RE: Barcode Generation in Forms/Reports

2003-02-05 Thread Sony kristanto
Hi Kumar, In my company I have several report that also print the barcode. I think it isn't big deal if you have font that support the character of barcode. Rgrds, Sony > -Original Message- > From: Pullikol Kumar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 12:19 PM > To

Re: Slightly OT....RAC courses.

2003-02-05 Thread Girijan Puthran
Mogens, Thank You so much for the information .Denmark is quite far away indeed but I sure can make it if the course is as good as the other courses provided by the miracle team.Where do you reckon I can get some more details in this regard.

Re: Slightly OT....RAC courses.

2003-02-05 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
I guess Denmark is a bit far for you to travel? :-). Otherwise, you could attend the RAC class Bjorn Engsig does here. Girijan Puthran wrote: Are there are good courses available for RAC apart from those offered by Oracle ? We are planning to implement a RAC setup at our company pretty soon and

RE: Barcode Generation in Forms/Reports

2003-02-05 Thread Abdul Aleem
Nitheesh, Please note that bar code is no special thing other than representing characters in bars. You can use a font called bar code font that represents characters as bars. A free version is available to download at www.idautomation.com The barcode device connected to a computer reads the bar

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread Bernardus Deddy Hoeydiono
upto you if you're sure that your Windows is OK. But, You have to carefull with the service pack in Windows 2K. I suggest if your O/S (Win2K) running well ,please don't apply the service if not necessary. BTW, What kind of server that you used and spec of the server ? Thank's Bernardus Deddy Hoe

Re: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-05 Thread Maria Aurora VT de la Vega
Interesting idea! =) I'll look through the license agreement (OTN) again. Then find a lawyer who's willing to be a partner... And who knows... Thanks a lot to Dennis W, Tim G, Dick G, Stephane F, jeremy P and Markus R! Thanks to everyone! I'm still open to any input/ideas/partnerships(?). Feel fr

Barcode Generation in Forms/Reports

2003-02-05 Thread Pullikol Kumar
Hi Lists, How to generate/Read/Print Barcode using Oracle Forms/Reports ( Windows / Unix). Please Help. Nitheesh *** -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Pullikol Kumar INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http

RE: windows application to show sql being executed by a client

2003-02-05 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Title: windows application to show sql being executed by a client program  Pretty cool...    A future Quest product ??? ;)   Just wondering...  :)   - Kirti   -Original Message-From: Jacques Kilchoer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 7:59 PMTo

Oracle DB License - "Named User Multi Server"

2003-02-05 Thread Hemant K Chitale
When you buy a "Named User" license do you generally buy a "Named User Single Server" license or a "Named User Multi Server" license for the Oracle Database ? The "Named User Multi Server" license should mean that a person "A" can connect to any number of databases -- ergo, as long as the numbe

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
My recent PC runs Win 2000 Server edition. I have two 9i Rel 2 databases running on it with no problems thus far. In the past several weeks (since I got it), it has not booted by itself. But my NT 4.0 Server (3 years old now), did that twice, in the middle of the night, when no one was watching

Oracle Migration Workbench for Sybase

2003-02-05 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Hello Listers, Anyone used this tool? What was your experience like? I am planning on using it to move about 20GB of data from a Sybase 11.x database to Oracle 8i (Rel 3). This is a one time activity. Flat file route (using Sybase 'bcp') is the alternate solution. I would like see if we could

RE: First version with multiple archiver processes?

2003-02-05 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
I can think of 8.1.3. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What was the first version of Oracle with the ability to start multiple archiver processes? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton --

RE: How to create a new oracle database from SVRMGRL??

2003-02-05 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: How to create a new oracle database from SVRMGRL?? If I may be so bold as to add a few details on a UNIX server you can just fire up sqlplus (or svrmgrl for older versions of Oracle) and issue the create database statement. On a Windows server you must first create the service with

RE: another possibility for running Oracle / UNIX at home

2003-02-05 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: another possibility for running Oracle / UNIX at home UNIX is dead? Why does no one tell me these things? BTW the link I meant to send is this: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/03/oracle_part3.html Part 3 goes into the gory details of what is needed for the install. >

RE: SQL Tuning Help

2003-02-05 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Sundeep - Have you tried other hints, like FIRST_ROWS? Or are you trying to avoid hints entirely? Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oracle 8.1.7.4 on HP-U

oracle log file at redhat 7.3

2003-02-05 Thread pomin
hi all, how I know where the log directory in oracle on redhat 7.3 ? because I have a problem with my server, I was installed redhat 7.3 and oracle 9.0.1 in Dell Power 2650. but after 2 week I get a problem is the computer "HANG". anyone can help me.. please I very appreciate     Regards,

SAN, Heterogenous environments, Backups

2003-02-05 Thread Hemant K Chitale
We are considering implementing a SAN, using Sun StorEdge SS9970 [OEM from Hitachi], where database servers will be a mix of Sun Solaris and HP HPUX running Oracle 8i, 9i, 9iRAC [in phase-2]. As the database files will be on File Systems [Sun or HP], the solutions provider says that backups of th

Re:Can logminer be used against 7.3 databases?

2003-02-05 Thread Kaing, Leng
Mogens, Dick is right. Metalink Note 74988.1: "LogMiner analyzes redo log files from any version 8.0 or later database that uses the same database character set and runs on the same hardware platform as the analyzing instance" Rgs, Leng. --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue

RE: VMware

2003-02-05 Thread Richard Ji
Not in a production environment, but I have been using VMWare Workstation since 2.0 with Oracle as my test, development platform.  I run various Linux (RH, SuSE) with Oracle without much problems. I have found occassionally simutanously start Opera and VMware cause my machine to freeze.  

RE: SQL Tuning Help

2003-02-05 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Sundeep, Have you reviewed Tim Gorman's paper titled: 'The Search For Intelligent Life In The Cost-Based Optimizer'? Check it out at http://www.evdbt.com. It may help. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ora

RE: Sql query

2003-02-05 Thread Sony kristanto
Hi Roland, I make a little modification to your query below, SELECT distinct PBK.VARUKORGEANREL_ULAG.ean, 0, 0, 0, rik2.vare.varenavn, rik2.vare.str, PBK.VARUKORGEANREL_ULAG.lagstapris, rik2.vare.hylletxt2, rik2.art_hierarki.vgrp, rik2.hierarki_tekst.

windows application to show sql being executed by a client progra

2003-02-05 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: windows application to show sql being executed by a client program Hello list members. A colleague of mine has written a small Windows client utility that allows you to view the SQL statements being issued by another client application. The utility has to be running on the same machine

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Stephen - I appreciate your comments. One of the hard things for me to understand is that if you're going to be working on W2K, better plan on being the administrator. At Unix sites we tend to have DBAs supported by sys admins. Some shops may indeed treat W2K that way. But usually if you are always

RE: Hanging query puzzle

2003-02-05 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Jeff, If you see the SEQ# field in the v$session_wait view not incrementing, then something else, other than Oracle, is causing a hang up... On AIX, if you have AIO enabled, try running 'aiostat'. It will show if there are any pending AIO requests. The difficult part would be to relate those p

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread Richard Ji
Oh yeah, the thing I hate most about Windows as a server. Try to do remote administration from any machine regardless of the OS. Richard Ji -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:42 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > -Original Message- > > As much a

RE: Drop datafile.

2003-02-05 Thread Sony kristanto
Hi Sesi, Have restart your Oracle ? Rgrds, Sony > -Original Message- > From: Sesi Odury [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:53 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Drop datafile. > > Hi, > > I restored the database from cold backu

RE: 7.3.4 upgrade

2003-02-05 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Hmm... there was nothing in that attachment... :( When I did this, I followed the Migration Utility Guide. Those steps always worked... :) - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 3:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Wow, never thought I'd see a requ

First version with multiple archiver processes?

2003-02-05 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
What was the first version of Oracle with the ability to start multiple archiver processes? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jeremiah Wilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 8

VMware

2003-02-05 Thread SusanK
All, I was wondering if anyone has any experience (good or bad) with the use of VMware on Oracle database servers? I am hearing rumors within my company that management is looking to utilize VMware to consolidate our WindowsNT/2000 database servers (test, development, and production). At this poin

RE: Hanging query puzzle

2003-02-05 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: Hanging query puzzle Jonathan, Charlie, Denny:   Thanks for the replies.    Our SA's claim that there's nothing wrong with the EMC SAN/disk.   Finally, made them give me errpt access (they had shut off execute privs from all but them) and got a lot of output like below.  The SAs

SQL Tuning Help

2003-02-05 Thread sundeep maini
Oracle 8.1.7.4 on HP-UX I am using collections to pass multiple values from client to the database to gather values for more than input values. The queries produce the results but the without the RULE hint the response is dramatically slower. Following is just one of the examples but I have many m

Re: Hanging query puzzle

2003-02-05 Thread Denny Koovakattu
Thanks. Didn't know that. See you in Dallas next Sunday ;) Regards, Denny Quoting Jonathan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Just a warning for the future - this is no longer true > on all versions of Oracle 9 because the wait_time > column is a copy of the underlying x$ timing > column rounde

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread Stephen Lee
> -Original Message- > > As much as I hate defending Windoze, Win2k is in fact rather stable, > at least Win2k server is. I have one system on Win2k that I reboot, > oh, every 6 months or so. > > Death to NT though. > The biggest problem that I have seen is (to me anyway) not one of s

RE: 7.3.4 upgrade

2003-02-05 Thread Richard Ji
Wow, never thought I'd see a request like this. :) Nothing wrong to ask though, who knows, someone here might have the time and resource to do it. Let me know the kind soul who will do this. I have a list of my own test to give out. :) Richard Ji -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, Feb

RE: RH AS2.1 (was: RAC on linux)

2003-02-05 Thread Jesse, Rich
Right. Sorry for the misnomenclature. Whoops, that's not actually a word. :) I associated "raw" with "FS", instead of "volume". My faux pas. I wanted to determine the need for RHAS for a test setup, and if there were any differences in the RHAS' purchase levels that would affect a production b

Re: How to dump UGA ??

2003-02-05 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Too easy ;) Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming soon one-day tutorials: Cost Based Optimisation Trouble-shooting and Tuning Indexing Strategies (see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html ) UK___March 19th USA_(FL)_May 2nd Next Seminar dates: (see ht

RE: RMAN - questions.. Rob Freeman?

2003-02-05 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Take a look at this link, it might be helpful... http://portal1.legato.com/resources/whitepapers/W012.pdf Robert -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 2/5/2003 2:16 PM I am considering doing an rman to disk backup and recovery solution for a 500G-- grow to

RE: Size of a Long Field

2003-02-05 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Using pl/sql convert long column to clob and then use dbms_lob.get_length().   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

Re:RE: Size of a Long Field

2003-02-05 Thread dgoulet
Dennis, Vsize does not like longs!! Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2/5/2003 11:29 AM Ed - Look up the function VSIZE in the documentation. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PR

RE: Size of a Long Field

2003-02-05 Thread Richard Ji
This is for LONG. For LONG RAW, you could use utl_raw.length or use a C or Java program to read it and calculate the length. CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION l_length(cTabName varchar2, cColName varchar2, cRowid varchar2) RET

RE: Size of a Long Field

2003-02-05 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Oops, my bad. Well I have limited experience with longs because I hate them with a passion. Whenever one of the developers says they are going to use long, I say "not on my database". You people are only making me feel better about that philosophy. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAI

RE: RMAN - questions.. Rob Freeman?

2003-02-05 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Is this all live OLTP type data, or might some of the data be made read-only? How much will the data be growing and changing (if not a great deal then look into incrementals). I can't begin to guess at the time required those numbers are all factors of: 1. # of backup devices you will be backi

Re[2]: another possibility for running Oracle / UNIX at home

2003-02-05 Thread dgoulet
Damn, nothing like a dead OS that refuses to stay down!! Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/5/2003 12:54 PM Very cool! I was wondering about this the other day. See: http://www.oracle.com/start/apple/intro.html?src=14390

RE: Size of a Long Field

2003-02-05 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Size of a Long Field I have this code that is used to search within a trigger body ... you can maybe adapt this to get length ... you have to just change dbms_lob.instr to dbms_lob.getlength() maybe. CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION long_contains ( row_id ROWID, VALUE VARCHAR2) RETURN NU

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread Jared . Still
As much as I hate defending Windoze, Win2k is in fact rather stable, at least Win2k server is. I have one system on Win2k that I reboot, oh, every 6 months or so. Death to NT though. Jared "Bernardus Deddy Hoeydiono" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/05/2003 12:48 AM Pleas

RE: RMAN - questions.. Rob Freeman?

2003-02-05 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Brian - Hopefully Robert will have a chance to respond to your question, but if I might make some suggestions, I think your recovery time has two components: 1. If the backup files are not on disk, the time to locate the tape, load the files. 2. RMAN recovery time. I think you will just have to

Re: Determine how many used and free blocks in an extent.

2003-02-05 Thread Jonathan Lewis
There is a script (last updated Nov 2000) on my website that gets you part way. But there is no way you can find out about the contiguity of free blocks (at least not the ones below the HWM) as you have to walk every freelist to find all the free blocks, then sort them into physical order. It i

RE: RMAN - questions.. Rob Freeman?

2003-02-05 Thread Peter . McLarty
You will only know what your system is capable of It is very dependant on the disk arrays and no of scsi or fibre channels you have to support those disks Also RAID level will be a big contributor How long does it take to copy say a 500MB file from location to location. check it out this way

Re: Hanging query puzzle

2003-02-05 Thread Jonathan Lewis
It looks like your process really is stuck in a way that has nothing to do with the Oracle code directly. You might look at the CPU usage of your session and its shadow using an O/S utility, but I suspect it would show zero CPU. Perhaps truss (or the AIX equivalent) might show your process spinn

RE: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-05 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Jeremy - I should probably have been more specific. :-) Years ago I worked for a software vendor. They wanted to port their product to Oracle. They expected to receive complimentary licenses in order to do this. Most vendors bend over backwards to have you port to their product. Oracle expected tha

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-05 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Windows is cheaper than SUN. Linux is cheaper than Windows. Quoting Tony Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We have had an excellent experience with our Windows2000 clusters. > Since moving to a clustered environment > on our Test, Beta and Production systems over 18 months ago we have > had 0 ( Zero

RE: Determine how many used and free blocks in an extent.

2003-02-05 Thread Stephen Lee
Do you mean something like this: select max(bytes) from dba_free_space where tablespace_name = 'NAME'; > -Original Message- > I would like to determine the maximum # of contiguous > free blocks within an extent > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author

Re: OT: Hotsos Symposium - Dallas

2003-02-05 Thread Jared . Still
Unfortunately, I am not attending. Having to choose between IOUG and HOTSOS, I opted for IOUG as I haven't been since 2000. I feel fortunate at that, as I know a number of folks that won't be able to attend any conference this year. Jared Denny Koovakattu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAI

RE: Partition and primary key

2003-02-05 Thread Janardhana Babu Donga
Title: Partition and primary key You need to have 15 to 20gig temp space to do this, assuming you are equipartitioning the primary key index. -Original Message-From: NGUYEN Philippe (Cetelem) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:53 AMTo: Multiple reci

RE: 9i "Reliability" means ?

2003-02-05 Thread Sherman, Edward
Do Standby Databases & Database Replication come under the subject "Reliability" ? Yes, this would come under the topic of "High Availability" Heres a ppt that might give you some more ideas: http://www.darc.com/ncoaug/presentations/2001-summer/Bondra.ppt HTH Ed -Original Message-

DB character set

2003-02-05 Thread Boris Dali
Dear List, Life was pretty easy here before they came up with this euro symbol :-( We had WE8ISO8859P1 (the default I bevieve) as a char set on all Unix and MS (sorry we have those as well) DBs accross the board. That was also the client side char set (part of NLS_LANG) - most clients here are on

RE: Problem with LONG column

2003-02-05 Thread Jared . Still
Dennis, PL/SQL cannot directly deal with longs > 32k. There *is* a way to do with global temporary tables and the to_lob() function, but it won't be nearly as fast as just using 'copy'. Jared DENNIS WILLIAMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/05/2003 06:52 AM Please respo

7.3.4 upgrade

2003-02-05 Thread Cyril Thankappan
Hi Listers, I've prepared a small list of steps to follow for an upgrade of 7.3.4 database to 9.2 However unfortunately I do not have access to a 7.3.4 database Can one of you who has access to 7.3.4 database, try these steps out and give me your 'honest' feedback? Thanks a lot Cyril

Re: Hanging query puzzle

2003-02-05 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Just a warning for the future - this is no longer true on all versions of Oracle 9 because the wait_time column is a copy of the underlying x$ timing column rounded from microseconds to hundredths. Hence the wait_time can show a zero when the actual time is non-zero. You should depend only on the

RE: Where is result set maintained?

2003-02-05 Thread Richard Ji
Stole right from asktom. Thanks Tom. :) We do not build the result set anywhere in general. If you do select * from one_billion_row_table -- we fetch the data from the table as needed -- the results start coming back IMMEDIATELY not after we've fetched the last row. For certain types of queries

Determine how many used and free blocks in an extent.

2003-02-05 Thread Rick_Cale
Does any have a script that shows actual # of used and free blocks in an extent? I would like to determine the maximum # of contiguous free blocks within an extent Thanks Rick -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

Re: another possibility for running Oracle / UNIX at home

2003-02-05 Thread Jared . Still
Very cool! I was wondering about this the other day. See: http://www.oracle.com/start/apple/intro.html?src=1439096&Act=5 Developer's release of 9iR2 EE for MAC OS X. Jared Jacques Kilchoer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/05/2003 11:30 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L

RE: RH AS2.1 (was: RAC on linux)

2003-02-05 Thread Richard Ji
OCFS = Oracle Cluster File System. An open source project lead by Wim Coekaerts from Oracle. There is no such thing as raw FS, it's just raw (without any file system). And I just learned about this NBD (Network Block Device) from this list. So that's a third option. Richard Ji -Original M

Re: Drop datafile.

2003-02-05 Thread Suzy Vordos
This command is used to put a datafile in recovery mode, not for dropping the datafile. Now you either need to do recovery, or drop the tablespace completely and re-create it. Simply put, you cannot drop a datafile. Suzy Sesi Odury wrote: > > Hi, > > I restored the database from cold backu

RE: 9i "Reliability" means ?

2003-02-05 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Vivek To me "reliability" means "won't break". Difficult to get hard data. You might consider changing the name to "availability", which to me covers not just reliability, but all aspects of my application being available to my users. Things like dynamic parameters can be very important becau

Re: info on toplink?

2003-02-05 Thread Jared . Still
> I am attempting to RTF google on this RTFG? Yeah, I like it. ;) Jared "Sarnowski, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/05/2003 08:33 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subje

Re: Partition and primary key

2003-02-05 Thread Jared . Still
What is the exact error message, including text? It could be failing on the temp segment initially created in the index tablespace, and not necessarily running out of sort space. Jared "NGUYEN Philippe (Cetelem)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/05/2003 06:52 AM Please re

SQL*NET timeout with database link

2003-02-05 Thread Smith, Ron L.
If I try to connect to a database from server a to server b using sqlplus and a database link and that database does not exist the connection attempt seems to hang. Is there a way to set the timeout so it will not hang? R. Smith If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail message, any u

RE: Hanging query puzzle

2003-02-05 Thread Denny Koovakattu
Did you try tracing it from the OS ? Any error messages in the OS system log ? Is it always one datafile/mount point ? A while back, I had seen a similar problem when an array had gone bad. You may want to try using "dd" to read and write some files and check the timing. Regards, Denny Quo

Re: Size of a Long Field

2003-02-05 Thread Stephane Faroult
Not easy. If your LONG is shorter than 32767, then you can, in a PL/SQL function, fetch it into a VARCHAR2 of this size (allowed in PL/SQL) and aplly LENGTH() to this VARCHAR2. Assuming the suitable Oracle version, I think there is somewhere a function to convert LONGs to CLOBs - to which you can a

RE: Size of a Long Field

2003-02-05 Thread JApplewhite
Dennis, Using VSize on a Long results in: ORA-00997: illegal use of LONG datatype Just tried in on Trigger_Body in DBA_Triggers. (8.1.7.0.0 on HP-UX). Jack C. Applewhite Database Administrator Austin Independent School District Austin, Texas 512.414.9715 (wk) 512.935.5929 (pager) [EMAIL PROT

RE: Connecting to Non Oracle databases from Oracle

2003-02-05 Thread Sunil . Kumar . Gompa
i was successfull in connecting to a Non oracle database from Oracle on unix through the Listener on Win NT. this situation arose b'cos we did not have a ODBC setup on Unix. So we had to do the ODBC as well as the Heterogeneous services setup on Win NT. and then try to connect from databse on Unix

Re: Where is result set maintained?

2003-02-05 Thread Stephane Faroult
Paul Baumgartel wrote: > > When one executes a query, the result set is identified. Fetching the > rows in the result set can be done over a period of time. In what form > does Oracle maintain the result set, and where? > > TIA > > Paul Baumgartel > If I understand well your question, I don'

Re: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-05 Thread Stephane Faroult
DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote: > > Maria - Actually, I would think the best time to contact Oracle sales is > when you don't have money. Good sales people can smell money. ;-) >Some software companies are very liberal about providing their product > for development and training purposes. My impression

Question on "set autotrace on statistics"

2003-02-05 Thread gmei
Hi: I am trying to understand why sqlplus did not display stats when I run "analyze table ..." and "create index ..."? TIA. Guang -- SQL> set autotrace on statistics SQL> analyze table gene_upr compute statistics; Table analyzed. SQL> desc gene_upr; Name

Re: Size of a Long Field

2003-02-05 Thread JApplewhite
Ed, Perhaps you could use the DBMS_SQL Define_Column_Long and Column_Value_Long procedures to manipulate the Long? Converting the Long to a LOB using To_LOB function, then manipulating it with the DBMS_LOB package might do, too. Jack C. Applewhite Database Administrator Austin Independent Schoo

RE: How to dump UGA ??

2003-02-05 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: How to dump UGA ?? KG, That's what I am looking for ... which sessions have trace enabled ...? Developers *forget* to disable tracing in their code when they move it to production ... so I have to investigate ... Raj __ Rajendr

RE: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-05 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Markus - That is what I call a creative solution! I'm no lawyer either, but excellent! Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Did you ever consider that your (

RE: Size of a Long Field

2003-02-05 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ed - Look up the function VSIZE in the documentation. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:53 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L How do you determine the size, in bytes, of a long field?

RE: Hanging query puzzle

2003-02-05 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: Hanging query puzzle Still sitting there, while we try to figure out exactly why it's waiting.   SID Username EVENT   WAIT_TIME STATE   SECONDS_IN_WAIT -

another possibility for running Oracle / UNIX at home

2003-02-05 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: another possibility for running Oracle / UNIX at home A few days ago someone had asked about what options are available for running Oracle (database) on UNIX at home. I just saw this article: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/12/oracle_part1.html Installing Oracle 9i on Mac

Re: Problem with LONG column

2003-02-05 Thread Jared Still
Create the new table, and then use the sqlplus 'copy' command, as it can handle longs. Jared On Wednesday 05 February 2003 02:23, BanarasiBabu Tippa wrote: > Hi everyone > > One of my development team is working on ORACLE 8 on NT (Because of client > requirement they are working on that version)

Re: Hanging query puzzle

2003-02-05 Thread Denny Koovakattu
What is the value for WAIT_TIME ? This may not be an IO problem if 'WAIT_TIME' is not 0. A session is waiting only when 'WAIT_TIME' is 0. I would suggest running some utility like tusc (HP), truss (Sun), strace (Linux) and check it from the OS side. Since this is a third party tool, it could

Re: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-05 Thread Markus Reger
Did you ever consider that your (prospective) trainig candidates get the (for testing purposes freely downloadable) oracle software themselves and install it themselves (or assisted by you) on a good (linux - one might hope ;-)) box and then you assist them by getting along with this? I think

RE: Sql query

2003-02-05 Thread Nicoll, Iain
Roland, A quick look suggest you have cartesian joins unless rik2.vare, rik2.hierarki_tekst, rik2.art_hierarki, pbk.sortiment_vgrp all have only one row. Iain Nicoll -Original Message- Sent: 05 February 2003 14:53 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have this sql query. I am w

RE: Hanging query puzzle

2003-02-05 Thread Thomas Jeff
Sorry,  running 8.1.7.2 on AIX 4.3.3.        -Original Message-From: John Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:09 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: Hanging query puzzleWhat version are you running - I have a similar problem on 9.

RE: RMAN - questions.. Rob Freeman?

2003-02-05 Thread Spears, Brian
I am considering doing an rman to disk backup and recovery solution for a 500G-- grow to 1terabyte database. Monster HP servers ... up t0 16 cpu, upto 10,000 concurrent users This rman would be the secondary recovery solution (Timefinder is the first). Anybody know time frames I might be ab

RE: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-05 Thread Jeremy Pulcifer
Title: RE: Oracle License for Training > From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Maria - Actually, I would think the best time to contact > Oracle sales is when you don't have money. Good sales people > can smell money. ;-) Heh. >    Some software companies are very lib

RE: Size of a Long Field

2003-02-05 Thread Jeremy Pulcifer
Title: Message Man, what a buzz-kill you are. -Original Message-From: Ed Bittel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:53 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Size of a Long Field How do you determine the size, in bytes, of a

TOAD

2003-02-05 Thread Ehresmann, David
List, I have a developer that I want to grant access to change another schema owner's packages in TOAD. I have granted connect, resource, and roles which incorporate DML on the tables and execute on the packages. When he goes into TOAD he can see the package spec but not the package body. How d

Re: Hanging query puzzle

2003-02-05 Thread John Shaw
What version are you running - I have a similar problem on 9.2.0.2 on Solaris 9 that I've had an open tar on since November - Support has finally called up and said other people are having the same kind of problem - especially in regards to parallel processes. I am supposedly getting  a test

Re:Oracle License for Training

2003-02-05 Thread dgoulet
Maria, You found the fly in the ointment. Since training is your business then you end up paying for the software just like the rest of us. Now if your doing training in-house, for your own company, then things are different. Dick Goulet Reply Separator

RE: 9i "Reliability" means ?

2003-02-05 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: 9i "Reliability" means ? Reliability would have to include Standby, Data Guard, RAC - pros/cons of all and when you might use one versus the other.  Also, go to the Freeman book as a start on new options and look through the new features and decide what could lead to more "reliable"

RE: How to dump UGA ??

2003-02-05 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Jonathan: How about calling the DBMS_SYSTEM.READ_EV procedure? I think this is simpler than going to the UGA dumps.. THe restriction with DBMS_SYSTEM is, you can not get the event settings of the other sessions. But Dumps can. Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan -Original Message- Lew

Re: How to create a new oracle database from SVRMGRL??

2003-02-05 Thread Joan Hsieh
forgot couple things, add this database to your oratab and added it to your tnsnames.ora Joan Hsieh wrote: > > Majid, > > 1. Create ini.ora, link this ini.ora to your oracle_home/dbs > 2. startup nomount pfile=$ORACLE_HOME/dbs/initestdb.ora > > create database TESTDB > maxdatafiles 1021

Re: Sql query

2003-02-05 Thread Igor Neyman
There is no "join" condition between first two tables (PBK.UNDERLAG, PBK.VARUKORGEANREL_ULAG) and last four tables (rik2.vare, rik2.hierarki_tekst, rik2.art_hierarki, pbk.sortiment_vgrp). Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE

Re: How to create a new oracle database from SVRMGRL??

2003-02-05 Thread Joan Hsieh
Majid, 1. Create ini.ora, link this ini.ora to your oracle_home/dbs 2. startup nomount pfile=$ORACLE_HOME/dbs/initestdb.ora create database TESTDB maxdatafiles 1021 maxinstances 1 maxlogfiles 8 maxlogmembers 4 character set WE8ISO8859P15 datafile '/testdb/sy

RE: Size of a Long Field

2003-02-05 Thread Janardhana Babu Donga
Try this,   Select table_name,column_name,data_length,data_type from dba_tab_columns where owner = '' and data_type='LONG' ;   -- Babu -Original Message-From: Ed Bittel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:53 AMTo: Multiple recipients of li

Re:RE: How to create a new oracle database from SVRMGRL??

2003-02-05 Thread dgoulet
Sony, Don't you mean Database Configuration Assistant? Not only does it create the database, but configures the listener as required and the registry. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Sony kristanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2/4/2003 7:08 PM

RE: HPUX SCSI Performance

2003-02-05 Thread david hill
Title: RE: HPUX SCSI Performance HPUX 11i version 1.6 for itanium on vxfs -Original Message- From: Jesse, Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 12:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: HPUX SCSI Performance What OS?  What filesyst

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