RE: OT SPAM : Become an Oracle Certified DBA in 5 Weeks

2001-06-14 Thread Nguyen, Long (ITS, Limestone Ave)
Yep. Long -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2001 11:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Did anyone else on the list get this stupid spam besides me? thanks, joe -Original Message- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 6/12/01 5:48 PM OraKnowledge eBoot Camp for

Invalid views

2001-06-14 Thread Roland . Skoldblom
Hallo all you DBA's Can anyone help me with this? I would like to check if some views ar einvalid and then if there are I would like them to be compiled immediately . How can I write this in a pl/sql-procedure? Please give me some good examples, all you experts! Roland Sköldblom -- Please

RE: Working from home

2001-06-14 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
PROS Got much more done, or at least thats how it appeared Better coffee/tea/snacks in the house. No hour long drive to/from work Nobody can just wander up to your desk to get you to do something. I can start getting dinner ready for a reasonable hour for us both. CONS Although

RE: missing all control file continue...

2001-06-14 Thread Sinardy Xing
Hi all, When I do SELECT name from v$datafile; NAME - ... /disk1/Oracle8i/dbs/MISSING7 /disk1/Oracle8i/dbs/MISSING8 Where are these files came from ? do I lost anything ? When I quickly do ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE TO TRACE; Why

Oracle 7.3.4 Software

2001-06-14 Thread Rukmini Devi
Hi All, I am unable to get the information of Oracle 7.3.4 software for Sun Solaris . This product information is not available in otn.oracle.com/store.oracle.com. When I am contacting Oracle India - Delhi , they are asking me to go thru the web site. When I am contacting local software

Re: OT SPAM : Become an Oracle Certified DBA in 5 Weeks

2001-06-14 Thread nlzanen1
Yep Jack = De informatie verzonden in dit e-mailbericht is vertrouwelijk en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Openbaarmaking, vermenigvuldiging, verspreiding en/of verstrekking van deze informatie aan derden is,

RE: Forever running Analyze

2001-06-14 Thread A. Bardeen
Kevin, You might want to check out bug 1540560 ANALYZE TABLE ESTIMATE STATISTICS NOT ROUNDING VALUE FOR NUM_ROWS closed as not a bug. Are you saying that the CBO produces a different explain plan for a table with NUM_ROWS = 500.25 vs. NUM_ROWS= 500? This would definitely be a bug and

RE: OT SPAM : Become an Oracle Certified DBA in 5 Weeks

2001-06-14 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
me too -- On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:06:12 Nguyen, Long (ITS, Limestone Ave) wrote: Yep. Long -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2001 11:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Did anyone else on the list get this stupid spam besides me? thanks, joe -Original

RE: missing all control file continue...

2001-06-14 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Uh oh, What has happened here is there are a couple of datafiles in the data dictionary that you have missed in your create controlfile statement. You should be able to rename them to whatever the files are called on the OS. Check out Chapter 12 of the Oracle Backup and Recovery Guide Manual

Re: Digestive

2001-06-14 Thread MHately
Agh!! Ice. Chills the taste buds. Impairs the flavour. Sometime a little water if it's a strong malt. Mike -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego,

RE: missing all control file continue...

2001-06-14 Thread nlzanen1
Hi, You have probably created this database by cloning another one and left out the temp tablespace or something. I clone without the temp tablespace because test needs smaller temp tablespace and I get the same messages. They should also show up in your alert log. Jack

Re: Digestive Martinis

2001-06-14 Thread A. Bardeen
I find dirty martinis a tad too salty. My favorite is still a vodka martini (preferably made with Ketel One or Belvedere and a dash of extra-dry vermouth) with a lime twist. Definitely hits the spot! -- Anita --- Jared Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 12 June 2001 13:39, Koivu, Lisa

Re: Oracle 8i server vs Oracle 8i EE

2001-06-14 Thread Greg Moore
Mogens, Thanks. Jonathan Lewis' book does talk about setting events. Thanks for that tip and the example. - Greg -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Greg Moore INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858)

Re: Oracle 8i server vs Oracle 8i EE

2001-06-14 Thread Allan Robertson
A session trace on event 10053 CBO detail for a plan Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:00:37 -0800 I have limited access to the client and time availavble so want to avoid 10053 traces at present. What's a 10053

RE: Working from home

2001-06-14 Thread Martin Kendall
I would like to add to this, also from a United Kingdom point of view. I have found that the biggest issue has been the negative commenting from other workers who *have to* go into work. On the odd occasions when they try to contact me and I cannot for some reason get to the 'phone (responding

Re: DB shutdown - NT

2001-06-14 Thread A. Bardeen
Sean, As Paul already mentioned 30 seconds is probably not long enough, but even so you're probably hitting bug 1336566. As for the specific versions: 7.3.3.0.0 7.x will never shut down cleanly when stopping the services or the server as the registry entries controlling this weren't

RE: DB shutdown - NT

2001-06-14 Thread O'Neill, Sean
Paul Drake wrote: Please patch 8.1.7.0.0 to at least 8.1.7.0.2, I've been using 8.1.7.1.2 for 6 weeks. Thanx for the patch info Paul. Debbie wrote: It is really hit and miss with Oracle on NT. I have all servers set up the same (including the registry settings) and some will shutdown the

Re: extracting selective information

2001-06-14 Thread A. Bardeen
Jothish, If all that's needed is a read-only snapshot of the data from the non-Oracle sources, then the heterogeneous services should be sufficient (more sophisticated usage might require the gateway product for that specific db). This is discussed in the Distributed Database Systems manual.

Re: OT: Working from home

2001-06-14 Thread Nuno Souto
- Original Message - After all, how do they manage accountability when you are in the office? By the number of hours you sit at your desk or by the work that gets done, to deadline and correctly? In Australia, unfortunately it's the first option. Most managers wouldn't have a clue

RE: OT SPAM : Become an Oracle Certified DBA in 5 Weeks

2001-06-14 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
FYI, I got one of these at home, but not at work. At home I have logged into the oracle.server newsgroup, but never Jared's list. At work I subscribe to Jared's list, but never went to the newsgroup. This tells me that unless I received the e-mail at work as well and didn't notice, our

OT technology and politics

2001-06-14 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
My opinion is, technology has a marked effect on politics when... those who sell technology have a lot of money to influence politicians. : ) Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services

RE: OT SPAM : Become an Oracle Certified DBA in 5 Weeks

2001-06-14 Thread Peter McLarty
I use Forte free agent http://www.forteinc.com to surf newsgroups to avoid spammers getting my email address, It is set up with a bogus address to post on the lists. I wrap my address up in text in a signature for those that want to talk to me directly. Peter At 04:00 AM 14/06/2001 -0800,

Netbackup BLI and SQLBacktrack

2001-06-14 Thread Adams, Simon
All Does anyone have any experience of either of these products. I am about to do a comparison/evaluation so any experiences with either would be helpful. Both will be interfacing with Netbackups tape management system, on predominately HP-UX. Regards Simon

RE: Working from home

2001-06-14 Thread Peter McLarty
Wander over to www.techrepublic.com and check out there for thing that justify allowing staff to telecommute. For those of you who don't know Gartner are behind the site and so some interesting information comes to light. Mostly companies see a positive return because people don't take a

RE: Forever running Analyze

2001-06-14 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
Anita: I am saying that sometimes when the num_rows is not an integer oracle will sort/merge join 2 multi-million row tables when a nested-loop join will return much quicker. If a compute stats is done (or an estimate stats returns integer values for the num_rows) then the optimzer chooses the

RE: Serious Weirdness: Open VMS and Oracle 7.3.3

2001-06-14 Thread Hallas, John
FOR YOUR INFORMATION ESIS and EPFAL are now part of Logica. The Internet email addresses of the staff has changed to the following - [EMAIL PROTECTED] eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emails using the old format will continue to be delivered until 30th June 2001. Which user owns the process (I am

RE: Working from home

2001-06-14 Thread Christopher Spence
I work better at home as well, but I don't think it would ever fly here. I could certainly push it if I wanted to. But I don't want to get into that battle. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot

RE: Forever running Analyze

2001-06-14 Thread A. Bardeen
Kevin, It would be very interesting to know if when you have the explain plan doing the sort/merge if setting num_rows to the integer value of the current num_rows (using dbms_stats, see note 130899.1) causes the explain plan to change to N/L. -- Anita --- Toepke, Kevin M [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: OT RE: Forever running Analyze

2001-06-14 Thread Christopher Spence
It was a joke. Generally when there is a :) or a :-) or something similar near the end of a comment, it is ussually noted to be sarcastic. "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot

RE: OT - RE: Digestive

2001-06-14 Thread Orr, Steve
So what do they serve at the new stadium in Balmer (Baltimore)? I grew up with the Orioles at Memorial Stadium. Die Hard Oriole Fan in Montana, Steve Orr -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 6:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Well, the G. Heileman

Is the list up?

2001-06-14 Thread Ruth Gramolini
I haven't received anything from this list today. Is it up? I am just wondering because our internet server was hacked on Tuesday and may be I am the only one who is experiencing difficulties. Thanks! Ruth -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ruth

Pro*C Information

2001-06-14 Thread Surjit Sharma
DBAs Does anyone have or know of a site where I can find a white paper for Pro*C. Thanks. Much appreciated. Surjit - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 10:50 PM All Does anyone have any experience of either

RE: OT SPAM : Become an Oracle Certified DBA in 5 Weeks

2001-06-14 Thread Hallas, John
FOR YOUR INFORMATION ESIS and EPFAL are now part of Logica. The Internet email addresses of the staff has changed to the following - [EMAIL PROTECTED] eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emails using the old format will continue to be delivered until 30th June 2001. Patrice Boivin wrote This tells me that

Precise Insight/SQL/Pulse

2001-06-14 Thread Connie Milliken
We are thinking of possibly purchasing the Precise Insight, SQL and Pulse products. Has anyone had any very good or very bad experiences with these products? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Connie Milliken INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

RE: Speedo be gone

2001-06-14 Thread Mohan, Ross
ROFL!! don't forget the fava beans, Ruth! -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 4:42 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I now have an image of Ross wearing a Speedo, drinking single malt scotch, and smoking a Cuban cigar...I need to go lie down. Ruth

RE: OT RE: Forever running Analyze

2001-06-14 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
you're kidding, right? ;) Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message-From: Christopher Spence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 10:07 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: OT RE: Forever running Analyze It

RMAN - Incomplete recovery

2001-06-14 Thread Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran
Helo guru's i found one ? in self test as follows: q)why is it not bebeficial to use RMAN when performing incomplete recovery? a) A full offline backup is required after the recovery operations are complete. Now my question is, In general, in case of incomplete recovery we should do the

Re: Hey MetaLink... Got RAM?

2001-06-14 Thread The Oracle DBA
fixed as of 10:23am EST. --- TheOracleDBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 07:23:17 Orr, Steve wrote: Here's what I just got logging in to MetaLink... Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:12:33 GMT ORA-04031: unable to allocate 2550012 bytes of shared memory (large pool,unknown object,session

RE: OT - RE: Digestive

2001-06-14 Thread Wolfe, Charles
IIRC, you can still get a cold Natty Boh at the O's new digs (Oriole Park at Camden Yard), but they now also offer a variety of microbrews. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 10:21 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L So what do they serve at the new stadium in

Fw: Is the list up?

2001-06-14 Thread Ruth Gramolini
After I sent the message I started receiving posts from the list. Thanks to all who replied. Regards, Ruth -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ruth Gramolini INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051

RE: SMP/MPP and PQO

2001-06-14 Thread Mohan, Ross
:) Yea, it was me. heh heh -Original Message-From: Henry Poras [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 1:06 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: SMP/MPP and PQO Oh oh. Ross, were you the one who initially recommended this? Did I

RE: Speedo be gone

2001-06-14 Thread Mohan, Ross
Henry, Are you suggesting I lose my speedo for Linda? Hmm. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 1:13 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ross, It looks like you may have to lose that speedo. I saw this in yesterday's newspaper. The Warnaco Group filed for

RE: Invalid views

2001-06-14 Thread Kevin Lange
Perfect timing. I was putting togeter some recompile scripts for work. Here is a modified one that can be used for views. With a few changes it can be used to recompile any invalid object. 1. Create a cursor on the Catalog Table ALL_OBJECTS where OBJECT_TYPE = 'VIEW' and STATUS = 'INVALID'.

RE: Product user profile 3rd patry product

2001-06-14 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Hi, If you are using Oracle8i, there is a way to do this. Review the following post: On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Joseph Testa wrote: Why would you want to do that, well, i'm at a place where the developers have the schema owner password but we DBAs(being retentitive as we are)dont want them to

RE: OT SPAM : Become an Oracle Certified DBA in 5 Weeks

2001-06-14 Thread Thater, William
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001,Boivin, Patrice J scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -FYI, - -I got one of these at home, but not at work. - -At home I have logged into the oracle.server newsgroup, but never Jared's -list. - -At work I subscribe to Jared's list, but never went to the newsgroup. -

Hey MetaLink... Got RAM?

2001-06-14 Thread Orr, Steve
Here's what I just got logging in to MetaLink... Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:12:33 GMT ORA-04031: unable to allocate 2550012 bytes of shared memory (large pool,unknown object,session heap,bind var buf) DAD name: plsql PROCEDURE : per_hom.startup USER : mrorracle URL:

RE: Digestive

2001-06-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
was that you I saw wandering by then? I wondered who the other human was :) From: Mohan, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Digestive Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 07:23:15 -0800 I plan to buy something from the

No Subject

2001-06-14 Thread Libal, Ivo
Hello I have a problem with the reserved size of shared pool. It does not seam to be used for packages even if I have big packages (200K). Do you have an idea where the problem can be? Do I have to move the packages somehow (like pin to shared pool)? Regards Ivo Libal FREE_SPACE AVG_FREE_SIZE

Re: Oracle 9i database for Linux available for download on Technet

2001-06-14 Thread MHately
Coincidentally, when you open Disk3 in Winzip the 'packed' size is almost exactly a tenth of the size reported on the TechNet site. I think someone put an extra 5 on the end of the size on the web page. I haven't tried to use it yet though. It's being burned to CD right now. Regards, Mike

RE: Invalid views

2001-06-14 Thread Kevin Lange
Joe; For those of us not on 8.1.7 .. Besides .. I had no idea that was there. -Original Message-From: JOE TESTA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 10:55 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: Invalid views Why not just

list of good links

2001-06-14 Thread Ivan_Rivera
Title: list of good links Greeting to all, My machine got totally hosed and I need to rebuild a new one. I recall a little while back there was a post with a bunch of links to good dba sites. Can someone please send this to me? Thank you very much. Ivan

RE: Oracle 9i database for Linux available for download on Techne

2001-06-14 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Try to uncompress it and if it works then it's the right size. Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 11:47 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Technet has anyone had any luck downloading file 3? It SAYS 800+MB, it downloads 79+MB and says it's

RE: Invalid views

2001-06-14 Thread JOE TESTA
Why not just use(8.1.7 thing) $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/utlrp.sql joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/14/01 11:47AM Perfect timing. I was putting togeter some recompile scripts for work.Here is a modified one that can be used for views. With a few changes itcan be used to recompile any invalid

Need Help

2001-06-14 Thread kjanusz
I need some help. I was an Oracle DBA with ADC Telecomm in Minnesota and was laid off along with 7,000 other ADC employees. The job market here in the TC’s has been very slow. Any assistance finding another Oracle related position would be greatly appreciated. Please contact me directly

RE: DB shutdown - NT

2001-06-14 Thread Solomon, Saul M.
Paul, But where is this patchset. It's not on Metalink or the ftp sites. Saul Solomon PPG Industries [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:06 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L O'Neill, Sean wrote: I'm trying to configure systems to

RE: Hey MetaLink... Got RAM?

2001-06-14 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Fixed is a subjective term. This error has come and gone for the last couple of months. I wouldn't consider it fixed until it does not re-appear for a year. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 11:41 AM To: Multiple recipients

RE: Statspack report !! Resending Can someone help Please

2001-06-14 Thread Valiveru, Siva
All, Can some there PLEASE clarify this question.. what is the corelation between user calls in the statspack report to number of sql's executed during the timeframe.. This is what i am doing please correct me !! We are trying to capture the total number of sql's calls during two time events

RE: Oracle 9i database for Linux available for download on Technet

2001-06-14 Thread Robin Ilardi
So far my download is at 296mb out of 393mb(for the first download file) and it's still going. robin -Original Message- Carmichael Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 11:47 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Technet has anyone had any luck downloading file 3? It SAYS 800+MB, it

RE: Speedo be gone

2001-06-14 Thread Norrell, Brian
I propose a fund to purchase and FedEx a towel to Ross before he loses his Speedo. Let's try to maintain some level of decorum. Brian Norrell Manager, MPI Development QuadraMed 511 E John Carpenter Frwy, Su 500 Irving, TX 75062 (972) 831-6600 -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June

Security delete the Guest account - Help!

2001-06-14 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Our security group delete the Guest account from the NT server. Now SQLMail does not work.If we add Guest back to the server SQLMail still doesn't work. What is the security loophole with the Guest account? Can another account be used for SQLMAil? Should we be able to just add the Guest

RE: list of good links

2001-06-14 Thread Bala, Prakash
IXOra.com (Steve Adam's Site) http://ixora.com.au/ Oracle Technet http://technet.oracle.com OraPub (Craig Shallahamer's Website) www.orapub.com DBA Support http://www.dbasupport.com/ Thomas Kyte's Website http://osi.oracle.com/~tkyte/ Connor McDonald's Web Site

RE: Forever running Analyze

2001-06-14 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
I haven't been able to recreate it in development yet...will let you know if i can. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 9:46 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Kevin, It would be very interesting to know if when you have the explain plan doing the sort/merge if

Latch 'parallel query qref latch'

2001-06-14 Thread Ben Jones
Does anyone know what causes waits on this latch ? Thanks Ben _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ben Jones

RE: Oracle 9i database for Linux available for download on Techne

2001-06-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Waleed, Believe it or not, I do know about gunzip. Uncompressed the file is 84MB, instead of 80MB. The files in the .cpio file seem to be java files, and I think that the contents of some of the directory structures listed in the cpio file are not there). In any case, the size listed on the

OT RE: Speedo be gone

2001-06-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
uh uh, I'm not contributing to that fund, I want to see him lose that Speedo EG From: Norrell, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Speedo be gone Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:13:49 -0800 I propose a fund to

Re: Oracle 9i database for Linux available for download on Technet

2001-06-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
It unzipped cleanly and the cpio reported no errors so I believe you are correct. I hope you are correctly I want to play with this puppy From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Oracle 9i database for Linux

Re: Need Help

2001-06-14 Thread Yosi Greenfield
Ken, Welcome to the club. Are we starting a trend? At least we're not competing against each other. Good luck, Yosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need some help. I was an Oracle DBA with ADC Telecomm in Minnesota and was laid off along with 7,000 other ADC employees. The job market here in

RE: OT SPAM : Become an Oracle Certified DBA in 5 Weeks

2001-06-14 Thread lhoska
FYI, I am on the list and not on newsgroup and I did not receive that message. Another clue: I had joined just recently so it might've been some time ago some one got a hold of the list.. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 11:47 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: list of good links

2001-06-14 Thread Tirumala, Surendra
Ivan, here it is, hth, suren -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 10:32 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Just to add http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk for Johnathan Lewis's excellent site Cheers Connor --- Christopher Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: DB shutdown - NT

2001-06-14 Thread Michael S. Siebert
Try patch 1711240 for getting from 8.1.7.0 to 8.1.7.1 and then patch 1797438 to get from 8.1.7.1 to 8.1.7.1.3. I know I found them on MetaLink, so if I recall the navigation I'll let you know. HTH, Mike Solomon, Saul M. wrote: Paul, But where is this patchset. It's not on Metalink or the

Maintaining Redo Logs

2001-06-14 Thread Post, Ethan
If you will kindly download and review my .PPT slides for section 7 of of the much slandered OCP exam (#2) for professional peer review. I will be greatly appreciative. Please send your recommends to me offline unless you think the discussion is worthy of public comment.

RE: Precise Insight/SQL/Pulse

2001-06-14 Thread Christopher Spence
Here is my assesment. Pulse is very weak in terms of dba monitoring. They rebound this with the ability to add up to 20 custom packages. I think I/Watch is a MUCH better product for this. With them (Precise) buying Savant I suspect Q Diagnostics (Great package minus notification) and Pulse

IBM creates it's own 9i ?

2001-06-14 Thread Ron Rogers
I received this update today about IBM creating a database release that is suppose to be SMART and self tuning. Was Oracle one step ahead or was there a leak at IBM? == IBM looks to get SMART with DB2 7.2 Self-managing and resource tuning (SMART) features, deep integration with the

RE: Security delete the Guest account - Help!

2001-06-14 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Sorry, too many lists! Ron -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 12:31 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Our security group delete the Guest account from the NT server. Now SQLMail does not work.If we add Guest back to the server SQLMail still doesn't work. What

RE: Precise Insight/SQL/Pulse

2001-06-14 Thread Henry Poras
All I would add is that the last time I looked at Savant, I thought it was a good product. It let you compare your current state with yesterday, last week, last month, ... This was an easy way to measure changes. Unfortunately this product was skewed heavily to using hit ratios and not wait

RE: Oracle 9i database for Linux available for download on Techne

2001-06-14 Thread Terrian, Tom
Speaking of which, I have not been able to get 9.0.1.0.0 to install on HPUX 11. Has anyone gotten it to work? I have a suspicion that it is for 32 bit instead of 64 bit. My download file sizes are: disk1: 587,823,750 disk2: 647,038,861 disk3: 341,722,333 Are these the same sizes that the rest

RE: OT RE: Speedo be gone

2001-06-14 Thread Fisher, Julie
I second that. Julie Fisher Sandia National Laboratories Oracle 8i DBA Solaris 2.6,7/HP-UX 11.0 System Administrator Web Server Administrator -Original Message- Sent: June 14, 2001 12:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L uh uh, I'm not contributing to that fund, I want to

RE: list of good links

2001-06-14 Thread Ivan_Rivera
Title: RE: list of good links Thanks to all who replied. You guys are great! (like the cereal). Later, Ivan

RE: Oracle 9i database for Linux available for download on Techne

2001-06-14 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I remember someone asking whether Oracle was going to release Oracle for NT first, or Oracle for LINUX. We have our answer. : ) Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services

Good Reference for interpretation of Ultbstat/estat Statspack?

2001-06-14 Thread Oracle DBA
Hi, Looking for an english like reference for interpretation of statistics and cooresponding actions and modifications. Any clues? = Vicky D. Foster, Senior Oracle DBA Consultant email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the

RE: Oracle 9i database for Linux available for download on Techne

2001-06-14 Thread Khedr, Waleed
I downloaded the file and it's 81013KB. The file gets uncompressed successfully. It's 82956567 bytes = 82956KB. They added 5 to the size of the file by mistake. If the file has a problem you wouldn't be able to gunzip it. (B.T.W. I'm playing with 9i for two months on Solaris and the last beta

RE: IBM creates it's own 9i ?

2001-06-14 Thread Christopher Spence
So much leaks between releases that alot of the top vendors tend to use the same goal list when releasing products. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent: Thursday,

ADMIN: Please vote (was: RE: OT SPAM : Become an Oracle Certified DBA in 5 Weeks)

2001-06-14 Thread Bruce Bergman
I too got it, so I'm presuming they harvested this list. I'll take a look into the logs when I return from this business trip I'm on. I appreciate all the confirming responses. Should I find that they harvested the list, they will be removed and banned from all lists here (this is policy).

RE: Oracle 9i database for Linux available for download on

2001-06-14 Thread JOE TESTA
yea except its only certified on Suse(us RH people look like we are SOL) and min quals are 512M of physical ram, guess that kills any more demos at conf based on my current 192M maxed out laptop :( joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/14/01 03:05PM I remember someone asking whether Oracle was going

RE: Good Reference for interpretation of Ultbstat/estat Statspa

2001-06-14 Thread Christopher Spence
Metalink has some articles on E/B Stat, Oracle Publishing has great Statspack docs. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 2:51 PM To:

RE: ADMIN: Please vote (was: RE: OT SPAM : Become an Oracle Certi

2001-06-14 Thread Paul Baumgartel
I'd prefer the list be kept closed. Paul Baumgartel InstiPro Group, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212 813-0829 x103 -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 3:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Certified DBA in 5 Weeks) I too got it, so I'm presuming they harvested this

ADMIN: Please vote (was: RE: OT SPAM : Become an Oracle

2001-06-14 Thread Jeffrey Beckstrom
vote for close [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/14/01 3:25:48 PM I too got it, so I'm presuming they harvested this list. I'll take a lookinto the logs when I return from this business trip I'm on. I appreciateall the confirming responses. Should I find that they harvested the list,they will be removed

Re: Good Reference for interpretation of Ultbstat/estat Statspack?

2001-06-14 Thread Oracle DBA
great thanx!! --- K Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! There is a book from Oracle Press called Oracle High performance Tunign with Statspack by Don Burleson. I am waiting for my copy. Just do a search in AMAZON for statspack = Have a nice day !!

RE: Good Reference for interpretation of Ultbstat/estat Statspack?

2001-06-14 Thread Jon Walthour
Vicky: Check out the set of articles on perf tuning on MetaLink at Doc #61998.1. Look specifically at Doc #Note:62161.1. Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio --- Original Message --- From: Oracle DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Migrating from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7

2001-06-14 Thread Vikas Kawatra
I get an error when migrating from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 on a Sun box. After editing the /var/opt/oracle for the fbs to the new Oracle Home - when I attempt to start svrmgrl - i get an error below: ld.so.1: svrmgrl: fatal: relocation error: file svrmgrl: symbol kgsmp789_compat_: referenced symbol

RE: Good Reference for interpretation of Ultbstat/estat Statspa

2001-06-14 Thread Paul Drake
Funny thing about that - is that you actually have to read the book for it to be any benefit. I'm still working on Gaja's Tuning 101 book. The Statspack book has been sitting here for 3 weeks - hadn't opened it yet. and there are other book stores - such as Bookpool - where the price was

RE: OT: Working from home

2001-06-14 Thread Kimberly Smith
I actually work for a company that is ok with working from home and have done it but I am now at a client that was quite insistent that everyone be here from 8-5. So we all pretty much said ok and we all now work much less hours. Sucks to be them. VPN is a god send though. When I have to take

RE: Migrating from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7

2001-06-14 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
Have you checked your LD_LIBRARY_PATH? As of 8.1.7 you can not have $ORACLE_HOME/bin in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 4:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I get an error when migrating from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 on a Sun box. After

RE: Good Reference for interpretation of Ultbstat/estat Statspa

2001-06-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
you mean it doesn't work if I just sleep with it under my pillow? Okay, okay, but the to-be-read pile is getting bigger and bigger and no matter how fast I read, I'm falling behind. I'm beginning to feel like the Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass. Rachel From: Paul Drake [EMAIL

RE: Migrating from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7

2001-06-14 Thread Kevin Lange
Off the cuff I would say something did not get linked. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 3:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I get an error when migrating from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 on a Sun box. After editing the /var/opt/oracle for the fbs to the new Oracle

OID on 9i

2001-06-14 Thread Paul Baumgartel
OID installation on a new 9i database ended with Creating OiD schema... Parameter orahome = /d00/oracle/product/901 Parameter oidschema = true OID Schema Creation succeeded OIDMON started Unable to bind to the OID server /d00/oracle/product/901/ldap/postcfg/postcfg: -1: bad number Has

Sort_multiblock_read_count

2001-06-14 Thread Johnson Poovathummoottil
Hi All, Reading about the SORT_MULTIBLOCK_READ_COUNT init.ora parameter, I am wondering why it should ever be anything smaller or larger than the SORT_AREA_SIZE. Has anyone changed the default setting of this parameter for the better? Johnson Job

number to binary conversion

2001-06-14 Thread Steve Haas
Good afternoon, I have seen on this list some time ago PL/SQL to convert a number to/from decimal and hex. Does anyone have PL/SQL to convert a number to/from a binary representation? TIA, Steven Haas Opus Consultants, LLC Opinions expressed, right or wrong, are my own. -- Please see the

RE: OT SPAM : Become an Oracle Certified DBA in 5 Weeks

2001-06-14 Thread Giles, Teri
I too am on the list, but not the newsgroup and did not receive the spam. Also, I am new to the last 6/04/2001. Teri -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 2:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

RE: number to binary conversion

2001-06-14 Thread Larry Elkins
Steven, For decimal to hex, a to_char function using the X element can be used. There are certain restrictions -- refer to the Number Formats table in the SQL manual for more info. Here is an example: 1* select to_char(10,'XXX') from dual SQL / TO_C A For a more robust solution that

  1   2   >