Which Book should I use for SQL/PLSQL OCP

2002-03-05 Thread Nandu Garg
Hi All Can anyone recommend me the book for SQL/PLSQL OCP exam paper. I would like to know the book which will be guiding me thoroughly Amol -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Nandu Garg INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 5

MsAccess group

2002-03-05 Thread Roland . Skoldblom
Hallo, anyone know knows any webpage where I can ask MsAccess questions about error messages? Thanks in advance Roland -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San

Connect sys as sydba ?

2002-03-05 Thread ltiu
Hello, How do I disbale "connect sys as sysdba" with a null password. Thanks. ltiu -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: ltiu INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Publi

RE: Korn Shell Q

2002-03-05 Thread Post, Ethan
Forgot something the call from inside the check_all_exfail.sh script looks like this... exfail.sh $EXFAIL_OPTIONS $ORACLE_SID -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have a shell script called exfail.sh which checks for poten

Listener.log Errors

2002-03-05 Thread Post, Ethan
Anyone know what patterns are typically recognized as errors in the listener.log file? ORA-, "error" etc...? Thanks, Ethan Post -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Post, Ethan INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX:

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread rabbit
Fair Point, but isn't Async I/O limited to Raw Devices only: If not using raw, many companies don't, you can still face contention issues. Also enabling more dbwr processes gives the overhead of more background processes: I feel that multiple files per tablespace is a workable compromise. --

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Kimberly Smith wrote: > Kevin, let me introduce you to the world of stripping. Course, if > you are on old hardware that really isn't like it is today. I was unaware of the concurrent data access benefits of stipping. I did know about certain things being spread out, but us

RE: Help with Parsing and TKPROF output

2002-03-05 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Ian, I'll start with some easy questions: What version of Oracle and what OS? Can you show the SQL being run or some of it? What does v$session_event and v$session_wait show? Can you reproduce it when you run the SQL called by the program from SQLPlus? I had a problem ion 815 / NT with really rea

Korn Shell Q

2002-03-05 Thread Post, Ethan
I have a shell script called exfail.sh which checks for potential extent failures on a database. The script accepts a couple of command line switches. exfail.sh -p -g "dba apps" TEST Basically this says run the exfail.sh script against the "TEST" instance, (-p) page people if there are problems

RE: Oracle 9i on windows Advance Server is not starting Automatic

2002-03-05 Thread Praveen Sahni
The services are set to start automatically and version for the Oracle is (Oracle Standard Edition 9.0.1) on windows and we open a tar with oracle india suppport but no help as of now. we have reinstalled Operating system (Windows Advance Server with service pack II) and Oracle Standard Edition 9

Help with Parsing and TKPROF output

2002-03-05 Thread Biddell, Ian
Hi All,   I have an online program that is timing out and when I trace it I get the following at the bottom of my tkprof output. It’s easy to see why the transaction is running slow, because of all the parsing. But the program and all called modules are compiled with max_opencursors = 75

Re: Automated Standby Database tool for Unix & Linux

2002-03-05 Thread Joe Testa
And how is this different from OEM data guard manager/broker? joe James Forgy wrote: > March 5, 2002: > Relational Database Consultants, Inc. (RDC) - Proudly > announces the release of the Standby Wizard For Unix & > Linux. The Standby Wizard is a GUI interface that > automates the creation, m

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Kimberly Smith
Sweet. Sounds like a solid setup to me. -Original Message- Robert Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:43 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Well, I have a slightly different way of approaching file sizing. Here we have Hatachi storage array's on a FIDI setup. We stripe several dr

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Kimberly Smith
Kevin, let me introduce you to the world of stripping. Course, if you are on old hardware that really isn't like it is today. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 7:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am sure its been said in the notes I have not read yet

Re: Changing the SID of a database

2002-03-05 Thread Ferry Situmorang
Please, try ORADIM command utility. Ferry Situmorang: Using Oracle 8.1.7 Designer 6i R4 PT Perkebunan Nusantara XIII (Persero) Pontianak-Indonesia http://www.ptpn13.com - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 10:23 PM

RE: Number / 0

2002-03-05 Thread Sinard Xing
Hi Rajendra, The reason of this test is that I want make sure Oracle able handle division by 0 properly without giving me nice blue screen. Sinardy -Original Message- Rajendra Sent: 05 March 2002 21:18 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Pardon my expression, but Why in the worl

RE: Hash Anti Join Requirements

2002-03-05 Thread Larry Elkins
Greg, I recognize that Guy ;-) Someone else said back-channel that they thought Harrison's book mentioned the requirements. And since I had the book handy, I looked it up. Should have thought of looking there. Nonetheless, thanks for taking the time to type up the comments from the book. I appre

Re: Planning Test Backup/Recovery

2002-03-05 Thread Eriovaldo Andrietta
ok. Thanks for answers. Regards Eriovaldo - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 11:18 AM > Eriovaldo, > > If I were you, I would create a small test database on the production > machine, and perform backup/res

Automated Standby Database tool for Unix & Linux

2002-03-05 Thread James Forgy
March 5, 2002: Relational Database Consultants, Inc. (RDC) - Proudly announces the release of the Standby Wizard For Unix & Linux. The Standby Wizard is a GUI interface that automates the creation, maintenance, and fail-over functions of Oracle's standby database paradigm. With the Standby Wizard

RE: Names server

2002-03-05 Thread Jared . Still
Bruce, You can load Oracle Names from a tnsnames.ora file, the repository is not required. Setting it up this way is fairly easy. Jared "Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/05/02 03:18 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipie

RE: Names server

2002-03-05 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Stephen or others, If I understood correctly, the email below said it is possible to have a Names Server that doesn't require its own database. I have just briefly read the manual on Names and it mentions that Names8 doesn't require a database to store topology but it is recommended. It also me

RE: Riddle me this Oracle riddle...

2002-03-05 Thread Khedr, Waleed
So the answer is none of the above. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 5:48 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You did not specify in, out or in out, so the default is: IN. Parameters that are defined as IN don't get copied but are referenced (passed by reference

Re: Riddle me this Oracle riddle...

2002-03-05 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Clearly the best guess is (e) - none of the above. It is unlikely to be based on incoming data for reasons of bounds checking. Which means that you have given us 3 static values from a range of 32767 which may be possible. ;) I haven't checked it - but if I had to guess, I would guess, based on

RE: Online Boot Camp

2002-03-05 Thread Mark Leith
I believe that the President of OraKnowledge (Ed Haskins) is a member of this list.. (?) Mark -Original Message- Nemeth Sent: 05 March 2002 20:36 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Has anyone gone through OraKnowledge's eboot camp? If so, what are you thoughts? http://www.orakno

RE: Riddle me this Oracle riddle...

2002-03-05 Thread Khedr, Waleed
You did not specify in, out or in out, so the default is: IN. Parameters that are defined as IN don't get copied but are referenced (passed by reference). Regards, Waleed (I hope I'm right!) -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 4:48 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORA

RE: Unix shell Question

2002-03-05 Thread Sakthi , Raj
Hi , This is from one post in other shell group .. I forgot who is the poster. #! /bin/sh year=`date +%Y` month=`date +%m` day=`date +%d` # figure out what yesterday was. day=`expr "$day" - 1` case "$day" in 0) month=`exp

RE: Dedicated process memory - NT

2002-03-05 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Sean, I'm also interested in this and whilst I can't provide a definitive answer I can provide some numbers and a script that I'm using - if anyone can point out problems or issues with the script I'll learn and correct them. Anyway, script is below (originally written to try to help find a me

Riddle me this Oracle riddle...

2002-03-05 Thread Freeman, Robert
Riddle me this Batman. Assume Oracle9i... assume you have a table thusly defined: Table Name: TEST col_1 number col_2 varchar2(200) And now a procedure defined thusly: create or replace procedure blah_blah ( p_in_one test.col_2%type ) Now, here is the question, how much memory will p_in_

Re: Oracle 9i on windows Advance Server is not starting Automatically

2002-03-05 Thread tday6
How was the service created? Is it set to automatically start? Jared.Still @radisys.com To:

RE: Linux command to display total disk capacity

2002-03-05 Thread Prakriteswar Santikary
Alex, Can you elaborate this with an example (meaning exact syntex). thanks Santi -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L pipe df -k to awk and sum the column you want On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Nguyen, David M wrote: > Does someo

Online Boot Camp

2002-03-05 Thread David Nemeth
Has anyone gone through OraKnowledge's eboot camp? If so, what are you thoughts? http://www.oraknowledge.com tia, David __ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- Please see the official O

Re: Hash Anti Join Requirements

2002-03-05 Thread Greg Moore
> working with some folks who are frightened by anti-joins Last Halloween I went as an anti-join. It was pretty scary. Harrison: "Performance from the hash antijoin was dramatically better than for any other [anti-join optimization] method we tried. ... To take advantage of Oracle's antijoin

OCP Exam 1Z0-007

2002-03-05 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
Has anyone taken the initial 9i OCP exam (1Z0-007)?   I'd like your feedback.   Thanks, Ken Janusz, CPIM

Re: Forms6i (6.0.8 ?) on Motif Mode

2002-03-05 Thread Marc Perkowitz
Hi Hemant, I did a conversion of 4.5 forms to 6i in Windows, Motif and Web environments simultaneously 2 years ago. I must tell you that the biggest challenge was the Motif environment (well, I did have some challenges with the web stuff too). Of course, we were also trying to keep everything wi

Re: Linux command to display total disk capacity

2002-03-05 Thread Alex
pipe df -k to awk and sum the column you want On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Nguyen, David M wrote: > Does someone know what command can be used to display total capacity of disk > drive? I can use command "df -k" but it breaks partitions apart so I have > to add them up. I need command just display a t

RE: RMAN Configuration Question

2002-03-05 Thread April Wells
I have two repositories in test and will have 2 in production. One to backup the databases (an instance unto itself) and one to backup the RMAN instance (schema within one of the lesser instances). In a perfect world where you have acres of dasd and unlimited everything, I guess it might be clea

Re: RMAN Configuration Question

2002-03-05 Thread Gene Sais
I am fairly new to RMAN, but here is my $.02. Use a separate RMAN db for each version of db's to be backed up (e.g. rman817, rman901, ...). In each RMAN db, I would create a separate schema, same name as Oracle_SID for each db. This model makes scripting, maintenance, and upgrades simple. N

RMAN Catalog Database : optimizer mode

2002-03-05 Thread Pat Howe
I have a dedicated RMAN database (8.1.7.2) to support the RMAN catalog. Should I run this RMAN database in "cost-based" or "rule-base" optimizer mode ? _ Patrick J. Howe Oracle DBA Illuminet Inc. (Carrier Division of Verisign) 4501 Intelco Loop SE Olympia, WA 985

RE: Names server

2002-03-05 Thread Freeman, Robert
We switched to names server last year. We had our NT administrator net use to each client in the company (effectively assigning a drive to the administrators machine) and copy the sqlnet.ora over to the remote machine. Fired up about 10 machines and updated > 1000 systems in three different waves

RE: Read Consistency & ITL's

2002-03-05 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Jared, I think he is talking about direct grants. Not granting through a view. SQL> grant select on X$BH to system; grant select on X$BH to system * ERROR at line 1: ORA-02030: can only select from fixed tables/views Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan Bangalore, INDIA -Orig

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Freeman, Robert
Well, I have a slightly different way of approaching file sizing. Here we have Hatachi storage array's on a FIDI setup. We stripe several drives, RAID, and get quite good performance. I do NOT limit datafiles to any particular size (in production). Why? Because I want to eliminate, as much as pos

RE: RMAN Configuration Question

2002-03-05 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Pat, This makes no sense to me. I have one Rman catalog for all our databases that are at the same release level. I can see separate Rman catalogs for different release levels, but even this is not necessary. Lower levels of Rman work with higher levels of the Rman repository. Hope this helps

RE: Names server

2002-03-05 Thread Jared . Still
Yechiel, That's all well and good if you get to set it up from the beginning. I inherited it. Tnsname.ora everywhere. Different desktops with different names for the same databases. It's a nightmare. I plan to setup Onames when I get a chance to do so. Putting tnsnames.ora on netw

Re: RMAN Configuration Question

2002-03-05 Thread Peter Gram
Pat There are several reasons to have multiple catalog, but the most importen one is that gives the possibility to upgrade the catalog without interfering with other database backup's. There is as well the benefit if you at some time is going to query the catalog using Sql you will not have t

Re: RMAN Configuration Question

2002-03-05 Thread Deepak Thapliyal
Hi Pat, to cut to the chase here is how we do it in our shop .. we have : 1. East Coast: we have bunch of DB's & 1 tape server 2. West Coast: we have bunch of DB's & 1 tape server Rman Strategy: We have two catalogs, one which caters to all db's on east coast and backs ups db's on east coast ta

RE: Any Oracle Tool

2002-03-05 Thread Jared . Still
Maybe I'm an anachronism, but I've tried IDE's for programming, and just can't seem to give up vi and sqlplus. If you get into some real heavy duty unit testing, throw 'make' into the mix. Jared "Mark Leith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/05/02 02:43 AM Please respond to

Re: Read Consistency & ITL's

2002-03-05 Thread Jared . Still
I'll take the easy question. There's nothing preventing you from granting privs on the x$ tables. See: http://www.ixora.com.au/scripts/sql/create_xviews.sql Jared [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/04/02 04:53 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipi

Re: Oracle 9i on windows Advance Server is not starting Automatically

2002-03-05 Thread Jared . Still
It might be possible for someone to help you if you include the relevent OS info ( version and service packs ) and the oracle version. Praveen Sahni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/04/02 11:13 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORAC

RMAN Configuration Question

2002-03-05 Thread Pat Howe
I have just completed Oracle Education's "Enterprise DBA Part 1B: Backup and Recover" course. Page 11-5 states : It is recommended that you have a separate catalog for each database. My question is : Why? Does this help you cleanup the RMAN catalog if you ever drop a database (you can drop the

RE: alter index rebuild online

2002-03-05 Thread Sherman, Paul R.
Hello, I have used this dynamic script (on 8.1.6.x and 8.1.7.x) successfully with no corruption, for the past two years. The script actually moves the indexes from where they are originally built on a data tblsp to its index tblsp. However, dropping the "and tablespace_name = 'TBLSPD'", will resu

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Wong, Bing
Having 500mb, and then 4 50mb data files is over killed. Have multiple files per tablespace is generally good pratice and should make them same size. We have limited the database files to 2G for just one reason. That reason is that if you have to recover a database or move to another box, it is

RE: alter index rebuild online

2002-03-05 Thread David Wagoner
Works great on 9.0.1 david David B. Wagoner Database Administrator Arsenal Digital Solutions Worldwide, Inc. 8000 Regency Parkway, Suite 110 Cary, NC 27511-8582 Tel. (919) 466-6723 Fax (919) 466-6783 Mobile (919) 225-4962 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.arsenaldigital.com/ *** NOTICE *** Thi

Re: Linux command to display total disk capacity

2002-03-05 Thread antonio . belloni
Hi, To see the size of all disks and partitions (SCSI and IDE): PHS7:/proc $ cat partitions major minor #blocks name 8 02202244 sda 8 12200873 sda1 8164406935 sdb 8174401778 sdb1 8324406935 sdc 8334401778 sdc1 3 0 146

alter index rebuild online

2002-03-05 Thread Shaw John-P55297
I'm still back on 8.1.6 and when I tried to use 'alter index rebuild online' I got corrupted indexes. I saw on metalink that it's supposed to be fixed by 8.1.7.1 - anybody using successfully now? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Shaw John-P55297 INET: [

RE: Sun Cluster and VCS failover

2002-03-05 Thread marmstrong
We have Sun Cluster 2.2 2 node cluster, 1 Sun E6500 (14 CPUs) and 1 Sun E5500 (11 CPUs), Oracle 8 and EMC Symmetrics storage. It takes about 3 minutes for failover of 200+GB database.   Michele -Original Message-From: Nick Wagner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, March 04,

TOAD and 9i

2002-03-05 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
I just downloaded the free version of TOAD (6.3.11.1g) and it works without any errors on 9i.  (9.0.1 on XP Prof. / DELL 8200).   Ken Janusz, CPIM

Dedicated process memory - NT

2002-03-05 Thread O'Neill, Sean
I'm trying to get a handle on the amount of memory allocated to a dedicated server process using NT. From having examined manuals to to begin with the terminology seems to be inconsistent. There appear to be interchangeable references to PGA and UGA and also to Dedicated Server Process memory an

RE: Linux command to display total disk capacity

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Cupp
Disk capacity is relevant to partition. Your df -k could show 10 partitions, this could be 10 1 drive, or 10. You might find what you need in fdisk, but use it with caution if you aren't a unix admin. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 9:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: oracle 8.1.7 patch 2 or 3?

2002-03-05 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Thanks Mike, I'll keep an eye out for it. Lee -Original Message- Sent: 05 March 2002 15:29 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Lee, Be aware of bug 2220597. I believe metalink identifies other 64bit OS's, but I've experience it on Tru64 5.1 (1885). Not sure if there is a bug f

Re: Linux command to display total disk capacity

2002-03-05 Thread Marin Dimitrov
- Original Message - > Does someone know what command can be used to display total capacity of disk > drive? I can use command "df -k" but it breaks partitions apart so I have > to add them up. I need command just display a total. > for an IDE drive do: cat /proc/ide/xxx/capacity ..

RE: Names server

2002-03-05 Thread אדר יחיאל
Hello All I saw some remarks about updating tnsnames on many desktops. Why would you have tnsnames in every machine? I put our client software on a central server, with the tnsnames. One update to the tnsnames in the server apply to all. Installing for a new PC is importing the registry entries a

i-Mac and Oracle.

2002-03-05 Thread Peterson, John/COR
Hi, I have heard and saw a demo on the top of the line laptop from Apple, that you can download jdeveloper from the Oracle Technet web site. Get the Linux version. suppose to run something like ./jdeveloper with no modifications. This might be a start for using the iMac with Oracle. Who did the

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Guidry, Chris
500 M for batch transactions? -- Chris J. Guidry P.Eng. EE ATCO Electric, Metering Services Phone: (780) 420-4142 Fax: (780) 420-3854 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Rachel Carmichael [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 07:28 PM > To: Multipl

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Kevin Lange
I am sure its been said in the notes I have not read yet but, my biggest reason for having the multiple files is to have multiple drives. Each file on a different drive means that the access to the file can be spread out. Therefore you can have multiple processes accessing the files at the s

RE: oracle 8.1.7 patch 2 or 3?

2002-03-05 Thread Hand, Michael T
Lee, Be aware of bug 2220597. I believe metalink identifies other 64bit OS's, but I've experience it on Tru64 5.1 (1885). Not sure if there is a bug fix available yet. Mike Hand Polaroid Corp -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 3:23 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACL

OS-dependent parameters (was: Secret maximum for INITRANS?)

2002-03-05 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I sometimes think that every os-dependent parameter in Oracle is secret. Oracle doesn't publish that information, and the OS vendors usually have no idea or are not likely to publish that info either. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin & Operations | Ad

RE: Number / 0

2002-03-05 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: Number / 0 Sinardy You are trying to create a function based index. To do so you need the query rewrite privilege The index will still fail with a divide by 0 error (don't know why you are dividing by zero) AS USER create index wrong_logic on john(income/0)  

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Hi Kim, Ahamed Alomari (Oracle8i and Unix Performance Tuning p142-143)discusses this in more detail. However I don't think this is more relevant with the Async IO and multiple DB Writers. But this is a serious issue in older versions (oracle 7 and below) because the number of Asnyc IO thread req

Linux command to display total disk capacity

2002-03-05 Thread Nguyen, David M
Does someone know what command can be used to display total capacity of disk drive? I can use command "df -k" but it breaks partitions apart so I have to add them up. I need command just display a total. Thanks, David -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: N

RE: LOBs SPACE ?

2002-03-05 Thread אדר יחיאל
Assuming that the lob itself is in another place, I seem to remember that the pointer in the row is 37 bytes. Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Seema Singh [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Mon, March 04, 2002 4:43 PM > To: Multiple re

RE: Names server

2002-03-05 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
I agree with everyone. Oracle Names saved many days/months of maintenance time in migrating new TNSNAMES to over 3 desktops. The only gotchas with ON was the creation of a separate Administrative database and 24x7 maintenance of it. With the new extensibility features not requiring a databa

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Kimberly Smith
Ah, but we use partitioning. However, the design you described is slightly flawed me thinks. I had to do something similar at the last job and what we did is have a separate tablespace for each month, which in turn produces a separate data file of course. Not that there was anything wrong in wh

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread mkb
I had the opportunity to work with a very good sys admin. We used raw on an EMC Sym and managed it all with Veritas. We both decided to keep our datafiles no bigger than 1GB regardless of TS size and at least 4 datafiles per TS. We used 36GB drives in our Sym, each divided into 9GB LUNs. Our r

Re: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
Using Sql Backtrack for backups, you are able execute the backups of multiple datafiles in parallel. Therefore, it will be faster to backup 4-1g files rather than 1-4g file if you have the necessary hardware in place. 4:58 AM PST Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMA

Replication trouble

2002-03-05 Thread Henrik Ekenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi, We are running Oracle 8.1.7.2.0 with Solaris 8. (Sparc) We are using read-only snaphots with multiple groups (one/schema), replication every minute.  Simple 'select *' replication. One of the snapshot process seems to stall and all access to one of the tables in the actual group is blocked

RE: # of data files per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
For our OLTP systems, we standardize on all data files to be 2GB (basically for each data file we have additional two backup locations as well). Then we use whatever amount we need and keep remaining so that data file can be extended up to 2GB when required. It has been working well for us, and i

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Kimberly Smith
True, but its a rare case that I need to restore just one data file. That being said, it would not be to much different with those sizes. A 10G and a 2G you might notice it... -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:48 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Hand, Michael T
FWIW, there is a strong case for keeping consistent datafile sizes, similar to the argument for extent sizes. This makes for easier file exchanges for hot to not-so-hot disks, or copying the database to a new system. And segment extent size should be kept in mind, i.e., you don't want to be add

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Kimberly Smith
However, if all the disks that you are spreading the files out among are stripped you lose that advantage do you not? We strip then mirror, so we have multiple big strips and partition against that. -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:48 PM To: Multiple r

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Kimberly Smith
Do you know of a web site where I could research particular thought on? I have not seen anything like that in my research. Thanks. -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 8:53 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L In a UNIX system it is better to have m

RE: Number / 0

2002-03-05 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Pardon my expression, but Why in the world are you dividing by zero? Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc. QOTD:

Re[2]: Secret maximum for INITRANS?

2002-03-05 Thread Robert Eskridge
Yes, and that's exactly what I was suspecting. Thanks for the quick confirmation. -rje KG> I guess you are looking in 'itc' in block dumps which shows the KG> ITL Count. KG> And yes.. There is an upper bound for number of ITLs based on the KG> block size. The transaction slots (and other head

Re: Secret maximum for INITRANS?

2002-03-05 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I've found the note. It wasn't what I remembered, it was worse. I've just re-run a test on 9.0.1.2 that shows an interesting issue: create table t1 (n1 number, v1 varchar2(10)); create index i1 on t1(n1) pctfree 0 initrans 10; insert into t1 select rownum,'x' from all_objects where rownum <=

Re: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Ron Rogers
Not using the RBS tablespace as the tablespace of discussion because it has special requirements and can create a lot of discussion. I can fore see a reason for using multiple datafiles in a tablespace. Lets say that you have a large table than contains information based on dates. you load the ta

Re: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Ora NT DBA
Hi Kathy, The only thing I can think of for your original question is a bad guess on the file size.  They guessed 500 mb,  ran out of file space,  added a 50 mb file to the Tablespace, ran out again added 50 mb again.  never ran out again. Reading other dba's minds is so much fun :-) John [E

RE: EXTENTS?

2002-03-05 Thread Rachel Carmichael
yowch! that tickles --- "Farnsworth, Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >-someone shoot me > > Bang!! As the dart with the suction cup firmly attaches to Rachel's > forehead. > > ;o) > > -Original Message- > Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 8:23 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Gene Sais
I use 10gb datafiles for a 1tb db and also back up using Legato. Thinking about using Rman :) >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/05/02 03:18AM >>> We use 4Gb datafiles here as the norm without any problems at all and those datafiles are all backed up with Legato. No problems whatsoever. Lee -Origi

RE: LIKE and % operator

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Cupp
I would try select * from sonusrpt where upper(subject) like '%GENERAL%'; Might be a case issue w/ subject - if the word is General as you state above, you are searching for general below. Good Luck -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 3:33 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: EXTENTS?

2002-03-05 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
>-someone shoot me Bang!! As the dart with the suction cup firmly attaches to Rachel's forehead. ;o) -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 8:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L sigh... someone shoot me. I am spending WAY too much time being unemployed these days

Error in PRO*C - EXEC ORACLE OPTION (MAXLITERAL=2000)

2002-03-05 Thread Bhavin
hello , I am getting a syntax error no PCC-W-02044 ,CMD-LINE,Illegal or out of range value for option for the line below in my program: EXEC ORACLE OPTION (MAXLITERAL=2000) any solution for the same?? thanks. _ Do You Yah

RE: Any Oracle Tool

2002-03-05 Thread Mark Leith
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AW: Any Oracle Tool

2002-03-05 Thread v . schoen
Hi Nadu, We use PLSQL-Developer and TOAD. Both are very nice tools. TOAD you can get free. Here are teh Web-Links. http://www.allroundautomations.nl/plsqldev.html http://www.toadsoft.com/downld.html free version http://www.quest.com/toad/ HTH Volker Schoen E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Any Oracle Tool

2002-03-05 Thread Nandu Garg
Hi All I am facing a lot of problems in testing Stored Procedures and Functions. I have many functions which requires a lot of parameters to be passed. Even a small mistake make me lot of retype. Again testing everything against requires a lot of testing data. If any good UI is available it m

RE: Number / 0 (solve)

2002-03-05 Thread Sinard Xing
Hi, Connect sys For the creation of a function-based index in your own schema, you must be granted the CREATE INDEX and QUERY REWRITE system privileges. To create the index in another schema or on another schema's tables, you must have the CREATE ANY INDEX and GLOBAL QUERY REWRITE privileges. Y

RE: Names server

2002-03-05 Thread Lord, David - CSG
Works nicely for us. It was a bit flakey before we had a region database, but is rock solid now. I installed OID for a 'play' recently, and after considerable pain I finally got the GUI running, only to find that what was on the screen made absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. RTFM'ing had a s

Re: Clash of the DBs in eWeek

2002-03-05 Thread Marin Dimitrov
- Original Message - > > I have also an other question. > Do you you why they did not test postgressql ? > I bet they failed to run it on NT (not a trivial task) Marin "...what you brought from your past, is of no use in your present. When you must choose a new path, do

Re: Secret maximum for INITRANS?

2002-03-05 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Nice to know the actual strategy. I came across an oddity some time ago when trying to work this one out by setting silly values for INITRANS. This would be (correctly) ignored on a 'create index', and then obeyed on a 'rebuild index' with the result that the index got bigger. I think it was 8

RE: # of datafiles per tablespace

2002-03-05 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
We use 4Gb datafiles here as the norm without any problems at all and those datafiles are all backed up with Legato. No problems whatsoever. Lee -Original Message- Sent: 05 March 2002 03:33 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L That being said is there anything wrong with having on

Number / 0

2002-03-05 Thread Sinard Xing
Hi guys, This is my test: SQL> desc emp Name Null?Type - EMPNO NOT NULL CHAR(3) NAME VAR