RE: RAC - setting up failover and load_balance

2003-08-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Title: Message Well, that is because of your understanding of the word "failover". Don't be confused, there are other words in desperate need of redefinition, too. One of them is "unbreakable". To make the long story short, "FAILOVER=ON"  makes possible for Oracle*Net to skip the non-func

RAC - setting up failover and load_balance

2003-08-26 Thread laura pena
So I have RAC setup ( Solaris 2.8 , Veritas DBE/AC 3.5 MP1 and HDS disks if you are interested) and I am attempting to setup my failover and loadbalancing from a client.     I brought down VLDBN1 and  Thought I should fail over to VLDB2 ... but I did not.     Here is what I have in my tnsnames.ora

tkprof issues - was Performance Problem

2003-08-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Message unable to allocate space of size 48 (couple of time 50).   run as root too so no ulimits ...   Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly perso

RE: Hey Jared!!

2003-08-26 Thread Goulet, Dick
I sure hope so. Then he/she should be publicly tarred & Feathered. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 4:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I doubt they will ever find the real guy behind this. Tanel. --

Re: SQL HELP!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Jared . Still
Viktor, By using an inline view, count_web does indeed become a column. Did you try the query? Jared Viktor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  08/26/2003 01:29 PM                 To:        [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]         cc:                 Subject:        Re: SQL HELP!!! Jared,   T

Re: SQL HELP!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Dave Hau
select id, received_date, count(count_non_web) non_web_count, count(count_web) web_count from (select id, to_char(received_date, '-mm') received_date, (case when seq_no <= 4000 then 1 else null end) count_non_web, (case_when seq_no > 4000 then 1 else null end) count_web from t where received_da

RE: Onames and various connections scenarios

2003-08-26 Thread Jared . Still
No need to do it quite the way you are attempting. c:>  namesctl dump_tnsnames c:\temp\tnsnames.txt worked fine for me.   The default server is ns_ns1 Had I wanted to do this from another server, say ns2, I would have gone directly into namesctl, then issued the command 'set server ns_ns2' Jar

Re: SQL HELP!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Viktor
Jared,   I had a temporary brain freeze :), thanks much! I have modified it a bit, and it seems to be working fine! One other small thing. Is there a quick wahy to calculate percentage of web/non-web and vice-versa in the same select after the column "sums"?   select distinct id, received_date,  su

RE: tkprof issues - was Performance Problem

2003-08-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Title: Message Are you sure that your swap space is sufficient?     --Mladen GogalaOracle DBA -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jamadagni, RajendraSent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 5:59 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-

RE: Hey Jared!!

2003-08-26 Thread Orr, Steve
You're MUCH too merciful! We should start by infecting him or her with worms and viruses of the biologic type. :-) -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 4:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I sure hope so. Then he/she should be publicly tarred & Feathered. Dic

Re: SQL HELP!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Dave Hau
select id, received_date, count(count_non_web) non_web_count, count(count_web) web_count, (count(count_non_web) / count(*) * 100) non_web_count_percent, (count(count_web) / count(*) * 100) web_count_percent from (select id, to_char(received_date, '-mm') received_date, (case when seq_no <= 4000

RE: NEXT_EXTENT and PCT_INCREASE

2003-08-26 Thread Roger Xu
Why the table was created with initial extent as 1700M, but dba_extents says the first extent is 8M only? SQL> select initial_extent from dba_tables where table_name='BSIS'; 1782579200 SQL> select bytes from dba_extents where segment_name='BSIS' and extent_id=1; 8388608 SQL> select bytes

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Title: Message Nope, you're the first. What happened? Segmentation violation? If that is so, I'd like to know, because not all of my trace files are small.     --Mladen GogalaOracle DBA -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jamad

RE: Onames and various connections scenarios

2003-08-26 Thread Bob Metelsky
No doubt im in the wrong ball field here but this is what I have Windows 2k Server1 Ns1 on 8.1.7.4 Server2 Ns2 on 9.2.0.1.0 [server1] C:\> start \\server1\bin\namesctl dump_tnsnames C:\mytnsnames.txt It creates an empty file on my (remote) machine >From the server C:\> namesctl dump_tnsnames C:

RE: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Define "based"? -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- Tanel Poder Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 4:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L AFAIK, Apples unix is based on [Open|Free]BSD as well. Tanel. Note: This message is for the named person's use only. It ma

Re: SQL HELP!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Viktor
Dave,   Thanks much! I appreciate your help. One other thing I might have forgotten is there a way to calculate non_web_count - to - total  % and web_count - to total %   so in this way:   output would be like: ID  YEAR  NON WEB  % WEB   %NON-WEB   AC 2003-01    47    9

Re: SQL HELP!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Viktor
Jared,   Thanks for your fast reply! Sorry if I didn't explain myself clear enough. Unfortunately count_web is not a column, id||yr||seq_no||ck is a combination of 4 columns that make up a primary key. if seq_no >4000, in a id||yr||seq_no||ck row, it's a "web row", if not then it's not. what I woul

Re: Query results to .csv/use of dblinks

2003-08-26 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! In one migration of about 600GB DB I used 2 dblinks (loading different partitions in parallel with separate statements), then added 3rd link after what the bottleneck seemed to be the network. (I saw full network utilization from perfmon on windows, wasn't too much of a wait interface user bac

Re: SQL HELP!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Jared . Still
I'm not sure I entirely understand the result you are trying to achieve. Perhaps this will help select received_date, msno, sum(count_web), hardcopy from ( select id ,          to_char(received_date, '-mm') received_date,          id||yr||seq_no||ck MSNO          CASE WHEN seq_no > 4000 t

Re: Query results to .csv

2003-08-26 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! What do you customers care about? Usability and uptime of their app or utilization of your server? If you use direct exp and imp method: 1) you read data from disk (server process from oracle datafiles) 2) you write data to disk (expfile) 3) you read data from disk (ftp reading expfile) 4) yo

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Laura, I really believe that you should take the 10046 and then contact Hotsos. It may and probably will save you some time and aggravation. They're not very expensive, around $50 per file analyzed. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- Burton, Laura Sent: Tuesday, August 26,

RE: Onames and various connections scenarios

2003-08-26 Thread Jared . Still
dump_tnsnames can take a path/filename arg ie. namesctl dump_tnsnames $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/tmpnames.txt John Kanagaraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  08/26/2003 12:29 PM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[E

Re: optimizer_max_permutations

2003-08-26 Thread Tanel Poder
Yes starting from db version 8.1.7 for 11i. For 8.1.6 there was no such requirement IIRC. I tried to be smart and ignored the recommendation once when upgrading to 8.1.7 - the result, some queries which were using a view (which name I don't remember anymore) got extremely slow. I learned a lesson.

RE: Query results to .csv/use of dblinks

2003-08-26 Thread M Rafiq
Thanks for your input. Discussion here is to keep maximum use of dblinks for data load/transfer from one server to another. Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:49:27 -0800 You can also close the dbl

RE: Hey Jared!!

2003-08-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
He's with Saddam, Mullah Omar and UBL. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- Tanel Poder Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 4:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I doubt they will ever find the real guy behind this. Tanel. - Original Message - To: "Multipl

ROW_ID Hint

2003-08-26 Thread Smith, Ron L.
I have a vendor application that is running slow. I looked at the code through a product called SQLab and found that most of the code has a ROW_ID hint coded in it. My understanding is that this hint will prevent the code from using indexes even though the tables and indexes are analyzed. I modi

SQL HELP!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Viktor
Hello,   I was wondering if someone can help me with a report. I am stuck figuring out what I can do to complete it. Here is what I need to do:   for a given date range, i..e. start_date - end_date ('01/01/2003',  '12/31/2003'), I need to count all "web", and "non-web" records. If seq_no > 4000, th

RE: Query results to .csv/use of dblinks

2003-08-26 Thread Stephane Paquette
You can also close the dblink to avoid having many open idle sessions on the remote database. alter session close database link dblink; Stephane Paquette Administrateur de bases de donnees Database Administrator Standard Life www.standardlife.ca Tel. (514) 499-7999 7470 and (514) 925-7187 [EMAIL

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Performance Problem Funny ... I have tkprof give up analyzing a 4.2G tracefile on a 64bit platform. anyone else experienced this?? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expresse

Re: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread Tanel Poder
AFAIK, Apples unix is based on [Open|Free]BSD as well. Tanel. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 8:24 PM > > And of course, there's the other free UNIXes - the BSDs (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, > NetBSD). Tragically

Re: Hey Jared!!

2003-08-26 Thread Tanel Poder
I doubt they will ever find the real guy behind this. Tanel. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:19 PM > For all you virus/worm lovers out there, justice do come: > > FBI Subpoenas Arizona ISP In Sobig

Re: new server + RAID = ???

2003-08-26 Thread Tanel Poder
Title: Message The current situation is that some rebels still suggest storing your database on non-protected storage and come ask for help here when their entire database (including last 3 months archivelogs) crashes with this single disk..   Tanel.   - Original Message - From:

Re: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread Tanel Poder
Liunx was initially meant to be a posix standard and minix compatible OS running on 386 for hackers and computer enthusiasts. Even Linus himself didn't predict it's growth and current status at first. At first it wasn't even completely independent, it used minix formatted filesystems etc.. But even

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-26 Thread Cary Millsap
Laura, You might find the problem by checking the things you plan to check, and by following the advice of the book you're using. But the odds are very good that you will not. At least not for a long time... Any application program on your system can tell you where it is spending its time. Let it

RE: NEXT_EXTENT and PCT_INCREASE

2003-08-26 Thread Gorbounov,Vadim
Roger, 1. Space management can be specified for a tablespace, not a segment. Create ASSM tablespace and alter table ... move there. 2. Locally managed tablespace, I guess. Oracle doesn't need NEXT_EXTENT and PCT_INCREASE then. HTH Vadim -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003

RE: About trcanlzr

2003-08-26 Thread Stephane Paquette
I was not getting result from set_ev because I used set_ev(sid,serial,10046,8,null) instead of set_ev(sid,serial,10046,8,'')   I thought that null and '' can be used without difference.       Stephane Paquette Administrateur de bases de donnees Database Administrator Standard Life www.s

NEXT_EXTENT and PCT_INCREASE

2003-08-26 Thread Roger Xu
Hi, I have the following output when I querying dba_tables. Question 1: This table is created using manual management method, right? What do I do in order to turn it to Automatic segment-space management? Question 2: How come there are no values for NEXT_EXTENT and PCT_INCREASE? Tha

Re: Query results to .csv/use of dblinks

2003-08-26 Thread M Rafiq
Tanel, A quick question? How many open dblinks you have used at one time without any issues? Default setting in init.ora is 4(if I am not wrong) and I never used it more than that. If Dennis wants to use more than 4 dblinks at one time, he should modify this param(open_dblinks) in init.ora, rig

RE: Query results to .csv

2003-08-26 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Tanel Thanks for the ideas. My simple mind says that by fully utilizing the hardware I can minimize the overall time. But today we were on a conference call with the application vendor and they were touting their utility for handling this. Everyone around the table seemed pretty impressed, so ma

RE: Onames and various connections scenarios

2003-08-26 Thread John Kanagaraj
Bob, I understand what you are saying (and your pain). My suggestion would be to use the 'namesctl dump_tnsnames' command to dump out the current Onames repository to the PC's $TNS_ADMIN dir via a login script or SMS. You might want o rename the current TNSNAMES.ORA file just prior to that as dump

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-26 Thread Burton, Laura
No, I had read not to analyze the sys tables in the 'TIP' section of the book I am using as a reference (Oracle Performance Tuning/Tips & Techniques). As I stated earlier, I also made sure that I analyzed all the tables and indexes that were involved, because I had read that leaving a table 'un'an

Re: Migration Suggestion.

2003-08-26 Thread Michael Boligan
This would be alot of extra work and downtime compared to export/import but... 1) upgrade to AIX 4.3.3 You might want to think about using AIX 64 bit here (you can still run Oracle on 32 bit if you want). 2) upgrade to 8.1.7.4 3) AIX 4.3.3 is binary compatable with 5.1, so you _could do

Hey Jared!!

2003-08-26 Thread Goulet, Dick
For all you virus/worm lovers out there, justice do come: FBI Subpoenas Arizona ISP In Sobig Probe Easynews says it's cooperating with the bureau to find the person who uploaded the virus to a Usenet group it hosts. informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=13800091 Dick Goulet Sen

RE: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread rgaffuri
linux from unix? > > From: "Mladen Gogala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/08/26 Tue PM 02:34:28 EDT > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Re: OT - Linux books ?? > > Different from what? It's very different from NT kernel. > > -- > Mladen Gogala > Orac

RE: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Different from what? It's very different from NT kernel. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 1:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L i thought linux was just unix designed to run on a PC. how different is the kernel

RE: Migration Suggestion.

2003-08-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
If you cannot recover the database, you *** CAN *** take a cold backup and open it elsewhere, on a 5.2 box, for example. You only have to make sure that you loaded the right post_wait extensions. I advise you to use the ones from 9.2. Boot the machine in 32 bit mode. No migration is necessary, col

RE: Performance Problem

2003-08-26 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Did you analyze the sys schema by mistake. This can stop the fastest database. We had a contractor do that to an 8.0.5 database once, and only once. Ruth > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Burton, Laura > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 4

RE: buffer overflow

2003-08-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Turn off the machine. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 1:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Gang , I have some upgrade script from vendor ( no source code ) which calling some procs . Now I am getting "buffer overflow, limit

Re: RE: buffer overflow

2003-08-26 Thread AK
looks like internally from proc its setting dbms_output.enable(); -ak - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 11:04 AM > talk about unprofessional... this stuff should never go into production. which vendor is i

RE: RE: buffer overflow

2003-08-26 Thread Kevin Toepke
Forgot the smiley! And, to make up for that, I ran a simple test and found that 'set serveroutput off' solves the problem. My code: BEGIN dbms_output.put_line('sysdate: ' || sysdate); END; / with serveroutput on started dumping data to the screen in about 5 seconds. With serveroutput off I h

RE: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread Matthew Zito
The SCO Linux litigation that is raging right now is such a nightmare of FUD and absurd legal process. For starters, SCO's UNIX implementation is dead in the water - not only was it the worst UNIX I've ever worked with, but even SCO has no plans to aggresively continue development on it. Only th

Re: buffer overflow

2003-08-26 Thread AK
I am sure you will pissed of , if I turn off your machine . ;) - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:44 AM > Turn off the machine. > > -- > Mladen Gogala > Oracle DBA > > > > -Original Message- > Se

Re: RE: buffer overflow

2003-08-26 Thread rgaffuri
talk about unprofessional... this stuff should never go into production. which vendor is it? ill aviod? cant you juse set serveroutput off? to turn off the output? > > From: Kevin Toepke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/08/26 Tue PM 01:44:42 EDT > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMA

RE: optimizer_max_permutations

2003-08-26 Thread John Kanagaraj
Just fyi - it seems that Oracle had realized this in advance and has specifically instructed the Oracle Applications 11i installations to set this to 2000. John Kanagaraj DB Soft Inc Phone: 408-970-7002 (W) Listen to great, commercial-free christian music 24x7x365 at http://www.klove.com ** The

RE: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread Matthew Zito
The Linux kernel is totally different, though you will find some code in it that is from System 4 UNIX. Linux is technically not a UNIX, thought it looks and feels and acts like one. It's also worth noting that all of the UNIXes have, at this point, significant differences in terms of their inte

RE: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread Thater, William
Mladen Gogala scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: > AIX phased out in favor of Linux? I believe that SCO asked for > injunction to prevent IBM > from distributing AIX, and there is a whole saga around SCO and Linux. > According to some, > Unix variants are like higlanders: there can be only

RE: buffer overflow

2003-08-26 Thread Kevin Toepke
contact the vendor and ask them to remove the dbms_output calls? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 1:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Gang , I have some upgrade script from vendor ( no source code ) which calling some procs . Now I am getting "buffer over

RE: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
AIX phased out in favor of Linux? I believe that SCO asked for injunction to prevent IBM from distributing AIX, and there is a whole saga around SCO and Linux. According to some, Unix variants are like higlanders: there can be only one. If you ask Mr. Darl McBride, it's going to be SCO. Hopefully

RE: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread rgaffuri
i thought linux was just unix designed to run on a PC. how different is the kernel? > > From: "Matthew Zito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/08/26 Tue PM 01:24:26 EDT > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Re: OT - Linux books ?? > > > And of course, ther

Migration Suggestion.

2003-08-26 Thread Avnish.Rastogi
I am looking for some expert suggestions for the migration of 300GB database to different hardware. Currently database is 816 OPS on AIX 4.1 nodes. Database is 32bit and performance on this system is really slow. Export for 2GB table takes 2 hours. All the data is on EMC symmetric. We are plann

buffer overflow

2003-08-26 Thread AK
Hi Gang , I have some upgrade script from vendor ( no source code ) which calling some procs . Now I am getting "buffer overflow, limit of 100 bytes" error from it . Looks like they are spitting out debug statmts out with dbms_output . How can I stop this to happen without touching source co

RE: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread Matthew Zito
And of course, there's the other free UNIXes - the BSDs (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD). Tragically, none of these run Oracle (FreeBSD can run Oracle in Linux emulation mode - which seems backwards at best). And there's OS X, which is Apple's UNIX, and also runs Oracle. As far as AIX, I couldn't fin

RE: More on Uday & Qusay

2003-08-26 Thread Pardee, Roy E
>From _the Onion_'s what-do-you-think regular feature, when the news about Uday & Qusay was more recent: "It's great that we got Uday and Qusay. But what about the eapons-way of ass-may estruction-day?" I'm still laughing at that one... www.theonion.com Roy Pardee Programmer/Analyst/DBA SWFPAC

Re: Query results to .csv

2003-08-26 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! What is your goal? To finish data transfer in the shortest time or keep hardware utilization maximum during transfer? I think you should concentrate on keeping the time for doing data transfer low. Depending on your network - in case of gigabit (or 10 Gb) you could look at enabling jumbo fram

DBASSIST HANGS

2003-08-26 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Title: DBASSIST HANGS Hi list, I manage to install 8.1.7 on RH AS 2.1.  From Note 230693.1 I downloaded the jre118_v3 patch from blackdown, applied and the dbassist start, but I'm getting ORACLE NOT AVAILABLE. No more in metalink. TIA Note: Why to deal with Linux is so difficult.   R

Re: column level privilege - resolved

2003-08-26 Thread Arup Nanda
Reginald, No, FGAC (or VPD or RLS, depending on who you ask) is not about columns; it's about restricting rows. Within the selected rows, all the columns are visible. Rahul wanted to mask columns without creating views for each user. This is the only way to do that. Hope this helps. Arup

export full=y

2003-08-26 Thread Thomas Day
9.2.0.3.0 Enterprise Edition on Win2K using the 9.2.0.1.0 client. export hangs on "exporting object type definitions" TOAD says that it's trying to 'ALTER TYPE "OE"."ORDER_TYP" COMPILE SPECIFICATION REUSE SETTINGS' If I query v$session_wait I get: SID SEQ# -- -- E

Re: column level privilege - resolved

2003-08-26 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
Rahul: It sounds like your implementation is very similar, in theory, to Oracle's Fine Grain Access. Are you re-inventing the wheel? Reginald W. Bailey IBM Global Services - ETS SW GDS

Re: OT: More on Uday & Qusay

2003-08-26 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
I'm Polish and I don't find it offensive. Want some good Polish jokes? Ken Janusz Ken Januszewski (prior to 1910) - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 11:04 AM > > While work related humor has it's place in

RE: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Well, IBM has AIX, a very solid and stable version of unix which works really well. SCO has become very popular lately and using SCO Unix will turn you into the most popular guy on this list. Then there is Irix, made by SGI. HP actually has several unix versions Tru64, HP-UX, Tandem Unix, Ultrix,

Re: column level privilege - resolved

2003-08-26 Thread Arup Nanda
Rahul, Glad to know that it worked for you. Yes, I have implemented that and it works quite well in production. Just make sure you understand that the columns are not really hidden, just "masked" - which means they may convey wrong impressions if not used properly. In my case, I have avoided usin

OracleWorld Exam Cram

2003-08-26 Thread Brian McGraw
Is anyone attending the 9i Cram Session on Sunday?  If so, could you please email me off-list?   Thanks,   Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Re: OT: More on Uday & Qusay

2003-08-26 Thread Jared Still
While work related humor has it's place in the workplace and on this list, humor for humor's sake should be limited to the OT list. There are a *lot* of reasons for this. In the case of this post, there are folks on this list that will find this offensive. Thank You, Jared ( list owner ) On

Re: optimizer_max_permutations

2003-08-26 Thread Jared Still
Yes, it is required in one of our COTS applications. Inserts into complex views with instead-f triggers. The views are quite complex, ridiculously so, one might say. Before setting optimizer_max_permutations=1000, it took a very long time to parse those views. Jared On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 05:44

Re: optimizer_max_permutations

2003-08-26 Thread Connor McDonald
One thing that the docs don't mention is that '8' (the default in 8) is also a special boundary value. Anything less than 80,000 changes some of ways the optimizer does it work, ie, its not just a reduction in permutations. Can't remember the specifics - join orders spring to mind but there

RE: About trcanlzr

2003-08-26 Thread Stephane Paquette
Corrupting would have been sending the damned dbmssupp.sql and its plb file. Stephane -Original Message- Mladen Gogala Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 5:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I'm corrupting youth. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- Stephane

column level privilege - resolved

2003-08-26 Thread rahul
Arun, thanks for suggesting this, this is what i did. 1. created a table to store table names associated column names and a "security level" for a that column EMP emp_name 3 EMP emp_sal 5 2. then i granted every users a security level also, 3. then i created a view on the name table select de

column level privilege - resolved

2003-08-26 Thread rahul
Arun, thanks for suggesting this, this is what i did. 1. created a table to store table names associated column names and a "security level" for a that column EMP emp_name 3 EMP emp_sal 5 2. then i granted every users a security level also, 3. then i created a view on the name table select de

OT: More on Uday & Qusay

2003-08-26 Thread Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI
Now that Uday and Qusay have been eliminated, a lot of the lesser-known family members are coming to the attention of American authorities. Among the brothers: Sooflay ..the restaurateur Guday... the half-Australian brother Huray the sports f

RE: new server + RAID = ???

2003-08-26 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Title: Message What was the final outcome?    Thanks, Ruth -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Tanel PoderSent: Monday, August 25, 2003 9:19 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: new server + RAID = ??? I though

RE: Query results to .csv

2003-08-26 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Taniel, Binley Thanks for the excellent suggestions. At this point we have been testing with two smaller test systems, moving a single table at a time, but initial indications are that the performance order is: 1. Perl dump to CSV / ftp / SQL*Loader 2. Copy across database link 3. Export/ ftp

Re: optimizer_max_permutations

2003-08-26 Thread Tanel Poder
Title: Message Hi!   Increasing it from it's default won't probaly help to get a better execution plan, unless you have 10-way or even more complex joins. However, having a large value of this parameter with complex joins can push your parse times (QEP calculations) very high! That's why one

RE: Resolved - Row level security and latch waits

2003-08-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Resolved - Row level security and latch waits Everyone was right ... RTFM and STFW and listening to people on this list always helps. We are making a better effort with design of the contexts. The developers have been redirected to appropriate sections on the FM. Raj ---

RE: Query results to .csv

2003-08-26 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
John - Thanks for the heads-up. My intention is to truncate all tables on the target system beforehand, so that should reset the HWM. Then I have a lot of tables to load, so my plan is to load multiple tables simultaneously, trying for separate RAID sets, but use only a single insert on an individu

RE: virus info

2003-08-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Title: Message So far, I've had only 2. Everybody hates me and that's the way it should be for a real DBA. Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.     --Mladen GogalaOracle DBA -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of April WellsSent: T

RE: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread Kevin Toepke
Solaris simply requires you to quote your translates tr '[A-B]' '[a-b]' -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L what got me for about 2 hours recently was the standard: tr [A-B] [a-b],(it just means make everything upp

RE: DBAssist hangs

2003-08-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Title: Message Try doing strace -af -o /tmp/strace.out dbassist and see what is it waiting for.     --Mladen GogalaOracle DBA -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramon E. EstevezSent: Monday, August 25, 2003 9:54 PMTo: Multip

Re: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread rgaffuri
so different flavors of linux are more compatible? i thought the only two unix players out there now are HP and Solaris. who else is out there? so is going between unix flavors like going between databases? > > From: "Nuno Souto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/08/26 Tue AM 09:59:33 EDT > T

Re: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread rgaffuri
what got me for about 2 hours recently was the standard: tr [A-B] [a-b],(it just means make everything upper case, now lower cass, its a LOWER function in SQL) thats even in the oreilly korn shell book. no solaris has to get cute and make you do: tr [:upper:] {:lower:] what i mean by that is s

Re: Resolved - Row level security and latch waits

2003-08-26 Thread rgaffuri
ah so i was right? wow... with all those posts. I figured i had been mistaken. > > From: "Jamadagni, Rajendra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/08/26 Tue AM 09:49:34 EDT > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Resolved - Row level security and latch waits > > T

Re: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread Nuno Souto
- Original Message - > how different is it to administer oracle on different flavors of unix? Im running > into some annoying nuassances in syntax between solaris korn shell and hp-unix korn shell. > > is it just little syntax differences or is there alot more to it? > > You sure it's HP

Resolved - Row level security and latch waits

2003-08-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Resolved - Row level security and latch waits Thanks everyone for your input, the development email is rewriting their code using application contexts. your help is greatly appreciated. Raj Rajendra dot

RE: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread John Flack
Not just Sun - SCO Unixware puts it there too. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 9:45 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L administering oracle is not really an issue cause sql*plus is sql*plus regardless, now from the OS side, Solaris can be a pain to bring scrip

RE: OT: Tomcat, iAS J2EE, OC4J

2003-08-26 Thread Brian McGraw
Wonderful. I would like to add: 10.1.23.1) After explicitly instructing them not to, have an analyst from the other side of the world call you at home, @ 3a.m., waking up spouse and children in the process. Brian -Original Message- Tanel Poder Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 6:29 PM

Onames and various connections scenarios

2003-08-26 Thread Bob Metelsky
Hello All Im back from the trenches to post a quick request for help Ive setup onames on 2 servers and standard applications, (our app and sqlplus) connect just fine, a problem situation manifests itself when: 1 users need to connect (add a database) to dba studio. They get a error t

Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread Joe Testa
administering oracle is not really an issue cause sql*plus is sql*plus regardless, now from the OS side, Solaris can be a pain to bring scripts from other *nixes over to the sun world. I've written scripts that work flawlessly on linux, port to HP, port to AIX all w/NO changes, move to sun and

RE: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread Talbot, Fraser
Red Hat Linux Networking and System Administration from Redhat press is very good. Fraser Talbot M-I LLC Database Administrator Information Technology 832.295.2245 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 7:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Both

RE: 8.1.7 + redhat AS 2.1 = trouble

2003-08-26 Thread John Flack
Title: 8.1.7 + redhat AS 2.1 = trouble There may be the same issues as with 8.1.7 on RH 7.1 - look on Metalink for those work arounds and try them on your AS 2.1.   Basically, it has to do with 8.1.7 expecting the standard C libraries from RH 6.2 which were changed for RH 7.1 and la

RE: virus info

2003-08-26 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: virus info 50?  They like me more... I had 250 between Friday at 2 pm and Monday at 6 am.  Several appear to have even gotten through our virus scan and come to my mail box as complete attachments.  Gives you a warm fuzzy feeling April Wells Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA Corpo

Re: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-26 Thread rgaffuri
how different is it to administer oracle on different flavors of unix? Im running into some annoying nuassances in syntax between solaris korn shell and hp-unix korn shell. is it just little syntax differences or is there alot more to it? > > From: Dwayne Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/0

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