Re: BCHR Tuning

2003-01-11 Thread Jonathan Lewis

A brilliant solution.

I knew that the real Steve Adams couldn't
have edited it when I say the line starting:

quote
Latches are low-level queuing mechanisms
end quote

The man who wrote THE book about latches in
Oracle couldn't possibly have made the mistake
of thinking that latching was a queueing mechanism.
In fact, there is a bit in Steve's chapter on latches
which says quite specifically:

latches do not support request queueing
latch requests are not necessarily serviced in
order.



Having said that, I thought the article was far better
than usual.  There was still plenty of scope for
criticism, but it seemed to convey more useful
information than usual, even though presentation
and ordering were somewhat garbled in places, and
there were several small errors and misunderstandings.


Regards

Jonathan Lewis
http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk

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Undskyld!
But you assumed that the Steve Adams mentioned at the bottom of that
article is the one you know ;))

They should have mentioned Steve's Web site. They did not miss tusc
and ioug URLs. Ummm. wonder why not ;) ;)

I say poor Copy Editing on part of the publishers.

- Kirti



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Re: #of blocks in extent

2003-01-11 Thread Amar Kumar Padhi
UNIFORM SIZE clause of Tablespace, if it is LMT.

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  How many blocks are allocated to an extend . what
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  Is it some storage param ?
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RE: Create Mat View uses DEFAULT TABLESPACE for temp segments?

2003-01-11 Thread Burke, William F (Bill)
Title: RE: Create Mat View uses DEFAULT TABLESPACE for temp segments?



The 
only people who don't occasionally look a bit dumb are those who don't do 
anything... Check my CLOB/RAW question... can I help paddle the bit 
dumb boat :)
Regards, 
Bill Burke "The 
Kinder and Gentler DBA" IOUG University 
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Management, High Performance Infrastructure and HA" IOUG Board of Directors 2000-2002 ODTUG Board of Directors 1996-2000 www.OracleGuru.com www.KBMotorsports.biz 

  -Original Message-From: Thomas Jeff 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 7:44 
  AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: 
  Create Mat View uses DEFAULT TABLESPACE for temp 
segments?
  sigh It's always fun to come out looking a bit 
  dumb in front of such a prestigious group. 
  Thanks Jared. 
  My problem turned out to be the placement of the BUILD clause. 
  Yes, BUILD IMMEDIATE is the default, but my personal 
  preference is to display all default parameters within 
  reason within all DDL. 
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  create materialized view MY_MV pctfree 
  10 pctused 80 tablespace 
  medium_table_tbs using index pctfree 5 
  tablespace medium_index_tbs refresh 
  fast start with sysdate -- 
  every 30 minutes next sysdate + 30 / 1440 
  as select *  
  All is explained in the fine manual. 
  Jared 
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  Subject: RE: Create Mat View uses 
  DEFAULT TABLESPACE for temp segments? 
  You were right. Tracing the operation 
  did show at the end that there's a CREATE UNIQUE INDEX 
  statement with no tablespace specified. 
  Checking the manuals a bit more carefully shows that 
  Oracle will create at least one internal table and at 
  least one index for the mat view. It also states that 
  the matview must have sufficient quota in the the 
  target tablespace to store the master table and index. The obvious question then is: how I do specify a target 
  tablespace for this index? I've tried 
  various parameters but can't seem to get it to work. 
  
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  It's not blatantly obvious, but if you've created 
  the whole thing in the standard way Oracle will 
  be creating an index on the table that holds 
  the materialized view data - and that index will 
  go into your default tablespace. 
  Regards Jonathan Lewis 
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  Date: 08 January 2003 16:06 
  This is 8.1.7.4 on AIX 4.3.3. When 
  I try to create a materialized view in the specified tablespace, I hit the 
  following error. Is this a behavior 
  of the create 
  materialized view statement, to create temp segments in the user's default tablespace, and not use the target tablespace? 
  I've double-checked all ts 
  quotas and appropriate privs. Changing the user's default 
  tablespace to the target 
  tablespace works of course. Or am I missing something blatantly obvious here? 
SQL CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW tcs_ord_hist_mv  2 TABLESPACE TCS_MD_DT01  3 BUILD IMMEDIATE  
  4 REFRESH ON DEMAND  5 ENABLE 
  QUERY REWRITE  6 AS  7 SELECT customer_number, 
   
  8 
  product_number,  
  9 
  SUM(order_quantity) history_ordered_qty  
  10 FROM tcs.tcs_order_history 
   11 GROUP BY 
  customer_number, product_number  12 / 
   FROM 
  tcs.tcs_order_history  
  * ERROR at line 10: ORA-01630: max # extents (505) reached in temp segment in 
  tablespace USERS  
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Re: BCHR Tuning

2003-01-11 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
The real Steve is sitting about 42 centimeters from me talking to his 
family in Australia. And I think the flight from Sydney took about 2000 
hours, so it cannot possibly be him mentioned in the article by Rich.

Thanks for pointing this out, Kerti. Suddenly it all makes sense. There 
are at least two SA's in the world.

Mogens

Jonathan Lewis wrote:

A brilliant solution.

I knew that the real Steve Adams couldn't
have edited it when I say the line starting:

quote
   Latches are low-level queuing mechanisms
end quote

The man who wrote THE book about latches in
Oracle couldn't possibly have made the mistake
of thinking that latching was a queueing mechanism.
In fact, there is a bit in Steve's chapter on latches
which says quite specifically:

   latches do not support request queueing
   latch requests are not necessarily serviced in
   order.



Having said that, I thought the article was far better
than usual.  There was still plenty of scope for
criticism, but it seemed to convey more useful
information than usual, even though presentation
and ordering were somewhat garbled in places, and
there were several small errors and misunderstandings.


Regards

Jonathan Lewis
http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk

Coming soon a new one-day tutorial:
Cost Based Optimisation
(see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html )

Next Seminar dates:
(see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html )

England__January 21/23
USA_(CA, TX)_August


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Date: 11 January 2003 06:51


Undskyld!
But you assumed that the Steve Adams mentioned at the bottom of that
article is the one you know ;))

They should have mentioned Steve's Web site. They did not miss tusc
and ioug URLs. Ummm. wonder why not ;) ;)

I say poor Copy Editing on part of the publishers.

- Kirti



 



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RE: Conversion from CLOB to RAW

2003-01-11 Thread Burke, William F (Bill)
The amount of data being stored is fairly significant @60G of xml
transaction data.  The developers want to apply a compression routine to the
xml string which will save about 70% of the space currently in use.  BLOB
was my original recommendation, they were pushing to go RAW instead.  We've
only got a couple of CLOB's out there, but they are taking up huge amounts
of storage.  On the overkill note, most all of the XML has been parsed to
less than 2K in length so one of my thoughts was we had introduced LOB
functionality without really needing it.

The other aside to this is we will definately need to partition the data
when we do the conversion as it currently resides in a traditional table as
a CLOB.

Regards,

Bill Burke
The Kinder and Gentler DBA
IOUG University Master Class Faculty 2001-2002
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ODTUG Board of Directors 1996-2000
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Bill,

I agree with Michael.  You've already got the data in a suitable
datatype.  Why move it to a cumbersome, soon-to-be-obsolete datatype?  You
can use DBMS_LOB functionality on LOBs, not on Raw.

I'd be so happy if the couple dozen tables in our 3rd party Student
Information system that have Long or Long Raw columns had CLOB or BLOB
columns instead.  It would make converting them to partitioned tables much
easier.

I definitely vote to keep your CLOBs.

Jack C. Applewhite
Database Administrator
Austin Independent School District
Austin, Texas
512.414.9715 (wk)
512.935.5929 (pager)
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At 11:30 AM 1/10/2003 -0800, Burke, William F (Bill) wrote:
  Here's where I get to ask the most likely simple question.

  I've inherited a database where it was built using a CLOB to hold XML
  data
  but we have now determined that was total overkill and want to move
  it to a
  RAW column or other suitable datatype.

  Looking for conversion issues or other alternatives.


Since Oracle is moving us away from LONG and RAW datatypes, I assume
you want to convert from CLOB to BLOB?  BLOB is probably more
storage-efficient,
but since XML is made up of character data, I don't really understand the
issue with
keeping it a CLOB.

 What do you mean by overkill?




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www.oracle.com down?

2003-01-11 Thread Nicolai Tufar



Is Oracle's web site down?

I just decieded to try J2EE Web Services CD they 
sent me.
It has all the goodies in password-protectd ZIP 
files and tells to 
go to http://www.oracle.com/go/?Src="">and
fill registration form to get the password. What a 
pity. The
site is down just in the omemnt you need it 
most.

Could anyone who tried out the CD share the 
password?

Thanks in advance,
Nick.


Re: www.oracle.com down?

2003-01-11 Thread Nicolai Tufar



Thank you! The site is up again and I was worried 
that no one would
confirm that it was down. I swear it was 
down!

UNBREAKABLE indeed. Cannot break it, cannot break 
in. Cannot
get it, cannot get in.

I know what are you doing. Metalink, huh? Best 
luck.

Regards,
Nick

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  K 
  Gopalakrishnan 
  To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L 
  
  Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 1:13 
  AM
  Subject: RE: www.oracle.com down?
  
  Looks like it is down.. I was trying to get in to 
  metalink
  at 
  2.30-3.00 AM IST (don;t ask what am I doing at that time)
  on 
  Sunday Morning.. it is down.. !! 
  
  Heard it is running in the UNBREAKABLE database..
  Perhaps they can use Jonathan Lewis's phrase..
  
  'Let 
  us reboot at the lunch time and call it as a 
  network failure ' :D
  
  Best Regards,K Gopalakrishnan
  
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ORACLE-LSubject: www.oracle.com down?
Is Oracle's web site down?

I just decieded to try J2EE Web Services CD 
they sent me.
It has all the goodies in password-protectd ZIP 
files and tells to 
go to http://www.oracle.com/go/?Src="">and
fill registration form to get the password. 
What a pity. The
site is down just in the omemnt you need it 
most.

Could anyone who tried out the CD share the 
password?

Thanks in advance,
Nick.


Oracle CD's

2003-01-11 Thread guess who
One of my friend who has subscribed to oracle OTN has got three 
CD's free(Oracle 9i Database CD's)...Can any one tell me how to 
get it...
I am also registered in OTN but i am getting magazines only..No 
CD's like that...

Regards,
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RE: Oracle CD's

2003-01-11 Thread Richard Ji
Probably because Oracle didn't want to guess who you are?

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I am also registered in OTN but i am getting magazines only..No 
CD's like that...

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Re: Oracle CD's

2003-01-11 Thread Nicolai Tufar
http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/ias/htdocs/winsoft.html#j2ee

Click on TryOnline icon and fill in the form. But they are not sending
Oracle Database these days. Ony Application Server, JDeveloper
and Oracle Lite.

Nick


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Re: Conversion from CLOB to RAW

2003-01-11 Thread Arup Nanda
Bill,

If the data length is less than 2K, why not use varchar2? You get all the
functionality like substr(), instr(), like etc. I'm not sure why you are
leaning towards RAW, when the type you are storing is of character based.

HTH.

Arup
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 The amount of data being stored is fairly significant @60G of xml
 transaction data.  The developers want to apply a compression routine to
the
 xml string which will save about 70% of the space currently in use.  BLOB
 was my original recommendation, they were pushing to go RAW instead.
We've
 only got a couple of CLOB's out there, but they are taking up huge amounts
 of storage.  On the overkill note, most all of the XML has been parsed to
 less than 2K in length so one of my thoughts was we had introduced LOB
 functionality without really needing it.

 The other aside to this is we will definately need to partition the data
 when we do the conversion as it currently resides in a traditional table
as
 a CLOB.

 Regards,

 Bill Burke
 The Kinder and Gentler DBA
 IOUG University Master Class Faculty 2001-2002
 iDBA Management, High Performance Infrastructure and HA
 IOUG Board of Directors 2000-2002
 ODTUG Board of Directors 1996-2000
 www.OracleGuru.com
 www.KBMotorsports.biz



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 Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 4:24 PM
 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L



 Bill,

 I agree with Michael.  You've already got the data in a suitable
 datatype.  Why move it to a cumbersome, soon-to-be-obsolete datatype?
You
 can use DBMS_LOB functionality on LOBs, not on Raw.

 I'd be so happy if the couple dozen tables in our 3rd party Student
 Information system that have Long or Long Raw columns had CLOB or BLOB
 columns instead.  It would make converting them to partitioned tables much
 easier.

 I definitely vote to keep your CLOBs.

 Jack C. Applewhite
 Database Administrator
 Austin Independent School District
 Austin, Texas
 512.414.9715 (wk)
 512.935.5929 (pager)
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]





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 CLOB to RAW




   01/10/2003 02:15

   PM

   Please respond to

   ORACLE-L









 At 11:30 AM 1/10/2003 -0800, Burke, William F (Bill) wrote:
   Here's where I get to ask the most likely simple question.

   I've inherited a database where it was built using a CLOB to hold
XML
   data
   but we have now determined that was total overkill and want to move
   it to a
   RAW column or other suitable datatype.

   Looking for conversion issues or other alternatives.


 Since Oracle is moving us away from LONG and RAW datatypes, I assume
 you want to convert from CLOB to BLOB?  BLOB is probably more
 storage-efficient,
 but since XML is made up of character data, I don't really understand the
 issue with
 keeping it a CLOB.

  What do you mean by overkill?




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