Re: Last date for Oracle 8i OCP?

2004-01-07 Thread DEEDSD
The date has not been announced. I contacted The OCP folks late last month and they said that there has been no date set for ending the 8i OCP tests, nor was he aware of anything being said about it.

library cahce pin wait on drop user

2003-08-15 Thread DEEDSD
I'm doing some departed user cleanup and the 'drop user cascade' hangs for 2 -3 minutes before completeing. I ran a 10046 trace and it does a lot of waiting for 'library cache pin' - 100 times for 308 centiseconds each time. Dropped two different users, 100 library cache pin waits per user.

RE: PERL reference

2003-08-14 Thread DEEDSD
Whatever the book, try www.bestbookbuys.com. It does a nice price comparison between different online obbkstores. David Wagoner

Re: Moving LOB Storage and Index

2003-07-10 Thread DEEDSD
I seem to recall from Jonathan Lewis' book that moving a LOB index after creation was possible in some versions of 8.0, but no longer possible in 8i. Unfortunately, I don't have the book in front of me right now so I can't say for sure.

Re: Oracle Names

2003-06-12 Thread DEEDSD
We have used names for about 7 years or so, starting with 7.3. We have 400+ databases that everyone (around 6000 clients from all over the U.S.) connects to via names. We are running one names database (hotcopied to DR every night) and 4 names servers. Names is fast - it cahces all of the entrie

RE: World premier performance of the BAARF party logo

2003-06-11 Thread DEEDSD
Call me a boy scout... I still try to overplan and get rid of kinks in advance (when I get more than one 32 or 64 GB LUN, that is) as the storage folks really get tired of: Oh, my I/O problem COULDN'T be caused by how you guys placed stuff on the frame!! You said it didn't matter where I put thi

Re: World premier performance of the BAARF party logo

2003-06-11 Thread DEEDSD
Our storage team won't even respond to me anymore when I ask for the manufacturer's rating for non-cached I/Os per second & number of controllers, RAID level, striping, etc... All I get is 'why do you want to know that' and 'what application is this for'... BARRF will stop the debilitating headac

Re: Do triggers cause a context switch between SQL & PL/SQL

2003-04-01 Thread DEEDSD
I thought as much, from what I've heard and read. Does anyone know if there's a way to figure out how much overhead the switches generate? I'm guessing they would show up in trace files in the 'other CPU' category.

Do triggers cause a context switch between SQL & PL/SQL

2003-04-01 Thread DEEDSD
Question: If some idiot decides to circumvent Oracle's referential integrity and re-implement it by using triggers (insert, update, delete) that checks the foreign (parent/child) key fields in other tables like this, declare numrows INTEGER; begin -- ApplicationForm is used if the state and o

RE: Perl DBD::Oracle - discontinuing support for Oracle 7 and Ora

2003-04-01 Thread DEEDSD
Does this mean the 'use Oraperl' and the oraperl subroutine syntax (like &ora_login) would be deprecated? I wouldn't ordinarily care, as I haven't used that syntax for years. However, quite a few of our application areas wrote entire applications using oraperl. Just getting them to plug a 'use

Re: OTC: Perl Book

2003-03-13 Thread DEEDSD
'Programming the Perl DBI'. The DBI and DBD::Oracle man pages/perldoc is probably sufficient for basic (unoptimized) stuff. There's multiple tutorials on the web, as well. Check dbi.perl.org

RE: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-13 Thread DEEDSD
Depends on what you consider to be 'real' production issues. We get pages for production and development, for things that really should be planned change control, for idiot user stuff, as well as the regular db/listener down, ora-0600 and the other standard stuff. With most of the applications b

Re: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-12 Thread DEEDSD
We have 7 DBAs. 105 production databases (97 24x7), ranging from 2 GB OLTP to 800 GB data warehouses. 395 devl/alpha/beta databases ranging in size from very small (1 GB) to production-sized. About 1/3 of the production databases have at least 1 (usually more) development effort going on at any

Re: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-12 Thread DEEDSD
We have 7 DBAs. 105 production databases (97 24x7), ranging from 2 GB OLTP to 800 GB data warehouses. 395 devl/alpha/beta databases ranging in size from very small (1 GB) to production-sized. About 1/3 of the production databases have at least 1 (usually more) development effort going on at any

Re: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-11 Thread DEEDSD
Consider yourself lucky. We've got a 71:1 ratio here. "Chuck Hamilton"

Re: Recovery problem using BMC Backtrack and tempfile

2003-03-11 Thread DEEDSD
We've run into this with Backtrack 3.3, which is also supposed to support 8.1.7.x. If I recall correctly, the temp tablespace is there, but offline. We usually have the create scripts for the database in question, so we just drop the tablespace and recreate it. We usually create it as locally ma

RE: Programming languages that make DBA's lives easier

2003-02-19 Thread DEEDSD
Shell - I have used Unix Shell Programming revised Edition by Kochan and Wood extensively. It's really all I use for shell programming problems. It's well-written and not a dry read. Perl - most everyone I can think of will point you to the O'Reilly library of Perl books, starting with Learning

RE: Programming languages that make DBA's lives easier

2003-02-19 Thread DEEDSD
Frighteningly enough, Damian Conway has produced some wonderfully hideous Perl modules that allows you to write your code in Klingon. It even does it in object-oriented style (method overloading in Klingon - ack!).

RE: metadata repository

2003-02-18 Thread DEEDSD
try 'www.databee.com' T