RE: Database/system Crashing

2003-01-13 Thread Richard Ji
Title: RE: Database/system Crashing Sorry for getting back to you late on this.  In our case, the server crashes each time with CPU panic message in /var/adm/messages.  We used adb to analyze the core dump and saw in each instance of the crash, NFS lead to it.  It was trying to free memory

Re: Oracle 7.3.4 Real-Time Re-indexing - Additional Information

2003-01-13 Thread Nikunj Gupta
Were you analyzing while rebuilding Indexes ? If that is the case.. there are chances of possible corruption. Try to give select count(*) from table_name; and select * from table_name; Hope this may provide you with some answer. HTH - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of li

RE: encrypted user/passwd connection

2003-01-13 Thread Sony kristanto
BTW rajesh, where can I find 'ORA_ENCRYPT_LOGIN variable and DBLINK_ENCRYPT_LOGIN parameter (for retried attempts across database link)' ? Pls respond ... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 10:02 PM >

Re: perl timeout

2003-01-13 Thread Jared Still
Gee Dave, I know of a book that has scripts that already do this. ;) Here's an untested bit of code to demonstrate. my $dbh; eval { local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "connection timeout\n"; }; alarm 60; $dbh = DBI->connect( 'dbi:Oracle:' . $db, $user

Re: Oracle 9i release 3 coming?

2003-01-13 Thread Jared Still
Since 9iR2 is 9.2.0, I don't think that 9.0.3 will be Release 3. Jared On Monday 13 January 2003 18:23, Boivin, Patrice J wrote: > Oracle started posting items with the 9.0.3. number, does this imply they > plan to release a 9i Release 3? > > regards, > Patrice Boivin > Systems Analyst (Oracle C

Re: Oracle 9i release 3 coming?

2003-01-13 Thread Rachel Carmichael
doubtful, they've said that release 2 is the final release for 9i --- "Boivin, Patrice J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oracle started posting items with the 9.0.3. number, does this imply > they > plan to release a 9i Release 3? > > regards, > Patrice Boivin > Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified

Re: Different Backups - A Comparative analysis

2003-01-13 Thread Jared Still
Yes, well, I've heard that claim too. It may actually work now, but a very capable DBA ( 2 actually ) spent quite a bit of time testing this with no good results. And then there was the SQL BT glitch that left one of my former coworkers without a certain TBS in the DW for 6 weeks. Yes, 6 weeks.

RE: BCHR Tuning

2003-01-13 Thread mantfield
Morgens is very correct in saying tha all sorts of measurements have their place. Actually, the length-of-skirt measurement works very well for me. Here is the algorithm: Heat-by-day in inversely proportional to length of skirt which again is inversely proportional to my desire to have lunch ou

RE: 2 basic Qs. on export

2003-01-13 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Here is my suggestion: 1. Use file= and filesize= option (8i Rel 2?) to create multiple disk files, copy them to tape. Reload when importing. 2a. Export should not be considered a database backup. (IMHO). In future releases, full=y may not be available. 2b. Depends. If export starts a

RE: Different Backups - A Comparartive analysis

2003-01-13 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
SQLBackTrack does not have 'block' recovery, something I think is in the latest RMAN version (?). I don't use either of these, but just remember a few things from demos, written material. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 6:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: rdist Examples

2003-01-13 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Ethan, Here is one my 'dist' scripts. This sends files from HP Server to Sun Servers. Check that last couple of lines. HTH, - Kirti # # File Name: dist_all_to_SUN.rdist # # This is the distfile for 'rdist' to distribut

RE: Different Backups - A Comparative analysis

2003-01-13 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
I think SQLBackTrack can get the table data back from the backup file without the need to create a partial database on another server and then export the table from it. I remember seeing a demo where a dropped table was recovered by the BMC rep. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Monda

Oracle 9i release 3 coming?

2003-01-13 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Title: Internet file system Oracle started posting items with the 9.0.3. number, does this imply they plan to release a 9i Release 3?   regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services    | S

RE: RE : RMAN Repository

2003-01-13 Thread Johnston, Tim
Title: RE: RE : RMAN Repository I do have one scenario where you really have to use a recovery catalog...  When attempting to backup a VLDB that uses read only tablespaces and extremely infrequent backups for most of the data (i.e. a large datawarehouse), a recovery catalog is very important

Re: Question On High Parse to execute ratio

2003-01-13 Thread Jay
Thank you all for your help. I will have to review the metalink data as you suggested. We have asked that they Bind their SQL Statement but where given no patch date so it looks like we are out in the cold for awhile. Once again thanks for all your help. Jay - Original Message - To: "Mult

Re: Question On High Parse to execute ratio

2003-01-13 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
And/or get Bjorn Engsigs article (I think it's on MiracleAS.dk under Technical Information - called cursor.pdf) about some interesting results regarding cursor sharing. Mogens Cary Millsap wrote: CURSOR_SHARING won't reduce the "parse count (total)" count; only eliminating parse calls from you

Re: Re[2]: newbie question - still: please help

2003-01-13 Thread Mark Richard
I think Dick is on the right track... If you have a list of accounts which require an update, load that list into the database - if it isn't already in the database (please don't tell me you are creating the script from within Oracle - please don't tell me that). You could load this list either a

Re: Daramtically improve BCHR with a single statement

2003-01-13 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Time to check what? If it goes down it could be because your statement(s) were optimized to use less resources (as documented so well). If it goes up it could be because your statements became more or less efficient. And you'd have to check if it was because of an index, a table, a sql statemen

Re: BCHR Tuning

2003-01-13 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Something here doesn't compute. If you tried to use time-based measurements and didn't find out where the time went - well, bad for you. If you then stumbled on something, say the database startup/database shutdown ratio (would normally be fairly close to 1, but could vary) or the log file swit

Parallel Replication of Single Table

2003-01-13 Thread Larry Elkins
Listers, How can one use parallelism when fast refreshing a *single* table? Pulling my hair out on this one. We want to use parallelism when replicating updates/inserts from a single partitioned table between DB's -- partitioned on both DB's. Both are 8.1.7.4 Solaris 8 64 bit. Using fast refresh

RE: Different Backups - A Comparartive analysis

2003-01-13 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
SQL BackTrack is a BMC product. RF Robert G. Freeman Technical Management Consultant TUSC - The Oracle Experts www.tusc.com 904.708.5076 Cell (it's everywhere that I am!) Author of several books you can find on Amazon.com! -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 4:35 PM To:

Replicating Replicated Data.

2003-01-13 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Some of our data is stored in Oracle databases dedicated to Peoplesoft. We have other databases which require a subset of this information. These other databases are not all on the same machine. They are either directly tied to physics experiments or they are subject to certification requirem

Re: Different Backups - A Comparartive analysis

2003-01-13 Thread Jared Still
Yes, but I think less capable than RMAN. Just do a google search for it. Owned by BMC I believe. Jared On Monday 13 January 2003 14:34, VIVEK_SHARMA wrote: > Is SQL BackTrack a product like RMAN (from Oracle Corp. or 3rd party )? > > > -Original Message- > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 20

RE: Different Backups - A Comparative analysis

2003-01-13 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
RMAN Does everything that SQL Backtrack does, for free. :-) In fact, last I heard, BMC was planning on altering SQL Backtrack so that it is really nothing more than a nice fancy front end to RMAN. When I was at CSX we moved away from SQL Backtrack to RMAN and never had any regrets. The only issue

RE: How to identify full table scans?

2003-01-13 Thread John Kanagaraj
Hi Govind, Just a thought: The value of _small_table_threshold - which is currently 2% of the DB_BLOCK_BUFFERS. Any table undergoing FTS will be placed at the MRU end rather than the LRU end and would thus live longer (and either cause problems or alleviate it as the case may be!). Keep this in m

RE: Question On High Parse to execute ratio

2003-01-13 Thread Cary Millsap
CURSOR_SHARING won't reduce the "parse count (total)" count; only eliminating parse calls from your application can do that. Using CURSOR_SHARING will reduce the "parse count (hard)" count (and maybe some shared pool latch contention), but at the expense of more user-mode CPU consumed during each p

RE: #of blocks in extent

2003-01-13 Thread Miller, Jay
And of course to calculate you'll need to know your block size and your extent size. -Original Message- Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 10:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L UNIFORM SIZE clause of Tablespace, if it is LMT. --- Igor Neyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > INITIA

perl timeout

2003-01-13 Thread David Turner
Does anyone have some perl code that will return an error if it take longer than a certain number of seconds to connect to or return the results from a database? I'd like to have some of my queries connect to an alternate database if there is a problem connecting or returning results within 10 seco

RE: Question On High Parse to execute ratio

2003-01-13 Thread Jesse, Rich
In fact, in 8.1.7.2, it can cause *incorrect* results in certain queries without reporting an error! 8.1.7.4 is supposed to be a little more stable (applying that minipack to production as this is typed), and 9iR2 is reported to be even better. For us, it was CS=F or die (dead server, die trying

RE: Question On High Parse to execute ratio

2003-01-13 Thread Karen Morton
Jay, Take a look into using stored outlines. If the problem is with the vendor's code not using bind variables, I don't know that this will help, but you may find some instances where it might be useful. I heard recently that a book should be written with just one chapter on bind variables.C

2 basic Qs. on export

2003-01-13 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
1) Large Export Dumps , if Directly Exported to TAPE Devices , Can Import be safely Done therefrom ? FILE= OR is it advisable to compress / Split the Export Dump Files onto Storage Box & thereafter backup the Same onto Tape ? 2) With Oracle 8i & 9i Does export backup fired at a certain Ti

Re: index rebuilding performance vs sort_area_size

2003-01-13 Thread Jared Still
The increase in performance of course comes from sorting in memory and avoiding disk writes. Try running this bit of SQL before and after your tests, and record the numbers: select stat.sid, name.name name, stat.value from v$sesstat stat, v$statname name, v$session sess where stat.si

RE: ioug.org web site

2003-01-13 Thread Ari Kaplan
I spoke with Matt and he is able to register / log in. As it usually happens, he got it working right after he sent the email. Take care, -Ari Kaplan -Original Message- Andert Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 3:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I don't know if it's just you,

Was 8.1.6 certified on Solaris 8?

2003-01-13 Thread Miller, Jay
We're upgrading from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 8 and 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 on one of our boxes. I want to know if it's possible to do the OS upgrade first and then the database upgrade (e.g., I'd be running 8.1.6 on Solaris 8 for a day or so). The Oracle certification matrix only says that 8.1.6 is desuppo

RE: Minimum required init.ora parameters

2003-01-13 Thread Jesse, Rich
Curious, for which platform is 8.1.8 available? And *why*? Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA > -Original Message- > From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Mond

Re: Different Backups - A Comparartive analysis

2003-01-13 Thread Jared Still
I *think* that RMAN does everything SQL Backtrack does. Can't be positive, as I haven't used it for awhile. RMAN seems to have everything I recall SQL BT having, and then some. Jared On Monday 13 January 2003 12:38, Tim Gorman wrote: > Don't know really. Just thought that it should probably

rdist Examples

2003-01-13 Thread Post, Ethan
rdist is a good way to keep files (sql, tools, tnsnames) synchronized between servers, in my case I need to replicate /db01/foo/* to /u01/foo/* Going from /db01/foo to /db01/foo on a different server is easy but I can not find any examples of going to another directory structure. The docs are n

RE: Different Backups - A Comparartive analysis

2003-01-13 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Is SQL BackTrack a product like RMAN (from Oracle Corp. or 3rd party )? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 2:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Don't know really. Just thought that it should probably be included, then I was hoping to find out... :-)

RE: How to identify full table scans?

2003-01-13 Thread Govind.Arumugam
Title: RE: How to identify full table scans? This helps to identify the queries that could be tuned for LIO and/or PIO from a SQL Tuning perspective.  We can give this list to the development or application teams so that they could independently work off this list (hopefully!). -Origi

RE: Conversion from CLOB to RAW

2003-01-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Bill - Will you need to search for information that will be compressed? If yes, then performance could be really, really bad. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 2:07 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: Question On High Parse to execute ratio

2003-01-13 Thread Rajesh . Rao
My colleagues call it CURSER_SHARING :))) "Igor Neyman"

Re: ioug.org web site

2003-01-13 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Hi Matt, I registered last week without a problem, except they insisted on a credit card number even tho I owed $0. Looking forward to seeing you again! Ruth Gramolini - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 2:49 PM

RE: index rebuilding performance vs sort_area_size

2003-01-13 Thread Govind.Arumugam
We have not seen any performance gains after setting the sort_area_size in excess of 50Mb. We have set this as a standard in our re-indexing scripts to set this to 50Mb maximum. HTH. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 3:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi:

Re: removing duplicate entries from a table

2003-01-13 Thread Tim Gorman
Mark, About how many rows are we talking about? Just curious... Log Miner might be a viable option. It comes with 8i but if the database in question is v8.0.x then you can still read them from an 8i database. From Log Miner you can extract the UNDO_SQL for the rows you want to delete. If you

Re: Different Backups - A Comparartive analysis

2003-01-13 Thread Tim Gorman
Don't know really. Just thought that it should probably be included, then I was hoping to find out... :-) - Original Message - To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tim Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:49 AM > On Monday 13 January 2003 06:03, Tim Gorman wrote: > > Anot

RE: Oracle 7.3.4 Real-Time Re-indexing - Additional Information

2003-01-13 Thread M Rafiq
Yes, it is as of today...We are still having 7.3.4.5 for our Oracle Financials 10.7 Application. This may be the last year for this version... Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 12:38:39 -0800 Tha

RE: Question On High Parse to execute ratio

2003-01-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Jay - Here are the possibilities: 1. The vendor is stupid. Or doesn't understand Oracle. 2. The product was incorrectly installed. Some products are sophisticated enough to have a configurable interface, which may be misconfigured or need tuning over time. 3. You are missing a key piece o

Re: ioug.org web site

2003-01-13 Thread Stephen Andert
I don't know if it's just you, but I'm ok. I just logged in and went to the Live 2003 page without any problem. Check with your network folks. Stephen >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/13/03 12:49PM >>> Is anybody else having trouble with the www.ioug.org web site. I can get to the home page, but ca

Re: Question On High Parse to execute ratio

2003-01-13 Thread Igor Neyman
Success with using CURSOR_SHARING depends on your Oracle version. In earlier versions it's buggy. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 3:00 PM > Hello: > > I have a thi

RE: compatible in 9iRel2

2003-01-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
David - No. This just ensures you don't use any "9i" only features. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 1:22 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I was curious about this parameter I have an appli

RE: Oracle 7.3.4 Real-Time Re-indexing - Additional Information

2003-01-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Thanks Rafiq. As I said, my 7.3.4 knowledge is too old by now (but man, was that a great version). Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 1:22 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dennis, Here/ in this s

RE: Conversion from CLOB to RAW

2003-01-13 Thread Burke, William F (Bill)
I wasn't. I actually am still trying to look at the varchar2. The downside is the huge amount of data they want to keep in a compressed format hence the RAW or BLOB format. Regards, Bill Burke "The Kinder and Gentler DBA" IOUG University Master Class Faculty 2001-2002 "iDBA Management, High Per

index rebuilding performance vs sort_area_size

2003-01-13 Thread Guang Mei
Hi: Today I did some small testing on our db (Oracle 8173 on Solaris 2.8) to test index rebuild (with nologging) performance vs sort_area_size. I used "alter session set sort_area_size = " to set the sort_area_size value. Nothing else was changed. The temp tablespace is 8G. There is no other a

Question On High Parse to execute ratio

2003-01-13 Thread Jay Wade
Hello: I have a third party application which seems to have alot of unbound SQL statements, several of which do not seem to be very effective queries. Unfortunatelly the code is locked. My Parse to execute ratio is around 72% and I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how I can decrease t

ioug.org web site

2003-01-13 Thread Adams, Matthew (GECP, MABG, 088130)
Title: ioug.org web site Is anybody else having trouble with the www.ioug.org web site.  I can get to the home page, but cannot log in, or register for IOUG-A Live. Is it just me? Matt Adams - GE Appliances - [EMAIL PROTECTED] My computer beat me at chess, but I won when it came to ki

Re[2]: newbie question - still: please help

2003-01-13 Thread dgoulet
Daniel, After some of the younger folks in the audience have had a say, Let's let the "old fart" have one. While on the one hand I can see what your DBA is croaking on, I can also see where you are too. Your approach is easy to code, but can wreck hell on the database especially if each

RE: Oracle 7.3.4 Real-Time Re-indexing - Additional Information

2003-01-13 Thread M Rafiq
Dennis, Here/ in this senario ' 'ANALYZE INDEX VALIDATE STRUCTURE' will not help or reveal anything except to anlyze table with cascade structure which will reveal any index corruption relating to that table. There was a bug in 7.3.4.3 where index rebuilding with parallel clause was resulting i

Re: USER_TABLESPACES has more rows than DBA_TABLESPACES

2003-01-13 Thread Stephane Faroult
> Keith Moore wrote: > > Has anyone else seen this or can you explain it? > > I have 7 tablespaces in USER_TABLESPACES that don't exist in > DBA_TABLESPACES. These have been dropped, but somehow did not > disappear from USER_TABLESPACES. They have a status of INVALID. > > The database is version

RE: compatible in 9iRel2

2003-01-13 Thread david hill
I was curious about this parameter I have an application that is certified on 8.1.7 only Could I create a 9i database set compatible to 8.1.7 and essentially call it an 8.1.7 database?   -Original Message- From: Ehresmann, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January

RE: How to identify full table scans?

2003-01-13 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: How to identify full table scans? Govind, Just curious why you are attacking the full table scans.  I implemented something like this in the past utilizing Steve Adams' script expensive_sql.sql.  It was very telling and very very useful. Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Administrator

RE: compatible in 9iRel2

2003-01-13 Thread John Shaw
system is data dictionary - the rest lmt's with uniform extents>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/13/03 12:35PM >>> Were you using any of the new tablespace features or using dictionary managed tablespaces? David Ehresmann -Original Message-From: John Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: M

USER_TABLESPACES has more rows than DBA_TABLESPACES

2003-01-13 Thread Keith Moore
Has anyone else seen this or can you explain it?   I have 7 tablespaces in USER_TABLESPACES that don't exist in DBA_TABLESPACES. These have been dropped, but somehow did not disappear from USER_TABLESPACES. They have a status of INVALID.   The database is version 8.0.5 (Yeah, I know, we'll b

How to identify full table scans?

2003-01-13 Thread Govind.Arumugam
List, We use the following script to identify recent full table scans or full index scans. This result set will be used to identify the potential queries that could benefit by creating any new indexes or modify the existing index structure as needed. Our intention is to run this query against

RE: compatible in 9iRel2

2003-01-13 Thread Ehresmann, David
We are running 9.2.0.1., do you think that could be the reason.   the .1=component specifiec Release Number?  Was your 9i  9.2.0.0.0? David Ehresmann. -Original Message-From: John Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:41 AMTo: Multiple recipients of

RE: compatible in 9iRel2

2003-01-13 Thread Ehresmann, David
Were you using any of the new tablespace features or using dictionary managed tablespaces? David Ehresmann -Original Message-From: John Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:41 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: compatible in 9i

RE: compatible in 9iRel2

2003-01-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: compatible in 9iRel2 Curious minds want to know what bugs you are trying to fix ?? Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni      MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't re

RE: Daramtically improve BCHR with a single statement

2003-01-13 Thread Cary Millsap
:) Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Steve Adams's Miracle Master Class, Jan 13-15 Copenhagen - 2003 Hotsos Symposium, Feb 9-12 Dallas -Original Message- Still Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:45 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: 8.1.6: possible to set role in db's logon trigger?

2003-01-13 Thread Pardee, Roy E
Woah--free code! A thousand thanks--this looks really close to what I'd like to do. If I can wrestle some extra privs on our test db I'll report back as to whether I was able to get this going on 8.1.6. Thanks also to Lisa & Thomas for responding. Cheers, -Roy Roy Pardee Programmer/Analyst SW

Re: newbie question - still: please help

2003-01-13 Thread Jared Still
Even with this little bit of information, it's obvious your DBA is on the right track. Any script that loops and executes 'hundred thousands of sequential update statements' is total nonsense. This will bring most any database to it's knees in a hurry. Oh yes, I've had developers pull this one

Re: newbie question - still: please help

2003-01-13 Thread Tim Gorman
Daniel, Your gut reaction is right on-target. It is always a struggle to keep certain folks from killing the entire village while trying to cure a single case of the sniffles. What's worse is that such folks are usually quite bright and talented. After, very few mediocre folks can either cure t

Re: compatible in 9iRel2

2003-01-13 Thread Jared Still
You need to create the database with compatible set to 8.1.7.0. You can't create a database at one version and then lower the compatible level without downgrading or recreating. Jared On Monday 13 January 2003 09:16, Ehresmann, David wrote: > I am trying to apply a "fix" for some developers he

Re: Daramtically improve BCHR with a single statement

2003-01-13 Thread Jared Still
So, if I coerce the developers into writing better code that does less logical IO, and the BCHR goes down, I should then investigate and fix the problem? ;) Jared On Monday 13 January 2003 08:09, Yechiel Adar wrote: > Hello All > > I saw that piece of code a few times and still think that even

Re: Oracle 7.3.4 Real-Time Re-indexing

2003-01-13 Thread M Rafiq
Have you used parallel clause while rebuilding? What version of 7.3.4 ? Check alert_SID.log for any possible index corruption If any , then you have to check for table and all indexes on that. Find index/es with multiple keys , save their defination through export , drop those indexes and cr

Re: DB Triggers vs Stored Procedures

2003-01-13 Thread Jared Still
In a nutshell, it is better to put your code in a stored procedure outside of the trigger. Why? Modular code is easier to reuse. You can't reuse code blocks that are in a trigger. There are other reasons, but this is the biggy IMO. As Ferenc recommended, get the Feurstein book. Jared On Su

Re: Different Backups - A Comparartive analysis

2003-01-13 Thread Jared Still
On Monday 13 January 2003 06:03, Tim Gorman wrote: > Another question: should SQL BackTrack be included for consideration? What does SQL BackTrack to that RMAN doesn't do? Jared -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat

Re: Oracle 7.3.4 Real-Time Re-indexing - Additional Information

2003-01-13 Thread Jared Still
Though I'm not sure, I *believe* that in 7.3 indexes must be taken offline during a rebuild. That being the case, your users queries would not have executed properly. i.e. FTS would take place for queries that normally used indexed access. Jared On Monday 13 January 2003 08:14, Conrad Meertin

Re: bitmapped indexes

2003-01-13 Thread Jared Still
Andrey, Perhaps you could tell us what paper, and where to obtain it. >From the context, it sounds like a reference to physical modifications rather than DML. Jared On Monday 13 January 2003 07:54, Andrey Bronfin wrote: > Dear gurus ! > A ( maybe ) stupid question : I always thought that bitma

RE: compatible in 9iRel2

2003-01-13 Thread John Shaw
I had a 9.2/solaris database that I could set compatible 8.1.7 on - but since I have done the 9.2.0.2. upgrade I can't set compatible below 9 either - never really needed it so I haven't bothered with metalink/tar. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/13/03 11:16AM >>>I am trying to apply a "fix" for som

Re: removing duplicate entries from a table

2003-01-13 Thread MURAT BALKAS
Hi, following metalink documents may help you. Note:65080.1 Using SQL To Delete Duplicate Rows In A Table PR:1015631.6 HOW TO SELECT DUPLICATE ROWS WITHOUT USING ROWID PR:1004425.6 HOW TO FIND OR DELETE DUPLICATE ROWS IN TABLE Murat

RE: Recommendation for SQL Tuning Book

2003-01-13 Thread Cary Millsap
The Pocket Reference has been helpful to many people. The book appears to be at least a handy summary of some relevant aspects of Oracle's documentation. However, various colleagues have convinced me that there are many statements in the book that you can disprove using careful tests. Cary Mills

Re: BCHR Tuning

2003-01-13 Thread Rajesh . Rao
I too think the BCHR has its place, as a problem indicator. It can tell me theres something wrong with my database. Say, I have this database performing well, the users are happy, the BHR is mostly at 90%, and now it suddenly shoots down to 70%, or it suddenly increases to 98. Somethings amiss. It

RE: dw tool question

2003-01-13 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: dw tool question This is something I am currently dealing with. We have two products here:  Business Objects and BRIO.  It depends on what kind of end-user you expect to support.  The main difference I see between these two is that Business Objects can easily hide the metadata de

RE: Daramtically improve BCHR with a single statement

2003-01-13 Thread Cary Millsap
"How can you tell that you need more space in the buffer pool?" ...You can notice when this is true by observing summarized extended SQL trace (event 10046) data. If the LIO count for a session is small, but the PIO count is large, then you have the problem. So, sure... Checking a session's BCHR

removing duplicate entries from a table

2003-01-13 Thread Mark Warner
Hi List Is there a tool for removing duplicate entries from a table - except that the key field is not the same. I ran some data imports more than once and was hoping someone could point me in the direction of a way to undo my mistake. Any help will be most appreciated Thanks Mark Warner __

RE: Oracle 7.3.4 Real-Time Re-indexing - Additional Information

2003-01-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Conrad - I haven't used 7.3.4 in quite some time, so my knowledge is a little rusty. If you search METALINK, you will find quite a few issues with this command on various Oracle versions. I believe that the basic principle is the same - Oracle builds a new index in the background, syncs up any tabl

RE: compatible in 9iRel2

2003-01-13 Thread Ehresmann, David
I am trying to apply a "fix" for some developers here. They used this fix in 8 and 8i by changing the compatible parameter and running their sql script. I just want to be able to tell them that they need to fix their application now that we are using 9iRel2. I tried this morning and got the ORA-

RE: compatible in 9iRel2

2003-01-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
David - Try COMPATIBLE=8.1.0 See the following link (you may have to patch it back together) http://www.csis.gvsu.edu/GeneralInfo/Oracle/server.920/a96530/migcompa.htm#1 009871 Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 13, 200

RE: 8.1.6: possible to set role in db's logon trigger?

2003-01-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: 8.1.6: possible to set role in db's logon trigger? Roy, this is in 9202 ... check the custom code for hash joins ... it has been working fine for us for > 2 months ... CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER "SYSTEM".DBT_USERS_LOGON AFTER LOGON ON DATABASE -- DECLARE CURSOR cur_sess IS SELECT

RE: newbie question - still: please help

2003-01-13 Thread Stephane Faroult
>hi! > >a DBA inteds to speed up a script that is looping >and >sending hundred thousands of sequential update >statements like: > >UPDATE ISIS_DOCAR SET STATUS = 2000 WHERE ID = n; > >he suggests copying the table to a file, change it >and then >load it into the DB again. i am strongly convinced >

RE: newbie question - still: please help

2003-01-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Daniel - Can you explain the two alternatives in a little more detail, especially the difference between the two. What types of systems are involved (Unix, Windows)? Thanks. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 1

RE: Minimum required init.ora parameters

2003-01-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Well, I just tried it on 8.1.8, and here is what I receive: SVRMGR> !cat inittest816.ora control_files = ("/oracle8/oradata/test816/control01.ctl", "/oracle8/oradata/te) SVRMGR> startup ORACLE instance started. Total System Global Area142688680 bytes Fixed Size

Re: 8.1.6: possible to set role in db's logon trigger?

2003-01-13 Thread Thomas Day
To solve your first problem, correctly identifying the current session from v$session, in your login trigger include: client_info_str := 'SOME_LITTERAL_' || LTRIM(dbms_random.value,'.'); DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO.SET_CLIENT_INFO(client_info_str); Then you can: SELECT program, user

Re: dw tool question

2003-01-13 Thread Bruce A. Bergman
>We have a new datawarehouse project. I didn't involve in this project at >beginning. Right now, I was assigned to the group for picking a front >end reporting tool. So far I know the manager prefer brio, cognos and >business intelligent product. > >Does anyone familiar with those tools? Can you gi

RE: 8.1.6: possible to set role in db's logon trigger?

2003-01-13 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: 8.1.6: possible to set role in db's logon trigger? Hi Roy, Note 122230.1 will answer your first question about session id's. Lisa Koivu Oracle Dogbone Administrator Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 5259 Coconut Creek Parkway Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA  33063 -Original Message---

newbie question - still: please help

2003-01-13 Thread Daniel Wisser
hi! a DBA inteds to speed up a script that is looping and sending hundred thousands of sequential update statements like: UPDATE ISIS_DOCAR SET STATUS = 2000 WHERE ID = n; he suggests copying the table to a file, change it and then load it into the DB again. i am strongly convinced that this is

Dead shared server msgs in alert log + core dumps

2003-01-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Has anyone ever seen a similar message to the following showing up in the alert log and creating dump/trace files: Mon Jan 13 09:45:22 2003 found dead shared server 'S000', pid = (9, 13) Mon Jan 13 10:13:46 2003 Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/admin/ndi/bdump/ndi_s000_3556.trc: ORA-07445: exception

RE: Oracle 7.3.4 Real-Time Re-indexing - Additional Information

2003-01-13 Thread Conrad Meertins
ALTER ...REBUILD.. Thanks COnrad.. -Original Message- WILLIAMS Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 10:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Conrad - What command did you use to re-index? Drop index / create index? Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Minimum required init.ora parameters

2003-01-13 Thread Keith Moore
It seems like I remember misspelling 'control_file' once and discorvering that even it has a default. Of course with Oracle, it could depend on the version, O/S, patch level, phase of the moon, etc. Keith - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: BCHR Tuning

2003-01-13 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello Anjo I just had a tuning session with Dov Hit, from ACS in Israel. He used some of the scripts that you showed him 2 years ago when you did some work for Amdocs. Anyway, after doing some search on the waits, he checked the BCHR and found out that this database has only 40%. That led us on fu

Re: Daramtically improve BCHR with a single statement

2003-01-13 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello All I saw that piece of code a few times and still think that even if you can bump up the BCHR it has it's place. How can you tell that you need more space in the buffer pool? Bad BCHR is an indication that you need to check this. It is also an indication that you do a lot of FTS or missing

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