A bit of SQL tuning

2001-06-07 Thread Christian Bilien
I'd be interested to get an opinion on the fastest way to do an indexed search on a substring aka I'm looking for the WHERE MYCOL=%ABCD% functionnality. The underlying table is very huge. I can see several ways to do that but I'm sure this has been explored before. Thanks Christian --

Re: Compute statisics

2001-06-07 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Any stat missing in a CBO situation will be set to the hard-coded default values found in the source code. One example (out of about 40 or so values) is default selectivity for equality predicates. Before 7.3 it was 0.125 (meaning that a where= condition would assume you needed to scan 1/8th of

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

2001-06-07 Thread Kuijten, F. (Frank)
-Original Message- From: Guidry, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: donderdag 7 juni 2001 0:33 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT RE: What stands for i in Oracle 8i Hi, Since every word requires a vowel You're sure ? How about 'd*mn' or 'm*cr*s*ft' ?

urgent !!

2001-06-07 Thread Bunyamin K. Karadeniz
Hi all gurus.. I want to create my database on NT . but svrmgrl gives error of SVRMGR startup nomount pfile=D:\oracle\ora816\admin\uybs\inituybs.oraLRM-00109: could not open parameter file 'D:\oracle\ora816\admin\uybs\inituybs.ora'ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters How

RE: OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ OPTIMIZER_INDEX_CACHING

2001-06-07 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Does Implementing this Parameter Need the Indexes to be in ANALYZED State ? -Original Message- From: Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:31 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ

RE: OEM 2.1 cannot contact agent on a node

2001-06-07 Thread Paul Vincent
Chaim, thanks for the info - puzzlingly, however, when I went to the server which I'd quoted as being 8.0.5, I discovered I'd been mistaken, and it is in fact running 8.0.6. The Intelligent Agent on there is 8.0.6.0.0, so according to the compatibility matrix, my OEM 2.1 should be able to

Export and at the same time import via named pipe.

2001-06-07 Thread nlzanen1
Hi All, Someone mentioned to me today that it is possible do an export and pipe the output to the oracle import utility to import the data into another database. Does anybody know if this is indeed possible and if so, how and what are the things to be aware of? TIA Jack

RE: urgent !!

2001-06-07 Thread Rajesh Dayal
Just check if this file inituybs.ora is present in the specified directory D:\oracle\ora816\admin\uybs. Alternatively you copy this file (inituybs.ora) to ORACLE_HOME\database directory, which is default place for this. In this case you can directly use startup nomount. HTH, Rajesh

Re: pctused bs

2001-06-07 Thread Connor McDonald
The actual act of putting something on the freelist and/or taking it off I don't think is the cause of the overhead. However, you do need to update the segment header block which contains the freelist header information, which means the segment header becomes a 'hot block'.. The only empiric

Re: A bit of SQL tuning

2001-06-07 Thread Greg Moore
I'd be interested to get an opinion on the fastest way to do an indexed search on a substring aka I'm looking for the WHERE MYCOL=%ABCD% functionnality. The underlying table is very huge. I can see several ways to do that I can't see any ways to do that. If there's a leading % Oracle won't

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

2001-06-07 Thread Connor McDonald
First would be to prepare and send a synopsis to the 'big name' oracle publishers - O'Reilly, Wrox and the like.. hth connor --- Jim Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I am very interested in collaborating with others in the writing of an Oracle technical book (DBA subject matter). I

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

2001-06-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Literary background is meaningless in writing a technical book... I don't have one and I managed :) Developmental editor if you can't write? Not hardly likely. That's what I've done on both Marlene Theriault's Networking 101 and Gaja's Tuning 101 books. You need to be able to write to make

RE: What next ?

2001-06-07 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
I am saving this excellent email as advice to anyone who asks me about DBA work. What an absolutely top posting Cheers Don. -Original Message- Sent: 07 June 2001 06:50 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Do you want a paper to say you are marginally qualified to be a DBA or do

OFA Question

2001-06-07 Thread Greg Solomon
Hi All Running Oracle 817 on Red Hat Linux. File layout is as follows. oradata3/prod: control01.ctl indx01.dbf redo01.log system01.dbf tools01.dbf oradata4/prod: control02.ctl redo02.log temp01.dbf oradata6/prod: control03.ctl rbs01.dbf redo03.log oradata7/prod: redo01b.log

RE: urgent !!

2001-06-07 Thread Mark Leith
Bunyamin LRM-00109 could not open parameter file 'string' Cause: The parameter file does not exist. Action: Create an appropriate parameter file. Are you sure that the init file is not in:

Re: Compute statisics

2001-06-07 Thread Jared Still
Are these defaults recorded somewhere that mere mortals have access to? Jared On Thursday 07 June 2001 00:25, Mogens Nørgaard wrote: Any stat missing in a CBO situation will be set to the hard-coded default values found in the source code. One example (out of about 40 or so values) is

RE: urgent !!

2001-06-07 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
I would suggest that your init.ora file is not where it should be ie. check that D:\oracle\ora816\admin\uybs\inituybs.ora is exactly where the parameter file is and that it is named correctly. Cheers Lee -Original Message-From: Bunyamin K. Karadeniz [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Help for Unix text file processing

2001-06-07 Thread Jared Still
Do it with Perl. If you don't know it, it's time to learn. This script will do it: #!/usr/bin/perl -pw chomp; next if /^\s+$/; $_ =~ s/^\s+(.*)$/$1\n/; run as my_script file_to_fix.txt fixed_file.txt Jared On Wednesday 06 June 2001 07:55, you wrote: Hey all, I am looking for

RE: A bit of SQL tuning

2001-06-07 Thread Mark Leith
Bilou, This was discussed not so long back on the list, and I'm pretty sure the up shot was that to search for a string with a % wildcard on either side you need to look in to the Intermedia (Context) cartridge. HTH Mark -Original Message- Bilien Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 08:26

Re: iAS installation update

2001-06-07 Thread Jared Still
On Wednesday 06 June 2001 22:10, Seley, Linda wrote: (Course I don't even like the new installer, I want the old one back! huge whine!) Hey, we feel your pain. Gimme the old (reliable) installer. I'm tired of 'Oh! I don't like the version number I see on your java and I'm going to die

RE: ORA 01034 27101 Something is fussy

2001-06-07 Thread Mark Leith
Just a thought, but what is your GLOBAL_NAMES parameter set to in your init.ora file? Mark -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 12:06 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ok folks here's whats happening when I run 'sqlplus foo/bar@DEV': SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.7.0.0 -

Toad w/o debug option ?

2001-06-07 Thread Raymond Lee Meng Hong
Here is my production /development db , Oracle7 Server Release 7.3.2.3.0 - Production Release With the distributed, replication and parallel query options PL/SQL Release 2.3.2.3.0 - Production How can I enable TOAD to trigger the debug option in order for me to trace out the PL/SQL code ? I

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

2001-06-07 Thread Greg Moore
Jim, Check the O'Reilly web site. There is an area where they describe how they work with authors. - Greg - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 1:29 PM All, I am very interested in collaborating with others

decoding rowids

2001-06-07 Thread Rajesh Dayal
Hi all, I was just wondering if there is any alternative method of getting the numeric values of rowid other than dbms_rowid. Other way, what is the algorithm for calculating numeric value of rowid's values. e.g. SQL SELECT DISTINCT SUBSTR(ROWID,10,6) BLOCK# FROM PRASANTA.TPSV ;

RE: urgent !!

2001-06-07 Thread Sinardy Xing
Hi Bunyamin K. Karadeniz, I assume your init*.ora at that path (D:\oracle\ora816\admin\uybs) Since you know your parameter stuff, just create new one at other hdd and retry. If work you have to checkyour hdd might be containing some bad block (can't read but can write problem)

RE: Help for Unix text file processing

2001-06-07 Thread ALEMU Abiy
But if I want to conserve the carriage return -Message d'origine- De : Jared Still [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : jeudi 7 juin 2001 12:36 À : Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Objet : Re: Help for Unix text file processing Do it with Perl. If you don't know it, it's time to

Re: OFA Question

2001-06-07 Thread sfaroult
Is there ANY reason at all not to use spare space on oradata 3,4,6,7 to store other files ? They won't be read or written during times when the database is under load. Cheers GS Can't see any. Regards Stephane Faroult Oriole Corporation -- Diese E-Mail wurde mit

RE: What next ?

2001-06-07 Thread Tuggudem Ravi Kiran
Hi Don, Thanx for the inputs Don. I wanted to be a DBA , but dint know the exact path to follow. Ur inputs seems to be like a guideline for all those people who want to be a DBA. I ll stick to what u have said and create my own oppurtunites to become a DBA in my company. cheers, Ravi

Re: urgent !!

2001-06-07 Thread sfaroult
Hi all gurus.. I want to create my database on NT . but svrmgrl gives error of=20 SVRMGR startup nomount pfile=3DD:\oracle\ora816\admin\uybs\inituybs.ora LRM-00109: could not open parameter file = 'D:\oracle\ora816\admin\uybs\inituybs.ora' ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters

Re: OFA Question

2001-06-07 Thread MHately
In performance terms it won't really make a difference but from an admin point of view it's not a great idea. It's way too easy to accidentally move or remove a file during a routine operation and it can can confuse backup and restore operations. If I ever have to do this I create a

Re: Export and at the same time import via named pipe.

2001-06-07 Thread sfaroult
Hi All, Someone mentioned to me today that it is possible do an export and pipe= the output to the oracle import utility to import the data into another database. Does anybody know if this is indeed possible and if so, how and what ar= e the things to be aware of? TIA Jack mkfifo mypipe

Can there be Java conflicts?

2001-06-07 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Just out of curiosity, what would happen if I was to install the SUN JDK on a server that has 8i on it? Would the Oracle one (8.1.6.0.0. or whatever) and the SUN ones interfere with each other? I know next to nothing about Java. Likewise, if I was to install the SUN HotJava Web browser on a

What is Quorum device ? (not Oracle)

2001-06-07 Thread Sinardy Xing
Hi all, Can someone explain what is Quorum device, what it is the different from disk and quorum device ? Thank you, Sinardy -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Sinardy Xing INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858)

transaction table (???)

2001-06-07 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I have an old server here, NT with OWS 3.0.1.1. on it. We are upgrading to iAS 1.0.2. soon... In the meantime, we now have a conflict on the server, a PL/SQL cartridge application is causing errors - the transaction table is full. ORA-02042 too many distributed transactions

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

2001-06-07 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
This is definitely OT, but the Egyptians used to omit vowels from words, perhaps because they thought vowels were breath. The vowels happen to be... yi ah o ou w e h In French, a e I o u - the order is scrambled -- I a o u e Yahweh. Interesting, no? : ) Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst

RE: Compute statisics

2001-06-07 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
Jared: In the Oracle 8.1.6 Docs: Oracle8i Designing and Tuning for Performance 8 Gathering Statistics Table 8-2 Default Table and Index Values When Statistics are Missing Kevin -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 6:21 AM To:

RE: What next ?

2001-06-07 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
I have already circulated with my dba friends circle. Excellent article. -- On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 00:36:33 Robertson Lee - lerobe wrote: I am saving this excellent email as advice to anyone who asks me about DBA work. What an absolutely top posting Cheers Don. -Original Message-

RE: PARTY LINE: SUMMARY: Thanks everyone - tru64

2001-06-07 Thread Thater, William
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001,[EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled on the wall in...: -Lisa, - -Please! Have a glass of a decent (or at least cheap) Merlot and come back -to the dark side - UNIX BIGOTS UNITE!!! NO NO NO... single malt rules! -- Bill Shrek Thater Certifiable ORACLE DBA Telergy, Inc.

Re: OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ OPTIMIZER_INDEX_CACHING

2001-06-07 Thread Nuno Souto
PMFJI. If you set OPTIMIZER_GOAL=FIRST_ROWS for the entire database you'll have a *big* problem in your hands with most of the dictionary views, including catexp, becoming exceedingly slow. It's better (if you can) to stay with CHOOSE and analyze just what you need. Then you fiddle with

HELP: Hanging Autotrace

2001-06-07 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: HELP: Hanging Autotrace Good morning everyone, I'm trying to help out our user community here by tuning up some queries. Should be easy, right? Well I don't have dba privs and I have a crappy old W98 PC w/200-some processor. when I issue SET AUTOTRACE TRACEONLY EXPLAIN and start a

RE: how to run procedure containig REF CURSOR as datatype

2001-06-07 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Raymond, We are using Reference Cursors as follows: My Applications group creates stored packages that provide the reference cursor to to VB applications through ADO. ADO performs the actual record-stream manipulation for the VB tool, transforming the data stream into XML for VB to present to

RE: What next ?

2001-06-07 Thread Rao, Maheswara
Don, Excellent article. Even today, after 6 years, I still do the looping you mentioned. Rao -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 1:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Do you want a paper to say you are marginally qualified to be a DBA or do you actually want

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

2001-06-07 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
The order is different in Japanese as well, although I'm blown if I can remember the correct one. -Original Message- Sent: 07 June 2001 13:26 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This is definitely OT, but the Egyptians used to omit vowels from words, perhaps because they

RE: Autologout of idle users

2001-06-07 Thread Rao, Maheswara
Mark, Create profile and assign the profile to the user. Also, enable resource limits to take effect. Following is an example for creating a profile. Step 1. CREATE PROFILE duh1 LIMIT SESSIONS_PER_USERUNLIMITED CPU_PER_SESSIONUNLIMITED IDLE_TIME

RE: iAS installation update

2001-06-07 Thread James Howerton
Linda, Thanks for the info, misery loves company. I've tried using the old character based installer for discoverer per Note 131662.1, it doesn't work either(cant find some .lib files). I have a TAR open on that and a Portal issue. Hopefully I'll learn some tricks that I can share.

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

2001-06-07 Thread Thater, William
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001,Joseph S. Testa scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -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 have them with some nice single malt.;-) me i'm certifiable

initsid.ora problem

2001-06-07 Thread Ron Perrie
--Boundary-00=_TQ9KG6G0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi List, (SunOS 5.7, Oracle 8.1.6,Newbie DBA) I have been reading Oracle DBA 101 and have come accross an initsid.ora= parameter log_checkpoint_to_alert.

RE: Autologout of idle users

2001-06-07 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
But its so much more fun not to tell them in my experience. Case in point. After constant reminders (all mails copied to manager) to, amongst other things, remember to log out, an auto log out procedure is adopted. First irate developer/user rings up and complains in a less than friendy manner.

Re: Export and at the same time import via named pipe.

2001-06-07 Thread nlzanen1
Hi THX, I guess that someone was right than. Jack sfaroult@oriol

ORA-04031

2001-06-07 Thread Smith, Ron L.
I have a small database with only about 6-10 users. I am getting ORA-04031 errors indicating shared_pool problems. Can anyone give me a suggestion on how to size the shared pool? My current parameters are: shared_pool _reserve_size 209715 shared_pool_size 4194304 large_pool_size 614400 Ron

Re: PCTUSED??

2001-06-07 Thread Raghu Kota
Greg My concern is How can I reuse the deleted space, I have 20Gb Table with 15Gb Indexes, So I may not touch the table due to massiveness, I can do atleast indexes rebuild for availing 3-4Gb back. So in that regard pct_used has greater significance for reusing the space for future

Memory Usage per Session on AIX 4.3.2 Oracle 8.0.5

2001-06-07 Thread nlzanen1
Hi All, Can somebody enlighten me what is included in the memory usage per session. We have a sort_area_size of 1M and have found sessions that have as much as 200Mb memory usage (Exceptional) and 20-40Mb on regular basis. TIA Jack

RE: SUMMARY: Thanks everyone - tru64

2001-06-07 Thread Ron Rogers
So the user groups and DBAs can identify the bugs before the release to the general corporate public. ROR mª¿ªm [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/06/01 12:12PM My question is, if they are developing on HP-UX, why was 9i for SPARC released first? Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

RE: OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ OPTIMIZER_INDEX_CACHING

2001-06-07 Thread Gogala, Mladen
The reason is that the 'FIRST_ROWS' parameter didn't give the expected results. We wanted index access strongly favored and setting OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ to 30 (we tried with 75 and 50, too) gave us the plans that we were expecting. The problem with cost based optimizer are the bind variables,

Re: Using editor for unixfiles

2001-06-07 Thread Thater, William
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RE: pctused bs

2001-06-07 Thread Mohan, Ross
Amen, my straight-talking brother! sarcasm But, why on Earth don't you want to spend hours spewing arcane 0.001% performance tweaks you learned during the Advanced OCP Certification Boot Camp? Don't you want to impress people? Don't you want a limo, yer own helicopter, and an oracle web

Return of Gaja! [RE: OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ OPTIMIZER_INDE

2001-06-07 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Welcome!! Good to see you back here - Kirti -Original Message- From: Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 1:01 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ OPTIMIZER_INDEX_CACHING

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

2001-06-07 Thread Hawkins Family
Thanks for the reply, Rachel, and all others who wrote back offline and through the list. Basically, here was my idea: Most DBA topics have been beaten to death, and I would have nothing new to contribute. There is one area, however, that I see could be explored... Here goes... Tips, Tricks,

OT Windows...Emulators...CPU stuff

2001-06-07 Thread Mohan, Ross
Greg's bit on show me got me going. I dug up this site by a guy who knows CPUs up and down, and writes OS emulators in assembler. That was enough to impress me. http://www.emulators.com He has some nifty history, tweaks, and tips on his site. - Ross || -Original Message- || From:

RE: ORA-04031

2001-06-07 Thread Mohan, Ross
RS - You'll get alot of posts on this, but. Basically multiply your pool by about 5x ( at least! ) along with the reserve size. Set the min_alloc (as/if relevant in yer version to about 16K) If you are doing parallel execution and or RMAN stuff, grow the large pool, too. Oh, hell, you

Oracle 9i

2001-06-07 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
I know this has been sort of 'done to death' in the past but I have been reading through the Oracle9i New Features document I received this morning and far from being able to do away with DBAs, a common thread throughout the doc. is The administrator will be able to .. This will

SOLVED: ORA 01034 27101 Something is fussy

2001-06-07 Thread Jon
$ORACLE_HOME has to match the ORACLE_HOME= directive in the listener.ora file EXACTLY... 3 days of tracking down a bug because I didnt put a / after the 8.1.7 in the ORACLE_HOME directive... oh well, live and learn :) thanks, jon On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Mark Leith wrote: Just a thought, but what

Re: PCTUSED??

2001-06-07 Thread MHately
Hi If the pattern of deleted dta leaves you with many almost empty leaf blocks then you may find that you would benefit from and index COALESCE rather than a REBUILD. On the subject of wasted space in table blocks it's very difficult to generalise. The best way to go may be to analyse the table

Re: problem with dynamic sql

2001-06-07 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Harvinder Singh schrieb: Hi, I am running couple of ddl statements dynamically problem is whenever oracle is unable to execute particlar statement it just exit from procedure and don't go to next statement. How to modify syntax. Thanks Harvinder -- Hi, just catch the

RE: LOT (Little OT): Interesting Oracle related URL's.

2001-06-07 Thread Mohan, Ross
thanks for sharing, dude. || -Original Message- || From: Mark Leith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] || Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 10:42 AM || To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L || Subject: RE: LOT (Little OT): Interesting Oracle related URL's. || || || Thanks for your input guys -

RE: initsid.ora problem

2001-06-07 Thread Kevin Lange
LOG_CHECKPOINTS_TO_ALERT not LOG_CHECKPOINT_TO_ALERT. If you typed it the same as your init file then you forgot the s on checkpoints. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:07 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L --Boundary-00=_TQ9KG6G0

RE: Memory Usage per Session on AIX 4.3.2 Oracle 8.0.5

2001-06-07 Thread Kevin Lange
We ran into the problem of having an ungodly amount of memory allocated to each of our users sessions as well. What I had to do was to to into SMITTY and modify the MBUFFS parameter under the environment. Apparently, if MBUFFS is set large or wide open , Oracle will take ALL YOU GIVE IT.We

Re: initsid.ora problem

2001-06-07 Thread John . Dailey
Hey Ron I believe the name of that init parameter is LOG_CHECKPOINTS_TO_ALERT (notice the S) and it will record checkpoints in the alert file. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Another way to get some ideas about your checkpoints is v$sysstat. Keep in mind however a checkpoint can

RE: Which SQL is executing

2001-06-07 Thread Mark Leith
Bruce, Not off the top of my head - never really worked in a forms environment - but I will have a look in to it tonight, as I've had a bit of a busy day doing my Real job today :) Maybe somebody can help in the meantime? But I'll certainly see if I can find an answer tonight.. Regards Mark

SOLVED: dbms_java and file permissions

2001-06-07 Thread Brian Wisniewski
For those of you interested in this thread. Here is my conclusion. Some of my initial tests were flawed with files not existing that I thought existed and strange results from executing the procedure. While this is valid from the O/S /usr/bin/ls /u20/app/oracle/* , it doesn't work from

Re[2]: Serious Question (believe it or not)...

2001-06-07 Thread Jonathan Gennick
I blundered into writing. A few years back, an editor saw some of my newsgroup posts, and shot off an email asking me to write a book. At first I thought it was one of these spam-type, work at home, get rich quick, etc. emails, and I actually deleted it. Two days later, I dug it out of my trash,

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

2001-06-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
The process at Oracle Press for DBA 101 went like this: 1). one of us would write the chapter (we broke the book out by you write this one, I'll write that one -- if we did it correctly, you can't tell which chapter is Marlene's and which is mine) 2). the other would read and make suggestions

OT -- OEM crazy idea

2001-06-07 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I know this is silly, but wouldn't it be neat if the OEM console was the background for the desktop in the CDE or in Windows? Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services technologiques

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

2001-06-07 Thread Hillman, Alex
I would one of self-publishing houses like Technion where you can get 33% of sales. If your book is any good it will sell in the same volume as with any other publisher (not that they spend a lot of money for promotion any way). Alex Hillman -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 07,

Re: What next ?

2001-06-07 Thread Dennis Taylor
At 09:50 PM 6/6/01 -0800, you wrote: Do you want a paper to say you are marginally qualified to be a DBA or do you actually want to learn database administration? To a large extent I agree with you about the relative unimportance of paper qualifications. However, one thing that a formal course

RE: OT RE: Database writer

2001-06-07 Thread Eric D. Pierce
The Oracle DBA's Guide to NT Guy Harrison Published Spring 1998: http://www.oreview.com/9805harr.htm ( linked from: http://home.mira.net/~gharriso ) --- excerpts --- ... The architecture of Oracle in an NT environment is somewhat different [than Unix/etc.] (see Figure 2).

RE: OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ OPTIMIZER_INDEX_CACHING

2001-06-07 Thread Hillman, Alex
About CURSOR_SHARING - EXACT means that SQL statements are not changed, and FORCE means that constants are changed to bind variables. Alex Hillman -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:52 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The reason is that the 'FIRST_ROWS'

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

2001-06-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
self-publishing houses charge you to publish the book (yes, they do, that's how my father-in-law published his book) I also doubt that they give you much in the way of help in editing your book, so that if your English is not good (as the case of the author that Jonathan is working with) you

FTP Archive Logs

2001-06-07 Thread Erik Williams
I need to ftp several archive logs from one server to another. Do I need to specify either ASCI or BINARY modes? What difference does this make when ftping files? Thanks. Erik -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Erik Williams INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compute statisics

2001-06-07 Thread Jared Still
Probably. I'm not responsible for posts I answer in the middle of the night. Jared On Thursday 07 June 2001 07:21, Connor McDonald wrote: Didn't I already say Chapter 8 :-) Connor --- Jared Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are these defaults recorded somewhere that mere

Re: Re[2]: Serious Question (believe it or not)...

2001-06-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Jonathan, You had nice editors... letting you slip 6 months on the deadline. When I talked about giving up your life, I was talking about a much shorter writing schedule. We took from March (when we signed the contract) until the middle of September (when we sent in the first draft of the

RE: OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ OPTIMIZER_INDEX_CACHING

2001-06-07 Thread Christopher Spence
I have heard alot of people complain that CURSOR_SHARING force causes 600 errors, I haven't seen it but I stay away from that setting. -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 6/7/01 1:06 PM I have cursor_sharing set to FORCE (but we don't run Case) we found

Re: Using editor for unixfiles

2001-06-07 Thread Gene Sais
I wouldn't. Learn how to use vi. vi is on every unix flavor and usually its the only editor available in single user mode. just my $.02. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/07/01 12:31PM Can anyone please tell me how to use emacs when i want to edit unix files. I am using vi but want to use emacs now. I

RE: OEM 2.1 cannot contact agent on a node

2001-06-07 Thread Vikas Kawatra
* Stop the agent on the remote node * delete all the q files * on the OEM side , remove all the databases from the node in question. * start agent on the remote node * rediscover the node on OEM The steps above should solve the problem vikas InnoVentry Inc 680

RE: OPTIMIZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ OPTIMIZER_INDEX_CACHING

2001-06-07 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
Vivek, My guess is probably yes, but I should be honest that I really have not worked with an environment with these parameters turned on and not having statistics on the objects (both tables and indexes), as if I recall correctly, these parameters came into being in 8.0.4/8.0.5. I have used the

OT: multiple os partitions? / RE: SUMMARY: Thanks everyone - tru64

2001-06-07 Thread Eric D. Pierce
was just talking to the campus IBM mainframe sa the other day, and he said that they run multiple instances (test/production) of the usual IBM mainframe *os* on the box, and that they run not only multiple versions of the usual IBM mainframe os, but that they also have red hat linux running

Re: multiple os partitions? / RE: SUMMARY: Thanks everyone - tru64

2001-06-07 Thread Don Granaman
Probably not common on Unix in general, but we typically slice Sun E10ks up into multiple domains with each running as an independent node - unique IP, different versions of Solaris, etc. -Don Granaman [Certifiable OraSaurus] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: OFA Question

2001-06-07 Thread Don Granaman
Since Greg originally asked Is there ANY reason..., I'll add another element to the consideration. I agree with what Mike says, but if you are really, really picky, putting other files on the filesystem with Oracle datafiles can cause file fragmentation when a datafile is extended in size (auto

Re: Compute statisics

2001-06-07 Thread Jared Still
Ya know, having read that entire chapter last week you would think I could remember this. Jared On Thursday 07 June 2001 05:30, Toepke, Kevin M wrote: Jared: In the Oracle 8.1.6 Docs: Oracle8i Designing and Tuning for Performance 8 Gathering Statistics

Oracle and Linux - OTN Article

2001-06-07 Thread Jared Still
Here's a great article for installing Oracle on Linux for all you unix wannabes. :) http://www.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/01-may/index.html?o31linux.html Jared -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

RE: What next ?

2001-06-07 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Nope. DBAs are chosen, not trained. To become a good DBA one must go to Mt. Sinai and talk to a burning bush. If the bush talks back, then the applicant will have the power to split the seas of data into partitions. Instead of appealing to pharaoh to let his people go, the real DBA uses the

Re: Order by for varchar ???

2001-06-07 Thread Marc Perkowitz
Add a second column and store the value in decimal; then sort by that column. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 12:56 PM One of our developers was looking for solution for his problem .. Any idea folks ..

Re: ORA 01034 27101 Something is fussy

2001-06-07 Thread Jared Still
On Thursday 07 June 2001 09:47, Jon wrote: I dont have the GLOBAL_NAMES parameter set. It's in your database. e.g. select * from global_name use ALTER DATABASE to change it Jared -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL

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

2001-06-07 Thread Mohan, Ross
Jim, It's a good idea!! Let me add this to your thoughts in progress: think of a way to make a very good index for this. Many, many technical books fall flat on their front cover when it comes to an index. So, for example (following our own Greg from this morning) if I want to figure out

Re: Help for Unix text file processing

2001-06-07 Thread Jared Still
On Thursday 07 June 2001 04:10, ALEMU Abiy wrote: But if I want to conserve the carriage return Then change the script from '\n' to '\r\n' Jared -Message d'origine- De : Jared Still [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : jeudi 7 juin 2001 12:36 À : Multiple recipients of list

RE: What next ?

2001-06-07 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: What next ? Ross, you are being superceded as the chief goof. Get busy! Me, I had to kiss the current dbas' feet, shower them with compliments about their databases, ask them tough questions, show them how to write pl/sql, grow some grey hair and buy them beer. I also planted a

Re: HELP: Hanging Autotrace

2001-06-07 Thread Jared Still
Lisa, Have you tried approaching this politically rather than technically? Let the manager of the local users know what you are trying to do, and why you can't do it. Then maybe some pressure can be applied to get you the privs you need. You don't even need DBA privs, just SELECT ANY

rollout of DB changes to production...

2001-06-07 Thread Richard Huntley
I'm just wondering if the best way to handle a rollback of added columns is to alter the table to mark the column as unused and then drop the unused columns via ALTER TABLE t1 DROP UNUSED COLUMNS; or would the ideal thing be to export the table(s) before adding the columns and then reimport,

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

2001-06-07 Thread Terrian, Tom
I think it is a great idea. I have some tips or tricks that I could contribute. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 12:52 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks for the reply, Rachel, and all others who wrote back offline and through the list. Basically, here

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

2001-06-07 Thread Hillman, Alex
I am sure that any of working DBA's have this money to put up front. I don't think that risk to invest in the book is more than in the stock market. Also what is the problem to hire editor (especially not technical). Should not be too expencive. Of cource it is more work, but one can get much

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