Re: Urgent need information on Buffer busy wait P3 value

2002-03-15 Thread Christian Trassens
Regarding the subject, p3 gives us the cause of the buffer busy waits. It is a code or id and it has changed since 7.3. Fe.: 0 the common one, the block is being read. 1012 a modification is happening on a SCUR or XCUR buffer but has not yet completed. 1013 or 130 block is being read by another

Re: DBMS Job vs C Daemon

2002-03-15 Thread Connor McDonald
dbms_job is the way to do since if you rollback the txn, then the job submission will also roll back hth connor --- Alroy Mascranghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several programs writes to a table. From that table a process has to be initiated. (Currently it is working on a trigger but this

Re: Index reverse Help

2002-03-15 Thread Connor McDonald
Because if property = 20, then bitand(prop,4) = 4 etc hth connor --- Sinard Xing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, If an index with reverse key generated the table ind$.property it allways store value 4 Why Oracle recommed this condition WHERE

Re: BITAND need help

2002-03-15 Thread Connor McDonald
select bitand(4,4)+0 from dual; --- Sinard Xing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can someone help me with this please What cause the error ? SQL select bitand(4,4) from dual; ERROR: ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes no rows selected Sinardy -- Please see the

Re: BITAND need help (Solved)

2002-03-15 Thread Jonathan Lewis
The reason behind the oddity is probably that bitand() is defined (see standard.sql) to return a binary_integer (it used to return a number in earlier versions) and pure SQL does not recognise that type, so you need a method for coercing the result to a number. It is probably slightly cheaper

Re: Urgent need information on Buffer busy wait P3 value

2002-03-15 Thread Anjo Kolk
That information looks very familar ;-) Anjo. Christian Trassens wrote: Regarding the subject, p3 gives us the cause of the buffer busy waits. It is a code or id and it has changed since 7.3. Fe.: 0 the common one, the block is being read. 1012 a modification is happening on a SCUR or

RE: Oracle Hungry for Money

2002-03-15 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Yesterday Oracle announced they will not meet their target for the quarter. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de

Oracle CERT Advisory

2002-03-15 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-08.html Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique Maritimes

Re: EMC file systems and backups

2002-03-15 Thread Gene Sais
http://www.eecostructure.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/14/02 09:18PM Where I can find more info concerning EMC disks, setting up the filesystem and Oracle tuning + backups with EMC. Thanks in advance, sepi _ Chat with friends

RE: DBMS Job vs C Daemon

2002-03-15 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
While I agree that dbms_job is the right way, we had lots of problems with dbms_job suddenly failing (i.e. it just stops working) in 9011 and 9012 versions of database. Finally it was something to do with job queue processes, with the help of OWS we fixed it. BUT, I still don't trust dbms_job on

Re: DBMS Job vs C Daemon

2002-03-15 Thread Joe Raube
Possibly a candidate for Oracle Advanced Queueing? -Joe --- Connor McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dbms_job is the way to do since if you rollback the txn, then the job submission will also roll back hth connor --- Alroy Mascranghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several programs

I'm getting old messages. I'm also getting messages where the header

2002-03-15 Thread tday6
Sounds like a database issue, so it's not OT. -- 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 Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists

RE: DBMS Job vs C Daemon

2002-03-15 Thread Gene Sais
I also agree, cron WORKS well ! The only thing I would add to cron jobs (shell scripts) is to use a semaphore file. e..g. --- semfile=/tmp/$0.RUNNING if [ -f $semfile ] ; then exit ; fi touch $semfile DO SOME SHELL STUFF rm $semfile exit

Re: DBMS Job vs C Daemon

2002-03-15 Thread Igor Neyman
Raj, Was it some kind of patch for 9011 or 9012, which fixed dbms_job? Could you provide some details? It's very important for us, because we rely heavily on dbms_job (NT environment, looking to upgrade to 9i). Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple

RE: Oracle Hungry for Money

2002-03-15 Thread Rodd Holman
They may not meet their sales target, but they are still making money. They try to make you think they are starving if they don't meet their funny numbers. Rodd On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 06:08, Boivin, Patrice J wrote: Yesterday Oracle announced they will not meet their target for the

Re: CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE

2002-03-15 Thread Bjørn Engsig
Harvinder, Cursor_sharing does not reduce soft parsing, only hard parsing, and hard parsing is only reduced if there are statements that only differ in literals. When you say query performance degrades, where do you actually loose? Parsing or executing? I suggest you read my white paper

ORA-00600 while running query

2002-03-15 Thread Harvinder Singh
Hi, Whenever we try to run the following query we got ora-00600 error: What can be the possible Cause?? We found out that the following lines from end of query are creating the problem if we use only one condition out of these two the query works.. AND (anccorpfilter.id_ancestor IN

RE: Oracle Hungry for Money

2002-03-15 Thread Jesse, Rich
And Jay Leno's poor because he's only making $17 million, while Dave Letterman's making $31.5 M. Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 6:09

Re: Fav. Urban Legend...take two

2002-03-15 Thread Jared Still
Yes, I've seen that also. Bugs 299259 and BUG:207590 describe this change in behavior, and why it was done, but those bugs are not accessible on MetaLink. Jared On Thursday 14 March 2002 15:03, Jonathan Lewis wrote: I hate to perpetuate a legend, but I THINK there was an early version

RE: DBMS Job vs C Daemon

2002-03-15 Thread Jay Hostetter
..which is why we have a shell script that runs out of cron and checks on database jobs. Here is the SQL that we use to find jobs with problems: /* Check for broken jobs or jobs that have failed more than 8 times. */ /* Also check for jobs that should have run in the last day, but haven't. */

RE: BITAND need help

2002-03-15 Thread Scott . Shafer
Do a: desc dual SQL desc dual NameNull?Type --- DUMMYVARCHAR2(1) SQL You are trying to do a bitand on a varchar2 column. Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 Common sense

CRONTAB JOB

2002-03-15 Thread Hamid Alavi
Hi All, I have a crontab job but this job never started, I have no idea what's wrong, actualy i am not a unix person, here is the job: cron job name is : qqad.cron 04 17 * * 1-5 /opt/qqad/sql/QQAD_backupscript.sh and here is the QQAD_backupscript.sh (in /opt/qqad/sql) sqlplus

RE: EMC file systems and backups

2002-03-15 Thread Post, Ethan
There is a good paper available on EMC architecture at the openworld site. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 6:23 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L http://www.eecostructure.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/14/02 09:18PM Where I can find more info concerning EMC

Re: lower case data

2002-03-15 Thread Chaim . Katz
Here's something that worked in Oracle7.1 It will still work although it's a bit long-winded and uses dbms_sql. (See attached file: chkcase.sql) Chaim Lyuda Hoska [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fatcity.com on 03/14/2002 02:03:32 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: DBMS Job vs C Daemon

2002-03-15 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
We don't let developers run the job but your idea is good about semaphore 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

OiD vs. OpenLDAP

2002-03-15 Thread Jesse, Rich
So, as we are about to implement Oracle Internet Directory 3.0.1. I had planned to use our standard method of ARCHIVELOG mode and hotbackups, but Oracle says that it won't be valid for recovery, due to the OiD admin treating some operations, like ldapaddmt as atomic (one fail = all fail). And

Another partitioning question

2002-03-15 Thread Shaw John-P55297
I think what my boss is asking me to do is not possible, but since I don't have much experience with partitioning I thought I'd ask here (I did read some of manuals but didn't find an answer that suited my conditions). My boss wants a table partitioned by 2 columns - seq_no and type. If the type

RE: BITAND need help

2002-03-15 Thread Scott . Shafer
Doh! disregard. Brain #$%^ in effect... Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:49 AM To:

OT: Seattle listers - free Sunday?

2002-03-15 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Seattle listers, Rachel Carmichael will be in town this weekend. If anyone wants to get together Sunday evening with us and possibly some of the Amazon.com DBAs, let me know. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com

poxconst - contract status report

2002-03-15 Thread Jeffrey Beckstrom
It is using all 800 M of temp tablespace in our system. How much do you have allocated to get this program to run. Jeffrey BeckstromDatabase AdministratorGreater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority1240 W. 6th StreetCleveland, Ohio 44113(216) 781-4204

maintain one-to-one relationship

2002-03-15 Thread Magaliff, Bill
Hi, Anyone know of a way OTHER THAN A TRIGGER to maintain a one-to-one relationship between two entities (in this case a parent-child - only one child for each parent) thanks bill Bill Magaliff Framework, Inc. 914-631-2322 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com --

RE: Seattle listers - free Sunday?

2002-03-15 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Oh, you lucky people. I love Seattle. Haven't been there for a couple of years. Lee -Original Message- Sent: 15 March 2002 16:43 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Seattle listers, Rachel Carmichael will be in town this weekend. If anyone wants to get together Sunday evening

Who is querying a table?

2002-03-15 Thread Lima, Phil
Esteemed Gurus, I have a client that wants to collect information on who is querying a = table. The database is of the 8i variety. The table is accessed thru = an application that uses Forms 6i, so the users are not issuing command = line queries. Each time a user opens a form, our developed

RE: DBMS Job vs C Daemon

2002-03-15 Thread Gene Sais
In the past, I have seen databases not shutdown immediate b/c dbms_jobs were running, not sure if still true w/ 8i 9i? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/15/02 10:13AM ..which is why we have a shell script that runs out of cron and checks on database jobs. Here is the SQL that we use to find jobs with

RE: Another partitioning question

2002-03-15 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
John - At last a question I can answer! Anyway I think so. You can partition on a concatenated key. I just did this on our data warehouse and brought query times from over 2 minutes to under 10 seconds. Here is what my partition looks like. create table sumacctfact2 nologging pctfree 5 partition

Re: OiD vs. OpenLDAP

2002-03-15 Thread Jared . Still
Open LDAP has issues. Do a search on slashdot.org for commentary on it. I was quite surprised at how many folks had problems with it that prevented them from using it. Made me feel a bit better about never getting it to work. :) Jared Jesse, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL

sqlworksheet type control for Visual Basic

2002-03-15 Thread Alex Hillman
I am trying to find COM control with which I can execute SQLPLUS scripts and get SQLPLUS output. Any idea please? Alex Hillman -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Alex Hillman INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX:

Re: maintain one-to-one relationship

2002-03-15 Thread Jared . Still
Yeah, make the foreign key from the parent the primary key in the child. Jared Magaliff, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/15/02 08:53 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:

Re: Oracle CERT Advisory

2002-03-15 Thread Ray Stell
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 04:08:37AM -0800, Boivin, Patrice J wrote: http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-08.html -- At the top of this page it lists 8i Database in the Systems Affected. But there are no entries for 8i in the advisory. I called CERT and they said, hmmm I'm waiting on a

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...take two

2002-03-15 Thread Freeman, Robert
but those bugs are not accessible on MetaLink. ALways seems like the bugs I go looking for end up having base bugs which are not publicly accessible on Metalink... What I find really funny is that once in a while in the bug reports that are publicly available, you will find the contact

RV: CRONTAB JOB

2002-03-15 Thread Natalia Laracca
Hi, You have to write in QQAD_backupscript.sh: ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.6; export ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID=TEST ; export ORACLE_SID $ORACLE_HOME/bin/sqlplus -s system/manager@QQAD @COLD_BAKUP_FOR_QQADha.SQL - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: Another partitioning question

2002-03-15 Thread Robert Eskridge
I've never done partitioning but I've got an idea. What about adding a column to hold a value of what partition you want to be in (P1-P6), then populate that with a pre-insert trigger with whatever logic you want...? It's probably a naive idea, but I'm sure I'll learn from the list... :-) -rje

RE: A rollback segment question on minextents

2002-03-15 Thread kumanan . balasundaram
Oracle recommends the size NEXT=INITIAL. So if I had 10M initial, then most of the initial beyond the header info will be wasted? Sure not! Kumanan -Original Message- From: Rachel Carmichael [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 March 2002 21:48 To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: sqlworksheet type control for Visual Basic

2002-03-15 Thread Post, Ethan
You can use the a text box and a grid control. Use code to parse the contents of the textbox and you create an ADO recordset that gets associated with the grid control. Not too hard. Don't know what they are doing now with the whole .NET thing, may have changed a bit. - Ethan -Original

ERwin problem

2002-03-15 Thread Schauss, Peter
I am trying to reverse engineer an Oracle (8.1.7 - running on NT) schema using ERwin 4.0 (Windows 98). When it starts to load information for the first table I get: ORA-1403 no data found. followed by: ORA-03114 not connected to Oracle. The last message repeats until I kill ERwin with the

Re: CRONTAB JOB

2002-03-15 Thread Alex
make sure your shell script is executable and put #!/path/to/sh as the first line in you script On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Hamid Alavi wrote: Hi All, I have a crontab job but this job never started, I have no idea what's wrong, actualy i am not a unix person, here is the job: cron job name is

RE: A rollback segment question on minextents

2002-03-15 Thread kumanan . balasundaram
While on the subject.. Please see the Oracle Metalink Note: 1029850.6. It says the first block of the first segment contains header information. -Original Message- From: Kumanan Balasundaram Sent: 15 March 2002 17:59 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:

RE: ERwin problem

2002-03-15 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Are you using a different character set?? -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am trying to reverse engineer an Oracle (8.1.7 - running on NT) schema using ERwin 4.0 (Windows 98). When it starts to load information for the

RE: sqlworksheet type control for Visual Basic

2002-03-15 Thread Alex Hillman
What I am interested in is not a grid but sqlplus output. Like if I heve feedback on it will tell me how many records I got in my select result etc. Alex Hillman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Post, Ethan Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002

RE: A rollback segment question on minextents

2002-03-15 Thread Freeman, Robert
Actually the rollback segment header in the first extent exists in a single block, the rest of the first extent, as I understand it, is available for undo. Thus making INITIAL and NEXT the same should be of no consequence in this regard. It is my understanding (and I'm sure I will be corrected

RE: Another partitioning question

2002-03-15 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
If I understood the original question correctly, with the given conditions there will be three partitions. Oracle evaluates concatenated key from left to right order, so if the type and seq number are the partitioning columns here then the partitions would be: P1 -- values less than ('X',

RE: A rollback segment question on minextents

2002-03-15 Thread Jared . Still
Thanks for the info Robert. Personally, I usually have more urgent matters to deal with that preclude worrying about a possible 10meg wasted in a rollback segment. ;) Jared Freeman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/15/02 11:23 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L

RE: CRONTAB JOB

2002-03-15 Thread Kathy Duret
I think you also need to add -s to your sqlplus, so it runs in silent mode e.g. sqlplus -s system You might want to add | mailx -s Name of your table youremail.com to your cron job e.g. 04 17 * * 1-5 /opt/qqad/sql/QQAD_backupscript.sh | mailx -s Name of your table youremail.com so you

calling program

2002-03-15 Thread Big Planet
Hi LIst , Is there a way a pl/sql procedureor function can know the calling procedure or calling program . -ak

RE: Another partitioning question

2002-03-15 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Kirti - If I can humbly beg to differ. I assumed that it would work the way you described. However, I conducted some tests and found to my surprise that it seems to base decisions on the right-most column (although I only tested two columns). Therefore, to use your examples, P1 -- values less

RE: A rollback segment question on minextents

2002-03-15 Thread Rachel Carmichael
you aren't wrong :) --- Freeman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually the rollback segment header in the first extent exists in a single block, the rest of the first extent, as I understand it, is available for undo. Thus making INITIAL and NEXT the same should be of no consequence

RE: A rollback segment question on minextents

2002-03-15 Thread Rachel Carmichael
yes, Jonathan Lewis was kind enough to correct me privately on this. It is indeed only the first block that's used for header information, the rest of the block is used for rollback change vectors. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While on the subject.. Please see the Oracle Metalink Note:

Identification of tables NOT being used in the System.

2002-03-15 Thread Kumar, Dharminder
In our production database environment, I have a list of about 1000 tables ,for which we want to find if these tables are being used by anyone. How it can be done. One of the ideas is that we start database auditing on these tables for a considerable period of time say one month. Then for those

Re: CRONTAB JOB

2002-03-15 Thread Paul Heely
Check the cron/crontab man pages to see what environment is setup for jobs run from cron. You can also re-direct any output from you script to a file, i.e. /opt/qqad/sql/QQAD_backupscript.sh /some_file 21 This should send STDOUT and STDERR to /some_file. Inside your script you can also show

RE: calling program

2002-03-15 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Big Planet, Whoa, now there's a can of worms! In a word - no. Not unless you pass that info. in as an argument. Think about what you're asking. Since PL/SQL procedures can be called from, not only other PL/SQL procedures and functions, but the SQL*Plus command line, ODBC calls, Java

Control file expanding

2002-03-15 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
I know it is normal, but is it normal to expand 15 times in 3 days?? This is 9012 in AIX 4.3 If this isn't, where should I look for clues?? TIA Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any

RE: calling program

2002-03-15 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Actually you can, dbms_utility.format_call_stack, but you'll have to parse the information. See http://osi.oracle.com/~tkyte/who_called_me/index.html Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com

RE: calling program

2002-03-15 Thread Ron Thomas
-- -+ -- Procedure: Who_Called_Me -- -+ -- Purpose -- This procedure determines who the caller and line number was -- PROCEDURE Who_Called_Me ( cname OUT VARCHAR2,

SQL statement extract from v$sqltext

2002-03-15 Thread David Jones
Does anyone have a handy PL/SQL script which can extract complete SQL statement from v$sqltext sorting by v$sqlarea's buffer_gets ? Thanks for the help dj _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos:

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

2002-03-15 Thread Kumar, Dharminder
Bhavin, The reason behind this is that for option MAXLITERAL, valid values are 10-1024. Check the Pro*C compiler guide for more detail. Thanks. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 6:23 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L hello , I am getting a syntax error

Re: CRONTAB JOB

2002-03-15 Thread Alex
make sure cron daemon is running On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Paul Heely wrote: Check the cron/crontab man pages to see what environment is setup for jobs run from cron. You can also re-direct any output from you script to a file, i.e. /opt/qqad/sql/QQAD_backupscript.sh /some_file 21 This should

RE: Another partitioning question

2002-03-15 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Correction: P2 --- will contain values where column1 = 'X' Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 3:48 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Kirti - If I can humbly beg to differ. I assumed that it would work the way you described. However, I conducted

Re: calling program

2002-03-15 Thread Igor Neyman
Not exactly true... Well, since original question was, if it's possible to know calling procedure (or program), I think DBMS_UTILITY..FORMAT_CALL_STACK function will return as a VARCHAR2 call stack, which will provide info at leastabout calling PL/SQL units (procedures, functions, or just

RE: Identification of tables NOT being used in the System.

2002-03-15 Thread Jesse, Rich
ALTER TABLE tablename MONITORING; Every three hours or so, the SYS.DBA_TAB_MODIFICATIONS view gets updated with the tables UPDATEs, DELETEs, and INSERTs, as well as wether or not the table has been TRUNCATEd since the last time it was DBMS_STATS'd. The view also gets updated on a SHUTDOWN,

RE: Control file expanding

2002-03-15 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Raj - Could you clarify please. Do you mean the control grew by 1,500% in 3 days? Or that you checked the size 15 times and it was larger each time? Were you doing any database structure changes like adding tablespaces, etc? Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Identification of tables NOT being used in the System.

2002-03-15 Thread Alec Macdonell
There is the vil way ... just drop the table and see who screams :) Alec -Original Message- Dharminder Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:08 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L In our production database environment, I have a list of about 1000 tables ,for which we want to

RE: calling program

2002-03-15 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Ouch! Looks like I need to RTFM, not only before asking a question, but before answering one - shoot from the hip = shot in the foot. 8-( Jack C. Applewhite Database Administrator/Developer OCP Oracle8 DBA iNetProfit, Inc. Austin, Texas www.iNetProfit.com

RE: Control file expanding

2002-03-15 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Not 1500 times, 15 individual times ... no we haven't changed any schema, except maybe a change in a package or two. It is the March Madness season, so we are getting a lot (I mean a lot) of data. It is all games data (after all we are ESPN). sorry for the confusion ... Raj

RE: CRONTAB JOB

2002-03-15 Thread Daniel Harron
Make sure to setup the environment. Try sourcing the oracle .profile and using the full path for sqlplus. Regards, -Daniel _ Daniel Harron Database Management IPsoft, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ip-soft.net/ Phone: 888.IPSOFT8 Fax: 212.353.2454 -Original

RE: Control file expanding

2002-03-15 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Yes, I just noticed it ... I have 6 logfiles at 200M and 2 of 128M ... It is all BasketBall games data and stats ... DateDay Total h0 h1 h2 h3 h4 h5 h6 h7 h8 h9 h10 h11 h12 h13 h14 h15 h16 h17 h18 h19 h20

RE: Control file expanding

2002-03-15 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Too many archived logs? Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan Bangalore, INDIA -Original Message- Rajendra Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I know it is normal, but is it normal to expand 15 times in 3 days?? This is 9012 in AIX 4.3 If this

Re: CRONTAB JOB

2002-03-15 Thread Brian_P_MacLean
(What everybody else said plus) If you have root access (or get your sa to), vi /var/cron/log and look for your job. Under some situations cron will mail you a message and/or job output to you, so check your unix mail. The script template below should work (change as required). It's very

RE: Control file expanding

2002-03-15 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
A Ha! 132 log switches ... just found the person responsible ... somehow was testing a script to automatically clone the prod db, ON PROD MACHINE!! Well, the log switches are back to normal numbers ... 3-5 an hour and although I am not worried about control file expanding, I want to know why ...

RE: Identification of tables NOT being used in the System.

2002-03-15 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Dharminder, Instead of the overhead of auditing, how about periodic queries of V$SQL_Text for SQL statements that reference those tables. It should be pretty easy to come up with occurrences and counts for each table, though statements using bind variables could cause low counts for the tables

How to find the view names where a particular table is used

2002-03-15 Thread Sinha, Shashank (MED, TCS)
Hi, Is there a way of finding out what views are using a given table? Shashank Sinha __ Phone: 262-317-9354 Cell: 262-424-1101 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Sinha, Shashank (MED, TCS) INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

Re: SQL statement extract from v$sqltext

2002-03-15 Thread Brian_P_MacLean
This is and old but effective script, it's what you asked for and even more REM REM $Author: oracle $ REM $Locker: $ REM $Date: 2000/06/19 17:35:26 $ REM $Revision: 1.1 $ REM $RCSfile: tool_shared_pool_statements.sql,v $ REM $Source:

Re: Control file expanding

2002-03-15 Thread Stephane Faroult
Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote: I know it is normal, but is it normal to expand 15 times in 3 days?? This is 9012 in AIX 4.3 If this isn't, where should I look for clues?? TIA Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra

Oracle licensing

2002-03-15 Thread Kim_Thompson
Since the topic of Oracle licensing has come up, I'm wondering how many organizations have site licensing and of what type (concurrent user, named user, or processor). We have a network license agreement for a set number of concurrent licenses and we are

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-15 Thread Jared . Still
John, You listed as an urban myth: * You *have* to take a COLD backup of the database after using resetlogs. (Not required - a Hot backup and archive logs is adequate. All hot backups / archive logs prior to that are invalid, though...) Consider the following: Time: t0: database

Re: Control file expanding

2002-03-15 Thread Joe Testa
I've seen this on AIX, the controlfile will expand depending on the parm maxloghistory that was set when the db was created. eventually it will max out in size, and start spitting out errors in the alert log at every time a log switch happens. It happened to us about 3 weeks ago and i can't

RE: How to find the view names where a particular table is used

2002-03-15 Thread Janardhana Babu Donga
Try querying dba_dependencies... select referenced_name,referenced_type from dba_dependencies where name = 'your view name'; -- Janardhana Babu -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 2:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, Is there a way of finding out what

Re: calling program

2002-03-15 Thread Big Planet
Thanks all for your help. I got the answer . Big P - Original Message - From: Igor Neyman To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:49 PM Subject: Re: calling program Not exactly true... Well, since original question

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-15 Thread John Kanagaraj
Hi Jared, * You *have* to take a COLD backup of the database after using resetlogs. (Not required - a Hot backup and archive logs is adequate. All hot backups / archive logs prior to that are invalid, though...) Consider the following: Time: t0: database restored t1: database

RE: Another partitioning question

2002-03-15 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Hi Dennis, Yes, your are right. Thanks for catching it. I messed up. However, the order is still left to right... While deciding on the partition when composite partition key is involved, the partition is selected as follows (for 2 column composite key): 1. Value column1 then

RE: Branching logic in PL/SQL, positive instead of exception

2002-03-15 Thread Hagedorn, Linda
Title: RE: Branching logic in PL/SQL, positive instead of exception As an extension of this conversation, if I have eight conditional queries, eg.: for i_row in main loop build sql declare cursor a select stuff for a_row in a loop if a%found do stuff elsif a%notfound declare

effiecient query ?

2002-03-15 Thread Big Planet
I have a system which stores messges in database ( just like out email messges ) and table having fileds like sent-to , from , cc, bcc , new_indicator (y/n) , draft_indiacator , receive-date , ... I have to write a proc to seach messages based on different criterian like , all messages from

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-15 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
How about a datafile is lost before it is backed up during the hot backup. Where will you restore the file from? *You cannot use the backup from before; the logs have been reset. You could, however, use a cold backup. Once the hot backup is finished the cold one is not needed, but until

Re: Branching logic in PL/SQL, positive instead of exception

2002-03-15 Thread Paul Heely
RE: Branching logic in PL/SQL, positive instead of exceptionDoesn't a cursor loop only process the loop body when records are found? If this is true then you will never execute the loop body when the %notfound condition is true, control has already passed to the next statement following the for

Installs and Extra Cost Options

2002-03-15 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Sometimes I wonder if the correct thing to do is to install everything and then relink the Oracle executable disabling the unpaid for options. My thinking is this: a need arises where the option would be extremely useful; a successful case is made to management; and an agreement is

RE: How to find the view names where a particular table is used

2002-03-15 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
select name from user_dependencies where type = 'VIEW' and referenced_name = 'GIVEN_TABLE_NAME'; - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 4:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, Is there a way of finding out what views are using a given table? Shashank

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-08.html

2002-03-15 Thread Ray Stell
CERT people called back and said that there were buffer overrun issues with the PL/SQL module in 8i. They said to check: Oracle Security Alert #29 http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/plsextproc_alert.pdf Oracle Security Alert #28