RE: re SHUTDOWN ABORT -- was RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and

2003-02-06 Thread Robert Freeman
Let me throw in my 2 cents worth on this topic. There are two problems with SHUTDOWN ABORT that I have experienced in the past. 1. Before 9i (it appears to be fixed in 9i) if you inserted data in a table, then did a shutdown abort, if after restarting the database, you tried to truncate the table

RE: re SHUTDOWN ABORT -- was RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris an

2003-02-06 Thread Robert Freeman
Title: RE: re SHUTDOWN ABORT -- was RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Let me throw in my 2 cents worth on this topic. There are two problems with SHUTDOWN ABORT that I have experienced in the past.   1. Before 9i (it appears to be fixed in 9i) if you inserted data in a table, then did a

RE: RMAN - questions.. Rob Freeman?

2003-02-06 Thread Robert Freeman
Oops... didn't catch the disk backup bit. Backing up 1TB to disk?? Wow! Still, the same rules would apply. lots of disks to spread the backup IO over :-) RF -Original Message- Brian Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 10:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This is ok fo

Re: Freeware reverse engineer ER diagram from ODBC connection

2003-02-06 Thread Satya V Prakash
Hi, u can use Platinum Erwin for this. www.platinum.com u can easily build data models, reverse engineer an existing schema from an oracle database, forward engineer the changes made in the data model so as to reflect back the same schema structure at the back-end. it is a very useful t

RE: Cron not working

2003-02-06 Thread John Kanagaraj
On certain platforms, Cron quitely fails when there is a error. Eyeball your crontab file and make a small change - insert and delete a blank line - to kick start it. Also check the daemon as others have indicated. John Kanagaraj Oracle Applications DBA DBSoft Inc (W): 408-970-7002 What would you

Re: Question on "set autotrace on statistics"

2003-02-06 Thread chao_ping
gmei,ÄúºÃ£¡ hi, you can look into v$mystat or v$sesstat to get those status value. Good luck. === 2003-02-05 07:59:00 ÄúÔÚÀ´ÐÅÖÐдµÀ£º=== >Hi: > >I am trying to understand why sqlplus did not display stats when I run >"analyze table ..." and "create index ..."? > >TIA. >

RE: Anybody using Mercury WinRunner?

2003-02-06 Thread John Kanagaraj
Dennis, We did use LoadRunner for testing out 'static' functions for a 11i load test, with limited success. Be aware that the scripting will take a while and will have to be carefully done to make sure that you are simulating your real environment. The load is pretty real, but you need to decide i

What is minimum privs to have user do hot backups

2003-02-06 Thread Rick_Cale
Hi All, If I create a backup user, what is the minimum requirements to connect as that user and do hot backups? Thanks Rick -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com

RE: SQL

2003-02-06 Thread Sony kristanto
Hi Waseem, When you decide to use 'group by' in your query, I can just suggest you to not use 'order by' clause, my reason is, it will makes your query running slow. Try to just use 'group by' clause without 'order by' clause, your query will running faster than when you include 'order by' clause.

RE: ORA-1000 - How to trace culprit

2003-02-06 Thread Richard Ji
v$open_cursor doesn't reflect all cursors counting towards the max open cursor limit. To see truly how many cursor each session is consuming you need to associate v$sesstat with v$session and look at statistics#=3. Richard Ji -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 7:39 PM T

RE: AIX 4.3.3 / 8.1.7 & Timed Statistics & Tuning Question

2003-02-06 Thread John Kanagaraj
Lisa, Be aware that AIX uses the memory for File system caching, and as much as it can. So don't be surprised by low values in 'fremem' in vmstat. What you do need to watch out is the 'pi' (page in) column which can indicate paging in.. Large values in 'po', when you are seeing lots of physical f

Re: Trolling for ideas

2003-02-06 Thread Vladimir Begun
Dennis, ask your developer to enable simple tracing (in case there is no trace file on the server), figure out what statement fails, run it locally on the server using sqlplus/srvmgrl -- you can expect some more meaningful error message that is probably not handled properly. Another idea is to ena

DB Linking 8.1.7 Oracle Databases

2003-02-06 Thread Janet Querdibitty
Hello All, I have a question about db linking between 2 Oracle 8.1.7 databases. A little background. Our logical database spans 2 physical databases (in separate organizations), which are currently connected over database links. Local db is 8.0.6; remote db is 7.3. User accounts are external

Re: Trolling for ideas

2003-02-06 Thread Jeff Herrick
Dennis Is there an sqlnet.log file tossed up on the VB client that has a TNS-12203 (unable to connect to destination) error? If so, make sure that the switch port the Alpha is plugged into has been hard-coded to 100Mb/s full duplex. "Friends don't let friends auto-negotiate" Known problem with

RE: ORA-1000 - How to trace culprit

2003-02-06 Thread Khedr, Waleed
The max open cursors include necessary cursors to run direct sql submitted by user and the cursors needed to run recursive sql by the system. Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 6:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, We're currently getti

RE: Re[2]: HELP!!! : Can't start database - Rollback Datafiles a

2003-02-06 Thread Veronica Levin
Hi to all, Thanks for the comments, but none of them worked for me, I tried putting a comment in the init.ora file to the rollback segments line to recreate the controlfile. No success. I did get a message telling me that there was a 'MISSING000' datafile in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs, and tried to do a of

Re: Disaster Recovery

2003-02-06 Thread Connor McDonald
You'll want to ensure that any other files that used in conjunction with the database are backed up with their locations well-noted. - listener config files - parameter files - stored parameter file - oracle password files etc etc hth connor --- "O'Neill, Sean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We'

Re: Help with a truncate command in a procedure

2003-02-06 Thread Mark Richard
Ron, Trunacte is DDL not DML. The easiest was around this is to wrap it in an execute immediate command: BEGIN EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'TRUNCATE TABLE LOT837_GLOBAL_TBL_KMG'; END; / Note that the semi-colon is outside the quotes - don't place a semi-colon inside the quotes. Regards, Mark.

ORA-1000 - How to trace culprit

2003-02-06 Thread Mark Richard
Hi, We're currently getting a lot of ORA-1000 errors (max open cursors exceeded) on Oracle 8.1.7.4. I tried looking at v$open_cursor and saw the following: 1* select sid, count(*) from v$open_cursor group by sid order by count(*) desc SQL> / SID COUNT(*) -- --

Re: Trolling for ideas

2003-02-06 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
Dennis: I have had some experience with developers using ADO. First, are they using ODBC or OLE for the database connectivity between ADO and the database. If they are using ODBC, determine if it is Microsoft 's or Oracle's ODBC. The version of Microsoft's ODBC the developers were using did not

Re:Trolling for ideas

2003-02-06 Thread Gene Sais
Sounds like a network problem, beware of the network outages during off hours.  Re-write in perl and run on the db server :).  Change the times it runs and see if you can recreate the problem.>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/06/03 05:14PM >>>Dennis,    I have been plagued by a similar problem and ha

Re: RAC on linux?

2003-02-06 Thread Connor McDonald
There is a product on the market that dramatically reduces the cost of RAc to almost nothing. Its called: LF ver 1.0 where LF = "license fraud". Of course, to get it, you will need to send me a license fee for LF, plus ongoing maintenance costs. :-) Cheers Connor --- Mogens_Nørgaard <[EMAIL

Re: Help with a truncate command in a procedure

2003-02-06 Thread Joe Testa
truncate is a sqlplus command(and DDL), so to do it, you need to use the dbms_sql(or execute immediate) command, i think. joe Smith, Ron L. wrote: I am not a coder but I received this from one of our developers. I can't find anything about this anywhere. Can someone tell me how to make the

RE: Help with a truncate command in a procedure

2003-02-06 Thread Stephen Lee
Look up info on using "execute immediate" This will let you put non-DML-type statements in a PL/SQL block. -Original Message- I am not a coder but I received this from one of our developers. I can't find anything about this anywhere. Can someone tell me how to make the truncate work? T

RE: Help with a truncate command in a procedure

2003-02-06 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Help with a truncate command in a procedure (pant pant) Will I be the first to say that you need to use dynamic SQL? dbms_sql package in Oracle version < 8.1 execute immediate in Oracle version >= 8.1 -Original Message- From: Smith, Ron L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I am

Re: Anybody using Mercury WinRunner?

2003-02-06 Thread Peter . McLarty
I know our company did some trials with WinRunner and the general consensus amongst the people testing of which two were our development dba's thought it a very good product. We however didn't buy due to the decision to purchase some other products from one of there competitors and so I believe

RE: Help with a truncate command in a procedure

2003-02-06 Thread Richard Ji
Title: Help with a truncate command in a procedure Truncate is a DDL.  So you can't just do "truncate" like you would with delete which is a DML. You didn't say which version of Oracle you are running.  If it's 8i, do   execute immediate "truncate table .";   Otherwise, look into DBM

RE: Where is result set maintained?

2003-02-06 Thread Paul Baumgartel
That's what I was looking for, thanks. I understood that state information was preserved (after all, one could fetch one row an hour), but I didn't know how/where. I guess the cursor contains information on the last step executed of the optimizer plan. --- Richard Ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: multiple oracle homes

2003-02-06 Thread Connor McDonald
Normally there is some stuff in the platform-specific installation manual or in the migration manual. In any event, you pretty much stick 8i under one directory / filesystem and 9i under another and use oratab (in conjunction with oraenv/coraenv) to toggle between them hth connor --- Ray Stell

RE: Trolling for ideas

2003-02-06 Thread Stephen Lee
cursor_sharing = force can cause it. Bug. > -Original Message- > night, and sometimes receives an ORA-03113 end-of-file on > communication > channel. Not consistently, just sporadically, and at varying > amounts of > time. I have been unable to find anything in the server logs. > We

RE: RAC on linux?

2003-02-06 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: RE: RAC on linux? Uncle Larry is probably thinking, "Since you're saving so much money on the O/S and the hardware you have more to spend on Oracle so don't complain." I'm actually hoping open source PostgreSQL/MySQL start to compete and force Oracle to lower their pricing... I can dre

RE: RMAN - questions.. Rob Freeman?

2003-02-06 Thread Gene Sais
Excellent thread on VLDB and backups.  I know EMC BCVs/Timefinder works for quick disk backups from experience.  However, EMC is not an option, we are a IBM shop w/ Shark storage, Raid-5.  The IBM reps say flashcopy works the same if not better than EMC BCVs.  Question, is this pure marketin

what does INACTIVE session do?

2003-02-06 Thread Gurelei
Hi this is a pretty trivial question. I have executed a set of sql scripts. The scripts included a set ofSELECT command followed by exit. While the scripts have been running, I was checking the number of sessions open and their status. I have noticed that at any time I had a number of sessions with

RE: RAC on linux?

2003-02-06 Thread Khedr, Waleed
I believe it's meant for personal use: 1. two 1-cpu intel box: $1000 2. Linux: $0.50 3. Oracle RAC for free. Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 5:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I'm a bitter, old, twisted man. And I feel like it when I read this

RE: Oracle 9i Lite - any help please?

2003-02-06 Thread Saira Somani
Mogens, Thank you kindly for forwarding my questions to the head honcho. I would be extremely pleased if he responded but not offended if he didn't. Funny enough, we are currently using Lite with Intermec 700 handhelds (StrongARM chipset) running Pocket PC (Windows CE) in hospitals to manage supp

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

2003-02-06 Thread Ron Rogers
Nice tool but the major draw back that I find it it only monitors the applications you kick off. It would be nice if it would monitor like the TOAD monitor does. I like the fact that it scrolls the previous command and you can look back and see what happens that you did not know or understand. This

Re: RAC on linux?

2003-02-06 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
I'm a bitter, old, twisted man. And I feel like it when I read this thread. Here's why. A lot of good people are celebrating the fact that Oracle RAC can run on a two-node Intel cluster with Linux on top. Very cost-efficient, they say. Well, here's my small calculation: 1. Two 4-cpu Intel boxe

Re[2]: RMAN - delete obsolete?

2003-02-06 Thread Alex Andriyashchenko
Hello Lads, Thanks a lot for useful answers. -- Best regards, Alexmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.c

Help with a truncate command in a procedure

2003-02-06 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Title: Help with a truncate command in a procedure I am not a coder but I received this from one of our developers.  I can't find anything about this anywhere.  Can someone tell me how to make the truncate work? Thanks! R.Smith In a DB procedure, I wanted to include the following SQL: BEG

Re:Trolling for ideas

2003-02-06 Thread dgoulet
Dennis, I have been plagued by a similar problem and have a fix if it fits. Check the statements where the 3113 is coming from. Are they going to a remote database? And if so, are the tables on the remote database analyzed while the local tables are not? Then the fix is to delete the stati

Using Soft Links for Datafiles

2003-02-06 Thread Rajesh . Rao
We are in the process of creating a 9.2 RAC database. And we are being forced to follow a standard whereby, all files are to be in a directory structure, say /local. No standards have yet been defined, if one were using raw volumes. And since we will be using raw volumes for the datafiles, to enfor

RE: Maximum enabled roles

2003-02-06 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Maximum enabled roles Huh. In the Oracle 8.1 documentation (Oracle8i Reference - Release 2 (8.1.6) - Part Number A76961-01) I see a default value for MAX_ENABLED_ROLES of 20. However in the 8.1.7 database I'm running on my PC max_enabled_roles is not mentioned in the init.ora, and t

RE: AIX 4.3.3 / 8.1.7 & Timed Statistics & Tuning Question

2003-02-06 Thread Koivu, Lisa
OMG are you KIDDING   Do you know when??  I just found out (as you may remember from my "Just Shoot Me" post) that IBM's version of desupport is "don't even ask us".    Thank you so much Ruth for pointing this out.    Have a great day. Lisa -Original Message-From: Ruth Gramoli

RE: multiple oracle homes

2003-02-06 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ray - Since I don't see where anyone replied, I think the problem is your stress on "well documented". Might have scared people off. The basic procedure is to use separate ORACLE_HOME for each version. Make sure each version doesn't share anything you don't want them to. Most Unix systems require c

Trolling for ideas

2003-02-06 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
I have a developer that wrote a VB program using ADO, connecting to Oracle 8.1.6 on a Compaq Tru64 server. One program of his runs for hours each night, and sometimes receives an ORA-03113 end-of-file on communication channel. Not consistently, just sporadically, and at varying amounts of time. I h

Re[2]: Update NT to 2000 Server

2003-02-06 Thread Breno A. K. Magnago
OK. And about the Oracle compatible. Only create a new windows 2000 service is necessary, any upgrade of database is require. Is it Correct ? -- Breno A. K. Magnagomailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mercantil de Alimentos Soares Thursday, February 06, 2003, 4:39:17 PM, you wrot

Re: OAUGNet & OAUGNet-DBA list servers from OAUG.COM

2003-02-06 Thread Robert Stauffer
Bob, They switched to a different list server provider and there were numerous problems. They may have unsubscribed you. Here's a quick list of email addresses for the OAUGNet-DBA list. I assume the OAUGNet list email addresses would be similar. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

OT: Oracle workers need stress management??

2003-02-06 Thread Murray, Margaret
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Maximum enabled roles

2003-02-06 Thread Donald Bricker
Does the max_enabled_roles initialization parameter have to be set for an instance? If it is not set is the limit the default of 20 or do you have unlimited enabled roles. I have looked through the docs and I only find the upper limit for max_enabled_roles is 148. Thanks Don Bricker Database

RE: Looking for simple monitor script dbup.bat

2003-02-06 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Looking for simple monitor script dbup.bat If I understand you correctly, the problem is that you don't get an ERRORLEVEL set when you are unable to connect to a database. Have you tried sqlplus/nolog? (Ignore the french text, I have Oracle installed  in french on my PC) D:\>sqlplu

RE: Update NT to 2000 Server

2003-02-06 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
I agree with Jared and Scott that's the best way to do it. -Original Message- Scott Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L First off I am an NT/Win2k admin and I fully agree with you Jared. Blow the partition and start from zero, you'll be happ

RE: Oracle Training

2003-02-06 Thread April Wells
And the teachers at the Madison G&R training center are frequently either Oracle contractors or ex-oracle employees. April Wells Oracle DBA Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds -- Albert Einstein -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2

RE: Hanging query puzzle

2003-02-06 Thread Henry Poras
Kirti, Just took another look at our kproc processes. What is weird is that we have 26 of them, 9 are owned by oracle the rest are root (huh?). All of them started at system boot. Also, almost all of the CPU is used by the top four (current %CPU and total over the life of the process) with the res

RE: AIX 4.3.3 / 8.1.7 & Timed Statistics & Tuning Question

2003-02-06 Thread Ball, Terry
I am not currently working in an AIX environment; but when I did (and it was 4.3 with 8.1.6/7) we always set timed_statistics=true with no adverse effects. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Good morning everyone - Qui

RE: Oracle Training

2003-02-06 Thread Stephen Lee
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Re: AIX 4.3.3 / 8.1.7 & Timed Statistics & Tuning Question

2003-02-06 Thread Ruth Gramolini
By the way, Lisa.  AIX 4.3.3 is being desupported.  We are testing 9i on AIX5.2 as I write this.  I could not get the powers that be to move away from 8.0.x and now we are jumping right to 9i.  I did install 8.1.7 and use OEM2.2, but that won't support a 9i database.  I will install the new

RE: AIX 4.3.3 / 8.1.7 & Timed Statistics & Tuning Question

2003-02-06 Thread Paulo Gomes
Sorry to contact u of list. Do happen to know how to install rpm packages in aix? I downloaded c 5.1 from ibm (in rpm) wich is necessary to install 9ir2 but i don't know how to install rpm in aix 4.3.3. Could u help me??? Thanks in advance Paulo -Original Message-From: Scott Ste

Anybody using Mercury WinRunner?

2003-02-06 Thread Meng, Dennis
Hi all - We are thinking about using Mercury WinRunner to load test our 11 to 11i upgrade and wondering if anybody has experience using this before. How steep the learning curve, how reliable and how 'real' the load is comparing to the production load. Any other feedbacks are also welcome. Thanks

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

2003-02-06 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: windows application to show sql being executed by a client pr Well I guess the cat is out of the bag! I didn't think that TOAD with SQL Monitor had been released yet. Yes, an (earlier?) version of his app was chosen to be incorporated in TOAD. -Original Message- From: [EMAI

RE: AIX 4.3.3 / 8.1.7 & Timed Statistics & Tuning Question

2003-02-06 Thread Scott Stefick
Lisa, Try oslevel -r at the command promt.  It should tell you. -Scott At 09:49 AM 2/6/03 -0800, you wrote: Hi Ethan,   Thanks so much for your reply.  I'll have to check which patch level we are on.   Have a great day! Lisa -Original Message- From: Post, Ethan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Oracle Training

2003-02-06 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Consider TUSC for your training needs. We offer all sorts of Oracle classes. www.tusc.com. Robert G. Freeman Technical Management Consultant TUSC - www.tusc.com Author of several books you can buy on Amazon.com! -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 2/6/2003 11

RE: Update NT to 2000 Server

2003-02-06 Thread Hayes, Scott
First off I am an NT/Win2k admin and I fully agree with you Jared. Blow the partition and start from zero, you'll be happy you did. Scott First off, I am not an NT/Win2k admin, and don't even play one on TV. The advice from every SA I've asked about this, and from searching the web, is don'

RE: Oracle Training

2003-02-06 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey Dave, In Madison, Greenbrier & Russell -- I believe they were the first Oracle Certifed Partner -- has many Oracle classes. I've been happy with the Milwaukee-area classes. http://www.gr.com/what/classhtml/coursesbylocation_madison.asp HTH! GL! :) Rich Rich Jesse

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

2003-02-06 Thread David . Schmoldt
Title: windows application to show sql being executed by a client program Looks pretty nice.  Real similar in concept to TOAD's SQL Monitor, but adds the option of seeing the values of bind variables, formatting the SQL, watching processes, etc.   Worth the download, IMHO.   Dave -Ori

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

2003-02-06 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: windows application to show sql being executed by a client If anything it will be incorporated into an existing Quest Product. -Original Message- From: Deshpande, Kirti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Pretty cool... A future Quest product ??? ;) Just wondering...  :)  

Re: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-06 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
When Klaus Andersen (the guy who hired me into Oracle Denmark in 1990, and now is Managing Director of Microsoft Denmark) was head of Oracle Education world-wide he put into the standard license terms that you cannot use Oracle software for training of 3rd parties. Klaus is a very smart guy. I

RE: Partition and primary key

2003-02-06 Thread Jared . Still
Well, you're getting close. The full message looks like this: ORA-01652, "unable to extend temp segment by %s in tablespace %s" The interesting part of the message appears where the '%s' are. Jared "NGUYEN Philippe (Cetelem)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/06/2003 0

Re: Oracle DB License - "Named User Multi Server"

2003-02-06 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
The Oracle Software Investment Guide should be downloaded about every two weeks according to my friends in Oracle Legal, because things change rather often. The SIG is about 70-80 pages, by the way. There are cpu licenses and Named User Plus (NUP) liceneses available now. That's it. Mogens Ja

Re: Update NT to 2000 Server

2003-02-06 Thread Jared . Still
First off, I am not an NT/Win2k admin, and don't even play one on TV. The advice from every SA I've asked about this, and from searching the web, is don't do it. Rebuild the box. There are remnants of NT left if you do an upgrade, and you don't really want that, do you? Jared "Breno A. K

Re: Looking for simple monitor script dbup.bat

2003-02-06 Thread Igor Neyman
Could you post it to the list? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 12:14 PM > Bob, > I have a very simple script which checks to see if the database is up and >

RE: AIX 4.3.3 / 8.1.7 & Timed Statistics & Tuning Question

2003-02-06 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: AIX 4.3.3 / 8.1.7 & Timed Statistics & Tuning Question Hi Henry,   OS isn't paging when I've looked.  But with the memory this low it seems to me paging could happen pretty darn quick.   There are a couple of logins that can run reports.  These aren't big databases but as you know

RE: DB character set

2003-02-06 Thread Richard Ji
Hrm, how about UTF8? -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L 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 (so

Re: Oracle 9i Lite - any help please?

2003-02-06 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Saira, I've forwarded your message to the CTO of Oracle Lite, my old friend Jacob Christfort, whom I know from our days at the National Hospital Dormitory in Copenhagen, where we had lots of fun, and where many nurses lived. Those were the days, but sadly we both ended up working with IT. If J

Oracle Training

2003-02-06 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I have been told that I will finally get a budget for some training and want to get some in Oracle. I see that Learning Tree has some classes. Do you guys have any recommendations to links to point me to other sources for classes. Everything I have learned has been from RTFM and books from so

Re: Hot backups vs RMAN, the rebuttal

2003-02-06 Thread Dave Morgan
Hi Jared, Responses in line. Jared Still wrote: > > I think your list of reasons for using RMAN is incomplete. > > The database backup window may need to be shrunk not > because the database is so big, but because there are a lot > of systems to backup, and they use a lot of time and ta

RE: AIX 4.3.3 / 8.1.7 & Timed Statistics & Tuning Question

2003-02-06 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: AIX 4.3.3 / 8.1.7 & Timed Statistics & Tuning Question Hi Ethan,   Thanks so much for your reply.  I'll have to check which patch level we are on.   Have a great day! Lisa -Original Message-From: Post, Ethan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 1

RE: Looking for simple monitor script dbup.bat

2003-02-06 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Looking for simple monitor script dbup.bat Hi Bob, Check out Steve Adams' script (www.ixora.com.au).  It's written in ksh and will need a little modification to send emails, but it's bulletproof.  Also others on the list have mentioned Cygwin (?) the Windows-ksh to allow this to

RE: Hanging query puzzle

2003-02-06 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Henry, I got aiostat from IBM Support when I bugged them about how to monitor AIO. Not sure if aiostat is readily available as a download from their Web site or in/for the newer versions of AIX. It works similar to vmstat and iostat, showing number of pending AIO requests at the time of samp

RE: java

2003-02-06 Thread Henry Poras
It worked once and I'm not going to try it again (why bother?). The setup.aix is just an executable that execs a java process using setup.jar. I'm not really happy and this system is pretty unstable, but so it goes. I'm still struggling with igoring the problems I see or I wouldn't get anything els

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-06 Thread Richard Ji
Precisely. Our partner's SA also followed this idea and that's why his Sun server crashed due to a NFS bug. Unfortunately, my database was on it. :( Richard -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 10:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Quoting Bernardus Deddy H

RE: RMAN - questions.. Rob Freeman?

2003-02-06 Thread Spears, Brian
Thanks Peter... Ya, I will be moving it between Netapp san and EMC disk. Brian Spears -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You will only know what your system is capable of It is very dependant on the disk arrays and no

Freeware reverse engineer ER diagram from ODBC connection

2003-02-06 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Hello guys, I remember seeing a freeware software that can connect to a database through ODBC on Windows, then reverse engineer the ER diagram from the database. Could someone on this list email me or us the link to get this software? Thank you very much. -- Lyndon Tiu -- Please see the offi

RE: Looking for simple monitor script dbup.bat

2003-02-06 Thread Husak, Orysia - Perot
Bob, I have a very simple script which checks to see if the database is up and open. I've emailed you the script. Orysia Husak Database Management Services PEROTSYSTEMS (602) 307-2896 cell: (602) 300-9752 -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 9:00 AM To: Multiple recipient

RE: hw info on Tru64 system

2003-02-06 Thread Stephen Andert
Vladimir, You can also try these: sizer -p (# of processors) sizer -v (full version string i.e. 5.1A where uname -a says 5.1) HTH Stephen >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/06/03 08:33AM >>> psrinfo -v vmstat -P -Original Message- How do I find hardware info on Tru64 machine? Available RA

RE: RMAN - questions.. Rob Freeman?

2003-02-06 Thread Spears, Brian
Thanks Dennis... Ya.. its all on disk and problably only a test with some tuning is going to give me realistic picture. I am going to try it on NETAPPS new disaster recovery SAN solution Brian Spears -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 3:50 PM To: Multiple recipients o

Re: hw info on Tru64 system

2003-02-06 Thread Vladimir Barac
Kool! Thanks... - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 16:33 > > psrinfo -v > > vmstat -P > > > -Original Message- > How do I find hardware info on Tru64 machine? > > Available RAM, number of CP

RE: SQL Tuning Help

2003-02-06 Thread sundeep maini
Dennis, I tend to treat use of hints for exceptional cases only. With collections CASTed as tables, I seem to have a generalized problem of tables involved being scanned FULL (not using the available indexes) and query response being slow. I can't seem to build a query with collections and have it

RE: Disaster Recovery

2003-02-06 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Sean - I could probably be of more help if you could describe something about how you propose to recover the system. Do you have a recovery site? Have assurance from your vendor that they could provide a comparable system somewhere in a reasonable frame of time? Another item to consider would b

Antwort: Re: Dump table to file, edit and reimport

2003-02-06 Thread Alex . Apostolopoulos
hi aidan, the following script will create .ctl and .dat files for each table of OWNER. These files can then be used with sqlldr. HTH alex #!/bin/ksh ### # # Desc: create CTL and DAT files for sqlldr usage # ###

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-06 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
I had to apply the SP1 for Oracle to run. I built the PC from all off-the-shelf inexpensive parts ;) I will now let my Win NT4.0 Server die on its own... - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 12:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L upto you if you're s

Re: SQL

2003-02-06 Thread Igor Neyman
Could you post execution plan, statistics? Concatenated index on (TEST_DATE,TEST_VAL) might help, as well as increasing the size of sort_area (if you find, that it uses disk for sorting). Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE

Update NT to 2000 Server

2003-02-06 Thread Breno A. K. Magnago
Hello, I'd like to update my server (Windows NT) to Windows 2000 Server. I have a Oracle Database 9i in this machine. Does anyone know any kind of problem in this operation (database compatible) ? Thank. -- Breno A. K. Magnago mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mercantil de Alimentos Soares

RE: RMAN - questions.. Rob Freeman?

2003-02-06 Thread Spears, Brian
This is ok for tape restores but not for disk restore...but thanks Rob. Brian Spears -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Take a look at this link, it might be helpful... http://portal1.legato.com/resources/whitepapers/W

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-02-06 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Quoting Bernardus Deddy Hoeydiono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I > suggest if > your O/S (Win2K) running well ,please don't apply the service if > not > necessary. Perhaps this is the advice most people followed that's why that Slammer worm took off. -- Lyndon Tiu -- Please see the official ORACLE-

OAUGNet & OAUGNet-DBA list servers from OAUG.COM

2003-02-06 Thread Bob Robert
Hi, Is any one getting emails from OAUGNet & OAUGNet-DBA list servers (WWW.OAUG.COM)? For some reason, I am not getting emails for the last one week. Thanks Bob __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailpl

RE: Disaster Recovery

2003-02-06 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
>-I'm thinking some type of crib sheet with useful commands for that DR >-situation might be useful too. This is one of my main ways that I survive, I really like cheat sheets. Also have a $50 bill in the folder to go buy beer afterwards, you'll need it. ;o) Dave -Original Message- Se

RE: AIX 4.3.3 / 8.1.7 & Timed Statistics & Tuning Question

2003-02-06 Thread Post, Ethan
Title: AIX 4.3.3 / 8.1.7 & Timed Statistics & Tuning Question No problems here AIX 4.3.3 ML9 Oracle 8.1.7 64 bit.   Lisa,   Be aware that there are some issues with ML9 as I am finding out with swap.  We are planning on going to ML10 which should fix the problem as well as using vmtune command

Re: AIX 4.3.3 / 8.1.7 & Timed Statistics & Tuning Question

2003-02-06 Thread Ed Lewis
Title: AIX 4.3.3 / 8.1.7 & Timed Statistics & Tuning Question Lisa,     We've been using timed_statistics=true at our site for over a year, without any problems.           ed - Original Message - From: Koivu, Lisa To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursd

RE: hw info on Tru64 system

2003-02-06 Thread Juan Miranda
Look for sys_check.tar in the Compaq web. It do a full test and audit of your system. -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de DENNIS WILLIAMS Enviado el: jueves, 06 de febrero de 2003 15:59 Para: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Asunto: RE: hw i

RE: Oracle Migration Workbench for Sybase

2003-02-06 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Reed, Thanks. I do not know what we may have. They (Sybase DBAs) are still looking for the CD for me. May be this newer release of the driver might work with OMWB... - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 7:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Kir

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