Re: Oracle DB Connection Problem

2001-12-06 Thread Carlo Vaccari
8.1.7 on Dell W2000 server. When I try to login via sqlplus I get this: ORA-01034 Oracle not available ORA-27101 shared memory realm doesn't exist Then I get: Login: Password: And this error: ORA-12560 TNS: protocol adapter error. Any ideas as to what the problem is? Your

RE: Parallel Server

2001-12-06 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: Parallel Server We are using OPS quite intensively here. Not necessarily for the correct reasons. OPS certainly assists in maintaining uptime under a lot of circumstances. It is excellent for spreading workload between nodes/instances but you still have to design access to point to

RE: buffer busy wait latch free ( cache buffer chain )

2001-12-06 Thread Scott Shafer
Its just as bad on HPUX 11 for Oracle 8.1.7.2 --S --- ARUN K C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was mentioning this on Sun 2.6 os From: Larry Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: buffer busy wait latch

RE: BMC Patrol DBXray / CA Unicenter

2001-12-06 Thread YTTRI Lisa
We are using OEM currently on our Oracle environments. However, we have about 100 Sybase servers and about 10 Microsoft SQL Server servers in addition to the 20 or so Oracle instances we have. There are only 6 of us supporting all these environments, and not everybody is knowledgeable in all

RE: OT : Listers met at OOW

2001-12-06 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
John, Here is the update from Jonathan Gennick ... http://oracle.oreilly.com/news/openworld_day3_1201.html Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 1:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dear all, I had promised a few people on

Re: RE: Has anyone heard of Mirror Accessible?

2001-12-06 Thread Scott Shafer
I hear you. Some one came up with the idea that 30+ HPUX 10.20, Oracle 7.3.3 systems could be updated to HPUX 11.x, Oracle 8.1.7 in less than 36 hours, with only 2 dba's and 2 sysadms, remotely. I shudder to think of the psychoactive compound dosages that led to this conclusion. Oh well, I've

startup remote instance 9i

2001-12-06 Thread nlzanen1
Hi All, client 8.1.6 (NT) Server 9.0.1 (W2K) I'm trying to start/stop the instance remotely and am not succeding. First it complains about obsolete parameters JOB_QUEUE_INTERVAL MTS_DISPATCHERS, but they should not be there since they are not in the pfile, nor the spfile (both on server)

RE: BMC Patrol DBXray / CA Unicenter

2001-12-06 Thread Mohan, Ross
Embarcadero products? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We are using OEM currently on our Oracle environments. However, we have about 100 Sybase servers and about 10 Microsoft SQL Server servers in addition to the 20

300 gbyte data warehouse

2001-12-06 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Parallel Server Anyone using NCR/Teradata for Data Warehousing out there?

SQL to find duplicate rows...

2001-12-06 Thread HAWKINS, JAMES W [IT/1000]
Hello all, I know this has come across many times now, and I thought I had it saved somewhere - you know how that goes... I need to query a table to find all duplicate rows based on a given column. Don't feel like re-inventing the wheel... Thanks in advance, Jim

RE: SQL to find duplicate rows...

2001-12-06 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
select column1, count(*) from my_table group by column1 having count(*) 1 __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc.

RE: Oracle DB Connection Problem

2001-12-06 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Ken The database is not up. The NT services are not running. To start them, from GUI go to Start|Control Panel|Administrative Tools|Services, find the Oracle service and start it. Check the service to be sure it is Auto Start enabled. If you cannot get to the machine, telnet to the box and,

Oracle on Pentium 4 conflict

2001-12-06 Thread Ron Rogers
List, Received this the the SearchDatabase org today. I thought some of you might find it usefull. ROR mª¿ªm ORACLE ON PENTIUM 4 CONFLICT | by Liviu Obreja Here's a quick tip: The installation of Oracle8i on a Pentium 4 computer will exit without any notice. The reason for this is that the

RE: SQL to find duplicate rows...

2001-12-06 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Jim, Oops! Right after I sent this, I saw that you asked to find, not delete, duplicates. Sorry, I've spent the last two days de-duping a bunch of tables, so I've got deletion on the brain. How about: Select SomeColumn From MyTable Where MyColumn In ( Select MyColumn From My Table

Duplexing Archived Log Files

2001-12-06 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Is anyone using the LOG_ARCHIVE_DUPLEX_DEST parameter? Any problems with it? We are on Oracle 8.1.6 on Compaq Tru64. On our ERP 150-gig. database, we are currently doing a cold backup weekly. This means that we are very dependent on archive logs. - Recovery time isn't a big concern. In the

Re: [Q] ORACLE text string search case problem???

2001-12-06 Thread tday6
It's not an Oracle vs Access problem, it's a UNIX vs Windows problem. UNIX is case sensitive. Oracle is also when you are talking about literal strings (as well it should be if you're talking about literals). Vendor doesn't know how to check for different cases and does shoddy work.

RE: Parallel Server

2001-12-06 Thread tday6
Actually, Oracle uses OPS internally on their e-mail system. For that reason (Larry likes his mail fresh every morning) the OPS gets patches and bug fixes with a very high priority. I used to have to install them. Oracle runs it on HP-UX HA (High Availability). It's expensive but it performs

RE: SQL to find duplicate rows...

2001-12-06 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Jim, An option that handles multiple duplicates is: Delete From MyTable Where (MyColumn,RowID) In ( Select MyColumn,RowID From MyTable Minus Select MyColumn,Min(RowID) From MyTable Group By MyColumn ); You could use Max(RowID) as well, depending on your needs. Jack

V7 online backups

2001-12-06 Thread Charlie Mengler
I'm not sure if I'm bragging or complaining, but I've never setup or supported online backups for Oracle. I'm being directed to implement online backups for a V7.3.4.5 instance. A search of OTN reveals that Oracle no longer seems to have any V7 documents available anymore. :-( Since this DB is

Ping

2001-12-06 Thread Larry Elkins
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Datawarehouse Sizes.....informal poll.

2001-12-06 Thread Mohan, Ross
Informal survey: Datawarehousing. Limiting Assumption: A necessary and sufficient condition for defining something to be a datawarehouse is the amount of data to be stored. Question/Poll: Given the above ridiculous constraint, at/above what size can

RE: statspack interpretations

2001-12-06 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Srinivas - - I assume that you have the Oracle Magazine articles. If not, they are available on-line. - I'm confused (easily done). You say that you are tuning SQL statements that statspack has identified and you want more information on statspack report interpretation. To me

RE: 300 gbyte data warehouse

2001-12-06 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ross - I think if you ask a data warehousing list such as mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] you'll find some contacts. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:15 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Duplexing Archived Log Files

2001-12-06 Thread Mohan, Ross
if you duplex mandatory and one server destination fails..is fixed...the time lag for the db to become aware of the now-available second mandatory location can be lengthy. I have witnessed a test where it took 11 Minutes. that's a lng time, when you are waiting for the db to figure out

RE: Duplexing Archived Log Files

2001-12-06 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Dennis, We use log_archive_dest_1 log_archive_dest_2 sending a copy of each archived redo log to our Standby database (log_archive_dest_2). log_archive_dest_2 is used with the OPTIONAL parameter, since we don't want to stop archiving if the Standby is down or there's some problem with the

Re: Embedding perl in Oracle

2001-12-06 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 03:00:19PM -0800, MacGregor, Ian A. wrote: How well does MySQL scale. This well: |---| :) How does it handle parallel direct inserts? It doesn't. But then it's faster than Oracle to start with. Oracle will _always_ be able to beat MySQL at the top end. But

Re: Oracle on Pentium 4 conflict

2001-12-06 Thread David McVeigh
Ron, does this affect 9i? Dave Ron Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/07/01 04:28am List, Received this the the SearchDatabase org today. I thought some of you might find it usefull. ROR mª¿ªm ORACLE ON PENTIUM 4 CONFLICT | by Liviu Obreja Here's a quick tip: The installation of Oracle8i on a

Password Changes

2001-12-06 Thread Burton, Laura L.
Title: Password Changes When you alter a user's password, what table does it update? I need to 'restore' a password for a user back to what it was before I changed it, but do not know what it was. Any ideas?? Can this be done? Thanks, Laura

Re: V7 online backups

2001-12-06 Thread Joe Testa
Charlie, check out alter tablespace begin backup. thats has not changed since version 7, so even the 9i docs will cover it and with 9i docs, there is a whole section on user managed backups. joe Charlie Mengler wrote: I'm not sure if I'm bragging or complaining, but I've never setup or

RE: Off Topic: Australian Visa

2001-12-06 Thread Diego Cutrone
thanks all who answered. greetings DC - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:10 AM Subject: Re: Off Topic: Australian Visa Another site for employment opportunities is

Re: Oracle DB Connection Problem

2001-12-06 Thread DBarbour
Ken, You probably could use a DBA for support in your current project. Hasn't the company you're working with provided one? In any case, the error you're getting could be result of one of several things - it's W2K. First - generally the message shared memory realm not available means the SID

DBCA (DATAFILE SIZE PROBLEM)

2001-12-06 Thread Harvinder Singh
Hi, We are creating database using DBCA , but it only allows us to change the location of datafile. We need to chane the size . Is this option available using DBCA or we need to alter the size after database is created with default size. Environment is 9i on sun 2.8 Thanks --Harvinder --

REMOTE USER CREATION

2001-12-06 Thread Sakthi , Raj
Hi Folks , Somebody tell me I am not insane...please..!! The problem is this... As usual Everybody else except DBA ( me..) decided and designed a program to create user in other database using a procedure thru db_link. Example. The programme exists in database A. When they want they have to

Re: Ping

2001-12-06 Thread Joe Testa
pong Larry Elkins wrote: -- Joe Testa, Oracle DBA Want to have a good time with a bunch of geeks? Check out: http://www.geekcruises.com/standard_interface/future_cruises.html I'm presenting, when registering drop my name :) -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com

RE: [Q] ORACLE text string search case problem???

2001-12-06 Thread Gogala, Mladen
There are two solutions: a) Function based index on UPPER(required column) b) Upgrading MS Access to support unlimited users on SUN Solaris. Do not forget to buy the row-locking option. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 5:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

Size of US7ASCII database vs. UTF8

2001-12-06 Thread Cherie_Machler
We are currently using US7ASCII for our 240 Gig data warehouse. We are considering switching over to UTF8 for a new generation of this product. We would start small in the development database but by the time that we get to production, we will have just as much data as we do now. My question

RE: V7 online backups

2001-12-06 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Charlie, You must first put your database in ArchiveLog mode, of course. The basic init.ora parameters to set and the command Alter Database ArchiveLog (while mounted, but not open, after a clean shutdown) haven't really changed from 7 to 8 to 8i, except now you can specify archive log

LUHN formula

2001-12-06 Thread Joe LaCascio
Hey folks, I don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to. Does anyone have a LUHN function they'd be willing to share? Thanks, Joe -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Joe LaCascio INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858)

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2001-12-06 Thread Koniszewski, Mike
LISTS -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Koniszewski, Mike INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists

Testing

2001-12-06 Thread Sherman, Edward
It's vewy vewy quiyet. * * * * * Freedom of Information Act Notice * * * * * The information in this email is subject to the record protection mandated by 5 United States Code 552(b)(4) and relevant judicial opinions. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author:

Re: Password Changes

2001-12-06 Thread Joe Testa
user$ is updated and why not just reset it to the known value, only if you happen to have the encrypted password, then you could set it back using alter user userid identified by values 'ENCRYPTED PASSWORD HERE'; otherwise you're outta luck. joe Burton, Laura L. wrote: When you alter a

RE: Datawarehouse Sizes.....informal poll.

2001-12-06 Thread Baker, Barbara
Ross Size doesn't matter. No, really. Who's imposing the amount of data constraint?? Push Dodge and Gorman's Oracle8 Data Warehousing book toward your damagement, and somehow trick them into reading the first chapter. They quote Inmon (of course) -- a data warehouse is a subject oriented,

Re: Schema Owner

2001-12-06 Thread Jared . Still
And I might add, it works very well. I did the same thing at Enron to prevent the duhvelopers from changing account passwords. Jared Joe Testa

RE: Unix mailing List

2001-12-06 Thread Scott Shafer
Thanks for the assist, bro'. They got me jumping-through-my-own-hindquarters busy here. Lisa K., you wanted meaningful work? Move west and I'll hook you up. Meaningful? Debatable. Work? Oh yeah! --S --- Kevin Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couple clarifications: 1. -a : file exists

Re: Parallel Server

2001-12-06 Thread Scott Shafer
Not here, no, too darn much, and yes. --S --- Smith, Ron L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone using Oracle Parallel Server? It that the best solution for a standby server? Any idea what it would cost? Are there any classes covering implementation? Ron Smith

RE: Column Title

2001-12-06 Thread Alexander . Feinstein
Title: RE: Column Title Binay, It is a bug related to cursor_sharing=force. Try alter session set cursor_sharing=exact. Alex. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 9:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

list down?

2001-12-06 Thread Joe Raube
I haven't received anything since this morning. -Joe -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Joe Raube INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access /

Re: DBCA (DATAFILE SIZE PROBLEM)

2001-12-06 Thread Peter . McLarty
Try using Custom it will allow you to do that and more Cheers Peter McLarty E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical ConsultantWWW: http://www.Mincom.com APAC Technical Services Phone: +61 (0)7 3303 3461 Brisbane, AustraliaMobile: +61 (0)402 094 238

RE: Datawarehouse Sizes.....informal poll.

2001-12-06 Thread April Wells
Barbara... have you been talking to men again...? As I was instructed by the Oracle Data Warhouse class instructor last year... it isn't the amount of data, but what it's purpose is... what you do with it. He was a neat teacher... Harley and all. April -Original Message- To:

RE: Schema Owner

2001-12-06 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
...and look what's happened to Enron! :-0 And I might add, it works very well. I did the same thing at Enron to prevent the duhvelopers from changing account passwords. Jared Joe Testa teci@the-test To: Multiple recipients of list

Trigger exception problem

2001-12-06 Thread Kathy Duret
I am brain dead and can't figure this one out probably something really basic. 8.1.6 database I have a delete trigger when I delete a row from user #1 address table and I want to insert a corresponding row into an archive address table that belongs to user #2. If there is any error inserting

RE: Password Changes

2001-12-06 Thread Kevin Fries
Title: Password Changes sys.dba_users-password is the field. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Burton, Laura L.Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 12:29 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Password

RE: Schema Owner

2001-12-06 Thread Jared . Still
True, but I really didn't get much personal gain from that trigger. :) Jared Vergara,

Re: Password Changes

2001-12-06 Thread Jared . Still
It can be seen in dba_users. The table is sys.user$. Once you've changed it, the old value is gone for good. Jared Burton, Laura

Re: Ping

2001-12-06 Thread Jared . Still
Pong. Larry Elkins elkinsl@flash To:

Re: Datawarehouse Sizes.....informal poll.

2001-12-06 Thread Jared . Still
Ross, A DW is defined by purpose and design, not by size. A collection of Data Marts, ( tables for star joins ) is not a DW either. DW's are used to create data marts. If you don't already have the database books from Kimball, I suggest you acquire them. Data Warehouse Toolkit

RE: Oracle on Pentium 4 conflict

2001-12-06 Thread Khoa Do
yes it does (resounding yes) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ron, does this affect 9i? Dave Ron Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/07/01 04:28am List, Received this the the SearchDatabase org today. I thought some of

RE: Oracle on Pentium 4 conflict

2001-12-06 Thread Khoa Do
Except for the most current version of 9i -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ron, does this affect 9i? Dave Ron Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/07/01 04:28am List, Received this the the SearchDatabase org today. I

RE: Schema Owner

2001-12-06 Thread Kimberly Smith
Oh, that was a low blow:-) -Original Message- Michael (TEM) Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L ...and look what's happened to Enron! :-0 And I might add, it works very well. I did the same thing at Enron to prevent the duhvelopers

Unix account from PL/SQL ??

2001-12-06 Thread Herman Susantio
Hi all, I've got 2 questions here : (Platform : Sun Solaris) : 1. What is the command in PL/SQL to get unix userID who logged in when I execute PL/SQL script ? 2. I have created a new user : ABC123, and the primary group is oinstall. When I start oracle instance using ABC123, how come

RE: Datawarehouse Sizes.....informal poll.

2001-12-06 Thread Mohan, Ross
Jared, Thanks. I have the main RK book. Like it. Understand what little i have read of it. I am just interested in what folks thought about size vs. DW definition was. I *do* think, tho, that size does matter. I don't consider my shared E: drive a datawarehouse because it can support a

Change sysdate in database to a future date

2001-12-06 Thread CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC)
Hi Gurus, I need to change the sysdate in the database to a future date. Does anyone know the command to do it ? Please advise. Thanks. Regds, New Bee -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC) INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City

RE: Change sysdate in database to a future date

2001-12-06 Thread kranti pushkarna
change the date of the system on which the database resides -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 9:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Gurus, I need to change the sysdate in the database to a future date. Does anyone know the command to do it ? Please

Re: Change sysdate in database to a future date

2001-12-06 Thread Arn Klammer
SYSDATE is determined by the operating system's date. You can't change the current date and time in Oracle; you have to change it at the OS level. If, however, your aim is to determine things like what's the date one week from today, then you can use Oracle's date arithmetic functionality

RE: Change sysdate in database to a future date

2001-12-06 Thread CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC)
Hi Unix Gurus, Does anyone know how to change the date of the Unix system ? I am running my database server in Unix 2.6. Thanks. Regds, New Bee PS. Thank you, Kranti, for your reply. -Original Message- From: kranti pushkarna [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: statspack interpretations

2001-12-06 Thread Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane)
Hi Williams, Thnq for responding. 1) I need to tune the sql statemnet that have the queries using high load %. 2) and need to look into the other issues too. like instance details etc. One of the list member Raj sent the documents. I am looking into them. I think they will

RE: Oracle on Pentium 4 conflict

2001-12-06 Thread David McVeigh
How about Linux or Solaris versions on the Pentium 4 hardware? Khoa Do [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/07/01 11:30am Except for the most current version of 9i -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ron, does this affect 9i? Dave

Re: Parallel Server

2001-12-06 Thread Don Granaman
Quick answers: Yes, Maybe, $$$, Yes. Detailed answer to second part: It depends on what you need and what you mean by standby server. OPS/RAC is multiple instances and a shared database. If you really need ultimate HA, OPS/RAC is second to none for system or instance failure events. If one

Re: Datawarehouse Sizes.....informal poll.

2001-12-06 Thread Don Granaman
I, like many others, have a problem with the size is everything definition. I worked with a 2 TB DSS system six years ago that wasn't a real data warehouse. And I've seen a true datawarehouse fledgling that was under 200 GB (with lots of free space). However, even making the nonsense

Apache and Oracle config help

2001-12-06 Thread Don
If somebody could lend assistance, here or offline, I would appreciate it. The prob: Oracle SSP5 iprocurement installed on 8.0.5 DB with Oracle Apps 11.0.3. has problems dealing with the 6th session that trys to do a search in iP. The 6th session will cause ALL connected browser sessions to

Re: V7 online backups

2001-12-06 Thread Don Granaman
How about EBU? It is actually fairly good in 7.3.4+ and is very straightforward to set up. Like RMAN, It uses a database catalog, but the command syntax is radically different - in my opinion, much more straightforward. It also include a shell command line utility named ebutool that is quite

Redo log file sizing

2001-12-06 Thread Herman Susantio
Hi all, Can anyone share how to do proper redo log file sizing ? Would 1G redo log file be enough for 5 TB datafile ? and how to define howmany redo log file we need to have in one database ? Thanks Regards Herman -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author:

Re: RE: Has anyone heard of Mirror Accessible?

2001-12-06 Thread Don Granaman
Is Las Vegas laying odds on this? I've got a few bucks I would wager against... This is not just unreasonable, but insane - even assuming that everything goes perfectly (it won't). It is more reasonable to assume that a horse is a perfect sphere or that the Israeli-Palestinian problem could be

RE: Change sysdate in database to a future date

2001-12-06 Thread CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC)
Dear All, I've found the answer. I manage to use the date command in root account to change the date. Thanks. Regds, New Bee -Original Message- From: CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC) Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 1:10 PM