > > I want to send an email from Unix wi

RE: RE: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Jon Baker
Title: RE: RE: Linux taking over at Oracle I think you can figure just from the text that this was a hoax.  red hat acquiring microsoft?  now that would take some serious capitalization. Jon Baker -Original Message- From: Jesse, Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, Februar

Function for Geting Description

2002-02-01 Thread Hamid Alavi
Hi List, I want to define a function for lookup tables like this f_get_lookup_value(, , ) returns description which send the table_name,column_name & ID then function return the description, Can we use dba_tables to pass the table_name& column_name then check with ID and return the description f

RE: is it f*ing f*day yet? / ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Num

2002-02-01 Thread JoJo Al-Zawawi
Title: RE: is it f*ing f*day yet? / ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 032 I can read this and think, "Oh, this is pretty funny!", but tell me folks, why do some of you go out of your way to humiliate others (whether you are "right" or "wrong")?  Don't you have anything better to do?   --

RE: Sending email from Unix

2002-02-01 Thread Deepak Thapliyal
unix2dos file1| uuencode file1 | mailx -s 'file1' [EMAIL PROTECTED] hth Deepak --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Geesh... Your Q made me nostalgic. Reminded me of > the days when I used to > uuencode files and mail them over. Have a look a > uuencode, and mailx. > > Raj > > > > >

Several Oracle DBAs Needed in Minneapolis

2002-02-01 Thread OraStaff
We have several opportunities with a couple of client companies in Minneapolis, Minnesota that are looking for Oracle DBAs to manage the daily operations of Oracle databases; develope standards and processes, installs, monitor performance, etc. These are full time staff positions..Please No sub

RE: RE: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Jesse, Rich
Lack of emoticons and too much DayQuil, I guess. And with the RedHat/Time-Warner-AOhelL rumors, who knows??? Damn. There goes my drugs. ;) Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original M

RE: is it f*ing f*day yet? / ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 032

2002-02-01 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
I b wid u! Actually, I worry about the code people are pounding out if they can't spell a simple sentence. Caveat 1. I'm talking about native English speakers here. I'm in awe of people who can communicate in more than one language. Caveat 2. Occasional errors happen even with grammar and spe

RE: RE: Linux taking over at Oracle

2002-02-01 Thread Jon Baker
Title: RE: RE: Linux taking over at Oracle Well, when you get some more, remember to share. Jon Baker Database Architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jesse, Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 4:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE

RE: Function for Geting Description

2002-02-01 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Function for Geting Description > -Original Message- > From: Hamid Alavi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I want to define a function for lookup tables like this > f_get_lookup_value(, , ) returns > description > which send the table_name,column_name & ID then function return

RE: What tools for Oracle Data Warehouse ETL

2002-02-01 Thread Jared . Still
I'm most familiar with DataStage, as I took the training for that tool. It uses it's own version if a VB like language for building jobs. It also allows you to run external programs and scripts as part of a job. It was very powerful and flexible, not too hard to use either, a rare combination

Re: is it f*ing f*day yet? / ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 032

2002-02-01 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
I received my undergrad degree from Purdue University which is one of the best engineering schools in the country. At the time engineering students where only required to take one English class during their four year tenure. And, it only had to be a simple speech class. So, it is no wonder that

RE: is it f*ing f*day yet? / ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Num

2002-02-01 Thread David Messer
Title: RE: is it f*ing f*day yet? / ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 032 JoJo,   Eric did remove the senders name from the post.  You also have to understand that Eric is a fairly direct communicator, just his style.  He also warned you that it was a rant.  Besides, I understand he's re

Re: is it f*ing f*day yet? / ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 032

2002-02-01 Thread Jared . Still
Not any more objectionable than the mutilation you just perpetrated. Jared "Eric D. Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/01/02 11:50 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:

Re: Sending email from Unix

2002-02-01 Thread Rajesh . Rao
You first need to uuencode the file. Have a look at the uuencode command. Then, use mailx. mailx -s"Subject" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < uuencoded file here. Raj

RE: OPS$ / default accounts

2002-02-01 Thread Steve Main
You might also want to check out this web site http://www.pentest-limited.com/default-user.htm Steve -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 9:41 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L James McCann wrote: > > Speaking of default accounts with default passwords, here

Re: ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 032

2002-02-01 Thread Jared . Still
Save this for the off topic list. It doesn't play well here. The Management "Eric D. Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/01/02 12:10 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:

RE: is it f*ing f*day yet? / ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 032

2002-02-01 Thread Jared . Still
Let's end this thread now. Fooling the filters into accepting thinly disguised profanity is childish and is not appropriate here. Jared The Management "Whittle Jerome Contr NCI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/01/02 01:17 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Mu

DESIGN Question: 1 or many tables and other thoughts

2002-02-01 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
My question deals with what is the best practice in creating lookup tables. Many of these tables contain very limited information such as "code & description". For example: Agency 1 - Jones Inc 2 - Ratfield Co Source 1 - phone 2 - mail 3 - internet Is it better to create 1 composite table to

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