Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-23 Thread Denham Eva
Hi Gurus, I have annihilated our test system trying to achieve this. Does anyone have any links to sites or Metalink which documents this. What I have done is try to load two versions of Oracle 7.3.4 and 8.1.6 onto an NT system. I did the obvious by placing the versions in their own Oracle Base

CPU - load !

2001-08-23 Thread Anders Bengtsson
Can anybody explain to me what the average load figures you can get vith the top - command really means. Someone is telling me that our Sun Solaris Server, running a suncluster with two database instances where we have Oracles emailserver and Oracles ldapserver combined with Oracles Unified

Displaying a BLOB image through Developer 6.0 tool

2001-08-23 Thread Beatriz Martínez Jiménez
Hello list, I haven´t seen many questions about Developer tool in this forum, maybe it´s not the correct one to make this question, but I´ll try it. Although there is a lot of information about LOB´s in manuals and Metalink, I haven´t found anything about displaying an image stored in a BLOB

Exceptions

2001-08-23 Thread Leo_Rajiv
Hi everyoene, Is there any way I could cause my pl/sql to proceed with executuion when an exception is raised? Im thinking of a kind of 'On Error Resume Next' thing we've got in VB. Ive got a loop and I need to continue executing the code in the loop after when an exception is raised and after I

RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-23 Thread Sujatha Madan
Hi, You have to first install v7.3.4 in the default_home. Then install v8.16 in a new Oracle_home (specified during install). There actually shouldn't be a problem as we have multiple homes running fine on one of our systems. Just make sure u install 7.3.4 first. There is a info abt this in the

Re: A Design Issue

2001-08-23 Thread Connor McDonald
Other things to consider as well as size: - type of I/O (lots of sequential versus lots of random) - distributing the I/O across all of your devices - readonly versus read/write. If you can move chunks of data to readonly tspaces then this shrinks backup times hth connor --- VIVEK_SHARMA

Re: OT - File System to Disk Mapping

2001-08-23 Thread Jonathan Lewis
A logical volume is not necessarily associated with a single disc as in most cases people tend to mirror/stripe a volume group across many disks before creating logical volumes in the volume group. However, if you execute vgdisplay -v /dev/vg00 then the tail end of the report will show you

RE: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-23 Thread Jaeck Stephan
There is a SuSE-specific Oracle-List Send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.suse.de/en/support/mailinglists/index.html Stephan -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 1:51 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Do you mean ORACLE-LINUX-L at [EMAIL

ORA-12542 Problem !!

2001-08-23 Thread Dash, Saroj (CAP,CEF)
Hello All, I am getting ora-12542 error while loading the data using sqlloader. What could be the problem how can i fix this problem. Regards, Saroj. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Dash, Saroj (CAP,CEF) INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City

RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-23 Thread Denham Eva
Thanks Sujatha, I think it could be that exact problem, Oracle 816 had been loaded earlier and in the default HOME. I have one question if you would not mind answering for me. How do the two listeners work together? Should I name the Oracle 8 listener something other than LISTENER, or do they

RE: ORA-12542 Problem !!

2001-08-23 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
and here you have it !!! 12542, 0, TNS:address already in use // *Cause: Specified listener address is already being used. // *Action: Start your listener with a unique address. Regards Lee -Original Message- Sent: 23 August 2001 10:35 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: * Oracle DBA with ERP experience needed in Maine..

2001-08-23 Thread Cyril Thankappan
Hi Listers I don't intend to start off some sort of 'flame' here... But I really would like to know 'how' important is an ERP DBA and 'how much' does he NEED to know..? I personally feel that with ERP products giving an interface to the ERP DBA..there is NOT much that an ERP DBA can

RE: ORA-12542 Problem !!

2001-08-23 Thread Dash, Saroj (CAP,CEF)
My question is how to resolve this problem. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 PM 07:36 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L and here you have it !!! 12542, 0, TNS:address already in use // *Cause: Specified listener address is already being used. // *Action:

Re: oracle training

2001-08-23 Thread Cyril Thankappan
I personally have not attended any training class But I've seen people come back with a lot of what I learnt thro' 'hard work' from the OCP DBA class offered by Oracle. Regards -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Cyril Thankappan INET: [EMAIL

AW: Delete Alertlog on NT

2001-08-23 Thread Schoen Volker
no Volker Schön E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inplan.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Smith, Ron L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. August 2001 19:27 An: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Betreff: Delete Alertlog on NT Is there any problem

Re: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-23 Thread Paul Drake
Denham Eva wrote: Hi Gurus, I have annihilated our test system trying to achieve this. Does anyone have any links to sites or Metalink which documents this. What I have done is try to load two versions of Oracle 7.3.4 and 8.1.6 onto an NT system. I did the obvious by placing the

Re: Re: OT - File System to Disk Mapping

2001-08-23 Thread Cyril Thankappan
Hello, Oops..its alright..I was 'able to retrieve' it!!! However, if you want to 'add any details' to it..please feel free.. Thanks -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Cyril Thankappan INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services--

RE: A Trigger question

2001-08-23 Thread Andrey Bronfin
Jared , thanks a lot ! Yes , i did it a minute after i posted this question (just did not think of it earlier). But i'm still interested to know Is there a way to let the user insert into tableA , and capture the inserts into tableB that the trigger should perform , and do those inserts manually

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: A Trigger question (LENGTHY!)

2001-08-23 Thread Andrey Bronfin
THANKS A LOT FOR ALL WHO REPLIED ! -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 7:12 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Yes. I was curious, so I did a little test: Create 3 tables. Note the different datatypes. SQL create table dbm_1 2 (a varchar2(5) not

RE: ORA-12542 Problem !!

2001-08-23 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
isn't that what the Action part of the mail I sent you below tells you to do ? -Original Message- Sent: 23 August 2001 11:46 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L My question is how to resolve this problem. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 PM 07:36 To:

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: Displaying a BLOB image through Developer 6.0 tool

2001-08-23 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Beatriz, You don't see many discussions of Forms, Reports, Graphics, Developer, Jdeveloper on this list because this is a DBA list. It doesn't mean that the list members become annoyed when people ask questions not directly related to DBA work. In fact, sometimes I wish there were more answers

'Update data' in a SQLserver DB from Oracle Triggers

2001-08-23 Thread Tim Allen
Hi, I was wandering if anyone has any experience of updating and inserting records in a SQLserver database from Oracle? Someone has mentioned DB links to me but I'm not convinced. The reason being that I have a back office system with oracle as the database and a third party system

Re: ORA-12542 Problem !!

2001-08-23 Thread Christian Trassens
It is an strictly listener's error. Often related to ipc address of listeners. However try increasing the queue size of the listener. You need to stop the listener to do this. Regards. --- Dash, Saroj (CAP,CEF) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I am getting ora-12542 error while

Nested loop very slow

2001-08-23 Thread Daemen, Remco
Hi, I'm joining a table with 32000 rows with a very large table (3 Gb), resulting in 97000 records. When I execute the query without hints, it uses a full table scan and a hash join, and returns a result in 4 minutes. When I use a hint forcing a nested loop (and part of an index (range scan)),

RE: CPU - load !

2001-08-23 Thread Guy Hammond
The 3 numbers are the average number of processes in the run queue over the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes. For a process to be in the queue, it must be ready to run, but not actually on the CPU. If the system is swapping lots, that means that the io wait time will be high. If I remember correctly, if

RE: data modeling processes

2001-08-23 Thread Guy Hammond
Those sound like SSADM artifacts - try searching for SSADM Version 4 on Amazon. g -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 7:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I am looking for some examples of DFD(data flow diagram), BPM(business process module), and

RE: ORA-12542 Problem !!

2001-08-23 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: ORA-12542 Problem !! Saroj I am trying (but failing) to see how you get that message when using sqlloader? Can you expand please John -Original Message- From: Robertson Lee - lerobe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 August 01 12:35 To: Multiple recipients of list

Re: Nested loop very slow

2001-08-23 Thread Jonathan Lewis
We really need more details about the data and the query to give you the 'correct' answer. But let us assume that the 97,000 result rows joining one row in the large table to a related parent row in the smaller table. If you index to find those 97,000 rows - with a perfect index, not a range

Re: Nested loop very slow

2001-08-23 Thread nlzanen1
Hi, AFAIK It does the index range scane 32000 times, whereas the hash join reads both tables just once. Jack Daemen,

Re: Exceptions

2001-08-23 Thread Igor Neyman
Try local exception processing: LOOP begin your PL/SQL inside the loop EXCEPTION WHEN your_exception THEN do your processing end; END LOOP; Igor Neyman, OCP DBA Perceptron, Inc. (734)414-4627 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

RE: Nested loop very slow

2001-08-23 Thread Daemen, Remco
Thanx Jonathan, I was assuming that more reads could be done in 1 second. I'll try sorting the data based on the index to speed up the query. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Jonathan Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: donderdag 23 augustus 2001 14:21 Aan: Multiple recipients of

RE: * Oracle DBA with ERP experience needed in Maine..

2001-08-23 Thread Page, Bruce
But I really would like to know 'how' important is an ERP DBA and 'how much' does he NEED to know..? It depends on the company. I have seen some places where the ERP DBA just deals with administering the application and some that are also responsible for all the system DBA work also.

Re: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
2:42AM? $2/pint night must have been a success :) From: Paul Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server? Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 02:42:26 -0800 Denham Eva wrote: Hi

Re: Freelist Contention

2001-08-23 Thread A. Bardeen
Jonathan, OK, what am I missing? All of the PX sessions have to access the segment header in order to get blocks off the free lists so can't that result in buffer busy waits on the segment header unless it was created with more than one free list group? -- Anita --- Jonathan Lewis [EMAIL

RE: database upgrade policy?

2001-08-23 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Paul, No it's more like, Hey, I heard there is a new version of the database out, do we have it yet? Why not? Can we have it? Yeah let's do it, that would be cool. Oh and by the way I installed a beta service pack on my machine, that's ok right?...crap like that:) KK -Original

Coldfusion and Oracle Date Fields

2001-08-23 Thread Belinda Taylor
Here is a strange problem. We recently upgraded our Coldfusion Server from 4.0 to 4.5. Under 4.0, CF used the date format from Oracle and we had no problems; however, since upgrading to 4.5, the problem is that insert and update of date fields from CF are correct (we verified using SQL*PLUS);

RE: Exceptions

2001-08-23 Thread Larry Elkins
Leo, Include a sub-block within the main block and include exception handling in the sub-block. The sub-block will contain the code for which you want to trap the error and continue/fail: begin for c_rec in (select ename, sal from emp) loop begin insert into foo (ename, sal)

RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-23 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
In which order did you install them? I believe you would have to install 7 first into the default home(Orant) and then install 8.1.6 into a different home, like ora816. KK -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 3:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Gurus, I

Oracle Terminal

2001-08-23 Thread antonio . belloni
Hi, We need to disable PrintScreen key on Oracle Forms/Reports. Does anyone know how to setup this in Oracle Terminal ?? TIA, Antonio Belloni -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051

Re: Oracle 8.1.6 installation problem - Help

2001-08-23 Thread Christian Trassens
I suffered from similar problems. Most of them using a bad X terminal or from console. However I managed to install from an X terminal using XDMCP and it works. Even you don't have any pointing 8.1.5 try to remove all the files from the OraInventory. Regards. --- Dharani Ravi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-23 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Paul, Do you mean that support for 8.1.6 ends in October? KK -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 6:42 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Denham Eva wrote: Hi Gurus, I have annihilated our test system trying to achieve this. Does anyone have any

multiple copies of jre.exe on one server

2001-08-23 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
How many copies of jre.exe should be running on an iAS 1.0.2.2. server? My server has four copies running, and the HTTP server NT service refuses to start. I am wondering whether I should shut down all the Oracle Web-related components, kill.exe any remaining jre.exe processes, then start

Re: Freelist Contention

2001-08-23 Thread Jonathan Lewis
The original comment was about PQ slaves reading data blocks - not PX slaves running parallel update/inserts. When PX slaves do parallel inserts the processing is usually split to avoid contention - e.g. each slaves gets one partition of a partitioned object; or each slave gets a new extent

RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
yep -- check metalink... 8.1.6 is desupported as of October. no new releases From: Kevin Kostyszyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server? Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 05:52:53 -0800

RE: multiple copies of jre.exe on one server

2001-08-23 Thread Yexley Robert D SSgt AFIT/SCA
I'm sorry to say that I can't tell you whether or not that is normal behavior, because I just don't know. But one thing that I CAN say is this...count your blessings that you're not running iFS...that thing runs like 8 different instances of jre.exe on average. It's crazyyou need a pretty

RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-23 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
I know this is a really stupid and lazy question, but where do I find this on metaslack? I am looking now and can't seem to come across it? KK -Original Message- Carmichael Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:42 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L yep -- check metalink... 8.1.6

RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-23 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Oh great!:) -Original Message- Carmichael Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:42 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L yep -- check metalink... 8.1.6 is desupported as of October. no new releases From: Kevin Kostyszyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple

RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-23 Thread Kevin Lange
I think that is absolutely the problem Denham. I had the same problem at home. 8.1.6 was loaded and I needed to add 7.3.4 so I could test something for work. Blew away my 8.1.6.I reinstalled in order of version , and all worked fine. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August

RE: OT - Vaccines

2001-08-23 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT - Vaccines Amen. btw, some other "authorities" don't think vaccines had the played the sole, or even majority role, in disappearance or "de-virulence" of a given disease. Read, for example "Evolution of Infectious Diseases" by Dr. Paul Ewald. He is a professor at

RE: w2k db connections... shudder

2001-08-23 Thread Guy Hammond
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? And what is the sound of one hand clapping? -Original Message-From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 10:53 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: w2k db connections... shudder

RE: Locking Issue

2001-08-23 Thread Christopher Spence
Title: Message Take a look at www.vampired.net under scripts and locks, there are a few decent scripts there. "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:

RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-23 Thread JOE TESTA
its in the box on left called product lifecycle and then when that window comes up, at top is desupport notices. hth, joe PS: here is the specific doc id: 123178.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/23/01 11:00AM I know this is a really stupid and lazy question, but where do I find thison metaslack? I

RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-23 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hi Denham, A word of warning: We used to have an app that used an Oracle 7.3.4 DB on NT 4.0 SP5. After the *second* datafile corruption in less than a month, we moved the DB to OpenVMS where it happily lived out it's usefulness. (Thanks to a proper setup, we were able to completely recover in

RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
left side bar has product lifecycle when you click on that, there are tabs product availability, certifications, desupport notices and alerts it's under desupport notices From: Kevin Kostyszyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Shrinking datafiles in a locally managed temporary tablespace

2001-08-23 Thread Miller, Jay
Hi, I'm trying to figure out if there is any way to lower the highwater mark for a locally managed temporary tablespace (the kind that shows up in dba_temp_files) so I can shrink one of the datafiles. Couldn't find any references on metalink but that might be because I have a bad cold right

RE: Exceptions

2001-08-23 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Leo: Just nest your PL/SQL command inside a BEGIN...END block that has a WHEN OTHERS THEN NULL statement in the EXCEPTIONS block. You can nest PL/SQL to a surprising depth. This example is pseudo-code: BEGIN LOOP BEGIN PL/SQL Statement(s) that may throw an exception;

How do you audit a DBA?

2001-08-23 Thread Dave Leach
Anyone who can help, I've been asked if Oracle can somehow audit the DBA ie. Raise an alert if the DBA were to execute DML statements against sensitive tables, this assumes the DBA has the SYS password. I thought this was a pretty reasonable question but couldn't think of an answer. My trail

RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-23 Thread Mohan, Ross
Rich, What was the disk, controller, and RAID vendor? hw or sw raid? who did volume mgmt? what the corruption hard or soft? why on SP5 vice 6a? thanks. hope your luck holds! Ross p.s. funny you put it on OpenVMS. The lead OS architect for VMS was a key player in NT development. small

RE: OT - File System to Disk Mapping

2001-08-23 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
This becomes rather easy with some naming standards in place. We define Volume Group Name that represents a set of disks in it (d01vg, d02vg..) The Logical Volume names contain the lower case sid name, a portion of the mount point directory name and a portion of the VG name. These two things

RE: OT - Vaccines

2001-08-23 Thread Mark Leith
Hannibal, I wouldn't have thought that you fell under that category - common man ?!!? Surely people that enjoy a bit of homo-sapien meat from time to time are not all that common at all? :^P Dorothy -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 16:16 To: Multiple recipients of

Printing from Oracle on Unix

2001-08-23 Thread DBarbour
Morning All; Does anyone have some hints on how I might be able to print the results of a PL/SQL procedure to a HP Printer on UNIX (Oracle 8.1.7/HP-UX 11.0)? My first thought would be to use utl_file to create the file, but (not being a developer), I'm not sure how to embed the printer strings

Migrate/Update-which way is better?

2001-08-23 Thread Mario Alberto Ramos Arellano
Hello listers, I have got two options in order to upgrade/migrate my RDBMS from 8.0.6 to 8.1.7. The first one is by using the migration tool. The second one and more interesting is by using exp/imp. I don´t like the first option because it doesn´t help me defragment the database. I like the

RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-23 Thread Page, Bruce
Click on Product Lifecycle on the side then Desupport Notices toward the top -Original Message- From: Kevin Kostyszyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 11:01 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

RE: HELP - How can I limit what program users use to connect?

2001-08-23 Thread Fred Smith
Unfortunately I'd want to simply prevent the users from connecting in the first place. I don't think it would go over too well if they could connect, and then get bumped out 2 minutes later. -Fred Smith From: Nick Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients

RE: Locking Issue

2001-08-23 Thread Kevin Lange
Title: Message Thanks Christopher. I will see what I can get out of them. -Original Message-From: Christopher Spence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:24 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Locking Issue Take a look at

RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-23 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Thanks all:) KK -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 11:56 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Click on Product Lifecycle on the side then Desupport Notices toward the top -Original Message- From: Kevin Kostyszyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-08-23 Thread Anderson, Brian
This has been discussed before, I'll try to summarize it as I remember. Sure, you could put triggers, turn on auditing, whatever. But the DBA by nature of his job function, can disable, remove, whatever you turn on. So it basically comes down to trusting your DBA, or getting a new DBA.

an OPS question - tnsnames

2001-08-23 Thread Andrey Bronfin
Dear list ! I've got an OPS database named OPS with 2 instances OPS1 and OPS2 . I want the clients to connect to the instance OPS1 and , if OPS1 becomes unavailable , to connect to OPS2 . The Oracle version is 8.0.5 I put the following lines in clients' tnsnames.ora file : OPS.world =

RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-08-23 Thread Mohan, Ross
Oh hell, if you don't trust him, just fire him, not the trigger. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 11:56 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Anyone who can help, I've been asked if Oracle can somehow audit the DBA ie. Raise an alert if the DBA were to

Re: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-08-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
you'd better audit changes to the trigger, and then changes to SYS.AUD$ otherwise the DBA could disable the trigger, make the changes and re-enable it From: Dave Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How do

Re:How do you audit a DBA?

2001-08-23 Thread dgoulet
Dave, Your question is somewhat puzzling. Anyone with DBA privileges can get to any table they want since the DBA role contains the 'select any table', 'update any table', 'delete any table', and 'insert any table' system privileges. You would not require the sys or system passwords to

No Subject

2001-08-23 Thread Denmark Weatherburne
Hi Again DBA's We are running Oracle 8.0.5 on NT 4. I read that Oracle is implemented as one multi-threaded process on NT. I observe two ORACLE80.EXE proceses running in the Task Manager. There are also two STRTDB80.EXE processes running as well. Does the number of ORACLE.EXE processes represent

RE: database upgrade policy?

2001-08-23 Thread David Wagoner
Okay, I know some of you are going to call me crazy but here goes... **We're now using 9i in Production** There, I admit it. But I have to ask you this- do you think 9i will be more buggy than the 8.1.6 that we were running that was causing core dumps, referential integrity violations, etc.?

RE: Problem in setting up Pro*C on RedHat Linux 6.1 with Oracle S

2001-08-23 Thread Kumar, Dharminder
I got the answer for the problem I was having. I am including the following solution for the sake of the users like who may be having same problem. After setting up the following environment, following is the steps to compile any proc program ( ex. my_test.pc). 1 Copy the

RE: database upgrade policy?

2001-08-23 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Good for you, David. We are moving in that direction, too. I convince people by saying 9i is really 8.2. Paul Baumgartel MortgageSight Holdings, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 12:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Okay, I know

RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-08-23 Thread Khedr, Waleed
If you don't trust the DBA then fire him! DBA has access to do everything including the audit records which he/she can modify easily! Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 12:52 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L you'd better audit changes to the trigger,

trigger an applet on the client machine from the server?

2001-08-23 Thread tday6
I like to know if it is possible, from an on-login trigger, to fire an applet on the client machine that will open a browser window and direct that to a particular URL? It doesn't necessarily have to be an applet, just any mechanism that will automatically direct the client to a particular URL,

Re: HELP - How can I limit what program users use to connect?

2001-08-23 Thread Jyoti N
Hi Ken, Try revoking the connect permssion from the users you want to restrict . But the user will not be able to connect to database using sqlplus also. HTH. Jyoti From: "Fred Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: HELP - How can I limit what program users use to connect?

2001-08-23 Thread Fred Smith
I can't revoke connect permissions. I am simply looking for a way to prevent users from connecting via TOAD. They need to still be able to connect via the application and sqlplus. Any ideas? From: Jyoti N [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re:RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-08-23 Thread dgoulet
Waleed, Regrettably in our 'legalistic' world this is not possible if all you have is a suspicion, you need facts to back them up. And getting facts in this case can be very difficult at best. What could be a solution in this case is that someone has a suspicion that this person is

RE: database upgrade policy?

2001-08-23 Thread JOE TESTA
you are crazy :) but i like it anyways. since i'm running it on a non -supported platform anything i find wouldnt be any good anyways :) we'll look forward to you sharing your experiences :) joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/23/01 12:40PM Okay, I know some of you are going to call me crazy but

OT RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-08-23 Thread Mohan, Ross
I think i see where this thread is going. You'd better audit change to the trigger that audits changes to the data that audits the DBA that you don't trust. Maybe throwing another trigger at it will help? Maybe installing a 24x7 DBA-cam above his cube? Maybe feeding him a higher grade of

RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-08-23 Thread John Lewis
'..fire him, not the trigger.' ver-y clever. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 9:47 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oh hell, if you don't trust him, just fire him, not the trigger. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 11:56 AM To:

RE: database upgrade policy?

2001-08-23 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
I am not going to say anything. That's cool, you'll find all of the bugs and report them back to us:) hehehe...whoo ho!!! Just kidding Dave, good luck!! Kev -Original Message- Wagoner Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 12:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Okay, I know

OUI with response files

2001-08-23 Thread Jaeck Stephan
Hello, has someone already started a silent/unattended distribution of Oracle (client) software, i.e. net8 client and ODBC/OCI? All I can find in metalink is the information that response files are now used for silent installation. How are the steps (8i/NT)? - modify a *.rsp template (which?)

Append date/time stamp to logfile name (NT 4.0)

2001-08-23 Thread Speaks, Chuck W.
OS: NT 4.0 I have scheduled a query against a database that pipes results to a log file. Ex. Select * from any_table; logfile.txt Since I need a trend on this query I need to keep the logfile names unique. Best case scenario is to append a date/time stamp to the logfile name as in

RE: database upgrade policy?

2001-08-23 Thread JOE TESTA
but the banner says 9.0.1 :) joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/23/01 01:27PM Good for you, David. We are moving in that direction, too. I convincepeople by saying 9i is really 8.2.Paul BaumgartelMortgageSight Holdings, LLC[EMAIL PROTECTED]-Original Message-Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001

Login authentication

2001-08-23 Thread Adam Goucher
IIRC, Oracle uses one of two methods for authentication into the DB; either Oracle-specific passwords, or OS ones. I was wondering if it is possible to write a custom authentication method to use 3rd party authentication methods, and if so, where I would look for information on this (books, URLs

Re: OT RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-08-23 Thread kjanusz
Write a letter to the IRS stating that he did not report all his income last year. They will be happy to audit him. Ken Janusz, CPIM I think i see where this thread is going. You'd better audit change to the trigger that audits changes to the data that audits the DBA that you don't

RE:

2001-08-23 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Yup, sort of. I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong, but on NT that is a little tricky. The NT service for the Oracle db could start and it will appear. However, if you didn't start it with server mangaer the db might not actually be open if there were errors. Although the process

Re: Migrate/Update-which way is better?

2001-08-23 Thread Jon Walthour
1. I have a full export dump, I know the objects owned by sys are not exported/imported. What happens to the objects owned by system? Listers, please correct me if I am wrong here, but that's not my understanding. I have recreated a complete database from a full export in the past and the 8i

OT RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-08-23 Thread JOE TESTA
DBA-cam now there's a kewl concept :) Then we can see what the goddess's desk looks like. Whether Lisa looks like Laura or not, etc. This has serious potential joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/23/01 01:11PM I think i see where this thread is going. You'd better audit change to the trigger that

Re: Printing from Oracle on Unix

2001-08-23 Thread Dennis M. Heisler
David, There are a number of different ways to do it. One method I use is to define the codes in the package header ie: FONT_COURIER10 varchar2(15) := chr(27) || '(s0p10h12vsb3T' Then, in the package body, when I want to print a special code I either use utl_file.put() or

RE: OT RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-08-23 Thread Mohan, Ross
LOL!!! The IRS Audit trigger! New in Oracle 10i!!! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 2:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Write a letter to the IRS stating that he did not report all his income last year. They will be happy to audit him. Ken Janusz,

FW: [Fwd: an OPS question - tnsnames]

2001-08-23 Thread Paul Drake
Hi. I would highly recommend the book (its my current train reading) Oracle Net8 Configuration and Troubleshooting By Jonathan Gennick and Hugo Toledo - O'Reilly January 2001 Chapter 8 - Load Balancing and Failover covers this subject in detail for Oracle 8.1.6.0.0. You can specify that the

Re: HELP - How can I limit what program users use to connect?

2001-08-23 Thread Gene Sais
Look into product user profiles. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/23/01 01:42PM I can't revoke connect permissions. I am simply looking for a way to prevent users from connecting via TOAD. They need to still be able to connect via the application and sqlplus. Any ideas? From: Jyoti N [EMAIL

Re: Migrate/Update-which way is better?

2001-08-23 Thread JOE TESTA
Nope, NO SYS objects are exported during a full export,. recreate the database then run full import. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/23/01 02:00PM 1. I have a full export dump, I know the objects owned by sys are not exported/imported. What happens to the objects owned by system?Listers, please

Re: Append date/time stamp to logfile name (NT 4.0)

2001-08-23 Thread Yosi Greenfield
Chuck, It's doable, and I've seen scripts on the net that do it, but it's a bit cumbersome. However, you could also do it in sqlplus, using spool, where the name of the spool file is taken from a new_value of a date query, i.e., col x new_value fn select to_char (sysdate, 'DDMMHHMI') ||

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