Re: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-07 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hi Tim We just signed a contract for external storage system from EMC and the configuration is going to be: Regular servers - connect as Nas Database servers - connect as San. If I remember correctly Nas use SCSI connections while San use fiber. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message -

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-07 Thread Mark Leith
Sounds fair enough to me.. ;) -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 November 2002 18:55 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L That reminds me: Mark, your annual stipend is due. Make it a case of Glenmorangie this time, Sherry finish. :) Jared [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: End of Communication Channel Error

2002-11-07 Thread Markus Reger
take a look at your kernel params - may be there is not sufficient segment space kr mr [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/01/02 21:20 PM Forget this. Found the error. WARNING: EINVAL creating segment of size 0x0a086000 fix shm parameters in /etc/system or equivalent -Original Message-

RE: Oracle to Excel

2002-11-07 Thread Steve . Parker
This is how I do it: 1)Set-up an ODBC data source using either the Oracle or MS ODBC driver. 2)In Excel, use the Date-Get External Data menu option 3)Specify the ODBC driver 4)In the Wizard, select the table columns, where and sort or Untick the box and use MS Query where you can

Re: SQL Brain Teaser Challenge

2002-11-07 Thread Jared Still
Note 1009345.6 on MetaLink provides a solution similar to the one proposed with an index. Jared On Tuesday 05 November 2002 09:24, Orr, Steve wrote: Challenge: present SQL results hierarchically and sort the nodes. Use sort column without changing data. Here's the DDL/DML to start: create

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
just don't slip in that 32 year old Macallans! that one is MINE :) --- Mark Leith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds fair enough to me.. ;) -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 November 2002 18:55 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L That reminds me: Mark, your

SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now?

2002-11-07 Thread Denham Eva
Title: SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now? Hello Guru's I have run a script which indicates that of the three redo log latches two had occurences of sleeps. To overcome this usually you increase SPIN_COUNT by 50% or so. When trying to ALTER SYSTEM SET SPIN_COUNT = 3000; Present system is

Re: SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now?

2002-11-07 Thread Stephane Faroult
Denham Eva wrote: Hello Guru's I have run a script which indicates that of the three redo log latches two had occurences of sleeps. To overcome this usually you increase SPIN_COUNT by 50% or so. When trying to ALTER SYSTEM SET SPIN_COUNT = 3000; Present system is set as 2000. I get

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-07 Thread Mark Leith
Oh no, I wouldn't dream of it! That is being saved for your up and coming UK tour :) It's matured even more now as well.. ;) -Original Message- Carmichael Sent: 07 November 2002 10:59 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L just don't slip in that 32 year old Macallans! that one is

RE: SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now?

2002-11-07 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
Eva, the spin_count parameter became _spin_count in 8i. I believe that because it's a hidden parameter it's now not possible to change it using ALTER SYSTEM. Regards, Mike Hately -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 11:33 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Oracle to Excel

2002-11-07 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: Oracle to Excel Laura, Sorry about that - instead of using chr(10), use chr(09). (10) is line feed. (09) is tab. also - don't forget to : set trimspool on - it gets rid of trailing spaces! good luck! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original

RE: Shared_pool

2002-11-07 Thread Govind . Arumugam
Jos, select value from v$parameter where name='shared_pool_size' will tell you the size of the shared pool; select * from v$sgastat where name like '%free%' and pool like '%shared%' will tell you how is free. Then you can calculate the percentage free. Hope this helps. Govind -Original

Re: SQL Brain Teaser Challenge

2002-11-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
based on the date it was written, that was before hints were available for use. so it makes sense to include the dummy comparison to the indexed column in the where clause as described in the note. You mean Oracle sometimes thinks of these things BEFORE we do? nah! --- Jared Still [EMAIL

Re: SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now?

2002-11-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
there is a point at which you begin to tune for the sake of tuning and not because you are relieving a problem. if you are not getting reports of performance problems, why are you trying to fix it? the old adage if it ain't broke, don't fix it applies here. --- Denham Eva [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now?

2002-11-07 Thread Denham Eva
Title: RE: SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now? Already running on 100% caffeine_level saturation :) Maybe your right, the contention could be elsewhere, the other issue I have been investigating is LGWR process? With increasing the LOG_BUFFER from 512 to a Meg in size, as I have at times very

Out of procee memory problem ..

2002-11-07 Thread Satyendra K Khare
This is the error message come whenever a process run in which number of rows inserted into a big table (~1400 rows/min), and when this process (called from forms) inserted around 4,50,000 entries in the table it fails and flushes the following message: ORA-04030 Out of Process memory when trying

full exp/imp of user to new tablespace; same user

2002-11-07 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: full exp/imp of user to new tablespace; same user I have a full export of user to where I need to import all his objects/grants but into a NEW tablespace. What's the easiest way I can assure that ~everything~ is imported. Will I need to use a combination of INDEXFILE and other

RE: Out of procee memory problem ..

2002-11-07 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: Out of procee memory problem .. what is 4,50,000 ? -Original Message- From: Satyendra K Khare [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 8:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Out of procee memory problem .. This is the error

Re: full exp/imp of user to new tablespace; same user

2002-11-07 Thread Stephane Faroult
Markham, Richard wrote: I have a full export of user to where I need to import all his objects/grants but into a NEW tablespace. What's the easiest way I can assure that ~everything~ is imported. Will I need to use a combination of INDEXFILE and other procedures or will a full export;

RE: SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now?

2002-11-07 Thread Denham Eva
Title: RE: SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now? Ouch! :) Rachel, It's not a case of me looking for problems. I was surprised to find this occuring so maybe doing something about it would improve the system alittle. I am looking into the redo log performance because I am unsure that the

RE: Out of procee memory problem ..

2002-11-07 Thread Darshan Singh
Hi, This is a bug in Oracle. Apply a latest patch on it. Regards Darshan Singh -Original Message- Khare Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This is the error message come whenever a process run in which number of rows inserted into a big

Re: Out of procee memory problem ..

2002-11-07 Thread Ray Stell
version of oracle? On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 05:33:59AM -0800, Satyendra K Khare wrote: This is the error message come whenever a process run in which number of rows inserted into a big table (~1400 rows/min), and when this process (called from forms) inserted around 4,50,000 entries in

RE: SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now?

2002-11-07 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
Eva, just to correct myself from my earlier post it's entirely possible to set _spin_count using ALTER SYSTEM. It may be a sensible measure to try if you're having serious contention issues. Steve Adams has some 'spin_count' scripts that you might find useful at

RE: full exp/imp of user to new tablespace; same user

2002-11-07 Thread Magaliff, Bill
Title: full exp/imp of user to new tablespace; same user Richard: if all of the objects are going into a single tablespace, make sure that new user has default tablespace set properly to the new TS and that s/he has a proper quota on that TS (I start with UNLIMITED). Also, make sure that

RE: Oracle to Excel

2002-11-07 Thread Burton, Laura L.
Title: Oracle to Excel Thank you so much!! This works like a charm. Laura -Original Message- From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 6:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Oracle to Excel Laura,

RE: Out of procee memory problem ..

2002-11-07 Thread M Rafiq
450,000 rows (four hundred and fifty thousands) In Indian subcontinent it is written as 4 lacs 50 thousands where 1 lac(lakh most commonly used) is equal to one hundred thousands... Hope this will calrify. The person who put his problem was from India. Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL

RE: SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now?

2002-11-07 Thread Jack van Zanen
Title: RE: SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now? log_buffer has nothing to do with log switches. Just with checkpointing and some other things I can't think of right now. Size of online redo logfiles does. Jack -Original Message-From: Denham Eva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent:

RE: full exp/imp of user to new tablespace; same user

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Lee
-Original Message- I have a full export of user to where I need to import all his objects/grants but into a NEW tablespace. What's the easiest way I can assure that ~everything~ is imported. Will I need to use a combination of INDEXFILE and other procedures or will a full export;

RE: SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now?

2002-11-07 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now? additional factors: log_checkpoint_timeoutlog_checkpoint_intervalfast_start_io_target90% size of smallest redo log alter system checkpoint -Original Message-From: Jack van Zanen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, November

RE: SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now?

2002-11-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Denham, Sorry, I didn't mean to make you wince! It's just a case of seeing way too many DBAs spending way too much time tuning things that really aren't a problem. Cary Millsap talks about this often. Find the business problem and tune that. It's possible that something that shows up as very

RE: SQL Brain Teaser Challenge

2002-11-07 Thread Orr, Steve
Thanks Kevin, good to hear from you. As usual you're Johnie on spot with TFM. It's interesting that this can be overcome with the inline view technique posted earlier by Raj. Steve -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 5:23 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: full exp/imp of user to new tablespace; same user

2002-11-07 Thread Jack van Zanen
Title: full exp/imp of user to new tablespace; same user Extra security could be to give zero quota on other tablespaces. -Original Message-From: Markham, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: donderdag 7 november 2002 14:59To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject:

Space management failures on autoextend datafiles

2002-11-07 Thread Fink, Dan
I have a 9.2 database running on Solaris 8. I'm creating some test tables with indexes. The USER_INDX tablespace's datafile is set to autoextend (as are TEMP and USER_DATA). When the system attempts to create indexes, instead of auotextending the datafile (there is plenty of space on the

RE: full exp/imp of user to new tablespace; same user

2002-11-07 Thread Mark Leith
And if all else fails (not that the advice already given will!), we have a tool that can manipulate the DDL for the users objects VERY quickly and easily, through a rule based change (e.g. Modify ALL tables storage clauses within USERS schema to TABLESPACE):

RE: SQL Brain Teaser Challenge

2002-11-07 Thread Orr, Steve
Hey Jared, just got this because I was on a 4X10 day off yesterday. Anyway, thanks for the info. There was lots of great discussion on this and I appreciate the collective brain power of the list. Proposed solutions: 1) upgrade to Oracle 9i and use an inline view; 2) use a hint; 3) use indexes on

why is this happening

2002-11-07 Thread Leonard, George
The following query is causing the following error ERROR at line 1: ORA-03232: unable to allocate an extent of 22 blocks from tablespace 3 select count(l.processid) from tmslog l, tmslogtimeout t where l.processid = t.processid and l.statifiedflag='Y' and t.processcompleteflag='Y' Tablespace

RE: Space management failures on autoextend datafiles

2002-11-07 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
Dan, is your datafile approaching (or past) the maxsize setting? AUTOEXTEND functionality won't grow a file beyond this but I believe it's possible to manuallly resize the file beyond the MAXSIZE figure. That would explain the apparent anomaly. regards, Mike Hately -Original Message-

CLOB inserts

2002-11-07 Thread Miller, Jay
One of my developers is testing a process that reads a CLOB, modifies it, and inserts it to another table. The reading and modifying goes very quickly, but the inserts take a long time. Looking at the main Wait Events I'm seeing a lot of direct path read (lob) and direct path write (lob) which

RE: Space management failures on autoextend datafiles

2002-11-07 Thread Paulo Gomes
never heard on this problem but are u sure table the temp tablespace of the user executing the commeand is temp and not user_indx??? regards Paulo -Original Message-From: Fink, Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: quinta-feira, 7 de Novembro de 2002 15:39To: Multiple

Re: Space management failures on autoextend datafiles

2002-11-07 Thread Igor Neyman
I've heard about the same problem yesterday (while attending Ann Arbor OUG conference), unfortunately - no solution, I think, they opened TAR. BTW, it was very good conference, great presentations by Jonathan Lewis. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message -

RE: full exp/imp of user to new tablespace; same user

2002-11-07 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: full exp/imp of user to new tablespace; same user well now I can say I'm spoiled. I was given more than enough information to to accomplish the task (done) and a new tool to boot! =) Thanks alot everyone. -Original Message- From: Mark Leith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: SQL Brain Teaser Challenge

2002-11-07 Thread Mark Leith
To add another point, somebody else (the thread is too long for this lazy git to go back and search who! ;P) mentioned that the access plans *could* change if #3 were the solution you go for - however this can be overcome with the use of stored outlines.. my 2 pence :) Mark -Original

Re: Space management failures on autoextend datafiles

2002-11-07 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hi Paulo When creating an index, or CTAS, oracle use temp segments while building and rename them after the build finish. So if you do not have enough space you will get: unable to allocate TEMP segment. Yechiel AdarMehish - Original Message - From: Paulo Gomes To:

RE: SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now?

2002-11-07 Thread Cary Millsap
Thanks Rachel. For Denham: Changing SPIN_COUNT from its default value is usually a Very Bad Thing. Your sleeps are caused by lots of competition for one or more latches. The best way to stop those sleeps from impacting response time is to cut out the unnecessary competition. Because of how we're

RE: System Tablespace and Autoextend

2002-11-07 Thread Miller, Jay
I've been running with autoextend on (though limited to 2Gig) and never had a problem. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 5:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I run my SYSTEM tablesaces in autoextend, and have for some time. I run them that way from the

RE: SQL Brain Teaser Challenge

2002-11-07 Thread Madhavan Amruthur
Hi Steve/Jared, It was coincidence that just when Steve posted this we were trying to flatten the hierarchy and PL/SQL was the only option and I was doing some reserach and stumbled upon this parameter and then I used to it to generate output using the sys_connect_by_path and then all I had to do

shareplex core dumps - help

2002-11-07 Thread Ji, Richard
Hi all, We are having a shareplex issue and I am hoping someone here with shareplex knowledge can help me out. I don't know much about shareplex. Basically we are replicating to a target table which is partitioned by date. And partitions that are 3 days old will be set to read-only because

RE: SQL Brain Teaser Challenge

2002-11-07 Thread Orr, Steve
And surprise, surprise... per Metalink, OWS is unwilling to support the undocumented parameter approach. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 9:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L To add another point, somebody else (the thread is too long for this lazy git

RE: suggestion w/c platforms to choose from...

2002-11-07 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Grace - Well if they want to build all you mentioned in-house, order taking , purchase order and accounting module,hr then I wouldn't worry too much about server sizing because it'll take them forever to get all that done. Well, I just couldn't avoid tossing that remark in, please excuse it.

RE: SharePlex core dumps - help

2002-11-07 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: SharePlex core dumps - help Call Quest Software technical support. They will be more than happy to help you. I think there is already a patch out to fix this. Just call 1-800-306-9329 and once you speak with an operator, ask to place a support call for SharePlex. Nick

RE: Space management failures on autoextend datafiles

2002-11-07 Thread Fink, Dan
Igor and Yechiel, Thanks for the responses. I'm glad to hear that I am not the only one experiencing the problem. I should have also mentioned that the tablespace is LMT with autoallocate and is nowhere near the max size. Dan Fink -Original Message-From: Yechiel Adar

TEMP/RBS LMTs (was: Convert TEMP tablespace...)

2002-11-07 Thread Jesse, Rich
10M temp TS? You must have quite a nicely controlled working environment, Jared! ;) But your example does bring up a question: For TEMP and RBS LMTs, does the Goldilocks Rule (128K/4M/128M uniform extents, post version 7.x) follow? I had created my TEMP and RBS with 1MB uniform before knowing

RE: System Tablespace and Autoextend

2002-11-07 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
FWIW I'd go with Dennis here. I don't like AUTOEXTEND on the SYSTEM tablespace. (In fact I'm not overenamoured of AUTOEXTEND on any datfile, except maybe on dev and sandbox databases). If the SYSTEM tablespace isn't used for rollbacks (apart from the SYSTEM rollback) or temporary segments and the

Re: Space management failures on autoextend datafiles

2002-11-07 Thread Igor Neyman
Dan, That's exactly, what someone described yesterday, it was LMT with autoallocate, and they made sure, that there was plenty of space on the hard drive for TEMP file to grow. The only difference: it was not Solaris - it was AIX. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original

Metrics server

2002-11-07 Thread Mac Isaac, John
I'm asking this for my counterpart he posted it on the message board, I'm seeing if we can get abetter responce from the mailing list We currently have oracle applications 11.5.7 installed on a single node. A secondary server has been setup to run the forms. Metrics server and client have been

RE: System Tablespace and Autoextend

2002-11-07 Thread Kip . Bryant
I use AUTOEXTEND and it has been extremely helpful to me in managing growth. However, my policy is not to use autoextend for SYSTEM, rollback tablespace, or temp tablespace. SYSTEM (for me) is relatively stable. The only time I have significant growth in SYSTEM is during an upgrade. For

RE: Convert TEMP tablespace from datafiles to tempfiles

2002-11-07 Thread Hand, Michael T
Jesse, I did the same thing last week on our sandbox system using the method others have prescribed. There is a note 140913.1 covering a LMT bug in 8.1.6. under OpenVMS. You might want to double check to make sure no equivalent problem exists on your platform. Ron, As Jared pointed out, it's

When will Oracle 10i be out?

2002-11-07 Thread Pall, Tom [Contractor]
Has anyone heard when Oracle will be releasing version 10i? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Pall, Tom [Contractor] INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing

RE: shareplex core dumps - help

2002-11-07 Thread Cunningham, Gerald
Sounds like a bug. If SharePlex gets an error applying SQL to the target, the table should get marked out-of-sync and Shareplex should go on it's merry way. Call Shareplex Support - they are usually very responsive. - Jerry -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 11:35 AM

RE: When will Oracle 10i be out?

2002-11-07 Thread Wong, Bing
I heard that the white paper has not yet been published internally... -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Has anyone heard when Oracle will be releasing version 10i? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: System Tablespace and Autoextend

2002-11-07 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: System Tablespace and Autoextend I have read complaints about SYS.IDL% objects having PCTINCREASE 50 and space problems when they extend, in the forums. I went to check and mine are already set to 0 along with 2147483645 MAXEXTENTS. I created a TAR and verified with Oracle that

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-07 Thread Miller, Jay
FWIW, what we just implemented (because senior management refuses to approve additional storage on the grounds that making the database larger will affect performance - aaargh!) is 1) Confirmed with business how long data needs to be online for various tables (they're all partitioned so that

RE: When will Oracle 10i be out?

2002-11-07 Thread Rick_Cale
Actually what I have heard is that nothing has been published externally. Oracle recommends to contact sales rep on info concerning future releases Rick Wong, Bing

Re: When will Oracle 10i be out?

2002-11-07 Thread Igor Neyman
Are you done with 9i? :-) Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 1:09 PM Has anyone heard when Oracle will be releasing version 10i? -- Please see the official

RE: When will Oracle 10i be out?

2002-11-07 Thread Sunil_Nookala
The day we all finish upgrading our databases to 9i. Sunil Nookala DBA Dell Corp. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Has anyone heard when Oracle will be releasing version 10i? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-07 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Jay, just make sure you are not around when, after several Oracle upgrades, and they want to import one of these files back that they discover that the current release of import can no longer read the older version of the .dmp file. now what are these senior damagers going to do? blame the DBA,

Re: TEMP/RBS LMTs (was: Convert TEMP tablespace...)

2002-11-07 Thread Jared Still
10M? Hardly. That was just a test script to make sure the syntax was correct. 10m just happens to be created very quickly. The sort_area_size equal or be a multiple of your TEMP extent size. Jared On Thursday 07 November 2002 09:18, Jesse, Rich wrote: 10M temp TS? You must have quite a

Re:RE: When will Oracle 10i be out?

2002-11-07 Thread dgoulet
Heck, Would you people kindly give some of us time to get fully up on 8i first!! Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11/7/2002 11:08 AM The day we all finish upgrading our databases to 9i. Sunil Nookala DBA Dell Corp.

Oracle crash produces no logs or dumps

2002-11-07 Thread Tom Hetrick
Greetings all - I've had 3 of the several databases I run crash in the past 2 months without producing any logs or dumps. I have BACKGROUND_DUMP_DEST, etc. set. What else can I set so that Oracle is more verbose when it encounters a problem? For instance, today, some users filled up the

RE: Convert TEMP tablespace from datafiles to tempfiles

2002-11-07 Thread Ron Rogers
Mike, Perhaps the reason that I was confused is that I did not phrase the question correctly. If you create a tablespace to be used as the temporary tablespace for users and create it as type temporary ( segments used by implicit sorts to handle order by clause) you can not use the LMT clauses.

RE: RE: When will Oracle 10i be out?

2002-11-07 Thread Adams, Matthew (GECP, MABG, 088130)
Title: RE: RE: When will Oracle 10i be out? 8i? You luck dog. I'm still trying to get about 15 systems up to 7.3 (from 7.2) Matt Adams - GE Appliances - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002

RE: Space management failures on autoextend datafiles

2002-11-07 Thread Fink, Dan
I just manually expanded the file and the index build finished with no problem. I also set the USER_DATA ts as autoextend and it extended several times without error. The only difference is in the fact that the INDEX segment is initially created as a TEMP segment. Interesting

RE: Issue on disaster recovery

2002-11-07 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: RE: When will Oracle 10i be out? Guys, To save time we thought we could simply copy Oracle from one host with version Solaris 2.8 to another host with version 2.6. The error we are getting is: ld.so.1: svrmgrl: fatal: libgen.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory Killed

Changing column format

2002-11-07 Thread Nguyen, David M
I create a table to store user account information and set userid column to be primary key. I now want to set username to be primary key instead of userid, how do I change it? There are couple hundreds of records in table. Please advise. Thanks, David -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: Issue on disaster recovery

2002-11-07 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Paula - When you say you copied Oracle from one host to another, what do you mean? Did you copy the Oracle data files or the Oracle binaries? I am not familiar with those two Solaris versions, and you didn't say which Oracle version this is, but you might check the certification matrix to make

RE: Issue on disaster recovery

2002-11-07 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: RE: When will Oracle 10i be out? I tried a relink and I think that fixed it. -Original Message-From: Stankus, Paula G Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:18 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: Issue on disaster recovery Guys, To save time we thought

RE: Issue on disaster recovery

2002-11-07 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Issue on disaster recovery It was Solaris 2.8 to Solaris 2.6 and I copied the Oracle binaries and datafiles for one database a small one. It does save time and relinking did seem to resolve the issue as relinking with the new version of Solaris caused Oracle to point to the correct

RE: Changing column format

2002-11-07 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
David - First, export the table the way it is now. Next, what are the end-user implications of this change? Are users querying this? Adding/changing records? Do you have applications that depend on this that must be changed at the same time? The simple answer is to alter table drop primary key,

RE: Space management failures on autoextend datafiles

2002-11-07 Thread Fink, Dan
Update... I tried the same test with 8.1.7 on Solaris 8. Same result... -Original Message-From: Fink, Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 1:09 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Space management failures on autoextend

Re: Changing column format

2002-11-07 Thread Stephane Faroult
Nguyen, David M wrote: I create a table to store user account information and set userid column to be primary key. I now want to set username to be primary key instead of userid, how do I change it? There are couple hundreds of records in table. Please advise. Thanks, David David,

HOW TO FIND FREQUNT OBJECT ACCESS

2002-11-07 Thread Seema Singh
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RE: Can any one tell me how can i read parameter info from RDF(Re

2002-11-07 Thread Miller, Jay
You'll have to open the report using Oracle Developer (Reports). If it is on Unix I usually ftp it to my local workstation and open it there. Jay Miller x48355 -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 1:13 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L definition file) Can

RE: Changing column format

2002-11-07 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: Changing column format David, I suggest that you don't. There are many Jim Jones in the world. How are you going to handle that? Is this field really your primary key and related to other tables or do you just need to make sure there are no duplicate names? If so, create a

CPU Problem

2002-11-07 Thread Hamid Alavi
Hi List, We are facing with some CPU problem (cpu 100% usage!), Just want to get some idea from you guys, any clue what can cause this problem: Here is a copy of some part of ora.ini This happen during usage of some long query with subquery, this can be the cause of problem or just some wrong

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-07 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Thomas, Jay Here is my thought for your consideration, evisceration. A fundamental principle of backup and recovery is that you can only consider a backup to be good if you've tested a recovery. Why not apply this principle to data archiving? In other words, when you upgrade to a new Oracle

RE: Space management failures on autoextend datafiles

2002-11-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
maybe temp segments don't cause an autoextend? at least it's consistent --- Fink, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Update... I tried the same test with 8.1.7 on Solaris 8. Same result... -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 1:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Changing column format

2002-11-07 Thread Fink, Dan
David, First, check the username column to insure that there are no duplicate entries. If there are, you cannot make it a primary key. Second, remove the current primary key constraint as there can only be one primary key constraint per table. Third, create the new primary

RE: Clone Production Server to Stand by Server on 8.1.7 on Win 2k

2002-11-07 Thread Miller, Jay
You don't need to rebuild when a datafile is added. Once the recovery fails you just issue the create datafile command on the standby. Jay Miller -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 12:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L 2k First off, your process is doing a

RE: Changing column format

2002-11-07 Thread Burton, Laura L.
Title: RE: Changing column format 1. Backup Table 2. ALTER TABLE user DROP PRIMARY KEY CASCADE; This will drop the constraint and delete all foreign key relationships to userid. 3. ALTER TABLE user ADD CONSTRAINT username_pk PRIMARY KEY (username) USING INDEX TABLESPACE USER_INDEX; This

Re: Changing column format

2002-11-07 Thread Ron Rogers
David, You can alter table drop constraint to get rid of the current pk and then create a new one using the column you desire. Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/07/02 03:33PM I create a table to store user account information and set userid column to be primary key. I now want to set username to be

Re: Changing column format

2002-11-07 Thread Viral Desai
David Try this... alter table tablename drop primary key; alter table tablename add constraint tbl_pkey primary key (username ); Viral From: "Nguyen, David M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Changing column

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2002-11-07 Thread oraclegeek
Hello fokls. First, I do not and have never worked for Oracle. I thought I'd show you some funny and interesting comments from the Oracle source tree that I've been made privy to. Here is today's installment. /* retch, gag, choke. If this bit is off, oracle doesn't break/reset

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-07 Thread Miller, Jay
Well, if worst comes to worst we can always install an earlier version on a box and import it there. But the reason we can't get more storage approved still has me shaking my head... -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: CPU Problem

2002-11-07 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Hamid - Does the system performance become sluggish for other users during this time? My offhand guess is that the subquery is repeatedly scanning data blocks it has loaded in memory. Have you used EXPLAIN PLAN? Can you run STATSPACK during this situation? Or if you find it easier, examine

RE: TEMP/RBS LMTs (was: Convert TEMP tablespace...)

2002-11-07 Thread Jesse, Rich
Does the SORT_AREA_SIZE not being a multiple of TEMP extent size have that much impact if disk sorts are only 0.03% (3/100ths of 1 percent) of total sorts? My numbers are according to V$SYSSTAT. What resource is affected? Disk? Memory? CPU? Beer? Rich Rich Jesse

RE: Clone Production Server to Stand by Server on 8.1.7 on Win 2k

2002-11-07 Thread Mr Tomasino
Right. Stand-by is exactly what you are trying to simulate. The archive logs will reproduce 99% of what happens in the production environment. In addition, it will provide for a quicker recovery. AT From: Miller, Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients

RE: Changing column format

2002-11-07 Thread Donahue, Adam
Title: RE: Changing column format I believe "username" herewould be a unique identifier. In most systems, username must be unique (at least within a particular domain). If yours is a single domain system, David, then having two Jim Joneses would not be the problem. There is another, more

Re: CPU Problem

2002-11-07 Thread Stephane Faroult
Hamid Alavi wrote: Hi List, We are facing with some CPU problem (cpu 100% usage!), Just want to get some idea from you guys, any clue what can cause this problem: Here is a copy of some part of ora.ini This happen during usage of some long query with subquery, this can be the cause of

Re: HOW TO FIND FREQUNT OBJECT ACCESS

2002-11-07 Thread Ora NT DBA
Hi Seema, V$db_object_cache has a column called executions. John Seema Singh wrote: Hi How to check which are those functions/procedures/packages etc applications are using more frequntly? THx -Seema _ Protect your PC - get

OT: Oracle Embraces the Grid

2002-11-07 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
http://computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,75700,00.html Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: MacGregor, Ian A. INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services--

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