Re: Oracle - Access

2002-05-05 Thread Sergey V Dolgov
Hello Roland, Check your system variables. You maybe miss it in your icon application. Friday, May 03, 2002, 9:48:30 PM, you wrote: RSis> Hallo, anyone who has a good hint on this: RSis> I have an appplication which goes against Oracle and when I am inthe application and run VBA code which co

Steps in db opening from mount stage to open stage????

2002-05-05 Thread Sandeep Kurliye
Dear Guru, I want to know all the internal steps happen during opening database from mount stage. For e.g. SMON cleans temp segment, block corruption check, SCN check.. etc.. etc.. Where can I find these details.. Any suggestion/input? TIA, Best Regards, Sandeep. -- Please see the offic

Re: IN() question

2002-05-05 Thread Sergey V Dolgov
Hello Lisa, Null values are excluded from search list for "in" statement. Saturday, May 04, 2002, 6:43:38 AM, you wrote: KL> Slap me if this is a dumb question. KL> Here's my pay methods SQL>> SELECT ASCII(PAY_METHOD), PAY_METHOD, COUNT(*) KL> 2 FROM LEISURE_PLAN_MASTER_TEMP KL> 3 WHE

Re: In an Analyze Necessary?

2002-05-05 Thread Sergey V Dolgov
Hello Rajesh, Since you use rule-based optimisation there is no need for analyzing. Other benefits are: -you can view several statistics like number of rows in table etc. -with analyze command you can determine chained rows. Friday, May 03, 2002, 10:48:34 PM, you wrote: RRjc> Hello Folks, RRjc

Oracle 9 Agent not starting

2002-05-05 Thread Biddell, Ian
Hi All,   I was wondering if anyone has had problems with Oracle 9i Agent starting up on Windows 2000 server.   The following entries are written in the log files. I would really appreciate if anyone can shed some light on my problem so I can get the Agent started :-(   Thanks Ian

Re[2]: pl/sql is INTERPRETED?

2002-05-05 Thread Sergey V Dolgov
Hello Alex, There are several books like "Java in 21 days"... You need to learn just basics. You don't need to remember all classes (I think it's not simple task). Therefore I think it's quite possible to learn java even in week or two. Thursday, May 02, 2002, 10:23:33 PM, you wrote: A> It took

RE: Response time analysis and TKPROF

2002-05-05 Thread Alex Hillman
Anjo, you mentioned third party tool using instead of 10046 event trace files. What is the tool and how it works - if you have this info of cource. Alex Hillman > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anjo Kolk > Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 8:

Re: stored procedure status

2002-05-05 Thread Sergey V Dolgov
Hello kranti, What about error handling? Wednesday, May 01, 2002, 2:43:23 PM, you wrote: kp> Hi list, kp> I have writeen a stored procedure to execute a set of stored kp> procedures. I want to know is there any way to stop the procedure after any kp> of stoed procedure( from the set) re

Re: Cronjob

2002-05-05 Thread Steven Lembark
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dear Tom, > Would you send me example of the script. Because I'm new with VMS > environment. > > thanks in advance, This is gonna be living hell to deal with in DCL. Suggestion: grab a copy of perl5 and use Schedule::Cron to cycle the jobs with the vms-ish file system t

Re: Cronjob

2002-05-05 Thread lynxidajax
Dear Tom, Would you send me example of the script. Because I'm new with VMS environment. thanks in advance, Ahmadsyah - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:43 PM > Ahmadsyah, > > If I remember correctly (my

slow SQL query, diagnosis using 10046 trace event

2002-05-05 Thread Suhen Pather
Tuning Gurus,   I am tuning one of our dayend batch jobs using the 10046 wait event (level 8). I see a whole lot of direct path read/ write events (1000's) in the trace file. Also many SQL*NET messages from/ to client waits.   Not sure if this is the way PRO*C works, connects fetches

Re: where to find Oracle Installation guide for HP-UX ?

2002-05-05 Thread Brian_P_MacLean
Next time include the release/version you're looking for, ya know!!! As for what needs to be done as root, here's the doc's, now it's your turn to dig. HP-UX, 7.3.3 http://uisnt1.humboldt.edu/otn/library/doc/server73x/AR73/toc.htm http://uisnt1.humboldt.edu/otn/library/doc/hp/server.733/a52813

Re: Response time analysis and TKPROF

2002-05-05 Thread Anjo Kolk
Yes, I think that we are talking about different things: 1) I don't feel that we are abusing the queue theory by borrowing terms like service time and wait time. Actually when I did the YAPP method, it was back in 1996 on a project that involved Tuxedo and the programmers on the projec

Re: Response time analysis and TKPROF

2002-05-05 Thread Greg Moore
If someone were to ask me whether a TKPROF report tells you anything about wait events, my first response would be No. Yet what, if anything, can I learn from a quick glance at the totals for "CPU time" and "elapsed time"? If... response time = service time + wait time then is it correct

RE: Reverse Key Index Performance

2002-05-05 Thread Larry Elkins
> > Sometimes it's a pity that a problem can be resolved > without being understood, but that's the real world. No kidding -- if some things "appear" to work, it would help to understand the details to make sure a valid conclusion is being drawn. The test of reverse vs. b-tree was simply performe

Re: pl/sql is INTERPRETED?

2002-05-05 Thread Jared Still
Na, I probably would have got a bonus or something for that. Jared On Thursday 02 May 2002 12:13, Khedr, Waleed wrote: > Hope it's not the program that triggered the whole Enron thing :) > > Regards, > > Waleed > > -Original Message- > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 2:14 PM > To: Multiple

Re: Paging problem in SunOS

2002-05-05 Thread Jared Still
What are your paging statistics? run 'vmstat 10 10' during a period of poor performace and post the output back to the list. Jared On Friday 03 May 2002 05:38, Pradyut Mitra wrote: > Hi,I am experiencing a massive performance problem due tohigh page-in > operation In Sun OS 5.6/Oracle 8.1.

RE: Datawarehousing help

2002-05-05 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Yechiel - I did not mean to imply that SAS had not improved since the '80s. They would be out of business otherwise. And of course every DW vendor is "full solution" vendor. Just read their brochures if you don't believe me. My point was that if you understand a company's roots, then often a lot o

RE: DB Version upgrade with CreateDB/Import "Risky"???

2002-05-05 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
James - I think that your system administrator is too much of a Microsoft head. I can admit that to someone that knows nothing about Oracle, the "official" method might sound safer. I have done the upgrades both ways for many years, and I have never had a problem with the CreateDB/Import route. I

Re: Response time analysis and TKPROF

2002-05-05 Thread Stephane Faroult
Anjo Kolk wrote: > > Stephane. > > The SQL statement is the right level, believe it or not. Basically the most > expensive SQL statements (resource wise) will float to the top that way. > > Anji, > I disagree, with a strong feeling of not talking about the same thing. My favorite method for

Re: DB Version upgrade with CreateDB/Import "Risky"???

2002-05-05 Thread Daniel W. Fink
James, Your plan is perfectly acceptable. In fact, if time allows, it may be preferable. If there are structural issues in the database (i.e. migrated rows, tables in index tablespace (and vice versa)), this is one method of killing two birds with one stone. It does require that there is s

Re: DB Version upgrade with CreateDB/Import "Risky"???

2002-05-05 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello James In the last 2 years I did about 5-6 migrations from 7.3.4 to 8.1.6.0 and 10-12 from 8.1.6.0 to 8.1.6.3.4. All done on NT with upgrades. No scratch and rebuild. No problems at all. Sorry to disappoint you. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of li

RE: DB Version upgrade with CreateDB/Import "Risky"???

2002-05-05 Thread Kimberly Smith
Um, why not just install the software and then run that silly little upgrade script they give you. Oh yeah, and change the oracle_home parameter in the listener and change the compatible parameter in the init. Not that your way is wrong but seems to be a tad more then what you need to do. Unles

RE: where to find Oracle Installation guide for HP-UX ?

2002-05-05 Thread Kimberly Smith
http://docs.oracle.com/ I will let you do your own searching to find the proper one:-) -Original Message- Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 4:03 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi ! As weird as it sounds - i could not locate the Oracle Installation guide for HP-UX neither on Metali

DB Version upgrade with CreateDB/Import "Risky"???

2002-05-05 Thread James Damiano
Hello fellow Oracle DBAs, I really need your opinion on this matter: I routinely do upgrades of Oracle software and databases on all types of systems: Compaq Unix, Netware, Linux, etc. (as do we all from time to time). On one Windows/NT 4 system where I am presently doing an upgrade from a lower

Re: where to find Oracle Installation guide for HP-UX ?

2002-05-05 Thread Tim Gorman
go to http://technet.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle9i/content.html and scroll down on the page to HPUX... - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 5:03 AM > Hi ! > As weird as it sounds - i could not locate the Oracl

RE: IN() question

2002-05-05 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Hi Yeichel, It will, thanks for your reply. I ended up taking the route of cleaning up the data. (I'm so anal) Have a great day. Lisa > -Original Message- > From: Yechiel Adar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 8:43 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L >

RE: ERD generation tool - Active SCM

2002-05-05 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Sorry Yeichel... I had to laugh! I've been on both sides of this situation. I hope you showed him where his a$$ is for the next time he can't find it with his own two hands. :) and developers wonder why they have been termed duh-veloper and Dom Phoc. That's why every time someone gets upset

Re: IN() question

2002-05-05 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello Lisa I think that using : SQL> SELECT COUNT(*) 2 from leisure_plan_master_temp 3 where membership_class = 'D' 4 AND (pay_METHOD NOT IN ('C','P') 5 or pay_method is null) will give you the correct result. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recip

Re: ERD generation tool - Active SCM

2002-05-05 Thread Yechiel Adar
Well , just to keep things jumping. Last week I deviated from our rule and gave a responsible user that needed truncate on tables the password for the owner of the schema. Guess what? Today he comes to me to recreate 2 tables that he dropped. Go figure. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Mes

Re: Datawarehousing help

2002-05-05 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello Dennis SAS has progressed a little in the last years and now offer a complete DW solution, including ETL tools. You can use their tools also to populate and query oracle. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: S

Re: Response time analysis and TKPROF

2002-05-05 Thread Anjo Kolk
Stephane. The SQL statement is the right level, believe it or not. Basically the most expensive SQL statements (resource wise) will float to the top that way. Anji, Stephane Faroult wrote: > Greg Moore wrote: > > > > > But this is all on the server side, so in Oracle .. > > > > to get wh

where to find Oracle Installation guide for HP-UX ?

2002-05-05 Thread Andrey Bronfin
Hi ! As weird as it sounds - i could not locate the Oracle Installation guide for HP-UX neither on Metalink nor on Google. The only one i was able to find was the "Quick start guide" , which is not a replacement for the full one. Could u please refer me to a URL where i can get one ? I'm especiall

Re: I need to change the instance name

2002-05-05 Thread Eriovaldo Andrietta
Actualy, I am confused, because this is my production environment and I need to get sucess in this operation. It is necessary, and i would like to keep the old name of instance, because i will change the BD version. I think the best way is : 1.) backup the software and datafiles 2.) Export all

Re: Response time analysis and TKPROF

2002-05-05 Thread Anjo Kolk
Well , Depending on what you want: 1) The only way to see 'response times' on SQL statements is to use 10046, but that adds overhead. There are third party tools out there that will do for you without the 10046 trace. 2) v$sesstat will show the service component (cpu) on the session level,

Re: Response time analysis and TKPROF

2002-05-05 Thread Stephane Faroult
Greg Moore wrote: > > > But this is all on the server side, so in Oracle .. > > to get what I apparently want it would be most accurate to use v$sesstat and > v$session_wait ? > > - Greg > I do think so. My point was that the SQL statement level is the wrong granularity. -- Regards, St

Re: Reverse Key Index Performance

2002-05-05 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Larry, |control all other factors. And I will not have the chance to do so. As far |as they are concerned, the production problem is resolved. So, there's no |need to more thoroughly investigate this -- let's move on to other pressing |matters. I'd like to have more details, but it's hard to jus