RE: OT: Solaris: Finding the cause for disk space growth

2004-01-26 Thread Naveen, Nahata (IE10)
I'm new in the unix world, so get stuck in simple things like this. I'm thankful to the list, since I didn't get rebuked for asking a non-oracle question. du (disk usage) worked easily for me, though Jared's idea of using find was amusing, I'll get acquainted with that command as well. Regards

Re: ! READ THIS - Oracle-L@fatcity.com is shutting down as of 1/31/2004

2004-01-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
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! READ THIS - Oracle-L@fatcity.com is shutting down as of 1/31/2004

2004-01-26 Thread Jared Still
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Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-26 Thread David Hau
Correction: the Index Range Scan can be parallelized when it involves multiple partitions. - Dave David Hau wrote: I assume you're talking about the Fast Full Index Scan. This is used when the index contains all the columns necessary to answer the query. It's faster than a Full Table Scan b

Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-26 Thread David Hau
I assume you're talking about the Fast Full Index Scan. This is used when the index contains all the columns necessary to answer the query. It's faster than a Full Table Scan because indexes are smaller than entire rows, so a Fast Full Index Scan will scan fewer blocks than a Full Table Scan.

Re: When does Oracle use 'Index Full Scan'

2004-01-26 Thread Ryan
sorry typo. I mean 'Index Full Scan' - Original Message - From: Ryan To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 9:24 PM Subject: When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan' I have found that the vast majority of time that Oracl

FW: Lots of Help needed

2004-01-26 Thread Biddell, Ian
Hi there fellow Oracle people,   I am hoping that some of you can help me and/or provide details etc. for my situation I find myself in. So if you bear with me I will describe the situation. I currently support an Oracle 9i (just moved from 7.3.4), windows, tuxedo, client server application

When does Oracle use 'Index Fast Scan'

2004-01-26 Thread Ryan
I have found that the vast majority of time that Oracle chooses this method, my statistics are stale and the query is sub-optimal. One time, Oracle changed from a 'range scan' to this type of scan with a FIRST_ROWS hint and this reduced performance.   This is just a full scan of the index, on

Re: String manipulation

2004-01-26 Thread Jared . Still
Here is an example for you. You might want to spend some more time studying the instr() function in the SQL manual to understand how this works.  :) define t = 'mystr1~mystr2~mystr3' var t varchar2(30) begin    select '&&t' into :t from dual; end; / select    substr(:t,1,instr(:t,'~')-1) t1

RE: String manipulation

2004-01-26 Thread SRIDHARAN, SAN (SBCSI)
Title: Message Substr(''mystr1~mystr2~mystr3', 1, 20) => 1 is the position and 20 the length (not the position). The "substring" functions return a portion of string, beginning at character position, substring_length characters long. SELECT substr('mystr1~mystr2~mystr3',1,instr('mystr1~myst

Re: column session_info appear empty on logminer

2004-01-26 Thread Joe Testa
if i remember correctly(from a presentation i did like 3 years ago), its a bug. joe Mauricio Vélez wrote: Hello everybody I normally have no problems with logminer. The database es oracle 8.1.7.4.1 on Windows NT but in this case the results show me the username and session_info columns emp

column session_info appear empty on logminer

2004-01-26 Thread Vélez
Hello everybodyI normally have no problems with logminer. The database es oracle 8.1.7.4.1 on Windows NT    but in this case the results show me the username and session_info columns empty   Here is the output: (First I created log_detalle_giros_20040124 as select * from v$logmnr_contents where seg

String manipulation

2004-01-26 Thread Stefick Ronald S Contr ESC/HRIDA
Title: String manipulation I'm trying to separate a string into 3 values: The string is: mystr1~mystr2~mystr3 Here is the code so far:   1  select substr(subject,1,instr(subject,'~')-1) first,   2  substr(subject,instr(subject,'~')+1, instr(subject,'~',1,2)-1) second,   3  substr(subject,ins

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2004-01-26 Thread eca
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Re: using oracle 817 driver against oracle 92 database

2004-01-26 Thread David Hau
As long as you're not using any 9.2 feature, you should be fine. IIRC, according to Oracle's upgrade policy, the client and the server are compatible within one major version. Even if upgrading to the 92 client is not an emergency, you should at least upgrade the 817 client to the latest patch

RE: Statspack Will Not Install Oracle 9.2.0.4

2004-01-26 Thread Post, Ethan
Thanks. Gee, the Oracle sales folks keep telling our Lead Architect that RAC requires zero code changes...guess this was not true for Statspack. :) -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 12:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ethan: You can remove the order by

Re: Sun Cluster 3.0 commands

2004-01-26 Thread Barbara Baker
Actually, I found the actual link: www.sun.com/bigadmin scripts under scripts there's one titled haoracle substitute 'haora' HTH! Barb --- oranew2004 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All! > > I looking for commands which I could use to check > Sun Cluster health ( like resources, groups..

Re: Sun Cluster 3.0 commands

2004-01-26 Thread Barbara Baker
Greg: version 3.0 makes life extremely difficult. The sudo commands we were able to use in the previous version do not work in version 3 One of our SA's wrote a perl script that gives the DBA's access to what we need. He submitted it to Sun Solve. Take a look there and see if you find it (rpetty

Sun Cluster 3.0 commands

2004-01-26 Thread oranew2004
Hi All! I looking for commands which I could use to check Sun Cluster health ( like resources, groups...) I think I would able run them as an Oracle user.   Thanks. Greg Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!

using oracle 817 driver against oracle 92 database

2004-01-26 Thread Gurelei
Hi all: I just learned that our application team is using oracle 817 driver to connect to a oracle 92 application (via das and via websphere). Is anyone aware of any big problems with that setup? I am going to recommend to upgrade to oracle9, but I don't think this is an emergency. Am I wrong? t

RE: Getting sysdate across a DB link

2004-01-26 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Mladen, there you go again! LOL. now go back and trade your Wang in for a new one. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 2:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On 01/26/2004 01:34:24 PM, "Mercadante, Thomas F" wrote:

Re: Getting sysdate across a DB link

2004-01-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/26/2004 01:34:24 PM, "Mercadante, Thomas F" wrote: Ashish, Why do you think that the dates would be different on the two machines - is one across the international date line? Shouldn't the dates be the same? Thomas, if we learned anything from Einstein, it is that the time is relative t

RE: Getting sysdate across a DB link

2004-01-26 Thread Ashish Sahasrabudhe
Title: Getting sysdate across a DB link The dates are different. Currently remote server is GMT and local is EST and this can change. I was looking for something without creating any database object like function or view on the remote server.   Thanks -Original Message-From: Merca

RE: Getting sysdate across a DB link

2004-01-26 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: Getting sysdate across a DB link Ashish,   Why do you think that the dates would be different on the two machines - is one across the international date line?  Shouldn't the dates be the same?   How about getting the time from both servers - they *might be* different by a few seconds

RE: Statspack Will Not Install Oracle 9.2.0.4

2004-01-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
H on our 9204 instance this package is compiled with the order by ... our compatible is set to 9.2.0.4 Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal.

Re: Statspack Will Not Install Oracle 9.2.0.4

2004-01-26 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Ethan: You can remove the order by if you are not using RAC. Basically it is to avoid two identical SQLs inserted at the SAME time in RAC setup. If you are using RAC just add another column in the order by condition. (st1.hash_value,ss.text_subset,st1.piece) I don't have the bug # handy. But

Re: What to look for in STATSPACK report

2004-01-26 Thread Jared . Still
If you're new to perl, setting this up might be somewhat difficult. It requires installing DBD::Chart, which in turn requires some graphics libraries to be installed, among them ImageMagic if I recall correctly. Installing ImageMagic can be rather difficult depending on platform. On Linux it is

Statspack Will Not Install Oracle 9.2.0.4

2004-01-26 Thread Post, Ethan
The "order by st1.hash_value,ss.text_subset; -- deadlock avoidance" Statement in the following Statspack code causes the package not to compile. Oracle 9.2.0.4.0 64 bit. Compatible is set to 9.2.0 If I remove the two ORDER BY's in error the package compiles fine. Could not find anything on Go

Re: Getting sysdate across a DB link

2004-01-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Create procedure get_date on the remote node and invoke it over the DB link. On 01/26/2004 11:14:26 AM, Ashish Sahasrabudhe wrote: I'm trying to get the value of SYSDATE on a remote server. I have a database link to the server, but I'm not sure how to force SYSDATE to be evaluated on the remote

Getting sysdate across a DB link

2004-01-26 Thread Ashish Sahasrabudhe
Title: Getting sysdate across a DB link I'm trying to get the value of SYSDATE on a remote server. I have a database link to the server, but I'm not sure how to force SYSDATE to be evaluated on the remote machine. Following query gives same results, both dates are same. select sysdate loca

RE: consistent read gets

2004-01-26 Thread Bobak, Mark
Title: Message (I'm sending the reply to the freelists.org list as well.  Hope you all agree that's a reasonable thing to do.)   no work - consistent read gets - Oracle needs a block that's consistent w/ a particular SCN, goes to the buffer cache, finds it there.  It's done.cleanouts only

RE: Nextval in trigger

2004-01-26 Thread John Flack
I'm trying to understand exactly what you are trying to do. Oracle thinks that you are trying to get the next value for a sequence named SYSTEM_CHANGE_ID, but there is no sequence by that name. If that is what you are trying to do, then either the sequence doesn't exist and you need to create

Re: ** field names of a ref cursor

2004-01-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Joshi, you'll have to use DBMS_SQL and return number instead of ref cursor. DBMS_SQL has its own, internal table describing open cursors by numbers. DBMS_SQL also contains a procedure called "describe" which, I believe, does exactly what you want without XML or OCI. On 01/26/2004 01:19:27 AM, A

Problem with jobs

2004-01-26 Thread Vélez
Hi, This is the situation:   I'm woriking on NT and there are two 8i databases on itOne database can execute jobs normally, but the other one not execute anyjob. I proved submitting the same procedure to both databases and worked on thefirst one but not on the second one. If I manually execute thi

Re: Nextval in trigger

2004-01-26 Thread Mladen Gogala
Comments in line On 01/26/2004 07:24:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, I would like to make an insert statement into a table in atrigger, Iam trying to do: Insert into system_change values(system_change_id.nextval) but it gives me an error message which tells me that I havent declared an

Re: ROWID PROBLEM

2004-01-26 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Read the Oracle Documentation or http://otn.oracle.com or http://metalink.oracle.com on what a RowID is. It is actually a composite of File_Number_in_Database + Block_Number_in_File + Row_Number_within_Block. Since a Table is like a "heap" rows may be inserted by Oracle in any of the available bl

consistent read gets

2004-01-26 Thread Sultan Syed
Hi all, Could somebody give example scenario for the followings please   no work - consistent read gets   cleanouts only - consistent read gets    rollbacks only - consistent read gets    cleanouts and rollbacks - consistent read gets     And I

RE: ** field names of a ref cursor

2004-01-26 Thread Kevin Toepke
Title: Message If you are using strongly typed ref cursors, I believe you can use the DBMS_DESCRIBE package to get that information. You'll just have to parse the output from the package.   Kevin -Original Message-From: A Joshi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January

RE: Nextval in trigger

2004-01-26 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: Nextval in trigger Declare the sequence? 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 "Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." Lauren Bacall -Origi

Nextval in trigger

2004-01-26 Thread roland . skoldblom
Hallo, I would like to make an insert statement into a table in atrigger, Iam trying to do: Insert into system_change values(system_change_id.nextval) but it gives me an error message which tells me that I havent declared any sequence. How can I fix this ? Thanks in advance. Roland -- Ple

RE: ** field names of a ref cursor

2004-01-26 Thread nelson flores
That’s what XML is for :P   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A Joshi Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 10:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: ** field names of a ref cursor   Hi,   I am calling a Oracle sto

RE: ** field names of a ref cursor

2004-01-26 Thread Stephane Faroult
AFAIK there are no PL/SQL functions to do what you want to do; they are available as OCI functions, though, but PL/SQL only implements a very small subset of what is available with OCI. An external C procedure might be an option, but only if not called too often. In my experience trying to write

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RE: fetching long variable in PL/SQL

2004-01-26 Thread A.Bahar
Okey but how can I convert it -Original Message- Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 4:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L convert to a lob and use a substr. That might fix the problem. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent

RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-26 Thread Lord David
Title: Message One word - exchange. --David Lord -Original Message-From: Hemant K Chitale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 January 2004 16:54To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!Why not stop using Outlook.  I've bee