RE: buffer busy due to global cache/more...

2003-03-20 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi This client has Oracle 8.1.7 OPS with 2 nodes. Every now and then sessions hang with this event being the only one that accumulates more time. How long can this downgrade/upgrade take? There is a bug in 8.1.7 related to this? Has anybody experienced it (Bug 1916409) and how can be proven w/o a

Re: TABLE SIZE

2003-03-20 Thread Connor McDonald
Load up a sample set of rows, check the number of blocks used (analyze, then look at user_tables), then multiply by the expected increase factor hth connor --- Hamid Alavi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear List, > > I have a question regarding Table size, I want to > put the small size of > tab

Re: Weekly aggregates

2003-03-20 Thread Darrell Landrum
I second this. Last year a developer put together a scenario in one of our data warehouses involving a big base table, hierarchies, and 8 MVs as summaries of that data, with query rewrite, etc. Supporting it has taken some getting used to, but now I like it and am on the lookout to take advanta

Re: Temporary Tablespace and RAC

2003-03-20 Thread Murali Vallath
Hello Ashok What are u seeing to make you believe that you need separate temp segements per instance? Murali Vallath Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:14:18 -0800 Is there a way in RAC that I can create 2 T

how to config my proc precompile environment

2003-03-20 Thread liujd
I often use proc precompile to make .cpp file from .pc . And the same time ,these programs are all multi-threads . But the default environment configure of proc precompile is .c and single-thread So precompiling  one , configing one . Is there some way to conifg the evironment. And make

RE: RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: Message A fan!!   The Red Green Man's Prayer: "I'm a man... But I can change... If I have to... I guess..."   Motto of Possum Lodge: "Quando omni flunkus moritati" Note: Roughly translated, this means "When all else fails, play dead"   OK, done with OT.   -Original Messag

Passing DB-Link name in a Loop

2003-03-20 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Guys, help me here. This SQL [below] returns the error : connecting to AM3C01 declare * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01729: database link name expected ORA-06512: at line 16 [AM3C01] is the first db_link fetched. tti 'Database Sizes (excluding TEMPFILEs) ' center spool DB_Sizes set serveroutput on s

Temporary Tablespace and RAC

2003-03-20 Thread Balakrishnan, Ashok - VSCM
Is there a way in RAC that I can create 2 TEMP tablespaces which can be explicitly assigned to separate instances of RAC. Or is there a way that to specify the size of the instance-specific temp segments? If I have a TEMP tablespace with a size of 10GB, how can i split it between 2 instances

答复: RE: Proc*C Errors

2003-03-20 Thread liujd
Thank you for your regard You are right ,and the .lis file show all meesages to me . Thanks for your help I don’t understand what mean errtype is .and I once try to point one file err.log and then precompile one proc file .but there is nothing happened. Can you tell me about what is errtype . Tha

RE: what did I miss? -- nologging generating redo

2003-03-20 Thread Steve McClure
Ahh I completely forgot that sqlloader needed to be used with direct to bypass logging. He actually told me he couldn't use direct because some of the data he was loading was date related. All in all it is easier for me to deal with extraneous redo rather than have him modify his tables. Thanks

RE: what did I miss? -- nologging generating redo

2003-03-20 Thread Balakrishnan, Ashok - VSCM
Since you mentioned Standby database and depending on the version of Oracle you have (9202 here), have you disable NOLOGGING at the database level by using "ALTER DATABASE FORCE LOGGING" (If I remember the syntax). We have done exactly that to prevent any NOLOGGING operations since there's a stan

Re: Updateable View with Select Union

2003-03-20 Thread Jonathan Lewis
First thought - which table would you want the new data to go into ? If you really need to implement this type of thing check "instead of" triggers. Be warned, though, that this is okay for small inserts- but if you are planning to do batch/array inserts, any trigger turns a fast array proce

RE: Storage guidelines in 9iR1 ??

2003-03-20 Thread Kevin Toepke
Performance of selects and non-direct path inserts. I no longer have the exact data as it was left at my former employer when I left. Significantly is relative -- it wasn't like performance went to the pots, I'm talking between about 5% and 10%. So a 1 minute query would run a couple seconds longer

RE: Function problem

2003-03-20 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Alec, Have a look at the 2 explain plans and see how they are different. Have a look at wait stats / 10046 trace for the two and see how they are different. What version of Oracle? Do you have histograms? If 8i or below and using the function then you will be using bind values and not getting be

Re: Explain Plan vs Actual Execution Plan

2003-03-20 Thread Jonathan Lewis
The really cute thing about the need for global statistics to be reasonable - a few pages further on you'll find the comment that in 8i you can't generate global histograms ! (Fixed in 9i) Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk One-day tutorials: (see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.

Re: Weekly aggregates

2003-03-20 Thread Jonathan Lewis
One of the options for materialized views is to 'create MV on prebuilt table' If you want to use the table for direct queries, then you can - if you enable query rewrite then suitable queries against the base tables can be rewritten to take advantage of the MV. It's a technique I've advised cli

Re: what did I miss? -- nologging generating redo

2003-03-20 Thread Jared . Still
My off the cuff response is "did you have direct=yes" set in the parm file or on the command line? IIRC this is basically the same as using the '/*+ APPEND *' hint in an INSERT statement. Jared "Steve McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/20/2003 03:13 PM Please resp

RE: Storage guidelines in 9iR1 ??

2003-03-20 Thread Jared . Still
Kevin, Performance of what? SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE? And why? Jared "Kevin Toepke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/19/2003 03:43 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject

Re: Oracle Audit for Failure Logins

2003-03-20 Thread Jared . Still
1. set audit_trail = db in init.ora 2. login as a dba and issue the command "audit session;" 3. select * from dba_audit_session Also, this is not a political forum, so please do not include political slogans or messages in emails to this forum. Jared ( the list owner ) Joshua Becker <[EMA

Function problem

2003-03-20 Thread Alec Macdonell
I have written a function to return a drug price from our database. If I use this function in a SQL statement it take a long time to return a value. However running the main cursor in the function in SQL returns a value immediately. DOing a little debugging I find that the function does 6000 physic

Updateable View with Select Union

2003-03-20 Thread Govindan K
Hi list I need help on this. Trying to create a view with select union all as part of it. SQL> @view01b SQL> create table t1 (ind1 varchar2(02) , rundate1 date) 2 / Table created. SQL> create table t2 (ind2 varchar2(02) , rundate2 date) 2 / Table created. SQL> insert into t1 values('T1'

what did I miss? -- nologging generating redo

2003-03-20 Thread Steve McClure
Allright I have a developer that is loading a few gig of historical data, that will only be used for a very short period of time. I wanted to avoid dealing with all the redo this is going to create. I created a new tablespace using the nologging option. The table and it's indexes were created wi

RE: Weekly aggregates

2003-03-20 Thread Gurelei
Paula, I'm not sure what would an MV on top of an aggregate give me. I mean, I have a base table and I need to aggregate. I can see doing it via an aggregate table or (as someone suggested) via an MV. But you are suggesting both. What benefit do you see from that? What am I missing? thanks --- [

RE: Weekly aggregates

2003-03-20 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Weekly aggregates What about materialized view on top of the partitioned table aggregated by week?  I don't remember is there a restriction that the material. view must be partitioned same as table?  If not it might be a bit of a perf. hit but only once.  Also, can determine how to

Re: Explain Plan vs Actual Execution Plan

2003-03-20 Thread Darrell Landrum
Brad, you're absolutely correct. Explain plan is what is intended, but isn't what always happens. It probably is most of the time, but not always. I recently had a circumstance in which a long running job (the explain plan of) was telling me it was reading from a big partitioned table and usi

RE: RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: RE: Value of OCP You sure that isn't spackle you are talking about?  Oracle OCP DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re:RE: Value of OCP Go

RE: How do you document your databases

2003-03-20 Thread Stephane Paquette
Oracle Designer is a very powerful tool. In a previous life, everything was handle in Designer, even shell scripts (via Samba), word docs,... We were using the version control to manage dev, test, qa, prod,... Each version was containing DDL, word docs, shell, C programs,... We were 2 dev dba/arch

RE: Explain Plan vs Actual Execution Plan

2003-03-20 Thread Cary Millsap
I think you can trust the STAT lines in a SQL trace file to give you accurate information about what execution plan *did* take place. The test I would suggest is to compare the information in these lines to what EXPLAIN PLAN shows you. You'll need to look at the raw trace data, though, because tkpr

RE: How do you document your databases

2003-03-20 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
If you are using 9i, you can use the dbms_metadata procedure to generate DDL for your database objects. RF -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 3/20/2003 2:03 PM Hi How do you document your databases? The only DBA tool that I have at my disposal is Designe

Re: Explain Plan vs Actual Execution Plan

2003-03-20 Thread Stephane Faroult
"Odland, Brad" wrote: > > Hello, > > Heres a question to ponder. While tuning a SQL statment for a user I noticed > that the explain plan from SQL Analyze was not the same plan that was found > when I used OEM Top Sessions (9.2.0.1) upon executing to collect execution > stats. Database is on HP/

RE: How do you document your databases

2003-03-20 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ben Two ideas: 1. A site like yours probably has a source code control system. Use it. 2. Learn ITIL. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 2:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Ho

Re:RE: RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread Rachel Carmichael
No, although I've come close with Superglue/Krazy Glue (btw, to remove that use any nail polish remover with acetone, works like a charm) Jared forgive me, we are way off topic here but... I had a scratching post for my cats that was falling apart. And a hot glue gun. I decided I could be Martha

Re: Weekly aggregates

2003-03-20 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I've used both methods at different sites for different reasons. If you need the performance of the partition-wise join, then you keep the weekly aggregates in monthly partitions, and work around the problems of not being able to do a single week create as select / exchange partition If

Explain Plan vs Actual Execution Plan

2003-03-20 Thread Odland, Brad
Hello, Heres a question to ponder. While tuning a SQL statment for a user I noticed that the explain plan from SQL Analyze was not the same plan that was found when I used OEM Top Sessions (9.2.0.1) upon executing to collect execution stats. Database is on HP/UX 11 version Oracle 8.1.7 The stats

How do you document your databases

2003-03-20 Thread Ben
Hi How do you document your databases? The only DBA tool that I have at my disposal is Designer but I have not used it yet. Is it adequate to completely document the life cycle of a database design? I am sure it can create and retain pretty straight forward DDL. Does it allow build levels? What do

RE: Weekly aggregates

2003-03-20 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Gurelei Absolutely you can partition by week. The creative DBA is a top DBA! You keep mentioning aggregation. Have you considered Materialized Views? Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 1:19 PM To:

Good to be back

2003-03-20 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Good to be back I don't know, but it seems, I was bumped off the list due to some problems. Glad to be back it's like being out in fresh air. No list messages for 5 days was killing me. Raj - Rajendra dot Jamadagni at es

Weekly aggregates

2003-03-20 Thread Gurelei
Hi all: An application I'm supporting needs weekly aggregates. Nothing wrong with that except I'm thinking of how to partition that aggregate table. The requirement is to keep 3 year history of data. I have been partitioning other aggregate tables (monthly etc) by month. This makes it easy to drop

Re:RE: RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Rachel, You didn't glue your fingers together, now did you?? Did that many years ago. We were using super glue, the older slower drying stuff, to hold a gasket on the bottom of a radar beacon case. Well using an open top bottle and flux brush to apply that stuff is messy at best. Got j

RE: RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread Rachel Carmichael
remind me to tell you about my glue-gun related accident.. never ever try to brush the hot glue off your hand! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Personally I like the old glue gun - well okay, watch out for > electricity > surges whilst deploying the glue gun method. However, really useful > for >

RE: upgrading AIX

2003-03-20 Thread April Wells
We are living it now. You are "supposed" to go to 9.2 before you go to 5L, then install the 5L version of the binaries after you upgrade the OS and before you open the database. want some REAL creativity? Add Apps to the mix and it gets real ugly real fast. April -Original Message- Se

Re: upgrading AIX

2003-03-20 Thread Joan Hsieh
Thanks all. I thought the "crash" problem in rootpre.sh maybe affect something. Another question, I know that this one had been discussed sometime ago. regarding how to approach the upgrade path from 817.4 to 9.2. Currently we run it on 4.3.3 32-bit mode. What is best path to cooperate AIX upgrade

Re: Try Again: Outer Join with SUBSTR

2003-03-20 Thread Jonathan Lewis
In what way is it not working ? Are you getting an error message, or not getting the results you expect. In the latter case, this may be because you are cancelling the outer join by not echoing it through all the necessary points in the WHERE clause. e.g. > > (substr(pcmacaddress,10,2) || > sub

Re[2]: RE: New DBA.

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
There are entry level DBA positions, although I will admit they are few and far between. We had one, filled it & now have promoted the guy. He did not come from an IT related area (actually was a "bean counter" before). A couple of years ago I'd probably have said it was a mistake to open up suc

Re:RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
I will admit to getting mine simply as part of an ego trip. I figured that after 15 years of being an developer/DBA with Oracle I should have one. Has it made a difference to my salary or employment potential? Not one bit. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Aut

RE: upgrading AIX

2003-03-20 Thread April Wells
Joan, I BELIVE Henry's right. With the 8i binaries you should only have to relink. With 9.2 you have to get all new binaries. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Joan, I would just relink the oracle executables. Henry

RE: RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: RE: Value of OCP Personally I like the old glue gun - well okay, watch out for electricity surges whilst deploying the glue gun method.  However, really useful for most kid related things - wip up a costume in no time, fix that plastic toy, diaper to cheap to stick - the glue gun c

RE: RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread Jeremy Pulcifer
Title: Message If the ladies can't find you handsome, at least let them find you handy! -Original Message-From: Orr, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 8:54 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: RE: Value of OCP Red Green, m

Re: Re:partitioning

2003-03-20 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I wouldn't really expect to get any significant benefit from partition elimination when using hash partitions. In fact, apart from the administrative convenience, I think the only benefit is likely to come from partition wise joins using partition iterators. Can you give us any details of the

RE: RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: RE: RE: Value of OCP Red Green, my hero!!! http://www.ducttapeforever.com/forever.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 8:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re:RE: Value of OCP Good ol

RE: Re:partitioning

2003-03-20 Thread Kevin Toepke
You can get significant benefit from hash partitioning if you have 2 or more tables that are equi-partitioned. The benefit comes when you join the tables together -- you get partition-wise joining! In effect, you perform multiple small table joins instead of 1 join of 2 large tables! This works fo

RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Value of OCP I held out for 8 years as an Oracle DBA.  I had been sent to training and interviewed Oracle DBA's and worked for Oracle as a DBA consultant w/o having the certification.  It was based on my personal reputation, experience, network and interview.  Those I believe still

RE: New DBA.

2003-03-20 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Pat, you don't become a DBA, you get consecrated into the order. You have to master ways of the force, unix kernel, shell programming, perl, C/C++, application tuning and geek humor before you can be safely inducted among the immortals. Live long and prosper! -Original Message- Sent: Wedne

RE: Try Again: Outer Join with SUBSTR

2003-03-20 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Try Again: Outer Join with SUBSTR SQL> select * from t ; V ABCD WXYZ SQL> select * from t2 ; V -- ABQCDR WXQYRZ SQL> select a.v, b.v   2  from t a, t2 b   3  where a.v = substr (b.v(+), 1, 2) || substr (b.v(+), 4, 2) ; V    V -- ABCD ABQCDR WXYZ -Origi

TABLE SIZE

2003-03-20 Thread Hamid Alavi
Dear List, I have a question regarding Table size, I want to put the small size of tables in a small TBS,But don't know the size of table do I have to calculate the size for which period, Assume we want to keep the data for 5 years so do I have to calculate the size of table for 5 years then decid

Re:Metilinx -product!

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Looks like a Platinum plated version of an apps server. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: =?iso-8859-1?q?Joshua=20Becker?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 3/20/2003 3:38 AM Is anyone using this product, could I please hear your comments and thoughts. Is

RE: upgrading AIX

2003-03-20 Thread Henry Poras
Joan, I would just relink the oracle executables. Henry -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi listers, I have a relative simple qusestion regarding upgrading AIX os system. Our current enviroment is 4.3.3 32bit with 817

Re:RE: Proc*C Errors

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Oh Stephane, your such a woos. I absolutely hate the OCI interface, talk about a place to blow your head off! 99.9% of the time that the C compiler tosses a fur ball is something you've done in C that is wrong, although I'll admit is sometimes gets real hairy trying to find it. If the Proc p

RE: HP-UX and IBM ESS

2003-03-20 Thread Stephen Lee
We had a case where the hardware revision level of an I/O device was not at the correct version, and we would get random error messages about corrupt blocks during a select when there were, in fact, no corrupt blocks. This was on Tru64, not HPUX, but it might be something to investigate. > -

RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Quoting Stephen Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > -Original Message- > > Did you learn anything from the previous crash to prevent it from > > > happening again? > > > > Yes. Duct tape the power cord to the floor. > Whoa! -- Lyndon Tiu -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.

Re:RE: Data Capture program

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Santosh, If that's what your after I'd suggest you get into WEB development mode. Using Access means using ODBC which means installing the Oracle client. Take a look at ColdFusion, or 9IAS or some Java based approach. In any case your going to need a WEB server and browser on the client sid

RE: Oracle Enterprise vs Standard

2003-03-20 Thread Fermin Bernaus Berraondo
We have BAAN IVc4 and Oracle Enterprise edition at our site. Enterprise Edition has got some advantages over the Standard Edition which would be too lenghty to explain here, but we are not taking advantage of them and, besides, baan does not exploit Oracle's facilities too much and Stan

utl_file.put error

2003-03-20 Thread Jeroen van Sluisdam
[BUG:458336] UTL_FILE.WRITE_ERROR RAISED DOING MULTIPLE PUTS OF <1023 CHARS EACH (TOTAL>1023) [BUG:385936] UTL_FILE.PUT WITH BUFFER > 1023 CHARACTERS CAUSES ERROR I'm not able to read these bugreports in metalink, anybody familiar with these problems? Details: Oracle 7.3.4 HP-UX 10.20 Tia,

RE: RE: How to run sql*plus and its command in Windows as b

2003-03-20 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Dick, Just for the example I stated. Sometimes, the sql I want to run is variable, depending upon something that happens in the .BAT file. This way, I can construct the sql file using NT substitution environmental's, and the sql statement changes with each run. The most common thing I due is to

Re[2]:partitioning

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Peter, I've not had very good luck with hash partitioning either, but range works damn nicely both from a data insertion/update and query point of view. CBO also runs very consistently. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Peter Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread Stephen Lee
> -Original Message- > Did you learn anything from the previous crash to prevent it from > happening again? > Yes. Duct tape the power cord to the floor. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephen Lee INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

Re:RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Good old Duct Tape, the "handyman's secret weapon"!! Reply Separator Author: Stephen Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 3/20/2003 6:34 AM > -Original Message- > Did you learn anything from the previous crash to prevent it from > happening again? >

Re: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Quoting Rachel Carmichael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > well the last one we had, I learned that I need to teach the > sysadmins > to verify that they are not assigning two volumes to the same > physical > disk! :) > Ooops! duh! > yea I learn techniques, and things to check and not to panic no > matter

Re:partitioning

2003-03-20 Thread Peter Barnett
As we have discovered, hash partitioning does not always give you partition elimination nor does CBO always work as expected. One of our DBAs has a tar open with Oracle on this issue and we are finding that no one appears to understand the complete ramifications of using hash partitions when a que

upgrading AIX

2003-03-20 Thread Joan Hsieh
Hi listers, I have a relative simple qusestion regarding upgrading AIX os system. Our current enviroment is 4.3.3 32bit with 8174 32 bit oracle instances. If we upgrade AIX 4.3.3 to AIX 5.1, booted in 32 bit mode. Do we need to reinstall the 817 software or do nothing? Thanks, Joan -- Please se

Re: Oracle Audit for Failure Logins

2003-03-20 Thread Connor McDonald
"audit connect whenever unsuccesful" or thereabouts, assuming you have auditing set up via the appropriate init.ora parameters. hth connor --- Joshua Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > could someone give me an example how could I set up > auditing on for failure logins. > > Th

Re:RE: How to run sql*plus and its command in Windows as b

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Thom, If your going to go to all that trouble, why not simply create a .sql file & call it on the command line. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: "Mercadante; Thomas F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 3/20/2003 4:53 AM Chuan, What I do is the follo

RE: switch logfile vs. archive log current

2003-03-20 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Switching archive logs will only switch redo logs and change the status of the file that was used to "need archiving". Archive log current, on the other hand, will switch logs and archive any logs that needs archiving. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 9:14 AM To: Multipl

RE: Re:RE: Proc*C Errors

2003-03-20 Thread Stephane Faroult
>Oh Stephane, your such a woos. I absolutely hate >the OCI interface, talk about >a place to blow your head off! 99.9% of the >time that the C compiler tosses >a fur ball is something you've done in C that is >wrong, although I'll admit is >sometimes gets real hairy trying to find it. If >th

RE: switch logfile vs. archive log current

2003-03-20 Thread Hemant K Chitale
My script does an SWITCH LOGFILE ARCHIVE LOG CURRENT SWITCH LOGFILE SWITCH LOGFILE sleep 180seconds The script has been built up over the years -- it initially started off with SWITCH LOGFILEs and therefore I put in the sleep to ensure that the archive logs were written. As I only actually need th

RE: New DBA.

2003-03-20 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Dennis, Actually I was quite fortunate that I started off as a DBA, not a developer. I wasn't in IT at my first job. there was no IT department and IT services were being provided by the consultants who were rolling out the systems for us. Once the organisation grew large enough [from 15 to 50 pe

Oracle Forms and Reports Services

2003-03-20 Thread Glenn Stauffer
Does anyone use the Oracle Forms and Reports services to serve Forms and Reports apps through the web? We have a setup running here on a Solaris system and there are quirks (like starting the Reports service under a VNC session) and frequent crashes. I'm wondering whether there are preferred

Try Again: Outer Join with SUBSTR

2003-03-20 Thread WLSH
Hello, List: I'm doing a outer join with SUBSTR, but can't get it to work. Is there a way to get correct or get around it? Thanks in advance SELECT rtrim(komp.inventar),    rtrim(komp.typ),    rtrim(komp.herst),    rtrim(sysstand.so_nr),    rtrim(person.vname),    rtrim(person.nname),    rtrim(li

Re: RE: New DBA.

2003-03-20 Thread rgaffuri
There is no such thing as an entry level DBA. This has been a myth for a while. Alot of training companies offering incredibly expensive classes are duping people into believing these jobs exist. Oracle DBA is a real buzzword term so people think there are lots of entry level positions. DBAs st

RE: switch logfile vs. archive log current

2003-03-20 Thread Hemant K Chitale
No, it is not necessary to switch or archive the log file at every tablespace. I, too, run the switch and archive commands _after_ the last tablespace. Hemant At 10:26 AM 19-03-03 -0800, you wrote: I use switch logfile exclusively within my hot backups (because at the time I wrote the scripts I was

RE: New DBA.

2003-03-20 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Pat Not to be impolite, but what makes you think this is the next logical career move for you? Before you become a DBA it is good if you have a lot of other computer experience, such as development or system administration. You really need to understand how large computer systems work and how al

RE: Data Capture program

2003-03-20 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Santosh - Yes, you can create an Oracle table, have MS Access link to that table (ODBC) and create a Access form for the user to enter data which will be stored in Oracle. This is will look good to your user and be pretty easy for you to create. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc

RE: How to run sql*plus and its command in Windows as batch job

2003-03-20 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Chuan, What I do is the following: set DBA_TEMP=\sometempdirectory echo connect test/test > %DBA_TEMP%\run.sql echo alter sesion set sql_trace=true>>%DBA_TEMP%\run.sql echo select count(*) from product_temp p, invoice_temp i>> %DBA_TEMP%\run.sql echo where p.invpsid=i.invoice

overloading fopen max linesize 7.3.4

2003-03-20 Thread Jeroen van Sluisdam
Hi, Unfortunately I'm stil stuck to Oracle 7.3.4 and there is a limit of 1023 characters per line. I know it is raised in 8.05 as mentioned on metalink. Are there any trics in 7.3.4 available? Tia, Jeroen -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jeroen van Slui

Metilinx -product!

2003-03-20 Thread Joshua Becker
Is anyone using this product, could I please hear your comments and thoughts. Is there other links than this http://www.metilinx.com/default.cfm rgds Joshua _ Gå före i kön och få din sajt värderad på nolltid med Yahoo! Express Se mer på: http

RE: how to see errors when precompiling proc program

2003-03-20 Thread Virk, Istifad
In your script file, put: SHOW ERRORS after the procedure text. -Original Message- Sent: 20 March 2003 06:49 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=002_Dragon236182704230_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="GB2312" Conten

Re: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread Rachel Carmichael
well the last one we had, I learned that I need to teach the sysadmins to verify that they are not assigning two volumes to the same physical disk! :) yea I learn techniques, and things to check and not to panic no matter who is breathing down my neck to get the database back up experience tea

RE: RE: Ab Initio, Unix Scripting, and Datawarehousing

2003-03-20 Thread Turner, Adrian A SITI-ITPSIE
I've had Ab Initio accessing my databases at several uk based large telcos. It was used to pre-process extremely high volumes of call data records. It can scale very well and runs across many platforms - UNIX, OS390, NT. On UNIX it essentially generates multiple shell scripts which call bespoke ex

Re: Oracle FAQ's

2003-03-20 Thread Joerg Jost
On Thursday 20 March 2003 05:18, Santosh Varma wrote: > Hello list, Hi, > > Could anyone of you tell me good sites where i can find > questions/FAQ's related to oracle pl/sql, sql. triggers. > here are some Links for Oracle http://web.singnet.com.sg/~petermag/oracle.html http://www.orafaq.com/

AW: How to run sql*plus and its command in Windows as batch job?

2003-03-20 Thread Kulev, Milen
Install Cygwun (http://www.cygwin.com/). Then there wouldn't be a need for format change and you could use (almost)all your UNIX scripts . Best Regards MILEN -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Chuan Zhang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. März 2003 04:19 An: Multiple recipi

RE:

2003-03-20 Thread Kurth, Michael J.
connect as owner of procedure to sqlplus select * from user_errors where name = 'X' (X = procedure name) -Original Message-From: liujd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 12:34 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: My oracle

HP-UX and IBM ESS

2003-03-20 Thread McBain, Neil SITI-ITDIEEE
Anyone using HP K-class servers connected to IBM ESS running HP-UX 11.0 and Oracle 8i successfully - if so maybe you can shed some light on the following :- We have a test HP K460 (9000/889) connected to an IBM ESS for storage which we are currently testing to see if we can connect all our test a

Re: Number of bytes used by number data type

2003-03-20 Thread Jonathan Lewis
See notes on http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/num_size.html There's also a note on the site (though not in the FAQ) about reading internal formats and working out what number it represents. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Now available One-day tutorials: Cost Based

RE: Proc*C Errors

2003-03-20 Thread Stephane Faroult
>My oracle using version is 8.0.0.5. >Now , I'm programming proc . >When I precompile them and fail. But I can't see >what happened .and >where the errors are. >So I look carefully for errors in large file. >Is there some way to show where the error is .and >what the error is . >Can you give me y

Re: Imaginary indexes created when setting CLOBs to null?

2003-03-20 Thread Jonathan Lewis
The index name shows that this is the LOBINDEX. Each out of line LOB item is broken into CHUNKs, and a bitmap in the LOB (DATA) SEGMENT is used to map where in the SEGMENT there are free spaces that can take the CHUNKS, but there is also a LOBINDEX stored in the same tablespace that links together