RE: Removing Older version of Oracle on NT Machine

2001-06-11 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Hi All, This question pops up once in a while. I did not pay much attention to replies before (not much of an NT person), but I think I will now, since I am also running into similar situation and it's always good to learn a few new things. If anyone has a step-by-step procedure to do this

Recording Destructive SQL Trapping Alter Table Drop Column So

2001-06-11 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Yes, but how does one do that? I was really hoping someone would post an answer since there were other people wanting to be able to the same or something very similar. Failing to get a response. I wrote my own; actually, I took some code provided by Steve Adams for a different purpose and

RE: Oracle reports

2001-06-11 Thread Nicoll, Iain (Calanais)
You could try something like select item, sum(decode(sign(transaction_date - trunc(sysdate,'Month'),-1,0, 0,nvl(value,0), 1,nvl(value,0)) mtd, sum(decode(sign(transaction_date - trunc(sysdate,'Year'),-1,0, 0,nvl(value,0),

RE: Current Osuser

2001-06-11 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Title: Current Osuser select sys_context('USERENV', 'OS_USER') FROM DUAL; Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Behar, Rivaldi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 2:26 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list

Re: how to substr '%' from the data?

2001-06-11 Thread Brian_McQuillan
Helen, try this instead,, It should help select substr(mystring,1,(instr(mystring,'%') -1)) from mytable eg below DEVcreate mytable (mystring varchar2(10)); Table created DEVinsert into mytable values ('abcdefgh%jkl'); 1 row created DEVinsert into mytable values ('a%cdefghjkl'); 1 row created

RE: how to substr '%' from the data?

2001-06-11 Thread Nicoll, Iain (Calanais)
Not exactly sure what you're after but possibly the below if you're simply looking to stop before the first occurence of '%' select substr('CS-%-ABC-%-%', 1, instr('CS-%-ABC-%-%','%') - 1) from dual; -Original Message- Sent: 12 June 2001 00:07 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: Removing Older version of Oracle on NT Machine

2001-06-11 Thread Sunrise DBA
Keep in mind though, I have two versions of oracle running and just want to remove the older version. I think there are issues with the registry. I'll be trying it tonight. Ken - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001

RE: how to substr '%' from the data?

2001-06-11 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
By using the instr function.Here is an example. N.B., the space between the words "and" and "seven" is returned. select substr('Four score and seven years ago',1, instr('Four score and seven years ago', 'seven') -1) from dual SUBSTR('FOURSCO---Four score and Ian

set feedback off in procedure

2001-06-11 Thread Harvinder Singh
Title: Current Osuser Hi, Can we use the following commands inside the pl/sql procedure.(due to application requirement) set feedback off set fedback on If yes at what point in procedure. Thanks Harvinder

RE: how to substr '%' from the data?

2001-06-11 Thread Helen rwulfjeq
Thanks a lot, that works. "MacGregor, Ian A." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By using the instr function.Here is an example. N.B., the space between the words "and" and "seven" is returned. select substr('Four score and seven years ago',1, instr('Four score and seven years ago', 'seven') -1)

Re: sys.v_$parameter

2001-06-11 Thread Jon Walthour
In fact, I use these fully qualified views all the time. A couple of notes: - V$ views are, in fact, synonyms for the V_$ views. - V_$ views are indeed views on the GV$ views which, as has been previous been stated, are views on the X$ tables. - There is no real performance gain to using the

LOB Storage Characteristics

2001-06-11 Thread Glen Mitchell
Greetings All, I am using Oracle 81630 on Solaris 7 and I have a table which contains a LOB (CLOB actually). The DDL statement is as follows ... CREATE TABLE B_STATEMENT_TEXT_ORA (stmtnum NUMBER(10) NOT NULL, statement_content CLOB) STORAGE (INITIAL 100M NEXT 100M PCTINCREASE 0) TABLESPACE

RE: LOB Storage Characteristics

2001-06-11 Thread Paul Drake
uh - Stripe And Mirror Everything. what's a tablespace? add more NVRAM (cache).   he he he he ... its going to be another late one ...   sales critter. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 9:51 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Greetings All, I am using Oracle

Re: Veritas Quick I/0 and Oracle/ Asycnchronous I/O

2001-06-11 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Kevin's point is probably, that if each index has a depth (blevel) of three, then each index will add three LIO's to any DELETE or INSERT statement. For UPDATE statements, only the indexes on the updated columns count. LIO's mean cpu usage and latch pressure, which is why we want to mininize them

Re: Veritas Quick I/0 and Oracle/ Asycnchronous I/O

2001-06-11 Thread Jared Still
Alex, I think most everyone knew it was a joke. Not everyone will get your jokes. Not everyone gets my jokes. I wouldn't have it any other way. ;) Jared On Monday 11 June 2001 13:36, Hillman, Alex wrote: I hoped that everybody understand that this was a joke. I use damagement and :-)

RE: set feedback off in procedure

2001-06-11 Thread Rahul
harvinder..these are sql*plus commands...and will not work inside a pl/sql block... -- From: Harvinder Singh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 6:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: set

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-11 Thread Rahul
Anshuman, whenever u add a constraint to a table, oracle will make sure all the data (if any) confirms to the constraint added you can enable or disable a constraint (even defer)... dont confuse urself with the term enforcing a constraint. Regards Rahul -- From:

RE: Urgenr : Sql Loader Question

2001-06-11 Thread Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran
Hi friend, i didn't succeed it with the format X'9' for the datafile delemited by 'tab'. Could u help me in this. the followin is the control file of mine: load data infile * into table abba1 fields terminated by X'9' (a,b) begindata 2384'vnb' 398489 'dke' create table abba1(a number, b

Changing Java pool size to 0

2001-06-11 Thread rpapnoi
Hi List The following is config on my initsid.ora on NT4 /Oracle 816, DB size 25GB. shared_pool_size = 52428800 # INITIAL large_pool_size = 614400 java_pool_size = 20971520 Now my Question is Can I reduce java_pool_size to 0 as I am not using any Java module. I am using BLOB in my db also I

Re: regarding isqlPlus

2001-06-11 Thread Saurabh Sharma
can a version earlier than 8.1.7 be used as the database server in the 3-tier-architecture. i have 8.1.5 on NT 4.0 service pack 5. saurabh - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 9:11 PM Got it working at home on

Re: isqlPlus

2001-06-11 Thread Saurabh Sharma
if u r a member of oracle.com web account(u can simply register at the site) u can download a free version of iSQL * Plus from www.oracle.com/download select from tools section and just fill the acceptance form. its in zip format. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Changing Java pool size to 0

2001-06-11 Thread DEMANCHE Luc (Cetelem)
Title: RE: Changing Java pool size to 0 Hi Ramesh The java_pool_size is use want you work with the JServer. Do you have a Java stored proc, EJB or CORBA in your DB ? If not, you don't need the java_pool_size. You could set it to 0. The default is 1m. Luc -Message d'origine-

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