Re: SEQ#, DUAL and Oracle literacy

2002-06-24 Thread Alexandre Gorbatchev
Main Entry: 1du·al Pronunciation: 'dü(-)l also 'dyü-lFunction: adjectiveEtymology: Latin dualis, from duo two -- more at TWODate: 16071 of grammatical number : denoting reference to two2 a : consisting of two parts or elements or having two like parts : DOUBLE b : having a double

Re: RMAN QUestion

2002-06-24 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi Can autobackup of control file be NOT enabled? If you do full database backup using RMAN you get the controlfile like it or not, isn't it? So i'd say a because with b you don't automatically get the controlfiles Jack

How to programatically send an email using Lotus Notes from an Oracle Form ?

2002-06-24 Thread FAIZ QURESHI
Hello All: I am using Oracle Forms 6i. I have a Form where I have to send an email of the data entered in the Form using Lotus Notes email. Does anyone know how this can be done ? Please guide me. If possible please send me the code for doing this. Regards, Faiz

RE: How to programatically send an email using Lotus Notes from a

2002-06-24 Thread Abdul Aleem
Check at the following website, there is code for ending e-mail through outlook, but I suppose you could modify it to use with Lotus Notes. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Peter_Koletzke/ HTH! Aleem -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 3:23 PM To: Multiple

Re: RMAN Guru Needed - RMAN/Netbackup

2002-06-24 Thread rabbit
I am trying to alternate host to a point in time of 01-01-2002. I restore current controlfile then run run { set until time to_date('01-JAN-2002 03:00:01','DD-MON- HH24:MI:SS'); allocate channel ch1 type 'sbt_tape';restore database; recover database; } The netbackup log asks for a cold

RE: Replication question

2002-06-24 Thread Robson, Peter
On performance of triggers blocking update of primary keys. There are two aspects to performance. First, that which impacts on cpu cycles etc, and secondly, that which impacts on the integrity of the fundamental database design. I regard the latter as crucial - and non-negotiable. The former is

RE: Log file synch / direct path writes

2002-06-24 Thread Erik Williams
The log buffer is one meg right now. The application uses many, very small transactions. There is no possibility of combining the statements into a larger single transaction. There are no waits to allocate log buffer space. I have also considered setting the _log_io_size to less than 1/3 a meg

Capacity planning courses

2002-06-24 Thread Schauss, Peter
Thanks to everyone who made suggestions on training courses. Looking at my skill set and the requirements of my current position, I am thinking about taking a course in capacity planning. Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks, Peter Schauss -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: Suggestions on MV Implementation !!!!!!!

2002-06-24 Thread Jack Silvey
Madhu, I would have two snapshots and one synonym. Have the webpages point to the synonym, and the synonym point to one of the snapshots while the other is refreshing. When the other is finished refreshing, recreate the synonym to point to the refreshed one and start the refresh on the other.

Re:How to programatically send an email using Lotus Notes fr

2002-06-24 Thread dgoulet
Faiz, I'll make the assumption that your using an Oracle 8i (8.1.6 or better) as the database server. In which case you can use the DBMS_SMTP package in Jserver to send the mail to any mail client you want, especially since you obviously can get Internet mail. Here is a wrapper I've

RE: (Fwd) Re: Upgrading from Forms 5, Oracle 7

2002-06-24 Thread Shaw John-P55297
9iR2 enterprise from the otn download Forms 6i 6.0.8.10.3 on W2K Dell -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 12:07 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L in pure client-server mode? if so: quick, someone tell oracle tech support !!! :) what versions of the database?

Transfer of EE Db to SE Db same version

2002-06-24 Thread Skursk Michal
Hello, probably I have littlebit strange question: can I physicaly transfer database created under EE 8.0.5 (no advanced option of EE installed) to SE 8.0.5? Can I expect any problems, should I use export/import? OS platform is Alpha Open VMS. Thanks Michal -- Please see the official ORACLE-L

Re:RE: Suggestions on MV Implementation !!!!!!!

2002-06-24 Thread dgoulet
Madhu, What are the problems? Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Reddy; Madhusudana [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 6/23/2002 9:03 PM Jack , DG and ALL, I Have problem in creating the Fast Refresh MVs, from the existing code , which i can not change

Re: Transfer of EE Db to SE Db same version

2002-06-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
If you haven't used any of the EE features, you should be able to just shutdown, change the ORACLE_HOME to point to the SE installation and then startup the database. I would do that, having first either done a full database export (if the database is relatively small) or a backup of the

OT: GNU or [G]NU (Pronunciation of...)

2002-06-24 Thread mkb
Ok, how is this pronounced? Is the G in GNU slient or not? mkb __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: mkb

Re: Capacity planning courses

2002-06-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Check out the courses offered by Craig Shallahammar (sp?) at www.orapub.com --- Schauss, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to everyone who made suggestions on training courses. Looking at my skill set and the requirements of my current position, I am thinking about taking a course in

Re: RMAN Guru Needed - RMAN/Netbackup

2002-06-24 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello Sam Why do not restore the archive logs manually? Ask RMAN to restore the database and then issue the recover until yourself. Then you have time to explore RMAN behavior. BTW - did you backup the 2 weekly archive logs with RMAN or was it a separate netbackup file backup? Yechiel Adar

RE: Capacity planning courses

2002-06-24 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Check out www.orapub.com. Craig Shallahamer conducts Capacity Planning course. I have not yet attended one but I have heard from others that the course is very good. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 8:43 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks to

RE: RE: Suggestions on MV Implementation !!!!!!!

2002-06-24 Thread Khedr, Waleed
General Restrictions on Fast Refresh The materialized view's defining query is restricted as follows: The FROM list must contain base tables only (that is, no views). It cannot contain references to non-repeating expressions like SYSDATE and ROWNUM. It cannot contain

RE: GNU or [G]NU (Pronunciation of...)

2002-06-24 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: GNU or [G]NU (Pronunciation of...) I wish I knew since we do have a new problem with gnats on the gnus at our local zoo. Jerry Whittle ACIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 618-622-4145 -Original Message- From: mkb [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

AW: GNU or [G]NU (Pronunciation of...)

2002-06-24 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi mkb125 AFAIK, it is silent, as in Gnome ;). And as I was told, it's pronounced almost like the American way of pronouncing new. So I guess it's supposed to be a word play, even though it's old software ;). Have a nice and sunny day ... at work, Stefan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-

Re: OT: GNU or [G]NU (Pronunciation of...)

2002-06-24 Thread Alex
The G sounds like the G in Good question On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, mkb wrote: Ok, how is this pronounced? Is the G in GNU slient or not? mkb __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com --

RE: OT: GNU or [G]NU (Pronunciation of...)

2002-06-24 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
So.., is the w in Wildebeest, pronounced as a w or a v ?? -Original Message- Sent: 24 June 2002 16:13 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The G sounds like the G in Good question On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, mkb wrote: Ok, how is this pronounced? Is the G in GNU slient or not?

RE: RE: Alternative to Crystal Reports

2002-06-24 Thread Jesse, Rich
We've had problems with BO (hmmm...) against our 8.1.7.2.0 DBs. Sometimes, when the user cancels a particularly bad BO report, the server process on the DB loops infinitely. Also, from a design aspect, it seems that it's difficult to join tables in multiple ways for multiple reports. Not

RE: Urgent - Upgrade from 8.1.6 to 8.1.6.3

2002-06-24 Thread Root, Melanie
Run at SYS and make sure that there are no users in the database when running... Regards, Melanie -Original Message- Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 8:48 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I have upgraded two databases from 8.1.6 to 8.1.6.3. After upgrade I ran catalogand

RE: Virtual drive on Solaris

2002-06-24 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: Virtual drive on Solaris Here is the command sample: mount -f tmpfs -o size=800m swap /ramdisk We use it to run a small database totally in memory. We decided that staying within the Oracle product suite was better for us vs. using a real memory-only rdbms. The mounting of

RE: RE: Suggestions on MV Implementation !!!!!!!

2002-06-24 Thread Reddy, Madhusudana
DG, I am getting the following error : ERROR at line 13: ORA-12015: cannot create a fast refresh snapshot from a complex query I have executed the following CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW GENRELOB_TEST NOLOGGING BUILD IMMEDIATE REFRESH COMPLETE ON DEMAND DISABLE QUERY REWRITE

SESSION_CACHED_CURSORS and shared_pool sizing.

2002-06-24 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hi all, Trying to deal with SHARED_POOL sizing and perf tuning for an 8.1.6.0.0 DB that's used by 3rd party software. I can't seem to find if higher values of SESSION_CACHED_CURSORS adversely affects the shared pool in any way. Specifically, I'm wondering if the higher number of cached cursors

database 9iR2 and client-server with Forms 6i / RE: (Fwd) Re:

2002-06-24 Thread Eric D. Pierce
My understanding is that the developer mode is still client-server, but to do the deployment (more or less runtime?), you have to also have 9iAS set up and running. Can you execute a form in client-server mode in the same manner as a user would (in other words, not in developer mode)?

WHICH PATCH # FROM 8.1.7.2 TO 8.1.7.4

2002-06-24 Thread Seema Singh
Hi Which patch # is for upgradation from 8.1.7.2 to 8.1.7.4 on sun solaris OS? Thx -Seema _ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Error while connecting to database

2002-06-24 Thread Harvinder Singh
Hi, We are trying to make duplicate database on same machine (WIN2K) using RMAN. so we created the entry for SID in listener.ora and tnsnames.ora.. Also we created password file as: orapwd file=PWDV901DUP.ora password=manager entries=10 But when we try to connect to database we get error as:

Re: Log file synch / direct path writes

2002-06-24 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Jared, Just to clear my thoughts, doubts and keep learning from the list. What implications can cause having a big log buffer. As I can remember, LGWR copy data from the log buffer to the redo logs when log buffer is 1/3 full, timeout, commit and a few more. So it will fire when the first one

Re:RE: RE: Suggestions on MV Implementation !!!!!!!

2002-06-24 Thread dgoulet
Mahud, I don't think the database appreciates the 'distinct' clause in the select, or the order by. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Reddy; Madhusudana [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 6/24/2002 8:04 AM DG, I am getting the following error :

RE: Log file synch / direct path writes

2002-06-24 Thread Seefelt, Beth
Ramon, For one thing, LGWR will write the log buffer when it is 1/3 full, or if it reaches 1MB. So, its useless to have the log buffer more than 3MB. The space beyond 3MB could never possibly be used. My .02 Beth -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 1:28 PM To: Multiple

Re: Log file synch / direct path writes

2002-06-24 Thread Madhavan Amruthur
Hi Ramon, On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:28:21 -0800, Ramon E. Estevez [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What implications can cause having a big log buffer. You want to check the tip from Steve Adams to understand how log buffer works and the implications of a big log buffer

RE: Log file synch / direct path writes

2002-06-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ramon, along the lines of Beth's idea here, how large are the archive logs you are producing? Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 1:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ramon, For one thing, LGWR will write

creating 9i database and port 2481 conflict

2002-06-24 Thread Ben
Hi I have a data server which is running several 8i instances (8.1.7) with Jservers on Solaris8. I installed 9i version 9.0.1 and created a 9i database instance. All instances and listeners were shut down when I did this. So far all went well. Then I used the database config assistant to clone

Sun BluePrints - Monitoring Database Servers

2002-06-24 Thread Suzy Vordos
A new paper by Sun BluePrints called Drill-Down Monitoring of Database Servers is at http://www.sun.com/solutions/blueprints/0602/816-7191-10.pdf. Looks good... well, until Step 5 where it talks about tuning using Buffer Cache Hit Ratio's. Anjo, Cary, Mogens... any comments ? ;-) -- Please

Re: Capacity planning courses

2002-06-24 Thread Jared Still
Craig Shallahamer, www.orapub.com. I've taken the class, it's excellent. Two things you will learn: * There's more to capacity planning than you thought * It's not that hard to do, given the tools and techniques. Jared On Monday 24 June 2002 06:43, Schauss, Peter wrote: Thanks to

rows values in tkprof

2002-06-24 Thread Nalla Ravi
Dear All, In my tkprof output rows values under explain plan section are not getting printed, is there any parameter to be set? Thanks, Ravi __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music

Value Set by ALTER SYSTEM Command ?

2002-06-24 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
How can Values Set by a previously Issued ALTER SYSTEM SET Command be Found ? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: VIVEK_SHARMA INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California--

Re: WHICH PATCH # FROM 8.1.7.2 TO 8.1.7.4

2002-06-24 Thread Ray Stell
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:48:19AM -0800, Seema Singh wrote: Hi Which patch # is for upgradation from 8.1.7.2 to 8.1.7.4 on sun solaris OS? Thx -Seema ID:1697372 Patchset::2376472 README 8.1.7.4 PATCH SET FOR ORACLE DATA SERVER Product:Oracle Database Platform:Sun Solaris OS (SPARC)

Re: Unix related - need some info

2002-06-24 Thread Suzy Vordos
Vladimir Barac - posao wrote: Good day to everyone... I have two questions related to Linux and Solaris... * I need do find memory usage (physical, virtual...) of a particular proccess. PID is given by by ps, but what aditional parameters I have to provide? At a first glance, output

Re: AW: GNU or [G]NU (Pronunciation of...)

2002-06-24 Thread Jared Still
I've always pronounced it, and heard it pronounced: Guh-noo. Like the animal, which is the GNU logo. Jared On Monday 24 June 2002 08:13, Stefan Jahnke wrote: Hi mkb125 AFAIK, it is silent, as in Gnome ;). And as I was told, it's pronounced almost like the American way of pronouncing

Re: Unix related - need some info

2002-06-24 Thread Suzy Vordos
Oppps, Typo... vmstat should read: vmstat -S 5 1000 Suzy Vordos wrote: Vladimir Barac - posao wrote: Good day to everyone... I have two questions related to Linux and Solaris... * I need do find memory usage (physical, virtual...) of a particular proccess. PID is given by by

Re: Script to find free space in an index

2002-06-24 Thread Jared Still
If that's one of my scripts, RCS says it's from 1997. Here's a newer one. It gets *everything* in the database, so a little tweaking may be in order. Jared === -- showspace_all.sql -- use dbms_space to show exact amount -- of space consumed by

RE: Sun BluePrints - Monitoring Database Servers

2002-06-24 Thread Fink, Dan
Look ma, a 0% Buffer Cache Hit Ratio... Some databases (for example, Oracle and Informix) avoid the buffer cache entirely when carrying out table or index scans. *Top of page 23 in the document. Daniel W. Fink Sr. Oracle DBA MICROMEDEX 303.486.6456 -Original Message- Sent: Monday,

RE: AW: GNU or [G]NU (Pronunciation of...)

2002-06-24 Thread Jesse, Rich
H... http://www.m-w.com would seem to think that the G is gsilent. And they have a pretty picture of a gnu, too, for your review, Cindy Lou Who. Don't practice your alliteration on me! -- Monty Python :) Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Log file synch / direct path writes

2002-06-24 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Dennis, 100MB archive log size. Ramon - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 2:03 PM Ramon, along the lines of Beth's idea here, how large are the archive logs you are producing? Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch,

RE: Value Set by ALTER SYSTEM Command ?

2002-06-24 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Is there NO Other Way to find How ? In Particular :- ALTER SYSTEM SET USE_STORED_OUTLINES=RBOCAT; NOTE USE_STORED_OUTLINES does NOT appear in v$parameters NOT in x$ksppinm Thanks -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 12:15 AM To: LazyDBA.com Discussion; VIVEK_SHARMA In

Free Unused User Memory

2002-06-24 Thread Solomon, Saul M.
Has anyone used dbms_session.free_unused_user_memory; in a production environment? Comments and experiences? Thanks. Saul -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Solomon, Saul M. INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX:

Re: AW: GNU or [G]NU (Pronunciation of...)

2002-06-24 Thread Dennis M. Heisler
According to gnu.org, it's guh-new. Jesse, Rich wrote: H... http://www.m-w.com would seem to think that the G is gsilent. And they have a pretty picture of a gnu, too, for your review, Cindy Lou Who. Don't practice your alliteration on me! -- Monty Python :) Rich Jesse

RE: Log file synch / direct path writes

2002-06-24 Thread Andrew Sit
Don't forget, LGWR also flushes the buffer every 3 seconds. Think about your transaction rate and whether you will make use of a large buffer space. My $0.02, Andy. -- Andrew Sit Systems Engineer DataMirror Corporation + 1 905 415 0310 (O) + 1 416 839 9908 (M) -Original Message-

OT: Gnome is part of GNU

2002-06-24 Thread Donald Bricker
From www.gnome.org Q: GNOME: "nome" or "guh-nome"? A: In English, the word "gnome" is pronounced with a silent "g". However, GNOME itself is generally pronounced as "guh-nome", just as GNU is pronounced "guh-noo" when referring to the GNU Project Q: So what is GNOME? A: The initials

RE: SESSION_CACHED_CURSORS and shared_pool sizing.

2002-06-24 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: SESSION_CACHED_CURSORS and shared_pool sizing. I don't recall where I read this but I remember a few things about it. As you noted, the use of SESSION_CAHED_CURSORS has an impact on the UGA. If you are using MTS then that becomes part of the SGA in the shared pool (or large pool

Re: Log file synch / direct path writes

2002-06-24 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Tks Dennis, Beth, Madhavan for your answer. Now I get it. Learned something new today about Oracle, that's my goal. Ramon - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 1:53 PM Hi Ramon, On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:28:21

Re: Value Set by ALTER SYSTEM Command ?

2002-06-24 Thread Stephane Faroult
VIVEK_SHARMA wrote: How can Values Set by a previously Issued ALTER SYSTEM SET Command be Found ? SQL desc v$parameter Name Null?Type - NUM

RE: Virtual drive on Solaris

2002-06-24 Thread Ferenc Mantfeld
Hi Tim Yes, I have tried the _disable_logging, does not work on all platforms. DB starts up fine, but redo log is generated, evidenced by log switching going on. Also if I do a normal DML (large-ish one to verify), then dump the redo log, I see my transaction there, so for a 420R, running

Re: OT: GNU or [G]NU (Pronunciation of...)

2002-06-24 Thread Donald Bricker
From the GNU web site Welcome to the GNU Project web server, www.gnu.org. The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system. (GNU is a recursive acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix''; it is

Re: Log file synch / direct path writes

2002-06-24 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
That was my point. It doesn't matter that log_buffer = 100MB, if every 3 seconds LGWR will fire anyway even the buffer had only used 1k. tks Andrew - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 3:23 PM Don't forget,

Re: Free Unused User Memory

2002-06-24 Thread Connor McDonald
Its unlikely that you'll get any real benefit from it..The routine frees up pga memory for reuse, but since the PGA is a heap (ie little bits all over the place) so the stuff freed up is unlikely to be 'at the end'. Maybe under MTS you'd see some benefit (?) but for dedicated sessions, the freed

RE: Value Set by ALTER SYSTEM Command ?

2002-06-24 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Hi: There is no direct way to find out from the V$/X$ tables since the session modified parameter settings are kept in the PGA and it is not visible to external sessions. Technically there is a way, you have to dump the PGA and you can get the session parameter values. Best Regards, K

V9.2 SGA

2002-06-24 Thread Charlie Mengler
Yes, I know I need to RTFM, but if some kine soul has a quick answer for me, I'd appreciate it. startup ORACLE instance started. Total System Global Area 168788768 bytes Fixed Size 729888 bytes Variable Size 100663296 bytes Database Buffers 33554432

Frequent ''ORA -1650: unable to extend rollback segment errors'' in the

2002-06-24 Thread Deepender . Gupta
Hi All,

RE: V9.2 SGA

2002-06-24 Thread John Kanagaraj
Hi Charlie, Variable Size 100663296 bytes Database Buffers 33554432 bytes Redo Buffers 33841152 bytes Which initSGA.ora parameters control the Variable Size piece of the 9i SGA? I'd like to shrink this total to around 32MB. You could change both the

Re: Virtual drive on Solaris

2002-06-24 Thread Tim Gorman
I hesitated mentioning that parameter in this forum, but I figured what the heck? Could be fun, in a sick way... :-) Once I was teaching a DBA class and mentioned _DISABLE_LOGGING. Immediately, I saw every head in the class look down, scribbling furiously! I had to backtrack very quickly and

RE: HP-UX 11.0/8.1.6.2.0/Optimizer

2002-06-24 Thread John Kanagaraj
Mike, Shazzam. Back to 2 minutes. Huh? But Optimizer-mode is RULE!! How? Why? I look stupid and so does my whole DBA group. Does anybody have any insights about this behavior? Contrary to common understanding, the Cost based optimizer is 'forced' in certain situations even if the mode

Re: RTFM/ SUPPORT, etc WASRe: Index Constraint

2002-06-24 Thread Joe Testa
well ora600 errors you cant fix but before i lay claim that its a bug, i have everything support will ask for including multiple test cases before i get them on the horn. joe Yechiel Adar wrote: - Original Message - i call support usually AFTER 2 weeks of working on an issue my

recording SQLPlus activity

2002-06-24 Thread Ray Gordon
I have just been moved to a group with several hundred developers, and to say the least the environment is chaotic. Without putting limits on my developers (such as via READONLY user, etc.), is there some way that every command that a developer executes using SQLPlus gets recorded (by userid

RE: HP-UX 11.0/8.1.6.2.0/Optimizer

2002-06-24 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
John: OH! D'OH! expletives deleted I missed your paper at IOUG. Probably shouldn't have. This particular query had an index hint in it. We did not try running the query without the hint until the tables were almost all analyzed. Can you shoot me a copy of your paper? Or point me towards

RE: recording SQLPlus activity

2002-06-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ray - A couple of things come to mind. First, does each developer have their own Oracle login? If not, you probably will not be able to tell who did what anyway. What version of Oracle? I would consider running the database in ARCHIVELOG mode. Not a bad idea in a heavy development

Re: V9.2 SGA

2002-06-24 Thread Jared Still
Try shared_pool_size, large_pool_size, java_pool_size and shared_pool_reserved size. This is from 8i, there may be additional ones on 9i, or 1 or 2 of those I mentioned may be deprecated. Jared On Monday 24 June 2002 15:05, Charlie Mengler wrote: Yes, I know I need to RTFM, but if some

RE: recording SQLPlus activity

2002-06-24 Thread Craig Munday
Title: RE: recording SQLPlus activity Ray, Why would you want to record every SQL statement that your developers issue? Are they just using SQL*Plus or some other language? Cheers, Craig. -Original Message- From: Ray Gordon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 25 June 2002

client-server on database 9x (update)/ Re: Upgrading from Forms 5, Oracle 7

2002-06-24 Thread Eric D. Pierce
--- Forwarded message follows --- re: client-server support on database 9.x Looks like database 9.0.1.x will probably die (without *any* EAS) a lot sooner than 8.1.7. since there is no evidence at this time that database 9.2.x, or later, will ever support client-server,

RE: V9.2 SGA

2002-06-24 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Also, you probably thought of this, but have you looked at v$sga (which seems to be the info you get on startup) and v$sgastat - which has details of each of the sections. On 81714 on NT, v$sga shows: Fixed Size Variable Size Database Buffers

export 9i db using 8.1.6 exp utility

2002-06-24 Thread Long . Nguyen
Has anyone tried exporting a 9i database using 8.1.6 exp utility on Windows? A user here tried it and got ECP-56 (andno other error messages). I tried this on Solaris and had no problem. Long -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL

RE: NEED YOUR OPINION

2002-06-24 Thread Rodrigues, Bryan
Hamid, I believe the problem is in your 'to_number(a.MSC_SERVICE_CODE)' section in your where clause. This is trying to do a to_number on a field that could have a non numeric value in the field. Hope this helps, Bryan Rodrigues -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 7:23 PM

RE: Virtual drive on Solaris

2002-06-24 Thread Ferenc Mantfeld
Title: RE: Virtual drive on Solaris Tony Ever since I first worked with you, I've always regarded you as best amongst the best (and I don't give that title lightly), and you have substantiated it once again. Thanks for the info, this is great ! Can't wait to freak out some minds :-) !

Re: V9.2 SGA

2002-06-24 Thread Sakthi , Raj
Charlie, all of the following control the variable size. db_block_buffers ( Of course db_cache_size in 9i) and sharedpool_size and log_buffer_size. The thing to note is you have your log_buffer_size set to way higher than necessary. IMHO For such a small( test ? ) system few KBs would suffice.

RE: Performance Tuning and Backup Recovery

2002-06-24 Thread sam d
Sorry for the late reply, thx a lot all of u for the help Regards Sameer --- Godlewski, Melissa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sam, Que1: If you have statistics on the table then the cost based optimizer is used. If you have out of data statistics you could be sending bad information to the

RE: Which objects to pin in which Multiple Buffer Pool?

2002-06-24 Thread Louis Avrami
Of course, if anyone has some queries to help identify buffer pool pinning candidates, they would be more than welcome. Thanks, Lou Avrami From the article Oracle8i Buffer Cache: New Features, identifying hot blocks (DEFAULT cache?) can be done with the query: PCSS:SYS select obj object,

Which objects to pin in which Multiple Buffer Pool?

2002-06-24 Thread Louis Avrami
Sorry if this is a repeat, I received a message that my original message was being return because of locking problems = Hi all, I'm in an environment where we're running RDBMS 8.1.7.2 on multiple Solaris 2.8 servers. I would like to set up multiple buffer pools in several of

RE: HP-UX 11.0/8.1.6.2.0/Optimizer

2002-06-24 Thread sean . hull
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, John Kanagaraj wrote: Contrary to common understanding, the Cost based optimizer is 'forced' in certain situations even if the mode is RULE. Examples are: Use of hints other than RULE, Partitioned tables and indexes, Index-organized tables, Reverse key indexes,

Re: recording SQLPlus activity

2002-06-24 Thread sean . hull
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Ray Gordon wrote: I have just been moved to a group with several hundred developers, and to say the least the environment is chaotic. Without putting limits on my developers (such as via READONLY user, etc.), is there some way that every command that a developer