Queues - does anyone use them

2002-10-29 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Hi, I've sent a couple of questions on queues and got no answers - that's fine and I understand we're all busy. What I'm wondering though is whether anyone is actually using Oracle queues at all? Any feedback would be appreciated. For anyone out there who does use Advanced queues: one of our d

RE: Table Design

2002-10-29 Thread Vikas Khanna
One table should do the purpose and partioning would be a very useful option to go in for and the local indexes would take care of the efficiency in terms of retreival. More options to work in as one of the partitions goes down. The other nine would still be active and recovery could be carried o

Re: Table Design

2002-10-29 Thread Omar Khalid
hi deepa i think Option-2 is a better choice if you want to go for retrieval speed. but this depends on the types of query you will perform on that table. generally joins are too costly speed wise so option-1 one seems less efficient i mean more the table joins in u'r query the slower will be the

Help in Training on DBA

2002-10-29 Thread Abdul Aleem
Hi, We are in a process of purchasing Oracle Database. This deal will include hands-on training as well. The course outline given by the dealer is as follows: * Database physical & logical Architecture. * Database Startup and Shutdown. * Database physical & logical backups. * Operating system b

Table Design

2002-10-29 Thread PK_Deepa/VGIL
Hello We are doing database design for a project. We have 10 distinct transactions types and the total number of records is expected to be around 5,00,000 taking all transactions together.We have normalised the tables and decided to store all of them together in a single table identified by the tr

RE: Oracle Internals course

2002-10-29 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
According to my instructor (I'm in class this week), Oracle hasn't officially blessed upgrading these seminars to 9i yet. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Adhoc queries and limiting the amount of records queried...

2002-10-29 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Chris - Another alternative for you to consider, depending on your Oracle version - Resource Manager. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 1:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I just wanted to

RE: sqlplus /nolog

2002-10-29 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
To me, the key point is that sqlplus will log you on the database. If the database is down, this will fail, so you must use the /nolog option in order to access the database so you can start it. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMA

RE: Stand-by database implementation ...

2002-10-29 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Lizz - Given the amount of effort you are going to invest in this, I would seriously study the features in 9i Data Guard (new Standby name) and ask if there was any way that I could invest that effort in 9i. Many sites feel that the switchover to standby is so cumbersome in 8i (you must rebuild the

RE: Mixing OLTP with DSS

2002-10-29 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Rick - See the other message titled: Adhoc queries and limiting the amount of records returned". We thought we would start our DW economically and store it with an existing OLTP system. Bought a separate server real quick. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -O

RE: SQL*Net Message to client/SQL*Net more data to client

2002-10-29 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Stephen Can they tell you what the ping times were before? Some applications are more sensitive to slower networks than others, probably because they make more network round trips. Even if the ping times are "within spec", if they have increased, that might cause an issue. Just a thought fo

question on data warehouse tools by oracle

2002-10-29 Thread Rahul
list, i'm in the process of recommending Oracle as a "completel solution" for a ;large data warehouse (for a central bank) . After doing thru some of the documentation on OTN ..i have the following info on the products i would need. Please comment if i'm missing something - 9i database (with da

RE: SQL*Net Message to client/SQL*Net more data to client

2002-10-29 Thread Stephen Andert
Anjo, They have reported the results of ping times and said that response times are "within spec". They have told me that the network card is handling "x bytes per second without errors" and that the card is capable of many times that throughput. They have swtiched network cards 8 times last w

Re: SQL*Net Message to client/SQL*Net more data to client

2002-10-29 Thread Mark Richard
Stephen, Sounds like you've already done plenty of hunting. Do you know what these waits were like previously? Perhaps someone can correct me if I'm mistaken but does a "listener not responding" error indicate the problem is getting to the server in general, not the instance itself. Perhaps som

RE: 1 Volume of Software RAID 1+0 versus Multiple Volumes of Soft

2002-10-29 Thread John Kanagaraj
Yes - and I just completed stress-testing an OLTP database where we went from 2 distinct 'filesystems' for data files to 12 separate filesystems. Average wait times for I/O dropped from 40 - 50 msec (yes 40 - 50 msec!) to about 10 - 13 msec. All this was on an Disk Array and all we did was to convi

Re: RAID5+

2002-10-29 Thread Tim Gorman
As with any "cached" I/O subsystem technology (i.e. RAID-S, NetApps, etc), please visualize a water tank. The water tank represents the cache, the drain from the tank represents I/O throughput rates from the cache to the hard-drives, and the faucet filling the tank represents the I/O volumes from

RE: SQL*Net Message to client/SQL*Net more data to client

2002-10-29 Thread Anjo Kolk
This is called "Blame Storming". Every component works "fine" but response time sucks and the problem is some other area. So how do we turn "Blame Storming" into "Brain Storming"? Check out the network components. One of the problems is that the network people look at utilization, instead of resp

Re: Mixing OLTP with DSS

2002-10-29 Thread Tom Pall
Oracle 8i uses a different aging algorithm than before.  It waits for blocks to be accessed several times before considering keeping them around.  That way the full scan of a big table won't push other tables out.  If aging becomes a problem, remember you can now size a keep and recycle buff

Re: 1 Volume of Software RAID 1+0 versus Multiple Volumes of Software Raid

2002-10-29 Thread Tom Pall
Ah yes.  The eternal argument between the DBA, who likes things separate,and the SA, who likes big smears (But it's mirrored!).- Original Message -From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 3:43 PMSubject: Re

Re: Convert DM TSP to LM TSP w/ lots of data

2002-10-29 Thread Tom Pall
If you have to convert in place, do it. But let's examine things a bit more closely first. You say you have tablespaces sized from 5 GB to 60 GB and you don't have much freespace as a buffer. Do you have 60 GB buffer? If so, you're home free. Create a new LMT, move the objects from the DMT to

SQL*Net Message to client/SQL*Net more data to client

2002-10-29 Thread Stephen Andert
We have experienced a sudden and dramatic decrease in performance sometime over the weekend (after Sat but before Monday 4 am). In following Gaja's tuning philosophy, I've found that the top 2 waits are usually (always 2 of the top 3) SQL*Net Message to client/SQL*Net more data to client. Everybo

RE: analyze table takes forever

2002-10-29 Thread John Kanagaraj
Andrey, What does V$SESSION_WAIT values for the session that performs the ANALYZE say? Another though: Do you have Parallel DEGREE set on that table? John Kanagaraj Oracle Applications DBA DBSoft Inc (W): 408-970-7002 What would you see if you were allowed to look back at your life at the end

RE: Re[2]: RV: Nuestra Profesión In

2002-10-29 Thread Sherman, Paul R.
Hello, Well, I for one got enough of the message to make me curious, so I fed the stuff into Alta Vista's translator, and for posterity's sake, here it is, in chronological order (and you owe me one, Dick for this Herculean-like labor): Taken from a friend I am seriously thinking to stop bein

Re: Parallel Server Option = TRUE

2002-10-29 Thread Kader Ben
Hi Pablo, There is no known problem if you have installed OPS even thought actually you don't use it, there is also no impact on DML_LOCK if your data are accessed by only one instance. Comment out PARALLEL_SERVER if is in your parameter file. HTH Kader --- Pablo Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: What's your opinion: ALL_ROWS vs FIRST_ROWS

2002-10-29 Thread Stephane Faroult
"Armstead, Michael A" wrote: > > We're moving from RBO to CBO. > > For those of you who use CBO, what mode do you use FIRST_ROWS or ALL_ROWS? > And why? > > My thinking is if it's a database where most of the querying is done on > small sets of records, then we may want to use FIRST_ROWS. On the

Re: What's your opinion: ALL_ROWS vs FIRST_ROWS

2002-10-29 Thread Mark Richard
Michael, I think you are correct... OLTP tends to go for FIRST_ROWS. OLAP tends to go for ALL_ROWS. I say "tends" because I'm sure there are a multitude of reasons for selecting the other option. I guess you need to look at the queries being run against the database, and the applications using

Re: O/S Authentication

2002-10-29 Thread Jared . Still
Christine, Pretty simple really. On your database: select '|' || value || '|' from v$parameter where name = 'os_authent_prefix'; The reason for the enclosing '|' will be apparent if the value is an empty string. Assuming you logon to the box as 'administrator', and that os_authent_prefix = ''

Re: 1 Volume of Software RAID 1+0 versus Multiple Volumes of Software Raid

2002-10-29 Thread Jared . Still
I would go with 3 RAID 1's given the choice. Not necessarily for performance though. This would allow you to have 3 control files on separate drives. It would also allow soft mirroring of the redo logs. And before someone jumps in with "But you don't need to mirror them on RAID 1", I *like* hav

Re[2]: RV: Nuestra Profesión Ing. Sistemas

2002-10-29 Thread dgoulet
No Hable Espanole!! Reply Separator Author: "Stephen Andert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10/29/2002 10:25 AM Esto me dio mucha risa. Alguien lo va a traducir al ingles para el resto de la lista? Esteban >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/24/02 12:05PM >>> Ups

Re: analyze table takes forever

2002-10-29 Thread Mark Richard
As well as the structure of the table... What (or how many) indexes are on the table? Have you tried just analyzing the indexes, or perhaps just table data? Also, since I don't have a convenient environment to test this out... Can someone please confirm what happens to a global index when only

What's your opinion: ALL_ROWS vs FIRST_ROWS

2002-10-29 Thread Armstead, Michael A
We're moving from RBO to CBO. For those of you who use CBO, what mode do you use FIRST_ROWS or ALL_ROWS? And why? My thinking is if it's a database where most of the querying is done on small sets of records, then we may want to use FIRST_ROWS. On the other hand, if our database is used to gener

Re: Adhoc queries and limiting the amount of records queried...

2002-10-29 Thread Mark Richard
Chris, I don't really have a nice solution, however I would have to recommend against using rownum type solutions... There is a really good chance that the users won't understand the implications of such a clause and therefore won't understand it's affect upon the results. A user might ask for t

RE: Adhoc queries and limiting the amount of records queried...

2002-10-29 Thread Miller, Jay
Aside from severely restricting access to analysts who need to investigate problems in production data we limit the CPU time in their profile to 5 minutes. That's a pretty generous limit and they've never had any issues with it. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 2:29 PM T

Index Partitioning

2002-10-29 Thread Leonard, George
Title: Adhoc queries and limiting the amount of records queried... Hi all   System is Siebel   Ok I got a couple of tables about 6 GB big, up to 10 million rows.   Some of the tables come out of the box with 30+ indexes, now for those not aware Siebel does not support the dropping of

RE: Adhoc queries and limiting the amount of records queried...

2002-10-29 Thread Wong, Bing
This is what I do in my shop since they allow(not me) ad hoc queries... I modified the user id that run ad hoc queries to default to a TEMP tablespace which is rather small. :) They failed most of the time and I receive no complains. :) Bing Wong Open Systems Database Administrator x25721 Thi

Parallel Server Option = TRUE

2002-10-29 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
Hope someone can help me with this one. I have just realized that PARALLEL SERVER = TRUE in v$option and I don't have an OPS instalation. I've installed this Oracle code in a Unix Cluster that's why Oracle has installed this option automatically, I assume. Can anyone tell me if there can be any

Re: Oracle Internals course

2002-10-29 Thread Tim Gorman
Jeroen, Scott is the instructor -- he didn't develop the curriculum. Let me check -- I don't want to publish the someone's name to this list and have it be a big surprise or an inconvenience... :-) More soon... -Tim - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMA

Re: Adhoc queries and limiting the amount of records queried...

2002-10-29 Thread Rick_Cale
You could implement FGAC or create views that only contains necessary records. Rick "Grabowy,

RE: Adhoc queries and limiting the amount of records queried...

2002-10-29 Thread STEVE OLLIG
many shops prohibit ad-hoc queries in busy OLTP databases and many of those have datawarehouses where ad-hoc is allowed. IMHO that's the only way prevent ad-hoc queries from causing problems in your OLTP environment. SQL> select * form users where clue > 0; no rows selected -Original Mess

Re: Adhoc queries and limiting the amount of records queried...

2002-10-29 Thread Igor Neyman
Title: Adhoc queries and limiting the amount of records queried... In SQL Server: "set rowcount " before running the query does the same thing as oracle's ROWNUM in "where" clause.   Igor Neyman, OCP DBA[EMAIL PROTECTED]      - Original Message - From: Grabowy, Chris To

Adhoc queries and limiting the amount of records queried...

2002-10-29 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Title: Adhoc queries and limiting the amount of records queried... I just wanted to ping the list to see what other people have done to control or constrain adhoc query users??? We have a group that is struggling with the adhoc query piece that's in production.  Some of the users end up fir

9i RAC for DSS (when, where, why?)

2002-10-29 Thread Nathan Wenig
Hello... As a follow up to the last question about moving to 9i RAC, how many of you out there have made the move or plan to make the move to 9i RAC for DSS (Data Warehouse)?  If so... what is driving you to make this upgrade?  If data volume can you please provide examples... if query performance

RE: 9i RAC

2002-10-29 Thread Govind . Arumugam
Look for the code TOP 10 WRITE PINGING OBJECTS TOP 10 READ PINGING OBJECTS and TOP 10 FALSE PINGING OBJECTS in opsdiag.sql ( available in metalink doc. id 205809.1 ) Last week, we wrote a shell script to gather the above information every 20 minutes ( instead of running opsdiag.sql every 20 minu

RE: analyze table takes forever

2002-10-29 Thread Govind . Arumugam
Title: RE: analyze table takes forever You mentioned that count(*) took 10 minutes but did not say how many rows are present in that partition; if number of rows is less than 1 million, I would do the following.   alter table . move partition  tablespace  nologging;   and then re-analyze

Re: 9i RAC

2002-10-29 Thread Stephane Faroult
John Kanagaraj wrote: > > Mark, > > If you read the latest Oracle Mag (Peer-to-Peer), you will find that a > (sometime?) list member Murali Vallath is using RAC and is actually planning > a book sometime later. Maybe you can address the question to him? Murali > presents/attends IOUG What is

RE: Win2k Perl accessing Oracle Parameters?

2002-10-29 Thread Jared . Still
Cary, Here's what my search of Registry revealed: PPM> search Registry Packages available from http://ppm.ActiveState.com/cgibin/PPM/ppmserver.pl?urn:/PPMServer: Win32-Registry-File [1.09] Perl interface to MS-Windows registry files. Win32-TieR

RE: 9i RAC

2002-10-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: 9i RAC forget 9201 ... 9202 has about 20+ fixes that are related to RAC code. ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni      MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't ref

RE: Implicit Date conversion problem

2002-10-29 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Jared, Of course, I have been corrected! Woo-hoo! I win! I learned something new today! I get to go home early! Wow. This was really a shocker to me. I tried a little test myself on an 817 database and it works as Raj (and the documentation) said it would. Does this mean I will change my

RE: 9i RAC

2002-10-29 Thread Rick Stephenson
We are currently running 8i OPS and having serious issues with "global cache request" waits that kill the performance on the machines. Because of this issue, we are almost being forced to upgrade to 9i RAC. I hope and pray that this will work out, but I've learned to not count on much until you a

RE: analyze table takes forever

2002-10-29 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: analyze table takes forever what's the structure of the table?   And try taking an export of this partition and import it into it's own table in a development box... see if you can analyze it there.  Nick -Original Message- From: Andrey Bronfin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: 9i RAC

2002-10-29 Thread John Kanagaraj
Mark, If you read the latest Oracle Mag (Peer-to-Peer), you will find that a (sometime?) list member Murali Vallath is using RAC and is actually planning a book sometime later. Maybe you can address the question to him? Murali presents/attends IOUG and I know for sure that he 'speakes from the tre

Re: RV: Nuestra Profesión Ing. Sistemas

2002-10-29 Thread Stephen Andert
Esto me dio mucha risa. Alguien lo va a traducir al ingles para el resto de la lista? Esteban >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/24/02 12:05PM >>> Ups colegas ! @lex Lic. Alexander Ordóñez Arroyo Soporte Tru64Unix & BD Oracle

Mixing OLTP with DSS

2002-10-29 Thread Rick Stephenson
Am I looking for trouble by mixing an OLTP type database with a DSS type database?   I currently have a relatively small database that is used for quick lookup type actions.  The company wants to add a much bigger and constantly growing application for historical reporting on the same mac

RE: sqlplus /nolog

2002-10-29 Thread Rodd Holman
Title: sqlplus /nolog Ah ha.  It's the double quotes you use.  These were not necessary with svrmgrl Rodd On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 09:49, Toepke, Kevin M wrote: It doesn't?   $ sqlplus "/ as sysdba"   SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tu

RE: 9i RAC

2002-10-29 Thread Molina, Gerardo
We are planning to use it on Solaris. Gerardo -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 8:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L A quick question out to the masses.. How many of you out there are ACTUALLY USING 9i RAC technology? If not already using it - how many ha

Re: BLOB Storage

2002-10-29 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
The BLOB can be "in line" if the size is less than 4k, otherwise it is stored as "out-of-line". RWB "Gene Sais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@fatcity.com on 10/29/2002 07:39:01 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL P

RE: Installing iAS 9.0.2.0.1

2002-10-29 Thread Scott . Shafer
No, 1.0.2 is a leaner product - no infrastructure required. Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210.581.6217 > -Original Message- > From: Gene Sais [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:24 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: Installing iAS

Re: sqlplus /nolog

2002-10-29 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
I beg to differ Mr. Holman. The sqlplus command should work if the "/ as sysdba" is enclosed in quotes. So , the command would be sqlplus "/ as sysdba" . This works in Oracle9i on Unix and Windows NT/2000 environmnents. At least it does so in my environments. RWB Rodd Holman <[EMAIL PROTE

Logon Trigger

2002-10-29 Thread mkb
Sorry in advance, but I didn't think I'd need this. There was a discussion about 4 weeks ago if memory serves correct, about denying users logging on to Oracle directly either through SQL*Plus or other tools such as TOAD. Tried searching the archives but getting too many hits. Someone posted tri

Re: 9i RAC

2002-10-29 Thread Connor McDonald
I run it at home on the laptop if that counts :-) But seriously, I'm working with a client who are migrating from a large Sun box to a 4node Tru64 RAC architecture on 9.2 Do I think it will workprobably not Cheers Connor --- Mark Leith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A quick question out to

RE: Win2k Perl accessing Oracle Parameters?

2002-10-29 Thread Cary Millsap
Jared: PPM> search Tie::Registry PPM> search Win32::Registry Packages available from http://ppm.ActiveState.com/cgibin/PPM/ppmserver.pl?urn:/ PPMServer: Win32-Registry-File [1.09] Perl interface to MS-Windows registry files. PPM> Is 1.09 really what I want to install? Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterp

RE: Convert DM TSP to LM TSP w/ lots of data

2002-10-29 Thread Govind . Arumugam
This is what we have in mind. For the partitioned tables that are going to have the 'rotation' logic, we will convert them to LMT when they become empty. We drop the 'oldest' partition and create a new one for next month. This will be carried out every month. Partition for November data is empty

RE: Implicit Date conversion problem

2002-10-29 Thread Jared . Still
Tom, If the string matches the NLS_DATE_FORMAT, Oracle will convert it to a date. Try this: create table d( d date ); alter session set nls_date_format = 'dd-mon-yy'; insert into d values('21-dec-02'); insert into d values('22-dec-02'); insert into d values('23-dec-02'); insert into d values

9i RAC

2002-10-29 Thread Mark Leith
A quick question out to the masses.. How many of you out there are ACTUALLY USING 9i RAC technology? If not already using it - how many have plans to use it (or at least plan to investigate it)? Cheers Mark === Mark Leith | T: +44

Re: Implicit Date conversion problem

2002-10-29 Thread Stephane Faroult
> "Jamadagni, Rajendra" wrote: > > Well, > > Let me point out one thing following is the original query ... > > -- this returns no rows ... > select ea1.ep_number, ea1.est_dt, veas.est_dt > from (select a.ep_number, ea.est_dt > from v_episode_avail_summary_break a, episode_airin

RE: Data guard

2002-10-29 Thread Seema Singh
Solaris 5.7 From: "Fink, Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Data guard Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:43:33 -0800 What platform are you on? If UNIX, make sure your i/o settings for reads and writes (asynch or

RE: Implicit Date conversion problem

2002-10-29 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: RE: Implicit Date conversion problem Raj,   you said:   "according to Oracle, when comparing a varchar2 to a date column, the string does get converted to a date ...  "   This has got to be wrong.  If you compare a varchar2 column with a number, Oracle try's to convert the varchar2 t

RE: Installing iAS 9.0.2.0.1

2002-10-29 Thread Gene Sais
Thanks for all the replies. It makes me rethink going to iAS 9.0.2.0.1. Does iAS 1.0.2 require all the same dependencies, i.e. infrastructure install? Gene >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/29/02 07:53AM >>> made the same experiences with iAS 92 and ended up using 9iAS 1.0.2.2 for various reasons. but

Re: imp/exp question

2002-10-29 Thread Adrian Ciocildau
Hi, what do you mean with "to export in system user with two user tables" ? Regards, Adrian Ciocildau Oracle wrote: Dear One of the solution is you can export in system user with two user tables. You can exp/ imp blob column also. Later you can imp thru system, but use from user and to user

Re: RE: oracle or mssql

2002-10-29 Thread Tom Pall
It's these readers-blocks-writers and dirty reads that makes people migrate their data to Oracle. Blocking writers kills performance. Of course constantly rolling back blocks to give queries consistent views uses i/o and cpu. But that extra overhead rarely impacts overall performance as badly as

O/S Authentication

2002-10-29 Thread Turner, Christine
Greetings ALL.. I have been assigned a security research project by my boss. Really simple topic, o/s authentication vs. password file authentication. Currently we use a password file, and the boss wants to know what it would take to convert to o/s authentication instead. However, I'm not fami

RE: sqlplus /nolog

2002-10-29 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
Title: sqlplus /nolog It doesn't?   $ sqlplus "/ as sysdba"   SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue Oct 29 10:39:53 2002   Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.   Connected to:Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.1.0 - ProductionWith the Partitio

Re: Stand-by database implementation ...

2002-10-29 Thread Ray Stell
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:23:33AM -0800, Lizz Pena wrote: > Looks like I'm gonna implement a stand-by database on > Windows 2000 using Oracle 8.1.7.4 > > Anyone have any good article, how-tos, caviots I need > to consider or read up on? -- caveat, from Latin, let him beware. Ain't English gre

Re: Implicit Date conversion problem

2002-10-29 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
Raj: The date column has a timestamp value as well. By using the TRUNC function, you are getting all dates regardless of the time value (i.e. 12:01 AM, etc.) . When dealing with DATE datatypes it is always a good practice to use the TRUNC function on the columns to prevent the time of day portio

RE: Oracle Internals course

2002-10-29 Thread Rachel Carmichael
"Some guy in the Netherlands" uh huh --- Anjo Kolk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No I have given them for Oracle in Holland, Belgium, Norway, > Singapore > and Malaysia. > > Anjo. > > -Original Message- > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:58 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list O

Re: Oracle Internals course

2002-10-29 Thread Stephane Faroult
Mark Leith wrote: > > What is shown to you on the Oracle Ed site, is actually based upon where you are >located, within your login profile. I don't see any mention of "Seminars" what so >ever (being UK based).. Can anyone else in the UK confirm this? > > Cheers > > Mark > Nothing of the sort

analyze table takes forever

2002-10-29 Thread Andrey Bronfin
Dear gurus ! We are trying to analyze a table partition (estimate 2 %) and it takes forever. analyze table ... partition (P20021022) estimate statistics sample 2 percent; For instance, select count(*) from the same partition takes 10 minutes , but the analyze takes literally infinite amount of tim

Re: Joseph Testa has sent you a 10% discount]

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Baumgartel
What a guy that Joe is. ;-) But Joe, I thought you were getting out of the DBA business. --- Joe Testa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well that didnt work, ok how about cut/paste :) > > Joseph Testa bought a few things at Amazon.com and wanted to offer > you a > discount on them. > > Its the

RE: RAID5+

2002-10-29 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Russ: We're using EMC Clariion disk arrays. These are using EMC's version of RAID-5; they call it RAID-S. There is 2GB of cache if front of the disks. They claim that the cache is write guaranteed so that we'll never lose an update. So far, so good, and the performance has been acceptable, e

Re: net8 for linux

2002-10-29 Thread Ray Stell
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:48:38AM -0800, sonny e. supilanas wrote: > hi, i learned that i need net8 for linux to rebuild the DBD-Oracle perl > module. where can i download one for free otn.oracle.com, you have to download oracle for linux and install it. The installer gives you the option to ins

RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-29 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Actually, I am sending and receiving files. They will be handling the FTP of the files, and making sure it has FTPed correctly. I just have to have a sanity check of the file. Basically, I decided to prefix each data line with 'DAT', and the "CRC line" with 'CRC'. The flat file is "read into th

RE: Implicit Date conversion problem

2002-10-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Implicit Date conversion problem Sorry about that ... I am working on a sev-1 problem with Oracle (ora-904 error if anyone is interested). Doesn't work means it doesn't return any data the working query returns correct number of rows. the trunc() syntax is right ... est_dt co

RE: Implicit Date conversion problem

2002-10-29 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: Implicit Date conversion problem Raj,   you are forgetting how dates are stored internally vs. how they are displayed by sqlplus.   change your first query to:   select ea1.ep_number, ea1.est_dt, veas.est_dt   from (select a.ep_number, ea.est_dt   from v_episode_avail_summar

Re: oracle client for linux

2002-10-29 Thread Jared Still
otn.oracle.com is the right place. Jared On Monday 28 October 2002 20:58, sonny e. supilanas wrote: > hi, i'm totally new to oracle, we have a webserver running on mandrake > and can make queries to mysql dbase using perl/cgi scripts on same unit > which works fine for our sites. but now, we ha

RE: Oracle Internals course

2002-10-29 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Scott Heisey taught the "New Features for 8i" administrators class that I took. Yeah, he's in my top ten of Oracle instructors. A not at all complete, in no particular order list is: Scott Gossett Scott Heisey Sue Jang John Hough Please note, I have NOT taken classes from all the Oracle instru

RE: Stand-by database implementation ...

2002-10-29 Thread John . Hallas
One of the best sources of information is a white paper by Lawrence To called Graceful Switchover and Switchback for Standby Databases (Metalink note 90817.1) Another one under the White papers sectiopn is note 91570.1 but I have not looked at that John -Original Message- Sent: 29 Octobe

RE: SQL*Plus COPY error solved (sort of)

2002-10-29 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Hadn't thought of trying that; makes sense. Thanks. --- "Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you tried under NT, did you use sqlplus.exe or sqlplusw.exe? > > If you used sqlplusw.exe, this sounds like Bug No. 1504702 > > The workaround is to use the copy command from the

Re: Win2k Perl accessing Oracle Parameters?

2002-10-29 Thread Jared Still
In addition to BIshop's excellent response, be sure to install the latest version of Tie:Registry. The one that comes with ActiveState Perl doesn't work properly. The current version (as installed from ActiveState via PPM) is I believe 1.24. Just reinstall it. Jared On Tuesday 29 October 200

Re: sqlplus /nolog

2002-10-29 Thread Ray Stell
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 06:58:49AM -0800, Gogala, Mladen wrote: > It originates from the wonderful OS that used to have commands like "SET > DEF", "MONITOR MODES", > "BACKUP/IGNORE=INTERLOCK SYS$ORACLE:[]*.* MU:" and alike. There is also > an abomination > of this OS created by David Cuttler.

Re: Oracle Internals course

2002-10-29 Thread Tom Pall
Title: Message Oracle didn't start offering instruction directly at your desktop or urge you to open up an iTAR instead of talking to a Customer Service person for nothing.  People are expensive. - Original Message - From: Bob Metelsky To: Multiple recipients of list ORA

Re: Raid 5+

2002-10-29 Thread John Hallas
Russ,   I am currently working for a large company who are moving from EMC disk array to HP XP512 arrays (these are actually HDS disks re-badged by HP).   Both Oracle and HP are very firmly stating that we will have no negative performance from using Raid 5 and they have put this in wri

Re: Stand-by database implementation ...

2002-10-29 Thread Thomas Day
Look out for the Pentium 4 bug. Other than that I've found it to be pretty straightforward. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Thomas Day INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California

RE: Implicit Date conversion problem

2002-10-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Implicit Date conversion problem http://technet.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle9i/doc_library/release2/server.920/a96540/sql_elements2a.htm#54201 Look up for table 2-10 and then below the table look for 4th bullet ... that's where I found it out ... At-least Tom you know my pain

RE: Scheduling software

2002-10-29 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Sony Music also uses it extensively --- "Gogala, Mladen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oxford is using maestro and it is a good software. > > > -Original Message- > > From: BALA,PRAKASH (HP-USA,ex1) [mailto:prakash.bala@;hp.com] > > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 12:09 PM > > To: Multipl

Re: List of Rows Updated

2002-10-29 Thread Tom Pall
Title: RE: List of Rows Updated Gosh.  I wish I worked in your shop.  I'm typically asked to produce an audit report for yesterday on a table I didn't even know existed.  "What do you mean you can't do that?  Aren't you an Oracle DBA?" - Original Message - From: Jamadagni, Ra

RE: Scheduling software

2002-10-29 Thread Mark Leith
Dick, We've looked at another scheduling tool that's paticularly good at cross platform job dependancies etc. that has support for Peoplesoft. The product is called OpCon/xps from a US based company called SMA. Before you ask, no, I receive no commisions from this company.. ;) We did in fact l

Re: sqlplus /nolog

2002-10-29 Thread Philip Douglass
Title: sqlplus /nolog sqlplus /nolog starts sqlplus, but does not connect you to any database, nor does it prompt you for a username/password. - Original Message - From: Daiminger, Helmut To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 8:29

RE: variables in reports

2002-10-29 Thread Naveen Nahata
If the value is not dependent on the parameters entered by the user then you can have it a user parameter not displayed in the parameter form. Alternatively, you can also use a placeholder column to achieve the same. You can place it outside of any group. Regards Naveen -Original Message

oracle 8i CD

2002-10-29 Thread oracle prep
can someone provide me with a link to get a oracle 8i CD ? there was one available from the oracle store for around $40 (for 8i). i don't find that link there any more. __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/

Re: sqlplus /nolog

2002-10-29 Thread chao_ping
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=002_Dragon805267761306_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="GB2312" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Daiminger, Helmut=A3=AC=C4=FA=BA=C3=A3=A1 =A1=A1=A1=A1It is used when you want to do it in your shell script, or $sqlpl

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