Re: stupid question about indexes and partitions

2001-06-06 Thread Stephane Faroult ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Deshpande, Kirti wrote: Hi Joe, Here is a blurb from the 8.1.6 Concepts Guide (Chapter 11, under 'Prefixed and Nonprefixed Global Partitioned Indexes'): 'Nonpartitioned indexes are treated as global prefixed nonpartitioned indexes' I ran into the same stupid question not too

RE: What stands for i in Oracle 8i

2001-06-06 Thread Weaver, Walt
So, does anyone remember WHY it's called Oracle 8i? --Walt Weaver Bozeman, Montana, USA -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:46 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L M I am just curious about to know for what that i stands for in Oracle M 8i. i = Internet. I

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread Srini . Chavali
Yosi, Thanks for your input ! No, there is no reference to a sequence. The offending statement is SELECT SUBSTR(INTERFACE_LINE_ATTRIBUTE6,1,LENGTH(INTERFACE_LINE_ATTRIBUTE6)-4), SUBSTR(INTERFACE_LINE_ATTRIBUTE7,1,LENGTH(INTERFACE_LINE_ATTRIBUTE7)-4), LTRIM( TO_CHAR(

RE: PATROL Availability Suite for Oracle

2001-06-06 Thread Christopher Spence
Patrol is pretty good, but they still have the problem of eatting up a decent portion of the resources. There are products out there that have better efficiency. But BMC is a good name when it comes to montitoring. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both

RE: Serious Answer (believe it or not)...

2001-06-06 Thread Post, Ethan
Jim, RUN ON SENTENCE (it's easier this way) Why don't you consider joining me in the near immposible task of organizing fellow O-DBA's to stop flaming people on mailing lists for ten minutes and get them to adopt one measly portion of a small section of the OCP DBA exam to produce high quality

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread Srini . Chavali
Chris, Thanks for your input ! One difference between our prod and QA instances is that the QA instance is relatively idle - while average load on the prod instance is about 175 users, with less than 5% hitting the database hard at any given point in time. I am unable to figue out why there is

PARTY LINE: SUMMARY: Thanks everyone - tru64

2001-06-06 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: PARTY LINE: SUMMARY: Thanks everyone - tru64 OK Ross, here goes: NT all the way! -Original Message- From: Mohan, Ross [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 11:16 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: SUMMARY: Thanks everyone - tru64 Yea,

RE: PARTY LINE: SUMMARY: Thanks everyone - tru64

2001-06-06 Thread Scott . Shafer
Lisa, Please! Have a glass of a decent (or at least cheap) Merlot and come back to the dark side - UNIX BIGOTS UNITE!!! 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

Regarding the Prior thread about SQL/Database tools

2001-06-06 Thread John Lewis
I use both Toad and EZSQL. Mostly Toad. Lately I have been drilling down into the many neat things EZSQL does and discovering hidden gems. We paid $500 for Toad and $50 for EZSQL. EZSQL is a true bargain. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: John Lewis

RE: PARTY LINE: SUMMARY: Thanks everyone - tru64

2001-06-06 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: PARTY LINE: SUMMARY: Thanks everyone - tru64 Best bumper sticker: DYSLEXICS UNTIE Have a great day all!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

RE: problem with dynamic sql

2001-06-06 Thread Kevin Lange
You need to start using Exception coding in your sql. Basiclly ... Begin coding ... Exception When Error Then Do this End; Encase your sql statements in the begin/exception/end construct and code accordingly. Here is an example. In this case, on thye update

pl/sql problem

2001-06-06 Thread Harvinder Singh
Hi, i am running following code declare cursor c1 is select nm_enum_data from t_enum_data where id_enum_data in (select distinct id_view from t_acc_usage_1 union select distinct id_view from t_acc_usage_2 union select distinct id_view from t_acc_usage_3 ); enum t_enum_data.nm_enum_data%type;

RE: stupid question about indexes and partitions

2001-06-06 Thread Gogala, Mladen
He wasn't. It was Dan Quayle. -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:53 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Deshpande, Kirti wrote: Hi Joe, Here is a blurb from the 8.1.6 Concepts Guide (Chapter 11, under 'Prefixed and Nonprefixed

RE: OT RE: What stands for i in Oracle 8i

2001-06-06 Thread Guidry, Chris
Hi, Since every word requires a vowel and if Y is not one, then I guess in the words FLY or SKY ... F, L, S or K must be :) -- Chris J. Guidry P.Eng. ATCO Electric, Metering Services Phone: (780) 420-4142 Fax: (780) 420-3854 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Mark

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread John Kanagaraj
Srini, I am sure you have lots of users in Prod compared to QA :) Anyway, the point is that you are suffering from hot block contention which reflects itself in latch waits on 'cache buffer chain'. I remember that Steve Adams has a SQL at his site that identifies blocks that are 'hot' - I have

Re: OT RE: What stands for i in Oracle 8i

2001-06-06 Thread Jonathan Baker
depends on it's usage. Mark Leith wrote: Not being funny, but when did y become a vowel? -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 07:47 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Actually, I think they are following a logical progression of english

ORA 01034 27101 Something is fussy

2001-06-06 Thread Jon
Ok folks here's whats happening when I run 'sqlplus foo/bar@DEV': SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on Wed Jun 6 17:02:49 2001 (c) Copyright 2000 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. ERROR: ORA-01034: ORACLE not available ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist SVR4 Error: 2:

RE: Further adventures with Oracle Management Server

2001-06-06 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Paul, The W2K idea from Mark sounds good. Another alternative I have read about which should work on either NT or W2K is to make the OMS dependent on the other Oracle services. From a Metalink posting: reboot I worked around this problem by using a feature in WINNT. 1. Start REGEDT32 2.

pl/sql error

2001-06-06 Thread Harvinder Singh
Hi, I am running the code containing following statements name1 :='t_pv_'||substr(enum,i+1)||'_1'; name2 :='t_pv_'||substr(enum,i+1)||'_2'; name3 :='t_pv_'||substr(enum,i+1)||'_3'; dbms_output.put_line(name1); dbms_output.put_line(name2); dbms_output.put_line(name3); str :='update'||'

RE: pl/sql problem

2001-06-06 Thread Kevin Lange
Thats a pain in the rear errer caused by DBMS_OUTPUT. DBMS_OUTPUT buffers all its data up and then ships it to you at one time. For this reason you need to define the buffer large enough to handle all your output. In your code, put the line DBMS_OUTPUT.ENABLE(2); or some such number to

RE: PATROL Availability Suite for Oracle

2001-06-06 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Hi all, We have been running PATROL Agent on AIX (HP-UX, DEC/Compaq Alphas) for over 2 years now to monitor Oracle databases. We have not found the Agent Program taking up any considerable portion of any resources. The CPU % is around 2-3 most of the times. We do not montior the OS using this

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread Srini . Chavali
John, Thanks for your input ! Unfortunately, this issue seems too weird ! (I know, I know, I shouldn't be saying that as a DBA !!). We have run that process three times today in prod in an effort to try and isolate the issue. We have run it when only one other user was hitting the prod database

RE: OT RE: SUMMARY: Thanks everyone - tru64

2001-06-06 Thread Mark Leith
LMGDAO!! I am actually just reading Hannibal right now!! Damn u a nasssty man Dr. Lecter!! -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 09:53 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oh, no doubt! I fully intend to get into touch in the somewhat unlikely event i fly over the

RE: SUMMARY: Thanks everyone - tru64

2001-06-06 Thread John Kanagaraj
Lisa, If you want an exact echo of Kevin's statement, count me in. We had a similar situation in a far-away, tiny country called Brunei. AIX is the best UNIX OS I have seen - at least for the SA. And the S80 is a lean, mean monster. John Kanagaraj -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday,

RE: pl/sql problem

2001-06-06 Thread Gogala, Mladen
The reason is the limitation of your output buffer. You should say 'SET SERVEROUTPUT ON SIZE 100' or give the appropriate dbms_output.enable comand and it will work. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 6:06 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, i am

RE: problem with dynamic sql

2001-06-06 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Try with the PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT and EXCEPTION. That might be a good start, as well as reading the fine manual. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I am running couple of ddl statements dynamically problem is

Re: pl/sql error

2001-06-06 Thread Diana_Duncan
Harvinder, You must have a carriage return at the end of the enum variable. Try rtrim, like this: name2 :='t_pv_'||substr(rtrim(enum,chr(10),i+1)||'_2'; Diana Duncan TITAN Technology Partners One Copley Parkway, Ste 540 Morrisville, NC 27560 VM: 919.466.7337 x 316 F: 919.466.7427 E: [EMAIL

creating and dropping tables in plsql

2001-06-06 Thread Mark Liggayu
i am creating a report that involves several tables (15) but for me to get the right result I have to create a plsql statement that creates a table that queries a couple tables. This table wil be used to create another table queried with another table and so on. I was reading the plsql

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread John Kanagaraj
Hi Srini, isolate the issue. We have run it when only one other user was hitting the prod database heavily using a select stmt on unrelated tables - but the problem still persists. There were no concurrent requests running at the time. The issue does not seem to be related to contention of

Re: PCTUSED??

2001-06-06 Thread Greg Moore
I have big growing tables has default PCT_USED 40%, But we delete data some times one year or 2yrs data. What is optimum value for this parameter?? I may consider my database is oltp. So how can decide a correct value for this??? PCT_USED might not have any effect for you at all. If you

Autologout of idle users

2001-06-06 Thread Mark Liggayu
What commant should I use to automatically logout uses in oracle who has been idle for more than 30 minutes? We have UNIX as an OS. Thanks, Mark -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Mark Liggayu INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services--

RE: Need help tuning FTS

2001-06-06 Thread DBarbour
Srini, How did you refresh your development instance, with an export and import? Is it possible that in the process you've eliminated some chained/migrated rows and/or rebuilt your index - essentially done a reorg? What comes out of dba_tables on the two instances for these two tables? David

Re: pl/sql problem

2001-06-06 Thread Diana_Duncan
In addition to the reason for your error, which someone else has pointed out, this piece of code has another problem -- you never close your cursor. This will get you into no ends of trouble at some point in the future, so I though I should point it out. Also, a cursor for loop would be much

RE: Which SQL is executing

2001-06-06 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Mark, Do you have a corresponding query for a Forms type environment where a user can have more than 1 statement running at the same time. For example, In forms I can open 1 form and start an update - the query below will show that as the current cursor. If I then swap to another form and do an

Re: OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ OPTIMIZER_INDEX_CACHING

2001-06-06 Thread Greg Moore
My goal was to strongly favor indexes and make CBO behave like RBO. Mladen, I would have considered setting optimizer_goal=first_rows and would appreciate hearing your ideas on why you decided to set OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ to 30 instead. Thank you. - Greg Sorry if this is a duplicate ...

RE: problems when running dbstart

2001-06-06 Thread Post, Ethan
The parameter should be open_links - Ethan -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 9:27 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Off the top of my head I would say that you have a parameter called open_link in your init which is not valid. -Original Message-

RE: creating and dropping tables in plsql

2001-06-06 Thread schmoldt
Depending on your version of Oracle, you can use the DBMS_SQL package or EXECUTE_IMMEDIATE to execute SQL DDL commands. -Original Message- From: Mark Liggayu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 6:56 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: creating

RE: SUMMARY: Thanks everyone - tru64

2001-06-06 Thread Mohan, Ross
Thanks to both of you for these posts. I am passing it along to team members...very helpful -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 6/6/2001 7:56 PM Lisa, If you want an exact echo of Kevin's statement, count me in. We had a similar situation in a

RE: Recording Destructive DDL

2001-06-06 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Obtaining the triggering statement is beyond my ken. If I use a before trigger and a cursor, select lower(replace( q.sql_text,' ',null)) from v$sql q, v$sql_cursor c, v$session s where s.audsid=audsid and s.prev_sql_addr=q.address and q.address=c.parent_handle; . I get back select

OT The Return of Hannibal. was SUMMARY: Thanks everyone - tru64

2001-06-06 Thread Mohan, Ross
:) I never read the books...bailed on McLecter #2, but the whole profiling thing, Master Criminal thing is very interesting... -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 6/6/2001 7:18 PM LMGDAO!! I am actually just reading Hannibal right now!! Damn u a nasssty

Re: PCTUSED??

2001-06-06 Thread Don Granaman
You might consider Dave Ensor's suggestion to set PCTUSED = 0! As inserts occur, entire blocks are filled, but never put back on the free list until they are completely empty - saving on the on/off/on/off/... freelist shuffle that would mix records from different periods in the blocks and making

RE: NEW TIME ZONE

2001-06-06 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Quite a few products store dates as elapsed seconds after '01-JAN-1970:00:00:00' GMT, but users here want to see the local time of the stored date. Of course PST is 8 hours behind GMT and PDT is seven hours so a hard coded offfset will not work. Also the dates on which the change is made

RE: Serious Question (believe it or not)...

2001-06-06 Thread Mohan, Ross
Alex, The answer to your question is: get several certifications and become a consultant! grin, duck, and run like hell Ross p.s. anyone certified (or certifiable) who is deeply wounded by this senseless attack is encouraged to contact me offlist, where I will supply a heartfelt apology,

RE: how to run procedure containig REF CURSOR as datatype

2001-06-06 Thread Raymond Lee Meng Hong
Can I cut in for a while. After reading revealnet explanation on the REF CURSOR , I still feel confuse on the usage of ref cursor and the actual CURSOR itself , what is the different ? -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:11 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: export causes segmentation fault

2001-06-06 Thread Nguyen, Long (ITS, Limestone Ave)
Thanks Danisment and Suzy. I have forwarded your suggestions to my friend. Regards Long -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Nguyen, Long (ITS, Limestone Ave) INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San

What next ?

2001-06-06 Thread Raymond Lee Meng Hong
Hello friend , Gurus I just start my Oracle developer job in April 2001, I feel interesting in Oracle Dba jobs but my current job is stuck with only application development .How can I build up my DBA skill if I did't have chance on doing the related jobs ? But I manage to build up a

Re: Serious Question (believe it or not)...

2001-06-06 Thread Joseph S. Testa
Hey, i resemble that remark, damn, i wasnt supposed to tell anyone i was certified. I'm going to indulge in hostess snack cakes as a punishment. joe Mohan, Ross wrote: Alex, The answer to your question is: get several certifications and become a consultant! grin, duck, and run like

RE: Serious Question (believe it or not)...

2001-06-06 Thread Mohan, Ross
Joe, I can tell by your 'devil may care', 'will o' the wisp', 'ne'er do well' response that you are *not* deeply offended. Congratulations. Eric will be delivering a full Barbie set to your home shortly. - Ross p.s. I had three doughnuts in a row the other day, and let the sugar and

Re: Autologout of idle users

2001-06-06 Thread Jared Still
On Wednesday 06 June 2001 16:56, Mark Liggayu wrote: What commant should I use to automatically logout uses in oracle who has been idle for more than 30 minutes? We have UNIX as an OS. Thanks, Mark Mark, You can create a profile that has an idle time limit. The problem with that is

Re: Compute statisics

2001-06-06 Thread Jared Still
Got it, I misunderstood your previous post. If nothing else, I got some more good reading out of the tuning manual. :) Jared On Wednesday 06 June 2001 02:36, Connor McDonald wrote: Hi Jared, My post was to meant to imply that (say) if (in a single query - and thats the important bit I

RE: iAS installation update

2001-06-06 Thread Seley, Linda
Jim - We ran into this on Solaris. If you don't want discoverer, comment out the last (4 I think) lines in $9iAS_HOME/Apache/Jserv/etc/zone.properties and ignore the errors. If you do want discoverer check out Note 131662.1. It says there that you need to run the installer from the 'Solaris

Set of DML in One Logical Transaction

2001-06-06 Thread N J Neog
Hi, Kindly help me solving the following problem. I have 2 table as follows, TAB1 1. CUST_ID Number(6), --- PK 2. Name Varchar2(50), 3. curr_AmtNumber(12,2) TAB2. 1. Tran_idNumber(3), 2. Tran_dtDate, 4. CUST_IDNUmber(6) --- FK to TAB1 5. AMT

Re: Creating and Oracle 7 DB from an Oracle 8 DB

2001-06-06 Thread Jared Still
Tim, As SYS, run ?/rdbms/admin/catexp7.sql on the Oracle 8 database. You then use the Oracle 7 binary for exp to export data from your Oracle 8 database. You will then be able to import the resulting file into your version 7 database. Used it several times, works fine. Exports created with

Re: OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ OPTIMIZER_INDEX_CACHING

2001-06-06 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
Dear Oracle-L Listers, After 7 months of hibernation, it feels good to be back. Thanks to many of you for your continued support and encouragement over the past months. Some of the interesting threads were forwarded to me in the past few months, just so that I don't miss out on the fun. Talk

Re: Autologout of idle users

2001-06-06 Thread Suzy Vordos
This can be done using Profiles, check the Oracle Admin Guide chapter on Managing Users Resources. http://technet.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle8i/doc_library/817_doc/server.817/a76956/toc.htm Mark Liggayu wrote: What commant should I use to automatically logout uses in oracle who has

Re: What next ?

2001-06-06 Thread Don Granaman
Do you want a paper to say you are marginally qualified to be a DBA or do you actually want to learn database administration? If it is the latter, my opinion is: 0) Learn as much as you can about Oracle in general. Being an exceptional developer means understanding what your code does inside

pctused bs

2001-06-06 Thread Greg Moore
The general theory about increasing PCTUSED is that blocks will be fuller, but they may go on and off the freelist more often and that will hurt DML performance. But in reality what is the overhead of this? Isn't the need to bring more blocks in and out of the data buffer greater than the

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