Re: [Fwd: an OPS question - tnsnames]

2001-08-27 Thread Paul Drake
Andrey Bronfin wrote: Hi Paul ! Thanks a lot for your reply . This is a production DB and can not be upgraded right now. DBAndrey * 03-9254520 * 053-464562 * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You could probably run ONames on a different box, different version - if that helps.

RE: Donald Burleson's Oracle High-Performance SQL Tuning

2001-08-27 Thread Henrik Ekenberg
Hello, I receive this book last week... Regards Henrik -Original Message- Sent: den 5 augusti 2001 06:35 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oracle High-Performance SQL Tuning by Donald Burleson. Anyone have any comments on the book It won't be published until the end of

Re: [Fwd: an OPS question - tnsnames]

2001-08-27 Thread Viraj Luthra
-- On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 23:10:20 Paul Drake wrote: Andrey Bronfin wrote: Hi Paul ! Thanks a lot for your reply . This is a production DB and can not be upgraded right now. DBAndrey * 03-9254520 * 053-464562 * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You could probably run ONames on a

OT: Magazines for Oracle unix performance

2001-08-27 Thread Viraj Luthra
Hello all, I want to subscribe to some top magazines for oracle unix performance. Do you have any recommendations for this, I need the best one for both of them. Please while recommending explain what you liked about the magazines, like eg you like magazine x because it carries performance

Re: startup time v7

2001-08-27 Thread nlzanen1
Try v$thread instead jack Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130) [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fatcity.com on 24-08-2001 20:21:31 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Jack van Zanen/nlzanen1/External/MEY/NL)

Re: pl/sql examples

2001-08-27 Thread nlzanen1
Hi Try www.revealnet.com Jack Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane) [EMAIL PROTECTED] @fatcity.com on 25-08-2001 10:25:39 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Jack van

OT: RE: system trivia (groove/programming): DOS prompt/etc and ch

2001-08-27 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Because of disk access... -Original Message- Sent: 25 August 2001 02:15 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L sound system trivia question: when using windows explorer, etc., dos prompt (e.g., sqlplus) and running music CD, the sound get choppy intermittently, usually when

DBMS_JOB

2001-08-27 Thread Roland . Skoldblom
Hallo, How can I schedule a pl/sql job, I want this to happen: Every Sunday at 11 pm I want to do an insert into a table. How shoudl I write the code in the DBMS_JOB satement.? Roland S -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

No Subject

2001-08-27 Thread GL2Z/ INF DBA BENLATRECHE
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RE: DBMS_JOB

2001-08-27 Thread Jon Walthour
Roland: This anonymous PL/SQL block submits a job that will insert a row into mytable: VARIABLE jobno number; BEGIN DBMS_JOB.SUBMIT(:jobno, 'insert into mytable values (''One'',''Two'',''Three'');' 'SYSDATE, 'SYSDATE + 1'); commit; END; / The SYSDATE parameter says, Run this

RE: Microsoft XP

2001-08-27 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Re. WindowsXP, there is a little debate going on between a security analyst and Microsoft. http://grc.com/dos/sockettome.htm http://grc.com/dos/sockettome.htm Microsoft posted a response on their web site, on the security page. I don't know who is right in all this. Regards, Patrice Boivin

Oracle and SUN

2001-08-27 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
What's this about Oracle not favoring Sun anymore? Is this just a rumour, or is it true? I thought Oracle wrote their rdbms software on SunOS, then ported it to other platforms. Is Oracle in the process of changing this? What happened? Is this related to the MetaLink problems they had over a

OT RE: RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-08-27 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I have all of them save two, one of which was mailed to me last week... I think I have way too many Conan novels, it's like Harlequin for men! I have many double copies, I think I'll post them on eBay eventually to get rid of them. : ) Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

Re: DBMS_JOB

2001-08-27 Thread Connor McDonald
See http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/dbms_job.html hth connor --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, How can I schedule a pl/sql job, I want this to happen: Every Sunday at 11 pm I want to do an insert into a table. How shoudl I write the code in the DBMS_JOB satement.? Roland S

Re: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-27 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi, not that I want to sound like smart Alec, but I think his name is Michael Hasenstein. Literally translated, that would be Mr. Bunnystone. Much better than Hesselstein ;). Gogala, Mladen schrieb: And, above all, they have a very knowledgeable guy helping people on the Linux-Oracle

Re: startup time v7

2001-08-27 Thread Connor McDonald
Or http://www.oracledba.co.uk/tips/uptime.htm hth connor --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try v$thread instead jack Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130) [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fatcity.com on 24-08-2001 20:21:31 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: OT: Microsoft XP

2001-08-27 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Taking Java out ? What about Jinitiator? Will that still work? And the JRE? I guess I'll have to try it to find out. Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From: Eric D. Pierce [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday,

RE: Oracle and SUN

2001-08-27 Thread Christopher Spence
Check Oracle.com, you wil see banners Oracle and HP-UX, your solution or something like that. It is true, and not a rumour, why though, I would love to know. I wonder as HP has talked about getting out of the software market (or was it hardware) a little while ago. Do not criticize someone

RE: OT RE: RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-08-27 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: OT RE: RE: How do you audit a DBA? C'mon. I'd vote for The Rock instead, along with all The Rock's witty comments. That would be awfully darn distracting, and you could be sure your DBA would get NOTHING done :) Honestly, if there's a need to audit the dba, maybe he or she should

OT: system trivia (groove/programming): DOS prompt/etc and choppy

2001-08-27 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: OT: system trivia (groove/programming): DOS prompt/etc and choppy sound Really? I thought it was only because my personal pc has so little memory. I run into that behavior with explorer and playing mp3's at the same time. This also becomes a problem when burning a cd or changing

RE: Oracle and SUN

2001-08-27 Thread tday6
What I've heard is that Larry E. is having a hissy fit and Oracle is removing all the Sun's that they own, except that Sun is still their initial development platform. Christopher

OT - system administration of different UNIX flavors

2001-08-27 Thread Andrey Bronfin
Dear list ! I'm getting affected by the rumors ;-( Not enough that everybody (well , mainly MS IBM) claim that they'll beat Oracle up very soon and take it off the market , there is also a rumor that Solaris is not Oracle's #1 any more. I started to learn Solaris sys administration a couple of

RE: v$sgastat

2001-08-27 Thread Christopher Spence
Number datatype does not waste space if the column data type is larger than the stored number. Take a look at http://www.vampired.net/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=24forum=150 to see how number data types are stored. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when

Re: OT : Writing Documentation

2001-08-27 Thread tday6
A quick and dirty answer from my background in program management. Document what your current code does and how it does it so that in case it doesn't work someone else can easily find your mistake. If they want to add new functionality to your code, your documentation should guide them in how

OT: Burning game CD's

2001-08-27 Thread Terrian, Tom
Off Topic: I bought a PC this weekend that had my first every CDROM burner. I couldn't wait to use it. I burned several game CD's (Age of Empires, Return Fire II, Roller coaster Tycoon) and none of them worked. The games just hung when I ran them. Bummer. Is it not possible to make copies

RE: aix tools

2001-08-27 Thread Kevin Lange
AIX is an operating system. This link down below is to a freeware site that has many versions of different tools for that operating system. -Original Message- Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 2:20 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L hi... can you anyone tell me what is aix

RE: aix tools

2001-08-27 Thread Terrian, Tom
For something close try either of the following: $ps aux | pg or $/usr/ucb/ps -aux Tom Terrian Oracle DBA WPAFB - DAASC [EMAIL PROTECTED] 937-656-3844 -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 5:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hey man, let me know If you

OT: Cobol Copybook format

2001-08-27 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: OT: Cobol Copybook format Good morning everyone, I have this messy document that is known as a copybook. I've been searching the web to help me understand what the appropriate way to translate this into a table is. If anyone has a link they are willing to share, or is willing to

RE: OT RE: RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-08-27 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Title: RE: OT RE: RE: How do you audit a DBA? It would be like in the SNL episode, where the Rock was Nicotrol, to help people stop smoking. That was very funny!!! -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Koivu, LisaSent: Monday, August

RE: system trivia (groove/programming): DOS prompt/etc and choppy

2001-08-27 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Lisa, It is *highly* recommended that you shouldn't do anything else when burning CDs. Unless your CD burner has high cache, launching multiple applications can induce the 'buffer under run' problem, and can sometimes render the disk unusable. I get into the audio problem even if I am

RE: system trivia (groove/programming): DOS prompt/etc and choppy

2001-08-27 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Title: OT: system trivia (groove/programming): DOS prompt/etc and choppy sound I had that problem.Since I am running NT, I increased the priority of Winamp, and I no longer have that problem unless the hard drive does some significant amount of I/O. -Original Message-From: Koivu,

Re: OT: Cobol Copybook format

2001-08-27 Thread tday6
LOL I haven't done COBOL programming since 1978 but if I remember correctly: In the file definition section. 01 or 02 would correspond to a table; The stuff indented below it (10's I think) would correspond to columns. PIC(99.99) means a numeric field with two positions to the right of the

RE: OT - system administration of different UNIX flavors

2001-08-27 Thread Kevin Lange
I personally think it harder to go to Solaris than From it. I used to work in a shop running AIX Servers for our Oracle database. There were many good built-ins to use when running AIX. It was a very easy OS to configure and maintain. Its hardware was solid and well supported by IBM. I also

OT RE: Burning game CD's

2001-08-27 Thread Van M. Etheridge
Tom. A number of things, at least in my experience, can cause the problems you are having. The media(the blank CD's) depending on what you are recording certain types of CD's are better than others and the play back device may not be able to properly read the CD recording. I have recorded music

Help Please

2001-08-27 Thread Mark Liggayu
If I have a table that has a fields of type long, how can I move the data to a varchar2(300)? Thanks, Mark -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Mark Liggayu INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051

RE: Burning game CD's

2001-08-27 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Use a disk copier ... i.e. copy CD to CD complete (Adaptec CD Copier) not individual files. Right now there are no (known) copy protected game CDs, only few music CDs. The music CDs are supposed to include 'hiss' and 'clicks' and 'pops' when you copy them. Someone will soon break that as well.

RE: Burning game CD's

2001-08-27 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Some games, especially microsoft games have some sort of code or something on them that prevents burned cd's from operating correctly. I know that it's definatley on Age of Empires. However, if you look around on the Internet you can find cracks for them, I know there is one for Age of Empires.

RE: system trivia (groove/programming): DOS prompt/etc and choppy

2001-08-27 Thread Kimberly Smith
Title: OT: system trivia (groove/programming): DOS prompt/etc and choppy sound I don't think its memory related at all. I have more then enough for what I do and it does the same thing. That being said, before I cut a music CD it even tells me not to launch any other applications as it is

RE: Burning game CD's

2001-08-27 Thread Jenkins, Michael
Almost EVERY new game CD-ROM is now copy-protected, most of them utilize SafeDisc. You can find sites out there that will tell you how to make backup copies of your discs. Check out http://www.gamecopyworld.com. You must use I/E for this site to work correctly. There are no known

RE: OT - system administration of different UNIX flavors

2001-08-27 Thread Page, Bruce
Oracle has over 60% of the database market. MS/SQL runs only on NT and most of the market is Unix. IBM is just getting into non-AIX Unix and their DB2 for Unix is never going to catch up with Oracle. Oracle even out performs DB2 on IBM's big iron. Sun is a big boy in the Unix environment and

RE: Burning game CD's

2001-08-27 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Actually, I have the crack to AOE, you want it? -Original Message- Tom Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 10:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Off Topic: I bought a PC this weekend that had my first every CDROM burner. I couldn't wait to use it. I burned several game CD's

A quick pl/sql datatypes question

2001-08-27 Thread Andrey Bronfin
Dear gurus ! What is better performance-wise - to declare a variable inside a pl/sql block (or a trigger) as integer (number , Pls_integer etc..) or as mytable.mycolumn%TYPE . Again , i'm concerned ONLY about performance in this question. Thanks a lot. DBAndrey * 03-9254520 * 053-464562 *

RE: Standard SQLNET.ORA with multiple O_HOME's

2001-08-27 Thread Dave Morgan
Hi Stephen, I configure all our SQLNET stuff in a directory called ora_net under the oracle users unix home directory. I then create links from the various ORACLE_HOME/network directories into the /home/oracle/ora_net directory. Works like a charm.

Re: Oracle and SUN

2001-08-27 Thread Stephane Faroult
Christopher Spence wrote: Check Oracle.com, you wil see banners Oracle and HP-UX, your solution or something like that. It is true, and not a rumour, why though, I would love to know. Could Larry Ellison have fell under the charm of Carly Fiorina? :) -- Regards, Stephane Faroult

RE: system trivia (groove/programming): DOS prompt/etc and choppy

2001-08-27 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Title: OT: system trivia (groove/programming): DOS prompt/etc and choppy sound We use a Plextor at my office and I run Veritas Backup Exec, surf the internet or any other programs and have never had a problem. Very impressive burner. Now my one at home is being a big pain in the arse because

RE: Alertlog

2001-08-27 Thread Arich Henneman
Any/All, In our VMS environment it is SID_ALERT.LOG. Just in case someone was curious -Arich [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/23/01 09:05PM Raj, All the UNIX platforms I have worked on (about 6 so far), the name has been alert_SID.log. On my NT workstation it is SIDALRT.log. I have not found a way

FROM SRINIVAS -HELP

2001-08-27 Thread Srinivas_Madala
I have 44 million records in my table.I need to extract the 10 million records randomly,how to retrieve these records randomly. I used the dbms_random.sql ,but I have a doubt that I was correct or not. can U please guide me or just send a piece of code. Thanking U srinivas -- Please see the

RE: Oracle and SUN

2001-08-27 Thread Kimberly Smith
I believe that its because they feel that Sun is not a stable platform. Not that the OS is not stable but that it keeps changing. HP is relatively stable. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 7:45 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What I've heard is that Larry

RE: Help Please

2001-08-27 Thread Harsh Agrawal
- Update the table by using either PL/SQL or 3gls. If the LONG is always 32k or less you can do this in plsql. If it may exceed 32k in size, plsql *cannot* manipulate it in any way shape or form. If the long is 32k or less, you simply declare a variable of type LONG : declare my_var

creating the database from another

2001-08-27 Thread Bunyamin K. Karadeniz
I have a 8.1.6 database on NT on one machine . And I want to create this database to another machine where oracle is installed but there is no database. I have the back up of datafiles,control files and redo log files and archieve files. Can you tell What I will do step by step ? Is there

RE: OT: Microsoft XP

2001-08-27 Thread Sinha, Shashank (MED, TCS)
I believe you would still have the option of getting all the plugins required to run Oracle Apps - that includes jinitiator. There wouldn't be any built - in Java Support in XP. You would have to build it from scratch. JVM, setting classpaths, etc -Original Message- Sent: Monday,

RE: Burning game CD's

2001-08-27 Thread Christopher Spence
Copy protection. A lot of games now use copy protection. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978) 322-5744 Fax:(707) 885-2275 Fuelspot 73

Re: OT: Cobol Copybook format

2001-08-27 Thread Scott Canaan
Lisa, These are usually file layouts, in COBOLese. FILLER is usually unused space, as in: first-name pic x(20). filler pic x value space. last-name pic x(30). This is the first name, a space, and the last name. FILLERs usually have a value associated with them, unless they are truly not used,

RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

2001-08-27 Thread Mohan, Ross
HELP -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 3:51 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L nobody would be that dumb, would they? :) -- From: Mohan, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:13:04 -0400 Subject: RE: Installing 73

RE: Burning game CD's

2001-08-27 Thread Christopher Spence
I just did a quick search on google, here is a good article in reguards: http://www.pcmech.com/showdoc/34/ Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone:

PK/Fk question

2001-08-27 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
Hi DBAs, Table1 PK is on columns col1,col2,col3 I want to create a FK on table2 to table1 for col1. What is the alternative to ALTER TABLE table2 ADD CONSTRAINT fk_table2 FOREIGN KEY (col1) REFERENCES table1(col1); I always get ORA-2270: No matching unique or primary key for this column-list.

RE: Burning game CD's

2001-08-27 Thread Christopher Spence
70% of games today are now copy protected. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978) 322-5744 Fax:(707) 885-2275 Fuelspot 73 Princeton Street

RE: OT: Microsoft XP

2001-08-27 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
If all they did was take out J++, and we can still install the JDK and JRE on WindowxXP, that might actually be an improvement. : ) Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From: Sinha, Shashank (MED, TCS) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: OT: Cobol Copybook format

2001-08-27 Thread Connor McDonald
Rather than think of them as a table, think of each copybook mapping a record in a file (which is what cobol is basically designed to do)... The numeric levels are a hierarchical way of grouping the levels... For example: 10 date-created 20 year-created pic 99 20

RE: Burning game CD's

2001-08-27 Thread Bill Conner
Find a riper (burner) that does a binary rip and they will work. At 07:46 AM 8/27/2001 -0800, you wrote: Some games, especially microsoft games have some sort of code or something on them that prevents burned cd's from operating correctly. I know that it's definatley on Age of Empires.

RE: Burning game CD's

2001-08-27 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Thanks I didn't knew ... and I am not a big fan of PC games anyway, so I only read about music CD copyright related stuff. ..hmmm I have to catch up on my reading Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot

RE: A quick pl/sql data types question

2001-08-27 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
I think a direct variable declaration (without constraints like not null) is the fastest. Of course if you are dealing with integers, use pls_integer instead of number, it is faster. Because for typecasting, I think it has to (somehow) access the dictionary to get the column or table

Oracle 9i Linux files are erroring during uncompress...

2001-08-27 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Using Windoze, I downloaded the three Oracle 9i Linux files from technet.oracle.com. I then rebooted into Suse, copied the files over, but gunzip is not recognizing the files. I switched back to Windoze and using Winzip it doesnt like the files either. So I redownloaded just the smaller third

RE: OT - DB2 for OS/2

2001-08-27 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I can't believe it, they have a beta DB2 v.7.1. for OS/2, same release number as for AIX. I thought that OS was dead! Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services technologiques

RE: OT - DB2 for OS/2

2001-08-27 Thread Weaver, Walt
Isn't OS/2 still used extensively by banks to run ATM's? If that's the case, then IBM would have a vested interest in keeping DB2 current on OS/2. --Walt Weaver Bozeman, Montana -Original Message- Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 11:46 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I

RE: Cobol Copybook format

2001-08-27 Thread John Kanagaraj
Lisa, Thanks for waking up memories of COBOL that I have been trying to run away from! Anyway a FILLER is just that - a filler or placeholder to pad out or format a 'record' in the WORKING STORAGE or FILE section (eq. to the declarative section in PL/SQL). If this is part of a retrieved

RE: PK/Fk question

2001-08-27 Thread Christopher Spence
That won't work, your primary key is 3 cols, so the foreign key must reference those same three cols. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978)

RE: Oracle 9i Linux files are erroring during uncompress...

2001-08-27 Thread John Lewis
I had a similar problem getting 817nt from OTN. I had to download the file to linux - run gunzip. then I tar'd it up again and copy to NT - where I used a DOS tar program to un-tar it. Sheeze! Very painful. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 10:36 AM To: Multiple

Oracle Licensing for a Clustered Server Configuration

2001-08-27 Thread Srinagesh Battula
Title: Oracle Licensing for a Clustered Server Configuration Hi, Does Oracle Corp. require you to buy the RDBMS license for the fail-over server (as well) in a 2-node cluster server environment? Thanks Nagesh

RE: Oracle 9i Linux files are erroring during uncompress...

2001-08-27 Thread Christopher Spence
If you do not use a download manager like getright, you will almost always download broken files. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978) 322-5744

Re: A quick pl/sql datatypes question

2001-08-27 Thread Jonathan Lewis
From a pure performance direction, pls_integer or binary_integer is probably the fastest. If you declare a variable to be of table_name.column_name%type there are implicit constraints on the variable and any pl/sql assignments (in particular arithmetic operations) have to check that the

ORA-10027 in ps/sql block

2001-08-27 Thread Holman, Rodney
I have a developer here who is trying to populate a cursor. Every time he runs his code he gets the above error stating that the buffer is too small. We have tried explicitly setting the buffer to 1,000,000 bytes. This is FAR greater than needed for the amount of data requested. No matter what

Re: PK/Fk question

2001-08-27 Thread JOE TESTA
You can only FK to field(s) that are unique or primary key constraints. if col1 is unique, you can put a unique constraint on it and then FK to it from the child. your only other choice is to do FK checkign via triggers(i did it for distributed databases, where parents were on one db and

Re: Oracle 9i Linux files are erroring during uncompress...

2001-08-27 Thread JOE TESTA
windoze shouldnt be the problem(did i really say that), i used that at work to do the downloads copies them to RH machine(binary ftp), and installed with no problem. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/27/01 01:35PM Using Windoze, I downloaded the three Oracle 9i Linux files

Re: PK/Fk question

2001-08-27 Thread Jonathan Lewis
The opposite end of a 'foreign key' has to be a 'unique key' or 'primary key'. You have only two 'nominally correct' options - a) declare a unique key on table1.col1 or b) Create a table where the unique values of table1.col1 are held, and declare a primary key on it -

RE: OT - DB2 for OS/2

2001-08-27 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I don't know. I went to the cinema last week (? A couple of weeks ago?) and one of the ticket machines had a C:\ prompt on its screen. Presumably that thing was running DOS... Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From:

Re: PK/Fk question

2001-08-27 Thread Jonathan Lewis
There is also the drawback that the trigger has to do a 'select for update', with all associated contention problems, otherwise the effect of read-consistency would allow a trigger to determine that a parent existed when in fact it had been deleted by an uncommitted transaction. Jonathan Lewis

RE: creating the database from another

2001-08-27 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Bunyamin, Let's call the database that already exists the SourceDb, and the new one you want to create the TargetDB Do the following: On the TargetDB machiine, create the same directory structure that exists on the SourceDB machine. This should include the directories where the database

Re: Oracle 9i Linux files are erroring during uncompress...

2001-08-27 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I think it's simpler than that -- I don't think they really need to be unzipped. From: Grabowy, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Oracle 9i Linux files are erroring during uncompress... Date: Mon, 27 Aug

RE: Oracle 9i Linux files are erroring during uncompress...

2001-08-27 Thread John Lewis
Odd thing is that linux/solaris files come down correctly. And I've down-loaded other zips for NT in the past with no problems. This seems like a recent problem. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 11:01 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L If you do not use a

RE: Oracle 9i Linux files are erroring during uncompress...

2001-08-27 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Well, they end with .gz, and the instructions under the files specify to use gunzip to unzip them. Oh why, oh why does life have to be so difficult... -Original Message- Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 2:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I think it's simpler than that --

RE: ORA-10027 in ps/sql block

2001-08-27 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: ORA-10027 in ps/sql block Rodd, can you post the code? -Original Message- From: Holman, Rodney [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 1:56 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: ORA-10027 in ps/sql block I have a developer here who is

RE: fire the trigger selectively when a column is updated

2001-08-27 Thread Richard Huntley
You can do something like this: CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGERyour_triggerAFTER UPDATE OF ename ONEmp_Tab FOR EACH ROWBEGINNULL; --do whatever you have to do...call procedure, etc... END; HTH -Original Message-From: novicedba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001

RE: Cobol Copybook format

2001-08-27 Thread Kevin Lange
We often used the FILLER to make the data more presentable in files. i.e. used filler between columns. W We also defined our output on reports the same way. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 12:52 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Lisa, Thanks for waking

Re: PK/Fk question

2001-08-27 Thread JOE TESTA
oh i definitely didnt include all of the problems associated with distributed enforcement of FK. I was denoting the obvious :) joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/27/01 02:22PM There is also the drawback that thetrigger has to do a 'select for update',with all associated contention problems,otherwise

RE: Oracle Licensing for a Clustered Server Configuration

2001-08-27 Thread Shaw, John B
Title: Oracle Licensing for a Clustered Server Configuration Only if it's active on the fail over node - if it's passive you don't need a second license. -Original Message-From: Srinagesh Battula [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 1:07 PMTo: Multiple

RE: Oracle 9i Linux files are erroring during uncompress...

2001-08-27 Thread JOE TESTA
do a file on them in linux and see that the magic number comes back to show you what it thinks it is. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/27/01 02:53PM Well, they end with .gz, and the instructions under the files specify to usegunzip to unzip them. Oh why, oh why does life have to be so

ach_tran query

2001-08-27 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: ach_tran query Hi Cherie, Looks like parallel query kicked in. It usually throws some odd looking stuff in the explain plan. HTH Lisa -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 3:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

Re: OT - DB2 for OS/2

2001-08-27 Thread Jan Pruner
One friend of mine working for Siemens is still programming DOS stuff 'cause they use MSDOS as OS for chip testing machines (life test for car chips to use in VW, BMW ...). Jan Pruner Dne po 27. srpen 2001 20:28 jste napsal(a): I don't know. I went to the cinema last week (? A couple of

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2001-08-27 Thread Cherie_Machler
I am running tkprof and explain plan on the following SQL statement: SELECT DISTINCT CNFR_NO, SPLT_PAY_TYPE, ACH_AMT FROM whse_dbo.ACH_TRAN WHERE ACCT_NO = '46807' AND TRUNC(TRAN_DT) = TRUNC(TO_DATE('20-JUL-01','DD-MON-YY')) AND STATUS = '2' AND CNFR_NO 0 AND

RE: OT - DB2 for OS/2

2001-08-27 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I ran it at home for a couple of years (OS/2 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0 warp), I finally gave up on it because IBM never got permission to support Windows95 applications in a shell. It worked very well, though - never crashed. DOS and Windows sessions crashed, but the OS never failed. And it was so

RE: Oracle Licensing for a Clustered Server Configuration

2001-08-27 Thread Srinagesh Battula
Title: Oracle Licensing for a Clustered Server Configuration John, are/were you in a similiar env.. ..very curious..coz Oracle is forcing us to buy a second license for the passive fail-over server .. Thanks -Original Message-From: Shaw, John B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent:

RE: Oracle Licensing for a Clustered Server Configuration

2001-08-27 Thread Srinagesh Battula
Title: RE: Oracle Licensing for a Clustered Server Configuration Our failover server neither has a standby database nor oracle binaries. In our Clustered server configuration, when a fail over happens the entire diskgroups will be de-ported from the primary and imported on the failover

OT: Who Notices

2001-08-27 Thread dgoulet
No replies needed!! This is way too ironically funny Sometimes ... when you cry ... no one sees your tears ... Sometimes...when you are worriedno one sees your pain... Sometimes ... when you are happy ... no one sees your smile ... But fart

RE: Oracle 9i Linux files are erroring during uncompress...

2001-08-27 Thread Christopher Spence
Anything over 2oom, is almost impossible to download from technet without using a download manager, what happens is during the transfer it aborts and restarts. Which fouls it up some how, once I started using get right to downnload the stuff, it worked everytime, not to mention faster. Do not

RE: ORA-10027 in ps/sql block

2001-08-27 Thread Holman, Rodney
Thanks for the offer of help. Developer finally did a DBMS__OUTPUT.DISABLE followed by the DBMS_OUTPUT.ENABLE. This cleared the buffer and code worked. Apparently he had a dirty buffer that didn't clear until the DISABLE was issued. He has added the DISABLE to his code prior to the

Re:

2001-08-27 Thread Jonathan Lewis
It looks like you have a partitioned table with a parallel or parallel index definition. The :Qyyy are the 'table queues' used by parallel query slaves to pass messages between the layers of slaves operating the query. The SQL with the hints in it is the SQL generated by the query

Data Center monitoring

2001-08-27 Thread Raghu Kota
Hi Gurus, I have number of Oracle8i instances on HP-Ux in a 400 servers Data center!! I want valuble suggestions from Gurus and who maintaining their real Data ceners.. I appreciate your help. Thanks in advance Raghu. _ Get

Re: FW: database upgrade policy?

2001-08-27 Thread JOE TESTA
I couldnt get it to work for anyone other than someone in the dba group already on linux. if you're in the dba group you can connect / as sysdba anyways, so i guess i'm missing where the security hole is. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/23/01 04:41PM Okay have a look at bug 1919536, it allows a

Re: Data Center monitoring

2001-08-27 Thread JOE TESTA
proactively monitor everything, max extents, datafile percent free, all of it, its always easier to fix something when you have days/weeks of advance notice, versus 2AM. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/27/01 04:21PM Hi Gurus,I have number of Oracle8i instances on HP-Ux in a 400 servers Data

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