Re: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread Ray Stell
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 03:33:20PM -0800, John Kanagaraj wrote: > The reason may be driven by the requirement of > 'develop-within-this-deadline' for Developers, and > 'get-this-query-to-respond-within-1-sec' for DBAs. The DBA's responsibility > (among others) is to run a well tuned system, the De

Re: Backups

2002-04-01 Thread Ron Rogers
Charlie, We do a cold backup of the production database active tablespaces (36 GIG) each night and a cold backup each Sunday night of the full database(active and read-only tablespaces 70 GIG). The reason we backup the read-only each week is it is easier to restore from one tape and I do not con

possible interview questions

2002-04-01 Thread Andrey Bronfin
Dear Brian and other gurus ! May i ask U to give a word or two on the topics U mentioned , i.e. "How to detect, diagnose, and recover from an instance hang; What do you do when a user calls and says the system is slow or that theycan't connect; How to capture application SQL errors from the db

RE: Oracle From a Sybase DBA perspective| What is a Database to S

2002-04-01 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
In old days when I used to work on Ingres, you could bring up one db server and start different databases akin to bringing up only one oracle.exe serving different processes. That probably is similar to Sybase. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni

RE: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Those of you who have been on the list for a few years probably remember me asking stupid questions when I was a duh-veloper. (I remember one in particular where I flipped out because I didn't remember the difference between UNION and UNION ALL and got my a$$ handed to me.) My two cents: Not al

Re: Coriolis is dead

2002-04-01 Thread Jonathan Gennick
On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 17:23:18 -0800, Patrice Boivin wrote: >WOW, is the certification market that bad? > >Their books were useful, I wonder what happened. Computer book sales have been sharply off since at least spring 2001. The situation greatly worsened in the fall. September was not kind, as b

Re: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread Ron Rogers
Greg, Don't I wish the developers would use the tools available to them for tuning. Zilch, None, Nada. I live with what I get from the developers and I have yet been able to get any changes made to the applications. This is one of the problems you encounter where there is 2 distinct departments

Re: possible interview questions

2002-04-01 Thread Marin Dimitrov
  - Original Message - From: "Andrey Bronfin"   > > I'll also appreciate very much if other list members could post any possible> interview non-trivial questions with some short answers.> try "Where can one get sample Interview Questions?" from http://www.orafaq.com/faqjobs.htm#INT

Microsoft, Unisys Prep 64-Bit SQL Server

2002-04-01 Thread Andrey Bronfin
http://www.crn.com/Sections/BreakingNews/BreakingNews.asp?ArticleID=30009 Dear gurus , what do U say about this ? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Andrey Bronfin INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 53

RE: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
All, We are in transition here at my site. Our primary development tool over the past few years has been a client-server tool named Uniface from Compuware, which does an excellent job of protecting developers from themselves. However, we are switching to Java, and moving more developers fr

RE: ROLLBACK SEGMENT?

2002-04-01 Thread Freeman, Robert
I figured you were, but I didn't want someone to mistakenly get the idea that it somehow made copying legal... :-). In fact, I'm not sure whats going to happen at this point RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP Oracle DBA Technical Lead CSX Midtier Database Administration The Cigarette Smoki

RE: Backups

2002-04-01 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Charlie - Currently on most of our systems we do a weekly cold backup and rely on archive logs for the rest of the week. We augment this with full exports a couple of days/week. This is not ideal. Previously we did nightly cold backups, but our systems grew to the point that wasn't practical. We t

RE: Coriolis is dead

2002-04-01 Thread Freeman, Robert
It's a long story. Publishers in general are suffering these days... 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---

RE: ORA-00020: maximum number of processes (100) exceeded

2002-04-01 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Hi Ron, what o/s are you on? > -Original Message- > From: Smith, Ron L. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 9:28 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: ORA-00020: maximum number of processes (100) exceeded > > I need to increase max processes

ORA-00020: maximum number of processes (100) exceeded

2002-04-01 Thread Smith, Ron L.
I need to increase max processes but I can't log in. Can anyone tell me how to get into the database when I get ORA-00020 errors? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Smith, Ron L. INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FA

RE: Oracle From a Sybase DBA perspective| What is a Database to S

2002-04-01 Thread Freeman, Robert
- bcp out - It's time Oracle came up with some utility to extract the data in ascii format other than recommending "sqlplus and spool" What about utl_file functions? RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP Oracle DBA Technical Lead CSX Midtier Database Administration The Cigarette Smoking Man: Any

Re: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread Stephane Faroult
John Kanagaraj wrote: > > Greg, > > The reason may be driven by the requirement of > 'develop-within-this-deadline' for Developers, and > 'get-this-query-to-respond-within-1-sec' for DBAs. The DBA's responsibility > (among others) is to run a well tuned system, the Developers' responsbility > is

RE: Coriolis is dead

2002-04-01 Thread Freeman, Robert
Yep... I was expecting royalty statement this month (as opposed to checks!) actually one book should have been paying out so I was hopeful for my first real royalty check!! :-( By the way, Jonathan, Have your SQL*Plus books (love em!)... see you have good reviews on your SQL*Loader book, so I

RE: Oracle From a Sybase DBA perspective| What is a Database to S

2002-04-01 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
I've never understood Oracle's business plan when it comes to development/data extraction tools. It's like they are only "half interested" in that end of the market. Sure, they have Forms, Reports, Graphs, JDeveloper, Discoverer etc. But they always seemed weaker than even the nearest competit

Move index to another tablespace

2002-04-01 Thread Rick_Cale
Hi DBAs, I want to move some indexes to another tablespace. Is there something similar to alter table move tablespace or do I have to rebuild? Thanks Rick -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (85

Re: Coriolis is dead

2002-04-01 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
I used the SQL*Loader on a project for about 5 months - it was very helpful. However, I would recommend that a new version be released with something like a section for "tips, tricks and traps". There were a few items that are not covered in the Oracle documentation, nor the book, that would be h

RE: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
and your question is? --- DENNIS WILLIAMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > We are in transition here at my site. Our primary development tool > over the past few years has been a client-server tool named Uniface > from > Compuware, which does an excellent job of protecting developers fr

Re: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread Stephane Faroult
Rachel Carmichael wrote: > My last shop we had one programmer who not only expected me to tune his > SQL, he expected me to WRITE his SQL for me. I got emails "I need a > query that returns this information from these tables". This guy seems to be trying a new tactic these days: DBA mailing lis

Re: ORA-00020: maximum number of processes (100) exceeded

2002-04-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
even with max processes, you should be able to log in via svrmgrl and connect internal that will let you do the shutdown immediate or shutdown abort you need to to restart with more processes Edit the init.ora first, then do shutdown and restart or you can do a startup force, which will do t

RE: Backups

2002-04-01 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Charlie, I use Rman for all my backups. I like to have my database's up and available to the users all the time. Rman makes backup and recovery a simple process. For my production db's, I will perform nightly Rman backups of the database and archivelog files, and weekly Rman Validates for both

RE: Oracle From a Sybase DBA perspective

2002-04-01 Thread STEVE OLLIG
> Also appeared that you are stuck with one block size, anyone know if this has changed? Sybase 11.0 and prior had only 1 "page size" - 2k (except for 1 obscure platform that i can't recall which was 4k). With 11.5(?) they added a feature called Large I/O which allowed you to have 2k, 4k, 8k, or

How to calculate time using SQL

2002-04-01 Thread Nguyen, David M
Is it possible to calculate seconds using SQL? For example, I'd like to subtract these two time to get difference in seconds: 10:20:32 - 10:25:29 Thanks, David -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Nguyen, David M INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City

RE: Move index to another tablespace

2002-04-01 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Rick, prepare for the deluge alter index {name} rebuild tablespace {tbsname} Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 9:53 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi DBAs, I want to move some indexes to another tablespace.

Re: Coriolis is dead

2002-04-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
anyone who COUNTS on a royalty check to pay basic bills is living in a dream world. It's like the ads I hear for the Sunday NY Times Job Market section -- this guy starts looking at penthouse apartments, because he's read the Job Market section and KNOWS he'll have a high-paying job in a matter o

RE: OT (RE: Oracle From a Sybase DBA perspective| What is a Datab

2002-04-01 Thread Scott . Shafer
Well, they're running the same basic product... Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 "Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate." > -Original Message- > From: Boivin, Patrice J [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 7:13 PM >

Re: Oracle From a Sybase DBA perspective| What is a Database to S

2002-04-01 Thread Jared Still
Denny, Re the Sybase Replication server: It is a separate product and truly an impressive piece of work. While I was very impressed with Rep Server, the database is what's lacking. Jared PS. to all: if you've never used Sybase, you haven't developed a true appreciation for SQL*Plus. On Su

Multiple Children Present

2002-04-01 Thread Reddy, Madhusudana
Hello All, I have executed the following query: select count(1),optimizer_mode from v$sqlarea group by optimizer_mode; And I did see many entries for Multiple Children Present ( Optimizer Mode ). Would like to know more about this optimizer mode... Thanks, Madhu V Reddy Database Support Services

RE: Move index to another tablespace

2002-04-01 Thread Sherman, Paul R.
Hello, Do a rebuild; when you move the indexes they will become invalid, and you will have to rebuild them anyway. Thank you, Paul Sherman DBA voice - 781-501-4143 (office) fax- 781-278-8341 (office) email - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 9:53

LAST REBUILD INDEX

2002-04-01 Thread Seema Singh
Hi WHich view show when was the last rebuild of indexes? Thx -Seema _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Seema Singh

Re: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I wouldn't put it past him. But I don't recognize his name on any of those questions :) --- Stephane Faroult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rachel Carmichael wrote: > > > My last shop we had one programmer who not only expected me to tune > his > > SQL, he expected me to WRITE his SQL for me. I g

RE: Oracle From a Sybase DBA perspective| What is a Database to S

2002-04-01 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
Here is the URL for the PRO*C code to dump data from a query to a flat file. http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:646297::NO::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID,F 4950_P8_CRITERIA:459020243348,%7BSQLDA%7D -Original Message- Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 11:10 AM To: Toepke, Kevin M; '[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Oracle From a Sybase DBA perspective| What is a Database to S

2002-04-01 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
Oracle does provide Export/Import. And, if you can get the data in a delimited flat file there's always SQL*Loader. What else do you need? Ken - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 9:18 AM > I've never underst

RE: How to calculate time using SQL

2002-04-01 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
David, Select (DateTime1 - DateTime2) * 24 * 60 * 60 >From Dual ; Oracle date arithmetic results are in fractional days, so the above gets you the number of seconds between two Date datatype arguments. Of course you can go ahead and multiply 24*60*60 to get Seconds/Day, but I prefer to leave

RE: Oracle From a Sybase DBA perspective| What is a Database to S

2002-04-01 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
There is code for a basic "SQL Unloader" tool available at asktom.oracle.com. Completely dynamic. Limited support for LONGs and no support for LOBs or objects, but generally pretty good. Does bulk fetches. http://osi.oracle.com/~tkyte/flat/index.html -Original Message- Sent: Monday, Apri

RE: Coriolis is dead

2002-04-01 Thread Freeman, Robert
Royalty... Whats that??? :-) Amen to all of what you have just said Rachel. 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. -Origina

RE: Oracle From a Sybase DBA perspective| What is a Database to S

2002-04-01 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
whoopse. pasted the wrong URL. I'll send the correct one as soon as I can find it. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 11:00 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' S There is code for a basic "SQL Unloader" tool available at asktom.oracle.com. Completely dynamic. Limited support for LON

Rebuild Oracle Listener Service

2002-04-01 Thread Smith, Ron L.
My oracle listener service is not working on NT. Can someone send me a script to rebuild the listener service? Thanks! -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Smith, Ron L. INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 53

Processes hang from remote calls

2002-04-01 Thread Smith, Ron L.
I am running batch scripts that access remote database through database links. I am getting a lot of processes that don't get cleared up. This is probably due to failed connections or a database down, etc... I have exits in the SQL scripts and in the batch scripts. How can I control this so t

RE: ORA-00020: maximum number of processes (100) exceeded

2002-04-01 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Unix. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 8:48 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Ron, what o/s are you on? > -Original Message- > From: Smith, Ron L. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 9:28 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORA

Re: How to calculate time using SQL

2002-04-01 Thread Viktor
Try this: select to_date('10:20:32','hh:mi:ss') - to_date('10:25:29', 'hh:mi:ss') from dual / Viktor --- "Nguyen, David M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to calculate seconds using SQL? > > For example, I'd like to subtract these two time > to get difference in > seconds: > >

RE: Oracle From a Sybase DBA perspective| What is a Database to S

2002-04-01 Thread Denny Koovakattu
Biggest disadvantage with utl_file is it cannot be used to extract data on the client. You also have to consider the effort required and the performance. Regards, Denny --- "Freeman, Robert " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - bcp out - It's time Oracle came up with some > utility to extract the

RE: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread John Kanagaraj
> > is to develop a working product, and the two goals twain meet! > -- > > "and the two goals twain meet" > > twain Pronunciation Key (twn) > n. & adj. & pron. > Two. > > Perhaps you mean the two goals ner meet, as in "ner the twain > shall meet"? Gotta run, gotta catch a twain. > ==

RE: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Oh, I guess I'm a little slow on Monday. I've enjoyed the discussion so far. Very close to my situation. Given my situation - i.e., we haven't had many SQL statement problems, but expecting to receive more with Java, I'm wondering how I can get ahead of the game. I have worked on a set of SQL sta

RE: LAST REBUILD INDEX

2002-04-01 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Seema, Probably Last_DDL_Time in DBA_Objects, though that just tells you the last time any DDL was executed on the object. Jack Jack C. Applewhite Database Administrator/Developer OCP Oracle8 DBA iNetProfit, Inc. Austin, Texas www.iNetProfit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: ORA-00020: maximum number of processes (100) exceeded

2002-04-01 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Well, I believe changing the number of processes involves bouncing the db anyway. IF you can't get in via svrmgrl, I've just killed client processes (if your appserver isn't spinning out of control) until I could get in. Otherwise I've had to take the drastic measure of killing smon or pmon or s

Re: Oracle From a Sybase DBA perspective| What is a Database to S

2002-04-01 Thread Denny Koovakattu
The problem is getting data into a flat file. Recently I had to direct our development group to try out some product like PDQOUT. And that reminds me, Sybase has nothing similar to export/import to move the data across platforms. The only way you can do that in Sybase is to extract the data int

RE: How to calculate time using SQL

2002-04-01 Thread Nguyen, David M
Jack, How about substracting a system date with a database replication date to get difference of time? Can you please give me a specific command? SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'Dy Mon Dd HH24:MI:SS ') from dual; TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'DYMONDD Mon Apr 01 11:08:00 2002

Windoze forever! ;)

2002-04-01 Thread Jared . Still
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RE: Rebuild Oracle Listener Service

2002-04-01 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Ron, The easiest way to do that is use the Oracle Net8 Configuration Assistant. It's under Programs/Oracle - OraHome/Network Administration and a snap to use. Jack Jack C. Applewhite Database Administrator/Developer OCP Oracle8 DBA iNetProfit, Inc. Austin, Texas

RE: LAST REBUILD INDEX

2002-04-01 Thread Seema Singh
Jack No! thx -Seema >From: "Jack C. Applewhite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: LAST REBUILD INDEX >Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 08:53:33 -0800 > >Seema, > >Probably Last_DDL_Time in DBA_Objects, though that j

DROP TABLESPACE TAKES so much time

2002-04-01 Thread Seema Singh
Hi Drop tablespace including contents command is taking so much of time. Is any specific reason? Thx -Seema _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FA

RE: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: Do programmers tune SQL? Our developers tend to be of the 'Meet the Holy Deadline at all costs' school and tuning is rarely perfomed; we've had some major resource issues due to bad SQL. Our lead DBA got the idea of revising our migration process so that all SQL code migrates fro

RE: How to calculate time using SQL

2002-04-01 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
David, SysDate is a function and can be referenced in any SQL statement. So you could do the following if you want seconds between the two, or leave off some or all of the trailing multiplicands to get fractional minutes, hours or days. Select ( SysDate - Next_Date ) * 24 * 60 * 60 >From User

Re: How to calculate time using SQL

2002-04-01 Thread John Carlson
Here is a script I recently made to help me understand how the date worked. >> REM Elapsed Time define start_time = '03-25-02 11:17:12' define stop_time = '03-27-02 12:36:30' define date_fmt = 'mm-dd-yy hh24:mi:ss' select trunc(to_date('&&stop_time', '&&date_fmt') - to_date('&&

RE: LAST REBUILD INDEX

2002-04-01 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Seema, What version are you on? For 8.1.7.3.0 under Win2k Last_DDL_Time in DBA_Objects *does* show when an Index last had an "Alter Index Rebuild" executed against it. I just now tested to verify that. Jack Jack C. Applewhite Database Administrator/Developer O

Re: How to calculate time using SQL

2002-04-01 Thread Stephane Faroult
"Nguyen, David M" wrote: > > Jack, > > How about substracting a system date with a database replication date to get > difference of time? Can you please give me a specific command? > > SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'Dy Mon Dd HH24:MI:SS ') from dual; > > TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'DYMONDD >

RE: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Dennis, I've had to keep after the Java developers here to use bind variables instead of literals. Apparently, it's much easier for them to construct literal SQL. They now understand the importance and use bind variable pretty much all the time. A few months ago they started spawning multiple

Re: DROP TABLESPACE TAKES so much time

2002-04-01 Thread Brian_P_MacLean
It can take fffooorreevvveer if you have a fragmented dictionary managed tablespace (lot's and lot's of extents, free or used). Oracle is spending all it's time cleaning up the sys.uet$ Brian P. MacLean Oracle

EMC question

2002-04-01 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Four years ago the only hardware striping available on EMC I was aware of was RAID-S. Recently researching striping ideas on EMC and was told that we can achieve raid0+1 hardware striping on EMC. I was told that EMC has some layer called meta-volume that is made of many other hyper-volumes. Told

Upgrade Question

2002-04-01 Thread Pat Howe
We have a database that is currently patched to release 8.1.7.2. I am about to install an additional product to the 8.1.7.2 Oracle Server Home. In this case it is "Oracle Transparent Gateway for Sybase" - but my question is for any "additional Oracle Product" that I might install - after performi

RE: How to calculate time using SQL

2002-04-01 Thread Nguyen, David M
It works. Thank you so much, Jack. David -Original Message- Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 10:38 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L David, Select (DateTime1 - DateTime2) * 24 * 60 * 60 >From Dual ; Oracle date arithmetic results are in fractional days, so the above gets you

Re: DROP TABLESPACE TAKES so much time

2002-04-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
well, the number of objects in that tablespace and the number of extents for each of these objects could definitely explain the amount of time. --- Seema Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > Drop tablespace including contents command is taking so much of > time. > Is any specific reas

RE: How to calculate time using SQL

2002-04-01 Thread Nguyen, David M
Thanks for your advices, Stephane. David -Original Message- Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 12:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L "Nguyen, David M" wrote: > > Jack, > > How about substracting a system date with a database replication date to get > difference of time? Can yo

RE: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
make them use Java prepared statements. I ended up having to turn cursor sharing to force to deal with the fact that the programmers refused to use prepared statements and insisted on literals. --- "Jack C. Applewhite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis, > > I've had to keep after the Java d

OT: Sql*Server DBA opening in Ft. Lauderdale

2002-04-01 Thread Koivu, Lisa
I sincerely apologize in advance if this email is bothersome to anyone. I was just approached by another recruiter about a sql*server dba opening here in Ft. Lauderdale. Don't know anything about relo, but if anyone is interested here's the recruiter's email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My boss

RE: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread Ball, Terry
Names change to protect the innocent/guilty, maybe? -Original Message- Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 10:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I wouldn't put it past him. But I don't recognize his name on any of those questions :) --- Stephane Faroult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Installing Oracle 9.0.1 on Red Hat Linux 7.2

2002-04-01 Thread Jared . Still
If you have successfully installed Oracle 9.0.1 on Red Hat 7.2, please let me know what steps you had to take to make it work. I've installed the compatibility libs and glibc stub patch for Oracle 8i, and have successfully installed 8.1.7. The 9i install consistently fails on the ins_plsql.mk

Re: Rebuild Oracle Listener Service

2002-04-01 Thread tday6
If your listener.ora file is OK and you've just lost the service then go to the C: prompt and type LSNRCTL START. This will fail,but it will have created the service. You can then go start the service and set it up for autostart from the SERVICES panel on the CONTROL PANEL. Silly, but it's the

Oracle on NT

2002-04-01 Thread Blake Wilson
I have the good fortune? of creating two new databases on two Windows 2000 servers. I am familiar with Oracle on Solaris, but have no clue about Windows 2000. I have installed Oracle release 8.1.7 and have upgraded it to release 8.1.7.3. As part of the install I created the demo database on both s

Re: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread Greg Moore
I think there's a new myth: Programmers should tune SQL. Harrison says his book is for developers, but consider what he actually covers. Chapter 8, Tuning Table Access, covers many topics that are for DBA's, not developers: -- hit rate in the buffer cache -- db_file_multiblock_read_count -- nu

RE: LAST REBUILD INDEX

2002-04-01 Thread Seema Singh
8.1.6 >From: "Jack C. Applewhite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: LAST REBUILD INDEX >Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 10:17:42 -0800 > >Seema, > >What version are you on? For 8.1.7.3.0 under Win2k Last_DDL_Time

Re: Installing Oracle 9.0.1 on Red Hat Linux 7.2

2002-04-01 Thread Ray Stell
metal ink says: From: Oracle, sivakumar saravanan 05-Mar-02 11:36 Subject: Re : Error when invoking /9.0/plsql/lib/ins_plsql.mk Hi, When receiving this error during installation, follow these steps: 1. Open a new console window on the host as the installation user. 2. Set up the O

Re: Installing Oracle 9.0.1 on Red Hat Linux 7.2

2002-04-01 Thread Joseph S Testa
first time you get the error, open a new window go to $ORACLE_HOME/bin look for genclntsh vi the file, looking for -z defs, remove that part, the -z defs ./genclntsh then hit retry, all should be good. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you have successfully installed Oracle 9.0.1 on Red Hat

RE: 32-bit vs. 64-bit on HP-UX 11.0

2002-04-01 Thread Sakthi , Raj
Kirti, I am assuming you are still looking for some answers to this. ( Allright I am late ..but it is because my network is slow..;) ) Having done several conversions on HP from 32 bit oracle to 64 bit I think I can safely say 64 bit is the way to go. There is a paper titled ORACLE 64-bit ADVANTA

OracleService is down on regular basis

2002-04-01 Thread Bob Robert
OS: Windows NT Oracle Database: 8.0.4 One of our production database instance OracleService was down at least three times in a row. At this stage, we have to restart OracleService to bring up the database. I saw couple of error messages in alert log file. ORA-00600: internal error code, argume

OracleService is down on regular basis

2002-04-01 Thread Bob Robert
OS: Windows NT Oracle Database: 8.0.4 One of our production database instance OracleService was down at least three times in a row. At this stage, we have to restart OracleService to bring up the database. I saw couple of error messages in alert log file. ORA-00600: internal error code, argume

Congratulations, Ari! + FYI: 9i usage survey

2002-04-01 Thread John Kanagaraj
Hi all, Came across this on the IOUG page: Results of the IOUG Board of Directors Election. The Winners are... 13-MAR-02 Michael Abbey - 48.5% of voters Kimberly Floss - 45.6% of voters Karen Langley - 41.5% of voters Ari Kaplan - 40.3% of voters Congratulations to the winners. Michael Abbe

RE: Installing Oracle 9.0.1 on Red Hat Linux 7.2

2002-04-01 Thread Jesse, Rich
And good luck when something (like OiD on 9.0.1.2) eventually gives you grief and there's nothing even remotely close to your problem on Metaclink. Oracle Support won't touch it. Been there, done that. Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: OracleService is down on regular basis

2002-04-01 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Check the code in the trigger it seems that one of the variables is getting assigned a value that is longer than it can hold. The ora-2 error is user generated. Check on metalink you could be running into a bug, one of the posters got it resolved by pinning all the packages in SGA. Anyways, t

Re: Installing Oracle 9.0.1 on Red Hat Linux 7.2

2002-04-01 Thread Jared . Still
Thanks Ray. Been there, done that, wish it worked. :) Jared Ray Stell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/01/02 12:58 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:Re: Installing

Re: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread Witold Iwaniec
I may open a can of worms - but don't intend to... Sometimes DBAs and Sys Admins make tuning impossible or at least very hard for developers. I am a developer and do a lot of tuning of statements used by our applications. I have, in our office, the luxury of DBA access to databases and access

Re: Installing Oracle 9.0.1 on Red Hat Linux 7.2

2002-04-01 Thread Jared . Still
Hmmm, Think I forgot to do that last time. I've been tinkering with the environment to get this to work. Lotsa little 'gotchas'. Jared Joseph S Testa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/01/02 01:08 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list

Re: Installing Oracle 9.0.1 on Red Hat Linux 7.2

2002-04-01 Thread Jared . Still
Oops. Forgot to do something. I've been tinkering with the environment to get this to work. 9i has been mostly installed now. The OEM agent and the CTX server both failed to link, but I don't care at the moment. Now to try and create a database Jared Ray Stell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Congratulations, Ari! + FYI: 9i usage survey

2002-04-01 Thread Ari Kaplan
Hi list, Thanks John for the warm email. I am honored to have been elected to the Board, and will listen and work hard to make IOUG continue to be great for the Oracle community. There were many very strong candidates running this year, so I know how valuable it was to have been elected. Any com

Re: OracleService is down on regular basis

2002-04-01 Thread Danisment Gazi Unal
Hi, can you paste ora-600 trace files to list ? "Jamadagni, Rajendra" wrote: > Check the code in the trigger it seems that one of the variables is getting > assigned a value that is longer than it can hold. The ora-2 error is > user generated. Check on metalink you could be running into a b

Re: Congratulations, Ari! + FYI: 9i usage survey

2002-04-01 Thread Paul Vallee
> Congratulations to the winners. Michael Abbey, popular speaker, author, and > Oracle guru returns to the board. Not to mention popular Pythian DBA! :-) Paul --- www.pythian.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 877-PYTHIAN Smarter than adding another team member, Pythian has new services for supplementi

Seeking opinions

2002-04-01 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Hi everyone. I'm currently working at a client where the OFA standard has been (as they put it) "taken to the next level". I disagree with their approach, and I'd be interested to see what list members think. The client believes that any DBA (there are about 16 on staff) should be able to loc

RE: Seeking opinions

2002-04-01 Thread Scott . Shafer
Mama always said, "Anal is as anal does..." --Forrest Gump PS -- You're right. They're not. > -Original Message- > From: Paul Baumgartel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 4:48 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Seeking opinions > >

RE: Seeking opinions

2002-04-01 Thread Khedr, Waleed
There is no major differences in your opinions/ideas here. Just think about it as enforcing a naming conventions. It's nice to have but hopefully it will last when one mount point gets filled or slow and some files need to be created/moved somewhere else violating the defined standards. So come w

RE: Oracle on NT

2002-04-01 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Blake, When you open a command line window (aka DOS session I like to call them), remember to issue the following statement before you try to use sqlplus: Set oracle_sid=put_your_SID_here e.g. set oracle_sid=ORCL sqlplus Then connect internal if you can. I like to try something like select

RE: 32-bit vs. 64-bit on HP-UX 11.0

2002-04-01 Thread Peter . McLarty
Yes and its a good time to look at the whole server configuration from changes to mount points filesystem layouts swap space and just about any other thing you and your sysadmin can look at. A couple of years ago I had a HPUX 10-20 system that needed to be upgraded to 11 and the end result was

RE: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread Norrell, Brian
Having worked mostly as a developer, the myth is that ALL programmers should tune SQL. Poor programmers trying to tune a query just make it unreadable. Good programmers should be able to tune, and depending on the shop, they should be able to do it better than an DBA in some situations (There ar

Re: Seeking opinions

2002-04-01 Thread lembark
-- Paul Baumgartel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04/01/02 14:48:23 -0800 > Hi everyone. > > I'm currently working at a client where the OFA standard has been (as > they put it) "taken to the next level". I disagree with their > approach, and I'd be interested to see what list members think. > > T

Re: EMC question

2002-04-01 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
Waleed & list, I researched this issue recently and found out that the meta volume was "concatenating a bunch of hyper volume". As you know, concatenation is NOT striping. The hyper volumes get filled with data one after another, eventually giving you the "simulation of a striped volume", when al

RE: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread Larry Elkins
Seen that before. And it wouldn't be so bad except the DBA's were complaining about the poor performing SQL. They blindfolded the developers, tied their hands behind their back, to the point they could not even generate an explain plan, much less do any tracing and use tkprof. And then complained

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