is this block cleanout ?

2002-10-19 Thread Rahul
when i do a count(*) an a 1.2GB table, just after an app finishes inserting 20 million records i can see from iostat that, that disk is being read as well as written to !!! the only reason i can think of WRITES being performed while being READ is the block cleanout is being performed by the

Re: Database trigger to record user log

2002-10-19 Thread PK_Deepa/VGIL
Could you please explain with an example . Thanks in advance Deepa |+- || [EMAIL PROTECTED]| || ardier.com | || | || 17/10/2002 08:14 PM

RE: is this block cleanout ?

2002-10-19 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
That's sounds about right... - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 3:48 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L when i do a count(*) an a 1.2GB table, just after an app finishes inserting 20 million records i can see from iostat that, that disk is being read

OEM Gaja -- [Was : OEM can't seem to discover 1 instance]

2002-10-19 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Here's Gaja response to clarify his role in 'fixing' OEM : ' ...that I am NOT a product manager. I am here to provide technical direction for the product. I am very much open to receiving rants, suggestions and ideas. Bugs should be filed using the normal channels. ' - Kirti -Original

Re: is this block cleanout ?

2002-10-19 Thread Stephane Faroult
Deshpande, Kirti wrote: That's sounds about right... - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 3:48 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L when i do a count(*) an a 1.2GB table, just after an app finishes inserting 20 million records i can see from

RE: is this block cleanout ?

2002-10-19 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Stephane, The db version in question is 7.3.2. And as of 7.3 the init parameter, delayed_logging_block_cleanouts, defaults to TRUE (for OPS and non-OPS). From my understanding of the delayed block cleanout, when oracle commits a transaction the blocks that it changed are not immediately marked

Re: is this block cleanout ?

2002-10-19 Thread Tim Gorman
index blocks need to be cleaned out too... - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 7:43 AM Deshpande, Kirti wrote: That's sounds about right... - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Saturday,

RE: HP UX 8.1.7 - Urgent

2002-10-19 Thread sstefick
Joshy, Go to technet.oracle.com You will have to log in, if you don't have an account, its free to create one. Click on Downloads Click on Oracle 8i (Under the Archived Products heading) I believe it is the last one listed or at least somewhere near the bottom.

RE: IN vs. EXISTS

2002-10-19 Thread Rick_Cale
Dennis, Thanks for the reply and congratulations but a little late. I have benn well above that notch for many years. Testing a single test case is not always conclusive. Certainly combing through countless documentation can prove to be somewhat futile. It took me quite a while to find what I

RE: is this block cleanout ?

2002-10-19 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Stephane: INSERTs certainly associated with block cleanout. But the issue here Rahul is doing a Direct load and this does not work as expected in earlier versions (7.3 and below). They do not use ITLs as in the regular inserts and there used be some bugs in 7.x versions were ITLs are not used in

RE: IN vs. EXISTS

2002-10-19 Thread Rick_Cale
Hi Diego, After performing quite a few test you are 100% correct. I appreciate your insight. It is conclusive using IN is the best approach. Rick dcutrone

RE: IN vs. EXISTS

2002-10-19 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Rick, It depends on your usage If you use exists for checking any valid value from database like a trigger in Oracle Forms for acceting valid values it just check the first value and comes back very fast (much much faster than IN). But in case if you want to retrieve all applicable

Re: IN vs. EXISTS

2002-10-19 Thread Stephane Faroult
If I may add something it may be worth trying /*+ USE_HASH */ and /*+ USE_MERGE */after the select in the INNER query. Depends on a lot of factors but it may be very efficient, especially if the inner query returns many rows. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Diego, After performing quite a few

Script for Import 29000000 lines in background and to create index.

2002-10-19 Thread Eriovaldo Andrietta
Friends : I have a situation : I need to import file wiht 29.000.000 lines and after it i would like to create a index in background on unix. Does anyone have some example off shell script that does it using nohup and ? My idea is to call just one time and to run all operations, like that :