RE: Currval and buffer gets

2002-04-24 Thread James McCann
Gaja is correct. I had big problems recently with a highly concurrent application selecting from DUAL too many times, resulting in an extremely hot DUAL table. I wish I had knew this trick a few weeks ago. As it was, an bit of application tuning sorted it out. Jim -Original Message- Kri

Re: ORA-02074: cannot Rollback in a distributed transaction

2002-04-24 Thread Tim Gorman
Let the outer-most calling process handle COMMITs and ROLLBACKs.  A stored procedure should concentrate only on passing back error conditions appropriately. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, April

Re: Currval and buffer gets

2002-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I think there is a completely different level at which to view this issue. If your application is using dual "like there is no tomorrow" then there is almost certainly something wrong with your application design or code which is a much more significant threat to performance - both through bottl

SQL question

2002-04-24 Thread Nguyen, David M
How do I list all user accounts created in a database? And how do I list all user table indexes? Thanks, David -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Nguyen, David M INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-505

RE: SQL question

2002-04-24 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
>-How do I list all user accounts created in a database? SELECT * FROM DBA_USERS >-And how do I list all user table indexes? SELECT INDEX_NAME FROM DBA_INDEXES WHERE OWNER = 'MY_LUSER' Dave -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORA

RE: SQL question

2002-04-24 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
David, Look at DBA_USERS, DBA_TABLES, DBA_INDEXES and all other DBA_* views. All the info you are asking about is provided in these views. User: Select username from dba_users; Indexes: select table_name,index_name from dba_indexes where owner not in ('SYS','SYSTEM') Hope this helps. Tom Mer

RE: Anything new from IOUG? + "OWI" Born!! (Anjo/Mogens, please n

2002-04-24 Thread Freeman, Robert
So, do you remember the other top 10 items?? Robert -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L please n it was also mentioned at the Oracle of Oracles closing session, in the "top 10 things I learned in San Diego" :) --- Car

Re: SQL question

2002-04-24 Thread Ron Rogers
David, Basic sqlplus as the dba. Select username from dba_users; select owner,index_name from dba_indexes there owner not in ('SYS',SYSTEM'); Brush up on your reading skills. ROR mô¿ôm >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/24/02 12:23PM >>> How do I list all user accounts created in a database? And how do I

Re: good value for optimizer_index_cost_adj

2002-04-24 Thread Tim Gorman
Based on documentation, OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ seems to provide additional comparison information for the CBO in terms of the relative cost of different types of I/O. To make a long story short, I believe that guidance can come from examining timing statistics from the wait-events "db file scat

Re: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Alex
crontab -e On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, bill thater wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Anyone whom can tell me how to delete a job that is created by crontab. > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > Roland > > > > > > man crontab > > > -- > -- > Bill "Shrek" Thater ORACLE DB

access another user's data in a stored procedure - BECOME USER pr

2002-04-24 Thread Magaliff, Bill
I'm writing a stored procedure to be run by the dba. I want to provide the ability to manipulate data from a schema specified at runtime. I have the schema owner as an input variable, but I see three possible way to do this: 1) have the dba verify that all necessary DML privs on that schem

Re: Currval and buffer gets

2002-04-24 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello Gaja I checked the report from YAPP and library cache load lock accounts only to 0.75% of the wait time. 28 seconds during 6100 seconds between snaps. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2

Re: good value for optimizer_index_cost_adj

2002-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Best place to look is probably Tim Gorman's paper titled something like 'The search for intelligent life'. To be found on www.evdbt.com His argument, which I think is very sound, is that the "most correct" value for the parameter is the relative cost of a single block read compared to a multi bl

RE: Currval and buffer gets

2002-04-24 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Do you know of any reason that keeps Oracle implementing dual the way they have now and its effect on all the other PL/SQL functions? Also I saw something on the Metalink where some one inserted many records in dual and when selecting count(*) from dual it returns the right count but when selecti

Re: TOAD schema browser

2002-04-24 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello What version of toad are you using. I downloaded version 7.2 a few days ago. Connected as sys, activated schema browser and got all sys tables in the list. I also got all the users in the drop list to select user.   Yechiel Adar Mehish   - Original Message - From: [EMAI

Major Security Canyon in 9i!!!!!!

2002-04-24 Thread Freeman, Robert
This was posted on Quest/Revealnets DBA Pipeline (by Andrew Simkovsky)... Sounds like a major security issue. I have tested this on 9.0.1.2 and it is a real issue: Someone recently sent me some information regarding a possible security flaw with Oracle's ANSI-compliant outer join syntax in Orac

AW: SQL question

2002-04-24 Thread v . schoen
Select * from all_users Volker Schoen INPLAN RUHR E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inplan.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Nguyen, David M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. April 2002 18:24 An: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Betreff: SQL question H

RE: SQL question

2002-04-24 Thread Daniel W. Fink
Here's one that answers both questions in one query: SELECT u.username, i.table_name, i.index_namd FROM dba_users u, dba_indexes i WHERE u.username = i.owner (+) AND u.username not like 'SYS%' This will show all users and IF they have a table with an index, it will display these as well.

Alter command.Need urgent help.

2002-04-24 Thread Meomeo Nguyen
 Hi, I've worked on loading data into the database.  By mistake, I have a typo in table attribute that needs to be fixed. Please help me how to write an sqlplus to correct my misspelled word or delete the generl_description attribute not the whole table. Here is an example of my table PART Part_id

RE: Major Security Canyon in 9i!!!!!!

2002-04-24 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I may be mistaken, but I think this is a few days old already. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin & Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique

Re: Currval and buffer gets

2002-04-24 Thread Anjo Kolk
The acess path knows about DUAL and that it will return only 1 row. Create any dual table under another user and you will see that it returns all rows. Anjo. "Khedr, Waleed" wrote: > Do you know of any reason that keeps Oracle implementing dual the way they > have now and its effect on all the

RE: LOG_BUFFER Parameter Question

2002-04-24 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Alternatively, you size it until redo_log_space_wait goes away from v$system_events. -Original Message-From: Anjo Kolk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:59 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: LOG_BUFFER Parameter QuestionYep, w

Re: Number of File systems to use.

2002-04-24 Thread Johnson Poovathummoottil
My understanding was that EMC does not stripe its disks. they just have mirror and RAID S. --- Sr DBA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why would you software stripe it if you are using > EMC? > - Original Message - > From: "Johnson Poovathummoottil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "LazyDBA.com Dis

Re: LOG_BUFFER Parameter Question

2002-04-24 Thread Ray Stell
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 10:12:22AM -0800, Gogala, Mladen wrote: > Alternatively, you size it until redo_log_space_wait goes away from > v$system_events. it is v$system_event > > -Original Message- > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:59 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L >

RE: Number of File systems to use.

2002-04-24 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Now they have hardware striping. Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 2:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L My understanding was that EMC does not stripe its disks. they just have mirror and RAID S. --- Sr DBA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why

RE: Anything new from IOUG? + "OWI" Born!! (Anjo/Mogens, please n

2002-04-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
One I know was "bring a coat to San Diego" for those of you not at IOUG, San Diego, a city that is supposedly warm was COLD and everyone was freezing there they added a "zero" -- when you go to Tijuana, don't drink the water" I don't remember the rest --- "Freeman, Robert " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Any scripts to check the health of the database

2002-04-24 Thread Praveen Sahni
Hi All, I need to write a report on the health of a database. Please send if any of us have a scripts and any report format for the health of the database. Thanks in advance Praveen -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Praveen Sahni INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Scott . Shafer
"man kill" Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:29 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Cronjob > > Anyone whom can tell me how to delete a job th

RE: Number of File systems to use.

2002-04-24 Thread Bill Pass
Waleed, That's interesting. I just looked at the emc site and still do not see anything that would lead me to believe that they support hardware striping except for the IBM Sequential Data Striping. This was for the Symetrix 3000, 5000 & 8000 line. I would be keenly interested to know as we hav

RE: Number of File systems to use.

2002-04-24 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Look at the attached email message. There was a thread of discussion about this a month ago. Anyway I am going to test it on a small scale in one of my projects. I was told that 1MB (one track) stripe size is the smallest efficient size we should have b/c EMC will read 1MB anyway (one track) even

Re: Any scripts to check the health of the database

2002-04-24 Thread Joe Raube
Do a search on Google -- you'll find plenty. -Joe --- Praveen Sahni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > I need to write a report on the health of a database. > Please send if any of us have a scripts and any report format for > the health > of the database. > Thanks in advance > Praveen > --

RE: Number of File systems to use.

2002-04-24 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Try this link: https://powerlink.emc.com/MediumFreq/21110_Symmetrix_3930_5930_Installation_ Manual.pdf starting from page 155 Waleed Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company -Original Message- Se

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Ivan Llamoca
crontab -r ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Currval and buffer gets

2002-04-24 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
Hello Yechiel, Not sure what you mean...I was referring to the "cache buffers chains" latch in my note NOT the library cache load lock. Gaja --- Yechiel Adar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Gaja > > I checked the report from YAPP and library cache > load lock accounts > only to 0.75% of the

Re: good value for optimizer_index_cost_adj

2002-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lewis
It's interesting that you should have heard that. My first interpretation of the optimizer_index_cost_adj was that it was an estimate of the table logical I/O that would become physical I/O (and ignore the fact that this was allowed to go above 100%) - which brings it into line, somewhat, with th

RE: Currval and buffer gets

2002-04-24 Thread Glenn Travis
Title: RE: Currval and buffer gets On HP-UX: model   = 9000/800/N4000-55OS release level= B.11.11processor count = 8clock speed = 550 MHzmemory  = 16384 Mb SQL> set serveroutput on size 1;SQL> @test.sql 27  /run time using view x_$dual in centiseconds=600run time u

Re: Any scripts to check the health of the database

2002-04-24 Thread Jared . Still
Personally, I think that many folks go a bit overboard when it comes to checking the health of a database. These are the things I like to check for: * is the database up? this is the most important tech check * status of jobs in DBA_JOBS * space issues. Will a table be able to extend N times

RE: Any scripts to check the health of the database

2002-04-24 Thread Gogala, Mladen
sqlplus "/ as sysdba" < -Original Message- > From: Praveen Sahni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:24 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Any scripts to check the health of the database > > > Hi All, > I need to write a report on the heal

Re: Why wait?

2002-04-24 Thread Greg Moore
> Thats fine for expensive sql...but waits can be a > whole lot more than that... Agreed. I'm just asking about "db file scattered read" and "db file sequential read." What's the purpose of using the wait interface to investigate these two events? The accounts I've read of drilling down throug

RE: Memory?

2002-04-24 Thread Glenn Travis
Can you post this script inline as the list strips attachments. > -Original Message- > From: Sergey V Dolgov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 2:58 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Re: Memory? > > > Hello Clinton, > > Here is script fo

Re: Major Security Canyon in 9i!!!!!!

2002-04-24 Thread Jared . Still
Robert, Jonathan Lewis posted this security issue last week. Jared "Freeman, Robert " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/24/2002 10:23 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:

Re: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Jared . Still
crontab -e is bad! 1000 points if you can figure out why. ( guess I'm watching too much 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?" ) Jared Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/24/2002 10:07 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTE

good pl/sql coding/debugging tool?

2002-04-24 Thread Magaliff, Bill
I'm trying to evaluate tools for pl/sql coding/debugging - main options seem to be toad, sql navigator (both from quest) and rapid sql (from embarcadero). One nice thing I noticed about the embarcadero product is the ability to debug anonymous blocks . . .but haven't looked seriously into other p

RE: Anything new from IOUG? + "OWI" Born!! (Anjo/Mogens, please n

2002-04-24 Thread Freeman, Robert
>> I don't remember the rest Was that because of the water in Tijuana?? :-)) Sorry I missed out on that, but I got otherwise involved in something. RF -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:28 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L please n One I know was "bring a

RE: Major Security Canyon in 9i!!!!!!

2002-04-24 Thread Freeman, Robert
Ahhh I was at IOUG-A and didn't see itDon't remember seeing it in the MOUNTAIN (!) of messages posted here while I was gone... But anyway, just trying to do my duty as a good Oracle citizen of the world! :-)) RF -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:17 PM To: [EMA

Re: Currval and buffer gets

2002-04-24 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
Agreed! No arguments there. I am all for designing and writing scalable code from the starting block and avoiding wastage of resources. But sometimes the problem is much more complex. I am sure you have inherited "bad application design" or "bad code" enough times, and may I add "Not by choice". A

OT: Job posting in Boca - possible relo

2002-04-24 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Hello all, Again I am sending this to the list because people on the list in the past have asked me for job leads in Florida. Jared, If this is not welcome, please let me know. I was just contacted about a job posting in Boca Raton for a Peoplesoft/Oracle DBA. Here's the description: "They h

RE: Currval and buffer gets

2002-04-24 Thread Sakthi , Raj
On ORACLE 8163/Win2K , I got some interesting results though... ONE SESSION ONLY SYS@ZETA@RSAKTHI> run time using table dual in centiseconds=400 PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. Elapsed: 00:00:03.75 SYS@ZETA@RSAKTHI> SYS@ZETA@RSAKTHI> TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS SYS@ZETA@RSAKTHI>/ run t

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Godlewski, Melissa
Title: RE: Cronjob A wrong keystroke could blow away the entire crontab file by accident.  %:| -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 5:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Cronjob crontab -e is

OLAP Financial Function Calculators for Oracle 9i.

2002-04-24 Thread SRAJENDRAN
Hello: I would like to know if the Oracle Express feature of Financial Function Calculators are available with Oracle enterprise Edition 9.0.1.0.0. If my memory serves me correctly , I think Oracle has incorporated OLAP services as part of the 9i database enterprise edition. But I am not cer

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
So you wipe out a few jobs in the crontab. Big deal! It just means your sysadmin has to stay up late explaining my backups and payroll didn't run. Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Product Architect Compuware Corporation Direct: (248) 865-4350 Mobile: (248) 408-2918 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Marc Cure
You'll lose your entire crontab if you do a crontab -e when /var is full? (I've had this happen to me on HP-UX...) Marc Cure Oracle DBA, OCP 8i -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 5:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L crontab -e is bad! 10

RE: Any scripts to check the health of the database

2002-04-24 Thread Magaliff, Bill
love it! - this gets my vote - -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:58 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L sqlplus "/ as sysdba" < -Original Message- > From: Praveen Sahni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:24 PM > To: Multip

Re: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Alex
-e Edit the current crontab using the editor specified by the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables. The specified editor must edit the file in place; any editor that unlinks the file and recreates it cannot be used. After you exit from the editor, the modified crontab will be installed a

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Sherman, Edward
If you crontab -e and a job is scheduled to run during the time that you are editing, then the job doesn't execute while you are editing. No jobs will execute while you're in crontab -e. Even if you :w your changes. No cronjobs will execute while the editor is open so don't forget to close that ed

Re: Why wait?

2002-04-24 Thread Anjo Kolk
Greg, You wrote: If your goal is to find SQL that does a lot of physical reads, why not forget about these two events?  Just go to v$sql and sort by physical reads. Now you have a comprehensive picture of what's going on. One of the problems with that is that you assume that 100 I/Os are always f

Re: monitoring multiple databases using PL/SQL -- follow-up question

2002-04-24 Thread dmeng
Thanks all who replied to my E-mail. Right now I am still leaning toward having a centralized monitoring script running in a admin database because - 1. Ease of administration 2. We don't need anything fancy, don't need application level monitorin, so the requirements for different databases are

Re: good value for optimizer_index_cost_adj

2002-04-24 Thread Greg Moore
> "db file scattered read" (associated with FULL > table scans) and "db file sequential > read" (associated with indexed scans) But see, Tuning 101, p. 35, where a "db file sequential read" is investigated and the waits are found to be reads from a *table*. And other examples elsewhere, where

Re: Any scripts to check the health of the database

2002-04-24 Thread Greg Moore
www.evdbt.com/library.htm has a health check script -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Greg Moore INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Maili

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Sherman, Paul R.
Jared, You owe me 1000 points. And I know someone who did a crontab -r (so far from 'e' and yet so close!); lots of fun after that deletion. I always usecrontab -l > crontab.mmdd Thank you, Paul Sherman DBA voice - 781-501-4143 (office) fax- 781-278-8341 (office) email - [EMAIL P

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Steve McClure
> -e Edit the current crontab using the editor specified by the >VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables. The specified editor must >edit the file in place; any editor that unlinks the file and >recreates it cannot be used. After you exit from the editor, the >modified crontab will be instal

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Scott . Shafer
Come on, Jared, its more fun to: crontab < /dev/null Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:19 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Re: Cronjob > >

Re: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Suzy Vordos
Let's see, I do recall that changes made with crontab -e aren't always applied (think this was Solaris 2.5). [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > crontab -e is bad! > > 1000 points if you can figure out why. > ( guess I'm watching too much 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?" ) > > Jared > > Alex <[EMAIL P

RE: Materilized view?

2002-04-24 Thread H elp_me
Hello Seema, It seems you are trying to run REFRESH every minute (1) instead of very hour.. Use start with sysdate next sysdate+ 1/24 Instead of start with sysdate next sysdate+ 1/(24*60) HTH Nikunj >From: "Seema Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recip

Re: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Joe Testa
been there done that. crontab -l > /tmp/c.c vi /tmp/c.c crontab /tmp/c.c joe Marc Cure wrote: >You'll lose your entire crontab if you do a crontab -e when /var is full? > >(I've had this happen to me on HP-UX...) > >Marc Cure >Oracle DBA, OCP 8i > > >-Original Message- >[EMAIL PROTE

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Ivan Llamoca
SORRY crontab -e "Ivan Llamoca"

Curious question about flushing the Pool

2002-04-24 Thread Johnson, Michael
I see a couple of folks who want to know how to flush the pool or are looking for a script to do it automatically. Shouldn't we be asking what is causing the behavior that got us to this quandry in the first place ? Just a stupid question .. I know ! Peace ! Mike -- Please see the officia

RE: Anything new from IOUG? + "OWI" Born!! (Anjo/Mogens, please n

2002-04-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
no, the Tijuana trip we were very careful not to drink the water (hm, that left only alcohol!) I just didn't write them down, was having too much fun just listening to them --- "Freeman, Robert " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't remember the rest > > Was that because of the water in Tij

Re: DATA TYPE question

2002-04-24 Thread Meomeo Nguyen
 Hi, I've tried to load data into a table with a data type number(5,3).  For any reason, the system just rounded off the decimal number.  It inserted the number 2 into the table instead of 1.5.  Please direct me how to fix my problem.  Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. TrangDo Y

Re: char vs. varchar2

2002-04-24 Thread Eriovaldo Andrietta
Friend : In my opinion, if you will use the ltrim(rtrim(column_char)) , i hope you solve the problem. Am i wrong ? Eriovaldo - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 7:12 PM > Is there any overhead (ie. inte

Extent Math

2002-04-24 Thread Browett, Darren
I am in the process of loading some image data, and would like to "pack" the data as best I can. Version 8.1.7.2.0 Locally managed tablespace with a 3Mb extent. pctfree=1 pctused=95 After I do an analyze table I get the following results num_rows*avg_row_len=28896420 bytes by segment=34603008

Re: Patch Install (8.1.7.3) and oraInventory

2002-04-24 Thread Eriovaldo Andrietta
Hi Glenn : I just finished to do it today. I just deleted the temp files, and after it the Universal Installer showed for me the list of products. Regards Eriovaldo - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 5:

Re: good value for optimizer_index_cost_adj

2002-04-24 Thread Tim Gorman
The naming of these two wait-events is unfortunate in that they are counter-intuitive. You would normally think that the phrase "sequential" implied one thing and the phrase "scattered" implied the opposite. They do, but not the way one would guess... "Db file scattered read" is the wait-event

RE: Why wait?

2002-04-24 Thread John Kanagaraj
Greg, As one who has been using the (now (un)officially named) OWI since I read Anjo's paper in '98, I can speak for its' value. I believe we are approaching the same problem from two sides, and there is merit for each approach. The Wait interface provides invaluable information from a Top-level

Re: good value for optimizer_index_cost_adj

2002-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Well, Tim did say he was making a long story short. scattered reads = multiblock reads which are typically associated with tablescans, but can be index fast full scans. sequential reads = single block reads which are typically associated with index block reads, table blocks

Re: Curious question about flushing the Pool

2002-04-24 Thread Tim Gorman
begin rant - It's *ALWAYS* a good idea to try to understand the underlying causes, for any and every situation. Too often people attempt to attack new problems with the same approach that they used before (or heard some "guru" advise), in a different context, in a different environment,

Re: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
hm, I wonder if someone will do a "top 20 Unix mistakes" presentation :) --- Joe Testa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > been there done that. > > > crontab -l > /tmp/c.c > vi /tmp/c.c > > crontab /tmp/c.c > > joe > > > Marc Cure wrote: > > >You'll lose your entire crontab if you do a crontab

Re: good value for optimizer_index_cost_adj

2002-04-24 Thread Tim Gorman
I've got it on my list of things I'd like to do (i.e. understand DBMS_STATS.GATHER_SYSTEM_STATS), but I don't see any time to do it anytime soon. :-( It makes sense that the use of this procedure should obsolesce both OPTIMIZER_INDEX_ parameters... - Original Message - To: "Multiple

Re: Why wait?

2002-04-24 Thread Greg Moore
Anjo,   You wrote:   The problem in Oracle is that wait events are not broken down per SQL statement (only on the instance and session level). There are products that out there that do this for you, but that would be completely different post ;-)   I'll bite.  Which products do this?   Do t

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Rachel, I will be doing some of that on the 'big boat' next week ;) but from the DBA's viewpoint. Sounds like a good idea for the next IOUGA (or UKOUG, or both)... :) Thanks. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:18 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L h

Re: Why wait?

2002-04-24 Thread Tim Gorman
I wrote a paper/presentation (entitled "SQL Tuning for DBAs") in 1996, presenting it at several user groups and at Open World Australasia in late 1997. I still have it on my website (www.evdbt.com/library.htm). It advocated examining the SQL Area on one side (to find "bad" SQL statements) and ex

RE: Curious question about flushing the Pool

2002-04-24 Thread Cary Millsap
I think an excellent Oracle kernel enhancement would be to bias in the LRU scheme against SQL that uses literals, just like the buffer cache algorithm biases against blocks that are read via full-table scan. Think about it... What's the likelihood that a SQL statement that's filthy with literal va

RE: TOAD schema browser

2002-04-24 Thread Kimberly Smith
Its telling you to stop signing in as sys. -Original Message- Dolgov Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 2:58 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello ORACLE-L, I'm connecting to oracle using TOAD under sys account - all works well. I can select from sys' tables and views, b

RE: good value for optimizer_index_cost_adj

2002-04-24 Thread Cary Millsap
Check out Jeff Holt's "Why are Oracle's Read Events 'Named Backwards'?" (www.hotsos.com/dnloads/1.Holt2000.02.01-Backwards.pdf) for a description of why these events are named the way they are.   Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hotsos.com -Original Message

Attn. : Bill Pass (RE: Materialized View)

2002-04-24 Thread Atul Kumar
Hi Bill Thanks for your reply. In fact when I try following SQL i get result (few records available in table DEPT) "select * from dept@softek1" I could not understand the meaning of your statement "You can pull the clear text password out of sys.link$ for this puspose.". Please clarify and hel

Re: Why wait?

2002-04-24 Thread Greg Moore
John, Agreed. My comments were specifically about two events, "db file scattered read" and "db file sequential read." I'm just a beginner at waits, so maybe I don't get it. My understanding is, all you need to do is three back flips, a few drill downs, interpret P1 and P2, analyze what STATE m

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Kimberly Smith
That's what the SA's are for. Restore please. They should have never let /var get full:-) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You'll lose your entire crontab if you do a crontab -e when /var is full? (I've had this happe

Legato Networker Module for Oracle!

2002-04-24 Thread kminerva
Help needed, what is the difference with these software. Legato Networker Module for Oracle, separate product which has to be purchased from Legato. And then Legato Software coming with Oracle CD. BR keijo __ Ota itsellesi luotettava kotimainen email http://www.jippii.fi/ Tutustu samalla net

Experimentation set up

2002-04-24 Thread Ankita Shankar
Dear Gurus, I'm beginning to get into 'Experimenting' - would like to create a test-bench, measure statistics, develop benchmarks etc. Specifically, I would like to develop an area where the cost and other stats values of executing a statement/transaction can be measured without being distort

Re: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Jared Still
Yeah, logged in as root from someone else's workstation, and no one is watching. Jared On Wednesday 24 April 2002 15:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Come on, Jared, its more fun to: > > crontab < /dev/null > > Scott Shafer > San Antonio, TX > 210-581-6217 > > > -Original Message- > > Fro

Re: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Jared Still
Well, no, it isn't. I didn't realize that particular peculiarity of -e. The problem with crontab -e is that it's too easy to remove jobs accidentally, with no record of it. Myself, I use: co -l crontab.txt crontab -l > test.txt diff crontab.txt test.txt # proceed if there are no differe

Re: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Jared Still
This is not the only way. See my next post on this. Jared On Wednesday 24 April 2002 15:08, Alex wrote: > -e Edit the current crontab using the editor specified by the > VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables. The specified editor must > edit the file in place; any editor that unlinks t

Re: Is sqlplus too slow to unload data?

2002-04-24 Thread Jared Still
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 21:53, Bin Wang wrote: > Hi, > Our application uses sqlplus + sqlloader to transfer data between > databases. It takes nearly four hours to unload to data to flat > files(1G), which is far too slow. In the application, the query looks > like the following. All those &3

Re: Curious question about flushing the Pool

2002-04-24 Thread Jared Still
Tim, I've had opportunity to tune the database in an attempt to fix a poorly ( very ) designed application. This app may well benefit from CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE, but that would negate the use of histograms on one table that makes good use of them. That parameter may also have an effect on the

RE: Curious question about flushing the Pool

2002-04-24 Thread kranti pushkarna
quite reasonable -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 9:33 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I think an excellent Oracle kernel enhancement would be to bias in the LRU scheme against SQL that uses literals, just like the buffer cache algorithm biases against block

Standby Database-No space on Disk

2002-04-24 Thread Hussain Ahmed Qadri
Title: Standby Database-No space on Disk Hello All Oracle 8.1.7, WINNT4. On our standby Database box, we have run out of space on the partition which was holding the Temporary tablespace. Now the problem is that when ever I try to start the recovery, it gives the message that there is no spa

Re: Clob indexes

2002-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lewis
It would make sense, I would expect Oracle to take a shortcut with LOB Indexes, simply hard-coding the fact that access to the LOB should always be via the LOB index. Consequently there would be no point in thinking about them You could run SQL_TRACE prior to the dbms_stats call, and see if t

Re: Currval and buffer gets

2002-04-24 Thread Yechiel Adar
Problem solved but the mystery continue. I tried the describe in TOAD and got 'object x$dual not found'. The describe works in sqlplus. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 8:23 PM > Hi Yech

Partitioned oracle tables

2002-04-24 Thread Simon Waibale
Hi all, We have two partitioned tables, T1 and T2. T1 belongs to one user and has 8 partitions, 3 users have a table called T2 with 8 partitions. We are trying to : 1) Alter tables (T1,T2) drop all partitions 2) Take tablespaces holding the partitions offline 3) Drop tablespaces 4) drop users Tro

Re: LOG_BUFFER Parameter Question

2002-04-24 Thread Anjo Kolk
Yep, wrong tree. size it like: redo blocks per tx * tx/sec * 3/2 * Anjo.   Denham Eva wrote:   Hello, I have been wondering about how to work out what the optimal LOG_BUFFER parameter, compared to the physical size of the REDOLOG file, for the best optimization and writes from buffer to log. Or a

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