RE: ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist

2001-03-29 Thread ALEMU Abiy
Solaris 7 -Message d'origine- De : Henry Poras [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoy : lundi 26 mars 2001 17:58 : Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Objet : RE: ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist What is the OS? -Original Message- Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 10:41 AM

Re: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges

2001-03-29 Thread Paul Drake
Charlie Mengler wrote: Solaris V2.6 Oracle V8.1.8 v8.1.8??? what what what? I gots to get me one of dem dere sOlariz b0xen to get me up on dem gnu releazes. thinking that 8.1.7.0.2 on NT is the latest and greatest ... Pd PTDBAFB part-time dba fh -- Please see the official ORACLE-L

Re: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges

2001-03-29 Thread Connor McDonald
Issue "set role none" and then see if you can do it in SQL Plus. This mimics the privs that you have within a procedure - ie roles are not activated. You probably need the 'create table' priv granted directly (or select on the one you're reading from) hth connor --- Charlie Mengler [EMAIL

RE: Small help (To Lee)

2001-03-29 Thread Sinardy Xing
Lee, Thanks for your advise, for me this question is just kick off to the world of ORACLE PL/SQL scripting, I don't know why you think that I would like to ask from a Great and full of experiance DBA like you Mr. Lee to spoon feeding me. Again Thank You so much for your advise Xing,

Re: Log writer waits

2001-03-29 Thread Connor McDonald
Look for "log buffer waits" in v$system_event. You'll always get a few around a log switch, but if you're got heaps, then you're log buffer may a little small - or your log files too slow... The alert log is a good place to check for log file sizing - a commonly accepted rule of thumb is log

RE: identify which logs are need to start recovery

2001-03-29 Thread Rahul
Lisa/List, when we restore a datafile from a backup, oracle will check the change# in the header of the datafile and will try to match it with the one in the controlfile, correct ? that's how oracle will know that the file is out-of-sync, now oracle will prompt from the change# as well as the

RE: Small help (To Lee)

2001-03-29 Thread lerobe - Lee Robertson
Eh ??? I don't think there is any call for that. I told you whereabouts in the doc set the manuals were and suggested that you look there. I am certainly not a "Great and full of experience DBA" as you suggest but was merely passing on what experience I do have whilst coming across a similar

Errors in Oracle

2001-03-29 Thread Roland . Skoldblom
Anyone who can give me a link to a website, where I can see the description of the Ora-errors I get in sql statements and pl/sql-code, so I understand what the error is about and how to fix it. Roland Skldblom -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author:

Re: Does anyone know a link to 9i documentation?

2001-03-29 Thread Andy Duncan
Hi Waleed, Perhaps the best thing to do is to go to http://technet.oracle.com and then do a search on "9i". You should get loads of pages back, but these are very fluid, changing regularly. I've just done a search like this, and three you may be interested in that came back were: =

RE: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread lerobe - Lee Robertson
Hate to out a dampener on all of this but the guy could be blind. -Original Message- Sent: 29 March 2001 11:50 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You know he could be listening to it in his sleep too! Sub-conscious levels and all that.. -Original Message- Ghosalkar

RE: Script to Compare table structures

2001-03-29 Thread Mark Leith
Following is a script that will compare differences within a schema. If this is too much, just edit out the table comparison scripts. HTH Mark - col table_name format a30 col column_nameformat a30 col medph2_format format a30 col med_test_formatformat

RE: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread Mark Leith
You know he could be listening to it in his sleep too! Sub-conscious levels and all that.. -Original Message- Ghosalkar Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 04:45 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L try 1. get one of those text to voice tools from download.com 2. next keep a tape

Re: New born DBA.....

2001-03-29 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Hi ! Welcome to the world of DBAs. And you have got some good suggestions too.. This mailing list a good place to ask questions (and get answers). Read Kevin Loney and Rama Velpuri. The titles are Oracle 8i DBA Handbook and Oracle 8i Backup and recovery hand book. Religiously try all the

RE: Errors in Oracle

2001-03-29 Thread lerobe - Lee Robertson
From the command line do oerr prefix code error number eg For an Oracle error # oerr ora 1658 01658, 0, "unable to create INITIAL extent for segment in tablespace %s" // *Cause: Failed to find sufficient contiguous space to allocate INITIAL/ / extent for segment being created.

RE: Errors in Oracle

2001-03-29 Thread Clinton Naude
There is a set of cd's that come with Oracle enterprise edition. I think irs called Orale 8i client online Documentation cd. It has all the error messages on it. Thanks Clint -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Anyone

Re: Errors in Oracle

2001-03-29 Thread Marin Dimitrov
- Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 13:20 Anyone who can give me a link to a website, where I can see the description of the Ora-errors I get in sql statements and pl/sql-code, so I understand what the

RE: Backup Advice.

2001-03-29 Thread Mark Leith
Any suggestions for a particular product? -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 06:16 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Mark, I might suggest that you look into a "Ghost" product for making an image of your PC. I "ghost" my pc and keep the image on the network

AW: Errors in Oracle

2001-03-29 Thread Schoen Volker
Install oracle documentation, there you can find explanations for all error messages. Regards Volker Schn E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inplan.de -Ursprngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. Mrz 2001 12:20 An:

RE: Errors in Oracle

2001-03-29 Thread Mark Leith
I have a manual in the form of a pdf that has all the Oracle messages in it, though I can't find the link on the technet documentation area for it at the moment? If you want me to send it over by email away from the list, let me know, as it's around 6.5 mb. HTH Mark -Original Message-

Re: storage area networks

2001-03-29 Thread Jay Hostetter
Jeff, We are using a Compaq SAN. It was running great for two months. Just last week we began having some issues with databases hanging on our cluster. We haven't nailed down the problem yet, so I am witholding my opinion. Jay Hostetter Oracle DBA D. E. Communications Ephrata, PA

OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread Joseph S. Testa
Lee, i'm with you 200%, oh and for the original addressee(and others) if you can't figure out what the heck that simple pl/sql block is doing(or where to figure it out), then quit diluting the OCP worthiness, people who study just to take the OCP and have no experience just go to further the

RE: Errors in Oracle

2001-03-29 Thread Sonja Sehovic
You can also do it from UNIX prompt (if you have instaled Oracle documentation): $ oerr ora number_of_error Sonja -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:56 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L There is a set of cd's that come with Oracle enterprise

Why can't I see any Application Systems in my Des 2000 Popup Window?

2001-03-29 Thread Cherie_Machler
I just migrated my database that supports Des/2000 version 2.1 from 7.3.4 to 8.1.5. I did not upgrade Designer and don't plan to at this time. Due to lack of any specific documentation anywhere on how to migrate this database, I simply created a brand new database of the same name on a

Re: Errors in Oracle

2001-03-29 Thread Rachel Carmichael
technet.oracle.com there is an entire doc manual devoted to the error codes well, except for PL/SQL... there you are on your own, there is no good debugger for that as far as I know. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Re:RE: What is best practice - differenet schema/different d

2001-03-29 Thread dgoulet
Mike, If that's the worst you guys/gals call me I'll be extremely flattered. Over the years I've had names tossed at me that are not normally usable in impolite society! :-) Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: "Lanteigne; Mike" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread Rachel Carmichael
ooh goodie, now I don't have to do my OCP rant, you've done it for me :) Joe, tell us how you REALLY feel, okay? From: "Joseph S. Testa" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help Date:

Re:Response times with different multiblock read count

2001-03-29 Thread dgoulet
You may be running into a limitation of HP-UX that can cause this problem. In HP-UX during any one time slice the SO will return a MAX of 32K of data from disk. This does take a little thought to understand. The OS is multitasking between all of the processes. To do so it breaks time up into

Slow database

2001-03-29 Thread Roland . Skoldblom
We are running an oracle database 8i, we have several Ms Access applications connected by ODBC to this database. The database is very complex ,in total about 300 tables and of course PL/SQL procedures We also have many different schemas in this database. But we have a big problem, when we

RE: identify which logs are need to start recovery

2001-03-29 Thread Nancy McCormick
I believe that it gets the log sequence number by comparing the change# to the change# in the v$log_history table. Nancy -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Lisa/List, when we restore a datafile from a backup, oracle will

Peformance Tuning Book

2001-03-29 Thread Syed Ahmed
Anybody can give me a name for Performance Tuning book, my knowledge is low and I am not dealing with Performance issue at my work. I am responsible for backup and recover stuff. Now I think, I should update my knowledge on Performance and Tuning.

RE: Backup Advice.

2001-03-29 Thread Ron Rogers
Mark, Not to plug a particuler product when there could be many alike products available. We have a registered version of Ghost by Norton, Symantic Corp. I believe that there is a trial version available at their site. It is simple, and easy to run. I prefer to run it from a boot disk without

Re: Oracle variables; LD_LIBRARY_PATH TNS_ADMIN

2001-03-29 Thread Rodd Holman
In /etc you should have an oratab file. It should look like this: # oracle notes and stuff # # The line below with the * instead of a sid is for use with tools such as # OEM and Orasoft. It can be used in scripts for setting the environment # like the one shown below.

Re: OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread Joseph Testa
Anyone who's watched the list for a week will know me, no political correctness here :) and thats probably the only reason i am OCP, the company i worked for at the time, paid for the tests and gave me a bonus to complete them. :) joe From: "Thater, William" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To:

Re:OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread dgoulet
Lee Joe, While I do agree that is possible one should try to figure these things out, and this really is a simple one, there does come a time when asking for help is appropriate. In this case Lee's answer is very much so. As far as taking an OCP course, that does torque my jaws. Over the

RE: Enqueue types TC and JI

2001-03-29 Thread Reddy, Gautam
TC is (Thread Checkpoint) enqueue it is related with the global checkpoints. It is used to signal the file checkpoint completion. Thx Gautam -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:46 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L "Hagedorn, Linda" posted a message a few

Re: New born DBA

2001-03-29 Thread dana
shameless plug get the book _Oracle DBA 101_ it has not only that kind of list, but lots and lots of other good stuff. and you can always ask one of the authors questions right here on the list.;-) /shameless plug did i do good rachel?;-) Question for the authors here (offline

RE: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread Shankar Shanmugaswamy
Hi, Further to the mail sent , I couldn't find the right one in Download.com can you help me, to download the same. S.S [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/29/01 05:50AM You know he could be listening to it in his sleep too! Sub-conscious levels and all that.. -Original Message- Ghosalkar Sent:

Re:OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread Cherie_Machler
Dick/Lee/Joe, I'm not trying to defend him but unless I have not yet recieved a post in my mail, Xing never said he had an OCP. Plus, Lee, I think you may need to define "silver bullet". It probably doesn't translate for people who don't use English as a second language. Cherie Machler

nvl affect on idexes

2001-03-29 Thread Chesebro, Eric
Does nvl have any effect on indexes. In other words would it slow down a query if you used the nvl function in the where clause on an indexed field. i.e. select * from foo where indexField nvl(xfoo,0); Thanks, Eric -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author:

OT -- # tables in your db (was: Slow database)

2001-03-29 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
"very complex" at 300 tables. I checked on mine, excluding SYS and SYSTEM, I have 3185 tables. 159 database links. 1064 views, again excluding SYS and SYSTEM. This is on Oracle 7.3.4. I am sure this is not the smallest db out there... (It's my birthday, so what if I feel a bit competitive

Re: Peformance Tuning Book

2001-03-29 Thread Dwayne Cox
Oracle Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition by Mark Gurry Peter Corrigan Published by O'Reilly ISBN 1-56592-237-9 Syed Ahmed wrote: Anybody can give me a name for Performance Tuning book, my knowledge is low and I am not dealing with Performance issue at my work. I am responsible for backup

Re: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread dana
--- Apps Sol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any place where we can get Oracle books on Tape (Audio tapes or CD's) RK I doubt it. From what I understand, audio books are primarily made from best-selling fiction. What non-fiction audio books exist are probably limited to stuff with the

RE: OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Same with me. And as budgets dwindled, I stopped after getting my 'shingle' for Ora8 (upgrade, that is).. - Kirti -Original Message- From: Joseph Testa [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 8:06 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re:

RE: OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Xing, Your OCP course may mention the script (depends which course you plan to take), but they will only mention it quickly. You can look it up in the Oracle administration manuals, or in the O'Reilly Oracle Built-In Packages book. Basically it generates statistics for the optimizer within a

RE: identify which logs are need to start recovery

2001-03-29 Thread Vadim Gorbounov
Hi, Rahul, Unfortunately, there is no v$view. v$log_history also isn't a good candidate - v$log_history data are stored in the controlfile, and controlfile loss would make database unrecoverable (we know, this is not the case). My assumption is Oracle stores checkpoint

SGI to AIX conversion

2001-03-29 Thread Chuck Hamilton
We need to move a 700g Oracle DW from SGI IRIX64 (SGI's 64 bit unix) to AIX and upgrade it from 7.3.3 to 8.1.7 at the same time. Anyone got any suggestions on how to do this quickly? I'd rather only use exp/imp as a last resort because it'll be so slow. One idea we've thought about is to:1. Backup

Re: OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread Tim Sawmiller
Well done Bill...nicely handled...gotta remember that one! [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/29/01 08:00AM "Joseph S. Testa" wrote: Lee, i'm with you 200%, oh and for the original addressee(and others) if you can't figure out what the heck that simple pl/sql block is doing(or where to figure it

RE: OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread Dasko, Dan
I'll be the first to admit that sometimes I ask a question when I should probably look up the answer, but is it just me, or do about half the messages on the list seem like they could be answered in about 5 minutes by typing the question into google or RTFM. I mean seriously, I was running into

Re: Peformance Tuning Book - check books at www.OracleTuning.com

2001-03-29 Thread cameron_michelis
There is a list of good books at www.OracleTuning.com "Syed Ahmed" balkhi@hotmaTo:

INVALID Packages

2001-03-29 Thread Troiano, Paul (CAP, GEFA)
I have been experiencing some packages that cannot be automatically handled by Oracle when they become invalidated. Here's the scenario: We have package1 that calls package2 which, in turn, calls package3. Under normal circumstances, if package3's specification gets recompiled, package1(?)

Re: Why can't I see any Application Systems in my Des 2000

2001-03-29 Thread Tim Sawmiller
This might have worked better had you created a repository from scratch in your new 8.1.5 database, then exported/imported the application systems from your old repository to your new one. This is how I would have done it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/29/01 08:00AM I just migrated my database

Re: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread Apps Sol
Yeph.. see I am blind and at the same time I can type too.. can U read this??? rk - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 6:15 AM Hate to out a dampener on all of this but the guy could be blind.

Book

2001-03-29 Thread Bunyamin K.Karadeniz
Hi, Gurus, Can you give me an advice about a performance book. I want to buy a oracle performance tuning book where scripts are available and like a handbook. What is the name and ISDN of this book? Thanks bunyamin

RE: Standard vs Enterprise Edition

2001-03-29 Thread Dennis Taylor
At 03:50 PM 3/28/01 -0800, you wrote: RE: Standard vs Enterprise Edition [growl] This is sort of off topic, but on the subject of "Enterprise Edition"s As you may remember, I've been doing comparisons between Oracle, SQLServer, and DB2, pricewise and otherwise. I asked for prices on

Re: OT -- # tables in your db (was: Slow database)

2001-03-29 Thread Rodd Holman
Happy Birthday Patrice! Here you go: SQL select object_type, count(*) 2 from dba_objects 3 where owner != 'SYS' 4 andowner != 'SYSTEM' 5 andowner != 'CTXSYS' 6 andowner != 'DBSNMP' 7 group by object_type; OBJECT_TYPE COUNT(*) --- --

RE: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Also, for Oracle 7 at least, the documentation is about 10,000 pages long, that would take a lot of tapes. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle DBA) Bedford Institute of Oceanography Fisheries and Oceans Canada -Original Message- From: dana Sent: Thursday, March 29,

Re: SGI to AIX conversion

2001-03-29 Thread Thater, William
Chuck Hamilton wrote: We need to move a 700g Oracle DW from SGI IRIX64 (SGI's 64 bit unix) to AIX and upgrade it from 7.3.3 to 8.1.7 at the same time. Anyone got any suggestions on how to do this quickly? I'd rather only use exp/imp as a last resort because it'll be so slow. ifn it was me,

RE: nvl affect on idexes

2001-03-29 Thread Bala, Prakash
Eric, Oracle won't use the index in this case. Instead have a function-based index. Prakash -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 9:43 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Does nvl have any effect on indexes. In other words would it slow down a query if you used

Re: OT -- # tables in your db (was: Slow database)

2001-03-29 Thread Alex Apostolopoulos
"very complex" at 300 tables. I checked on mine, excluding SYS and SYSTEM, I have 3185 tables. 159 database links. 1064 views, again excluding SYS and SYSTEM. This is on Oracle 7.3.4. I am sure this is not the smallest db out there... (It's my birthday, so what if I feel a bit

Re: online backup query

2001-03-29 Thread Seema Singh
Winnie thanks for ur reply. I am doing online backup by following steps.Is this way is correct or not.Please correct me. 1)Archive log list 2)alter system switch logfile; 3)alter database backup controlfile to trace; 4)ALter tablespace and copy all datafiles one by one. 5)alter system switch

RE: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread lerobe - Lee Robertson
Dear me - is it my job today to get sarcastic jibes thrown at me. Whose turn is it tomorrow. You said originally Is there any place where we can get Oracle books on Tape (Audio tapes or CD's) RK You could have been getting them for a blind colleague. Oh sod it - why do I bother.

Re[2]:OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread dgoulet
Cherie, OK, point well taken, so "silver bullet" would translate into "the one item that will succeed when no other does", "magic formula". And, no he never did say he had an OCP, but he did say he was taking a "course" to get his OCP. To me having an OCP certificate without any

Oracle training vs IOUG-A vs ECO

2001-03-29 Thread Sarah Satterthwaite
My grand-boss thinks that conferences are a waste of money and training classes are a much better dollar value. I probably took my last Oracle Education class about 10 years ago and have been to every ECO conference except last year (and because of personal conflicts cannot do ECO again this

RE: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread cameron_michelis
You can search the Oracle Documentation online at http://www.oracletuning.com "Boivin, Patrice

RE: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread Tim Sawmiller
Surely there's a Reader's Digest Condensed Version Or how about Cliff Notes? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/29/01 10:45AM Also, for Oracle 7 at least, the documentation is about 10,000 pages long, that would take a lot of tapes. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle DBA) Bedford

RE: Standard vs Enterprise Edition

2001-03-29 Thread Tim Sawmiller
I am compelled to tell you this story... Many years ago I had a gold fish that had some sort of parasite on it...it was green. My gold fish book actually had a remedy for this. Take the fish out of the water, remove the parasite with tweezers, apply a small drop of mecurchrome(sp?), then

RE: nvl affect on idexes

2001-03-29 Thread Tim Sawmiller
Well, assuming xfoo is a variable, this is not correct...the function is not being used on the indexed field in this case, so the index WILL be used. If xfoo is a column in the table, then I would expect a full table scan to be used. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/29/01 11:16AM Eric, Oracle won't

Re: Oracle training vs IOUG-A vs ECO

2001-03-29 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Sarah, Unfortunately, you wouldn't get to go to ECO this year no matter what. Oracle User Resource has decided to discontinue that conference. ECO is dead. Personal opinion: training classes teach you exactly what the trainers want you to see/know. A conference, while it does not give you

Re: How to break into DBA/Systems work without going broke doing it?

2001-03-29 Thread Thater, William
"Dasko, Dan" wrote: OK, now I have to ask a question. How did you(general) break into the DBA i walked into work one day and found this pile of books on my desk. i said "what's this?" and they said "you're the new DBA and it's broke so fix it now!" and i was a contractor at the time.;-)

RE: Is terminal release of 8.0.x still supported?

2001-03-29 Thread Kimberly Smith
I see that a lot. I am starting to put my foot down. I can't even install one product because it insists on 8.1.5. So either get me a version that runs with 8.1.7 or go home. I am tired of having 6 versions of Oracle in this shop. OK 6 may be high. I got 7.3.3, 8.0.5, 8.0.6, 8.1.5, 8.1.6,

Re: INVALID Packages

2001-03-29 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Oracle Support never replied satisfactorly on this issue. What I have seen it is a result of some corruption at dictionery level and as a last resort they recommend to run catalog.ora file to rebuild dictionery and compile all resultant invalid objects and then they will compile without any

OT -- Friday Recipe was: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread Rachel Carmichael
dunno any votes for my shortbread cookie recipe? From: lerobe - Lee Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:06:24 -0800 Dear me - is it my job today

RE: How to break into DBA/Systems work without going broke doing

2001-03-29 Thread Kimberly Smith
I annoyed my managers until they realized that there was really no one else to do it and then they gave in. I was really lucky in that I got to work on an excellent project with some very experienced DBAs. Stayed there for a while and picked up tones of experience. -Original

RE: Standard vs Enterprise Edition

2001-03-29 Thread Dennis Taylor
Eeeww! OK, I am now grossed out. At 08:48 AM 3/29/01 -0800, you wrote: I am compelled to tell you this story... Many years ago I had a gold fish that had some sort of parasite on it...it was green. My gold fish book actually had a remedy for this. Take the fish out of the water,

Re: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread Ron Rogers
Being Optically challenged is not a problem for some people. At my last employer there was a sharp programmer that worked on a national level project and he was good. If you never met the man you would not know that he was blind and used a guide dog to get around in the different cities and

Re: OT -- Friday Recipe was: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread Thater, William
Rachel Carmichael wrote: dunno any votes for my shortbread cookie recipe? i move we have the godess' shortbread recipe! seconds?;-) and why do i think it's not going to be good for my diet?;-) -- Bill Thater Certifiable ORACLE DBA Telergy, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Set transaction does not work

2001-03-29 Thread blair
RDBMS 7.3.2.3 I am running this under SQLPLUS set transaction use rollback segment BIG_ROLLBACK select c1, c2 from giant_poorly_indexed_table where unindexed_colum=''; exit; I end up with "snapshot too old" rollback segment RB_07. Why won't it use the giant rollback segment I created

RE: OT -- Friday Recipe was: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread Mark Leith
I'll stick my hand up : -Original Message- Carmichael Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 06:06 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L dunno any votes for my shortbread cookie recipe? From: lerobe - Lee Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients

Re: OT -- Friday Recipe was: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread Ruth Gramolini
I'll second that one! What diet? Ruth - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:38 PM Rachel Carmichael wrote: dunno any votes for my shortbread cookie recipe? i move we have the godess'

RE: How to break into DBA/Systems work without going broke doing

2001-03-29 Thread Jeffery Stevenson
I started out as a Pro*C developer and helped out our help desk on rotation when our product was released. This was the help desk that fielded all the questions that the administrators out at all the sites needed help finding answers to...kinda like this list (well except that I couldn't pick

Re: Set transaction does not work

2001-03-29 Thread Tim Sawmiller
I think the big rollback segment needs to be private. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/29/01 12:50PM RDBMS 7.3.2.3 I am running this under SQLPLUS set transaction use rollback segment BIG_ROLLBACK select c1, c2 from giant_poorly_indexed_table where unindexed_colum=''; exit; I end up with

RE: Oracle training vs IOUG-A vs ECO

2001-03-29 Thread Jefferson, Dean
Check the IOUG-A sessions again. The presenters from Oracle were added later, after IOUG and Oracle Corp. reached a new "understanding". I looked at the sessions this morning and there are now Oracle presenters in the mix. Dean Jefferson Database Administrator State of Wisconsin Office of

RE: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread Shreter, Hilary
Might want to have a chat with Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic. They might have such books, or they might advise you on how to structure an audio for this purpose. It's convenient that the docs come as small HTML files all linked together -- a voice-activated PC might be able to handle this

Upgrade from 8.0.6 to 8.1.7

2001-03-29 Thread Pallav Kalva
Hi Guys, Did anyone do an upgrade from oracle 8.0.6 to 8.1.7 version in a Sun Solaris envrionment ?? Can you send me step by step procedure on how to do it, I cant find any good documents on metalink. Thanks! Pallav Kalva -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com

Re:Set transaction does not work

2001-03-29 Thread dgoulet
Is there a session that is likewise accessing that table? What may have been blown was not your rollback segment, but the one where the other session was putting it's uncommitted changes. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

Re: OT -- Friday Recipe was: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread Dwayne Cox
Being the cookie monster that I am, I must second the motion! "Thater, William" wrote: Rachel Carmichael wrote: dunno any votes for my shortbread cookie recipe? i move we have the godess' shortbread recipe! seconds?;-) and why do i think it's not going to be good for my

RE: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I agree. I heard somewhere that the person who can read but doesn't delivers the same results as someone who can't read at all. So it's what we do, not the skill set we have in our portfolio that matters. People too often base their opinions on appearance, hearsay, or what a person could do

RE: Set transaction does not work

2001-03-29 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Specifying a transaction rollback segment only controls to which RBS rollback information will be written. The "snapshot too old" arises when the DBMS tries to construct a read-consistent block of a table; it goes to the RBS that received rollback for some transaction that changed it, only to

RE: OT -- Friday Recipe was: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Can you send it through as a .wav file? : ) -Original Message- From: Thater, William [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: OT -- Friday Recipe was: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes Rachel

Re: Excel to oracle

2001-03-29 Thread Ruth Gramolini
You can save the Excel file in comma delimited formated, CSV and use sql*loader to put the data into the database. You can just ftp it from the machine which has Excel to the server housing the database. HTH, Ruth - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL

Re: OT: RANT ABOUT OCP, Re: Small help

2001-03-29 Thread Terry Ball
I think what Lee's objection was (I know when I read Xing's reply it got my goat), that Xing critized Lee for giving him a referance to look the answer up himself. I realize that it did not answer in full the actual question, but it asked Xing to do a little work on his own. If someone taking a

RE: Set transaction does not work

2001-03-29 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
I do not think it matters whether it is private or public. The only difference if public it accessible but all instances. I would try doing a commit right before the SET TRANSACTION... command. Rick -Original Message- From: Tim Sawmiller [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March

Excel to oracle

2001-03-29 Thread Ravindra Basavaraja
I have a Excel file.How to port the data to Oracle table. I read some artical about using ODBC and things like that.But I am not clear. How can we generate a dat file delimited with comas so that I can use SQlLOADer to port the data. Thanks Ravindra -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Re: OT -- Friday Recipe was: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread Thater, William
Ruth Gramolini wrote: I'll second that one! What diet? Ruth the one that's supposed to make me skinny and solve all my problems.;-) scarstic mode just look at the TV, if you're skinny you're smart, everyone likes you, you get dates with the people you want, and all your problems get solved

RE: OT -- Friday Recipe was: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread William Beilstein
(with apologies to the Cookie Monster) Cki!! I love shortbread, go for it [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/29/01 01:12PM Can you send it through as a .wav file? : ) -Original Message- From: Thater, William [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:39 PM To:

books on tape: related topics / (Fwd) Re: Forms non-accessibility by screen-readers

2001-03-29 Thread Eric D. Pierce
selected web sites containing info on "computer access" technologies for disabled (visually impaired) users: --- Forwarded message follows --- T o : O D T U G - D E V 2 K - L @ f a t c i t y . c o m Date sent: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:13:43 -0800 (fwiw) I think these are some of

Re: Set transaction does not work

2001-03-29 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Under your situation of select only statement there is no use of rollback segment whether big or small. This error is a result of some other long running job using that rollback segment. Please advise relevant developer to check his code doing some delete,update,insert and intoduce some commit

RE: Upgrade from 8.0.6 to 8.1.7

2001-03-29 Thread Ed . Haskins
Pallav, Go to http://otn.oracle.com and get the Oracle8i Migration document under "Documentation". That will provide you with what you need! Ed Haskins Oracle DBA Verizon Wireless -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: OT -- Friday Recipe was: Oracle Books on Audio Tapes

2001-03-29 Thread Ruth Gramolini
OOOHH, that one. Well I guess I will have to be the fat stupid one because I love shortbread. Bring it on! Ruth - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:21 PM Ruth Gramolini wrote: I'll second that one!

RE: Set transaction does not work

2001-03-29 Thread Hillman, Alex
Where is the transaction? Alex Hillman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:51 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:Set transaction does not work

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