RE: Index question ???

2001-08-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Index question ??? Andrea, It is recommended, not required. Anytime the db needs to verify the fk constraint, if there isn't an index there to support it, a full table scan will happen. Performance killer. What do you mean your indices disappeared? Can you elaborate?

Re: How do they get the answer?

2001-08-21 Thread Bunyamin K. Karadeniz
The answer must be AT LEAST 2 Teachers . Because lets say two teachers Rick and Susan. Susan gives the subjects 102 and 105 Rick gives the subjects 102 and 105 Nobody else gives these subjects. This proves that at least two teachers are given salary rise. bunyamin - Original Message

RE: WARNING: CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE on 8.1.7

2001-08-21 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: WARNING: CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE on 8.1.7 -Original Message- From: Jesse, Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Eeeek! It just keeps getting worse! Can someone on 8.1.7.x on a NON-HP platform using CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE and CBO at the system level try the following test

RE: Apologies... linux Oracle

2001-08-21 Thread JOE TESTA
yea 7.1, i've got it working and am using it on a daily basis, my biggest problem is i only got 192M of ram, so i had to install the software(and none of it would link during the install), and then link them all externally out of the installer, then all was well. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: How do they get the answer?

2001-08-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
um, I can see possible answers to this question being 2 teachers, 3 teachers or 4 teachers. however, since that isn't one of the multiple choice answers, then it has to be at least 4 since only 2 is wrong From: Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple

Re: What is in archive log...

2001-08-21 Thread JOE TESTA
Aldi, there is a bit to be desired in 8i logmining. no ddl, no chained/migrated rows, etc. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/21/01 12:48PM Check out the Oracle 8i Administrator's Guide, look at the chapter entitled: "Using LogMiner to Analyze Online and Archived Redo Logs".Jon Walthour From:

Re: How do they get the answer?

2001-08-21 Thread Brian McGraw
It's possible, but not the only possibility. Therefore you can't answer A. And if you're not certain, you can't answer the question. Because this is the Oracle OCP exam. The thing that you've studied night and day for. Everything you learned in the two-night class preparing you for database

Re: How do they get the answer?

2001-08-21 Thread Pat Hildebrand
This is a poorly written question. I would guess that since it is the teacher table the assumption is that the ID is unique, even a primary key (it is not null), but none of this is stated so it doesn't have to be the case. Although I can't see it making any sense to repeat the salary (if indeed

Re: Freelist Contention

2001-08-21 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Not only that, PX slaves do direct reads anyway, bypassing the buffer cache. It is possible, though, that the flush that has to take place before the PX scan can read back is sufficient to cause other processes to wait for write complete waits, and I guess that you could also get extra rbs

Re: User access within/outside of app

2001-08-21 Thread Larry Hahn
Jon, Thanks for the response. But these users still need to do updates through the app. I only want to keep them from doing updates from outside the app. Larry --- Jon Walthour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Create another user with select privileges only on the objects in the app's schema. Give

RE: Apologies... linux Oracle

2001-08-21 Thread Daniel Curry
SCO (Unix) was bought by Caldera who releases a version or flavor of Linux. Caldera's main emphasis has been (historically) the desktop and end users. During the Linux World conference in San Jose last year, Caldera announced their acquisition of SCO to fuel their server line of software

RE: Freelist Contention - PQ slaves

2001-08-21 Thread Johnson Poovathummoottil
What happens when you join a large parllelized table with a very small table (contained in just 10 or 12 blocks) the retrieval of rows from the large table looks up the small table causing buffer busy waits on the blocks of the small table. Keeping the small table in keep pool removes the buffer

RE: WARNING: CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE on 8.1.7

2001-08-21 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
It also causes ORA 600's, it was supposed to be fixed in Patch 8..1.7.1.. I believe. KK -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 1:57 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Although it works for me under Oracle 8.1.7.1.4 on Win/2K as shown below, I do have doubts about

TNSPING Test Script for NT

2001-08-21 Thread Ed . Haskins
Can anyone help me with a simple .bat script for NT that will run a TNSPING against a certain connect descriptor and write the results to a file. I need to have the TNSPING run for say 1000 loops. Once complete, I can search through the file for errors. Thanks, Ed -- Please see the official

RE: Standby Database Error

2001-08-21 Thread Ravindra Basavaraja
I was able to configure the standby database.I am not clear about the redo log files.Oracle Standby database creation dod doesn't talk of moving the redo log files.Do we have to move the redo log files from the primary database to the standby database.But the standby database iw working fine and

RE: How do they get the answer?

2001-08-21 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Multiple choice exams are lousy at testing creative, imaginative people, because the answer ends up being it depends almost every time! Hmmm, I wonder why they use them in universities... : ) Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit.

Re: Nolog writes log ?

2001-08-21 Thread JOE TESTA
SQL Statements That Can Use No-Logging Mode The following operations can make use of no-logging mode: direct load (SQL*Loader) direct-load INSERT CREATE TABLE ... AS SELECT CREATE INDEX ALTER TABLE ... MOVE PARTITION ALTER TABLE ... SPLIT PARTITION ALTER INDEX ... SPLIT

Re: Apologies... linux Oracle

2001-08-21 Thread Konrad BüKo
Title: Apologies... linux & Oracle Hi We've Oracle 8.1.5 8.1.6 and 8.1.7 on Suse Linux from 7.1 and 7.2 ! We've 6 Databases with this linux and this databases runnig since 01.02.01 as productive databases by switzerlandpost ! The size from the databases is from 10GBto 80GB on Compact

RE: Apologies... linux Oracle

2001-08-21 Thread Christopher Spence
Title: Message With enough ram, does it work without changing things? "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes." Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978) 322-5744 Fax: (707) 885-2275

RE: How do they get the answer?

2001-08-21 Thread eric harrington
I agree with Joe, the correct answer is two. It doesn't state that a teacher can only teach one subject so the same two teachers can teach both subjects. Ialso agree with everyone that mentioned that this is a crappy question. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: How do they get the answer?

2001-08-21 Thread Seley, Linda
What if there are no subject_ids of either 102 or 105 or both in the table? I'd say it's a case of not enough info (for us that is, not enough thought on the part of whoever made it up but then they didn't ask the list did they ;-) ). This is why I dislike word problems. Linda

Re: How do they get the answer?

2001-08-21 Thread Igor Neyman
It could be anywhere from 0 to more then 4 teachers receiving increase, depending on whether there are teacher/teachers teaching both subjects, and on whether one (or both subjects) with those IDs (102, 105) exists or not exists in the table. Extreme case (0 teachers receiving increase), when

RE: How do they get the answer?

2001-08-21 Thread Shreter, Hilary
They can't give any raises this year. They have to hire a data modeler using those monies. There were at least four raises that could be used for this purpose. -Original Message-From: Brian McGraw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 3:26 PMTo: Multiple

Re: How do they get the answer?

2001-08-21 Thread JOE TESTA
well we know the answer is C, but its the most correct out of the 4, not necessarily the ultimate correct answer. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/21/01 03:25PM It's possible, but not the only possibility. Therefore you can't answer A. And if you're not certain, you can't answer the question.

Re: How do they get the answer?

2001-08-21 Thread Regina Harter
The structure of the table indicates to me that they began with the assumption that each teacher would only be teaching one subject. At 10:52 AM 8/21/01 -0800, you wrote: i still stand by(reading into the question) that it could be only 2 teachers get a raise, if the same 2 teachers teach both

RE: How do they get the answer?

2001-08-21 Thread DBarbour
Yes, if 102 and 105 are valid subject_id codes. The correct answer is Not enough data has been supplied to properly evaluate the results. David A. Barbour Oracle DBA, OCP AISD 512-414-1002

RE: DB2 Question

2001-08-21 Thread Therrien, Francois
If you're talking DB2 on OS/390, the default is EBCDIC but as of DB2 V5, the default could be changed to ASCII on a table per table basis. FT -Original Message- Sent: August 21, 2001 1:47 PM To: Multiple recipients

Help - Fail Safe ODBC not working

2001-08-21 Thread Shaw, John B
I've got a new install on a HP cluster (windows NT service pack 6) oracle 8.1.7 and failsafe 3.1.2, oracle odbc 8.1.7.4. Everything seems to work - database and cluster all failover. I can reconnect to the node after failover, but the odbc driver (with the enable retry option checked) doesn't

oracle 8i and mts problem

2001-08-21 Thread daniel szabo
Hello there, Oracle users!I am new here, as new to the Oracle technology. We are developping a =software which must be transaction compliant, and we're on microsoft =platform, and thatswy we're using sql2000 and microsoft transaction =server for our application server components.=20But one

RE: Apologies... linux Oracle

2001-08-21 Thread Jared . Still
I've found SuSE easier to work with than RH. Jared Robertson Lee

CF and Oracle

2001-08-21 Thread Belinda Taylor
Currently upgrading from Coldfusion 4.0 to 4.5 and now all the CF forms are having problems displaying time portion of date fields. Regardless of the value of the time, CF always displays 12:00 AM. Anyone else encounter this problem when converting/using CF? begin:vcard n:Taylor;Belinda

Re: Freelist Contention

2001-08-21 Thread arunc
- Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 9:48 AM On Tuesday 21 August 2001 08:21, Johnson Poovathummoottil wrote: Bufer busy waits can also be caused by parallel query servers trying to read the same buffer

Re: Standby Database Error

2001-08-21 Thread arunc
Nope u do not have to copy the online redologfiles to the standby, this has to be done only in the case of switch over from production to the standby database. The online redos are only read when the database is getting opened it will not be read during recovery until and unless u specify the

RE: MOVE Tables from One Tablespace to Another Tablespace !!

2001-08-21 Thread Hillman, Alex
Need to add accounting for LOB indexes or simply not to add whenever SQL error ... alter index .. rebuild does not work for LOB indexes. Alex Hillman -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 1:57 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I just did this yesterday. Here are

Re: Apologies... linux Oracle

2001-08-21 Thread Jared . Still
Not true. Oracle 8.1.7 is supported on SuSE 7.1 It requires a patch, available through otn.oracle.com and suse.com. Works fine for me. Jared Ron

Re: Freelist Contention

2001-08-21 Thread Jared . Still
Yeah, like I said, I wasn't thinking too hard about it. :) Jared Jonathan Lewis

Re: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-21 Thread Brian McGraw
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Red Hat Oracle's preferred Linux distribution, right up until the time they announced the availability of the Red Hat Database (PostgreSQL)? Brian Christopher Spence wrote: I would be curious to see these tests going forward, seeing as RedHat support is

w2k db connections... shudder

2001-08-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: w2k db connections... shudder OK. This question is posed to those who maintain applications Oracle on Windows 2000 servers. What's the maximum number of connections you can feasibly support? Has anyone implemented a windows 2000 cluster and had it reliably work? I feel

Re: How do they get the answer?

2001-08-21 Thread Scott Shafer
Each subject has 2 teachers. By limiting the update by 2 subject_id's, you guarantee that 4 teachers will get a raise. Actually, this is poor SQL if a teacher teaches more than one subject (but that's not part of the problem). Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am

RMAN Copies

2001-08-21 Thread Stephen Andert
Hello, We are in the process of learning and implementing RMAN. We are also in the process of implementing BCP (Business Continuity Planning). We have a BCP machine with enough disk space to do a restore of our "production-critical" databases. I need to be able to make a copy of the RMAN

Archived logs

2001-08-21 Thread Aldi Barco
Hi, My database generated so many archived log now, let say 20 archived log per minute. The application and the number of rows in the database is not too much different with few days ago. I'm just wondering why. Is it any parameter we need to set to reduce the number of this archived log

Archived logs

2001-08-21 Thread Aldi Barco
Hi, My database generated so many archived log now, let say 20 archived log per minute. The application and the number of rows in the database is not too much different with few days ago. I'm just wondering why. Is it any parameter we need to set to reduce the number of this archived log

Re: Archived logs

2001-08-21 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Check for code doing insert,delete,update etc in v$sqlarea.. you may run following script to check for active sessions resulting lot of DML's select substr(username,1,10)USER,process,sid,substr(sql_text,1,200),disk_reads,buffer_gets,rows_processed from v$session,v$sqlarea where

Connect as a different user in PL/SQL

2001-08-21 Thread Bartolo, David
Hi all, Is there a way to connect or see if a username and password are valid in a PL/SQL procedure? I will come in as one user. Pass in the username and password I want to validate. Try to connect to the database with that username and password. Thanks, David -- Please see the official

AS400 RPG Access to Oracle on Sun/Sparc

2001-08-21 Thread tpall
I've got a requirement to do DML from an RPG program running in an AS400 against a database on a Sun box running Oracle. Has anyone done this? Any pointers? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services--

Re: Spool 32 Error

2001-08-21 Thread Jared . Still
Let's not turn this forum into a help-desk for all questions you don't care to bother to research yourself. Jared Huy_Le@manulif

Re: Archived logs

2001-08-21 Thread Jared . Still
Did you perchance leave all your tablespaces in backup mode? Jared Aldi Barco

RE: Q about Oracle Optimizer

2001-08-21 Thread John Kanagaraj
Hi all, Although it is a little late in this thread, keep in mind that 'STATISTICS=ESTIMATE' kicks in by default for export. This could also have affected the final outcome, i.e. CHOOSE with incorrect stats isn't exactly the right combination for the best performance ;-) IMHO, this gotcha has

RE: DBA tasks

2001-08-21 Thread Ron Thomas
And for those who are daring, attend the Fulsom Street Fair. Ron Thomas Hypercom, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Either lead by example, or become a terrible warning

RE: checkpoint message

2001-08-21 Thread Veronica Levin
I get the same kind of message, anyone knows what it means? Saludos, Veronica Levin Enriquez Administrador AIX Compañía Cervecera de Nicaragua -Mensaje original- De: mala singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: Lunes, 23 de Octubre de 2000 03:01 p.m. Para: Multiple recipients of

Please help me to become DBA

2001-08-21 Thread Ha Duy Thien
Hi Gurus Thanks you so much for reading my problem. I am a new oracle user and I really interested in exploring this product. In fact I want to know it clearly and can control it in the future. Someone has said to me that it's better tobecome a DBA but it seems very difficult for me

RE: checkpoint message

2001-08-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
smacks of incremental checkpointing...new implemented in 8i i thinkthe RBA is a redo block address. More than that, and you'll have to smoke some DBA crack, make some guru mushroom tea, hack the internals, write a book, and then become highly enigmatic and largely helpful. -Original

RE: AS400 RPG Access to Oracle on Sun/Sparc

2001-08-21 Thread Kevin Tsay
Try Oracle Gateway. kevin -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 3:42 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I've got a requirement to do DML from an RPG program running in an AS400 against a database on a Sun box running Oracle. Has anyone done

Re: checkpoint message

2001-08-21 Thread Joe Testa
Or just be like me and spend most of the time saying rtfm :) joe Mohan, Ross wrote: smacks of incremental checkpointing...new implemented in 8i i thinkthe RBA is a redo block address. More than that, and you'll have to smoke some DBA crack, make some guru mushroom tea, hack the

RE: User access within/outside of app

2001-08-21 Thread Jon Walthour
Larry: Upon rereading your post (this time with my eyes open!), I see your problem. Hmm. I worked with a developer who did something like this. I don't know all the details, but I seem to recall that he didn't put the password in the DSN for the ODBC connection, but rather encrypted it in an

RE: checkpoint message

2001-08-21 Thread Kevin Tsay
Ross: I believe that RBA is referred to Redo Byte Address (Checkpoint RBA). The checkpoint RBA is stored in the control file. When recovery is required, the checkpoint RBA determines the location in the redo stream from which to start applying recovery. kevin -Original Message- Sent:

RE: Q about Oracle Optimizer

2001-08-21 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
John, Thanks for update. But in our case no export was involved in migration as it was not our option for migration because of Database size. We used 7.3.4.5 datafiles and migrated...there were no statistics of our objects Regards MOHAMMAD RAFIQ Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple

Re: Freelist Contention

2001-08-21 Thread Scott
Raja, You will only have freelist contention on conventional insert operations only. Insert operations from direct loads won't cause freelist contention because of the way direct inserts are done. You can check for freelist contention by checking V$SESSION_WAIT and look for the Event 'Buffer Busy

RE: checkpoint message

2001-08-21 Thread Scott
8i implements lazy checkpointing. The dirty buffers are flushed to disk but the datafile headers are updated later and when all the datafile headers are updated the checkpoint complete is written to the alert log. So it is not uncommon to checkpoints taking longer in 8i. Scott --- Kevin Tsay

Re: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-21 Thread Scott
I believe that Oracle has decided that when porting to linux all products will be ported to SuSE and then perform post release certifications on Redhat. I believe stability and support of multiple Linux distributions was a factor in this decision. I run both Redhat and SuSE and I actually perfer

Re: Oracle for Solaris (on Intel)

2001-08-21 Thread Scott
Clint, The last I heard was that Oracle is not going release anymore software for X86 Solaris. 8.1.7 is the terminal release. I think that should sum up the pro's and con's. Scott --- Clinton Naude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I sent out a mail recently about Oracle for Solaris on

Re: Performance analysis (enqueue and buffer busy waits)

2001-08-21 Thread Babette Turner-Underwood
What is unil-bialism ?? - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:12 PM FYI, in a previous message I detailed some of the tuning efforts we have been working on in regards to getting a EDI sales order processing

RE: User access within/outside of app

2001-08-21 Thread Larry Hahn
Jon, This is one of the options we have talked about. This will require the vendor to do a bit of progamming. But since they havent provided any security to this point, it is the least they can do. I'm just wondering if anyone has any ideas we can use as a stop gap until the app is changed.

RE: checkpoint message

2001-08-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
Kevin, Thanksclarity is always preferable. As for the acronym inflationI guess when I wrote block instead of byte, I simply hadn't smoked enough DBA crack. (That's Data Block Address, I think, but...where *did* i leave that mushroom tea...darnit...) :) Ross -Original

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