Re: Oracle Compress Option

2003-09-26 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Not at all, Chris - here you go. Chris Stephens wrote: Hey Mogens... Would you mind sending me a copy of that paper? Thanks either way!! chris -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 9:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Compress to impress? by Julian Dyke

RE: SQL AREA and LIBARARY CACHE size?

2003-09-26 Thread Naveen Nahata
v$sgastat? -Original Message- From: Prem Khanna J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:25 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: SQL AREA and LIBARARY CACHE size? Hi Manoj, quoteIn my system size of library cache is approx 48 mb and sql area

Re: RE: SQL AREA and LIBARARY CACHE size?

2003-09-26 Thread Prem Khanna J
Hi Manoj, this is the statistics i got from one of my instance. sql area225 MB library cache 112 MB I was also confused as u were [ i didn't notice this so far ]. but reading the replies of Tanel Steve once again: tanel But what Steve meant (please correct me

RE: What is happening to OTN 9iRel2 page?

2003-09-26 Thread Turner, Adrian A SITI-ITPSIE
Try this... http://otn.oracle.com/pls/db92/db92.docindex?remark=homepage -Original Message- Sent: 26 September 2003 02:20 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L http://www.oracle.com Bottom you have Technologies ; In that Click Technology network to get to

Re: Job queue process

2003-09-26 Thread Connor McDonald
Find the SID and SERIAL# from v$session, slap a trace on the session using DBMS_SUPPORT and see what pops out hth connor --- Seema Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been noticing on oRACLE 9i ora_j000 process is taking more CPU. When I select sid,job from dba_jobs_running its looks

Re: asynch I/O

2003-09-26 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello Tim I had a meeting yesterday about recovery time for a system and I also said to take snapshots few times a day. The reason is to have a short recovery time if you need to restore the database. Our tapes are going offsite as a backup against total site disaster, and yes, we also have

Re: RE: SQL AREA and LIBARARY CACHE size?

2003-09-26 Thread ManojKr Jha
Hi Prem, I Think you are also doing the same mistake that I have done yesterday, that was causing so much confusion. I had earlier calculated the library cache and sql area size from X$ksmsp. Please check the size of these component in x$ksmss. WHat is difference in both x$ view is little bit

Re: RE: SQL AREA and LIBARARY CACHE size?

2003-09-26 Thread Prem Khanna J
Hi Manoj, to be frank : need to know more basic stuff before i peep into X$ tables. let me get good at fundamentals (a lot to be read explored) first. later i can join u to explore about X$ stuff ;) meanwhile,i'm waiting for someone to explain me about transient chunk recurrent chunk. Jp.

Re: RE: SQL AREA and LIBARARY CACHE size?

2003-09-26 Thread Tanel Poder
I'd suggest, when possible, not to use any x$ views, but stich with plain old documented ways. That way you'll probably avoid a lot of confusion, especially when database versions might change.. Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Storage Frust....

2003-09-26 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Sir Visser - The honour is mine. We shall BAARF around the world in the years to come. Mogens Piet de Visser wrote: Sir Norgaard, Group, Accepted, I think #43 is rather cool, as in: life, the universe and everyting++ I'll have to postpone review/critque/shredding of any text, statement or

Re: Fwd: RE: RAC for download -- re RAC Pricing and Partitioning

2003-09-26 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
They are indeed, and their prices are (in the order you list them) in addition to the EE price: $20K, $20K, $10K, $10K, $10K. Mogens Hemant K Chitale wrote: oops, I forgot to mention Partitioning pricing. Partitioning is also listed seperately under Enterprise Edition options. This is 25% of

Re: 10g: SQL Plus

2003-09-26 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Indeed. It's SO cool to run the version 5 thing again. Will you be at the UKOUG conference in Birmingham in December by any chance? Robson, Peter wrote: Ah-a - NOW I see why you want my old version 5 manuals!! peter edinburgh -Original Message- From: Mogens Nørgaard [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: any else try trace analyzer?

2003-09-26 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
And of course the Trace File Repository thing that Torben Holm from Miracle made. Not half bad either. And free. But nothing beats the Hotsos profiler in completeness and ability to interpret the complex situations in these 10046 traces correct. And the whole notion of not-accounted-for is

Re: SQL AREA and LIBARARY CACHE size?

2003-09-26 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Was it not Dave Ensor that once concluded that x$ tables actually change less than v$ tables? Tanel Poder wrote: I'd suggest, when possible, not to use any x$ views, but stich with plain old documented ways. That way you'll probably avoid a lot of confusion, especially when database versions

Re: ROW CACHE HIGH - Priority 1

2003-09-26 Thread Tanel Poder
sql parsing would be reflected in Library cache not rowcache Basic stuff Not that basic. Rowcache will get hit during any hard parse, since you need to get information about objects from DD. And if objects information isn't cached yet, it has to be loaded into row cache. Btw, row cache locks

Re: Multiple block sizes

2003-09-26 Thread Tanel Poder
Yep, in Apps 11i there's also more than 10k tables, over 150k objects total in database - quite a hit for data dictionary :) Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 5:54 AM They are not even lookup

Blocking and locking on 3-tier oracle app

2003-09-26 Thread Simon Gregory
Hi, Apologies if this has been asked before, or is a really lame question. We currently have lots of locking problems running a web-deployed (J-initiator on Win2k) off-the-shelf application. The application is running from an Oracle Forms 6i patch 12 application server on Windows 2000 sp4 and

Re: equivalent for isdate, isnumeric

2003-09-26 Thread Tanel Poder
Called from where? :) I think Tanel, Mladen and you missed the ironical point -- if it can't be called from SQL why it is a deterministic one? Erm.. ee.. if you put a wrapper function over it which retuns number... (just joking) Ok, I was too short-sighted there. I just checked from

Re: Blocking and locking on 3-tier oracle app

2003-09-26 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! 1) You can set idle_time profile option in server, to automatically disconnect sessions idle for some time. 2) You can set sqlnet.expire_time to some minutes or hours, that Oracle would probe all sessions over some interval and disconnect the ones which don't have a corresponding client

Re: RE: SQL AREA and LIBARARY CACHE size?

2003-09-26 Thread Prem Khanna J
...long long way to go . b4 i reach x$ tables. Tanel, can u brief me about transient chunks recurrent chunks that u were discussing with Steve ? Jp. 26-09-2003 19:54:48, Tanel Poder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd suggest, when possible, not to use any x$ views, but stich with plain old

RE: Blocking and locking on 3-tier oracle app

2003-09-26 Thread Stephane Faroult
Simon, Look for CREATE PROFILE in the SQL Reference for setting a limit on idle times. SF - --- Original Message --- - From: Simon Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 03:39:41 Hi, Apologies if this has

RE: ROW CACHE HIGH - Priority 1

2003-09-26 Thread Muqthar Ahmed
Hi, Thanks for your suggestions. Usually Friday we have low traffic on our website. I will run the database with one node to check the row cache problem. Muqthar -Original Message- Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 7:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L sql parsing would

Re: Isnumeric question

2003-09-26 Thread Pete Finnigan
Mladen Hm The company where my brother worked at last had hundreds of perl scripts implementing most of their printing application. It has all now been ported to java for similar reasons. Maybe you are better with python then?, its not as huge as perl, that's for sure cheers Pete --

OT: Linux VPN and routing HOWTO

2003-09-26 Thread Jack van Zanen
Title: OT: Linux VPN and routing HOWTO Hi I'm Sorry to put this way OT subject here, but you guys usually come up with the answer anyway. I'm trying to setup my linux at home so that I can VPN into it. Now I can connect already but can't ping or connect any of the machines in my network.

paging and google.com question from Kytes new book

2003-09-26 Thread rgaffuri
Im in the middle of Kytes new tuning book. He states that google uses a query similiar to this to return web pages in their search function: select /*+ FIRST_ROWS */ b.* from ( select a.*, a.rownum from (your query here) a where rownum pick max number of rows you want in a batch )

RE: ROW CACHE HIGH - Priority 1

2003-09-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
SQL parsing would also be reflected in rowcache because, to parse successfully, you need dictionary and parse locks. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Roberts Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 2:20 AM

Poor query performance on smaller tables

2003-09-26 Thread Sherrie . Kubis
Oracle 9.2.0.3.0 HP-UX 11i block size 16K db_file_multiblock_read_count 64 I have five groups of tables that have the same query issued to them. Table structures, indexes are the same, just the data and the number of rows are different. The three tables that have more than 3 million rows

RE: any else try trace analyzer?

2003-09-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: any else try trace analyzer? KG Since when it became free? Last time I checked it was a subscription model. Maybe things have changed ... Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views

Re: Linux VPN and routing HOWTO

2003-09-26 Thread Matthew Zito
Title: OT: Linux VPN and routing HOWTO Is IP forwarding enabled? cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ? If its a zero, set it to a 1 (echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward) Beyond that, use a packet sniffer like tcpdump to see what is appearing on the wire on both interfaces. Thanks, Matt

RE: equivalent for isdate, isnumeric

2003-09-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: equivalent for isdate, isnumeric you could however use diutil.bool_to_int and diutil.int_to_bool which is used by oracle to transmit/receive Boolean data across SqlNet. Since others have pointed out, Boolean is not a SQL datatype, you could not build a FBI around it, deterministic

RE: creating test sessions

2003-09-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
the structure of scripts is as follows ... set ... declare v_alert_msg varchar2(20); v_alert_statusnumber; begin dbms_alert.register('START_NOW'); -- first wait for alert to be received ... dbms_alert.waitone('START_NOW',v_alert_msg, v_alert_status); -- your rest of script code ... ...

RE: DBA needed in Austin, TX

2003-09-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Message I still remember the dinner I had in an Mongolian restaurant near the I35, great food (considering that I don't eat meat)... it has been 4-5 years, don't remember the name though. Raj Rajendra

RE: DBA needed in Austin, TX

2003-09-26 Thread Stefick Ronald S Contr ESC/HRIDD
Title: Message No, visit San Antonio - Fiesta, Margarita Pour off and Pachanga del Rio! ;o) -Original Message-From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 3:15 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: DBA needed

RE: RE: Re[2]: Cary's book -- Out of stock !

2003-09-26 Thread JayMiller
I just ordered from Bookpool. It's in stock according to their website. Glad I took a few minutes to start cleaning up the listserv email, didn't realize it was out yet. Really looking forward to this one... Jay Miller Sr. Oracle DBA -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 24,

RE: equivalent for isdate, isnumeric

2003-09-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Title: Message Or, the function can be written to return number. It's not so hard to do. If there are problems, please let me know, I'll post the new version of the code, wrapped. --Mladen GogalaOracle DBA -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Google's architecture -- was Re: paging and google.com

2003-09-26 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Google certainly doesn't use an Oracle database. They just wouldn't get the performance that they achieve currently. See this link on Google's architecture : http://www.computer.org/micro/mi2003/m2022.pdf Hemant At 05:44 AM 26-09-03 -0800, you wrote: Im in the middle of Kytes new tuning book.

RE: DBA needed in Austin, TX

2003-09-26 Thread Stefick Ronald S Contr ESC/HRIDD
Title: Message Was it the Fire Hut? Good Stuff! -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:15 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: DBA needed in Austin, TX I still remember the dinner I had

Re: URGENT REPORTS

2003-09-26 Thread Ed Lewis
Gene, Good stuff. Thanks for the tip. ed - Original Message - From: Gene Sais To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:29 PM Subject: RE: URGENT REPORTS What I like about VNC, is that all you need for a client is a

Re: Google's architecture -- was Re: paging and google.com

2003-09-26 Thread rgaffuri
hmmm. must have read it wrong in the book. any idea how to get the 'estimated number of record returned? From: Hemant K Chitale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/09/26 Fri AM 10:44:40 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Google's architecture -- was Re: paging

RE: OFA myths was Re: BAARF

2003-09-26 Thread Cary Millsap
Steve, Thank you. I am grateful that someone else shrugs too. I still get a lot of feedback about the OFA. Almost every conference I go to, someone forgives me for writing the OFA Standard. And I leave not knowing for sure where things went wrong. A few weeks ago, one of the Oracle-L threads

RE: Google's architecture -- was Re: paging and google.com

2003-09-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Google's architecture -- was Re: paging and google.com http://tinyurl.com/ordz HTH Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any

RE: ROW CACHE HIGH - Priority 1

2003-09-26 Thread Muqthar Ahmed
Hi, There are two BUGS 2605240 and 2683906 which got fixed in 9.2.0.4.0. I will be applying the patch to fix the problem. Thanks for your input. Muqthar -Original Message- Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L SQL parsing would also be

RE: guidance

2003-09-26 Thread Cary Millsap
How can I say this... Don't confuse learning how to pass the performance tuning exam with learning how to make systems faster. I'll offer you my Dad's advice on this, which he reiterated frequently on our 30-minute drives to and from school: There are two answers to every question your teachers

RE: DBA needed in Austin, TX

2003-09-26 Thread Cary Millsap
Title: RE: DBA needed in Austin, TX It rains sand in Amarillo. Ive seen it. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Performance Diagnosis101: 10/28 Phoenix, 11/19 Sydney - Hotsos Symposium 2004: March 710 Dallas - Visit www.hotsos.com for

RE: Storage Frust....

2003-09-26 Thread Johnston, Tim
Thank you... The honor is gratefully accepted... Soon the hordes of BAARF party member shall rule the world! Um... Ok, maybe not rule the world... But at least we'll be loud! Tim BAARF Party Member #44 -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:40 PM To: Multiple

RE: guidance

2003-09-26 Thread Cary Millsap
I'd be interested to see the sequence of tests that support the hypothesis that disk sorts are about 14,000 times slower than memory sorts. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Performance Diagnosis 101: 10/28 Phoenix, 11/19 Sydney - Hotsos Symposium

Re: RE: guidance

2003-09-26 Thread rgaffuri
yeah but alot of employers like to see the certifications. so for most of us who are not at the point in our career as some of the senior guys here, we have to do it. Ive noticed that you can get more done if your certified too. Adds credibility to what you say. Especially with management.

what causes a memory dump?

2003-09-26 Thread rgaffuri
i had one yesterday when i killed a process. Also, what parameter tells oracle where to dump? why does oracle dump memory? It sucked up 3.4 GB of disk space and we had to do a 'shutdown abort' -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: DBA needed in Austin, TX

2003-09-26 Thread JApplewhite
Raj, It's Mongolian Barbeque and still there. Now there's even a Mongolian BBQ North. Tom, You're forgetting that: - In the summer it's hot. - When it's hot, people wear less clothes to keep cool, sometimes a LOT less. - Austin is home to the University of Texas (almost 50,000 students at peak,

RE: DBA needed in Austin, TX

2003-09-26 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: DBA needed in Austin, TX But it wasn't in the summer... and you didn't get the full effect. April Wells Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA Corporate Systems Amarillo Texas /\ / \ / \ \ / \/ \ \ \ \ Few people really enjoy the simple pleasure of flying a kite Adam Wells age 11

UNSUNSCRIBE ME

2003-09-26 Thread Ravindra
Title: RE: DBA needed in Austin, TX HELP

RE: Third party application - how to begin performance tuning efforts?

2003-09-26 Thread Saira Somani-Mendelin
Thanks for your suggestions. You have provided me with some excellent ideas. Saira -Original Message- Mladen Gogala Sent: September 26, 2003 1:05 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L efforts? Yes, that's a great idea for forcing plans. Thanks for thinking of that. Essentially

RE: what causes a memory dump?

2003-09-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
user_dump_dest, background_dump_dest, NJ. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: what causes a

RE: UNSUNSCRIBE ME

2003-09-26 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: DBA needed in Austin, TX *Need Subscription Help? mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] April Wells Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA Corporate Systems Amarillo Texas /\ / \ / \ \ / \/ \ \ \ \ Few people really enjoy the simple pleasure of flying a kite Adam Wells age 11 -Original

RE: Storage Frust....

2003-09-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Tim, what are we going to do tomorrow night? Not the same thing as every night, try to take over the world? -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnston, Tim Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:35 AM To:

RE: UNSUNSCRIBE ME

2003-09-26 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
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RE: DBA needed in Austin, TX

2003-09-26 Thread Thater, William
[EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: - Austin is home to the University of Texas (almost 50,000 students at peak, half of which are female). Are you getting a visual at all? can you say sunburned tongue?;-) -- Bill Shrek Thater ORACLE DBA I'm going to work my

RE: Third party application - perf tuning...etc.

2003-09-26 Thread Saira Somani-Mendelin
Dennis, The ERP vendor started off using Informix and ported their application to Oracle. We are 1 of 2 Oracle installations and they do not have much Oracle expertise in their company - they don't provide any administrative type manuals for the SA or DBA with respect to their products. I wish

Re[2]: DBA needed in Austin, TX

2003-09-26 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Friday, September 26, 2003, 11:49:40 AM, you wrote: Jaite Raj, Jaite It's Mongolian Barbeque and still there. Now there's even a Mongolian Jaite BBQ North. It's a chain. They're in Lansing, Michigan too. I remember them being a bit different in that you went around and collected a dish of raw

RE: Poor query performance on smaller tables

2003-09-26 Thread Stephane Faroult
Oracle 9.2.0.3.0 HP-UX 11i block size 16K db_file_multiblock_read_count 64 I have five groups of tables that have the same query issued to them. Table structures, indexes are the same, just the data and the number of rows are different. The three tables that have more than 3 million rows

Experiences setting OPEN_CURSORS for Java applications

2003-09-26 Thread Hemant K Chitale
I would just like to know what are your experiences setting OPEN_CURSORS for Java applications / middle-tier application servers ? We're rolling out a bunch of applications on WebMethods, Tivoli Identity Manager, Plumtree, Documentum etc --- all non-Oracle clients accessing the database through

RE: Google's architecture -- was Re: paging and google.com

2003-09-26 Thread Hemant K Chitale
I'm confused. Does Tom Kyte actually say that Google uses Oracle or is he talking of google-like behaviour in Oracle queries ? Hemant At 07:24 AM 26-09-03 -0800, you wrote: http://tinyurl.com/ordz HTH Raj

RE: Third party application - perf tuning...etc.

2003-09-26 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Saira That is exactly my point. How do you think they did the port? I would pretty much guarantee that they took their existing Informix version and made the minimum changes necessary to get the Oracle port going. Hopefully they have a manual for their Informix version with a chapter on the

RE: RE: guidance

2003-09-26 Thread Cary Millsap
Oh, please don't get me wrong: grades are important! My point is that there's getting perfect grades, and there's knowing what's going on. And sometimes they're different. I believe you're better off with both credentials *and* actual horsepower than with just one or the other. I don't consider

Re: equivalent for isdate, isnumeric

2003-09-26 Thread Vladimir Begun
Tanel Poder wrote: Called from where? :) I think Tanel, Mladen and you missed the ironical point -- if it can't be called from SQL why it is a deterministic one? Erm.. ee.. if you put a wrapper function over it which retuns number... (just joking) Ok, I was too short-sighted there. I just checked

Re: equivalent for isdate, isnumeric

2003-09-26 Thread Vladimir Begun
Mladen Gogala wrote: Or, the function can be written to return number. It's not so hard to do. If there are problems, please let me know, I'll post the new version of the code, wrapped. Thank you. :) -- Vladimir Begun The statements and opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily

RE: Google's architecture -- was Re: paging and google.com

2003-09-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Sorry Hemant ... The link points to RGaffuri's quest to find 'approximately how many rows will be received' part of the question. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this

RE: Re[2]: DBA needed in Austin, TX

2003-09-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
What is so special about htat Mongolloid BBQ? -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gennick Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re[2]: DBA

Re: RE: Google's architecture -- was Re: paging and google.com

2003-09-26 Thread rgaffuri
must have been google like behavior. i dont focus on every word. From: Hemant K Chitale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/09/26 Fri PM 12:39:53 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Google's architecture -- was Re: paging and google.com I'm confused.

RE: Blocking and locking on 3-tier oracle app

2003-09-26 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Simon Just another idea for you, that may or may not be helpful. I haven't worked with Forms, others on this list can provide some ideas. However, I have seen some weird behavior from Micro$oft apps based on VB and ASP. If the database connection is left with mostly defaults, the app will tend

RE: Google's architecture -- was Re: paging and google.com

2003-09-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Title: Message Google like behavior in oracle queries? On top of real results you get "paid placement" entries, some of them X-rated? That'll be the day. --Mladen GogalaOracle DBA -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hemant K

Re: DBA needed in Austin, TX

2003-09-26 Thread Joe Testa
got them in columbus, oh also, excellent restaurant. joe Jonathan Gennick wrote: Friday, September 26, 2003, 11:49:40 AM, you wrote: Jaite Raj, Jaite It's Mongolian Barbeque and still there. Now there's even a Mongolian Jaite BBQ North. It's a chain. They're in Lansing, Michigan too. I

Reality check for filesystem/disk layout

2003-09-26 Thread JayMiller
Title: Message We have the luxury of moving a 300G database to a new box that's being built and choosing the specifications, disk layout, striping, etc. After spendingthe morning poring over Cary Millsap's wonderful VLDB paper this is what we're thinking of but I'd appreciate any comments.

RE: Google's architecture -- was Re: paging and google.com

2003-09-26 Thread Bellow, Bambi
Title: Message Hmm... gives me something to work on... I've got the name to go with it too... "Before we look at your boring data, Bambi recommends you check this HOT HOT HOT XXXInfo!!" Gives a whole new meaning to Relational Database. -Original Message-From: Mladen Gogala

RE: RE: Google's architecture -- was Re: paging and google.com

2003-09-26 Thread Matthew Zito
Title: Message Google does use Oracle, but afaik only in-house for internal applications. The clustered search engine is entirely custom code and engine. 10,000 servers would be a pretty big RAC install. :) Thanks, Matt --Matthew ZitoGridApp SystemsEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cell:

RE: Google's architecture -- was Re: paging and google.com

2003-09-26 Thread Richard Ji
Title: Message There you go. That's how we (DBAs) gonna make money in the future. -Original Message-From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:50 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Google's architecture -- was Re:

Re: RE: what causes a memory dump?

2003-09-26 Thread rgaffuri
memory only dumped to the udump. it didnt dump to the bdump. how is it decided where it will be dumped? From: Mladen Gogala [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/09/26 Fri PM 12:09:39 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: what causes a memory dump?

FTP big file to little laptop

2003-09-26 Thread Bellow, Bambi
Friends -- Don't ask for the details... they're too gruesome for print... but I need to FTP several 30GB files to my laptop, and all the FTP packages I've tried crap out at 4G. And before someone yells OT, they're DBF files and this is a backup. BTW, the Maxtor 250GB external storage device...

RE: Third party application - how to begin performance tuning efforts?

2003-09-26 Thread Gabriel Aragon
There's a document by Michael R. Ault, about it, if you want it, I can send it to you.. Gabriel --- Saira Somani-Mendelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your suggestions. You have provided me with some excellent ideas. Saira -Original Message- Mladen Gogala Sent:

RE: DBA needed in Austin, TX

2003-09-26 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: Message From a cowboy diary as related on the History Channel... "If I owned both Hell and Texas I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell." -Original Message-From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 11:50 AMTo: Multiple

RE: Storage Frust....

2003-09-26 Thread Johnston, Tim
S... People are listening... Someone will hear our plans... -Original Message- Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Tim, what are we going to do tomorrow night? Not the same thing as every night, try to take over the world? -- Mladen

RE: FTP big file to little laptop

2003-09-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: FTP big file to little laptop tried scp ?? maybe zipped might help ... and please don't tell me it is for DR ... g Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email

RE: DBA needed in Austin, TX

2003-09-26 Thread April Wells
Title: Message No way... It is one of the prettiest places... except in October Have only been as far as the airport in Houston, don't know that I would care to be anywhere other than that... but the state is beautiful. April Wells Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA Corporate Systems Amarillo

RE: FTP big file to little laptop

2003-09-26 Thread Guang Mei
Here is our way to move oracle dump file which is 6G (using ssh): ssh -n remote_unix_box_name cat /oracle/u4/dev_staging/oracle.dmp.1.gz /data/oracle.dmp.1.gz /oracle/u4/dev_staging/oracle.dmp.1.gzis dump file from remote box that we want to download /data/oracle.dmp.1.gz is the

RE: FTP big file to little laptop

2003-09-26 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Sounds more like there HOT HOT HOT XXXInfo files of you...according to that other email. Large files = picture files. -Original Message- Bellow, Bambi Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Friends -- Don't ask for the details... they're too

Re: Replication from DB2 to Oracle

2003-09-26 Thread Govindan K
Forgot to add one more aspect. You may consider "extproc"; A Java/C program interface From DB2 equivalent of "extproc" of oracle. DB2 to pass values to the Java/C program which will in turn connect to Oracle and carry out DMLs. HTH GovindanK-Original Message- From: Govindan

RE: FTP big file to little laptop

2003-09-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
How about putting Ext3 filesystem on that drive? Large files are supported and wget wouldn't crap out? -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bellow, Bambi Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:40 PM To:

RE: DBA needed in Austin, TX

2003-09-26 Thread Jared . Still
Oh good grief, I foolishly thought this thread was dead. Please take it to the off topic list. April Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/26/2003 10:59 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

RE: RE: what causes a memory dump?

2003-09-26 Thread Cary Millsap
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RE: FTP big file to little laptop

2003-09-26 Thread Jesse, Rich
It may not be FTP, but the OS and filesystem you're using. I've FTPd several 20+G files to/from Win2000 on NTFS to/from Linux on etx3 filesystems without a problem. If you think it is FTP, you may want to consider alternatives like Samba or NFS. Rich Rich Jesse

RE: RE: what causes a memory dump?

2003-09-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Depending on the type of process which is dumping. If it's a background process (LGWR,DBWR,SMON,PMON,CKPT,RECO,CJQ,P00,D00, shared servers, archiver) it goes to bdump. If it isn't, it goes to udump. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: FTP big file to little laptop

2003-09-26 Thread Bellow, Bambi
I had thought it was an OS issue too... but was informed that it was an FTP issue. I'm looking into ext3. Thanks! -Original Message- Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L It may not be FTP, but the OS and filesystem you're using. I've FTPd

RE: guidance

2003-09-26 Thread Jared . Still
Indeed, that statement doesn't even pass the 'Is it reasonable test'. Assume a sort in memory takes 0.2 seconds. Accordingly, the same sort on disk would take 46.7 minutes: ( .2 * 14000 ) / 60 = 46.7 That just doesn't sound reasonable to me. Jared Cary Millsap [EMAIL

RE: FTP big file to little laptop

2003-09-26 Thread Bellow, Bambi
Yeah, baby! You should see what I keep in BLOBS! Bambi. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sounds more like there HOT HOT HOT XXXInfo files of you...according to that other email. Large files = picture files.

RE: Reality check for filesystem/disk layout

2003-09-26 Thread Matthew Zito
Title: Message Avoid small stripe sizes for your redo log volumes - especially on two-disk-only RAID sets, you'll break readahead and write allocation on many arrays. Beyond that, it looks good - what kind of array are you using? Matt --Matthew ZitoGridApp SystemsEmail: [EMAIL

RE: RE: what causes a memory dump?

2003-09-26 Thread rgaffuri
ok so what causes the memory to dump? Im stumped? From: Mladen Gogala [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/09/26 Fri PM 02:39:41 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: RE: what causes a memory dump? Depending on the type of process which is dumping. If it's a

RE: guidance

2003-09-26 Thread Rognes, Sten
Title: Message That Burlesonpaper referenced below, http://www.praetoriate.com/oracle_tips_sorting_operations.htm, is quite entertaining. (I'd be careful with using it as guidance) Found at least 5 errors/urban myths is in it which is pretty good for such a short paper. His last paragraph

RE: Re[2]: DBA needed in Austin, TX

2003-09-26 Thread Gene Sais
The Mongolian Wok here in West Palm Beach went out of business, probably b/c Palm Beach County residents can't decide what ingredients to pick :). One thing about Texas, is that they have the highest homeowners insurance fees in the country. They get their share of All of nature's

RE: Reality check for filesystem/disk layout

2003-09-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Can you remind me, what is readahead good for on redo files? I believe that parallelism is much more essential for the recovery and archiver file is usually quick enough, even without any special tricks. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- Matthew Zito Sent: Friday,

RE: RE: what causes a memory dump?

2003-09-26 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Cary - Love the succinct reply! Ryan - Just create a daemon process that will remove any dump files every 3 seconds. Not to worry. Just kidding. You need to review the dump file using your keen knowledge of your system in conjunction with Oracle Support and try to figure out why the

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