RE: Which certification for Oracle DBA ???

2002-02-12 Thread Abdul Aleem
What when both are gone? IMH opinion, C++/Assembly would probably stay and be in demand. Within c++ probably text based would go earlier than GUI based. To my understanding, you can code for both in GUI. Aleem -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 6:43 AM To: Mult

RE: Preparation for OCP 8i Upgrade

2002-02-12 Thread Ahmed Gholam Hussain
HI Mandal , My recomendation is for this book : Oracle8 to Oraxcle8i upgrade for Robert G. Freeman , Charles A. Pack Regards Gholam --- > ---

RE: optimizer_mode/optimizer_rule

2002-02-12 Thread Alex Hillman
Yea, was not sure but not enough to check :-) Alex Hillman > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rachel > Carmichael > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 7:23 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: optimizer_mode/optimiz

RE: Sql question

2002-02-12 Thread Arn Klammer
Remco is right: the last predicate in the subquery should be "=" instead of "<>" as we want to EXCLUDE those ones using the NOT EXISTS. In fact, I think that query will always return no rows, as the first part is asking for those with searchvalue = 'first one', but not those with no searchval

Re: Which certification for Oracle DBA ???

2002-02-12 Thread ltiu
Get both. On Tuesday 12 February 2002 07:33, you wrote: > Hi, > > I have just given my oracle 9i upgrade exam. I was > wondering which certification is best for me next - > Sun Solaris administration or JAVA certification ? > I have a 6+ years of Oracle, 4 years of Solaris > experience and 6 mont

Where FORTRAN version which supported on Oracle 8i

2002-02-12 Thread Ahmadsyah Alghozi Nugroho
Dear all, Which FORTRAN version are supported on Oracle 8i? Which one is best among them? thanks in advance, Ahmadsyah Alghozi Nugroho ~ Holly ~ -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ahmadsyah Alghozi Nugroho INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Ser

RE: Moving Oracle Binaries from HP to SUN

2002-02-12 Thread Sujatha Madan
Rob, I've faced a slightly similar scenario. The main difference being, I didn't go from a SUN box to a HP box. Instead, it was from one SUN box to another SUN box. The binaries were installed on the other server and the EMC disks connected (if that is the right word) to the server. Everything wo

RE: optimizer_mode/optimizer_rule

2002-02-12 Thread Rachel Carmichael
optimizer_mode is a parameter in the init.ora optimizer_goal is a parameter for the alter session command. you had them reversed --- Alex Hillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OPTIMIZER_GOAL is a parameter in init.ora and determines systemwide > optimizer usage. OPTIMIZER_MODE is parameter in a

RE: Oracle Masters certification !!!

2002-02-12 Thread Randy Kirkpatrick
I think he's catching on !!! -Original Message- Rowski Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I don't want to go for Oracle Masters because of the compulsory training from Oracle. Why should I spend big money on training when I have real worl

RE: Which certification for Oracle DBA ???

2002-02-12 Thread Scott . Shafer
Java will go a lot sooner Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 "Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate." > -Original Message- > From: Jason Rowski [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 4:03 PM > To: Multiple rec

Thanks : URGENT Help on tracking unauthorized login to Oracle Database

2002-02-12 Thread Mandal, Ashoke
Title: RE: URGENT Help on tracking unauthorized login to Oracle Database Hi everybody,   Finally it worked for me.   Thanks for all your help.   Ashoke -Original Message-From: orantdba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:02 PMTo: Multiple recipients of

RE: Rollback Segment Problem

2002-02-12 Thread Alex Hillman
Why would you need coalesce at all?. My understanding that if Oracle cannot find contiguous free space it try coalesce itself. Alex Hillman > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mohammad > Rafiq > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 4:53 PM >

Preparation for OCP 8i Upgrade

2002-02-12 Thread Mandal, Ashoke
Is there any book for Oracle 8i upgrade Thanks, Ashoke -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Mandal, Ashoke INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / M

RE: optimizer_mode/optimizer_rule

2002-02-12 Thread Alex Hillman
OPTIMIZER_GOAL is a parameter in init.ora and determines systemwide optimizer usage. OPTIMIZER_MODE is parameter in alter session command and determines optimizer used by that session. Alex Hillman > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > [E

RE: Which certification for Oracle DBA ???

2002-02-12 Thread Jason Rowski
I think Solaris is going to go away soon as it is going replaced by Linux.The reasons are : 1) Linux is backed by all the major vendors like IBM, HP, SGI etc. ( even SUN was pressured into offering Linux on sparc on low end servers). 2) Running Linux is cheap because of the all open source softw

Patch 8.1.7.3 for NT/2000

2002-02-12 Thread Babich , Sergey
FYI: It's available on Metastink and supposedly fixes a lo-o-o-o-o-ta bugs! Best, Sergey Babich

Oracle Advanced Security on Server - Mandatory encryption

2002-02-12 Thread Martin, Alan
Title: Oracle Advanced Security on Server - Mandatory encryption I am primarily interested in encryption, not authentication. I understand that placing the following lines in a client's sqlnet.ora file to REQUIRE encryption to/from the server is: SQLNET_CRYPTO_CHECKSUM_TYPE_SERVER = MD5 SQLNE

Oracle Masters certification !!!

2002-02-12 Thread Jason Rowski
I don't want to go for Oracle Masters because of the compulsory training from Oracle. Why should I spend big money on training when I have real world experience. Thanks Jason --- Joe Raube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It depends on which way you want your career path to > go... > > administr

RE: Upgrading from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7 - Please help

2002-02-12 Thread Kevin Lange
Good point. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Fred, I'll respond this way. The odma makes its selection on the database to upgrade based on those available from oratab (with the old database $ORACLE_HOME). Also the odm

Preperation for OCP 9i

2002-02-12 Thread Jason Rowski
Hi I used the book 'Oracle 9i : New features' by Robert Freeman. I had made extensive notes on Oracle 9i new features from Oracle 9i manuals also. If you are interested , I can post it online. The exam is at the same level as Oracle 8i upgrade exam. Thanks Jason --- Mohammad Rafiq <[EMAIL PR

RE: Rollback Segment Problem

2002-02-12 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Jerry, Thanks for sharing script. We might have better systems as timing was never be a issue. I just tested my script on 2 systems and it ran between 34.5 mseconds to 4.65 seconds...and on the basis of it is results we coalesce all such tablespaces. I prefer to keep pctincrease of tablespaces

RUN STORE PROCEDURE INSIDE A FUNCTION

2002-02-12 Thread Hamid Alavi
Hi List, How can I run a store procedure inside a function? I have a store procedure to do some DML, and we can not run it from our application for some sort of limitation, only we can call function from application side, Is there any way to run this store procedure inside a function or some thin

RE: Rollback Segment Problem

2002-02-12 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Rafiq, While your script provides a lot of good information, it sure is slow on my system. It took 1:44 minutes while my script below took 420 mseconds. I was really surprised as my script has a self-join. Then I checked out dba_free_space_coalesced. It sure is complicated as it calls on two o

Re[4]: Date format element rule change

2002-02-12 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Alexander, Your example below is very helpful, and explains why I recalled that duplicating date elements was possible. I probably used TO_CHAR to test this in the past, while the other day I was using ALTER SESSION. My theory on why you can't duplicate elements when setting NLS_DATE_FORMAT is t

RE: Re[4]: Date format element rule change

2002-02-12 Thread Alexander . Feinstein
Title: RE: Re[4]: Date format element rule change Jonathan, You are right. From FM: For input format models, format items cannot appear twice, and format items that represent similar information cannot be combined. For example, you cannot use 'S' and 'BC' in the same format string. And

RE: How to find out Oracle patch applied

2002-02-12 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
In the $ORACLE_BASE/oraInventory/logs directory look for ' Patch' string in the installActions*.log files. You may find it there... Then you can view that install log file for more info. If those log files aren't there, then you are left with the Oracle Installer to tell you.. - Kirti -O

RE: parallel execution

2002-02-12 Thread Alexander . Feinstein
Title: RE: parallel execution While on the topic, DEGREE VARCHAR2(10) The number of threads per instance for scanning the table What is a difference between '1' and 'DEFAULT'? SQL> select degree, count(*) from user_tables group by degree; DEGREE COUNT(*)  -- --  

RE: How to find out Oracle patch applied

2002-02-12 Thread Xing, James
Is there any Oracle file I can use Unix command "strings" to search for version/patch info? I don't have x-window session. James > -Original Message- > From: Magaliff, Bill [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:02 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L >

Re: logon failure auditing

2002-02-12 Thread orantdba
Hi Bob, 1. change the initializaion parameter audit_trail to be: audit_trail=db shutdown and restart database 2. connect to the database as a user that has the privilege "AUDIT SYSTEM" audit session whenever not successful at this point you can see these unsuccessful logins by monitoring the d

[sans@sans.org: SANS FLASH ALERT: Widespread SNMP Vulnerability]

2002-02-12 Thread Ray Stell
Oracle does not seem to be listed, but you got to wonder what code they based their snmp stuff on. You may want to nudge you sysadmin in the ribs, also. - Forwarded message from The SANS Institute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:30:06 -0700 (MST) To: Ray Stell <[EMA

RE: How to find out Oracle patch applied

2002-02-12 Thread Magaliff, Bill
Load the Oracle Installer and click on Installed Products - will tell you every patch installed by the Installer, which are all the major ones . . . minor patches and one-off's that are installed via OS file copy will NOT show up. -bill -Original Message- Sent: Tue, February 12, 2002 2:0

Re: wrong result from select

2002-02-12 Thread Brian McGraw
I tried the steps on 8.1.7.0.0 on Solaris 2.7, and it worked fine. Trying it on 8.1.7.2.0 provided the erroneous(??) results, but only after the table was analyzed. Has this been filed as a bug? Brian Scott Canaan wrote: > It works fine in 8.1.6.0.0, Sun Solaris 2.6: > > SQL*Plus: Release 8.1

Re: Moving Oracle Binaries from HP to SUN

2002-02-12 Thread Rachel Carmichael
haven't done it, and I don't think it can be done... the datafiles, while Oracle datafiles are still Unix OS files and you can't just copy a file created on HP to Sun and expect it to work. You'd have to export and import/rebuild the database --- Robert Pegram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has a

RE: Moving Oracle Binaries from HP to SUN

2002-02-12 Thread Cornio, Georgette Ms USACFSC
Or do like ORACLE says they are doing, and Cluster Intel Based Machines with LINUX. Then you can get rid of all those competing Hardware Vendors. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 13:39 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Stephane, In the not so distant futur

RE: Moving Oracle Binaries from HP to SUN

2002-02-12 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
There have been a few posts in the past claiming that copying datafiles from HP to SUN and vice versa was okay. However, I never received anyone's reply when I asked them how many Production Databases they have transferred using this method. Experimenting is fine but one can't run business on s

How to find out Oracle patch applied

2002-02-12 Thread Xing, James
Hi DBAs, I want to find out what Oracle patch installed. Someone just installed Oracle817 binary on our server but no 817 instance setup yet, so can't query v$version. Thanks James -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Autho

Re: URGENT Help on tracking unauthorized login to Oracle Database

2002-02-12 Thread orantdba
Title: RE: URGENT Help on tracking unauthorized login to Oracle Database Hi all, I have never done this particular activity but by following the clues given in this thread AND BY reading the documentation I was able to make this work.  The steps I followed were. 1.  change the initializaion p

RE: Upgrading from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7 - Please help

2002-02-12 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
This is all covered in great detail in the 8.1.7 Migration Guide - Chapter 7 titled "Upgrading from a Previous Version 8 Release to the New Oracle8i Release" There is no need to install 8.0.5 on the target server. Just load the cold backup files, adjust init.ora and follow the steps from the g

Dedicated server memory usage 8.1.7 vs 7.3.4

2002-02-12 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
We just recently migrated some production databases from 7.3.4 to 8.1.7.3 on AIX. We have noticed that the amount of memory per dedicated server process spiked from about 400k to 2m. Anybody have any ideas about why this occurs? Is this normal? Thanks -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Oracle Developer/DBA with Java & Informatica Needed- White

2002-02-12 Thread OraStaff
White Plains, New York company is looking for a solid Oracle Developer/DBA who also has Java, Informatica, and ETL programming skills for it's I.T. staff. *Candidates who are not in the White Plains area must be willing to relocate themselves and have the ability to relocate "quickly". No relo

optimizer_mode/optimizer_rule

2002-02-12 Thread lhoska
What is the difference between optimizet_mode and optimizer_goal parameters? Are they being used interchangeably? I've rtmf-ed. It is not clear. Thank you. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858)

RE: Upgrading from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7 - Please help

2002-02-12 Thread Hand, Michael T
Fred, I'll respond this way. The odma makes its selection on the database to upgrade based on those available from oratab (with the old database $ORACLE_HOME). Also the odma default execution will want to start that database before it upgrades the datafiles. On top of that, I would want my test

Re: Moving Oracle Binaries from HP to SUN

2002-02-12 Thread Robert Pegram
Thanks for the responses. I thought exp/imp was the only way to go, but I feel much more confident now. That was also Oracle's response. BTW, I think they have changed their thinking on this issue anyway. Thanks, Robert Pegram - EDS Oracle DBA --- bill thater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [E

Re: Oracle Migration Utility

2002-02-12 Thread Ron Rogers
Fred, I don't know how you can use the migration utility from one physical machine to another. I used the export,import method when going across platforms. Build the new database on the new server to your desired specs and then export the tables you want to move to the new database and import th

Re: Moving Oracle Binaries from HP to SUN

2002-02-12 Thread Ron Rogers
Stephane, In the not so distant future, I think we might see a push to accomplish just what Robert is asking. With the growth of the need for speed and the decline in the economy, a lot of companies can not afford to purchase new machines and discard to old. If I was a company that had a few dif

Re: Upgrading from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7 - Please help

2002-02-12 Thread Ron Rogers
To REMOVE yourself from th is mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want

RE: Sql question

2002-02-12 Thread Bellows, Bambi
Why not try MINUS Select x, y, z >From tab Where condition=1 Minus Select x, y, z >From tab Where condition=2; HTH, Bambi. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:48 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Remco, This is exactly what he wants - all records where the

RE: Upgrading from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7 - Please help

2002-02-12 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Fred, Read the Migration guide for 817. If you want to take the chance of losing time, put your 805 db back on the machine and try a migration. If you have never performed a migration, I think you will either be incredibly lucky if it works ok, or you will be back-tracking (delete all the files

Re: Rollback Segment Problem

2002-02-12 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Is your tablespace fragmented as it is not finding contingous extent .. TRy to coalesce your subject tablespace and try... you can use following script to check whether coalesing is required or not.. If percent is < 100 then coalesce it.. select substr(tablespace_name,1,10)TS_NAME,total_extents

Re: Upgrading from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7 - Please help

2002-02-12 Thread Fred Smith
This is definitely not a production db. I was just told by Oracle that it is possible to migrate the 8.0.5 datafiles using 8.1.7 software. They say I do not need to install 8.0.5 on the "new" server. Finding instructions in a document covering this is not easy! -fs >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >R

Re: Which certification for Oracle DBA ???

2002-02-12 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
A quick question..What was the level of this upgarde test,in your opinion, and what level of preparation is required..I am planning to appear it in coming March/April 2002...for 9i OCP upgrade test. Based on your experience for Solaris, it is better to have certification of Solaris, IMH opinio

Re: Moving Oracle Binaries from HP to SUN

2002-02-12 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Has anyone done the following: > >Create a db using Oracle Loaded on an HP Server >- The datafiles, controlfiles, etc will be on EMC > >Later, >Install the oracle binaries on a SUN Server, basically >unplug the HP from the SYMM, and plug in the SUN and >bring up th

RE: Upgrading from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7 - Please help

2002-02-12 Thread Kevin Lange
So, why could you not do just what he is asking ?If you have all the files of the database (Cold Backup of everything), why could you not install the 8.1.7 code and then run the migration tool ? The installation of the Oracle Binaries does not touch the database at all. -Original Message

RE: URGENT Help on tracking unauthorized login to Oracle Database

2002-02-12 Thread Johnston, Tim
Title: RE: URGENT Help on tracking unauthorized login to Oracle Database The SQL reference has some information...   http://docs.oracle.com/cd_database_generic_8.1.7/server.817/a85397/state10b.htm#2059074   HTH Tim     -Original Message-From: Behar, Rivaldi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Which certification for Oracle DBA ???

2002-02-12 Thread Khedr, Waleed
May be to find a certified job that keeps you busy! -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I have just given my oracle 9i upgrade exam. I was wondering which certification is best for me next - Sun Solaris administratio

Re: Moving Oracle Binaries from HP to SUN

2002-02-12 Thread James Manning
[Robert Pegram] > Create a db using Oracle Loaded on an HP Server > - The datafiles, controlfiles, etc will be on EMC > > Later, > Install the oracle binaries on a SUN Server, basically > unplug the HP from the SYMM, and plug in the SUN and > bring up the database. What storage format? If

RE: Which certification for Oracle DBA ???

2002-02-12 Thread Scott . Shafer
Solaris. Languages come and go (flavor of the month like java), but servers will be there always. Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 "Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate." > -Original Message- > From: Jason Rowski [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Upgrading from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7 - Please help

2002-02-12 Thread Fred Smith
This is not a production database. It's just a reporting machine. Which document are you referring to? The migration guide for 8.0.5 or for 8.1.7? The 8.1.7 guide does not mention a migration process for a non-installed 8.0.5 software. Does this matter? Much thanks, -FS >From: "Mercadante

RE: Upgrading from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7 - Please help

2002-02-12 Thread Randy Kirkpatrick
Fred, Don't waste your time installing 8.0.5 unless you plan to go back to it some time in the future ("Back to the Future"?). Install 8.1.7 and patch to 8.1.7.2 (or higher). Copy your datafiles to the new system. Make sure that you copy them to the exact directory structure that existed previou

Re: Which certification for Oracle DBA ???

2002-02-12 Thread Joe Raube
It depends on which way you want your career path to go... administrator or developer? it really depends on what you want to do. Why not go for Oracle Master?? (big grin) -Joe --- Jason Rowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have just given my oracle 9i upgrade exam. I was > wonderin

RE: Upgrading from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7 - Please help

2002-02-12 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Fred, You can migrate your 805 to 817 directly. You really need to read the migration documentation - it is pretty straight forward, and will answer all your questions. You will be doing a migration on a test database first, right? - not the first time on a production database - right? You wil

RE: URGENT Help on tracking unauthorized login to Oracle Database

2002-02-12 Thread Behar, Rivaldi
Title: RE: URGENT Help on tracking unauthorized login to Oracle Database To track users who tried and logged into the database :   SQL > audit session;   I don't know in which section you can find that in the Administrator Guide.     Rivaldi -Original Message-From: Mandal, Ashoke

RE: DSD

2002-02-12 Thread Mark Leith
Not sure what you mean by DSD, but we provide a tool called the DataBee DBATool, that reads an export file, and generates all of the DLL for the objects within a schema, or the database on the whole (from a FULL export, generated with the ROWS=N option). You can then either document the DDL throug

Re: Upgrading from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7 - Please help

2002-02-12 Thread Rick_Cale
Obviously this WAS not a production database. If you were not aware that a new OS was being installed and that Oracle was being wiped out then step 1 Get a competent SA I do not know UNIX but I would think you have to re-install 8.0.5, do backup restore 8.0.5 datafiles,redo,controlfiles,etc. Mod

RE: parallel execution

2002-02-12 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Further to Waleed' response: Field name called 'degree'. if > 1 then it invokes parallel process according to degree level defined if 2 will start 2 processes subject to maximum of parallel_max_servers defined in your init*.ora or in 8i depending on your other parallel settings.. Followin

Re: DSD

2002-02-12 Thread Marin Dimitrov
Title: Message   Any good tool to reverse engineer a DSD either from a DDL or from a user that has full access to the schema, but not requiring to be logged in as the schema owner?     ERwin supports reverse engineering from DDL - http://www.cai.com/products/alm/erwin.htm

Which certification for Oracle DBA ???

2002-02-12 Thread Jason Rowski
Hi, I have just given my oracle 9i upgrade exam. I was wondering which certification is best for me next - Sun Solaris administration or JAVA certification ? I have a 6+ years of Oracle, 4 years of Solaris experience and 6 months JAVA experience. What do the Oracle gurus at this list think ? Whi

RE: Sql question

2002-02-12 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Remco, This is exactly what he wants - all records where the first one exists and the second one does not exist. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 10:23 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thomas, "NOT EXISTS" an

Re: Moving Oracle Binaries from HP to SUN

2002-02-12 Thread Stephane Faroult
Robert Pegram wrote: > > Has anyone done the following: > > Create a db using Oracle Loaded on an HP Server > - The datafiles, controlfiles, etc will be on EMC > > Later, > Install the oracle binaries on a SUN Server, basically > unplug the HP from the SYMM, and plug in the SUN and > bring

RE: Table Locks

2002-02-12 Thread Connor McDonald
If they are using DBMS_ALERT then since it uses dbms_lock, it could be possible that the locking problem is one of the application's making (not the database). I can't remember the specifics, but things like a long gap between signalling the alert and the subsequent commit rings a bell as a cause

Oracle Migration Utility

2002-02-12 Thread Fred Collington
Can anyone advise me on using the migration utility? We are finally moving from 7.3.4 to 8.1.7. Has the utility worked well for you? Known bugs? Any info greatly appreciated. THe history, if you want to know. We have been stuck at 7.3.4 due to a lack of migration path for OPS on SGI equipment. We

Re: parallel execution

2002-02-12 Thread Ruth Gramolini
It does, Thanks! RBG - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:44 AM > Ruth, > > You can look in USER_TABLES/DBA_TABLES at the DEGREE column. This will give > you the number of parallel processes to use for the

RE: Oracle Lite 8i as snapshot site

2002-02-12 Thread Szecsy Tamas
My probem was, that Oracle Support still does not seem to be able to answer with a simple 'yes' or 'no', wether I can user Oracle Lite as a readonly snapshot site. The Oracle Lite documenation is only talking about EE as a must, but our cutomer has only SE licence. I would need only one way replic

RE: White space compression in Oracle

2002-02-12 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Well, if you are not able to change CHAR to VARCHAR2, then you can't do compression in Oracle. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflec

parallel execution

2002-02-12 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Thanks to everyone who helped me with this problem! Ruth -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ruth Gramolini INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet acces

Re: parallel execution

2002-02-12 Thread Ron Rogers
Ruth, If you are requesting info on parallel DML operations then you can look at the V$PQ_STSSTAT, V_PQSESSTAT, V$PQ_TQSTAT views that show the parallel executions are running in the database. Also the V$SESSION has a column called PDML_ENABLED to display if parallel DML is enabled for the sessio

logon failure auditing

2002-02-12 Thread Bob Robert
All, I would like to audit all the database users upon logon failure. I know that someone must have been implemented similar kind of auditing. Could you please share your information with me. At the same time I did create new profile and assign it to all the database users. This new profile wi

Re: White space compression in Oracle

2002-02-12 Thread Marc Perkowitz
Title: White space compression in Oracle Bjørn, Aren't those semantics all host language based?  I haven't been working on Pro-X languages for a while, but I seem to recall that there were language options (switches, directives) on how the comparisons were done.  Also, you could easily move t

RE: White space compression in Oracle

2002-02-12 Thread Ji, Richard
Title: White space compression in Oracle Note VARCHAR and CHAR uses different comparison semantics.  With CHAR the shorter one is padded with spaces up to the same length as the longer one and a byte by byte comparison is used.  VARCHAR uses a none padded method. -Original Message

DSD

2002-02-12 Thread michaelcupp
Title: Message Any good tool to reverse engineer a DSD either from a DDL or from a user that has full access to the schema, but not requiring to be logged in as the schema owner?   Michael Cupp, Jr. Shonac Corporation 4150 East Fifth Avenue Columbus Ohio 43219 Phone: 614-238-4240 Fa

Moving Oracle Binaries from HP to SUN

2002-02-12 Thread Robert Pegram
Has anyone done the following: Create a db using Oracle Loaded on an HP Server - The datafiles, controlfiles, etc will be on EMC Later, Install the oracle binaries on a SUN Server, basically unplug the HP from the SYMM, and plug in the SUN and bring up the database. I was asked this yeste

Re: script to kill session

2002-02-12 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Here is a shell script I use in UNIX, restrict_and_kill. I included the sql command to build the sql with the kill commands, killuser_build. It excludes users with restricted session access and puts the database into restricted session mode. You can modify these scripts to suit your needs. HTH

RE: parallel execution

2002-02-12 Thread Babich , Sergey
How about DBA_TABLES where degree>1? Best, Sergey -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Good morning all, It there a view which tell which tables are in parallel?I would like to see which table have parallel execution tu

Upgrading from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7 - Please help

2002-02-12 Thread Fred Smith
Hello list, I am attempting to upgrade my database from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7. I had the old 8.0.5 database on a SunOS 5.6 database. I performed a full cold-backup of the database. The SA then did a rebuild on the server to upgrade the OS to SunOS 5.8. There is no Oracle software or data on the s

Re: parallel execution

2002-02-12 Thread claudio cutelli
Hi, you should not see for the degree if it is in the HINT, you should see if is turned on for the instance ... there are some parameters like parallel_max_server,... Ciao - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3

RE: wrong result from select

2002-02-12 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hmmm...I've been executing this a script in TOAD, which seems to account for some differences. The really wierd thing in TOAD is that the SELECT acually WORKS CORRECTLY if I insert a COMMENT immediately after the ANALYZE statement! Of course, comments don't make a lick of difference in this for

RE: parallel execution

2002-02-12 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Ruth, You can look in USER_TABLES/DBA_TABLES at the DEGREE column. This will give you the number of parallel processes to use for the table. It is also in the USER_INDEXES/DBA_INDEXES view. You can set this values by issuing an: Alter table {tablename} parallel 2; Hope this helps Tom Mercad

RE: Table Locks

2002-02-12 Thread Kimberly Smith
Sounds like you have run into the much annoying problem of missing foreign key indexes. I would check that out first I think. -Original Message- Mascranghe Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 4:33 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all We are running on 8.0.5.2.1 database. On

RE: Sql question

2002-02-12 Thread Daemen, Remco
Thomas, "NOT EXISTS" and "<>" equals "must be at least one" Right ? That's not what Zsolt wants ... :-) -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: dinsdag 12 februari 2002 14:28 Aan: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Onderwerp: RE: Sql

RE: parallel execution

2002-02-12 Thread Arun Chakrapani
Check the dba_tables there is a column name degree if it is not default ie 1 then parallel executions on that table is turned on -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Good morning all, It there a view which tell which table

RE: parallel execution

2002-02-12 Thread Khedr, Waleed
dba_tables -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Good morning all, It there a view which tell which tables are in parallel?I would like to see which table have parallel execution turned on. Thanks is advance, Ruth --

default DB

2002-02-12 Thread Senthill Kumar V
Hi, I am new to Oracle DB. There is a m/c where already Oracle 8.1.7. I want to know the following info. a. How to login into Oracle thru sqlplus -how to know login and passwd? b. How to see what are the Databases already created. c. how to create a new Database d. Is th

RE: Table Locks

2002-02-12 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
What is the PCTFREE setting for the tables? Hope it is not 0. Here is the quote form one of my article which explains this behavior --BEGIN QUOTE Each datablock will have an Interested Transaction List (ITL) that holds the transaction id of that block during the lif

RE: Fragmentation of data dictionary

2002-02-12 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Title: Fragmentation of data dictionary Helmut,   X$ tables are NEVER stored in the disk. THey are just memory structures in the SGA and the contents are zeroed (are reset) when you shutdown the database. THey will not cause data dictionary fragmentation.     Best Regards,K GopalakrishnanBan

RE: parallel execution

2002-02-12 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
DBA_TABLES.DEGREE? Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan Bangalore, INDIA -Original Message- Gramolini Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 6:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Good morning all, It there a view which tell which tables are in parallel?I would like to see which

RE: Oracle Lite 8i as snapshot site

2002-02-12 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Dick - I believe that some replication is available in Standard Edition. My company is looking to put Oracle in remote sites, with some modest replication, and wanted to avoid the licensing penalty of EE. As I read the Oracle document http://technet.oracle.com/products/oracle9i/pdf/o9i_family_feat

parallel execution

2002-02-12 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Good morning all, It there a view which tell which tables are in parallel?I would like to see which table have parallel execution turned on. Thanks is advance, Ruth -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ruth Gramolini INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City

Re: wrong result from select

2002-02-12 Thread Scott Canaan
It works fine in 8.1.6.0.0, Sun Solaris 2.6: SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on Tue Feb 12 09:01:22 2002 (c) Copyright 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle8i Release 8.1.6.0.0 - Production JServer Release 8.1.6.0.0 - Production SQL> set echo on SQL> alt

Fragmentation of data dictionary

2002-02-12 Thread Daiminger, Helmut
Title: Fragmentation of data dictionary Hi! I was wondering whether the Oracle data dictionary gets fragmented and whether the dba needs to do something about it. E.g. if granting tons of rights through grants directly to a user (and later revoke them), does the data dictionary get f

Re: high tkprof parse counts == real # of hard parses?

2002-02-12 Thread James Manning
[Bjørn Engsig] >Admittedly, I am no JDCB expert, but I wouldn't expect to see the >behaviour you see, in particular that each insert seems to produce a >soft parse. Do you have a non-cached sequence? If you do, that's >your reason - recursive SYS SQL is (almost) n

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