fast full index scan

2003-03-03 Thread Jos
List, Can anyone tell me on what version of Oracle database does fast full index scan first became available? Jos Yahoo! Mobile - Exchange IMs with Messenger friends on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile phone.

RE: Info on context option

2003-03-03 Thread Robson, Peter
I think you will find that the functionality of Context is now bundled up in the Oracle product called Collaborative Suite. It is certainly available in enterprise. Oracle do have this irritating habit of re-naming old technology, and presenting it as the latest great thing... peter edinburgh

Re: fast full index scan

2003-03-03 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I'm fairly sure it was available in 7.3.3, although you may have had to use the index_ffs hint to make it work. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming soon one-day tutorials: Cost Based Optimisation Trouble-shooting and Tuning Indexing Strategies (see

Re: fast full index scan

2003-03-03 Thread Connor McDonald
7.3 I think --- Jos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, Can anyone tell me on what version of Oracle database does fast full index scan first became available? Jos - Yahoo! Mobile - Exchange IMs with Messenger friends on your Telstra or Vodafone

RE: Oracle Magazine excels itself

2003-03-03 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Oracle magazine is primarily a marketing magazine I think. Like MCP Magazine or DB2 magazine. I don't think it's intended to be a technical journal. It's intended to be an exciting place to talk about new features and peddle 3rd party products through ads. Is there a 3rd party magazine out

RE: Oracle Magazine excels itself

2003-03-03 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
There is SELECT journal from IOUG !! John K. and Jared S. are contributing editors. From Oracle's Web site: Oracle Magazine: Oracle Magazine is the definitive source for information on the use and development of Oracle products. Profit Magazine: Profit: Oracle's E-Business Magazine

Is there any user group forum for SQL Server?

2003-03-03 Thread Mandal, Ashoke
Hi All, As we have this Oracle user group([EMAIL PROTECTED]), I was wondering if there is any such group for SQL Server also. Thanks, Ashoke -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Mandal, Ashoke INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services--

Re: Oracle Magazine excels itself

2003-03-03 Thread Arup Nanda
Sure, take SELECT for example - 100% pure Oracle technology - no marketing. It's the journal of International Oracle Users Group. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 7:33 AM Oracle magazine is primarily a

RE: Oracle Magazine excels itself

2003-03-03 Thread Mark Leith
I find that the Oracle Scene magazine (the UKOUG's own magazine) is a fantastic source for Oracle technical info. Jonathan Lewis, Peter Robson and a host of other greats contribute to Scene as well (I LOVED Oracle Trousers by the way Jonathan!! :D). I'm not sure if this is distributed outside of

RE: What to check?

2003-03-03 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: What to check? David, I'd check that they are using the same exact script on all three machines. Jerry Whittle ASIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 618-622-4145 -Original Message- From: Nguyen, David M [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Someone

OT - Oracle work in Tampa/Orlando, Florida.

2003-03-03 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Title: OT - Oracle work in Tampa/Orlando, Florida. Sorry for the off topic post. Does anyone on the list live/work in Orlando/Tampa?? I am looking to make a move down to that area sometime in the near future. So I am obviously seeking any information anyone is willing to share about

OraTechs 2003

2003-03-03 Thread dgoulet
Don't know how many, if any, of you are interested. I was at this conference last year. It's small (nice because you get a lot better access to the presenters), but very informative. I'm headed back to it again this year. Dick Goulet

RE: MS SQL hasn't given up!

2003-03-03 Thread Jesse, Rich
Thanks guys. That's exactly the kind of stuff I was looking for, and for the same reasons you mentioned. Rich Rich JesseSystem/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- Sent: Friday, February

DBArtisan

2003-03-03 Thread Suzy Vordos
Anyone using DBArtisan? Any good/bad feedback about this product? Someone in our office is looking at the Cross-Platform version that works with Oracle, Sybase and MSSQL. Thanks, Suzy -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Suzy Vordos INET: [EMAIL

RE: [Q]terminating instance due to error 601

2003-03-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Teenu Whenever I have an attach to invalid skgp shared ctx it just really frosts me! Seriously, I hope Oracle Support will be of some assistance. If this just occurs once, you may consider ignoring it. Oracle Support may suggest a patch. Since 8.1.6 is out of the support window, you may want to

RE: Is there any user group forum for SQL Server?

2003-03-03 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Try this one out. http://www.sswug.org/listservers.asp Dave -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 8:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi All, As we have this Oracle user group([EMAIL PROTECTED]), I was wondering if there is any such group for SQL Server also.

Listener/Database shutdown sequence

2003-03-03 Thread david davis
Should the databases be shutdown before the listener or the other way around. A DBA here (actually at Service Provider) believes that the listener has to be shutdown before the databases in 8i according to some documentation (they can't recall). I am proposing: Set Oracle 817 environment

Re: Is there any user group forum for SQL Server?

2003-03-03 Thread Darrell Landrum
You might try asking at http://www.sqlmag.com/forums/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/03/03 08:09AM Hi All, As we have this Oracle user group([EMAIL PROTECTED]), I was wondering if there is any such group for SQL Server also. Thanks, Ashoke -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

view to join tables

2003-03-03 Thread Richmond, Robert
I need to create a view to join 13 tables. The objective is to have one view that allows basic queries on permit types (building, electrical, plumbing, signs, mechanical). Each type of permit and it associated information is stored in separate tables, and a column in each table

RE: Threat to Fast exports

2003-03-03 Thread Spears, Brian
I believe it is the conventional method only... do direct=y it screams that way... Brian -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Please have a look at following note: 223399.1 having title ALERT: EXPORT with large BUFFER can

Re: DBArtisan

2003-03-03 Thread Peter Barnett
We use it for Oracle with the thought of expanding it to SQL Server and Sybase. It is good for basic DBA tasks such as database monitoring, space utilization, account information. Where it breaks down is anything complex, Oracle 7.3 with the newer version, or 9i with the older version. Also, be

Re: Is there any user group forum for SQL Server?

2003-03-03 Thread Jared Still
A group like this one? Not likely. :) Jraed On Monday 03 March 2003 06:09, Mandal, Ashoke wrote: Hi All, As we have this Oracle user group([EMAIL PROTECTED]), I was wondering if there is any such group for SQL Server also. Thanks, Ashoke -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Re: Listener/Database shutdown sequence

2003-03-03 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Why do you/they think it matters, regardless of the documentation? You can shut them down in any order you want. Users just get a different error if the listener is up vs. when it is down. Starting up, if services are registered via local_listener or mts_dispatchers, the listener should be up

Re: Is there any user group forum for SQL Server?

2003-03-03 Thread Imran Ashraf
should be something here.. http://www.sqlmag.com - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:09 PM Hi All, As we have this Oracle user group([EMAIL PROTECTED]), I was wondering if there is any such group for SQL Server

RE: Is there any user group forum for SQL Server?

2003-03-03 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Is there any user group forum for SQL Server? BTW GUYS, Top page of latest SQL Server Magazine all about Connecting Oracle and SQL Server and working in an environment that has both - pretty interesting. -Original Message- From: Farnsworth, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: 9i OCP Upgrade Exam - Again

2003-03-03 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: 9i OCP Upgrade Exam - Again Guys, Sorry to post this again. However, finished OCP 8i and wish to study for 9i OCP. What is good materials - books, self-test exams? References. Don't have time or money to travel - going to IOUG however.

RE: Listener/Database shutdown sequence

2003-03-03 Thread Nelson, Allan
There might be some docs somewhere but the issues are not as much technical as procedural. If you shut the database down, leave the listener up, and bring the database backup there are no connection problems except when the db is down. This implies that the instance and the listener are

Re: Oracle Magazine excels itself

2003-03-03 Thread Jared Still
Finally got my issue Saturday. Along these same lines, I was somewhat taken aback by the first letter. The writer had disagreed with some query method in a previous article, and submitted one that he felt to be much better. In the course of the letter he referred to the author's submission as

Re: DBArtisan

2003-03-03 Thread Ed Lewis
Suzy, We use it here, but only for Oracle. I highly recommend it. It's very useful for everyday tasks, for reverse-engineering database objects, as well as other things. The support has also been good. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

RE: view to join tables

2003-03-03 Thread Richmond, Robert
Did a union of the rows across the tables and the view works fine. rhr -Original Message- From: Richmond, Robert Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 11:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: view to join tables I need to create a view to join 13 tables. The

RE: Is there any user group forum for SQL Server?

2003-03-03 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: Is there any user group forum for SQL Server? Jared, STEP AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD! It's certainly a dangerous weapon when you can't even spell you're own name! ;-) Jerry Whittle ASIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 618-622-4145 -Original

RE: Is there any user group forum for SQL Server?

2003-03-03 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Is there any user group forum for SQL Server? That is the one I use - appears to be very useful. Also www.quest.com and SSWUG provide online seminars relating to SQL Server - quest depends on speaker and no fee, SSWUG useful but has fee. -Original Message- From:

RE: Listener/Database shutdown sequence

2003-03-03 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
David, it just doesn't matter. why do you even feel the need to shut the listener down? Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Should the databases be shutdown before the listener

Import Problem

2003-03-03 Thread Scott Canaan
I ran into a problem yesterday afternoon. I had exported a production database, via a full database export, and ftp'd it to another machine to import it there and make that the new production machine. It was a long import (about 8 hours) and about 2/3 through it, my network connection was

Re: shared tnsnames.ora

2003-03-03 Thread Markus Reger
hello to everybody we tried oracle OID. it works fine. check it out, it's worthwhile. btw.:afaik oracle names is deprecated and will be withdrawn (... ok somewhen). pls fogive if i'm wrong about that, but i read it somewhere in the docu that comens with 9i. Apologies for any typing mistakes

RE: Is there any user group forum for SQL Server?

2003-03-03 Thread Jeremy Pulcifer
Title: RE: Is there any user group forum for SQL Server? From: Jared Still [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] A group like this one? Not likely. :) Jraed Given that you've misspelt yer own name, I'd not be too uppity ;-) - Jerremy

RE: Metalink Oracle Support Improving.......

2003-03-03 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Metalink Oracle Support Improving... Kirti, Unfortunately for us, our security experts won't allow that ... so we *walk* them through and give them reproducible test cases. Raj - Rajendra dot Jamadagni at espn dot

RE: 9i OCP Upgrade Exam - Again

2003-03-03 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Not to scare you but I think the 9i upgrade exam is the hardest of the bunch. My book is a good start I'd like to think. I've seen mixed responses on the Benjaman book, but it can't hurt. RF -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 3/3/2003 10:04 AM Guys,

Re: DBArtisan

2003-03-03 Thread Barbara Baker
Suzy: We've been using it here for several years. I love the product. It does everything we need in that type of product. 'course, we're not exactly on the bleeding edge here (most db's still at 7.3.4) Barb --- Suzy Vordos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone using DBArtisan? Any good/bad

RE: Oracle Magazine excels itself

2003-03-03 Thread Cary Millsap
If you don't call a marketing magazine a definitive technical source, then it can't function as a marketing magazine. :) Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - RMOUG Training Days 2003, Mar 5-6 Denver - Hotsos Clinic 101, Mar 25-27 London -Original

Big SGA.......

2003-03-03 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
hey folks.. Hoping for a little feedback and opinion please. Having a discussion with the development group ... The development group is thinking that a VERY LARGE SGA would solve some of their I/O problems. For example, they believe that a SGA consisting of over 8GB of db block buffers

RE: Listener/Database shutdown sequence

2003-03-03 Thread Pete Sharman
Sometimes it does matter what is stopped rather than the order, but we can't tell why the original poster was asking. It depends on your environment. For example, one site I worked at had a separate listener for every database in their environment. Their reasoning was they made life easier for

Re: shared tnsnames.ora

2003-03-03 Thread Chuck Hamilton
My understanding was that ONAMES was removed from 9i and that they provided some sort of wrapper that goes around OID to make it look like a names server until you can covert all your clients. Can anyone confirm? I am not running 9i on any of my servers yet. -- Chuck - Original Message -

TEST -- just ignore

2003-03-03 Thread Diego Cutrone

RE: Metalink Oracle Support Improving.......

2003-03-03 Thread mkb
Yep, had the same experience last week with Cognos support. Pretty cool. Tool is called Webex I believe. Support can see what you do but can't take over your workstation. It's like they have a looking glass on your workstation but can only see open items on your desktop. mohammed ---

RE: Listener/Database shutdown sequence

2003-03-03 Thread david davis
Tom, It is for the server auto-start/auto-shutdown procedures run by root. From: Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Listener/Database shutdown sequence Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 09:04:11 -0800

Re: Import Problem

2003-03-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
now you know why I script everything and run it as a background job on the database server itself. :) That I know of, there is no way to restart an import... unless you have primary key or unique constraints on all objects and you are will to do ignore=y so that you get constraint errors on

RE: Import Problem

2003-03-03 Thread Stephen Lee
There might be specific cases where you can, depending on constraints, etc., but in general, I don't think so. Two approaches to keep it from being interrupted: 1. sh -c nohup imp option1=xxx option2=xxx etc 2. echo imp option1=xxx option2=xxx | at now You might want to add some output

RE: Is there any user group forum for SQL Server?

2003-03-03 Thread Jared . Still
Not so much misspelling, as it is nuerons (sp?) firing in the wrong order. deraJ Jeremy Pulcifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/03/2003 09:36 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

Fwd: Re: Listener/Database shutdown sequence

2003-03-03 Thread david davis
From: Jeremiah Wilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Listener/Database shutdown sequence Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:19:06 -0800 Why do you/they think it matters, regardless of the documentation? You can

RE: Big SGA.......

2003-03-03 Thread Cary Millsap
This will help end-user performance *only* if a significant proportion of their response time is presently consumed doing physical disk I/O (e.g., either db file scattered read or db file sequential read events). Its possible that your strategy might help, but in my estimation, its not

Re: shared tnsnames.ora

2003-03-03 Thread Ron Thomas
Nope. namectl, names, et al binaries are still there and functional at 9.2 Ron Thomas Hypercom, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. -- Kernighan

Re: Listener/Database shutdown sequence

2003-03-03 Thread david davis
Jeremiah I didn't really think it mattered for the shutdown. Though I know in Oracle 7 it did matter for the startup (we use MTS). Another DBA seemed to imply that the sequence was important on shutdown of 8i. So if in doubt I RTFM, suffer the metalink search and post to the list. As usual,

RE: DSS tools?

2003-03-03 Thread Stephane Paquette
Hi, I'm a bit late on this thread. Back in late 2000, we have evaluate query tools. Brio came up on the short list but the client has chosen Business Objects products. Stephane Paquette Administrateur de bases de donnees Database Administrator Standard Life www.standardlife.ca Tél. (514)

RE: MS SQL hasn't given up!

2003-03-03 Thread John . Whelan
Just a personal comment, we run both Microsoft SQL databases and Oracle databases about 60 servers in each. The organisation is project driven for that read small independent kingdoms. The impression I have is that the Windows 2000 operating system is fairly stable, especially when run on

RE: Big SGA.......

2003-03-03 Thread Stephen Lee
We have SGA's as large as 22 Gb. I don't know that this solves any of the inherent application problems, but it doesn't appear to cause any problems. OS here is Tru64. -Original Message- One could suggest that they could cache some very large tables in the SGA; but there seems to be

RE: 9i OCP Upgrade Exam - Again

2003-03-03 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: 9i OCP Upgrade Exam - Again I have decided to go with your book and the self-test exams. I don't think I am interested in the Benjaman book. I remember you said that the upgrade was the most difficult - and I took note. -Original Message- From: Freeman Robert - IL

RE: 9i Database Best Practices by Guy Harrison

2003-03-03 Thread Paula_Stankus
Just listened in: Spawned some questions in my mind would like to know: -How do you independently verify AIO being used on OS? Is Direct I/O preferred to AIO? -If stuck with large disks and multiple heads and Veritas VM - is it still worth not using SAME but to try to segment certain

RE: 9i OCP Upgrade Exam - Again

2003-03-03 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Good luck. As way of disclosure, my book was never written to cover the entire 9i Upgrade Exam. So, make sure that you use the exam objectvies to shore up on missing areas. Look me up at IOUG-A! Good luck! Robert -Original Message- To: Freeman Robert - IL; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

Re: Big SGA.......

2003-03-03 Thread Tim Gorman
Please start using STATSPACK now to gather and keep statistics. You are certainly going to need "before" and "after" statistics to analyze. Some questions: Why does the development group think that I/O is the problem? Have they been gathering data? Have you seen it? Do you concur

RE: shared tnsnames.ora

2003-03-03 Thread Pete Sharman
IIRC, the announcement was that Oracle Names was obsolescent in 9i, which means it will be desupported completely in a later release. Pete Controlling developers is like herding cats. Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that! Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle

Re: Oracle Magazine excels itself

2003-03-03 Thread Daniel W. Fink
After reading the magazine at the UKOUG conference, I checked purchasing Scene. It is 40 pounds a year (roughly $60 American (IIRC)). It is excellent and worth the $. And it helps support a fellow user group. Mark Leith wrote: I find that the Oracle

RE: Metalink Oracle Support Improving.......

2003-03-03 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Metalink Oracle Support Improving... Yes, I understand, bur being paranoid is a constant state of mind here ... Raj - Rajendra dot Jamadagni at espn dot com Any views expressed here are strictly personal. QOTD: Any

RE: Listener/Database shutdown sequence

2003-03-03 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Dave, that's kind of a different question. in this case, as others have stated, the order of shutting things down does not matter too much. For practical purposes, I would shut the listener down first and then the database - only because the database takes longer to shut down. For startup, I

RE: Oracle Magazine excels itself

2003-03-03 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Does it work the way round? Should one call technical magazine a definitive marketing source? -Original Message- From: Cary Millsap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 12:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Oracle Magazine excels itself

RE: 9i OCP Upgrade Exam - Again

2003-03-03 Thread M Rafiq
I agree with Roberts about level of exam. His book covers new features. Poula should buy Danial Benjamin's book as well as your book and STS pratice test. In case of any clarification , Oracle Docs must be consulted to understand the concept of new features clearly Use OTN20 code to get

RE: Big SGA.......

2003-03-03 Thread Stephen Lee
One additional consideration on this topic is the politics of the situation. If your shop is one where development has undue influence on upper management decisions (i.e. the tail wagging the dog), the politics might be such that garbage is deployed and it's expected that the support people (i.e.

Re: Big SGA.......

2003-03-03 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I know of one system where it would have been beneficial to have an 8GB buffer_pool_keep (as you might guess, this was a specialised telecomms system); but I think the general rule should be to consider very large memory as a requirement that has to be proved, rather than an obvious easy option.

Sharing data between sessions

2003-03-03 Thread Chuck Hamilton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 One of my developers wants to share data between sessions inside a package. Specifically he wants to set some sort of global variable in a package that session 1 executes, and when sessions 2,3...n fire a trigger he wants them to be able to read that

RE: What to check?

2003-03-03 Thread Nguyen, David M
Title: RE: What to check? All three machines having the same amount of CPUs and memory, and he uses the same script to run on three machines, some of tables containing hundred thousands of records. Below is a portion of his script. Is there a way to improve his SQL command? @Dumptables.sql

RE: Is there any user group forum for SQL Server?

2003-03-03 Thread Niall Litchfield
It's a well known fault, digital interference - ask any support guy they'll be sure to clock digit=finger. I'd also like to apologise to anyone who got any of my work messages stating that their message could not be scanned and therefore was the spawn of satan (or some similar such wording :( ).

RE: Sharing data between sessions

2003-03-03 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Sharing data between sessions In Oracle all data is session specific ... even package data ... sessions share the package code. 1. Use a small table to share the data. or 2. Use dbms_pipe to receive request and send out data ... this will act as a pseudo package header for all

Re: Import Problem

2003-03-03 Thread Jared . Still
Scott, Try using screen. It is a piece of software using virtual tty 's. I began using it in 1994 to avoid just such problems. It gives you some unique capabilities. Start a process from one client, goto another client, detach and re-attach there. eg. start a job at home in a terminal

ORA-00018: maximum number of sessions exceeded

2003-03-03 Thread Sam Bootsma
We are running Oracle 7.3.4.5.0 on an IBM/AIX RISC System/6000: Version 2.3.4.0.0. This afternoon, our users started getting the error message ORA-00018: maximum number of sessions exceeded. As time went on, the number of sessions was decreasing (as shown by the count of rows in

RE: 9i OCP Upgrade Exam - Again

2003-03-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Paula - Since the scope of the 9i upgrade exam is so broad, you may want to consider getting your hands on a copy of the class handout. This is what the exam is taken from. Myself, I'm always paranoid about over-studying ;-) -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 10:04 AM To:

RE: Big SGA.......

2003-03-03 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
one little piece of information..(considered critical probably:-) ) There isn't an opportunity to use statspack... The current application is running on sybase:-) I do have other teams researching the questions you mention. its a real fun project... -Original Message-From:

RE: 9i OCP Upgrade Exam - Again

2003-03-03 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: 9i OCP Upgrade Exam - Again I don't worry about knowing too much about Oracle. At the same time I am worried about maximizing my time as time has an opportunity cost - I have heard that the Benjamin book is incorrect in places. I think Robert's book, the self-tests and Metalink,

RE: Sharing data between sessions

2003-03-03 Thread Jeremy Pulcifer
Title: RE: Sharing data between sessions From: Chuck Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] One of my developers wants to share data between sessions inside a package. Specifically he wants to set some sort of global variable in a package that session 1 executes, and when sessions

Re: Sharing data between sessions

2003-03-03 Thread Tim Gorman
Chuck, Depending on the intensity with which they'd be using this form of inter-process communication, using a table may be the easiest and fastest implementation method. Other possibilities include (depending on desired functionality): * DBMS_PIPE package (i.e. semantics involve simple FIFO

Re: Import Problem

2003-03-03 Thread Tim Gorman
FYI... Even more useful than screen is vnc (www.tightvnc.com). It has some of the same capabilities as screen, but it works like X-windows. Using VNC, you can start an Oracle Installer session on your laptop, shut it down, go home, and resume the session when you get where you are going. It is

Oracle 9.2.0.2 bugs

2003-03-03 Thread Govind.Arumugam
List, We recently upgraded our Production system to 9i and gotburnt by these bugs. Installed Patch List:2785282 [ Base Bug(s): 2442125 ] Bug # 2808431WRONG RESULTS FOR PARALLEL QUERY WITH HASH AND INDEX JOIN Bug # 2783229 Base bug : 2442125 INCORRECT DATA RETURNED FROM DATABASE WHEN

Re: ORA-00018: maximum number of sessions exceeded

2003-03-03 Thread Tim Gorman
I don't recall if the V$RESOURCE_LIMIT view existing in 7.3.4, but you might want to check. It is a better diagnostic point for that particular resource... The "init.ora" parameter SESSIONS is related to the ORA-00018 error message, not any of the licensing parameters. Please use SHOW

RE: 9i OCP Upgrade Exam - Again

2003-03-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Paula - Here is a pretty good on-line reference. Not quite detailed enough for the exam, but he explains things clearly. http://www.oracle-base.com/Links/9inf.pdf http://www.oracle-base.com/Links/9inf.pdf One tip I picked up from my Oracle instructor is that most of the exam questions seem to be

RE: Oracle Magazine excels itself

2003-03-03 Thread Cary Millsap
LOL. This is actually the definition of a marketing white paper, isn't it? It's a technical document rubbed in marketing stink. I suppose the end result is that technical people won't read it because it smells like marketing. The people who are normally susceptible to marketing *can't* read it

RE: Big SGA.......

2003-03-03 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
Title: RE: Big SGA... BINGO!! The politics is definitely a key contributor to all projects here in this shop:-) greg -Original Message- From: Stephen Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

db create with DBCA and scripts

2003-03-03 Thread Ehresmann, David
List, Has anybody noticed this behavior: When you create a db with the DBCA in 9iRel2 for unix it does: usernamedefaulttemporary _ sys system temp system

Re: Import Problem

2003-03-03 Thread Ron Thomas
If all you need is tty (character based), then screen should work. If you need a full GUI environment, then check out vnc. I use this alot for those 5 hour Oracle Application Installs. Ron Thomas Hypercom, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. --

RE: ORA-00018: maximum number of sessions exceeded

2003-03-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Sam - what does SHOW PARAMETER SESSIONS show? Just in case you have another line in your init.ora file. No, no that has never happened to me! Other than that, I haven't encountered the problem you describe. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Import Problem

2003-03-03 Thread Richard Ji
For GUI, you can use VNC. Or screen utility. Both are freely avaible. Or script it and nohup the job on Unix. Richard Ji -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 9:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I ran into a problem yesterday afternoon. I had exported a

Re: Big SGA.......

2003-03-03 Thread Tim Gorman
Sybase, Schmybase, Oracle, Schmoracle -- the concepts are still the same. Developers create tables and indexes and then write SQL, thinking that the RDBMS is at fault if performance doesn't match expectations. They have to understand that the structures they have created or the queries

RE: 9i OCP Upgrade Exam - Again

2003-03-03 Thread Ed
I took this 4-5 months ago and passed with a 97%, so it's not impossible. It was about twice as hard as any of the 8i tests. It covers a huge amount of material, and it assumes you have knowledge of many things that were NOT on the 8i certification objectives. I think I studied about three weeks

RE: db create with DBCA and scripts

2003-03-03 Thread Kevin Lange
I did the same thing last night to an 8.1.7.4 DB and the Default Tablespace for SYSTEM was TOOLS but the Default Tablespace for SYS was SYSTEM this is the way I would hope it would run on 9.2 as well. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 4:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: Listener/Database shutdown sequence

2003-03-03 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
OK, after emphatically stating it doesn't matter, I thought of a situation in which the order of shutting down could make a difference. In this scenario, you first must be the kind of person who needlessly insists on shutdown immediate (instead of abort). Second, you must have a very heavy rate

Re: Null Event in v$session_wait

2003-03-03 Thread Anjo Kolk
db file scattered read and db file sequential read also end up as null event in v$session_wait. But the funny thing is that it is correct in v$session_event. Anjo. Jeremiah Wilton wrote: Null event is the bane of ORACLE 9.X. It pops up uner any circumstance that you really really need to

Re: fast full index scan

2003-03-03 Thread Jos
Jonathan, I think you are right, it came out from 7.3. I was working on a 8.0.5 database running RBO and have to use index_ffs to force fast index scan when doing select count(*) on a big table. Cheers, Jos Jonathan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm fairly sure it was available in 7.3.3,

Re: DBArtisan

2003-03-03 Thread Steve Perry
Suzy, DB Artisan was originally written for Sybase, then MS SQL Server, Oracle and UDB. It is intuitive and easier to use than most tools for Production Support (i.e. DDL extraction). When supporting multiple database platforms, the one-stop shopping console is also a plus. It used to be a

Reports runtime -- install just that or everything?

2003-03-03 Thread Bruce A. Bergman
Hey group -- If I want to have the Reports runtime available, so that I can print and display reports, do I need to install all of iAS or can I simply install the runtime only portion? I can't really find anything that says one way or the other. Most people say to install all of iAS in

Re: Big SGA.......

2003-03-03 Thread Connor McDonald
Pop quiz: Think of a parent with a spoiled child who is making a scene in public. How do you quiet the child? :-) I'm not sure if the analogy works. Because with the spoilt child case, you can in fact treat the symptom AND solve the problem by throwing resources at it. Once you have found

RE: What to check?

2003-03-03 Thread Mark Richard
David, That looks like a pretty basic script. There is no ordering, no functions, nothing at all really except for some basic select statements (assuming these are all tables and not views). I don't know what is in dumptables.sql, but presumably it sets the linesize and pagesize and defines the

Re: Oracle 9.2.0.2 bugs

2003-03-03 Thread chao_ping
Govind.Arumugam, I also hit two bugs running 9i rac on linux 9.2.0.2. The first bug is snapshot refresh cannot go on if the data volume is large , you have to drop and recreate the snapshot. 19:08:01 SQL 19:08:01 SQL 19:08:01 SQL BEGIN

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