Fwd: files needed

2001-05-04 Thread Jared Still
-- Forwarded Message -- Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 11:18:51 +0530 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, We are in the process of migrating our NT based Oracle applications to Unix. Sun Solaris was the choice. We have also many applications written in Pro*C in NT. We want to migrate those

Re: EXPORT vs. Hot Physical Backup

2001-05-04 Thread nlzanen1
Hi, Ever tried to export a let's say 50Gb database, let alone import it again?? I'd say the export utility should only be used to recover an accidentally dropped/corrupted table and datafile backup (either hot, or if you have the luxury, cold) is the way for backup Recovery of entire

Re: wrong setting of sort_area_size

2001-05-04 Thread nlzanen1
Hi, Setting the sort_area_size to something so big it sounds silly may actually improve some querries dramatically. I don't see why it should degrade performance if you have the physical memory to spare. We had a batch job that took about 60 hours but had to be tuned so it fitted in the 4

Taking your time when a crisis occurs

2001-05-04 Thread Hallas, John
FOR YOUR INFORMATION ESIS and EPFAL are now part of Logica. The Internet email addresses of the staff has changed to the following - [EMAIL PROTECTED] eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emails using the old format will continue to be delivered until 30th June 2001. David, I support what you say about

rename indexes

2001-05-04 Thread John Dunn
When I create tables with primary keys, Oracle gives the indexes a default name. Can I rename these indexes with meaningful names, or do I need to drop and recreate my tables, amending create table statements to explicitly name the indexes? John -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: Anybody heard of LECCO?

2001-05-04 Thread Mark Leith
We actually distribute SQLExpert in the UK market place - and it really is a hell of a tool - no marketing jargon! What it will do is take your SQL (you can free format, harvest from source binary/forms/text files, online (SQLArea), S.C.L.D files, and COBOL) then, it will rewrite as many

RE: OT -- history of Sybase spawning MS SQL Server

2001-05-04 Thread Mark Leith
Patrice, That's a hell of a write up! I knew the background to the SQLServer product, but not in so much detail! I also have a write up on the Ashton Tate/Microsoft/Sybase relationship, to give a little more info on the early days: Back then the PC database Market was dominated by Ashton

RE: tech help needed

2001-05-04 Thread Sinardy Xing
Hi, Sinha indexing = for easy searching something like building table of content in your book sorting = you know SORT hasing = using sort of formula for search particular item, there will be hashing algorithm here Have a nice day Sinardy -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 4 May 2001

Re: Security, Password policy

2001-05-04 Thread Shreepad Vaidya
Hi, For Oracle related information 1) You could go through PART V Database security of Oracle 8i Administrator's guide . 2) You could refer to Oracle Security by O'REILLY Publications. HTH shreepad To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AT INTERNET@CCMAIL cc:(bcc:

Re: Getting ORA-01732 trying to insert into table (NOT view)

2001-05-04 Thread Tim Sawmiller
Are you sure the public synonym isn't pointing to an object in some other database thru a link? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/03/01 04:55PM Why do I keep getting this error even though this object is not a view??? I am in as the owner of the table, which has the DBA role to boot. SQL show user USER

Need oracle patch 8.1.7.1.1

2001-05-04 Thread Shaw, John B
I just downloaded patch 8.1.7.1.2 from metalink - in the readme (yes I actually read it before installing ) it states that the earliest version that this patch may be applied to is 8.1.7.1.1 - I can't find this patch on metalink anybody know where I can get it? . .-.. .--. .. ...- .

Re: Getting ORA-01732 trying to insert into table (NOT view)

2001-05-04 Thread Tim Sawmiller
..or that the public synonym is really pointing at the object you think it is? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/03/01 04:55PM Why do I keep getting this error even though this object is not a view??? I am in as the owner of the table, which has the DBA role to boot. SQL show user USER is FARS_OWNER

RE: might be really old topic, but please take a look

2001-05-04 Thread Sinardy Xing
I think most of us here will prefer Oracle Sinardy -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 4 May 2001 1:37 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Probably this has been posed million times, but I really like to know. We'll have a meeting about this in our company, and I'd love to

RE: rename indexes

2001-05-04 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: rename indexes -Original Message- From: John Dunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] When I create tables with primary keys, Oracle gives the indexes a default name. Can I rename these indexes with meaningful names, or do I need to drop and recreate my tables, amending

Re: How can I cut off a query after 3 lines?

2001-05-04 Thread William Beilstein
SELECT machine_name, login, Count(login) AS CountOfLogin FROM login_history WHERE ROWNUM 4 group by machine_name, login order by count(login) desc; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/04/01 01:25PM Q: how can you specify with a select statement how many rows are given as a result? I would only like to get

Re: OT -- MS makes a statement about open-source software movemen t

2001-05-04 Thread Don Jerman
Don't forget breaking up common industry design standards like incompatible data requirements for Kerberos implementations and the use of the latest COM+ for all IPC -- you know -- the ones that require you to buy and run Microsoft products ;-). David Messer wrote: Sounds like MS is afraid

RE: OT -- MS makes a statement about open-source software movemen

2001-05-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Here is Linus's response http://web.siliconvalley.com/content/sv/2001/05/03/opinion/dgillmor/weblog/t orvalds.htm a good read ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion

Re: in addition -- ORA-04091: table mutating problem?

2001-05-04 Thread Diana_Duncan
What's your version of Oracle? I usually have a stock answer on how to solve this type of problem, but I just tried out your problem on my little Personal Oracle here, and to my INCREDIBLE surprise, the trigger worked and I didn't get an error. Does anyone know if that's just because I'm using

Re: images question

2001-05-04 Thread paquette stephane
For me it's more a question of performance than fragmentation. At my last client (www.houra.fr), the images were store at the OS level to speed up the showing of the web pages and in Oracle so that each managers could associate comments to the images. --- David A. Barbour [EMAIL PROTECTED] a

RE: Getting ORA-01732 trying to insert into table (NOT view)

2001-05-04 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Why would 0racle even consider the public synonym? I thought this might be a materialized view, but I would expect to see an undefined object type. Ian MacGregor -Original Message- Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 8:21 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Are you sure the public

Unique Constraint question

2001-05-04 Thread Curiel, David
I've scoured the docs and found nothing. My situation is this: How do I set up a constraint on a table, where I want a unique combination of fields, only when one of them equals a certain value? For instance: Col1 Col2 -- N 1 = OK N 0 = OK N

Oracle DBA needed in Lansing Michigan (jr-mid level)..

2001-05-04 Thread OraStaff
Financial services company in Lansing, Michigan is looking for a jr-mid level Oracle DBA to join its I.T. staff. Only candidates in Michigan or closeby states will be considered. This is a full time staff position, so no contractors or third parties please. Requirements: - Degree in C.S. or

More oracle news from the ether.

2001-05-04 Thread Mohan, Ross
- 4) NEWS: Clouds Over Oracle - Oracle's executive vice president of North American sales, George Roberts, said at a technology conference in San Francisco recently that the sales

Re: How can I cut off a query after 3 lines?

2001-05-04 Thread Eric D. Pierce
UNTESTED, PLEASE VERIFY BEFORE USE: ---original message follows--- D a t e : Fri, 11 Jul 1997 14:41:53 +0100 R e p l y - T o : ORACLE database mailing list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] F r o m : Jones, David (Oxford) [EMAIL PROTECTED] S u b j e c t : Can i write a query for this. This

RE: How can I cut off a query after 3 lines?

2001-05-04 Thread Sunil_Nookala
where rownum 4 Sunil Nookala Dell corp Austin, TX -Original Message- Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 12:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Q: how can you specify with a select statement how many rows are given as a result? I would only like to get the first three lines.

multiple schema in a database ???

2001-05-04 Thread Andrea Oracle
Hi all, We'll have a meeting about the following issue: Due to large amount of transactions each trainee has, the existing training database in Sybase used multiple databases to handle each trainee's transactions. To implement this in Oracle, we may need to create multiple schemas in one

Re: ORA-04091: table mutating problem?

2001-05-04 Thread Connor McDonald
Mutating simply means you're trying to access the table that you're trigger is currently firing on (in a row level trigger). The basic workaround is typically... before-statement-level - initialise a PL/SQL table before-row-level - store information you need in the PL/SQL table, eg rowid's of

MTS Problem

2001-05-04 Thread Muhammed Adnan Ansari
I am configuring multithreaded server configuration of an WIN2000 Advanced server with Oracle 8i Rel3 EE. All the parameter are set accurately and checked the MTS configuration through loopback and see connection entries in v$circuit accordinglybut when we connect through some other PC it

Re: FW: standby database in managed recovery mode

2001-05-04 Thread Jyoti Randive
Check the size of the archive log which it complains on primary.I have seen situation when the log has transmitted partially and the recovery comes to a standstill. After getting all the archives properly, run a recover automatic standby database; then try to put it in managed recovery mode.

RE: rename indexes

2001-05-04 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Couldn't you just drop and rebuild the index with a new name? -Original Message- Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 11:12 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L When I create tables with primary keys, Oracle gives the indexes a default name. Can I rename these indexes with meaningful

RE: Unique Constraint question

2001-05-04 Thread Hillman, Alex
You should use table level check constraint. See docs. Alex Hiilman -Original Message- Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 11:22 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I've scoured the docs and found nothing. My situation is this: How do I set up a constraint on a table, where I want a

RE: Removing Oracle products from NT

2001-05-04 Thread Hillman, Alex
You wouldn't trigger long discussions :-) if you mention thatremoval ofservices is done deleting these services from registry from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services and from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSetxxx\Services Alex Hillman -Original Message-From:

RE: 9iAS Forms Server Stability

2001-05-04 Thread elkinsl
Jenny, Just to make sure we are on the same page, when I was talking about web deployed, I was talking strictly internal networks, lan, wan, etc using the web forms approach. Anyway, I don't know that you should nervous based on just my comments alone. It is kind of interesting, though, that no

RE: 9iAS Forms Server Stability

2001-05-04 Thread elkinsl
Jared, Thanks for taking the time to reply. I don't know if they are working on any contingency plans, but, I guess they could stay on OAS and Forms 5.0 if things don't stabilize. I'm hoping that it is just a little configuration issue here, a tweak there, and so on. We will see -- they don't