Client-server Forms6i against Oracle 9i (9.2.0.4) database?

2003-11-17 Thread Don Granaman
rtion. Searches on Metalink and Google both came up with nothing of relevance. I would assume that with an Oracle8i client it shouldn't be a problem, but I haven't worked with Forms at all since v3.0 and she is adamant that it is simply impossible - with no explanation of why. Don Grana

Re: index on null column

2003-03-27 Thread Don Granaman
NULL (meaning perhaps "PROCESSED") and a small percentage of the records have other non-null values for STATUS ("PENDING","APPROVED", etc.).   Don Granaman certified OraSaurus - Original Message - From: AK To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: Oracle Performance Tuning Exam

2003-03-04 Thread Don Granaman
0% OCP (8i + 9i) in about three weeks in November, perhaps now I can say "OCP doesn't mean squat - except to HR checklists" - without appearing to be just another crusty old curmudgeon - or jealous/nervous/worried/antiquated/whatever. If one is really new to this stuff, then pe

Re: Info on context option

2003-03-01 Thread Don Granaman
] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- Please see the offi

Re: SqlNet Response ports

2003-02-24 Thread Don Granaman
initialization parameters. Please see the documentation for your version for options. Good luck! Don Granaman certified OraSaurus - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 12:39 PM > Redhat

Re: Urgent - Help ....

2003-02-21 Thread Don Granaman
is really a surrogate key? If so you are in luck! Drop and recreate the sequence with: create sequence MY_SEQ increment by -1 start with 0 ... (Add whatever else is appropriate - cache 100, etc.) Don Granaman OraSaurus - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORAC

Re: SqlNet Response ports

2003-02-21 Thread Don Granaman
What platform is this? Windows? Don Granaman OraSaurus - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 5:48 PM > Hi listers, > > Here is a question my client asked me, that I can't s

Re: Oracle Tech Support

2003-02-21 Thread Don Granaman
system was idle except for me and a few background processes.) Agh! Guess what? It was a bug. When I later found and applied patch #2773907, the problem disappeared entirely - the query went from >6.5 sec to 0.01-0.02 sec. All the nonsense that support suggested or asked for was entir

Re: Preventing select on table

2003-02-17 Thread Don Granaman
nia will demand that it be changed to CF. All that adding a surrogate key here does is complicate the application. The vast majority of users will never need to drill down to see what CA means, but to display anything useful on a screen or report, the surrogate key will always require a join. Don Gra

Re: newbie question - late response.

2003-02-14 Thread Don Granaman
1) select * from v$database; Note: Picky perhaps, but "instance" and "database" may be different. ... 3) grant create session to scott; Note: CONNECT is a role that includes the create session system privilege and a LOT more. It is NOT a synonym for "create session&quo

Re: RAC on linux

2003-02-03 Thread Don Granaman
o-back Oracle "certified" configuration from a major vendor. [In hindsight, I should have been more suspicious when they used the "c" word so often and so loudly...] Don Granaman (reluctant OCP) OraSaurus resurrected - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of

Re: IOUG 2003

2002-11-28 Thread Don Granaman
"automatic with conference registration". I'm not quite sure what that means if one is already in IOUG, but I suspect that it means there is no discount! Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: The future DBAs?

2002-11-28 Thread Don Granaman
Detailed plan for transition from order clerk to DBA: OCP How to become an order clerk: More difficult (no certification exams... yet!) Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus & reluctant OCP] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Oracle 9.2 Stability Feedback Requested

2002-08-21 Thread Don Granaman
.1 on Linux - exclusive and RAC - but not yet production. On the 9.2.0.1 RAC nodes, I'm getting tons of trace files with CMInit warnings, but support said "Don't worry. Be happy. Its OK" Searching for patches for 9.2.0.1 on Linux, I get 22 hits. Most are related to some bug ;)

Re: Senware AutoDBA

2002-08-21 Thread Don Granaman
few months ago a "registration" for a "trial download" on the web lead only to a marketing call. No thanks... I feel a bit queasy even now just thinking about it. Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L"

Re: User with less privileges...

2002-08-01 Thread Don Granaman
e to be granted to the user or to a role granted to the user. However, public synonyms can be a performance issue and *may* be undesirable for other reasons. Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: T

Re: Guys: Is this worth $1,749 for 8 year Oracle veteran DBA

2002-07-31 Thread Don Granaman
Unfortunately, we have no choice but to use the java-infested, half-baked ruinStaller. Don't even get me started about the DataBase Cremation Assistant! Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S

Re: Cursor Sharing

2002-07-24 Thread Don Granaman
tting the situation become so bad soon that it forces a better, more permanent solution - before the rapidly increasing transaction volume REALLY hits the fan. The CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE safety valve is something we are reserving as a last, temporary resort. Don Granaman [OraSaurus] BTW: Hi Mike!

Re: Rant - Oracle Security

2002-07-23 Thread Don Granaman
ctually shut down the listener on a node other than the one intended? This kind of stuff probably happens a million times more often than things like SQL injection attacks. Sound security practices make both accidental and malicious damage much more difficult. Don Granaman [OraSaurus] -

Re: Please share your experience with RAC on linux:)

2002-07-22 Thread Don Granaman
I'm still working out the basic cluster quirks - like why softdog wants to reboot the nodes several times per week! (The most recent, about 48 hours ago, was because nts hiccuped and the clocks on the two nodes got about 1/2 hour out of synch.) Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original M

Re: Rant

2002-07-22 Thread Don Granaman
AD_ONE, tables with primary or unique key constraint indexes in BAD_ONE, etc.). There are a few variations on the theme for step 5 - for example, "recover datafile" perhaps if all the datafiles for the tablespace are not corrupted. Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus] - Original Message -

Re: RE: Rant

2002-07-22 Thread Don Granaman
than a computer search - and with a lot less extraneous (click/point/scroll/type) activity. 6) Highlighters, margin notes, and sticky-note bookmarks don't work at all with CDs I miss hardcopy manuals! Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple rec

Re: Index questions

2002-07-15 Thread Don Granaman
#x27; though. Example, ORDERS table with a STATUS column - 98% 'Closed', 2% ('New' | 'Pending' | 'Whatever...'). Change the logical to interprete NULL as 'Closed' and create an index on ORDERS.STATUS. Queries for open orders - ('Closed&#

Re: runInstaller - ruinInstaller? RUINstaller?

2002-07-11 Thread Don Granaman
nerate the list in pseudo-random order as a hierarchical tree ("diff" doesn't work very well).] After the first dozen or so attempts (on several different platforms, with several different versions of Oracle8 & 8i), I simply decided that I wouldn't bother attempting another cl

Re: runInstaller

2002-07-10 Thread Don Granaman
--- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You

Re: Copy

2002-07-08 Thread Don Granaman
7;m pretty sure it existed then also. Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 5:13 PM at least... I can't remember now, but I think there was a version of copy at least a

Re: Comparison between Oracle 8 and Oracle 9

2002-07-08 Thread Don Granaman
r" or "more reliable" until I have some first-hand empirical evidence.] Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 5:13 AM Hi everybody, Currently we are using Oracle 8

Re: exp73 dumpparam for unlimited extents?

2002-07-01 Thread Don Granaman
Absolutely! I should have read more closely! Don Granaman [Orasaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 1:41 AM For the reported problem, (1) is the only option as (2) is not possible wit

Re: exp73 dumpparam for unlimited extents?

2002-06-30 Thread Don Granaman
vast majority of cases, (2) is preferred. Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 11:53 PM Hello, Running Oracle 7.3.4.4 on Win2k. Trying to implement unlimite

Re: Rollback OPTIMAL setting

2002-06-30 Thread Don Granaman
l still be in effect! Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 9:38 PM Don, 9i has system managed undo -- you don't think it works yet? Rachel --- Don Gra

Re: Rollback OPTIMAL setting

2002-06-29 Thread Don Granaman
many use the "manual shrink" method. My philosophy differs in that not setting OPTIMAL should be a last resort, not a blanket policy. Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 27,

Re: the ora certified masters cert - finally bloody sick

2002-06-28 Thread Don Granaman
need any more flaming hoops to jump through. I imagine there are a lot of people like me out there who feel the same way. Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 4:33 AM I&

Re: the ora certified masters cert, yet again

2002-06-28 Thread Don Granaman
her than the totally artifical value of being a common checklist item for hiring authorities now) is to get people to study, learn, and try things out. However, those things don't really require a certificate, ILT classes, or checks made out to Oracle. I agree that this thread is worn out.

Re: BOB

2002-06-27 Thread Don Granaman
I thought is was BOB -("Big Orange Button"). As in "systems administration by BOB". Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 3:54 PM th

Re: the ora certified masters cert, yet again

2002-06-27 Thread Don Granaman
mirk disappeared, his jaw dropped and he just sat there staring at me with the best "deer in the headlights" look I've ever seen. [It must not have been in the Self Test Software Practice Exams or the Exam Cram books.] BTW: Grant: Can I buy that .sig from you? Don Granaman [OraS

Re: the ora certified masters cert, yet again

2002-06-26 Thread Don Granaman
>From my experience with a few DBAs that waved their OCP around like it was a Nobel prize, some probably should have malpractice insurance. Lots of it. Don Granaman [Certifiable OraSaurus - NOCP] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL

Re: the ora certified masters cert, yet again

2002-06-26 Thread Don Granaman
t;learner's permit". The Chauncey certification was more like a chauffeur's license. Don Granaman [OraSaurus - Just say NO(CP)] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 9:33 AM Well that ex

Re: the ora certified masters cert, yet again

2002-06-26 Thread Don Granaman
tion e) billing rate [...] Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus - nOCP] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 6:25 PM Work experience is better than certification but ... Getting certified is hard

Re: conferences - IOUG vs OOW

2002-06-26 Thread Don Granaman
e mothership to go to the conference. I always seem to get chances to drag them off for a little one-on-one time or at least some ad hoc small group discussion. (Its nice to have friends in low places!) Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipi

Re: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-26 Thread Don Granaman
?) executable within a segmented 16-bit architecture. [These young whipper-snappers today have it SO easy!] Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 6:20 AM As I recall,

Re: Oracle Performance Tuning steps

2002-06-26 Thread Don Granaman
Two words: "wait events" I'll forward, in private mail, a posting I made here on April 21, 2002 with some pointers to sites... (The subject line was "Re: ioug-a question") Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipi

Re: Management Reports

2002-06-26 Thread Don Granaman
low!" Me: "No, its actually running much faster than normal. It seems that the app isn't submitting any/much work."] Another possible alternative is the "Etch-a-Sketch" approach. Give them whatever kind of nonsense appeases them to get them off your back so you c

Re: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-26 Thread Don Granaman
I missed this part in my previous response... Does anyone remember why there never was a 9.1? We seem to have gone directly from 9.0.x to 9.2.0! [Did I miss somethng while taking a nap sometime recently?] Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Mul

Re: Re:RE: Difference Between DBMS/RDBMS

2002-06-26 Thread Don Granaman
AX cluster was the granddaddy of OPS]. I don't know about 6.1, but if there ever was such a critter, I suspect that it was VMS-only also. Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June

Re: the ora certified masters cert, yet again

2002-06-26 Thread Don Granaman
. (Does anyone else remember the Oracle Developer Programme? Evidently, it didn't turn out to be the cash cow it was expected to be, so it quietly disappeared. Don't know about anyone else, but I didn't get a refund.) Don Granaman [Curmudgeon OraSaurus] - Original Message -

Re: Online vs offline backups

2002-06-25 Thread Don Granaman
atafiles, redo log groups, and a control file. Just slap them down, copy redo members & control if necessary, and startup. Very handy for repeating variations of tests from the same consistent known state. Don Granaman [OraSaurus - Oracle 6 backup habits die hard!] - Original Message

Re: the ora certified masters cert, yet again

2002-06-25 Thread Don Granaman
ing that to 8i OCP obtained prior to, oh say, June 15, 2002? September 2002? Don Granaman [OraSaurus - with more disdain than ever for the evil vampire Larry's OCP DBA tax] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Fri

Re: Oracle DB2 DBA Needed in Nebraska (near Colorado border)

2002-06-14 Thread Don Granaman
abelas.com/ - bottom left side, under "About Us" -> Careers -> DB2/Oracle DBA ... or: http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/community/aboutus/career-details .jhtml?contentId=MIS_DB2_Oracle_DBA&hierarchyId=10708 Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "

Re: Cache vs. Oracle

2002-06-09 Thread Don Granaman
that it will actually do what you need before seriously considering it. Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:09 PM > Cache? What is cache? > > -Original Messa

Re: Rename Column in 9iR2

2002-05-23 Thread Don Granaman
To steal a quote from Matt Adam's white board (sorry Matt!): "You gotta stop thinking logically, and start thinking Oracley" - Jim Droppa Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: Oracle Application Consultants - Austin, TX

2002-05-22 Thread Don Granaman
your payroll details for the last five years - I'll pick an appropriate salary from the list". Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 8:28 PM > ...and y

Re: Good HR vs. Bad HR...

2002-05-10 Thread Don Granaman
"martyr", but quite a number of others also resigned within the next few months (none so flamboyantly though). Of the group (ET) of twenty that I was in, well over half had left (voluntarily) within a year. Matt was among the "defectors", as was our manager and a large percenta

Re: Good DBA vs. Bad DBA

2002-05-09 Thread Don Granaman
equire efficient planning and execution. Most of what is sometimes blamed on conspiracy is often the result of natural entropy - aided by the catalytic agents stupidity, ignorance, greed, et cetera. Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACL

Re: Good DBA vs. Bad DBA

2002-05-09 Thread Don Granaman
Outstanding response! Don Granaman [certified skeptic] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 9:13 AM > no - DBAs would be skeptical of conspiracy theories. > > -Original Message--

Re: Good HR vs. Bad HR...

2002-05-09 Thread Don Granaman
.] --- PS: If the above spawns a witch hunt for any particular parties, you have missed the point. I regard the current manager and past managers of the database group as all very good and well-intentioned. I think that this is true of the vast majority of the people with whom I have worked whi

Filesystems vs raw devices on Linux (?)

2002-05-03 Thread Don Granaman
rchives at www.orafaq.com . Thanks! Don Granaman [OraSaurus] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Don Granaman INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mai

Re: How to know if another database is running on the same machine?

2002-05-02 Thread Don Granaman
v$database will always show one and only one database - the database to which the instance you are running the query against is attached. As for how to find out on Windows, I'll leave that to someone who knows Windows better than I. Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message ---

Re: ERD generation tool

2002-05-01 Thread Don Granaman
! (To make this "fair", compared to other tools, don't give them any documentation other than the online help, but start it up and connect it to a database before you turn it over). It could be days, perhaps weeks! Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: &q

Re: Oracle-l conference (was RE: ANTI-VIRUS SPAM - YOUR EMAIL ADMIN

2002-04-30 Thread Don Granaman
discuss the current hot topics on the list. Some of the best "technical sessions" this year were essentially ad hoc gatherings of ORACLE-L members - on the sun deck, in Starbucks, and in the hallways. Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients o

Re: pl/sql is INTERPRETED?

2002-04-30 Thread Don Granaman
OPS (uh.. RAC), etc. Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 12:59 PM > Chris, > > "alphabet soup, XML, XDK, XSQL, XSLT, XPath, SOAP, ASP, ADO, EJB, BC4J, &g

Re: pl/sql is INTERPRETED?

2002-04-30 Thread Don Granaman
s communication internal to compilers and other tools. In Oracle, DIANA is an intermediate representation of a PL/SQL program unit, generated by the compiler (SYS.DIANA package). The Diana includes syntactic and semantic information for a compiled program unit."   Don Granaman [OraSauru

Re: Oracle Financials Sys Admin. Needed in South Carolina

2002-04-30 Thread Don Granaman
adds "requires two years experience" to anything mentioned in the posting. The recruiters, with their astounding knowledge of the IT industry, simply typed it up and submitted it to the web sites. (That is what those big commissions are for isn't it? ;-) Don Granaman [OraSaurus] -

Re: Oracle Financials Sys Admin. Needed in South Carolina

2002-04-29 Thread Don Granaman
as the web site(s). If that isn't *totally* clueless, then what might be? I tried to explain to them that anyone who said they were "qualified" should be disqualified - as blatantly dishonest. Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of li

Re: Curious question about flushing the Pool

2002-04-25 Thread Don Granaman
nough, that made it MUCH worse! ;-) In this case, the flushing "solution" was just barely survival. And, obviously, it did nothing to avoid the wildly excessive parsing. In other words, "I agree" - flushing the shared pool is curing symptoms, not the disease. Don Granaman [c

Re: Curious question about flushing the Pool

2002-04-25 Thread Don Granaman
... Probably not really necessary. I'd settle for the LRU bias.) Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:03 PM I think an excellent Oracle kernel enhancement would

Re: Anything new from IOUG? + "OWI" Born!! (Anjo/Mogens, please n

2002-04-23 Thread Don Granaman
%. Any CEO waits are considered unacceptable. Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 3:33 AM [...] > I would also like to point out that not all 'hit ratios'

Re: What is truth?

2002-04-22 Thread Don Granaman
#x27;F's to pass! However, I AM looking forward to the Oracle10i OCW (Oracle Certified Wizard) exams - the only ones that will still REALLY mean anything two years from now. ;-) Don Granaman [OraSaurus and curmudgeon in good standing] PS: I just found my medication (Jack Daniels) and shouldn

Re: What is truth?

2002-04-22 Thread Don Granaman
Do these qualify? * Far too much emphasis on Oracle's GUI tools (OEM, DBCA, etc.) * Too little emphasis on understanding & too much on "knowledge" (i.e. rote memorization) * Treating ratios as the holy grail of tuning * etc... Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus] - Origin

Re: ioug-a question

2002-04-22 Thread Don Granaman
e is the other significant component. I like Craig Shallahamer's anallogy - in the grocery store, one "waits" in line, then gets "serviced" by the checkout clerk. Even if the wait is moderate, overall response time (grocery store checkout line enqueue to checkout complet

Re: ioug-a question

2002-04-21 Thread Don Granaman
t" ... and probably other places on the site... Note that many of these people are active participants in ORACLE-L. Hotsos (Milsap) and OraPub (Shallahamer) both offer training in these techniques. Also, another esteemed list member, Kirti Deshpande, did an excellent "Quick Tips" ses

Re: OBJECT DESING - Odd reason for bounce

2002-04-20 Thread Don Granaman
: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Don Granaman INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Pu

Re: OBJECT DESING

2002-04-20 Thread Don Granaman
one's insert/delete criteria. Also, PCTFREE can be set extremely low (1,5,?) for some kinds of objects - static tables, indexes with strictly inorder data (CREATE_DATE, SEQUENCE#, etc.). I agree with always setting PCTINCREASE =0 Don Granaman [OraSaurus - Honk if you remember UFI !] -

Re: RAC

2002-04-19 Thread Don Granaman
lementing RAC on a Dell RAC-certified configuration (Dell 6450 nodes running RedHat 7.1 SBE with an EMC FC4700 array). It will likely go into production within 2-3 months. Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EM

Re: RAC

2002-04-19 Thread Don Granaman
unce on it immediately with a somewhat critical database and has just received all the hardware this week. I am likely going to try to defer a production date until after the June release comes out. Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients o

Re: Favourite Urban Myth

2002-04-10 Thread Don Granaman
Recursion - it called itself endlessly. $HOME/bin (where it lived) was the leading element of $PATH. After a minute or less, it was thousands of processes deep. After changing it to "/bin/rm -i $*" it worked as intended. Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus] - Original Messag

Re: Differences between Oracle JDBC thin and thick drivers

2002-04-10 Thread Don Granaman
I don't know about performance, but thick and OCI add one important element - TAF. I am working now on converting an exclusive Oracle8i system to 9i RAC, but the front end is thin client (i.e. no TAF). Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple

Re: Favourite Urban Myth

2002-04-10 Thread Don Granaman
what happened the first time I ran it - processes were spawning faster than I could kill them, even with a script... It was admin by BOB time. (BOB=Big Orange Button.) Fortunately, it was on a development server! Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multipl

Re: disk subsystem performance question

2002-04-10 Thread Don Granaman
go up by as much as 8x. See Gaja's whitepaper on RAID at http://www.quest.com/whitepapers/Raid1.pdf . Don Granaman [certifiable oraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:38 AM

Re: 8i Concept PCTFREE & PCTUSED are 0

2002-02-24 Thread Don Granaman
I don't think this is true anymore. At one time, PCTUSED had to be set to "1", but as of 8i, at least, it will be put back on the freelist when empty if PCTUSED=0. (I haven't tested it myself, but I believe Dave Ensor.) -Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message

Re: What are the major difference between Oracle RAC and Parallel server?

2002-02-24 Thread Don Granaman
ion of OPS, but perhaps the magnitude of the delta does justify a name change (e.g. humanoid -> human). [Note that this is a slight divergence from my previous position. "Consistency is the virtue of the small mind." - Confucius]. However, I still think that the main motivation for the name

Re: RAID system max throughput

2001-12-07 Thread Don Granaman
for now" and "optimal". I would rather build it better from the start, even if I don't need the performance immediately, than wait until its a crisis and only then frantically rebuild everything. See Gaja's paper on RAID at http://www.quest.com/whitepapers/Raid1.pdf . -D

Re: RE: Has anyone heard of "Mirror Accessible"?

2001-12-06 Thread Don Granaman
ew years ago, I thought that Dilbert was comic exaggeration. I have since come to the profound realization that it is subtle understatement. -Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December

Re: V7 online backups

2001-12-06 Thread Don Granaman
and get the file list dynamically from v$datafile - so no "new" datafiles are overlooked. They also do archive log cleanup, can verify the backup by reading it off of the tape, and some other stuff. These scripts may or may not be appropriate for your case. Don Granaman [OraSaurus]

Re: Datawarehouse Sizes.....informal poll.

2001-12-06 Thread Don Granaman
the answer is 42 (x 10 GB). However, that answer is now obsolete. -Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:55 PM > Informal survey: Datawarehousing. > >

Re: Parallel Server

2001-12-06 Thread Don Granaman
reat protection against instance or system failure and none against media or site failure. It can be part of a hybrid solution to provide complete protection. -Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: Export question - appending date to dmp file

2001-12-04 Thread Don Granaman
at.${JDATE}.dmp ... Of course, Julian date (%j) is not what you asked for. See: $ man date The possibities are endless. -Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:0

Re: Resume issues - (Not posting my resume)

2001-11-30 Thread Don Granaman
One page?!?!!? My one page resume would have to just say "Call me for details"! Two would be cutting to the bone! -Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 1

Re: Has anyone heard of "Mirror Accessible"?

2001-11-30 Thread Don Granaman
etely independent of OPS/RAC - which shares a single database. It could be a standby database, geo-mirroring, ... The term "mirror accessible" sounds like it came from one of those pseudo-technical trade magazine articles that are famous for misinforming senior IT management.

Re: Standby Database

2001-11-29 Thread Don Granaman
se builds upon the previous. Remember, they are blueprints, not commandments. Nobody ever builds a house without modifications to the standard model, and nobody is likely to build an infrastructure that way either. The concepts can be adapted to other "components" (e.g. WebLogic and/or Tu

Re: HELP : doubts regarding --- Tablespace ,Roll Segment , diff between oracle 8i and 9i, and between oracle 8i and previous versions - urgent

2001-11-27 Thread Don Granaman
s at: http://technet.oracle.com/doc/server.815/a68020/ch2.htm#113030 -Don Granaman [OraSaurus] PS: This is a joke, right? - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 8:30 AM between oracle 8i and 9i,

Re: [suse-oracle] Problem Starting SQL Loader

2001-11-27 Thread Don Granaman
Run sqlldr from the OS command line, not from SQL*Plus. -Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Oracle DBA List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Oracle SQL*Loader E-Mail List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Oracle-L (E-mail)" <

Re: aps_data_files

2001-11-23 Thread Don Granaman
cific view.  Do you have an aps7 or other aps* directory in the tree under $ORACLE_BASE?  Are there other aps* objects that might shed a clue?   -Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - From: Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Se

Re: ok..this is funny.. how do you pronounce "tuple"

2001-11-14 Thread Don Granaman
There are N-1 ways to pronounce it. > > :^) Let's call the whole thing off! -Don Granaman [OraSaurus] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Don Granaman INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 53

Re: Re[2]: Correction : EMC symetrix - 1M stripe width - Raid 0+

2001-11-14 Thread Don Granaman
demanding systems it is still important to segregate some physical I/O to distinct disks/disksets to reduce contention - and in the case of EMC, to better utilize the cache. I agree whole-heartedly on PowerPath! As always, I would recommend reading Gaja's paper at http://www.quest.com/whitepapers/

Re: We need the help from Oracle DBAs.

2001-11-13 Thread Don Granaman
27;t you? If not, you will need a consultant! This isn't particularly easy for the uninitiated. It will probably not be particularly fast either - depending on quite a number of factors (space, size, prior planning for this contingency, ...). -Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Messa

Re: compaq tru64 & upgrade 8i to 9i

2001-11-10 Thread Don Granaman
estinations on shared storage - and on shared filesystems if possible. Also, test the bejeebers out of backup/restore/recovery. (Very likely, there WILL be initial bejeebers!) Only (N*10**M - 10) more potential pitfalls to consider... (Want to hire a consultant? I'm available! ;-) -Don Granama

Re: Another Oracle DBA gets "The Bullet" in the UK - Seeking an Oracle

2001-11-10 Thread Don Granaman
my does recover and demand goes back up. Frankly, I'm almost ready to join Jenny and make a radical career change. My uncle wants to retire from his successful hardware store business. I'm considering buying it. (Hmmm... What about he Menards/HomeDepot/... effect?) -Don Granaman [Or

Re: Checkpoint Duration

2001-11-10 Thread Don Granaman
That doesn't sound at all right. 30 minutes is outrageous! Try Mladen's suggestion. -Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 1:50 PM > I have LOG_C

Re: Concealing SQL Loader password from ps -ef

2001-11-02 Thread Don Granaman
; -f2 | sqlplus -s sys@${tnsalias} @scriptname.sql done (If the @ symbols cause grief, just escape them with \ ) BTW: I just used sys as an example. I am not encouraging you to do everything as sys! -Don Granaman [OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORA

Re: Recommended RAID Setup

2001-10-19 Thread Don Granaman
n the book. The examples don't even mention some significant options - like striping. This is not to fault the examples though, for the reasons stated earlier. There are very few canned answers in this business. Understanding is infinitely more valuable than "knowledge". -Don Gr

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