Re: dumping microsoft desktop?

2002-11-13 Thread Nicolai Tufar
The suit was over their derivative use of the phrase Windows. Seems Microsoft thinks only they can use the word. I seem to recall the suit was thrown out, but I could be wrong. The last I heared from this case is judge ordering to investigate whether window is still a ditinctive word in

Re: phyrds in v$filestat and sql trace not match !!

2002-11-13 Thread Yechiel Adar
My guess will be that PHYRDS is the count of start i/o's. Each start i/o read mutilblock_read_count blocks from the disk. The data buffer that you read with each start i/o is the same: 8 blocks of 8k or 16 blocks of 4k. So you get the same number of start i/o's. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original

Re: OT: PIC 9(9)V99 ??

2002-11-13 Thread Joe Testa
Tim, thanks thats pretty much what I do everytime someone asks. joe Tim Gorman wrote: Life is too short to try to remember stuff like this... SQL create table x (y number(9,2)); Table created. SQL insert into x values (9.99); insert into x values

Re: Oracle 9.2.0.1/2 on Mandrake 9

2002-11-13 Thread Ray Stell
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:50:52PM -0800, Boris Dali wrote: I guess disk explanation is the most logical one to assume, but I've no idea how to confirm and overcome it. As I mentioned I re-installed it in different combinations multiple times. Would this file always go the same place on disk

Re: OT: PIC 9(9)V99 ??

2002-11-13 Thread Rachel Carmichael
see silly stuff like that, my mind traps. Important stuff, like where the bar is, my mind loses :) stuff like that is what REFERENCE manuals are for... a place in which to look up the answer to the life's too short to remember questions geez, if anyone gave me a SQL test on an interview, I'd

Re: sqlplus ~no~output

2002-11-13 Thread Yechiel Adar
Title: sqlplus ~no~output To do it in a command file - @sfsfasdf.sql. Set termout off does not work for commands executed from the command line. Yechiel AdarMehish - Original Message - From: Markham, Richard To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Monday,

Re: dumping microsoft desktop?

2002-11-13 Thread Jared Still
Old news Gene. MS lost the lawsuit. Jared On Tuesday 12 November 2002 11:57, Gene Sais wrote: Not here but looking into http://www.lindows.com on a personal nature. Also read MS is suing them, not sure how much longer they will be around. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/12/02 02:03PM Has anyone

Re: Solaris vs Windows 2000

2002-11-13 Thread Jared Still
Oh, thank you! That clears everything up. Jared On Monday 11 November 2002 16:28, Lyndon Tiu wrote: Linux Rulz!!! On Monday 11 November 2002 03:13 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List, Believe me, I am not trying to rehash an old topic, start any flame wars, nor look for

Re: Solaris vs Windows 2000

2002-11-13 Thread Jared Still
Stephen, I don't disagree with any of this, but you have to understand that managers do not care about the same things we do. Bottom line: what's it going to cost? What's the ROI? Those are not easy things to answer. Thanks, Jared On Monday 11 November 2002 18:58, Stephen Lee wrote:

Re: clob to text file

2002-11-13 Thread Jared Still
Yes, use DBMS_LOB and UTL_FILE. UTL_FILE has a 32k line length limit, so you will be required to output to multiple lines for CLOB's 32k. If you don't have any restrictions on how this is done, use Perl, Java or C instead, and avoid the UTL_FILE limitations. Jared On Tuesday 12 November

RE: PIC 9(9)V99 ??

2002-11-13 Thread Mirsky, Greg
Decimal point is implied the number would physically look like 12345678999. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Totally off Oracle topic. I am studying the mainframe layout specs for a flat file, and came across this

Re: Oracle 10i features

2002-11-13 Thread Yechiel Adar
Thanks for the link Jared. For now, I just bookmarker it. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 3:23 PM Check out OraC, written in Perl of course. :) http://www.tux.org/orac-dba/

RE: PIC 9(9)V99 ??

2002-11-13 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Thanks everyone!!! Sorry for the OT post. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 8:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Decimal point is implied the number would physically look like 12345678999. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:14

RE: Is nothing sacred? (Oracle vs The Experts)

2002-11-13 Thread Jesse, Rich
According to my Perf Tuning instructor from 08/2000, the index efficiency table looked like this: Oracle Version v5 v6 v7 v8.0 v8.1.6 Rows Returned 20% 15% 8% 4% 9.9% Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Solaris vs Windows 2000

2002-11-13 Thread Jared Still
Thank you all, lots of excellent suggestions and ideas. I'm currently involved in a 2 day offsite IT 'event', and won't be able to digest all this till tomorrow though. I'll let you all know what happens.Assuming we get our budget approved, that is. Jared On Monday 11 November 2002 15:13,

Batch SQLPLUS on Win 2000

2002-11-13 Thread Smith, Ron L.
We recently upgraded our Oracle server from NT to 2000. I have a batch script that runs SQLPLUS that no longer works. Like a good DBA I always included ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID set command in each script. Now the script woll only run if I remove the ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID set commands.

RE: Solaris vs Windows 2000

2002-11-13 Thread Grabowy, Chris
H...that's an interesting stance. You won't trust Linux, but you'll trust Perl? So why not rewrite Linux in Perl? :) So you trust SAP on buggy/swiss cheese W2K? -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 8:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Lyndon, I

RE: Join vs. Subselect

2002-11-13 Thread Carle, William T (Bill), ALCAS
Dan, Actually, there is an index on the objid within the subselect. Here is the actually query with the results of the tkprof: SELECT ObjId, ActionCode, RequestNumber, AbcDigits, DefDigits, SoClli, NodalSource, StatusCode, ReplacedRequestNumber, TransactionId, Domain,

RE: Backup/Restore

2002-11-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
I would like to suggest Robert Freeman's book Oracle9i RMAN Backup Recovery http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=6WIANMIL0 Hisbn=0072226625 It has a chapter on Veritas, as well as how to backup to disk. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backup/Restore

2002-11-13 Thread Jared Still
Thank you Dennis, I was just going to do that. :) It covers Net Backup as well as RMAN. Jared On Wednesday 13 November 2002 06:08, DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote: I would like to suggest Robert Freeman's book Oracle9i RMAN Backup Recovery

RE: Parsing tnsnames.ora

2002-11-13 Thread Orr, Steve
THANKS Stephane. Cool stuff... But I don't like lot's of lines of code so I just went ahead and did it in Python. Here's some code for the curious: --- #!/usr/bin/env python file=login.py Purpose: present a login form. import cgi,

Re: Solaris vs Windows 2000

2002-11-13 Thread Lyndon Tiu
You're right .. but when will it become ready? MS always said their NT3.5 is enterprise eady, they said NT4.0 is enterprise ready, W2K is enterprise ready, .Net is enterprise ready. It's all in the marketing. If enough people like me say Linux is ready, then it becomes ready. Readiness is

RE: Batch SQLPLUS on Win 2000

2002-11-13 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Ron, Did you re-install Oracle after you upgraded to Win2k? I use ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID in all by Win2k scripts and it works fine. Maybe the path got screwed up? What error do you get exactly? Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday,

RE: Solaris vs Windows 2000

2002-11-13 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Whether their colleagues are using it too... if it's in use elsewhere, then probably it is less of a risk. At least they can justify the decision by pointing at how many other people are doing it to. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- Sent:

Re: Solaris vs Windows 2000

2002-11-13 Thread Steve Perry
Jared, Here's my recollection of a losing battle. I hope this helps. I used to work on Unix (AIX and Solaris) and can only think about the good ol' days... Now, I work on Comcrap Servers (i mean HP) running Microslop NT and 2000. We have tons of them :) I asked my boss why they are using Windows

Autostarting databases

2002-11-13 Thread Bob Metelsky
All Ive finally returned to my desk from the server room/user desktop trenches ;-) with hopefully some time to pose this autostarting problem to the list. I have about 12 oracle database(services) running on windows 2k server, I believe by starting the service should start the instance

Re: Solaris vs Windows 2000

2002-11-13 Thread Yechiel Adar
I heard in Oracle Week in Israel that Oracle is planing to add Linux to their supported products and provide help desk for it. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 4:48 PM You're right ..

RE: Solaris vs Windows 2000

2002-11-13 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I'm ready. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 8:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You're right .. but when will it become ready? MS always said their NT3.5 is enterprise eady, they said NT4.0 is enterprise ready, W2K is enterprise ready, .Net is

How-To or Good Practices on Code Releases

2002-11-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: How-To or Good Practices on Code Releases Friends ... I have a (sort of) problem ... what are the best practices to manage code releases to production environment ... currently we get a bunch of scripts from development team, and we release code to production on the schedule

RE: Solaris vs Windows 2000

2002-11-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
That is the problem with free stuff. There isn't a big expensive hype machine around to push it. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 8:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You're right .. but

SERACH FAST

2002-11-13 Thread Seema Singh
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2002-11-13 Thread Seema Singh
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Re: Autostarting databases

2002-11-13 Thread Yechiel Adar
Check what SP is installed on the server. This is a common problem with Y2K SP1. Upgrade to SP2. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 5:18 PM All Ive finally returned to my desk from the

Re: SERACH FAST

2002-11-13 Thread Igor Neyman
undocumented parameter: _search_fast = TRUE :-) Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:38 AM Hi How to make search fast? We are building some application and

Re: How-To or Good Practices on Code Releases

2002-11-13 Thread Yechiel Adar
Title: How-To or Good Practices on Code Releases Whenever I install a new release of software my boss wants to know: How do you return to the old version if this does not work? For each install script require an undo script. We are using toad to compare schemas and it can also generate

Re: SERACH FAST

2002-11-13 Thread OraCop
Seema Ji, Are U using Oracle Search for this purpose? Are u using search indexes and using them correctly? What version of Oracle? Regards. OraCop --- Seema Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi How to make search fast? We are building some application and this application need to

RE: Solaris vs Windows 2000

2002-11-13 Thread Stephen Lee
FTLP show sga Total System Global Area 1.8088E+10 bytes Fixed Size 103396 bytes Variable Size 907014144 bytes Database Buffers 1.7180E+10 bytes Redo Buffers1064960 bytes Hm . Maybe we'll hold off on that Linux stuff for a little while longer. (NOTE: I don't write the

RE: How-To or Good Practices on Code Releases

2002-11-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: How-To or Good Practices on Code Releases TOAD _until now_ had problems with 9.2 database ... it would complain that (in our case) 903 objects were not found when I could go in, and perform all kind of DML on those objects. 7.4 seems to be better ... Raj

RE: Autostarting databases

2002-11-13 Thread Naveen Nahata
Have a look at the strtsid.cmd script which is used for starting the instance/DB inside %ORACLE_HOME%\DATABASE. This file does exist for version 8 on NT, not sure about higher versions on Win2K. Regards Naveen -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 8:49 PM To: Multiple

Re: Autostarting databases

2002-11-13 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
Bob: Let's try the simple solution first. How about using the Services utility in Control Panel to check the service for startup =AUTO. Then specify the parameters that are to be used for startup, like pfile=xx. Specify the userid that is supposed to start the database, preferably not the

Re: How-To or Good Practices on Code Releases

2002-11-13 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
The releases should be tried in the Development environment first. Then a UAT (User Acceptance Test) environment, then production. The UAT environment is usually a duplicate of the production environment. This is the environment that you implement the changes , then test to see if the changes

RE: SERACH FAST

2002-11-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: SERACH FAST Intermedia comes to my mind ... Raj __ 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. QOTD: Any clod can have

RE: SERACH FAST

2002-11-13 Thread Fink, Dan
Igor, That was the 8i syntax, I believe it is changed for 9i to be more flexible: _search = FAST|MODERATE|SLOW|BCHR99% ;) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 9:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L undocumented parameter: _search_fast = TRUE

Check Point Interval Question

2002-11-13 Thread Hamid Alavi
Hi List, I have a question regarding check_point_interval. In my setting log_checkpoint_interval = 1 log_checkpoint_timeout = 1800 , I findout in the tuning manual which I have to change thelog_checkpoint_interval = 999 but nothing regarding the log_checkpoint_timeout, when I change the

RE: Solaris vs Windows 2000

2002-11-13 Thread Lyndon Tiu
I don't understand. I could easily configure Oracle on Solaris to show this same output. Your Oracle on Linux is probably misconfigured. You probably don't know how to work Linux? -- Lyndon Tiu Quoting Stephen Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: FTLP show sga Total System Global Area 1.8088E+10

RE: SERACH FAST

2002-11-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Seema - Can you be more specific about what you are searching for? Column data? Can you index it? Text within columns? Basically faster search is what all of we DBAs strive for, but you must use different techniques in different situations. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL

Re: Whitepapers on Triggers

2002-11-13 Thread Steven Haas
This is for FDA regulation compliance. The audit records need to show every change made to the source table in order of change. WHile audit the table will show who changed the record, it won't show what was changed. Steve --- Yechiel Adar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my browsing of the oracle

RE: Solaris vs Windows 2000

2002-11-13 Thread Stephen Lee
18 Gig SGA. And there are two other (smaller) databases on this box. -Original Message- I don't understand. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Stephen Lee INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051

Re: How-To or Good Practices on Code Releases

2002-11-13 Thread Rajesh . Rao
And have a similarly tested and signed off rollback strategy in place. An immediate rollback, as well as a rollback strategy after n number of days. Raj One attachment (0k)

Re: How-To or Good Practices on Code Releases

2002-11-13 Thread Yechiel Adar
Title: How-To or Good Practices on Code Releases Are you working with UTF8? They had some problems in the initial release but they are corrected now. Yechiel AdarMehish - Original Message - From: Jamadagni, Rajendra To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent:

Move ALL Data from 1 Database into Another

2002-11-13 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Qs What would be the FASTEST way to Load ALL Data from a Source Database Existing in 7.3.4 into an Empty Target Database in 8.1.7.4 ? NOTE - Creation Fresh (NEW) Database is a Must because Some of the Data Dictionary Objects have got Corrupted the Standard Migration of the Same Oracle 7

RE: Whitepapers on Triggers

2002-11-13 Thread Lisa R. Clary
Since we are in the medical records business, we too have the same guideline. What we do, is create an exact table replica (we call it an archive table and it does not have constraints) to which before every insert and update on the primary table, sends the row data to the archive table. It stores

Re: SERACH FAST

2002-11-13 Thread Seema Singh
Oracle 8.1.6, From: OraCop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SERACH FAST Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:15:19 -0800 Seema Ji, Are U using Oracle Search for this purpose? Are u using search indexes and

RE: Whitepapers on Triggers

2002-11-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Steven - If you need this level of detail, have you considered LogMiner? Just a thought. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This is for FDA regulation

RE: How-To or Good Practices on Code Releases

2002-11-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Raj - Can you provide more details? Is this an automated script, or just a line on the form that says that you have some idea of how to rollback the change in case anything goes wrong? Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday,

RE: Move ALL Data from 1 Database into Another

2002-11-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Vivek - If it is critical, I would test each alternative on a small amount of data. I have had pretty good results from the data link. Depending on the number of CPUs, you can run multiple imports or multiple data links simultaneously. Also watch your disk storage conflicts. For example, you

RE: Solaris vs Windows 2000

2002-11-13 Thread Lyndon Tiu
What's wrong with having 18GB SGA. It's never enough anyways so it's good to have more. Besides, Linux uses a flat memory system (I think) in that it fools application into thinking Linux got GBs of physical memory when in fact most of it is available as SWAP. -- Lyndon Tiu Quoting Stephen

RE: Check Point Interval Question

2002-11-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Hamid - Which parameter to use depends on your Oracle version. If it is 9i, use FAST_START_MTTR_TARGET. In 8i, use LOG_CHECKPOINT_TIMEOUT. Did your tuning manual explain why you should set it to 999? That seems a little strange. Basically shorter checkpoint queue lengths will shorten your

RE: SERACH FAST

2002-11-13 Thread Seema Singh
Hi, Seema - Can you be more specific about what you are searching for? Column data? :soME CASES YES Can you index it? :Yes I did. Text within columns? :yes Thx -Seema _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE*

Re: Move ALL Data from 1 Database into Another

2002-11-13 Thread Yechiel Adar
No matter how you do it, do it in parallel. Export and import, or CTAS, by schema or tables so you can run them in parallel. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 7:03 PM Qs What would be

RE: System Tablespace and Autoextend

2002-11-13 Thread Miller, Jay
Actually, SYSTEM is one of the only tablespaces I like to have it set on. While I originally set it to autoextend when I was doing an upgrade I left it active on the grounds that while I know how to recover if by some chance one of my datafiles runs out of space, I'm uncertain as to the

RE: Whitepapers on Triggers

2002-11-13 Thread OraCop
We call them Journal tables. Great technique. OraCop --- Lisa R. Clary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since we are in the medical records business, we too have the same guideline. What we do, is create an exact table replica (we call it an archive table and it does not have constraints) to which

Re: SERACH FAST

2002-11-13 Thread OraCop
U can use Oracle intermedia/Oracle Text/Ultra search. what kind of data Ur performing this search on. What is the datatype of the data? How exactly U r trying to search right now? U need to gather all this information? OraCop --- Seema Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oracle 8.1.6,

RE: Whitepapers on Triggers

2002-11-13 Thread Thomas Day
We have journal tables that mimic every table in our database. Every Insert, Update or Delete (we allow user deletes) gets the row written to the journal table along with a timestamp and the Oracle userid. Now we have to tie one Oracle userid to one and only one user.

Remote connections hang on 8.1.7

2002-11-13 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi everybody We have a 8.1.7 running on SuSE Linux 7.2. Remote connections other as as sysdba or as sysoper hang. I can connect locally (via TCP/IP or IPC) with no problem. Whenever I try to connect from a different machine, I get to see the potential ;) session in v$session. The process also

RE: Move ALL Data from 1 Database into Another

2002-11-13 Thread Thomas Day
What about foreign keys, functions, procedures, synonyms, roles, grants and triggers (if any)? I've used the db link and it's faster than imp/exp but it doesn't do anything for other database objects. Also, if you do have foreign keys then a certain amount of pre-planning is necessary to move

RE: How-To or Good Practices on Code Releases

2002-11-13 Thread Rajesh . Rao
As an example, something that yours truly was involved with, and still have the scars to show for it. A migration from a lower version of Oracle, to a higher version, on a completely new server. The scripts ran fine, and the implementation plan worked fine. However, the application started

RE: Remote connections hang on 8.1.7

2002-11-13 Thread Shao, Chunning
Make sure that remote_login_passwordfile=share and did you select v$pwfile_users, did you see sys there? -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 1:03 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi everybody We have a 8.1.7 running on SuSE Linux 7.2. Remote connections

Re:Followup Question: Re: How-To or Good Practices on Code

2002-11-13 Thread dgoulet
Tracy, Lots of luck! We use SourceSafe religiously for the developers. Care to guess what happens way too often? Change control is more of a philosophy than a software package. Proving the worth of the mindset change is easy. Getting it practiced is hard! :( Dick Goulet

Re[2]:Call for a featured speaker for St. Louis Oracle Users

2002-11-13 Thread dgoulet
Jim, Right on, good speakers with a decent Oracle idea to talk about. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hawkins) Date: 11/13/2002 10:24 AM You're right...I should have modified my list to include just good speakers as

Re: OT ksh day of week yesterday

2002-11-13 Thread Yechiel Adar
Run your script at 23:58 :-) Yechiel AdarMehish - Original Message - From: Barbara Baker To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 8:24 PM Subject: OT ksh day of week yesterday Will someone take pity on this poor VMS'er

AIX vs Solaris

2002-11-13 Thread becker . bill
Hello, What are the major differences between AIX and Solaris regarding operating system features? We are planning a new machine purchase; currently we are on a Sun machine running Solaris, but IBM is making a strong proposal to management (meaning significantly less cost), and we are wondering

Re: Move ALL Data from 1 Database into Another

2002-11-13 Thread Dale
What about foreign keys, functions, procedures, synonyms, roles, grants and triggers (if any)? I've used the db link and it's faster than imp/exp but it doesn't do anything for other database objects. Also, if you do have foreign keys then a certain amount of pre-planning is necessary to

OT: Getting data out of DB2...any DB2 DBAs out there?

2002-11-13 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Title: OT: Getting data out of DB2...any DB2 DBAs out there? Off topic post, please delete if not interested. I am trying to get data out of a DB2 database that I do not have access to. The original spec called for me to create a flat file, which they parse, and query the DB2 DB to get

RE: AIX vs Solaris

2002-11-13 Thread Kevin Lange
Bill; I came from a shop that ran AIX servers and Oracle 7.3.4 to 8.1.7. As for the OS and Oracle, all our 7.3.4 scripts worked just fine when we were under 8.1.7 we used the k-shell exclusively as well. I do not think you have any problems there. As for AIX in particular . I loved

9iAS R2 printing Unix

2002-11-13 Thread Charlie_Mengler
A week or so ago I posted WRT having problems printing a report directly to a printer from 9iAS R2. I've been battling Oracle ever since to get this BUG resolved. AFAIK, the bug exists for at least Solaris, AIX HP. Since I only have been working with Solaris for the last 6+ years, I might

Re: OT ksh day of week yesterday

2002-11-13 Thread Alex
yesterday=$(TZ=EST26EDT date +%a) On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Barbara Baker wrote: Will someone take pity on this poor VMS'er lost in a unix world?? I'm trying to create a script (ksh) that reads a log file created yesterday. The log files are created with `date +%a` appended to the end of the

RE: Oracle daylight saving

2002-11-13 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Why would there be problems with SCN numbers? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:timboles;citynet.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 2:58 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Oracle daylight saving Oracle also uses an internal time that is

RE: Oracle 10i features

2002-11-13 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Title: RE: Oracle 10i features No, installing 9iAS is a 250 mph breeze. One definition of a tornado is "a very strong breeze". -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 8:03 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Whitepapers on Triggers

2002-11-13 Thread Steven Haas
That is exactly what my design would be given the option. Thanks for concurring. I have also been asked if the trigger can fire off a pop-up box in the app to ask for a reason for change that needs to be in the audit record as well. Yeah, really... that's what they want. Another option

replicate schemas

2002-11-13 Thread Saira Somani
Hello Listers, This might be a very newbie-type question but I would like to know how I can replicate a schema in the same instance under a different schema name, of course - same data, etc. Thanks for your help. Saira Somani IT Support/Analyst Hospital Logistics Inc. -- Please see the

RE: AIX vs Solaris

2002-11-13 Thread Stephen Lee
From a DBA standpoint, the differences would be minimal. In the past, I experienced very slight differences in some scripting syntax; usually related to complex regular expressions for pattern matching. Even though system administration is different for the platforms, HP, Sun, and IBM did a

RE: 9iAS R2 printing Unix

2002-11-13 Thread Sherman, Edward
-n2 to get two copies for HP-UX -#2 yields: lp: illegal option -- # -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L A week or so ago I posted WRT having problems printing a report directly to a printer from 9iAS R2.

Re: AIX vs Solaris

2002-11-13 Thread Ruth Gramolini
We are on AIX servers here and they are very reliable. I came from and HP shop and nothing beats that for reliability but the cost is too steep for a state agency. Ruth - Original Message - From: Kevin Lange To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday,

RE: How-To or Good Practices on Code Releases

2002-11-13 Thread Rajesh . Rao
I also have been burnt by an simple alter table add column default string script. A pretty simple script. The developers tested it, the QA team too approved it. Was expected to run in a matter of minutes. The problem was the data in production was 100 times over. Missed out on volume testing.

RE: Autostarting databases

2002-11-13 Thread Bob Metelsky
Check what SP is installed on the server. This is a common problem with Y2K SP1. Upgrade to SP2. This is windows 2k server service pack 3 Have a look at the strtsid.cmd script which is used for starting the instance/DB inside %ORACLE_HOME%\DATABASE. That must be a personal custom script. Ive

Re: Call for a featured speaker for St. Louis Oracle Users Group...

2002-11-13 Thread Stephane Faroult
We would, of course, pick up all travel expenses, From how far :-) ? -- 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 Services-- 858-538-5051

RE: OT ksh day of week yesterday

2002-11-13 Thread Sherman, Edward
My TZ is EST5EDT and I think the 5 implies GMT-05:00 What does the 26 in EST26EDT imply? Just curious. Ed -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L yesterday=$(TZ=EST26EDT date +%a) On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Barbara Baker wrote:

Re: OT ksh day of week yesterday

2002-11-13 Thread Stephane Faroult
Barbara Baker wrote: Will someone take pity on this poor VMS'er lost in a unix world?? I'm trying to create a script (ksh) that reads a log file created yesterday. The log files are created with `date +%a` appended to the end of the log file name. Last night a log file was created called

Re: AIX vs Solaris

2002-11-13 Thread John Shaw
We had an aix box and ended sending it back and going with sun - only because we had a hitachi san and there seems to be a bug between ibm and hitachi - something about depth queue. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/13/02 12:48PM Hello,What are the major differences between AIX and Solaris

RE: How-To or Good Practices on Code Releases

2002-11-13 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
DDL does *not* belong in the developers hands. DDL scripts should *not* be accepted from developers. this is what DBA's are for. DBA's should be responsible for the health and well-being of database tables. if a table needs DDL transactions applied, a request needs to be sent to the DBA who is

RE: OT ksh day of week yesterday

2002-11-13 Thread Alex
same thing. time offset. This may not work on all systems because of how TZ is used. On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Sherman, Edward wrote: My TZ is EST5EDT and I think the 5 implies GMT-05:00 What does the 26 in EST26EDT imply? Just curious. Ed -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November

Re: OT: Getting data out of DB2...any DB2 DBAs out there?

2002-11-13 Thread Thomas Day
I used to use SPUFI (SP?) with TSO/MVS but that was many years ago. I would hope that there's something better. Grabowy,

Re: replicate schemas

2002-11-13 Thread Adriano Freire
what do you think about um export the squema a and after this import using fromuser=squema a touser=squema b - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 5:44 PM Hello Listers, This might be a very newbie-type

RE: OT ksh day of week yesterday

2002-11-13 Thread Rusnak, George A. (SEC-Lee)
Barb, Try this: #!/bin/ksh # # set up arrys of day strings, offset by one from real day # set -A days Fri Sat Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs # # determine today's day of week index # index=$(date '+%u') # # Use index to get previous days abbreviation # echo ${days[$index]} # grep STRING

RE: How-To or Good Practices on Code Releases

2002-11-13 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Thats Utopia for us. Production DBAs have no access to Development and QA and Test boxes. The application developers code for everything, they test it, send it to QA, who perform the implementation on the QA databases. We only review the scripts, after it has been approved by QA, and do some

RE: AIX vs Solaris

2002-11-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Bill - You may want to check with your system administrators. My understanding is that the two systems are pretty much identical from the user standpoint, but that AIX is quite a bit difference from the sys admin's point of view. It may make a difference, depending on your sys admin's background,

RE: Solaris vs Windows 2000

2002-11-13 Thread Mark Richard
Stephen, Good idea. Whilst your at it you might want to consider moving your swap onto tape or CD/RW... Both formats have a better $/GB that disk, and surely no-one will notice the performance difference? Divide the 39GB between all the desktops in the office (so yu can run the latest games)

Re: OT: Getting data out of DB2...any DB2 DBAs out there?

2002-11-13 Thread paquette stephane
Beside Oracle, we have db2 mainframe and db2 udb on aix. I've asked asomeone working with DB2 mainframe and there is spufi which is like sqlplus and DB2 Interactive wich is more like the command center on db2 udb. I'll more details tomorrow. --- Thomas Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I

RE: How-To or Good Practices on Code Releases

2002-11-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Raj - Been there, run over by that. We are tending to move to a 3-stage implementation process - testing, staging, and production. The staging system will hold full production volume. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday,

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