RE: My Website

2001-05-21 Thread Sinardy Xing
Hi Chris, Is that you, bellow your main page? I mean before that guy mutates to something else of course. : ) You have lot of experience and know lots of technology. Sinardy. -Original Message- Spence Sent: Saturday, 19 May 2001 4:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Some

Re: Perl oracle

2001-05-21 Thread PD Miller
At 20:35 -0800 20/5/01, Seley, Linda wrote: Oh, Perl gurus, is there a function in perl that will let me do connect internal? $dbh = DBI-connect(DBI:Oracle:, internal,,{ ora_session_mode = 2 }); But before you get carried away, it may not do what you want. If for example you were hoping that

Ixora News - May 2001

2001-05-21 Thread Steve Adams
Hi All, The May 2001 issue of Ixora News is now available online at http://www.ixora.com.au/newsletter/2001_05.htm. In this issue ... Sin-onyms - Are synonyms really bad? Not so fast - Incremental checkpointing can defeat commit cleanouts @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @

RE: Problem with DBMS_UTILITY.ANALYZE_DATABASE

2001-05-21 Thread Rajesh Dayal
Oracle itself suggests to analyze ALL SYS OBJECTS before an upgrade to 8.1.6 from 7.x or 8.0.x versions. This is because of default DB_BLOCK_CHECKING for SYSTEM tablespace. Just have a look at metalink note 100419.1 HTH, Rajesh -Original Message- C.S.Venkata Subramanian Sent: Monday,

How much TEMP space is needed for index creation

2001-05-21 Thread zabair ahmed
OK, i've got a table with 302068428 rows. Im in the process of creating a nonunique index on this table, how much space do i need in the TEMP tablespace for the creation of this index. Name Null?Type -

RE: import oddity

2001-05-21 Thread Raymond Lee Meng Hong
Hei Rachel. I don't know whether you still remember me or not. Last time my x-company is using oracle 6.x ,and I use to logto this oracle-list.after I resign and jump over to a consulting firm doing informix developer. Now I come back to Oracle,lucky I found a job where they are using Oracle 8i

Re: Problem with DBMS_UTILITY.ANALYZE_DATABASE

2001-05-21 Thread Bachmann, Henrik
Hi Waleed, great tip to set sql_trace. See the last statement: analyze table SYS._DEFAULT_AUDITING_OPTIONS_ COMPUTE statistics call count cpuelapsed disk querycurrent rows --- -- -- -- -- --

Re: Tivoli??

2001-05-21 Thread David A. Barbour
Actually ADSM is the backup software. They moved it over to the Tivoli brand last year and now call it their Data Protection product. Tivoli generally specializes in network management products, much like CA. See www.tivoli.com Regards, David A. Barbour C.S.Venkata Subramanian wrote:

RE: import oddity

2001-05-21 Thread Mark Leith
Well you asked the right question to the right person!! Grab yourself a copy of the book Rachel co-authored - DBA 101! Mark -Original Message- Meng Hong Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 10:45 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hei Rachel. I don't know whether you still remember me

Re:How much TEMP space is needed for index creation

2001-05-21 Thread dgoulet
Zabair, Since you've got data in the table you must have an idea of how big the actual index will be. Rule of thumb for me it 3 times the size of the actual index for a normal b-tree index. Two times for a bit map. This has yet to fail me. Dick Goulet Reply

RE: Temporary tablespaces

2001-05-21 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Glen, A tablespace created with the CREATE TEMPORARY TABLESPACE command uses tempfiles instead of datafiles, and as such is often called a tempfile tablespace. A tempfile tablespace is equivalent to a locally managed datafile tablespace with temporary contents, except that tempfiles do not

How to enable partitioning option now..

2001-05-21 Thread Saurabh Sharma
HI ALL, while querying the v$option view, i came to know thatPartitioning option is false. due to this i'm unable to create partitioned tables. how to enable such options. can i enable it now. i've oracle 8i version 8.1.5 on NT4.0 thanks in advance. saurabh.

DBA Book...

2001-05-21 Thread Thater, William
On Mon, 21 May 2001,Raymond Lee Meng Hong scribbled on the wall in glitter...: - -Is there anybook for a beginner to start he' DBA knowledger/experience? Well, by now you've probably gotten a lot of responses to this, but I'll stick in my $0.02 anyway. I recommend and have used to train the

RE: My Website

2001-05-21 Thread Christopher Spence
Thank you, no actually it is Bill Gates mutating into the devil. Then scaring the pants off the mouse. Was bored :) Christopher, www.vampired.net -Original Message- Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 3:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Chris, Is that you, bellow your main

imp-00002: échc d'ouverture de k:\ora

2001-05-21 Thread INF/MEKKAOUI
Hi, I performed an import job in oem 2.1 of some tables oracle database 7.3.2 into oracle 8.1.6 schema , the size of dump file is 10k, the dump file is in an other server novell 5.1 in a volume NWFS, for the link i mapped a virtual drive K, but the job failed in oem console with : ---

RE: import oddity

2001-05-21 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
You may start with Oracle Concepts manual and move on Administrator's guide. -- On Mon, 21 May 2001 01:45:23 Raymond Lee Meng Hong wrote: Hei Rachel. I don't know whether you still remember me or not. Last time my x-company is using oracle 6.x ,and I use to logto this oracle-list.after I

RE: How much TEMP space is needed for index creation

2001-05-21 Thread Hillman, Alex
I beleave that if sort_area_size is large enough to have only one merge pass (see Steve Adams web site to calculate ) - you will need only a little more space that needed for index. Alex Hillman -Original Message- Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 10:11 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

ORA-01704 String Literal Too Long

2001-05-21 Thread benajam lhoussain
Hi, I created a table with a LONG type. From what I read in the Oracle docs LONG supports up to 2 gigs of data. But I am not able to insert more than 4000 characters into that field. i have this message error : ORA-01704 String Literal Too Long any help please. -- Please see the official

table or view does not exist

2001-05-21 Thread Leyden, Joseph
Is it possible to check if a table first exist so I do not get any error messages on my installation scripts? * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Leyden, Joseph INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ORA-01704 String Literal Too Long

2001-05-21 Thread Thater, William
On Mon, 21 May 2001,benajam lhoussain scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -Hi, I created a table with a LONG type. From what I read in the Oracle docs -LONG supports up to 2 gigs of data. But I am not able to insert more than -4000 characters into that field. -i have this message error :

dbms_lob.writeappend problem

2001-05-21 Thread cvulpe
Hi! I have the following problem: I create a procedure where I use dbms_lob.writeappend function: CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE kelu.append_to_blob(name_of_index VARCHAR2, amt BINARY_INTEGER, buffer RAW) AS BEGIN DECLARE lob_locBLOB; begin SELECT app_blob INTO lob_loc FROM

RE: table or view does not exist

2001-05-21 Thread Norrell, Brian
Two ways to handle this in an installer: 1. Build everything in dependency order. This can be a pain because it tends to change any time the schema is touched. 2. Create everything (specify force on indexes) ignoring the errors. Spool them to a file and turn termout off if you don't want the

RE: table or view does not exist

2001-05-21 Thread Christopher Spence
Using PL/SQL you can select by PK with rownum 2 and just catch an exception. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 11:51 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Is it possible to check if a table first exist so I do not get any error messages on my installation scripts?

Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
All, Anyone heard of this utility for Oracle ?. Someone mentioned it today and I didn't have a clue. They said it would be in $ORACLE_HOME/bin. Nothing there !! Regards Lee The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient

Re:Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread dgoulet
Lee, Copy is a SQL*Plus command as in copy from username/password@database - to username/password@database - create/append/replace table_name - using select column1, column2, etc... - from table_name_at_source; The arraysize and copycommit parameters control how often a commit

RE: ORA-01704 String Literal Too Long

2001-05-21 Thread Saj Raza
Benajam, If you know it you can use Perl, with something like the code below which will insert a string containing the value I_inserted_a_long_abcd1234567890qweerrtrtyyuuiiioooppp concatenated a 10 times, and replace $long_field with your own data or do a loop to read it in from

RE: Problem with DBMS_UTILITY.ANALYZE_DATABASE

2001-05-21 Thread Hillman, Alex
You have wild imagination if after reading this note 100419.1 your conclusion is that Oracle recommend to analyze SYS objects. I include text of this document. Alex Hillman Doc ID: Note:100419.1 Subject: SCRIPT: VALIDATE.SQL to ANALYZE .. VALIDATE objects in a

OT - RE: job offer from SAUDI ARABIA

2001-05-21 Thread Scott . Shafer
I disagree with the restriction of no users. After all, what better dietary plan than all the users you can catch, kill, and eat! Otherwise, I'm in. I can haul some of our ordinance in my F-150 - it'll even be dry with the hardtop on the bed... Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217

OT: RE: job offer from SAUDI ARABIA

2001-05-21 Thread Scott . Shafer
How about User Pot Pie? Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 -Original Message- From: Glasrot, Nechama [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 3:53 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT: RE: job offer from SAUDI ARABIA can we go back

Space Estimation Performance (numbers)

2001-05-21 Thread Walter K
Hi, How do I calculate the amount of physical space required for storing a number? (i.e. NUMBER, NUMBER(5), NUMBER(10,5), etc.) I believe Oracle uses 2's compliment for storing numbers. A value of 1 does not seem to take up the same amount of space as 9. TIA! -wk

RE: Why I can not create temporary tablespace?

2001-05-21 Thread Christopher Spence
Yes, but you have to use a temporary tablespace or TEMPFILE tablespace. LMT is not supported on datafile tablespaces. Also note TEMPFILE has more performance as they do not do any redo generation. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 1:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: OT - RE: job offer from SAUDI ARABIA

2001-05-21 Thread Christopher Spence
I tend to agree, don't steal if you don't want to loose your hand. But I think if it is less than $5 you should only loose a finger. -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 1:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Blame Canada! grin

analyze of fnd_lobs hangs

2001-05-21 Thread Jeffrey Beckstrom
In oracle financials 11.5.3, have table called fnd_lobs. analyze table estimate statistics/compute statistics hangs. validate structure hangs - drives cpu to 60-80 percent but never finishes. dbms_stats.table_gather - works!!! Anybody else see this. Jeffrey BeckstromDatabase

RE: Space Estimation Performance (numbers)

2001-05-21 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
Walter: You use the VSIZE() function. And you are right about 1 not taking the same amount of size as 9. 1 uses 2 bytes and 9 uses 4. SQL select vsize(1), vsize(9) from dual; VSIZE(1) VSIZE(9) 24 Kevin

RE: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Carle, William T (Bill), NLCIO
Howdy, The only bulkcopy utility that I know of is a Sybase utility. The Sybase bcp command moves data from a flat file to a Sybase table and vice versa. I dont know of any such command in Oracle. Bill Carle ATT Database Administrator 816-995-3922 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Bulkcopy is a Sybase utility. You can do bulk loading via sqlldr and the only way to do bulk extract in a readable format is to use sql*plus or some other program. From: Robertson Lee - lerobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

More articles of interest

2001-05-21 Thread Glenn Travis
Oracle's Self-Praise Conflicts with Analyst Findings http://www.internetnews.com/asp-news/article/0,,3411_767421,00.html DB2, 9i war looms large http://gethelp.devx.com/pubs/infoworld/vol23/issue20/010514hndbwars.asp

RE: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
like sqlldr (flat==dbms) and data unloader (raw dbf==ascii dml)? Rachel knows alot about this. Has a few medals in the Great Data Wars of the Last Millenium. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 2:46 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Howdy, The only

RE: Space Estimation (numbers)

2001-05-21 Thread Walter K
Thanks for the info. I know about the VSIZE function, but how do I estimate the amount of space manually? What about negatives, fractional values, etc.? These all require differing amounts of space. Thanks again. Walt --- Toepke, Kevin M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walter: You use the

RE: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Glenn Travis
sqlldr. ATT obviously uses Sybase. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carle, William T (Bill), NLCIOSent: Monday, May 21, 2001 11:46 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Bulkcopy Howdy, The only bulkcopy

RE: Space Estimation (numbers)

2001-05-21 Thread John Lewis
Oracle stores the avg_row_length in all_tables view. Use analyze_schema to get the most recent numbers. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 12:12 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks for the info. I know about the VSIZE function, but how do I estimate the amount

RE: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Ross sssh! those medals are SECRET! data unloader in any case is a product that Oracle does NOT want people to use, it's not for sale, cannot be kept on your system...you have a field engineer come, install it, run it, and take it away. From: Mohan, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Carle, William T (Bill), NLCIO
ATT uses Oracle. Im well acquainted with sqlldr, and I assumed that the questioner was too. I took his question to be: was there a bulkcopy utility in addition to sqlldr and the answer as far as I know is no. Bill Carle ATT Database Administrator 816-995-3922 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Space Estimation (numbers)

2001-05-21 Thread Christopher Spence
I think he was refering to column size, not the row size. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 3:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oracle stores the avg_row_length in all_tables view. Use analyze_schema to get the most recent numbers. -- Please see the official

RE: Space Estimation (numbers)

2001-05-21 Thread Christopher Spence
This should answer any questions on numberic size and storage. http://www.vampired.net/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=24forum=150 Hope this helps. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 3:12 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks for the info. I know about the VSIZE

RE: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Christopher Spence
There is a tool you can do to convert a table to CSV on Thomas Kyte's page, there is also a product from Oriole called PDQ Out which will output tables into format that can be blasted in with SQL LOADER. I would also look into transportable tablespaces. -Original Message-From:

Re: OT - RE: job offer from SAUDI ARABIA

2001-05-21 Thread jhawkins
I'll concede on the users for dietary purposes, but I will not budge on the Windows OS...frustration can only lead to chaos and violence. Besides, this is supposed to be Utopia! I disagree with the restriction of no users. After all, what better dietary plan than all the users you can

RE: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Christopher Spence
Oh yeah, and they kick you out of the room when they do it. They also purge the filesystem so you cannot undelete it by any known means. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 3:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ross sssh! those medals are SECRET! data

RE: Space Estimation (numbers)

2001-05-21 Thread Walter K
Thanks, but the table doesn't exist yet. Also, I need to estimate the space needs for a column of a numeric datatype, not the row itself. --- John Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oracle stores the avg_row_length in all_tables view. Use analyze_schema to get the most recent numbers.

Galactically OT - job offer from MARTIAN ICECAP

2001-05-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
Does anyone want to see my Hannibal Lector in a Ponytail and Speedo Impersonation? || -Original Message- || From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] || Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 4:11 PM || To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L || Subject: Re: OT - RE: job offer from SAUDI

OT RE: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
maybe we can crAck it with a LoPht tRoJaN Horse Warez Vye-rus? || -Original Message- || From: Christopher Spence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] || Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 4:01 PM || To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L || Subject: RE: Bulkcopy || || || Oh yeah, and they kick you out

RE: Galactically OT - job offer from MARTIAN ICECAP

2001-05-21 Thread Scott . Shafer
Are you stupid? Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 -Original Message- From: Mohan, Ross [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 3:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Galactically OT - job offer from MARTIAN ICECAP Does anyone want to

RE: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
hm, maybe I smiled nicer at the tech than you, I got to stay in the room not a product you want to be needing in any case, if you need data unloader, it means that your database cannot be forced open by any means known to Oracle and they have to go in and etch the data manually onto the dump

RE: Space Estimation (numbers)

2001-05-21 Thread Walter K
Actually, I just answered my own question. The following is from MetaLink. I have seen this article before but could not find it this morning for the life of me!! :-) --- Doc ID: Note:1031902.6 Internal Numeric Data Storage - Oracle stores numeric data in

RE: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
From what I know, bulk copy or bcp as it is called in the MS SQL Server world, is equivalent to Oracle's export/import. So instead of exporting/importing data they must bcp'ing it in/out of the SQL Server database. Per MS web site posting, the newer MS SQL Server improved the bulk copy

Nothing to do with Oracle : But is is very important : Your reaction please

2001-05-21 Thread palestine Qods
Hello, Please take a look at this and give your reaction : http://www.humanityonhold.com/intifada.html YOUR REACTION PLEASE THANKS A LOT Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 -- Please

RE: Space Estimation (numbers)

2001-05-21 Thread Walter K
Actually, I just answered my own question. The following is from MetaLink. I have seen this article before but could not find it this morning for the life of me!! :-) --- Doc ID: Note:1031902.6 Internal Numeric Data Storage - Oracle stores numeric data in

RE: Nothing to do with Oracle : But is is very important : Your r

2001-05-21 Thread John Kanagaraj
Please take a look at this and give your reaction : http://www.humanityonhold.com/intifada.html YOUR REACTION PLEASE THANKS A LOT My only reaction is this: LEAVE THIS LIST ALONE. There's already a lot of Off-topic posting going around and meaningful information is lost amidst the various

RE: Galactically OT - job offer from MARTIAN ICECAP

2001-05-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
HELP || -Original Message- || From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] || Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 4:37 PM || To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L || Subject: RE: Galactically OT - job offer from MARTIAN ICECAP || || || Are you stupid? || || Scott Shafer || San

Re: Galactically OT - job offer from MARTIAN ICECAP

2001-05-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
ooh ooh --- not me :) From: Mohan, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Galactically OT - job offer from MARTIAN ICECAP Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 12:25:32 -0800 Does anyone want to see my Hannibal Lector in a

Data encryption in Oracle 7.x

2001-05-21 Thread Val_Gamerman/Victoria_Financial . VICTORIA_FINANCIAL
Hello fellow DBA's, I am in a tough situation. I am trying to find an encryption solution for Oracle 7. I know that 8i has DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT, however we don't have 8i :( We are still running 7.3.4 (OS limitations, DOS clients :(. Anyway, did any of you ever have to implement DES

RE: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
bcp will extract to readable format, unlike import/export From: Deshpande, Kirti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Bulkcopy Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 12:45:50 -0800 From what I know, bulk copy or bcp as it is

RE: Galactically OT - job offer from MARTIAN ICECAP

2001-05-21 Thread Thater, William
On Mon, 21 May 2001,Mohan, Ross scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -HELP Ross, there is no help for you!;-) -- Bill Thater Certifiable ORACLE DBA Telergy, Inc.[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~ You gotta program like you don't need the

RE: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I have had to it is not one of my more favorite memories... I don't LIKE going 40 hours without sleep and after a while, diet Coke just doesn't have an effect :) From: Christopher Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Re: ....A drop schema script ??

2001-05-21 Thread Jared Still
On Friday 18 May 2001 18:01, Jacques Kilchoer wrote: I hope Mr. Still won't mind if I post another script in the same vein, that I used after hearing him recommend this approach. This one also drops public synonyms for objects in the schema being dropped. Please note that

RE: Nothing to do with Oracle : But is is very important :

2001-05-21 Thread Alessandro Guimaraes
NOMAIL -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Alessandro Guimaraes INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists

OT: Editorial on Corporate use of Open Source Software

2001-05-21 Thread Jared Still
This is a very interesting editorial on corporate use of OSS. http://www.dmreview.com/editorial/dmdirect/dmdirect_article.cfm?EdID=3436issue=051801record=1 Some may consider this off topic for an Oracle mailing list, but I believe that those folks are in the minority. Some very good points

RE: Nothing to do with Oracle : But is is very important : Your r

2001-05-21 Thread Paul Baumgartel
There is WAY too much off-topic nonsense on this list, IMHO. That take a job in Saudi Arabia thread hangs on, with puerile, unfunny jokes being exchanged between individuals. I value the technical content here, and I can appreciate the occasional (emphasis on occasional) joke, but it's gotten

Re: adding columns to system tables

2001-05-21 Thread Jared Still
While this practice would be frowned on, I have had occasion to do something similar myself. Developers were required to have the ability to see source code in stored procedures in production instances through SQL Navigator, without granting the database privileges that would normally make this

RE: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Thater, William
On Mon, 21 May 2001,Rachel Carmichael scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -I have had to it is not one of my more favorite memories... - -I don't LIKE going 40 hours without sleep - -and after a while, diet Coke just doesn't have an effect :) You just need people shooting at you from

Re:Data encryption in Oracle 7.x

2001-05-21 Thread dgoulet
Val, I doubt that this does DES encryption, but it may be better than nothing and it does work in Oracle7. (atually came from MetaStink) create or replace package encrypt as function code(inp_data varchar2, key varchar2 default 'FILL IN THE BLANK') return varchar2; pragma

Re:Nothing to do with Oracle : But is is very important : Yo

2001-05-21 Thread dgoulet
This one is SOO far off topic. I believe this is a multi national mailing list as much as I like to keep freedom of speech alive well I really don't want to get mired down in a strictly political discussion. At least the Saudi posts had to do with working there as an Oracle professional

OTRE: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
As i recall, you got free flowers for it, no? || -Original Message- || From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] || Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 5:32 PM || To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L || Subject: RE: Bulkcopy || || || I have had to it is not one of my more

Multimaster Replication

2001-05-21 Thread Nihar
hi gurus My Asynchronus multimaster replication is working fine. But the moment i remove the physical connectiviy (network link),it hangs without even updating local data base. i mean it's not allowing me to commit insert statement at one location. Can anybody helps me in this. thanks

RE: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Kimberly Smith
Me and a guy here from work are pretty big into the mountain climbing. Mt. Hood is an hour away and its one of those mountains that you tackle starting at midnight and finish around 10-11AM. So basically you go without sleep for quite a while since we both usually have not been to bed since the

svrmgrl error

2001-05-21 Thread Leyden, Joseph
Has anyone seen this error and found what the solution was? Hoping for a long shot here Joe $ svrmgrl exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program svrmgrl because of the following errors: 0509-130 Symbol

Re: svrmgrl error

2001-05-21 Thread Joseph S. Testa
look at relinking the svrmgrl executable, ensure there is no 7.3 libraries in path BEFORE the 8.x libs(assuming an 8.x database). you got metalink, search for it, i'm 90% sure its on there. joe Leyden, Joseph wrote: Has anyone seen this error and found what the solution was? Hoping for a

Re: Temporary tablespaces

2001-05-21 Thread Glen Mitchell
Hi Steve, Is there any disadvantage to using a tempfile tablespace for the TEMPtablespaces used by the application? Apart from the fact that they are non-recoverable. In the past Ihave created TEMPtablespaces with datafiles. I suppose the nature of the temp tablespace is that it contains

RE: Multimaster Replication

2001-05-21 Thread Haskins, Ed
Nihar, Don't remove the network link!! O.KI'm not a replication guru, but my thoughts are that the way replication is setup, the commit can only happen if the data can be replicated as it should. If there is no network connectivity, the instance cannot get to one of the other required

Re: Check for number only

2001-05-21 Thread Jared Still
Diane, If you rely on Oracle to do the checking, it will be much faster. Jared create or replace function is_number( chk_data_in varchar2 ) return boolean is dummy number(38,4); begin dummy := to_number(chk_data_in); return true; exception when value_error then

RE: adding columns to system tables

2001-05-21 Thread Khedr, Waleed
can't you utilize the comment column? -Original Message- Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 12:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Does anyone know if it is 'safe' to add additional columns to user_tab_columns? I am running 8.1.5. I would use the new columns to tell the application

example of using clause RETURNING

2001-05-21 Thread Hillman, Alex
Could somebody please provide an example of returning clause for update, delete or insert SQL statement when there is an update, delete or insert of multiple rows. I know how to do it if there is one row. Alex Hillman -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author:

Re:svrmgrl error

2001-05-21 Thread dgoulet
Joe, OS and Oracle version??? Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Leyden; Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 5/21/2001 1:56 PM Has anyone seen this error and found what the solution was? Hoping for a long shot here Joe

RE: svrmgrl error

2001-05-21 Thread Leyden, Joseph
Problem was solved from my AIX group list. All I needed was to install and load load the post-wait kernel extensions. Thanks for any response you gave. Joe -Original Message- Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 3:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Joe, OS and Oracle

how to make a file writable by anybody?

2001-05-21 Thread Andrea Oracle
Hi all, How to make a Unix file writable by anybody? The file should be owned by dba, but also writable by non-dbas. -rw-rw-rw- 1 jcsora dba0 May 21 16:00 dbbackup_sched.dat -rw-rw-r-- 1 jcsora dba0 May 21 16:01 del_base_sched.dat Currently dbbackup_sched.dat

RE: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Christopher Spence
Oh boy :) I can see that as a seal or a hunting while kegging but last time I got shot at is when I was playing paint ball (13 balls/s x 130MPH is pretty nasty). Colleages are kind of afraid what would happen to the database if I got shot. -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients

RE: how to make a file writable by anybody?

2001-05-21 Thread Narender Akula
chmod ugo+w dbbackup_sched.dat where u user , g group, o other ... + to add, w for write. naren -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 11:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all, How to make a Unix file writable by anybody? The file should be owned by dba, but

RE: how to make a file writable by anybody?

2001-05-21 Thread Leyden, Joseph
do chmod 666 del_base_sched.dat -Original Message- Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 4:15 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all, How to make a Unix file writable by anybody? The file should be owned by dba, but also writable by non-dbas. -rw-rw-rw- 1 jcsora dba

RE: Multimaster Replication

2001-05-21 Thread Nihar
Hi! Well, i am not going to remove the link but What if the internet connectivity fails. My DB servers are at different locations and i am doing it through WAN link .Is there any way to queup the data till links come up. thanks -Nihar -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001

Re: adding columns to system tables

2001-05-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
please note you said copies :) From: Jared Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: adding columns to system tables Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 13:36:23 -0800 While this practice would be frowned on, I have had

Re: OTRE: Bulkcopy

2001-05-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
nope, nothing. they don't give away the product :) From: Mohan, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OTRE: Bulkcopy Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 14:10:29 -0800 As i recall, you got free flowers for it, no? ||

OT : Unix Mail

2001-05-21 Thread CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC)
Hi Unix Gurus, Does anyone know how to send a file db_backup.log to receipient [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject Backup Log file in Unix ? Thanks. Regds, New Bee -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com

Hard parse /soft parse

2001-05-21 Thread Raymond Lee Meng Hong
Hello Christopher, What is the meaning of hard parse / soft parse on the article on 'Are synonyms really bad?' Latch mean for what ??? Sorry for asking sooo stupied question. but I just start my DBA knowledge .previously I'm a informix developer. I have download some really good

Any one working in Dotcom (Domain registration) Companies ??

2001-05-21 Thread magesh
Hi Guys I need help from you abt URL forwarding , Email Forwarding and Domain parking . Can you give me any suggestions or tips. please Regards Magesh

Re: connect to idle instance

2001-05-21 Thread Jared Still
STARTUP FORCE will accomplish the same thing. Jared On Friday 18 May 2001 15:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Gurus, One of my colleagues killed ora_pmon and other background processes. If we log into svrmgrl, then the messge connect to idle instance show up. We are trying to bring the

C-ISAM

2001-05-21 Thread Zhang Yuan Lin
Hi, listers: Does anyone know C-ISAM and it can be used in Oracle? or just for the Informix. Thanks in advance. Rgds, Annie -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Zhang Yuan Lin INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051

Re: Data encryption in Oracle 7.x

2001-05-21 Thread Jared Still
Take a look at my article on encryption on Oracle. It can be found at www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/util It has some solutions ( such as RC4 ) that can be implemented on Oracle 7. There's also a Blowfish implementation there courtesy of Craig Munday. Keep one thing in mind: encryption via PL/SQL

RE: Multimaster Replication

2001-05-21 Thread A. Bardeen
Nihar, This is not normal. Asynchronous propagation populates the deferred transactions queues which are then pushed at a later time, so the only thing that should happen when network connectivity is lost is that the job pushing the queues will fail. Once connectivity is re-established the job

Re: Check for number only

2001-05-21 Thread Jared Still
Diane, Musta been a bug, as this was originally done on 7.3.something. Jared On Monday 21 May 2001 15:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jared, That's absolutely true, now. In the past (don't ask me when, I think it was version 7 something), I found that exceptions for some reason took a

Re: OT : Unix Mail

2001-05-21 Thread Viraj Luthra
You could do a man mailx and find the information that will help you. you could do this also:- mailx -s $MSG_TITLE $MAIL_TO_ADDRESS $FILE_WITH_MESSAGE_BODY The above is assuming onl the subject and mailto and message file to be sent across. But better you open the man page on mailx and

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