RE: utl file limitations

2002-08-14 Thread John Kanagaraj
Kathy, This is probably not documented, but you can have multiple lines of UTL_FILE_DIR _anywhere_ as _long_as_ you bunch them all up without any gaps / lines inbetween them (in which case the last set overrides the previous ones). I have the following in a 7.3.4 Db, all at the end (and I bet tha

RE: rman examples scripts

2002-08-14 Thread Jack van Zanen
They are indeed 8i Looked briefly at 8.0 and decided to wait for RMAN 8i. 9i is not yet installed on my UNIX playground although I'll have a linux PC running 9i soon. I am waiting for your book to finish and it'll be the next one I'll buy, so it better contain heaps of example scripts :-) Thx

Re: It took more than an hour to update 10,000 records

2002-08-14 Thread Jack van Zanen
Similar here, Start practising your mousing skills :-) Jack Mladen Gogala

Re: It took more than an hour to update 10,000 records

2002-08-14 Thread Suhen Pather
Gogala, SQL Server is childs play. General Database Admin is pretty easy and most literate people can pick up skills quite fast. Watch out for this cos it can attract many cowboys doing tasks that you may not want them to. Lots of GUI driven functionality. And definitely no competition to Ora

Re: RE: Dba tools on NT

2002-08-14 Thread Jared Still
Rachel, This snippet is reading data from a previously opened handle to a table. The 'print' statement prints a quote, the contents of the array ref $ary delimited with ",", and closes with quote and a newline. Maybe not readable if you've never programmed in Perl, but pretty simple stuff with

Re: RE: Dba tools on NT

2002-08-14 Thread Jared Still
As with any language, it's assumed that the developer will attempt to learn the language. :) This is pretty simply stuff, and very readable to folks with smattering of Perl knowledge. Jared On Wednesday 14 August 2002 20:38, Grabowy, Chris wrote: > How many developers can maintain that "crypt

Re: Finding out last 10 records

2002-08-14 Thread Jared Still
Rownum is not necessarily useless for this kind of query. In versions of Oracle (8i+) where an inline view can include an order by, it can be rather useful. Top 5 salaries: select ename, sal from ( select ename, sal from scott.emp order by sal desc ) a where rownum < 6 Jared On Wedn

Re: It took more than an hour to update 10,000 records

2002-08-14 Thread Mladen Gogala
Us, ordinary DBAs, may become obsolete , but goddesses, no, never. Anyone who says that is a heathen. BTW, I got an assignment that I'm very much looking forward to. I have to learn how to manageSQL Server. Long story: our company acquired a smaller one, many IS people from the smaller compan

RE: Finding out last 10 records

2002-08-14 Thread Amjad Saiyed
hi milind iam not sure but does <= will work coz with rownum i thought only < worked.hence we could use "< 11" i not sure can u let me know ... thanx and rgds, Ams -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 7:13 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Santosh,

RE: RE: Dba tools on NT

2002-08-14 Thread Straub, Dan
Title: RE: RE: Dba tools on NT Stay on the good side Jared. Your code snippet looks great to me, and looking at it finally showed me a clear example of how that q{} thingy works. I write a lot of Oracle utility type stuff that has to run on both Windows and UNIX. Perl does the job every time.

RE: To_Char Problem

2002-08-14 Thread Amjad Saiyed
try this select distinct(a.default_type_id), a.new_val from amend_default_value a, amend_default_value b where a.effective_from <= sysdate and a.effective_to>= sysdate and a.group_id = '942' and a.default_type_id = b.default_type_id and a.updated_da

RE: Finding out last 10 records

2002-08-14 Thread Amjad Saiyed
but wont the following work , try it out... select rownum, empno, ename from emp where rownum < 11 order by ename plz do revert back... rgds, Ams.. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 7:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Unfortunately,

RE: RMAN recovery stuck

2002-08-14 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
This reminded me of a Metalink note I once found. Dennis - you might want to look at Note:145624.1 (RMAN: Resolving an RMAN Hung Job) for some more hints & information. Tim - the note mentions the debug command line parameter but doesn't show the "trace=1" phrase so its good to learn tha

Re: RMAN recovery stuck

2002-08-14 Thread Mladen Gogala
The problem is probably in the "RESETLOGS" part. Do you have many large log files? If you do, your instance is trying to initialize them all. Take a look at the system monitor and observe the CPU consumption. If it is large, you have a problem. If it isn't, use sar -b 5 50 or something alike and

Re: pl/sql exception and whenever sqlerror

2002-08-14 Thread Tim Gorman
Barb, Hee hee! Oldest PL/SQL mistake in the book -- to handle an exception improperly without passing it on... It sounds like the duhveloper coded the exception block as follows: exception when others then dbms_output.put_line('A serious error has occurred'); end;

RE: RE: Dba tools on NT

2002-08-14 Thread Grabowy, Chris
How many developers can maintain that "cryptic" Perl code? Come over to the light...don't be afraid. Chris PS. 20 alpha characters...and about 25 special characters in that bit of code.hm, not going to say anything about that. -Original Message- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Grab

Re: To_Char Problem

2002-08-14 Thread Joe Testa
because it is. its not a problem with oracle, its a problem with the way the query is written. make the date mask /MM/DD HH24:MI:SS instead. last i checked in math101, a number(or character string) 8 digits long, that starts with a 31 is larger than an 8 digit number starting with 01. jo

Re: To_Char Problem

2002-08-14 Thread Joe Testa
because it is. its not a problem with oracle, its a problem with the way the query is written. make the date mask /MM/DD HH24:MI:SS instead. last i checked in math101, a number(or character string) 8 digits long, that starts with a 31 is larger than an 8 digit number starting with 01. jo

Re: RMAN recovery stuck

2002-08-14 Thread Tim Gorman
Call RMAN from command-line as follows: rman nocatalog log= debug trace= Both the "logfilename" and "tracefilename" should have copious amounts of output, which can provide a clue. When you allocate the channel, make sure to add the phrase "trace=1" to the end of the ALLOCATE command. This

Re: rman examples scripts

2002-08-14 Thread Joe Testa
I'm with you EXCEPT that how many people are still stuck on 8i, my current asssignment is going to peoplesoft with EPM on 817, i've been working with 9i since it came out, i've got to go back and regroup and besides its not like the 8i variety wont work. joe Freeman, Robert wrote: >Pretty g

RE: Oracle Arm Twisting?

2002-08-14 Thread CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC)
I guess you are not using Oracle Human Resources Applications. For most of the patches that we've applied, there are new bugs. It's a never-ending applying patches-after-patches ... We've lost count of the number of TARs opened. The worst part is after applying a patch to solve a bug, the new pr

Re: rman examples scripts

2002-08-14 Thread Joe Testa
I'm with you EXCEPT that how many people are still stuck on 8i, my current asssignment is going to peoplesoft with EPM on 817, i've been working with 9i since it came out, i've got to go back and regroup and besides its not like the 8i variety wont work. joe Freeman, Robert wrote: >Pretty g

Re: How To grant execute to user on DBMS_LOGMNR package

2002-08-14 Thread Joe Testa
Hannah, which version of database are you playing with as that depends on who can run it and/or what permissions they need to run it. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > > > I would like to grant the ability to a user to run logminer. I > tried granting execute on both dbms_logmnr

Re: Why use a Unix Pipe to uncompress a file?

2002-08-14 Thread Steven Lembark
-- Pat Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am trying to work thru the one of the scripts that I inherited and I was > wondering if someone could shed some light on why the author used a UNIX > PIPE to uncompress a file. Few reasons: (1) Many file systems blow up w/ files > 2GB, they are a mess i

RE: What's STATSPACK

2002-08-14 Thread Chuan Zhang
Thanks Chaos for your invaluable information. Chuan -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, 8 August 2002 7:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Chuan Zhang£¬ hi, go to $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin, ls sp*, you will find the sqls that needed by statspack. and vi spdoc.txt, y

Re: How To grant execute to user on DBMS_LOGMNR package

2002-08-14 Thread Joe Testa
Hannah, which version of database are you playing with as that depends on who can run it and/or what permissions they need to run it. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > > > I would like to grant the ability to a user to run logminer. I > tried granting execute on both dbms_logmnr

RE: RE: Dba tools on NT

2002-08-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
readable. uh huh. sure how does this create a csv file? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How many of those "non-cryptic" languages can dump a table > to a CSV file in 2 lines of (readable ) code? > >while ( my $ary = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref ) { > print q{"} . join(q{","},@{$ary}) . qq

Re: Why use a Unix Pipe to uncompress a file?

2002-08-14 Thread Joe Testa
I know why i did it in the past, 32 bit os, 2G limitation of single file. i could run an export, compress on the fly and have a uncompressed file that is > 2G. hence you need to work it backwards, since if its > 2G, the uncompress will choke(or truncate). amazingly, that is NOT a stupid idea.

RE: Dba tools on NT

2002-08-14 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
I won't comment on the Perl side of things but will give some alternatives (& reasons). Does the DBA team or system admins already know any Windows scripting tools - if so I would consider using them? What are you trying to script - this will affect which tool is appropriate? Are you going to be

Re: Why use a Unix Pipe to uncompress a file?

2002-08-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
one possibility comes to mind: there is not enough room in the original directory for the uncompressed file and the compressed one (both exist while the uncompress is running) --- Pat Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to work thru the one of the scripts that I inherited and > I was >

RE: It took more than an hour to update 10,000 records

2002-08-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
oh Cary/Dan/Jared thank you it's been a rough day and this made me laugh out loud --- Cary Millsap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From another session, it's: > > exec dbms_system.set_imaginary_param_in_session( > $SID, > $SERIAL, > 'sql_execution_speed', > 'warp_10' >

RE: It took more than an hour to update 10,000 records

2002-08-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
obviously one of the new 9iR2 parameters designed to make the DBA obsolete :) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Oh, in that case: > > ALTER SYSTEM SET SQL_EXECUTION_SPEED=WARP_10; > > ;) > > Jared > > > > > > "Khedr, Waleed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 08/14/2002 08:58

RE: Oracle Arm Twisting?

2002-08-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
she is. And she does. And she's the one in charge of the RDA project -- the Remote Diagnostic Agent And from experience, yeah, some people at Oracle Support are less than wonderful. And some (like Anita) are amazing. As with everything, you win some, you lose some. Depends on who you talk to.

OT: Looking for Contacts in GTA

2002-08-14 Thread David Hill
Hi Guys I was just wondering if anybody could help me and send me some contacts or head hunter's in GTA. I'm currently Working in Montreal and am looking to move to Toronto. I'm a DBA with 3 years experience and am in desperate need of a new challenge. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tha

Materialized View

2002-08-14 Thread Mandal, Ashoke
Title: RE: Simple question on logging.. Hi All,   Is  it true that I cannot create a materialized view by accessing a remote table? Here is the syntax for creating the materialized view but it does not work.   REM Create materialized view mast_time_mvCREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW mast_time_mv  P

Why use a Unix Pipe to uncompress a file?

2002-08-14 Thread Pat Howe
I am trying to work thru the one of the scripts that I inherited and I was wondering if someone could shed some light on why the author used a UNIX PIPE to uncompress a file. Code : mknod /tmp/testdb_data_01.dbf_pipe p uncompress < /tmp/testdb_data_01.dbf_pipe > /u06/oracle/oradata/testdb/tbs/da

RE: RE: Dba tools on NT

2002-08-14 Thread Peter . McLarty
Looks OK to me, seems about right Although when you start using Macros and such the readability drops a little as it can take a bit of jumping around to understand it. Cheers -- = Peter McLarty E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Co

RE: RE: Dba tools on NT

2002-08-14 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: RE: Dba tools on NT > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > How many of those "non-cryptic" languages can dump a table > to a CSV file in 2 lines of (readable ) code? > >    while ( my $ary = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref ) { >   print 

RE: Urgent : UTL file problem

2002-08-14 Thread Jared . Still
Sounds like it. Give yourself a beer as a prize. ;) Jared "Lord, David - CSG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/14/2002 01:23 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:RE: U

RE: Nologging and redo generation

2002-08-14 Thread Sunil_Nookala
SQL loader(direct load),direct inserts, and create table as select...will not generate redo/undo by using NOLOGGING. Your Transaction is logged while deleting rows, can't be blocked. correct me if I am wrong. Sunil Nookala Database Analyst Dell Corp Austin, TX -Original Message- Sen

RE: Simple question on logging..

2002-08-14 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Simple question on logging.. > -Original Message- > From: Peter R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > How can I turn off logging for a table in Oracle7.3 database. Recoverable/unrecoverable is not a "persistent" attribute in 7.3.4 The "unrecoverable" option only applies to th

RE: RMAN recovery stuck

2002-08-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Robert - Thanks a million. I'll get started on that tomorrow. Yep, I figured I'd made some type of novice error which is why I posted the commands I'm using. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 4:33 PM To: Multiple re

utl file limitations

2002-08-14 Thread Kathy Duret
database 8.1.7.3   Has anyone run into and knows a work around for utl file limitations.   Specifically, we have many directories we need to write to over 512 bytes but the problem is if we need to run a session trace , we can only have 256 bytes and the directory that the trace file goes to

RE: RE: Dba tools on NT

2002-08-14 Thread Jared . Still
How many of those "non-cryptic" languages can dump a table to a CSV file in 2 lines of (readable ) code? while ( my $ary = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref ) { print q{"} . join(q{","},@{$ary}) . qq{"\n}; } Come over to the dark side Chris. ;) Jared "Grabowy, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: pl/sql exception and whenever sqlerror

2002-08-14 Thread Khedr, Waleed
As long the exception handler is catching the error then the code is assumed to run successfully and no errors should be detected anywhere. If you are still interested in handling this error outside the code, then you can raise an exception from inside the exception handler: begin null; except

RE: Oracle Arm Twisting?

2002-08-14 Thread Conboy, Jim
"I've called Oracle for a TAR once in the past 18 months." Ah, my friend, but you're not using Portal 9.0.2, are you? I've opened more TARs in the last few months than the rest of my Oracle career. Bleeding edge, I guess, so maybe its our own fault. But third-party support for this would hav

Nologging and redo generation

2002-08-14 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Can I use the nologging option on simple inert and deletes to eliminate rollback problems and redo generation? Ron S. -- 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) 538

pl/sql exception and whenever sqlerror

2002-08-14 Thread Baker, Barbara
OK, I admit up front I'm not a pl/sql programmer. And I really did try to look this up. Honest. Took me a VERY long time to figure this out, but here it is... I have a command procedure running a sql*plus script that then runs a stored procedure. (This is VMS, but I think it would work the

RE: Oracle Arm Twisting?

2002-08-14 Thread Cary Millsap
> Q: Does anyone know of any reliable 3rd party support for > Oracle? Yes. Dial www.miracleas.dk. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Hotsos Clinic, Oct 1-3 San Francisco, Oct 15-17 Dallas, Dec 9-11 Honolulu - 2003 Hotsos Symposium on OracleR Sys

Re: Simple question on logging..

2002-08-14 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
ALTER TABLE yourtable NOLOGGING - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 4:33 PM > > > Hi Gurus, > > How can I turn off logging for a table in Oracle7.3 database. Iam planning > to reorg thru ctas and want

RE: RMAN recovery stuck

2002-08-14 Thread Freeman, Robert
There is a bug in 8.1.6 that is fixed in 8.1.7: 1164440 The RMAN command "release channel" reports RMAN-20020 if there are "set until" and "alter database open reset logs" commands in the same "run" block. While this isn't exactly like your problem, it might be related. So, I'd remove the last

RE: It took more than an hour to update 10,000 records

2002-08-14 Thread Cary Millsap
>From another session, it's: exec dbms_system.set_imaginary_param_in_session( $SID, $SERIAL, 'sql_execution_speed', 'warp_10' ) Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Hotsos Clinic, Oct 1-3 San Francisco, Oct 15-17 Dallas,

RE: It took more than an hour to update 10,000 records

2002-08-14 Thread Cary Millsap
See http://www.hotsos.com/dnloads/1/10046a for more information about turning trace on and off, with details that vary by Oracle version and so on... Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Hotsos Clinic, Oct 1-3 San Francisco, Oct 15-17 Dallas, Dec 9-11 H

RE: It took more than an hour to update 10,000 records

2002-08-14 Thread Fink, Dan
Or ALTER SESSION SET TIME_TO_UPDATE_1_RECORDS = <1hour -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 2:43 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oh, in that case: ALTER SYSTEM SET SQL_EXECUTION_SPEED=WARP_10; ;) Jared "Khedr, Waleed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [

Simple question on logging..

2002-08-14 Thread Peter R
Hi Gurus, How can I turn off logging for a table in Oracle7.3 database. Iam planning to reorg thru ctas and want to use append hint for loading data. SQL> alter table tt unrecoverable; alter table tt unrecoverable * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01735: invalid ALTER TABLE option SQL>

RE: Oracle Arm Twisting?

2002-08-14 Thread Jared . Still
Well, that's not really fair. There are a number of good people that work for Oracle Support. True, there are also some that are subpar, but how often is it necessary to open a TAR anymore? MetaLink has vastly improved over the past couple of years. I've called Oracle for a TAR once in the pas

RE: It took more than an hour to update 10,000 records

2002-08-14 Thread Jared . Still
Oh, in that case: ALTER SYSTEM SET SQL_EXECUTION_SPEED=WARP_10; ;) Jared "Khedr, Waleed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/14/2002 08:58 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:

RE: It took more than an hour to update 10,000 records

2002-08-14 Thread Jared . Still
Somewhere along the way I began to think it was INSERT, not UPDATE. No wonder everyone else is talking about indexes. Oh well, free advice is sometimes worth less than you paid for it. :) Re the tracing: If your job is run via sqlplus, you can turn tracing on with this at the top of the sc

RE: Oracle Arm Twisting?

2002-08-14 Thread Jesse, Rich
She was a Senior Program Manager (don't know if that's Support or not) two months ago, when I was whining about RDA problems. Anita's a great asset to Oracle. I hope she's still there for Oracle's sake (and ours, too!). :) Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMA

RE: Is Anybody Aware of Temporary Table Problem in 9i

2002-08-14 Thread Gogala, Mladen
What is the duration of the data in the table? Is it session or transaction? If it's session, you need an intervening commit. > -Original Message- > From: Sam Bootsma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 3:01 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subjec

RMAN recovery stuck

2002-08-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
I am trying to perform an RMAN disaster recovery task. While I use an RMAN catalog to make backups, I am trying to recover using just the control file information. Oracle 8.1.6, Compaq/HP Tru64 I start RMAN with rman target sys/password nocatalog then, startup mount run { set until ti

RE: Grant access to EVERYTHING w/out granting DBA privs.

2002-08-14 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
How about select_catalog_role ?? Otherwise you need at-least * select any table * alter any procedure Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn

Re: c_USER#

2002-08-14 Thread BigP
Title: RE: c_USER# So do you guys think , locally managed tablespace can get rid of this contention , at present it's dictionary managed tablespace . -bp - Original Message - From: Jacques Kilchoer To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Tuesday, Augu

Re:snapshots problems

2002-08-14 Thread dgoulet
If you've got OEM around, look at refresh_groups. Reply Separator Author: =?iso-8859-1?q?Nalla=20Ravi?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 8/14/2002 11:13 AM Hi All, Can you please kindly clarify the following doubts on snapshots: we have got around 50 sna

RE: Grant access to EVERYTHING w/out granting DBA privs.

2002-08-14 Thread Andrew Sit
Glenn: Why not create a role, grant the permissions you need to the role and grant to role to the user? Isn't this the traditional way to do what you want here? Andy -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 3:28 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I want to create

RE: Dba tools on NT

2002-08-14 Thread Orr, Steve
To know Python is to love Python and eschew Perl... obfuscation is possible albeit more difficult. ;-) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 1:27 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Importance: High Well, there is the obfuscated Perl contest, but that's intention

RE: Dba tools on NT

2002-08-14 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Ok, ok!!! I give up. Perl is the greatest language in the world!!! We should all learn to speak it!!! Happy?? -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Grabowy, Chris Well, there is the obfuscated Perl contest, but that's intentional. :)

RE: Dba tools on NT

2002-08-14 Thread Jared . Still
Well, there is the obfuscated Perl contest, but that's intentional. :) If you make use of 'use English;', the two character system variables can be replaced with readable names, though it involves a lot more typing. I don't see how it's any less readable than C. I really don't know how to compa

Grant access to EVERYTHING w/out granting DBA privs.

2002-08-14 Thread Glenn Travis
I want to create a user and grant it access to all other users' objects, INCLUDING packages and procedures. I don't want to give the user DBA privs. Is this possible? Basically, (for OracleApps shops), I want to give the id APPS user power w/out giving the id the apps password. The userid wi

RE: rman examples scripts

2002-08-14 Thread Gene Sais
I just pre-ordered your book, says it wil be ready Nov. Is the realistic date? :) Gene >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/14/02 12:13PM >>> Pretty good scripts. Just looking at them, they appear to be more of the 8i variety. There are some improvements in 9i and 9iR2 that could be considered, such as the

Re: Oracle Arm Twisting?

2002-08-14 Thread Jared . Still
Yup, that's the way it works. :( Jared "Naveen Nahata" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/14/2002 05:48 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:Oracle Arm Twisting? Hi All

Re: OT: user CGI-BIN directories

2002-08-14 Thread Jared . Still
> ...is there a way to have these scripts in a > user's home directory and still call them thru web/HTML forms? Have you considered the security implications of this? Jared "Alroy Mascranghe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/14/2002 12:13 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L

snapshots problems

2002-08-14 Thread Nalla Ravi
Hi All, Can you please kindly clarify the following doubts on snapshots: we have got around 50 snapshots to be created on same database from 1 schemas 2 another readonly majority of these snapshots access same base tables 1) can I refresh them parallely? At a time Howmany can I refresh para

RE: Finding out last 10 records

2002-08-14 Thread Fink, Dan
Spot on! Using DISTINCT and indexes will also cause implicit sorting. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L (snipped a lot from Dan's reply..) > > As you can see, the rownum is not altered with the sort > order. In

ORA-20 - Maximum Processes Exceeded

2002-08-14 Thread Jared . Still
Dear list, I'm running into a strange problem on one of my dev databases. First, the particulars: Dell Dual Pentium III 1 Gig Ram Oracle 8.1.6 The database in question is used for testing and development on a customized 3rd party app. This past week I've seen the app max out the number of p

9.2 DB install error - need help

2002-08-14 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
Platform:  Dell 8200 / XP Prof.   I previously had 9.1 installed on my stand alone PC.   I de-installed 9.1 and removed all associated files.   I installed 9.2.  Everything went fine until I got near the end when I ran into an error.   The feedback I got is:   Oracle net config. asst.       

Is Anybody Aware of Temporary Table Problem in 9i

2002-08-14 Thread Sam Bootsma
Hello, One of our clients has AIX UNIX v4.3.3 OR v5L and Oracle 9.1. They have problems with temporary tables as shown in the two scenarios below. Scenario 1: In one procedure, we insert into a temporary table. In a different procedure we select from the same temporary table. We use the sam

RE: insert nologging parallel/noparallel and archiving

2002-08-14 Thread johanna . doran
Selecting from a sequence DOES generate logs. The statement will be a UPDATE to the SYS.$SEQ. I have an issue right now where we have a runaway process that polls the sequences (and doesn't use them), and it is generating SO much archiving that its a real issue. (still workging on it)

RE: It took more than an hour to update 10,000 records

2002-08-14 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Try creating this index first and see if it helps: create index dbimp1.new_index on dbimpl.npa_nxx(nxx_id ,npa_id ,lata_id) parallel 2 nologging; -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 1:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am not testing your guys' skills I a

Re[2]: Oracle Arm Twisting?

2002-08-14 Thread dgoulet
Tim, From our recent wrangling with Oracle Support. First off there is the Support Sales folks who are absolutely idiots. Change as little with these folks as you absolutely have to. And double check any quotes they send you, most will not add up the first few times around. Also these fol

Re: To_Char Problem

2002-08-14 Thread Babu . Nagarajan
Why would you want to do that - convert two dates into a char and then compare them ? This is not a problem but it is how char comparisions work. They are compared char by char to see which one is greater on the ASCII chart. See this : SQL > select '1' from dual where '3' > '10'; ' - 1 Babu

RE: To_Char Problem

2002-08-14 Thread Nicoll, Iain (Calanais)
Why do you need the to_char? But wouldn't it work anyway with to_char(a.updated_date,'dd/mm/ hh24:mi:ss') = ( select to_char(max(updated_date),'dd/mm/ hh24:mi:ss')) which will also use the 24 hour clock instead of to_char(a.updated_date,'dd/mm/ hh:mi:ss') = ( selec

RE: Finding out last 10 records

2002-08-14 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
reference to context ... reference to context ... Thanks Peter 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 c

RE: what is wrong with this idea ...

2002-08-14 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: what is wrong with this idea ... If you are using 8i+ consider using materl. views.  They are wonderful and make maintenance of denormalized objects much less of a chore.  I am oh so happy with them.  There are some limitations but still.  -Original Message- From: Gurelei

RE: Oracle Arm Twisting?

2002-08-14 Thread Weaver, Walt
Anybody know if Anita Bardeen is still working for Oracle Support?   --Walt Weaver   Bozeman, Montana -Original Message-From: Rodd Holman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 10:54 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Oracle Arm Twis

RE: It took more than an hour to update 10,000 records

2002-08-14 Thread Nguyen, David M
I am not testing your guys' skills I am honestly asking for help as I don't have much experience about database. I have a lots on my plate at work to take care of that's why I don't have much time to check email or to response. Here are some stupid questions I need to ask...how do I turn trace o

RE: insert nologging parallel/noparallel and archiving

2002-08-14 Thread Naveen Nahata
In the second case you are also selecting from sequence which might have generated the logs. Use logminer and get the details of what was logged. Naveen -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 10:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Rick, These are the transacti

Query with a Remote Table over a DB-Link

2002-08-14 Thread Hemant K Chitale
I had always understood that a query which joins a remote table to a local table would pull the entire remote table over and then do the join locally. However, the example in the Oracle9i Database Performance Tuning Guide and Reference (9.2), Chapter 2 Optimizer Operations "How the CBO evaluates

RE: Finding out last 10 records

2002-08-14 Thread Robson, Peter
(snipped a lot from Dan's reply..) > > As you can see, the rownum is not altered with the sort > order. In order to > retrieve the first 10 records by name, you need to have the > output sorted > prior to assignment of rownum. ... to point out that 'group by' will allow you to achieve s

Re: Oracle Arm Twisting?

2002-08-14 Thread Tim Gorman
Some background info on support pricing... For the RDBMS and related database products, support pricing is based a percentage of license pricing. Generally, "perpetual" licensing means just that (i.e. forever), while 2-year lease pricing typically comes at 35% of perpetual licenses and 4-year le

Fwd: Query with a Remote Table over a DB-Link

2002-08-14 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Resending >Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 23:42:35 +0800 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Hemant K Chitale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Query with a Remote Table over a DB-Link > > >I had always understood that a query which joins a remote table >to a local table would pull the entire remote table over and

RE: 11i Conc. Manager Question

2002-08-14 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Mike/Tim My suggestion was based on 10.7 and database version 7.3.4 on HP-UX 10.20. Yes, I am also pinning a lot of objects of Oracle Financials to avoid shared pool congestion. Increasing shared pool was not an option at that time due lack of available memory, flushing shared pool was the on

To_Char Problem

2002-08-14 Thread karthikeyan S
Hi All, I am using the to_char function in the following query. But it treats the date '31/12/2001' as greater than '01/01/2002'. Is there any solution to fix this problem? select distinct(a.default_type_id), a.new_val from amend_default_value a, amend_default_value b where a.effectiv

RE: Finding out last 10 records

2002-08-14 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
I hope you won't mind Charlie that reply and copy your email. I have been explaining similar things every day this week to different developer here ... it finally got me. Sorry, Santosh, it is not your fault, nor anyone else's. But I still stand by my opinion. Raj ___

Re: HP OpenView !!!!!!

2002-08-14 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
I shall suggest to visit HP / Oracle web site for detailed info. In recent past I have seen an online seminar on OPEN VIEW whereby they informed about integration of HP Openview with Oracle Enterprise Manager thus making it more practical to check/monitor databases and operating system. Regard

RE: Oracle Arm Twisting?

2002-08-14 Thread Rodd Holman
Yes, Oracle support sucks, and is staffed with morons.  However one thing you get with Oracle support that you cannot get with third party support is bug fixes and product upgrades.  If you want this without a support contract, you need to buy new licenses each time you upgrade. Rodd On W

RE: Finding out last 10 records

2002-08-14 Thread Robson, Peter
Whoops! > * No matter how you use ROWID, it is USELESS. Really? Even for deleting duplicate rows? (well, lets overlook fact they shouldn't have been there anyway...) peter edinburgh * This e-mail message, and any fil

RE: Oracle Arm Twisting?

2002-08-14 Thread John Weatherman
Yes, you'll have to pay all along or repurchase for support unless Oracle does something about this. John P Weatherman Database Administrator Replacements Ltd. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Maintenance cost is

RE: Oracle Arm Twisting?

2002-08-14 Thread Naveen Nahata
What you said is right, Oracle can dictate terms on me, because I have already implemented the system and spent a great deal in customizing it. But the point is that I have to live with the mistakes that someone else made in the past by overestimating the user base. e.g. For some modules we have

RE: what is wrong with this idea ...

2002-08-14 Thread Freeman, Robert
I'd prefer to build a normalized ODS structure and then build any denormalized structures on top of it. Thus, I'd keep the Parent to Child relationship and put each status in it's own row, with a temporal time stamp. If you need some denormalized view of that (because of performance) then I'd bui

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