RE: 10046 level 8 trace - help required with 'direct path

2003-10-30 Thread Paul . Parker
John/Tim, The 'direct path read/write' are for cursor #14. The delete is cursor #15. Check the trace file for the preceding cursor #14. Paul -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Tim, As you have seen, this is due to wr

RE: Simple Query for Week number

2002-12-19 Thread Paul . Parker
select to_char(sysdate, 'W') from dual; Paul -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 10:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hey Folks, Looking for the simplest of queries to find the week number, given a date. For example, 19th December 2002 falls in the 3rd we

RE: logon trigger

2002-10-02 Thread Paul . Parker
use execute immediate 'alter session enable parallel query'; Paul -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi guys I am trying to create the following trigger. The user in question is logging in using siebel app

RE: Cognos

2002-07-18 Thread Paul . Parker
Totally agree. I didn't make the point of accessing the production OLTP system, as I didn't think that anybody is still doing that :) Any serious reporting should be off of a database setup specifically for that purpose. Through a proper meta-data layer, the joins between dimensions and fact

RE: Oracle Migration 8.1.6.0 to 8.1.7.2

2002-07-18 Thread Paul . Parker
Currently going through a migration from 8.1.6.0.0 to 8.1.7.4 1. Had 8.1.6 installed. 2. Install 8.1.7.0 into new ORACLE_HOME 3. Apply pathset to get to 8.1.7.4 4. Upgrade database to 8.1.7.4 You only need to upgrade once, with only 2 oracle homes. Paul -Original Message- Sent: Th

RE: Cognos

2002-07-18 Thread Paul . Parker
Cognos notwithstanding, isn't the objective in the case of Data Warehouse/DSS/Reporting/BI (or whatever the latest buzzword is for generating reports) to give end-users access to the data. These end-users then generate the own reports, without the need for IT every time they need a new total on a

RE: the ora certified masters cert, yet again

2002-06-26 Thread Paul . Parker
Yeh, but he is the Prez ... :) Paul -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 12:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > if you are a lousy presenter, giving bad information, > you get horrible scores, and... Unfortunately, there is no reliable correlation between gi

RE: using a lot of temporary tablespace with large sort area size

2002-06-07 Thread Paul . Parker
Title: RE: using a lot of temporary tablespace with large sort area size What about hash_area_size?   Paul x3704 -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:58 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE:

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

2002-04-30 Thread Paul . Parker
I had the pleasure of meeting some of the oracle-l list members during the recent IOUG in San Diego. I also brought my family with me to San Diego, to combine my business with their pleasure. The IOUG (rightly perhaps) did not cater for any family-related events (although the Big Bash may have b

RE: Decyphering LMT space bitmap

2002-04-08 Thread Paul . Parker
>From the 'Data Management and Storage Internal" notes, Bitmapped Tablespace File Structure A new bitmapped tablespace file has the following structure: File Header 1 block Bitmapped File Space Header 1 block Head portion of of Bitm

RE: Decyphering LMT space bitmap

2002-04-08 Thread Paul . Parker
Following on from my previous note: Jeremiah, >From your bitmap control, You have FF occurring 3 times followed by 3F which is 255, 255, 255, 63 which is 0011 So, least signficant bit first, 1100 which is used, used, ... (30 t

RE: very interesting problem with V$SESSION and web applications.

2002-04-05 Thread Paul . Parker
Assuming that the application "knows" the real username, let the first thing that the app does is call dbms_application_info.set_client_info passing the real username as a parameter.  This sets v$session.client_info to the real username.    T10-PARTS> select client_info from v$session  2  wh

RE: SQL using UTL_FILE

2002-03-27 Thread Paul . Parker
Try and determine what it is doing/waiting for. Set up a 10046 trace at level 8. You may get lucky and see the problem within the first few minutes rather than wait the full 7 hours. Paul -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 11:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACL

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...Quotable quotes

2002-03-14 Thread Paul . Parker
This does make you wonder about the recently awarded Master's certification given by Oracle. (Not taking anything away from Jeremiah though) Paul -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 3:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L "..increasing the buffer hit ratio fro

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-14 Thread Paul . Parker
Also, optimizer_search_limit (I think hidden in 8.1) defaults to 5, which means, consider all permutations, including Cartesian product joins, if the # of tables in the from clause is 5 or less. For more than 5 tables, Cartesian products are not considered initially. Another parameter is optimi

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-12 Thread Paul . Parker
It has to be that "unless your data is all in one extent, you would experience bad performance" Paul -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:43 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I'm putting the final touches on my IOUG-A presentation (I got an extension for those

RE: Tkprof output

2002-02-22 Thread Paul . Parker
Set you 10046 trace at level 4 or 12, and then check the trace file. Paul -Original Message- Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 3:53 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Listers, I got the following statement in the tkprof output file : update EMP set "ENAME"=:V001,"EMPNO"=:V

RE: sql question

2002-02-22 Thread Paul . Parker
How about : select num from NUMBERS, ( select begin, end from RANGE) where num between begin and end; Paul -Original Message- Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 10:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You are right that the range aren't necessarily contigous. I'd probably

RE: ROWID datatype columns and primary keys

2002-02-21 Thread Paul . Parker
Patrice, The only reason I can think of creating a column with a datatype of ROWID, is in order to store a rowid. Why you need to "store" the rowid escapes me as the rowid is available as a pseudocolumn anyway. It is also dangerous to "store" this rowid in a column, as it can change. During and

RE: LOCKS - Reading Block Dumps

2001-12-04 Thread Paul . Parker
Hi Larry, the lb (lock byte) in the row piece of the block points to an ITL entry. As for the ITL entry, there is a slight confusion in that the headings don't line up exactly with values. In your case, when uncommitted, the contents are : Itl 0x01

RE: Number of Transactions per 24hr period? - Urgent

2001-11-27 Thread Paul . Parker
Title: RE: Number of Transactions per 24hr period? - Urgent Denham,   Craig Shallahamer explores this issue in a paper on www.orapub.com about Response Time Analysis.    In essence, one way of calculating the no. of transactions can be from 'user commits' + 'user rollbacks', but it appears

RE: range checking ??? URGENT

2001-11-14 Thread Paul . Parker
Which version? Does it have the case clause? -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 4:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all, Can decode work on a range, like if Code is > 100 and < 200, then name is A; if code>200 and code<300, then name is B; I hav

RE: Sqlloader - important

2001-11-13 Thread Paul . Parker
Roland, You are missing a comma and a quote. It should be (KAMPANJTYP_ID "DECODE(:KAMPANJTYP_ID,'?','98','!','97', :KAMPANJTYP_ID)", not (KAMPANJTYP_ID "DECODE(:KAMPANJTYP_ID,'?','98'!','97', :KAMPANJTYP_ID)", See the difference? Paul -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November

Average response time

2001-09-14 Thread Paul . Parker
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi List, I am trying to calculate the average database response time for a data center audit currently underway. Without "expensive" monitoring tools, is it possible to determine this from database statistics. So far, I'm using (Service Time + Wa

Re: DataWarehouse Configuration

2001-03-02 Thread Paul Parker
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RE: ksedmp

2001-02-15 Thread Paul Parker
formation in > it, and can't make sense of > it. > > I thought perhaps I could figure out what this > is by looking in the Oracle > Internals book by O'Reilly, but no success. It > does say that KS is a layer > used by the other layers for memory manageme

RE: Consistent Gets?

2001-02-13 Thread Paul Parker
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RE: Consistent Gets?

2001-02-12 Thread Paul Parker
1 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from > client > > 0 sorts (memory) > > 0 sorts (disk) > > 0 rows processed > > > > 12:09:38 T10-SERVCBO-CH> spool off > > > > > > What am I missing here? Any help > appreciated. > > &g

RE: Consistent Gets?

2001-02-12 Thread Paul Parker
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Re: Consistent Gets?

2001-02-12 Thread Paul Parker
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Re: Consistent Gets?

2001-02-12 Thread Paul Parker
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Consistent Gets?

2001-02-12 Thread Paul Parker
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