Import excelfile into Oracle table

2002-04-17 Thread Roland . Skoldblom
Hallo, anyone who can give me a good example of pl/sql code, which does the folllowing: Import an excelfile into a table. (I know I can use sqlloader(which I have used several times) but i would like to make a call to that pl/sql procedure from MsAccess. Thanks in advance Roland -- Please

Re: What is Oracle made from ?

2002-04-17 Thread Anjo Kolk
Hmm, I thought that powerpoint was the development environment for microsoft products ;-) Anjo. Abdul Aleem wrote: > I don't think so, > > I think they just don't know > > Aleem > > -Original Message- > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 7:53 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list OR

RE: What is Oracle made from ?

2002-04-17 Thread Abdul Aleem
I don't think so, I think they just don't know Aleem -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 7:53 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:RE: What is Oracle made from ? Apparently folks are bored today. -Original Message- Engsig Sent: Wedne

Accessing Synonym

2002-04-17 Thread Abdul Aleem
Hi, I tried to create a public synonym for a table in schema "inventory", but it does not seem to be working, i.e., when I connect as another user, and try to select from the synonym it says table or view does not exist. I would appreciate any help. Aleem Following are the commands from SQL*P

Training for Oracle 8i

2002-04-17 Thread peter . lee
Dear Guru: I have a number of staff needs to upgrade their skills from Oracle 7.3.4 to Oracle 8.1.7. Going to Oracle Education Center will be too expensive given that I am looking at 7 person. Anyone have experience with electronic training using the Oracle CD-ROM training package, NETg On-lin

RE: Script for identifying objects having freelists contention

2002-04-17 Thread Aponte, Tony
Steve Adams' site is a good start.  http://www.ixora.com.au/   Tony Aponte -Original Message-From: Anand Prakash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:29 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Script for identifying objects having freelists

RE: How can we make any column of a table as case insensitive

2002-04-17 Thread Aponte, Tony
Can you post what requiremment is driving this? I.E. Is it to be able to query for a mixed-case input value? Maybe to sort mixed case as if it were all upper or lower? Tony Aponte -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 12:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Gree

RE: HIGH CPU WITH MULTIPLE CONCURRENT USERS (long)

2002-04-17 Thread Aponte, Tony
I think you are running into the stampeding herd phenomenon.  I'm suspicous of the low value for the spin count.  It seems timid.  Could you truss one of the shadow processes with the timing option and post the output?  Just enough to identify the repeating pattern.  Also, please run the tr

Re: HIGH CPU WITH MULTIPLE CONCURRENT USERS (long)

2002-04-17 Thread Paul Troiano
  Never mind. I just saw that oracle was able to reproduce it internally. - Original Message - From: Richard Eastham To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:58 PM Subject: HIGH CPU WITH MULTIPLE CONCURRENT USERS (long)

Re: HIGH CPU WITH MULTIPLE CONCURRENT USERS (long)

2002-04-17 Thread Paul Troiano
How many extents for the table? - Original Message - From: Richard Eastham To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:58 PM Subject: HIGH CPU WITH MULTIPLE CONCURRENT USERS (long) A co-worker is having a fairly serious issu

RE: What is Oracle made from ?

2002-04-17 Thread Kimberly Smith
Apparently folks are bored today. -Original Message- Engsig Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Obviously, the reality is that it is made of Powerpoint slides On Wednesday 17 April 2002 19:28, Farnsworth, Dave wrote: > And all this time

RAC

2002-04-17 Thread Jonathan Gennick
I was talking w/someone today, and we realized that neither of us knows of anyone actually using RAC in production. So now I'm curious. Is anyone? Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://Gennick.com * http://MichiganWaterfalls.com * http://ValleySpur

RE: datafile sizing ?

2002-04-17 Thread Sujatha Madan
Darren, Some operating systems have file limit sizes of around 2GB so you should check if that applies to your system. Regards, Sujatha -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, 18 April 2002 7:48 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am currently building a new 8i database, and hav

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.3

2002-04-17 Thread Sujatha Madan
Hi Barbara, I have just completed an upgrade of our production dbs from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.3. Due to problems with our application, I actually had to migrate from 8.0.5 to 8.0.6 first. Then as in your case, Oracle said they didn't support migrating to 8.1.7.3 directly. So I migrated to 8.1.7.0.0 firs

RE: data cleansing question

2002-04-17 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Hi Marc, No and no, as far as I know. I should double check on the user requirements, you are right. (It would be helpful if THEY knew) Thanks, you bring up a good point. LK > -Original Message- > From: Marc Perkowitz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 8:04

RE: datafile sizing ?

2002-04-17 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Darren, discuss this with your SA. There may be a limit on the os side you need to be aware of. Also, consider MTTR. Seems to me that MTTR won't be that different between a 500MB file and a 2GB file. Beyond that, it's your comfort level. Personally I like having larger files for ease of ad

RE: Locally managed tablespaces/What a DBA can do ?

2002-04-17 Thread Wong, Bing
When you backup, temporary tablespace does not need to be backed up and it is not a required tablespace for creating/bringing up database. My hot backup does not include temporary tablespace and I was many times able to restore/recovery the database without any problem. -Original Message--

Re: data cleansing question

2002-04-17 Thread Marc Perkowitz
Do you have mainframe programs that will be brought over to use this mainframe data? If so, they will likely have problems with nulls. If there will only be new programs accessing this data, then it sounds fine. Will there by any statistical work on these columns? Averages, for example, will b

RE: Locally managed tablespaces/What a DBA can do ?

2002-04-17 Thread Robert Pegram
The poster implied he was going to change the temporary tablespace to locally managed. > > > > > to some of the other org's, so maybe staying > > > with > > > > > dictionary-managed would > > > > > be > > > > > best, except for the temporary tablespace. > > > > > > > > > > Darren. All of my pr

RE: Script for identifying objects having freelists contention

2002-04-17 Thread Wong, Bing
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RE: Symbolic links for datafiles...

2002-04-17 Thread Jared . Still
If you use Veritas quick IO, you must use soft links. Jared "Koivu, Lisa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/17/02 09:43 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:RE: Symbolic

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.3 (fwd)

2002-04-17 Thread Wong, Bing
Yes, exp/imp cleans up a lot of garbage. I always use this method. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:38 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L An upgrade can be seen as a rare chance to do all these things, if you choose exp/imp method. That's what John is re

Crumbling Cookies

2002-04-17 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
How does one destroy cookies created by an Oracle applications server without exiting the browser? It's been a while since I tried, but several months ago, I found I could destroy cookies that I had created, but not those created at log in. I don't want to query these cookies just pulverize t

Re: High "elapsed" time when running on a Unique Index ??

2002-04-17 Thread Jared . Still
Because it has executed nearly 7000 times at 0.145 seconds per execution. I would wonder why a query was executed 7000 that didn't return a result set. Jared "VIVEK_SHARMA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/16/02 09:43 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Mult

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.3

2002-04-17 Thread Allen R. Lucas
I once heard that paranoia is a GOOD quality for a DBA. I'm sure the person who told me that was out to get me. |+--> || "Mercadante,| || Thomas F" | || <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| || ate

how to use multiple ref cursors

2002-04-17 Thread Fedock, John (KAM.RHQ)
Currently we have some stored procedures that hand a ref cursor back to a call from the Microsoft OLEDB for Oracle driver. The Microsoft driver interprets the ref cursor as an ADO recordset and processes it accordingly. There are a number of functions in the application that require the user to ca

data cleansing question

2002-04-17 Thread Koivu, Lisa
For those of you who have had to deal with data cleansing - I am working on importing mainframe data into Oracle. This unglamorous job involves validating (and sometimes compensating for) what is bad data in Oracle's eyes but not on the mainframe - crazy crap like a date = 22/22/2022. I also f

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.3 (fwd)

2002-04-17 Thread Koivu, Lisa
An upgrade can be seen as a rare chance to do all these things, if you choose exp/imp method. That's what John is referring to. LK > -Original Message- > From: Jeremiah Wilton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 5:12 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-

What makes a fast refresh materialized view too complex?

2002-04-17 Thread Mike Killough
I am not clear on what will make a fast refresh materialized view too complex. What functions cannot be used in a FRMV that is a single table aggregation? The following example won't work if I try to add the decode: create materialized view log on emp tablespace &&tbsname with sequence, primary k

Re: PK field - number of char

2002-04-17 Thread Brian Haas
Tom, Well you got me sort of. I ran a few quick tests on a table with 500K rows. The return times were almost always identical. The main difference between a Pk with a number and a char/varchar is storage. a 40 digit number takes 4bytes of space. A 40 character string takes 10 bytes. This trans

RE: MySQL vs. Oracle database

2002-04-17 Thread Brian Haas
>From a performance benchmark prespective take a look at this: http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=708&a=23115,00.asp > Well, MySQL and Oracle are very different, but there's a world of > difference > between MySQL and Access too. It's quite possible to use MySQL as a backend > database for

OBJECT DESING

2002-04-17 Thread Seema Singh
Hi WHat is best practices for PCTFREE,PCTUSED AND PCT_INCREASE value at object level? Thx -seema _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq

Re: Design question...

2002-04-17 Thread Jared . Still
Chris, I'm rather anal about using generated keys, and *I* wouldn't even use them here. ;) Lookup tables with information that is likely to remain static and have an obvious key should be fine without a generated key. ( States are a good candidate ) Jared "Grabowy, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Locally managed tablespaces/What a DBA can do ?

2002-04-17 Thread Wong, Bing
I have upgraded 8.1.6 to 8.1.7.2(32-bit) on HP-UX 11.0 64-bit machine and use LMT on all my databases. They run fine and one of the database has been running over 1 year now. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 12:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Rafiq,

Quests's Data Factory opinions...

2002-04-17 Thread Grabowy, Chris
I have downloaded a trail version of Quest's Data Factory, and started playing around with it. So I am wondering if other people have used this product and their impressions. TIA!!! Chris -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Grabowy, Chris INET: [EMAIL

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.3 (fwd)

2002-04-17 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, John Weatherman wrote: > Clean up fragmentation/chaining, change block size at the same time, > in my current case, chage hardware platform... > > All sorts of reasons. :) What do those things have to do with an upgrade? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton

Re: initjvm and rmjvm failing

2002-04-17 Thread Jared . Still
You better check metalink for this one. Cleanly removing java from a database is a rather involved job. I've done it once, don't care to do it again. Sorry, no pointers. It was a trial and error process with me. There are several metalink references to it. Jared [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent b

datafile sizing ?

2002-04-17 Thread Browett, Darren
I am currently building a new 8i database, and have the oppurtunity to consolidate some of my datafiles. In the current configuration I have 4 500Mb datafiles that make up a tablespace. Is it okay to create a 2Gb datafile, or am I better off to create 2 1Gb datafile's, or stay with 4 500Mb data

Script for identifying objects having freelists contention

2002-04-17 Thread Anand Prakash
Does anyone have the scripts (or URL) for identifying objects having freelists contention?   Thanks. Anand Prakash

RE: Locally managed tablespaces/What a DBA can do ?

2002-04-17 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Julie, We are also going through same exercise now a days as we are moving to new HP hardware with HP-UX 11 64 bits with Hitachi Storage. These machines do not run on 32 bit Unix. However we are still using 32 bit Oracle and Oracle Financials 10.7 char software. In our situation we have to cha

RE: Locally managed tablespaces/What a DBA can do ?

2002-04-17 Thread Glenn Travis
My TEMP tablespace is a locally managed temporary tablespace using a tempfile (not datafile). See results below; SQL> alter tablespace TEMP begin backup; alter tablespace TEMP begin backup * ERROR at line 1: ORA-03217: invalid option for alter of TEMPORARY TABLESPACE which makes perfect sense,

Re: ????How to find Os Block Size????

2002-04-17 Thread Anjo Kolk
512 bytes "Reddy, Madhusudana" wrote: > I have ran this on a test database > > bbuxdv01:/db02/oradata/tstd1> dbfsize tstd1_1.ctl > > Database file: tstd1_1.ctl > Database file type: file system > Database file size: 232 8192 byte blocks > bbuxdv01:/db02/oradata/tstd1> dbfsize tstd1_0101.rlg > >

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.3

2002-04-17 Thread Browett, Darren
I also remember (hopefully correctly) reading somewhere, either in metalink or from this list that there is a "low-level corruption" problem in 8.0.x that may causes problems when migrating to 8.1.x, by doing the imp/exp method, you don't have to "fix" the 8.0.x database before you upgrade. The

FYI - fun with new bugs...

2002-04-17 Thread Scott . Shafer
FYI for anyone running Oracle 8.1.7.1, HPUX 11. Seems we are getting some new ORA_600's at a remote site: ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [kolseget623], [kolseget: index >= max index ptr per page], [101192], [], [], [], [], [] ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [kolseget623],

RE: Locally managed tablespaces/What a DBA can do ?

2002-04-17 Thread Fisher, Julie
Rafiq, I upgraded an HP-UX 11.0 64-bit machine in early April. (8.1.6.3.0 to 8.1.7.3.0) It was the worst upgrade I've ever gone through, but everthing appears to be running normally. (I'm not using locally managed tablespaces yet though.) I was missing a couple of operating system patches and t

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.3

2002-04-17 Thread John Weatherman
Clean up fragmentation/chaining, change block size at the same time, in my current case, chage hardware platform... All sorts of reasons. :) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:32 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Browett, Darren wrote:

RE: ????How to find Os Block Size????

2002-04-17 Thread Reddy, Madhusudana
I have ran this on a test database bbuxdv01:/db02/oradata/tstd1> dbfsize tstd1_1.ctl Database file: tstd1_1.ctl Database file type: file system Database file size: 232 8192 byte blocks bbuxdv01:/db02/oradata/tstd1> dbfsize tstd1_0101.rlg Database file: tstd1_0101.rlg Database file type: file sy

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.3

2002-04-17 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Fear. I agree with you. Migrate is the preferred method in my tool-box. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:32 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Browett, Darren wrote: > The previous DBA, a

Re[2]: What is Oracle made from ?

2002-04-17 Thread dgoulet
Add in some wishful thinking and dreams of HUGE profits and you've got it. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: =?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F8rn=20Engsig?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 4/17/2002 9:28 AM Nope - there's a lot of PL/SQL and Java as well, but I know

Re[2]: MySQL vs. Oracle database

2002-04-17 Thread dgoulet
Gene, Nope, dead on! Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Gurelei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 4/17/2002 9:49 AM Alex, Just wondering why do you think MySQL is closer to Access than to Oracle. I have played with MySQL a little and it is a relation

RE: Design question...

2002-04-17 Thread Grabowy, Chris
We have a country_code table to represent countries, but the first version of the app is supposed to be the U.S. only version. Obviously, any flexibility that we can design in right now can only help in the next phase. It's the client's left hand that keeps saying this will only be used in the U

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.3

2002-04-17 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Browett, Darren wrote: > The previous DBA, also used the export/import method, and is the method > I am most likely going to use. Can someone explain why anyone would opt for export/import as a path to do an 8.0 to 8.1 upgrade? Doesn't the basic upgrade just consist of star

RE: MySQL vs. Oracle database

2002-04-17 Thread Steven Lembark
-- "Weaver, Walt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I don't think you're wrong. MySQL gets dissed frequently on this list, but > it's really a nice little product. IMHO it's much closer to Oracle than > Access. > > It works well for us. Doesn't scale like Oracle, but works well. In some ways it scales bet

Re: upgrade from 8.1.6 to 8..1.7.3

2002-04-17 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Sounds like a documentation bug in the readme. I have always patched the software to the highest available patchset plus one-off patches, then switched the instance to the new ORACLE_HOME and ran the upgrade scripts. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Jeff

Re: MySQL vs. Oracle database

2002-04-17 Thread Alex
I did not say MySQL was like Access. I said it is more like Access than it is like Oracle. On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Gurelei wrote: > Alex, > > Just wondering why do you think MySQL is closer to > Access than to Oracle. I have played with MySQL a > little and it is a relational database like Oracle

RE: MySQL vs. Oracle database

2002-04-17 Thread Weaver, Walt
I don't think you're wrong. MySQL gets dissed frequently on this list, but it's really a nice little product. IMHO it's much closer to Oracle than Access. It works well for us. Doesn't scale like Oracle, but works well. --Walt Weaver Bozeman, Montana -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday

Re: Design question...

2002-04-17 Thread tday6
One thing to consider is country codes. I have seen many applications where two character country codes have been crammed into the STATE_CDS table. Usually the two character state abbreviation is the primary key, but that means that some smaller countries end up with "abbreviations" that have n

RE: Locally managed tablespaces/What a DBA can do ?

2002-04-17 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Lisa, Thanks. I saw couple of messages today about problems with 8.1.7.3 on Solaris. We are also thinking to move to 8.1.7.3 on HP-UX 11 in near future but now we have to wait and see for a while. Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PRO

RE: MySQL vs. Oracle database

2002-04-17 Thread Koivu, Lisa
That's Monkey Mama to you!! > -Original Message- > From: Mercadante, Thomas F [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 2:21 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: MySQL vs. Oracle database > > "From clowns to a database monkey..." > > L

RE: db2/udb and new skillz

2002-04-17 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
DB2 usually means RPG which IMHO totally sucks. What OS is this for?? DB2 pretty much runs on its own. You might get to learn all about an AS400. I agree with you that you will be more marketable knowing more than one database. There are all types of apps made for DB2. I don't do the DBAi

PK field - number of char

2002-04-17 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
All, Does anyone have any specific metrics demonstrating that a PK that is based on a number field is faster than a PK based on a character field? I've seen it mentioned a couple of times today under the "Design Question" topic. It doesn't make any sense to me that one or the other would be fas

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.3

2002-04-17 Thread Browett, Darren
The previous DBA, also used the export/import method, and is the method I am most likely going to use. Create the new ORACLE_HOME (8.1.7) Patch to rev desired (8.1.7.2 or 8.1.7.3) Export from 8.0.5 Import to 8.1.7.x Upgrade application. Test like crazy. Darren -Original Message- Sent: A

RE: Design question...

2002-04-17 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Several people have replied back to me about the design rule to not use business data in the primary key, which I agree with. Although I don't plan on creating a permanent STATE_SEQ sequence, since it will only be used once to populate the table. Any other thoughts or arguments?? TIA!! -

RE: Design question...

2002-04-17 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Well Chris, as you are probably aware, there is a theoretical train of thought that says that every table should have a primary key that is an arbitrary ID, not related to the data in any way shape or form. The benefit is that data that is SUPPOSSED to be unique (like ssn's) can break and your ap

RE: MySQL vs. Oracle database

2002-04-17 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
"From clowns to a database monkey..." Lisa! you got dissed! -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 1:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L >-They don't believe in spending a lot of money on IT because >-it hasn't paid off for them in the past and they've had

RE: MySQL vs. Oracle database

2002-04-17 Thread Brian_P_MacLean
Older link but still some food for thought -> http://openacs.org/philosophy/why-not-mysql.html Brian P. MacLean Oracle DBA, OCP8i "Weaver, Walt"

Re: Design question...

2002-04-17 Thread Brian Haas
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 10:18, Grabowy, Chris wrote: > To simplify my question, if I am creating a STATE table to hold all the > states of the US, should I create it like this... Chris, We use a state_id field which is a number.Usually you want to use numbers or integers as primary keys, but sinc

RE: Locally managed tablespaces/What a DBA can do ?

2002-04-17 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Hi Rafiq, Sorry. I'm 8.1.7.3 on W2K. It's very possible that things have changed drastically since last year when I created this database. If I remember right there was an issue with export. I may be off my rocker, because nothing is exported out of a temporary tablespace. LK > -Orig

RE: Design question...

2002-04-17 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Chris, I would prefer the first method. As far as I am concerned, the only reason to use a sequence number as a primary key is if the value for the natural primary could could possibly change. In this case, the two char state codes have been around for a very long time and would probably not ch

RE: Design question...

2002-04-17 Thread Pardee, Roy E
If you go with the first option, you will likely be able to get out of joining your STATE table to the referencing tables in a bunch of cases (since the 2-letter abbreviation is interpretable on its own). But if you'll wind up having to do the join anyway (e.g., to display the STATE_DESC) then th

RE: Design question...

2002-04-17 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
H from a pure relational standpoint (something like 4th or 5th normal form), keys shouldn't have any inherent meaning so you should go with STATE_ID as the PK. >From a real-world perspective, I would use STATE_CD as the PK. Its not going to change very often (how often do state abbreviat

OT: db2/udb and new skillz

2002-04-17 Thread Koivu, Lisa
My fellow Databasers, I just found out my employer has an unlimited license for DB2/UDB. I am kind of excited at the prospect of learning a new dbms that isn't SQL Server. I am also feeling the need to expand my skills. Glancing at the job market under just Oracle isn't promising right now.

Re: Design question...

2002-04-17 Thread Bjørn Engsig
There is hardly any difference, except the waste of space for the state_id. But purists will tell you, that you should not put business information into primary key columns, and therefore state_code should not be a primary key. And if a state is gets a new code, it is much easier to change yo

Re: What is Oracle made from ?

2002-04-17 Thread Bjørn Engsig
Obviously, the reality is that it is made of Powerpoint slides On Wednesday 17 April 2002 19:28, Farnsworth, Dave wrote: > And all this time I had thought it was made from widgets and gizmos. ;o) > > -Original Message- > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:03 AM > To: Multiple recipie

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.3

2002-04-17 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
Title: RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.3 Matt:   I don't have the bug#s. When I opened a TAR on this (now unpublished) the support person called me and told me that I had to downgrade the database to workaround the bug. (All the TAR says is that they called me.) The analyst said that bug is one t

Re: ????How to find Os Block Size????

2002-04-17 Thread Anjo Kolk
Madhu, Oracle has a fixed (at compile time) (OS) physical blocksize to work with. That blocksize is basically the minimum blocksize the control file and the redo log file get accessed in. So by doing 'dbfsize ' you can see what the physical blocksize is. Or check from x$kccle. Now Veritas or the

Re: SYNC db 2 box

2002-04-17 Thread Seema Singh
just to one -Please suggest if changed will be on both database what option would be good? --Please suggest if changed will be on one database what option would be good? Thx -Seema >From: Joe Raube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMA

RE: Locally managed tablespaces/What a DBA can do ?

2002-04-17 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Lisa, What version you are talking about? I am using locally managed tablesspace with uniform extents for temporary tablespace with tempfile for last one year with oracle version 8.1.6.2 on HP-UX 11 for datawarehouse database without any issue/problem. Now we have migrated it to 8.1.7.2 and put

upgrade from 8.1.6 to 8..1.7.3

2002-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Beckstrom
On the same server running 8.1.6.1.5 and 8.1.7.3.2. Now ready to upgrade the 8.1.6 database to 8.1.7. Our 8.1.7 is 8.1.7.3.2, in the 8.1.7.3.0 readme it stated: Database Migration When migrating a database from an earlier release, for instance 8.0 to 8.1, you must complete the database migra

Re: MySQL vs. Oracle database

2002-04-17 Thread Gurelei
Alex, Just wondering why do you think MySQL is closer to Access than to Oracle. I have played with MySQL a little and it is a relational database like Oracle (not sure if access is one), uses a SQL, can have logging and archiving just like Oracle. Again I'm not sure whether access have all this.

Re: What is Oracle made from ?

2002-04-17 Thread Bjørn Engsig
Nope - there's a lot of PL/SQL and Java as well, but I know that is neither what you meant nor what the original question was about Rgds, Bjørn. On Wednesday 17 April 2002 18:03, Anjo Kolk wrote: > Nope just C > > Anjo. > > Kimberly Smith wrote: > > I believe its C++ now but it was C. > > >

Design question...

2002-04-17 Thread Grabowy, Chris
To simplify my question, if I am creating a STATE table to hold all the states of the US, should I create it like this... Name Null?Type - STATE_CODE

Re: MySQL vs. Oracle database

2002-04-17 Thread Jan Pruner
On Wed 17. April 2002 18:28, you wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >What is different between MySQL and Oracle database? Someone says they > > are the same as they are just database. From DBA or developer point of > > view, what do you say? > > > >Thanks, > >David > > OK, so is everybody out t

RE: MySQL vs. Oracle database

2002-04-17 Thread Weaver, Walt
Well, MySQL and Oracle are very different, but there's a world of difference between MySQL and Access too. It's quite possible to use MySQL as a backend database for web hosting and get good performance and decent reliability. I haven't heard of Access being used for that sort of thing. --Walt We

RE: What is Oracle made from ?

2002-04-17 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
And all this time I had thought it was made from widgets and gizmos. ;o) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:03 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Nope just C Anjo. Kimberly Smith wrote: > I believe its C++ now but it was C. > > -Original Message-

RE: MySQL vs. Oracle database

2002-04-17 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
>-They don't believe in spending a lot of money on IT because >-it hasn't paid off for them in the past and they've had clowns running >-everything. >From clowns to a database monkey... ;o) Dave -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of

Re: MySQL vs. Oracle database

2002-04-17 Thread Alex
Check google. Anyway they are completely different. MySQL is more like Access than Oracle. On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Nguyen, David M wrote: > What is different between MySQL and Oracle database? Someone says they are > the same as they are just database. From DBA or developer point of view, > what

RE: MySQL vs. Oracle database

2002-04-17 Thread Weaver, Walt
There is a world of difference between'em. We use both here, Oracle for our large, active customers, and MySQL for our smaller customers, to avoid as much as possible having to pay Oracle's ridiculous licensing fees. Our smaller customers don't need Oracle's scalability and reliability, and MySQL

Re:MySQL vs. Oracle database

2002-04-17 Thread dgoulet
David, Yes and No in the same breath just like apples and oranges are both fruits. Yes they are both databases and yes they both talk SQL, but that's about where the similarities end. And before I go any further, let me say I like both of them, for particular purposes. MySQL is nicer to de

Re: What is Oracle made from ?

2002-04-17 Thread Jan Pruner
No, it is of the most gentle substrate of the shaft of moon light. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I believe its C++ now but it was C. > > > >-Original Message- > >Xing > >Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:48 PM > >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > > > >Hi all, > > > >Just for m

RE: ????How to find Os Block Size????

2002-04-17 Thread Reddy, Madhusudana
Rao, This following is the one I am seeing on my m/c ORACLE BBED1> !df -g . /db01 (/dev/vx/dsk/root2dg/db01): 8192 block size 1024 frag size 12582912 total blocks8284512 free blocks 7766758 available 1089844 total files 1035561 free files 53554381 filesys id vxf

Symbolic links for datafiles...

2002-04-17 Thread Jim Hawkins
Anybody know the answer to this question? This is on HP-UX. "I am managing a database that has symbolic links for data files. On this instance, I am using STATSPACK to track performance. I need to tie IO rates back to real mount points so that I can work on balancing IO. How do I tie the na

RE: 8.0.5 to 8.1.7 - export/import

2002-04-17 Thread Vikas Khanna
"Oracle Database is Portable" means that it can be ported to any OS platform. Take a full Export of the database and then use the imp utility of Oracle to build the exact database what was there on the previous one. If you want to import certain objects then you need to create the tablespace wi

RE: Security Hole

2002-04-17 Thread Mark Leith
I wonder how many people have rushed out to do this on their production instances now? ;P -Original Message- McDonald Sent: 16 April 2002 23:23 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The problem can be worked around by issuing: grant dba, select any table, select any dictionary to pu

RE: protocol.ora

2002-04-17 Thread Sajid Iqbal
Hi We have used protocol.ora successfully but that was on oracle 8.0.5 Now when we try to use the same file it doesn't allow any connections at all even allowed hosts. I'm not missing some config somehwere maybe in the init.ora file ? Regards Saj On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Kathy Duret wrote: > F

Re: interview questions

2002-04-17 Thread mkshrivastava
Dear all, You may get something useful to you in the following links : http://www.orafaq.com http://www.orafaq.com/papers/d2kinter.doc Regds mks -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-

RE: Ora-12500 Error

2002-04-17 Thread GL2Z/ INF DBA BENLATRECHE
Hi Unal, Here is a part of SQLNET.LOG file. Thank You Best Regards Kamel Benlatreche - *** Fatal NI connect error 12560, connecting

Re: sql & isql

2002-04-17 Thread mkshrivastava
Dear DBAs, Yes I am referring to the iSQL*Plus tool available in Oracle9i. This is also a topic of OCP 9i Exam-1. Would you please suggest some links where I can get material in detail. Thanks mks