Re: sid/serial# vs. audsid: why both?

2003-10-06 Thread Paul Drake
--- Paul Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Jacques Kilchoer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > In what cases does the SERIAL# need to be used? > > orakill. > > sqlnet.expire_timeout did not work on NT for 8.1.7. > garbage middle-tier apps that don't close > connections > require the use

PGA Size

2003-10-06 Thread Sultan Syed
Hi, How can I know the PGA size which my session is utilizing? Thanks in advance. Syed    

Re: Desupport of RBO

2003-10-06 Thread Guido Konsolke
Hi Jared, haven't seen it, too. But the fact was spreaded over the newsgroups. We still have some 3rd party apps that don't use *any* feature above Oracle 7 (well, almost). Queries with the RULE hint where it's not necessary. But if we change a thing, support will be lost. So we decided to rewri

Re: Desupport of RBO

2003-10-06 Thread Nikunj Gupta
Yes Jared,   That is true.. I also saw note .. but never heard of 10i.   The rule-based optimizer (RBO) will no longer be supported when Oracle9i is de-supported. The release after Oracle9i (referred to in this article as Oracle10i) will only support the cost-based optimizer (CBO). -

Re: KGMGR

2003-10-06 Thread ManojKr Jha
Hi, http://www.dba-oracle.com/bp/bp_book6_utils.htm The book by Dave Moore has explained lots of utilities and kgmgr is one of them.

Re: sid/serial# vs. audsid: why both?

2003-10-06 Thread Paul Drake
--- Jacques Kilchoer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In what cases does the SERIAL# need to be used? orakill. sqlnet.expire_timeout did not work on NT for 8.1.7. garbage middle-tier apps that don't close connections require the use of orakill. Pd __ Do you Yahoo

Re: Rebuilding/Moving master table, snapshot log and snapshot

2003-10-06 Thread Mladen Gogala
Good evening dear sir from down under (It's 22:07, here in Connecticut). Yes, it is safe to do. The only case when you do have to be careful is when the table you want to take for a ride into another tablespace is an index organized table and is being used. Then, you have to specify "online" opti

Re: FW: Oracle Performance Software from Veritas

2003-10-06 Thread Mladen Gogala
WE!? Do you also happen to work for Veritas? Wow! Veritas then, already is a superpower and a major force to be reckoned with. The only thing you need to do to achieve the total Oracle World Domination is to... acquire me :) On 2003.10.06 21:59, Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha wrote: Mladen, Anjo quit Or

Rebuilding/Moving master table, snapshot log and snapshot

2003-10-06 Thread Kaing, Leng
Good morning, everyone, > Env: Oracle 8.1.7.4, Sun 5.8 > > We have a master table with a FREST REFRESH based on PRIMARY KEY. We would like to > rebuild the master table, snapshot log and snapshot to reclaim space. There is no > advanced replication involved. It is simply a snapshot (or material

Populating BLOB's from a SQL Script?

2003-10-06 Thread Mark Richard
Hi List, I have been asked to look into the possibility of populating a BLOB column (Oracle 8i currently) using an SQL Script. All the examples I've ever seen involve reading the blob from a file and inserting it directly to the table though. The reasoning behind this is the desire to deliver a

Re: FW: Oracle Performance Software from Veritas

2003-10-06 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
Mladen, Anjo quit Oracle and joined Precise Software in November/December timeframe of 2001. When Veritas acquired Precise this year, he became a "veritable Veritas employee"...;-) So your conclusion is 100% accurate - Veritas is a very serious contender in the Oracle Performance Solutions market

Re: FW: Oracle Performance Software from Veritas

2003-10-06 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
Hey dude, Thanks for that, although, I don't want to be tagged as a "spammer"...;-). Cheers, Gaja --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Our good friend Gaja Vaidyanatha is now with > Veritas, > so this isn't really too surprising. :) > > Jared > > > > > > > David Wagoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

RE: QUIESCING - Waiting for 1 hr - Solved

2003-10-06 Thread quriyat
Hi list I had done dbms_defer_sys.set_disabled('MASTER_SITE',TRUE); I just set it to FALSE and repeated the command and now the group is quiesced. Thx--- On Mon 10/06, quriyat < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: From: quriyat [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 16:19:2

RE: QUIESCING - Waiting for 1 hr

2003-10-06 Thread quriyat
Hi list I had done dbms_defer_sys.set_disabled('MASTER_SITE',TRUE); I just set it to FALSE and repeated the command and now the group is quiesced. Thx--- On Mon 10/06, quriyat < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: From: quriyat [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 16:19:2

RE: Oracle analog to xp_fixeddrives

2003-10-06 Thread Josh Collier
9i has this functionality in dbms_storage_map -Original Message- Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 5:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Everyone! I recently read an article about a SQL-Server stored procedure called 'xp_fixeddrives'. What it does is return a structure to t

QUIESCING - Waiting for 1 hr

2003-10-06 Thread quriyat
I didSQL> begin 2 DBMS_REPCAT.SUSPEND_MASTER_ACTIVITY('MY_GRP'); 3 end; 4 /PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. SQL> SELECT GNAME, STATUS FROM DBA_REPGROUP;GNAME STATUS-- -MY_GRPQUIESCINGSQL> / It is one

RE: sid/serial# vs. audsid: why both?

2003-10-06 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Thank you John. I guess I can revise my question, then, to say "Why not use SID/SERIAL# all the time?" :) I suppose there are reasons but it seems unnecessary to have two sets of values that uniquely identify a session. Though of course, from the documentation, AUDSID is unique over the lifetime

Oracle analog to xp_fixeddrives

2003-10-06 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Hi Everyone! I recently read an article about a SQL-Server stored procedure called 'xp_fixeddrives'. What it does is return a structure to the database user that contains relevant information about specific disks. I was wondering if anyone has ever seen, dreamed about, written, borrowed, bough

Re: OCP 7.3 & 8 upgrade to 9i

2003-10-06 Thread Jared . Still
Thanks, didn't know this was available. Ora NT DBA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  10/06/2003 02:54 PM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:                 Subject:        Re: OCP 7.3 &

Re: FW: Oracle Performance Software from Veritas

2003-10-06 Thread Jared . Still
Our good friend Gaja Vaidyanatha is now with Veritas, so this isn't really too surprising.  :) Jared David Wagoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  10/06/2003 01:59 PM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROT

Desupport of RBO

2003-10-06 Thread Jared . Still
First time I've seen this note:  189702.1 Jared

Locally managed System Tablespace

2003-10-06 Thread Thomas Jeff
Is it really worth the effort to convert dictionary-managed system tablespaces to locally-managed in 9.2? Ostensibly, I should see some performance improvements due to less recursive sql, etc; but from Googling/Metalink in looking for more info, it doesn't appear as though many sites have bothe

RE: sid/serial# vs. audsid: why both?

2003-10-06 Thread John Kanagaraj
Jacques, >In what cases does the SERIAL# need to be used? Can someone give an example where a session-level command would be >applied to an incorrect session object if SERIAL# were not available? For backward compatibility reasons :) Looks like AUDSID wasn't generated 7.2 and prior unless AUDIT_

RE: Import/Export file is limited to 2,147,483,647 Bytes for Oracle 9i on Sun Solaris (32-bit)?

2003-10-06 Thread Gary W. Parker
Another option is to list multiple *dmp files in the FILE parameter; ie FILE=(file1.dmp, file2.dmp, ...) along with the FILESIZE parameter. When the file1.dmp reaches the size specified in FILESIZE, then file2.dmp is created, and so on. The trick is to list enough files in the FILE parameter to c

RE: Can I execute an exe from a stored Procedure

2003-10-06 Thread Goulet, Dick
Yes, but only from an EXTPROC. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 6:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello, Is it possible to execute an exe from a stored procedure? If so can you please provide an exmp

Can I execute an exe from a stored Procedure

2003-10-06 Thread Jake Johnson
Hello, Is it possible to execute an exe from a stored procedure? If so can you please provide an exmple? Thanks Jake -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jake Johnson INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity

RE: data loading

2003-10-06 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
If you choose to implement this method, make sure that all the tables can be in the exchange partition command. The exchange partition command has certain requirements to be able to complete the exchange (similarity of indexes and constraints), and the table has to be suitable for building a "co

RE: Import/Export file is limited to 2,147,483,647 Bytes for Oracle 9i on Sun Solaris (32-bit)?

2003-10-06 Thread Pena, Carol A
Yes, I have a 4.5G export file on a Solaris box. Have your System Admininstrator check to ensure the filesystem you are writing the export file to is configured for "large files". Once you've verified that, then you can export (or import) via a named pipe. See Note #30528.1 or one of many other M

Re: FW: Oracle Performance Software from Veritas

2003-10-06 Thread Stephane Faroult
> David Wagoner wrote: > > Just got this email from Veritas...apparently they are getting into > the database performance business for Oracle (and SQL Server too I > think). > > > Best regards, > > David B. Wagoner > Database Administrator > Arsenal Digital Solutions > "the most trusted source

Re: OCP 7.3 & 8 upgrade to 9i

2003-10-06 Thread Ora NT DBA
Hi All, >From the Oracle Education Certification Page: http://www.oracle.com/education/certification/index.html?dba9i_upgrade.html Shows 4 possible tests: Oracle9i DBA OCP Upgrade Path Upgrade exams for Oracle7.3, Oracle8 and Oracle8i DBA OCPs. In order to make the process of staying curren

Re: FW: Oracle Performance Software from Veritas

2003-10-06 Thread Mladen Gogala
Well, they've just acquired OraPerf. I don't know whether Anjo Kolk is now a veritable Veritas employee, but if he is, then Veritas is a very serious contender in oracle performance tools/consulting market. If they acquire hotsos, everybody else, including Quest, is done for. On Mon, 2003-10-06 at

RE: Oracle Performance Software from Veritas

2003-10-06 Thread Tony Johnson
This is the renamed Precise Software tools they bought earlier this year . -Original Message-From: David Wagoner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:59 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: FW: Oracle Performance Software from Veritas

RE: Unintentional Humor

2003-10-06 Thread Melanie Caffrey
Dan,   It was never my intention to make you or anyone else feel bad.    And I certainly feel the same frustrations that you felt when looking at the Web site to begin with.   I agree completely that the page in question showed a significant lack of attention to the information pres

RE: data loading

2003-10-06 Thread Stephane Paquette
You can use the partitionning option. Load into a 1 partitionned table then do a partition exchange with the target table. It allows you to have the current data live while loading into the partitionned table. Once the load is loaded just exchange the partition with the table, it is fast as it is

data loading

2003-10-06 Thread Nancy Hu
Hi All, We have an Oracle database that is a kind of data warehouse. We load data from mainframe into the database every day. The following are the steps how we load data currently: 1. get the data file from Datacom 2. ftp the data file from mainframe to the Sun machine where the Oracle data

Re: Unintentional Humor

2003-10-06 Thread Daniel Fink
Melanie, There is truth in what you said originally. As soon as I read your original email, I felt bad. I appreciate your willingness to stand up and disagree. Some of us take issue, rightly so, with the content of the page, but  we (me included!) should do a better job of critiquing the page in

9.2.0.4 on linux

2003-10-06 Thread becker . bill
>> Have any of you experienced similar problems with XDB while patching or upgrading? Jared >> Yes. In our case, the XDB tablespace was simply too small. We were not planning on using it, but installed it anyway, and had set the XDB tblspc size to somethin like 32M. We wound up setting autoexte

Import/Export file is limited to 2,147,483,647 Bytes for Oracle 9i on Sun Solaris (32-bit)?

2003-10-06 Thread Guang Mei
Hi, I am reading the following doc: Oracle9i Release Notes Release 2 (9.2.0.1.0) for Sun Solaris (32-bit) April 2003 Part No. A97348-04 and I found that it says the Import/Export file is limited to 2,147,483,647 Bytes (see below). Does this mean the max dump file size. I don't have 9i to try no

SUMMARY: Top Issues faced by Oracle DBAs in a SAN/NAS Environment

2003-10-06 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
Dear list, As promised, I have summarized the issues that folks on this list are dealing with, when deploying Oracle in a SAN/NAS enviroment. I really appreciate the time that you took to respond to my questions. Thanks to everyone who responded. Issues: -- 1) Lack of performance consistency

RE: STUPID LD_LIBRARY_PATHING!!@@@!@!@!@!

2003-10-06 Thread Cunningham, Gerald
Title: Message I haven't used or thought about these scripts since version 7.0, until one day last year.   Another DBA at our shop had written a script called "startdb", which starts up your current ORACLE_SID. So, thinking I'd be efficient and save maybe 10 -15 keystokes in starting a data

FW: Oracle Performance Software from Veritas

2003-10-06 Thread David Wagoner
Just got this email from Veritas...apparently they are getting into the database performance business for Oracle (and SQL Server too I think).   Best regards, David B. Wagoner Database Administrator Arsenal Digital Solutions "the most trusted source for     STORAGE MANAGEMENT SERV

RE: Cary's book - Rapidly moving OT....

2003-10-06 Thread Bob Lofstrand
Sorry Jared, I responded before I got far enough in the list to see your post.   -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 2:59 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Cary's book - Rapidly moving OTHey folks

Re: KGMGR

2003-10-06 Thread Mladen Gogala
Well, I have to prove that I know few other things besides stirring trouble... On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 15:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Nice work Mladen! > > Thanks for doing this, let us know what else you find. > > I haven't had time yet to play with it. > > Jared > > > > > > Mladen Goga

Re: KGMGR

2003-10-06 Thread Jared . Still
Nice work Mladen! Thanks for doing this, let us know what else you find. I haven't had time yet to play with it. Jared Mladen Gogala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  10/06/2003 01:34 PM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list O

9.2.0.4 patch on linux

2003-10-06 Thread Jared . Still
List, I ran into some difficulties today while applying the 9.2.0.4 patch to a 9.2.0.1 db on RH 8.0, and was curious if anyone else had seen similar problems. After installing the 9.2.0.4 sw ( after installing the 2.2.0.18 OUI of course ) , I started the database via 'startup migrate' and then

Re: RE: Unintentional Humor

2003-10-06 Thread Mladen Gogala
I haven't seen this book, but I occasionally do technical reviews for Rampant and I must say that the books that I've seen so far are rather good and make good sense (I've seen chapters of Arup's book and Stpehen Andert's book about wait event interface). I seriously intend to buy both of those boo

RE: Unintentional Humor

2003-10-06 Thread Melanie Caffrey
Well all, I’ve been corrected in my statements below, and I am always one to own up to my mistakes (or misstatements).   I guess what I should have said is that in SOME cases, there is not always a clear communication between all parties involved when an advertisement is made.   In thi

KGMGR

2003-10-06 Thread Mladen Gogala
It looks like a promising undocumented utility.Below is what I managed to get by running it. I also asked the question on metalink.forum. Later, I'll ask it on asktom.oracle.com. inst = "compldb" app = "sqlplus" home = "help" KGMGR> help Commands: STARTUP PFILE=param file: Startup instance CO

how to increase the number of parallel slaves?

2003-10-06 Thread Olga Gurevich
Hi. I am trying to speed up the following query: update table X set col1=2; I set the degree of parallelism for the table X to 16 and added a hint: update /*+ parallel(X,16) */ table X set col1=2; I only got 4 parallel slaves - one for each partition in the table. When I do that same operation for

Re: what's the size of a date field?

2003-10-06 Thread Jared . Still
It's 7 bytes "elain he" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  10/06/2003 11:44 AM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:                 Subject:        what's the size of a date field? Hi, I'

RE: STUPID LD_LIBRARY_PATHING!!@@@!@!@!@!

2003-10-06 Thread Jared . Still
You have listed the reasons why many folks don't use the supplied oraenv scripts. It has long been necessary to modify the dbshut and dbstart scripts as well, if you use them, as they have in the past not worked so well. Been awhile since I've even used them, so they may have improved while I

RE: Unintentional Humor

2003-10-06 Thread Jared . Still
Well, I have published a book, but just one. I wasn't necessarily poking fun at the author, but the web page is a hoot. Time for this thread to die, I guess. Jared "Melanie Caffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  10/06/2003 12:54 PM  Please respond to ORACLE-L        

Re: RE: Unintentional Humor

2003-10-06 Thread rgaffuri
more terrific work from Don Burleson. I believe he is the editor on the series. is it jsut more or is most of the stuff from this guy redundant material you can get for free from the docs? I hear his Unix for DBAs and Wait Statistic books are pretty good(though have some inaccuracies). most of

Re: OCP 7.3 & 8 upgrade to 9i

2003-10-06 Thread Jared . Still
That sounds very interesting. I have an 7.3 OCP ( beta exams at OOW ), but don't have 8.0 or 8i. Being able to skip the 8/8i exams should make this attractive to many folks. Jared "Ron Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  10/06/2003 08:39 AM  Please respond to ORACLE-L

Re: what's the size of a date field?

2003-10-06 Thread Stephane Faroult
elain he wrote: > > Hi, > I'm trying to figure out the size (in bytes) of a DATE column. Executing the > three queries below returned me three different values. Is there any way of > finding the size of a date column in the database? > > Thanks. > > elain > > select * from testing; > DOB >

RE: Cary's book - Rapidly moving OT....

2003-10-06 Thread Jared . Still
Hey folks, move it to the OT list, or just keep it private. Jared Bob Lofstrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  10/06/2003 10:39 AM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:                

RE: Cary's book[Scanned]

2003-10-06 Thread Jared . Still
OT list please. Rachel Carmichael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  10/04/2003 11:09 AM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:                 Subject:        RE: Cary's book[Scanned] I lo

RE: Unintentional Humor

2003-10-06 Thread Rachel Carmichael
why does the song "and Bingo was his name-o" keep echoing through my mind now? --- "Vergara, Michael (TEM)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey...I don't have a "tnsping0"! Heck, I don't have > "agtctl0" or any of the other "*0" programs! How do I > install them? Where is the hidden $ORACLE_HOME

RE: what's the size of a date field?

2003-10-06 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
The size is 7. avg_row_len includes the row header. dba_tab_columns.data_length has the "correct" result 7. The length function applies to varchar2 fields, so the date is converted to a character using your default date format, and the length of the string is returned. length ('06-OCT-03') = 9

RE: Unintentional Humor

2003-10-06 Thread Melanie Caffrey
Alright.  Now, I feel I have to defend this poor guy.  For if I don’t, who will?   First of all, the book title lists the covered items as   Hidden programs – COMMA – export/import – COMMA   And so forth.   VERY different from something like   Hidden programs:  export/import, SQL

sid/serial# vs. audsid: why both?

2003-10-06 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
>From the Fine Manual: Oracle9i Database Performance Tuning Guide and Reference, Release 2 (9.2) Part Number A96533-02 Chapter 24 Dynamic Performance Views for Tuning http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96533/sqlviews.htm#32598 V$SESSION . SID: Session identifier, used to

RE: Unintentional Humor

2003-10-06 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Hey...I don't have a "tnsping0"!  Heck, I don't have "agtctl0" or any of the other "*0" programs!  How do I install them?  Where is the hidden $ORACLE_HOME/bin?  If my management finds out that I bungled the install of 9i I could be in deep doo-doo.   ...or not... -Original Message

Re: Unintentional Humor

2003-10-06 Thread Jay Hostetter
You mean the ls on the $ORACLE_HOME/bin directory (imported directly into the documentation without editing)? I always wanted to know how to get those secret ckpcch.ora and ncomp.log utilities to work. Jay >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/06/03 02:39PM >>> OK, well I thought it was funny. Doing a goo

RE: kgmgr

2003-10-06 Thread Jesse, Rich
Perhaps a grep -i kgmgr $ORACLE_HOME/bin/* might be of help. I'm not sure what a "KGMGR iterator context" is, but the "mig" utility is an intesting hit... Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex

RE: Unintentional Humor

2003-10-06 Thread Mladen Gogala
Nope, it's in $ORACLE_HOME/wmd. On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 15:19, Stephane Paquette wrote: > You mean the hidden $ORACLE_HOME/bin directory > > Stephane Paquette > Administrateur de bases de donnees > > Database Administrator > > Standard Life > > www.standardlife.ca > > Tel. (514) 499-7999 7470

Re: Unintentional Humor

2003-10-06 Thread Rachel Carmichael
how about that "Oracle utility" unzip? and of course, oerr should be kept out of the hands of newbie DBAs --- Joe Testa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Geez at least get rid of the "old linked programs from the dir/ls > listing" oracleO > > :) > > joe > > > Daniel Fink wrote: > > > I see wh

Re: Unintentional Humor

2003-10-06 Thread Joe Testa
Geez at least get rid of the "old linked programs from the dir/ls listing" oracleO :) joe Daniel Fink wrote: I see what you mean. Too funny! Hmm...I guess I've been wrong all these years. And all that time I wasted reading the official documentation on such "undocumented" and "hidden" pro

RE: Unintentional Humor

2003-10-06 Thread Stephane Paquette
You mean the hidden $ORACLE_HOME/bin directory   Stephane Paquette Administrateur de bases de donnees Database Administrator Standard Life www.standardlife.ca Tel. (514) 499-7999 7470 and (514) 925-7187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EM

Re: Basic question about controlfile recovery

2003-10-06 Thread Mladen Gogala
Actually, Velpuri explains precisely why do you need to do that. Backup controlfile does not contain last SCN, so one has to do recovery to bring all datafiles to the same SCN. As there is always a possibility that log files have some other SCNs, they need to be reset and cleaned or those SCNs wi

Re: Unintentional Humor

2003-10-06 Thread Daniel Fink
I see what you mean. Too funny! Hmm...I guess I've been wrong all these years. And all that time I wasted reading the official documentation on such "undocumented" and "hidden" programs like export/import, sql*loader, tkprof...   [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:   OK, well I thought it was funny. Doing a

kgmgr

2003-10-06 Thread Jared . Still
Oracle 9.2 on Linux RH8:  who knows what the kgmgr utility is? I can't find any useful references to it. Here's the usage:  usage: KGMGR[KEY=key] [IFILE=file name | command] Thanks, Jared

Re: Basic question about controlfile recovery

2003-10-06 Thread Govindan K
Hi Scott   Answer to Question 1 (answers Question 2, 3 too). Bkp & Rcvry by Rama Velpuri - Case 8:Recovery with a Bkp control fileIf you use a backup control file, you need to perform media recovery.Also, Oracle will force you to use the 'using backup controlfile' option.Once recovery is done, yo

what's the size of a date field?

2003-10-06 Thread elain he
Hi, I'm trying to figure out the size (in bytes) of a DATE column. Executing the three queries below returned me three different values. Is there any way of finding the size of a date column in the database? Thanks. elain select * from testing; DOB - 06-OCT-03 desc testing Name

Unintentional Humor

2003-10-06 Thread Jared . Still
OK, well I thought it was funny. Doing a google search on some Oracle stuff, I found the following page. http://www.dba-oracle.com/bp/bp_book6_utils.htm Scroll down a bit?  Do you see the funny part? Jared

RE: STUPID LD_LIBRARY_PATHING!!@@@!@!@!@!

2003-10-06 Thread Paula_Stankus
Hehe Found a posting from Michael Ault on same subject. Michael - are you there? Thread Status: Active RDBMS Version: 9.2.0.1 Operating System and Version: Solaris 2.8 64 bit Error Number (if applicable): Product (i.e. SQL*Loader, Import, etc.): OCI Product Version: 9.2.0.1 Library Paths 32

BROKEN_PIPE during Weblogic J2EE deployment

2003-10-06 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
As Weblogic is not an Oracle product, it is not surprising that Metalink returned nothing. Try your query on Google. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 10:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: BROKEN_PIPE during Weblogic J2EE deployment

2003-10-06 Thread rgaffuri
did it have an accompanying ORA- message or some such? If not than its either a Weblogic error, a weblogic translation of an oracle error, or your developers trapped the oracle error and translated it to something else(I hate when they do that). > > From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > D

RE: Cary's book - Rapidly moving OT....

2003-10-06 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Mine are all from 1.5 to 2 years apart. 10 to 18 woo hoo! Of course, about 1/2 of the available women in the world run yelling when I tell them I have custody of 5 kids. Since the other 1/2 are married, that leaves me high and dry! ;-) RF -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of

Re: Cannot use Order By with XMLAGG()

2003-10-06 Thread Jake Johnson
I found the issue. I was only running 9.2.0.1 and it successfully worked on 9.2.0.3. I know this will help someone in the future. Good luck! On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:49:30AM -0800, Jake Johnson wrote: > No, the correct field is atrb_srt_ord. I also tried order by 1 and that didn't work >

RE: STUPID LD_LIBRARY_PATHING!!@@@!@!@!@!

2003-10-06 Thread Paula_Stankus
Guys, I setup lsnrstartstop scripts for root that does the su -c to oracle and runs them. I could run as oracle successfully but using the su - c command brought me this error: "Oracle ld.so.1: /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/bin/lsnrctl: fatal: libclntsh.so.9.0: open failed: No such file or di

RE: Cary's book - Rapidly moving OT....

2003-10-06 Thread Bob Lofstrand
Title: RE: Cary's book - Rapidly moving OT We have 5 also. All teens now. Very scary. Braces, learning to drive, starting college. I hope yours were more spred out. Why? How? Three little girls, that's about right, then Surprise, twin boys. Uh oh. Wouldn't trade them for anything but w

Re: RE: Question with lock script - phantom objects

2003-10-06 Thread rgaffuri
i think one of the reasons utllock.sql is slow is because it joins data dictionary views instead of just hitting the underlying tables. does anyone have a modified utlock.sql that hits the underlying tables? dba_blockers is instanely slow sometimes. > > From: "Jamadagni, Rajendra" <[EMAIL PROT

BROKEN_PIPE during Weblogic J2EE deployment

2003-10-06 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Our web administrator was deploying a new J2EE application to production and received the error broken_pipe. We are using the thin client. Apparently Weblogic tries to verify existence the tables the application uses. The deployment was otherwise successful in that the error occurred several times

Re: Cannot use Order By with XMLAGG()

2003-10-06 Thread Jake Johnson
No, the correct field is atrb_srt_ord. I also tried order by 1 and that didn't work either. The field names are in the describe below. Thanks Jake On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:29:33PM -0800, Dave Hau wrote: > Is it because you misspelled "atrb_srt_ord" as "atrb_str_ord" in the > ORDER BY claus

RE: Question with lock script - phantom objects

2003-10-06 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Question with lock script - phantom objects MG, the one you mention is slow... that's why this script. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly

Re: More info about _db_writer_max_writes

2003-10-06 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Hans: This parameter limits the max # of buffers can be pending for an AIO operation. Usually you never need to tune (!) this parameter as the default holds good for most platforms. BTW what is the size of the log buffer? You will never have more than 4k pending buffers unless you have a really h

RE: Question with lock script - phantom objects

2003-10-06 Thread Stephane Faroult
Raj, Are you certain that in all the cases id1 is an obj#? Its meaning depends on the type of lock. An unfortunate coincidence might make it match an obj# when it is actually something else. HTH SF >- --- Original Message --- - >From: "Jamadagni, Rajendra" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: OCP 7.3 & 8 upgrade to 9i

2003-10-06 Thread Brian McGraw
I actually sat for the beta of that exam, the week before OracleWorld. I haven't received my scores yet, so I doubt that it is actually being offered to the general public yet. But that *is* the plan. Brian - | Brian McGraw -+- Senior DBA | | mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: Question with lock script - phantom objects

2003-10-06 Thread Mladen Gogala
The script as such works, but I do not like user scripts accessing objects owned by SYS directly. I normally use modified version of utlockt.sql in which dba_locks_temp and lock_holders are global temporary tables in my schema which do not get dropped & re-created every time. On Mon, 2003-10-06

More info about _db_writer_max_writes

2003-10-06 Thread Hans de Git
Hi All, The current value for my AIX 4.3.3 / 8.1.7.4 instance parameter _db_writer_max_writes is 4096. I've just raised my aio maxreqs to 16384. Would it be beneficial to increase _db_writer_max_writes? HTH, Hans de Git _ MSN Zoeke

OCP 7.3 & 8 upgrade to 9i

2003-10-06 Thread Ron Rogers
List, While looking at the Oracle Education site I located a link about the Paris OpenWorld this month and the OCP upgrades. In particular was the upgrade that by-passes the 8 to 8i step on the way to 9i. http://www.oracle.com/education/certification/news/index.html?oowexamcram2003.html "Upgrade E

Question with lock script - phantom objects

2003-10-06 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Question with lock script - phantom objects Hi all, I am using following script to see locks in the DB. Do you see any problems with it?   cut here  = connect / as sysdba set linesize 200 feedback off heading on  pagesize 100 column sid f

RE: Re: Physical I/O and databases other than oracle

2003-10-06 Thread rgaffuri
thanks guys. Im only familiar with the oracle database, so I dont know if I can believe what I read when dealing with other databases. so I wanted to check. while we are on the topic of other databases. What kind of wait interface's do other databases provide? How robust are they? > > From: D

RE: Re: Physical I/O and databases other than oracle

2003-10-06 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Cary - Thanks so much for providing the historical perspective on this issue. Perhaps you could confirm or refute a theory of mine. My theory is that in the early days of databases, most of the guidelines for database tuning came from benchmarks. This was an activity that received a lot of top-notc

contents of shared pool

2003-10-06 Thread bulbultyagi
List please try out the following : 1. select sum(bytes) from v$sgastat where pool='shared pool'; 2. find out the size of the shared pool you have specified in your parameter files. 3. subtract the two values 4. When I do the same as above the difference is exactly equal to my db_cache_size.

Re: shared_Pool_size

2003-10-06 Thread bulbultyagi
Arup , wow I am so glad that you answered . You always come up with the real mccoy answers. However I have a few questions stemming from what you said: 1. I tried running select * from v$sgastat where pool = 'shared pool' order by 3; on my 9.2.0.1.0 enterprise edition. I was unable to get any

RE: how to send mail from windows command prompt?

2003-10-06 Thread Paulo Gomes
Title: Mensagem Tom, do u know the ip of email server? If yes then maybe i can help u. Regards PG -Mensagem original-De: Erik Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada: sexta-feira, 3 de Outubro de 2003 20:45Para: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LAssunto: RE: how to

Basic question about controlfile recovery

2003-10-06 Thread scott scott
Listers, sorry for this basic questionnare. ..was reading the RMAN B&R docs (9iR2).got these doubts and thought of claryfying it with u experts. Q1.after a controlfile recovery from backup,is "open resetlogs" always necessary ? Q2.is there any scenario,where "open resetlogs" is not necessary af

Re: blocksize on AIX

2003-10-06 Thread zhu chao
Hi, blocksize in aix is 4k by default, not 512 byte. And read ahead can be controlled by aix kernel parameter. If you really want to bypass aix filesystem read ahead, just change the kernel parameter dynamically. (I cannot remember the detailed kernel parameter, maybe min/maxpgahead)).