Oracle 9i on windows Advance Server is not starting Automatically

2002-03-04 Thread Praveen Sahni
We have a small problem. Oracle has been installed on Windows Advanced Server. Other software on the system include Microsoft Cluster Server. Oracle software has been installed on the local drive (E:) using silent installation. Database has been installed on Shared Disk (RAID) (D:) using scripts.

RE: Does Oracle 9iAS only run on Apache?

2002-03-04 Thread hemantchitale
Well. you could look at Note 134284.1 on MetaLink. I've never tried iAS with anything other than Oracle's Apache distribution so I can't say if this document suffices. [You could also look at Note 132466.1 on the Oracle Plug-In for IIS to run Oracle PLSQL applications through IIS. Again,

RE: Old Chestnut: Tablespace Fragmentation

2002-03-04 Thread hemantchitale
Darren, To check if extents are contiguous query DBA_EXTENTS. select file_id, block_id, blocks, block_id+blocks-1 from dba_Extents where segment_name = '&which_table' and owner='&which_schema' order by extent_id Hemant K Chitale Principal DBA Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd "Brow

Re: Names server

2002-03-04 Thread Henrik Ekenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi, Works fine for us on Solaris 8 Oracle 8.1.7 20 Dbs in the Nameserver. Regards Henrik E. -- On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Yahoo wrote: -!-Hi ALL: -!-Is any one using names server out there? How the it works? Any -!-infor are wellcome. -!- -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://w

Re: Linux for Big(ish) Databases

2002-03-04 Thread Henrik Ekenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi, Why using Linux on Sparc ? Solaris is free up to 8 cpus. Or is the Oracle price different ? Regards HEnrik -- E-mail :[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax +46 (0)8 410 78 501 Sweden On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Steven Lembark wrote: -!- -!- -!-> We've got a new database to put together. OLTP,

Re: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-03-04 Thread Henrik Ekenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi, I have also an other question. Do you you why they did not test postgressql ? Regards Henrik -- --- E-mail :[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Jesse, Rich wrote: -!-Anybody happen to see the cover story on th

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-04 Thread Rajesh . Rao
And yeah!!! Restore. Imagine the loss on one datafile of 700 Mb, and one of 50Mb. Raj Rajesh Rao

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-04 Thread Rajesh . Rao
If it were a data or an index tablespace, laying out a tablespace across multiple datafiles could help in striping data or partitioning. And as Kirti said, could be to balance the I/O across multiple disks. Raj

RE: Read Consistency & ITL's

2002-03-04 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Rajesh, Other than the Transaction ID,UBA and Commit SCN (or csc.. Cleanout System Change) there is something called 'lock byte' in the ITL entry. THis gives the details about the locked (!!) rows. I have dumped few blocks and have an half written note with me which explains the lock byte and csc

RE: Oracle 9i upgrade exam.

2002-03-04 Thread Abdul Aleem
Try this site http://www.oracle-base.com/Articles/9i/Articles9i.asp -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 9:33 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:Oracle 9i upgrade exam. Dear all, I want to prepare my self for oracle 9i upgrade exam . Much appr

Re: Names server

2002-03-04 Thread Nikunj Gupta
Hi All, Following is my observation on UNIX Server. Except for this CLIENT Connections and individual connections from around the world and servers work without any problems. Just to add.. With Names Server life and management is easy... - This test was performed with ORACLE

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-04 Thread rabbit
In a UNIX system it is better to have more small size datafiles than a few or one large datafile: The reason is that UNIX aquires an exclusive file write lock and therefore if you use multiple files you will avoid a situation where multiple simultaneous writes to data files become serialized and c

Oracle 9i upgrade exam.

2002-03-04 Thread Chuan Zhang
Dear all, I want to prepare my self for oracle 9i upgrade exam . Much appreciated If anyone can tell me any sites or books for the preparation of this exam, Regards Chuan -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Chuan Zhang INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat C

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-04 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Other than I/O load balancing.. I can't see any other reason. But again, why those tiny 50MB files? Are these on the same disk? I hope not.. If there is no I/O bottleneck issues, I would build just one 700MB file. And then monitor how it works out.. - Kirti -Original Message- Sen

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-04 Thread Kimberly Smith
That being said is there anything wrong with having one 4G data file for a tablespace. I personally cannot think of any. There were the days when 2G was the limit but that sure isn't the case anymore. The only thing I can think of is for backups. However, I am always going to backup on at le

RE: Names server

2002-03-04 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
We use Oracle Names big time. Our approach is to keep using it until it *really* does not come on the Install CD. It will be a mistake to get rid of something that has now stabilized very well. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 4:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of l

Re: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-04 Thread Rachel Carmichael
no reason. I can see creating multiple files under those conditions only because you want to keep files to a specific size. Now, I did once find that the rollback datafiles were a bottleneck on a system I had. So we built TWO rollback tablespaces, with datafiles on different mount points etc and

RE: EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread Rachel Carmichael
sigh... someone shoot me. I am spending WAY too much time being unemployed these days. extents are made up of blocks. now I'll shut up before I embarrass myself anymore :) Rachel --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > and I was off as well, if your extent size is less than the > blocksize >

RE: Secret maximum for INITRANS?

2002-03-04 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Robert, I guess you are looking in 'itc' in block dumps which shows the ITL Count. And yes.. There is an upper bound for number of ITLs based on the block size. The transaction slots (and other headers) can not use the more than 50% of the space available for data in the data block. Each ITL wi

RE: EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread Rachel Carmichael
> you create the db (although I heard that different tablespaces can > have > different Db Block sizes in 9i - correct anybody?) yep I've even tested it :) --- "Mercadante, Thomas F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seema, > > You got it backwards. > > If Db Block Size is 8k, and you create a

Re: SSL and non-SSL requests on same Apache server in 9iAS?

2002-03-04 Thread hemantchitale
Read section 2.2 of Note 123718.1. Hemant K Chitale Principal DBA Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd "Ben Poels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/03/2002 06:03 AM Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please respond to ORACLE-L

OT: X server on Win NT

2002-03-04 Thread Jan Pruner
http://www.linuxnetmag.com/en/issue5/m5xserver1.html JP -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jan Pruner INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Ma

# of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-04 Thread Kimberly Smith
OK, I know we had the debate already but lets have another go at it. Say you got a tablespace, lets call it RBS and its for rollbacks. Now, for what reason would you create a 500M file and 4 50M files for this puppy as opposed to just one file. I just cannot see the reasoning for this at all. N

RE: Sun Cluster and VCS failover

2002-03-04 Thread hemantchitale
I would think 12 to 15 minutes still too high. Damagement would generally specify a max of 5 minutes. Have you found out why it takes 12 to 15 minutes ? Do the File Systems take so long or does the Instance Recovery take so long ? Do you have to put a "sleep" in the startup scripts [when I s

Forms6i (6.0.8 ?) on Motif Mode

2002-03-04 Thread hemantchitale
We have a number of Forms 4.5 environments (against 7.3.4/8.1.6/8.1.7) where the clients are Unix workstations. Therefore, the Forms they are are Motif-mode. We are looking at upgrading to 6i. Has anyone upgraded to 6i Motif (ie convert, develop and run in Motif) ? Hemant K Chitale Principal D

RE: Sun Cluster and VCS failover

2002-03-04 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Sun Cluster and VCS failover Thanks!!  Anyone else want to contribute their numbers? -Original Message- From: Baker, Barbara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 1:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Sun Cluster and VCS failover

Read Consistency & ITL's

2002-03-04 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Hello Gurus, As I understand it. In order to provide a read consistent view of the data while reading a data block, Oracle looks at the SCN in the block header, and compares it to the snapshot of the SCN taken when the read commenced. If the Snapshot SCN is less than the SCN in the block header,

Hash Anti Join Requirements

2002-03-04 Thread Larry Elkins
Listers, Some conditions have to be met before a HASH ANTI JOIN can be used (either by hint or by setting always_anti_join=hash). The ones I have come across are (1) the column in the NOT IN query must be NOT NULL (or constraining criteria specified that says NOT NULL for the column, and that's p

Secret maximum for INITRANS?

2002-03-04 Thread Robert Eskridge
I'm still messing with my enqueue waits on an insert. I'm now able to recreate it on a test database by throwing enough simultaneous inserts at my table. I was going to make sure which of the tables/indexes was actually causing the waits by individually raising the INITRANS above what they would n

RE: Names server

2002-03-04 Thread Kevin Lange
I agree with you Jared. On the last job we had TNSNAMES files out to everyones work station . got to be a pain. Installed Names, created the right files . bingo, all worked . Very easy. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 4:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list O

RE: Names server

2002-03-04 Thread Jared . Still
Completely removing names from Oracle would be a mistake IMO. Reason: Name is fairly easy to implement, LDAP is anything but. Jared "Freeman, Robert " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/04/02 01:38 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread Jared . Still
> and I was off as well, if your extent size is less than the blocksize > then you can have more than one extent in a block (divide the block > size by the extent size and round DOWN) Huh? Jared Rachel Carmichael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/04/02 12:13 PM Please respon

SSL and non-SSL requests on same Apache server in 9iAS?

2002-03-04 Thread Ben Poels
Hi, I want to host SSL and non-SSL requests on one physical server running one 9iAS. After installing 9iAS the httpd.conf file specifies by default that it is listening on port . Later on in httpd.conf it has an SSL directive that says it's listening on port 80 and 443. Does this mean that

RE: replication question

2002-03-04 Thread James A
Thanks tons Kevin, that is the information I was looking for. Great, quick response.   -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin LangeSent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:43 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: replic

RE: Automatic PGA Memory Management via PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET para

2002-03-04 Thread David Wagoner
I bet if you wowed us with a really good explanation of this new feature then some readers would be inclined to go check out your book :). david David B. Wagoner Database Administrator Arsenal Digital Solutions Worldwide, Inc. 8000 Regency Parkway, Suite 110 Cary, NC 27511-8582 Tel. (919) 466-

RE: Sun Cluster and VCS failover

2002-03-04 Thread Baker, Barbara
Nick: On our SunCluster 2-node E4500's with 8 CPU's (Oracle 8.0.5) it takes us around 12 to 15 minutes. HTH. Barb > -- > From: Nick Wagner[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:23 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list

Re:how are the snapshots refreshed ?

2002-03-04 Thread dgoulet
Bunyamin, OK, some of this may be a little off the wall since I'm at home on a day off. Can't believe I'm answering the mail on a day off!! But you got to do something while waiting for the glue to dry!! Anyway, there are two init parameters that need to be set, job_queue_interval and

RE: EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Yes, this one will get a lot of traffic, I'll bet. I just looked in the 8.1.7 docs (SQL Reference - Storage Clause) and it says that the minimum INITIAL is 2 DB blocks for non-bitmapped segments, 3 for bitmapped segments. The minimum for NEXT is 1 DB block. Unlesss it's a new 9i feature, a DB b

RE: ORA-600 [1158] on 8.1.7

2002-03-04 Thread Veronica Levin
Hi, I'm working on Oracle 8.1.7.2 , AIX 4.3.3 and haven't got any problems... had a lot before the patch, but not ORA-600. I suggest you apply the patch and monitor the instance. Hope this helps! Saludos, Verónica Levin Enríquez. Compañía Cervecera de Nicaragua. -Mensaje original- De:

Defaults for ANALYZE

2002-03-04 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hi all, >From my testing in 8.1.6 and 8.1.7, it appears to me that the ANALYZE defaults to "FOR ALL COLUMNS SIZE 1". I found this by checking the DBA_TAB_HISTOGRAMS view before and after an "ANALYZE TABLE bleah COMPUTE STATISTICS". I then compared those results to a before/after using DBMS_STAT

RE: Names server

2002-03-04 Thread Freeman, Robert
Names server is depreciated in 9i, but still there. They were going to remove it, but I think there was a bit of a backlash, so they have delayed the removal. OID (LDAP) is the replacement. We use names server here, have found it to be pretty stable and reduced tnsnames.ora administration nicely

RE: LIKE and % operator

2002-03-04 Thread Pardee, Roy E
Are the results any different if you say select * from sonusrpt where subject like '%GENERAL%'; ? Roy Pardee Programmer/Analyst SWFPAC Lockheed Martin IT Extension 8487 -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 12:33 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am running orac

RE: LIKE and % operator

2002-03-04 Thread Bellows, Bambi
Looks like you're running into a case-sensitivity issue. Try select * from sonusrpt where upper(subject) like upper('%general%'); HTH. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:33 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am running oracle8i on solaris8. I have a word ( G

Re: LIKE and % operator

2002-03-04 Thread Rick_Cale
select * from sonusrpt where UPPER(subject) like '%GENERAL%'; Rick "Nguyen,

Re: LIKE and % operator

2002-03-04 Thread Suzy Vordos
Case needs to be considered, eg., '%General%' or use of upper/lower functions. "Nguyen, David M" wrote: > > I am running oracle8i on solaris8. I have a word ( General ) in my column > named "subject", I try to run SQL using LIKE and % to grep any data having > the word ( General ) but it displ

Re: LIKE and % operator

2002-03-04 Thread Viktor
Try changing the query to say: select * from sonusrpt where lower(subject) like '%general%' / --- "Nguyen, David M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running oracle8i on solaris8. I have a word ( > General ) in my column > named "subject", I try to run SQL using LIKE and % > to grep any data

RE: LIKE and % operator

2002-03-04 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
David, If you have General with an upper case G and are looking for general with a lower case g, you won't return any records. It's that old case sensitive thing. Try this: select * from sonusrpt where Upper(subject) like '%GENERAL%'; Jerry Whittle ACIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems

Sun Cluster and VCS failover

2002-03-04 Thread Nick Wagner
Situation:  Sun Cluster, or VERITAS Cluster. Oracle 8, 8i, or 9i 2 node Sun E6500s w/ 8 CPUs   If the primary node fails, how long does it take before a user is able to connect to the secondary node, and continue their activity?   I'm sure reality, and marketing times are different... I'm r

RE: EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread Rajesh . Rao
I am confused. Are you talking of multiple extents in a block? Throws my fundamentals topsyturvy. Raj Rachel

Re: EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >in general though, extents are not usually sized as small as the >database block size > should extents be multiples of block size? -- -- Bill "Shrek" Thater ORACLE DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

RE: LIKE and % operator

2002-03-04 Thread Shaw John-P55297
The search is case sensitive, try something like select * from sonusrpt where upper(subject) like '%GENERAL%'; -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:33 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am running oracle8i on solaris8. I have a word ( General ) in my column name

RE: Names server

2002-03-04 Thread Wong, Bing
Names server will be obsolete in 9i, I think. -Original Message-From: Yahoo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:33 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Names server Hi ALL:     Is any one using names server out there?  How the it wo

RE: LIKE and % operator

2002-03-04 Thread Kevin Lange
Think Case . Is the word actually in lower case ??? Is it upper case G and then lower case eneral ?? Best way to be sure is SQL> select * from sonusrpt where upper(subject) like '%GENERAL%'; -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:33 PM To: Multiple recipients of lis

RE: LIKE and % operator

2002-03-04 Thread Guidry, Chris
Try, SQL> select * from sonusrpt where subject like '%GENERAL%'; or SQL> select * from sonusrpt where lower(subject) like '%general%'; -- Chris J. Guidry P.Eng. EE ATCO Electric, Metering Services Phone: (780) 420-4142 Fax: (780) 420-3854 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --

RE: How TO KNOW TABLE SIZE

2002-03-04 Thread Tomita Koga, Alex - (Per)
Check this note from metalink. *** Title: Script to compute table size Disclaimer: This script is provided for educational purposes only. It is NOT supported by Oracle Support Services. The script has been

Re: TABLE SIZE?

2002-03-04 Thread Ora NT DBA
This would be true if and only if you ignored block header space and ignored free space in blocks. What do you want to know The number of blocks under the high water mark? The total size of extents allocated to the table segment? The space allocated within those blocks? The total number of bl

LIKE and % operator

2002-03-04 Thread Nguyen, David M
I am running oracle8i on solaris8. I have a word ( General ) in my column named "subject", I try to run SQL using LIKE and % to grep any data having the word ( General ) but it displayed no rows selected. Does someone have any idea why? Below is my SQL I used. SQL> select * from sonusrpt where

Re: How TO KNOW TABLE SIZE

2002-03-04 Thread Gene Gurevich
I usually do select sum(bytes) from dba_Segments where segment_name = 'TABLENAME'; HTH --- Seema Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > How can I know how much space a table occupied? > Can BLOCKS columns in dba_tables helps? > Or I have to use dba_extents and dba_segments > tables? > Thx > -Se

RE: EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread Rachel Carmichael
nick, you're thinking segments not extents. and I was off as well, if your extent size is less than the blocksize then you can have more than one extent in a block (divide the block size by the extent size and round DOWN) in general though, extents are not usually sized as small as the database

RE: EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Seema, You got it backwards. If Db Block Size is 8k, and you create a table with it's initial extent of 32k, the you have 4 db blocks making up the extent. An Extent is composed of one or more Db Blocks. A Db Block is defined when you create the db (although I heard that different tablespaces

Re: How TO KNOW TABLE SIZE

2002-03-04 Thread Bill Gentry
This is what I use. Hope it helps. spool table_space_usage.log set pagesize 0 set linesize 80 select substr (segment_name,1,20) ,bytes / 1024 kbytes ,extents

Re: EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread Rahul Dandekar
Isn't the minimum extent size something like 5 times the DB_BLOCK_SIZE? If that's true then maximum .2 extents in DB block. Or you are looking for this info? db_block_size Max Extents -- --- 2K121 4K24

Re: replication question

2002-03-04 Thread Rahul Dandekar
Well, you could open standby DB only for read only access (8i) whereas in replication, both or all (more than 2) databases could be up and open to users all the times.   Each DML causes substantial overhead as each transaction needs to be propogated and applied at all the master sites (wherea

RE: EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread Godlewski, Melissa
Title: RE: EXTENTS? The Server Concepts manual Chapter on Data Blocks, Extents, and Segments would be a helpful Chapter to read. -Original Message- From: Kevin Lange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 1:28 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE:

Re: replication question

2002-03-04 Thread Rahul Dandekar
Why not just Updateable Snapshots?   Updateable Snapshots allow users to query and update a local replicated data set even when disconnected from the master site. More relevant is the fact that... Updateable Snapshots require fewer resources than multimaster replication, while still support

RE: Automatic PGA Memory Management via PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET para

2002-03-04 Thread Freeman, Robert
I cover this topic and many others in my Oracle9i New Features book :-)) RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP Oracle DBA Technical Lead CSX Midtier Database Administration The Cigarette Smoking Man: Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him. -Ori

TABLE SIZE?

2002-03-04 Thread Seema Singh
Hi If I have value num_rows and avg_row_len then can I know the size of tables? Table size(Bytes)=num_rows*avg_row_len Thx -seema _ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com -- Please see t

RE: replication question

2002-03-04 Thread Kevin Lange
I have used both.     Replication, like archive log movement , happens whenever you set it up to happen.   That can be anywhere from every minute to once a day to beyond.  It just depends on your needs.  In the case of my old job, we had replication happening at different times for differen

How TO KNOW TABLE SIZE

2002-03-04 Thread Seema Singh
Hi How can I know how much space a table occupied? Can BLOCKS columns in dba_tables helps? Or I have to use dba_extents and dba_segments tables? Thx -Seema _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://pho

Names server

2002-03-04 Thread Yahoo
Hi ALL:     Is any one using names server out there?  How the it works?  Any infor are wellcome.

Re: EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread Jared . Still
None. The lowest level of granularity of storage in Oracle is a block. block->extent->segment Time to hit the books, the Concepts manual in this case. Jared "Seema Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/04/02 10:18 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multip

RE: EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: EXTENTS? I'm going to say 1. I don't think you can have multiple tables in the same DB block.  -Original Message- From: Seema Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 10:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: EXTENTS? Hi If DB bloc

Automatic PGA Memory Management via PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET paramete

2002-03-04 Thread David Wagoner
I just stumbled upon the “Automatic PGA Memory Management” section of the 9i docs.  I’ve never heard of this before.  Does anyone know how long it’s been around?  Anyone using it found any bugs, concerns, etc.?   Granted, this is intended for *dedicated* server mode, it seems like a good

RE: Linux for Big(ish) Databases

2002-03-04 Thread lembark
-- "Jesse, Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/04/02 09:03:28 -0800 > The problem with Linux on Sparc or Alpha is that Oracle doesn't have > binaries for them. I've requested Alpha binaries, but haven't had any > response, despite the "1-2 business days" response. Remember: They're Oracle, you'

Re: EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread Rachel Carmichael
you have it backwards... extents don't fit into blocks, blocks fit into extents and extent size is dependent on tablespace storage parameters and objectg storage parameters --- Seema Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > If DB block size is 8k then how many extents in one db block? > Thanks >

RE: Planning Test Backup/Recovery - Tom

2002-03-04 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Eriovaldo, If you already have a backup script, then you need to test it on the production machine. The test db you create does not necessarily have to be the same size as the production db (init.ora params can be smaller). But what you are testing is that your backup scripts run as expected on

RE: EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread Kevin Lange
Depends on your extent size -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 12:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi If DB block size is 8k then how many extents in one db block? Thanks -Seema _ Join

Re: EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread Igor Neyman
Depends on the size of the extent. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 1:18 PM Hi If DB block size is 8k then how many extents in one db block? Thanks -Seema _

RE: EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread Nelson Flores
Title: RE: EXTENTS? it´s the other way around... how many db blocks in an extent. an extent is a number of contiguous data blocks ... -Mensaje original- De: Seema Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Lunes, 04 de Marzo de 2002 15:19 Para: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: replication question

2002-03-04 Thread James Ambursley
Is replication faster than a standby database. As I understand it, the standby database will be receive arch logs at preset intervals.  Does replication have the same functionality and about how much data is sent to the replicated site.     -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New iMac as dba workstation

2002-03-04 Thread Jan Pruner
Yes, thank You. JP On Mon 4. March 2002 15:38, you wrote: > I'm using a Titanium G4 as a workstation, does that count? ;) > > I've had marginal luck using products like SQLGrinder (native OSX app, > uses JDBC for connectivity). Ultimately though, I fell back to using > Tora X-forwarded back to

[Q] difference between DEveloper 6i and 6i rel2?

2002-03-04 Thread dist cash
I just checked ORACLE OTN site and their has ORACLE Developer 6i Release 2 can download. The CD pack we have is Developer 6i. Can anyone tell me what is difference between 6i and 6i rel2? Thanks _ Get your FREE download of MSN Exp

EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread Seema Singh
Hi If DB block size is 8k then how many extents in one db block? Thanks -Seema _ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com --

* Philly, PA - Oracle DBA/ Unix Sys Admin Needed

2002-03-04 Thread OraStaff
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania company needs an Oracle DBA who also has Unix Systems Administration experience (solaris preferred). This is a staff opportunity... No sub-contractors or third parties please. * DO NOT send your resume unless you have a stable work history. Candidates whose work his

RE: Linux for Big(ish) Databases

2002-03-04 Thread Gogala, Mladen
May be they'll release the source code and distribute it under the GPL license? > -Original Message- > From: Jesse, Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 12:03 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: Linux for Big(ish) Databases > > > The pr

RE: Planning Test Backup/Recovery - Tom

2002-03-04 Thread Eca Eca
Tom : I am thinking something like that .. I have already did the test at another machine ... It worked right... but the instance was diferente ... So, in your opinion i need to create a instance, in the production machine, with the same parameters of production and apply the test there, righ

Multimaster Replication Doubt...

2002-03-04 Thread Rahul Dandekar
1. It is my understanding that Oracle 7.x has continuous purge of the propogated deftrans. There is no option of scheduling periodic purge at specific time. Am I correct? 2. How to schedule continuous purge of propogated deftrans in Oracle 8i from command line? prompt SCHEDULE P

RE: ftp from unix session to your local harddrive-How?

2002-03-04 Thread Michael Cupp
Either need to ftp from the network drive, use samba, or run an ftp server on the network so you can ftp to it. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi List, I just want to extent discussion in this thread instead of opening

RE: Linux for Big(ish) Databases

2002-03-04 Thread Jesse, Rich
The problem with Linux on Sparc or Alpha is that Oracle doesn't have binaries for them. I've requested Alpha binaries, but haven't had any response, despite the "1-2 business days" response. GL! Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: ftp from unix session to your local harddrive-How?

2002-03-04 Thread Tirumala, Surendra
Hi List, I just want to extent discussion in this thread instead of opening a new one... How can we ftp on to a Network drive from unix machine? We have an issue to automate the ftping of db audit files to a network drive on monthly basis. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Surendra -Origin

Re: Changing the SID of a database

2002-03-04 Thread Bill Gentry
Rick, here is how I do it. Contact me if there are any questions. Make a copy of 'prod' on LAWDB to 'test' on LAWDB from Cold Backup Introduction The 'prod' Oracle instance sometimes need to be replicated, on demand, for testing and/or training purposes. The replication is done using a 'Cold'

RE: help with a SQL self-join

2002-03-04 Thread Pardee, Roy E
If I understand correctly, it sounds like you need a *recursive* self-join. Depending on the version of your db (certainly in 8i or later) you may be able to use the CONNECT BY PRIOR syntax to get what you're after. Have a look at the SQL reference for 'hierarchical queries'. Here's a link to th

Re: Changing the SID of a database

2002-03-04 Thread Rachel Carmichael
it's doable. You will need to do a number of things before you can open the database, including recreating the controlfile (to change the sid) and renaming all the datafiles to new locations (so you don't overwrite the original database) The easiest way (but not the shortest time) to do this woul

RE: Changing the SID of a database

2002-03-04 Thread SARKAR, Samir
Take a backup of the controlfile statement by doing a alter system backup controlfile to trace; Then use this script to create a new controlfile with the new SID after u have transferred all the datafiles, redolog files and archive log files. The first line of the create controlfile script may

Re: Linux for Big(ish) Databases

2002-03-04 Thread Steven Lembark
> We've got a new database to put together. OLTP, 100-200 users, ~250Gb > data. We haven't decided on a platform for this yet. Is Intel/Linux > worth considering for this size of thing? No reason why not. Might also want to consider linux on a Sparc or Alpha. -- Steven Lembark

Making rule-based optimizer choose correct index

2002-03-04 Thread Frederik Lindberg
Hi, I'm trying to do a join that is best done by a fast full scan of one index and a lookup in another. Using the rule-based optimizer and Oracle 8.1.6, I can't get the optimizer to do what I want. Is there a way? Any enlightenment would be greatly appreciated. [Yes, we are moving to cost-based,

RE: replication question

2002-03-04 Thread Kevin Lange
The way I see it .  the question comes down to whether or not you need two way replication or just one way.   If both databases can update those tables and you need them synced between the databases then Advanced Replication would be the route.   If all you need are data changes from 1 d

Changing the SID of a database

2002-03-04 Thread rick
I'm going to take the datafiles from a cold backup and use them for a new database. However, to do this, I need to change the SID of the new db. I've read that it's possible, but not how to do it. Is this an easy thing to do, or would it be better to extract the tables and create the new db that w

Re: how are the snapshots refreshed ?

2002-03-04 Thread claudio cutelli
you should define the interval in the snapshot's DDL.  ES. START WITH sysdate  NEXT sysdate + (1/24)/30 - Original Message - From: Bunyamin K. Karadeniz To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 1:58 PM Subject: how are the snapshots refre

RE: Replication - Oracle 9i - problem

2002-03-04 Thread Jesse, Rich
In 9i, catrep is now called from catproc, so AR is installed automatically. At least that's what the "New Features Guide" says. And in the Linux version, it's true. HTH! GL! :) Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Internat

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