bitmap index with nosort

2002-03-12 Thread Sinard Xing
Hi all, I try create bitmap index with nosort like: SQL> select kill from emp; KILL -- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 rows selected. SQL> create bitmap index bmap1 on emp(kill asc) nosort; create bitmap inde

RE: how to know ,the tables which are accessed via FTS?

2002-03-12 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Thanks Alex!  The second method is great.  However knowing what tables are undergoing a full table scan is only a part of what's needed.  One also needs to know the size of the table; i.e., blocks up to the highwater mark, and  the statement which caused the scan in the first place.  The fi

How to deregister OEM 2.2 jobs and events when agent is not available?

2002-03-12 Thread Craig Munday
Title: How to deregister OEM 2.2 jobs and events when agent is not available? All, Does anyone know how to deregister Enterprise Manager jobs and events when the Intelligent Agent is not available.  I have looked on metalink and was not able to find anything of relevance. The platform is So

OT : Unix script to monitor log file size/disk space

2002-03-12 Thread CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC)
Hi Gurus, Does anyone have the unix script to monitor disk space or a certain file ? For example, if the disk space is more than 80%, send an email to the administrator or if the log file is too huge, email the log file to the administrator and truncate the file etc . Please help. Thanks. Regds

Re: cannot find database in OEM ???

2002-03-12 Thread Ferry Situmorang
Try to use Configuration Assistant to create Repository on Enterprise Manager. 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 PROTECT

Re: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-12 Thread Rachel Carmichael
okay, I like this one better than mine :) --- Jeremiah Wilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My favorite is the one where you come in one morning and find your > database in the bathtub, bleeding and sedated. After taking the > database to the hospital, the DBA tells you that one of your > databa

Re: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-12 Thread Rachel Carmichael
oh man, mine has to be what is probably Jeremiah's as well: the myth that Oracle doesn't write to the database files when you are in hot backup mode --- "Freeman, Robert " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm putting the final touches on my IOUG-A presentation (I got an > extension > for those who

RE: OCP Test on Oracle 8i New features Upgrade : study

2002-03-12 Thread Rachel Carmichael
oh man, what makes you think *I* feel all that worthy of writing books? I am constantly aware of just how little I really know about Oracle. My only consolation seems to be that there are lots of people out there who don't know all that much either. And some who know less than me, and THOSE are t

RE:Wondering ... Lite: Redo sequence poll

2002-03-12 Thread Sujatha Madan
Hi, I'm just wondering how you guys know so many undocumented Oracle parameters and what to do with them and things like that. Please don't answer "because we're smart" ... that would be stating the obvious. Cheers, Sujatha PS: "undocumented Oracle parameters" makes it OnT rather than a philos

RE: Lite: Redo sequence poll

2002-03-12 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Gopal, You sure like to play with fire... Don't you ?? Thanks for the info, though. :) - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L John, alter session set events 'immediate trace name ADJUST_SCN level 1' bumps t

RE: Lite: Redo sequence poll

2002-03-12 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
John, alter session set events 'immediate trace name ADJUST_SCN level 1' bumps the current SCN By one billion. I have used this event once while recovering a Tera Byte database where LGWR crashed and all the data files were inconsistent. And also there is an undocumented paramter something like

OFF TOPIC - Seti at home....anyone using or want to setup an Orac

2002-03-12 Thread Freeman, Robert
Anyone else doing seti at home? If you are interested we could setup an Oracle group... :-)) 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.

Re: Poll & Questions

2002-03-12 Thread Peter . McLarty
One of my approaches for resolving this issue was to ask them exactly where they intended to build a test database to validate that bug out of the production environment, because sometimes those bugs don't show up in the stripped down developer database . There was also an issue of space and

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-12 Thread Freeman, Robert
Actually, I was presented with your web site some time ago but never looked at it... I didn't want to be accused of plagiarism! :-) However, now that I have turned in my abstract, I decided to go ahead and look at it... I have many of the same ideas that you have... couple in there I didn't have.

RE: Lite: Redo sequence poll

2002-03-12 Thread John Kanagaraj
> I think you can **artificially** force a database to reach the SCN to > 0xfff. by using the event ADJUST_SCN. > This bumps the SCN to one billion if set at level 1. So > running them in a > loop will bump the SCN to the max value. > THis event generally used to bump the SCNs if there is

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-12 Thread Gogala, Mladen
My favorite urban legend about oracle is that oracle is trying to cache rollback segment extents instead of blocks. That has resulted in rollback segments with a gazillion of small extents. > -Original Message- > From: Freeman, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12,

RE: Lite: Redo sequence poll

2002-03-12 Thread Kimberly Smith
Wait, need to login to my production database -Original Message- Gopalakrishnan Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Robert, I think you can **artificially** force a database to reach the SCN to 0xfff. by using the event ADJUST_SCN.

Re: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-12 Thread Brian McGraw
Hey, man... don't joke. After all, that really happened to this guy who's a friend of my brother who just happened to be related to this guy at Oracle who was visiting a convention in Las Vegas with his old roommate who knew this lady that had called her brother only to find out that his wife had

Free scripts

2002-03-12 Thread Nguyen, David M
I try to find some scripts (PL/SQL package) to monitor my oracle database such as tablespace, rollback segment, etc. Does someone know a website that has this? Thanks, David -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Nguyen, David M INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-12 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, John Kanagaraj wrote: > I believe Jeremiah Wilton presented on a similar topic at OOW. I did do a similar presenatation, and Rachel Carmichael did a similar one the year before. Also, Gaja has a tuning myths paper/presentation. Robert, you are welcome to consult my paper i

Re: FW: Help....With weird join...

2002-03-12 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I vaguely recall a bug a little while ago that was along these lines. Oracle failed to notice that the predicate had been repeated, and treated it as two predicates with an argument like: selectivity due to pred 1 is 10% selectivity due to pred 2 is 10% Cross-product results in selecti

Poll & Questions

2002-03-12 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
We currently have a production, system and development database here. The system and development databases are purged periodically and reloaded with lookup data. The developers are then responsible for entering transactional data in both regions. I am looking to follow the same practice for dev

Smart Update, How ?

2002-03-12 Thread steven wndy
Hello list: In my cursor loop, I have an update statement, see below. Now I need to the update only for the field (in that cursor) that has data in it. (which means when is null, that field will not be updated). - Dynamic SQL can do it. But now for many reasons that I can't use Dynamic SQL in th

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-12 Thread Freeman, Robert
Everyone, some great ideas 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. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4

RE: 817

2002-03-12 Thread Peter . McLarty
Sorry 8.1.7.Release 3 is in fact 8.1.7.0.0. The Release 3 is the third release of 8i 8.1.5 Release 1 8.1.6 Release 2 8.1.7 Release 3 If you go to Metalink and select patches you can search for the Patches for your platform. There you will find the Patch 3 for your platform, if it is ava

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-12 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
OK. How about this one? And I quote: "Oracle9i will be the last database..." - Chairman and CEO of large software organization. Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Technical Alliance Manager Compuware Corporation Direct: (248) 865-4350 Mobile: (248) 408-2918 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:w

RE: Lite: Redo sequence poll

2002-03-12 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Robert, I think you can **artificially** force a database to reach the SCN to 0xfff. by using the event ADJUST_SCN. This bumps the SCN to one billion if set at level 1. So running them in a loop will bump the SCN to the max value. THis event generally used to bump the SCNs if there is a m

Re: SQL queries

2002-03-12 Thread Stephane Faroult
> Robertson Lee - lerobe wrote: > > All, > > Following SQL runs for ages (almost 2 hours) > > select * from table1 addr, > table2 pers, > table3 lookup > table4 cust > where cust.customer_key = lookup_customer_key > and lookup_address_key = addr_address_key > and lookup.person_key = pers.person

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-12 Thread John Kanagaraj
>I'm doing Oracle Urban > Legends. I've got > several in my presentation but I thought I'd ask here, before > I put the > presentation to bed, what your favorite (or the one you find the most > irritating) Oracle Urban legend was Robert, I believe Jeremiah Wilton presented on a similar to

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-12 Thread Freeman, Robert
FAM? 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. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:31 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Re: FW: Help....With weird join...

2002-03-12 Thread Stephane Faroult
April Wells wrote: > > I got an interesting email yesterday from our Business Objects Admin... > Anyone know why ADDING a duplicate join would make this run faster...? > > April Wells > Corporate Systems > Amarillo Texas > > I am trying to clean up some junk in one of the universes. Below is

cannot find database in OEM ???

2002-03-12 Thread Andrea Oracle
Hi all, I created one db and after OEM discovered node, that db shows on navigator. I created another database, I refreshed the node, the new db did NOT show; then I deleted the old node, and did a discover again, but the new db still did not show. Metalink suggests refresh twice it will work,

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread David Wagoner
Check MetaLink Doc ID: Note: 176129.1 ALERT: "LATCH FREE" And "FREE_BUFFER_WAITS" Cause Performance Degradation/Hang Problem affects 9.0.1.2 and sounds like what you're experiencing. HTH, david David B. Wagoner Database Administrator Arsenal Digital Solutions Worldwide, Inc. 8000 Regency Park

RE: Oracle on Linux articles

2002-03-12 Thread Orr, Steve
Regarding chattr and changing atime updates on Oracle database files... here's the response I got from Oracle support: - UPDATE: According to "man chattr": When a file with the 'A' attribute set is modified, its atime record

Re: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-12 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
My favorite is the one where you come in one morning and find your database in the bathtub, bleeding and sedated. After taking the database to the hospital, the DBA tells you that one of your database's logfile groups has been removed, for the black-market logfile group trade. -- Jeremiah Wilton

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-12 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
Robert: As you FAM, please finish early. I could use the vacation time before the deadline to relax. Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Technical Alliance Manager Compuware Corporation Direct: (248) 865-4350 Mobile: (248) 408-2918 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.compuware.com -Origi

RE: 817

2002-03-12 Thread James A
That should be patch if you got it off Oracle site. The base release is Oracle 8.1.7.0.0. Release 3 is the approved patch which brings you to 8.1.7.3.0. If you want further info search Oracle Metalink. good luck. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 12:30 PM To: Multiple

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-12 Thread Paul . Parker
It has to be that "unless your data is all in one extent, you would experience bad performance" Paul -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:43 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I'm putting the final touches on my IOUG-A presentation (I got an extension for those

RE: Oracle on Linux articles

2002-03-12 Thread James Morle
Hi Steve. I also see your point, of course, and it's often a fine line to tread. However, if making something well tuned were a simple case of plugging in numbers, it would already be configured that way. Of course, some defaults are plain silly! The reality is, and the point behind my objections,

RE: Do you use RMAN?

2002-03-12 Thread Freeman, Robert
New Rman features in 9i make it even nicer... Recover specific blocks, while the database and the datafile is still available. Automatic channel allocation. retention policies. restartable backups and restores. backing up database and archivelog files in one operation run command isn't needed in

RE: OCP Test on Oracle 8i New features Upgrade : study

2002-03-12 Thread Freeman, Robert
Ron (and several people who have sent me personal emails as well), Thanks so much. I love what I do. I'm actually taking a break from writing right now, been at it almost 3 years non-stop, but I have a couple of ideas that I'm brewing with Oracle Press and one with Sybex. The economic times

Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-12 Thread Freeman, Robert
I'm putting the final touches on my IOUG-A presentation (I got an extension for those who realize that I'm late on it!)... I'm doing Oracle Urban Legends. I've got several in my presentation but I thought I'd ask here, before I put the presentation to bed, what your favorite (or the one you find

RE: OCP Test on Oracle 8i New features Upgrade : study

2002-03-12 Thread Ron Rogers
Robert, Very good response. I guess that is why some people write books and others read books. I normally don't have time for either but I have learned lately that you have to make time to keep up with the changes. I have used you book to pass the Oracle 7 to 8 upgrade. The content was complete

RE: SQL Loader and decimals

2002-03-12 Thread Gustavo Coria
Hi Witold : You should, to create an function "divide" : divide(12345/100) result = 123.45 In ControlFile you should include the following sentence : LOAD DATA TRUNCATE PRESERVE BLANKS INTO TABLE TABLENAME ( FIELD1 POSITION (1:20) CHAR, FIELD2 POSITION (21:21) DECIMAL E

RE: SOFT PARSE RATIO?

2002-03-12 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Can anyone tell me more about this? I have a 7.3.4 database that appears to be doing an awful lot of parsing even though it uses bind variables. How do I tell for sure it is doing too much parsing and is there a way to control it assuming the app is already using bind variables? Ron Smith DBA Ke

RE: Oracle on Linux articles

2002-03-12 Thread Orr, Steve
Thanks James. OK, now I see where you're coming from... like the esteemed published author that you are, you're wanting a complete treatise on Oracle database tuning. :-) But my sense was that the article was merely addressing quick and dirty tuning options or "low hanging fruit" as the author pu

RE: lights?

2002-03-12 Thread Glenn Travis
I watched the WTC lights on the news last night. They said they are the second most powerful lights. I would have to think the one coming out of the Luxor in Vegas is #1. Their promo material says you can see it from the moon. I guess there are no planes flying around the strip... > -O

Re: SOFT PARSE RATIO?

2002-03-12 Thread Edward Shevtsov
Thanks for the correction and for your paper Regards, Ed > The parameter is really called session_cached_cursors and it doesn't actually > reduce the soft parses - it just decreases the serialization overhead of > repeated soft parses within the same session.  It's all in my paper on OTN. > > T

SQL Loader and decimals

2002-03-12 Thread Witold Iwaniec
Hello There are few numeric formats when you load data from a file. I am looking for a way, if possible, to load a number from a field that doesn't have the decimal point. For example I may know that in my five-character field the first three characters always represent the most-significant d

RE: Lite: Redo sequence poll

2002-03-12 Thread Freeman, Robert
I wonder if any Oracle database has ever yet experienced an absolute SCN wrap?? 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. -Original

RE: OCP Test on Oracle 8i New features Upgrade : study

2002-03-12 Thread Freeman, Robert
Ron, I have one DBA lined up to ask that same question for the next 6 months for that very purpose. I have an opening on September 27th, would you like to take it?? My personal rule is that I don't just fashion a message that will shamelessly plug my book, in and of itself. For example I would

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Arun Chakrapani
This query was totally customized for our production database. We run this query every 2 secs This is querying the main knowN events which causes sometimes the database to freeze especially the latch free wait you can customize it as you want. the format comes out like below SIDEVENT_WITH_

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Why are you saying "FROM" is missing? It is there... Regards Rafiq FROM X$KSUSECST > s,x$ksuse u > WHERE KSUSSOPC IN(2,12,94,95,144,75,145,146,91) and > bitand(s.ksspaflg,1)!=0 and bitand(s.ksuseflg,1)!=0 and s.ksussseq!=0 > and u.indx=s.indx Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recip

RE: DataBase Modelling Tools

2002-03-12 Thread Bill Conner
At 08:03 AM 3/12/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Another good one, and I *think* at a more reasonable cost than ERWin is >ERStudio - www.embarcadero.com i use this one and really like it. >-Original Message- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 12 March 2002 14:29 >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: OCP Test on Oracle 8i New features Upgrade : study

2002-03-12 Thread Ron Rogers
Robert, Shame on you for the "plug". Did you ask Ashoke to post the message so there could be some saving grace distributed for the 9i upgrade shortcomings?. Yes, I have the book and find it very informative. It is nice to know that there is an 8i to 9i upgrade book available. I have not see i

Re: SOFT PARSE RATIO?

2002-03-12 Thread Seema Singh
Thanku Brorn -Seema >From: Bjørn Engsig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: SOFT PARSE RATIO? >Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:13:44 -0800 > >The parameter is really called session_cached_cursors and it doesn't >

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Gogala, Mladen
It's a beautiful query which only misses "FROM" clause. I'll save it for later use. Much later. > -Original Message- > From: Arun Chakrapani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:14 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: DB freezes ... no ind

Re: lights?

2002-03-12 Thread James J. Morrow
There is something similar in Kansas City, MO. A church designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (on the Plaza) has a shaft of light projecting straight up from the roof. The shaft of light was part of the original design by FLW. However, at the time, the lights required to achieve the intensity and cohe

Re: Table Partitioning - Opinions

2002-03-12 Thread Jay Hostetter
Are you sure your query able to exclude partitions? Another thing to consider is not only query performance, but table maintenance. It is much easier to drop a partition than it is to delete x million rows. Partitioning definitely improves query performance and table maintenance for us (360+

RE: Ora-00600 running 64 bit and 32 bit databases

2002-03-12 Thread Jared . Still
This is *so* typical. SA's tend to live and think in isolation. Sometimes all it would take is a short email. Like last fall, when our SA decommissioned my dev server without discussing it with me first. :( Jared April Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/12/02 06:33 A

RE: SQL queries

2002-03-12 Thread Rick_Cale
The +0 does disable the indexes and I agree with Iain I do not know why you would disable them here. Rick "Nicoll, Iain

RE: Lite: Redo sequence# poll

2002-03-12 Thread Jared . Still
A high transaction database, such as those at amazon.com Jared "Hand, Michael T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/12/02 08:28 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:RE: Li

Re: SOFT PARSE RATIO?

2002-03-12 Thread Bjørn Engsig
The parameter is really called session_cached_cursors and it doesn't actually reduce the soft parses - it just decreases the serialization overhead of repeated soft parses within the same session.  It's all in my paper on OTN. Thanks, Bjørn. On Tuesday 12 March 2002 14:58, you wrote: > Seema,

RE: SQL queries

2002-03-12 Thread Alec Macdonell
I assume you are using Rules based optimizer and not the Cost based. In the Rules based world the structure of the SQL statement effect the path the optimiozer chooses. The second statement differs from the first in three ways, first the FIRST_ROWS hint, second the table1 addr is moved to th

Re: OCP Test on Oracle 8i New features Upgrade : study Materials, URLs, Sample questions

2002-03-12 Thread Joe Raube
Try Amazon Oracle 8 to 8i Upgrade Exam Cram (Exam: 1Z0-020) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/157610737X/qid=1015956097/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_7_1/104-0428629-4654355 Also http://studyguides.cramsession.com/cramsession/oracle/Oracle8iupgrade/default.asp -Joe --- "Mandal, Ashoke" <[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: Table Partitioning - Opinions

2002-03-12 Thread James McCann
If your queries are using indexes, then 2 million rows will be no problem to Oracle even without partitions. Jim -Original Message- Darren Sent: 12 March 2002 17:45 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We are in the process of deciding whether to purchase a license for the partitio

RE: OCP Test on Oracle 8i New features Upgrade : study Materials,

2002-03-12 Thread Freeman, Robert
I just happen to have a book published by Coriolis called the Oracle 8 to 8i Exam Cram Guide... You can find it on Amazon, bookpool, etc... 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

RE: Oracle on Linux articles

2002-03-12 Thread James Morle
Hi Steve, > > > > The author is also misinformed about the workings of the > log buffer, > > and > > the interaction of Oracle blocksize with the filesystem block size. > > I didn't see any discussion of this in the article. ? This is two separate issues: a) log buffer - this was discusse

RE: SQL queries

2002-03-12 Thread Nicoll, Iain (Calanais)
Lee, The +0 looks bizarrely like the old trick to stop indexes being used though it would appear that here you wouldn't want to do this. Have you got the explain plans and what version is it? Iain Nicoll -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:24 PM To: Multiple recipients

Table Partitioning - Opinions

2002-03-12 Thread Browett, Darren
We are in the process of deciding whether to purchase a license for the partitioning option of Oracle. We are developing a data warehouse, with our largest tables being approx 2 million rows and about 300 Megs in size. We have setup two tables, a standard table ( < 2 million rows) and a partiti

817

2002-03-12 Thread Hamid Alavi
HI ALL, I WAS LOOKING FOR 817 & PATCH3 FOR 817 BUT THE ONLY THING WHICH I FOUND WAS 817 RELEASE3 IS THIS MEAN 8.1.7 PATCH3 OR NOT? I HAVE HEARED FOR UPGRADING FROM 8.1.6 FIRST INSTALL 8.1.7 THEN UPGRADE IT TO PATCH3 BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD PATCH3. THANKS Hamid Alavi Office 818 73

Re: outer join

2002-03-12 Thread iashraf
That is whats happening, e.g. i have (cut down), create view all_data as(select swname ,business ,org,waf from licence l,business b, organisation o,wafs w where l.id = o.id (+) and l.wafid = w.id (+) etc. How can i get around this ?

RE: Ora-00600 running 64 bit and 32 bit databases

2002-03-12 Thread April Wells
sorry for the inconvenience. It was more an informational... have you seen it before... not tell me what the error stack didn't tell me. You will see that it has since been resolved. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 8:18 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi

Re: outer join

2002-03-12 Thread Witold Iwaniec
You can have multiple outer joins in the where clause but one table can be outer-joined to one other table only. For example you can write: select tb1.col_1 from table1 tb1, table2 tb2, table3 tb3 where tb1.some_col = "some value" and tb1.col_a(+) = tb2.col_a and tb2.col_b(+) = tb3.col_b but

RE: Lite: Redo sequence# poll

2002-03-12 Thread Hand, Michael T
Ok Jeremiah, I'll warrent that Redo sequence# is a uneven measuring stick. Longest since last restart - 6/22/01 Oldest - 7/24/96 Highest SCN- a pokey 366 802 309 What kind of environment gets you to a 13-digit SCN? Mike -Original Message- My stats:

SQL queries

2002-03-12 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
All,   Following SQL runs for ages (almost 2 hours)   select * from table1 addr, table2 pers, table3 lookup table4 cust where cust.customer_key = lookup_customer_key and lookup_address_key = addr_address_key and lookup.person_key = pers.person_key and rownum < 1000;   when this is chang

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
And how would I interpret the output of this query? Thanks Arun Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc. QOTD: Any

RE: DataBase Modelling Tools

2002-03-12 Thread Mark Leith
Another good one, and I *think* at a more reasonable cost than ERWin is ERStudio - www.embarcadero.com -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 March 2002 14:29 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have not used many but ERWIN in a very good modeling tool. I am not sure Go

OCP Test on Oracle 8i New features Upgrade : study Materials, URLs, Sample questions

2002-03-12 Thread Mandal, Ashoke
Greetings All, Could you please send me the name & author of the books, or any sample questions for Oracle 8i new features upgrade test. For 7.3 and 8 upgrade tests, I used DBA Certification Exam guide by Couchman and it was helpful. Thanks, Ashoke -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: ht

RE: Oracle on Linux articles

2002-03-12 Thread Orr, Steve
> The author is also misinformed about the workings of the log buffer, and > the interaction of Oracle blocksize with the filesystem block size. I didn't see any discussion of this in the article. ? Could you briefly explain your understanding of the workings of the log buffer and the interac

Re: SOFT PARSE RATIO?

2002-03-12 Thread Christian Trassens
Better than that and even because soft parse it is usually a problem related to synonyms. Therefore try changing with code and using alter session set current_schema. Also because of some problems with v$session_longops look for notes on Metalink about setting _sqlexec_progression_cost in 0. Rega

Oracle DBA with Advanced Technologies exp. Needed in

2002-03-12 Thread OraStaff
Position: Oracle DBA Location: Rochester, Minnesota Salary Range: 65-75K- maybe more Description: This client company-a leader in its' field, needs an Oracle DBA to provide database support. This position includes support of all aspects of the Oracle relational database product (ASE) on primaril

Re: lights?

2002-03-12 Thread DENISE
Rachel, From what I heard on NPR, they need to avoid blinding pilots and distracting migratory birds with the lights. It was rather awesome on tv. Please let us know how it looks in person. Denise Gwinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- A

Re: Another problem in cloning database

2002-03-12 Thread Christian Trassens
You've probably had a problem when you first opened resetlogs. Fe., setting rollback segments that don't exist yet. Issue a select over v$log and v$logfile to determine which is the current redo. Copy that one to path and with the name of the archive Oracle is asking. Then issue the recover again

Re: Another problem in cloning database

2002-03-12 Thread Christian Trassens
You've probably had a problem when you first opened resetlogs. Fe., setting rollback segments that don't exist yet. Issue a select over v$log and v$logfile to determine which is the current redo. Copy that one to path and with the name of the archive Oracle is asking. Then issue the recover again

RE: problem in creating control file?

2002-03-12 Thread Gogala, Mladen
You should also try using paths like "/data/yedek123" or "D:[YEDEK123.DATAFILES]". Database works much better with those file naming conventions. -Original Message-From: Hallas John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 8:03 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list

Re: lights?

2002-03-12 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I saw it on tv, and will be in the city tonight and hope to see it "live"... my feeling from tv was, the lights need to be brighter --- bill thater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has anybody seen the tribute? what's your opinion? > > -- > -- > Bill "Shrek" Thater ORACLE DBA >

Re: database clone:

2002-03-12 Thread Jared Still
This paper is rather old, and I'm not sure some of the points are still valid, such as multiple tablespace creation. I haven't tried it though, maybe someone already knows? As for the fast export/import, there's another method that's been ignored in this thread, and that is to dump your tables

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Arun Chakrapani
If you are able to login and query the session_Wait try using the below said query select s.INDX SID,u.KSUUDNAM||','||u.KSUSEUNM||','||u.KSUSEMNM||'('||decode(KSUSSOPC,2,'LA TCH FREE',12,'ENQUEUE',94,'db file sequential read', 95,'db file scattered read',144,'LIBRARY CACHE PIN',75,'buffer busy wa

RE: Help....With weird join...

2002-03-12 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
H Are these base tables or views? Have you explained both statements? Have you looked at consistent gets and so forth. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:28 AM To: Multiple recipients of list O

RE: A bit o/t - drinks all round

2002-03-12 Thread Freeman, Robert
<> Oh you are being kind I think that particular document from Oracle is terrible... It seems to me to be more of a "here is what you will learn about if you take our Oracle9i New Features class" book I was really frustrated during the writing of the 9i New Features book b

Oracle client on Alpha Linux?

2002-03-12 Thread Jesse, Rich
As I'm looking over that article in PC Mag that compares different DBs, I noticed that the spreadsheet from their website has available Oracle clients listed as "Any with a Java VM". And that's got me wondering. How would one attempt to implement an Oracle client on an unsupported platform like

Re: Autoextensible of RBS and Temp datafiles.

2002-03-12 Thread Bunyamin K. Karadeniz
thank you ... Bunyamin K. Karadeniz Oracle DBA / Developer Civilian IT Department Havelsan A.S. Eskisehir yolu 7.km Ankara Turkey Phone: +90 312 2873565 / 1217 Mobile : +90 535 3357729 The degree of normality in a database is inversely proportional to that of its DBA. - Origin

RE: Oracle on Linux articles

2002-03-12 Thread Mike Hately, Choiceline IT Ltd.
Yep, That was my feeling when I first saw it too. I think that some of the assumptions are pretty naive. Most of the people who've replied to the article seem to say much the same thing. A little knowledge ... Mike -Original Message- Sent: 12 March 2002 13:58 To: Multiple recipients of

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Thanks john, The dbms_job has problems on 9012, so I am switching to good old cron ... basically I don't have the statpack info at all ... but I am starting it at 10am today. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Ja

RE: Ora-00600 running 64 bit and 32 bit databases

2002-03-12 Thread April Wells
Sorry... our SA just fessed up... he changed the UID for Oracle on the OS on the same day we started the Financials install... but forgot to bounce the listener, and forgot to tell anyone.. but we are now consistent with Production UID for Oracle... which is really all that matters, right. Anyway

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Thanks Stephan, No it is not a problem with archiving at all, the filesystem assigned for archiving has may more GB of space than it needs. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion

Re: RMAN Catalog Configuration

2002-03-12 Thread Gene Sais
Now thats assuming Oracle's migration utility works :-) I always prefer exp/imp for upgrades, much cleaner. But will have to trust Oracle's migration utility for the 1TB db upgrade from 8.1.7 to 9i. Gene >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/12/02 07:58AM >>> If I moved one database to a higher version I

Re: DataBase Modelling Tools

2002-03-12 Thread Rick_Cale
I have not used many but ERWIN in a very good modeling tool. I am not sure Go to http://www.infogoal.com/dmc/dmcdmd.htm This will provide you with tons of Data Modeling Resources. Rick

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-12 Thread Arun Chakrapani
When your database freezes can you log in as internal thro svrmgrl and see what is happening on v$session_Wait -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks john, The dbms_job has problems on 9012, so I am switching to good ol

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