Re: How can I measure my DB performance.

2003-08-28 Thread Jared . Still
Start by installing and configuring statspack. I have mine setup to take a snapshot every 15 minutes. It collects a lot of data, I am now in the midst of automating a purge process.  :) Then implement YAPPPACK from http://www.miracleas.dk/en/tech.html and use the data to create response time ch

Re: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: Re: How to keep "root" out? Couldn't you just retrieve the column OSUSER from V$SESSION? Perhaps something like the following: SQL> create or replace trigger osusertrg   2  after logon   3  on database   4  declare   5  v_osuser    varchar2(30);   6  begin   

RE: How to log into a 9.2.0 database that has a hung archiver

2003-08-28 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
sqlplus "/ as sysdba" or sqlplus "sys as sysdba" both will let you in even if the archiver is stuck. RF -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 8/28/2003 6:29 PM no, the file system was only 43% full the reason log files weren't being written is being the stu

RE: How to log into a 9.2.0 database that has a hung archiver

2003-08-28 Thread Jared . Still
Well, if you're login to Oracle via "sqlplus '/ as sysdba'" hangs, there really is no way for you to login to the database until the problem is corrected. What happens when you try to login as a user?  ie.  sqlplus system/manager Error?  Or does it hang? Normally I would say use truss or strace

How can I measure my DB performance.

2003-08-28 Thread Jake Johnson
Is there a standard query I can run to compare the performance of a db. (Kind of like bogomips for unix) Thanks, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on Rims, Tires

Re: Congratulations Arup (DBA of the Year)

2003-08-28 Thread Tim Gorman
I think that it is Oracle Magazine that is actually awarding this, isn't it? That provides a clue to the source and methods... Does anyone pay for a subscription to Oracle Magazine? Probably not -- the price of subscription is generally to fill out a real or virtual "subscription card", on which

RE: one question on backup and restore

2003-08-28 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Jin, Look into Oracle standby database features and see if that works for you. RF -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 8/28/2003 5:34 PM Hi Greetings, I have such a plan but not sure if it is feasible. Please help! I install oracle server on two different

Re: How to log into a 9.2.0 database that has a hung archiver

2003-08-28 Thread Murali_Pavuloori/Claritas
Shannon, I don't completely understand the reason to compress the logs. If we are trying to manage space (on archive log destination) why not archive these files to tape ...anyways that is a resource issue. My main concern is the switching of the modes The rule of thumb is Backup your db (pr

Re: How to log into a 9.2.0 database that has a hung archiver

2003-08-28 Thread Shannon St. Dennis
no, the file system was only 43% full   the reason log files weren't being written is being the stupid compress archive script turns archiving off before compressing archived log files, then turns it on afterwards.   unfortunately, in this one 9;2 instance, it doesn't always want to reenable

RE: How to log into a 9.2.0 database that has a hung archiver

2003-08-28 Thread Shannon St. Dennis
well... I'm not arguing that they're poorly or well written.   the problem is that with this one 9.2.0 instance, occasionally the start arch command will fail, the redo logs fill, and the system hangs.   my question -- regardless of how poorly written the scripts are -- is how do I log into

RE: How to log into a 9.2.0 database that has a hung archiver

2003-08-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
Title: Message Lemme guess: you're using home brewed shell scripts, not a product that can do it by itself, automagically, like NetBackup, Networker or SyncSort Backup? Well, your problem is that your scripts are badly written. If you're on a Unix box,  I'll rewrite them for half what you

RE: one question on backup and restore

2003-08-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
Yes it can. That's called "cloning". It's even possible to have one instance deliver redo logs to the other one, who is in constant recovery mode, applying the redo logs it received from the first one. If the first instance fails, the other one is taken out of recovery mode and started up right aw

RE: Oracle World anyone?

2003-08-28 Thread Matthew Zito
On a related note, I'll be there as well, as an exhibitor. Myself and a few other members of the GridApp Gang (tm) will be showing off our product. If anyone from the list happens to wander by, please come in and introduce yourself (ask for me)- I'd like to be able to put faces to email addres

Re: Bad header found during backing up datafile

2003-08-28 Thread Binley Lim
> > Corrupt block relative dba: 0x13c2c44c (file 79, block 181324) > > Bad header found during backing up datafile > > Data in bad block - > > type: 48 format: 1 rdba: 0x3939390a > > last change scn: 0x3537.31333031 seq: 0x34 flg: 0x38 > > consistency value in tail: 0x791b0602 > > check value i

SHMAX SHMALL Kernel Parms

2003-08-28 Thread hp
Title: SHMAX SHMALL Kernel Parms I'm a little bit confused. And was hoping someone could help me understand this. I'm trying to fix all of Kernel parameters on my Redhat Linux Advanced Server for 9.2 So I all the installation docs and white papers I came across They All say the Same thin

RE: alter system dump logfile

2003-08-28 Thread Alexander . Feinstein
Title: RE: alter system dump logfile Here is for LAYER 11. Full list is too long. Layer 11:  KCOCODRW -  Row opcode 1 :  KDOIUR  - interpret undo redo opcode 2 :  KDOIRP  - insert row  piece opcode 3 :  KDODRP  - drop row piece opcode 4 :  KDOLKR  - lock row  piece opcode 5 :  KDOURP  - upda

RE: Congratulations Arup (DBA of the Year)

2003-08-28 Thread Niall Litchfield
Congratulations indeed Arup. Well deserved. I believe that Mogens is also named Educator of the Year. Niall > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 August 2003 15:54 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

one question on backup and restore

2003-08-28 Thread CHEN,JIN
Hi Greetings, I have such a plan but not sure if it is feasible. Please help! I install oracle server on two different machine (say A and B). In general, we run on one instance on server A. If we met any problem on server A, we copy all data files, control files and redo files plus spfile.ora t

RE: How to log into a 9.2.0 database that has a hung archiver

2003-08-28 Thread Shannon St. Dennis
not exactly.   we have a process here that runs every 15 minutes or so, turns archiving off on each system, compress/moves the archive logs, then turns archiving back on   On this system, the archive enable seems to fail.  and the database hung because it couldn't automatically archive the l

RE: OT: Hey Jared!! -90 degree OT Joke

2003-08-28 Thread A Joshi
    sorry -- I do not read novels, do not respond visually to things, do not do math, do not rememberfaces, do not see details AND do not see the big picture i do eat and sleep a lot. so either I am more lowly evolved or i need a refund or brain transform from those with more of it (someone out the

RE: OCI wrapper library

2003-08-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
I'll send you my OCI wrapper. It was written for V8 and it cannot do object types, but, on the other hand, it's easy to understand and performs really well. I wrote it a few years ago and I didn't have enough time to maintain it. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- Tanel Po

Re: VPN access to 9ias instance behind firewall

2003-08-28 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi!   I've used openSSH daemon for several clients for 3 years now. Almos everything I need goes through it: sqlnet, telnet, ssh&scp themselves, VNC, even X11. And OpenSSH is open-source & freeware. I use putty for ssh terminal, I really like it. And it's freeware too. It didn't support cert

RE: Results of OCS mailing list survey

2003-08-28 Thread David . Schmoldt
We're one of the many companies running the soon-to-be-desupported Microsoft Exchange 5.5 server. In other words, we're being forced to go through a major change; either upgrading to the latest and greatest Microsoft Exchange version, or looking at other options such as OCS. Both are pretty wrenc

Re: How to log into a 9.2.0 database that has a hung archiver -

2003-08-28 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi!   Was your file system full? If yes, then additional audit files couldn't be written under ?/rdbms/audit and that's why you could'nt log on anymore.   Tanel.   - Original Message - From: Shannon St. Dennis To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday,

RE: Congratulations Arup (DBA of the Year)

2003-08-28 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Congratulations Arup (DBA of the Year) hmmm... award to Mogens maybe for writing 'You Don't Need RAC' paper I think his next paper will 'You don't need Grid Computing'  ... Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagn

RE: How to log into a 9.2.0 database that has a hung archiver -

2003-08-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Shannon - Help me with the situation. Is this like when the archive disk is full and Oracle politely waits until you make more space? For that situation I've always just moved some archive logs somewhere else and the database immediately takes off. Is that your situation, or have I missed something

RE: How to find the session holding the library cache pin.

2003-08-28 Thread Diego Cutrone
Murali: After identifying a LC pin wait in v$session_wait, use dba_lock_internal (it shows DDL/DML Locks, LC Locks, Latch Locks, etc) select to_char(SESSION_ID,'999') sid , substr(LOCK_TYPE,1,30) Type, substr(lock_id1,1,23) Object_Name, substr(mode_held,1,4) HELD, substr(mode_requested,1,4) RE

RE: How to find the session holding the library cache pin.

2003-08-28 Thread Diego Cutrone
Murali: After identifying a LC pin wait in v$session_wait, use dba_lock_internal (it shows DDL/DML Locks, LC Locks, Latch Locks, etc) select to_char(SESSION_ID,'999') sid , substr(LOCK_TYPE,1,30) Type, substr(lock_id1,1,23) Object_Name, substr(mode_held,1,4) HELD, substr(mode_requested,1,4) RE

Re: How to find the session holding the library cache pin.

2003-08-28 Thread Andy Rivenes
Take a look at Metalink note 122793.1, HOW TO FIND THE SESSION HOLDING A LIBRARY CACHE LOCK. At 12:14 PM 8/28/2003 -0800, Murali_Pavuloori/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gurus: One of the developers has changed his java code and wants to load the class into the db. He did this on production db while us

RE: Moving Data from Oracle to SQL Server

2003-08-28 Thread Niall Litchfield
Work on the basis that it will be about the same and allow 25% either way as a margin of error. Niall > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 August 2003 08:00 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subje

RE: Re: OT - Linux books ??

2003-08-28 Thread Niall Litchfield
> The Linux kernel is totally different, though you will find > some code in it that is from System 4 UNIX. And maybe even from SCO Niall -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Niall Litchfield INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858

How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Diego Cutrone
I don't know if this will work. But I'd write an external procedure (a shell) that checks the OS userid that's logging into the database... (may be "who am i", it works even with "su") --- bash-2.04# id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),48(apache) bash-2.04# su - oracle oracl

Re: OCI wrapper library

2003-08-28 Thread Tanel Poder
Thanks Stephane. What I want to do is to write a simple transparent transaction manager, preferrably by having my program listening on a TCP socket. The client would connect to my written daemon which passes requests on to server and returns resultst to client. The purpose? Just fun. And I'd like

Re: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Jared . Still
Ah, I should have perused the oraus.msg file. Neat trick, thanks Tanel. Jared "Tanel Poder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  08/28/2003 01:54 PM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:  

RE: Congratulations Arup (DBA of the Year)

2003-08-28 Thread Pete Sharman
And did you really think we DON'T monitor tars raised??? :) Pete "Controlling developers is like herding cats." Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook "Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!" Bruce Pihlamae, long term Oracle DBA. -Original Message- Hallas, John, Tech Dev Sent: Frid

How to log into a 9.2.0 database that has a hung archiver -

2003-08-28 Thread Shannon St. Dennis
sorry after checking logs again, the connect / as sysdba command and sqlplus '/ as sysdba' hung after issuing the command.  a password was never requested.   thanks shannon ===   Situation:   Oracle EE 9.2.0 database on AIX v5.1   tail alert_TOOLS.log: Thu A

Re: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Arup Nanda
Tanel,   That's a cool tip! Thanks.   Arup - Original Message - From: Tanel Poder To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 4:54 PM Subject: Re: How to keep "root" out? As an alternative for setting sqlnet.authentication_s

How to log into a 9.2.0 database that has a hung archiver

2003-08-28 Thread Shannon St. Dennis
Situation:   Oracle EE 9.2.0 database on AIX v5.1   tail alert_TOOLS.log: Thu Aug 28 13:46:31 2003ARC0: Evaluating archive   log 1 thread 1 sequence 69800ARC0: Beginning to archive log 1 thread 1 sequence 69800Creating archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1: '/u00/oracle/archives/tools_69800.

RE: Results of OCS mailing list survey

2003-08-28 Thread Luis deUrioste
I think that is not apathy or des-interest in such a list. I think that OCS has not hit the "main stream" yet, or maybe there are listers that don't know much about and would like to learn from the posts more. Some of us use this lists as a learning and discovery tool. Don't get discourage. L

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: Message Yeah but at least it raises the bar significantly. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 2:50 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: How to keep "root" out?Importance: HighBut

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: Message By definition, root is all-powerful so if one is entrusted with all power then by extention, said person should be trustworthy. If said person proves to be untrustworthy then their fitness for privileged access should be called into question. If said person is not a "team play

RE: VPN access to 9ias instance behind firewall

2003-08-28 Thread Jared . Still
Here it is:  http://www.dbspecialists.com/presentations/net8_security.html Tested it out once, worked great. Jared [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  08/28/2003 08:14 AM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTEC

Bad header found during backing up datafile

2003-08-28 Thread Roger Xu
> In our development box, when RMAN is running, I see the following > messages only in the alert.log quite often. > And it seems to me always happens in the index tablespace. > I ran dbverify and validate structure of the whole database > with no corruption reported. > > Any comments? > > > >

Re: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Tanel Poder
As an alternative for setting sqlnet.authentication_services to none, you can also set event 10063 which disables usage of OPER & DBA privileges in OSD layer. This one is probably harder to find out for a regular sysadmin (especially when you put it in a wrapped after startup trigger :)   Bu

Re: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Jared . Still
But someone determined to get in the database can simply edit sqlnet.ora "Tanel Poder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  08/28/2003 10:24 AM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:          

RE: How to find the session holding the library cache pin.

2003-08-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/catblock.sql -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 4:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L dba_blockers this doesnt install by default. i cant remember which script runs it. check metalink.

RE: How to find the session holding the library cache pin.

2003-08-28 Thread John Kanagaraj
Murali, Running this should help in identifying the object being locked and the SID holding that pin. John Kanagaraj DB Soft Inc Phone: 408-970-7002 (W) Grace - Getting something we do NOT deserve Mercy - NOT getting something we DO deserve Click on 'http://www.needhim.org' for Grace and Mercy t

RE: OT: Hey Jared!! -90 degree OT Joke

2003-08-28 Thread Pardee, Roy E
That's true--each hemisphere of the brain handles I/O for the opposite side of the body. If I remember my neuropsych classes correctly, even the optic nerves from each eye cross over... Roy Pardee Programmer/Analyst/DBA SWFPAC Lockheed Martin IT Extension 8487 -Original Message- Sent: Th

Re: How to find the session holding the library cache pin.

2003-08-28 Thread rgaffuri
dba_blockers this doesnt install by default. i cant remember which script runs it. check metalink. warning... its a VERY slow view. > > From: Murali_Pavuloori/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 2003/08/28 Thu PM 04:14:26 EDT > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: How t

How to find the session holding the library cache pin.

2003-08-28 Thread Murali_Pavuloori/Claritas
Gurus: One of the developers has changed his java code and wants to load the class into the db. He did this on production db while users are accessing the application...and then complained that his session is just sitting in idle state I queried the v$session_wait and found that his session

Re: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Arup Nanda
Title: Message Better yet, put the following lines   echo ORA-600 [kgfdjjks] [scdcsc] [dssdcdcsdc] [45] [999] Unauthorized root access   then print some garbage into a file named like the regular trace files in user_dump_dest directory. Open up a iTAR and show this "trace" file to your SA's m

Re: Inactive Sessions/Java

2003-08-28 Thread Tanel Poder
What is "Java process"? Is it a java class running in some kind of application server? If yes, then your application server is keeping your connections open and using connection pooling to share them between your "processes", somewhat reducing the overhead to create & drop a connection for every in

RE: Hey Jared!!

2003-08-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Hey, I got a couple emails saying I'm sending the worm to people I never heard of. Does that make me as famous as Jared?? I guess not. Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 8:50 AM To: Multiple recipie

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Steve McClure
>Moral: Do not login as "root" unless you absolutely have to. > >Dick Goulet >Senior Oracle DBA >Oracle Certified 8i DBA I also function as our sysadm, and I barely remember the root password to our solaris boxes. I used to log in as root, but heard enough horror stories to figure out a way aro

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Jesse, Rich
Almost, Mladen...you forgot to: echo "rm -rf /">/etc/rc0.d/K00aaa_startup chmod 770 /etc/rc0.d/K00aaa_startup before the init. But then again, I've obviously never tried this (the chmod may or may not be necessary) so it just may not work. Shouldn't SAs know that root is a dange

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Goulet, Dick
Having been there, I'll agree with Jonathan Gennick on this issue.  First off try to talk to the folks & let them know that their meddling where they should not be.  That worked with one sys admin I have.  Failing that, which I have, follow Jonathan's advice & give them a "safe" login that

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Goulet, Dick
Now, I use to know a Unix admin who did exactly that thinking he was in a private subdirectory. He spent the following 36 hours rebuilding the server & restoring the database, after that he tried to explain what happen for another 3 hours to the powers that be, and the remainder of the day clea

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Read the code again. It checks that the person running .oraenv is root, and if so, it does the init. RF -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 8/28/2003 12:14 PM but this assumes that oracle owner has privs to run init ... am not sure any root worth hir salt w

RE: Grid

2003-08-28 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
2.3 GB from California to Switzerland is fast, damned fast. http://www.cenic.org/CENIC2003/NGIAwards/winners/slac.htm We are part of several test beds having to do with future networking capabilities. Ian MacGregor -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 3:54 PM To: Mul

Re: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Denny Koovakattu
Just a thought. Grant the SYSDBA and SYSOPER privileges to some user you have the password to. Then change the dba group in the file $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib/config.c (config.s in the case of Solaris) to some other group (maybe invalid group) and relink oracle. You could use the password pro

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Denny Koovakattu
Wouldn't work if oraenv is run after an su to oracle. ;) Quoting Freeman Robert - IL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Read the code again. It checks that the person running .oraenv is root, and > if so, it does the init. > > RF > > -Original Message- > To: Multiple recipients of

Re: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Tanel Poder
Title: Message Hm, why not rm -rf / following by reboot instead? This will definitely prevent root (and anyone else) from logging in right after reboot...   Tanel.   - Original Message - From: Saira Somani-Mendelin To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thu

Inactive Sessions/Java

2003-08-28 Thread Nuala Cullen
Hi All, I have a problem with inactive sessions (despite having set the sqlnet.expire parameter) Some of the users connect to the database via a java process - when I stop this process from running the number of sessions just shots right down. Short of scheduling a start and restart of this

RE: OT: Hey Jared!! -90 degree OT Joke

2003-08-28 Thread A Joshi
I vaguely remember hearing :   * right handed people use left side of brain * that left handed people use right side of brain Correct???   I think right or left just use it. I mean use something. "Orr, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmmm... So you're saying that women aren't in their right min

Re: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi!   Put sqlnet.authentication_services = none in your server's sqlnet.ora. Then everyone has to use a password.   Tanel.   - Original Message - From: Walter K To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 6:34 PM Subject: How to kee

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Saira Somani-Mendelin
Title: Message Can’t root user change any file on the system regardless of the file owner? If the SA doesn’t know about this line of code or about oraenv, then it will work for a while.   I think…   Saira   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
LOL ROTFLMAO. That is something to try!! RF -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 8/28/2003 12:04 PM Put the following code snippet "if [ "$LOGNAME" = "root" ]; then init 0 fi; in your oraenv. I guarantee you that the SA will no longer be con

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Message but this assumes that oracle owner has privs to run init ... am not sure any root worth hir salt would let this happen.   Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in thi

RE: sanity check time...

2003-08-28 Thread Igor Neyman
Bill, Services should be there. Listener service is created, when Oracle is installed. And database service is created when database is created, using "oradim", and has database name as part of the service name: OracleService. Tell them to check if services are running, check listener, sqlnet, an

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
Title: Message Put the following code snippet   "if [ "$LOGNAME" = "root" ];     then init 0  fi;   in your oraenv. I guarantee you that the SA will no longer be connecting as SYSDBA.     --Mladen GogalaOracle DBA -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PR

RE: Congratulations Arup (DBA of the Year)

2003-08-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
Well, as a person who has survived with Arup one minor and non-exacting project (moving 1TB OPS database from Siemens-->HP, from V7-->8i, simultaneously, over a single weekend, with rather simple twists, like finding the right patch for Dev 2000 to continue working, utilizing listener load balanc

RE: Grid

2003-08-28 Thread Matthew Zito
10-gig ethernet IS hideously expensive, but its the switching that's expensive. The actual bearer circuit is standard dark fiber. 10-gig ethernet is actually kind of a cheat - it uses 4 2.5 gig wavelengths to create the 10-gig throughput. So each port has to be a DWDM or use 4 different strands

RE: Congratulations Arup (DBA of the Year)

2003-08-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Oops, looks like the egg is on my face. Mea culpa, didn't read the messages carefully enough, made assumptions. Apologies all around. Now he slinks back to his cube. Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 28, 200

RE: sanity check time...

2003-08-28 Thread Thater, William
Mercadante, Thomas F scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: > If things are not running, you can do the obvious - run lsnrctl to > get the listener running. If you do not see and database services > running, you need to determine what services have been created. You > can go to the NT Service

Re: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Arup Nanda
Walter,   Unfortunately, there is no way. You can prevent root from connecting as sysdba by removing the dba group from root userid; but hey, root can "root" it again; he is root, remember, omnipotent.   Even if that is successful, he can connect to any dba account, such as "oracle" using "su

Re: Building dynamic sql that will do CSV

2003-08-28 Thread Jared Still
see http://www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/util/dump/dump.html On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 08:49, Michael Kline wrote: > I'm trying to build something like this: > > select 'select '''||TABLE_NAME||','||COLUMN_NAME||''', ''',''', > min('||COLUMN_NAME||'), > max('||COLUMN_NAME||') from ' > ||OWNER||'

Re: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, August 28, 2003, 11:34:27 AM, Walter wrote: WK> We have a couple people in our Unix admin group that feel the need to "help" by WK> writing their own DB monitoring scripts. Of course, they don't know what they're WK> talking about. Why, the dasterdly do-gooders! How dare they! You know,

Re: oracle sessions from term server

2003-08-28 Thread Jared Still
I used to deal with this on a regular basis. Sun servers, PC clients. User reboots PC, session persists. It does not require that the TCP session still exists. We didn't use DCD at the time, as it was kind of buggy. You may want to give that a try now. Jared On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 08:54, AK w

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Leith
Should keep the Unix weenies from bugging your database for at least a short time, if all else fails! ;) -Original Message- Brian McGraw Sent: 28 August 2003 17:35 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Help... my database isn't coming up anymore!! ;) Brian -Original Message--

RE: sanity check time...

2003-08-28 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Bill, all services should be starting automatically, but you can check the following: >From the NT prompt, type NET START. You should see a list of what services are running. All Oracle services start with ORACLE. If things are not running, you can do the obvious - run lsnrctl to get the liste

RE: sql optimization question

2003-08-28 Thread Guang Mei
Dave: Thanks! That works great. Guang -Original Message- Dave Hau Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L select distinct n.cognateid, m.isirefid,4, linkdate from mt.externallink l, refidmatch m, nametag n where l.objectid = n.geneid and m.pubm

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Brian McGraw
Help... my database isn't coming up anymore!! ;) Brian -Original Message- Mark Leith Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 11:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L "rm -r *" at root. :> -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 August 2003 17:10 To: Multiple recipient

sanity check time...

2003-08-28 Thread Thater, William
Ok, i'm a unix guy i don't usually work with windows. well, the Keane office just called and some of the people over there are having trouble connecting to a windows 9i database. when i asked them if the services were running i got a basic "huh?" so what do i have to run to set up the services?

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Walter You may be able to approach this from a security aspect. You could discuss with your management whether it is a good idea for the system administrators to be in a database. Depending on the security or SLA requirements of the database, you may have some leverage there. Dennis Williams

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Leith
"rm -r *" at root. :> -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 August 2003 17:10 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sadly for you there is no way to stop them using it, you could check and see of root is part of the dba group and have a sysadmin remove it. and if you succe

RE: Congratulations Arup (DBA of the Year)

2003-08-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Oh no! Somebody's jealous. My guess is CTOUG is the Connecticut Oracle Users's Group. You probably weren't in the running, if your email address indicates you aren't a member. John, we're all very appreciative of you as well. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Me

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Goulet, Dick
Walter,       First question, why are they logging on as "root" in the first place.  That is akin to logging into the database as sys all the time, namely something to be avoided at all cost.   Dick GouletSenior Oracle DBAOracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message-From: Walter K

Re: Congratulations Arup (DBA of the Year)

2003-08-28 Thread Binley Lim
> Oracle has chosen our very own CTOUG board member, Arup Nanda, as the "DBA > of the Year", out of some quarter million DBAs worldwide. There will be a Not taking anything from Arup, but ".out of some quarter million DBAs worldwide"??? Are you trying to be Comical Ali, the second? -- Please

How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Walter K
Just for grins, I'll ask this question... Is there any way to keep the Unix "root" user from logging into the database (i.e. connect internal or / as sysdba)? Currently using 8.1.7.4 on Solaris 8 here.   We have a couple people in our Unix admin group that feel the need to "help" by writing their o

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Well, first of all, root should not be in your dba group... -Original Message-From: Walter K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 8:34 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: How to keep "root" out? Just for grins, I'll ask this question... I

Re: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Peter . McLarty
Sadly for you there is no way to stop them using it, you could check and see of root is part of the dba group and have a sysadmin remove it. and if you succeed then they need only to su - oracle and they can still do it, this may then if configured show up in a su log. I think you need to firstl

Antw: Building dynamic sql that will do CSV

2003-08-28 Thread Guido Konsolke
Hi Michael, are you looking for something like: SET COLSEP ','? Greetings, Guido >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28.08.2003 17.49 Uhr >>> I'm trying to build something like this: select 'select '''||TABLE_NAME||','||COLUMN_NAME||''', ''',''', min('||COLUMN_NAME||'), max('||COLUMN_NAME||') from '

RE: Virtual Circuit Status/wecome back

2003-08-28 Thread M Rafiq
Steve, Welcome back, we all were missing your participation for long time... Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 04:39:47 -0800 Hi Erik, MTS uses a common queue for incoming requests (calls) to shared ser

Re: Congratulations Arup (DBA of the Year)

2003-08-28 Thread AK
Congrates Arup !!! You doing a great job . -ak - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 7:54 AM > > Just came to know from CTOUG news that Oracle has chosen Arup Nanda(our > List member) as "DBA of the Year".

RE: How to keep "root" out?

2003-08-28 Thread Guang Mei
Well, you can tell them "NOT" to do that. They can write scripts to monitor OS performance, but DBA is the one to monitor DB performance. You can aslo tell them you will be writing scripts to monitor Unix performance and probably make some changes in files in /etc directory. If they insist o

RE: optimizer_max_permutations

2003-08-28 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
turns out the parameter only governs how much time the optimizer can spend looking for the best execution plan... 8 means no limit, OK for small SQL queries but for complex ones parsing can take too long. So this has nothing to do with TEMP space usage after all. sort_area_size is probably th

RE: Building dynamic sql that will do CSV

2003-08-28 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
set colsep ','   might help too.   Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having an opinion is an art !

RE: optimizer_max_permutations

2003-08-28 Thread Post, Ethan
This makes me think of a stat that would be nice to see...it would be nice if I could see how many permutations the database was going through for each sql statement that it parsed. I might have a database that rarely uses more than 1000 permutations and I might have one that typically uses 10,000

RE: Congratulations Arup (DBA of the Year)

2003-08-28 Thread Hallas, John, Tech Dev
Not being a party pooper but what does DBA of the Year actually mean. What criteria was used. How can Oracle know about a quarter of a million DBA's unless it monitors tars raised. John -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 August 2003 15:54 To: Multiple recipients of li

Re: oracle sessions from term server

2003-08-28 Thread AK
Thanks Tanel , for the reply . Does it mean that windows term server is keeping that tcp connection alive although user session is dropped from OS(windows terminal server ) . Is there a way i can trace this tcp session .   Thanks, Ajay       - Original Message - From: Tanel

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