Re: Removing Older version of Oracle on NT Machine

2001-06-12 Thread Jared Still
I will gladly post such a thing to my web site. Considering that I will soon be herding Oracle on NT, rounding up a few NT pointers is not a bad idea. We *do* have a goal of consolidating databases to Sun. This NT stuff should be good for a few war stories, Jared On Monday 11 June 2001

RE: Changing Java pool size to 0

2001-06-12 Thread Connor McDonald
The default is 20m in 8.1.5 = 8.1.7. You can change it to 1m in 8.1.5, and '0' in 8.1.6 (which will default to 32k) hth connor --- DEMANCHE Luc (Cetelem) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ramesh The java_pool_size is use want you work with the JServer. Do you have a Java stored proc, EJB or

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Rahul
but if the tables already contains dup records, how can u make a unique constraint ? (even with enable novalidate) -- From: Anshumn[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 12:30 PM To: Rahul Subject: Re: Enforced Costraints ?? Hi Rahul,

Quer

2001-06-12 Thread Sambasivarao_Potla
Hi All, Simple question... How many columns one table will allow.. and why only that number of columns are allowed. Thank in Advance S.S.Rao -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Sambasivarao_Potla INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

FW: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Rahul
i think the solution is to . (on a table with non-unique values in a PK candidate column) 1) create a non-unique index on the pk candidate colunm 2) create the pk using enable novalidate clause this way the existing data will NOT checked for uniqueness, the constraint will be enforced for

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
am I missing something here ?? Why would you ever need to be in that situation (a table with non-unique values in a PK column) ? Apologies if this is a no-brainer. Lee -Original Message- Sent: 12 June 2001 09:41 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L i think the solution is to

Oracle 8i database ER diagram

2001-06-12 Thread magesh
Hi We are exploring the possibility of generating ER diagram from the Oracle 8i database. We want to know how it can be done. Thanks Regards Magesh -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: magesh INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services--

Re: Removing Older version of Oracle on NT Machine

2001-06-12 Thread novicedba
Hi, We run our databases on NT and we face this problem once in a while. For the benefit of our consultants working on the client side I had prepared a document. This has worked perfectly for me as well as for our consultants on the client side. I am aware that the present problem is removing one

ORA-12545

2001-06-12 Thread gy . andor
Hi Gurus! What can be wrong when I receive the following error message? ORA-12545: Connect failed because target host or object does not exist We use WinNT, Oracle 8.1.7 and Oracle Application Server. Any Idea? Thanks in advance Gyula -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Re: Quer

2001-06-12 Thread Vladimir Begun
On Jun 12, 2001 at 12:30:51AM, Sambasivarao_Potla wrote: Hi All, Simple question... How many columns one table will allow.. and why only that number of 1000. Internal limit. columns are allowed. Do you need more? -- Vladimir Begun | I wouldn't ever write the

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Rahul
DSS ! -- From: Robertson Lee - lerobe[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 4:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Enforced Costraints ?? am I missing something here ?? Why would you

Re: Export sizing

2001-06-12 Thread Stephane Faroult
O'Neill, Sean wrote: Is there some way to calculate or make a realistic guestimate as to what size an Export dump file will be for a given schema or indeed a whole database. I've not come across anything on this topic before. If result is dependant on O.S. I'm particularily interested in

Re: Oracle 8i database ER diagram

2001-06-12 Thread Saurabh Sharma
hi magesh, you can hire a product called ERWin 3.5 from Platinum corporation. it's very handy tool to generate script/database from ERdiagrams and vice versa. it'll definitely solve ur search. saurabh - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: Removing Older version of Oracle on NT

2001-06-12 Thread O'Neill, Sean
Ken and Kirti, Oracle MetLink DOC ID: 75061.1 deals with cleaning ALL Oracle products from a machine. Ken I suspect you could adopt this to your needs. I have used this document and found it to be sound enough except for one minor caveat. For Windows NT at Step 3, I'd make a note of the Oracle

RE: Quer

2001-06-12 Thread Rahul
254 in O7 how many datafiles allowed in O8 and why ? :)) -- From: Vladimir Begun[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 4:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Quer On Jun 12, 2001 at

RE: Oracle 8i database ER diagram

2001-06-12 Thread DEMANCHE Luc (Cetelem)
Title: RE: Oracle 8i database ER diagram Hi Magesh, We use ER-Win to manage our ER diagram. You can do a Reverse Engineer to create your first ER diagram. After that, you make changes in your ER Diagram and apply this changes by ER-Win. Luc -Message d'origine- De: magesh

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Daemen, Remco
Not good enough ! According to various documents, you should add your own primary key (surrogate key), which also makes it easier to keep track of history and combine various sources. I agree with Lee: you should never implement a PK with non-unique values. Remco -Oorspronkelijk

missing all control file

2001-06-12 Thread Sinardy Xing
Hi all, I accidentally rm all my control file, I forgot do ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE TO TRACE; do you have any idea how to recover my control files ? This is just a test server so I do not perform any backup datafiles nor control files..., Or do you have unix (Solaris 7) way

RE: Oracle 8i database ER diagram

2001-06-12 Thread murosa
What about to use Oracle Designer?. Regards. Miguel Urosa. 12/06/2001 11.00 magesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/06/2001 11.01 Por favor, responda a [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Export sizing

2001-06-12 Thread Danisment Gazi Unal (Unal Bilisim)
Hello, Yes you can. see http://www.unal-bilisim.com/qa/discus/messages/20/42.html?9923410 for Unix. I don't know NT. But, pipe mechanism is generic mechanism for Operating Systems Theory. There should be a way for NT to create pipes. By pipes, you can calculate. regards... "O'Neill, Sean"

Re: ORA-12545

2001-06-12 Thread Danisment Gazi Unal (Unal Bilisim)
These types errors are the errors which are casued by other errors. are there any other errors including alert.log ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gurus! What can be wrong when I receive the following error message? ORA-12545: Connect failed because target host or object does not exist We

RE: missing all control file

2001-06-12 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
You may well be OK. All you need to do is fetch the database up in nomount mode startup nomount from svrmgrl. SVRMGR startup nomount ORACLE instance started. Total System Global Area 6892912 bytes Fixed Size 60784 bytes Variable

Shared server model

2001-06-12 Thread Raj Gopalan
DBAs, I am working for a web developing and hosting company. My boss came out with an idea of putting all the DB in a massive(!!) server so that we dont need to have seperate server for each DB. He argues this is better idea than having DB server for each site. I am not sure how this will

RE: Quer

2001-06-12 Thread MHately
Hi, Oracle 8 datafile limits: The maximum number of files at Oracle 8 is OS dependant but usually it's 1022 per tablespace and 65533 per database. As with any program, the values of variables are held in control structures and it's up to the developer to arrive at sensible maximum limits for

See you guys ':)

2001-06-12 Thread Mark Leith
Ladies and Gents, I'm off for a holiday in the sun for a week, in around 30 minutes, so thought I'd say see you - and you all think of me sunning it on the beach, while your slogging over a database :) Bye Bye, and I'll have a drink for ALL of you :) Mark -- Please see the official ORACLE-L

Re: Export sizing

2001-06-12 Thread Connor McDonald
A roughie (assuming your stats are up to date) would be select sum(num_rows * avg_row_len) * 1.1 from dba_tables where owner in ( list to be exported ) added to select sum(length(text)) from dba_source where owner in ( list to be exported ) This doesn't take into account many things (view

Re: missing all control file

2001-06-12 Thread Connor McDonald
You have to startup nomount and issue a 'create controlfile' command listing all the bits and pieces (that you can remember) hth connor --- Sinardy Xing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I accidentally rm all my control file, I forgot do ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE TO TRACE;

RE: Oracle 8i database ER diagram

2001-06-12 Thread Rao, Maheswara
Magesh, You could use either of the following tools to build your ERD through reverse engineering. 1. Oracle Designer 2. ERWIN In my company we use both the above products. I personally prefer using Oracle Designer due to many reasons (My reasons are irrelevant here for the purpose of

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Connor McDonald
I disagree. A simple reason for a non-unique index to enforce a primary key are is to allowing a temporary state of non-uniqueness to be permitted during a transaction. eg insert a batch of new records (some of which may be duplicates), then remove the bad ones, then commit. (with deferred

How to re-arrange the nullable columns

2001-06-12 Thread Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran
Hi DBA's, Greetings... In some of application tables, i found not null columns are appeared at the last. So, how can i re-arrange by the way i can make the not null columns are in the earliest of the table. Is the only way to re-create the tables accordingly, or any other best methods are

RE: regarding isqlPlus

2001-06-12 Thread Robin Ilardi
The documentation states Earlier versions of the Oracle database may work, but only Oracle 8i 8.1.7 (Release 3) is supported. The important thing is to have Oracle's Apache HTTP server, which comes with either 8.1.7 or 9iAS. I have it installed under 9iAS with an 8.1.7 database and it seems

Surrogate keys

2001-06-12 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
Hi All, Can someone explain pros/cons to using surrogate keys(i.e.,sequences) vs non-surrogate keys? Thanks Rick -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Cale, Rick T (Richard) INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX:

Re: Quer

2001-06-12 Thread Muthaiah
Hi, It allows you to have up to 1000 columns. If it allows more than this then there will be performance issues. BTW, How much column you want to have as max? Muthaiah At 12:30 AM 6/12/01 -0800, you wrote: Hi All, Simple question... How many columns one table will allow.. and why only

RE: Shared server model

2001-06-12 Thread Rao, Maheswara
Raj, Your bosses idea might be OK with the following conditions. 1. If your database size is small (what is small is relative term. I consider a database small if it is less than 200 GB) 2. If the number of users accessing the database is less (around 50 users). 3. If you have big server

RE: Removing Older version of Oracle on NT

2001-06-12 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Sean, Thanks for posting the Doc Id. I do have access to Meatlink. I will take a look. Regards, - Kirti Deshpande Verizon Information Services http://www.superpages.com -Original Message- From: O'Neill, Sean [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 5:16 AM To:

RE: Surrogate keys

2001-06-12 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Rick, I use surrogate keys when the obvious primary key value has the possibility of being updated by the application. For example, you would think that a Social Security number might be a candidate for use as a primary key in a college database. What we found upon study is that, the Soc Sec #

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Daemen, Remco
I think there are a number of ways to implement something like that (like catching exceptions), and choosing solutions like permitting temporary states of non-uniqueness is asking for trouble. As long as I can see any other option to return the same result, I would take it. This also prevents the

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Rao, Maheswara
In a DSS environment, it is a standard practice to create surrogate keys for primary key. I never had experience with this (having duplicates in PK). Perhaps a list member could tell what probs might arise. Rao -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 6:26 AM To: Multiple

RE: Surrogate keys

2001-06-12 Thread Christopher Spence
Cons Primary Key has no bearing on data Primary involves a sequence Pros Primary key will never risk change Primary key will never risk being null Multiple columns will not migrate to other tables on relationships Very simple to implement More efficient index use (as you don't have to use

RE: Shared server model

2001-06-12 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I agree with not putting your multiple databases on one NT box - single point of failure. If you have to upgrade something or add a new driver, you may have to reboot the machine. It's not so bad if you only have one db on it, it only inconveniences those users. If ALL your databases are on

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Enforced Costraints ?? Well, here's one problem - there is no guarantee that Social Security Number will indeed be unique. SS#'s are reassigned, just like phone numbers are. IMHO, surrogate keys are always a good idea. Has anyone got an example of when a surrogate key is NOT a

Re: what's wrong with this...DBMS_SQL

2001-06-12 Thread Igor Neyman
Title: RE: what's wrong with this...DBMS_SQL Lisa, You don't need DBMS_SQL.EXECUTE, when running other then DML statements. DBMS_SQL.PARSE is enough. Igor Neyman, OCP DBAPerceptron, Inc.(734)414-4627[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Koivu, Lisa To: Multiple

SMP/MPP and PQO

2001-06-12 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: SMP/MPP and PQO Hello everyone, I was reading up on the differences between SMP, MPP and how they may affect PQO (Parallel Query). My understanding is that MPP is a host with defined domains (like an e10k with virtual machines on it). SMP is a standalone host with no domains and

OT - 9i DB for HP-UX Available On Technet

2001-06-12 Thread elkinsl
Listers, Since there was some discussion about the next platform on which 9i might be released, I thought some might be interested in knowing that 9i for HP-UX is now available on TechNet. Regards, Larry G. Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread dan williams
Absolutely do not use ssn for a primary key. I ran into that as a concern when I created a report. The ssn can be assummed by another person, and you would have two persons with the same ssn. Plus the already mentioned recycle of the ssn. I know of cases where the ssn is taken by a person

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Christopher Spence
You can enable constraint exceptions into exceptions clause. Take a look at the enable constraints script on my site if want to see a case of it. ANTISPAMFILTERS(http://www.vampired.net)/ANTISPAMFILTERS Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.

RE: Oracle 8i database ER diagram

2001-06-12 Thread tday6
You can reverse engineer with the evaluation copy of ERWin 4.0. I have Designer but don't (can't) use it since it chokes when trying to reverse engineer the entire database. I can do it a table at a time but it takes forever. Don't like it one bit. Much prefer ERWin. HTH -- Please see the

RE: How to re-arrange the nullable columns

2001-06-12 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Hi Nirmal, Unfortunately, a table re-org (one way of the other) is the only solution to do this. We use a third party tool that unloads, drops, creates, loads the table. It also takes care of all the grants etc. Just a short cut to all the manual steps. Not sure if 9i has anything to address

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Christopher Spence
Primary key is NOT NULL and UNIQUE. Otherwise it isn't a primary key or a primary key canidate Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 5:00

Re: How to re-arrange the nullable columns

2001-06-12 Thread William Beilstein
It makes no difference in performance where the not null columns are placed. Why do you want to go to the headache of modifying the table structure for something so trivial? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/12/01 08:45AM Hi DBA's, Greetings... In some of application tables, i found not null columns

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Page, Bruce
I had a friend a few years back that started receiving SS checks and he was in his 30's. It turned out that someone that had just retired had the same SSN as he did and was wondering where his checks were. -Original Message- From: dan williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: See you guys ':)

2001-06-12 Thread Sinardy Xing
When is your last holiday ? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, 12 June 2001 7:31 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ladies and Gents, I'm off for a holiday in the sun for a week, in around 30 minutes, so thought I'd say see you - and you all think of me sunning it on the

RE: Oracle 8i database ER diagram

2001-06-12 Thread Diana_Duncan
There's also a tool from Embarcadero called ER Studio, which is my personal recommendation at the moment. I used to recommend ERWin, but then CA bought it and it has only been lackadaisically maintained since then. I think there are others...basically any decent ER modelling tool (and Visio is

RE: Oracle 8i database ER diagram

2001-06-12 Thread Yexley Robert D SSgt AFIT/SCA
Would you mind explaining to me how to go about reverse-engineering a database with Designer please. I downloaded Designer6i a couple of weeks ago, and have been trying ever since to figure out how to reverse-engineer our database into an ER diagram, but the docs for Designer are absolutely

Re: Oracle 8i database ER diagram

2001-06-12 Thread Richard Ji
I believe ERWin is now a CA product, so you could go to CA's web site to check it out. You can also use Oracle's Designer which is a more high end product and cost more money. Visio can also reverse engineer your db and generate a simple ER diagram if that's all you need. Richard Ji [EMAIL

RE: missing all control file

2001-06-12 Thread Sinardy Xing
Hi Robertson, Your procedure is work for me, When this database created, the creator kept the create database scripts, so I able to retrieve some information from there, (is in $ORACLE/assistants/dbca/jlib/SIDrun.sh) Thank you, you are really brilliant Sinardy -Original Message-

AW: set feedback off in procedure

2001-06-12 Thread Haunschmidt Andreas VASL/FAS
Hi Harvinder! Sorry - no, you can't use these commands inside PL/SQL. set feedback on|off and alike are not SQL statements, but extensions outside SQL ( indicated by SQL*PLUS ) only available in the SQL*PLUS executables , but not in the PL/SQL or SQL engines of your Oracle clients or

RE: Surrogate keys

2001-06-12 Thread Murali Vallath
True and not true, If the database is partitioned and using a local index. then you may want to use the business key as a prefixed index. This way you could avoid the additional index on the table. NOTE: The table is partitioned by the surrogate key and the all foreign keys in the child

RE: what's wrong with this...DBMS_SQL

2001-06-12 Thread Lord David
Title: RE: what's wrong with this...DBMS_SQL Parse doesn't execute DDL in oracle 7. The parse call uses 'dbms_sql.v7' so I would guess that even if the d/b is 8 it will use the 7 semantics. Regards David Lord -Original Message-From: Igor Neyman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent:

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Grabowy, Chris
I have no real solid design experience, but in the current model that I am working on I created this table... AUDIT DENIED LOGONS | ADL Userid | | ADL DateTime | || || The two columns

RE: How to re-arrange the nullable columns

2001-06-12 Thread Christopher Spence
Yes, 9i you can move modify drop add anything having to do with a table. Pretty impressive. Now to see it work and stand up the test of time. The ultimate test. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot

Re: Oracle 8i database ER diagram

2001-06-12 Thread Hal Wigoda
Use Visio or Embarcadero client server tools. At 01:00 AM 6/12/01 -0800, you wrote: Hi We are exploring the possibility of generating ER diagram from the Oracle 8i database. We want to know how it can be done. Thanks Regards Magesh -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: what's wrong with this...DBMS_SQL

2001-06-12 Thread Joseph Testa
Igor, read the docs more carefully. it states that you should do the execute because the parse is NOT guaranteed to work that way in the future. Do does it work without the execute, yes, will in work in the future, maybe, just do the execute and don't worry about it :) right out of

S.A.M.E. and HP XPs

2001-06-12 Thread Dave Bruce
We are about to move a production database to an HP XP256. Does anyone have any experiences they would like to share? Initially I was going the traditional route (split indexes and data, etc.) and then was told *everything* would be RAID-5. Then I discovered SAME but I don't think I can fully

RE: Oracle 8i database ER diagram

2001-06-12 Thread G . Plivna
Wow, I'v always been thinking that Oracle docs are rather good including Designer. And I found them that. You need at least two steps 1. In design editor generate-capture design of-server model-fill in appropriate fields 2. In repository object navigator utilities-table to entity rettrofit- and

RE: Shared server model

2001-06-12 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Couldn't it also depend on whether or not it is a development box or a 24/7 box? Personally, we do developement here and I have multiple db's on single NT servers. However, I have seen way too many crashes to imagine attempting this with a 24/7 environement. Just curious, what is

RE: Shared server model

2001-06-12 Thread Christopher Spence
Then again, everything on one box cluster is less breakable parts. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 10:05 AM To: Multiple recipients

RE: Surrogate keys

2001-06-12 Thread Riyaj_Shamsudeen
One more cons : If the surrogate keys are populated from a single sequence, then the primary key index of that table becomes right hand index. Meaning all the new values will go in to the right most leaf block of the index due to the nature of the monotonically increasing or decreasing values. If

Re: ORA-12545

2001-06-12 Thread Rahul Dandekar
One possibility caould be database going down while you are connected. We experienced similar thru perl couple of times coupled with ORA 3113 -Rahul - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 5:35 AM Hi Gurus!

test

2001-06-12 Thread Rajesh Dayal
testing connection. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Rajesh Dayal INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists

RE: OT - 9i DB for HP-UX Available On Technet

2001-06-12 Thread Christopher Spence
yeah, I noticed that, I was quite surprized. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 10:05 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: Oracle 8i database ER diagram

2001-06-12 Thread DBarbour
Embarcadero's ERStudio works pretty well (I like it better than ERWin). You can download a demo copy from their website. David A. Barbour Oracle DBA, OCP AISD 512-414-1002

RE: Surrogate keys

2001-06-12 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Biggest problem in Surrogate keys is partitions elimination does not work. Usually the selection criteria is defined on the natural keys. So when joining the dims and fact on the surrogate keys, Oracle can not do a good job deciding up front which partition it needs. On the other hand it ends

what's wrong with this...DBMS_SQL

2001-06-12 Thread Tirumala, Surendra
Thanks to Lisa and others who replied. I cannot use EXECUTE IMMEDIATE as my Oracle version is 7.2.2.That is the reason I am using DBMS_SQL. At the beginning, I used DBMS_SQL.EXECUTE(CUR1), it gave errors, hence I dropped. Now I have used it again after your suggestion and noticed the error

RE: Removing Older version of Oracle on NT Machine

2001-06-12 Thread Rajesh Dayal
Hi All, I'll add some points about NT backup to this list of steps... 1.a. Backup all drives, sample command could be ntbackup backup c:\ d:\ /B /V /L D:\FULLBACKUP.LOG /D FULL SYSTEM BACKUP /B would backup registry. 1.b. Create one repair disk by typing command rdisk at command prompt.

RE: what's wrong with this...DBMS_SQL

2001-06-12 Thread Tirumala, Surendra
But using DBMS_SQL.EXECUTE only solved my problem, Suren -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 10:47 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks Igor for setting me straight. I don't see that in the doco but I am looking at 8.1.7. -Original

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Rachel Carmichael
If you remove the datetime column you are going to get errors that the unique constraint on the primary key is violated once someone tries to login more than once and is denied. Composite primary keys are fine, since you will not be updating these columns. there is no need in this case for an

RE: Oracle 8i database ER diagram

2001-06-12 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Yex, Start Up designer. Click on Repsitory Object Navigator Select Application Systems Click the Green Plus Icon (left menu bar) and create an application system (name it something you like to identify it as your application). Noe, go back to the Oracle Designer startup panel and Click on the

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread William Beilstein
Another thing to consider is what happens if two people login at the same time with the same userid. Your primary key will fail, but a sequence would not. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/12/01 11:07AM If you remove the datetime column you are going to get errors that the unique constraint on the

RE: How to re-arrange the nullable columns

2001-06-12 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Chris, The question was, can you shuffle the order of the columns in 9i? Or add new columns after/before a particular column? - Kirti -Original Message- From: Christopher Spence [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 11:07 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: How to re-arrange the nullable columns

2001-06-12 Thread Christopher Spence
I beg to differ. Storage as well as performance is effected if nulls are not at the end of a table. Although it is not a HUGE concern, it is certainly fine tuning. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA

Data storage for numeric data

2001-06-12 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
Hi All, If I have fields defined as NUMBER(2,0) and NUMBER(7,0) how much storage does Oracle used if fields are NULL or the fields do not use entire width. Thanks Rick -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Cale, Rick T (Richard) INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Enforced Costraints (sic) ??

2001-06-12 Thread tday6
SSN's are not recycled. From the SSA OIG's testimony on SSN use and misuse before congress - The SSN is a unique identifier

Re: How to re-arrange the nullable columns

2001-06-12 Thread Rahul Dandekar
If its for application developers ease in INSERT etc. then how about creating a view which has columns in proper order? -Rahul - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 8:45 AM Hi DBA's, Greetings... In some of

RE: How to re-arrange the nullable columns

2001-06-12 Thread Post, Ethan
Actually I think Oracle recommends that NULL columns should be placed at the end of the row for optimal storage of the row in the block. - Ethan Post -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 8:01 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L It makes no difference in performance

RE: Shared server model

2001-06-12 Thread Christopher Spence
Just a comment. I am not a NT fan, and dispise using it for Oracle. But I will repeat something I said many times. For the $10,000-$20,000 budget, I can make an NT server out perform any unix box on similar budget. NT's problem is NOT that it is slow, I beg to differ, it can hold up with most

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Christopher Spence
SSN is great primary key for job security though. Just think of all the happy cobol programmers during the new year? Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent:

Re: what's wrong with this...DBMS_SQL

2001-06-12 Thread Igor Neyman
Title: RE: what's wrong with this...DBMS_SQL Did you try it? Iam not sure about v7. But under 8.1.5 it works. And why 'parse' should necessarily use 'dbms_sql.v7' ? Here is an example, which proves, that for DDLit's enough to call 'parse' without 'execute': SQLWKS declare cur1 integer; 2

Re: OT - 9i DB for HP-UX Available On Technet

2001-06-12 Thread mohammed bhatti
At one point in time (96-98), I remember Digital Unix (OSF) used to be the platform of choice for Oracle. I recently had an interview at some place and the guy was telling me that all the HA stuff comes out for HP first since they're supposed to be a more reliable platform than Sun. It sounds

RE: ORA-12545

2001-06-12 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: ORA-12545 Well, then hope that your ip addresses don't change, and if they do, I hope your network admins will tell you. (do they always?) dns aliases are a nice way to shield your users from unexpected changes like this. You may want to follow up with your network admin to figure

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Grabowy, Chris
In this particular application, every user has an assigned specific userid. So what are the odds that a specific userid will be denied a logon more then once a second?? Hmmm..another item to be paranoid about... Chris -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 11:37 AM To:

RE: rollback use query

2001-06-12 Thread Seema Singh
Yosi I have tested and found CTAS use rollback. Thanks -Seema From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: rollback use query Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:20:27 -0800 I'd hate to argue with Anita, but I'm pretty sure

RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Ok, so I was over analyzing the PK on this table. (big grin) I still don't see a need for a surrogate key for this table. Chris -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 11:08 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L If you remove the datetime column you are going to get

Re: ORA-12545

2001-06-12 Thread mcmtnezga
Hi! This errors happened me two weeks ago, and i solved writing IP address into tnsnames.ora instead the dns name. E.g: PP = (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(Host = 00.0..00)(Port = )) ) (CONNECT_DATA = (SID =PP) ) ) regards

Reco background process problem

2001-06-12 Thread Brijesh Lal
Hi I have problem in starting the oracle8i database. It is installed in intel solaris 8. After booting solaris I am able to start databse. However when I shutdown and start the database it gives the error that reco background process did not start. The databse doesnot even go to nomont stage.

Digestive

2001-06-12 Thread hamid alavi
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RE: Enforced Costraints ??

2001-06-12 Thread Christopher Spence
If user id is unique, not null, and never will be or will not change, then no need for surrogate or datetime. Surrogate keys are great because they are no hassle and easy. They do not mutate 10 columns of a primary key into other tables everytime you have a relationship with them. Although as

OT: Re: See you guys ':)

2001-06-12 Thread Connor McDonald
Yeh - but having co.uk in your email tells us all that's the ONLY week of sun you'll see all year... Signed Disgruntled Aussie based in UK --- Mark Leith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ladies and Gents, I'm off for a holiday in the sun for a week, in around 30 minutes, so thought I'd say see

RE: Digestive

2001-06-12 Thread Mohan, Ross
WHY NOT JUST SET ORACLE-L APERITIF? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 1:27 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L SET ORACLE-L DIGESTIVE = Hamid Alavi 4268 Flintlock LN Westlake Village 91631 PH: 818-8790966 __

RE: Oracle 8i database ER diagram

2001-06-12 Thread tday6
I'm no fan of Designer, but here's how: Start Designer 6i Log into your Repository database and select (or create) your workarea. Click on Design Editor Choose Server Model Select a container Choose the Run the Design Capture utility Give Designer the username, password, and connect string for

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