Raid 0+1 vs. mirrored pairs

2003-07-02 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: Raid 0+1 vs. mirrored pairs Hi Everyone, I guess I am stuck in the old myth which says one giant raid array for everything is bad. We have been told Windows 2000 server is what we will now run Oracle on. Setting aside the debate putting of Oracle on a Windows box, I am currently in

RE: Teradata baned from IOUG???

2003-02-24 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: Teradata baned from IOUG??? Jonathan, This is the forum for critical analysis. No question about it. Someone publishes stuff here and there are tons of people like Rachel, yourself and Robert who will disagree and say why. I have heard several critiques of books, training

RE: RE: Upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.0.6

2003-01-23 Thread Bowes, Chris
Replication in Oracle8, run CATREP.sql after completing the migration. Of course, Replication setup should be first done and tested in a test environment. Hemant --- Bowes, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Hemant, Thank you for your response. I am calling it directly. I do the startup nomount

RE: Upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.0.6

2003-01-21 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: Message Hi Hemant, Thank you for your response. I am calling it directly. I do the startup nomount, alter database convert, alter database open resetlogs. Then I fire off the cat8000 and then the catrep8m from svrmgrl. I think this is a problem in my dictionary in 7.3.4 as when

Upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.0.6

2003-01-20 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: Upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.0.6 Hi everyone! Has anyone seen this and know a solution? I am upgrading a base from 7.3.4 to 8.0.6. Everything appears to go fine until the catrep8m script. In that script I get several errors: Statement processed. (P.delivery_order C.cscn) *

Another myth goes by the wayside

2002-12-13 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: Another myth goes by the wayside I learned something new today. We were getting an error when our VB app was connecting to the base: ORA-12505 TNS: listener could not resolve SID given in connect descriptor. It was an obvious tnsnames problem. So we punch up the

NT Memory Leak 7.3.4

2002-11-27 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: NT Memory Leak 7.3.4 Hi, Does anyone know of a memory leak for Oracle 7.3.4.0 on Windows NT 4.0? A friend of mine is having to reboot monthly as the oracle73.exe grows to all of the memory on the machine when the SGA is pegged at 40M. As of today, the Oracle73.exe was at 210M and

RE: 8.1.7/hp-ux certification matrix

2002-07-09 Thread Bowes, Chris
again for setting me straight. --Chris Four out of the five voices in my head say "let's party", but the one stick in the mud won't release the controls... -Original Message-From: Bowes, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 12:45 PMTo

RE: Alternative to Crystal Reports

2002-06-20 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: Alternative to Crystal Reports I have yet to see something that I cannot do in Crystal Reports. However, I don't write the reports off of tables, I use stored procedures to query and process the records and return cursors to the crystal report. That way all the data is massaged and

RE: Oracle Financials Sys Admin. Needed in South Carolina

2002-04-29 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: Oracle Financials Sys Admin. Needed in South Carolina From: http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20011231.html According to the Federation of Tax Administrators, the following states impose no income tax on state residents: Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, and

RE: The OCP bar is being raised

2002-01-10 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: The OCP bar is being raised I'd say the cost is being raised. Look at the requirements for each. You can't just take the OCM exam. No we would first have to get the OCA. Whether or not we need the entry level cert we have to have it. Then, and only then, can we take the OCP. Then

RE: The OCP bar is being raised

2002-01-10 Thread Bowes, Chris
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RE: The OCP bar is being raised

2002-01-10 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: Message Wait a minute. I never said it was bad for companies to make money. My past posts on microsoft should have made that clear. If Oracle can get away with it, then hey, more power to them. My point was that they are trying to make this look oh so nice by saying "it's improved!

RE: The OCP bar is being raised

2002-01-10 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: The OCP bar is being raised Maybe I am completely misreading this. However, I didn't see the 8 to 9 OCP upgrade and that is why I said, you'll have to take them over again. If I am completely out to lunch and this is just a re-org of the Masters and OCP and those 8 OCP can get OCM

RE: Oracle Future??? - from the darkside

2002-01-08 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: Oracle Future??? Actually, It's possible. Maybe not down to 5%, but if y'all don't think that Oracle is ripe for a market defeat, then you need to take a hard look at our industry... Takehere for example. Wehad Oracle here everywhere. We have Oracle programmers, DBA's, etc. Then, we

RE: Are there any Detroit Lions fans on this list?

2001-12-07 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: Are there any Detroit Lions fans on this list? As the only person on this list with enough spinal cord to admit to being a Lions fan, I must take exception to your thoughts that the Lions are losing because they stink. This is merely part of a brilliant plan by Marty and the boys

RE: seouc in Feb.

2001-11-14 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: seouc in Feb. Going to try, since it's only 30 min from the house. --Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 8:59 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject:

RE: Oracle 7 documentation - Good One

2001-10-31 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: Oracle 7 documentation - Good One Deepak, My main shop is almost all 7.x. The reason is all the Oracle bases are being replaced with sqlserver and they didn't want to go through the pain for bases that won't be here much longer. They are now going to 8.1.7 with what's left

OT: RE: UNCUT ORACLE-L The Motion Picture

2001-08-14 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: OT: RE: UNCUT ORACLE-L The Motion Picture UNCUT ORACLE-L Coming to theaters near you. Oracle-L, the UNCUT version is rated NC-17. Directed by Bruce. Produced by Jared Still. Starring: Lisa Koivu.

RE: OT -- MS SQL Server is putting Oracle to shame,

2001-08-14 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: OT -- MS SQL Server is putting Oracle to shame, True, but one line he had that was truthful was Our database business is one of the best places you could wish to be right now. I know of a lot of people changing from Oracle to Sqlserver. We are. As Lisa Koivu put it, I'm slipping to

RE: OT -- training

2001-08-13 Thread Bowes, Chris
You can deduct them on Line 20 of your schedule A for itemized deductions. This is subject to someHOWEVER's. You must take your 2% of your adjusted gross income and deduct it from that deduction. So if it cost you 2500 dollars to go to openworld and your adjusted gross income (w2's,

RE: OT -- training

2001-08-13 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: Message Really? I was told that if you are an independent NON incorporated entity, you will get a 1099 to your social security number. If you incorporate as a 1099 business (sole prop, non schedule C company) then your company will get a 1099. If you are an S corp or a C corp, and

RE: Online backup script..........

2001-07-05 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: Online backup script.. Woo Hoo! Jared opened up a can on you Robert! c'ya! --Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jared Still [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 7:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re:

RE: * Oracle DBA Needed in Phoenix..

2001-07-05 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: * Oracle DBA Needed in Phoenix.. Jonathan, I think if we retranslate it, we can ascertain what Bill was talking about. We would like to submit someone who is a renter and who is interested in Phoenix... We aren't telling you that this company doesn't really want you long term.

RE: HOW MUCH SGA FREE?

2001-07-03 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: HOW MUCH SGA FREE? Bytes free: select sum(decode(name, 'free memory', bytes, 0)) Free bytes in SGA from v$sgastat Percent free: select round((sum(decode(name, 'free memory', bytes, 0)) / sum(bytes)) * 100,2) Free SGA from v$sgastat This is for version 7.3.4.4 on HP-Ux.

RE: ADMIN: Results of voting

2001-06-30 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: ADMIN: Results of voting Sorry listers. THat was supposed to go to Ashoke directly and not to the list. I forgot to paste the email address... --Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ASHOKE MANDAL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001

RE: Virus again

2001-06-28 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: Virus again It's not a list privacy violation. At least it might not be. The problem is that you can get pretty much any email address (not all, but most) just by reading the sig lines. Others can be found by hitting reply and microsoft mail will put that in the reply footer. Also,

RE: Wher is an error ?

2001-06-27 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: Wher is an error ? HA! Shows what I know. I just re-read. Sorry Alex and everyone. I completely missed it. Yeah, if anyone can shed light, I'd like to know too! --Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Hillman, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: Wher is an error ?

2001-06-27 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: Wher is an error ? Hewlett-Packard Company 3000 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA 94304 U.S.A. Rights for non-DOD U.S. Government Departments and Agencies are as set forth in FAR 52.227-19(c)(1,2). userid=xxy export userid echo $userid xxy if [ $userid=xxx ]; then echo 'aaa';

RE: Wher is an error ?

2001-06-27 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: Wher is an error ? try this. It works on HP-ux 10.20. There spaces between the and the = and the other on the test line. if [ $userid = xxx ] then echo 'aaa' else echo 'bbb' fi bbb echo $userid xxy if [ $userid = xxy ] then echo 'same' else echo 'diff' fi same

RE: Griping about auditing (not the Oracle Kind)

2001-06-25 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: Griping about auditing (not the Oracle Kind) In a perfect world or even a sucky world, yes. But the nightmare scenerio that was laid out wouldn't allow proactivity on their part. The inconvenient time thing was due to the fact that the proactive items they wanted to to do were

RE: Griping about auditing (not the Oracle Kind)

2001-06-25 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: Griping about auditing (not the Oracle Kind) The way I read it was that they aren't letting it fail because they want to make a point. They are letting it fail because they were told they could not fix it. Then when it did fail, they made sure it was real inconvenient for those who

RE: Griping about auditing (not the Oracle Kind)

2001-06-25 Thread Bowes, Chris
of us) are. For example it can be said that you did not explained an issue well enough etc. And you will show your e-mail to the damager of the damager who knows even less about Oracle. Alex Hillman (incredibly rude and cinical) -Original Message-From: Bowes, Chris

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL Yes, he does. His pay for the incredible amount of help he provides is the simple thank you that the recipients of the help send him and he doesn't even ask for that... -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 3:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: OT: Archiving not possible with SQL Server?

2001-05-31 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: OT: Archiving not possible with SQL Server? I protest Jared's removal from the list for telling jokes! Henry please reconsider! :) --Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Gary Weber [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 4:50 PM To:

RE: Build an exact copy of a database using export / import

2001-05-30 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: Build an exact copy of a database using export / import A full export is supposed to allow for a full recovery. Thus, if you do a full export, the import will try to create all the tablespaces that existed when you exported. That is the first item in the export file (see below).

RE: Build an exact copy of a database using export / import

2001-05-30 Thread Bowes, Chris
of failure recovered... Sorry for the mistype. --Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Bowes, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 4:08 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Build an exact copy of a database using expor

Fire your DBA's you don't need them anymore...

2001-05-25 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: Fire your DBA's you don't need them anymore... My boss just received a cold call from Oracle that he let me listen in on. They have a new push on for their i-dba support package. For just a little more money (they did not define little), we will replace your dba's with our superior

RE: Maximo

2001-05-24 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: Maximo Hi James, No we didn't use MTS. We were on an NT server and it seemed to do a lot better when we analyzed everything using compute stats and analyzing all indexed columns and setting up histograms for it. Also check all the indexes and their columns, we

RE: Maximo

2001-05-23 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: Maximo ON all the maximo installations I have done, the biggest problems have been with maxencrypt a table that holds the encrypted key that allows everyone in the base. There is a script that will reset this if the users cannot get into the system. Make sure that the character set

RE: friday fun early, vote for favorites / Re: COLLECTION ITERATO

2001-05-10 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: friday fun early, vote for favorites / Re: COLLECTION ITERATO Along with those, came these: SCRAP PURE TOOL SCRAP PURE LOOT CRAP, PURE STOOL (i added the comma) RAPE SCOUR PLOT PAL PROSECUTOR STAR ULCER POOP STAR CRUEL POOP A SUPER PROCTOL --Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FW: OT - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE ???

2001-02-06 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: OT - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE ??? -Original Message-From: Mohan, Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 8:46 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: OT - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE ??? Snip the TPC is