unix question continue...

2001-08-01 Thread Sinardy
Hi all, But they other group will unable to read. Like for example in DOS we can make our *.bat file to *.exe changing the ascii (readable) to binary file. Is this possible? thank you -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2001 12:25 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RULE vs. CHOOSE

2001-08-01 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Qs. Will COST Based Optimizer (CBO) or Rule Based Optimizer (RBO) be used for the PARTITIONED Table in the Following Query ? NOTE OPTIMIZER_MODE is Set Explicitly to RULE , Run the Following SQL :- SELECT Some Columns FROM Partition Table , NON-Partitioned Table where Partition Table.Column =

RE: Can Unix script not changeable and not readable ?

2001-08-01 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Compilation will not make the password unreadable. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 8:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all, How make unix script and Oracle sql script not readable or

Re: Size of variable in PL/SQL

2001-08-01 Thread G . Plivna
Should be okay if you you use it only for plsql variables, which Oracle version do you have? Maximum size of a varchar2 plsql variable is 32000 Maximum size of a varchar2 column in a table is 4000 bytes see more about variable sizes in http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/oracle_limits.htm Gints

Re: Creating DDL level triggers in Oracle 8.1.7

2001-08-01 Thread G . Plivna
look in application developers guide or plsql user's guide for more info I've succesfully created for testing purposes them as follows create or replace trigger ON_ALTER AFTER ALTER ON DATABASE BEGIN INSERT INTO sys_aud_table ( event ,id ,timestamp ,login_user

Re: RULE vs. CHOOSE

2001-08-01 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
Use the plan stability of Oracle 8i. In this u have to capture plans for the sqls. A init parameter has to be added use_plan_stability=true(pls chk with manuals for more info). Ref to Oracle performance tuning manual. It is explained well there. HTH Regards Venkat -- On Tue, 31 Jul 2001

Re: OT: OOW - notification of selection - Dates moved to Aug 6th

2001-08-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Well at least that explains my empty inbox. I thought they didn't want me :) From: John Kanagaraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: OOW - notification of selection - Dates moved to Aug 6th Date: Tue, 31 Jul

Re: RULE vs. CHOOSE

2001-08-01 Thread Christian Trassens
Sorry, but maybe you refer to the outlines and the parameter use_stored_outlines. Read the notes 1071358.6 and 92202.1 Regards. --- C.S.Venkata Subramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use the plan stability of Oracle 8i. In this u have to capture plans for the sqls. A init parameter has to be

RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest

2001-08-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
John, Greenmarket=Farmer's market. We have several all over the city, I love the neighborhood we moved our offices to not just because it is a fun, funky area to explore but because the best of the markets is within walking distance and is there M, W, F and Sat. I haven't gone and

Re: NOARCHIVELOG, ONLINE redolog corrupted - solved

2001-08-01 Thread Joe Testa
its been at least a year since this wa sstated but i believe i read(have not tried it), that you could have totally erase your redo logs(like you had a serious failure in which all copies were lost) and a open restelogs would have recreated them. I think that was explained by someone on the

cleaning up oracle homes on NT

2001-08-01 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Andrea asked about removing NT services. What about Oracle homes? The Oracle Universal Installer appears to be doing a poor job of cleaning those up when we de-install Oracle software. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et

OT -- the volume of job postings is way down

2001-08-01 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I noticed on www.dice.com http://www.dice.com that the number of job postings is way down. Is this because of the recession / dot-com collapse, or because DBAs are no longer in demand? I notice that most postings emphasize that they need U.S. residents or citizens, green cards, but nobody

Re: 64bit to 32bit downgrade

2001-08-01 Thread Joe Testa
read the migration guide, near the end, its ALOT easier than that, look for changing word-size. joe Adrian Roe wrote: Hi All, Can anybody give a quick overview of what's involved in downgrading from 64bit Oracle (AIX) to 32bit. Is it straightforward ie. export/import, anything to watch

Re: cleaning up oracle homes on NT

2001-08-01 Thread Jon Walthour
Patrice: If you're talking about the filesystem, everything should be under the %ORACLE_HOME% directory (usually c:\oracle\ora81 or the like). The registry entries are all in HKLM\Software\Oracle. Just run regedit and delete this key to remove all the Oracle registry keys. Also, the OUI will not

Re: cleaning up oracle homes on NT

2001-08-01 Thread Saurabh Sharma
u can also remove specific or all oracle home from ur system. go to registry editor.. local machine/software/oracle and remove what u want.. Saurabh Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/saurabh00pc/stride.html - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: Perl Script for Alert Log

2001-08-01 Thread Okan CIMEN
Hello all, I had more than I thought requests for the soft copy of the book Teach yourself perl 5 in 21 days . For that reason, I put them at my box for download. Sorry for the delay but it has been a busy day for me... I do not want any personal information nor any charges for download. Just

RE: OT -- the volume of job postings is way down

2001-08-01 Thread Christopher Spence
I think it is all of the above. Mainly the recession and Dot-bomb. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 8:10 AM To: Multiple

RE: Off Topic - Anybody know how to copy a DVD?

2001-08-01 Thread Christopher Spence
What dvd's are you using? They are generally 4.7Gb per side, and 9.4Gb if they are duel layered. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 6:26

Suggestions Needed

2001-08-01 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
Dear All, We are in process of migrating some appln from WindowsNT to Unix. Our prgs are written in Pro*c. We need some suggestions reg the same. TIA Regards Venkata Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/ -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: OT -- the volume of job postings is way down

2001-08-01 Thread Page, Bruce
Is this because of the recession / dot-com collapse, Yep. The dot-com collapse freed up a lot of DBAs and they finally decided that moving east was better than living on the streets of San Francisco. There are still a few openings out there, but nobody wants to move to Memphis since Elvis

RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest

2001-08-01 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest Ohh, very clever indeed! -Original Message-From: Jacques Kilchoer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 9:20 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: OT about to peeve off

Re: RULE vs. CHOOSE

2001-08-01 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
Ya I got the name correctly. Thanks for pointing it out. Venkat -- On Wed, 01 Aug 2001 03:01:19 Christian Trassens wrote: Sorry, but maybe you refer to the outlines and the parameter use_stored_outlines. Read the notes 1071358.6 and 92202.1 Regards. --- C.S.Venkata Subramanian [EMAIL

RE: Perl Script for Alert Log

2001-08-01 Thread Christopher Spence
I highly recommend the O'Reilly library of books for Perl. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 10:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: RAID 5/Oracle

2001-08-01 Thread Christopher Spence
The A1000 has a max of 12 disks. I would recommend against Raid 5 for performance reasons, although the write-back cache covers some of the drawbacks. A1000 is knowned to have slow cache, and consistency errors when they are pushed to the brink of saturation. But yes, Raid 5 with 4 disks will

RE: cleaning up oracle homes on NT

2001-08-01 Thread JOE TESTA
I broke oracle on NT one time by messing with them, i thought i'd do it manually, so i tinkered with registry entries, etc, eventually had to blow away all of the oracle stuff and start over. :( joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/01/01 09:10AM I don't want to remove all the oracle homes, just one

RE: Add hours and minutes to date

2001-08-01 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Kevin, An hour is 3600 seconds, a minute is 60 seconds oracle date addition is a pure number ... so you convert hours to number of seconds, add that to number of seconds for minutes. This will give you total number of seconds. Divide that by 86400 and add this result to sysdate (or whatever

View Help

2001-08-01 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
Dear All, Is it possible to create a view where I will pass the condition to the where clause dynamically. eg) Create view v1 as select ename,empno,sal from emp where deptno=:a The value of 'a' I will pass the value dynamically when I do the select. eg) select * from v1. Now I'll pass the

RE: OT -- the volume of job postings is way down

2001-08-01 Thread Ron Rogers
Patrice, You will also notice the same on monster.com , computerjobs.com , headhunter.net, and a lot of the individual headhunter home sites. Some of the sites are running the same ads for the same job but with different headhunters. It is definitely a different market than it was 12 months

RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest

2001-08-01 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
A drive down the turnpike is NEVER worth it:) KK -Original Message- Kanagaraj Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 2:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Rachel, Do you have the 'Farmer's markets' in NY like we have here in CA? (where farmers freight and sell their farm-grown

RE: upgrade

2001-08-01 Thread Rajesh Dayal
Did you run all the scripts suggested as post-upgrade operation.(like utlrp) HTH, Rajesh -Original Message- Fawzia Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 5:51 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I have just upgraded 8.0.5.2 to 8.1.6 and some of my objects are invalid.

Re: unix question continue...

2001-08-01 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Sinardy schrieb: Hi all, But they other group will unable to read. Like for example in DOS we can make our *.bat file to *.exe changing the ascii (readable) to binary file. Is this possible? thank you -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2001 12:25 PM To: Multiple

RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest

2001-08-01 Thread Mohan, Ross
I don't know how you would tell if someone died of heart failure from a fossil. One of the problems is that the cavemen and cavewomen didn't live long enough for some of the modern diseases to afflict them. || LoLi guess they warmed up one of those petrified ice cavemen they found

RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest

2001-08-01 Thread Page, Bruce
I don't know how you would tell if someone died of heart failure from a fossil. Heart problems show up in the bones due to poor circulation of nutrients. There has been a few fossils found with some evidence, but not very many. Since they ate more wild meat, their diet had a lot less fat

Re: Can Unix script not changeable and not readable ?

2001-08-01 Thread Stefan Jahnke
MacGregor, Ian A. schrieb: Compilation will not make the password unreadable. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, if you want to hide the connect strings, place them in an extra directory, only x-able and readable by privileged users. Then have your

Re: RAID 5/Oracle

2001-08-01 Thread Ron Rogers
If I understand your statement correctly. The RAID5 drives will be considered as one large logical drive and they are setting it up as one mount point. With the RAID5 configuration you loose the ability to use each individual physical drive separately. 4 drives of 10 GIG each in RAID5

RE: severe lib cache contention !!

2001-08-01 Thread Christopher Spence
CURSOR_SHARING is 8.1.6. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 10:13 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Set your

upgrade

2001-08-01 Thread Malik, Fawzia
Hi, I have just upgraded 8.0.5.2 to 8.1.6 and some of my objects are invalid. I have tried to recompile them to no avail. I did the upgrade manually running the script :u0800050. Is there anything else I needed to run??? Rgds Fawzia This message is confidential and is intended for

RE: View Help

2001-08-01 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Venkata, Yes. Create a public variable in a PL/SQL package stored in the database. Reference that public variable in the where clause of your view and populate that variable before you select from the view. Since each session gets its own instantiation of the packaged variable, each session

RE: Evaluation questions

2001-08-01 Thread Mark Leith
Rachel, This is indeed harder than one would expect. It is simple in the case of userA still working on the locking transaction, which I've put together a script for: select u.name Owner, o.name Object, l.sid SID, s.username Username, t.sql_text SQL, l.type

Re: off topic--oracle Vs ms sql

2001-08-01 Thread Dwayne Cox
Try this site... http://www.mysql.com/information/crash-me.php On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:29:28 -0800 Ravindra Basavaraja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any doc or links that compares oracle and ms sql. Also what are the equivalent data types in ms sql for oracle's lobs. Thanks

RE: View Help

2001-08-01 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Venkata, the way to do this is to return the column you wish to use in the WHERE clause. Example: Create view v1 as select ename,empno,sal,deptno from emp; Then, when you access the view, you can say: select * from v1 where deptno={some value} I do this all the time, and it works just fine.

Re: RAID 5/Oracle

2001-08-01 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Ravindra Basavaraja schrieb: We are planning to move our database to Sun 4500 with A1000(RAID 5).Our system admin group has been working on this setup and I was told that the A1000 which is having 4 disks will be seen as just as one mount point after configuration.Is this the correct way

Re: Suggestions Needed

2001-08-01 Thread Stefan Jahnke
C.S.Venkata Subramanian schrieb: Dear All, We are in process of migrating some appln from WindowsNT to Unix. Our prgs are written in Pro*c. We need some suggestions reg the same. TIA Regards Venkata Hi, what kind of input do you need ? Regarding the Precompiler, it's available on

Re: Off Topic - Anybody know how to copy a DVD?

2001-08-01 Thread Ruth Gramolini
There are dvd burners. I know someone who has one tho I've never seen it. Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 9:16 AM What dvd's are you using? They are generally 4.7Gb per side, and 9.4Gb if they are

Re: upgrade

2001-08-01 Thread JOE TESTA
what did the migration guide tell you? maybe utlrp?? joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/01/01 09:50AM Hi,I have just upgraded 8.0.5.2 to 8.1.6 and some of my objects are invalid. Ihave tried to recompile them to no avail. I did the upgrade manually runningthe script :u0800050. Is there

RE: RULE vs. CHOOSE

2001-08-01 Thread Gillies, Garry
Title: RE: RULE vs. CHOOSE From: VIVEK_SHARMA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 August 2001 08:05 Subject: RULE vs. CHOOSE Qs. Will COST Based Optimizer (CBO) or Rule Based Optimizer (RBO) be used for the PARTITIONED Table in the Following Query ? NOTE OPTIMIZER_MODE is Set

Re: how to clean NT services ???

2001-08-01 Thread Stefan Jahnke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Preferable solution: ORADIMxx -DELETE -SID SID xx will depend on your version or Oracle or ORADIMxx -DELETE -SRVC service_name service_name is your service name Alternative solution: In your registry settings. Open

RE: Add hours and minutes to date

2001-08-01 Thread Kevin Lange
No where.It just seemed like an extra step since you needed partial days as the additive to the date string. Thanks for explaining what I should have seen. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 8:17 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Kevin, An hour is 3600

RE: upgrade

2001-08-01 Thread Naik, Sandesh S
Run utlrp.sql fro $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 9:51 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I have just upgraded 8.0.5.2 to 8.1.6 and some of my objects are invalid. I have tried to recompile them to no avail. I did the

Re: recovery - no backup:)

2001-08-01 Thread nlzanen1
One way should work : DUL You'll get this by phoning Oracle WWS and cost quite a few dollars but could well be worth it. But maybe Oracle WWS can solve it some other way. I have heard of stories where they go in and change bits/bytes in datafiles (hexeditor) to combat corruption or just to make

RE: RAID 5/Oracle

2001-08-01 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
doesn't write performance kind of suck too? KK -Original Message- Jahnke Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 10:02 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ravindra Basavaraja schrieb: We are planning to move our database to Sun 4500 with A1000(RAID 5).Our system admin group has

RE: OT -- the volume of job postings is way down

2001-08-01 Thread Witold . Iwaniec
Another sign of the times is that ITI is closing its US schools. For those who don't know - it is a computer training school. They started years ago as a school in Atlantic Canada offering a 10 month course. Later they expanded to few Canadian and US cities. Last year they advertised on TV and

RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest

2001-08-01 Thread Page, Bruce
I don't know how you would tell if someone died of heart failure from a fossil. Heart problems show up in the bones due to poor circulation of nutrients. There has been a few fossils found with some evidence, but not very many. Since they ate more wild meat, their diet had a lot less fat

OT about to peeve off the vegetarians

2001-08-01 Thread Mohan, Ross
I don't know how you would tell if someone died of heart failure from a fossil. Heart problems show up in the bones due to poor circulation of nutrients. There has been a few fossils found with some evidence, but not very many. Since they ate more wild meat, their diet had a lot less fat in

RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest

2001-08-01 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
This is why I have chosen to live in a rural community so that I can have a huge garden and many fruit trees. And for the meat eaters, you can hunt Deer, turkey, pheasant and many other critters. This way I know that my produce has no chemicals and does not get picked until ripe. I just picked

RE: Off Topic - Anybody know how to copy a DVD?

2001-08-01 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
There are DVD burners, for creating your own DVD's. I hate to say it, but Mac has a nice one:( Anyway, I'll give a year or two before I buy one of those, the price is still like 600+. But, I don't think that you could use it to make a copy of a DVD? KK -- Please see the official

RE: Evaluation questions

2001-08-01 Thread Chaim . Katz
Rachel Carmichael [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/31/2001 11:48:02 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Chaim Katz/Completions/Bombardier) Rachel, I don't know how to retreive the locking sql either, but reading

Wite paper link?

2001-08-01 Thread Rodd Holman
Does anyone know of a link to Gaja's wite paper on tuning that he presented at OOW 2000? I'm running into some fun tuning thins and I can't seem to find my notes from the session. TIA Rodd Holman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author:

RE: Evaluation questions

2001-08-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Mark, mark, Yep, it ain't a walk in the park... as I said. I've been thinking/working on this for a number of years, haven't found a solution yet. The problem with taking so many snapshots is that I am afraid that they will affect performance. I don't do easy questions... those I answer

Re: how to clean NT services ???

2001-08-01 Thread Jyoti N
Hi, From Oracle 8i onwards ,it is ORADIM without any numbers like in the previous versions(ORADIMxx) . HTH. Jyoti Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jyoti N INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: off topic--oracle Vs ms sql

2001-08-01 Thread Page, Bruce
Interesting site... Since I am not familiar with some of the other databases, are all the ones listed there 3 versions old or just Oracle? I noticed DB2 was 2 versions old. -Original Message- From: Dwayne Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 9:56 AM To:

RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest

2001-08-01 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
I am so incredibally jealous of you!!! That's my little dream, land and sweet smelling air and trees and animals and privacy. I want to go home after work, sit on a large porch that wraps around my house, put my feet up, listen to some sweet James Taylor, smoke a grit and drink an ice cold

RE: RAID 5/Oracle

2001-08-01 Thread James Howerton
I lost the battle. We have Hitachi raid 5 hooked-up to a Sun E10K and write performance does SUCK!!! Maybe THEY will listen next time;-)... ...JIM... [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/1/01 10:36:01 AM doesn't write performance kind of suck too? KK -Original Message- Jahnke Sent: Wednesday,

RE: RAID 5/Oracle

2001-08-01 Thread Christopher Spence
About 60% because of the additional reads/writes generated with the parity data. With 4 disks, I would do 0+1 and use same if you cannot get the additional 8 disks. If you can afford the additional spindle space loss, performance will greatly appreciate it. Do not criticize someone until you

RE: Off Topic - Anybody know how to copy a DVD?

2001-08-01 Thread Glenn Travis
The specs I gave are just that. Specifications from the DVD MPEG group. Most DVDs pressed today are dual-layered (due to all the extra content and features). You can usually see the layer switch, unless you have a second or third generation DVD player (they have large buffers for this). I can

RE: sqlloader process dies

2001-08-01 Thread Stephen Andert
Lyuda, What are your settings (BINDSIZE, ROWS, etc)? Also how big and how many rollback segments do you have? How big is their tablespace? If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note. Stephen Andert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/31/01 04:30PM I could do it but the trick it to

* Oracle DBA Needed in Milwaukee, WI..

2001-08-01 Thread OraStaff
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RE: upgrade

2001-08-01 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
What type errors are you getting? That may help in determing if you need to run some Oracle scripts. Rick -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 9:51 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I have just upgraded 8.0.5.2 to 8.1.6 and some of my objects are

RE: RAID 5/Oracle

2001-08-01 Thread Christopher Spence
One thing to note is the 60% degragation of write performance when using Raid5, that is why oracle strictly recommends against it. But to repeat something said many times in the past, read only systems or very low writes are great candiates for Raid 5. Do not criticize someone until you walked

RE: upgrade

2001-08-01 Thread Malik, Fawzia
Hi all, Thanks for responding. I did run the script outlined below. The invalid objects are triggers. If I try to compile manually I get the following: SQL alter TRIGGER SCER10.VRSS_BRI compile ; alter TRIGGER SCER10.VRSS_BRI compile * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive

RE: upgrade

2001-08-01 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Fawzia You may have to run this script for couple of times(atleast 2) due dependancies and then see the results. You can also try to compile it manually. If still there are invalid call Oracle Support and they might advise you to drop most of them as some of them are product related which

Oracle vs. MySQL

2001-08-01 Thread Mohan, Ross
The comparisons look good for MySQL... not bad for others, but better for mySQL than some comments by some folks on the list would have led me to believe. Anyone here have major gripes about mySQL that oracle solved? -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 12:01 PM To:

RE: OT -- the volume of job postings is way down

2001-08-01 Thread Orr, Steve
The weight in ounces of the Sunday San Jose Mercury News Classifieds is a valid measure of economic activity. At one point it was around 24 pages for IT jobs but it recently has been down to 1-2 pages. A few years ago, despite the positive outlook for careers in computer science, students

RE: Off Topic - Anybody know how to copy a DVD?

2001-08-01 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Thanks for all the replies. I download a copy of DVD Decrypter from www.flexion.org. It works great to get a copy of the DVD on your hard drive. Trouble is, the files are all 6-8 gig. So they can't be put back on a normal CD. Nice try anyway. Guess I'll just buy an extra copy next time.

RE: OT about to peeve off the vegetarians

2001-08-01 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Probably not, but MAN is it delicious!!! -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 12:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I don't know how you would tell if someone died of heart failure from a fossil. Heart problems show up in the bones due to poor circulation

RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest

2001-08-01 Thread Peddycoart, Judy
Yes, but you have to understand that those animals, trees, and garden take lots of work! You have considerably less time to sit on your porch and drink an ice cold beer! Of course, it's just that much better when you do! Seriously, I'm in the same boat as Dave, and the benefits greatly

Help, processes won't die

2001-08-01 Thread Ivan_Rivera
Title: Help, processes won't die I need some assistance ASAP. Our nightly batch process seems to have hung up for some strange reason (ok no biggie my boss says kill it and start it again). The problem is I have killed the processes both in oracle (sid, serial#) and also in unix. Now I can't

RE: Oracle vs. MySQL

2001-08-01 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
You can't do subqueries in mySQL You can't use derived tables in mySQL The foreign key support is defined as not being Full, don't know what that means. Dave -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:48 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The comparisons look good

Re: OT -- the volume of job postings is way down

2001-08-01 Thread Yosi Greenfield
As one who has searched these boards of late, I concur. Someone posted a while back a good summary that went something like this: ... The postings are the same ones that have been there for months, but they get a new date on them every three days, the jobs that the postings are for don't exist,

RE: Off Topic - Anybody know how to copy a DVD?

2001-08-01 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
And be sure to hand out some beatings if you see DVD's flying through the air:) KK -Original Message- L. Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 12:57 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks for all the replies. I download a copy of DVD Decrypter from www.flexion.org. It works

MS ODBC problems w/8i

2001-08-01 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hi, After upgrading from 8.0.6 to 8.1.7 this weekend, we are experiencing sporadic failures in some end-user MS Access 2000 queries. We are using the MS for Oracle ODBC driver v2.573.xxx.xx instead of the Oracle supplied version because the MS version allows the retrieval of zero dates (instead

RE: Oracle vs. MySQL

2001-08-01 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
AFAIK on big thing 'missing' in mySQL is that it has no journalling (transaction logging) capabilities. So there's no transaction mgt.. rollbacks...etc.. if things bozo in the middle of a process.. you're dead. Restore from last backup and hope for the best. So you wouldn't want to use

RE: Help, processes won't die

2001-08-01 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Title: Help, processes won't die I believe that I read somewhere that issuing a kill session will NOT free up the memory from that session. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001

OT: Certification Email Lists

2001-08-01 Thread kbachelder
Hi everyone, Can anyone recommend some email discussion lists that are related to certification. Thanks in advance, Kevin -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051

RE: OT -- the volume of job postings is way down

2001-08-01 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
You know the other problem is that geek tools are becoming more and more cool!! Palm Pilots and cell phones and such, everyone wants to play with these things. I agree, full on geekness is the only solution! KK -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 12:52 PM To: Multiple

RE: OT -- the volume of job postings is way down

2001-08-01 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I'll get out my pocket protector and glasses that are taped on the nose piece!! [o) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:52 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The weight in ounces of the Sunday San Jose Mercury News Classifieds is a valid measure of economic

RE: OT -- the volume of job postings is way down

2001-08-01 Thread JOE TESTA
What about like amateur radio(aka ham radio, not to be confused with radio controlled pigs), alot of those geek heads do radio stuff(well ok a few of us) :) joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/01/01 12:52PM The weight in ounces of the Sunday San Jose Mercury News Classifieds is avalid measure of

RE: Evaluation questions

2001-08-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Chaim, That could work. Logminer wasn't around when I first had this problem, and I haven't spent time working with it. From what I know from listening to Joe present on it though, it would be a more complicated process than I want. I'd have to be sure that the dictionary map was always up

Re: cleaning up oracle homes on NT

2001-08-01 Thread Sunrise DBA
I asked about this a ways back when I wanted to remove only one version of Oracle. I ended up hosing up the registry and having to completely wipe the hard drive and start over. Reinstall NT, etc, etc. Be very careful with deleting registry entries :) But, now I have a nice clean NT machine

RE: OT about to peeve off the vegatarians: RE: OT RE: Largest

2001-08-01 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Work? Yes a well trimmed lawn is a lot of work. I don't need tons of land, just some trees and privacy and peace and quiet. I hate city living and could never do it, I have friends that live in Jersey City and Hoboken and I just don't understand why they would want to. You could get a house

RE: Certification Email Lists

2001-08-01 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Mcpmag talks ad nauseam about MS certs. Don't expect an unbiased discussion there, though. Computerworld has an interesting article on which certifications to pursue right now - the top level java certification seems to be the hot one now. Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

RE: (Fwd) Oracle8i Database Administration Boot camp

2001-08-01 Thread Stephen Andert
Rachel, I did that when I worked at a bank where smokers took 2 10-15 minute breaks in the am and at least 2 in the pm. I went out with a buddy. One day my mgr walked in and said "Steve, I didn't know you smoked. What are you doing out here?" I said I was taking my second-hand smoke break

import question ???

2001-08-01 Thread Leslie Lu
Hi all, Are there any size limitation for import file? I got a dmp file Amin.dmp with 9706720291 bytes, when I imported it, I got: IMP-2: failed to open Amin.dmp for read IMP-00021: operating system error - error code (dec 79, hex 0x4F) Is the file corrupted or the file is too big?

RE: Oracle vs. MySQL

2001-08-01 Thread Vadim Gorbounov
Hi, Ross, I've got some experience with both 1. You dont have transaction (until the very recent versions, at least) 2. You dont have fererential integrity (FK is declared but not enforced) 3. Dont have views 4. Noting like PL/SQL 5. Reader blocks writer 6. Weak type support, for example can put

RE: Help, processes won't die

2001-08-01 Thread Kimberly Smith
Title: Help, processes won't die It could be rolling back. If so, you really do have to wait. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 10:02 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Help, processes won't

Re: Help, processes won't die

2001-08-01 Thread Jon Walthour
Title: Help, processes won't die Ivan: The problem is that there is no way to "wake up" PMON. PMON is cleaning up and rolling back all uncommitted transactions every 3 minutes and this isn't configurable. If this is 8i, you could have used alter session ... kill session immediate, although

Re: Help, processes won't die

2001-08-01 Thread JOE TESTA
sometimes the only recourse is to bounce the instance. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/01/01 01:01PM I need some assistance ASAP. Our nightly batch process seems to have hung up for some strange reason (ok no biggie my boss says kill it and start it again). The problem is I have killed the

RE: upgrade

2001-08-01 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Fawzia, Looks like you need to increase your SHARED_POOL_SIZE parameter. These errors are on indication that Oracle is starving for memory, not that the trigger will not compile. My development DB is set at 80M. Try increasing your's to at least this, higher if you have many people on the

RE: Oracle vs. MySQL

2001-08-01 Thread Orr, Steve
Yeah, how about basic transaction support? Table locking is a problem when the database/web site starts to experience a modest number of hits. We migrate customers from MySQL to Oracle when there are performance problems and they instantly disappear with Oracle. MySQL is not ANSI SQL compliant

RE: Evaluation questions

2001-08-01 Thread Hillman, Alex
If you had SQL trace available - you would be able to find SQL for the session. One time on this list I heard mention about x$trace - like it has all data of the event 10046 trace only not in the trace file but in memory. Anumbody has some infp about it? Alex Hillman -Original Message-

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