Re: Any do's and dont's for a 9i oracle installation on RedHat Linux

2002-08-30 Thread Alexandre Gorbatchev
Hi, Suse7.2 is certified with 9.0.1. It will never be certified with 9.2 and later versions. Suse has a special product SLES - Suse Linux Enterprise Server. It's based on Suse 7.2 and include many official patches and upgrades. Afaik, with Suse 7.2 you may not upgrade your kernel and be certified

RE: Slightly OT: Rounding Negative Numbers

2002-08-30 Thread Naveen Nahata
Why are you including -0.870?? In that case you should also include -.880. I think theoretically there is nothing right or wrong about rounding thing. You have to decide upon one way and follow that universally. Naveen -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 10:19 PM To:

Re: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-30 Thread Yechiel Adar
We are using TOAD for the DBA team. For the developers we got PlSqlDeveloper and it works fine. You can check also www.quest.com for the new sql editor that they developed recently. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: Slightly OT: Rounding Negative Numbers

2002-08-30 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi if you include -0.870, you should also include -0.880 in which case the split will go 6:5 either way you choose. Jack kkennedy

RE: Index hints?

2002-08-30 Thread Naveen Nahata
If you specify a hint Oracle is forced to use the index. Your hint's syntax is wrong. USE - /*+ INDEX(test index_a) */ Don't use the comma *** between the table name and the index name Naveen -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 12:33 PM To: Multiple recipients

Re: Index hints?

2002-08-30 Thread zhu chao
Chuan Zhang, hei£¬you statement choose all rows from the table,Of course oracle will use full table scan! There is no where clause in your SQL.If you add: select a,b,c from test where a=some_value, then of course it will use the index. Regards zhu chao

RE: arg list too long in unix

2002-08-30 Thread kommareddy sreenivasa
Hi all, Is there something like, unix is unable to use commands like ls -ltr (sort etc) when there are huge number of files in a directory(may be thousands/millions). If yes, what is the limit and how to know it on sun solaris 2.8. thnx and regards, srinivas --- Lakhani, Vipul [EMAIL

Re: ORACLE UP/DOWN scripts

2002-08-30 Thread Markus Reger
hi we use on sunos 5.8 the same scripts as on linux - as we use on all *nices the bash. kr mr [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/29/02 21:46 PM Hi Does some one have DB down script on Sun solaris.I mean to say if instance down I will get page . Thx -Seema

Configuring 734 and 817 on same machine.

2002-08-30 Thread Denham Eva
Title: Configuring 734 and 817 on same machine. Hello Gurus, Does anyone have a link to a resource which describes the Installation and configuration of Oracle 734 and Oracle 817 on the same Windows 2000 machine. The configuration of the listeners is my main concern. Any help on this is

Re: Standby with TAF config. - How to ?

2002-08-30 Thread zhu chao
oraora oraora, If you want to implement TAF, you have to use OPS/RAC. and you application must be written via OCI when connect to database. For standby to be in recover, it take some minutes to recover the final redo log from the primary site, which maybe need human interaction.

Re: Oracle 9i Rel1 on SuSE 8.0 Pro

2002-08-30 Thread Alexandre Gorbatchev
I have several Suse 7.2 running fine with ReiserFS and Ext2. Recently, I've got a problem with RAM (hanging several times) I have changed the ram, but yesterday I have found a couple of corrupted blocks in one database, so I guess memory could possibly be an issue. Are there any other negative

RE: Letting users kill their own sessions

2002-08-30 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Title: RE: Re:RE: Re[2]: controlling CPU usage through Oracle Patrice, I think I posted this not so long ago but I have this one and it works. Regards HTH Lee /***//* *//* Author: Lee Robertson *//* *//* Title: killsession.sql

Re: Configuring 734 and 817 on same machine.

2002-08-30 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi, My guess would be (from memory) Install Oracle 7 first because it wants to be in the first Oracle home than 8i and configure the listener of 8i to listen for all database connections on the machine. I once tried to install Oracle 7 after I had installed 8i and had to fiddle with the

Re: Re[2]: controlling CPU usage through Oracle

2002-08-30 Thread Yechiel Adar
In NT and win2000 you can set Os priorities to the different tasks. If you have the sane facility on aix you can give this db a lower priority so whenever the other databases will need CPU they will get it. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Letting users kill their own sessions

2002-08-30 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Title: RE: Re:RE: Re[2]: controlling CPU usage through Oracle very funny, but I asked because sometimes developers create 'zombies' on our UNIX server. Why would being chained to a desk that is connected to Oracle be punishment? I don't understand... ; ) Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems

RE: working with datafile 2Gb in HadHat 7.3

2002-08-30 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I read something about Oracle on Windows not being able to extend past the 2G limit, but haven't verified. I believe it has to do with Oracle on Windows, not windows or hardware. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des

Re: new email address

2002-08-30 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Does that mean you didn't get my email about presenting my rman paper? Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 7:47 PM the [EMAIL PROTECTED] email addy has evidently been sent on to spam lists, i'm getting

Oracle Parner Network

2002-08-30 Thread Magaliff, Bill
Hey all, While reviewing our annual maintenance agreement ($5,000) and considering an additional $30K license purchase, our savvy network admin suggested we look into Oracle's Partner Network. After some research, phone conversations, and pouring through the license agreement with a fine-tooth

Re: ADV OT: Oracle-dba.com domain for sale

2002-08-30 Thread Joe Testa
hahahah, now thats a kewl domain. joe Post, Ethan wrote: I would but I got to put some money down on www.phatdba.com Ethan Post perotdba (AIM), epost1 (Yahoo) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002

RE: IMPORT sloooowwww

2002-08-30 Thread Ball, Terry
Bingo. It was the grants, as I had tried w/o indexes/constraints. There were some 1800+ grants per table. With grants set to no, an import which creates constraints and indexes is flying. It has been so long since I worked with a product where each user is given direct grants rather than thru

select count(*) = 0, select /*+ full(a) */ count(*) = 5227 ?

2002-08-30 Thread Bernard, Gilbert
On Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.2.0 - 64bit Production PL/SQL Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production CORE8.1.7.0.0 Production TNS for Solaris: Version 8.1.7.2.0 - Production NLSRTL Version 3.4.1.0.0 - Production I got a stange result and I wish to find an explanation. Look I did

Re: Serving BLOB from the database

2002-08-30 Thread Justin Cave
At 09:43 AM 8/29/2002, Manavendra Gupta wrote: I'm sure there has been discussion in the past about the same, but I'm more interested in the feasibility/performance of serving images (stored as BLOB) from the database. Is there a reason that you're not using interMedia here? interMedia is

Re: Identify unused indexes in 8i ?

2002-08-30 Thread Mladen Gogala
Yes, you are right. I forgot to mention monitoring, On 2002.08.30 01:23 Khedr, Waleed wrote: Or when you are done moving these suspected indexes to a new Tablespace, you can monitor the read/write statistics for the files in that Tablespace (v$filestat). Another idea is to put the

Re: Standby with TAF config. - How to ?

2002-08-30 Thread Justin Cave
At 02:33 AM 8/30/2002, you wrote: oraora oraora, If you want to implement TAF, you have to use OPS/RAC. and you application must be written via OCI when connect to database. Your application doesn't necessarily have to be written in OCI to use TAF, but whatever layer eventually

RE: Letting users kill their own sessions

2002-08-30 Thread Robson, Peter
Title: RE: Re:RE: Re[2]: controlling CPU usage through Oracle I quite agree with Patrice - and what's more, 'zombies' is the exact right word for them ! peter edinburgh ps - I did get a laugh out of the exchange too -Original Message-From: Boivin, Patrice J

Re: Table Locks

2002-08-30 Thread Alan Davey
Thanks Rachel. I spent the train ride reading the chapters on Instance Tuning and Dynamic Performance Views hoping to find something, but no such luck. I learned a lot of other useful things though, so it wasn't a waste of time. Jacques, v$locked_object shows the table, but I already knew

RE: Unix scripting need help

2002-08-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Unix scripts is one thing I don't worry much and am taking my own time to learn those with Perl. We got a fantastic bunch of Unix admins who are just waiting for challenges and always deliver. It is bad (for me) and good (that I can spend more time on Oracle issues like chasing OWS personnel and

RE: LIST ADMIN: VIRUS Warning: Please Repsond

2002-08-30 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
My point was that in the corporate world, there is little choice. The only viable software choice is Outlook on WinNT boxes. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 6:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L No, I'm not

RE: working with datafile 2Gb in HadHat 7.3

2002-08-30 Thread Shaw John-P55297
It was a bug on windows - with auto extend on and crossing 4Gb filesize. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 6:58 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I read something about Oracle on Windows not being able to extend past the 2G limit, but haven't verified. I

Estimate sample percent question

2002-08-30 Thread Brooks, Russ
Hi, I've run across an anomaly while updating statistics. It appears that the sample size specified by the analyze statement is not producing the results I'd hoped for. By my calculations, the 5% estimate has a sample size of 1%, the 10% uses 1.6%, and the 40% uses 5%. Are there any known

RE: Oracle Parner Network

2002-08-30 Thread Shaw John-P55297
We are OPN members - we have one database for our internal use and pay full price for it and support. In addition we have a bunch of purely development databases - on differing platforms (linux, solaris) that we download and use for no additional fee's. -Original Message- Sent: Friday,

RE: Table Locks

2002-08-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
I created following two views for developer's use and so far there have been no complaints .. CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW SYSTEM.DB$LOCKED_OBJECTS (OBJECT_NAME, SESSION_ID, ORACLE_USERNAME, OS_USER_NAME, SQL_ACTIONS, LOCK_MODE) AS SELECT DO.object_name, lo.SESSION_ID, lo.oracle_username,

RE: select count(*) = 0, select /*+ full(a) */ count(*) = 5227 ?

2002-08-30 Thread Lord, David - CSG
Bernard I think this may be a bug in early versions of 8.1.7. I don't know the number, but I had a similar problem recently. Its to do with whether the query is scanning an index or not. Try forcing the query to do a full scan: - SQL select /*full(ced_info_mouvement)*/ count(*) from

RE: select count(*) = 0, select /*+ full(a) */ count(*) = 5227 ?

2002-08-30 Thread Naveen Nahata
Rebuild your index and try again -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 6:53 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L ? On Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.2.0 - 64bit Production PL/SQL Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production CORE8.1.7.0.0 Production TNS for

RE: select count(*) = 0, select /*+ full(a) */ count(*) = 5227 ?

2002-08-30 Thread Seefelt, Beth
MVT_ID_LOT_IDX is corrupt? Does rebuilding the index fix the problem? -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 9:23 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L ? On Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.2.0 - 64bit Production PL/SQL Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production CORE

Re: Unix Question

2002-08-30 Thread Steven Lembark
-- Pawan Dalmia [EMAIL PROTECTED] My var partition is 99% full of which there are lot of files in /var/tmp directory. Can i delete this files ? Probably. Older ones are a better bet: cd /var/tmp; find . -atime +7 -type f | xargs rm -f; Question is what job leaves files behind

RE: ora-1017 invalid username/password when trying to login as internal

2002-08-30 Thread Bob Metelsky
Oracle 8.1.6/WinNT I get ora-1017 invalid username/password when trying to connect as internal. I have recreated password file many times to no avail. Usually this all I have had to do in the past for this error. I have tried all combinations of remote_login_passwordfile. I was

Re: LIST ADMIN: VIRUS Warning: Please Repsond

2002-08-30 Thread ltiu
Next question is, how did this happen? ltiu Mercadante, Thomas F wrote: My point was that in the corporate world, there is little choice. The only viable software choice is Outlook on WinNT boxes. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Thursday,

RE: arg list too long in unix

2002-08-30 Thread Steven Lembark
-- kommareddy sreenivasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, Is there something like, unix is unable to use commands like ls -ltr (sort etc) when there are huge number of files in a directory(may be thousands/millions). If yes, what is the limit and how to know it on sun solaris 2.8. This is

Re: IMPORT sloooowwww

2002-08-30 Thread Nuno Souto
Er. You can use roles in Oracle as well? Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - It has been so long since I worked with a product where each user is given direct grants rather than thru a role, that I forgot that it was possible to have that many grants on a

RE: LIST ADMIN: VIRUS Warning: Please Repsond

2002-08-30 Thread Rachel Carmichael
oh no, you can always use Lotus Notes with W2K, XP or NT... we are here such lovely choices we have --- Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My point was that in the corporate world, there is little choice. The only viable software choice is Outlook on WinNT boxes. Tom

RE: Standby with TAF config. - How to ?

2002-08-30 Thread Brian McGraw
Not all Oracle API's support TAF. I know that the JDBC thin driver does not support TAF, while the JDBC OCI driver does. Brian -- | Brian McGraw /* DBA */ Infinity Insurance | | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: arg list too long in unix

2002-08-30 Thread Nuno Souto
The size of the buffer used to store parameters is actually configurable in most Unix versions I've had a look at. Somewhere around 4K, from memory. Would be very surprised if it wasn't configurable in Solaris. Would also be very surprised if you find one techo at Sun that knows how to

RE: select count(*) = 0, select /*+ full(a) */ count(*) = 5227 ?

2002-08-30 Thread Fink, Dan
There was a bug (still is in 8?) in 7.3 where a parallel index creation would cause an index to be built with 0 entries. This would occur when the index columns could be found in another index. The parallel master process would get confused as to which index was the source and target. The end

RE: IMPORT sloooowwww

2002-08-30 Thread Casey Dyke
Title: RE: IMPORT sl i might add my 2c, even though the problem has been resolved. :-) once upon a time, we had a 2g database that was taking a looong time to import. anyone ever heard of remedy? did everything that has already been mentioned. tracing revealed log file sync

RE: LIST ADMIN: VIRUS Warning: Please Repsond

2002-08-30 Thread April Wells
found some way to fake out Linux to run Lotus Notes in a shell if I am not mistaken, too... -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 9:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L oh no, you can always use Lotus Notes with W2K, XP or NT... we are here such lovely choices we

RE: LIST ADMIN: VIRUS Warning: Please Repsond

2002-08-30 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Wine can run lotus notes. I tested it and it works fairly nice. The only problem is that I cannot resize the window, so I have to use another workspace for it. -Original Message- From: April Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:29 AM To: Multiple

RE: LIST ADMIN: VIRUS Warning: Please Repsond

2002-08-30 Thread Stahlke, Mark
The universe exists according to our beliefs. If you believe that you have no choice, then you have no choice. But only because you believe it. Happy Friday, Mark There is no spoon Stahlke Denver Newspaper Agency -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 7:58 AM To:

Re: select count(*) = 0, select /*+ full(a) */ count(*) = 5227 ?

2002-08-30 Thread Casey A. Jordan
I had the same issue in a 8.1.6 database and found that was bug related to the cost based optimizer and materialized views. Never did resolve it but found that the problem occurred when the table in question had a materialized view selecting data from in. Thanks, caj - Original Message

RE: IMPORT sloooowwww

2002-08-30 Thread Cary Millsap
Title: RE: IMPORT sl I like the way you found the root cause. If I may paraphrase, you asked the database how it was spending its time, and the answer guided the remainder of your performance improvement project. I contrast this method with the traditional approach, which is to

Library cache lock and library cache latch

2002-08-30 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Good morning, everyone. A running Oracle server contains both library cache locks and library cache latches. What are the criteria for using a lock vs. a latch for protecting objects in the cache? For example, at the moment we're trying to create a new version of a package, but a running

Re: LIST ADMIN: VIRUS Warning: Please Repsond

2002-08-30 Thread ltiu
Lotus Notes is good enough and for a time were the number one (and the only one). How the hell did they lose market share? ltiu On Friday 30 August 2002 08:28, April Wells wrote: found some way to fake out Linux to run Lotus Notes in a shell if I am not mistaken, too... -Original

Creating Scott/Tiger

2002-08-30 Thread Jonathan Gennick
I need to create the Scott/Tiger schema in Oracle9i. Does anyone recall off the top of their head just where the script to do this is located? Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 906.387.1698 http://Gennick.com * http://MichiganWaterfalls.com *

SQL*Plus in 10i

2002-08-30 Thread Freeman, Robert
Anyone else hear that SQL*Plus is going away in 10i?? RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP Oracle Database Architect CSX Midtier Database Administration Author Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press - Oct 2002) Oracle9i New Features (Oracle Press) Mastering Oracle8i  (Sybex) The

Re: sql loader control file help

2002-08-30 Thread Jonathan Gennick
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:41:50 -0800, Rachel wrote: I am not, by any means, a SQL*Loader expert (Jonathan, I keep meaning to get your book!) Sounds like you've solved this one already, but since you invoked my name (and in vain too, since I was of no help grin), I'll just chime in to say that my

Why it picks up the same PFILE for both the DBs?

2002-08-30 Thread Naveen Nahata
Hi All, I have a system with 2 databases, both running on the same server 8.0.5. OS - Windows NT When i connect thru server manager to TEST, and then issue STARTUP, it starts up the PROD database using the initPROD.ora file. On querying V$instance it shows INSTANCE_NAME = TEST On querying

Re: Hot Backup scripts UNIX

2002-08-30 Thread Suzy Vordos
Here's a ksh script that dumps backup files to a remote server. It also accounts for multiple datafiles per tablespace, which I didn't see coded in the Velpuri scripts. Suzy #!/bin/ksh #

RE: LIST ADMIN: VIRUS Warning: Please Repsond

2002-08-30 Thread April Wells
HERE... herd mentality... Microsoft rules... Microsoft Rules... Oracle Applications are buggy and user GMT in their log files... Access is better, Microsoft doesn't sell buggy software... mooo... hey... look at that really cool cliff... Let's follow those other buffalo ... the jump looks like

Automatic generation of Statspack report ...

2002-08-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Someone had asked this question ... maybe this will help .. Batch mode report generation To run a report without being prompted, assign values to the and the report name before running spreport. The variables are: begin_snap -

RE: Creating Scott/Tiger

2002-08-30 Thread Scott . Shafer
I don't know about the user scott/tiger, but the scripts to build the tables (emp, dept, etc) are in $ORACLE_HOME/sqlplus/demo /opt/oracle/product/9.0.2/sqlplus/demo ll total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 3565 May 13 2001 demobld.sql -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oinstall 573 May

RE: SQL*Plus in 10i

2002-08-30 Thread Ji, Richard
Are you kidding? So what do we use to startup and shutdown db? OEM? I don't think there is any truth to this one. Richard -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 12:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Anyone else hear that SQL*Plus is going away in 10i?? RF

RE: LIST ADMIN: VIRUS Warning: Please Repsond

2002-08-30 Thread Seefelt, Beth
The same way Digital did. The best product doesn't always win... -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 12:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Lotus Notes is good enough and for a time were the number one (and the only one). How the hell did they lose market

Re: Creating Scott/Tiger

2002-08-30 Thread Jared . Still
$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/utlsampl.sql Jonathan Gennick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/30/2002 09:53 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Creating Scott/Tiger I need to

RE: Automatic generation of Statspack report ...

2002-08-30 Thread Erik Williams
EXCELLENT! This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thank you very much! Erik -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 1:33 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Someone had asked this question ... maybe this will help .. Batch mode report generation

Re: SQL*Plus in 10i

2002-08-30 Thread Rachel Carmichael
How do they expect you to start and stop the database if it goes away? and please don't say OEM... --- Freeman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else hear that SQL*Plus is going away in 10i?? RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP Oracle Database Architect CSX Midtier Database

Re: SQL*Plus in 10i

2002-08-30 Thread ltiu
Nooo!!! On Friday 30 August 2002 09:23, Freeman, Robert wrote: Anyone else hear that SQL*Plus is going away in 10i?? RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP Oracle Database Architect CSX Midtier Database Administration Author Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press - Oct

RE: ora-1017 invalid username/password when trying to login as internal

2002-08-30 Thread ATIN KUMAR JAIN
Check init.ora parameter,remote_login_passwordfile should be exclusive. regards, --- Atin Kumar Jain OCP 8i DBA IBM Global Services SO Jamshedpur 0657- 424478,147074 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new email address

2002-08-30 Thread Joe Testa
Ruth, i got it as i've not file 13'd the email acct yet. thanks, joe Ruth Gramolini wrote: Does that mean you didn't get my email about presenting my rman paper? Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 7:47

Seconds in Wait

2002-08-30 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
I've been sampling active SQL at a rate of 5 Hz and saving the wait information to a table. Here is one example. SELECT RUNDATE, EVENT, SECONDS_IN_WAIT, STATE, SEQ# FROM STATEMENT_WAIT_INFO WHERE USERNAME = 'ARF' AND ADDRESS = '8992E2C8' AND HASH_VALUE = 3642756738 RUNDATE

Re: sql loader control file help

2002-08-30 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I find that the worst problems I have with SQL*Loader tend to be language related. The same goes with export/import. I wish there were better documentation on the NLS parameters. and yes, it was characterset. What I didn't understand was why when I selected from NLS_DATABASE_PARAMETERS it showed

Re: Creating Scott/Tiger

2002-08-30 Thread Dale
Hi Jonathan I need to create the Scott/Tiger schema in Oracle9i. Does anyone recall off the top of their head just where the script to do this is located? The creation script can usually be found in ${ORACLE_HOME}/sqlplus/demo/demobld.sql Regards Dale -- Need instant

Re: SQL*Plus in 10i

2002-08-30 Thread Jan Pruner
Yes, Oracle will sell it as standalone product because it is most useful and most used client software on Oracle. The licence model is 'per session'. :-))) BTW: Anybody's using gqlplus? http://gqlplus.sourceforge.net/ JP On Friday 30 August 2002 18:23, you wrote: Anyone else hear that

Test - pls Ignore

2002-08-30 Thread Diego Cutrone

Re: SQL*Plus in 10i

2002-08-30 Thread ltiu
oradim -startup -sid sid -pfile pfile_path ??? They got rid of SVRMGR. ltiu On Friday 30 August 2002 11:08, you wrote: How do they expect you to start and stop the database if it goes away? and please don't say OEM... --- Freeman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else hear that

RE: working with datafile 2Gb in HadHat 7.3

2002-08-30 Thread Ji, Richard
Nope. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 7:47 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L If you can't do it in hardware, do it in software. Right? ltiu Ji, Richard wrote: There is no such hardware limitation like that. Those are the OS i.e. software limitations.

RE: ora-1017 invalid username/password when trying to login as internal

2002-08-30 Thread Naveen Nahata
Just my guess, look at the registry parameter ORA_SID_PWFILE(Sorry my knowledge is limited to NT only) and see if it is pointing to the right file. Try restarting the service. Are you running more than one DB on the same server? by the way, if you find out the exact reason why this is happening

test - pls ignore

2002-08-30 Thread Diego Cutrone

RE: SQL*Plus in 10i

2002-08-30 Thread Gogala, Mladen
We only need to start it. It usually stops itself without human control. That is why we have ora-600 and ora-7445 features implemented in PMON and SMON. As for starting and stopping, let me be innovative: What do you say to call the start/stop program IOR and have database startup performed

test ignore

2002-08-30 Thread Denis Vasconcelos
-- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Denis Vasconcelos INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists

RE: SQL*Plus in 10i

2002-08-30 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
What would be the replacement?? -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:23 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Anyone else hear that SQL*Plus is going away in 10i?? RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP Oracle Database Architect CSX Midtier Database Administration

accessing user_users via a procedure in SYS

2002-08-30 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Hi, I am trying to put together a package that uses the AUTHID current_user directive to decide whether to let people kill a session or not, and I ran into a problem. One procedure will run as SYS, but I need to double-check the requester's username to ensure he/she isn't trying to kill their

Re: SQL*Plus in 10i

2002-08-30 Thread Rodd Holman
oradim is only a windows thingy. Those of us on real OS's use svrmgrl or sqlplus depending on version. Are you saying that they are going to port oradim to *NIX?? Rodd On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 13:33, ltiu wrote: oradim -startup -sid sid -pfile pfile_path ??? They got rid of SVRMGR.

Missing Redo Log Files and Control File

2002-08-30 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: Missing Redo Log Files and Control File Hi, We were almost done setting up a new server for the developers when a hard drive crashed. MTBF sure took a hit on that one! We had a replacement drive installed. Fortunately we really only lost a control file and redo logs on that disk

Re: Table Locks

2002-08-30 Thread Alan Davey
Thanks Raj. I'll give these a try. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 8/30/2002 10:08 AM, Jamadagni, Rajendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I created following two views for developer's use and so far there have been no complaints .. CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW

Please need some help on imp

2002-08-30 Thread Bill Conner
Hi All, i am starting to feel real dumb, have RTFM for oracle utilities on imp/exp 3 times but don't seem able to get the imp to just load the data and not the tables as well. Am running solaris 8 oracle 8.1.7 anything that i might not be seeing would be very much appreciated!!

RE: SQL*Plus in 10i

2002-08-30 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Connected to that, there is a rumor tha M$ will buy Oracle Corp., with Larry Ellison taking the place of Steve Ballmer. -Original Message-From: Rodd Holman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 3:24 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re:

Re: Index hints?

2002-08-30 Thread Stephane Faroult
Naveen, If you specify a hint Oracle is forced to use the index. Not 'forced'. Hence the name 'hint'. -- Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriole Software -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Stephane Faroult INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

Re: Missing Redo Log Files and Control File

2002-08-30 Thread Thomas Day
Absolutely -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Thomas Day INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists

Re: SQL*Plus in 10i

2002-08-30 Thread Joe Testa
thats the Stupid WINDOZE way. joe ltiu wrote: oradim -startup -sid sid -pfile pfile_path ??? They got rid of SVRMGR. ltiu On Friday 30 August 2002 11:08, you wrote: How do they expect you to start and stop the database if it goes away? and please don't say OEM... --- Freeman, Robert

Re: SQL*Plus in 10i

2002-08-30 Thread ltiu
Why not? It's easy to use. It will increase Oracle's market share to the dumb and dumber. ltiu On Friday 30 August 2002 12:24, you wrote: oradim is only a windows thingy. Those of us on real OS's use svrmgrl or sqlplus depending on version. Are you saying that they are going to port

RE: upgrade 8.1.6.2 to 8.1.7.3 or 8.1.7.4

2002-08-30 Thread Miller, Jay
My understanding is that 8.1.7.3 is the buggy one. It was supposed to be the terminal 8.1.7 release but it had so many problems they had to come out with 8.1.7.4 -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 5:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L DBA's I have to

Re: SQL*Plus in 10i

2002-08-30 Thread ltiu
Rumor ... They might as well buy SUN along the way (and get rid of Java for good). SUN's market cap is only $13B. MS got $300B. On Friday 30 August 2002 12:44, Gogala, Mladen wrote: Connected to that, there is a rumor tha M$ will buy Oracle Corp., with Larry Ellison taking the place of Steve

RE: Please need some help on imp

2002-08-30 Thread John Weatherman
Bill, I assume from the way you state this, you already have the tables built and don't want imp to blow up trying to recreate them. Correct? If so, try ignore=y. Also, if the user is changing, are you using fromuser= touser=? Output from your problem might be helpful. HtH, John P

Re: Table Locks

2002-08-30 Thread Stephane Faroult
Alan Davey wrote: Thanks Rachel. I spent the train ride reading the chapters on Instance Tuning and Dynamic Performance Views hoping to find something, but no such luck. I learned a lot of other useful things though, so it wasn't a waste of time. Jacques, v$locked_object shows the

RE: Please need some help on imp

2002-08-30 Thread Hand, Michael T
Bill Ignore=Y is that what you're looking for? Mike -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 3:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi All, i am starting to feel real dumb, have RTFM for oracle utilities on imp/exp 3 times but don't seem able to get the imp to just

RE: ADV OT: Oracle-dba.com domain for sale

2002-08-30 Thread Freeman, Robert
just throw it out on ebay for auction Joe! :-) Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP Oracle Database Architect CSX Midtier Database Administration Author Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press - Oct 2002) Oracle9i New Features (Oracle Press) Mastering Oracle8i  (Sybex) The avalanche has

Re: Please need some help on imp

2002-08-30 Thread Thomas Day
I assume that the schemas, tables, synonyms, roles, grants, etc already exist and you just want to populate the tables with the data from your other database. In your parm file set IGNORE=Y. This will ignore errors caused by already created objects and just load the data. Type: imp help=y to

RE: SQL*Plus in 10i

2002-08-30 Thread Orr, Steve
BTW: Anybody's using gqlplus? Whoa, I've been looking for something like this. Is it any good? -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 12:28 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Yes, Oracle will sell it as standalone product because it is most useful and most used

Re: Please need some help on imp

2002-08-30 Thread Scott Canaan
Bill, Where are you trying to load the data to? Do the tables already exist? If so, then use the ignore=y option and it won't complain if the table already exists when it tries to create it, but it will load the data into it. Bill Conner wrote: Hi All, i am starting to feel real dumb,

RE: upgrade 8.1.6.2 to 8.1.7.3 or 8.1.7.4

2002-08-30 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Speaking of the recursion, now 8.1.7.4 has some serious problmes, especially on HP-UX 11/64 with OPS. -Original Message- From: Miller, Jay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 3:58 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: upgrade 8.1.6.2 to

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