Re: identifying shared memory segments

2001-03-23 Thread dex troya
under linux redhat : just do : $locate shmparam.h or $locate shmmax.h Best Regards, Ramada From: "Ruth Gramolini" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: identifying shared memory segments Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001

Re: Which is faster??

2001-03-23 Thread Connor McDonald
If you're on 8.0 or higher, try insert /*+ APPEND */ into table select * from other_table; where "table" is defined as nologging. Then you won't hit either redo logs or rollback segments..Its the equivalent of a sqlldr direct load hth connor --- CC Harvest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have

RE: Tuning Matter == Parameter PCT_USED in a Table

2001-03-23 Thread Sinardy Xing
I think We can use average column a + average column (estimating), because of VARCHAR2 in our table, then we determine can determine how many records inside our database. I think we can not ignore the overhead bit inside our tablespace, my Guru said leave 1 row space between PCT_USED and PCT_FREE

RE: about analyse table..

2001-03-23 Thread Mohan, Karthik (GEP)
Title: RE: about analyse table.. Hi Saurabh, The Analyse command helps to collect information on the specified table and updates the system table called user_tables with this info This helps to optimize any query which is run on the table after the table is analyzed. You can take help

Transporting Database

2001-03-23 Thread Yuzie
Dear DBAs, I have 2 NT servers, Oracle8 (8.0.5) Server has been installed on each of them. One server has a database and no database on another. Is it possible to move or duplicate a database from one servwer to another? Based on my conceptual understanding, this will work, but I it failed when

Oracle_In_NT !!!

2001-03-23 Thread Jackson Dumas
Hi there I have a problem when I install Oracle 816 on NT. I have done it twice before amd it worked, that was Oracle 805 and 806. Now I am trying to install and create database on NT, Oracle 8i version, 816. I get the error ORA-12560, which protocol adapter error, whenever I try connect to

Report Runtime

2001-03-23 Thread ludivine . alligier
Hello I want to run report runtime from another application. So I use a command line, which launch the report connect to the database. It works. But it can't be launched fast. That's the point at issue. The users launch one edition : Report runtime is launched, they tape the parameters neede

RE: Tuning Matter == Parameter PCT_USED in a Table

2001-03-23 Thread Tim Sawmiller
Ok, I'll admit my ignorance. What the heck does "1 row" mean? It can't mean the row length, or you'll end up with a negative PCT_USED. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/22/01 09:35PM Hi Bambang, Analyze the table and you'll find the average row length in USER_TABLES.AVG_ROW_LEN. Subtract 90 bytes

Re: Single Code Table or Separate Code tables dilemma

2001-03-23 Thread Kresimir Fabijanic
Mandar Tell them that (if they are really lazy) you can build them a function that returns ref cursor with Code, description columns and they pass in the domain/context they want - same for the inserts - so you can get rid of their comments. To be sincere, I use combination - separate look-up

Re: Which is faster??

2001-03-23 Thread Ron Rogers
Chris, Does the destination table have to be recoverable? If not you could built the table with the UNRECOVERABLE clause and your problem is solved. In large inserts from one table to another for archive purposes, I get around the large RBS problem by using a procedure with a commit every

Re: Tuning Matter == Parameter PCT_USED in a Table

2001-03-23 Thread Ron Rogers
max(row size) is the sum of all of the columns sizes in the table plus overhead. The following is the column sizes and the sum formula to calculate the size of a row in a data block. NUMBER =21 CHAR = COLUMN SIZE VARCHAR = COLUMN SIZE DATE = 7 TOTAL=3+(SUM OF COLUMN SIZES)+(# OF COLUMNS

Cleaning up before upgrades / migrations; avoiding upgrade proble ms

2001-03-23 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Hi, We are preparing to upgrade our databases here from 7.3.4. to 8.1.6.. Do you have any suggestions re. re-organization, "cleaning up" before the migration is done, or just after it is done, and before I release the servers to the developers and end users? If you have done this type of

RE: Why is there air?

2001-03-23 Thread Ron Rogers
To fill a Basket Ball!!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/22/01 06:35PM Jared, I am still waiting/hoping for an answer... Why IS there air? - Donna - -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ron Rogers INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858)

Re[2]: Sql Loader documentation

2001-03-23 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Hello Stephen, Hey, I saw your post on the Oracle list. Thanks for plugging the book. You can thank Sanjay for that tuning chapter. BTW, which of his suggestions did you use that did so much good? Best regards, Jonathan Gennick mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 906.387.1698 http://Gennick.com *

Reverse engineering

2001-03-23 Thread Roland . Skoldblom
Hallo, I am doing a reverse engineer of the Oracle database, which means that I am loading the database into the program Erwin. When it i simported into erwin I willbe able to seeall the relations, tables, views etc of the database. But when i am doing the reverse engineer I get many error

RE: Oracle_In_NT !!!

2001-03-23 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Did you set the default oracle_sid? Is the database running when you try to connect? -Original Message- Dumas Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 4:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi there I have a problem when I install Oracle 816 on NT. I have done it twice before amd it

Re: Oracle_In_NT !!!

2001-03-23 Thread Paul Drake
To use svrmgrl, the following conditions must be met: 1. the NT Service must be started. (use the "net start" command or "srvinfo" to display service info) 2. the environment variable ORACLE_SID must be defined C:\set oracle_sid=DEV C:\svrmgrl Oracle Server Manager Release 3.1.7.0.0 -

Re: Using HS

2001-03-23 Thread paquette stephane
The SUN/Merant = NT link is ok because it is working when using Powermart. We just want to call a stored proc on MS SQL Server which is not allowed with Powermart 4.6 (it is supposed to work with Powermart 5) . So the idea is to call an Oracle Stored proc which would called a MS SQL Server

Oracle DBA with Data Warehouse experience- Columbus, Ohio

2001-03-23 Thread OraStaff
Position: Oracle DBA Salary Range: 75-82K Location: Columbus, Ohio *Responsibilities: Implement physical changes to databases; code and test SQL, applying knowledge of database management. Design logical and physical databases for Data Warehouse and OLTP systems. Review and evaluate

Re:Reverse engineering

2001-03-23 Thread dgoulet
Roland, I had a similar experience when trying to reverse engineer a third party application (I needed a data dictionary but they refused to provide one) with Oracle Designer. The problem was that the duhveloper made extensive use of Oracle's object naming exception. We had object (table

SALARY IN AUSTRIA

2001-03-23 Thread Arslan Bahar
IS THERE ANYBODY WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SALARY IN AUSTRIA AT DBA POSITION -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Arslan Bahar INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California

Re: about analyse table..

2001-03-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
if you have your database in the "CHOOSE" mode for the optimizer (using the cost-based optimizer) and you don't analyze your tables, Oracle doesn't have good information to determine the query path. If you do "analyze table tablename compute statistics" the entire table is read to gather the

Re:RE: Migration from 7.3.4 to 8.1.6

2001-03-23 Thread dgoulet
Mary, We run several DB's on 8.1.6 (HP-UX 11.0) with no problems. Listeners run just fine for months at a time, especially if you set "logging_listener = off". One other item that I remember from the 7 to 8.0 migration was a suggestion from Oracle to "exp system file=/dev/null full=y"

RE: EMC TimeFinder, and EMC TimeFinder vs Hot Standby

2001-03-23 Thread Gogala, Mladen
-Original Message- What do we want to know? 1. Are we on the write way, (do you have any other idea)? Yes, you're on the right track. 2. Does that concept have some misses? This concept does not give you the fault tolerance. It will only make it easy for you to have an up-to-date

Re: imp

2001-03-23 Thread Ruth Gramolini
If you do not specify a logfile for the import the list will go to stdout. If you do specify a logfile then the list will be in the logfile. HTH, Ruth PS do an imp help=y to get a list of the parameters, including specifying a log file. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of

Re: Why is there air?

2001-03-23 Thread Scott Canaan
Actually, the way Bill Cosby says it is: Any phys ed major knows why there's air: to blow up basketballs, footballs, and soccer balls. Ron Rogers wrote: To fill a Basket Ball!!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/22/01 06:35PM Jared, I am still waiting/hoping for an answer... Why IS there air? -

Re: Transporting Database

2001-03-23 Thread shailu the_prince
hey yuzie, As far as your problem is concerned you need to create an instance with the NT instance manager, before even you try logging in as internal. Dont get this confused with the Oracle enterprise manager instance manager, this is a different component installed by oracle during

RE: Cleaning up before upgrades / migrations; avoiding upgrade pr

2001-03-23 Thread Jefferson, Dean
I did the upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.1.5 about a year ago using export/import as you plan to do. I used version 7.3.4 export and import utilities and had no problems. I have been doing cleanup ever since, its a living ;) Dean Jefferson Database Administrator State of Wisconsin Office of

NT Server very slow

2001-03-23 Thread Smith, Ron L.
I have an Oracle 8.1.6 instance on an NT Server. The application has only a few users. Very often throughout the day it seems response time drops to about 20 seconds. By the time I log on to look at the problem everything is back to normal. If I do a simple query the result is returned

Re: Oracle_In_NT !!!

2001-03-23 Thread Donald Bricker
Here is an excerpt from Metalink 2.- Starting database via SVRMGRL or SQL*PLUS Problem: Launching svrmgr, or attempting a connection in sqlplus to start up the database, you get an ORA-12560 Solution: - If the drive is NTFS then check the permissions on the drive

No Subject

2001-03-23 Thread Jentzig Sven
SET ORACLE-L NOMAIL -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jentzig Sven INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists

RE: Why is there air?

2001-03-23 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)
Title: RE: Why is there air? Actually, in the Bill Cosby routine this is taken from, I beleive the gym teacher say volleyball, not basketball. (I'll listen to it again when I get home tonight ;) Matt Adams - GE Appliances - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doing linear scans over an associative

User define queries in SELECT statements

2001-03-23 Thread Dan . Hubler
We have run into a big performance issue with our migration from 7.3.4 to 8.1.6. A single query that SELECTs from a large table, also contains user-defined functions that appear in the column-list of the SELECT. This query is running many times longer than under the old version. Anybody see

RE: Transporting Database

2001-03-23 Thread Jefferson, Dean
I've done this many times on NT, by shuting down the source database, copying ALL database files to the new server, creating an instance with the same SID on the target server and just openning it up and running it. Here is the statement I use to create the instance. Note that I set the internal

Re: OTS

2001-03-23 Thread Thater, William
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So for once I need to get off of the rant box and pass a complement to one group at Oracle that we all love to hate. Dick Goulet and thank you for solving a problem i just got on our network monitoring box! [that's the fiber optic phone network, not the

Log Buffer

2001-03-23 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Hello DBA's You know, I read somewhere that you can make your log_buffer 10 percent of your total sga. So if you had a 500mb sga you could have a 50 mb log_buffer? What do you guys think, the illustrious Ross doesn't like such large log_buffers. Sincerely, Kevin Kostyszyn DBA Dulcian,

RE: Migration from 7.3.4 to 8.1.6

2001-03-23 Thread Dan . Hubler
The thing that is killing us is a single query. This query does a group by. It also references some user-defined functions in the column-list of the SELECT statement. These user-defined functions are actually SELECTS from 2 other small tables. It is not behaving the same way it did in

RE: identifying shared memory segments

2001-03-23 Thread Chuck Hamilton
Thanks. That works on SGI too. --- Lord David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under unix (Solaris at least): set your oracle environment and run $ORACLE_HOME/bin/sysresv. No idea about windoze. HTH David Lord -Original Message- From: Ruth Gramolini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Single Code Table or Separate Code tables dilemma

2001-03-23 Thread Tim Sawmiller
Nice, but this construct violates Second Normal Form. I only denormalize for compelling reasons, like for performance reasons, and I don't see how performance is enhanced by jamming all this stuff into one big table. You may end up with an index that has an extra level of index blocks,

Oracle license costs

2001-03-23 Thread Chaim . Katz
List, Recently there was a discussion concerning the cost of Oracle licenses vs MS Sql Server licenses wasn't there? That discussion was not an issue at my job - until today which is why I'm wondering if there were any postings that in any shape or form justified some of the price differential

OFF TOPIC - FW: Sony Vaio Japanese error messages

2001-03-23 Thread lerobe - Lee Robertson
Very funny In Japan, Sony Vaio machines have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with their own Japanese haiku poetry, each only 17 syllables. --- A file that big? It might be very useful. But now it is gone.

Re: DNS vs. Oracle Names vs. tnsnames.ora

2001-03-23 Thread Chuck Hamilton
AKAIK tnsnames.ora will always be supported. Oracle Names is being dropped in 9i in favor of LDAP, and since 8i Oracle ships a new LDAP compliant directory server called Oracle Internet Directory with the database. You can also use any other LDAP directory server such as Microsoft Active

RE: Oracle_In_NT !!!

2001-03-23 Thread Bala, Prakash
1. Make sure thay your service 'OracleService???' (??? is your db name) is up. 2. On DOS prompt, enter 'set ORACLE_SID=???' 3. Then connect to svrmgrl HTH! Prakash -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 4:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi there I have a

Re: oracle training

2001-03-23 Thread Don Jerman
There's someone in Charlotte, too (dbBasics I believe) but we never use them as all our programmers are in Raleigh. I've seen some basic-level classes float through the universities and tech schools, but I wouldn't recommend them for non-students. Someone at Global keeps after me, too, but they

RE: Oracle_In_NT !!!

2001-03-23 Thread Chuck Hamilton
I might be wrong on this but I think you have to create and start the oracle service first. --- Kevin Kostyszyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you set the default oracle_sid? Is the database running when you try to connect? -Original Message- Dumas Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001

RE: about analyse table..

2001-03-23 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Can't you also analyze an entire schema to make it easier, there's a dbms package in the admin directory? kev -Original Message- Carmichael Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 8:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L if you have your database in the "CHOOSE" mode for the optimizer

RE: Tuning Matter == Parameter PCT_USED in a Table

2001-03-23 Thread Harsh Agrawal
Hi Ron, Let's take a example: SQL desc emp NameNull?TypeBYTES -- -- -- EMPNO NOT NULL NUMBER(4) 21 ENAME VARCHAR2(10)10 JOB

Re: NT Server very slow

2001-03-23 Thread Marin Dimitrov
- Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 17:30 I have an Oracle 8.1.6 instance on an NT Server. The application has only a few users. Very often throughout the day it seems response time drops to about 20

db_name, instance_name, service_names and the sqlnet alias

2001-03-23 Thread ALEMU Abiy
What is the relation between db_name, instance_name, service_names and the sqlnet alias for an instance. 'Cause in my init.ora file I fdefined the following things db_name = "db1" instance_name=inst1 service_names=service1 And I defined an entry in my tnsnames.ora

Re: Oracle license costs

2001-03-23 Thread Jim Conboy
Chaim- I managed to save hardcopy but not soft, so I can't send it but I can comment. Actually, I was surprised at how little difference there was between Oracle and SQLServer at moderate usage levels assuming these numbers are accurate and you're using a similar server configuration. At

RE: about analyse table..

2001-03-23 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
Just a FYI about Analyzing... As of Oracle 8i, Oracle recommends using the DBMS_STATS package instead of the ANALYZE command or DBMS_UTILITY procedures. The DBMS_STATS package gathers more statistics than either ANALYZE or the DBMS_UTILITY packages -- potentially resulting in better query

Dumb question...

2001-03-23 Thread Scott . Shafer
I am not at my terminal where my online docs reside and I can't get out to metalink ATT - or I wouldn't ask, but: Can a simple snapshot be created on a view? View on master site tables, I want a snapsot of the view data on the remote system. Oracle 7.3.3, HPUX. Thanks, Scott Shafer San

Crontab

2001-03-23 Thread DEMANCHE Luc (Cetelem)
Title: Crontab Hi gurus, I want to schedule a script to run on the fourth sunday of the month. How can I do that ? TIA - Luc Demanche CETELEM Tél.: 01-46-39-14-49 Fax : 01-46-39-59-88

RE: SALARY IN AUSTRIA

2001-03-23 Thread dieter . oberkofler
Hi! I live in Austria and have a position similar to a DBA but actually am not a real DBA. I would guess that you can expect a monthly income (before taxes) of 2.000 up up to 4.000 US$. See you in lovely Austria... DO -Original Message- Bahar Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 4:16 PM To:

RE: Oracle_In_NT !!!

2001-03-23 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Well of course, maybe I was assuming too much, my apologies. Kev -Original Message- Hamilton Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 11:36 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I might be wrong on this but I think you have to create and start the oracle service first. --- Kevin Kostyszyn

RE: Tuning Matter == Parameter PCT_USED in a Table

2001-03-23 Thread Nicoll, Iain (metering)
Harsh, I thought number would only generally take 4 bytes (I've checked a couple using vsize on 7.3.4) and varchar will only take what it needs. Cheers Iain -Original Message- Sent: 23 March 2001 16:32 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Ron, Let's take a example: SQL desc

Moving user to a different tablespace ...

2001-03-23 Thread Harsh Agrawal
By mistake a user was assigned default tablespace SYSTEM. How we can change it to some new tablespace let's say "TBS1" ? Because if we do export and import it will again import into that "SYSTEM" tablespace. Thanks, - Harsh -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com --

changing the datbase server name and IP number

2001-03-23 Thread Judy Hazeley
We are setting up a new database server. It's HP-UX 11.0. Oracle 7.3.4 (I know, we need to upgrade !) has already been installed and configured on it. Databases have been built and are in use for testing. In a couple of weeks, we'll be exporting the production database from our old server and

perl problem on linux

2001-03-23 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)
Title: perl problem on linux I've got some developers trying to get perl's dbi/dbd stuff working on linux, and they keep getting ORA-2035 every time the execute from a for loop. Anybody seen this before? Linux kernal 2.2.16 with 8.1.7 client installed Matt Adams - GE Appliances -

Failed DB link

2001-03-23 Thread Chuck Hamilton
I ran into a situation this week where a session was waiting for results from a failed db link and holding a lock (library cache pin) on the sql it was executing. It never detected the failure and hung waiting for a reply on the link. This caused the pin to be help indefinitely too, which caused

RE: db_name, instance_name, service_names and the sqlnet alias

2001-03-23 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: db_name, instance_name, service_names and the sqlnet alias In my previous e-mail I forgot that you were also asking about service_name. If you are not running OPS, then the service_name parameter can be omitted. If you ARE running OPS, then you will have to ask someone smarter than

Re: NT Server very slow

2001-03-23 Thread Jim Walski
Since you mention there are only a few users, I would take a look at the jobs these users are running. Maybe one of these users is firing off a poorly tuned job that brings the database to a grinding halt. Is the database the only product on the Server? Or are there other applications ( email

Re: Oracle_In_NT !!!

2001-03-23 Thread Rodd Holman
Chuck is correct. You need to run the oradim.exe utility to create the Oracle_Server service. -- Rodd Holman Oracle DBA (605) 988-1373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments made are my own opinions and views. They do not represent views, policies, or procedures of LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation On

Re: Single Code Table or Separate Code tables dilemma

2001-03-23 Thread Michael Netrusov
What's wrong with a composite foreign key constaint? Works for me all the time.. As a duhveloper wont u like to pass one argument to a procedure rather than two? I don't care - I am using the wonderful copy-paste. granular control over the individual code table You DON'T have

Re: Tuning Matter == Parameter PCT_USED in a Table

2001-03-23 Thread Jim Walski
Are all the columns completely filled? ie all the "ename" are 10 chars long and all the "job" fields are 9 chars. When you use the varchar2 field it only stores the length _used_. Jim -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, March 23,

Re: changing the datbase server name and IP number

2001-03-23 Thread Rodd Holman
As long as you are keeping the DB_NAME's the same you should be able to get by with changing the listener.ora and tnsnames.ora files. You will also need to change your global tnsnames or Onames server references to these db's. On Friday 23 March 2001 11:30, you wrote: We are setting up a new

Re: Moving user to a different tablespace ...

2001-03-23 Thread Thater, William
Harsh Agrawal wrote: By mistake a user was assigned default tablespace SYSTEM. How we can change it to some new tablespace let's say "TBS1" ? Because if we do export and import it will again import into that "SYSTEM" tablespace. alter user bob default tablespace tbs1; then grant a quota

Re: Single Code Table or Separate Code tables dilemma

2001-03-23 Thread Michael Netrusov
Some good points... different strokes for different folks ya know. :) exactly. Partitioning a code table? Really??? Show me the money, er, cache. If your lookup/validation data is not "mixed together" then why would you need to partition it? Why not? If you can imagine a code table with

os commands from stored procs

2001-03-23 Thread Chesebro, Eric
I am trying to run sqlloader without leaving the my stored procedure but it seems the only way to invoke it is from the command line or sql plus. Is there any way to run an os command from within a pl/sql stored procedure/package? Thanks, Eric -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Re: Moving user to a different tablespace ...

2001-03-23 Thread Joseph Testa
look at alter user command, yes break out the documentation and begin reading. joe From: Harsh Agrawal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Moving user to a different tablespace ... Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:10:38

Re: Moving user to a different tablespace ...

2001-03-23 Thread Terry Ball
What version of Oracle? With 8i + you have the ability to mover a table to a different tablespace. Terry Harsh Agrawal wrote: By mistake a user was assigned default tablespace SYSTEM. How we can change it to some new tablespace let's say "TBS1" ? Because if we do export and import it will

Re: Single Code Table or Separate Code tables dilemma

2001-03-23 Thread Ron Rogers
At one of the Oraccle Applications User meetings, Oracle displayed the new table layout for the 11i version. It basically was one table with a lot of columns for the application that was talked about. I asked about the normalization of the data and the reply was in the form: it will take more

Re: Single Code Table or Separate Code tables dilemma

2001-03-23 Thread Michael Netrusov
- Original Message - Preface: I am a developer! If the DBA wants to have 1 tables, no skin off my nose. A generic maintenance form and LOV form for a set of tables all with the same format is not that huge a task. The best developer argument AGAINST a centralized code table

RE: Log Buffer

2001-03-23 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Title: RE: Log Buffer Yeah, illustrioius, that's good thing isn't it? Isn't that what someone called Lord Vador in Star Wars.noo non no, it was Jabba the hut. Ok, I take back the illustrious, I'll think of some other large word that sounds cool! I don't, it was just a question, when

Re: ? 805 and 815 client question

2001-03-23 Thread Rodd Holman
If you just have the clients installed on your machine, you need to get the CD and do an install for Database Administrator, or do a custom install and install the Oracle8 Utilities. On Friday 23 March 2001 13:26, you wrote: Hi all, I have 805, 815 clients installed on NT4.0. 815's

Re: User define functions (queries) in SELECT statements

2001-03-23 Thread Dan . Hubler
Thanks for replying. I need to start this by correcting the subject line I put on this originally. I am talking about user-defined FUNCTIONS within a SELECT. Sorry. The explain plans look exactly the same. Strangely enough, the small tables that are read in the user-defined functions do NOT

SQL Loader Help in 8.1.6

2001-03-23 Thread Wendy Y
Dear Experts: This does not make any sense to me, can you help me out? I have a control file to interpret the mainframe data and then write to my table in Oracle Database. The mainframe data looks like "0}", The table is designed as Number(10,2), The control file use zoned(10,2). All

RE: Tuning Matter == Parameter PCT_USED in a Table

2001-03-23 Thread Ron Rogers
Harsh, The columns size listed in the formula was for the maximum size of the number column. The remaining columns are fixed in size. The size of a row is determined by 3 factors: 1. Row header 3 bytes 2. column data varying on size requirements and datatype 3. length byte for each column.

Re: NT Server very slow

2001-03-23 Thread Jerry C
There is a bug with some version of Oracle (I believe it was 8.1.6.0.0, but don't quote me on that), where even with NO users, oracle.exe would eventually consume your whole CPU. The CPU utilization ramps up after a db restart until it gets to 99 or 100. Open Task Manager and check the

RE: Log Buffer

2001-03-23 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
yes, I think that does help. I am thinking I am going to make them larger? 21 requests -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 2:46 PM To: 'Kevin Kostyszyn ' Hi... I don't think so... you must adjust your LOG_BUFFER acoording to: select substr(name,1,25) Name,

Re: Log Buffer

2001-03-23 Thread Connor McDonald
The recommendation of 10% is very misinformed...Large log buffers can actually hurt performance, although this is protected against to some degree in 8i. It is very rare to a lot of a benefit once your log buffer gets more than 512k. hth connor --- Kevin Kostyszyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: Crontab

2001-03-23 Thread Hand, Michael T
Unfortunately the previous suggestion would run every Sunday AND on each day on the 22nd to the 28th. Your 2 choices are MM HH 22-28 * * (shell script checks for Sunday before proceeding) OR MM HH * * 0 (shell script checks for day of month between 22 and 28 before proceeding) Mike

RE: Single Code Table or Separate Code tables dilemma

2001-03-23 Thread Norrell, Brian
Snipped text The DBA work on that is easy, but then the developers go hunting in all the existing program code that hits the code table (haystack) to find all the places where that program code is actually using the code in question (needle). Well, in the case of 100 tables you

Re: Moving user to a different tablespace ...

2001-03-23 Thread William Beilstein
Export the user, drop it's objects, alter to user to use the correct tablespace as it's default tablespace. Set quota on system to none, set quota on new tablespace to unlimited, import the objects. Done. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/23/01 02:07PM look at alter user command, yes break out the

RE: NT Server very slow

2001-03-23 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Interesting, i have never heard of this bug. What do you mean, all of the sudden it will suck down the whole processor? How many users? -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 3:37 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L There is a bug with some version of Oracle (I

RE: Log Buffer

2001-03-23 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
-Original Message- McDonald Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 3:46 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The recommendation of 10% is very misinformed...Large log buffers can actually hurt performance, although this is protected against to some degree in 8i. It is very rare to a lot

RE: Log Buffer

2001-03-23 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Oops, All right, I give up, I am dumb. Kev -Original Message- McDonald Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 3:46 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The recommendation of 10% is very misinformed...Large log buffers can actually hurt performance, although this is protected

Re:Dumb question...

2001-03-23 Thread Oracle DBA
if u get this to work let me know. i had a source view and i got "object type not allowed error' i had to go to underlying table to create snapshot. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott, Yes, "create snapshot name refresh complete start with you name it

RE: Log Buffer

2001-03-23 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey Kevin, My Oracle Perf Tuning instructor suggested doubling the LOG_BUFFER until the requests get under control. Problem is that each bump requires a reboot. Since ours was severe enough, I went from 1MB to 4MB. When that wasn't enough, I went to 12MB. This is over the course of almost 12

Re: Crontab

2001-03-23 Thread David A. Barbour
Luc, One possible solution: Run the cron every Sunday and have the first part of your shell script check to see if that day's date plus seven days falls into another month. Regards, David A. Barbour Oracle DBA Formerly with the now defunct and bankrupt ConnectSouth "DEMANCHE Luc (Cetelem)"

RE: Single Code Table or Separate Code tables dilemma

2001-03-23 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
I've found so many bugs in code caused by developers forgetting to add "AND code_type = 'SOME_VALUE'" to there WHERE clauses when multi-purpose code tables are used. Kevin Toepke - The information in this electronic mail message is Cendant Confidential and may be

Re: SQL Loader Help in 8.1.6

2001-03-23 Thread Dennis Taylor
At 11:47 AM 3/23/01 -0800, you wrote: The mainframe data looks like "0}", The table is designed as Number(10,2), The control file use zoned(10,2). That looks like the internal representation for a signed number under COBOL. The least significant digit (LSD) is used to store the

Re: DBMS_REPAIR package usage

2001-03-23 Thread yong huang
Hi, Winnie, Just a little more research. I wonder how you can have an rdba that big, 0x24070020, which is 604438560 in decimal. SQL var a number; SQL exec :a := dbms_utility.data_block_address_file(604438560); PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. SQL print A - 144

Re: NT Server very slow

2001-03-23 Thread Jerry C
check out Doc ID 941798 at Metalink... - Original Message - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 3:36 PM There is a bug with some version of Oracle (I believe it was 8.1.6.0.0, but don't quote me on that), where even with NO users, oracle.exe would eventually consume

Re: DBMS_REPAIR package usage

2001-03-23 Thread Winnie_Liu
Yong, Thanks a lot for all the research! :D The file# that actaully contains this block is 9. My database is not that big at all. I did do some research myself and some Oracle analysts in the World Wide Support does suggest that the influxed blocks are very likely to be a fractured block.

RE: SQL Loader Help in 8.1.6

2001-03-23 Thread Aponte, Tony
Is your mainframe using EBCDIC? If so there is a translation table that explains what the "}" translates into. The sign of the field is trailing (E.I.. at the end of the field for non-Cobolers) These indicate that the sign of the number is negative. }=0 R=9 Q=8 P=7 O=6 N=5 M=4 L=- K=- J=1

Re: Single Code Table or Separate Code tables dilemma

2001-03-23 Thread Michael Netrusov
Well, in the case of 100 tables you are still hunting all the code looking for pieces which are relevant to that changed table. Depends on your code. I prefer to encapsulate mine, so reference to a table is enclosed in its own package. My point is that I can use grep to search the

RE: OT -- A humorous reply to the Canada rulz

2001-03-23 Thread Eric D. Pierce
Bon dia amics d'formigas! for further background (occasional lefist slant), see: http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC03/CoriGord.htm - http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC03/TOC03.htm - http://www.context.org/ICLIB/backi.htm - http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC44/Heart.htm - They also have some

Re: NT Server very slow

2001-03-23 Thread Jerry C
Hi Kevin, Yes, it will suck down the whole processor. We had a new implementation, with ZERO users, that had the problem. It is a memory leak of some sort. 8163 fixed it. - Jerry - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March

Physical Design Standards

2001-03-23 Thread Murali Vallath
Any suggestions /books whitepapers on Database Physical Standards Murali Vallath _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author:

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