Re: log file sync Wait

2003-01-02 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
First of all I'd like to have the full picture of your performance: Log file sync might be 57% of the wait time, but how much of the response time is wait time? Second, Log File Sync means Commit; So if your system is waiting a lot for commits there are two things you can do: Fewer commits

how to update rbs?

2003-01-02 Thread Jim
I want to change TRANSACTIONS_PER_ROLLBACK_SEGMENT default parameters of rbs segments. but i don't know where this parameter is, how can i deal with it? Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-01-02 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: log file sync Wait

2003-01-02 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
Yes, the lessons I took from that presentation were to use a shorter piece of string and buy larger bottles of gin though I'm willing to admit that I may have got the wrong end of the stick. =) Cheers, Mike -Original Message- Sent: 02 January 2003 09:24 To: Multiple recipients of list

New year humor

2003-01-02 Thread Yechiel Adar
Landing at Ben Gurion Airport... So True!!! As the plane settled down at Ben Gurion airport, the voice of the Captain came on: Please remain seated with your seatbelt fastened until this plane is at a complete standstill and the seat belt signs have been turned off. To those of you standing

Re: Excessive Redo Generation

2003-01-02 Thread Rachel Carmichael
what makes you think you have excessive redo being generated? What does the application do? How many changes are made daily? How frequently? Just because a tablespaces is locally managed does not mean there will be no redo generated when a change is made, it just means that there will be less

Re: Invoker-rights/definer-rights response from Oracle Development

2003-01-02 Thread Jonathan Lewis
A point that Paul Needham could have mentioned - if an application user can execute the packaged procedure to set the role, then a malicious user could log in from SQL*Plus and do exactly the same. This is just security through obscurity. I believe a significant driver in the concept of an

Re: Free Shared pool memory

2003-01-02 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I think it's safe to say that if the free memory is always very large then you can reinterpret it as 'wasted memory'. If the free memory is alway very small, I don't think it is possible to make any decision without know the application. It is possible that you need to increase the shared pool

Re: log file sync Wait

2003-01-02 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Usual caveat: looking a v$system_event can be very misleading, you need to examine v$session_event to determine if anyone is actually noticing a problem. Usual caveat 2: A statspack report without a time interval is almost meaningless. However, in this case, log file

Re: Excessive Redo Generation

2003-01-02 Thread Jonathan Lewis
How are you deciding that you are generating excessive redo ? What is excessive for 1,500 concurrent users in a banking operation ? Using log miner to examine the problem sounds like a very painful last resort. Have you taken snapshots of session stats to try and pin down any patterns to redo

RE: log file sync Wait

2003-01-02 Thread Connor McDonald
Obviously you weren't listening attentively enough. The main thing you should have gleaned from the presentation was that if you bash an ugly squirrel with a hammer hard enough, then ... its still an ugly squirrel :-) Cheers Connor --- Hately, Mike (NESL-IT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: how to update rbs?

2003-01-02 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
It's a normal init.ora parameter. Why do you want to change it? Mogens Jim wrote: I want to change TRANSACTIONS_PER_ROLLBACK_SEGMENT default parameters of rbs segments. but i don't know where this parameter is, how can i deal with it? Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: ORA-1410 Silliness Vladimir, Thanks for your reply. I have tested the cursor. It does not include any bind variables. There are no broken rowids, as all objects passed analyze ... validate structure cascade. I also tested the scenario you describe in your code below. The code

RE: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: ORA-1410 Silliness Hi Waleed, No. This is the name of the package. Thanks Lisa -Original Message-From: Khedr, Waleed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 3:04 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: ORA-1410 Silliness I see

Re: log file sync Wait

2003-01-02 Thread chao_ping
VIVEK_SHARMA, Hi, can you try use raw device for those redo log files? or use directio mode for your redo log volume.This do not need bounce your database and you can change it on fly. I ever hit the same problem before, and finally we modified the app to do much

RE: log file sync Wait

2003-01-02 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
I was sensible enough to sit in the front row so I was soon distracted. Cheers Mike -Original Message- Sent: 02 January 2003 12:29 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Obviously you weren't listening attentively enough. The main thing you should have gleaned from the presentation

RE: Different Oracle clients give different results

2003-01-02 Thread Rick_Cale
Oracle says this is intended behavior for desc function just more rigorously enforced in later versions. I am still skeptical as desc works in 8.1.6 svrmgrl. Perhaps enforced in sqlplus but not svrmgr...too many inconsistencies. Thanks Rick

RE: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: ORA-1410 Silliness Lisa, This is probably nottrue ... Oracle doesn't, has never been able to pinpoint exact line number (in cases such as these) especially with pl/sql packages. I believe the problems can be found by executing following query ... select line, type, source from

doubt

2003-01-02 Thread JayK
Dear all, we use select * from tab to list all objects in a particular user in oracle. could you tell me the equivalent query in sql server ? Regards Jai

Re: log file sync Wait

2003-01-02 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
That was my understanding, too. Oh, and use bigger hammers, more nails and Australian beer. Hately, Mike (NESL-IT) wrote: Yes, the lessons I took from that presentation were to use a shorter piece of string and buy larger bottles of gin though I'm willing to admit that I may have got the

functions/procedures and commits

2003-01-02 Thread John Dunn
Under what circumstances is a COMMIT done implicitly? If I call a function or procedure that performs an insert, but does not do a commit, will a commit be implicitly performed when the function ends? i.e. is ... begin INSERT INTO ... etc. end; the same as

RE: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Nope... -Original Message-From: ora ak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 4:54 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: ORA-1410 Silliness Did u do any migration recently . "Koivu, Lisa" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I

RE: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: ORA-1410 Silliness Lisa, I know someone else may have suggested this, but I am thinking that maybe you do need to rebuild the index that was being used by the query. It could be you have a bad index that still has an entry for a record, but the record does not exist? Sounds

RE: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: ORA-1410 Silliness Amount of data, definately. This table grows by ~2.5GB weekly. Have you ever seen data volume begin to cause problems? Thanks Rachel -Original Message- From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 5:05 PM To:

RE: doubt

2003-01-02 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
In Query Analyzer select the database if interest and then run EXEC SP_HELP (really, this is not a joke) ;o) It will list system and user objects within that DB. Dave -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:04

Re: Free Shared pool memory

2003-01-02 Thread Tim Gorman
Sorry for being so vague, but sometimes I can't help it... It was my understanding in the Oracle7 days that the name of thestatistic "free memory"was actuallya verb and a noun (i.e. as in "free Nelson Mandela"or "free Willy"), and the number shown alongside this statistic was the

RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared As far as we know there is no bandwidth limit on this list and problems can be understood better if you state them in a lucid and clear language. I had to really read twice (sorry haven't had my Great One yet) to understand the

Re: how to update rbs?

2003-01-02 Thread Tim Gorman
What you are referring to is an initialization parameter that is utilized by the mechanism of PUBLIC rollback segments. The default type of rollback segment is PRIVATE and they ignore the parameter. You are most likely utilizing PRIVATE rollback segments... Do you know what problem you are

Re: functions/procedures and commits

2003-01-02 Thread Rachel Carmichael
if I recall correctly, implicit commits are done a) on a clean exit from sqlplus b) on a clean exit from a stored program c) if you do a DDL statement after the DML statement but this is from memory and without checking manuals. --- John Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under what

RE: functions/procedures and commits

2003-01-02 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: functions/procedures and commits No ... an implicit commit is performed 1. If you perform any DDL statement 2. If SQLPLUS you exit without issuing an explicit ROLLBACK. Otherwise, your transaction will remain open awaiting for an explicit commit or rollback. Raj

RE: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Title: ORA-1410 Silliness Is the error reproducible if you replace the bulk insert with regular insert? Waleed -Original Message-From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:14 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE:

RE: functions/procedures and commits

2003-01-02 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
John, there is no such thing as an implicit commit within Oracle. the only implicit commit that I know of is during a sqlplus session when you exit the program. even this is settable by a sqlplus option. distributed transactions that are controlled by a transaction coordinator (like MS DTC)

Re: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Babu Nagarajan
Title: ORA-1410 Silliness Lisa I dont recollect exactly but I think I have seen this happen when you start getting too close to the max_open_cursor limit... something like Oracle cant open a cursor as it is at the max limit and a fetch call might be issued.. Checkyr max_open_cursor limit

Re:RE: functions/procedures and commits

2003-01-02 Thread dgoulet
Tom, Correction, all DDL statements do an implicit commit. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Mercadante; Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 1/2/2003 7:09 AM John, there is no such thing as an implicit commit within Oracle. the only implicit

Re: Buffer Pool Testing

2003-01-02 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I think you are seeing expected behaviour. Blocks subject to tablescan are loaded in to the LRU end of the cache, even when using a RECYCLE cache. However, if there are free blocks in the cache (state = 0) Oracle uses those rather than flushing other blocks. Consequently, when you startup and

RE: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
well, you are certainly shooting down all of the best ideas being offered! :) I'd hate to be in your shoes! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message-From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:19 AMTo: Multiple

RE: doubt

2003-01-02 Thread Grant Allen
Excuse the heresy for answering an SS question on this list. Jai, you can fight with the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views, or use sp_help to see all the objects for allusers(not just tables). If you looking for just tables, and only for a given user, use select o.namefrom sysobjects o, sysusers

RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I have philosophical trouble with it. I dislike the abbreviations. I will use abbreviations to condense phrases (lol for lots of laughs) but I really dislike seeing you written as u. It's not that hard to type the extra two letters. --- Jamadagni, Rajendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as we

RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Raj - I go through episodes where I get pretty frustrated with the cryptic language, but then I take a deep breath and remember that for some people English isn't their first language. Also, I think text messages on cell phones are changing the way many people deal with English. I also get

create view using DBMS.SQL

2003-01-02 Thread Donate Clothes
Dear All, I can CREATE and EXECUTE others procedures however can not execute procedure with DBMS_SQL. I'm created procedure has parameters to create a view using DBMS_SQL. Oracle gave me an error insufficent privileges. Can give some hints how make it works or any example. TIA Truong. SQL

RE: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Sherman, Edward
Title: Message I found this in the Oracle Concepts manual. Since your table is partitioned I thought it might be worth a look. Queries and Partition Maintenance Operations Queries whose execution starts before invocation of a partition maintenance operation, or before dictionary updates

Re: Free Shared pool memory

2003-01-02 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I hadn't heard the historic explanation before, so I'll pass on that. As far as the 16MB is concerned - I believe the free memory includes any free space left in the shared_pool_reserved_size. Since the shared_pool_reserved_size defaults to 5% of the shared_pool_size (I think) it isn't

RE: Free Shared pool memory

2003-01-02 Thread Cunningham, Gerald
Title: Message did somebody say free beer?! -Original Message-From: Tim Gorman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 9:44 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: Free Shared pool memory Sorry for being so vague, but sometimes I

RE: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Rachel Carmichael
total speculation since I'm not a PL/SQL expert -- could the amount of data you are manipulating in the stored procedure somehow blow out available memory? --- Koivu, Lisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amount of data, definately. This table grows by ~2.5GB weekly. Have you ever seen data volume

RE: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: ORA-1410 Silliness Hi Raj, Thanks for your reply. I always suspected that the line numbers were wrong but since I couldn't say decisively why I had to rely upon what the gui's told me (darn gui...) You proved it. That line is actually pointing to my generic error logging proc.

RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread John.Hallas
I have never known what lol stood for , I appreciated the general meaning by looking at the context it was used in but know I actually know. I knew that if I perservered long enough with this list long enough I would find something of interest (lol) John -Original Message- Sent: 02

RE: functions/procedures and commits

2003-01-02 Thread John Weatherman
Title: Message Or if you set autocommit, in which case a commit is issued every X number of operations. John P WeathermanOracle Database AdministratorReplacements, Ltd. -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003

RE: log file sync Wait

2003-01-02 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
REPLIES TO YOUR QUESTIONS ARE IN CAPITALS BELOW :- THANKS -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Usual caveat: looking a v$system_event can be very misleading, you need to examine v$session_event to determine

RE: functions/procedures and commits

2003-01-02 Thread John Weatherman
Tom, Oracle issues an implicit commit any time DDL is performed or when a quit/exit is issued (Complete Ref p285) or after a set number of commands by using a set autocommit # (Complete Ref 283). With the latter is arguably not truly an implicit commit, as you do set it, DDL most certainly is.

RE: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: ORA-1410 Silliness Not at this point. I believe when the pl/sql tables get too big it blows up with ora-4031 or one of the common memory errors, I've seen it happen before. I may have only a stupid windows machine, but I have so much RAM... kudos to the brilliant people who didn't

RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
I thought lol meant laughing out loud? Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have philosophical trouble with it. I dislike the abbreviations. I will use abbreviations to

RE: doubt

2003-01-02 Thread Kevin Lange
Excuse the heresy for answering an SS question on this list. When I first read that statement I was wondering why you would be asking a question about the Nazi SS on an Oracle List . then it dawned on me that you were talking about Microsoft SQL Server ... at which point it did

RE: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Fink, Dan
Title: ORA-1410 Silliness Lisa, The answer is very, very simple...Don't take a day off! No day off...no error...no failed loads... Seriously, it sounds like either an index corruption (temporary) or an oracle bug. Is there anything in the alert log or in trace files? Try setting a trap on

Re[2]: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread Robert Eskridge
R I have philosophical trouble with it. I dislike the abbreviations. I R will use abbreviations to condense phrases (lol for lots of laughs) but R I really dislike seeing you written as u. It's not that hard to R type the extra two letters. And all this time I thought lol was laughing out loud.

RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread Gints Plivna
Hmm, English really isn't my mother tongue, but I don't like such cryptic notations in English as well as in Latvian. It makes language more meagre and poor. Of course I also make mistakes but these are caused by my lack of knowledge and I can always accept them from another people. Gints Plivna

Re: create view using DBMS.SQL

2003-01-02 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
Donate: Does the owner of the procedure have system privilege granted directly to them to create a view? Not with a role , but with the system privilege granted directly to the procedure owner. Remember, roles are disabled inside a stored procedure. RWB Donate Clothes [EMAIL

RE: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: ORA-1410 Silliness I am no pl/sql expert either, but me think that would cause a ORA-4031 ... been there ... done that ... before I learned to code in a better way. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni

RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared Thanks Dennis, It isn't my first language either (I started learning English in the 5th grade in India). I have seen this language before, and like Rachel said, it is more of a philosophical trouble. I used similar language in

RE: create view using DBMS.SQL

2003-01-02 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: create view using DBMS.SQL Is the create view privilege granted to the procedure owner? -Original Message- From: Donate Clothes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: create view using

RE: functions/procedures and commits

2003-01-02 Thread Fink, Dan
Tom, I must respectfully disagree. Explicit = a COMMIT or ROLLBACK is explicitly issued by the user/program. Implicit = a COMMIT or ROLLBACK is performed as the result of an action and not issued by the user/program. The SQL*Plus options AUTOCOMMIT and COPYCOMMIT do not control

Direct privs vs Acess thru a role

2003-01-02 Thread OraCop
Hello, How does Direct grant access differs from an access thru a role? and *WHY*? Thanks. OraCop __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: ORA-1410 Silliness Lisa, try to see if you can (I think you should) use dbms_session.free_unused_user_memory ... this is very handy for applications where large pl/sql tables (oops ... arrays) are used frequently. Raj __

RE: Free Shared pool memory

2003-01-02 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Free Shared pool memory Tim, I am pretty sure you are aware of Metalink note 100666.1 where it says that the free_memory value is unreliable if shared_pool_reserved_size is a non-zero value. Bug# 370903 .. BTW This is what it is on 9202 ... oraclei@elara-NCS1 sys SQL*Plus:

RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread OraCop
Well, I understand that writing you is not much trouble compared to writing U, but understanding U, should not be much trouble either. Don't U think so? OraCop. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never known what lol stood for , I appreciated the general meaning by looking at the context it

RE: create view using DBMS.SQL

2003-01-02 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: create view using DBMS.SQL ummm directly? Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc. QOTD: Any clod can have

Re: Free Shared pool memory

2003-01-02 Thread tim
The SHARED_POOL_RESERVED_SIZE is indeed defaulting to 15728640, which is 5% exactly of SHARED_POOL_SIZE... The reserved area is subtracted from the Shared Pool, so subtracting that amount from the difference still leaves 765,848 bytes. As a number, that doesn't divide by any of the powers-of-2

RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread Martin Kendall
Although I hate to make my first submission to The List in 2003 as negative one, I would still like to suggest that text messages have no place in a forum such as this. Quite apart from being needless, such a message format shows a total lack of respect for the recipient and a distinct arrogance

RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread OraCop
Even though i strongly think that there is nothing wrong in writing U instead of you, respecting your feelings towards the list, and considering the fact that we must think above such small matters, I will be careful in future. Thanks. OraCop. --- Martin Kendall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread Richard Ji
lol = laughing out loud lots of luck, lots of love, lots of laughs, little old lady. I will stop here now :) Richard Ji -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 11:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I thought lol meant laughing out loud? Tom Mercadante Oracle

RE: ORA-28030: Server encountered problems accessing LDAP directory service

2003-01-02 Thread David Mitchell
Yes, that's correct. That is what the error message says. Anyone have any idea why it's trying to use LDAP to resolve the database link? I thought with my sqlnet.ora file set to use tnsnames.ora I'd be using my local files to resolve the service name. Any suggestions as to why it's trying

RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread Richard Ji
Don't forget a lot of people uses PDA or wireless devices which has limitations on how many characters can be trasmitted. SMS for instance allows only 160 characters. Now why would someone write from such a device to ask an Oracle question is beyond me. Perhaps all the machines are down? :)

NVL and index usage

2003-01-02 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: NVL and index usage Does anyone know off hand if using NVL on an indexed column negate use of an index in CBO? This is 9202 ... and the column will be a varchar2(1). Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at

Best upgrade path Linux / 8.1.7

2003-01-02 Thread Barbara Baker
List: We have a Red Hat Linux release 7.1 system with 8.1.7.0 installed. We're encountering the memory leak bug ORA-04031: unable to allocate 4096 bytes of shared memory ("shared pool","begin dbms_output.disable; e...","PL/SQL MPCODE","BAMIMA: Bam Buffer") I need to upgrade to at least 8.1.7.2

Re: Re: Free Shared pool memory

2003-01-02 Thread chao_ping
Jonathan Lewis, Hi, lewis,have you ever see any big system with large shared pool size? This week I saw a mobile telecom system running ops 8163, have 8GB sga, with 3GB of shared_pool_size and About 5GB of data buffer.(Physical memory is 16GB) I never configured

RE: create view using DBMS.SQL

2003-01-02 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: create view using DBMS.SQL Right. Forgot that... -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:19 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: create view using DBMS.SQL ummm directly?

RE: Re: Free Shared pool memory

2003-01-02 Thread Stephen Lee
How does this grab you? FTLP show sga Total System Global Area 2.2596E+10 bytes Fixed Size 103396 bytes Variable Size1120354304 bytes Database Buffers 2.1475E+10 bytes Redo Buffers1064960 bytes Got a bad application? Throw more hardware at

RE: ORA-28030: Server encountered problems accessing LDAP directory service

2003-01-02 Thread David Mitchell
Title: RE: ORA-28030: Server encountered problems accessing LDAP directory service Yes. This was indeed the case. I was using "current_user" to create the link. I just dropped and re-created the link using an named user account and the link works fine now. Thanks for the quick response!

RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread Stephen Lee
Maybe it's time to bring back all those Morse code Q abbreviations with appropriate adaptation to IT industry. Instead of QRO meaning increase your power, it might mean Here's a nickel kid, get yourself a better computer. I don't think you will ever see QRP used (reduce your power).

RE: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: ORA-1410 Silliness Thanks again Raj. I will definately look into it. Lisa -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 11:39 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: ORA-1410 Silliness

Centralized StatsPack Repository

2003-01-02 Thread dgoulet
To ALL, We'd like to establish a centralized stats pack repository, but OTS is telling us that it's NOT doable for a couple of reasons. As you can guess I don't believe them and am looking around to see if anyone else has done this before I break out the power tools and start building

Re: Direct privs vs Acess thru a role

2003-01-02 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Dear whateveristhenamebehindyourstrangealias, I'm not - I really am not - trying to be impolite, but have you looked this up in the Oracle documentation? I beleive it's all nicely explained there. Correct me if I'm wrong (in other words: A more specific question ...) Best regards, OraFlop

Re: NVL and index usage

2003-01-02 Thread Shaleen
Title: NVL and index usage In a quick test on 9013 it changed the index which it was using and went from Range scan to fast full scan. - Original Message - From: Jamadagni, Rajendra To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 9:48 AM

RE: functions/procedures and commits

2003-01-02 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: Message The behavior of this may have changed... but I have seen autocommit not work as advertised. Just my opinion but I think explicit commits are good practice, if nothing else just for ease of reading code. Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Administrator Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 5259

Re: NVL and index usage

2003-01-02 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
It won't be able to use the index as far as I know. Unless it's a functional index ;). Mogens Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote: NVL and index usage Does anyone know off hand if using NVL on an indexed column negate use of an index in CBO? This is 9202 ... and the column will be

RE: NVL and index usage

2003-01-02 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: NVL and index usage Thanks ... the development is rolling out a new change by adding a new nullable column to a table and adding following to all appropriate queries ... and nvl(new_column,'A') = nvl(some_value,'A') I learned of this few minutes ago and luckily they are

RE: Centralized StatsPack Repository

2003-01-02 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Centralized StatsPack Repository I am currently working on a design ... basically it is simple to set-up, but the problem I am facing is how to automatically move dataset for one snapshot from prod db to the central db. Raj __

RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread mkb
Dnt knw wht al the fss is abt. Why nt just drp al th vwls? V cn al undrstd tht cn't v? ;-) mhmd --- OraCop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I understand that writing you is not much trouble compared to writing U, but understanding U, should not be much trouble either. Don't U think so?

Re: Free Shared pool memory

2003-01-02 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
I'm probably telling you guys something you already know, but at least it gives me a chance to write something on the list... Notice that the show sga command output doesn't contain a line saying shared pool size, but instead says variable size. That's because it's the size of the variable

RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread Kevin Lange
Lighten up Frances -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 10:46 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Although I hate to make my first submission to The List in 2003 as negative one, I would still like to suggest that text messages have no place in a forum such

Re: Buffer Pool Testing

2003-01-02 Thread Jay Hostetter
So it seems like my problem is the full table scan. Craig Shallahammer mentions this in his All About Oracle's Touch-Count Data Block Buffer Algoithm paper - The modified LRU algorithm places full-table scanned blocks read into the buffer cache at the LRU end of the LRU chain and only

RE: functions/procedures and commits

2003-01-02 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Dan, I agree with you and I think I said the same thing - though not as lengthy! :) As you said, the Sql*Plus AutoCommit option controls issuing a commit upon exiting the program. As I said in a prior mail, I did not mention DDL forcing an implicit commit as the question pertained to INSERT

RE: create view using DBMS.SQL

2003-01-02 Thread Donate Clothes
I can create view in schema. I don't know why it is not allowed me to create view in DBMS_SQL within procedure. Do I need additional privilege. Please give me some hints. TIA Trung. SQL create or replace view mytest 2 as 3 select * from tbl_file_definitions; View created. SQL select

Hotsos Clinic

2003-01-02 Thread Henry, Keith
I have an opportunity to attend a Hotsos Clinic. It seems I have heard good things about them on this list, but I thought I might double-check. Is this 3-day class worthwhile or is it an expensive way to sell their product? Will this class be beneficial, even if we don't buy their product?

RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared Well if you want an answer from the experts on this list (or anyone, really - I fall into the 'shmo' category) it's best to ask a question in the clearest way possible... otherwise your emails may go directly to the delete folder. Ur

Re: NVL and index usage

2003-01-02 Thread Connor McDonald
If you mean where nvl(col,:x) = :y then yes it will be negated. If memory serves, I've even had problems in the past using nvl in a function based index, the workaround doing the equivalent with decode, but I can't remember the specifics hth connor --- Jamadagni, Rajendra [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ORA-1410 Silliness

2003-01-02 Thread Vladimir Begun
Lisa . I've read some messages of this thread -- there is 100% probability :) that you incorrectly identified the statement which errors 1410. PL/SQL engine could not point to the line 1970 -- it's in the middle of the statement -- something is strange there. Do you handle exceptions in your

Re: create view using DBMS.SQL

2003-01-02 Thread Donate Clothes
Bailey, I can create a view. I don't know why it not allow me to create view using DBMS_SQL within Procedure. Can you give me one example system privilege granted directly to them to create a view? Thanks Truong SQL create or replace view mytest 2 as 3 select * from

RE: Automatic backup on Oracle 9i -- For Jared

2003-01-02 Thread Witold Iwaniec
It reminds me the text I have read few years ago, maybe even posted to this list: http://www.ahajokes.com/eng011.html BTW Personally I am on the philosophical side - use common abbreviations like BTW, ROTFL, etc but don't like the U, 4U, etc. But who knows what the future brings, especially with

Re: Re: Free Shared pool memory

2003-01-02 Thread Jonathan Lewis
It is often the case that Telecomms companies end up with a very large SGA. 3Gb does sound a little suspicious - but it would be silly to judge it without knowing more background, such as total number of users, number of applications embedded within the database, number of CPUs, nature of work,

Re: Free Shared pool memory

2003-01-02 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Brain was clearly not engaged when I wrote the last answer - I have a set of results I produced some time back when calibrating init.ora parameters with memory usage. (Out of date by now since it was 8.0). Simple test: Double the size of sessions in the init.ora, various entries in

RE: NVL and index usage

2003-01-02 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: NVL and index usage Raj, the index will not be used. think about it. for those records that do not have a value (are null) for the indexed column- there is not an entry in the index - so they can not be evaluated to return a row. secondly, even if all rows were represented in

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