Error ORA-12638 Credential Retrieval Failed During DB Creation Using DBCA

2002-10-24 Thread moyam
Hi gurus, I just installed Oracle 8.1.6 on Windows XP successfully. However on creation of database using the Database Configuration Assistant, I get the error ORA-12638 'Credential Retrieval Failed' on initialisation of database and thereafter the process stalls. I visited Metalink and found out

Scripts for creating Tables/schema's

2002-10-24 Thread Santosh Varma
 i wanted a script which contains the create table/schema's for a existing database. How to get this script ? any utitlity or which option to be selected for achieving this after i install Oralce ? i am using oracle 8.1.7. Thanks and regards,Santosh

RE: The life time of the data in v$sqlarea

2002-10-24 Thread Naveen Nahata
It will show you the SQL atatements that are residing in the shared pool. Once you flush shared pool all the statements cached there gets flushed, and so V$SQLAREA will only show information about the queries which are currently held by open cursors and are not flushed. Regards Naveen -Origin

The life time of the data in v$sqlarea

2002-10-24 Thread Chuan Zhang
Dear All, I wonder how long the life time of data in v$sqlarea. Is it a cumulative data collecting in v$sqlarea since last database startup?or do the data in v$sqlarea only reflect some recently data in Least Recetly List? Why do I ask this is after I used "alter system flush shared_pool", I

Re: secure connection

2002-10-24 Thread Justin Cave
At 06:08 AM 10/24/2002, MURAT BALKAS wrote: Hi, how can I be sure that the connection between our web server and Oracle Server to be secure. What's the best method to accomplish this? Any good links for "Oracle Nwtwork Security". I'd start with the "Oracle Advanced Security Admini

Re: RAC on the cheap

2002-10-24 Thread Scott
Steve, You can create a RAC environment on SUN if you get can get the necessary software. The hardware for SUN is easy to get if you purchase it for eBay but the clustering software is whole other story. You need Sun Cluster 3.0 and and a LVM for the disks. Getting SC3.0 may be easy but the LVM us

SID and DB_NAME

2002-10-24 Thread ora ak
I know this novice question for dba's but just wanted to refresh this , what is difference between SID and DATABASE_NAME , why init.ora file shouldhave database name same as SID  and in what circumstances SID and DB_NAME can be different . TIA oramagic Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert

RE: Suggestions solicited - Change Column Datatype from Number to

2002-10-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
9i -- dbms_redefinition should do it for you :) --- DENNIS WILLIAMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, well the developers are always pi$$ed about something anyway. > ;-) > > Seriously, good point, I've been spoiled, because most of my > applications > have kept the RI in the application as wa

Re: Suggestions solicited - Change Column Datatype from Number to

2002-10-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Stephane, It's easy if there is only one level of dependency... but what if (as they did in one of my systems) there are levels of dependency? It's sort of like trying to write (or rewrite) the ideptree view. Only you have to save off the scripts, in the proper order. Oh yes, don't forget views an

Re: simple ? question

2002-10-24 Thread Joan Hsieh
Stephane, Well spoken- my bad. Our developer threw me this question when I was just leaving from work. (I copied her email to the list) Now I am at home and taking a chance to look it over again. I am not sure what she asked for. My guess is she wants to pass a variable based on @xxx to access t

Re: simple ? question

2002-10-24 Thread Joan Hsieh
Stephane, Well spoken- my bad. Our developer threw me this question when I was just leaving from work. ( I copied from her email) Now I am at home to look it over. I am not clear what she asked for. I think she wants to pass a variable based on the @xxx to access this schema. I will make it cl

RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread Mark Richard
Chris, Our favourite footer (at a previous project) was: #EOF#... Sometimes there were no numerical columns, sometimes 1 and sometimes 12 or more. In most cases we were the recipients of the files, so we wrote a utility that created the footer based on an input specification. When we received

Re: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread Mark Richard
Unfortunately it is a trust issue... Trust me when I say a file can get scrambled. I have seen it happen. In our wierdest scenario two received files appeared to be merged into a single file - on the source system they had two intact files, on our system 1.5 files merged into a single file and .

RE: Streams

2002-10-24 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Streams The supplemental logging information adds quite a bit of into to each record. 1) it writes the actual column offset, rather than the logical offset (which it needs to query to find) 2) it writes the original head rowid for the row in addition/or instead of the rowid for the

RE: Multiple Listeners

2002-10-24 Thread Stephen Andert
Test first We discovered a bug on Tru64 that prevented this from working correctly in at least a couple versions of Oracle. 8.1.7 was suppossed to fix this, but it didn't. 8.1.7.3 did *I think*. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/16/02 11:39AM >>> You can use the 'higher' version of the listener for

HP-UX 11i/8.1.7/USERENV Question...I guess...

2002-10-24 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
I am trying to insert data into a remote table through a database link. This is the SQL and the error. 'dba_checks' is a synonym for the remote table. Two prior inserts in the script work just fine. MAILER is the name of the remote database. I'm puzzled. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mike SQL> l

Re: Streams

2002-10-24 Thread Tim Gorman
The statement about "no performance impact on the database being replicated from" may not be entirely accurate. In order to work, Oracle Streams (which uses Log Miner) needs "supplemental" redo data to be generated by the originating system, resulting from the ALTER DATABASE ADD SUPPLEMENTAL LOG D

Re: simple ? question

2002-10-24 Thread Stephane Faroult
Joan Hsieh wrote: > > Hi Listers, > > I am trying to find a way to know the schema name. Say, if I logged in > as jjin01@ngd. When I run a program, how can I get the schema name > which should be "ngd"? If I logged in as bkrasnof@pr, in this case, the > schema name will be "pr". > > Thanks in a

Re: Table & Index sizing utility

2002-10-24 Thread Tim Gorman
Nice website, but the basic flaw with such formulas is what to input into the field marked "average row size"...   If you know the "average row size", then you must already have a sample of data present in a table somewhere.  After all, without actual data already in an Oracle table, you coul

RE: Streams

2002-10-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
David - I recently discussed this with an industry expert. Here is my note from that conversation: "Look at Oracle Streams, which uses Oracle's Advanced Queuing facility. This may be available in Standard Edition. The architecture is log-based, similar to Quest Shareplex. This means that it has

RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Chris - Your comment about the other systems maybe sending you the wrong file sparked an idea. XML! Yeah, it has been overhyped, but the basic idea is that the file specifies the format. So you could get a file and ensure the content conforms to your expectation. I am an XML novice, but I believe y

Re: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas... DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT has an (undocumented) function called MD5 which uses that protocol (MD5) to calculate checksums.  Look at $OH/rdbms/admin/dbmsobtk.sql... - Original Message - From: Jamadagni, Rajendra To: Multiple

RE: Suggestions solicited - Change Column Datatype from Number to

2002-10-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Stephane - You asked: But why the second CTAS ? What about RENAME ? Seems faster to me ... Well, it depends on whether you are okay with changing locations of the table. Personally, I'm with you, just accomplish everything with one move of the data. But I figured someone would object, insisti

RE: Suggestions solicited - Change Column Datatype from Number to

2002-10-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Yeah, well the developers are always pi$$ed about something anyway. ;-) Seriously, good point, I've been spoiled, because most of my applications have kept the RI in the application as was being discussed earlier. Now they are switching to Java and in future projects will be implementing RI in Ora

RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Title: Message Well, it's kinda like saying your backups will never fail.  The backup script works now, and it has for many months, so I should never worry.  Right?   Well I'm paranoid, and Andy Groove is my god.  So I have to put in place some checks to make sure the data is ok, before I l

Re: Suggestions solicited - Change Column Datatype from Number to

2002-10-24 Thread Stephane Faroult
Rachel Carmichael wrote: > > Dennis, > > That's a good thought, and it works if you don't have grants, > constraints or dependencies on the original table. > > If you drop table1, you lose them all > > Rachel > > --- DENNIS WILLIAMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Deepak, If there are many colu

HP-UX 11i/8.1.7/SAP

2002-10-24 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Hey Gang... If you have a SAP instance, what is your listener port? Our SAP systems listen on 1527. All six of them. Yesterday, one of the SAP/R3 admins asked us why we use 1527 instead of 1521. I told her I thought it was a SAP requirement because it pre-dates my working here. None of the ot

RE: RMAN - It's Here

2002-10-24 Thread Freeman, Robert
WOW! I just got this one!! SLOW today... Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP Oracle Database Architect CSX Midtier Database Administration Author of several Oracle books you can find on Amazon.com! Londo Mollari: Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you.   ---

RE: System Tablespace and Autoextend

2002-10-24 Thread Freeman, Robert
I run my SYSTEM tablesaces in autoextend, and have for some time. I run them that way from the point of database creation and have never had a problem. There were some problems with autoextend in earlier versions of 8 (and I think they managed to migrate to early 8i versions as well) with 2GB bound

Re: Table & Index sizing utility

2002-10-24 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Rick, For the first question, if you are looking to estimate the size of the table, check out http://www.suhas.com/tsize.html Raj Rick_Cale@team

simple ? question

2002-10-24 Thread Joan Hsieh
Hi Listers, I am trying to find a way to know the schema name. Say, if I logged in as jjin01@ngd. When I run a program, how can I get the schema name which should be "ngd"? If I logged in as bkrasnof@pr, in this case, the schema name will be "pr". Thanks in advance, Joan -- Please see the offi

Re: Find Queries by a group of users

2002-10-24 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Johnson, Auditing, atleast in 8i, wont help. Maybe, if its not an overhead, you could have a logon trigger that enables tracing for those users. Raj Johns

RE: RMAN - It's Here

2002-10-24 Thread Freeman, Robert
Even more interesting is that I never saw the original comment from Rachel... my email to/from Oracle-L seems to really be slow! Thanks Rachel. Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP Oracle Database Architect CSX Midtier Database Administration Author of several Oracle books you can find on Amazon.com! L

Activating batch file from a trigger on nt

2002-10-24 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello all How can I run startup.bat file when database is up. I tried using the HOST command in trigger but it does not work. Something like: 'host d:\oracle\scripts\startup.bat' in the trigger. Win2000, Oracle 8.1.7 or 9.2.0. Yechiel Adar Mehish -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http:/

RMAN - It's Here

2002-10-24 Thread Freeman, Robert
Just a note that my new book Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (with co-author Matthew Hart) is out now! Enjoy! And remember, if you like it, I wrote it. If you don't like it.. hm let's see then Tim Gorman wrote it. RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP Oracle Database Architect CSX

RE: what is purify

2002-10-24 Thread Jeffrey Beckstrom
but we did not download or install it.>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/24/02 10:39:07 AM >>>See:http://www.rational.com/products/purify_nt/index.jspI think this is what they are talking about.RFRobert G. Freeman - Oracle OCPOracle Database ArchitectCSX Midtier Database AdministrationAuthor of severa

RE: DB monitoring using SNMP MIBs

2002-10-24 Thread Kevin Lange
Raj; Here is a link to the SNMP Support Reference Guide that Ray talked about for 8.1.7. I am sure its probably somewhere on your Documentation CD for your version. http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/docs/oracle/server.817/em.817/a85249.pdf All I did was search the web for "Oracle SNMP Support

Oracle DBA/Developer with Solid 9i experience- Position in

2002-10-24 Thread OraStaff
Large Software Company in Atlanta, Georgia needs an Oracle DBA /Developer with solid 9i experience to join its' IT staff. This is an excellent company that will pay relocation expenses. PLEASE Do Not send your resume for this position UNLESS you have the skills outlined below for this position.

Re: RMAN - It's Here

2002-10-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
now now, play nice! --- "Freeman, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a note that my new book Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (with > co-author Matthew Hart) is out now! Enjoy! > > And remember, if you like it, I wrote it. If you don't like it.. > hm let's see then Tim Go

Re: RMAN - It's Here

2002-10-24 Thread Yechiel Adar
Where? Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 4:44 PM Just a note that my new book Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (with co-author Matthew Hart) is out now! Enjoy! And remember, if you like

QUERY?

2002-10-24 Thread Seema Singh
Hi Can some one suggest whats wrong in this query?The same query run fine on development db but not running on production? select count(a.xxx_id) from gorp_cats_stats_view a , static_pages b where b.xxx_id = a.xxx_id andb.words like '%test%' anda.main not like '%test%' anda.u

Re: Theory v Practice - and business logic...

2002-10-24 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
To me this comes under the heading of "common sense". My $0.02 worth, Ken Janusz, CPIM - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 9:33 AM As this topic just hits my hot button, I'm going to chime in my 2 cents wo

RE: secure connection

2002-10-24 Thread Kevin Lange
These days . just hire a 15 year old kid with a computer at home He might do beter than an expensive 'security firm' ... -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 10:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hire a special company that handle this. We are doing it

RE: Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-24 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Oracle Real Application Clusters We had the user which owns oracle was nfs mounted across two machines using nfs. i.e. user oraclei home directory was nfs mounted across tow machines. When we used srvctl to start instances occasionally it used to hang when bringing up the 'other sid

RE: Activating batch file from a trigger on nt

2002-10-24 Thread Fink, Dan
Could you use an external procedure or java call? Metalink & Tom Kyte's book have good examples. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 9:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello all How can I run startup.bat file when database is up. I tried using the HOST comm

Oracle Performance Tuning (Book)

2002-10-24 Thread mkb
Any follks have reviews on the book Oracle Performance Tuning written by Edward Whalen & Mitchell Schroter and published by Addison-Wesley? Saw a blurb in the recent issue of Ora Mag. Thanks mkb __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert h

Re:RE: oracle or mssql

2002-10-24 Thread dgoulet
As I said, use mssql ONLY if your boss is willing to be strapped into a MicroSlop only platform. If he's even remotely thinking of using a different OS then you can't use mssql. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 10/23/2002 1

Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Title: Flat file generation integrity ideas... I have to create packages that will generate several flat files of data from tables that will be sent to other systems to be processed. I am looking for ideas on how to ensure data integrity in the flat files. For example, the expected record

Re: Trivia question - not of any practical use.

2002-10-24 Thread Dennis M. Heisler
The easiest solution I can think of is to set spool off within the script. Dennis Charu Joshi wrote: > > Dear Listers, > > Given below is a script that I execute from within SQL*Plus for WinNT: > > temp.sql: > - > set echo off > set pagesize 0 > set feedback off > SELECT * FROM tab W

RE: QUERY?

2002-10-24 Thread Weaver, Walt
Man, I can't think of a thing that would cause this. I'd suggest running tkprof or somesuch on the query in both environments but it probably wouldn't do any good. Comparing indexes? Nah, forget it. Not worth the time. What else, what else??? --Walt Weaver Bozeman, Montana -Original Mess

RE: RMAN - It's Here

2002-10-24 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: RMAN - It's Here do list members get a "I post where you post" discount? =) -Original Message- From: Freeman, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 10:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RMAN - It's Here Just a note that

RE: secure connection

2002-10-24 Thread MURAT BALKAS
Sorry for the mistake. the question was wrong. :( The right question should be : How can I secure the connection between our web server and Oracle Server? Is there any chance to solve this issue with Oracle related solutions or should I use IPsec or smth like that about network security. Murat

Streams

2002-10-24 Thread David Turner
Has anyone started using the Oracle streams feature? I'm wondering how this compares to Advanced Rep. I am guessing this approach will provide better performance but thought I'd check with the list to see if someone can confirm this. Thanks, Dave -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://w

Trivia question - not of any practical use.

2002-10-24 Thread Charu Joshi
Dear Listers, Given below is a script that I execute from within SQL*Plus for WinNT: temp.sql: - set echo off set pagesize 0 set feedback off SELECT * FROM tab WHERE ROWNUM < 10; set pagesize 1000 set feedback on set echo on - While running it always displays 'SQL>set echo off' b

RE: QUERY?

2002-10-24 Thread Sandeep Dubey
Hi, What error are you getting? Just saying 'not running in production' doesn't give any clue to answer. Regards, Sandeep -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 12:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Can some one suggest whats wrong in this query?The same q

RE: RMAN - It's Here

2002-10-24 Thread Freeman, Robert
Amazon.com, Oraclepressbooks.com, etc... Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP Oracle Database Architect CSX Midtier Database Administration Author of several Oracle books you can find on Amazon.com! Londo Mollari: Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you.   -Or

RE: QUERY?

2002-10-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Seema Have you run an explain plan? Your query will likely do a full-table scan of both tables. Are they large? Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORAC

RE: QUERY?

2002-10-24 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Different data? Missing indexes? What do you mean "Something's Wrong"? Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 12:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Can some one suggest whats wrong in this query?The same query r

RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Chris - I would consider checksums. Many systems have built-in checksum functions. On Unix these are cksum and sum. You could probably write a simple one that would work on your various systems. Search for checksum and somewhere on the Internet is probably sample code for one in a language that wil

Re: Activating batch file from a trigger on nt

2002-10-24 Thread Yechiel Adar
I solved the problem by: Call a Java function that sends the command to a service that activate the command as a process in NT. This was written by another of my team and can send the command to any computer on the NT network. I think that Joe asked about open window when applying archive logs to

RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: Flat file generation integrity ideas... Chris,   have you thought about summing a number column in the record and placing this sum in a trailer record?  this way, you have a header and trailer record which helps you be confident that the whole file made it to the target system.  and b

RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas... you could also use dbms_utility.get_hash_value ... to compute hash value for the whole row and store that as an additional column. Be syre to use the same parameters on both sides to compute and test, else it will fail the check. Raj

RE: QUERY?

2002-10-24 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: QUERY? Without a clearer description of what it isn't doing, my WAG is missing permissions on the views or tables. Jerry Whittle ACIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 618-622-4145 -Original Message- From:   Seema Singh [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: Oracle Real Application Clusters

2002-10-24 Thread Ray Stell
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 06:53:27AM -0800, Tim Gorman wrote: > NetApp is NFS; so are all current NAS products... > > The phrases "NetApp" and "cheap" are *always* used together -- it is their > most compelling feature. CFOs love NetApps. For database usage however, The netapp sales guy I talke

RE: RMAN - It's Here

2002-10-24 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Why pay more, Try www.bookpool.com Oracle9i RMAN Backup & Recovery Freeman, et al / McGraw Hill / 2002 / 0072226625 Our Price $30.95 ~ You Save $19.04 (38% Off) Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002

RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Title: Message (slapping my forehead)  Duh.   Nice.  I like it.  Simple but effective.  Minimal impact on performance.  And easy for the other systems to implement.    You da man, Tom, I don't care what Jared and Rachel said about you...   Thanks. -Original Message-From: Merca

System Tablespace and Autoextend

2002-10-24 Thread Sam Bootsma
Hello All, I have heard several times that if the SYSTEM tablespace runs out of space and needs to autoextend (assuming autoextend is turned on for the data file), then you run the risk of the database crashing and of data dictionary corruption. I have never personally encountered this problem, s

RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread Kevin Lange
Title: Flat file generation integrity ideas... Chris;   I would suggest the following:   1. Generating Check Sums of the files before they are sent.   2. Send the files.   3. Generating an after Check Sum and compare.   Here are the steps I go thru to make sure our Oracle Archive Logs are c

RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread Grabowy, Chris
I will have to keep those in mind, if I ever get back onto a UNIX platform. Right now, I'm sticking to Tom's suggestion because I religiously follow KISS. Thanks!! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Chris - I would consi

db_writer_processes/db_block_lru_latches

2002-10-24 Thread Ray Stell
I read in Note:97291.1 that db_writer_processes/db_block_lru_latches could be set to match the number of cpus to try to impove db file parallel write waits. Are seperate controllers required for this to be effective? Any good refs on this topic. =

Re: Trivia question - not of any practical use.

2002-10-24 Thread Marc Perkowitz
I don't get that when running on W2K. Are you executing a login.sql or glogin.sql script first? How are you invoking your temp.sql? Using the @ on the command line or redirecting input or typing it in directly? What version of sqlplus? I tried it with 8.1.6. Marc Perkowitz - Original Mes

RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Title: Message Yes, Melissa also mentioned this to me.  I will have to look into that function...along with the million other procedures and functions that Oracle has.  At this point, Tom's suggestion seems to be the simpliest/effective/fastest.  Any other suggestions? -Original Me

RV: Nuestra Profesión Ing. Sistemas

2002-10-24 Thread Alexander Ordonez
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Full Import/tablespace sizes

2002-10-24 Thread Mike Sardina
To do an import from a full export of a database, do the tablespaces already need to be set up before the import? How can you query the database to get the tablespace name and the total space needed for each tablespace? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Mi

RE: LOCALLY MANAGED TABLESPACE

2002-10-24 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: LOCALLY MANAGED TABLESPACE Metalink Note: 93771.1 -Original Message- From: Seema Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: LOCALLY MANAGED TABLESPACE Hi I am thinking to change our few dic

Re: LOCALLY MANAGED TABLESPACE LOCALLY MANAGED TABLESPACE LOCALLY MANAGED TABLESPACE LOCALLY MANAGED TABLESPACE

2002-10-24 Thread Rachna Vaidya
Why do you always SHOUT in your subject line? Or are you not aware of simple net-etiquettes? - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:49 PM > Hi > I am thinking to change our few dictinary manages tablespace to

RE: RMAN - It's Here

2002-10-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
because the author's royalties are based in part on what the book sells for? just doing my part to keep Robert's kids fed :) --- Mohammad Rafiq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why pay more, Try www.bookpool.com > > > Oracle9i RMAN Backup & Recovery >Freeman, et al / McGraw Hill / 2002 / 00722

RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread Kevin Lange
Title: Message Trouble with this is that there is a possibility that a change in the number in the file could result in the same sum.   Then you have different data but your checks says everything is ok.     Checksums are far more accurate. -Original Message-From: Grabowy, Chris

PDBA toolkit (from Perl for Oracle DBAs) question

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Maybe someone beside the author can answer this question: I'm confused about how to connect to a database using Jared's PDBA toolkit. The various utilities specify command-line options -machine and -database. There's a PDBA::CM connection manager module that can be used to specify environment va

Re: Full Import/tablespace sizes

2002-10-24 Thread Yechiel Adar
Full import will rebuild the tablespaces. browse the export file and you will see the commands inside. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 9:25 PM > To do an import from a full export of a

Re: System Tablespace and Autoextend

2002-10-24 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello Sam I do not know specifically about SYSTEM tablespace but from a bitter experience beware of the 4GB limit. if a datafile on NT/2000 autoextend beyond a multiple of 4GB (8,12...) then that datafile is GONE. We had a production database crashing on this problem and had to call in Oracle with

RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Chris - If Tom's idea provides you the protection you require, with convenience to boot, then it sounds like you have a winner. I think all the suggestions provide some variety of checksum, a standard computer science technique. What are your requirements? Mainly to make sure the file doesn't get t

RE: LOCALLY MANAGED TABLESPACE

2002-10-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Seema - While you are planning your conversion, be sure to carefully read the paper: How to stop defragmenting and start living: The definitive word on fragmentation by Himatsingka and Loaiza so you really understand how to receive the benefits of LMTs. It is available on http://www.hotsos.com an

RE: Full Import/tablespace sizes

2002-10-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Mike - Yes, you need to create those tablespaces first. If the tablespace isn't there, import will default to the default tablespace of the username that is running the import. Select bytes from dba_data_files to find the tablespace sizes. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECT

Suggestions solicited - Change Column Datatype from Number to Var

2002-10-24 Thread Suri, Deepak
We have a need to change the datatype of several columns in a table from number to varchar2. Most of the rows have data in these columns hence a direct 'alter table ...' will not work.   We plan to create a temp table, move the data from these colums to that table, modify the column dataty

RE: [Q] wield create view error, need help?

2002-10-24 Thread dist cash
Thank you for your help. I follow your instruction and granr privilege. It fixed me a lot of errors. Currently, I have another problem still create view problem. SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW WWV_DBA_SGA ( COMPONENT_GROUP, 2 MEMORY_SIZE_IN_BYTES ) AS select name component_group, bytes memory

Re: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread Yechiel Adar
Title: Flat file generation integrity ideas... I do not see how the file can get "scrambled". You write it out ok. The ftp is guaranteed. So what is the problem.   I will go along with the suggestion to zip it. It saves on the ftp time and also gives you some protection.   Yechiel AdarMehish

Re: System Tablespace and Autoextend

2002-10-24 Thread JApplewhite
Sam, Autoextend caused tablespace corruption for me once, but it was over 5 years ago with Personal Oracle 7.3.2.3 on Win95 - not the most reliable OS that Oracle has ever ported to. ;-) We have several 8.1.7 databases here, on both Win2k and HPUX. Autoextend, even on System, has caused no pr

RE: RMAN - It's Here

2002-10-24 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Rachel, Interesting, I never thought of it. I feel sorry for that if it is reducing royalty of Roberts, but my intention was different and to help others to reduce their cost of this book. Besides I am very much satisfied with the services/prices of bookpool.com Regards Rafiq Reply

Re: Full Import/tablespace sizes

2002-10-24 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Mike, While not necessary, it would be a good idea to precreate the tablespaces. Else, for a clean import the first time, you would need to ensure that the directory structure for the datafiles exists, you have the permissions to create files at the OS level, ensure that files dont already exist

Table & Index sizing utility

2002-10-24 Thread Rick_Cale
Hi DBAs, Does anyone have a table & index sizing utility program/script they can share? Also where can I find out exactly how much storage Oracle allocates for every datatype? I checked the concepts manual but could not find it. Thanks Rick -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.

RE: System Tablespace and Autoextend

2002-10-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Sam - I haven't made the system tablespace autoextend because I can't easily recover the space if it overextends. I would rather take the risk that something hits an error from a lack of space in the system tablespace. With other tablespaces you can always rebuild the tablespace if you need to.

Re: LOCALLY MANAGED TABLESPACE

2002-10-24 Thread JApplewhite
Seema, Our production Student Information database (8.1.7 under Win2k) has 40,000 tables and 60,000 indexes. It's a third party app designed for dBaseIV - go ahead and laugh, we do all the time (when we're not crying). Anyhow, we have to regularly clone out the data to a couple of other databas

RE: Suggestions solicited - Change Column Datatype from Number to

2002-10-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Deepak, If there are many columns on these tables, your method may be best. However, this will generate a lot of redo. You can usually accomplish this with a CTAS nologging, which won't generate redo. If you really don't want to change the location, you can: create table temp as select * from t

Find Queries by a group of users

2002-10-24 Thread Johnson Poovathummoottil
Hi all, We were trying to find a way to get all queries by a group of users of the database. Auditing the users lets us know whether they ran a 'select' 'update' etc. but not the full text of the query. This is in 8i. 9i seems to have a view called DBA_FGA_AUDIT_TRAIL which has a SQL_TEXT column.

RE: RMAN - It's Here

2002-10-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Rafiq, I was teasing... I buy books from discount places as well. Including bookpool Rachel --- Mohammad Rafiq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rachel, > > Interesting, I never thought of it. I feel sorry for that if it is > reducing > royalty of Roberts, but my intention was different and to he

RE: RMAN - It's Here

2002-10-24 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Rachel, Thanks. Basically I don't like Amazon because of various reasons and my bad experience with them. Besides , we normally buy technical books at our own so everybody try to reduce their cost, Right Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORA

RE: Table & Index sizing utility

2002-10-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Rick - I'm sure there are a lot of good sizing programs around. And hey, awhile back I was just as anal as everyone else, struggling to estimate everything to the last K. I've got another idea for you to consider. If you switch to LMTs and autoextend, then you don't need to spend nearly as much tim

RE: RMAN - It's Here

2002-10-24 Thread Freeman, Robert
I buy lots of books from Bookpool!! :-) I buy from Amazon too but those are normally non technical books. RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP Oracle Database Architect CSX Midtier Database Administration Author of several Oracle books you can find on Amazon.com! Londo Mollari: Ah, arrogance and st

RE: Suggestions solicited - Change Column Datatype from Number to

2002-10-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Dennis, That's a good thought, and it works if you don't have grants, constraints or dependencies on the original table. If you drop table1, you lose them all Rachel --- DENNIS WILLIAMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deepak, If there are many columns on these tables, your method may be > best. >

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