RE: SLA/metrics for RFP for programming services

2004-01-18 Thread Thomas Jeff
of time for a total amount not-to-exceed? Cant think of any other metrics that matter...on 1/16/04 2:19 PM, Thomas Jeff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you were to write up a RFP for programming services, what kind, if any, metrics would you include to provide some measurements

SLA/metrics for RFP for programming services

2004-01-16 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: SLA/metrics for RFP for programming services If you were to write up a RFP for programming services, what kind, if any, metrics would you include to provide some measurements by which performance of the contract can be assessed? The tasks will typically be writing up ETL runs for our

DB_WRITER_PROCESSES vs DBWR_IO_SLAVES

2004-01-09 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: DB_WRITER_PROCESSES vs DBWR_IO_SLAVES Running 9.2.0.2 on AIX 4.3.3. We recently experienced a situation where a datawarehouse database crashed due to a bug dealing with DBWR_IO_SLAVES 0. Oracle's recommended fix was to set the DBWR_IO_SLAVES to 0, which I did. Now, my

RE: DB_WRITER_PROCESSES vs DBWR_IO_SLAVES

2004-01-09 Thread Thomas Jeff
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RE: STATSPACK interpretation

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Jeff
in there. That is, not using bind variables. A 10046 trace level 4 or 12 will show you what is going on there. Jared On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 12:39, Thomas Jeff wrote: We recently experienced a crash on our prod datewarehouse running 9.2.0.2 on AIX 4.3.3.The cause of the crash was 4031 errors

RE: STATSPACK interpretation

2003-12-23 Thread Thomas Jeff
for it. After bouncing the database and trying this again, I couldn't duplicate it. Maybe a couple of things to pursue here, but perhaps not an abundance of help. :( Jared On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 04:44, Thomas Jeff wrote: Jared, Digging into it more, I found out

STATSPACK interpretation

2003-12-22 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: STATSPACK interpretation We recently experienced a crash on our prod datewarehouse running 9.2.0.2 on AIX 4.3.3. The cause of the crash was 4031 errors generated by background processes (Oracle support has confirmed there is a bug involved), however, since that crash occurred, a

RE: Locally managed System Tablespace

2003-10-07 Thread Thomas Jeff
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Locally managed System Tablespace

2003-10-06 Thread Thomas Jeff
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RE: Estimating space needed for UNDO tablespaces

2003-09-29 Thread Thomas Jeff
that number against the values in v$undostat as it runs. Remember, UNDO_RETENTION is not guaranteed. If the space is needed by another segment, it may be taken even if the expire time has not been reached. Daniel Thomas Jeff wrote: Thanks for the reply Dan. Would you suggest setting

Estimating space needed for UNDO tablespaces

2003-09-26 Thread Thomas Jeff
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RE: Estimating space needed for UNDO tablespaces

2003-09-26 Thread Thomas Jeff
to a high number. Once you are using AUM, keep a close eye on v$undostat, though there are some known issues with it not populating properly, keep an eye on the begin_time and end_time. However, for estimation purposes it should work. Daniel Fink Thomas Jeff wrote: I'm beginning the process

Confuzzled on OPTIMiZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ

2003-09-17 Thread Thomas Jeff
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RE: Confuzzled on OPTIMiZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ

2003-09-17 Thread Thomas Jeff
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How to tell if a given session is coming across a db link?

2003-07-23 Thread Thomas Jeff
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RE: Dynamic SQL: where do you draw the line?

2003-06-26 Thread Thomas Jeff
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Dynamic SQL: where do you draw the line?

2003-06-25 Thread Thomas Jeff
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RE: Dynamic SQL: where do you draw the line?

2003-06-25 Thread Thomas Jeff
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Can't run full exports due to SMON wait

2003-03-11 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: Can't run full exports due to SMON wait Running 8.1.7.4 on RS6000/AiX 4.3.3. We noticed this weekend that all our full exports performed via sqlbacktrack for a given database were hanging. Killing the exports and restarting does not work. Checking waits, it looks as though the full

8i databases under 9i listener?

2003-03-05 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: 8i databases under 9i listener? RS6000 running AIX 4.3.3. We are experiencing the following issues with our 8.1.7.4 databases under a 9.2.0.1 listener. 1) PL/SQL procedures utilizing UTL_FILE fail with INVALID_PATH errors when attempting to open a file. 2) Database links from

RE: 8i databases under 9i listener?

2003-03-05 Thread Thomas Jeff
al Message-From: Thomas Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 8:05 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: 8i databases under 9i listener? RS6000 running AIX 4.3.3. We are experiencing the following issues with our 8.1.7.4 databases under a

8.1.7.4 databases going bad

2003-02-10 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: 8.1.7.4 databases going bad This is on our RS6000 test server running AIX 4.3.3. We've been gradually migrating our 8.1.7.x databases to 9i. We started by laying down the 9i software 3 months ago. No problem. Then we started up the 9.2.0.1 listener as the sole listener for the box 3

Hanging query puzzle

2003-02-05 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: Hanging query puzzle We have a query from a 3rd-party tool that seems to either run very quick or crawls to a complete stop. We can find no patterns to this behavior. The hang can be experienced even when there are no other processes active in the database. Checking waits, we see a

RE: Hanging query puzzle

2003-02-05 Thread Thomas Jeff
Sorry, running 8.1.7.2 on AIX 4.3.3. -Original Message-From: John Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:09 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: Hanging query puzzleWhat version are you running - I have a similar problem on 9.2.0.2

RE: Hanging query puzzle

2003-02-05 Thread Thomas Jeff
: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Thomas Jeff Subject: Re: Hanging query puzzle What is the value for WAIT_TIME ? This may not be an IO problem if 'WAIT_TIME' is not 0. A session is waiting only when 'WAIT_TIME' is 0. I would suggest running some utility like

RE: Hanging query puzzle

2003-02-05 Thread Thomas Jeff
5 smon timer 0 WAITING 80 12 slave wait 0 WAITING 199 13 slave wait 0 WAITING 199 14 slave wait 0 WAITING 262 15 slave wait 0 WAITING 199 28 NIK db file scattered read 0 WAITING 20119 -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Thomas Jeff

RE: Create Mat View uses DEFAULT TABLESPACE for temp segments?

2003-01-09 Thread Thomas Jeff
Thomas Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/08/2003 02:14 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: RE: Create Mat View uses DEFAULT TABLESPACE for temp segments? You were right. Tracing the operation did show

Create Mat View uses DEFAULT TABLESPACE for temp segments?

2003-01-08 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: Create Mat View uses DEFAULT TABLESPACE for temp segments? This is 8.1.7.4 on AIX 4.3.3. When I try to create a materialized view in the specified tablespace, I hit the following error. Is this a behavior of the create materialized view statement, to create temp segments in the user's

RE: Create Mat View uses DEFAULT TABLESPACE for temp segments?

2003-01-08 Thread Thomas Jeff
-Original Message-From: Thomas Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 8:04 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Create Mat View uses DEFAULT TABLESPACE for temp segments? This is 8.1.7.4 on AIX 4.3.3. When I try to create a materialized

RE: Create Mat View uses DEFAULT TABLESPACE for temp segments?

2003-01-08 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: Create Mat View uses DEFAULT TABLESPACE for temp segments? You were right. Tracing the operation did show at the end that there's a CREATE UNIQUE INDEX statement with no tablespace specified. Checking the manuals a bit more carefully shows that Oracle will create at least one

RE: Replacing control chars

2003-01-03 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: Replacing control chars REPLACE/TRANSLATE. Go to http://asktom.oracle.com/ and query 'remove control characters'. -Original Message- From: Deshpande, Kirti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 12:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Row cache locks on INSERTs with a sequence

2002-12-23 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: Row cache locks on INSERTs with a sequence If I stated dc_segments in my original post, I apologize, I *did* mean to say dc_sequences. At any rate, as usual, the problem was poor application code. The row cache lock no longer shows up as one of the top 5 wait events per statspack.

RE: Row cache locks on INSERTs with a sequence

2002-12-23 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: Row cache locks on INSERTs with a sequence Jonathan, The inserts were into a staging table. After the staging table was loaded into the live tables, they were using delete and not truncate to flush the staging table. So of course the table and index were acquiring an excessive #

Row cache locks on INSERTs with a sequence

2002-12-20 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: Row cache locks on INSERTs with a sequence We are continually seeing sessions hanging on row cache locks, which in turn appear to be on dc_segments: SID EVENT P1TEXT P1 P2TEXT P2 P3TEXT P3 - - -- -- -- - 29 row cache lock cache id

RE: Row cache locks on INSERTs with a sequence

2002-12-20 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: Row cache locks on INSERTs with a sequence Thanks for the replies. And, good guess Jonathan. We've already made some changes to the stored procedure implementing the INSERT statement. Upon investigation, I found that the table involved is used as a staging table in a batch

Common PL/SQL package to truncate tables

2002-12-11 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: Common PL/SQL package to truncate tables We have a DSS database containing numerous datamarts, each stored in it's own schema. Each datamart schema has a corresponding OPS$ batch account, which does the ETL work. DML privs on all tables within a schema are granted to a

RE: Common PL/SQL package to truncate tables

2002-12-11 Thread Thomas Jeff
. The success of the procedure's execution would depend on the invoker having the required privileges. --- Thomas Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a DSS database containing numerous datamarts, each stored in it's own schema. Each datamart schema has a corresponding OPS$ batch account

RE: install of 64 and 32 bit

2002-12-03 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: install of 64 and 32 bit According to Metalink, 8.1.7 64-bit is not certified for AIX 5.1. -Original Message- From: Ehresmann, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: install of 64 and

Performance consequences from downgrading from 64-bit to 32-bit?

2002-11-15 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: Performance consequences from downgrading from 64-bit to 32-bit? We have an 8.1.7.4 64-bit 24x7 OLTP database currently hosted on an RS6000 s80 running AIX 4.3.3 The database is scheduled to be migrated to a new box, RS6000 ip680, running AIX 5.1. According to the compatibility matrix

NIKU v6.0.0.12?

2002-10-02 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: NIKU v6.0.0.12? Anyone running NIKU, v6.0.0.12 using an 8.1.7.2 repository on AIX 4.3.3? Jeffery D Thomas DBA Thomson Information Services Thomson multimedia Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Indy DBA Master Documentation available at:

OT: MIcrosoft Blackmail

2002-09-25 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: OT: MIcrosoft Blackmail This came to our DBA team today. I'd appreciate your thoughts. I'm not a business guy, just a plain old Apps DBA, but this really pisses me off. Is it common practice by MS? It is important from an Architecture point of view that we understand all the

RE: Mass inserts from TCL ?

2002-09-11 Thread Thomas Jeff
: Mass inserts from TCL ? Hi Thomas, hv u checked oratcl? metalink note 1017044.6 -Mandar -Original Message-From: Thomas Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:23 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Mass

Mass inserts from TCL ?

2002-09-10 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: Mass inserts from TCL ? I have a programmer inquiring as to the viability of having up to 10-15 concurrent client sessions inserting orders that would contain anywhere from 100 to 6000 order line items each via TCL. The orders are generated from a browser client and the whole shebang

OT: Most trustworthy executives

2002-08-01 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: OT: Most trustworthy executives Apologies if this has been posted before... Crisis in corporate governance According to the newest survey by WhisperNumber.com, investors ranked Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett as the most trustworthy executive in corporate America. The online

RE: Problem with sequence and row cache lock

2002-07-11 Thread Thomas Jeff
. If the sequence is ordered (default) then Oracle must satisfy the first request for NEXTVAL before it can go on to the next request. If order is not important try NOORDER and see if the locks don't go away. Thomas Jeff ThomasJe To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L @tce.com [EMAIL

RE: How do YOU use Java in the DB?

2002-06-06 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: How do YOU use Java in the DB? In our ecommerce databases: 1) Interface with LDAP 2) Email 3) Query for product inventory/pricing via MQSeries 4) Send customer orders to our fulfillment provider -Original Message- From: Jesse, Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

How to model DBA_SEGMENTS for trend analysis?

2002-06-05 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: How to model DBA_SEGMENTS for trend analysis? This is rather a simplistic question, but how would you model the DBA_SEGMENTS table for trend analysis purposes? Simply duplicate the table and add a TIMESTAMP (which is what I wanted to do.) Even though it's *my* project, my boss,

RE: Do programmers tune SQL?

2002-04-01 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: Do programmers tune SQL? Our developers tend to be of the 'Meet the Holy Deadline at all costs' school and tuning is rarely perfomed; we've had some major resource issues due to bad SQL. Our lead DBA got the idea of revising our migration process so that all SQL code migrates

RE: Java permissions

2002-03-22 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: Java permissions Query DBA_JAVA_POLICY -Original Message- From: Mike Killough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:28 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Java permissions Could someone please tell me how to see the java

Using SQL*LOADER to import UNICODE?

2002-03-19 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: Using SQL*LOADER to import UNICODE? We have an European SQL Server database where it's planned to extract files in UNICODE with Cyrillic characters and load them into our local UTF8 database. Is it possible to use SQL*LOADER to load these files? We are still on 8.1.7.2, and

STATSPACK impact?

2002-02-06 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: STATSPACK impact? Just curious, but if your shop uses STATSPACK, could you tell me how frequently you run it, particularly in your OLTP databases; and whether you've noticed any performance issues with generating frequent STATSPACK snapshots? Thanks.

RE: Connecting to 8.1.7.2 with Unicode Character set

2002-02-06 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: Connecting to 8.1.7.2 with Unicode Character set I don't believe you can do it -- UTF8 wasn't implemented until v8 so 7.3.4 clients aren't UNICODE-literate. We had the same situation here, and had to upgrade everyone to 8i clients. -Original Message- From: Smith, Ron

RE: mystery cartesian join

2002-01-16 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: mystery cartesian join Maybe the optimizer thinks there's a many-to-many relationship between si_log and sm_monitor? Try putting in an ORDERED hint and see if that helps. Jeff T. -Original Message- From: Kempf, Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January

Oracle Online Training (OLN)???

2002-01-07 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: Oracle Online Training (OLN)??? Management is considering purchasing subscriptions to OLN as opposed to sending us to instructor-led classes, supposedly more bang for the buck. Is OLN worth the cost, or is it just worthless? What's your experience? Thanks.

RE: Export via pipe ksh script

2002-01-04 Thread Thomas Jeff
more $HOME/scripts/imp_arc.par # # imp_arc.par # parameter file to import arcdb schema # # userid=username/password fromuser=scotttouser=scottindexes=y grants=n rows=y commit=y ignore=y feedback=10 buffer=400 - Original Message - From: Thomas Jeff

Export via pipe ksh script

2002-01-03 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: Export via pipe ksh script Could someone please send me a ksh script for doing imp/exp via a pipe. We're running AIX 4.3.3. Thanks! Jeffery D Thomas DBA Thomson Information Services Thomson multimedia Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DBA

SELECT x FROM DUAL is bad for system performance?

2001-12-13 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: SELECT x FROM DUAL is bad for system performance? On page 92 of Oracle Performance Tuning 101, there's a recommendation to avoid the use of SELECT X FROM DUAL, claiming that it can '..use up system performance in a hurry', but does not go on to elaborate as to exactly *why*. Could

FW: Antwort: RE: Antwort: RE: Buffer Busy Waits -- Sanity check

2001-11-27 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: FW: Antwort: RE: Antwort: RE: Buffer Busy Waits -- Sanity check please The table has about 550,000 rows, and will be growing, currently about 230MB in size. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 7:25 AM To:

FW: Buffer Busy Waits -- Sanity check please

2001-11-27 Thread Thomas Jeff
-- Sanity check please Thomas Jeff wrote: We recently had a new website go live. Since then, I'm seeing constant buffer busy waits and after a period of time, I see sessions hung on the same block#. The SQL query is always a COUNT(*) (below). It's almost as though one session has a lock

Buffer Busy Waits -- Sanity check please

2001-11-26 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: Buffer Busy Waits -- Sanity check please We recently had a new website go live. Since then, I'm seeing constant buffer busy waits and after a period of time, I see sessions hung on the same block#. The SQL query is always a COUNT(*) (below). It's almost as though one session has a

Location of PLAN_TABLE

2001-10-29 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: Location of PLAN_TABLE Rather a trivial question, but our DBA team is discussing how best to implement the location of the plan table. My preference is is simply create is as SYS, public synonym, and grant privs on it to our developers. I'm being outvoted by the others, who want to

RE: Location of PLAN_TABLE

2001-10-29 Thread Thomas Jeff
. -Original Message- From: Jacques Kilchoer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 1:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Location of PLAN_TABLE -Original Message- From: Thomas Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Rather a trivial

ORA-600 when querying DBA_SOURCE, ALL_SOURCE.

2001-09-20 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: ORA-600 when querying DBA_SOURCE, ALL_SOURCE. And yes, I've got a TAR logged with Oracle on this, but I wonder if any of you have seen anything like this before. Whenever we try to query any of the *_SOURCE views we get an ORA-600. If you look at the view text for DBA_SOURCE: select

RE: Alternatives to roles in procedures?

2001-09-17 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: Alternatives to roles in procedures? We don't allow granting IUD privileges to remote schemas at our site. All DML to be applied on tables within a given schema is performed only by stored procedures owned by that schema. We essentially have just two roles (assume ABC schema):

Full IMP hangs at the same spot

2001-09-07 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: Full IMP hangs at the same spot We're running 8.1.7 on RS6000, AIX 4.3.3. We are trying to do a full exp/imp into a clone database. The imp hangs at the same location every time, on a table that has only 2 rows in it, although the table does have 2 VARCHAR2(2000) columns. We're unable

Licensing cost for 1000 concurrent users?

2001-08-30 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: Licensing cost for 1000 concurrent users? We are in the process of negotiating our contract with Oracle. I've been asked to inquire as to how much other sites are paying for a license for 1000 concurrent users. We are looking in the ballpark of $400-$500k according to the Oracle

SMS and Net8 Client Deployment

2001-07-20 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: SMS and Net8 Client Deployment Any shops out there using SMS to deploy Net8 clients? If so, could you give me the gist of the mechanics? Thanks, Jeff T [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: SDU and TDU in SQL*NET

2001-07-20 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: SDU and TDU in SQL*NET I believe the TDU parameter is now ignored in Net8. Our tests seems to indicate that it's fixed at 32K. Jeff T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Orr, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 5:23 PM To: Multiple

7.3.4 Support

2001-07-16 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: 7.3.4 Support Can anyone tell me when Oracle officially ceased providing support for 7.3.4? Thanks, Jeff T [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Database Links standards

2001-07-06 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: Database Links standards We came up with the below standards with respect to database links (heavily used in our environment). The result has been a billion complaints by our developers, stating that the standards are unnecessarily complex. I'm curious as to what others might think,

SQL-Server Presentation/Reality Check

2001-06-27 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: SQL-Server Presentation/Reality Check I have the privilege of being tasked to attend a SQL Server presentation to be conducted by Microsoft at our site. Our company's current take on SQL Server is that it's to be used only in the case where a packaged application requires it, or when

RE: Database Cache of Oracle9ias

2001-04-16 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: Database Cache of Oracle9ias What platform? On AIX there's a bug with respect to extproc that will give you this error. Jeff T [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Oracle DBA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 5:21 PM To: Multiple recipients

Standard vs Enterprise Edition

2001-03-28 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: Standard vs Enterprise Edition Due to Oracle's licensing shenanigans, we are looking at the use of the Standard edition to save . In fact, our management may even make Standard the de facto standard while requiring justification for Enterprise. If anyone is currently using

RE: Standard vs Enterprise Edition

2001-03-28 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: Standard vs Enterprise Edition Thanks everyone for the replies. -Original Message- From: Suhen Pather [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 6:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: FW: Standard vs Enterprise Edition Oops !!!

RE: dbms_obfuscation package

2001-03-22 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: dbms_obfuscation package FWIW: This is something I played with a long time ago: DECLARE v_input_string VARCHAR2(32) := RPAD('STRING TO BE ENCRYPTED', 32, ' '); v_key_string VARCHAR2(32) := RPAD('JOXERTHEMIGHTY', 32, ' '); v_encrypted_string VARCHAR2(2048) := NULL;

RE: OAS and iAS file size comparisons

2001-03-02 Thread Thomas Jeff
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Distributing datafiles across filesystems

2001-02-22 Thread Thomas Jeff
across all these filesystems? E.G: Take a 8GB tablespace, distribute it in 2GB chunks across 4 of these filesystems? Thanks, Jeff -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Thomas Jeff INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051

RE: OT: this is the last thing we need

2001-02-16 Thread Thomas Jeff
'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Thomas Jeff IN