Re: Partition Question

2002-11-04 Thread Don Jerman
It depends on your reason for partitioning -- if you mean to drop a partition in the future (to roll off the 1999 data or whatever) then the ID range is potentially a valid approach, as long as ID is serial. If you just want to put chunks on different disk volumes, you could use the type or even

Re: using obfuscation

2002-09-11 Thread Don Jerman
Create View statement? Randy -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 10:13 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:Re: using obfuscation File: Card for Don Jerman What about... create view my_data as select de_encrypt(sensitive_data

Re: using obfuscation

2002-09-10 Thread Don Jerman
What about... create view my_data as select de_encrypt(sensitive_data) as clear_sensitive_data where sensitive_data = encrypt('CLEAR TEXT') ? This lets you create an index on the sensitive data without decrypting it, and the function need only be called once on the clear text. Caveat: no idea

Re: query problem

2002-08-16 Thread Don Jerman
how about select tab1.id from tab1,tab2 where tab1.id=tab2.id group by tab1.id having sum(decode(tab2.status,'Y',1,'N',-1,0)) 0; Harvinder Singh wrote: Hi, we have 2 tables tab1 and tab2 each having id column and tab2 also has column status that will contain value 'Y' or 'N' for

Re: Massive update troubles

2002-08-02 Thread Don Jerman
... If the developpers are still tweaking the process, and the requirements still evolving, it means that they are still in a test phase. If they are still in a test phase, they shouldn't use production files but test files...smaller files. Don Jerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fatcity.com on 2002-08-01

Re: Replication

2002-08-02 Thread Don Jerman
Oracle Lite is designed to do this -- the content-deployment part for standalone applications is a little buggy, but the data deployment and web-app deployment seems to work. We're instituting a couple of applications with this now, and data sync seems to be working fine. Application sync has

Re: Replication

2002-08-02 Thread Don Jerman
are working with a deployable version, I mean a bunch of users go away with their server/database and come back 2-3 months after, then they synchronized the master database. --- Don Jerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Oracle Lite is designed to do this -- the content-deployment part

Re: Replication

2002-08-02 Thread Don Jerman
Light works with a 9ias application (part of the Light package) to establish the mobile database and application on the mobile client. Once the application and database are downloaded, the database uses Advanced Replication to sync with the master when the clients are brought back to the

Massive update troubles

2002-08-01 Thread Don Jerman
I have a data conversion team working on our financial data, prepping it for load into SAP. My concept for the conversion process was to download the flat files, run programs written in C or Perl to transform the data, then use SQL*Loader to load them into relational tables for constraint

Re: SMP on windows2000

2002-07-24 Thread Don Jerman
My understanding is according to design it should do it automatically. My experience is it does, sort of. But the app has to be multi-threaded (by the OS definition, not just context-mapped like Java green threads) for it to ever use more than one processor at the same time. If your

Re: Locally managed tablespaces

2001-07-20 Thread Don Jerman
That's kind of the point -- in an LMT the free space is managed by bitmap. If it's contiguous in the bitmap it's contiguous, so if you free two adjacent blocks then they're already coalesced, nothing for SMON to do. That's their advantage -- no overhead for coalesce and no overhead for creating

Re: Problem connecting to a db

2001-07-17 Thread Don Jerman
If the person's account is a member of the local NT group ORA_DBA they should be able to follow this procedure from the server console: - set ORACLE_SID=SID - sqlplus /nolog - connect internal/internal_password I've had 8.1.5 ignore incorrect or missing passwords when I use this feature so I

Re: LISTENER port issue

2001-07-17 Thread Don Jerman
%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\services However, I'm not sure if the OS pays as much attention to this file as unix systems do. Seema Singh wrote: I want to know which file is equivalent in WIN2000 to /etc/services in unix. From: Rodd Holman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Re: Oracle Internet Directory

2001-07-17 Thread Don Jerman
Last I checked the license that comes with Enterprise Edition was free solely for the purpose of implementing Oracle services such as Portal, naming and database logins. If you want to use it for anything other than support of the included Oracle software, you have to pay extra. IIRC full use

Re: How to precreate tables for migration?

2001-07-05 Thread Don Jerman
As I impose order on our servers, (moving from project-managed to dba-managed db's) I perform this sort of task for individual schemas. The short form is the same as yours except: 3.5) create schemas where tables or tablespace assignments will change. 4.5) create tables that are to have storage

Re: NT4 - ORA 8.0.5 - NT4

2001-06-29 Thread Don Jerman
See ch. 10 of the PL/SQL programmers guide -- external procedures. Summary: someone needs to write a DLL that executes the external program, then Oracle can call the function from the DLL from a PL/SQL procedure. I've never had the nerve to put that in a procedure, however, but the context

Re: JDeveloper Connection to Oracle DB

2001-06-27 Thread Don Jerman
JDeveloper may not have installed in the same oracle home as your regular Oracle client, first see if you have more than one Oracle home directory on your computer, either by checking the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Oracle or by searching for the TNSNAMES.ORA file. Then ensure

Re: Database slowdown after 100 days uptime

2001-05-29 Thread Don Jerman
Keep an eye on free memory -- one of our similar systems has to be restarted every 60 days to prevent the behaviour you're encountering. We haven't determined the source of the memory leak, but if we permit it to continue eventually the DB stops responding and cannot be shut down. This system

Re: Problem with many (160 - 170) sessions in the database on NT

2001-05-29 Thread Don Jerman
You should consider running MTS or buying more RAM (if you want to run MTS you probably need to get to 8.1.7.2 first -- I don't remember its status as of 7.3.4 but in the 8.0 and 8.1.pre-7 series it appears to be unreliable). Your problem is probably this: of the 1.7G RAM you really only have

Re: Need oracle patch 8.1.7.1.1

2001-05-08 Thread Don Jerman
I must be going blind -- I search for the patch and the latest I find is 8.1.7.0.2 ... could you provide the ID number and/or a working method to find the .1.1 patch for NT? The Oracle DBA wrote: I guess you are not on NT because the .1.1 patch is there. The std procedure for 817 is to

Re: OT -- MS makes a statement about open-source software movemen t

2001-05-04 Thread Don Jerman
Don't forget breaking up common industry design standards like incompatible data requirements for Kerberos implementations and the use of the latest COM+ for all IPC -- you know -- the ones that require you to buy and run Microsoft products ;-). David Messer wrote: Sounds like MS is afraid

Re: 9iAS -- Boxes on which to run

2001-04-17 Thread Don Jerman
My experience is that 9iAS requires 1G RAM to run well. More if you want IFS... Given that the typical inexpensive Intel box is capped at 4GB and Microsoft won't let you use more than 3GB (2.5 realistically) on a 4GB machine, or half of your real RAM if you have less than 4GB, and that a

Re: server sizing

2001-04-17 Thread Don Jerman
And I'm just in the mood for a ramble, too... We stayed with NT too, because we have the sysadmins and engineers already. I have a DB that sounds a lot like yours and it's running just fine on a dual p400 with a mirror for redo and archive log and a raid5 for the data files. The real problem

Re: oracle training

2001-03-23 Thread Don Jerman
There's someone in Charlotte, too (dbBasics I believe) but we never use them as all our programmers are in Raleigh. I've seen some basic-level classes float through the universities and tech schools, but I wouldn't recommend them for non-students. Someone at Global keeps after me, too, but they

Re: EE on NT problem (on and off network) ???

2001-03-13 Thread Don Jerman
Try turning off DHCP when off the network -- set up a bogus net address like 10.0.0.1 or something and Oracle will happily talk to itself. TNS bombs because DHCP (actually TCP/IP) reports no address. Leslie Lu wrote: Hi all, I installed 815 EE on NT 4.0 on a laptop and created a testing

Re: Does NT write to random locations on disk?

2001-03-12 Thread Don Jerman
If you created it using the Database Assistant, it created a bunch of strangely small data files with autoextend turned on. When the file autoextends, it grabs the next free hunk of disk, of whatever size you set it to grab. Whether something else is creating ephemeral files that cause these

Re: Oracle Licensing

2001-03-07 Thread Don Jerman
The disk packs (probably still) come with 60 day trials for everything you didn't buy. Alternatively, if you have 10 developers, you could buy a 15-user license for your developer test machine (10 devs + you, your assistant, your operator and a couple spares in case you expand). The software

Re: No record in import help me please :..(

2001-03-05 Thread Don Jerman
You need to add FROMUSER=TEDDY TOUSER=TEDDY to your parameter file and try again. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, 1. In my Oracle I have accounts : - teddy/bear (normal user can create) - sun/solaris (granted DBA role) 2. I run the catexp.sql using

Re: ORACLE_ON_NT !!!!

2001-03-02 Thread Don Jerman
For the Oracle database to -run- the OracleServiceTEST (created with the oradim80 command below) must be running, so I infer that you're missing the OracleStartTEST service. You can try: oradim80 -edit -sid SID -intpwd PASSWORD -startmode AUTO -pfile PATH/initSID.ora and that might create it,

Re: DBWR slaves in NT???

2001-03-02 Thread Don Jerman
If you're not archiving anyway the NOLOGGING option on import and index creation might help things go faster (esp. if it's all on the same drive). Don't turn it on for the import if you're appending to existing data (unless you like living dangerously) but for indexes it's a good option for

Re: OEM 2.2. installation blues

2001-03-02 Thread Don Jerman
We're struggling with iAS/ iFS now with a similar box (only it's a leftover quad 400, 2GB mem from an appserver upgrade), could you elaborate on the "TWICE" part? "Jesse, Rich" wrote: Hi Patrice, I've successfully installed OEM 2.2 *TWICE* (thanks to Oracle Support for telling me that it

Re: Oracle Licensing

2001-03-02 Thread Don Jerman
Last time I danced with our sales rep, power units were per server, not per user... so the power unit price would be 400*100 = 40,000 for an unlimited (Ha! at 200mhz?) number of users. If you ask nicely, yours may agree to convert any concurrent or named user licenses you have into power unit

Re: BFILE vs. BLOB

2001-03-01 Thread Don Jerman
Last time I danced with this topic (8.1.5), BFILE required the file to exist somewhere accessable to the data server (like on a mounted file system) that you create an alias for with CREATE DIRECTORY. But the data server could not create or write the file. So you have to let the application

Re: Connection manager

2001-02-28 Thread Don Jerman
Been there -- I don't know about availability, but this is what we have to do for people working at home through their ISP. I'm assuming NAT produces similar problems. You can use CMAN for firewall tunnelling with or without MTS, don't know about connection concentration, though, as we don't

Re: How store 1024 bit ?

2001-02-15 Thread Don Jerman
Something like: create table keys( key_id char(8) primary key, key_val raw(128) not null); where key_id is rawtohex(the 32-bit key id) and key_val is the 1024bit key... although it's technically feasable to generate duplicate key id's (especially with this sample size) it's probably not good

Re: OT NT2K vs Unix.

2001-02-15 Thread Don Jerman
See www.lokigames.com Try Heavy Gear II and Quake III...they run well on my box. Kevin Kostyszyn wrote: What about Mechwarrior or Quake II, can I run that on Unix and will it run smoothly? This is a fun debate, but I do agree there will never be a winner. -Original Message-

Re: Primary Keys

2001-02-01 Thread Don Jerman
When you say "no natural key" I assume you mean no data that is non-null and unique. How, then, do you propose to get single records, since you (probably) don't want to have to find them by the image data... Of course, if the table is write-only -- who cares? :-) Brian Wisniewski wrote: I