RE: EXP-00010 I need help

2002-04-18 Thread Seefelt, Beth
What happens if you do it logged in as CTXSYS and not system/manager? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 12:58 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This is a valid user in database but not to export somebody has any idee o solve it.

RE: EXP-00010 I need help

2002-04-18 Thread Scott . Shafer
-00010 I need help What happens if you do it logged in as CTXSYS and not system/manager? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 12:58 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This is a valid user in database but not to export somebody has any idee o solve

Re: Change language need help

2002-04-11 Thread Stephane Faroult
Sinardy Xing wrote: Hi all, I try to change the error message to French, Don't do that. French-speakers have to translate back to English to understand what they mean. -- Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriole Software -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com --

RE: BITAND need help

2002-03-17 Thread Sinard Xing
: RE: BITAND need help Do a: desc dual SQL desc dual NameNull?Type --- DUMMYVARCHAR2(1) SQL You are trying to do a bitand on a varchar2 column. Scott Shafer San

Re: BITAND need help

2002-03-15 Thread Connor McDonald
select bitand(4,4)+0 from dual; --- Sinard Xing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can someone help me with this please What cause the error ? SQL select bitand(4,4) from dual; ERROR: ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes no rows selected Sinardy -- Please see the

Re: BITAND need help (Solved)

2002-03-15 Thread Jonathan Lewis
The reason behind the oddity is probably that bitand() is defined (see standard.sql) to return a binary_integer (it used to return a number in earlier versions) and pure SQL does not recognise that type, so you need a method for coercing the result to a number. It is probably slightly cheaper

RE: BITAND need help

2002-03-15 Thread Scott . Shafer
will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate. -Original Message- From: Sinard Xing [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:48 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: BITAND need help Hi, Can someone help me

RE: BITAND need help

2002-03-15 Thread Scott . Shafer
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: BITAND need help Do a: desc dual SQL desc dual NameNull?Type --- DUMMYVARCHAR2(1) SQL You are trying to do a bitand

BITAND need help

2002-03-14 Thread Sinard Xing
Hi, Can someone help me with this please What cause the error ? SQL select bitand(4,4) from dual; ERROR: ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes no rows selected Sinardy -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Sinard Xing INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat

RE: URGENT: need help by point in time recovery

2002-02-15 Thread Dejam, Ruth
of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: URGENT: need help by point in time recovery This reminds me of something I always wanted to try to work out. It seems like you should be able to rebuild part of a db, so that the recovery of a certain tables data would be faster. That way you don't

Re: URGENT: need help by point in time recovery

2002-02-15 Thread Ray Stell
: Thursday, February 14, 2002 8:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:Re: URGENT: need help by point in time recovery This reminds me of something I always wanted to try to work out. It seems like you should be able to rebuild part of a db, so

RE: URGENT: need help by point in time recovery

2002-02-15 Thread Dejam, Ruth
Message- From: Ray Stell [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 1:38 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: URGENT: need help by point in time recovery On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:03:48AM -0800, Dejam, Ruth wrote: We use that method for our 8.0.6

SOLVED: URGENT: need help by point in time recovery

2002-02-14 Thread v . schoen
Betreff: Re: URGENT: need help by point in time recovery This reminds me of something I always wanted to try to work out. It seems like you should be able to rebuild part of a db, so that the recovery of a certain tables data would be faster. That way you don't spend the time reading all

URGENT: need help by point in time recovery

2002-02-13 Thread v . schoen
Title: URGENT: need help by point in time recovery Hi list, I have a urgent problem. One of our developers has deleted all rows of a table on production database (database of a customer from us). We have a nightly cold backup and database is running in archivelog mode. On same server we

RE: URGENT: need help by point in time recovery

2002-02-13 Thread Johnston, Tim
Title: URGENT: need help by point in time recovery Hi Volker... You should be able to do this... Just make sure you use a "using backup controlfile" on your recover command... Alternatively, you could mount the database and rename the datafiles instead of recreating the c

Re: URGENT: need help by point in time recovery

2002-02-13 Thread DBarbour
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: URGENT: need help by point in time recovery om

Need Help Please - With Procedures

2001-11-28 Thread Viraj Luthra
Hello all, I have attached an sql file containing a set of sql's (6) of them, which gives me information regarding table fragmentation. What I need to do is instead of writing seperate sql's, I need to write a procedure, where in I pass the owner and table name and then the result comes out,

RE: Need Help Please - With Procedures

2001-11-28 Thread Viraj Luthra
Yeah I am reading, but if I could get a framework for a procedure, referring to my sql's, then that would be a big help. Please help. rgds, raja -- On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:25:01 Kevin Lange wrote: Two books . Oracle PL/SQL Programming and Oracle Built-in Packages. Both from

Re: Need Help Please - With Procedures

2001-11-28 Thread Robert Chin
WOW ! all those new column names wth quirky names. Well here is the procdure. make sure you got the GRANTs right in order to compile it. Also check to make sure I got the your_variable/my_variable match right. hth robert chin CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE table_fragmentation_info ( v_table IN

RE: Need Help Please - With Procedures

2001-11-28 Thread Deepak Thapliyal
raja, I would recommend that you heed Kevin's advise .. in the meantime .. here is a quick start e.g. for what you are looking to do .. create procedure Blah ( para_owner in varchar2, para_table in varchar2) is cursor c1(v_owner varchar2, v_table varchar2) is select

Need help rewriting SQL with TRUNC function

2001-11-15 Thread Cherie_Machler
I think that the following statement is keeping this application from using an index in my cost-based execution plan. This is an 8.0.4 database so I don't have the option of creating a function-based index. I'm not that great with SQL. Can anyone help me rewrite this statement so that I don't

Re: Need help rewriting SQL with TRUNC function

2001-11-15 Thread Jan Pruner
Hmm, my_limit_date DATE:= trunc(sysdate) - 6; -- !!! only 6 erh.arrival_dt my_limit_date JP On Thu 15. November 2001 16:00, you wrote: I think that the following statement is keeping this application from using an index in my cost-based execution plan. This is an 8.0.4 database so

Re: Need help rewriting SQL with TRUNC function

2001-11-15 Thread Cherie_Machler
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need help rewriting SQL with TRUNC function 11/15/01 10:13

Re: Need help rewriting SQL with TRUNC function

2001-11-15 Thread Jan Pruner
Jan Pruner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need help rewriting SQL with TRUNC function 11/15/01 10:13

Re: Need help rewriting SQL with TRUNC function

2001-11-15 Thread sfaroult
I think that the following statement is keeping this application from using an index in my cost-based execution plan. This is an 8.0.4 database so I don't have the option of creating a function-based index. I'm not that great with SQL. Can anyone help me rewrite this statement so that I don't

Re: Need help rewriting SQL with TRUNC function

2001-11-15 Thread Connor McDonald
(trunc(sysdate) - trunc(erh.arrival_dt)) = 7 becomes - trunc(erh.arrival_dt) = 7 - trunc(sysdate) becomes by negating trunc(erh.arrival_dt) = trunc(sysdate) - 7 becomes erh.arrival_dt = trunc(sysdate) - 7 + 0.9 hth connor --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that the following

RE: Need help rewriting SQL with TRUNC function

2001-11-15 Thread Bill Buchan
Wouldn't this introduce a time-of-day dependency on the result? Instead, how about: (trunc(sysdate) - erh.arrival_dt)) 6 AND (ie. strictly greater than six days ago) - Bill. At 08:30 15/11/01 -0800, you wrote: Cherie, Change the clause as follows orig == (trunc(sysdate) -

I need help understanding how Oracle uses the OS buffer cache...

2001-09-21 Thread Shukle, Pranav
Hi Everyone, We have been experiencing some I/O issues; and the systems support team (HP) thinks that we should bump up our OS buffer cache. Currently we are sitting at 150MB; after researching on Metalink the recommendation from Oracle for HPUX is to have a max of 128MB of buffer cache. I have

Re: I need help understanding how Oracle uses the OS buffer cache...

2001-09-21 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
We are having 134MB for buffer cache with same platform and version. You can go upto 256MB,if you want. There are other list members like Kirti who can give better explanation of this. Regards MOHAMMAD RAFIQ Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Create Database ORA-907 need help

2001-09-05 Thread Sinardy
Hi all, Can someone tell me whats wrong with my script ? CREATE DATABASE TEST LOGFILE ( '/test/redo01.log' SIZE 10K, '/test/redo02.log' SIZE 10K, '/test/redo03.log' SIZE 10K ) MAXL0GFILES 6 MAXINSTANCES 4

RE: Create Database ORA-907 need help

2001-09-05 Thread Rajesh Dayal
You don't need to put any Bracket after keyword 'LOGFILE' See following lines... CREATE DATABASE OHIR LOGFILE 'D:\Oracle\oradata\OHIR\redo01.log' SIZE 1024K, 'D:\Oracle\oradata\OHIR\redo02.log' SIZE 1024K, 'D:\Oracle\oradata\OHIR\redo03.log' SIZE 1024K MAXLOGFILES 12 MAXLOGMEMBERS 2

Re: Create Database ORA-907 need help

2001-09-05 Thread Jeram
Try to remove the brackets. Rgds/Jeram -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 2:27 PM Hi all, Can someone tell me whats wrong with my script ? CREATE DATABASE TEST LOGFILE ( '/test/redo01.log' SIZE 10K,

Re: Create Database ORA-907 need help

2001-09-05 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
Chk the spelling of maxlogfiles. You have used 0(zero) instead of 'O'. -- On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 23:55:42 Sinardy wrote: Hi all, Can someone tell me whats wrong with my script ? CREATE DATABASE TEST LOGFILE ( '/test/redo01.log' SIZE 10K,

RE: Create Database ORA-907 need help

2001-09-05 Thread BELOV
of list ORACLE-L Subject: Create Database ORA-907 need help Hi all, Can someone tell me whats wrong with my script ? CREATE DATABASE TEST LOGFILE ( '/test/redo01.log' SIZE 10K, '/test/redo02.log' SIZE 10K, '/test/redo03.log' SIZE 10K

Oracle 8i Upgrade Proposal - Need Help!

2001-08-28 Thread Satar Naghshineh
Title: Oracle 8i Upgrade Proposal - Need Help! Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I need to present a proposal to management on Upgrading on of our databases from Oracle 7 to 8i. I was wondering if anyone out there already has done this. If so, can you please e- mail me a copy of this proposal

SQL+ SELECT statement need help

2001-08-27 Thread Sinardy
Hi all, 1. I have table emp (ename, dept, sal) 2. I do SELECT 'NAME : ' || ename || ' DEPARTMENT : ' || dept || ' SALARY : ' || sal FROM emp; Result: NAME : JAMES DEPARTMENT : LAB ENGINEER SALARY : 2000 NAME : BOB DEPARTMENT : DRIVER SALARY :

RE: SQL+ SELECT statement need help

2001-08-27 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Message- From: Sinardy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 10:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: SQL+ SELECT statement need help Hi all, 1. I have table emp (ename, dept, sal) 2. I do SELECT 'NAME : ' || ename || ' DEPARTMENT

RE: SQL+ SELECT statement need help

2001-08-27 Thread CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC)
, 2001 11:41 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:SQL+ SELECT statement need help Hi all, 1. I have table emp (ename, dept, sal) 2. I do SELECT 'NAME : ' || ename

RE: SQL+ SELECT statement need help solve

2001-08-27 Thread Sinardy
statement need help Hi all, 1. I have table emp (ename, dept, sal) 2. I do SELECT 'NAME : ' || ename || ' DEPARTMENT : ' || dept || ' SALARY : ' || sal FROM emp; Result: NAME : JAMES DEPARTMENT : LAB ENGINEER SALARY : 2000 NAME : BOB DEPARTMENT

SQL+ need help (low priority)

2001-08-23 Thread Sinardy
Hi all, When I do Select * from v_$sga; NAME VALUE --- --- Fixed Size ### Variable Size ### Database Buffers### Redo Buffers

RE: SQL+ need help (low priority)

2001-08-23 Thread Harsh Agrawal
It seems that the column format of col. VALUE is less. Before giving the first command give the following command column value It will display the current column format of column VALUE Now second SELECT doesn't gives any problem 'coz col format is assigned on col. VALUE not on VALUE + 0.

RE: SQL+ need help (low priority)

2001-08-23 Thread Sinardy
Hi all, Thank you all, It's work now I must clear it using clear column or exit from sqlplus and run it again Thanks Sinardy -Original Message- Graham Sent: Thursday, 23 August 2001 7:51 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sinardy, assuming that this has been done in

Re: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Are you rebuilding indexes with unrecoverable/nologging and parallel clause or simple 'alter index index_name rebuild tablespace tbs_name', which is definately slow then using above options500/600MB indexes may take around 30/35 minutes depending of your parallel clause and cpu

Re: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread lyudah
Thank you everyone who replied. All suggestions were very helpful. I am bebuilding my indexes in a different tablespace. It runs very very slow.. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:51 PM Lyuda; 1.

Fw: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread lyudah
I meant EBUILDING. That is what a long day of slow rebuilding indexes can do to you.:-) - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 9:32 PM Thank you everyone who replied. All suggestions were very helpful. I

RE: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Kevin Lange
Lyuda; 1. Create a new tablespace for the indexes on a seperate drive. Make sure you do this with a much more reasonable datafile size. (Watch it here maybe they did the big size because they were running out of possible files -- see the max_datafiles parm on the Create Database command)

Re: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Peter Gram
Hi Lyuda This is not a nice situation to bee in, but the god new is that oracle can help you since you are using version 8.1.6 ! You can use the ALTER INDEX index-name REBUILD TABLESPACE new-tablespace_name; to move the index to a new tablespace and this can even be don online with ALTER INDEX

Re: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Ron Rogers
Lyuda, You didn't say if you have other disk space available or not. If you do I would create the index/indexes tablespace/s on different drives then drop them from the original location. After you get breathing room you can reorg the database to a more comfortable setup. When you have removed

RE: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
You can check alter index clause and you will find parallel option. You may use parallel 5 safely being default in initSID.ora. However it will start building 5 times extent in temp tablespace before completion of rebuilding. With rebuilding large indexes on regular basis we have to use all

huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-02 Thread lhoska
Hi List, I have a monster tablespace 36 G with two datafiles 32 G and 4 G. Don't ask me who created such a file because I don't know. I am trying to rescue the database that has multiple problems. Something you've never seen before. Bye the way, did anyone ever run a test how much stuff you

Urgent: Need help

2001-07-29 Thread Viraj Luthra
Hello all, A very basic question; the background processes, smon, pmon, etc. do they have an executable name like smon* etc. or pmon* in some bin directory of oracle? Or how do they start? like eg. BMC' Patrol agent when it runs is run because there is an executable called PatrolAgent, is it

Re: Need help/hint creating a quiry

2001-06-26 Thread Stephane Faroult
Hi all Lets say I have a table: f1 char(10) f2 char(2) f3 number where f1 is a name, f2 is a code and f3 is a number. What I want to produce is a report that looks something like this: F1 F2 IS A F2 is B F2 IS C F2 is X f1f3f3 f3 f1f3

Need help/hint creating a quiry

2001-06-25 Thread Gene Gurevich
Hi all Lets say I have a table: f1 char(10) f2 char(2) f3 number where f1 is a name, f2 is a code and f3 is a number. What I want to produce is a report that looks something like this: F1 F2 IS A F2 is B F2 IS C F2 is X f1f3f3 f3 f1f3f3 f3

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Viraj Luthra
I dont want to sound rude here, and my comments are NOT directed at you personally. What is the standard of these OCP's, when a person who has not worked with oracle, can pass them, for the sake of discussion it does not matter which tests they were? It seems doing an OCP is a complete waste

RE: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Sinardy Xing
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, 20 June 2001 11:15 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Need help getting startedThis is kind of a different Oracle question. Does anyone have any

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Joseph S. Testa
Viraj, hahahahah, it couldnt have been said any better :), i've been thinking that way for years as well as a few others on the list :) joe Viraj Luthra wrote: I dont want to sound rude here, and my comments are NOT directed at you personally. What is the standard of these OCP's, when a

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Pete Wang
Dear Viraj, I can totally understand how you feel. But I hope you can appreciate that it takes a lot of courage and perseverance for a person who doesn't know Oracle to take any of the OCP papers. Many of us have to do a lot of additional studies on top of the Oracle training material

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread William Beilstein
My first question is what is your field of study in school? Is it computer related? Have you graduated, many employers want to see you graduate before they will hire you. Have you asked any of your larger companies about any IS extern programs that they might have. If you have graduated, have

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Cherie_Machler
l.comTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: root@fatcity.Subject: Need help getting

RE: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
I agree, if you have no experience and take the exams it will give you some level of knowledge about oracle. I have started taking these exams and recognize one issue with getting certified. It's great and all, but it's like any other test. You can study your arse off and pass with flying

RE: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
. Cheers! - Kirti Deshpande Verizon Information Services http://www.superpages.com -Original Message- From: Joseph S. Testa [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Need help getting started Viraj

RE: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Need help getting started Karen, for what it's worth: What did you study in college? Studying CSCI in college is absolutely not a prereq for getting into technology but it at least demonstrates that you can think that way. I did study CSCI and I think half of it was a waste

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Dennis Taylor
At 11:15 PM 6/19/01 -0800, you wrote: What is the standard of these OCP's, when a person who has not worked with oracle, can pass them, for the sake of discussion it does not matter which tests they were? It seems doing an OCP is a complete waste of time! Uh, couldn't the same comment then be

RE: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Guy Hammond
Joe, I don't think we've enough information to state that she doesn't have Oracle running on her Linux machine at home, and hasn't diligently practiced and studied. I learnt Java in a similar way before getting my first Java developer job back in '96. I would expect people on this list to be a

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Terry Ball
Just as an addendum to what others have said. Many goverment offices accept volunteers. Have you tried going to your city/county goverments and if possible state? Also, hospitals also accept volunteers. Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is kind of a different Oracle question. Does anyone

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread DBAtracker
I'm kind of in the same boat as Karen... except that I'm working as a developer right now (not Oracle). My goal of becoming a DBA has taken a year and a half to complete the certification track. I know the effort it takes to get certified. Granted, there are a lot of things I leaned and knew

create DBA user need help...

2001-06-19 Thread Sinardy Xing
Hi all, I recreated DBA role that provided by Oracle8i, 1. Create New_DBA_role identified by change_me; 2. Select 'GRANT ' || privilege || ' TO new_dba_role' FROM dba_sys_privs; Create new dba user 3.Create user new_dba identified by password default tablespace userdata

Need help getting started

2001-06-19 Thread Sllewnerak
This is kind of a different Oracle question. Does anyone have any suggestions how a person can land an entry level job. I do not work in the Technology field but would very much like to. I have been going to school at night for about two and a half years and have the first two OCP developers

Need Help

2001-06-14 Thread kjanusz
I need some help. I was an Oracle DBA with ADC Telecomm in Minnesota and was laid off along with 7,000 other ADC employees. The job market here in the TC’s has been very slow. Any assistance finding another Oracle related position would be greatly appreciated. Please contact me directly

Re: Need Help

2001-06-14 Thread Yosi Greenfield
Ken, Welcome to the club. Are we starting a trend? At least we're not competing against each other. Good luck, Yosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need some help. I was an Oracle DBA with ADC Telecomm in Minnesota and was laid off along with 7,000 other ADC employees. The job market here in

SOLVED !!! - RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-07 Thread Srini . Chavali
06, 2001 2:47 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Need help tuning FTS All, I need some help in tuning a select statement that performs a FTS. (The FTS is deliberate !) It takes over 5 hours to run in our prod instance, but takes less than 10 min in our QA

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-07 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:47 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Need help tuning FTS All, I need some help in tuning a select statement that performs a FTS. (The FTS is deliberate !) It takes over 5

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread Yosi
recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Need help tuning FTS All, I need some help in tuning a select statement that performs a FTS. (The FTS is deliberate !) It takes over 5 hours to run in our prod instance, but takes less than 10 min in our QA instance. The QA instance was copied from prod

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread Christopher Spence
I would recommend uping the parameter _DB_BLOCK_HASH_LATCHES by default after I believe 2000 block buffers, it defaults to 1024 all the way up to 10 blocks buffers if i remember correctly. This will generate alot of the #66 latch contention. This shouldn't equate to 6 hours compared to 10

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread Srini . Chavali
cache value in QA, but a low cache value in prod? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:47 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Need help tuning FTS All, I need some help in tuning a select statement

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread Srini . Chavali
Chris, Thanks for your input ! One difference between our prod and QA instances is that the QA instance is relatively idle - while average load on the prod instance is about 175 users, with less than 5% hitting the database hard at any given point in time. I am unable to figue out why there is

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread John Kanagaraj
Srini, I am sure you have lots of users in Prod compared to QA :) Anyway, the point is that you are suffering from hot block contention which reflects itself in latch waits on 'cache buffer chain'. I remember that Steve Adams has a SQL at his site that identifies blocks that are 'hot' - I have

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread Srini . Chavali
John, Thanks for your input ! Unfortunately, this issue seems too weird ! (I know, I know, I shouldn't be saying that as a DBA !!). We have run that process three times today in prod in an effort to try and isolate the issue. We have run it when only one other user was hitting the prod database

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread John Kanagaraj
Hi Srini, isolate the issue. We have run it when only one other user was hitting the prod database heavily using a select stmt on unrelated tables - but the problem still persists. There were no concurrent requests running at the time. The issue does not seem to be related to contention of

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread DBarbour
ummins.com To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: Need help tuning FTS

sql loader need help

2001-05-29 Thread Mujeeb Chowdhry
Hi, I need some help...I am trying to use SQL loader to load a flat file into a table...the problem I have is that when trying to load a blank column into a date column... this throws out an error...and the loader fails...do you know of a way of how to get around this problem...how can I

RE: sql loader need help

2001-05-29 Thread Lally, Tom (MA09)
Hi, Take a look at the nullif clause. tom -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 12:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I need some help...I am trying to use SQL loader to load a flat file into a table...the problem I have is that when trying to load a blank

Re: sql loader need help

2001-05-29 Thread Ron Rogers
In the CONTROL file that describes the columns to load from the data file you can load a FILLER type column desc into the destination table if the column does not exist in the source data file. If the source data column contains nulls then a NVL will convert a null to what ever you want to

Re:Oracle client for the desktop/Win 2000. Need help with wh

2001-05-01 Thread dgoulet
Charles, 8.0.5 will work on Win2K, I've got it still installed and have no problems. BUT, if your DB is 8.1.x then you're loosing some features by not upgrading the client. As a for instance, the 8.0.5 SQL*Plus client will not support the execute immediate statememnt in PL/SQL. The 8.1.6

Oracle client for the desktop/Win 2000. Need help with which version.

2001-04-30 Thread Charles Yuan
Hi Listeners, Do you recommend the latest version of the Oracle client for the desktop? Our current standard is Oracle 8.0.5. In preparation for Windows 2000, we would like to migrate to a new version sometimes this year. Is there a version you suggest we look at? Thanks in advance, Charles

RE: Oracle client for the desktop/Win 2000. Need help with which

2001-04-30 Thread Haskins, Ed
Charles, For Win2K...Oracle only supports the 8.1.6 Client or higher. We've standardized on the 8.1.6 Client for our Corporate-wide rollout of the Oracle Client utilizing Oracle Names for DB name resolution. Ed Haskins Oracle DBA Verizon Wireless -Original Message- Sent: Monday,

Need Help.

2001-04-19 Thread udaycb
Hi All, Recently we moved the database(Oracle 8.0.5) from NT to Sun machine. Now this database is going online very soon. When we were testing we observed that, the application (select statement) is running very slow. (I don't know how fast it was earlier). I have a feeling that it is not using

RE: Need Help.

2001-04-19 Thread Vadim Gorbounov
Hello, Uday, First step, try ANALYZE TABLE ... COMPUTE STATISTICS for EVERY table participating your query(es). Check and compare execution plan before and after analyze. HTH Vadim Gorbounov Oracle DBA -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 3:32 PM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: Need Help.

2001-04-19 Thread Claudio Roca
You have to ru explain plan for that statement. You first have to create the PLAN_TABLE, you can do that running the script $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/utlxplan.sql Then, login to sql and run th following statement: SQL explain plan for your-sql ; then, run the following statement to obtan the

RE: Need Help.

2001-04-19 Thread dieter . oberkofler
hi uday! i strongly would recommend you to have a look at the execution plan of your sql statement. you might also find my tool called top100 quite useful in helping you to look at the execution plans for all statement in your sga. have a look at my web page at: www.materialdreams.com do

Re: Need Help.

2001-04-19 Thread David A. Barbour
Uday, Your problem may have more than one component. There are three immediate things I'd try/look at, one of which will provide you with information, the other two that may or may not improve your performance. For information on your select statement, start a trace on the session, run the

RE: ===CPU, memory script(need help)

2001-03-26 Thread Sinardy Xing
select NAME, VALUE from sys.v_$sga; vmstat (solaris command) Sinardy -Original Message- Sent: Monday, 26 March 2001 8:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Importance: High Hi Gurus, does anyone has a script that detects in a database where a lot CPU is being used and

Re: Need Help For Installing Oracle On AIX

2001-03-16 Thread David A. Barbour
Neena, If I understand correctly, you have a server with the OS on it, and the DB on a set of external drives - right? Cable the external drives to the working server, reboot, and import the volume groups. Your database should be right there. Regards, David A. Barbour Oracle DBA Formerly

RE: [Q] SQL statement need help !!

2001-02-23 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
SET PAGESIZE 0 suppresses the headings Rick -Original Message- From: L [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 2:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Q] SQL statement need help !! I have following sql statemen when runninf does

OFFTOPIC RE: Need help in moving LOB index

2001-02-15 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: OFFTOPIC RE: Need help in moving LOB index How far away is the tablespace? You need to know this, because first you need to compute tablespaces/mile before activating the LOB-Velocity filter. This is a new 8i feature that some of the list gurus might be able to help you

RE: Need help in moving LOB index

2001-02-15 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Winnie, According to the SQL Reference for 8.1.6 (Create Table): LOB_index_clause This clause is deprecated as of Oracle8i. Oracle generates an index for each LOB column. Oracle names and manages the LOB indexes internally. Although it is still possible for you to specify this clause, Oracle

RE: Need help in moving LOB index

2001-02-15 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Oracle recommends against this. LOB_index_clause This clause is deprecated as of Oracle8i. Oracle generates anindex for each LOB column. The LOB indexes are system named and system managed, and reside in the same tablespace as the LOB data segments. It is

Need help - Database link - Please!!

2001-02-05 Thread Smith, Ron L.
I have a public database link defined with userid-1. Userid-1 has update permissions on table-a in database-b. Userid-2 has no permissions on table-a in database-b. Userid-2, in database-a, calls a package that contains the database link and tries to update table-a in database-b. The result is an

RE: Need help - Database link - Please!!

2001-02-05 Thread Smith, Ron L.
I'm sorry. The error is not that the user cannot use the database link. The error is that Oracle does not want the user to update table-a in database-b even though the user has update permissions. Ron -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: Need help - Database link - Please!!

2001-02-05 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Let me rephrase it. The user defined in the database link has insert permissions on table-a. The user calling the database link does not have any permissions on any table in database-b. Ron -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:11 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

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