user-define exception handle

2001-05-29 Thread Raymond Lee Meng Hong
Troubleshooting on the exception is some how difficult, it the package is about 1000 lines and there are alot of block including nested block contend with it own exception handle , how should we know which one of the exception hit ??? I'm using TOAD , but browsing it in and out really made me

How to pass the connect clause to connect as a database user in a stored procedure?

2001-05-29 Thread Ranganath K
Dear DBA Gurus, I want to create a stored procedure in which a name is passed as input parameter. The procedure should take the name as input parameter and create a user with the username and password same as name. Then I want to connect as the newly created user and create a set of

interpreting ses_actions in dba_audit_object

2001-05-29 Thread TAG DBA
I enabled all auditing on a table. After doing a select, insert and delete I have one row in dba_audit_object which shows the following for ses_actions column: ---S--S--S-- I know that I have to tie this up with audit options in dba_obj_audit_options to get a more readable report like :

auditing entire schema

2001-05-29 Thread TAG DBA
I want to audit ALL objects in the database - we have a lot of objects lying around and even the developers dont know whether some of them are being used or not. I dont think there is any way by which I can audit all objects in the database (thats by issuing a single stmt). I tried to audit by

RE: Error Message - Database is Already Up

2001-05-29 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Unal NOTE - sgadef$ORACLE_SID.dbf Files Existed in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs Dir Upon Receipt of This Error Database is Already Up . Shut it Down First we MOVED the sgadef$ORACLE_SID.dbf Files to a Temporary SUB-Dir under $ORACLE_HOME/dbs Dir Upon RE-Initiating the Oracle Installation We Still GOT

Re: Hot Backup Temp Data Files

2001-05-29 Thread nlzanen1
Hi, AFAIK you can drop the temp tablespace after the restore and simply recreate them. I do this with COLD backups where I clone without copying the temp files across the network. On startup it will complain that the datafiles aren't there, after which you can drop the tablespace. Jack

RE: How to pass the connect clause to connect as a database user

2001-05-29 Thread Andor, Gyula
I want to create a stored procedure in which a name is passed as input parameter. The procedure should take the name as input parameter and create a user with the username and password same as name. Then I want to connect as the newly created user and create a set of tables.

Re: How to pass the connect clause to connect as a database user in a stored procedure?

2001-05-29 Thread Connor McDonald
You can't, but you can use 'alter session set current_schema = ...'. Similarly, if the procedure you're building has all the power the create users/ create tables, then it will be able to put data in that table, it can also be used to temporary create a secondary procedure in the new schema to

Re: user-define exception handle

2001-05-29 Thread Connor McDonald
Common methods include setting a flag to indicate process state.. eg begin ... ... ... some_flag := 'Up to here'; ... ... ... some_flag := 'Now here' ... ... exception when no_data_found then if some_flag = ... then else etc end; hth connor --- Raymond Lee Meng

Re: How to pass the connect clause to connect as a database user in a

2001-05-29 Thread nlzanen1
Hi, Not really an answer to your Q, but if the procedure is created by a user with create any table privileges you can create tables in another schema right? So simply create your user and then create the tables in that new users schema, no need to connect as that user. Jack

Views

2001-05-29 Thread Roland . Skoldblom
Hallo you DBAs Is it possible to use a view when you do a select statement in a dynamic sql-query in a PL/SQL code? Roland Sköldblom -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX:

More views

2001-05-29 Thread Roland . Skoldblom
Hallo all you DBA gurus, Is it possible to get a more fast procedur running, by creating views of tables(many tables involved) instead of querying directly on the tables.? Roland Sköldblom -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Musings on tuning and the optimizer

2001-05-29 Thread Nuno Souto
Thanks chief. I'll keep an eye out for any outer joins misbehaving. Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den - Original Message - _PUSH_JOIN_PREDICATE is set to TRUE or the accessing query contains the PUSH_PRED hint. -- Please see the official

RE: How many times has an index been used?

2001-05-29 Thread Mark Leith
There is also one called The Big Picture - from Bit by Bit www.bitbybit.co.uk - that scans all source, and SQL, and stores all execution plans in a BDE database. It then scans through all the exectution plans to determine whether an index is used or not. It doesn't however tell you how many

RE: More views

2001-05-29 Thread Rajesh Dayal
Check Documentation for Materialized Views HTH, Rajesh -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 1:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hallo all you DBA gurus, Is it possible to get a more fast procedur running, by creating views of

RE: How to send email from pl/sql in 806?

2001-05-29 Thread Venkata Ramana Kanchinadam
... Venkata Ramana Sierra Optima Limited, SVR Towers, 8-2-1/B/1, Panjagutta, Hyderabad 500082, India. Ph: (91-40) - 3730321, 3746122, 3745051 Ext: 228,219 Fax:(91-40) - 3746419. Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: Venkata Ramana Kanchinadam Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Database slowdown after 100 days uptime

2001-05-29 Thread Mark Marsden
Hi Bruce Yep there is something on Metalink about this when server uptime is 248 days (I know it sounds unbelievable). Happened to me, databases slowing/hanging and I could only shutdown abort databases. Rebooted and everything worked fine. HTH Mark.

Error while executing stored procedure as system user

2001-05-29 Thread Ranganath K
Dear DBA Gurus, I am able to execute the below code as an anonymous Pl/Sql block but when I incorporate it in a stored procedure the procedure gets created but I am getting the below errors while executing the procedure as system user: Anonymous Pl/Sql block Declare name varchar2(4):='test';

RE: Creating a sorted table

2001-05-29 Thread Vijay_Krishna
Title: RE: Creating a sorted table Hi infact creating the table as sorted data from another table works with oracle 8.1.6.3.0 as: create table agrs as select * from agreements order by agr_agreement_number desc; Is this OK?? Vijay -- From: Connor McDonald[SMTP:[EMAIL

RE: More views

2001-05-29 Thread Amar Kumar Padhi
Using views instead of tables directly will not have any performance gain. Views should not be measured with table for performance as they are meant for a different purpose. If you can use tables, use it. If you want to hide coding complexity, customise data, check on user access etc., evaluate

RMAN Question?

2001-05-29 Thread Zvizdenco, Ghenadie
Hi I had these problems with the RMAN 8.0.5 that the backupsets were created with status 'DELETED' in the recovery catalog. I want to clear the control file records and the recreate the recovery catalog. Is there a way to clear the backup information from control file without recreating it. Any

Re: Hot Backup Temp Data Files

2001-05-29 Thread Connor McDonald
similarly you can issue 'alter tablespace temp add datafile ... reuse' connor --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, AFAIK you can drop the temp tablespace after the restore and simply recreate them. I do this with COLD backups where I clone without copying the temp files across the

Slow query

2001-05-29 Thread Roland . Skoldblom
Hallo you DBAs; How can I make a query run faster, I have some queries and they tend to be be very slow. Roland Sköldblom -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051

RE: Error while executing stored procedure as system user - Solved

2001-05-29 Thread Ranganath K
Dear DBA Gurus, I solved the problem by incorporating the authid current_user clause. I didn't explicitly grant any roles or privileges to system user. The modified code is as below: create or replace procedure create_user (name IN VARCHAR2) authid current_user IS BEGIN EXECUTE IMMEDIATE

RE: Error Message - Database is Already Up

2001-05-29 Thread Gene Sais
I always use a shutdown abort to clean up oracle sga files and processes. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/29/01 04:10AM Unal NOTE - sgadef$ORACLE_SID.dbf Files Existed in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs Dir Upon Receipt of This Error Database is Already Up . Shut it Down First we MOVED the sgadef$ORACLE_SID.dbf Files

RE: Slow query

2001-05-29 Thread Oweson Flynn
Oh No, Oh No - Be nice now ... (I can see all the 'undocumented' parameters being hauled out again ...) (Roland, that is a bit like asking 'How do I implement world peace?' or 'How do I understand women?' - we can't help make a query run faster per se - a little detail would be nice - like

Re: Slow query

2001-05-29 Thread Peter McLarty
Chase it with a big stick Nah just kidding Provide some more detail like version and what you are trying to actually do and you are going to get a better answer. As I always understood it, to get the best performance all other things being correct with the system is that you have to make

No Subject

2001-05-29 Thread Senthil Ganapathi
Hi Everybody, In D2k Report2.5 in the parameter form two user parameters are there with list of values, based on the first parameter value, we need to generate 2nd parameter's list of value. For example First Parameter field for Company code (it will give all list company code) 1- 100 In the 2nd

Re: Subquery

2001-05-29 Thread dgoulet
Why would you want to use a subquery? I can see no reason or it and they do tend to slow things down. Dick Goulet -- Reply Separator -- Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 5/29/01 4:15 AM Hallo you DBAs How can I write this sql query using subqueries?

ORACLE 8i DBA

2001-05-29 Thread Deewaker G.V.
Title: ORACLE 8i DBA hi I am planning to take ORACLE 8i DBA Examination, Can you guys please guide w.r.t 1) Good Book to Refer 2) Steps to Prepare for all the 5 Papers 3) Cramsessions 4) Free downloadable Power Point Presentations If you feel some more which i need to gear up with.

sqlplus cannot connect to PO 803 - more infp

2001-05-29 Thread Rahul
List, (win95, PO 803) i posted this problem earlier also...and i have some more tracing to share... here's the situation... i installed 16bit oracle executables, plus31 under home c:\orawin on win95 I CAN connect to all my DB's (on AIX machine) using plus31 without any problems... then i

Recalling_Archives !!!

2001-05-29 Thread Jackson Dumas
Hi there everyone Can somebody help me out. I am a newbie in Oracle and would like to recall (recover) archive logs from the tape. (Using rman by SQLPLUS, I am not clear as to what SQLPLUS command is used to recall arcbive logs from tape, which are more than 6 months.). Please help me out, I

RE: How many times has an index been used?

2001-05-29 Thread Steve Adams
Hi All, A cheaper solution to this is to use an AFTER LOGON trigger to set CREATE_STORED_OUTLINES to true. If the users have the CREATE ANY OUTLINE system privilege, you'll be able to see which indexes are being used in the DBA_OUTLINE_HINTS view. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @

Re: Recalling_Archives !!!

2001-05-29 Thread Ruth Gramolini
I don't think you can use rman by sqlplus. If you have backed up your archive logs to tape you can restore them using rman. Here is a script to recover archived logs 216 and 217. First you have to restore the archivelog backupsets to the backup destination from the tape. The run the commands

RE: Slow query

2001-05-29 Thread Thater, William
On Tue, 29 May 2001,Oweson Flynn scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -(Roland, that is a bit like asking 'How do I implement world peace?' or 'How -do I understand women?' - we can't help make a query run faster per se - a you do not understand women, if you are very, very, very lucky you

Re: Database slowdown after 100 days uptime

2001-05-29 Thread Don Jerman
Keep an eye on free memory -- one of our similar systems has to be restarted every 60 days to prevent the behaviour you're encountering. We haven't determined the source of the memory leak, but if we permit it to continue eventually the DB stops responding and cannot be shut down. This system

Re: 16 bit sqlplus cannot connect to PO8i

2001-05-29 Thread Luis DeUrioste
Rahul, It seems to me that you are having a problem reading the proper TNSNAMES.ORA for the different DBs. What I would do in your situation is to search for all TNSNAMES.ORA files in your PC, since you have products installed in more than one home and more than one version you should have

RE: V$SESSION.OSUSER returns NT-Domain\NT-User ?

2001-05-29 Thread Christopher Spence
I believe this always was like this. If you look on my site I beleive it is under user I have a Who script. It lists who is logged on, it handles this occurance and removes the domain. As well as the path from the program column. http://www.vampired.net/scripts/php/user.php (First one in the

Re: Recalling_Archives !!!

2001-05-29 Thread Jackson Dumas
Ruth I don't see the scrip you talking about here, when you say you are restoring 216 and 217. It's not included on yhour mail!!! On Tue, 29 May 2001 05:56:20 -0800 Ruth Gramolini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I don't think you can use rman by sqlplus. If you have backed up your archive logs

RE: Listener.log....writing to renamed file

2001-05-29 Thread Christopher Spence
Title: RE: Listener.logwriting to renamed file You should bounce the listener. "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message-From: Li, Xiangli [mailto:[EMAIL

Script and control file

2001-05-29 Thread Quaglio Andrea
First of all, I'm a beginner to SQL/SQL Loader. Currently,I'm working with Oracle 8. I would like to know if it's possible invoke SQL Loader inside a script. Example: - inside the script I want to create a new table TABLE1 - copy some data inside TABLE1 using SQL loader - work on TABLE1 using

Impact Analysis

2001-05-29 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
All, I was told a while a go about a new suite of utilities called 8i Change control (or Impact analysis) which will look at an oracle 7.3 (not 2) and above database and show you all the impacts, pl/sql, tables, columns etc etc. of an upgrade to 8i. Anyone else heard of such a thing. I was told

RE: ORACLE 8i DBA

2001-05-29 Thread Christopher Spence
Title: ORACLE 8i DBA 1) Que Oracle 8/8i is great startup book as well as the Oracle Press DBA Handbook 2) Read, Practice, Read 3) I don't believe in cheating, so no help there 4) Way to many sites to mention, start with any oracle site and just follow links. "Walking on water and

ORA-1874 time zone hour must be between -12 and 13

2001-05-29 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. I posted a message on the list several

Default user accounts

2001-05-29 Thread Brian Wisniewski
I'm working on a database security audit at a new place and was trying to get a list together of all the default accounts Oracle may create so I can make sure their passwords have been changed. I've heard there are 15 or more accounts now. Does anyone have a list they would care to share? I'm

No Subject

2001-05-29 Thread Quaglio Andrea
who -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Quaglio Andrea INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists

RE: How can I query the SID name from the database

2001-05-29 Thread Szecsy Tamas
Thanks for all who replied. Probably I will have to solve this some other way, since the customer has several instances on the same box, but the instance name has no correlation to the SID name: they don't accept the default. Regards, Tamas Szecsy -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday,

RE: Deleting the alert.log when the database is up

2001-05-29 Thread Hillman, Alex
I did not understand this note. Does it mean that I can copy current alert.log to alert.log.old and then mv nullfile alert.log and original oracle using original file descriptor will write to new empty alert.log? Alex Hillman -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday,

Re: Recalling_Archives !!!

2001-05-29 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Sorry about that! Here it is. And it is to restore 217 and 218. The other script allocate and release the channels. replace script restore_archivelog { execute script alloc_dc1_disk; restore archivelog from logseq 217 until logseq 218 thread 1; execute script rel_dc1_disk; } -- If you

RE: ORACLE 8i DBA

2001-05-29 Thread Bala, Prakash
Go thru as many practise exams as possible and PRACTICE. Prakash -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 9:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L hi I am planning to take ORACLE 8i DBA Examination, Can you guys please guide w.r.t 1) Good Book to Refer 2) Steps

Re:RE: MS access

2001-05-29 Thread dan williams
I've been working in Oracle for 4 years and Access for 6 years, and can assure you that for Access 97 (size limit is 1 g), Access 2000 (size limit is 2 g), Access 2002 (size limit is 4g). I've had 500 mg database that work fine in a multiuser environment, however if there is a need for a

Problem with many (160 - 170) sessions in the database on NT

2001-05-29 Thread Jonas A Wetterberg
Hello We are running into a little problem with an Oracle installation. The server OS is Windows NT, SP6, and the version of Oracle is 7.3.4.5.0. The server have 4 processes, we have about 1,7 G primary memory and about 2 G of memory on swap disk. We have 4 processes in the machine. One of these

Re: Script and control file

2001-05-29 Thread William Beilstein
see the host command in pl/sql [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/29/01 11:15AM First of all, I'm a beginner to SQL/SQL Loader. Currently,I'm working with Oracle 8. I would like to know if it's possible invoke SQL Loader inside a script. Example: - inside the script I want to create a new table TABLE1 -

RE: V$SESSION.OSUSER returns NT-Domain\NT-User ?

2001-05-29 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Hey, Christopher, I hope this isn't a blatant plug for the site ! :-) (just joking, I have been on it a couple of times - very nice !!). -Original Message- Sent: 29 May 2001 15:51 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I believe this always was like this. If you look on my

iAS installation on NT

2001-05-29 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Fyi for those who might be working on this, see technical notes: 138118.1 Installation Procedures and Potential Problems for 9iAS 1.0.2. on NT 117145.1 Installing Oracle8i Cache 132445.1 9iAS/Portal Install on NT with 8.1.7. There is a patchset 3a for Forms and Reports 6i, and a patchset

Re: Default user accounts

2001-05-29 Thread Brian Wisniewski
Ignore my prior post about default accounts. I saw the list on orafaq but wasn't counting the 5 training accounts (scott/tiger) in my list as defaults and kept coming up short on the 15 or 16 'defaults'. Once I added them in it makes more sense with a post I saw on MetaLink from Oracle Support.

RE: Script and control file

2001-05-29 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Andrea, Is this UNIX or NT. In UNIX ( I don't know NT that well), the most simple method would be to use a shell script. The following is about as basic as it comes but would need to be embellished with environment settings and error checking etc.. eg. Start of Script

shmmax vs. SGA

2001-05-29 Thread Miller, Jay
Hi all, We had gotten some extra memory for our production server and I was trying to increase our buffer cache again (I was leery of doing it all at once so I just doubled it the first time). I got a ORA-27123: unable to attach to shared memory segment with my first try (it worked after I

Re: shmmax vs. SGA

2001-05-29 Thread Charlie Mengler
You need to change sgabeg re-link Oracle. The values below are/were valid for V7 and should be used with caution on V8. HTH YMMV! sgabeg = 0xe000 ! 256MB SGA sgabeg = 0xd000 ! 512MB SGA sgabeg = 0xc000 ! 768MB SGA sgabeg = 0xb000 ! 1.00GB SGA sgabeg = 0xa000 ! 1.25GB

RE:

2001-05-29 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
what -Original Message- Andrea Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 11:47 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L who -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Quaglio Andrea INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX:

sql loader need help

2001-05-29 Thread Mujeeb Chowdhry
Hi, I need some help...I am trying to use SQL loader to load a flat file into a table...the problem I have is that when trying to load a blank column into a date column... this throws out an error...and the loader fails...do you know of a way of how to get around this problem...how can I

multiple versions of SQLPlus.exe

2001-05-29 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I have a server NT4.0, SP5 that has two versions of Oracle installed. On drive J is Oracle 8.0.5 which is used by a third party app and has been up and running for about a year. This last week I installed on drive E Oracle 8i 8.1.7 and have not yet created a database. This Saturday on of the

RE:

2001-05-29 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
When and how Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From: Kevin Kostyszyn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 1:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:RE:

RE: Script and control file

2001-05-29 Thread lhoska
If it is NT you can create a batch file similar to Unix example given below which will do the same. The only difference here is you'll have to save your sqlplus scripts in a text or *.sql format and call them from the batch file. After that you can call sqlloader. -Original Message-

RE: Script and control file

2001-05-29 Thread Rajaram
Inside Pl/SQL u cannot use the host command.. HOST is Sql*PLUS command not a SQL. So, u cannot use with in Pl?SQL Rajaram -Original Message- From: William Beilstein [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 12:08 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

Re:Problem with many (160 - 170) sessions in the database on

2001-05-29 Thread dgoulet
Jonas, Solution, dump Windows and get onto Linux or buy a real Unix machine. Your asking a toy to do a man/woman's job. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Jonas A Wetterberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 5/29/2001 8:50 AM Hello We are running

RE: RE: MS access

2001-05-29 Thread Rajaram
Yes, Dan is right, I just pulled up this info from Acess Help ( U can find more info when u search for Specification in access help) *** Database specifications *** Attribute Maximum Database (.mdb) file size 1 gigabyte. However, because your database

RE: sql loader need help

2001-05-29 Thread Lally, Tom (MA09)
Hi, Take a look at the nullif clause. tom -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 12:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I need some help...I am trying to use SQL loader to load a flat file into a table...the problem I have is that when trying to load a blank

Re:Your views on Quest - Shareplex

2001-05-29 Thread dgoulet
Rao, Somewhere on this list there is a fellow from Quest, I've seen his e-mail, but can't remember who it is. Therefore If I'm leading down a wrong path he can correct. Anyway, as I understand SharePlex it extracts the transactions from the archived redo logs to replicate those

Re: ORACLE 8i DBA

2001-05-29 Thread Brijesh Lal
Hi Go for Oracle Certified professional DBA certification Exam guide By Jason S couchman Ulrike Schwinn This is one of the best for for ocp exams it contains lot of practice exams and is desinged for OCP only Other than this for crampsession u can go to brainbuzz.com site here u can find

Re:

2001-05-29 Thread Terry Ball
And Where. Terry Boivin, Patrice J wrote: When and how Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From: Kevin Kostyszyn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 1:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of

Re: RE: kernel Sun Solaris 8 - Listener failed to start a dedicated server p

2001-05-29 Thread Cyril Thankappan
Hi Sorry if I sound naive! But do we have to boot the server in Solaris 8 TOO (!!) in order to change the kernel? What is the procedure for changing the kernel Thanks - Original Message -- John Kanagaraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To:Multiple recipients of list

RE: V$SESSION.OSUSER returns NT-Domain\NT-User ?

2001-05-29 Thread Christopher Spence
I was actually expecting a comment or two like that given what I got last time, good heavens I do something for free for someone and promote it. I am such an evil man. Hopefully it gets better, been slow but it's coming along. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are

Re: Your views on Quest - Shareplex

2001-05-29 Thread Ray Stell
You can ask the listserv, send this commmand to [EMAIL PROTECTED] WHO list Sends a list of all subscribers to the list specified. This list may be partially or completely blocked, depending on the configuration specified by the list administrator. Most subscriber lists are ONLY

Re: RE: kernel Sun Solaris 8 - Listener failed to start a dedicated

2001-05-29 Thread Thater, William
On Tue, 29 May 2001,Cyril Thankappan scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: - -Hi - - Sorry if I sound naive! - - But do we have to boot the server in Solaris 8 - TOO (!!) in order to change the kernel? - - What is the procedure for changing the kernel - * Thanks As far as I know, if you

RE:

2001-05-29 Thread Ivan_Rivera
Title: RE: but why? -Original Message- From: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 1:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: When and how Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message-

RE: shmmax vs. SGA

2001-05-29 Thread Miller, Jay
Thanks! I'm reading the Ixora site for information on sgabeg right now (never know about the 1.7 Gig default limit before). A search of the Oracle docs and the Alomari book didn't turn up anything. From there to shudder Metalink :). Jay -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001

_sqlexec_progression_cost

2001-05-29 Thread Jerry C
Hi there, Anybody have experience setting this parameter? It references a bug (1210242) that apparently causes certain cursors not to be shared if timed statistics is set to TRUE. Thanks! - Jerry === from Main issues affecting the Shared Pool on Oracle 7 , Oracle8 and Oracle8i , Doc ID

Re: How many times has an index been used?

2001-05-29 Thread Jared Still
That is clever Steve. I'm gonna go play now. :) Jared On Tuesday 29 May 2001 07:00, Steve Adams wrote: Hi All, A cheaper solution to this is to use an AFTER LOGON trigger to set CREATE_STORED_OUTLINES to true. If the users have the CREATE ANY OUTLINE system privilege, you'll be able to

Re: multiple versions of SQLPlus.exe

2001-05-29 Thread Luis DeUrioste
Dave, It seems to me that you are having a problem reading the proper TNSNAMES.ORA for the different DBs. What I would do in your situation is to search for all TNSNAMES.ORA files in your PC, since you have products installed in more than one home and more than one version you should have

Re: RE: kernel Sun Solaris 8 - Listener failed to start a dedicated server p

2001-05-29 Thread Jared Still
On Solaris, you don't actually have to change the kernel, but you do need to edit the file /etc/system, and these changes require a reboot to become effective. I know this to be true through 2.7, not sure about 8. Jared On Tuesday 29 May 2001 11:28, Cyril Thankappan wrote: Hi Sorry if I

Re: Re: Tivoli??

2001-05-29 Thread Cyril Thankappan
Hi! Has anybody used it? It sure promises a lot... and I guess would also be a good product to use. however, we had problems 'integrating' it with the backup device ! Thanks - Original Message -- C.S.Venkata Subramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To:Multiple

Re: shmmax vs. SGA

2001-05-29 Thread Sakthi , Raj
JM , check metalink following metalink note , Note:15566.1 Regards RS --- Miller, Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, We had gotten some extra memory for our production server and I was trying to increase our buffer cache again (I was leery of doing it all at once so I just doubled it

Re: Your views on Quest - Shareplex

2001-05-29 Thread Ron Rogers
Rao, Contact QUEST and see if they are holding any SURVIVAL deminstrations in your area. They are very informative and will answer a lot of your questions. I would suggest that you also invite your damagement to help in making the decision. ROR mª¿ªm [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/29/01 01:16PM List,

Re:Your views on Quest - Shareplex

2001-05-29 Thread Jim Hawkins
All, We are currently as customer of Quest Software using LiveReorg and Spotlight. For those who don't know, LiveReorg is a combination of two existing Quest products, Space Manager and SharePlex. I asked the exact same question regarding the mining of redo logs of our Quest sales rep. I

Re: sql loader need help

2001-05-29 Thread Ron Rogers
In the CONTROL file that describes the columns to load from the data file you can load a FILLER type column desc into the destination table if the column does not exist in the source data file. If the source data column contains nulls then a NVL will convert a null to what ever you want to

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2001-05-29 Thread Don Granaman
when? But, more important, WHY??? -Don Granaman [certifiable OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 1:28 PM And Where. Terry Boivin, Patrice J wrote: When and how Patrice Boivin Systems

Re: Subquery

2001-05-29 Thread Jared Still
Why change it to subqueries? The optimizer will just turn it back into a join anyway. Jared On Tuesday 29 May 2001 05:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo you DBAs How can I write this sql query using subqueries? SELECT pbk.nielsenart.varunamn, pbk.nielsenart.strl,

RE: Your views on Quest - Shareplex

2001-05-29 Thread Brian MacLean
Title: RE: Your views on Quest - Shareplex As of a year ago it was single threaded and didn't handle long columns. -Original Message- From: Rao, Maheswara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 10:17 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Your views on

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2001-05-29 Thread schmoldt
The only way we've found to do that is to collect the parameters through an Oracle Form, which allows more sophisticated design. Then call the report from the form, passing the parameters. I do wish Oracle would allow parameter-level triggers such as WHEN_LIST_CHANGED in Reports. That would

RE: multiple versions of SQLPlus.exe

2001-05-29 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
That is the case, I agree, then you should still be able to use both of you sqlplus's, not that it really matters though. Kev -Original Message- DeUrioste Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 3:01 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dave, It seems to me that you are having a problem

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2001-05-29 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Wow, two people actually got my after memorial day humor!! -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 2:28 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L And Where. Terry Boivin, Patrice J wrote: When and how Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

Re:Your views on Quest - Shareplex

2001-05-29 Thread Jared Still
On Tuesday 29 May 2001 12:01, Jim Hawkins wrote: From note on MetaLink: 1) There is not sufficient information in the logs to logically replicate transactions, so the data applied to the destination system may be different from the primary, and therefore inaccurate. So how does a

Re: Script and control file

2001-05-29 Thread William Beilstein
As Jared pointed out (shame on me), there is no host command in PL/SQL, the only place where the host command is supported in in sqlplus and forms. Jared Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/29/01 02:10PM On Tuesday 29 May 2001 09:07, William Beilstein wrote: see the host command in pl/sql Bill, I

Re: More views

2001-05-29 Thread Jared Still
You won't find performance gains by using views, and in fact the exact opposite can happen. If you make use of views, you *must* read the 'Designing and Tuning for Performance' manual, as there are certain types of SQL statements that you don't want to use in a view. Personally, I prefer not

OT Unix shell variable question

2001-05-29 Thread Scott . Shafer
I am trying to pass a shell variable into a here document in a unix shell script, i.e., export PASSWORD=the_pass svrmgrl EOF connect user/$PASS do_stuff_here; commit; exit EOF I have tried: $PASS , \$PASS , and just plain $PASS - no dice. Anyone know how to do this? I spent too many hours

RE: RE-ENGINEERING OF TABLESPACES

2001-05-29 Thread Christopher Spence
I made this script available on my site with due credit to the author. I made a small modification on the set variables so they will be read by PL/SQL developer and other non-sql plus clients. (I actually already copied it up there, but didn't know who wrote it so I had it as Anon). Walking on

Re: Problem with many (160 - 170) sessions in the database on NT

2001-05-29 Thread Jared Still
Jonas, In addition to Dick's comments about a real Os ( with which I concur ) you need to do that math. You are running 170 sessions on the database. You can count on each session eating up 5 meg of RAM with 7.3. If you go to 8i, you can at least double that figure. This is all dependant

RE: Sql Performance

2001-05-29 Thread Christopher Spence
No, but Query one is better, it will allow you to adapt to changes. If someone adds a column to your table and you select *, all of a sudden all your applications break as there are more columns than originally inticipated. You can program to prevent this, but naming all the columns is #1 self

OT: Tool needed for database access

2001-05-29 Thread Yttri, Lisa
Title: OT: Tool needed for database access Hi - We are a sybase and oracle shop. We are considering building a tool (probably web-based) to allow the Security group to set up new users and to allow the developers to add stored procedures as the schema owner, etc. We don't want them to have

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