RE: About parallel server

2001-05-31 Thread Fernando Papa
We have a couple of independent applications running over the same instance now (it's better to do it because our resources cant' support two instances over the same machine), we think if we use parallel server, we can make partition of this applications, one for each node or someting like

RE: ORACLE NAMES /LDAP

2001-05-31 Thread Vikas Kawatra
Thanks ! A very useful link ! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 7:07 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Vikas Kawatra wrote: Anyone using this product as an alternative to Local Naming ? How about LDAP ? Any info /suggestions/comments are welcome vikas

Re: Rebuilding indexes

2001-05-31 Thread The Oracle DBA
However, if you rebuild all the indexes for schema SALES on PRIMARY, what happens on STANDBY? Are they rebuilt? Cheers, Earl --- TheOracleDBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 31 May 2001 08:16:06 Rachel Carmichael wrote: there IS no way to do that with a standby database. Once you open it

RE: 4 join methods?

2001-05-31 Thread Scott . Shafer
Cartesian Join? shudder Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 And no amount of training or preparedness can eliminate the almost certainty that in the middle of your Angry Crane stance, as you transition to your Combative Monkey to administer the Coup de Grâce via your Ninja Death Touch,

RE: Partition Elimination

2001-05-31 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
Dave: Oracle does do partition elimination in this case...check out he partition_start and partition_stop columns of you plan_table. Kevin -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 12:01 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi All, Can anyone help me with this. I have

How do I corrupt a block

2001-05-31 Thread novicedba
hi, This may sound funny. I want to know how to corrupt a block. I want to test the different methods of identifying block corruption, but I don't have sample data blocks. Please help me novice

problem starting oracle database

2001-05-31 Thread Harvinder Singh
Hi, When i am trying to start my database form svrmgrl .. i am getting error: ORA-00205 error in identifying controlfile, check alert log for more info there is nothing in alert.log... i have 3 control files all r in proper directory.. i am using proper SID i tryied with only i

Re: Snapshot Logs Explanation Needed

2001-05-31 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Correct. By the way: A good rule is to always keep the sequence Table - Snapshot Log - Snapshot, ie. don't break the sequence, for instance by dropping and re-creating the snapshot log. If something happens to the snapshot log you should drop the snapshot, create the snapshot log, then re-create

RE: Fire your DBA's you don't need them anymore...

2001-05-31 Thread The Oracle DBA
I need to find the article I had saved about Oracle 6.0 (as we were preparing to upgrade from 5.1). It was something about how the 6.0 DBA would be bored and would now be able to help appdev. Cheers, Earl --- TheOracleDBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 25 May 2001 09:28:53 Vergara,

RE: what's hash-join

2001-05-31 Thread Connor McDonald
The general school of thought is joining a large table to a small one. There is an article on Metalink thats a little out of date now, but it describes the good/the bad, and tuning of hash joins. Look for doc 67134.1 and 41954.1 hth connor --- Kevin Kostyszyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's

Implementing Stored Procedures

2001-05-31 Thread Yttri, Lisa
Title: Implementing Stored Procedures Hi - I'd like some advice on implementing stored procedures containing application logic (ie. written by developers). We have several applications where the developers use stored procedures for much of their coding. We let the developers create or

RE: Auto Extend

2001-05-31 Thread Brian MacLean
Title: RE: Auto Extend See Note:62427.1, 2Gb or Not 2Gb - File limits in Oracle http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT_id=62427.1 -Original Message- From: Connor McDonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 9:56 AM

RE: Auto Extend

2001-05-31 Thread Lisa Koivu
Title: RE: Auto Extend Hi Ron, do you have large files enabled on your system? What unix are you running? if large files are not enabled you're going to get an error but I can't tell you what it will be. Boy, autoextend reminds me of a monkey running around in your database. I'd never do

RE: Rebuilding indexes

2001-05-31 Thread Richard Huntley
Hatzistavrou, Thanks for you reply. It was about 4am when I ran into that and discovered what I needed to do, however, I knew it would take a while so I just stopped at that point. But, I was curious to find out if anyone had a BETTER way of doing it. It seems like a waste if I have to go

RE: ORACLE NAMES /LDAP

2001-05-31 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hi Ed, Why do you say that OiD is not cheap? I haven't seen any associated costs, other than servers to put it on. Can you explain? The complicated part, though I definitely agree with! :) Thx! Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Automating Outlook express

2001-05-31 Thread Sergio Boix Moriano
Hi all, Does anybody knows how to autmotize the outlook express from a Form, to open a new mail and atach a file to it, leaving the subject and destiny in blank, to be filled by the user, or where can I find any guidelines to do it. I have searched it at metalink , oraclefaq and the

RE: Unix File Open Port Open

2001-05-31 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
I like lsof for this purpose. You can see which processes have which filehandles and ports open to which hosts. It is an excellent utility. ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/README -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Thu, 31 May 2001, Mohan, Ross wrote: you

No Subject

2001-05-31 Thread \Himanshu H Shekhar\
SET ORACLE-L NOMAIL --- The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the ordinary user of the e-mail address to which it was addressed and may also be privileged. If you are not the addressee of this e-mail you should not

RE: Partition Elimination

2001-05-31 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Oracle could be doing partition elimination but the tools that you are using to see the execution plan is not showing you the details you're looking for. I usually do: Truncate table plan_table; explain plan for your-sql; select * from plan_table; There should be two columns that indicate the

RE: About parallel server

2001-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I have heard rumors that OPS on 9i will allow you to use cooked files. User group meeting next week, with a presentation on 9i new features. I'll ask Rachel From: Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

RE: Listener problems

2001-05-31 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Listener problems -Original Message- From: zabair ahmed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Has anybody come across the following error message in the listener.log, and know what the resolution is. TNS-12500: TNS:listener failed to start a dedicated server process

RE: Automating Outlook express

2001-05-31 Thread Post, Ethan
This can be done using the Outlook object model. I have never done it with express but have created lots of stuff with outlook. Check out msdn.microsoft.com for information on the model and examples (look in the MSDN Library). - Ethan Post -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31,

RE: Suggestions on SCSI

2001-05-31 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Now that sounds like a fantastic idea, now all that I have to do is figure out how you do that?:0 Kev -Original Message- McDonald Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:47 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L if you get 18's then you can just use the outer 9G portion of each drive to

RE: Suggestions on SCSI

2001-05-31 Thread Christopher Spence
18Gb with the cache all the way, I would recommend Seagate for this. The cost difference is small between the 9Gb and 18Gb plus 18Gb will be replaceable for longer time than 9Gb. I would recommend more than 4 disks though. Specially if your implementing raid of some sort. If at all possible.

RE: Implementing Stored Procedures

2001-05-31 Thread Bala, Prakash
Lisa, This is what we did in my last project: 1. Developers had access to the application schema where they created and modified procedures/functions/triggers as needed 2. After their unit testing is done, the QA team would test it using the front-end application. 3. Once QA team approves the

RE: Oracle Applications

2001-05-31 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Thanks I just found it interesting that here in Canada no one has asked for the trial CD kit... and that Oracle Canada doesn't know what to do when we wish to order one. Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From: Shreter, Hilary

Re: Listener problems

2001-05-31 Thread Jared Still
You are out of space on that filesystem. Check the size of your log files, as they are likely responsible for consuming a lot of space. Also check in the cdump directory for core files. Jared On Thursday 31 May 2001 09:16, zabair ahmed wrote: Has anybody come across the following error

RE: Auto Extend

2001-05-31 Thread Kimberly Smith
Title: RE: Auto Extend We had an issue here where we had the Sun box to except files over 2G but got bitten in the ass quickly by it. We use HP OmniBack to backup all our Unix boxes and the agent on the Sun box could not handle the file size. So there is more then just "Can the OS handle

Re: Partition Elimination

2001-05-31 Thread Jay Hostetter
Check optimizer_mode in v$parameter for your session. I don't think it will eliminate partitions if it is RULE. Here is an explain plan from a simple select on a partitioned table. An index exists: SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=1.69535189333285 Card=32 Bytes=3488) PARTITION RANGE

RE: Listener problems

2001-05-31 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Take a look at /var/adm/messages for any reported errors -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 12:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Has anybody come across the following error message in the listener.log, and know what the resolution is. TNS-12500:

Oracle 8.1.7 and Apache

2001-05-31 Thread Ken Ballard
Hi Folks, I have just installed 8.1.7 on my HP-UX 11.00 box and have Apache running. Now what? How can I test to make sure apache is talking to oracle and vice-versa? The install documents don't really explain that part and I've tried searching metalink but don't know what I'm looking for.

Cartesian

2001-05-31 Thread Paul Baumgartel
I guess this has already been answered, but to clarify: I believe Cartesian refers to a *product* (Cartesian product), not a join. -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Cartesian Join? shudder --

RE: select question

2001-05-31 Thread Lisa Koivu
Title: RE: select question I believe you'll want to rpad your return value. select rpad(26.5,5,0) from dual returns 26.50 or format it in SQL*Plus. HTH Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Administrator 954-935-4117 The information in the electronic mail message is Cendant confidential

Re: Rebuilding indexes

2001-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
they should be, unless you do nologging operations -- which can mess up your standby database From: The Oracle DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Rebuilding indexes Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:05:57 -0800

RE: Partition Elimination

2001-05-31 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Yes it does. The scan will be range of partitions and the execution plan will show partition stop = key and partition start = key. Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 3:17 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Can oracle do partition elimination

Re: How do I corrupt a block

2001-05-31 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Hi ! The simple thing is you can edit the datablocks using BBED editor. It is shipped with Oracle and You need a password to use that utility. You can browse and edit the data blocks. $BBED will give the required details. BUT IT IS DANGEROUS --- novicedba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi,

Re: 4 join methods?

2001-05-31 Thread PD Miller
At 9:07 -0800 31/5/01, Mogens Nørgaard wrote: There is certainly something new called an index join around in 8i. An index join is a hash join on 2 or more indexes which between them contain all the columns required to fulfill the query. It is new to 8i, and is considered to be an access pathl

Re: Oracle Applications

2001-05-31 Thread Ron Rogers
Actually, Oracle 'Applications or a flavor there of has been around for many years. 10 + I believe. What CD PACK are you looking for? ROR mª¿ªm [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/31/01 10:50AM Still no response from Oracle Canada, I left a message again - they didn't know what to do when people order CD

Materialized Views

2001-05-31 Thread Ron Thomas
I've been expirementing with MV for a couple of days. Interesting gotcha's for fast refresh on commit, but otherwise cool stuff. Now for the question. If I have a base table of 1 millions rows of time series data and I want to produce MVs for day, month, and year aggregates, would it be

RE: Partition Elimination

2001-05-31 Thread Hillman, Alex
Can oracle do partition elimination when ysing bind variables? Alex Hillman -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dave: Oracle does do partition elimination in this case...check out he partition_start and partition_stop

RE: Snapshot Logs Explanation Needed

2001-05-31 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
If you do a snapshot refresh then the snapshot log should be empty(correct?). Then I would think you could reorg the master table as long as you prohibit users from updating the master until the reorg and the recreating of the log is complete. Thus eliminating the need to do a complete refresh

RE: Automating Outlook express

2001-05-31 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Call Oracle support and ask for a document Cracking Outlook Express, this PDF will explain (thought not in complete details) how to implement this interface. I am not sure if this file is available through Metalink Libraries ... you can check though ... Raj

RE: Suggestions on SCSI

2001-05-31 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
I was thinking the 18's where a better idea now that everyone agrees. However, I can't go with more than 4 drives unfortunately, this is on a Dell Precision 410. I could try and add an additional scsi adapter, but I am not sure that I would have a place for the drive, unless I went external.

Re: How many times has an index been used?

2001-05-31 Thread Jared Still
Steve, If you are going to pull code from v$sqlarea, you will also want to use v$sqltext. In that case, look up the paper at www.hotsos.com about joining v$sqltext and v$sqlarea, as the hash_value is defined as a different data type in each. This affects all releases prior to 8.0.5. Also,

Re: 4 join methods?

2001-05-31 Thread Jared Still
On Thursday 31 May 2001 10:07, Mogens Nørgaard wrote: There is certainly something new called an index join around in 8i. That wouldn't be considered a new type of join though would it? Just using indexes as a data source for the join. They shoulda done this a long time ago. Jared --

Re: Re[2]: About parallel server

2001-05-31 Thread sheisey
Dick, I am not sure which platform you where using for OPS, but you have to use raw device's. Unless you are using OpenVMS or Compaq TRU64 v5.1 you have to use raw devices for datafiles, controlfiles and online redo logs. Archive logs have to go to a file system. Now there are some

RE: problem starting oracle database

2001-05-31 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Is it possible that there is an error in your init file? I have had this problem before with Oracle 8.0.5 on NT, I had to reboot :) the machine and then it worked, very strange. Kev -Original Message- Singh Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 12:52 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: Snapshot Logs Explanation Needed

2001-05-31 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
Hi Anita, Ironically that is just what I am trying to do. (ie implement a storage plan which will address the issues discussed in the paper) To your other point, I understand oracle's position, but if I can prohibit changes to the master during the reorg/rebuild, is this still an issue?

Re: OT: Archiving not possible with SQL Server?

2001-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
nah. you aren't, the rest of us are :) From: Jared Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: Archiving not possible with SQL Server? Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 11:38:08 -0800 I thought everyone would realize

RE: About parallel server

2001-05-31 Thread sheisey
Rachel, OPS or in 9i RAC (Hate name changes confuses everyone) raw devices are a requirement of the OS not Oracle. So whether you are using 7, 8, 8i, 9i you can use filesystems for OPS (RAC) if the OS supports multiple concurrent mounts on the same filesystem from multiple nodes. This is the

Re: About parallel server

2001-05-31 Thread Riyaj_Shamsudeen
Ray I think, you are referring to RAC, Real Application Cluster. Which is same as OPS with cache fusion for all scenarios. Please see my previous mail thread with the same subject.. Thanks Riyaj Re-yas Shamsudeen Certified Oracle DBA i2 technologies www.i2.com Ray Stell [EMAIL

TOAD v/s PL/SQL Developer

2001-05-31 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Folks, Just got an e-mail from my Damager that there is a concern about the cost of TOAD licensees and an effort is being made to find a suitable replacement. Evaluation of PL/SQL Developer by Allround Automations is underway. Anyone knows the pros/cons of using this (PL/SQL Developer) product

Re: SQL problem: retrieve child records if existent

2001-05-31 Thread Stephane Faroult
Helmut Daiminger wrote: Hi! I have a SQL problem here, which I can't solve. I have a B-tree structure in a table (parentID, childID). If a parent has kids then select those kids. If not, select this parent. How do I code this in SQL? I tried using connect by but this doesn't

Re: OT: Archiving not possible with SQL Server?

2001-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I want to know if it is allowable to kill programmers who say these are the rules for data in this column but then don't enforce those same rules. Rachel (rolling up her sleeves, putting on the rubber gloves to begin data scrubbing really BAD data) From: Jared Still [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Auto Extend

2001-05-31 Thread Gary Weber
Never say never :) I opted for 4 GB files in a larger database which is living happily on EMC Sym box. If hardware and software allow for fewer, easier managed large files...why not? This is scratching the surface of course... Gary Weber Senior DBA Charles Jones, LLC 609-530-1144, ext 5529

RE: Auto Extend

2001-05-31 Thread lhoska
What do you mean by 'the system is not set up'. How do you verify that? We had problems with datafiles larger then 2 G and just turned autoextend off on all datafiles. I didn't know the system may or may not be set up to handle specific file size limit. Is it documented? Please explain. Thank

Re: How do I corrupt a block

2001-05-31 Thread Jared Still
It apparently is only on NT, and unless you have the password, which is known only to Oracle Support Personnel, you can't use it. http://www.ixora.com.au/q+a/0101/23224038.htm Jared On Thursday 31 May 2001 12:10, K Gopalakrishnan wrote: Hi ! The simple thing is you can edit the

RE: Implementing Stored Procedures

2001-05-31 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
We put the code in a file on Unix (our server platform) and in the change request form, provide the file name and location. The DBA will log in as the schema owner and simply run the file. Any errors are reported back to developer who requested the change. All the SQL code is archived using SCCS.

Re: OT: Archiving not possible with SQL Server?

2001-05-31 Thread Jared Still
I thought everyone would realize this is a joke. It's been appearing with some regularity in a mocking tone of someone that posted it seriously a couple of weeks ago. Sigh... Maybe I am just having a bad day. Jared On Wednesday 30 May 2001 23:50, Jared Still wrote: Are you an idiot?

Re: About parallel server

2001-05-31 Thread sheisey
Ray, Oracle9i RAC (Real Application Clusters) is or was (depending on your perspective) Oracle Parallel Server. Compaq is working with Oracle to pre-install and ship Oracle9i on there NT boxes (not sure about TRU64 or OpenVMS platforms), so you just turn it on and it works. Oracle9i

digital tru64 unix

2001-05-31 Thread Lisa Koivu
Title: digital tru64 unix Hello everyone, Anyone out there running Oracle on this flavor of Unix? If so can you please email me directly? I don't have a Unix box to play with and I have a few simple performance questions. I'm also looking in the online doco and I don't see what I'm looking

Re: what's hash-join

2001-05-31 Thread Shevtsov, Eduard
Title: RE: what's hash-join Hi Lisa, You're correct. I'm sure you know, but I'd like to add that hash join usually worksfaster than over methods when there are no good selective conditions in the clause WHERE. Regards, Ed Hi Kevin, It's quick if you have the temp space to

RE: 4 join methods?

2001-05-31 Thread Khedr, Waleed
I think you mean bitmap join indexes which is a new feature in 9i. Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 1:08 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L There is certainly something new called an index join around in 8i. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder

RE: Rebuilding indexes

2001-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Richard, Thanks! Now let me know if the book is actually useful... I think you are going to have to bite the bullet and do the rebuild with logging. And, since this is something you may have to do over and over again, I'd create that extra tablespace and datafile and leave them there on both

OFF TOPIC: freeware search

2001-05-31 Thread Charlie Mengler
I'm looking for recommendations for Windows based s/w that does the equivalent of SCCS/RCS on Unix. A command line interface is a requirement; GUI is optional. TIA HAND! -- Charlie Mengler Maintenance Warehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10641 Scripps Summit

RE: Rebuilding indexes

2001-05-31 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
No need to copy the whole file to the standby when adding a datafile! Just wait for recovery to fail on the new file (ORA-01670), then type on the standby (in 'mount standby database' mode): SQL alter database create datafile 'filename' as 'filename'; As long as you are using identical paths

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

2001-05-31 Thread Jared Still
As Kevin Lange pointed out, you need the correct access to UTL_TCP. If you have access to this package through a role, you won't be able to do this. You must login as sys and give an explicit grant: e.g. grant execute on sys.utl_tcp to scott; Whe you say that the package is shown as valid

RE: How to encrypt Password in Export script file ?

2001-05-31 Thread Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran
-Original Message- From: Fisher, Julie [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 6:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: How to encrypt Password in Export script file ? I also did this on all my databases - works very slick. Julie

deadlock error in oracle8.1.7 on sun solaris

2001-05-31 Thread Seema Singh
Hi Some time I am receiving the following information in alert logs. ORA-60: Deadlock detected. and .trc file generated.Let me know what to do to prevent such error. Thanks -seema _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at

RE: About parallel server

2001-05-31 Thread sheisey
Fernando, If your current resources are limited and the app is partitioned, you should have very few problems implementing the App in OPS (famous last words). If HA is a requirement and fast failover times OPS is a good pick. Just make sure the ends justify the means. Some people have good

Re: About parallel server

2001-05-31 Thread Ray Stell
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:17:30AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ray I think, you are referring to RAC, Real Application Cluster. Which is same as OPS with cache fusion for all scenarios. Please see my previous mail thread with the same subject.. -- index oracle-l The archive

Resizing Log file

2001-05-31 Thread Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran
hi dba's, In my DB, oracle 816, NT4, the redolog member's size is only 50kb. I'm having only two groups with a single member each. I tried with alter database command, there is only options for adding and droping log group or member... How can i resize it.. to increase the size 5mb. Regards,

RE: Partition Elimination

2001-05-31 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
At parse time, the optimizer determines that partition elimination can be done -- which partitions to use is determined after the values are bound to the query. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 3:17 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Can oracle do partition

RE: Resizing Log file

2001-05-31 Thread Lisa Koivu
Title: RE: Resizing Log file Nirmal, you need to add new groups with a new redo log size, force the switch, and drop the small redo log groups once they are not active and have been archived. Check the doco for exact syntax. You can't just resize them iirc. Be sure to have at least two

RE: Snapshot Logs Explanation Needed

2001-05-31 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
If you do a snapshot refresh then the snapshot log should be empty(correct?). Then I would think you could reorg the master table as long as you prohibit users from updating the master until the reorg and the recreating of the log is complete. Thus eliminating the need to do a complete refresh

Re: select question

2001-05-31 Thread Ron Rogers
If you know the size of the number (in position count not value) you can use the RPAD(sum(field),count,0) to populate the right end of the return value to zero. ex. the sum value is = 2.5 and you want 2.50 rpad(sum(fd1,4,'0') return 2.50 BUT if the return value = 25.5 and you want 25.50 and

RE: OT: Archiving not possible with SQL Server?

2001-05-31 Thread Gary Weber
Jared/all, A joke is exactly how I read it and is how I meant my request for HELP to come across :). Btw, thanks to everyone for interesting replies, reaffirming my grim suspicions about MS idea of archiving... Gary Weber Senior DBA Charles Jones, LLC 609-530-1144, ext 5529 -Original

RE: 4 join methods?

2001-05-31 Thread Christopher Spence
i don't think it is considered a join, from what I remember it was called merging indexes. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 3:11 PM To:

RE: Rebuilding indexes

2001-05-31 Thread Thater, William
On Thu, 31 May 2001,Rachel Carmichael scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -It adds the datafile NAME only, not the file itself. And if the physical -file has not been moved before the archived log that has that redo in it is -applied, the recovery dies. so if you got the file in the right

RE: Suggestions on SCSI

2001-05-31 Thread Christopher Spence
1. Most all drives have cache on the drive. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:06 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Kev,

Re: Resizing Log file

2001-05-31 Thread Dennis M. Heisler
Add new log groups (I'd go with at least 3 groups of 2) with 5MB files, then drop the old log groups. Dennis Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran wrote: hi dba's, In my DB, oracle 816, NT4, the redolog member's size is only 50kb. I'm having only two groups with a single member each. I tried

RE: Implementing Stored Procedures

2001-05-31 Thread Diana_Duncan
There's an excellent tool by the company Kintana that automates the deployment of software (which can include stored packages and procedures, as well as shell scripts, SQL*Loader, whatever). The developer creates a release with the file names and version numbers in PVCS or ClearCase, and the

RE: Cartesian

2001-05-31 Thread Kevin Lange
When you say Cartesian Join you are basically speaking, like you said, of a Cartesian Product of two Matrixes. Each row joined to each row of each Matrix.Cartesian Joins in Relational DBs are basically 2 or more tables in query without a join condition so that each row in the first table is

Re: How to encrypt Password in Export script file ?

2001-05-31 Thread Stephane Faroult
CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC) wrote: Hi Unix Gurus, My daily export file (daily_exp.sh) contains : exp userid='system/password' file=file_name.dmp grants=y rows=y constraints=y compress=y full=y inctype=complete log=file_name.log The system password is stated clearly in the export

RE: Auto Extend

2001-05-31 Thread Lisa Koivu
Title: RE: Auto Extend Thanks Kimberly for correcting me. I had a feeling there was a real reason it was frowned upon in the solaris environment I used to work on (instead of 'just don't do it, I said so') but everything was so overwhemling at that time I just let it go. LK -Original

Re: deadlock error in oracle8.1.7 on sun solaris

2001-05-31 Thread Jared Still
Rewrite your apps so that they consistently follow a locking stragegy. Look up locks in the concepts manual, it has some good information, such as 'avoid explicit locks' Jared On Thursday 31 May 2001 13:29, Seema Singh wrote: Hi Some time I am receiving the following information in alert

RE: Implementing Stored Procedures

2001-05-31 Thread Yexley Robert D SSgt AFIT/SCA
Title: Implementing Stored Procedures One option (and I'm not suggesting that this is the BEST option by any means, but it IS an option =) might be to grant the developer(s) the 'CREATE ANY PROCEDURE' role, and then have them create their procedures/functions/packages etc as

Re: How to encrypt Password in Export script file ?

2001-05-31 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
put your userid and password and all other parameters in parfile and run. exp parfile=abc.parfile It will hide your password on unix level. your password file should be readable by you only... Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: How do I corrupt a block

2001-05-31 Thread Djordje Jankovic
Do a "dd" on unix and changethe contents of any particular block. -Original Message-From: novicedba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:16 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: How do I corrupt a block hi, This may sound funny. I want

Re: Resizing Log file

2001-05-31 Thread Connor McDonald
Add some new ones, drop the old ones... hth connor --- Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi dba's, In my DB, oracle 816, NT4, the redolog member's size is only 50kb. I'm having only two groups with a single member each. I tried with alter database command, there is

Re: How to create 2 unique indexes (Field1, Field2) and (Field1, Fiel

2001-05-31 Thread Stephane Faroult
CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC) wrote: Hi Gurus, How do I create 2 unique indexes (STDID,PAYGRP) and (ACCTNO,PAYGRP) on the same table ? I created the first index successfully but encountered the error ORA-01452: cannot CREATE UNIQUE INDEX; duplicate keys found when I tried to create

RE: ORACLE NAMES /LDAP

2001-05-31 Thread Haskins, Ed
OiD is a separately licensable product...not included as part of the DB license. If I remember correctly, you have the UPU license calculation or a per entry license @ $50/, with 5000 entries being the minimum!! Ed Haskins Oracle DBA Verizon Wireless -Original Message- Sent: Thursday,

Re: Snapshot Logs Explanation Needed

2001-05-31 Thread A. Bardeen
Hi Tracy, Oracle still won't let you do a fast refresh if the creation time stamp on the snapshot log is more recent than the creation time stamp or last complete refresh of the snapshot. An attempt to do so will generate the dreaded ORA-12004: REFRESH FAST cannot be used (see note 1035524.6

RE: OT: Archiving not possible with SQL Server?

2001-05-31 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
HELP I have no sense of humour : ) Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From: Gary Weber [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 4:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: ORACLE NAMES /LDAP

2001-05-31 Thread Vadim Gorbounov
Hi, Actually, it's not so bad. OiD is licensed separately ONLY when used as general purpose directory service. Check Metalink Note:135696.1 13. Do I need to license OID when deploying the directory for NET8 ? Answer -- No, deploying OID for NET8 is free of charge. Vadim Gorbounov Oracle

RE: Oracle 8.1.7 and Apache

2001-05-31 Thread Fisher, Julie
Ken, (FYI, I used a version of Apache (1.3.12) that came from Apache's web site, not the version that came with Oracle. And my web servers and database servers are on different machines. And my web servers are running Kerberos and SSL. And I still can't believe it all works together.) Check

Re[2]: Re[2]: 4 join methods?

2001-05-31 Thread dgoulet
Jared, Yes and No. As I understand them it uses both a merge and a hash join, but then you know marketing types!! BTW: that was a guess on my part too. And yes, I do need to RTFM to be sure. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Jared Still [EMAIL

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RE: Suggestions on SCSI

2001-05-31 Thread Ron Rogers
Kevin, You did not state the OS you will be using. If it is a flavor of LINUX them 3ware makes a ISA card that will handle disk drives like they were SCSI drives. You save the high cost of disks and spend it on the card. But I bought 2- 40 GIG WD drives last week for $109.00 each and put them

Re: Partition Elimination

2001-05-31 Thread Jared Still
The docs actually do a good job of showing what the explain plan will look like for a partition elimination. Look at the 'Explan Plan' chapter of 'Designing and Tuning for Performance' Are you using ?/rdbms/admin/utlxplp.sql to examine your explain plan? Jared On Thursday 31 May 2001 09:00,

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