Re:RE: RE: salary advise

2001-01-30 Thread dgoulet
Well at least here in the US, our women are smart enough to stay out of the presidential meat grinder. But given the last twenty years of bone heads we've elected, from RayGun to Bush Jr., I think I'll vote for a women even if she just declares. I think we've had enough of guys who have their

RE: How to drop a database

2001-01-30 Thread Glenn Travis
Here's a script I wrote to list all the files associated with the database. List, did I miss any? ___ break on today column today noprint new_value xdate select substr(to_char(sysdate,'fmMonth DD, HH:MI:SS P.M.'),1,35) today from dual; column name noprint new_value dbname

Init.ora .. OPTIMIZER parm: optimizer_index_cost_adj

2001-01-30 Thread bruce . taneja
Has any one messed with optimizer_index_cost_adj on 8.1.7 ?? The default is 100, but my boss thinks 10 is a better value for Cost based Opmtzr.. doesn't make any sense to me.. why would reducing the cost of using an optimizer make it more CBO or go faster.. what if its a large table?

where do you specify the nls_lang for a new database

2001-01-30 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Dear lister, We are going to build 2 new production databases. Does the NLS_LANG statement go in the create script or in the init.ora? Thanks in advance, Ruth B. Gramolini ORACLE DB2 DBA VT Dept. of Taxes ph# 802.828.5708 fax# 802.828..3754 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official

Index Usage Monitoring

2001-01-30 Thread PRINCE, PATRICK W.
We have a purchased application with over 1,300 indexes. Can someone suggest a method to monitor the system to determine which indexes are actively being used over time? I'm assuming that some are old/not necessary and would like to save the overhead of maintaining them. Oracle 8.0.6

METABLINK on the Fritz?

2001-01-30 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: METABLINK on the Fritz? Am I the only one having trouble roundabout 4pm EST?

Index usage for a table

2001-01-30 Thread Browning, Alan
Is there anyway to find out which indexes are being used and which ones are not being used for any given table? Thanks in Advance Alan -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Browning, Alan INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858)

Re: METABLINK on the Fritz?

2001-01-30 Thread Babu Nagarajan
Title: METABLINK on the Fritz? u are not alone... i've been trying since about 3:00 pm est... its crawling.. - Original Message - From: Mohan, Ross To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 4:06 PM Subject: METABLINK on the

RE: METABLINK on the Fritz?

2001-01-30 Thread David Barbour
Title: METABLINK on the Fritz? Nah - I usually get into some type of trouble roundabout 4pm EST. David A. Barbour Oracle DBA - ConnectSouth 512-681-9438 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Mohan, Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 3:06 PMTo:

Re: Init.ora .. OPTIMIZER parm: optimizer_index_cost_adj

2001-01-30 Thread Tim Sawmiller
This parameter tells the optimizer how much weight to give to indexes when evaluating a query. That's the short answer, it's really more complicated than that. A client I have uses a value of 4 for this parameter. This was arrived at using the old fashion method of changing the value and

Re:Setting job_queue_processes

2001-01-30 Thread dgoulet
Larry, Yes, "alter system set job_queue_processes x". Regrettably there is no such command for job_queue_interval. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Larry Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 1/30/2001 1:25 PM Hi folks, Is there a way to set

Re: Index usage for a table

2001-01-30 Thread Oliver Artelt
On Tuesday 30 January 2001 23:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: run a query using explain plan ... and use sql trace oli -Original Message- Alan Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 4:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Is there anyway to find out which indexes are being

RE: PlusTrace not getting enabled

2001-01-30 Thread Garrity Ed R
Hi Sanjay, The remarks section of PLUSTRCE.SQL, under NOTES, says: ... This file must be run while logged-in as SYS. I tested this and got the same errors, when I executed PLUSTRCE.SQL and granted the plustrace role as system. It worked fine when I did both again as sys. I hopes

Re: error message

2001-01-30 Thread Joseph S. Testa
sounds like LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set, set it to $ORACLE_HOME/lib and export it. joe Roy Ferguson wrote: would anyone have an idea as to what would cause and how to fix the following error message?: ld.so.1: sqlplus: fatal: libclntsh.so.1.0: open failed: no such file or directory I

Archive log file monitoring Unix script - Help needed

2001-01-30 Thread Viraj Luthra
Hello, I need help in writing a unix script to monitor the archive log file for archiving the redologs. The script needs to do the following:- 1. Read the parameter, log_archive_dest in the init.ora file 2. After it has the file name, need to know whether more data can written into the file