why SAN ? why not external storage ?

2003-03-12 Thread Rahul
list, one of our clietns are going to by SAN, the current oracle databases take around 36GB of storage i dnt understand there reason to go for SAN, i sugguested to buy an external storage box instead. How can i justify my desicion ? (cost of not the factor) TIA rahul

re : Running multiple instances on a [large] server -- Thanks

2003-03-12 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Re : 1. How many of you do run, and are comfortable running, multiple databases on the same server, whether it is partitioned or not ? 2. Do you create a seperate ORACLE_HOME for each instance ? 3. Do you just buy the Oracle DB CPU license on the total number of CPUs on the server ? The

Re: LMT monitoring

2003-03-12 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Based on these two points: The version is 8.1.7.1.0 The table is populated by sqlldr direct path. I have a bit of gossip (i.e. someone I know told me that someone he knows told him that he'd heard that ...) there have been cases where parallel execution slaves have applied extent trimming in

AW: can't create database

2003-03-12 Thread Kulev, Milen
Title: RE: LMT monitoring Hi Milen, 1) Have you relinked the executables during installation phase(applying stubs patch supplied by Oracle) ? 2) Create DB creating scripts with dbassist. Then perform each step written in *.SQL *.sh files separately, while watching ALERT.LOG. This approach

Re: can't create database

2003-03-12 Thread Christoph Schwerdtfeger
Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 19.47 schrieb Alan Davey: I had the same error message on NT with Oracle 9.2 recently. The first problem was that the init_sid.ora file was created a directory different from where the db create scripts were looking for it. The second problem was that one of the init

OCP

2003-03-12 Thread JayK
Dear All, I plan to take up Oracle Certification (DBA) very soon. Iam quite confused about the tracks and the exams. Is it better to pass OCP 8i and then upgrade to 9i or go straight for the 9i OCP DBA title, with regard to the complexities of the exam. Thanks in advance for all your help and

RE: Quick question on cursor resource use

2003-03-12 Thread Grant Allen
Yeah, OK, the 50 figure was just to provoke some responses :-). I'll go ahead and watch the various v$ views as I increase the cursor level, and see if there's anything nasty there (I'm not expecting any problems). Ciao Fuzzy :-) -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003

Re: Oracle position on hints

2003-03-12 Thread Bjørn Engsig
Undskyld, I should have added a wide ironic smily. I am very much aware of the far too many poorly written applications out there - you are sometimes amazed that even large software producing companies seem to thoroughly make every effort to produce bad code or simply ignore well established

TAR and Linux info

2003-03-12 Thread Ron Rogers
List, OS RedHat 7.3 Oeacle 8.1.7 rel3 I have had a disk failure on my test box and a datafile needs to be recovered from my tape backup. The tape contains 6 large datafiles and I get errors after reading the first one. Does anyone know the linux FTP option to --ignore-read-errors? The man

Re: OCP

2003-03-12 Thread Darrell Landrum
Jay, One thing to consider is that just starting the 9i track and if you've not taken any OCP exams prior to September of 2002, there is a requirement to attend one 9i training class in addition to the exams. However (you'll probably need to call Oracle to get a solid answer to this), if you

RE: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-12 Thread Spears, Brian
Got the overall the nitty on our ratio 15 Dbas in all 1 DBA : 200 Sqlserver databases :) ( Management loves that ratio) 10 DBA: 100 Unix Oracle Databases, 10 NT Oracle DB :) 4 DBA : 40 DB2 and 43 Teradata databases See that SQLSERVER Database ratio... show that to your boss.. make him sing

Oracle Forms 6i - Does not Display

2003-03-12 Thread moyam
Hi Gurus, Just developed a form using Oracle Forms 6i but the form display very quickly in the Web Browser and disappears. The form however runs very well using Oracle Forms Run Time. I have set the RunTime environment and the HTTP Server is running. What could be the problem? Moses This

Re: TAR and Linux info

2003-03-12 Thread Ray Stell
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 04:48:42AM -0800, Ron Rogers wrote: List, OS RedHat 7.3 Oeacle 8.1.7 rel3 I have had a disk failure on my test box and a datafile needs to be recovered from my tape backup. The tape contains 6 large datafiles and I get errors after reading the first one. Does

Re: Re: OCP

2003-03-12 Thread rgaffuri
I didnt realize that you might be able to do the 8i one without handing $2k to oracle for their class and taking the upgrade exams is a better path. anyone know if this is possible? You only need to get 50% of the questions right on the upgrade tests. From: Darrell Landrum [EMAIL

Re: why SAN ? why not external storage ?

2003-03-12 Thread Tim Gorman
Can youshare some ofthereasons related to your decision in choosing a direct-attach storage(DAS) instead of a SAN? In general, a SAN is a much smarter choice than DAS. - Original Message - From: Rahul To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday,

DEFAULT ROLE ALL

2003-03-12 Thread Edouard Dormidontov
Hi World! What this mean: ALTER USERusername DEFAULT ROLE ALL; Thanks Ed Dorma

Re: New Storage

2003-03-12 Thread Tim Gorman
Don't think "space". Think "throughput rates". Read rates, write rates, peak rates, sustained rates.Press the vendors on those issues, not manageability and capacity. Don't measure $/Gb, but $/Gb/sec. Good luck! - Original Message - From: Amit Nargotra To: Multiple

Re: Oracle Forms 6i - Does not Display

2003-03-12 Thread Hemant K Chitale
If you've developed the form on a Windows client and are running the Forms Server [web forms] on a Unix server, try regenerating the .fmx on the Unix server using f60genm Hemant At 05:08 AM 12-03-03 -0800, you wrote: Hi Gurus, Just developed a form using Oracle Forms 6i but the form display

RE: Re: OCP

2003-03-12 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
You only need to get 50% of the questions right on the upgrade tests. Why not set the goal to it get 100% right? ;) - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 7:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I didnt realize that you might be able to do the 8i one

RE: DEFAULT ROLE ALL

2003-03-12 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Title: Message That all the roles that the user has assigned get enabled when he logs on. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edouard DormidontovSent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 8:39 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list

Re: TAR and Linux info

2003-03-12 Thread Tim Gorman
The man page for the Linux tar command mentions a --ignore-failed-read option. Is that what you're looking for? The ftp command isn't usually used with tape drives... Kind of upsetting that Linux doesn't seem to have the trusty old mt program, which allowed all kinds of magtape manipulation...

Re: TAR and Linux info

2003-03-12 Thread Ron Rogers
You are correct. I ment the TAR option. With the listing for TAR and GTAR there is no option listed for --ignore-failed-read do not exit with nonzero on unreadable files as there is for -v, --verbose. That is the problem I am having. What option character to use to ignore errors. Thanks, Ron I

RE: DEFAULT ROLE ALL

2003-03-12 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
That sets all roles assigned to the username as it's default and are in effect at the same time whenever username logs in. - Kirti -Original Message-From: Edouard Dormidontov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 7:39 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Re: OCP

2003-03-12 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Re: OCP So how can you check the status of your 8i OCP so you can sign up for the 9i OCP upgrade exam? -Original Message- From: Deshpande, Kirti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 8:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Re:

Re:why SAN ? why not external storage ?

2003-03-12 Thread dgoulet
Rahul, We're heading out onto the SAN route as well from the external storage world. Right now we use a number of HP-UX servers connected to one of two EMC symmetrix arrays for datafiles and one of two NetApp Filers for archive redo logs. They work well, but the EMC's are expensive and

Re: Oracle position on hints 9.2.0.X

2003-03-12 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Something l would try in that position is create stored outline on ... your select statement in 8.1.6 Then select from user_outline_hints to find what hints Oracle had generated in the fast plan. Then write the same set of hints into the SQL in 9.2 (or even export/import the hints) -

Re: Identifying mult instances on Unix system

2003-03-12 Thread Thomas Day
I used to ps -ef | grep ora That would also show me if my listener was up. manoj.gurnani

Re: TAR and Linux info

2003-03-12 Thread Schwerdtfeger,
Am Mit, 2003-03-12 um 14.39 schrieb Tim Gorman: The man page for the Linux tar command mentions a --ignore-failed-read option. Is that what you're looking for? The ftp command isn't usually used with tape drives... Kind of upsetting that Linux doesn't seem to have the trusty old mt

Re: can't create database

2003-03-12 Thread Schwerdtfeger,
Am Mit, 2003-03-12 um 10.28 schrieb Christoph Schwerdtfeger: Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 19.47 schrieb Alan Davey: I had the same error message on NT with Oracle 9.2 recently. The first problem was that the init_sid.ora file was created a directory different from where the db create scripts

RE: Re: OCP

2003-03-12 Thread Ron Rogers
Paula, When you completed the OCP exams, you were given a report card that was stamped and sealed by the test provider with a passed notation. After you have completed all of the requirements for the particular track you were taking you should receive a certificate and card from the Oracle Corp.

RE: OCP

2003-03-12 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Jai An important part of the OCP is what it means to others, that is people you work for, people that will read your resume. Do you see a possibility that having both 8i and 9i on your resume would be a benefit. For example if a hiring manager specifies Oracle8i OCP, and company policy

RE: why SAN ? why not external storage ?

2003-03-12 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Tim - Can you elaborate on those reasons? Our administrators feel DAS is usually much cheaper, and they are not convinced the SAN performance is there. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 7:34 AM

RE: Re: OCP

2003-03-12 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
50% ?? You're joshing me! Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 7:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I didnt realize that you might be able to do the 8i one without handing $2k to oracle

Re: New Storage

2003-03-12 Thread Stephen Andert
Amen brother Tim We have never had space issues here, but we regularly have I/O performance issues. Get your organization on-board with performance-based metrics for disks instead of GB-based metrics. Good luck Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/12/03 06:33AM Don't think space. Think

RE: OCP

2003-03-12 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: OCP I thought it was better on principal of not wanting to spend the $2K for a class. -Original Message- From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 10:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OCP Jai An

For Dick Goulet - - RE: why SAN ? why not external storage ?

2003-03-12 Thread Spears, Brian
Dick ... did you have problems with Netapps on your archivelogs or just the datafiles or both?? We are considering using it for alternative archivelog solution... Last place we were at we did have a few issue with datafiles but it got worked out and worked fine after that. Brian

Re: TAR and Linux info

2003-03-12 Thread Tim Gorman
Silly me! Of course mt would be available somewhere. Just because I don't have it at the moment doesn't mean it isn't available! Thanks Christolph! Hallelujah open source! - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003

Re: tkprof output

2003-03-12 Thread AK
Thanks Jonathan, what is meaning of recursive depth ? I see calls to cdef$, seq$ tables/views does it hint something . I though procedure is using some sequence and these are internal calls to generate seq numbers . Is that rite ? -ak - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of

Re: can't create database

2003-03-12 Thread Ray Stell
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:19:53AM -0800, Schwerdtfeger, Christoph wrote: Am Mit, 2003-03-12 um 10.28 schrieb Christoph Schwerdtfeger: Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 19.47 schrieb Alan Davey: I had the same error message on NT with Oracle 9.2 recently. The first problem was that the

Re:For Dick Goulet - - RE: why SAN ? why not external stor

2003-03-12 Thread dgoulet
Brian, NetApps work just great for archive redo logs, their just an NFS mount. The problem we have had is getting things configured for Datafiles. If your use to a DAS system where you have the server and external disks, you have SCSI or Fiber cables between the two as dedicated

RE: For Dick Goulet - - RE: why SAN ? why not external storage

2003-03-12 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Brian I'm not Dick, but will respond anyway. We use a Netapp for our test system and it works fine for that. My experience has been that it is quite dependent on your network configuration (dedicated 100baseT as minimum), and multiple simultaneous reads and writes seems to bog it down. I would

Re: TAR and Linux info

2003-03-12 Thread Ron Rogers
Thanks for the response. I did locate the mt command and tried to advance to tape to the 5 file count and I received Input/Output errors anf the operation stopped. I guess the tape is shot and I will have to recreate the datafile and tablespace. Thanks to all. Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/12/03

RE: Re: OCP

2003-03-12 Thread Pete Sharman
Title: Message I think there are a couple of ways you can do this. Firstly, if you ring Prometric and try to register for the 9iUpgrade exam. IIRC, they'll ask you for your SSN and their system should reject you if you don't have the necessary pre-req certification. Secondly, you can send an

Re: tkprof output

2003-03-12 Thread Jonathan Lewis
The examples you have given are SYS-recursive, The call to cdef$ is Oracle looking for some information about constraints (one possibility is that you keep breaking a PK or UK constraint and Oracle has to keep looking up the name of the constraint because it doesn't cache constraint names). The

RE: tkprof output

2003-03-12 Thread Cary Millsap
An action with dep=n+1 (n=0) for cursor #k is the recursive child of the next dep=n action for cursor #k that immediately follows in the trace data. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Hotsos Clinic 101, Mar 25-27 Oxford - Hotsos Clinic 101, Apr 8-10

Re: can't create database

2003-03-12 Thread Schwerdtfeger,
Am Mit, 2003-03-12 um 17.20 schrieb Ray Stell: On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:19:53AM -0800, Schwerdtfeger, Christoph wrote: Am Mit, 2003-03-12 um 10.28 schrieb Christoph Schwerdtfeger: Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 19.47 schrieb Alan Davey: I had the same error message on NT with Oracle 9.2

RE: TAR and Linux info

2003-03-12 Thread Stephen Lee
It might be a tape problem, but I think it is unusual for a tape to be this hosed without errors being generated when the backup was created. If it is known that a backup was created without errors on this tape, and the tape has not been mishandled since then, then my first question would be: At

Re: tkprof output

2003-03-12 Thread AK
Thanks Jonathan for the information . Let me go through raw -trace file once more to get info . Everytime I go through it I find something interesting . -ak - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 8:54 AM The

Re: why SAN ? why not external storage ?

2003-03-12 Thread Tim Gorman
Dick Goulet gave an excellent response to the list earlier -- I'd second him on each point he made. There is no doubt that DAS is cheaper on the original purchase, because you're only buying the disk. Obviously, a SAN has a few more bits of iron and wire. But have those administrators toted up

Queue_message wait event

2003-03-12 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Queue_message wait event Hi all, Does anyone know how to tackle this one? Developers are complaining that (it appears) the de-queuing is slow. DB is 9202 aq_tm_processes = 5 job_queue_processes = 4 _job_queue_interval = 3 SQL select * from gv$aq where qid in (44673,42358);

RE: Re: OCP

2003-03-12 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Pete - You've made my day. We had some education money to use or lose last fall, and the 9i New Features class was offered locally. I thought I might be able to take the upgrade class even though I hadn't completed the 8i route. December is not a good month for finding study time, so I shelved

v$sqlarea v$session

2003-03-12 Thread Charlie_Mengler
I'm suffering from a senior moment. The question is at the every bottom. SQL select sql_text from v$sqlarea sa where buffer_gets 1 SQL_TEXT SELECT RP.RELPART FROM OERELPART RP, PARTOFFERING PO, PART P

Re: can't create database

2003-03-12 Thread Boyle Candi
I've had this problem on linux. Best and fastest solution: reboot the server. There is a memory issue preventing you from starting oracle. I just had it happen about 2 minutes ago on an upgrade to 9i. Reboot, and now I can start the db. -Candi On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 12:07, Schwerdtfeger,

Re: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-12 Thread DEEDSD
We have 7 DBAs. 105 production databases (97 24x7), ranging from 2 GB OLTP to 800 GB data warehouses. 395 devl/alpha/beta databases ranging in size from very small (1 GB) to production-sized. About 1/3 of the production databases have at least 1 (usually more) development effort going on at

Re: v$sqlarea v$session

2003-03-12 Thread Tim Gorman
v$session.sql_hash_value = v$sqlarea.hash_value or v$session.sql_address = v$sqlarea.address - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 10:18 AM I'm suffering from a senior moment. The question is at the every

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All- I am researching the technology of the Internet Directory. Does anyone have experience with this? I am currently using tnsnames files on all my boxes, I am running on Unix. I realize this directory would replace the tnsnames files but lots of confusion on how it works. 1. Would the

Re: v$sqlarea v$session

2003-03-12 Thread Denny Koovakattu
Join sql_address from v$session to address from v$sqlarea . Regards, Denny Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm suffering from a senior moment. The question is at the every bottom. SQL select sql_text from v$sqlarea sa where buffer_gets 1 SQL_TEXT

RE: v$sqlarea v$session

2003-03-12 Thread Jesse, Rich
Perhaps this is what you're looking for? select sql_text ,sid, username, osuser, logon_time from v$sqlarea sa, v$session ss where sa.buffer_gets 1-- that's a lot of gets! and sa.hash_value = ss.sql_hash_value; HTH! GL! :) Rich Rich Jesse

Re: v$sqlarea v$session

2003-03-12 Thread Andy Rivenes
How about: SELECT a.sid, a.username, c.disk_reads, c.buffer_gets, c.sorts, c.executions, c.rows_processed, c.sql_text FROM v$session a, v$sqlarea c WHERE a.sid = sessid AND a.sql_address = c.address -- AND a.SQL_HASH_VALUE =

RE: Tablespaces - datafiles

2003-03-12 Thread Spears, Brian
yup.. we haven't been bitten but we know the day is coming when its going to happen... I'm still looking for a trick or rule of thumb to help avoid the problem of over allocating that mount point at 3:00AM. So far what I have done only put tempfiles on the mount point not other datafile. Put

RE: drop table vs truncate table -- performance

2003-03-12 Thread JayMiller
Interesting question. I'll throw out another guess that Oracle has extra checking to do to either retain the first extent or perhaps recreate it (whereas drop just gets rid of all extents)? Comparing the results of a SQL Trace or Event 10046 on drop and truncate could be interesting. Jay Miller

RE: why SAN ? why not external storage ?

2003-03-12 Thread Jesse, Rich
Bingo! One of the reasons my team lead wants a SAN in here is to limit the vast amounts of wasted storage (wasted storage = wasted $$$)we have on our individual disparate systems. That savings must be weighed against the downsides of a SAN, such as the possibility of I/O contention and the

RE: TAR and Linux info

2003-03-12 Thread Ron Rogers
Stephen, All of your questions are solid diagnostic inquiries. I have not changed anything on my backup script and it is a simple TAR -cvf /dev/st0 files... and I can read the other tapes okay. I can read the first file header on the tape okay. I tried a different tape drive and received the same

Re: v$sqlarea v$session

2003-03-12 Thread AK
charlie I think sqlarea and session has no direct relationship . Same sql can belong to many sessions and columns like users_opening, users_executing suggests this. There should be one entry in sqlarea per hashaddress I guess . may user v$open_cursors to join with addess and sid . -ak -

RE: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-12 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
We have over 400 databases, 90%+ are Oracle under various versions, platforms. Today have 19 DBAs. Two weeks from now there will be 17. Rightsizing to continue in the 2nd Quarter - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of

Forcing 2 Decimal Positions

2003-03-12 Thread Burton, Laura L.
Title: Forcing 2 Decimal Positions I know this must be extremely simple, but the only thing I can find for this is column format and that doesn't work, so could someone tell me how to force an amount field to show 2 decimal positions? I have tried format 999.99 and 990.00 but it will not

RE: Forcing 2 Decimal Positions

2003-03-12 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Forcing 2 Decimal Positions select to_char(your_number, '.90') from dual / Raj - Rajendra dot Jamadagni at espn dot com Any views expressed here are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having an opinion

RE: v$sqlarea v$session

2003-03-12 Thread Charlie_Mengler
From Window A SQL / SID BLOCK_GETS CONSISTENT_GETS PHYSICAL_READS BLOCK_CHANGES CONSISTENT_CHANGES -- -- --- -- - -- 169838526512700725 22864266596 18526 173 182492

Re: v$sqlarea v$session

2003-03-12 Thread Stephane Faroult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm suffering from a senior moment. The question is at the every bottom. SQL select sql_text from v$sqlarea sa where buffer_gets 1 SQL_TEXT SELECT RP.RELPART FROM

RE: Forcing 2 Decimal Positions

2003-03-12 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Forcing 2 Decimal Positions That's funny, the 00 works for me. See example below (note that my decimal parameter is , not . because of my local settings) SQL select 2 price, 3 to_char (price, '90D00') as price2 4 from 5 (select 20 as price from dual 6 union all 7 select 20 /

RE: Forcing 2 Decimal Positions

2003-03-12 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Forcing 2 Decimal Positions Or if your question was relating to the COLUMN ... FORMAT SQL*Plus command, 99 works for me (again my decimal separator is , because of local settings) using SQL*Plus 8.1.7 SQL column price format 90D99 SQL select 20 as price from dual 2 union all 3

RE: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-12 Thread Adams, Matthew (GECP, MABG, 088130)
Title: RE: POLL: Database to DBA ratio 350 Oracle Databases spread across US and Europe. 14 full time, 4 part time. 75% of applications are designed and built in-house. -Original Message- From: Deshpande, Kirti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 1:59 PM To:

RE: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-12 Thread Weaver, Walt
Title: RE: POLL: Database to DBA ratio We have 4 production Oracle databases and 3 DBA's. Of course, we have additional duties as well. I spend many afternoons out at the airport as a baggage handler for Horizon Airlines. --Walt Weaver Bozeman, Montana -Original Message-

Re: Queue_message wait event

2003-03-12 Thread Arup Nanda
Title: Queue_message wait event Raj, I assume you are using persistent queues. Each queue resides on a queue table that is nothing more than a normal table subjected to the same problems. By default the queue tables are created with INITRANS 1 and FREELISTS 1, like regular table. You have

RE: Forcing 2 Decimal Positions

2003-03-12 Thread Burton, Laura L.
Title: Forcing 2 Decimal Positions Thanks. This worked wonderfully!! -Original Message- From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 1:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Forcing 2 Decimal Positions select

RE: DEFAULT ROLE ALL

2003-03-12 Thread kirti . deshpande
That sets all roles assigned to the username as it's default and are in effect at the same time whenever username logs in. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 7:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi World! What this mean: ALTER USER username

RE: Re: OCP

2003-03-12 Thread peter . sharman
I think there are a couple of ways you can do this. Firstly, if you ring Prometric and try to register for the 9i Upgrade exam. IIRC, they'll ask you for your SSN and their system should reject you if you don't have the necessary pre-req certification. Secondly, you can send an email to [EMAIL

Re: New Storage

2003-03-12 Thread Tim
Don't think space. Think throughput rates. Read rates, write rates, peak rates, sustained rates. Press the vendors on those issues, not manageability and capacity. Don't measure $/Gb, but $/Gb/sec. Good luck! - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

For Dick Goulet - - RE: why SAN ? why not external storage ?

2003-03-12 Thread BSpears
Dick ... did you have problems with Netapps on your archivelogs or just the datafiles or both?? We are considering using it for alternative archivelog solution... Last place we were at we did have a few issue with datafiles but it got worked out and worked fine after that. Brian

Re: can't create database

2003-03-12 Thread schwerdtfeger
Am Mit, 2003-03-12 um 10.28 schrieb Christoph Schwerdtfeger: Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 19.47 schrieb Alan Davey: I had the same error message on NT with Oracle 9.2 recently. The first problem was that the init_sid.ora file was created a directory different from where the db create scripts were

RE: why SAN ? why not external storage ?

2003-03-12 Thread Rich . Jesse
Bingo! One of the reasons my team lead wants a SAN in here is to limit the vast amounts of wasted storage (wasted storage = wasted $$$)we have on our individual disparate systems. That savings must be weighed against the downsides of a SAN, such as the possibility of I/O contention and the

Re: v$sqlarea v$session

2003-03-12 Thread arivenes
How about: SELECT a.sid, a.username, c.disk_reads, c.buffer_gets, c.sorts, c.executions, c.rows_processed, c.sql_text FROM v$session a, v$sqlarea c WHERE a.sid = sessid AND a.sql_address = c.address -- AND a.SQL_HASH_VALUE

RE: Re: OCP

2003-03-12 Thread kirti . deshpande
You only need to get 50% of the questions right on the upgrade tests. Why not set the goal to it get 100% right? ;) - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 7:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I didnt realize that you might be able to do the 8i one

Re: can't create database

2003-03-12 Thread schwerdtfeger
Am Mit, 2003-03-12 um 17.20 schrieb Ray Stell: On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:19:53AM -0800, Schwerdtfeger, Christoph wrote: Am Mit, 2003-03-12 um 10.28 schrieb Christoph Schwerdtfeger: Am Die, 2003-03-11 um 19.47 schrieb Alan Davey: I had the same error message on NT with Oracle 9.2

RE: TAR and Linux info

2003-03-12 Thread Stephen . Lee
It might be a tape problem, but I think it is unusual for a tape to be this hosed without errors being generated when the backup was created. If it is known that a backup was created without errors on this tape, and the tape has not been mishandled since then, then my first question would be: At

Re: Forcing 2 Decimal Positions

2003-03-12 Thread Arup Nanda
Title: Forcing 2 Decimal Positions Laura, It woroks for me. SQL select to_char(clusterid,'9.90') from t; TO_CHAR(C- 1234.89 1234.80 SQL select clusterid from t; CLUSTERID-- 1234.89 1234.8 SQL col clusterid format 9.90SQL / CLUSTERID- 1234.89 1234.80

Re: v$sqlarea v$session

2003-03-12 Thread groups
Join sql_address from v$session to address from v$sqlarea . Regards, Denny Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm suffering from a senior moment. The question is at the every bottom. SQL select sql_text from v$sqlarea sa where buffer_gets 1 SQL_TEXT

iDirectory

2003-03-12 Thread lkemnitz
All- I am researching the technology of the Internet Directory. Does anyone have experience with this? I am currently using tnsnames files on all my boxes, I am running on Unix. I realize this directory would replace the tnsnames files but lots of confusion on how it works. 1. Would the

Re: Forcing 2 Decimal Positions

2003-03-12 Thread Stephane Faroult
Jacques Kilchoer wrote: Or if your question was relating to the COLUMN ... FORMAT SQL*Plus command, 99 works for me (again my decimal separator is , because of local settings) using SQL*Plus 8.1.7 SQL column price format 90D99 SQL select 20 as price from dual 2 union all 3 select

Re: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-12 Thread DEEDSD
We have 7 DBAs. 105 production databases (97 24x7), ranging from 2 GB OLTP to 800 GB data warehouses. 395 devl/alpha/beta databases ranging in size from very small (1 GB) to production-sized. About 1/3 of the production databases have at least 1 (usually more) development effort going on at

Re: Oracle Forms 6i - Does not Display

2003-03-12 Thread hkchital
If you've developed the form on a Windows client and are running the Forms Server [web forms] on a Unix server, try regenerating the .fmx on the Unix server using f60genm Hemant At 05:08 AM 12-03-03 -0800, you wrote: Hi Gurus, Just developed a form using Oracle Forms 6i but the form display

Re: can't create database

2003-03-12 Thread candi . boyle
I've had this problem on linux. Best and fastest solution: reboot the server. There is a memory issue preventing you from starting oracle. I just had it happen about 2 minutes ago on an upgrade to 9i. Reboot, and now I can start the db. -Candi On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 12:07, Schwerdtfeger,

RE: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-12 Thread Weiss, Rick
Title: Message Not mention the afternoons at Big Sky and Bridger working as a ski run quality assurance tester! ; ) Rick Weiss -- Helena, Montana We know better -Original Message-From: Weaver, Walt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:51To:

Import data only into existing schema

2003-03-12 Thread Smith, Ron L.
I need to be able to refresh the data in the tables belonging to out test database without destroying, changing, or adding any other type of database object. The data will come from the production database. I am having a problem specifically with triggers. I don't want to add, change or delete

RE: iDirectory

2003-03-12 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey LeRoy (Go Badgers! Go Panthers!), 1. That's what Oracle claims, but only if you have the Advanced Security option, which you must purchase. 2. It depends on the box, the version of OS, and other factors. For example, LDAP authentication will not work on HP/UX 11.0 with the Trusted System

Re: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-12 Thread Jared . Still
Well, I'll add my $00.02 worth. I have about 15 databases, more or less. It varies depending on what's going on. Right now it's more. :) They are on NT, Win2k, Solaris and Linux. Sizes range from a few gig to 450 gig. In addition, I own IT change control ( Oh joy ), and a few other

Re: can't create database

2003-03-12 Thread Jared . Still
I run into this every time I stop 9.2 on Linux. No need to reboot. Just use ipcrm to remove the offending SHM segments. If you don't know which ones, use ORADEBUG to find the segments you shouldn't remove from other running databases. Or just shutdown all instances and remove any SHM owned by

RE: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-12 Thread Niall Litchfield
I'd twelfth (or whatever number we are upto by now) the comments so far on how it isn't a fair measure. For what its worth we now have 19 Oracle instances and 7 sql server databases, probably 50+ schemas. You can take your pick as to what you mean by database. We have 3 dbas. One thing that does

RE: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-12 Thread Spears, Brian
Are those pages real production issues? How much is fire fighting work? Brian -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We have 7 DBAs. 105 production databases (97 24x7), ranging from 2 GB OLTP to 800 GB data warehouses.

How to migrate the LDAP data into Oracle 8.1.7 database tables?

2003-03-12 Thread Mandal, Ashoke
Hi, We need to bring the LDAP data into oracle tables under 8.1.7(Not 9i) and join with some other tables, which already exist in the Oracle 8.1.7 database to generate reports. I was wondering if we can use some tool to reverse engineer the LDAP data ad get table structures. Any idea.

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