RE: RAC

2003-07-22 Thread Suhen Pather
Title: RE: RAC Kay, Can we get the Metalink note to run a single node RAC on Linux. TIA Suhen -Original Message- From: K Gopalakrishnan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 22 July 2003 4:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: RAC Not required.. We

RE: RAC

2003-07-22 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Suhen: Check the Metalink note 166830.1 for the details. KG --- Suhen Pather [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kay, Can we get the Metalink note to run a single node RAC on Linux. TIA Suhen -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, 22 July 2003 4:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

Using ALERT in a ProC program

2003-07-22 Thread Lendvary Gyurika
Hi, Thank you very much for your help, I can compile my program, but unfortulately it doesn't work. I'd like to use ALERT to notify my program about an event. Alert works, when I run two sql scripts in two sqlplus terminals. One of them is listening for an alert and the other one sends an alert.

OAS version for Oracle8i

2003-07-22 Thread setiady
Dear all, I am new to Oracle and I am trying to install OAS. Currently, I have Oracle8i personal edition on my PC and I would like to install OAS... but I can't figure out which version is suitable for the database.. Thanks. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net --

Re: Fast!

2003-07-22 Thread Pete Finnigan
I am in the UK and usually i don't get any messages on this in-box until the afternoon, until last week that is, thanks Bruce for the improved service!! kind regards Pete -- Pete Finnigan email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.petefinnigan.com - Oracle security audit specialists

RE: OAS version for Oracle8i

2003-07-22 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
iAS or OAS 4.0.8.x? OAS came after OWS 3.0.1. The products work with previous versions of the db usually, but here is a list of roughly what database was current at the time each web server was released. OWS -- Oracle 7.3, last release was 7.3.4 OAS -- Oracle 8.0, last release was 8.0.6 iAS

piece-wise return of records from table

2003-07-22 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
CASE select * from table gives 1000 records (say) We want only first ten of these records to be returned to the front end then records 11 to 20 so on How may the above be optimally possible ? SQL or PL/SQL any for it ? Thanks

Re: RAID select

2003-07-22 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Definitely do NOT put your rollback segment tablespaces to non-raid disks, if you don't want your database to be down in case of media failure. Also, if your system has to be highly available, I wouldn't put anything except maybe multiplexed online logs, archive logs and possibly some backups

RE: piece-wise return of records from table

2003-07-22 Thread Guido Konsolke
Hi, any chance that you let us know what your front end is? Web? CS-Forms? fill_in_the_appropriate? Come on, some more infos. Typing isn't that hard ;-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22.07.2003 14.49 Uhr CASE select * from table gives 1000 records (say) We want only first ten of these records

RE: iAS Apache name-based virtual hosting

2003-07-22 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Title: Message I have that in place, except that since we are only doing virtual hosting by name, I used an asterisk instead of an IP address in the tags. i.e. NameVirtualHost * VirtualHost * ... /VirtualHost Patrice. -Original Message-From: RAJESH DAYAL [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Who Says Oracle does not listen

2003-07-22 Thread Igor Neyman
Doing it my way just seems to be cleaner: why forcing exception, when it could be avoided? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Alex Feinstein Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L RE: Who Says Oracle does not listenAgree.

Re: Using ALERT in a ProC program

2003-07-22 Thread Lendvary Gyurika
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, you wrote: Hi Gyuri, Why not dispense with the dbms_output in main() and simply use printf or fprintf? If you want to keep it then you need to call dbms_output.enable(100); before you call put_line, i have found that you also need to call dbms_output.disable; first

RE: iAS Apache name-based virtual hosting

2003-07-22 Thread RAJESH DAYAL
Title: Message I think with name based virtual hosting you have to have a different virtual server name and diff IP Address (In port based virtual hosting you can have same host names but can listen on different ports). The server has to be able to listen on this new address (probably

RE: Using ALERT in a ProC program

2003-07-22 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Using ALERT in a ProC program stupid_question are you commiting after you send the alert? dbms_alert is transactional ... /stupid_question Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views

RE: iAS Apache name-based virtual hosting

2003-07-22 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Title: Message From the httpd.conf file... ### Section 3: Virtual Hosts## VirtualHost: If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your# machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations# use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to

RE: Using ALERT in a ProC program

2003-07-22 Thread Goulet, Dick
Folks, Unless I'm totally wrong I believe I remember seeing an article on DBMS_OUTPUT on Metalink that specifically states that it's for use in SQL*Plus for debuging PL/SQL programs only. Therefore it's rather useless anywhere else. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i

Please help with ORA-01555 Snapshot too old

2003-07-22 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Title: Message Help! I have a production and a test database, both with 3000mg RBS tablespaces with two datafiles. Both have db_block_buffers set at 1000. The only difference is the production db has 7rollback segments and thetest db has 8. The rollback segments are sized at 50mg each on

Re: SHOW ERRORS not working

2003-07-22 Thread Daniel Fink
SHOW PARAMETER performs a 'FIXED TABLE FULL' scan of x$ksppi and x$ksppcv. Exactly what I would expect. SHOW USER did not show up in the trace file, which tells me it is internal code path. SHOW ALL did the same. I think that the difference is that PARAMETERs are database level information,

RE: Using ALERT in a ProC program

2003-07-22 Thread Lendvary Gyuri
-Original Message- are you commiting after you send the alert? dbms_alert is transactional ... Yes, of course I execute a commit after sending an alert. Here is my sql script, that sends an alert: set serveroutput on size 100 set echo off set term on set lines 80 DECLARE message

domain vs local account

2003-07-22 Thread Joe Armstrong-Champ
During a recent tar I was told by an Oracle tech that Oracle windows installs done by a domain user (versus local user) would not be supported by Oracle. We used the domain acct (which is also an administrator on the machine)so that it could see the tns_admin directory on the network. We have not

RE: Please help with ORA-01555 Snapshot too old

2003-07-22 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ron I'm guessing that one of the loads receives the ORA-01555 and the other doesn't. Does the load commit occasionally? There are some pretty good papers on Metalink for this error. Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent:

Re: Please help with ORA-01555 Snapshot too old

2003-07-22 Thread Daniel Fink
Ron, Are the sizes of the data manipulated by the batch load the same? Is the db_block_size the same on each database? What is the size of the rbs during processing? What is the hwmsize, shrinks, extends from v$rollstat? You may be encountering a situation where

RE: Please help with ORA-01555 Snapshot too old

2003-07-22 Thread Smith, Ron L.
They are both processing the same data, the same way. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ron I'm guessing that one of the loads receives the ORA-01555 and the other doesn't. Does the load commit occasionally? There are

Re: RAC

2003-07-22 Thread AK
Thanks KG for the info . You guys rock . -ak - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:39 PM AK: Very much possible and very simple if you are using Linux or Windoze. I think there is a note on Metalink with

Re: domain vs local account

2003-07-22 Thread Arup Nanda
Joe, You can certainly use the doamin account; we do it all the time. I am not sure why the TAR said this - but I can take a guess - generally the domain users are not privileged enough. Oracle recommends using the Administrator account to install anything for that reason. HTH. Arup Nanda

RE: Please help with ORA-01555 Snapshot too old

2003-07-22 Thread Odland, Brad
Snapshot too old also occurs when there is a commit across an open cursor. Keep the commit on the outermost cursor in your PL/SQL (if you are using PL/SQL) IN other words committing on the inside of a cursor FOR loop can cause the cursor snapshot to be overwritten in rollback by activity on the

Re: HP-UX 11i/9.2.0.3/Strange Executions

2003-07-22 Thread Jared Still
10gR4 will modify payroll and send me the check. Jared On Monday 21 July 2003 19:39, Mladen Gogala wrote: 10gR3 will read programmer's mind and automatically correct all design errors. RDBMS 11T will look like Arnie Schwartzenegger (T is for Terminator). I'll be back. On 2003.07.21 22:04,

RE: LMT

2003-07-22 Thread Jesse, Rich
None whatsoever that we've seen. We've been running this way (until we can convert our remaining TSs to LMT) for over a year now on 8.1.7.4 on HP/UX 11.0 32-bit. Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI

Re: domain vs local account

2003-07-22 Thread Jared Still
As our ops mgr is wont to say, he's on crack. Nearly all of our Oracle installs on Win2k are by a domain user that may also be a domain admin. Never caused any problems, no one has ever asked. Jared On Tuesday 22 July 2003 08:04, Joe Armstrong-Champ wrote: During a recent tar I was told by

Emergent: ORA-06520: PL/SQL: Error loading external library

2003-07-22 Thread Liu, Jack
Hi, When I run ORDSYS.ORDImage.setProperties, I got this error: ORA-06520: PL/SQL: Error loading external library ORA-06522: ld.so.1: extprocPLSExtProc: fatal: /others/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/libordim8.so: open failed: No such file or directory I don't have /others/app/ dir in my disk, my

RE: domain vs local account

2003-07-22 Thread Odland, Brad
I have ALWAYS used a local box admin account for installing and maintining Oracle software in both NT and W2k. Brad O. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Joe, You can certainly use the doamin account; we do it all the

RE: Please help with ORA-01555 Snapshot too old

2003-07-22 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ron - I think you are feeling that one system is good and the other is bad. My suggestion is to consider one system at the ragged edge of failing and the other system over the edge and in the ditch. Next week with a different set of data, they may both well fail or both succeed. With ORA-01555

TOAD vs BMC's XRAY

2003-07-22 Thread Fermin Bernaus
Hi there, I am considering buying an administration tool and programmer's tool. The two I know are Toad and BMC's XRAY but since I do not know them very well I have difficulties deciding which of them is the best. What I need more is to tune the database, trace into time and

Re: orafaq -- broke?

2003-07-22 Thread Bruce A. Bergman
Definitely. I just need input like that from those who use it! So far the input as been far and few between... I will work on getting the message bodies searchable and let the list know when they're in there. thanks, bruce - Original Message - Hey Bruce, Any possibility of making

Re: SHOW ERRORS not working

2003-07-22 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Yep, show user for example doesn't even generate any sqlnet traffic to server. The username is retrieved by sqlplus once during logon using select user from dual query. One small detail is that when connecting as sysdba, no select user from dual query is executed during logon, because you'll

Re: domain vs local account

2003-07-22 Thread Jeffrey Beckstrom
Same here. Jeffrey Beckstrom Database Administrator Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 (216) 781-4204 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/22/03 11:54:38 AM As our ops mgr is wont to say, he's on crack. Nearly all of our Oracle installs on Win2k are by a

RE: domain vs local account

2003-07-22 Thread Odland, Brad
I don't think it is a good habit to get into... When I set up Win2k boxes with Oracle the first thing I do is create a local admin account named oracle. Should be reason enough that if Oracle says they won't support a domain account install there is probably a good reason for doing so. Unless

possible to set continuation prompt in sql*plus?

2003-07-22 Thread Pardee, Roy E
Greetings all, I've set up my login.sql so that my prompt shows my username the sid of the db to which I'm connected. This works well, but has made it tough to drag-select text b/c now the first line sticks way out relative to the continuation lines, like so: [EMAIL PROTECTED] select

RMAN used?

2003-07-22 Thread Michael Kline
Can RMAN backup a database and leave any traces? I have a client site that was maintained with no documentation and now evaluating for how bad things may be. We found an export taking place, but no evidence of anything else. The alert.log shows NOTHING as far as shutdown, start up,

RE: LMT

2003-07-22 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: LMT Nope. but my experience is strictly on 9i related to LMT Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts,

RE: TOAD vs BMC's XRAY

2003-07-22 Thread Jesse, Rich
I haven't used DBXray (yet -- maybe it's not an automated process to download a trial?), but I don't feel TOAD is the best at DB administration, especially for performance tuning/monitoring. Then again, it's been awhile since I've used TOAD's optional DBA module, since it's no longer available in

RE: possible to set continuation prompt in sql*plus?

2003-07-22 Thread Goulet, Dick
The command is set sqlprompt. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Greetings all, I've set up my login.sql so that my prompt shows my username the sid of the db to

Installation Question

2003-07-22 Thread Teresita Castro
Hi!!!I am working with Visual Basic 6.0, Oracle 9.2i, and Crystal Report 8.5 I made some recordset to feed my reports, they are working find, but my problem nowis that I don't know how to made an instalation. I made one with the Packge deployment wizard, but that installation did not

RE: domain vs local account

2003-07-22 Thread Jared . Still
Assuming that the first line support guy is correct, sure. Personally, I would like to see it in writing, otherwise it's an urban myth AFAIK. URL? Jared Odland, Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/22/2003 09:29 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple

Re: possible to set continuation prompt in sql*plus?

2003-07-22 Thread Arup Nanda
Sure, just set the following (assuming 9i) SET SQLNUMBER OFF HTH. Arup Nanda - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:44 PM Greetings all, I've set up my login.sql so that my prompt shows my username the sid of

RE: possible to set continuation prompt in sql*plus?

2003-07-22 Thread Stephen Lee
I got the impression that the question is if sql plus has the equivalent of the Unix PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 prompts. -Original Message- The command is set sqlprompt. -Original Message- Greetings all, I've set up my login.sql so that my prompt shows my username the

RE: TOAD vs BMC's XRAY

2003-07-22 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
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RE: RMAN used?

2003-07-22 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Mike, One other external source to look into is the udump directory. See if an sbtio.log file exists. Sometimes, Rman will write logs into this file. If the file doesn't exist, then it is another hint that rman has not been used. I would say that if you can't find any Rman save sets

RE: Please help with ORA-01555 Snapshot too old

2003-07-22 Thread Dawtrey, Lindsay L
Title: Message You can try committing less frequently in the batch load e.g. if you are committing every 1 rows then try every 3 (assuming of course that the you have space left in the RBS to allow for this) or you can try adding rollback segments. Metalink docs give some good ideas

RE: possible to set continuation prompt in sql*plus?

2003-07-22 Thread Richard Ji
I think so too. I think sqlcontinue and sqlnumber is what this guy is looking for. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I got the impression that the question is if sql plus has the equivalent of the Unix PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4

Re: LMT Migration

2003-07-22 Thread Gabriel Aragon
I use the A) strategy for medium BD's with good performance behavior, for the fragmentation issue a good guide is the document: How to stop fragmentation and start living. you can find it in metalink.. regards, Gabriel --- AK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At present we have one tablespace

Re: LMT Migration

2003-07-22 Thread Ron Rogers
ak, I have located my indexes in different tablespaces according to size of the index and catagory. Small indexes are in one tablespace with 4K extents and medium in 1M extents with the large in 20M extends. The tables that are partitioned also have the indexes partitioned. Some tables span

RE: TOAD vs BMC's XRAY

2003-07-22 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
For development, take a look at Allround Automations Pl/Sql Developer. Nice functionality and an affordable price (~$50 in bulk). http://www.allroundautomations.nl/ AM PST Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:Multiple recipients of list

RE: RMAN used?

2003-07-22 Thread Ron Rogers
If the tables in the RMAN instance have not been populated they that instance did not perform any backup functions. It is not to say that a different instance on a distant server did not perform any RMAN backup function. Read the activity log posted at each server for activities on the machine.

Oracle 10G info note

2003-07-22 Thread Ron Rogers
ORACLE DATABASE GETS NEW NAME | eWEEK Whatever you do, don't call it 10i. The newest version of Oracle Corp.'s database, which the company is trying to keep under a tight lid until it's September OracleWorld debut, will reportedly be called 10G. That's apparently a way to pay homage to the

RE: RMAN used?

2003-07-22 Thread Stephen Lee
RMAN writes to the control file(s) when it runs. Try this: SQL select view_name from dba_views where view_name like '%BACK%'; VIEW_NAME -- DBA_ROLLBACK_SEGS GV_$BACKUP GV_$BACKUP_ASYNC_IO GV_$BACKUP_CORRUPTION GV_$BACKUP_DATAFILE GV_$BACKUP_DEVICE GV_$BACKUP_PIECE

Re: LMT Migration

2003-07-22 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Make sure your extents are in size or multiples of your block_size*db_file_multiblock_read_count. This might help in performance when doing index fast full scans. Also, if you use striped disks, you might want to match it with stripe width. But number of extents doesn't cause any

RE: TOAD vs BMC's XRAY

2003-07-22 Thread Jesse, Rich
OK, I got the e-mail to try a trial of DBXray from BMC. Crap, I tell you. Crap. Crap, crap, crap. To be truthful, I'm not sure how much we pay for Spotlight, but for $2500/user, DBXray has a LOT to be desired. I've apparently been spoiled by Quest's Spotlight interface. After a 15-minute

RE: TOAD vs BMC's XRAY

2003-07-22 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
I don't think Rich likes DBXray. looks like he's gonna pass on it. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 2:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L OK, I got the e-mail to try a trial of DBXray from BMC. Crap, I tell you.

RE: possible to set continuation prompt in sql*plus?

2003-07-22 Thread Pardee, Roy E
That's right--I am looking for an analogue to PSx. I've been playing around w/sqlcontinue sqlnumber but so far no joy. I'm using sql*plus 8.0.6.0.0 (running against an 8.1.6 db). Many thanks to all who responded. Cheers, -Roy Roy Pardee Programmer/Analyst/DBA SWFPAC Lockheed Martin IT

Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Josh Collier
Greetings, How can I set the interval in my dbms job to have it run on the first Wednesday of every month? Is this even possible? I have been trying to noodle it thru for a week to no avail. tia, Josh -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Josh Collier

ORA-01691: unable to extend lob segment ELI.SYS_LOB0000025110C000

2003-07-22 Thread Liu, Jack
Hi, I got this error when process blob file: ORA-01691: unable to extend lob segment ELI.SYS_LOB025110C2$$ by 100358 in tablespace DATA2 I added new data file for DATA2, but still the same error. Please help! Thanks, Jack -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net --

Recall: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Josh Collier
Josh Collier would like to recall the message, Job to run first Wednesday. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Josh Collier INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing

RE: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Josh Collier
Hi, I just RTFM, squared away now. Josh -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 12:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Greetings, How can I set the interval in my dbms job to have it run on the first Wednesday of every month? Is this even possible? I have been

RE: HP-UX 11i/9.2.0.3/Strange Executions

2003-07-22 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Hopefully, not a pink one? Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 11:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L 10gR4 will modify payroll and send me the check. Jared On Monday 21 July 2003 19:39,

RE: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Job to run first Wednesday SELECT NEXT_DAY(ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(SYSDATE,'MM')-1,rnum-1),'WED') FROM (SELECT ROWNUM rnum FROM ALL_OBJECTS WHERE ROWNUM 12) / for next 12 months including this month Raj

RE: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Abey Joseph
Josh, How about NEXT_DAY(TRUNC(LAST_DAY(SYSDATE)+1),'WEDNESDAY')+6/24? This should run your DBMS_JOB's the first Wednesday of the following month at 6:00am. Abey. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Greetings, How can I

OT RE: Recall: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Reminds me of a song... I can't remember, I can't recall. I can't remember anything at all... Patrice. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Boivin, Patrice J INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San

Re: possible to set continuation prompt in sql*plus?

2003-07-22 Thread Arup Nanda
I suggested using SET SQLNUMBER OFF. This sure works in SQL*Plus 8i and above; not sure if it does in 8.0.6 and I don't have a test executable to test it. But have you tried it? Arup Nanda - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July

Re: Recall: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Joe Testa
Message not able to be recalled from mailbox [EMAIL PROTECTED], due to ORA-1555 snapshot too old. Josh Collier wrote: Josh Collier would like to recall the message, Job to run first Wednesday. -- Joseph S Testa Chief Technology Officer Data Management Consulting p: 614-791-9000 f:

RE: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Rudy Zung
What an interesting question. Alright, DBMS_JOB needs a function which returns the date/time on which the job will next run. Part of your function is to take consider the next 31 days (in case the current run of the job is somewhere random in the month and not on the first Wednesday of the

Re: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Jared . Still
Here's a bit of code that will always find the first wednesday of the following month: -- find the first wednesday of any month alter session set nls_date_format = 'mm/dd/'; define testdate = '09/03/2003' select trunc(add_months('testdate',1),'mm') + decode(

RE: Oracle 10G info note

2003-07-22 Thread Ron Rogers
Steve, Are you hoping for a frequent users discount like the airlines? I did a google search on 'Dynamic Grid Computing' and there are interesting concept discussed where grid computing is tested. It sounds like all the computers are accessable at once and the one that has the info needed

RE: HP-UX 11i/9.2.0.3/Strange Executions

2003-07-22 Thread Jared . Still
Color may be irrelevant, depending on amount. Gogala, Mladen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/22/2003 12:34 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: HP-UX

Re: Recall: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Jared . Still
too late :) Josh Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/22/2003 12:29 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Recall: Job to run first Wednesday Josh Collier would like

RE: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Jared . Still
Hmm... much more elegant than mine, and everyone elses. Guess I better RTFM the next_day function. Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/22/2003 12:34 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: possible to set continuation prompt in sql*plus?

2003-07-22 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
sqlcontinue changes the prompt for the continuation of a SQL*Plus command, not a SQL command. sqlnumber off will mean that instead of having number prompts on the continuation of a SQL statement the SQL prompt will be continued (which I personally find annoying). set sqlnumber off should

RE: Oracle 10G info note

2003-07-22 Thread Stephen Lee
Isn't that SETI program that you can run on your PC an example of grid computing? ... sort of. -Original Message- I did a google search on 'Dynamic Grid Computing' and there are interesting concept discussed where grid computing is tested. It sounds like all the computers are

RE: LMT Migration

2003-07-22 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
AK The link for How to Stop Defragmenting and Start Living is here: http://metalink.oracle.com/cgi-bin/cr/getfile_cr.cgi?239049 http://metalink.oracle.com/cgi-bin/cr/getfile_cr.cgi?239049 This is a classic paper and I consider it essential to carefully study this paper before you embark on your

RE: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Rachel Carmichael
don't rush off to use it. I tried it, substituting August 1 and got September. 1* select next_day(last_day(to_date('08/01/2003','MM/DD/')),'WED') from dual SQL / NEXT_DAY( - 03-SEP-03 --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... much more elegant than mine, and everyone elses.

RE: HP-UX 11i/9.2.0.3/Strange Executions

2003-07-22 Thread Ron Rogers
Jared, With your luck the check you refer to will be like the ckeck in a restaurant. Don't forget the tip. Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/22/03 03:34PM Hopefully, not a pink one? Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July

RE: possible to set continuation prompt in sql*plus?

2003-07-22 Thread Goulet, Dick
If that's the impression, then no, there's only one, sqlprompt. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I got the impression that the question is if sql plus has the

Don't forget your favorite DBA/SA this friday!

2003-07-22 Thread Jesse, Rich
http://www.sysadminday.com/ Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jesse, Rich INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

RE: ORA-01691: unable to extend lob segment ELI.SYS_LOB0000025110

2003-07-22 Thread Liu, Jack
Jared, Thanks a lot. I use 8k block size, so you mean 100358 is block number and I need total about 781Mb free space? I have about 300Mb free space for DATA2. Here is some info about this lob segment: select segment_name, tablespace_name,segment_type, bytes,extents,initial_extent, next_extent,

RE: Who Says Oracle does not listen

2003-07-22 Thread Alexander . Feinstein
Title: RE: Who Says Oracle does not listen Performance. You do check, and the DBMS does check internally. Alex. -Original Message- From: Igor Neyman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 6:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Who Says

RE: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Kevin Toepke
or simply SELECT NEXT_DAY(ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(to_date('31-dec-2002'), 'MM')-1, 1), 'WEDNESDAY') FROM dual / -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Here's a bit of code that will always find the first wednesday of the

RE: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Rachel, Yeah, Sept 3 is the first Wednesday of September (the next month). You gotta read the memos :) Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 4:15 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L don't rush off to use it. I

RE: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Igor Neyman
Are you saying 03-SEP-03 is wrong? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Rachel Carmichael Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:15 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L don't rush off to use it. I tried it, substituting August 1 and got September. 1* select

RE: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Jared . Still
Rachel, The assumption is that the current day is already = the first wednesday of the month, making it useful for the dbms_job interval. Did you read the specs? :) Jared Rachel Carmichael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/22/2003 01:14 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L

RE: ORA-01691: unable to extend lob segment ELI.SYS_LOB0000025110

2003-07-22 Thread Jared . Still
The next_extent size on SYS_LOB025110C2$$ is about 800 meg. Change the next_extent size to something smaller. RTFM on 'alter table' if needed. If you're using LMT's, then the minimum size to allocate is whatever the uniform size is on that tablespace, assuming it's been set up with

Re: Oracle 10G info note

2003-07-22 Thread Tanel Poder
SETI isn't really a grid. It's just few specific servers that feed data to lots of clients. Here's a quite fine quote from gridcomputing.com: Grid is a type of parallel and distributed system that enables the sharing, selection, and aggregation of geographically distributed autonomous resources

Re: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Daniel Fink
Jared, If you will closely examine the specs, the assumption is not documented. Therefore, the application code must take into account that the 1st Wednesday of the month may still be in the future. select CASE WHEN to_char(to_date('08/07/2003','MM/DD/'), 'DD') = 6 THEN

Re: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Don Yu
I think that if this schedule job is on unix platform, the cron job is easy one. You only need to write a short script. Also in windows OS you can schedule a job there. Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rachel, The assumption is that the current day is already = the first wednesday of the

RE: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I did. he said I want to submit a job to run the first Wednesday of the month if he submits it the first time on August 1, it won't run until September --- Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rachel, Yeah, Sept 3 is the first Wednesday of September (the next month). You gotta

RE: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Rachel Carmichael
it is if the job is submitted to the batch queue before the first Wednesday in August he wants the job to run the first Wednesday of every month. he didn't say when he would submit the initial request. I did read the specs. More carefully than everyone else it seems :) we did an exercise

Timestamps in trace files

2003-07-22 Thread Daniel Fink
I was perusing a 10046 trace file and I noticed that timestamps are written to the trace file. Sometimes they were very regular (3 minutes apart give or take 30 seconds) while other times they were hours apart. I have noticed that two timestamps are never written without any intervening

RE: Who Says Oracle does not listen

2003-07-22 Thread Igor Neyman
Title: RE: Who Says Oracle does not listen In this case performance is not an issue. I dont drop/create/modify tables/columns/synonyms every minute. The script runs, when we install new release of our product, happens once in a few months. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: possible to set continuation prompt in sql*plus?

2003-07-22 Thread Arup Nanda
Setting SQLNUMBER OFF will make the SQLPROMPT continuation prompt, not completely eliminate it. Isn't it what the OP wanted in the first place? - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:59 PM sqlcontinue changes the

RE: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I repeat. I read 'em. if he sets the interval to the next_day function, and submits the job before the first Wednesday of the month IN THE SAME MONTH, it won't run the first Wednesday of that month --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rachel, The assumption is that the current day is already = the

RE: Job to run first Wednesday

2003-07-22 Thread Josh Collier
It does appear wrong to me, maybe I am missing something. if sysdate = August 1, then function should return August 6th (the first Wed in August) not September 3. By this logic the job would not run in August. Josh -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:30 PM To: Multiple

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