RE: Waits on latch free for shared_pool library Cache

2001-02-05 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Bull's eye . Will Check out the Steve Adams' Book revert Thanks -Original Message- From: yong huang [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Waits on latch free for shared_pool library

RE: ***Problem***

2001-02-05 Thread Mark Leith
select empid, empname, dept from employees where rownum = 3546; When you are looking for scott.. That is pretty unreliable, and I think that is what Bunyamin(?) was getting at.. Regards Mark -Original Message- Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 02:40 To: Multiple recipients of list

Need help - Database link - Please!!

2001-02-05 Thread Smith, Ron L.
I have a public database link defined with userid-1. Userid-1 has update permissions on table-a in database-b. Userid-2 has no permissions on table-a in database-b. Userid-2, in database-a, calls a package that contains the database link and tries to update table-a in database-b. The result is an

RE: Thunderstone.com: Texis

2001-02-05 Thread Kathy Duret
Title: OT:Thunderstone.com: Texis Yes I have somewhat, context searches are fast. You need to keep three copies of the data and indexes (things get corrupted easily). If you do alot of updates, you will have the rebuild the tables and/or redo the indexes all of the time. But it is

Re:Oracle Vs Tera Data

2001-02-05 Thread dgoulet
Surjit, I think your "hardcore Tera Data" fans are also bigots. I've a friend at Fidelity Investments where they swear by SUN Oracle. The last time I talked to him their datawarehouse was fast approaching 2PB without any problems. They use all of 8i's datawarehousing stuff like

Re:Oracle Vs Tera Data

2001-02-05 Thread bill thater
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001,[EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -There are two basic problems with data warehouses that I've seen it should -be noted that I'm in the middle of specing a re-wtite of ours. 1) people create -then in a normalized manner, not in the idea of a

RE: Need help - Database link - Please!!

2001-02-05 Thread Smith, Ron L.
I'm sorry. The error is not that the user cannot use the database link. The error is that Oracle does not want the user to update table-a in database-b even though the user has update permissions. Ron -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: Index Usage Monitoring

2001-02-05 Thread Vadim Gorbounov
Hi, Why not to use otrace? Of cource, you may need some space to save trace results, but you'll definitely get complete statistics. Vadim Gorbounov Oracle DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 3:57 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

User objects in System tablespace

2001-02-05 Thread Sanjay Kumar
Hi, I have a situation where in all the user related objects (tables) have been created in System tablespace. I believe there is no convention followed while creating these tables. Now, how do I separate these user related objects and put them in Users tablespace? Vinay

Pinning Tables

2001-02-05 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Hi all, I have been trying to find some reference on pinning tables in the SGA. I haven't found anything, all that I am finding is table caching and the keep buffer pool. Is this all that there is, can I "pin" a table in the memory? Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Kevin Kostyszyn DBA

Re: ora-07445

2001-02-05 Thread Mike Killough
Did you try re-running catalog and catproc and then recompiling invalid objects? We were getting ora-7445 errors on one of our databases last week, and this fixed it. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

OEM/IA and DB shutdown

2001-02-05 Thread Jesse, Rich
So, there I am, with an HP/UX server hosting 3 production Oracle DBs. The node is also running Oracle Intelligent Agent, and I have OEM events to e-mail/page me if there's problems with productions DBs and servers. Anyone else running something similar? How do you shutdown a single production

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mark Leith
Title: RE: Async I/O on Windows WHOOO a SQLServer vs. Oracle debate again!! Come on guys in the field, lets hear you comments from all those using both in the field. I personally have been trained in administration on both, and - like you Ross - have to agree that Oracle is my

OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Async I/O on Windows "NT still pants"...LOL!!! It must be panting alot, It has BLOWN THE DOORS OFF of "Oracle on Unix" in running SQLServer on NT, as has DB2. The general public ( and anyone else ) can wake up and smell the coffee at www.tpc.org. Check out the Top Ten TPC-C

RE: ora-07445

2001-02-05 Thread achoto
Here is what I get in the alert log: Errors in file /oracle02/app/oracle/admin/ORTE/udump/orte_ora_15115.trc: ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [lxdgetobj()+60] [SIGSEGV] [Address not mapped to object] [1651271016] [] [] Mon Feb 5 12:55:20 2001 Errors in file

RE: Thanks and another book request

2001-02-05 Thread Yosi
Yeah, but Rachel, think of the FAME! Didn't I hear you were opening for Billy Joel and Elton John in LA on Feb 6? :-) Yosi -Original Message- From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 1:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: OEM/IA and DB shutdown

2001-02-05 Thread Ruth Gramolini
I run about 20+ databases from one OEM session, albeit on NT, and I never shutdown the agent when I shutdown a database. You must have OEM sending email for all events. Just use email for selected events that you want to know about. OEM won't freak if you don't shutdown the repository

RE: Sar Loader Script?

2001-02-05 Thread Ferris, Shawn
My problem is that the timestamp, which is just that--no date, is only on the first record of each sample rather than every record and I don't want the blank lines in between the samples. Perhaps this is a simple awk routine but I don't know awk well enough to do this. awk '{ if (NF7)

Group/Sort by date field

2001-02-05 Thread MooreMJ
Hi I am wondering about some results I am getting back when I am querying based on date fields. I have a large table partitioned on source year. When I run the following query the results are not correct results, it seems to be grouping the year incorrectly. select to_char(landed_dt,''),

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Async I/O on Windows LOL!!! Amen! -Original Message-From: Mark Leith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 12:25 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows WHOOO a SQLServer vs. Oracle debate

RE: Oracle Vs Tera Data

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Oracle Vs Tera Data Surjit, In my experience, Sun storage ( the A5000 stuff, etc. ) does not do the best possible job. But, then again, you may be on Fujitsu, EMC, or some other good storage vendor. (Dick, liked your comments about normalization and adjustment

RE: Pondering Question of the Day-RESPECT

2001-02-05 Thread Kimberly Smith
I have taken the stance with one junior that he now has to prove me wrong in anything I tell him. Loser buys the beer. He owes me quite a bit right now:-) -Original Message- Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 9:16 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Kimberly, I could say the

Sar Loader Script?

2001-02-05 Thread Walter K
By chance, does anyone have a script that will reparse a collection of sar statistics, that came from "sar -d", into a file that can be used by SQL*Loader?My problem is that the timestamp, which is just that--no date, is only on the first record of each sample rather than every record and I

Linux as a production machine

2001-02-05 Thread Dave Morgan
Hi Dick, A couple of campanies I consult for are using Linux and Oracle (8.0.5, 8.1.6) as production databases. Neither is really high transaction volume but one is holding about 1.5 GB of data. One install occured because Oracle on NT was choking

RE: Pinning Tables

2001-02-05 Thread Trassens, Christian
No, pinning is for the code: sql, procedures/functions/packages and sequences. Take a look of the package dbms_shared_pool. Regards. -Mensaje original- De: Kevin Kostyszyn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: lunes 5 de febrero de 2001 16:36 Para: Multiple recipients of list

RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Kimberly Smith
I am running ORacle8i on Windows2000 and for what I use it for I see no difference from NT. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 11:06 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ross Mark, There are no major performance concerns here (and we get Oracle "free" {system

RE: Ascii code of tab?

2001-02-05 Thread Guidry, Chris
I believe chr(9). -- Chris J. Guidry P.Eng. ATCO Electric, Metering Services Phone: (780) 420-4142 Fax: (780) 420-3854 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Viktor [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 11:57 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

ORA-01187: cannot read from file 1 because it failed verification

2001-02-05 Thread Tony Guo
Title: RE: Async I/O on Windows Does anyone know what this error means? What caused this error? TIA SVRMGR alter database open; alter database open * ORA-01187: cannot read from file 1 because it failed verification tests ORA-01110: data file 1: '/opt/oracle/oradata/system01.dbf'

RE: Need help - Database link - Please!!

2001-02-05 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Let me rephrase it. The user defined in the database link has insert permissions on table-a. The user calling the database link does not have any permissions on any table in database-b. Ron -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:11 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

Bitmap index

2001-02-05 Thread Bala, Prakash
Hi DBAs, Oracle 8.1.6 on Sun; DW environment: Have a table that gets populated by SQL*Loader and thereafter lots of queries go against this table using different combinations of 4 columns (date, varchar2(6), varchar2(5), char(1)). Once a row is processed, the char(1) column gets updated from

Ascii code of tab?

2001-02-05 Thread Viktor
What is ascii code of TAB? Thanks __ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Viktor INET: [EMAIL

Re: Ascii code of tab?

2001-02-05 Thread Ari D Kaplan
It is CHR(9): SELECT column_1||chr(9)||column_2 FROM table_name; Best regards, -Ari Kaplan Independent Oracle DBA Consultant Founder/CEO, PocketDBA Systems -- Wireless Database Management Now www.pocketdba.com -- - For 400+ Oracle tips, visit: - -

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Scott . Shafer
-Original Message- From: Mohan, Ross [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 9:56 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows SNIP Wanna drag? (heh heh heh) Well, I'd have to shave my legs, but for

RE: Ascii code of tab?

2001-02-05 Thread David Barbour
^I Dec - 9 Oct - 011 Hex - 09 David A. Barbour Oracle DBA - ConnectSouth 512-681-9438 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 12:57 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What is ascii code of TAB? Thanks

RE: Pondering Question of the Day-RESPECT

2001-02-05 Thread Stephen Andert
Rachel: I miss a couple of my old jobs where I has other roles (developer/dba and network admin/helpdesk/etc) where I got quite a few people trained real well :) I could count on a snack from several people a week. Although I guess that could be seen from their side as "We sure got this guy

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows LOL! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 2:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows -Original Message- From: Mohan,

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows TPC doesn't really matter - You are correct: no single metric covers it all. But, Oracle is sure all over the ad pages when it FINALLY manages to get one near the top. Which isn't often. And right now, hands down, SS2K is about FOUR TIMES AS

RE: ORA-01187: cannot read from file 1 because it failed verifica

2001-02-05 Thread David Barbour
Title: RE: Async I/O on Windows H - did you mount the database first? David A. Barbour Oracle DBA - ConnectSouth 512-681-9438 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Tony Guo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 2:12 PMTo: Multiple recipients of

Alter session, NLS parameters

2001-02-05 Thread Radu Caulea
Hello list, Is there a possibility to know a specific session's NLS parameters querying from another session ? Regards, Radu Caulea Senior Oracle Consultant www.caulea.fr.st -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Radu Caulea INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat

RE: Pinning Tables

2001-02-05 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Try: ALTER TABLE tablename CACHE; The table will stay in the buffer cache and not get rolled out. This is basically used for small lookup tables like security tables that are accessed over and over. Ron Smith Database Administration [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday,

RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows From what I know, Oracle8 is not yet formally certified on Win2K, believe it or not. But, I could be way wrong about this. Anecdotally, I have colleagues running every from clients through Net8 Names Servers to database servers on

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows You might want to check those results again. Oracle has the top three in the TP-C, nonclustered results. || I did. The results speak for themselves. You need to click ALL RESULTS. (Or, are you saying that, in 2001, we should focus on NON_CLUSTERED

Re: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Bill Pribyl
"Eric D. Pierce" wrote: Ross Mark, There are no major performance concerns here (and we get Oracle "free" {system wide educational site license} - unlike MS/SQL), so what I want to know is: does Oracle8 generally work well on Windows 2000 server (compared to running it on NT4)? Well, I

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Async I/O on Windows Yay, someone is looking at the data!!! On the clustered side, did you notice that the leader, far and away, was SS2K on Win2K. Pure Microsoft Play, and clustering 192 CPUs. WO-WAAA. too bad "Microsoft can't cluster" ( har de har har )

RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows Do you crash weekly? -Original Message- From: Kimberly Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 3:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on

RE: Pondering Question of the Day-RESPECT

2001-02-05 Thread Brian_McQuillan
Rocky, She lost the bet and got a raise - go figure ! well done lisa , we still wish you were back in Eden Prairie ! Q Rocky Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/05/2001 03:45:33 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc:

Patchset installation

2001-02-05 Thread Djordje Jankovic
Hi, I am looking into installing a patchset with minimum downtime. Standard Oracle procedure for installing a patchset is: 1. Shutdown the database 2. Install the patch binaries, relink. 3. Startup database (restrict ?), run the cat* scripts. I wanted to change the procedure so that instead of

RE: Pinning Tables

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Pinning Tables What is the difference between table caching and pinning, to your thinking? -Original Message- From: Kevin Kostyszyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:36 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Pinning Tables Hi

RE: Ascii code of tab?

2001-02-05 Thread William Beilstein
There is a very helpful Microsoft help file available at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/r_harvey that contains references for everything from ascii to codepages, and the best part is that it is free. David Barbour [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/05/01 04:25PM ^I Dec - 9 Oct - 011 Hex -

RE: Pondering Question of the Day-RESPECT

2001-02-05 Thread Eric D. Pierce
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/30/12701.html - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/16057.html (Prostitutes used to tempt IT staff into jobs) On 5 Feb 2001, at 12:12, Rocky Welch wrote: Date sent: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 12:12:17 -0800 To: Multiple

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows Another way of looking at it: So lets say the 12 computer configuration were to have a failure in some *single* wintel box every 7 days .. who cares!! The shared nothing architecture underlying the system load BALANCES users to machines which are

RE: Index Usage Monitoring

2001-02-05 Thread Vadim Gorbounov
Hi, Eveleen, you a right, x$bh is the veiw, which contain important information about database buffer. This means, you will find here references to only those database blocks, which are currently in buffer, i.e., most recently used. You even can identify "hot" (often updated)

RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows :)...so, no Win2K Oracle8, but 8i is cool, all around. Put that in yer pipe and smoke it! (Love the haddock.ani .!) -Original Message- From: Eric D. Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05,

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows - Federated Database Foolishness

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows - Federated Database Foolishness What's a federated database || I don't know. Where did you read it? shrug We really need to understand this otherwise we'll be duped by Microsoft's deceptive benchmark claims!! || wow! thanks for saving me,

RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE

2001-02-05 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE I have some answers, for the curious: http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2623013,00.html It appears that SS can partition data storage among multiple machines, giving it blow your doors off performance.

Re: SQLNET Question

2001-02-05 Thread Renato Huliganga
Yes, you do that in the SQLNET configuration files LISTENER.ORA and TNSNAMES.ORA - use the IP address (instead of the hostname) of the NIC card you want to use. It is not complicated at all! Cheers, Renato Database Services IBM Global Services A/NZ To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: (Win2K vs NT4) / RE: OT RE: Async I/O on Windows

2001-02-05 Thread Bill Pribyl
I'm used to Oracle7.3 command line DBA environment. Is there anything in OEM that I "must have" to run the Oracle8.1.7/Win2k? I'm really not sure -- all I have needed to do with is startup, shutdown, and run SQL PL/SQL scripts. Good luck Bill --

RE: OEM/IA and DB shutdown

2001-02-05 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
If you are using OEM v2.1 or higher then you could define a paging / email blackout before the shutdown (either for the node / db in question or a total one). Or you could remove the event and then reinstate it. Regards, Bruce -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, 6 February 2001 5:06 I

OT - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE ???

2001-02-05 Thread Steve Orr
Ross, glad to see you're starting to come up to speed here. :) But for the clustering to work, businesses would have to change software and segment the data The CNet authors obviously got tangled up in their notes and didn't understand what they were writing about. (Not a first.) You don't

Re: Patchset installation

2001-02-05 Thread Allan Nelson
Not a good idea. Oracle links some libs in with a direcory that is in Oracle Home. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 3:42 PM Hi, I am looking into installing a patchset with minimum downtime. Standard

RE: OT - WHAT is a FEDERATED DATABASE ???

2001-02-05 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
We have a 175 terabyte database in Objectivity. It houses event data from a physics experiments looking at the decay of B-mesons and their antimatter counterparts, trying to find out what's going on with CP violation. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Patchset installation

2001-02-05 Thread djordjej
When I am installing the patchset I am giving oracle the new home. For example: 1. My home is /u01/app/oracle/product/8.0.4 2. I copy all the tree under the home to the new home: /u01/app/oracle/product/8.0.4.4 3. For the patch installation session I set:

RE: Patchset installation

2001-02-05 Thread Zarir J Daruwalla
We use a similar approach on Open VMS with some success where we 1) re-create a new oracle_root, 2) shutdown the database, 3) change the startup/login scripts. etc 4) start-up database. I would not risk it if the patch modifies some catalogs. (ie a new cat*.sql now exists).

Reg. SPOOL in SQL*PLUS

2001-02-05 Thread Arul kumar
Hi DBAs, I would like to know the way for specifying a filename dynamically in SQL PLUS. Say, for example The file name should be suffixed with a sequence number available from a SEQUENCE object. ( like SPOOL filename>||seq1.nextval). Any idea? Thank You, Arul.