RE: Dynamic select query

2002-12-18 Thread Naveen Nahata
THIS WILL WORK and shud be more efficient than instr() or 'select from dual' SELECT * FROM shipment WHERE ship_name like '%' || ship_id || '%'; Regards Naveen -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 6:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Another way to perform

RE: Open the password

2002-12-18 Thread Naveen Nahata
You can recreate the password file, you can recreate the instance with a different password, and you can also connect from the server machine by simple 'connect internal' in sqlplus. just check the value of ORACLE_SID, it should be pointing to the DB Regards Naveen -Original Message-

Re: Open the password

2002-12-18 Thread JayK
Dear Sony, Make your REMOTE_LOGIN_PASSWORD_FILE in INIT as Exclusive,restart the instance and then change the password of SYS. The password of INTERNAL will also be changed and will be the same as SYS. Best Regards Jai Sony kristanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/18/02

RE: Open the password

2002-12-18 Thread Naveen Nahata
by the way, don't you use post-it ;-) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dear everyone, I already installed oracle 8i database on my server, to make my system secured I changed my 'INTERNAL' password but I

Re: Online Redifinition in 8i ?

2002-12-18 Thread Connor McDonald
No. You could probably simulate something close with a lot of hard work hth connor --- VIVEK_SHARMA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the Feature Online Redefinition for RE-Organizign Objects , Adding Fields , Converting to Partitioned Table Exist in Oracle 8i ? -- Please see the

Re: export porblem ???

2002-12-18 Thread Dale
Hi Is it possible you FTP'd the export file across to the new machine in ASCII mode (the default on win systems)? Always ensure you use BINARY mode - the stray LF's get substituted by CRLF's inside the export file and it really messes up the internals and can sometimes the imp utility to skip to

RE: password

2002-12-18 Thread Mark Leith
And that is what it *should* be used for :) -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 December 2002 19:35 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Yes, it's a dictionary based cracker. Could be useful for checking for weak passwords. For $4, I'm going to see what it does. :)

Re: RE: export porblem ???

2002-12-18 Thread oraora oraora
Thanx guys for all your guidance. Thanx Kirti. i found that an index on table 17 caused all the delay and took a long time to be created. when i said IMP FILE=ABC.DAT INDEXES=N ROWS=Y i was able to get all the tables. but still,while importing i get the error IMP-00019: row rejected due to

Re: Re: export porblem ???

2002-12-18 Thread oraora oraora
Thanx guys for all your guidance. Dale, i found that an index on table 17 caused all the delay and took a long time to be created. when i said IMP FILE=ABC.DAT INDEXES=N ROWS=Y i was able to get all the tables. but still,while importing i get the error IMP-00019: row rejected due to ORACLE

Re: Re: export porblem ???

2002-12-18 Thread oraora oraora
Thanx guys for all your guidance. Thanx Adar. i found that an index on table 17 caused all the delay and took a long time to be created. when i said IMP FILE=ABC.DAT INDEXES=N ROWS=Y i was able to get all the tables. but still,while importing i get the error IMP-00019: row rejected due to

Re: password

2002-12-18 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Jared's answer still stands you can't --- faisal ahmad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HR htmldiv style='background-color:'DIV Pquistion is this that how can dba see a user,s password in readable outputt. i mean if password is tiger it should be seen as tigerBRBR/P/DIV DIV/DIV DIV/DIVgt;From: [EMAIL

RE: Re: export porblem ???

2002-12-18 Thread Naveen Nahata
Why are you sending it repeatedy? or is there a virus? Regards Naveen -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanx guys for all your guidance. Thanx Adar. i found that an index on table 17 caused all the delay and took a

OAS 4.0.8.1 move

2002-12-18 Thread Wiegand, Kurt
I have a 4.0.8.1 Oracle Application Server implementation on a Solaris 2 .6 box that I am trying to move to a new, presumably identical, box. We are moving it by simply copying all of the datafiles from one box to the other. We can not get it to start! If any one can offer a suggestion, it

[OT] Patch for PostgreSQL to perform hierarchical queries in Oracle's style.

2002-12-18 Thread Jan Pruner
http://gppl.terminal.ru/ JP -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jan Pruner INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services

Re: Larry E's new toy ?

2002-12-18 Thread Yechiel Adar
Chicken feed. Only 100,000,000$ Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 5:13 PM http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,76748,00.h tml Enjoy :) - Kirti --

RE: password

2002-12-18 Thread Wiegand, Kurt
Oracle7 Server Release 7.3.4.5.0 - Production With the distributed, parallel query and Spatial Data options PL/SQL Release 2.3.4.5.0 - Production SQL create user test identified by test; User created. SQL select password from dba_users where username = 'TEST'; PASSWORD

RE: Oracle Application Server on .net

2002-12-18 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Oracle produced some .NET items, mostly connectivity-related. http://otn.oracle.com/tech/windows/content.html Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services | Services technologiques

RE: slow query help

2002-12-18 Thread Nicoll, Iain
Joan, Can't this be done as a series of ors instead of the union alls as this would presumably reduce it to one full table scan of each table. e.g. SELECT T11.TRUNK TRUNK_FOUND ,T21.IDTARGET_ID ,T21.SSN TARGET_SSN ,T21.FULLNAME

Re: Oracle 8i/HP-UX,Solaris,Windows/Active Directory Question

2002-12-18 Thread Yechiel Adar
Thanks Jesse I am going to start it with 9.2.0 so hopefully it will be better. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 8:44 PM Yechiel, We weren't able to get OID replication to be stable

RE: Re: export problem ???

2002-12-18 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
oraora - I doubt that Import did insert that record. The message says it skipped that record. Check the table to see whether it was inserted. What did you set for the parameter IGNORE? Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Online Redifinition in 8i ?

2002-12-18 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Not all that hard - but I don't like the bit that starts update obj$ set Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming soon a new one-day tutorial: Cost Based Optimisation (see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html ) Next Seminar dates: (see

Unable to load shared libraries.

2002-12-18 Thread Panicker, Thankam S.
Jared, I installed the development tools and that worked!! Thanks Sumathy - -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Panicker, Thankam S. INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California

Re: Direct Path Inserts and Partition Splits

2002-12-18 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Which version of Oracle ? 8.1 or 9.2 ? It could make a difference because of the 'free split' change in code that appeared in 9.2. I don't recall the error I got - but some time back I was working on a partition exchange strategy and testing the effects of tablespace corruption in

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2002-12-18 Thread Edouard Dormidontov
SETORACLE-L DIGEST EDOUARD DORMIDONTOV

RE: Larry E's new toy ?

2002-12-18 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Yes, reality check: If you're making less than US$50,000 per day, you're not a member of the upper class. So save your pennies. ; ) Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: slow query help

2002-12-18 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Joan - Just a random thought inspired by your explanation. Is this query a part of cleaning data for a data warehouse? Or worse yet, is the developer attempting to use this query in an attempt to avoid creating a data warehouse? Normally the best solution for the situation you describe is to

Re: db block Size for Indexes Tablespaces in 9.2 ?

2002-12-18 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I think there are too many generic arguments available for picking the 'right' block size for your indexes. The one that is most appropriate is likely to depend on the nature of the activity (load vs. query), nature of the index (unique, nearly unique, far from unique), data clustering, order of

RE: db block Size for Indexes Tablespaces in 9.2 ?

2002-12-18 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: db block Size for Indexes Tablespaces in 9.2 ? We use 8k for data and 8k for indexes in our OLTP system ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal

RE: Oracle Application Server on .net

2002-12-18 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
There is a good paper on .NET at www.arstechnica.com, right-hand column. Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique

RE: OT: OS/2 is officially dead as of Dec 10, 2002

2002-12-18 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Do they have to pay licensing fees to Microsoft for win-os/2 I wonder. Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique

RE: slow query help

2002-12-18 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: slow query help Joan, Here is a suggestion ... if this is going to be your most used part, I'd look into Intermedia ... you'll have a lot more options to work with and they will work good. Until then, I'd recommend replacing instr() with appropriate LIKE clause because at-least

RE:

2002-12-18 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
EDOUARD, EDOUARD, EDOUARD HELP! -Original Message-From: Edouard Dormidontov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:24 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: SETORACLE-L DIGEST EDOUARD DORMIDONTOV

RE: Re: export problem ???

2002-12-18 Thread Ron Rogers
oraora, Did the original export come from a database that you have access to? Check the description on the table that had failed to insert some rows. The original source table has different sizes on the columns than the tables you are importing into, That is why some records are getting rejected

Re: Open the password

2002-12-18 Thread Ron Rogers
Connect as the DBA and change the SYS and SYSTEM passwords. Recreate the ORAPWD file. Just a few suggestions. Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/18/02 02:13AM Dear everyone, I already installed oracle 8i database on my server, to make my system secured I changed my 'INTERNAL' password but I

Re: Backup DB files to the Tape

2002-12-18 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Just remember, I you don't have the database shutdown while you back them up the backups will be unusable. Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:29 AM Well for this you can use cpio command in Unix for

Re:

2002-12-18 Thread Igor Neyman
Happy digesting :-) sorry, Jared, - couldn't resist Igor Neyman, OCP DBA[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Edouard Dormidontov To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 8:23 AM SETORACLE-L DIGEST EDOUARD

RE: Backup DB files to the Tape

2002-12-18 Thread Stephen Lee
I will add a vote for cpio. I have found it to be so reliable that I used cpio, instead of a dump utility, to back up Unix boxes. It never failed. In the past, I found that tar had filename length limitation that was shorter than what the OS permitted (80 characters iirc -- that's filename, not

RE: Capacity Planning -- Expecting the DB growth !!!

2002-12-18 Thread Hand, Michael T
One thing I don't think I've seen mentioned is the issue of storage configuration and uptime requirements impact on capacity planning. Is the planned system 7x24 or will there be maintenance windows to add storage? Can storage be added hot or is downtime required. These issues will require the

Re: OAS 4.0.8.1 move

2002-12-18 Thread James Howerton
Kurt, If the ip address/hostname are not identical on the new box it won't run, you have to re-install it from cd. All of the network configs are hard coded during install and there is no way to change them. I went through this a couple of years ago when the SA changed the ip address to a 10

Re:

2002-12-18 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Ok, I'll ask the obligatory 'Are you stupid?' Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:19 AM EDOUARD, EDOUARD, EDOUARD HELP! -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:24 AM To:

Re: Backup DB files to the Tape

2002-12-18 Thread Jose Luis Delgado
Hi!! Check for the -K option of the TAR command... is for supporting files 2 Gb... if you do not have that option, you could use CPIO HTH JL --- Ashraf Salaymeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List, We have UnixWare 7.1 and I want to take backup of Database files (Physical files) to my

RE: Backup DB files to the Tape

2002-12-18 Thread John Weatherman
Ruth, Does this mean hot backups don't work for UnixWare 7.1? Otherwise, cp, cpio, ufsdump or any other method of copying the disk file from location a to location b should be ok, shouldn't it? John -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 8:44 AM To: Multiple recipients

Oracle bug 2316137

2002-12-18 Thread Glenn Stauffer
We've just started experiencing a problem where a client-server Forms 4.5 application hangs and then produces this error: ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [kksscl-inf-inl-loop], [1500], [0], [1], [41], [41], [], [] Our database is version 9.2 and we found reference to a bug on

Re: Capacity Planning -- Expecting the DB growth !!!

2002-12-18 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Jared, Can you send me the script you use. I can't even figure out the syntax for DBMS_SPACE from the docs. I would be very grateful Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 3:58 PM I use DBMS_SPACE to

Re:

2002-12-18 Thread Yechiel Adar
DUAL Yechiel AdarMehish - Original Message - From: Farnsworth, Dave To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 4:19 PM Subject: RE: EDOUARD, EDOUARD, EDOUARD HELP! -Original Message-From: Edouard Dormidontov

RE: Methods to get DDL

2002-12-18 Thread Kevin Lange
Bob; I do have a set of sqlplus scripts that we wrote for 7.3.4 that generate DDL for objects in the database. So, you can write your own. All the neccessary information is in the catalog. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:16 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Online Redifinition in 8i ?

2002-12-18 Thread Shao, Chunning
if you use perl on your site, I can send you my perl scripts, which I copied from from 9i DBMS_REDEF. hth -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L No. You could probably simulate something close with a lot of hard work

Re: Methods to get DDL

2002-12-18 Thread Simon . Anderson
There are scripts out there that will do the job, though most of them start to fall down if the indexes are at all unusual. I bought a book a couple of years ago with a whole selection of scripts to create ddl for database objects - It should still be available on Amazon. Cheers Simon Anderson

Re: Methods to get DDL

2002-12-18 Thread Charlie_Mengler
Again, why NO Oracle version specified? If on 9i DB, then use DBMS_METADATA HTH YMMV HAND! Bob Metelsky

Re[2]: OT: OS/2 is officially dead as of Dec 10, 2002

2002-12-18 Thread Robert Eskridge
Patrice, I really don't know much about it. I just remembered a feeling of shock and wonderment when I was reading a webpage where someone was installing eComStation. I just wanted to pass that same wonderment along :-) -rje BPJ Do they have to pay licensing fees to Microsoft for

RE: Methods to get DDL

2002-12-18 Thread Bob Metelsky
Eekk! Sorry - 8.17 on win2k Again, why NO Oracle version specified? If on 9i DB, then use DBMS_METADATA HTH YMMV -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Bob Metelsky INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051

Methods to get DDL

2002-12-18 Thread Bob Metelsky
I finally have a bit of time and was wondering what are different methods to get DDL other than Export rows=n Using Quest SQL navigator Using The Databee tool Ideally Id like to get it from a sql plus command but Im pretty sure that's not available. DDL dosnt seem to be available from DBA studio

OT: Informix backups

2002-12-18 Thread Gene Sais
The SysAdmin is backing up the filesystems/raw partitions where the informix db resides w/out putting the db in hot backup mode. He was told by a consultant, all you have to do is backup the informix logs and db files for full recovery. As an Oracle DBA and not familiar w/ informix, is this

RE: Oracle bug 2316137

2002-12-18 Thread david hill
Title: RE: Oracle bug 2316137 You could always install oracle in another oracle home, Patch that home Then all you need is 1 min down time to shutdown the db and bring it up with the other patched oracle. -Original Message- From: Glenn Stauffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re:

2002-12-18 Thread Igor Neyman
I thought, it was: ARE YOU AN IDIOT? :-) Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:04 AM Ok, I'll ask the obligatory 'Are you stupid?' Ruth - Original

Re:RE: password

2002-12-18 Thread dgoulet
Anyone know who that hacker is?? Reply Separator Author: Mark Leith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12/17/2002 6:23 AM Yes, you can do this, but it still doesn't tell you the users *current* password does it? Has anyone tried:

Re:RE: password

2002-12-18 Thread dgoulet
Try this sql script: /* * DBA Skeleton Key * * This script will allow one to crash into any Oracle account. * The only restriction is that the invoker must have the * 'alter any user' system priviledge. */ accept usrname char prompt 'Enter account name to crack: ' set verify off break

Itanium 2

2002-12-18 Thread david hill
Title: Itanium 2 Has anybody out there tried and Itanium 2 system? I read that oracle is supposed to certify 9i on it at the end of the month. But I was wondering if anybody had installed one of the Developer Release's. If so what kind of performance did it give you? Anywhere close to what

RE: Stored procedure memory problem

2002-12-18 Thread Fink, Dan
Venu, Another issue to be concerned about is the possibility of encountering an ORA-1555 error. This error may be triggered by a condition called 'Fetch Across Commits'. The cursor must maintain read consistency while it is open. If you are updating the source data and the undo entries are

Re: Methods to get DDL

2002-12-18 Thread Arup Nanda
Oracle Enterprise Manager 9.2 version has it. Right click on the object and choose Show Object DDL If you use 9.2, you can use dbms_metadata.get_ddl procedure. Arup - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:15 AM

Re: db block Size for Indexes Tablespaces in 9.2 ?

2002-12-18 Thread Arup Nanda
I have a rule - don'thand out advise with limited information - it may be "factually challenged". and sometimes I break my own rules - as in this case. But then again, this is not "advise"; merely my opinion based on the very limited background information I had. I agree - the panacea to an

RE: slow query help

2002-12-18 Thread Nicoll, Iain
Raj, I thought it would only do the union all if it was able to use an index and all the instr's look as though they'd stop that. Even then I thought it was generally just rule that would do that unless you used the use_concat hint. I can't see why a full table scan of each wouldn't be

RE: Oracle bug 2316137

2002-12-18 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Oracle bug 2316137 If you have cursor_sharing=force ... can you use cursor_sharing=exact and see if the error reproduces? I think (and I could be wrong) that this setting will at-least buy you some time. Search for 'kksscl-inf-inl-loop' including bug database, you'll find many

Re: career questions

2002-12-18 Thread Peter Barnett
I have gone the consulting route three times in my career. Here are some observations in no particular order of importance. Solo is a tough way to go. You have to find the business and do the work. Either, done right is a full time job. In spite of the fact that as professionals we place a

iAS 1.0.2.2.2a vs 9iR2 db

2002-12-18 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I know this is probably hopeless, but has anyone managed to let the Oracle Portal Configuration Assistant bundled with iAS 1.0.2.2.2a for win32 connect to a 9i database? It wants to connect as SYS, and of course 9i only wants sys to connect as sysdba. This if for my home sandbox PC, I don't have

Re: Capacity Planning -- Expecting the DB growth !!!

2002-12-18 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Thanks, Dave! I just started looking into using DBMS_SPACE. Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:14 AM Ruth, have you seen this doc on metastink? It might be helpful. Note:116923.1 Dave

RE: Informix backups

2002-12-18 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Informix backups by all means Gene, test it... and watch out for that boogeyman named Rman. Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Something. Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 5259 Coconut Creek Parkway Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA 33063 -Original Message- From: Gene Sais [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Methods to get DDL

2002-12-18 Thread Connor McDonald
Any non-totally-up-to-date tool will typically struggle to get *all* of the ddl. A good example would be in 9i where the table compression flag has unfortunately been left off the dba_tables view. The info is of course there (tucked away in seg$) but you're setting yourself up for a lot of work

Re:

2002-12-18 Thread Ruth Gramolini
You're right of course, sorry, Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:30 AM I thought, it was: ARE YOU AN IDIOT? :-) Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message -

RE:

2002-12-18 Thread Sherman, Edward
ðÏÍÏÝØ! -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I thought, it was: ARE YOU AN IDIOT? :-) Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Capacity Planning -- Expecting the DB growth !!!

2002-12-18 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Ruth, have you seen this doc on metastink? It might be helpful. Note:116923.1 Dave -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 9:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Jared, Can you send me the script you use. I can't even figure out the syntax for DBMS_SPACE from

RE: Methods to get DDL

2002-12-18 Thread Gints Plivna
Create Your own script or find one in internet that uses data dictionary. Gints Plivna -Original Message- Sent: trediena, 2002. gada 18. decembr 17:16 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I finally have a bit of time and was wondering what are different methods to get DDL other than

RE: Methods to get DDL

2002-12-18 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Methods to get DDL Bob, TOAD (freeware version) will do it for you also. However, as far as scheduling something to run regularly, exp rows=n is the easiest. Lisa Koivu Oracle Datablackeye Administrator Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 5259 Coconut Creek Parkway Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA

Kind of OT : Sungard Compass

2002-12-18 Thread Stephane Paquette
Hi, Beginning january , I'll be on a team to implement Sungard Compass product which run on Oracle 817. Any comment on that product ? TIA = Stéphane Paquette DBA Oracle et DB2, consultant entrepôt de données Oracle and DB2 DBA, datawarehouse consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Methods to get DDL

2002-12-18 Thread Jeremy Pulcifer
Title: RE: Methods to get DDL From: Bob Metelsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Im wondering what methods people are using? I'd like a quick way to get the ddl for say... One index TOAD

Re: Backup DB files to the Tape

2002-12-18 Thread Ruth Gramolini
I was thinking of simply copying the datafiles using the OS facilities. If you are putting hot backups to tape directly I am not sure that they will be usable for recovery. RMAN requires a third party media manager to handle backups to tape. If rman can't do it, I am not sure that homegrown

RE: Stored procedure memory problem

2002-12-18 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Stored procedure memory problem As long as you are committing transactions, you shouldn't worry. Beware of leaking Oracle processes though ... they might harm you. On 9012 we have two packages that run ALL the time basically they de-queue from a multiple of AQs and perform

RE: Methods to get DDL

2002-12-18 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Methods to get DDL The only problem with TOAD I have is I soon forgot where information is stored to write the script by hand. It is a nice tool, I have been using it since late 96, but that's a problem with all GUIs ... Raj __

Re: Win2K Mount Points

2002-12-18 Thread Jared . Still
Nigel, Finally, as this is my first post to the list, perhaps I should introduce myself as a lurker(!): Congratulations on your change in status! RE the mount points: I'm still fairly OS illiterate with many features of NT/Win2k. Do you have a good URL that would explain the use of

RE: password

2002-12-18 Thread Jared . Still
Downloaded and installed the tool. Not terribly sophistcated. If the word is not in the dictionary, it won't find it. For instance, a password of 'SHOE' will be discovered, but changing the O to a zero so that it reads 'SH0E', and the password cracker will not find it. If this were to be used

Re: Capacity Planning -- Expecting the DB growth !!!

2002-12-18 Thread Jared . Still
I can forward a script that shows how to use DBMS_SPACE. The other stuff I mentioned is not exactly in packagable form. Just use: exec show_space('SCOTT','EMP') Jared create or replace procedure show_space ( p_segname in varchar2 , p_owner in varchar2 default user ,

Re: Methods to get DDL

2002-12-18 Thread Jared . Still
Small amounts: sqlplus and the data dictionary. Lot's o' DDL: Perl, DBI, DBD::Oracle and DDL::Oracle. If that's unavailable, I use exp, then grep, sed and maybe vi to extract and cleanup the exp DDL. If unix bin utilities are unavailable, I install cygwin on a Windoze machine to make them

Re: Oracle shadow processes run amok after system clock changed

2002-12-18 Thread Deborah Lorraine
No, this was the middle of the afternoon. Each of those runaway processes were at one time associated with various users in the database doing various tasks, mostly selects. No user complained, so I assume they got detached from their shadow and maybe thought they were logged out? I was

Re:

2002-12-18 Thread Igor Neyman
wow, that was unusual... ôÙ ÉÄÉÏÔ? :-) Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:59 AM ðÏÍÏÝØ! -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 18,

RE: iAS 1.0.2.2.2a vs 9iR2 db

2002-12-18 Thread Paul Heely
You need to set O7_DICTIONARY_ACCESSIBILITY=TRUE in the database. -- Paul -Original Message- Patrice J Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I know this is probably hopeless, but has anyone managed to let the Oracle Portal Configuration

Re: Methods to get DDL

2002-12-18 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Simon, thanks for the plug, although it helps if you tell them the name of the book :) caveat: the scripts were written for 7.3.4, and should work mostly on 8i but have NOT been updated for 9i so if you are using any of the 8i or 9i new features they may not work. Rachel --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Oracle bug 2316137

2002-12-18 Thread Glenn Stauffer
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 11:49, Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote: If you have cursor_sharing=force ... can you use cursor_sharing=exact and see if the error reproduces? I think (and I could be wrong) that this setting will at-least buy you some time. I'll have to try that idea. Search for

Re: Capacity Planning -- Expecting the DB growth !!!

2002-12-18 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Thanks a million! Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:50 PM I can forward a script that shows how to use DBMS_SPACE. The other stuff I mentioned is not exactly in packagable form. Just use: exec

RE: Win2K Mount Points

2002-12-18 Thread Paul E. Robichaux
Yay! Finally! A question I can actually answer. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;205524; describes the tools you can use to manipulate mount points in W2K, while http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/323/4/24.asp is the equivalent for Windows .NET Server.

Re: Backup DB files to the Tape

2002-12-18 Thread Yechiel Adar
I do not get it. If you put the tablespace in backup mode and then use the os utilities to copy the datafiles to tape why you can not use then for recover. Just restore the datafiles and the archive logs and do recover? Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of

RE:

2002-12-18 Thread Jesse, Rich
Damn. Can't get the Russian-to-English translator working with any browser on Babelfish... Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- From: Igor Neyman

Regular Expressions in SQL

2002-12-18 Thread cbeckley
What's the easiest way to do regular expressions in an SQL query? If the answer is creating a function, does anyone have one they wouldn't mind sharing? Thanks, Chris Christopher Beckley OCPDBA, MCDBA, MCSD, EIEIO ThirdParadigm LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Easy one: how to start EM OID?

2002-12-18 Thread Paul E. Robichaux
I want to have the services necessary for Enterprise Manager and Oracle Internet Directory to start when I boot my machine. I understand where to put the scripts that start the processes; I just don't know which processes to start, apart from dbsnmp (which doesn't seem sufficient by itself). Any

Re:

2002-12-18 Thread Igor Neyman
Rich, do you need a translation? ðÏÍÏÝØ! - HELP! ôÙ ÉÄÉÏÔ? - Are you an idiot? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:55 PM Damn. Can't get the Russian-to-English

Re: Backup DB files to the Tape

2002-12-18 Thread Gene Sais
I am using home grown scripts and they work. I have Legato use savepnpc (pre/post proc) command call this script: //begin snippet comment section #!/bin/ksh ### # $ORABIN/db_hot_backup.ksh

SQL tuning question.

2002-12-18 Thread Jibo John
Hello DBAs, I am currently involved in improving the search performance for a tool which queries a table having a million records (and the table is growing at a rate of 3000 records per day). Thought of introducing Intermedia search for 4 columns in the search table. Created CONTEXT indexes

RE: Backup DB files to the Tape

2002-12-18 Thread Burke, William F (Bill)
The key is putting the tablespace in backup mode. It then doesn't matter whether you write the file to disk or tape. Homegrown scripts will work just fine in writing directly to tape, although it should be quite a bit slower than writing to disk and then letting the system backup process simply

RE: career questions

2002-12-18 Thread Burke, William F (Bill)
Having been independent for over 20 years, and now a permanent employee (if anything is permanent) for the past three years, one idea might be to broker your services through placement or consulting firms where you have a better idea of the companies background and what you are getting in to. For

RE: Regular Expressions in SQL

2002-12-18 Thread Mirsky, Greg
Try: http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:1745425::NO::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID, F4950_P8_CRITERIA:2200894550208,%7Bregular%7D%20and%20%7Bexpressions%7D Ask Tom has whole write up on it. Greg -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Regular Expressions in SQL

2002-12-18 Thread Burke, William F (Bill)
What do you mean by regular expressions is SQL... inquiring minds want to know Regards, Bill Burke The Kinder and Gentler DBA www.OracleGuru.com www.KBMotorsports.biz -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What's the

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