Re: Statspack Viewer

2003-01-03 Thread Shaleen
We just bought it and will start using it this month - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 5:28 AM > Hi there > > Been using it on and off for 2 yrs now since the original standard edition. > Very good and def wo

RE: Re: Full table scan error

2003-01-03 Thread Jared . Still
tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]" < lame.sql > lower.sql This of course hoses any quoted arguments in the where clause, but those are easy to fix. Jared "Johnston, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/03/2003 01:53 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of

Re: Replacing control chars

2003-01-03 Thread Vladimir Begun
JFYI, (it's in Russian and PL/SQL :)) http://www.oracle.com/ru/oramag/june2001/index.html?begun.html Be careful with standard.replace (<9i) and recursion in PL/SQL. Connor McDonald wrote: From AskTom ... Kind Regards, -- Vladimir Begun The statements and opinions expressed here are my own and d

SQueaL formatters (was: Full table scan error)

2003-01-03 Thread Jesse, Rich
FWIW, TOAD includes some version of Formatter Plus, which does a fair job on simple queries. It doesn't handle subqueries, though. Perhaps that's only with the separately licensable product. I *think* it even comes with the freeware version of TOAD: http://www.toadsoft.com Any other SQL (pronou

RE: Replacing control chars

2003-01-03 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Replacing control chars didn't my script do the same thing ?? 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 In

RE: Re: Full table scan error

2003-01-03 Thread Johnston, Tim
And people get so pissed when you take the time to do this while they are standing over your shoulder... I take a perverse pleasure in making them wait... While we are on the subject... I also get annoyed by mixed case... I hate the queries that look like... SELECT * from MY_table_NAME a,

Re: strange issue with setting transaction

2003-01-03 Thread Arup Nanda
Sergei, My first guess will be you are using a loop and you are committing intermittently. If so, then the rollback segment used is not RBIG20. Any time a commit or rollback occurs, you are starting new transaction and hence a new rollback segment may be allocated; in this case it's R27. The sec

RE: SavePoint doubts

2003-01-03 Thread Kevin Lange
  No. -Original Message-From: Shishir Kumar Mishra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 1:14 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: SavePoint doubts Hi List, One dumb question  I want to ask is :   Is it possible to declare Savepoint w

RE: Replacing control chars

2003-01-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
finish the paper please, it's only 3 weeks overdue! --- "Fink, Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have code, but an idea. Instead of replacing the unprintable > characters, could you just extract (using ASCII, CASE and ranges) the > known > good characters into a new variable? You migh

RE: strange issue with setting transaction

2003-01-03 Thread Kevin Lange
Sergei; Is it a simple update/insert into a single table ?? Does the table have any triggers on it ? Do you commit anywhere in the update and then do another update/insert ? How about showing the update/insert code you are running. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, January 03, 20

Re:SavePoint doubts

2003-01-03 Thread dgoulet
I've seen no problem along those lines. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: "Shishir Kumar Mishra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 1/3/2003 11:14 AM Hi List, One dumb question I want to ask is : Is it possible to declare Savepoint with same name in diffe

RE: strange issue with setting transaction

2003-01-03 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: strange issue with setting transaction Sergei, are you committing in your "transaction"?  A transaction ends with a commit or rollback.  Therefore if you execute set transaction use rollback... then commit, the next transaction will grab whatever rbs it wants unless you specify set

RE: strange issue with setting transaction

2003-01-03 Thread Fink, Dan
Sergei, Do you get the same error each time? Here is what I think is happening (please, gurus, correct me if I am wrong). Your transaction needs to create a read consistent version of a block to see if another transaction has modified the row you are interested in modifying. Thus it

Re: SavePoint doubts

2003-01-03 Thread Arup Nanda
Of course, the savepoint can be any name you choose; it does not matter if they are the same in different sessions. - Original Message - From: Shishir Kumar Mishra To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 2:14 PM Subject: SavePoi

Re: strange issue with setting transaction

2003-01-03 Thread Stephane Faroult
Sergei wrote: > > I am running 8.1.6 on solaris 2.8. > > Before running a large update, I tried to set a specific rollback > segment by: > Set transaction use rollback segment RBIG20; > > The transaction runs for a while and fails with: > > ORA-01555: snapshot too old: rollback segment number 2

Re: Buffer Pool Testing

2003-01-03 Thread Jay Hostetter
The reason that I consider it a problem is that I have increased the physical IO on my database. I see Full Table Scans on these two tables, which are large tables relative to the others. I moved them to they RECYCLE pool so that they would have less of an impact on the DEFAULT pool. By doi

Re: Extremely Slow Query

2003-01-03 Thread Vladimir Begun
Jonathan Lewis wrote: > The problem is generic, the specific query > isn't the point. RAC is a massive improvement > on OPS because block transfer is by wire not > disc - but it still takes a serious amount of > time to fling blocks from node to node, especially > if the blocks have been subject t

strange issue with setting transaction

2003-01-03 Thread Sergei
I am running 8.1.6 on solaris 2.8. Before running a large update, I tried to set a specific rollback segment by: Set transaction use rollback segment RBIG20; The transaction runs for a while and fails with: ORA-01555: snapshot too old: rollback segment number 29 with name "R27" too Small Any id

RE: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-03 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it... Muchas Gracias Tim!    I can't thank you enough.  I will play with it, it looks like it may meet my needs. Lisa -Original Message- From: Tim Bunce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 1:09 PM To: Multipl

SavePoint doubts

2003-01-03 Thread Shishir Kumar Mishra
Hi List, One dumb question  I want to ask is :   Is it possible to declare Savepoint with same name in different session on same database. I just  want to know will commit or rollback vanish savepoint with same name in  other session also .     Thanks and Regards  Shishir Kumar MishraAgni Sof

RE: Replacing control chars

2003-01-03 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Thanks Connor. I think this might do it.. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 12:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L >From AskTom ops$tkyte@8i> create or replace package body utils 2 as 3 4 g_bad_chars varchar2(256); 5 g_a_bad_char va

Re: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-03 Thread Philip Douglass
Title: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it... Hi Lisa,   It's been awhile since I've used Perl DBI, but from what you said, I think you're mixing up two different ideas. Ksh doesn't know how to talk to a database, so you just use it to invoke sqlplus, which handles the database commu

OffTopic: IT in Sweden

2003-01-03 Thread Antje Sackwitz
Hi, can anyone on this list provide good links (in English or German) on job chances in the IT in Sweden? Do they need developers and Oracle database developers/admins? In which regions? What is the payment? I would be greatful for any hints. Please mail me directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have a ha

Re: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-03 Thread Alex
What do you have so far. You can read in a script like so... #perl dbicode.pl < script.sql while () { chomp; $sql .= $_; } print $sql; On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Koivu, Lisa wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This may be a stupid question. If so please humor me with a stupid answer. > However: > > I F

RE: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-03 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it... I think I just answered my own question after reading through Charlie's example code... The errors that would be spit to the screen would be returned in $DBI::errstr.  Lisa -Original Message- From: Koivu, Lisa Sent: Fri

Re: Extremely Slow Query

2003-01-03 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Sorry, I can't take credit for improving the query. The improved time looks like an accident. The plan now has two scans of OBJ$, rather than one - it just that the two plans take 4 and 9 seconds - whereas the single scan in the first plan took 370 seconds. I guess that the first plan was a maj

9.0.1.4 performance issues

2003-01-03 Thread John Weatherman
All, I recently did the 9.0.1.4 upgrade from 9.0.1.3 in our development (Solaris 8) instance. We are now seeing all sorts of REALLY bad performance effects. Subsecond querries are running 2 and 3 minutes. As near as I can tell, querries using order by and group by clauses now seem to prefer full

RE: RE: Centralized StatsPack Repository

2003-01-03 Thread Kirsh, Gary
Dick, I did some work on this some time ago, but never got around to fully implementing it. What it was supposed to do is take a day's worth of stats from each instance and store it in a table called DAILY_STATS. We take hourly stats on each instance, so the procedure takes the stats from today'

Re: Centralized StatsPack Repository

2003-01-03 Thread Babu Nagarajan
Title: RE: Centralized StatsPack Repository Raj   I did this sometime back but later on somehow this went on to the backburner.. (I also had half-developed XL based interface to the central statspack data)   In the central repository create the set of tables that statspack uses to store data

RE: Replacing control chars

2003-01-03 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: Replacing control chars REPLACE/TRANSLATE.    Go to http://asktom.oracle.com/ and query 'remove control characters'.    -Original Message- From: Deshpande, Kirti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 12:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-03 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it... Jared, thanks for your reply. One last question:  Is SPOOL one of the commands that DBI does not understand?  I would need to capture any errors spit out by sql*plus (like my famous ora-1410 error).  I have a feeling the answer is y

RE: Replacing control chars

2003-01-03 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Title: RE: Replacing control chars Raj, Thanks for the response. Input is not an HTML text, but the JSP Web page where text can be typed or "pasted" in. And the pasting from MS Word docs creates the problem.   - Kirti   -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PR

Re: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-03 Thread Tim Bunce
Try dbish dbi:Oracle:tnsname < commands.sql The dbish is a "DBI shell" supplied with the DBI. The version supplied with the DBI is functional but basic. Tom Lowery is working on an extended version with plugins adding more functionality. One of his goals is an SQL*Plus clone... http://sea

Re: Replacing control chars

2003-01-03 Thread Connor McDonald
>From AskTom ops$tkyte@8i> create or replace package body utils 2 as 3 4 g_bad_chars varchar2(256); 5 g_a_bad_char varchar2(256); 6 7 function strip_bad( p_string in varchar2 ) return varchar2 8 is 9 begin 10 return replace( 11 translate( p_stri

RE: Centralized StatsPack Repository

2003-01-03 Thread Jared . Still
Sure. For every instance that you want to include in the repository, create an account name that matches the instance. Setup FGAC so that each sees only it's own data. Jared "Jamadagni, Rajendra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/03/2003 07:08 AM Please respond to ORACLE-

RE: Replacing control chars

2003-01-03 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Replacing control chars Kirti, if the input is going to be HTML, then I have no clue how you'd do it, but if it is just a varchar2 then something like following might help ... SELECT REPLACE( UPPER(:my_str)    ,REPLACE( TRANSLATE( UPPER(:my_str)   

RE: Re: Full table scan error

2003-01-03 Thread Joseph S Testa
Yea same here, column names, table names all on separate lines :) joe > >Personally, I always format queries before working > >with > >them, otherwise it is too difficult to determine > >what is > >being done in the query. > > > >Jared > > > > Glad to see a fellow maniac :-). > > Regards, >

RE: Replacing control chars

2003-01-03 Thread Fink, Dan
I don't have code, but an idea. Instead of replacing the unprintable characters, could you just extract (using ASCII, CASE and ranges) the known good characters into a new variable? You might have to examine character by character, which may slow things down. Excellent challenge...must think about

Re: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-03 Thread Jared . Still
Lisa, No, you can't call a sql script from Perl/DBI, sorry. The SQL scripts you refer to are for SQL*Plus, and contain a number of commands that DBI doesn't know what to do with. Your SQL can be stored in a different file to avoid script modification for different SQL, but that requires a little

RE: top waits

2003-01-03 Thread Jesse, Rich
D'oh. Just saw that I was replying to a two-week old message. That's what I get for taking a vacation! :) Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA > -Original Message- > From: Jess

Replacing control chars

2003-01-03 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Hello Listers, I was asked if there is any procedure that could be called from a trigger to replace (with a blank) or remove all non-printable characters from the text before inserting it in the target table? The incoming data is from a Web interface and may contain underline, bold, blink, NL c

Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-03 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it... Hi everyone, This may be a stupid question.  If so please humor me with a stupid answer. However: I FINALLY have the fun fun fun chance to change one of my data loads to use the DBI instead of the procedures I hacked together.  In tr

RE: top waits

2003-01-03 Thread Jesse, Rich
Or it's time spent dealing with Oracle's Context/Intermedia/Text indexes. And if that's the case, there's nothing that can be done to reduce it according to Oracle Support. See the other thread you (Seema) started on the same subject. Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Adm

RE: Re: Full table scan error

2003-01-03 Thread Stephane Faroult
>Personally, I always format queries before working >with >them, otherwise it is too difficult to determine >what is >being done in the query. > >Jared > Glad to see a fellow maniac :-). Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriole -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author:

RE: Tales Of Big Hammer #10046 (AKA event 10046)

2003-01-03 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Tales Of Big Hammer #10046 (AKA event 10046) Jonathan, Yes this code is inside a function inside a pl/sql package. As it is an implicit select, with (of course) no exception handler (who needs extra code anyways), I believe your hypothesis is right. Maybe next week I'll take a loo

RE: Database/system Crashing

2003-01-03 Thread Stephen Lee
I wonder if a file lock is being left in place when the instance crashes, and the OS does not clear the lock until a reboot. I would think the OS should clear this without a reboot, but stranger things have been seen with OS's ... even Unix. This doesn't explain why the instance crashes. I wond

Re: Full table scan error

2003-01-03 Thread Jared Still
2 things: 1) don't send attachments to the list, they rarely arrive unscathed. Yours didn't. 2) why do you think the full table scan is an 'error'? It could be that an FTS is the fastest access method for this query. 3) ok, three things. Please make an attempt to format longish queries so th

RE: Centralized StatsPack Repository

2003-01-03 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Centralized StatsPack Repository Hmmm... FAGC ?? Jared, I am stumped ... I can't put these 2 & 2 together. I was planning on a new instance called "dbmon". One schema for each production database instance. Statspack will be installed for each schema and other monitoring scripts t

RE: list java classes

2003-01-03 Thread Richard Ji
select dbms_java.long_name(object_name) from user_objects where object_type like 'JAVA%'; Richard Ji -Original Message- Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 6:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L How do I list java classes that have been loaded into my schema via loadjava? John Dun

RE: Extremely Slow Query

2003-01-03 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Extremely Slow Query Thanks everyone ... Yes it is RAC (in fact I don't have non-rac databases anymore). Unfortunately this is not my query. TOAD runs this query when it starts-up and it seems like it hangs. As I am in process of deploying newest version of TOAD, I am pretty sure n

RE: Which side of the road?

2003-01-03 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: Which side of the road? Mike, Thanks for the link. I lived in England for 4 years so I have driven on both sides of the road including a LHD vehicle in the UK. Also my old BL Princess had a manual transmission so I can now shift with either hand. The first day I drove in the UK

RE: year 2059 problem

2003-01-03 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
Rich Is it nice to have an operating system that works Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Product Architect Compuware Corporation Direct: (248) 865-4350 Mobile: (248) 408-2918 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.compuware.com -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:

RE: list java classes

2003-01-03 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
/*+ Object type='JAVA CLASS' ?? */ ;) - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 5:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L How do I list java classes that have been loaded into my schema via loadjava? John Dunn Sefas Innovation Ltd 0117 9154267 www.sefas.com -

Which side of the road?

2003-01-03 Thread Jenner Mike
For some Friday afternoon reading on what country drives on which side of the road and reason for it follow this link: http://www.travel-library.com/general/driving/drive_which_side.html I had half an idea but the site is a good read, in a sad trivia kind of way! Mike. -- Please see the offici

Re:RE: Centralized StatsPack Repository

2003-01-03 Thread dgoulet
I also was informed during the iTAR process that they will support a centralized repository, but you'll have to wait till 10i for it. Heck I've haven't gotten a play instance of 9i up yet. 10i, maybe by 2010!!! I really don't want to wait that long!! Dick Goulet Reply Separ

RE: Statspack Viewer

2003-01-03 Thread Leonard, George
Hi there Been using it on and off for 2 yrs now since the original standard edition. Very good and def worth while, Alexey also normally releases a new/updated version every 1-2 months. There is some great features planed for the future from discussions with him. George _

Re: Full table scan error

2003-01-03 Thread Babu Nagarajan
You have a outer join in yr history table. Also you have a IN condition for the history table for which the CBO might think a FTS might be cheaper.. Babu - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 7:19 AM > Hi List,

Full table scan error

2003-01-03 Thread Krishnaswamy, Ranganath
Hi List, I have the below query whose explain plan is showing that it is doing full table scan on Historie table: select F1.AMTLICHESKENNZEICHEN AMTLICHESKENNZEICHEN,F1.OID,F1.VERKAUFSBEZEICHNUNG,B1.FAHRZEUGARTTEXT,B1.FAH RZEUGHERSTELLERTEXT,B1.FAHRZEUGTYPTEXT,B1.FIN,B1.VERKAUFSBEZEICHNUNG,H1.AUF

RE: locks through PL-SQL

2003-01-03 Thread Naveen Nahata
Closing a cursor doesn't release the lock. Think of it in SQL*PLUS. If you issue a SELECT ... FOR UPDATE statment, it opens an implicit cursor returns the rows and closes the cursor. But it doesn't release the lock. Locks can only be released by COMMIT/ROLLBACK Regards Naveen -Original Mess

list java classes

2003-01-03 Thread John Dunn
How do I list java classes that have been loaded into my schema via loadjava? John Dunn Sefas Innovation Ltd 0117 9154267 www.sefas.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: John Dunn INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 htt

locks through PL-SQL

2003-01-03 Thread dilip7772002
Hi List, Little confused about the locks. I wrote a plsql procedure as follows: --- CREATE OR REPLACE procedure b as cursor sel_up is select * from emp_info for update; begin For emp_rec in sel_up1 LOOP dbms_output.put_line('Hi'); End loop; end; --- I am doing select for upd

RE: explain plan parameter meanings

2003-01-03 Thread Stephane Faroult
>In the explain plan what is meant by "cost" , >"card" and "byte" ?=0D >How may they be interpreted practically ?=0D >Any Docs , Links on the Same ?=0D > =0D > =0D 'cost' like in 'cost based analyzer' - compound value which gives the CBO estimate of how much dreadful it will be to bring

Re: log file sync Wait

2003-01-03 Thread Jonathan Lewis
It is not possible to increase the number of lgwr processes in a single instance until 9.2, and the manuals suggest that (a) you don't do it, and (b) you only do it if you have a very large number of CPU and massive stress on redo generation. Let me repeat - v$system_event can be very misleading,

Re: explain plan parameter meanings

2003-01-03 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Cost is the optimizer cost. Card is cardinality. Byte is number of bytes processed in that particular step. Lots and lots of documentation on this. VIVEK_SHARMA wrote: Message In the explain plan what is meant by "cost" , "card"  and "byte"  ? How may they be interpret

Re: Buffer Pool Testing

2003-01-03 Thread Jonathan Lewis
At a high level, I think the various pools operate in pretty much the same way - but there are some differences, some of which may be affected by various hidden parameters. For example, Steve Adams has this note (dated Oct 2000) on his website as one of several observations on the 'new' LRU mecha

explain plan parameter meanings

2003-01-03 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Title: Message In the explain plan what is meant by "cost" , "card"  and "byte"  ? How may they be interpreted practically ? Any Docs , Links on the Same ?     Execution Plan--   0  SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=6 Card=

Re: Extremely Slow Query

2003-01-03 Thread Jonathan Lewis
The problem is generic, the specific query isn't the point. RAC is a massive improvement on OPS because block transfer is by wire not disc - but it still takes a serious amount of time to fling blocks from node to node, especially if the blocks have been subject to very recent update at the re

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

2003-01-03 Thread Jared Still
Thanks Mogen! Jared On Wednesday 01 January 2003 21:03, Mogens Nørgaard wrote: > Good morning, > > A few days ago there was a debate about the issue with > invoker/definer-stuff. I wrote to Mary Ann Davidson, who's responsible > for Oracle security things (she's the female guru you may have seen