RE: Who are certified Oracle Masters?

2003-12-12 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
you mean niemic didnt actually have to take the test? It was just handed to him? who is jeremiah wilton? - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 4:09 PM IIRC, Tanel did the OCM as well, but I suspect most

RE: when do you use v$statname?

2003-11-26 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
around all the statistic#s with every major release. So if you write (or memorize) something that relies on the statistic# being permanently associated with a particular statistic, it will break (give results for the wrong statistic) as soon as you upgrade. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net

Re: Configuring multi-threaded server

2003-11-17 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
= atttribute to the mts_dispatchers parameter. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Schauss, Peter wrote: Oracle version 8.1.7 AIX 4.3.3 I am trying to configure mult-threaded server on one of my development databases. In my init.ora file, I set

Re: SQL*Loader and rollback segment

2003-11-15 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
How about just committing every n rows, instead of trying to fit the whole thing into one transaction? This is why they have the ROWS= option on the command line and in the parameter file. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Stephane Faroult wrote: [EMAIL

Re: ORA-4031 error help.

2003-10-29 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
by grouping sql_text in v$sqlarea by the first 30 characters or so. This assumes your problem is shared pool sqlarea bloat. You could just be runnning out of space for MTS session heaps in the large pool. You have to look at v$sgastat first. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton

RE: Shutdown takes 20+ minutes

2003-10-22 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
not just try a 10046 level 12 in your SYSDBA session when you are trying to shut down. Then you can tail the trace file in another window and see what wait events it is waiting on. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Tortorelli, Mary Jo wrote: We do shutdown

RE: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-04 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
. Dictionary management doesn't account for much redo at all, even in masively misconfigured environments. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -Original Message- Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 11:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L How come changing the TS

RE: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
this. Bug 2186174 is triggered under certain circumstances under 9.x if fast_start_parallel_rollback is set to TRUE. It causes instances to SPEW redo in a big way. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Whittle Jerome Contr NCI wrote: This has suddenly started

Re: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
needs to be done. This is pretty easy in perl on in a spreadsheet even. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Tanel Poder wrote: Hi! Statistic#'s vary between versions (and possibly platforms), so one should use statistic names instead of numbers

RE: Emacs on SQLPlus, er uh... SQLPlus on emacs.

2003-07-26 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
like emacs than vi. There is an emacs OracleSQL mode, but I don't use it. I just start emacs, META-X shell, then sqlplus... -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Orr, Steve wrote: I agree with the developer vs. sysadmin generalization

Re: Here comes Oracle10G

2003-07-17 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jeremiah Wilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE

RE: Oracle Clinical

2003-06-24 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI wrote: What's a DAB? Among the Hmong, a dab is an evil spirit thet makes mad things happen. For instance, a dab might hang out at a particular intersection and make fender-benders happen. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net

RE: recreating a create database file

2003-06-17 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Not sure if this was already mentioned. You can hack up the result of this: alter database backup controlfile to trace; into an exact replica of the create database statement. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Jack van Zanen wrote: Maybe not exactly

RE: HP-Sun Cross Platform Migration - Exp/Imp, CTAS over dblink or

2003-06-09 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
ways. There's a lot involved in a migration. Lots of dependencies and details to think about. I recommend repeated practice runs on test equipment before trying the real thing. There's a lot of blood to be squeezed out of this stone to get the time down and reliability up. -- Jeremiah Wilton http

RE: Chris: Thank you!

2003-06-05 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
a variety of v.5 administration syntax (IOR WARM, etc.), and a wall-mountable full color picture of the author on the back looking very spiffy with the exception of needing a neck shave. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote: Dang

Re: Online index creation on 9.2

2003-05-30 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
What are the wait events of the slowed sessions? What is the correspondence with v$session_longops phases for the rebuild? Really, the answer to 75% of the questions in this group is look at v$session_wait. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Thu, 29 May 2003, Stephen Lee

RE: Online index creation on 9.2

2003-05-30 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
it fixed for good. Or you can try to get it to happen under load on a test system. Hope this helps! -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Thu, 29 May 2003, Stephen Lee wrote: I appreciate the response. The questions here are not Are there waits? Most obviously

Re: Need to Log on 2000 users

2003-05-30 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
out, or background thread IPC will time out, bringing the instance down. This seems like a silly exercise. Whose idea is it? Good luck with all that -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Thu, 29 May 2003, Munish Bajaj wrote: Hi Gurus, I am facing a problem. I need to log

RE: dbshut script - why shutdown so much???

2003-04-04 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
to do something that you need to do, then booting is reasonable. I think the author must have been referring to routine reboots when nothing is actually wrong, or when the solution to the problem can be achieven by other means than shutting everything down. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net

RE: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-03 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
bruised anyway. I guess the bruising my equate to overtime spent recovering the database... Oh, I hate trying to make really good analogies. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jeremiah Wilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858

RE: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then, while bringing up, we do startup restrict; shutdown immediate; startup Why? Doesn't it start up fine the first time? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http

Re: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
What does this have to do with archivelog mode? In the bizarre scenario in which you lose a log between the time you shut down and started up, you are screwed with or without archivelog mode. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, GovindanK wrote: This topic

RE: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
logfile? If so, you should know that this combination of commands will not accomplish that. Any user with DBA priv can be in the database doing stuff and making transactions after your switch logfile and your shutdown immediate. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see

Re: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Chris Berry wrote: Shutdown abort is pretty drastic, are you sure shutdown immediate didn't work? What is drastic about shutdown abort? Never one to opt out of a shutdown abort thread, -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton - Uses shutdown abort exclusively

Re: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
there is no reason to be more careful about using abort if you are in noarchivelog mode. Crash recovery will not need any archived redologs, since it only needs those logs since the last checkpoint. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http

RE: Which process is taking up so much CPU???

2003-03-28 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
, restarting the instance is unnecessary and only reduces availability. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 6:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I wonder where I should set TIMED STATISTICS = TRUE, if any

RE: Oracle DB Backups on SAN with ALTER SYSTEM SUSPEND

2003-03-26 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Why do you have to suspend? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Hemant K Chitale wrote: We want true server-less backups. I know that RMAN's overhead is [much] lower than that of the ALTER TABLESPACE BEGIN/END BACKUP but the Snapshot method in a SAN

RE: Oracle DB Backups on SAN with ALTER SYSTEM SUSPEND

2003-03-26 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
the thing out of service unnecessarily! -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Hand, Michael T wrote: Jeremiah, The only reason I could forsee is if the split is not atomic. This is the case in our (Non-SAN) environment. The split takes several minutes

Re: Shutdown Immediate hangs

2003-03-23 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
/rollback prior to shutdown 4. Look for which processes are still alive during the shutdown, use lsof to trace them back to the client app OR select a list of sessions and their respective processes prior to shutdown 5. Forget about shutdown immediate, use shutdown abort. -- Jeremiah Wilton http

Re: Standby errors

2003-03-14 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
commence and finish before archival is complete. The correct command to use is 'alter system archive log current'. This command will not return until the current log is fully archived. Than your copy can proceed safely. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Ball

Re: Can't find orazht.msg file

2003-03-06 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
I think it is looking for the Taiwan Chinese (BIG5) error file, which you don't have. If you change your NLS_LANG environment variable to something that is available in that directory, it will probably work. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, [big5

Re: create control file failed

2003-03-05 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
So the obvious question: What is the db_block_size and what is the size in bytes of /oradba/oradata/HTK443M8/audit_sis01.dbf as it was restored from backup? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, BanarasiBabu Tippa wrote: I am recreating the database from

RE: Duplicate online Database

2003-03-04 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Ofer, Are you suggesting that it is OK to copy an open database without using hot backup mode, as long as there isn't a log switch during copy? Do you use this method at your place of employment? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Ofer Harel wrote

Re: Listener/Database shutdown sequence

2003-03-03 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
before the database opens. Otherwise, you will have to wait for instance registration with the listener, or force it with 'alter system register'. For dedicated connections, this problem can be avoided with a sid_desc in the listener.ora -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Mon

RE: Listener/Database shutdown sequence

2003-03-03 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
stolen away by a needlessly spinning listener(s) that is just rejecting connections, one after another. So, in such a case, listener first, then database. But shutdown immediate is for wimps. Just shoot DBW0 in the head with a SIGKILL. ;-) -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Mon

Re: What to check?

2003-02-28 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
The wait events. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Nguyen, David M wrote: Someone writes a SQL script to dump a table on three different database on three different Solaris8 machines, he complaines one of machines took 6 hours to dump a table while

Re: DBV

2003-02-27 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
In Unix, maybe something like this? for X in *.dbf do dbv file=$X done Add logfiles, paths, etc. as you wish. I suppose something similar must be possible in batch scripting for windows. Then again maybe not! -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Thu, 27 Feb 2003

Re: corrupted block

2003-02-26 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Yechiel Adar wrote: We had a session with an expert on Monday and he recommended export to \dev\nul to detect errors in the database. Well the expert isn't going to find any corruptions in indexes that way. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please

Re: History

2003-02-26 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Seems like 1999 around OOW. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Jonathan Lewis wrote: Does anyone happen to remember when Juan Loaiza and Bhaskar Himatsingka first published their paper called: How to stop defragmenting and start living

Re: DBV

2003-02-26 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
encountered data corruption problems. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Daniel W. Fink wrote: I had a scheduled job that ran dbv on Solaris 8.0.4 databases once a week. Never a problem. It has been awhile since I used it on Windows, and I don't recall using

RE: Null Event in v$session_wait

2003-02-19 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
in 10i, with some backports and patch releases for 9.2. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Jacques Kilchoer wrote: I was looking this up on Metalink just the other day, and here is one of the items of interest I found: Doc ID: 408286.999 In my case I

RE: re SHUTDOWN ABORT -- was RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris an

2003-02-07 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jeremiah Wilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services - To REMOVE yourself from

RE: re SHUTDOWN ABORT -- was RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris an

2003-02-07 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
John, In 7.3.4, wasn't background TX recovery already a feature? In other words, weren't large rollbacks delayed until after the database was already open and available? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, John Kanagaraj wrote: Just to add another aspect

Re: First version with multiple archiver processes?

2003-02-06 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Kirti In v.7 the archiver is called ARCH. If 'archive log start to xxx' starts another, what is it called? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Peter Gram wrote: Kirti From version 7.x you can manually start multiple archive processes by using

Re: First version with multiple archiver processes?

2003-02-06 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Sorry Kirti, that was meant for Peter. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Jeremiah Wilton wrote: Kirti In v.7 the archiver is called ARCH. If 'archive log start to xxx' starts another, what is it called? -- Jeremiah Wilton http

First version with multiple archiver processes?

2003-02-05 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
What was the first version of Oracle with the ability to start multiple archiver processes? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jeremiah Wilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services

RE: re SHUTDOWN ABORT -- was RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and

2003-02-03 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
recoverable as soon as they are considered successful by the app. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Rajesh Dayal wrote: I totally agree I am witness of one of these untested combination resulting in true disaster

Re: re SHUTDOWN ABORT -- was RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and

2003-02-02 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
to make Oracle unrecoverable after ABORT? I'm still mulling over that 'alter system checkpoint.' Sounds familiar. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Connor McDonald wrote: Agreed. All that matters is the redo logs. If Oracle had named

Making dispatchers re-read tnsnames.ora?

2003-01-30 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jeremiah Wilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services

RE: Making dispatchers re-read tnsnames.ora?

2003-01-30 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
to that Rubik's cube. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -Original Message- From: Jeremiah Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 7:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Making dispatchers re-read tnsnames.ora

RE: Making dispatchers re-read tnsnames.ora?

2003-01-30 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
connecting to my databases (especialy if I have to set up a separate service name for every little special situation)? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Jesse, Rich wrote: Not that ONames doesn't have it's shortcomings, but I'm not sure how ONames

RE: Re: 100% CPU utilization, urgent

2003-01-20 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
is using the most CPU BETWEEN QUERIES. Alternately, you can get this info from the same table since instance startup by dividing the statistics value by the total lifetime of the session taken from from v$session. I'll let you make the SQL. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton

1998 UK Oracle Users Group conference papers

2003-01-17 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
. If you have any such materials that you would be willng to share, please contact me off the list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jeremiah Wilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Trace file size...

2003-01-13 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
the max file size. Is there a way to recognize, which trace file belongs to which session? Unless you are running MTS/Shared Server, the trace output begins with something like: *** SESSION ID:(134.58553) 2003-01-13 09:11:02.501 That's SID.SERIAL# inside the parentheses. -- Jeremiah Wilton

1998 Openworld CD

2002-12-23 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
I believe 1998 was the last year they provided CDs with papers and presentations. Does anyone still have the 1998 CD and is willing to share it? Please mail me directly off list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see the official ORACLE-L

1998 IOUG or Openworld session listings/programs

2002-12-23 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
If anyone has a conference program or other documentation with session listings from 1998, could you please contact me off the list. Really interested in the who's who of Oracle 7.3 tuning! Thanks! -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ

Re: Increase size of data files and rollback segments

2002-12-11 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
and recreated (unless you get the patch). Let one segment extend into there and watch the ORA-600s. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:46 AM

RE: Finding User sessions = idle 30 min??

2002-12-11 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
waiting. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Naveen Nahata wrote: Won't 'seconds_in_wait' show the total time waited for the session rather than the current wait time? -Original Message- Denham - I'm going to make a guess here and someone

Re: Increase size of data files and rollback segments

2002-12-09 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
resizing. :-) -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jeremiah Wilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list

Re: Oracle on windows and shadow thread file access

2002-11-29 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
64,0x1006f 0x77b6a000 2179 /dev/data1/rorclts3-01 oracleorc 29290 oracle 22u VCHR 64,0x10079 0x75c94000 2199 /dev/data1/rorclts3-02 -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Grant Allen wrote: Saw an interesting post in comp.databases.oracle.server

Re: Oracle on windows and shadow thread file access

2002-11-29 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Yes, I meant files they need for read. No matter how many times you proofread before sending... A shadow server process would only write if it were using direct path insert /*+append*/ or sqlldr or sorting to TEMP. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Fri, 29 Nov 2002

Re: Table Locks

2002-11-29 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
blocking other sessions, just look in v$lock where block = 1. As interesting as it seems, I think you won't succeed in trying to put triggers on x$kgllk or anything like that. They're not real tables - just table-like accessors for memory structures in the SGA. -- Jeremiah Wilton http

RE: Problem doing RMAN backup of Clone?

2002-11-25 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
work on lower version databases, but I am not sure. Check out the docs. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Koivu, Lisa wrote: I can't answer the question about rman... but if you recreate the controlfile you will have a new incarnation number

Re: how do I calculate the Oracle's usage

2002-11-25 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
v$sysstat where name = 'CPU used by this session'; -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Gurelei wrote: I'm trying to figure out how much of the srever's resources (CPU-wise) a database and the application running against it is taking. There are several

Re: how do I calculate the Oracle's usage

2002-11-25 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
and ss.statistic# = sn.statistic# and sn.name = 'CPU used by this session'; To get the total for everyone ever logged in up to now, just query v$sysstat. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Gurelei wrote: Wouldn't this only give me the statistics for MY current

Re: please help with control file

2002-11-24 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
them back. Also, you might want to have a look at the Oracle Concepts Manual. It explains all about creating a database and controlfiles. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, john wrote: the location mentioned in the init.ora for control files does not have

Re: instance shutdown problem ? (please help)

2002-11-24 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Arup Nanda wrote: Well, system does not do a shutdown abort. Oracle finds a problem and then instance aborts. A few things you can do here. (1) See if a trace file is generated around that time in user_dump_dest

UKOUG Conference

2002-11-19 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Anyone going to he UKOUG conference and exhibition Dec. 9 - 11? Anyone been to previous ones who can vouch for the value of the conference? Anyone know if they are looking for more speakers? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http

Re: Move ALL Data from 1 Database into Another

2002-11-14 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
roundtrips to/from dblink'; VALUE -- 1925 (Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.3.0 - 64bit Production) However, using DB links can never be as efficient as a parallel datafile copy followed by a near-zero downtime switchover. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net

Re: Move ALL Data from 1 Database into Another

2002-11-13 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
kicking the users off the old database and letting them into the new one. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about foreign keys, functions, procedures, synonyms, roles, grants and triggers (if any)? I've used the db link

RE: Get together at OOW

2002-10-23 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
presentations. These guys do not tow the line. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Deshpande, Kirti wrote: Gaja is an Oracle employee now.. ... but will not be presenting this year... - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 22

RE: Get together at OOW

2002-10-22 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
, that presenters are predominantly Oracle employees, and major Oracle customers and partners. This limits the number of presentations having technical merit. I only attend OOW to present papers, to meet you all, and then only if admission is free. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton

Re: Backup Strategy - Informal Survey

2002-09-20 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton - Original Message - I'd like to pose a question to you all and get your response. If you are running a database that is larger than 250GB, what place in your backup strategy does a logical export have? Do you do logical exports at all

Re: Recovery of CTAS with NOLOGGING Data

2002-06-05 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, VIVEK_SHARMA wrote: Did a Database Recovery was Able to Successfully Recover ALL Data of a Table Created with the CTAS NOLOGGING Option Did you recover from a backup taken before or after the CTAS? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see

Re: online backup and archived redo logs files (Was online backup

2002-05-29 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
attribution. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 29 May 2002, John Dunn wrote: Can anyone please clarify what archived logs should be backed up when doing a online backup? I have seen various online backup scripts that seem to take different approaches. I have

Re: online backup and alter system switch logfile

2002-05-29 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
-- -- --- 1 54284 YES INACTIVE 2002-05-29:17:15 2 54285 NO ACTIVE 2002-05-29:17:17 3 54286 NO CURRENT 2002-05-29:17:26 -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ

Re: move the production database from one machine to another

2002-05-29 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
cheaper than a whone second server for a standby. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 03:53:32PM -0800, Li Zhang wrote: The company I am working for is planning to move the whole production server to a new faster box. As DBA, I will move the database

Re: online backup and alter system switch logfile

2002-05-28 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
misconceptions I wrote about: http://www.speakeasy.org/~jwilton/oracle/switch-logfile-backups.html -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton John Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a online backup script which issues the command ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE; immediately before

RE: snapshot too old error - strange

2002-05-28 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
article for more information: http://home.clara.net/dwotton/dba/snapshot2.htm -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -Original Message- From: Andrey Bronfin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] There is something strange going on in my production DB. There is a program

RE: Database backup question.Thank You

2002-05-28 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
). And you have to use server-managed undo to use query flashback. Personally, there are a lot of queries the developers here have come up with that I have flashbacks of anyway, usually around 3 or 4 in the morning. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Tue, 28 May 2002, Rachel

RE: What makes Export slow ?

2002-05-20 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
in an export? If I were the original poster, I'd just look at v$session_event for the export session after several minutes of slowness. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -Original Message- Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 3:43 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: What makes Export slow ?

2002-05-20 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
to accomplish with the big rollback segment? What do you think the rollback segments are being used for by an export? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -Original Message- Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 1:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On Mon, 20 May 2002

Re: Connecting to Oracle without using Listener

2002-05-17 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
You can connect directly to a dispatcher you have started on a different port. No listener required. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Fri, 17 May 2002, Keith Peterson wrote: if your real question is can I circumvent the listener, the answer is no. Keith Date

Re: Oracle-L gathering etc.

2002-05-01 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
give you this: It isn't the flavor of browser. Also, remember when posting that you can specify Amazon detail page URLs as shorter strings by cutting off everything after the ISBN, like so: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201715848 -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton

RE: PATCH?

2002-04-29 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
RTFM. http://www.bcpl.net/~rgarriqu/babyman.html -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EPIDURAL.. advice from the recently hatched (eight month old little girl:) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: System datafile corruption.

2002-04-18 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Why don't you verify that the corrupted block belongs to the segment you think it does, or belongs to a segment at all? select owner||'.'||segment_name, segment_type from dba_extents where file_id = file# and 67108870 between block_id and (block_id + blocks - 1); -- Jeremiah Wilton http

Re: upgrade from 8.1.6 to 8..1.7.3

2002-04-17 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Sounds like a documentation bug in the readme. I have always patched the software to the highest available patchset plus one-off patches, then switched the instance to the new ORACLE_HOME and ran the upgrade scripts. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 17 Apr 2002

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.3

2002-04-17 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
of starting the instance on the new ORACLE_HOME and running an upgrade script? Why would someone undergo the disruption and complexity of a full export/import when you can just leave the data where it is? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton Create the new ORACLE_HOME (8.1.7) Patch

RE: Upgrade 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.3 (fwd)

2002-04-17 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, John Weatherman wrote: Clean up fragmentation/chaining, change block size at the same time, in my current case, chage hardware platform... All sorts of reasons. :) What do those things have to do with an upgrade? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton

Re: EMC Storage Array Issue

2002-04-15 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Which filesystem/volume manager are you using, if any? That is potentially where you would want to look if the async write queue is getting backed up. Just shutting off async is a terrible suggestion from EMC. I am suprised at them. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Mon

Re: protocol.ora

2002-04-12 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
If you trace the listener you will see that it is looking for .protocol.ora with a leading period. This is a documented bug. Just copy protocol.ora to .protocol.ora. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Sajid Iqbal wrote: We used to use the protocol.ora

Decyphering LMT space bitmap

2002-04-08 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
extent_management from dba_data_files df, dba_tablespaces ts where df.tablespace_name = ts.tablespace_name and file_id = 2; EXTENT_MAN -- LOCAL -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jeremiah Wilton INET: [EMAIL

Re: CLIENT VERSION

2002-03-28 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Here's a way on unix: strings $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libclntsh.so | grep ^Version [7-9] -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Harvinder Singh wrote: In batch script If we need to verify the version of oracle software on server we issue: select * from v$version

1999 Proceedings of OpenWorld

2002-03-28 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Does anyone have information on the location and format of the whitepapers and presentations from OpenWorld 1999? Was it produced on CD that year? If so does anyone have a copy? If it was published on the web, does anyone know where and if it is still there? -- Jeremiah Wilton http

RE: Multithreaded server question

2002-03-20 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
of the application software, not the database. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Jeroen van Sluisdam wrote: The only way to limit your connections is through the max_sessions parameter. As far as I know there is no queuing mechanism for this available

RE: Oracle hangs...Oracle 8.1.7.3 and Solaris 2.7

2002-03-19 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
is hanging. This information can be forwarded to Oracle Support. BTW, Oracle Support should have already suggested all these things to you. They are standard hang diagnosis steps. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Grabowy, Chris wrote: Here

RE: Fav. Urban Legend... NOBACKUP!!

2002-03-19 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
The procedure in the 9i docs is limited, and does not include recovery of a whole database, or any read/write datafiles up to and past resetlogs. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, [iso-8859-1] Connor McDonald wrote: The 9i doco contains a section called

RE: Fav. Urban Legend... NOBACKUP!!

2002-03-18 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Gopal, Would you mind posting the procedure for recovering past resetlogs? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, K Gopalakrishnan wrote: I have once recovered a 8.0.5 database on Solaris using the backup (pre RESETLOGS) and the archive logs of pre

OT: Seattle listers - free Sunday?

2002-03-15 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Seattle listers, Rachel Carmichael will be in town this weekend. If anyone wants to get together Sunday evening with us and possibly some of the Amazon.com DBAs, let me know. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com

RE: Recommended number of redo log switches per hour

2002-03-14 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
sizes are fine. Robert F., Here's one for ya. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 8:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L An Oracle Support technician recommended that I try to aim for three log switches

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