RE: ORA600 [2103] [0] [0] [1] [900] -- Wrapping up

2003-06-16 Thread Hatzistavrou John
Dear All, ThAnks for all your comments and advise. We have found what was the cause of this. Just before we put tablespaces in hot backup mode we mount some nfs drives. Then having placed the tbs in hot backup we use a cp command to copy the *.dbf files to nfs. Also the copy of the controlfile

RE: Form question

2003-06-16 Thread Ofer Harel
gracias Ofer -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 7:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L bell ; Roy Pardee Programmer/Analyst/DBA SWFPAC Lockheed Martin IT Extension 8487 -Original Message- Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 11:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of l

RE: How to stop script

2003-06-16 Thread Jorma.Vuorio
Ave ! Here is one possible solution. Create two tiny scripts. First script let say ex.sql which includes only word exit and linefeed and second one cont.sql which has only one space character, nothing else. Then in Your sql script: -- column NAME noprint new_value SCRIPT_NAME select decode(name

Re: How to stop script

2003-06-16 Thread Arup Nanda
You could use a little indirect approach in this case. The file import.sql will look like this set feed off set lines 120 set trimpsool off set pages 0 spool imp.sh select 'imp un/[EMAIL PROTECTED] file=a.dmp full=yes' from v$database where name = 'TEST' / spoo off exit You have another script c

RE: JDBC and MTS

2003-06-16 Thread Richard Ji
I used to seen problems with JDBC Thin with MTS on Linux and switching to a dedicated connection seemed to fix the problem. But JDBC Thin and MTS worked fine on my Solaris box. Not sure with HP-UX. Is the Java application running on an Application Server? Richard Ji -Original Message-

How to stop script

2003-06-16 Thread jinchen
I have a script and can be run on commandline like: > sqlplus /@TEST @import.sql However, I want to check database name at the beginning of import.sql. I knew "select name from v$database" can obtain database name. But how can I stop the script if I found it is not TEST database? In impor

is it SP2 or SP3 -- 9iR2 on Win2K ?

2003-06-16 Thread Prem Khanna J
Dear All, I need to install 9iR2 on Win2K Server/SP3. Is it SP2 or SP3 ? metalink docs say that SP1 or higher is OK. but still found some queries posted on metalink regarding this. "#$"##$ ...confused :-| !*"#$$ any serious issues known already ?! TIA. Jp. -- Please see the official O

asking your opinion

2003-06-16 Thread Joan Hsieh
Hi Dear listers, I'd like to ask your opinion about our possible new project. overview; install fatwire for the whole community for web application. no single point of failure, sun servers, oracle. We have more than 10 divisions currently( different department, like arts, dental, enginerring..

Thanx --> SYS not able to GRANT -- Strange !

2003-06-16 Thread Prem Khanna J
Thanx a lot bulbultyagt. Jp. 17-06-2003 09:59:20, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Granting Object Privileges on Behalf of the Object Owner : The system >privilege named GRANT ANY OBJECT PRIVILEGE allows you to grant object >privileges as if you were the owner. However this a new feature in >Oracle

Re: 32 to 64 Bit Upgrade -- need info

2003-06-16 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: Re: 32 to 64 Bit Upgrade -- need info Munish, Essentially, you can use the same datafiles, controlfiles, and redologfiles.  All of the PL/SQL has to be recompiled (including STANDARD and DBMS_STANDARD, which makes the task something of a chicken-and-egg situation)... Short story:  you n

JDBC and MTS

2003-06-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
I'm not a Java expert so please forgive me my ignorance. JDBC application is facing very strange performance problems during connect. Every now and then everything appears to be hung and then, 10 minutes later, users proceed normally but with the elevated blood pressure and serious lack of patien

Re: V$LOCK definition

2003-06-16 Thread srini . chavali
Note 223146.1 on MetaLink. HTH Srini Chavali Oracle DBA Cummins Inc "Goulet, Dick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/16/2003 12:34 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:                

Re: Session, connections, circuits

2003-06-16 Thread Zhai Jingmin
Hello, bulbultyagi, There's excellent note about session,connection,process from "aktom" ,take a look: http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:312013611123160740::NO::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID,F4950_P8_CRITERIA:5671284058977, === At 2003-06-16, 16:59:00 you wrote: === >Hello, >I unable to

Re: SYS not able to GRANT -- Strange !

2003-06-16 Thread bulbultyagi
Granting Object Privileges on Behalf of the Object Owner : The system privilege named GRANT ANY OBJECT PRIVILEGE allows you to grant object privileges as if you were the owner. However this a new feature in Oracle 9i release 2 Till then to grant an object privilege, you must fulfill one of the fo

RE: Duplicate column

2003-06-16 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
I don't know how it can have two columns with identical names. I know the X$ "tables" are unusual creatures but a duplicate column name goes against all common sense. Perhaps one of them has a space at the end of the name? Or else X$ tables aren't subject to the rules? Or else it's a bug in the des

Session, connections, circuits

2003-06-16 Thread bulbultyagi
Hello, I unable to understand a few concepts from the docs, can someone explain them to me ? While configuring the 'dispatchers' parameter in a shared server (Oracle 9i release 2 on win32) the options_clause is explained thus: "SESSIONS (SES or SESS) The maximum number of network sessions to allo

Re: exchange partition in 9.2

2003-06-16 Thread Arup Nanda
Gene, I doubt the procedures followed for 9.2 are the same as 8.1; Partition exchange does not move any data, merely resets the pointers inside the data dictionary; so it should not take more than 1 second as you saw earlier. Check if you were doing an ALTER TABLE TAB1 EXCHANGE PARTITION P1 WITH

RE: Re: Opinions of high-volume DDL and data population

2003-06-16 Thread Mark Richard
Dennis, Stephane, Mladen, Raj and Peter, Thankyou all for your comments. I was also a little concerned about chaining and that's why I figured that renaming the existing table and creating a new one might be a sensible approach. It simplifies the query (SELECT's offer so much more flexiblity th

RE: Opinions of high-volume DDL and data population

2003-06-16 Thread Mark Richard
Peter, Unfortunately the design is ok. I guess I should explain what the table really is... What I referred to as "students" are actually E-Tag transponders - little devices stuck on car windscreens. Each time a car drives under a tollway gantry the Tag is read and certain attributes of the ta

RE: exchange partition in 9.2

2003-06-16 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Did you say alter table exchange partition ... validate or alter table exchange partition ... novalidate? If you say novalidate then Oracle will sort the exchange table to make sure that you are not creating duplicate rows for the PK constraint. There is a Metalink note on that. Does the table h

RE: Re: Opinions of high-volume DDL and data population

2003-06-16 Thread Mark Richard
Raj, Thanks, however adding the attribute to this table is the correct thing to do - it's a historical table to supply "show me something as at x date/time for the particular record". Basically when originally created (years before my time) someone assumed that a record would never be updated mo

RE: Opinions of high-volume DDL and data population

2003-06-16 Thread Robson, Peter
Urr, well, hmm - this does seem to be a case for checking your design rather carefully. With this volume of data floating about. Any TNF done on it? Once upon a time I had to deal with a very large table not unlike this. Grossly de-normalised it was. After a redesign spinning out a few new tables,

AW: RedHat AS Dev edition

2003-06-16 Thread Kulev, Milen
Thanks for the answer Ron, the problem is that I don't see Dev Edition listed anymore ;(. I dont't know whether RH will repeat this great offer- I didn't expected this offer to be pulled so quickly ;( That is why I am searching a way to get this software. Best Regards Milen Kulev -Ursprüngl

exchange partition in 9.2

2003-06-16 Thread Gurelei
Hi all: We are having an interesting issue with the exchange partition command in our shop. We are running oracle 9202 on AIX 5l. The exchange partition command used to take about 1 sec (or less) in our old environmen (oracle 81 Dynix 4.3.3). Now the same operation takes about a minute and creates

RE: RE: World premier performance of the BAARF party logo

2003-06-16 Thread Gogala, Mladen
I'm not sure. You may be right. I thought that it was Larry Ellison, but then again, it's Monday and my memory is probably failing me. Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 4:25 PM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: V$LOCK definition

2003-06-16 Thread Goulet, Dick
Thanks to all. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 3:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The column CTIME in V$LOCK indicate that the time since the current lock mode has been acquired/converted. The time is sh

RE: RE: World premier performance of the BAARF party logo

2003-06-16 Thread Cary Millsap
That was McNealy that said HP was a great little printer company, wasn't it? Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Hotsos Clinic 101 in Dallas, Washington, Denver, Sydney - Hotsos Symposium 2004, March 7-10 Dallas - Visit www.hotsos.com for schedule detai

Re: Thursday oops

2003-06-16 Thread Arun Annamalai
Rachel. You know you are a DBA. (OOps dont happen in DBA world !!) ;) (No offense meant) -Arun. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 5:54 PM > Okay, now I KNOW I need a vacation > > Sorry folks! >

RE: World premier performance of the BAARF party logo

2003-06-16 Thread Matthew Zito
Okay, there's a variety of inaccuracies here. 1) "The (full cache), which is very expensive, is found on Symmetrix boxes only" - not true. In fact, just about every storage system today has some sort of protected write-back cache. This is true of hitachi, clariion, symmetrix, netapp, etc. EMC'

Re: V$LOCK definition

2003-06-16 Thread Arun Annamalai
Title: RE: V$LOCK definition The time is in units of seconds -   -Arun. - Original Message - From: Loughmiller, Greg To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 1:34 PM Subject: RE: V$LOCK definition for some applications, it becomes expr

Re: V$LOCK definition

2003-06-16 Thread Joe Frohne
The column CTIME in V$LOCK indicate that the time since the current lock mode has been acquired/converted. The time is shown in units of seconds. -- Joe Frohne Rawson Oaks Consulting http://www.rawsonoaks.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Folks, > > Question here, the CTIME colu

RE: RE: World premier performance of the BAARF party logo

2003-06-16 Thread Gogala, Mladen
When Larry met Carly? I don't know whether Carly is his type, but that would be some marriage! I can still remember the fiery relationship with Sandra Kurtzig, the former CEO of Ingres. Having in mind that HP is a "great printer company", according to Larry, I doubt that the relationship would wor

Re: version control for pl/sql dev forms etc.

2003-06-16 Thread Arun Annamalai
There is another product called "EDBA(Enterprise DBA)" by Platinum technology currently CA, which does the version control and comparison. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 7:13 AM > Rahul, > I believe you

RE: V$LOCK definition

2003-06-16 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
Title: RE: V$LOCK definition for some applications, it becomes expressed in terms of days :-) -Original Message- From: Goulet, Dick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 1:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: V$LOCK definition Folks,    

V$LOCK definition

2003-06-16 Thread Goulet, Dick
Folks, Question here, the CTIME column in V$LOCK is expressed in what? Seconds, milli-seconds, What?? Anyone know? Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Goulet, Dick INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RedHat AS Dev edition

2003-06-16 Thread Ron Rogers
Melin, Talking to the REdHat support people and the Dev edition was pulled last week some time. If on the "buy it" page you see the RedHat AS Developers edition you can still purchase it and download the ISO's with a login and password. Ron >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/13/03 05:09PM >>> Hallo list,

RE: World premier performance of the BAARF party logo

2003-06-16 Thread Karen Morton
If you really want to free your mind, think of this. What if all this is simply an illusion? We're stuck in the Matrix and if only we could free ourselves from the tyranny of the machines (i.e. the evil RAID salesfolk et al) we could liberate humanity and all our Oracle databases so that every

RE: World premier performance of the BAARF party logo

2003-06-16 Thread Stephen Lee
You forgot Traci Lords. > -Original Message- > > A movie with Julia Roberts or Meg Ryan is what I had in mind. > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephen Lee INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fat

RE: World premier performance of the BAARF party logo

2003-06-16 Thread Stephen Lee
Soon? Soon?! What's this "Soon" stuff? SQL> show sga Total System Global Area 2.3205E+10 bytes Fixed Size 735296 bytes Variable Size1728053248 bytes Database Buffers 2.1475E+10 bytes Redo Buffers1335296 bytes A real pig of an app, but good

RE: RE: World premier performance of the BAARF party logo

2003-06-16 Thread Stephane Faroult
>- --- Original Message --- - >From: "Gogala, Mladen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 06:44:18 > >A movie with Julia Roberts or Meg Ryan is what I >had in mind. > >Mladen Gogala >Oracle DBA >Phone:(203) 459

RE: Re: Opinions of high-volume DDL and data population

2003-06-16 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Re: Opinions of high-volume DDL and data population ... now from an entirely different angle ... Mark, It just _might_ be better if you create a separate table to store the pk from your students table and the total_attendance column. Why? Not only this column adding will be comp

RE: World premier performance of the BAARF party logo

2003-06-16 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Title: RE: World premier performance of the BAARF party logo Well, the way memory is growing, we'll soon have in-memory databases which will bring the ultimate victory to Cary by rendering the phrase "hit ratio" meaningless. How's that for futuristic thinking? To go even further, there might

RE: Re: Opinions of high-volume DDL and data population

2003-06-16 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Mark - Exclusive access? Man, do you live right. Of course this probably means a weekend. One advantage of the CTAS is the opportunity to turn off logging. Also, leaving the existing table in-situ would be a nice fallback, a great point with a 37-gig. table. If you are licensed for it, this table i

RE: World premier performance of the BAARF party logo

2003-06-16 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Mladen - Thanks for the clarification. Gee, does this mean no book? Well, maybe the movie would be some compensation. Cary - Thanks always for your willingness to share your knowledge. Looking forward to your book. Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Or

RE: World premier performance of the BAARF party logo

2003-06-16 Thread Gogala, Mladen
A movie with Julia Roberts or Meg Ryan is what I had in mind. Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Mladen - Thanks for the clarification. Gee, does this mean

Re: comparison tools...

2003-06-16 Thread Yechiel Adar
Thanks Mark I also saved this. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 6:32 PM > Bill, > > You can use TOAD Freeware version to compare two schemas (View/Schema > Differences menu). > > As for table

RE: World premier performance of the BAARF party logo

2003-06-16 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: World premier performance of the BAARF party logo Putting on my futuristic thinking hat, I see a day not too far off when there won't be any Ds. RAID, as we know it, will go away. Jerry Whittle ASIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 618-622-4145 -Orig

Re: Re: Undo Analyze Table

2003-06-16 Thread Zhai Jingmin
There's a good document about this two interesting parameters: http://www.evdbt.com/SearchIntelligenceCBO.doc and also see "asktom" http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:308736813964790489::NO::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID,F4950_P8_CRITERIA:6601251003901, === At 2003-06-16, 04:37:00 you wrote

RE: Rule Based Optimizer

2003-06-16 Thread Pete Sharman
Indeed you are right, but I'm sad to say we failed.  After 180 or so people passed through the house on Saturday, we probably have MORE alcohol than when we started.  What can I say?  We'll have to have another party!  J   Pete   "Controlling developers is like herding cats." Kevin

RE: Undo Analyze Table

2003-06-16 Thread Hussain Ahmed Qadri
Title: RE: Undo Analyze Table Thank you all, I'll test and see what helps, Regards, Hussain -Original Message- From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 5:37 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Undo Analyze Table The answer is

Re: Undo Analyze Table

2003-06-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
The answer is found in the Jonathan Lewis book "Building Efficient Databases". You should set OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ and OPTIMIZER_INDEX_CACHING. Explanation: It is realistic to expect a part of an index to be cached and it is also realistic to expect the index access to be somewhat cheaper the

RE: version control for pl/sql dev forms etc.

2003-06-16 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: version control for pl/sql dev forms etc. Oracle SCM 9i Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having

RE: version control for pl/sql dev forms etc.

2003-06-16 Thread TOMPKINS, MARGARET
Rahul, I believe you have just described Oracle Software Configuration Manager (SCM) for the Oracle Repository. It allows comparison of two forms or reports, also modules, tables, entities etc. It's versioning is at the object level and it's rigorous. Maggie Respectfully, > Maggie Tompki

Re: Undo Analyze Table

2003-06-16 Thread Darrell Landrum
You might try playing with different values for optimizer_index_cost_adj. If this is still at the default of 100, it may be allowing the optimizer to consider the index more expensive than it should. You can change this parameter at the session level, but may consider testing to lower it system wid

RE: Re: Opinions of high-volume DDL and data population

2003-06-16 Thread Stephane Faroult
I agree about the need for rebuilding. Your approach otherwise seems valid to me. That said, if disk space is not a problem, can we assume safely that rollback space is no problem either? In which case I would be quite tempted by taking a deep breath and try to do it as a single 'Create table as

Re: Undo Analyze Table

2003-06-16 Thread jo_holvoet
Analyze table ... delete statistics; regards Jo Hussain Ahmed Qadri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/16/2003 08:54 Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:Undo Analyze Table

Duplicate column

2003-06-16 Thread Manoj Kumar Jha
Hi All, There is duplicate column on table 'X$KSFMLIB' and duplicate column is 'CAP_ELEM' Can any one tell me that why this so and what is significant of this table. SQL> desc X$KSFMLIB Name Null?Type - -