Re: tracing error stack - finding the cause of a ORA-00917 error

2002-12-21 Thread Jonathan Lewis
You might want to look at dbms_system.set_ev Parameters: sid serial event number level event name -- leave null in your case . Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming soon a new one-day tutorial: Cost Based Optimisation (see

Re: Row cache locks on INSERTs with a sequence

2002-12-21 Thread Jonathan Lewis
On the information as supplied you are correct, the sequence does seem to be the most likely problem. It has occurred to me, though, that the original poster showed us a couple of lines from v$session_wait - without showing the STATE (or is it STATUS) column. It is a common error to assume that

Re: TNSPING another question

2002-12-21 Thread Justin Cave
At 12:28 PM 12/20/2002, John Shaw wrote: It's probably in the fine manual somewhere - but I haven't found it yet From my pc: I can ping the IP address of the server and response time is 10 ms ping the name of the server and response time is 10 ms tnsping of IP is 10 ms but tnsping of the name is

RE: Happy Holidays!!

2002-12-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
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RE: Happy Holidays!!

2002-12-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
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help me find out why rac instance died

2002-12-21 Thread chao_ping
Hi, I have a rac 9.2.0.2 Database running on RedHat AS2.1,it has been up and running for about 4 monthes(One month ago, i patched it to 9202). Last night, one instance died unexpectedly,while another instance still running.Though not much business is affected, I want to know why it died, But i

RE: help me find out why rac instance died

2002-12-21 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Hi Chao: THe Instance 2 in your Cluster (rac2) was dead during the fast reconfiguration (Check the reason in the alert log file.. which says reason 2). You generally do a reconfig (or fast reconfig) when you add/remove instances from the Cluster setup, which is not (I hope) in your case. THere

Re: Cardinality of indexed columns... how to discover? What is the ma

2002-12-21 Thread Connor McDonald
(Even if you have seen an article in Oracle Magazine that might suggest otherwise). Cheeky :-) --- Jonathan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The answer to the question you asked is to check the dba_indexes view for columns distinct_keys and num_rows. HOWEVER - It is not sensible to

RE: password

2002-12-21 Thread From
If this were to be used as a serious security tool, you would be better off studying some of the well known password crackers and duplicating the algorithms in PL/SQL. Sounds like a project to add to my todo list. Actually it's one I've had on the backburner for some time. This can also be

RE: password

2002-12-21 Thread From
why isn't there a program available that can reverse engineer the code used to encrypt passwords... if username XYZ always has password (encrypted) CBA, you think that it would be easy to figure out the pattern... once you have the pattern it's easy to go back and forth with the

RE: Row cache locks on INSERTs with a sequence

2002-12-21 Thread Cary Millsap
It is a common error to assume that v$session_wait is showing a wait time - however if the STATE is __not__ WAITING then the SECONDS_IN_WAIT column is the time since the last wait ended. It's actually the time since the last wait *began*, right? Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd.

Fwd: RE: 9i / 9iRAC : Segment_Space_Management AUTO, with LOB

2002-12-21 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Ian, Could you explain how ASSM could be detrimental in a single instance environment ? Vivek, Could you provide details on the issues [BugNos, description of the problem, your findings] you had with ASSM in 9iRAC ? Hemant At 07:09 AM 19-12-02 -0800, you wrote: As part of a RAC benchmark with