Re: oracle authentication from windows

2003-06-20 Thread bulbultyagi
Arup , the procedure you gave is correct and works fine. I tried it out on win32 with 9.2.0.1.0. But I had to set SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (none) in sqlnet.ora My fundamentals are really weak , so please forgive the stupid questions : These steps create a database user who will be authentica

Re: Passwords and authentication

2003-06-20 Thread Arup Nanda
That is for encypting password while tranmitting over Oracle Net, the password itself must be entered in clear text. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:34 PM > What about > SQLNET.ENCRYPTION_TYPES_CLIENT= (rc

Re: WAITED TOO LONG FOR A ROW CACHE ENQUEUE LOCK! pid=12

2003-06-20 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
Better call Oracle support for this one. These are references to some internal deadlocks and enqueue problems not reported in the v$ views. I think Steve Adams discusses this in his Oracle8i Internal Services book. Search his web site, you may find some more information (www.ixora.com.au). -

Fw: controlfile backup obsolete above 2 days

2003-06-20 Thread bulbultyagi
Hello list sorry to trouble you all so much, I tried all that I stated below on another database I created, and as long as I don't use an spfile , no problem. As soon as I start using an spfile , I always get my backup shown as obsolete , irrespective of the number of days (the value of n) I speci

Re: controlfile backup obsolete

2003-06-20 Thread bulbultyagi
Thanks rafiq , will hope that the gurus of Oracle smile upon us mortals soon. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 03:14 : Sorry, I never used RMAN so far but this point came in my mind. I am : surprised why Rob

Re: Passwords and authentication

2003-06-20 Thread bulbultyagi
What about SQLNET.ENCRYPTION_TYPES_CLIENT= (rc4_256) SQLNET.ENCRYPTION_SERVER = accepted SQLNET.ENCRYPTION_CLIENT = requested SQLNET.CRYPTO_SEED = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." in sqlnet.ora - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROT

FW: Oracle 9i and streaming technology

2003-06-20 Thread Michael Kline
Got a bit more on what they were doing.   One really gets "scared" when Oracle wants to know what you're doing.   Maks.   -Original Message-From: Greg  Subject: RE: Oracle 9i and streaming technology Actually streams is a hybrid of several Oracle technologies: Log miner (used to ho

test - please ignore

2003-06-20 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
test - please ignore -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jacques Kilchoer INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services

WAITED TOO LONG FOR A ROW CACHE ENQUEUE LOCK! pid=12

2003-06-20 Thread Basavaraja, Ravindra
I am seeing WAITED TOO LONG FOR A ROW CACHE ENQUEUE LOCK! pid=12 in the alert log file? there are no blocking locks and at this time the weblogic connection pool cannot get connections to the database but the client connections from sql*client gets connected (sqlplus or toad). What could be the pr

RE: Partition

2003-06-20 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
I agree with Dennis Williams. To know what is the right answer for you, first you should determine why you want the table partitioned in the first place. Is it so that you can easily "archive" old data by using the "alter table drop partition" command? Is it so that your queries will benefit f

DBMS_OBFUSCATION Toolkit

2003-06-20 Thread Steve Main
Title: Message Hello all,   Does anyone know if the DBMS_OBFUSCATION toolkit works with CLOB's?  I have looked high and low and can't find a reference other than from a third party solutions web site and they say it can't be done and have to use their product.   thanks   Steve Main Ice

Re: oracle authentication from windows

2003-06-20 Thread Pete Finnigan
Hi Beth OK, I get your point but Arup was talking about automatic connections by setting remote_os_authent to true where you can either set the prefix to OPS$ or use identified externally. For these connections the user should not be prefixed by the domain name in the database. On the other hand u

RE: (OT) RE: Look's like Larry's at it again...

2003-06-20 Thread Richard Ji
Got this when trying to connect, guess they are on MySQL. :) -- Could not connect to DB on 130.94.122.197 Host 'larousse.wikipedia.org' is blocked because of many connection errors. Unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts' If this error persists after reload

(OT) RE: Look's like Larry's at it again...

2003-06-20 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Ever heard of Sealand, the "country" formed by an ex-British radio station owner who took over an abandoned World War II military platform built off the coast of the UK and declared it a sovereign country? http://wikipedia.com/w/wiki.phtml?search=sealand&go=Go > -Original Message- > From

RE: MS Access as a front-end to Oracle DB

2003-06-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Yes, you are misunderstanding it. A simple statement like your will result in only the data required being sent over the network. But if you add in a second table things change, especially if that table is a local access table. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Origi

Re: MS Access as a front-end to Oracle DB

2003-06-20 Thread Rodd Holman
I haven't worked with MSAccess to Oracle stuff lately, but it used to be that the ODBC stuff pulled A LOT of background crap in addition to what was needed for the query. And, yes, Access did a lot of the processing locally. The way I got around this was that I either used passthrough queries (Ac

RE: Partition

2003-06-20 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ishwar One priority might be to get to 9.2. There are reasons Oracle has given 9.0.1 a short decommission date. One idea would be to export with a SQL statement. This would reduce the size of your exports. Also, if you are mostly just adding new data (few updates), you may be mostly just inte

Re: controlfile backup obsolete

2003-06-20 Thread M Rafiq
Sorry, I never used RMAN so far but this point came in my mind. I am surprised why Robert is not giving you a reply. Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:45:11 -0800 Rafiq that is a good point , but I ha

MS Access as a front-end to Oracle DB

2003-06-20 Thread Gurelei
Hi all: I have been hearing from many people that MS Access is bad as a front-end tool because it tends to do data processing on the clien side instead of the DB side thus moving way too much data over the network. Assuming that this is correct, what is the mechanism of this? If I execute a simple

RE: Partition

2003-06-20 Thread Ishwar Tewari
Jacques, the version is 9.0.1.1.1. Dennis, Thanks for the confidence I totally agree with you about designing and everything else. Could there be a temporary solution to get successful exports until we embark on this project. we are in a 24x 7 environment. Rgds Ishwar. -Original Message-

RE: Look's like Larry's at it again...

2003-06-20 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Seriously though, I wondered years ago at what point multinationals are going to pick a deserted island, declare it their country, and set up their own tax laws. Some companies have higher revenues than countries. Patrice. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 3:20 PM To: Multip

RE: oracle authentication from windows

2003-06-20 Thread John Kanagaraj
All, Oracle has rounded all this discussion up in Note:207959.1 'All About Security: User, Privilege, Role, SYSDBA, O/S Authentication, Audit, Encryption, OLS' which is a jump off point to *lots* of other Notes. John > -Original Message- > From: Arup Nanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sen

RE: Look's like Larry's at it again...

2003-06-20 Thread Gogala, Mladen
ORA-GON? Daniel, you are a genius! He could also ammend the constitution to read We, the PeopleSoft Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 4:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I figured he try

RE: [Q] Script to generate "grant privilege" on a table?

2003-06-20 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
> -Original Message- > From: mike mon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Does anyone has script which can check "grant > privilege" on a table and generate output for future > usage? If you're looking for a script to show existing grants on a table, you could modify this one (that shows exist

RE: Look's like Larry's at it again...

2003-06-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Bill can HAVE Mississippi, for free!! Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 4:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I figured he try for something closer to home...say Oragon? Then Bill would want to buy Mississip

RE: MySQL in the future?

2003-06-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Jacques, Based on what Matt sent, I'd say your in violation of their license. You've distributed it internally. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 4:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thank you for

Re: Look's like Larry's at it again...

2003-06-20 Thread Daniel Fink
I figured he try for something closer to home...say Oragon? Then Bill would want to buy Mississippi (postal abreviation MS for our non-us listers). "Jesse, Rich" wrote: > > Oracle Makes Bid to Buy State of Delaware > > Software giant willing to assume state's $225 million deficit in exchange >

RE: Partition

2003-06-20 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ishwar I am fairly new to partitions myself and must relearn the commands each time I need to work with the partitions. So I will speak more to the philosophy of a DBA that doesn't like to end up in a jam. I get a bad feeling about hashing to get around an immediate problem. I also question

RE: MySQL in the future?

2003-06-20 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Thank you for the research. When they say "Distribution for MySQL would mean more than one "copy" installed in a production environment", by production environment, they must mean a business. For example I can use MySQL on my home computer to keep track of my record collection, and I can also rec

RE: Partition

2003-06-20 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
When you say 9i, do you mean 9.0.1 or 9.2.0? In 9.2.0 You can have list subpartitions. http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96540/statements_73a.htm#2153058 > -Original Message- > From: Ishwar Tewari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I created a range partition table

RE: Partition

2003-06-20 Thread Ishwar Tewari
The version is 9i. -Original Message- DENNIS WILLIAMS Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 3:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ishwar - What Oracle version. Just off the top of my head, I think that 8i only allows the subpartition to be hashed. What is your goal? Dennis Williams DB

RE: (OT) RE: Look's like Larry's at it again...

2003-06-20 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
> -Original Message- > From: Goulet, Dick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Well I like both of them. Nothing like a good chuckle > to brighten up a day. Yes, I thought it was funny, but especially with these "official" sounding articles you never know if it will end up being spread

Re: VLDB (oltp) and RMAN

2003-06-20 Thread Arup Nanda
Carol,   We use a 7.1 Terabytes (double Yikes!) database - Sun 15K server, Hitachi Storage Array, RAID-5 (all except redo logs which are RADI 0+1), 8.1.74. Some of thetables are more than 100 GB in size. However, the datafiles are smaller, just 4 GB each. This is done to facilitate the recove

RE: Partition

2003-06-20 Thread Ishwar Tewari
Hey Dennis: I created a range partition table with the last high_value being maxvalue. The partition key is partner_id (an incremental sequence). Now pmax (the last partition) has become very big and gives "snapshot too old.." while exporting. Ultimate Plan = I realize that the ultim

RE: oracle docs do say # of extents effect performance

2003-06-20 Thread Richard Ji
No, I was talking about on file system only. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 2:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Does this mean that if I dd the file onto a raw partition, it will be scattered around the raw partition? Even though the dd-ing process is unawa

controlfile backup obsolete above 2 days

2003-06-20 Thread bulbultyagi
Hello list I was having problems with my controlfile backups being reported as obsolete ; I have narrowed down the problem to the number of days specified in the recovery window . 1. My control_file_record_keep_time=7 2. Suppose I start rman and there are no backups yet. (This is confirmed by th

RE: Look's like Larry's at it again...

2003-06-20 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
Nah. LarryWorld.. Will charge you to enter and exit the state. Will over count residents to get better tax subsidies and will never discount products to government agencies. Oh yes. Everyone must own an Armani Suit. Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Strategic Alliance Manager Compuware Corp

Re: oracle authentication from windows

2003-06-20 Thread Arup Nanda
Beth, You are right in stating that OPS$ accounts are not inherently insecure. How is teh inclusion of domain name any more secure than using OPS$? Granted, the hacker has to guess the domain name in addition to user name, but so is using any other prefix other than OPS$. Besides if the users ar

RE: oracle authentication from windows

2003-06-20 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
(my question follows) > -Original Message- > From: Seefelt, Beth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I disagree. Remote OS authentication is not inherently insecure in > Windows like it is in Unix. If you prefix the account names with the > domain name, a user would not only have to spoof the

RE: Look's like Larry's at it again...

2003-06-20 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
I heard that Gates has a deal in the works with McDonalds to sell MS products there. He will rename his product suite to McWindows in honor of the agreement. Also heard that McWindows would now come with a free hard drive called the McDrive with two all silicone disk platters, special fire wire ad

RE: Re: oracle docs do say # of extents effect performance

2003-06-20 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
I think with LMT's now, it is irrelevant. I still think you need to know approx. how big the table is going to be, and place it in the correct LMT. By this I mean that you may have different LMT's with different uniform extent sizes. A very large table should be placed in the largest LMT tablespa

RE: (OT) RE: Look's like Larry's at it again...

2003-06-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Jacques, Well I like both of them. Nothing like a good chuckle to brighten up a day. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 3:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I hate to be a spoilsport, but some peopl

RE: (OT) RE: Look's like Larry's at it again...

2003-06-20 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Bummer! I've already started to hope that I'll soon be living in Connecticut ver 10i. Even Red Sox defeats would hurt less in the Oracleland. Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 3:30 PM To: Multiple recipie

Re: oracle authentication from windows

2003-06-20 Thread Arup Nanda
David, I do feel your pain. Sometimes the auditors just go overboard looking over some set checklist and some items in their checklist just plain contradict each other. Take example I just went through recently. I am making the databases of a few healthcare companies HIPAA compliant. A recent aud

(OT) RE: Look's like Larry's at it again...

2003-06-20 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
I hate to be a spoilsport, but some people unfamiliar with the USA might be taking this seriously. This is, of course, a humorous piece, in the same vein as the joke about Microsoft purchasing the Catholic Church http://www.spunk.org/library/humour/sp001526.html > -Original Message- > Fr

RE: how to handle client installs w/o admin privs

2003-06-20 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
that's how we do it here. there is a Lan Administration group responsible for installing software on all PC's. thank goodness they stay out of the DBA area. we do our own installs. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 3:16 PM To

Re: Look's like Larry's at it again...

2003-06-20 Thread AK
Any plans for the crisis countries Larry :) -ak - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 12:00 PM > Cool. State of Connecticut also has a budget crisis.. > > Mladen Gogala > Oracle DBA > Phone:(203) 459-6855 >

RE: What can cause boost in LIO/PIO?

2003-06-20 Thread Jesse, Rich
I just got a call from the S/A that the copy completed. After looking back at Spotlight I asked "At 1:00, right?". Sure enough. So at least that part's solved. As to why/how it started the same time as the DBMS_JOB? I'm willing to let that be a mystery pondered on over beers for years and year

RE: Look's like Larry's at it again...

2003-06-20 Thread Pete Sharman
Excellent, but I really thought he meant to call it Larry Land! :) 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 DBA. -Original Message- Jesse, Rich Sent: Friday, J

Re: oracle authentication from windows

2003-06-20 Thread Arup Nanda
Pete, Apprciate your comments. You are right in stating that if the OPS$ accounts have special privs they might be abused. But how it is any different than any other user id with special privileges whose password is not guarded well? The security hole does not come from the fact that remote_os_aut

Re: oracle authentication from windows

2003-06-20 Thread Arup Nanda
- Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 9:44 AM > This is an interesting one. I am currently going through (tortured) another > system audit. One of the many questions the auditors (I am being attacked > from all sid

RE: how to handle client installs w/o admin privs

2003-06-20 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Joe If your administration group controls the machines to this extent, I would hand the administrators a CD with Oracle client on it and say "go for it", your baby now. Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2

Re: Re: oracle docs do say # of extents effect performance

2003-06-20 Thread rgaffuri
ok, so should the number of extents in a table be considered in table design? there are alot of .pdfs and people on this listserv that say it is irrelevant? > > From: Rachel Carmichael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/06/20 Fri PM 02:44:52 EDT > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PR

RE: Look's like Larry's at it again...

2003-06-20 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Look's like Larry's at it again... Yeah ... but they have money to sue everyone in sight. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD

RE: got EXP-00091 warning

2003-06-20 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Jin I cured this one with STATISTICS=NONE. Inelegant, but effective nonetheless. Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:21 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Greetings, When I export schema

RE: Partition

2003-06-20 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ishwar - What Oracle version. Just off the top of my head, I think that 8i only allows the subpartition to be hashed. What is your goal? Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 12:00 PM To: Multiple recipient

RE: Development projects: Multiple databases v/s multiple schemas

2003-06-20 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Naveen Advantages of single instance - Easier to administer. I have multiple test instances and often have to go around getting permission to bounce instances to re-jigger the memory when one project needs more memory for some test. - Easier to share data among projects. Advantages of multip

Re: RE: oracle docs do say # of extents effect performance

2003-06-20 Thread rgaffuri
i understand, but alot of people have posted here that its ok to have smaller extents anyway. who is correct? or am i missing something? > > From: "Richard Ji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/06/20 Fri PM 02:00:11 EDT > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: R

RE: What can cause boost in LIO/PIO?

2003-06-20 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
makes sence to me... I've seen an analyze, if it takes a long time to run, cause odd things to happen to SQL that starts running in the middle of the analyze process. The SAN rebuild certainly sounds like a likley suspect. RF -Original Message- To: Jesse, Rich; Freeman Robert - IL; 'Mu

RE: Look's like Larry's at it again...

2003-06-20 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Cool. State of Connecticut also has a budget crisis.. Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 2:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oracle Makes Bid to Buy State of Delaware Software giant wil

RE: What can cause boost in LIO/PIO?

2003-06-20 Thread Jesse, Rich
[deft backpedaling] OK, now I think it IS the SAN. The S/A handling the SAN is helping us with our backup scenario so he's reorganizing some drives on the SAN. At about the same time he started the reorg (highly drive-intensive), my aggregate PIO rate dropped from almost 10K/s to less than 2K/s.

Re: oracle docs do say # of extents effect performance

2003-06-20 Thread Rachel Carmichael
or reasonable to WANT? if I'm running a data warehouse, maybe. If an OLTP system, orders and customers etc then I'm not likely to WANT the next block of data on disk for my transaction --- Darrell Landrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My favorite part is > "and all of the table's data will be sto

Oracle JMS--Lost all my Emaisl...Pls resend if any reply was post

2003-06-20 Thread Basavaraja, Ravindra
Hi All, I need some help in setting up ORACLE JMS to post and read messages from queue.I am a newbie in this and I ave gone through the Oracle application developers guide for Advanced queuing document but it is too exhaustive. Does anyone have any examples,web links to get started with Oracle JM

RE: What can cause boost in LIO/PIO?

2003-06-20 Thread Jesse, Rich
Only in part. It's an hourly complete rebuild of a mini-warehouse table (don't ask -- not my idea). It does do a few index creates and accompanying analyzes of those indexes and their table at the end of the procedure. I think this accounts for the very high PIO spikes at the end of every DBMS_J

RE: oracle docs do say # of extents effect performance

2003-06-20 Thread Stephen Lee
Does this mean that if I dd the file onto a raw partition, it will be scattered around the raw partition? Even though the dd-ing process is unaware of the characteristics of the raw partition? > -Original Message- > > Even without stripping you can't gaurantee it will be a contiguous >

RE: Development projects: Multiple databases v/s multiple schemas

2003-06-20 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Development projects: Multiple databases v/s multiple schemas That's why my question ... do schema cross-reference ...?   If you have schema that don't need to talk to each other, one DB is still good. If you have enough resources, then give every team on db. But that is costly in

Look's like Larry's at it again...

2003-06-20 Thread Jesse, Rich
Oracle Makes Bid to Buy State of Delaware Software giant willing to assume state's $225 million deficit in exchange for legislative control, naming rights Wilmington, DE - Oracle CEO Larry Ellison today announced his intention to purchase the state of Delaware for $300 million in cash and Ora

RE: oracle docs do say # of extents effect performance

2003-06-20 Thread Richard Ji
Even without stripping you can't gaurantee it will be a contiguous section of disk space. The file could be scattered across the file system. Richard Ji -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:12 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L My favorite part is "and all of the t

RE: MySQL in the future?

2003-06-20 Thread Richard Ji
Thanks for the clearing that up. Did you happen to get a qoute as well? :) Just curious, does MySQL also uses CPU based and named users license? or it is just per server? -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:12 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Okay, I figured th

Re: controlfile backup obsolete

2003-06-20 Thread bulbultyagi
Mladen , I do not get a problem if I use : configure retention policy to redundancy n ; (n=> integer) However I am having my controlfile backup reported as obsolete when : configure retention policy to recovery window of n days ; (n=>integer , I use 4) and my control_file_record_keep_time=7 Please

Re: controlfile backup obsolete

2003-06-20 Thread bulbultyagi
Rafiq that is a good point , but I have set my control_file_record_keep_time=7 (which is also the default , I think ) and recovery window is 4 days Anything else to check ? - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: F

set oracle-l nomail

2003-06-20 Thread Ron Cetnar
Title: Message SET ORACLE-L NOMAIL    

Re: oracle docs do say # of extents effect performance

2003-06-20 Thread Darrell Landrum
My favorite part is "and all of the table's data will be stored in a relatively contiguous section of disk space". Is this even reasonable to believe, especially with any kind of striping implemented? >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/20/03 12:00PM >>> Two reasons: a) if you go into extent map blocks the

Re: oracle docs do say # of extents effect performance

2003-06-20 Thread Connor McDonald
Two reasons: a) if you go into extent map blocks then you will suffer an overhead of at least 1 billionth of a percent :-) b) more seriously, its generally easier to pick up a "rogue" table if its run into thousands of extents and you had not intended it to. Its not a performance problem per se,

RE: MySQL in the future?

2003-06-20 Thread Matthew Zito
Okay, I figured the time had come to stop speculating about MySQL's licensing policy and get the answer straight from the horse's mouth, as it were. So I contacted MySQL and posed a couple of scenarios to them. Here's my questions and their responses (my stuff is the quoted part): " > in all of

RE: What can cause boost in LIO/PIO?

2003-06-20 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
What was this 5am job? It wasn't an analyze was it? RF -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 6/20/2003 11:29 AM Hey all, I'm testing out the max I/O thruput of an IBM FastT900 using a dual 2.4GHz w/1GB RAM on Win2K server (not my choice but it's just for tes

Partition

2003-06-20 Thread Ishwar Tewari
Hey, Can anyone say if there is a way to breakup an existing partition into subpartitons. The partition contains data. Thx Ishwar. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Ishwar Tewari INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 h

RE: oracle docs do say # of extents effect performance

2003-06-20 Thread Nelson, Allan
It is the old argument that was made to justify one or only a few extents. Empirically the idea does not hold up. This idea is now classified as a myth but the Oracle docs have not caught up yet. Allan -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 11:20 AM To: Multiple recipients of li

Re: oracle authentication from windows

2003-06-20 Thread AK
Got it . Thanks Arup .   -ak - Original Message - From: Arup Nanda To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 8:54 AM Subject: Re: oracle authentication from windows AK,   The issue is not creating an id called OPS$ SYSTEM o

RE: Upgrading from 8.1.7 32 bit to 9.2.0.3 64 bit

2003-06-20 Thread Adrian Roe
I know we had to run utlirp.sql when moving from 32 to 64. Not sure if this is covered by running catproc as part of the migration. -Original Message- Sent: 20 June 2003 15:50 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all, Has anyone done the upgrade from 8.1.7 32 bit to 9.2.0.3 64 bi

RE: Development projects: Multiple databases v/s multiple schemas

2003-06-20 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Development projects: Multiple databases v/s multiple schemas I understand now, but in development?? I have 13 schema that form an application, the development is an exact replica of production RAC instance and no one in Devl complains (well most of the times).   Raj ---

What can cause boost in LIO/PIO?

2003-06-20 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey all, I'm testing out the max I/O thruput of an IBM FastT900 using a dual 2.4GHz w/1GB RAM on Win2K server (not my choice but it's just for testing) running Oracle 8.1.7. For one of my tests, I created the following heirarchical query: SELECT * FROM MYBIGTABLE GL1 START WITH GL1.TIME_STAMP LI

oracle docs do say # of extents effect performance

2003-06-20 Thread rgaffuri
I just read a .pdf by a couple of people at oracle called Stop Fragmenting and start living where it says not worry about the number of extents in a tablespace. However in the administrators doc it says the following: Estimate Table Size and Set Storage Parameters Estimating the sizes of tables

how to handle client installs w/o admin privs

2003-06-20 Thread Joe Armstrong-Champ
We have users who need to install the oracle 9i client on their PCs but who aren't administrators on their machines. How do people handle this situation? Thanks. Joe -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Joe Armstrong-Champ INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City

RE: Development projects: Multiple databases v/s multiple schemas

2003-06-20 Thread A.Bahar
Title: RE: Development projects: Multiple databases v/s multiple schemas Hi  Rajendra  ... For Example ,   There is  one instance and two project on this  instance.   ProjectA and ProjectB.    beetween 10:00 am and 11:30 am ,  ProjectA realized via numerious sessions 30  times  wait 

RE: [Q] Script to generate "grant privilege" on a table?

2003-06-20 Thread Stephen Lee
I might have gotten something bass-ackwards here. Please correct as needed. "Testing?! We don't need no stinkin' testing." > -Original Message- > > > select 'grant '||privilege||' to '|| grantee ||' on > '||table_name||';' from > dba_tab_privs where owner = 'BUBBA'; > -- Please se

Re: Upgrading from 8.1.7 32 bit to 9.2.0.3 64 bit

2003-06-20 Thread Michael Boligan
I have not done this yet, but I did look into it. There is one thread in the Metalink forum that I printed the number is 337111.99 (I am not sure if that is the whole number or not, it looks cutoff on the printout). It also references doc 169426.1, which has some good info in it. The basic idea

RE: AQ, RAC and delay

2003-06-20 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Since I really don't have any performance issues [2 Nodes, 2CPUs each @1GHz, 2GB, ES45 Tru64Cluster], I haven't been runnning StatsPack. However I just ran two snapshots and didn't see such a wait event. I'm sure that other people have also implemented mcpd=0 successfuly [my 9iRAC is an Export-Im

Re: oracle authentication from windows

2003-06-20 Thread Arup Nanda
AK,   The issue is not creating an id called OPS$ SYSTEM on XP, but on the database. Say, you created a user called OPS$SYSTEM as   create user ops$system identified externally;   The XP user should be SYSTEM, not OPS$SYSTEM, to log on to this account.   Now suppose, your os_authent_prefix

RE: Development projects: Multiple databases v/s multiple schemas

2003-06-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Naveen, It depends on the deployment method to be used. In general I try to limit the number of instances. Sure not having each project in it's own instance diminishes some of the capabilities that you have to monitor how they perform, but all of those instances are competing on the s

RE: [Q] Script to generate "grant privilege" on a table?

2003-06-20 Thread Stephen Lee
select 'grant '||privilege||' to '|| grantee ||' on '||table_name||';' from dba_tab_privs where owner = 'BUBBA'; Note that this will get everything owned by BUBBA: tables, procedures, packages, views, sequences. > -Original Message- > > Does anyone has script which can check "grant > pr

got EXP-00091 warning

2003-06-20 Thread jinchen
Greetings, When I export schema containing some tables, I got EXP-00091 warnings. The log is saying: " .. JServer Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production Export done in US7ASCII character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set server uses WE8ISO8859P1 character set (possible charset conversion) . exporting

RE: Upgrading from 8.1.7 32 bit to 9.2.0.3 64 bit

2003-06-20 Thread SARKAR, Samir
Jay, Just make sure that ur OS is 64-bit as well and go ahead as per the documentation. If ur OS is HP-UX, do not forget to set ur SHLIB_PATH and CLASSPATH as well. Cheers Samir Samir Sarkar Oracle DBA SchlumbergerSema Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone : +44 (0) 115 - 957 6028 EPABX : +44 (0)

RE: Upgrading from 8.1.7 32 bit to 9.2.0.3 64 bit

2003-06-20 Thread JayMiller
Sorry, should have mentioned that I'm on Solaris 2.8. Thanks, Jay -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:19 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: Miller, Jay Jay, Just make sure that ur OS is 64-bit as well and go ahead as per the documentation. If ur OS is HP-UX, do not forget to

RE: OEM question

2003-06-20 Thread Thater, William
Stephen Lee scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: > The old simple snapshot replication is OK. It's just that some of > this later stuff makes you think they rounded up all the guys who > have tape on their glasses and wear suspenders with their pants that > are too short, gave them a drug to

RE: Development projects: Multiple databases v/s multiple schemas

2003-06-20 Thread Naveen Nahata
Title: RE: Development projects: Multiple databases v/s multiple schemas Thanx Raj and Bahar,   Raj I think you misunderstood my question. Or I might be misunderstanding a part of your reply :-)   I'll try to make my question clearer   All the developers of a project work on the same DB

Upgrading from 8.1.7 32 bit to 9.2.0.3 64 bit

2003-06-20 Thread JayMiller
Hi all, Has anyone done the upgrade from 8.1.7 32 bit to 9.2.0.3 64 bit? I'm trying to determine whether it's necessary to perform any other steps than the regular upgrade process. Note 62290.1 seems to imply that no other steps are required, but this is contradicted elsewhere and it's proving a

RE: OEM question

2003-06-20 Thread Stephen Lee
The old simple snapshot replication is OK. It's just that some of this later stuff makes you think they rounded up all the guys who have tape on their glasses and wear suspenders with their pants that are too short, gave them a drug to put them in an *extra* geeky mood, gave them unlimited amount

RE: Book Recommendation for Apache

2003-06-20 Thread Gogala, Mladen
O'Reilly is good. Also, get yourself comanche (http://www.comanche.org). That is a gooey tool for setting up Apache.   Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Sam Bootsma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2

Re: Development projects: Multiple databases v/s multiple schemas

2003-06-20 Thread Joe Frohne
Hi, We end up doing it both ways at the same time. We have multiple development instances and multiple schemas in each instance. We do this because we are running a large ERP system and each test instance has specific testing requirements so we end up replicating multiple instances on the same m

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