Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 2004.01.19 23:39, Jonathan Gennick wrote: I used to use a SQL Module compiler. Not with Oracle though. It's rare for me to run into someone else who likes that approach. Actually, it's rare for me to encounter someone who's even heard of it... Jonathan, I've been around for a long time.

Re: RAC

2004-01-20 Thread Marcin PrzepiĆ³rowski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly, apology if this question sounds silly. I am intrested in setting up a RAC configuration at my home with a few desktop PC's. I would run either Win2K or Redhat Linux for the same. I am not sure whether I would be able to setup the RAC using a few desktop

Re: Re: OS authentication; remote login; domain qualification

2004-01-20 Thread bhabani s pradhan
I added the parameter to registry OSAUTH_PREFIX_DOMAIN=true but it didn't help. Any other place where i can see..? Thanks and Regards B S Pradhan --- On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 Jared Still wrote : You must set OSAUTH_PREFIX_DOMAIN=true in the registry to use externally identified domain

Re: FW: Disk capacity planning

2004-01-20 Thread chris
Cary, Good answer. The problem is most people concentrate on bytes because it's relatively easy and everyone understands it. IOs per sec is much harder to calculate for a new system and hence it's not normally done. Cheers, Chris Dunscombe Quoting Cary Millsap [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't

Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Nuno Souto
- Original Message - Jonathan, I've been around for a long time. I've seen things like DataLens for Lotus123, SQL*Calc, Easy*SQL, then there was an Oracle Beat ya: Oracle Add-In for Lotus 123. Using Ora*Net (Async), V4.1.4. 1987. And demoed to the press that same year. g,dr

NEW LYRICS TO BEATLES SONGS - OT but nice

2004-01-20 Thread Yechiel Adar
Write in C ("Let it Be") When I find my code in tons of trouble, Friends and colleagues come to me, Speaking words of wisdom: "Write in C." As the deadline fast approaches, And bugs are all that I can see, Somewhere, someone whispers: "Write in C." Write in C, Write in C, Write in

Re: pga workarea and ora-04030

2004-01-20 Thread Jonathan Lewis
If you want to work out how much difference there is in different code paths, then you have to do some very patient testing. Run your test program for lots of different array sizes, say 1, 2, 3, and so on up to 100M. On each run, disconnect and reconnect your session, and check

RE: FW: Disk capacity planning

2004-01-20 Thread Niall Litchfield
Hi The bad news is that I don't believe that calculating IO/Sec *can* be done for a *new* system. At least I'd like to see how it is done. I'm willing to bet that any formula for doing it will include (x%) for 'overhead', which actually means 'stuff I don't know about'. Of course if the *new*

RE: Spool to Excel File

2004-01-20 Thread Niall Litchfield
Or use Data|Import Data|New Database Query to import via ODBC. This is especially useful for Pivot Tables etc since the dataset (but not the display set) can be larger than the number of rows in an Excel sheet. Niall -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

IBM Workload Manager on AIX

2004-01-20 Thread Carel-Jan Engel
Hi All, I asked this question before, but that was during Xmas holidays, and I got not much response: Has anyone experience in using IBM's WorkLoad Manager on RS/6000 with AIX 5.x? I'm especially interested in the use for managing several Oracle instances on one server, including sharing

Re: FW: Disk capacity planning

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
Oh, but it is done, you only need to ask. EMC routinely measures how many I/Os per second can they perform and they even have tools to measure it. Speaking of monitoring I/O, there used to be an old OS, which is mostly dead today and it used to have command monitor io/item=queue which would show

RE: All packages under sys is invalid

2004-01-20 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Someone is messing with standard package ... so it would seem. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having an

Re: Re: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread ryan.gaffuri
if Oracle is offshoring its develeoping of its database, everyone else will also... so much for job security. anyone I heard postgre sql has multi-versioning? Is it implemented like Oracle? So UDB is the new DB2? Oracle claims that DB2 is not one database but a different database for

RE: Spool to Excel File

2004-01-20 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Mudhalvan, I generate files that excel can open all the time. they are not actual real excel files, but Excel can deal with them quite easily. Here is a tablespace report I run every week. Note the use of the CHR(9)'s. This is a TAB character. This forces each column into a new cell in the

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Thater, William
Mladen Gogala scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: On 2004.01.19 23:39, Jonathan Gennick wrote: I used to use a SQL Module compiler. Not with Oracle though. It's rare for me to run into someone else who likes that approach. Actually, it's rare for me to encounter someone who's even

RE: MS Access

2004-01-20 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: MS Access ACCESS-L. For subscription/signoff info and archives, see http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/access-l.html . Jerry Whittle ASIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 618-622-4145 -Original Message- From: viraj2 [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Ahhh. Sql*Calc, Sql*Graph, Sqr EasySqr. Those were the good old days. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:05 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Mladen Gogala scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: On

Re: RAC

2004-01-20 Thread Joe Testa
I'm going down that path right now. I'll keep you all posted. hardware: 2.0G, 1G of ram, 40G internal, 2 of those. external 120G firewire HD. waiting on the HD to continue, relatively new hardware so had to ditch the whole RHAS 2.1 and aint willing to pay RH for AS3. joe Marcin

Re: All pakages under sys is invalid

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
@?/rdbms/admin/utlirp On 01/19/2004 05:00:37 PM, Hamid Alavi wrote: All, I have an strange problem, most of the packages under SYS user are invalid when I compile it it's compile without error but when I back again the package still is invalid, anybody have any idea? Thanks in advance Hamid

RE: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Well, PostGreSql has all of those features, but handling 100GB? Not sure not sure I'd trust it that far. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 2:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I think he is talking

Re: ORA-904 after table rename

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
Oradebug is the right way to go because, for some reason, alter system set events='904 trace name errorstack forever, level 10'; doesn't do anything. The only way to activate trace is to go to oradebug, attach the session (of course, one needs to do gymnastics with V$SESSION and V$PROCESS to find

Re: Thanx - I cleared the exam

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
Prem, congrats good luck! On 01/20/2004 12:54:27 AM, Prem Khanna J wrote: When I was doing my OCP exams, I didn't have Dennis to cheer me up, only Heineken.Not that I'm complaining. but Mladen , i can't stop with just one : )) so i better stay away from it during exams. Regards, Prem. --

RE: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
AMEN!! Dick GouletSenior Oracle DBAOracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 8:42 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Oracle vs MysqlIf MySQL comes to have the same

AQ

2004-01-20 Thread Ehresmann, David
Is queue message an idle or an non-idle wait event? I have looked through the docs at tahti and metalink and can't find much info on AQ. Does anybody know where there are resources on this topic? thanks, David Ehresmann -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net --

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Jesse, Rich
Then here's a rare treat for you! I *loved* SQL mods in RDB. I could make a program in MACRO, BASIC, FORTRAN, BLISS, Ada, DIBOL, or Mladen's favorite COBOL, and could effortlessly have them do DB work. I also didn't have to hunt thru all the source for a single SQL statement since they were in

Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
Do you remember IBM System 3/10? RPGII flat files? 120 col. punch cards? No hard drives? My $0.02 worth, Ken Janusz, CPIM - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:39 AM Careful Mladen, your revealing your

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
The RPT RPF Oracle class was what made me go looking very quickly for a batch Oracle tool. Then I found SQR. (This was all before PL/SQL and the current versions of Oracle Reports). We bought it and the rest was history. Why Oracle didn't buy SQR when they had a chance amazes me. Tom

RE: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: Message Most people only use a fraction of Oracle's featuresand some are deceived bythe Oracle Marketeerswho tell themthatthey NEED them all. Maybe the 80/20 rule also applies to technology purchases... Especially when the cost differential is huge. My 4X4 pickup works just fine

help

2004-01-20 Thread Bill Gentry
help Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Bill Gentry INET: [EMAIL

Re: AQ

2004-01-20 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
It is defined as below in the Reference Guide: The session is waiting on an empty OLTP queue (Advanced Queuing) for a message to arrive so that the session can dequeue that message. I would treat it as an Idle Wait, similar to, SQL*Net message from client. - Kirti --- Ehresmann, David

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Jesse, Rich
I've got my GX21-9129-9 right here in front of me. It should be in a museum... I'll take Obscure Geek References for $800, Alex. Rich Rich JesseSystem/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message-

Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
I do indeed. Rumor was that rpt/rpf was written by Larry himself. On 01/20/2004 09:39:34 AM, Goulet, Dick wrote: Careful Mladen, your revealing your age!! Bet you remember RPT RPF as well!! Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/20/2004 08:04:33 AM, Thater, William wrote: Mladen Gogala scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: oh damn, have we been at this too long?;-) Yes, we probably have. I must say that the spirit of Oracle Corp. has changed significantly since the days of Geoff Squire, Chris Ellis, Richard

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Probably because they were dropping RPT RPF SQR smells a lot like it, YUCK! Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The RPT RPF Oracle class was what made me go

RE: Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Stephane Faroult
[snip] 120 col. punch cards? You had a high-density model. Mine only had 80 cols, of which 72 were usable for my goto-happy Fortran statements. SF No hard drives? My $0.02 worth, Ken Janusz, CPIM - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Mladen, Well, I'll agree with you over 90% of your post. Oracle is extremely feature rich, to my vast enjoyment. BTW: We use pl/sql objects and Java stuff in production, mostly Oracle's pre-canned Java, but we do have a production application with it's own Java function too. As for

tnsnames.ora not working ?

2004-01-20 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
Hello, I'm trying to add description in my $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/tnsnames.ora, but it seems that the client (ie. sqlplus) wont use it. Whenever I try to connect to the service using sqlplus, I got : $ sqlplus Enter user-name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enter password: * ORA-12154: TNS:could

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Careful Mladen, your revealing your age!! Bet you remember RPT RPF as well!! Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On 2004.01.19 23:39, Jonathan Gennick wrote: I

Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/20/2004 10:09:34 AM, KENNETH JANUSZ wrote: Do you remember IBM System 3/10? RPGII flat files? 120 col. punch cards? No hard drives? My $0.02 worth, Ken Janusz, CPIM I've never done anything with System/3. My first IBM was 3084 with MVS and IMS, running on 8M RAM. After an upgrade, it was a

Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Tuesday, January 20, 2004, 9:19:44 AM, Goulet, Dick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: GD Well, PostGreSql has all of those features, but handling 100GB? Not sure not sure I'd trust GD it that far. You know, I talked to someone at last year's MySQL conference who was using MySQL to manage three

Re: tnsnames.ora not working ?

2004-01-20 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
Hello, On Tuesday 20 January 2004 11:01 am, Mercadante, Thomas F wrote: Reuben, If the normal connection is throwing an error, then it stands to reason that the seond one would not connect either. You need to get a connection working first before you try something else. I can confirm that

Re: help

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here (Dante Alighieri) On 01/20/2004 10:24:27 AM, Bill Gentry wrote: help Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 --

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Orr, Steve
RPT was great stuff. In addition to SELECT statements it could do full DML, DDL, and DCL (I think.) Like Unix it was just particular on who it was friendly with. :-) Then there was RPT2C. Now there's perl. Eschewing the pointy-clicky stuff. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January

Re[4]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Tuesday, January 20, 2004, 9:34:25 AM, Jesse, Rich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: JR Then here's a rare treat for you! I *loved* SQL mods in RDB. I could make JR a program in MACRO, BASIC, FORTRAN, BLISS, Ada, DIBOL, or Mladen's favorite JR COBOL, and could effortlessly have them do DB work. Yep!

RE: tnsnames.ora not working ?

2004-01-20 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Reuben, If the normal connection is throwing an error, then it stands to reason that the seond one would not connect either. You need to get a connection working first before you try something else. The Oracle error you are getting is complaining about the service_name entry. Is this the same

RE: tnsnames.ora not working ?

2004-01-20 Thread Scott Canaan
Are you using Oracle Services? I've seen this happen before and we change SERVICE_NAME to SID and everything works fine. Scott Canaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (585) 475-7886 Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. - Tom Lehrer. -Original Message- Reuben

Module compilers

2004-01-20 Thread Jonathan Gennick
All this talk about SQL Modules has got me to wondering. Does Oracle provide a SQL Module compiler at all? I seem to recall seeing mention of one for use with Ada. Does such a think exist for Oracle? Best regards, Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are http://Gennick.com *

Re: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/20/2004 09:19:44 AM, Goulet, Dick wrote: Well, PostGreSql has all of those features, but handling 100GB? Not sure not sure I'd trust it that far. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA Given the price, I believe that some testing would be warranted, don't you think? --

Re: AQ

2004-01-20 Thread Stephen Andert
However... do not blindly treat SQL*Net messages as Idle waits. They can be important indicators of networking issues. Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/20/04 08:24AM It is defined as below in the Reference Guide: The session is waiting on an empty OLTP queue (Advanced Queuing) for a message

RE: tnsnames.ora not working ?

2004-01-20 Thread Stephen.Lee
If you have a line like this on your sqlnet.ora names.default_domain = world Then try putting an entry like this in tnsnames.ora dbname.world=(etc. etc. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City

RE: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Inprocess actually. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On 01/20/2004 09:19:44 AM, Goulet, Dick wrote: Well, PostGreSql has all of those features, but handling 100GB?

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
YES! Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Do you remember IBM System 3/10? RPGII flat files? 120 col. punch cards? No hard drives? My $0.02 worth, Ken Janusz, CPIM

RE: RAC setup on linux [again]

2004-01-20 Thread Jesse, Rich
There's a new-ish RAC/Linux install guide on OTN: http://otn.oracle.com/tech/linux/pdf/RAC_1030.pdf Interestingly enough the guide specifically shows *not* to alias localhost at all (page 9). Hmmm... Rich Rich JesseSystem/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tnsnames.ora not working ?

2004-01-20 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 11:20 am, Scott Canaan wrote: Are you using Oracle Services? I've seen this happen before and we change SERVICE_NAME to SID and everything works fine. That does not work for me either. RDB -Original Message- Reuben D. Budiardja Sent: Tuesday, January 20,

RE: FW: Disk capacity planning

2004-01-20 Thread Cary Millsap
I agree wholeheartedly. This is why I think that anyone who attempts to size a system with formulas alone (that is, without testing) is almost 100% certain to either overspend miserably or downright fail. There are two things that are really important about testing. One is that it shows you how

RE: All packages under sys is invalid

2004-01-20 Thread Hamid Alavi
so what's the solution? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Someone is messing with standard package ... so it would seem. Raj Rajendra dot

Re: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Daniel Hanks
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, eric king wrote: I think he is talking about 100GB database. Can PostgreSQL and MySQL handle that size? We used MySQL in some of the web projects, but it just stores small set of operational data and later on those data are moved to Oracle as a permenant store. For small

RE: FW: Disk capacity planning

2004-01-20 Thread Cary Millsap
Chris, Thanks. When people do what you say, it's kind of like what would have happened if NASA had used the following assumption throughout the Apollo project: Assume adequate quantities of breathable air... It would have made the planning phase much simpler, but it would have been a touch more

Re: Spool to Excel File

2004-01-20 Thread Daniel Hanks
If you're keen on Perl, the Spreadsheet-WriteExcel module is very handy: http://search.cpan.org/~jmcnamara/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-0.42/ With that you could slurp data out via DBI, and then build a customized spreadsheet based on the data. But I'd agree with what others have said. Dumping to

RE: All packages under sys is invalid

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Either that or someone ran dbmspool.sql out of ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L so what's the solution? -Original Message- Sent:

RE: tnsnames.ora not working ?

2004-01-20 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
what is the listener status?? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having an opinion is an art ! -Original

Re: Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
The old IBM System3 machines used 120 col. punch cards. And initially they had no HD's. Everything was done with cards and a reader/sorter. To compile a program you took the code you wrote, punched it into cards and then put it behind a stack of cards that was the compiler. The machine read

Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Tuesday, January 20, 2004, 12:44:43 PM, Daniel Hanks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: DH nd to be fair, MySQL _does_ offer foreign key constraints (it used to not, though), but only DH (iirc) if you use the 'Innodb' table type. My experience recently was just the opposite. I could create foreign key

RE: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Back to MySQL and whether Postgres is the way to go, I can recall editorials debating whether Unix/Oracle would ever be industrial strength enough to support critical applications. The point the book The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison tries to make is that the technically superior

RE: tnsnames.ora not working ?

2004-01-20 Thread John Flack
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Re: Spool to Excel File

2004-01-20 Thread Michael Boligan
I've never used it before, but there is a piece to Excel called Microsoft query that allows you to query the database directly. Check help in Excel, search for query - ways to retreive data from external sources. HTH, Mike

Re: NEW LYRICS TO BEATLES SONGS - OT but nice

2004-01-20 Thread Jared . Still
Please, let's not turn this into a bulletin board. Spontaneous humor in a conversation (thread) is one thing, cutting and pasting completely non-relevant articles is another. For those of you that are non-native English speakers, the one thing... another thing phrase means don't do this. Jared

RE: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Jesse, Rich
Huh???!?? What did you search for? I get many hits searching for postgresql. Rich Rich JesseSystem/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:29 PM To:

Re: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/20/2004 01:29:25 PM, DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote: Back to MySQL and whether Postgres is the way to go, I can recall editorials debating whether Unix/Oracle would ever be industrial strength enough to support critical applications. The point the book The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison

RE: FW: Disk capacity planning

2004-01-20 Thread mkline1
I found myself working with some larger databases in the 500-800 GB range that also spawn into multiple test databases. I take a df -k or bdf and bring that into excel. Then I take a query on all autoextend and break that out by disk. then I put that all together and tell what's left on disks.

CSPP's latest report

2004-01-20 Thread Surendra . Tirumala
If you are interested in latest report of CSPP(Computer Systems Policy Project)... http://www.cspp.org/reports/ChooseToCompete.pdf -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051

pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak

2004-01-20 Thread ryan.gaffuri
One of our production DBAs does not want to use pga_aggregate_target on a 9.2.0.3 instance due to a possible memory leak. The only note on memory leaks and pga_aggregate_target I can find on metalink is: 334427.995 doesnt seem to apply to pga_aggregate_target. We are on sun solaris. Dont know

RE: FW: Disk capacity planning

2004-01-20 Thread Paul Drake
--- Niall Litchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi The bad news is that I don't believe that calculating IO/Sec *can* be done for a *new* system. At least I'd like to see how it is done. I'm willing to bet that any formula for doing it will include (x%) for 'overhead', which actually means

Parallel Query determined by?

2004-01-20 Thread mkline1
I've inherited a system that has a whole lot of indexes set to degree 10 and many tables set to 2 4. The users are complaining that Precise is showing a whole lot of time in Parallel Sync Wait. It is an HP box running 8.1.7.4 with 16 processors. The box is normally not very busy. Are there

Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Tuesday, January 20, 2004, 1:29:25 PM, DENNIS WILLIAMS ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: DW I can recall editorials debating whether Unix/Oracle would ever be DW industrial strength enough to support critical applications. I admit to not being involved in databases that far back, but I've read enough to

Inserts

2004-01-20 Thread mkline1
This may be more on that parallel being set too high, but looking for ways to improve insert speed. I've seen the APPEND hint mentioned, but not sure if that speeds things up or simply says Insert at the end. Also, a co-worker found a PL/SQL on a degree=4 table that has a cursor, then one

RE: Spool to Excel File

2004-01-20 Thread Burton, Laura
I have used Microsoft Query in Excel. The syntax is a little tricky but it works pretty good. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I've never used it before, but there is a piece to Excel called Microsoft query that

Password management using profiles

2004-01-20 Thread Ana Choto
I have set up a profile where the passwords expire in 30 days, 6 characters minimum, grace period before the account locks to 6 days. It works as expected when the user logs in to our web site and tries to change the password. Users receive error messages whenever their password doesn't

Re: ORA-904 after table rename

2004-01-20 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Note that when you set an event with alter system, it will only apply for new sessions created, not for any existing ones. Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:19 PM Oradebug is the right way to

Re: pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak

2004-01-20 Thread Stephane Faroult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of our production DBAs does not want to use pga_aggregate_target on a 9.2.0.3 instance due to a possible memory leak. The only note on memory leaks and pga_aggregate_target I can find on metalink is: 334427.995 doesnt seem to apply to pga_aggregate_target. We

how do I interpret this in bstat/estat

2004-01-20 Thread Gurelei
Hi. I am looking at the bstat/estat report and see a high number of enqueue timeouts in the statistics section of the report. How do I tackle that? In the Niemec's book he receoomends increasing the enqueue_resources parameter. Metalink says that these may be related to DISTRIBUTED_LOCK_TIMEOUT

Re: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Daniel Hanks
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Mladen Gogala wrote: I have a book devoted to PostgresSQL at home. When I come home, I'll post the information. O'Reilly has Practical Postgresql, the full text of which is also available online: http://www.commandprompt.com/ppbook/ I know there are a couple of others

Re: AQ

2004-01-20 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! I think what Kirti meant here, is that from only database's point of view (scope), the SQL*Net message from client waits do not indicate any database bottlenecks. Anyway, when you have network bottleneck, from my experience you usually see other SQL*Net message waits, like more data to/from

Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread eric king
What RPT and RPF exactly are? Are they some sort of reporting tool? - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:19 AM RPT was great stuff. In addition to SELECT statements it could do full DML, DDL, and DCL (I

Re: ORA-904 after table rename

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/20/2004 02:59:35 PM, Tanel Poder wrote: Hi! Note that when you set an event with alter system, it will only apply for new sessions created, not for any existing ones. And that, exactly is the problem. First, when you set event using alter system, the setting is system wide. Second, if you

Re: Password management using profiles

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/20/2004 02:34:45 PM, Ana Choto wrote: I have set up a profile where the passwords expire in 30 days, 6 characters minimum, grace period before the account locks to 6 days. It works as expected when the user logs in to our web site and tries to change the password. Users receive

RE: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Hence why Sql*Server is out there. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 1:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Back to MySQL and whether Postgres is the way to go, I can recall editorials debating whether

Re: how do I interpret this in bstat/estat

2004-01-20 Thread Tim Gorman
Gene, This is the problem with high-level aggregate reports like BSTAT/ESTAT and STATSPACK. A possible problem is highlighted, but there is no detail on the possible cause. One way to get more info is monitor V$SESSION_EVENT view searching for sessions with lots of waits on enqueue wait-event:

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Jonathan, The only reason MySql is known better is that big mouth equal to Bill Gates in Finland. Otherwise PostGreSql is the much better product. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 1:49 PM To: Multiple

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Orr, Steve
Yupp. RPF=report formatter or some such. -Original Message- eric king Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 1:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What RPT and RPF exactly are? Are they some sort of reporting tool? - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Goulet, Dick
Eric, They were the precusors to Oracle reports. RPT was the report extraction tool, and RPF was the report formatter. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 3:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: ORA-904 after table rename

2004-01-20 Thread Bobak, Mark
You can also use DBMS_SYSTEM.SET_INT_PARAM_IN_SESSION and DBMS_SYSTEM.SET_BOOL_PARAM_IN_SESSION, in lieu of oradebug. -Mark Mark J. Bobak Oracle DBA ProQuest Company Ann Arbor, MI Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him

Re: Spool to Excel File

2004-01-20 Thread Jared . Still
Strange, no one has mentioned OWA_SYLK. Do a search on SYLK at asktom.oracle.com There are 2 versions, one for web output and one for excel output. SYLK allows cell references, etc, if needed, which you won't get with CSV. Jared Mudhalvan, Moovarkku [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Bellow, Bambi
But, unless you have old diskettes... you'll never see them. They died with the demise of v5. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 2:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Yupp. RPF=report formatter or some such. -Original Message- eric king Sent:

Re: Password management using profiles

2004-01-20 Thread Ana Choto
We're using pl/sql gateway and the Apache server. We've set up a default DAD on the gateway configuration screen, the connect string is our server name. Basic authentication, Package/Session Management Type: Stateless(Reset Package State). I've tried the profile by setting up a test user

Re: ORA-904 after table rename

2004-01-20 Thread Tanel Poder
But you can't set events with it :( Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:39 PM You can also use DBMS_SYSTEM.SET_INT_PARAM_IN_SESSION and DBMS_SYSTEM.SET_BOOL_PARAM_IN_SESSION, in lieu of oradebug.

Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/20/2004 03:29:33 PM, Goulet, Dick wrote: Jonathan, The only reason MySql is known better is that big mouth equal to Bill Gates in Finland. Otherwise PostGreSql is the much better product. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA Dick, when you are talking about big

RE: Spool to Excel File

2004-01-20 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
"SYLK allows cell references, etc, if needed, which you won't get with CSV. " Ahh. but you can with my method! If you use tab separated columns, you can also generate formula's that look like text, but work just fine in the spreadsheet! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional

Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread mkline1
I know I used to set up RPT and do all sorts of complex updating things. At the State and with things coming from mainframes, the data organization seemed to lend itself well to RPT. Since the organization was like of loops within loops, I could take the high order update and then loop through

RE: RAC

2004-01-20 Thread Hengen, Brian
If you are using Linux, you can use NBD's (network block devices) that will allow you to use a third PC as a storage device. You can download the drivers at http://nbd.sourceforge.net/ There's a pretty good paper out there as well, at http://www.fi.muni.cz/~kripac/orac-nbd/ that will walk you

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