Re: Data Conversion procedural

2002-03-26 Thread DBarbour
I think I forgot to take my happy pills today. Raymond, What possible input could you be looking for here? Have you designed the database? If not, start there. That requires some business process analysis. When you've designed the DB, you'll know what data elements you need to get out of

Mutation effect for Inserts

2002-03-26 Thread Alroy Mascranghe
>From a table's pre insert trigger we are inserting to the same table (thru a procedure). But the recursive effect is stopped by using some logic (i.e. The second record is put only if the :NEW.status equals something. In the second insert, the record is put with a different 'status'. ). Is this

Re: CASE under Oracle8i

2002-03-26 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Larry, that's brilliant. That solution hadn't occurred to me. On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 20:53:19 -0800, Larry Elkins wrote: > >The easy way around it is to use Native Dynamic SQL. > > 1 DECLARE > 2 dual_message VARCHAR2(20); > 3 BEGIN > 4 Execute Immediate > 5 'SELECT CASE > 6

RE: 8.1.7 LMTs Autoallocate vs Uniform Extents

2002-03-26 Thread Mohammed Shakir
I heard of it some place. that is try to have three different tablespaces. One for large table, one for medium size table and third for small tables. Each of these tablespaces can have their own extent sizes. Large having large extent size. Medium can have medium size extents and same for small ta

RE: STATSPACK

2002-03-26 Thread Mohammed Shakir
First it seems like you want to understand the report. The report does have some comments on the top of the page, what to expect. However, if you can buy the book that Dennis suggested, you will get additional information on how to interpret the report. The book also provides many scripts that ge

Re: Data Conversion procedural

2002-03-26 Thread RAYMOND
Hi Friend Currently I'm going to do a conversion for our client to convert their system into our Oracle 8i Db.. I have prepare the package/function/procedure... and some of those script for the system. Did you all have any conversion checklist for the purpose ?? Should I do a benchmarking first

RE: Oracle HRMS Applications -> Cannot view concurrent request ou

2002-03-26 Thread CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC)
Hi Gurus, The problem has been resolved. Not enough disk space in the /var/tmp directory. Regds, ChorLing -Original Message- From: CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC) Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:23 PM To: Multiple r

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Jared . Still
So Dave, was your question answered? ;) Jared "Farnsworth, Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/26/02 09:30 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:RE: Customize my SQLP

Re: OT: Funniest line in the manual.

2002-03-26 Thread Brian_P_MacLean
Actually, when you think about this for a moment, it's not such a bad idea. The format below would need some improvement but WTF. I bet it ends up being an Oracle 9i release 'n' feature. where use_nested{A.col1 = B.col1, taba_pk, tabb_pk} where use_bitmap{A.sex = 'M', taba_bdx} I'll

STATSPACK

2002-03-26 Thread Reddy, Madhusudana
Hello ALL, I have set up the statspack on Oracle 8.1.7 and just now I also got the REPORT , but poor me unable to understand that . Can anybody help me out in this ... Well I know www.oraperf.com will do it for me by sending a report , but I want to do it myself by writing some queries ... would a

Re: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Connor McDonald
One thing no-one seemed to have mentioned is that login.sql is only processed once. A workaround to this is to have some extra files: connect.sql === conn &1 @login.sql conn.sql (same as above) Then you can use: SQL> @conn system/manager system@DEMO> hth connor --- "Farnsworth, Da

Re: OT: Funniest line in the manual.

2002-03-26 Thread Connor McDonald
You mean all this time my hints like the following: select * from table where /*+ LET_ME_CHOOSE_THE_ORDER */ /*+ DO_ME_FIRST */ col1 = 12 and /*+ NOT_ME_YET */ col2 = 13 and /*+ WHEN_YOU_GET_A_MOMENT_TRY_ME */ col3 = 14 isn't going to work ? :-) --- Jonathan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

RE: SQL*Loader-282: Unable to locate character set handle for

2002-03-26 Thread Reddy, Madhusudana
seems like You are loading data from one version of database to the other version , try to use the version compatible tool like sqlldr80, sqlldr73. sqlload. I guess this may be your problem -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 4:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

SQL*Loader-282: Unable to locate character set handle for charact

2002-03-26 Thread Smith, Ron L.
I am trying to load data from a 8.1.7 SQL Loader session to a 7.3.4 database. I am getting a SQL*Loader-282: Unable to locate character set handle for character set ID (0). error message. Can anyone tell me how to get around this? Thanks! Ron Smith DBA Kerr-McGee Corp -- Please see the officia

RE: STATSPACK

2002-03-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
No you don't need a book as such it is a pretty neat schema. Read the spreport.sql and sprepins.sql scripts, they will tell you a lot of things that you need to know. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamada

RE: odd explain plan

2002-03-26 Thread Khedr, Waleed
search for Star Query Execution Method in this doc: http://www.dbatoolbox.com/WP2001/dssdw/star_query.pdf -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 4:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Read about star schema execution plan. Regards, Waleed -Original Message

Re: odd explain plan

2002-03-26 Thread Greg Moore
It's faster to only have one join to the large fact table. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:25 PM > Hi. > > I am tuning a query that runs against a star schema > and a few dimension tables. The plan show

RE: STATSPACK

2002-03-26 Thread Reddy, Madhusudana
Dennis, I have got all the statistics in the STAT tables now and I would like to query them to see the last info. regarding performance of the system. Seems like I may need to purchase a book . Thanks for the mail. Reddy -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:44 PM To: Multip

RE: odd explain plan

2002-03-26 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Read about star schema execution plan. Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 4:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi. I am tuning a query that runs against a star schema and a few dimension tables. The plan shows that the first step is two join

RE: Check Constraint

2002-03-26 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Jay, Two possibilities: 1. Before you add the constraint, issue a Select query with the Where clause being the NOT version of your Check Constraint. This is the least hassle. 2. Use the Exceptions Into clause when you create the Check Constraint. This will populate an Exceptions table with the

Re: Check Constraint

2002-03-26 Thread Paul Heely
You could always do a select to see which rows will violate the check. If you add a check like (X>5) then to see what rows would violate this do something like: select * from table where X<=5; -- Paul - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S

Re: STATSPACK

2002-03-26 Thread GURUPRASAD.VIJAYANAGAR
Hello: Check the following web site to get statspack related whitepaper. http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/performance/content.html Thanks > > Hello ALL, > I have set up the statspack on Oracle 8.1.7 and just now I also got > the REPORT , but poor me unable to understand that . Can anybody > he

RE: Dynamic SQL

2002-03-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Sorry, fat fingers varchar2s is a table of varchar2(256) 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 cl

RE: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread Khedr, Waleed
At least you need the DBA to report bugs, open tars and apply patches! Regards, Waleed Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:29 PM To: Multiple

RE: STATSPACK

2002-03-26 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Reddy - I assume that you mean that you ran the statsrep.sql and printed the report. Is your question about interpreting this report? There is a good series of articles at http://www.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/00-Mar/index.html?o20tun.html Or is your question how to write your own queries? If that

RE: odd explain plan

2002-03-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Gene, what's the next step in the explain plan? Can you post it? Are the dimension tables small? Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Tank. Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 954-935-4117 > -Original Message- > From: Gene Gurevich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 4:26 PM > To:

Re: Remote or Not? Was: Production Oracle DBA Needed in Rocheste

2002-03-26 Thread Paul Vallee
Hey Dave... I counted - outsource - trending - managed service - leveraging - best practices - continuous basis - strategic but I'm sure I missed some... does this mean I win? :-) Cheers! Paul - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesd

RE: Check Constraint

2002-03-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Jay, Look into the EXCEPTIONS INTO exceptions syntax of ALTER TABLE. The exceptions table is created by utlexcpt.sql or utlexpt1.sql Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Baby Oven. Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 954-935-4117 > -Original Message- > From: JJ [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, Mar

RE: 8.1.7 LMTs Autoallocate vs Uniform Extents

2002-03-26 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Reading descriptions of the effects of Autoallocate leads me to think that Autoallocate is nothing more than PCTINCREASE redux--a little less crude, but still no way to manage your space. Paul Baumgartel --- sundeep maini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis, > > I mentioned Autoallocate and no

RE: 8.1.7 LMTs Autoallocate vs Uniform Extents

2002-03-26 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Sundeep Oops, egg on my face. Reading too fast, seeing one word and thinking another. My understanding from "Stop Defragmenting and Start Living" was that uniform extents was the direction Oracle was heading. The problem with autoallocate is that you can end up with fragmented tablespaces

OT edge cities & new urbanism (re: Now: Remote or Not? ) / Re: ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 085

2002-03-26 Thread Eric D. Pierce
John, The accepted term for what you call "extended suburbia" is "edge cities". In Sacramento, examples that violate your 100 mile rule would be Roseville/Rocklin & Folsom, although I guess you could see them as "edge cities" of the larger Bay Area in some sense. OT, but perhaps interesting in t

Re: 8.1.7 LMTs Autoallocate vs Uniform Extents

2002-03-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
There's a note on my website in the errata and addenda to the book, chapter 8, about this. 64MB extents kick in when the segment has grown to about 1GB. However, oddities occur all over the place, particularly when the tablespace has been exercised for a while. It is possible for Oracle to be p

Re: Dynamic SQL

2002-03-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Looking at Raj's post I seem to have made at least two errors in my original reply - the size of the varchar2s in the dbms_sql array and the question of whether a varchar2 can be 32K, 32,000 bytes, or 4,000 bytes in pl/sql. Perhaps there are a couple of version-dependent details that need to be

odd explain plan

2002-03-26 Thread Gene Gurevich
Hi. I am tuning a query that runs against a star schema and a few dimension tables. The plan shows that the first step is two join two dimension tables via a cartesian join. Why would Oracle does that instead of joining the dimensions to the fact table one after another? Can anyone offer an expla

RE: Remote or Not? Was: Production Oracle DBA Needed in Rochester

2002-03-26 Thread Michael Kline
This is a bit of what I do, for those who wonder... I *AM* one of those persons we are discussing, and I work from home. I've got clients in Texas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Ohio, and others that are often just a phone number and passwords... What I do is just a tad different

Re: Check Constraint

2002-03-26 Thread JJ
When a check constraint is added to a table, is there an option in Oracle that will display or list the rows in the table that violate the constraint ? TIA. Jay -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: JJ INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services

RE: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread John Kanagaraj
Uncle Larry (and his cohorts) issue such Earth-shaking, 'Future-direction-for-IT' type pronouncements as a way of assuring themselves when they are in a hole. Hate to say it, but there are a lot of Internal Oracle 'Consultants' without projects and Oracle would like to keep them employed at $300/h

Re: pL/SQL PROCEDUR

2002-03-26 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > you forgot DNA sample. Rachel's good, but come-on! not THAT good. wanna bet?;-) PS for those of you who remember and were following my job saga, we were sold yesterday. well, partly sold anyway. the closing is 4/10 and we're still not sure if there will be any

RE: 8.1.7 LMTs Autoallocate vs Uniform Extents

2002-03-26 Thread sundeep maini
Dennis, I mentioned Autoallocate and not autoextend. I have been using LMTs for over a year now but only with UNIFORM extent sizes. I am not sure if I am ready to handover space management to Oracle (via Autoallocate which is being foisted upon me as a panecea of all ills) least I have evaluate

Re: 8.1.7 LMTs Autoallocate vs Uniform Extents

2002-03-26 Thread Tim Gorman
Sundeep, Major differences between AUTOALLOCATE and UNIFORM is the fact that extent sizes in AUTOALLOCATE tablespace are not uniformly-sized. I've been working in v9.0.1 (not 8.1.7 -- don't have one of those!) and noticed the following pattern in non-partitioned tables and range-partitioned tabl

RE: EXPORT FAST?

2002-03-26 Thread Rajesh . Rao
And how much time will my database take? The database size is 118Gb, the disk transfer rate is 1 Mbps, the physical memory is 64Mb and two 486's ;-) Anne

RE: pL/SQL PROCEDUR

2002-03-26 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
you forgot DNA sample. Rachel's good, but come-on! not THAT good. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 2:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Even though I am beyond lazy, I don't write any code, or RTFM (remind us of someone??)...I did manage to steal some audi

Re: 8.1.7 LMTs Autoallocate vs Uniform Extents

2002-03-26 Thread Suzy Vordos
And also Metalink doc 105120.1 "Reddy, Madhusudana" wrote: > > http://technet.oracle.com/doc/oracle8i_816/server.816/a76956/tspaces.htm > > -Original Message- > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:54 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > Can someone point me to good reading

Re: Remote or Not? Was: Production Oracle DBA Needed in Rocheste

2002-03-26 Thread Rajesh . Rao
"The fact that the industry is trending to a managed service model for database administration is NOT A BAD thing for salaried DBAs out there. I think the opposite is true." So, let us all second the Oracle sales pitch about them managing our databases for us, and hope to sneak into Oracle ;-)

RE: HDS ShadowImage and database backups

2002-03-26 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Rafiq, Yes, that's what I meant. Cool!! We can discuss this off line.. as I have a few questions. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L By HDS's ShadowImage you mean Hitachi Data Storage ShadowImage. Yes, we are in

RE: .dbf is a valid name for a datafile name?

2002-03-26 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Alter tablespace is a better option wherby you can do it while database is up and only that particular tablespace is offline. OEM does the same thing. You can use it for any tablespace except SYSTEM tablespace which you cannot put offline. For 'Alter database' you need down time as database ca

Re: EXPORT FAST?

2002-03-26 Thread Stephane Faroult
Seema Singh wrote: > > Hi > one of export for 35GB database is taking 12 hours.How to reduce this export > time. > Thx > Seema > Try direct=Y, and (if nobody is currently using the database, otherwise you risk running into inconsistencies) try to export in parallel, by exporting several owners

RE: .dbf is a valid name for a datafile name?

2002-03-26 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Create another temp1 tablespace not big. point your user temp tablespace to temp1. Offline your temp tablespace and do whatever you want. Once done point back the original temp tbs and drop temp1 tbs. No system down time. Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of lis

Re: Dynamic SQL

2002-03-26 Thread Jan Pruner
Yes, I know it's 32767. My code: PROCEDURE ... sqlstr VARCHAR2(4000); sqlstr := my_pack.GETSQL( sql_id ... ); -- function OPEN my_cursor FOR sqlstr; ... END; If the length of sqlstr is > 4000, I get an exception and the error is: sqlstr _IS_NULL_ Why? I'm using 8.1.7.0.3 on Linux. JP

RE: How to duplicate production database onto development box

2002-03-26 Thread Marc Cure
Is there any need to create a standby database in this case? My procedure for copying production to development is: 1. alter database backup controlfile to trace; (in production) 2. Restore a production backup (either hot or cold) to the development server 3. Update database name and filenames in

RE: .dbf is a valid name for a datafile name?

2002-03-26 Thread Sakthi , Raj
> That looks like it works also. Many ways to skin a > cat. true..!! Thanks for not taking this the wrong way..:) Cheers, RS __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ -- Please see the off

Re: Rename Oracle User

2002-03-26 Thread Stephane Faroult
Todd Carlson wrote: > > Solaris 5.8 Oracle 8.1.7.2 > Has anyone successfully renamed the Oracle user on a solaris box? At the > moment I don't a test box and this is a rarely used development system. > The current Oracle user and group are oracle2 and dba2. We have to > change it to match our sta

RE: pL/SQL PROCEDUR

2002-03-26 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Even though I am beyond lazy, I don't write any code, or RTFM (remind us of someone??)...I did manage to steal some auditing triggers from Rachel C. and place them on the new table. When Tom inserted those nasty pictures, the trigger fired and emailed Tom's name, address, phone number, height, we

Re: Dynamic SQL

2002-03-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Depends how you are getting that 4,000 characters to the procedure, of course, but a pl/sql varchar2() can in principle be 32,000 bytes. And if that isn't enough, you may have to fall back to dbms_sql which exposes a packaged type which is an array of varchar2(255) so that you can build, pass,

RE: 8.1.7 LMTs Autoallocate vs Uniform Extents

2002-03-26 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Sundeep - Start by reading the classic paper "How to Stop Defragmenting and Start Living" at this link: http://www.dbatoolbox.com/WP2001/spacemgmt/defrag.htm Actually, autoallocate and uniform extents work very well together. But you need to understand the concepts behind them first. And make sur

RE: Funniest line in the manual.

2002-03-26 Thread Freeman, Robert
ROTFLMAO that *is* funny 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 26, 2002

RE: 8.1.7 LMTs Autoallocate vs Uniform Extents

2002-03-26 Thread Reddy, Madhusudana
http://technet.oracle.com/doc/oracle8i_816/server.816/a76956/tspaces.htm -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Can someone point me to good reading material on this subject. Is one better than the other for performance and man

RE: Rename Oracle User

2002-03-26 Thread Todd Carlson
Sorry, I should have specified the backup was first. Thanks for the sanity check Brian! Todd -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Surprised to not see a backup of the DB and $ORACLE_BASE after #2. You can combine #3 & #

Re: HDS ShadowImage and database backups

2002-03-26 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
By HDS's ShadowImage you mean Hitachi Data Storage ShadowImage. Yes, we are in process of setting up new HP hardware with Hitachi Storage and planning to use their Shadow Imaging within couple of months for all our production database backup. So far no practical experience but from demo it see

RE: EXPORT FAST?

2002-03-26 Thread SRAJENDRAN
Also look into the option BUFFER in export. Srini -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I think you can use direct=y option. Are you taking this export to a file (over disk) or directly to tape? Greeting Diego Cutrone ---

RE: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread April Wells
Well trained monkey is (I think) the phrase that I last heard for Apps DBA... I think it has something to do with the fact (as I have seen it semi first hand) that you need to be able to use your four extremities productively, as well as your prehensile tail. April -Original Message- Sen

RE: Dynamic SQL

2002-03-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Hmm this is a classic RTFM, but the answer is here ... if you are using dbms_sql then use "procedure dbms_sql.parse(c in integer, statement in varchar2s, lb in integer, ub in integer, lfflg in boolean, language_flag in integer);" syntax. This requires you to declare a local variable of type

RE: EXPORT FAST?

2002-03-26 Thread Reddy, Madhusudana
FAST EXPORT: 1. High Buffer 2. Have export on a disk where you have less activity of i/o 3. Do Not Export to a NFS mounted file system/disk , which is very slow. Hope this helps --- Madhu -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:13 PM To: Multiple recipients of li

RE: .dbf is a valid name for a datafile name?

2002-03-26 Thread Hamid Alavi
Just don't know can i make off line TEPM tablespace or not? alot of users using it ... -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Tom, if he is going to have the tablespace off line with database up and running , shouldn't the comm

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread tday6
Put a blank line at the end of your script. I don't know why it does that but that's the fix. "Farnsworth,

RE: .dbf is a valid name for a datafile name?

2002-03-26 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Raj, That looks like it works also. Many ways to skin a cat. I personally have gotten used to using OEM and letting it issue the command. I think they both would work. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:44 PM To: Multiple

Re: Net 8 installation on a server rather than client question

2002-03-26 Thread Rodd Holman
I did this for a while with the 7.3 client. Performance was abysmal. My network admin also was on my case about network traffic. I don't know if the Net8 client would be better or not. Pointing TNS_ADMIN to a network drive is great, but unless there have been significant changes in the client

RE: Dynamic SQL

2002-03-26 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
JP, No, but you can make multiple 4000 char strings and concat it all together: sel1 varchar2(4000); sel2 varchar2(4000); where_clause varchar2(4000); order_by_clause varchar2(4000); begin open my_cursor for sel1 || sel2 || where_clause || order_by_clause; I do it all the time! Hope this help

OT: Funniest line in the manual.

2002-03-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Do you have a favourite (or favorite) joke in the Oracle manuals. I've been reading the Oracle 9 SQL reference manual - as one does from time to time - and spotted this gem on p. 2-97: /*+ ordered_predicates */ Use this hint in the WHERE clause of SELECT statements. Can I propose this one f

Re: EXPORT FAST?

2002-03-26 Thread Sakthi , Raj
Make sure you didn't issue consustent=y and refer to meta link for any problems with direct export on your platform. Direct is the way to go. Cheers, RS --- Diego Cutrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you can use direct=y option. > > Are you taking this export to a file (over disk) or > d

RE: EXPORT FAST?

2002-03-26 Thread Anne Yu
do this: exp usr/pass buffer=4096 file=xx log=xx owner=xx. It takes 2 hours for a 59GB's database. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:13 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi one of export for 35GB database is taking 12 hours.How to reduce this export

RE: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
In a sociology course I took they explained that capitalism and publicly traded companies naturally tend toward oligopolies, followed by monopolies. Not sure if that is true - I was hoping the antitrust laws would prove useful, but... Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA

RE: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
It used to be better, when we could just call them. We used to have silver support. Then, at first, Web TARs were answered promptly. I don't know if there has been a change in policy, but as soon as it's past regular hours I get little feedback from Metalink technicians. They used to have a su

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Brian_P_MacLean
If you don't "@glogin.sql" before you truncate a table with millions of rows then you deserve to be unemployed (IMAO). Brian P. MacLean Oracle DBA, OCP8i

RE: Remote or Not? Was: Production Oracle DBA Needed in Rocheste

2002-03-26 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Get out the BS bingo cards.. ;o) -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Rocheste Hello everyone, This is a very interesting thread. Speaking as a part-owner of one of the companies John held up as an example o

Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Money (Was: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management)

2002-03-26 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management = Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Money. Jerry Whittle ACIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 618-622-4145 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Whittle Jerome Contr NCI INET: [EMAIL PROTE

RE: pL/SQL PROCEDUR

2002-03-26 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
ok it's done. check your database. I also populated it with all the URL links to child-porn. the FBI is knocking at your door right now. check the BLOB columns. pretty nasty stuff stored there. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread Freeman, Robert
I think that this is a marketing ploy by Oracle, much like the DBO (and frankly to a lesser degree the OCP) in an effort to deal with the simple supply/demand problem with Oracle DBA's. Somehow, the tag line on my emails seems to apply here... :-) Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP Oracle DBA Techn

Re: pL/SQL PROCEDUR

2002-03-26 Thread Jan Pruner
And do you expect a link or a real example script??? On Tue 26. March 2002 19:29, you wrote: > Can someone please create a table for me? Umm...I need last and first name > columns. I don't want the DDL, I want you to connect to my database and > create it for me. I need this done yesterday. >

Dynamic SQL

2002-03-26 Thread Jan Pruner
Hello I'm using variable sqlstr VARCHAR2(4000) in procedure to create SELECT string. But the length of my SELECT * FROM is bigger than 4000 chars. Is there a way how to call OPEN my_cursor FOR sqlstr; for sqlstr longer than 4000 signs? JP -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://w

8.1.7 LMTs Autoallocate vs Uniform Extents

2002-03-26 Thread sundeep maini
Can someone point me to good reading material on this subject. Is one better than the other for performance and manageability? Syntactically the autoallocate is shorter and seems to be more hands off (does that mean worry free also?). TIA = Sundeep Maini Consultant Currently on Assig

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
You don't. It's a habit you have to get into. And it only works if you haven't changed your directory. Like I said you can have another script that has login commands (INV-SYSTEM)>@elvis Enter password: * Connected. (INV-ELVIS)> My @elvis script is simply this connect elvis@inv @login I

RE: RE: RE: Stand-by (Oracle9i Data Guard) vs. Replication

2002-03-26 Thread Sakthi , Raj
Well, being in health care industry myself I know too well what do you mean. Apart from 100s of tousands of $ lost every hour we are down, we have to take some safety also into account. As to the question of advanced replication, having implemented multi-master replication myself I know what a nig

RE: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
>From what I understand, the task is daunting keeping a release up to date. They've really built a beast. When you hear people on this list talking about "APPS DBA's", you get the feeling that it is something special. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Grabowy, Chris
How do you know you ran the login script?? Maybe you forgot? And your really on production...when your about to truncate that table...that's unrecoverable...that's billions of rowswith hundreds of recent Fairfield customer reservations...that will be very upset... BTW, any chance you can "s

Re: EXPORT FAST?

2002-03-26 Thread Diego Cutrone
I think you can use direct=y option. Are you taking this export to a file (over disk) or directly to tape? Greeting Diego Cutrone - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:13 PM > Hi > one of export for 35GB da

RE: RE: RE: Stand-by (Oracle9i Data Guard) vs. Replication

2002-03-26 Thread Freeman, Robert
>>1. Is the critical data would be updated in the sites..? Yes... >> 2. If yes , are you expecting the other sites to 'see' this update...? Yes... >> 3. If one site is down, then are you expecting the other sites to share the >> load or you have the closest site in take in all the load...? Yes bu

HDS ShadowImage and database backups

2002-03-26 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Hello All, Is anyone using HDS's ShadowImage for backing up large databases? Our Sys Admin Dgmt is pursuing this technique and is suggesting that all large databases be backed up using this software. Good? Bad? Any insights would be appreciated. My Damager is already crying foul as HDS will cl

RE: .dbf is a valid name for a datafile name?

2002-03-26 Thread Sakthi , Raj
Tom, if he is going to have the tablespace off line with database up and running , shouldn't the command be alter tablespace rename file '< >' to '< >' ; Cheers, RS --- "Mercadante, Thomas F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hamid, > > .dbf is prefectly valid on all machines, as far as I > know. >

RE: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Are they implying that Oracle Applications is proving too difficult to administer for many sites? ; ) Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:18 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

Re: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > check sqlplus\admin under ORACLE_HOME yup, my bad. -- -- Bill "Shrek" Thater ORACLE DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] You gotta program like you don't need the money, You g

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Brian_P_MacLean
Create yourself a script called "connect.sql" that looks like: connect &1 @@glogin.sql Keep it in your SQL_PATH just like your glogin.sql. Now when you connect to something else just precede your "connect" statement with a "@" as in: @connect un/pw@db02 Can't be much easier th

RE: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Oracle has been saying for years that you wil no longer need DBAs. I suppose it's possible, although the database gets more and more complicated each release, as more and more new features that can shoot themselves in the foot are added. On the other hand, SOMEONE will need those DBAs. Oracle? An

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
I have a custom-coded @connect.sql script that I run instead of the build-in connect statement HOST chmod 600 /tmp/xxx.sql >/dev/null 2>/dev/null SAVE /tmp/xxx.sql REPLACE CONNECT &1 @login.sql /bin/rm -f /tmp/xxx.sql >/dev/null UNDEFINE 1 -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 200

RE: .dbf is a valid name for a datafile name?

2002-03-26 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
In fact, here with Oracle 7.3 we had .dbf for data files, .ora for init.ora file and other config files, and .trc for trace files, .log for log files, etc. With the GUI tools introduced with Oracle 8, the extensions were different -- .ora for everything it seems to me, but I still prefer the diff

Re: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > and response time than a well trained DBA can? Fair enough with bug checking > and alike, but how long does it take for a lot of you to get iTARS answered > etc.? maybe they aren't answering iTARs so they look better delivering it themselves? "see we can do it fast

RE: pL/SQL PROCEDUR

2002-03-26 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Can someone please create a table for me? Umm...I need last and first name columns. I don't want the DDL, I want you to connect to my database and create it for me. I need this done yesterday. Thanks, really, thanks. Hurry up!! -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:59 A

Re: Remote or Not? Was: Production Oracle DBA Needed in Rocheste

2002-03-26 Thread Paul Vallee
Hello everyone, This is a very interesting thread. Speaking as a part-owner of one of the companies John held up as an example of the successful outsourcers (thanks for mentioning us John), I'd like to make some points that I think will be of interest to all. The first is that working in a shop

Re: Rename Oracle User

2002-03-26 Thread Brian_P_MacLean
Surprised to not see a backup of the DB and $ORACLE_BASE after #2. You can combine #3 & #4 with "find / -user oracle2 -exec chown oracle:dba {} \;" as long as oracle2 is the only member of the dba2 group and you're not using the "oinstall" as oracle2's default group. I think #4 should be "-grou

EXPORT FAST?

2002-03-26 Thread Seema Singh
Hi one of export for 35GB database is taking 12 hours.How to reduce this export time. Thx Seema _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.c

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