Re: Re: question about large pool

2003-06-03 Thread rgaffuri
you only want DBWR_IO_SLAVES or multiple DBWRn if you have datafiles spread over multiple I/O points correct? We are using 'Network Appliance' hard disk array that Im not all that familiar with. It looks like we have 3 I/O points and 5 mount points. my boss told me that striping data files and r

RE: When will long datatype no longer be supported

2003-06-03 Thread Gogala, Mladen
-Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 6:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Your case against LOB is That was probably the "case against LONG"? -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the offic

RE: Tablespace management.

2003-06-03 Thread Bryan, Miriam
-Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 11:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Yes, it is fixed in 9.2.0 Hemant At 04:25 AM 02-06-03 -0800, you wrote: >Hope it's fixed in 9iR2 ! > >Jp. > >2003/06/02 20:54:41, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Cannot create lob columns if

RE: Schedule Analyze using DBMS_STATS ???

2003-06-03 Thread Mark Leith
Prem, Use DBMS_JOBS to run the analyze: === undef username undef password grant analyze any to &&username / connect &&username/&&password CREATE or REPLACE PROCEDURE analyze_tables ( v_stat_type IN VARCHAR2 := 'COMPUTE') AS CURSOR c IS SELECT D

RE: cannot allocate new log --> Problem Solved

2003-06-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Naula - Don't worry about it. You've given me something to look for the next time. I'd rather learn from someone else's problems. :-) Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 5:25 AM To: Multiple recipients o

RE: IN or Exists --- performance issue

2003-06-03 Thread Stephane Faroult
> >Hi Listers > >I have a unique performance problem. As a general >rule by oracle while >writing SQL scripts EXISTS should be used in place >of IN. > As a general rule there is no general rule. Why do you want to use EXISTS if it goes faster with IN ? EXISTS is mostly used with a correlated

RE: Benchmarking of ASP.NET with Oracle v/s MSSQL

2003-06-03 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Benchmarking of ASP.NET with Oracle v/s MSSQL Please send to me as well! -Original Message- From: Satya Prakash Viswanath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Benchmarking of ASP.NET with Ora

RE: IN or Exists --- performance issue

2003-06-03 Thread Lord, David - CSG
--_=_NextPart_001_01C329BC.79FDEA20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Munish I've got a funny feeling that this thing about using EXISTS rather than IN is a bit of a myth. I do a lot of this sort of thing and I find that almost invariably, an IN with a simple subquery is faster

Schedule Analyze using DBMS_STATS ???

2003-06-03 Thread Prem Khanna J
Guys, I would like to scedule the process of analyzing tables/indexes using DBMS_STATS ? Hope someone of u would have a script for the same. can u share with me please ?! BTW,Which is advisable : ANALYZE or DBMS_STATS ? there was a discussion about the same on the list also. but not found any c

RE: IN or Exists --- performance issue

2003-06-03 Thread Mark Leith
Munish, You are right, as a *general rule of thumb* EXISTS is *usually* faster than IN.. There can however be problems when an EXISTS is used to manipulate or select data from a very large table, where the row exists in a far smaller table, as it will read every row in the large table, and then s

Re: IN or Exists --- performance issue

2003-06-03 Thread rgaffuri
there is an in & exists thread on asktom. Generally speaking exists is better if the sub-query will have a larger and most costly result set than the outer query. Its the other way around for 'in'. I may have them backward, though I think that is correct. > > From: Munish Bajaj <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: question about large pool

2003-06-03 Thread Mladen Gogala
Well, I was talking about cursors, sort areas and hash areas. I probably did confuse "GA stuff". On 2003.06.02 22:27 Tim Gorman wrote: > Almost. It is the UGA areas (not the PGA) for Shared Server (a.k.a. > multi-threaded server) that are re-located to the Large Pool, if it exists. > Otherwise, th

IN or Exists --- performance issue

2003-06-03 Thread Munish Bajaj
Hi Listers I have a unique performance problem. As a general rule by oracle while writing SQL scripts EXISTS should be used in place of IN. I'm having 2 sql for comparison using IN and EXISTS operators. With IN operator SELECT /*+ PUSH_SUBQ USE_NL (a) INDEX (a) */ COUNT(1) FROM mam_assets a

Re: SQL Loader

2003-06-03 Thread Pradeep Kumar G
When I queried the table to which SQL Loader loaded data from the .dat file, the first record in the table was the 5th record and 4,49998...

RE: cannot allocate new log --> Problem Solved

2003-06-03 Thread Nuala Cullen
Hi All, Sorry I feel *really* stupid about this but here goes. The database was picking up the wrong init.ora (the one it was picking up had the archiving parameter set to false) I've deleted all the old versions of the init.ora so this should n't happen again. Thanks for all the help and sugge

RE: How to find creation date for Rollback segment

2003-06-03 Thread Senthil Kumar D
Hi, When you create a RBS the creation entry will be there in the alert.log Senthil. -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Is there any way to find out created time stamp for a rollback segment apart from lo

RE: How to find creation date for Rollback segment

2003-06-03 Thread Stephane Faroult
> >Is there any way to find out created time stamp for >a rollback segment >apart from looking into alert.log. > >TIA >Kranti > If you think of some column in a dictionary table, I don't think so. Auditing is another solution, besides scanning the alert.log file. Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriol

RE: ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist

2003-06-03 Thread Clarkson, Timothy T SEOP-OEIRH/1
Check your alert log file to see what file is missing.   Cheers -Original Message-From: Munish Bajaj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 03 June 2003 07:00To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist Hi Listers, What could be

How to find creation date for Rollback segment

2003-06-03 Thread kranti . pushkarna
Is there any way to find out created time stamp for a rollback segment apart from looking into alert.log. TIA Kranti This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the

RE: ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist

2003-06-03 Thread Richard Ji
o  Database is down. o  Wrong ORACLE_SID. o  If your database processes is indeed up and you have the right ORACLE_SID, then you database might be in trouble.  You can try to shut it down and restart it.  Or you may choose to reboot or use ipcs, ipcrm to clean it up.  Because as not to mess o

Re: Need help

2003-06-03 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
And you can do export/import of stats and change individual stats directly using dbms_stats. Way to go. Jankovic, Djordje wrote: I have done some test before and found out that analyze is faster than dbms_stats for smaller tables only (less than 10M) - and the difference was

Re: performance questions

2003-06-03 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Hi Sai, I'd like to help, but I'm not sure what your question is. Are you asking whether a SLA (I don't really see them that often here in Denmark, fortunately) should be static or dynamic? Or are you asking how to have measurements that are independent of data growth and other varying factors

ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist

2003-06-03 Thread Munish Bajaj
Hi Listers, What could be the problem?? I'm getting the following error while connecting to the database on Solaris 8. ERROR:ORA-01034: ORACLE not availableORA-27101: shared memory realm does not existSVR4 Error: 2: No such file or directory Thanks to all Best Regards Munish Bajaj <>

RE: When will long datatype no longer be supported

2003-06-03 Thread Richard Ji
More against LONG: (1) Only one LONG column per table, not LOBs. (2) It's easier to manipulate LOBs than LONG, such as you can modify a piece of LOB etc. So this means easier to code. Richard Ji -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACL

performance questions

2003-06-03 Thread Sai Selvaganesan
hi gurus   this is a kind of query i have faced a few times in the recent past and which has really forced me to start this thread.   as everyone knows, there is always what we call a SLA or in other words a service level agreement (may be called differently in different places) which infact means

Benchmarking of ASP.NET with Oracle v/s MSSQL

2003-06-03 Thread Satya Prakash Viswanath
Hi List, Anybody done performance benchmarking of a typical ASP.NET application with IIS(or any web server) with Oracle database(9.2) v/s MS SQL Server.(Latest version) Any pointers for the same is most appreciated. If there is any document on which POC has been done, plz mail to my id. FYI: 80

RE: Need help

2003-06-03 Thread Jayaram Keshava Murthy (Cognizant)
Yes, I am talkin about the time it takes. The analyze command takes around 2 mins to esimate statistics of a table with a Million records whereas the dbms_stats package function is merely hanging !! And besides, Djordje is telling that they nearly take up the same time !! But i am not experi

Oracle DB Upgrade TO DO LIST

2003-06-03 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
I am looking at a project to upgrade a number of Oracle development, test and production DB's to newer releases.  I have reviewed Oracle's list of tasks from OTN.  I would like your feedback on other tasks, etc. that should be included.  Is there a list somewhere on the web that gives a comp

Re: When will long datatype no longer be supported

2003-06-03 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
Against LONG: 5) Those are stored in-line and can easily become a performance headache (with chaining etc..) - Kirti --- Arup Nanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your case against LOB is > > (1) desupported in 10i > (2) Can't replicate through Oracle replication > (3) Can't do a Create Table

Re: J2EE for the DBA

2003-06-03 Thread Cyril Thankappan
Hi Thanks a lot. I myself have been for too long an 'upgrade /backup & recovery' type of dba and have been 'struggling' to figure the java thing. will read this one :) Thanks Cyril On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote : >I just ran into this article, and it seems pretty good, aside > fr

Re: question about large pool

2003-06-03 Thread Tim Gorman
Almost. It is the UGA areas (not the PGA) for Shared Server (a.k.a. multi-threaded server) that are re-located to the Large Pool, if it exists. Otherwise, they reside in the Shared Pool and all hell breaks loose, performance wise... Also, if DBWR_IO_SLAVES > 0, then those IPC queues will reside i

Re: Recommendations

2003-06-03 Thread Jay Wade
I would use web services as the baseline technology. Then the UI would pretty independent (Java, .Net, just about anything). This would also allow you an easily expandable platform. Awhile ago I saw a demo of JDeveloper and it seemed to make the process very "functional". I'm currently on a projec

Recommendations

2003-06-03 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Hi list, I have to develop an interface to allow another company, with 60 offices, to make some kind of transactions in my system with my clients. I am thinking of using Forms9i. What should I consider ? Any comments would be highly appreciated. TIA, Ramon E. Estevez [EMAIL PROTECTED] 809-535-

Re: When will long datatype no longer be supported

2003-06-03 Thread Arup Nanda
Your case against LOB is (1) desupported in 10i (2) Can't replicate through Oracle replication (3) Can't do a Create Table As Select if a column is LONG (4) LONG columns can't queried like SUBSTR(), INSTR(), DECODE, etc. You case for them to move from LONG to LOB (1) All of the above (2) The exi

J2EE for the DBA

2003-06-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
I just ran into this article, and it seems pretty good, aside from being oriented toward Oracle9iAS and Oracle9iAS TopLink. If you support Java, take a look at it. If anyone has found any issues with the statements it makes, I would be interested in hearing them. http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/orac

Re: When will long datatype no longer be supported

2003-06-03 Thread Stephane Faroult
John Shaw wrote: > > We are looking at purchasing a third party software package that is still using > longs. I am trying to make the case for forcing them to upgrade to lob's before we > will purchase their software. Aside from the pain of having to deal with them - are > they going to stop be

RE: When will long datatype no longer be supported

2003-06-03 Thread Gogala, Mladen
I don't think that your vendor is supported now, at least not by oracle. Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 5:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We are looking at purchasing a third party soft

RE: OCP Test Order

2003-06-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Jay - Personally I did the Tuning exam next after B&R and saved the Network for last because most of it is new to me. The B&R and Tuning exams share quite a bit of material in terms of they both require a clear understanding of the Oracle architecture, how the rollback, redo, SGA, etc. all interact

OT: Peoplesoft buys JDEdwards

2003-06-03 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
And in today's news... > http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/030602/tech_jdedwards_peoplesoft_6.html -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Vergara, Michael (TEM) INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, Ca

When will long datatype no longer be supported

2003-06-03 Thread John Shaw
We are looking at purchasing a third party software package that is still using longs. I am trying to make the case for forcing them to upgrade to lob's before we will purchase their software. Aside from the pain of having to deal with them - are they going to stop being supported soon? If so do

OCP Test Order

2003-06-03 Thread Jay Wade
Hello: I resently finished my 8i Backup and Recovery test and was thinking about taking the 8i Networking testing before performance tuning. I was wondering if those of you that have taken both test feel that would be an ok choice of action or would taking performance tuning first be better?

RE: RE: question about large pool

2003-06-03 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Nope, it's not accurate. PGA areas for shared server sessions are also allocated from the large pool. Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 4:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L for some reason w

RE: RE: question about large pool

2003-06-03 Thread Khedr, Waleed
>From the doc: LARGE_POOL_SIZE lets you specify the size (in bytes) of the large pool allocation heap. The large pool allocation heap is used in shared server systems for session memory, by parallel execution for message buffers, and by backup processes for disk I/O buffers. (Parallel execution al

RE: RE: question about large pool

2003-06-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
That is pretty much my understanding. Here is a Web page that explains it pretty well: http://www.interealm.com/roby/technotes/tnlargepool.html Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 3:35 PM To: Multiple r

Re: RE: question about large pool

2003-06-03 Thread rgaffuri
for some reason we have 100MB large pool. I dont think we need it at all. I read that its only used by RMAN or Parallel server. Is that accurate? > > From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/06/02 Mon PM 03:39:42 EDT > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

RE: question about large pool

2003-06-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Use the large pool to store what? I can think of 3 aspects of a transaction: - Rollback (you've probably read about SET TRANSACTION) - SQL statements, execution plans (more an issue with bind variables) - Data blocks It sounds like you might be thinking of data blocks. You didn't mention your

Re: RE: Need help

2003-06-03 Thread rgaffuri
to get a speed advantage from dbms_stats in parallel do you have to the tablespace and/or segments broken up over several mount points? > > From: "Jankovic, Djordje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/06/02 Mon PM 02:34:41 EDT > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subjec

Need ocfgutil.exe

2003-06-03 Thread Rick_Cale
Hi, I have installed Oracle Administration Assistant 8.1.7.4 on Win 2000. However the utility ocfgutil.exe was not installed. Apparently this is a common problem according to MetaLink. Does anyone have this utility that can be e-mailed offline? If so please rename the extension. Thanks Rick

RE: cannot allocate new log

2003-06-03 Thread Bonnie Finke
Check the disk capacity for the archive log destination. Bonnie Finke -Original Message- Cullen Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 9:20 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi All, I keep getting a cannot allocate new log in the alert log. This freezes the entire application and I

Re: Gathering statistics on function-based index

2003-06-03 Thread elain he
Wolfgang, Thanks for your respond. I tried gathering stats on the function based index using - analyze index ACFD_INDX1 compute statistics; - exec dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(ownname=>'ACPO',tabname=>'AC_FORWARD_DEST',cascade=>TRUE); - exec dbms_stats.gather_index_stats('ACPO','ACFD_INDX1'); bu

question about large pool

2003-06-03 Thread rgaffuri
I think I read this somewhere, but I cant find it. Is it possible to use the large pool for a specific transaction? We run alot of large batch DML statements over night. We have one that involves an 8GB table. The blocks from this table are being knocked out of the buffer cache by shorter and qu

RE: Need help

2003-06-03 Thread Jankovic, Djordje
I have done some test before and found out that analyze is faster than dbms_stats for smaller tables only (less than 10M) - and the difference was not that big (for example very small tables dbms_stats would do a compute instead of estimate).  For large tables they are pretty much the same. 

RE: cannot allocate new log

2003-06-03 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
I am siding with Scott and would double-check that automatic archiving is on. Also, what are your log_archive_dest settings? If you are using log_archive_dest_n make sure you add the "reopen = nn" attribute. At 08:49 AM 6/2/2003 -0800, you wrote: Nuala, It looks like the DB is waiting for you t

Re: next week

2003-06-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
nice of you to be so generous with my already empty wallet :) I will buy the list the virtual coffee drink of their choice (even tea if they prefer) --- "Daniel W. Fink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As penance, I think you should pay for dinner for the entire list! > > Rachel Carmichael wrote:

RE: use of reverse key index,cost based optimizer

2003-06-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Binley - Thanks for filling in the details. I suspected the answer might be more complicated than just "balanced" or "unbalanced". Have you tried reverse key indexes yourself? Results? Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monda

Re: SQL Loader

2003-06-03 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
I think the query is displaying data from the table in the order in which rows were inserted by SQL*Loader. Whereas, the query to read the same data from the external table is reading the file from the first physical record. So it appears reversed..   - Kirti Stephen Andert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

RE: cannot allocate new log

2003-06-03 Thread M Rafiq
Yoiur logfile size is too small to handle peaktime DML activities. Possible solutions: First track that job resulting in so much archiving. Check through v$sqlarea with active sessions resuling in DMA. Increase size of your logfiles and meantime also try to add more group/members. For specifi

RE: cannot allocate new log

2003-06-03 Thread Igor Neyman
Try to add some more RedoLog groups. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Cullen Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 11:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Denis, Thanks for the quick reply, We're not getting an oracle error no: This is the message in the

AW: Oradesigner9i ERD Diagrams

2003-06-03 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi Tom I always copy the diagrams to VISIO, print it from there. You can adjust stuff (pagesize) better then within Word or the like. But in cases, the diagrams get so big, that just a plotter and 2 square meter paper does the job ;). PS: If you have the Acrobat Distiller installed, it also wo

RE: cannot allocate new log

2003-06-03 Thread Scott Stefick
Nuala, It looks like the DB is waiting for you to manually archive the logs.  Like Lisa suggested, could you do an archive log list from the sqlplus prompt and post the results?  There are two steps in setting up archiving.  You have to set the proper parameters in the init.ora file, and then bri

RE: cannot allocate new log

2003-06-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Nuala Running off to a meeting, and Metalink seems to be down. I did a Google search and found this link which seems to somewhat touch on your issue: http://www.geocities.com/oraperf/redo/arch_tuning.html >From your message, I infer that the database just "hangs" for awhile, then corrects itself

Re: Oracle's use of Indexes

2003-06-03 Thread Daniel W. Fink
Craig, Could you please send the explain plans for each statement, the value of db_file_multiblock_read_count and the following columns related to tables, columns and indexes (user_tables.blocks, user_tables.num_rows, user_indexes.blevel, user_indexes.leaf_blocks, user_indexes.distinct_keys,

Re: next week

2003-06-03 Thread Daniel W. Fink
As penance, I think you should pay for dinner for the entire list! Rachel Carmichael wrote: sigh, it's Monday morning and I'm not properly caffeinated. At least I didn't name names :) For those who didn't know, Stephane Faroult is speaking at the NYOUG meeting next week. I'm going to go

Re: SQL Loader

2003-06-03 Thread Stephen Andert
Pradeep, I don't know what you mean when you say SQL*Loader is "starting from the 50,000th record and going up". If there are 50k records, are you saying it is not loading them? Or is it reading them from 50,000 then 49,999 (i.e. in revers order)? How are you determining what order they are be

Re: Oracle's use of Indexes

2003-06-03 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
It will be hard to find what changed since you don't have the information on exactly what production looked like when it was using the index. Whenever you do somthing which may affect the statistics, make a backup of the current statistics with dbms_stats.export_table_stats(..., cascade => true

RE: cannot allocate new log

2003-06-03 Thread Nuala Cullen
Hi Denis, Thanks for the quick reply, We're not getting an oracle error no: This is the message in the alert log Mon Jun 02 08:19:19 2003 Thread 1 cannot allocate new log, sequence 711 All online logs needed archiving Current log# 2 seq# 710 mem# 0: D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\GDA\GDA_21.LOG Current l

RE: next week

2003-06-03 Thread Jesse, Rich
MAIL> ROLLBACK ORA-2: committed mail could not be retrieved I'd suggest Tazo's "Awake" tea, preferrably the loose leaf stuff for maximum caffeinage. :) Rich Rich JesseSystem/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

Re: Function Based Index - Not Used ???

2003-06-03 Thread Tim Gorman
Thanks... Having been through two books and having aborted the third, I can only repeat what a friend told me after completing his MBA at night school: "You can work your job, live your life, and go to school. But, only two at a time"... Substitute "write a book" for "go to school" and that p

RE: cannot allocate new log

2003-06-03 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Nuala, 20M for log files might be too small. look in the alert log file and see how often logs are switching. it could be that all four sets of logs are full, and you are waiting for the archiver process to clear a log for you. the database will hang until this process completes. log switches s

Re: use of reverse key index,cost based optimizer

2003-06-03 Thread Binley Lim
The documentation is correct, but left out a lot of background information. Oracle*trees are height balanced. That means that the level from root to branch block is always the same. In the case of monotonically increasing indexes, keys are always inserted at the high end. If keys are also deleted

RE: Oracle's use of Indexes

2003-06-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Craig I'm sorry, you said they were on the same instance, I just didn't read carefully enough. I believe that all the statistics that CBO uses to make a decision are in USER_TABLES and USER_INDEXES. You might compare the values for both tables to see if there is a difference that might cause

RE: Oradesigner9i ERD Diagrams

2003-06-03 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Jared and all, thanks! GhostScript worked fine. Had to get a Postscript Print driver first, but everything is just hunky-dorey! thanks again Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 10:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Need help

2003-06-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Kesh - What do you define as performance? 1. How fast a table is analyzed? 2. The performance of the queries that use the statistics that were collected? What Oracle version are you on? In theory, you can analyze tables when the system load isn't so great. In 9i you can even have Oracle decide when

RE: cannot allocate new log

2003-06-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Nuala - You didn't include your error number, so the following are some guesses: Is your database in archivelogmode? Check the path to the archive logs and make sure that drive hasn't filled. For the logs themselves, check the paths and permissions. Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch,

RE: next week

2003-06-03 Thread Seefelt, Beth
oops... let's hope she's not a member of this list... -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Stephane, Are we still on for dinner on the 10th? Have you contacted Sean? I think the group is trying to organize a dinner for the spe

Re: randomly generate unique key

2003-06-03 Thread Joan Hsieh
Hi Folks, Many thanks to Dennis, Raj, Mark and Roy. We are in the processing to evaluate which method would be better to use in our case. Personally I am very interested in Dennis's solution. Thanks again, Joan DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote: > > Joan > Okay, a coworker has experience in this area and

RE: Oracle's use of Indexes

2003-06-03 Thread Craig Healey
> -Original Message- > From: Stephane Faroult [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Does 'etc' include doing something to tables as well? I > would, from your posting, being tempted to say 'no'. Could it > have anything to do with histograms ? The only thing I can > currently think of is diff

RE: cannot allocate new log

2003-06-03 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Nuala, Are you running your database in archive log mode? Type ARCHIVE LOG LIST at the Sql*Plus command line to find out. What error message are you getting? What is in your alert log? Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Monkey Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 5259 Coconut Creek Parkway Ft. Lauderdale, FL, U

Re: Gathering statistics on function-based index

2003-06-03 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
Have you tried methods 3 or preferrably method 4: method 3: analyze index compute statistics method 4: exec dbms_stats.gather_index_stats(...) What do you mean by "the output below is similar for both methods"? What are the differences? Can you use Tom Kyte's print_table procedure to list the

Re: next week

2003-06-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
sigh, it's Monday morning and I'm not properly caffeinated. At least I didn't name names :) For those who didn't know, Stephane Faroult is speaking at the NYOUG meeting next week. I'm going to go get a caffeine drip now. --- Rachel Carmichael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephane, > > Are we

Need help

2003-06-03 Thread Jayaram Keshava Murthy (Cognizant)
Hi all, Can anyone tell me which of the following performs better in collecting statistics of a table:  Analyze command   or  Dbms_stats.gather_table_stats     I tried my queries with both the options -- but always Analyze is out-performing the dbms_stats. But i read in a doc

RE: Tablespace management.

2003-06-03 Thread Mark Leith
SQL> select * from v$version; BANNER Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production PL/SQL Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production CORE9.2.0.1.0 Production TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production NLSRTL Ve

Re: Tablespace management.

2003-06-03 Thread Richard Foote
- Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 9:54 PM > > Cannot create lob columns if segment space management is set to auto. > > Why not ? SQL> create tablespace new datafile 'c:\bowie\new01.dbf' reuse 2 segment spa

Re: Tablespace management.

2003-06-03 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Yes, it is fixed in 9.2.0 Hemant At 04:25 AM 02-06-03 -0800, you wrote: Hope it's fixed in 9iR2 ! Jp. 2003/06/02 20:54:41, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Cannot create lob columns if segment space management is set to auto. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author:

RE: Very Urgent

2003-06-03 Thread Cary Millsap
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RE: Gathering statistics on function-based index

2003-06-03 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Does this look familiar? Bug No. 2782919 Filed 03-FEB-2003 Updated 20-MAY-2003 Product Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition V7 Product Version 9.2.0.2.0 Platform Sun SPARC Solaris (64-BIT) Platform Version 2.8 Database Version 9.2.0.2.0 Affects Platforms Generic Priority Severe Loss of Servic

RE: Oracle's use of Indexes

2003-06-03 Thread Stephane Faroult
>OK, I'm confused. Maybe it's Monday morning and my >brain's not working. >We have a production schema and a test schema on >the same Oracle 8.1.7 >instance, running on Windows. They both have a >customer table, with 3 >million and 2 million records respectively. They >both have the same >indexes,

RE: Oracle's use of Indexes

2003-06-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Craig - Compare the init.ora file for these instances. Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 8:45 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L OK, I'm confused. Maybe it's Monday morning and my brain's not

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2003-06-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Stephane, Are we still on for dinner on the 10th? Have you contacted Sean? I think the group is trying to organize a dinner for the speakers, but knowing the person who is doing the organizing... it's not going to happen. she's one of the more incompetent members of the board. In any case...

RE: Very Urgent

2003-06-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Indy - First, I would urge you to contact Oracle Support. You pay them for support and they are pretty good at walking you through a recovery. A problem with an email list like this is that you may get a variety of opinions. For many issues that is good, but in a critical situation, multiple opinio

cannot allocate new log

2003-06-03 Thread Nuala Cullen
Hi All, I keep getting a cannot allocate new log in the alert log. This freezes the entire application and I am unable to connect to oracle in order to do a statspack snap shot. This is an upgrade to Version 8.1.7.4 set up on a WK2000 (NEW) Server with 2 gigs of memory. We are writing to 3 sepa

Gathering statistics on function-based index

2003-06-03 Thread elain he
Hi, Can someone shed some light on the differences of gathering statistics on a function-based index using the following two methods? method 1: analyze table compute statistics vs method 2: create unique index on (upper(columne_name)) compute statistics; I could not get the CBO optimizer to u

Re: Parallel Query Server died

2003-06-03 Thread shuan.tay\(PCI鄭祺勛\)
- Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 7:39 PM > Shuan, this sounds like a problem for support. Are you using I/O slaves? > > > > Mladen, > > > > There's only a line in the .trc file: > > "kxfpqsrls: Timed out t