Re: Top 10 DBA Do's and Don'ts anyone - Here is my list,

2003-02-25 Thread Dale
Perhaps we depend to much on the force to guide and protect us at times... :-) Laugh you may, but in the last UK census (not a poll mind you but the actual national census) 400,000 people indicated their religion was Jedi. This was more than put their religion as Sikh, Jewish or Buddhist. Of

Materialized views not refreshing

2003-02-25 Thread Jared Still
Dear list, Have any of you every experienced MV's not refreshing for no particular reason? We have been using some simple MV's for several months with no problem. Now after upgrading our app and database, there seem to be problems. Servers: Master: Win2k SP2 Oracle 8.1.7.4.1 Slave: NT

RE: OS Kill

2003-02-25 Thread Jack van Zanen
It's one of those oracle processes that for instance takes care of jobs in the job queue. They can be killed on oracle level w/o problems (8.0.5 at least). Test it first in test environment Jack -Original Message- Sent: dinsdag 25 februari 2003 8:04 To: Multiple recipients of list

Unix variable question

2003-02-25 Thread Sinardy Xing
Hi all, Can someone help me understand this... ROOT # TEST=${2:-.} ROOT # echo $TEST ROOT #. what is 2:-. another similar code ROOT # TEST=${1:-0} ROOT # echo $TEST ROOT # 0 they looks like emoticon for me Thank you Sinardy -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net

RE: GRRRRR OWS

2003-02-25 Thread Grant Allen
LOL Thank you Stephen ... I needed that laugh. Ciao Fuzzy :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Lee Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 21:44 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: GR OWS A good website

OFF TOPIC: Jedis, etc - was Top 10....

2003-02-25 Thread MOORE, Peter Rbh
Not true. This isn't a list for urban myths - if you're going to go off-topic, you could at least do it accurately. :-) http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=293 Sikh - 336,000 people. Jewish - 267,000 people. Buddhist - 152,000 people. Jedi was classified under 'Other religion' along

Oracle white papers

2003-02-25 Thread John.Hallas
Useful white papers and articles on www.nyoug.org under presentation link. John -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California

RE: Third Party Application Madness

2003-02-25 Thread Adams, Matthew (GECP, MABG, 088130)
Title: RE: Third Party Application Madness That's the situation I'm in now, but the language is Hungarian. Matt Adams - GE Appliances - [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have enough youth. How about a fountain of intelligence? -Original Message- From: Odland, Brad [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: OFF TOPIC: Jedis, etc - was Top 10....

2003-02-25 Thread Mark Leith
A little more digging: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/profiles/commentaries/ethnicity.asp# religion At the time the Census was carried out, there was an internet campaign that encouraged people to answer the religion question Jedi Knight. The number of people who stated Jedi was 390,000

Re: Update and Trigger

2003-02-25 Thread Connor McDonald
Try: alter session set sql_trace = true then you're update both with and without the trigger enabled. This will show the statement(s) that are causing the delay hth connor --- Basavaraja, Ravindra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an update statement that affects 1 record in a

RE: How long to hold onto old Oracle CDs?

2003-02-25 Thread Robson, Peter
0 was next line. Wasn't 4 Forward and 5 Back? I've CC'ed Michael Möller, who writes DSI (Data Server Internals) classes in Oracle Development. He taught me all I ever needed to know about the EDT editor on VAX/VMS. He really should be able to remember all those wonderful keys. Yes, it was

Re: Unix variable question

2003-02-25 Thread Jared Still
It's parameter substitution. Use the first one if not null, otherwise use the second. Try this: TEST=${ORACLE_HOME:-NOT SET} echo $TEST Now try misspelling ORACLE_HOME TEST=${ORACLE_JOME:-NOT SET} echo $TEST In a script you may have to begin the line with a colon. e.g. :

AW: Unix variable question

2003-02-25 Thread Kulev, Milen
Answer1: ROOT # man bash Answer2(copy paste form answer1) ${parameter} The value of parameter is substituted. The braces are required when parameter is a positional parameter with more than one digit, or when

RE: How long to hold onto old Oracle CDs?

2003-02-25 Thread Adams, Matthew (GECP, MABG, 088130)
Title: RE: How long to hold onto old Oracle CDs? It figures. We're one the largest accounts Oracle has got. Heck, Oracle has two people at HQ that deal with nothing but GE business units, and I STILL can't get 7.3.4, 8.0.5 or 8.0.6 for NT. Even my dedicated account rep struck out getting

RE: Materialized views not refreshing

2003-02-25 Thread Stephane Faroult
Dear list, Have any of you every experienced MV's not refreshing for no particular reason? We have been using some simple MV's for several months with no problem. Now after upgrading our app and database, there seem to be problems. Servers: Master: Win2k SP2 Oracle 8.1.7.4.1 Slave: NT 4

RE: select count(case ...) slow in PL/SQL, any better way?

2003-02-25 Thread Connor McDonald
Seems to be different queries to me: select count(case ... ) into count1, count(case ... ) into count2 from isi.nametag suggests a full scan on isi.nametag whereas the two separate queries: select count(*) from isi.nametag where geneid=geneid1 select count(*) from isi.nametag where

Re: Unix variable question

2003-02-25 Thread Sergey V Dolgov
Hello Sinardy, Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 3:28:42 PM, you wrote: SX Hi all, SX Can someone help me understand this... SX ROOT # TEST=${2:-.} SX ROOT # echo $TEST SX ROOT #. SX what is 2:-. The construction ${A:-B} is just like oracle nvl function. If variable A is defined and not null then

Re: Unix variable question

2003-02-25 Thread Markus Reger
look into man page eg bash or sh and search for ${ (is type in /\$\{ ) and find all necessary details. lol Apologies for any typing mistakes I failed to notice. Markus Reger Oracle Applications DBA Webmaster MBC University for Music and Performing Art Vienna [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/25/03

Openssl security breach detected - oracle concerned?

2003-02-25 Thread Markus Reger
hello to everybody recently a security breach was detected with OpenSSL - the password of a user could be decoded within hours, the bank account was robbed - but just for testing purposes - has anyone ever heard about a similar problem regarding to oracle ssl. we use it and i couldn't find a

Re: Materialized views not refreshing

2003-02-25 Thread Connor McDonald
Probably a little obvious, but what do you get when you slap a trace on the refresh job (on both source and target db's) - do you see any attempt to read rows from the mview log at all? any updates being attempted on the target? hth connor --- Jared Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list,

Re: OFF TOPIC: Jedis, etc - was Top 10....

2003-02-25 Thread Dale
Not true. This isn't a list for urban myths - if you're going to go off-topic, you could at least do it accurately. :-) http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=293 It would seem you have the definitive source. However, I wasn't just repeating something I heard down the pub. I was

RE: OFF TOPIC: Jedis, etc - was Top 10....

2003-02-25 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Actually Peter, This came under the category of No Religion which had 9+ million people in it (15.5% of respondents, see below). About sixteen per cent of the UK population stated that they had no religion. This category included agnostics, atheists, heathens and those who wrote Jedi Knight.

Re: Materialized views not refreshing

2003-02-25 Thread Jared Still
You're right, it is obvious, but I hadn't yet done it. The thought had occurred to me to do this at both nodes, but I think lack of sleep has dulled my senses a bit and I forgot to do it. All the work involved in repeating myself in the TAR maybe, I dunno. I've dropped and recreated the

OT: SQL Server developers' kerfuffle

2003-02-25 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/29419.html Regards, Pat. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Boivin, Patrice J INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing

RE: security alerts #48, 49, 50, 51 - patchsets, 9i

2003-02-25 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Title: RE: security alerts #48, 49, 50, 51 - patchsets, 9i Here is an article on this topic. http://www3.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=113293 Regards, Pat.

Re: Materialized views not refreshing

2003-02-25 Thread Jared Still
No errors, no trace files. Refreshing via refresh group or directly via the snapshot both failed to update the MV. They've since been recreated and are working at the moment. I'll slap a big ole note on my forehead that says 'run a trace on them stupid!' so I will remember to do so if these

RE: Openssl security breach detected - oracle concerned?

2003-02-25 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
You would have to verify what version of SSL. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29423.html yesterday posted a notice that the experiment was with an older version of SSL. It could be that iAS and other Oracle products are still using that version, I know they were way behind in the Apache

RE: OFF TOPIC: Jedis, etc - was Top 10....

2003-02-25 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
And there is no such thing as an 'unofficial' religion. It's just whether people recognise it or not. Damn funny! I agree that there's no such thing as an unofficial religion but surely there is nobody (excepting the heavily medicated and chronically deluded) who truly believes that they are a

Oracle Performance Monitor

2003-02-25 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
On iAS 1.0.2.2.0 with 8.1.7.4.x NT Server 4 server. The Oracle performance counters don't load, Metalink hasn't been able to come up with an answer yet. Has anyone been able to load these counters on an iAS server? To confuse the issue further, we installed a db on the iAS server itself -- so

RE: OFF TOPIC: Jedis, etc - was Top 10....

2003-02-25 Thread Thomas, Kevin
GRIN... That buzzing sound you just heard was me powering up!! Back off buster ;O) -Original Message- Sent: 25 February 2003 12:24 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L And there is no such thing as an 'unofficial' religion. It's just whether people recognise it or not. Damn funny!

8.1.7.4.8 patch coming

2003-02-25 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Last word is that it should be available within 2-3, maybe sooner. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de

RE: Materialized views not refreshing

2003-02-25 Thread Darrell Landrum
Is the job even firing at all? It is a common step in upgrading to set job_queue_processes=0 and this will prevent materialized views from refreshing automatically. Make sure this is greater than 0; I normally set it to 2. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/25/03 04:29AM Dear list, Have any of you every

Re: Materialized views not refreshing

2003-02-25 Thread Thomas Day
We had the problem where the M$LOG was not being purged after the materialized view was updated. That doesn't seem to be your problem though.

alertlog naming

2003-02-25 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi, On one of our customers site (WINDOWS) we have databases that have alertlogs with the name sidALRT.LOGsidALRT.LOG (double the normal name) and oracle keeps on writing to it. I thought if a file is renamed oracle will create a new alertlog when needed. I have a php script that reads the

RE: Materialized views not refreshing

2003-02-25 Thread Henry Poras
Jared, Does it work if you do a manual refresh? Henry -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 3:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dear list, Have any of you every experienced MV's not refreshing for no particular reason? We have been using some simple MV's

RE: 8.1.7.4.8 patch coming

2003-02-25 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
That's weeks, not days. Pat. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 8:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Last word is that it should be available within 2-3, maybe sooner. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin

RE: Embeded password in script

2003-02-25 Thread Nguyen, David M
Title: RE: Embeded password in script Thank you, Jared. I have the book you wrote and will look into it. Regards, David -Original Message- From: Jared Still [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 4:51 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re:

RE: OFF TOPIC: Jedis, etc - was Top 10....

2003-02-25 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
No, no this is very relevant to a DBA. We should learn the Jedi mind tricks. I need to denormalize this table. No you don't want to denormalize that table. No I don't want to denormalize this table. You want to go back to your desk and not bother the DBA. I want to go back

MTS config

2003-02-25 Thread dgoulet
OK, Someone dope slap me! I added the following to my init.ora file (8.1.7.0 on HP-UX 11.0). The dispatchers start up just fine, but won't register with the listener (also 8.1.7.0). I've already done the RTFM and MetaLink RTFM but can't see the problem. mts_servers=5 mts_max_dispatchers=10

RE: Openssl security breach detected - oracle concerned?

2003-02-25 Thread Markus Reger
The recently installed 9i rel2 pachted to 9.2.0.2.0 uses openssl version 0.9.6b The latest version is 0.9.7a was 0.9.6i. Compile and then just change the file will most likely not work, will it? kr Apologies for any typing mistakes I failed to notice. Markus Reger Oracle Applications DBA

performance issues on sun

2003-02-25 Thread babu . nagarajan
All We are attempting to move some applications off Compaq T64 into Sun Solaris 8 and running into performance issues. I am trying to rebuild an index which is taking more than 3 1/2 hours while it used to take 20 min on T64. I find most of the waits on DIRECT PATH READS and DIRECT PATH

Re: Set Email alert at NT

2003-02-25 Thread Peter . McLarty
Do a rewrite in Perl to run it on Windows. There is am smtp module for Perl that will allow you to inject an message straight to a mail server. You could then use that both on Unix and windows Cheers -- = Peter McLarty E-mail:

Re: Oracle Performance Monitor

2003-02-25 Thread Steve Perry
try operfcfg Usage: OPerfCfg [-U username] [-P password] [-D [database name]] steve - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 6:44 AM On iAS 1.0.2.2.0 with 8.1.7.4.x NT Server 4 server. The Oracle performance

RE: installation / recovery question

2003-02-25 Thread Naveen Nahata
Take a backup of C:\Program Files\Oracle and copy it back if you plan to go with import/export of registry keys Regards Naveen DISCLAIMER: This message (including attachment if any) is confidential and may be privileged. Before opening attachments please check them for viruses and defects.

RE: 8.1.7.4.8 patch coming

2003-02-25 Thread Jesse, Rich
What platform? Isn't the 5th number platform-specific? (I forget) Rich Rich JesseSystem/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 8:11 AM To: Multiple

RE: MTS config

2003-02-25 Thread Jeroen van Sluisdam
Hi, We're unfortunately still on 7.3.4.5 and this is how my mts config looks: mts_dispatchers=ipc,10, tcp,15 mts_servers=10 mts_service=VU_2 mts_listener_address=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(KEY=VU_2)) mts_listener_address=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=stirling)(PORT=1526)) mts_max_dispatchers=40

RE: performance issues on sun

2003-02-25 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Babu - I would recommend checking: - Where is the tablespace of the table? Shared disk with temp or index tablespace? - Check your SORT_AREA_SIZE on both systems. - Do some basic disk I/O tests. On both the Compaq and Solaris, move a large file from one drive to another, just to see what

RE: How long to hold onto old Oracle CDs?

2003-02-25 Thread Peter Barnett
Keep your CDs forever. I once had a job that frequently required producing data for our very efficient legal system. It was not unusual for requests for information from attorneys to go back ten years. We had a really good librarian, the media was always available. Sometimes building an old

RE: MTS config

2003-02-25 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Dick, here is what I use mts_dispatchers = (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=172.16.99.28))(DISPATCHERS=5) local_listener = (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=172.16.99.28)(PORT=1521)) mts_max_dispatchers = 10 mts_servers = 10 mts_max_servers

RE: alertlog naming

2003-02-25 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Jack, I've seen the same result (alert log funny file name) when I rename the file also doing oracle log maintenace. I'm guessing the same thing you are - that the rename hits at the same time that a write operation is happening. a subsequent rename works fine. For you second problem, I would

Oracle slower ?

2003-02-25 Thread Bahar, Rivaldi (BBASSI-CHQ)
We are converting from SQL Server and Sybase to Oracle. To convert functions and stored procedures we have been using the Oracle Migration Workbench (OMWB) which produced WEAK REF CURSOR and TRANCOUNT global variable. I looked at (trace and explain plan) statements in the procedures and

RE: 8.1.7.4.8 patch coming

2003-02-25 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
sorry... win32. Pat. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 10:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What platform? Isn't the 5th number platform-specific? (I forget) Rich Rich JesseSystem/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: MTS config

2003-02-25 Thread Adrian Roe
Looks fine. We only have the following entries on a 9i database.. dispatchers = (protocol = TCP)(dispatchers = 6) max_dispatchers = 12 shared_servers = 10 max_shared_servers = 40 Works fine, we ended up commenting out local_listener. How long have you waited for the dispatchers to

RE: Embeded password in script

2003-02-25 Thread Jesse, Rich
Actually, this would still display the password in the output of ps -ef because the $syspw environment variable is resolved before handing it to sqlplus. Try sqlplus dbimpl/$syspw and then a ps -ef... Rich Rich JesseSystem/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Oracle slower ?

2003-02-25 Thread Niall Litchfield
Hi No Oracle isn't slower than alternative RDBMS, at least if it is 9 times slower then it is either misconfigured, or the code is bad, or both. I'd strongly suspect the code to start with. If you treat the output of OMWB as a first cut, or functional prototype then you have a reasonable

RE: How long to hold onto old Oracle CDs?

2003-02-25 Thread Jesse, Rich
WAS an editor? WAS? Some of us still use it! Well, I have migrated to the EVE editor built on TPU, but it still has the same wonderful functionality of the original in addition to a programmable interface (wrote some sweet sweet TPU back in the day). The KB I'm typing this on is an LK450,

Re: Oracle Monitor

2003-02-25 Thread Mitchell
Hi DBAs We are reviewing anything related to database monitor. The following is my aware. Is there anything else you recommend Spotlight from quest Pocket DBA from Expand Beyond Oracle Performance Monitor Thanks in advance. Mitchell -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: MTS config

2003-02-25 Thread Stephen Lee
service_names, I believe is an optional thing. But if you use it, I think it is supposed to be set to a sort of alias name, not a number. -Original Message- can't see the problem. service_names=05 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephen

RE: performance issues on sun

2003-02-25 Thread babu . nagarajan
- Where is the tablespace of the table? Shared disk with temp or index tablespace? Its on a different mountpoint (and disk) from the index or the temp tablespaces - Check your SORT_AREA_SIZE on both systems. Its 1 Mb. I have done the tests with as much as 250M but same results - Do

RE: Oracle slower ?

2003-02-25 Thread Stephane Faroult
We are converting from SQL Server and Sybase to Oracle. To convert functions and stored procedures we have been using the Oracle Migration Workbench (OMWB) which produced WEAK REF CURSOR and TRANCOUNT global variable. I looked at (trace and explain plan) statements in the procedures and

Skill Sets - This may be a dumb question

2003-02-25 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: Skill Sets - This may be a dumb question Hello everyone, Well I've been reassigned. I was responsible for the completely messed up Peoplesoft Oracle/AIX environment but management here decided that it was more important to separate a husband and wife that both work in the same

RE: Embeded password in script

2003-02-25 Thread Khedr, Waleed
You can have username/password in the first line of the sqlplus script. sqlplus @your-script.sql Your-script.sql will have id/pw in the first line. Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 3:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have been tasked

RE: Oracle Monitor

2003-02-25 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Mitchell - What platform are you on? Do you have any particular criteria, or just trying to monitor anything? Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Oracle Monitor

2003-02-25 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Karma. The price is unbeatable and it's one very good monitor, too. Also, look into DB-Artisan from Embarcadero technologies, BMC Patrol. I'm sure that CA have an oracle RDBMS monitoring product. You also need to look in the capabilities of Tivoli from the Big Blue. -Original Message-

RE: Embeded password in script

2003-02-25 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Or, you can create user OPS$ORACLE and grant DBA privilege to that account. That way , password will never be exposed. -Original Message- From: Jesse, Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 10:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE:

Re: Using fully qualified table_name.database_object in

2003-02-25 Thread Suzy Vordos
There is also a bug in 8i with set current_schema. We use a login trigger to set current_schema for client database connections. It works great unless the client's code is PL/SQL. They don't get an ORA-600, but instead get PLS-201. Creating the public synonym fixes that problem. Rachel

Re:RE: MTS config

2003-02-25 Thread dgoulet
Let's see, how about overnight and yes I have reloaded the listener. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Adrian Roe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/25/2003 7:09 AM Looks fine. We only have the following entries on a 9i database.. dispatchers =

RE: Oracle slower ?

2003-02-25 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Oracle isn't slower, you need to analyze the SQL and re-tune it. Indexes, indexes, indices. -Original Message- From: Bahar, Rivaldi (BBASSI-CHQ) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 10:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Oracle slower ?

Re: delete archivelog... backed up 1 times to tape

2003-02-25 Thread Ruth Gramolini
The archivelogs have to have been backed up by rman for rman to delete them. Thisscript is the one we use. execute script alloc_name1_disk; backup format '/dbback/al_%sdbname_%p' (archivelog all delete input); execute script rel_pa1_disk;} HTH, Ruth - Original Message -

Re: Skill Sets - This may be a dumb question

2003-02-25 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
Title: Skill Sets - This may be a dumb question Lisa: I know you are disappointed, but be happy you have a job. I was laid off a year ago and the job situation here in the TC's area is not improving. I'll trade places with you any day. Ken Janusz, CPIM Hugo, MN - Original Message

A Couple of does and donts

2003-02-25 Thread Dave Morgan
Hi All, Do not tune because a statistic looks bad Do tune because a luser says this is slow and is adversely affecting my productivity. Do not use MTS Yes I know there are a few exceptions, but in general MTS causes more problems than it solves. Dave -- Dave Morgan

RE: Oracle Monitor

2003-02-25 Thread Mark Leith
Hi Mitchell, When you say monitor, what exactly do you mean? The definition of a Monitoring tool (in my eyes at least) is a tool that will sit and monitor your database, and tell you when a problem could be, or is, imminent (via background processes and alerts). The list that you specify, whilst

RE: Skill Sets - This may be a dumb question

2003-02-25 Thread Gints Plivna
One advantage of database architect is that he is less dependent on a specific database. I am some kind of system architect/analyst and in my previous job I worked with Oracle products as well as with some Open source ones. Now my new company is working only with M$ SQL Server and I don't have

RE: Oracle slower ?

2003-02-25 Thread Bahar, Rivaldi (BBASSI-CHQ)
Both Oracle (817) and Sybase running on the same test machine (Sun Solaris 6) but in different mount point. Both not at optimum datafiles and I/O configuration. If I run every SQL in the procedure manually from SQLplus it run at minimum cost (explain plan), indexes used. There are loops in the

RE: Skill Sets - This may be a dumb question

2003-02-25 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Lisa - You can always answer questions on this list to keep your hand in. I wouldn't sweat it too much. I agree with you that the harder skills like Oracle show up better on a resume. But frankly you can still put Oracle on your resume for a LNG time and be perfectly truthful. And if they want

RE: Skill Sets - This may be a dumb question

2003-02-25 Thread Weiss, Rick
Title: Message Ken: My sympathies go out to you too, I spent the time from 04/01 until 12/01 unemployed as well. Tough way to go in any market, try one in a small (30K population) market that is 90+% dependent on asmall state's government for work. I'm very thankful to be working yet

RE: Embeded password in script

2003-02-25 Thread Bob Lofstrand
sqlplus /nolog ! conn dbimpl/password @SQLscript.sql ! -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 2:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have been tasked to write a script to run SQL. I don't want a password field to be shown in the script. Does someone have run

RE: Skill Sets - This may be a dumb question

2003-02-25 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Title: Message Don't you just HATE change. You were getting all nice and comfy in your current job, and mgmt throws you a curve ball. This has happened to me a few times, and I have learned to "step into their shoes" to try and better understand why. Why me!!!?!? Not that I ever agreed

RE: Skill Sets - This may be a dumb question

2003-02-25 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Title: Skill Sets - This may be a dumb question Simple, eliminate the married couple. Then you should have your pick of jobs. Dave -Original Message-From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 10:34 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list

SQL struggle

2003-02-25 Thread Saira Somani
List Gurus, I need help and I won't be ashamed to ask :) Oracle 8.1.7 on AIX 4.3 Here is what my data looks like in a table called item_w: WHSE_CODEITEM_NUM LAST_COST -- -- HL1 111230

Re: Skill Sets - This may be a dumb question

2003-02-25 Thread Thomas Day
Go check one of the on-line salary surveys. Used to be that Oracle DBA was head of the pack. Now it's data architect and web designer. The only reason that it seems like a soft skill to you is because you're so good at it that it's second nature. Leave a regular L'User alone to do their own

RE: performance issues on sun

2003-02-25 Thread John Kanagaraj
Babu, I think it is trying to do a KAIO call and failing. Then it attempts a synchronous PWRITE call. But our SAs are not able to help us to confirm this. Have any of you seen this issue? I think you have hit the nail on the head. By default, the Oracle port on Solaris sets

DBMS_STATS

2003-02-25 Thread Terrian, Tom (Contractor) (DAASC)
Title: Message I have never had good luck with DBMS_STATS. It seems that the old analyze runs much faster. Runs in 45 seconds: analyze table log_trans partition (log_trans_20030104) estimate statisticssample 5 percent; Takes over 2 hours: execute

Re: SqlNet Response ports

2003-02-25 Thread Regina Harter
Thank you very much for the information Don. We are using 9i and I think MTS, though I am not certain of that. I will pass this on to our DBA, I am sure he will find this helpful. At 06:03 PM 2/24/2003 -0800, you wrote: I guess I should have asked also: 1) what version of Oracle are you

Metalink

2003-02-25 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Title: Message I retract what I said the other day about Metalink technicians... : ( Pat.

Re: Which is beter a cursor or a for loop?

2003-02-25 Thread sundeep maini
Proof of pudding is in eating Whip up a couple of examples and check out the timings. I suspect the CURSOR FOR LOOPS would run faster. I recall a similar mention by Tom Kyte in Oracle magazine while answering a question about explicit and implicit cusrsors. Unlike the conventional wisdom

RE: Skill Sets - This may be a dumb question

2003-02-25 Thread Henry Poras
Title: Skill Sets - This may be a dumb question Lisa, I'm sorry for selfish reasons. I liked having someone else on a Peoplesoft/Oracle/AIX environment out there. As far as the new position, just change your job title to Data Architect (what does that do to your tag lines?) Henry

RE: DBMS_STATS

2003-02-25 Thread Cary Millsap
Title: Message May have something to do with bug 2649728, which I just heard about for the first time no more than 10 seconds ago. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - RMOUG Training Days 2003, Mar 56 Denver - Hotsos Clinic101, Mar 2527

RE: Embeded password in script

2003-02-25 Thread David Jones
Jared: How do you do this for an export cron job ? Thanks David Jones ITResource -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 2:51 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The 'hide.c' program can be implemented and compiled to prevent parameters from appearing to ps. I

RE: DBMS_STATS

2003-02-25 Thread Terrian, Tom (Contractor) (DAASC)
Title: Message ok, I will take a look. thanks -Original Message-From: Cary Millsap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 1:35 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: DBMS_STATS May have something to do with bug 2649728, which I

RE: Openssl security breach detected - oracle concerned?

2003-02-25 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I logged a TAR with Oracle, they responded that this is privileged information. ; ) I recommend sending a question to the Oracle Alerts people. That's what I am doing... Pat. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 10:11 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The

Re: How long to hold onto old Oracle CDs?

2003-02-25 Thread david davis
Wild. You would think a business that makes and sells software would keep better track of it. Sounds kind of sloppy. So I guess I got lucky. David From: Mogens Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How

Performance issue

2003-02-25 Thread Kader Ben
Hi Lisetrs, I have enough free memory from shared_pool_size and I run stats every week but the BD still shows up the low hit ratio and some times the later full down to 15%! Here is some informations: Obj mem: 79503437 bytes Shared sql: 23852410 bytes Cursors: 244875 bytes Free memory:

RE: SQL struggle

2003-02-25 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: SQL struggle (see answer below) -Original Message- From: Saira Somani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Oracle 8.1.7 on AIX 4.3 Here is what my data looks like in a table called item_w: WHSE_CODE ITEM_NUM LAST_COST --

password scripting question

2003-02-25 Thread Nick Wagner
This is somewhat related tothe question earlier about how to encrypt a password in a script... however, what I want to do is also be able to start that database through a script. (Oracle 9.2.0.) Essentially I have a database that I want to shut down at 5pm every night, and start it

Passing data in a collection via a dblink

2003-02-25 Thread Stephane Paquette
Hi all, A developper wants to pass a collection (varray) between 2 stored procs on 2 databases via a dblink. Can we declared a collection of a remote database locally ? This is on 8172 Stephane Paquette Administrateur de bases de donnees Database Administrator Standard Life

Re: Skill Sets - This may be a dumb question

2003-02-25 Thread Ron Rogers
Lisa, You are correct in your needing a vent or whining as you so eloquently put it. Corporate policy can and has ruined a great career if you are not prepared for the unforseen changes that the bean counters produce. Not knowing the knowledge level of your spouse and not wanting to start a

Re: Materialized views not refreshing

2003-02-25 Thread Jared Still
Didn't help to do it manually. On Tuesday 25 February 2003 06:14, Henry Poras wrote: Jared, Does it work if you do a manual refresh? Henry -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 3:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dear list, Have any of you every

Re: Materialized views not refreshing

2003-02-25 Thread Jared Still
Yes, the jobs were firing, verified by timestamps in both the dba_jobs and dba_refresh views. On Tuesday 25 February 2003 05:33, Darrell Landrum wrote: Is the job even firing at all? It is a common step in upgrading to set job_queue_processes=0 and this will prevent materialized views from

Re: Materialized views not refreshing

2003-02-25 Thread Jared Still
No, they were not being purged. On Tuesday 25 February 2003 05:59, Thomas Day wrote: We had the problem where the M$LOG was not being purged after the materialized view was updated. That doesn't seem to be your problem though. Jared Still

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