Those stodgy old unix folks are much civilized than us anarchic DBA's.
Jared On Wednesday 19 December 2001 00:15, Hallas John wrote: > I agree with your reasoning Dennis. I have long felt that one of the > problems with the list is that the original raiser of the question should > have some sort of responsibility for summarising the various responses and > posting a short summarised reply showing the solutions(s) that worked for > him/her > This type of question where various solutions were proposed is the ideal > candidate for this type of summarised response. I used to be on a Unix list > and that strategy was used quite well there. > > John > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: 18 December 2001 19:10 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Naaah, I'm just the proverbial lazy DBA. Gene received many replies, > including "it can't be done". Since he happened to point out that two of > them worked and produced the same results (an excellent sanity check), I > thought it would benefit everyone by telling us which ones worked. I > realize that we could have each tried each of the strategies and discovered > the two for ourselves, but my principle is if there is an easier way, why > not? Dennis Williams > DBA > Lifetouch, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 11:35 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Uh, amen. Isn't that the purpose of the list? > > Or is there a *third* list, one "on topic", a second > "off topic", and a third where all the answers really > are? > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:55 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Gene - Now that you've gotten your answer, would you mind to post both of > the methods that you found to work so that the rest of us could learn? > Thanks. > Dennis Williams > DBA > Lifetouch, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 7:05 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Hi. > > This is just to thank all who replied to my post. > Based on what I read, I have got two different ways of > calculating that number and they seem to produce the > same result. > > thank you all (you know who you are)!!!! > > > ===== > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of > your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com > or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of '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).
