Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Viraj Luthra
I dont want to sound rude here, and my comments are NOT directed at you personally. What is the standard of these OCP's, when a person who has not worked with oracle, can pass them, for the sake of discussion it does not matter which tests they were? It seems doing an OCP is a complete waste

Yahoo!

2001-06-20 Thread Viraj Luthra
Hello every one, Hey you know what after a long battle, finally installed SCO 7.1.0 and on top of that Oracle 8. Thanks to a lot of people, but Kirti Deshpande ( I think ) stands out, you helped me with some good things. Actually the whole problem was with the swap, it was too small, so be

Re: sql query read from text file

2001-06-20 Thread Vladimir Begun
On Jun 19, 2001 at 12:17:32PM, Seema Singh wrote: Hi If i have one file a.txt and I want to put that content in where clause of sql statement then how can I do it. Example : a.txt content 98989 67676 898989 Select x,y,z from abc where x in (98989,67676,898989) / create file named

RE: Yahoo!

2001-06-20 Thread Rajesh Dayal
From subject line, I thought it's some ad from yahoo.com ;-)) Any-way... Happy SCO+Oracle Learning Cheers, Rajesh -Original Message- Luthra Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 11:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello every one, Hey you know what after a long battle,

Re: What the difference between qio and direct I/O option in VxFS

2001-06-20 Thread Connor McDonald
Direct I/O is enabled simply be specifying in the mount options in /etc/vfstab (on Solaris). You can do it even with standard ufs volumes. As long as you have vxfs then you can also have vxfs with direct IO Quick I/O is the separately licensed bit I think - it should also outperform Direct

Re: ps -ef | grep sqlplus

2001-06-20 Thread Connor McDonald
Options 1) external account, sqlplus / 2) delay connection sqlplus /nolog with connect ... in the script 3) print password | sqlplus system hth connor --- Kris Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, do you know how to hide oracle passwords from ps -ef? we pass in our pw in cron,

Re: Disk configuration

2001-06-20 Thread Connor McDonald
If you are going to that level for performance reasons, I would seriously consider using raw partitions to avoid the issue. hth connor --- KC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin, Thanks for your input. I was trying to put certain datafiles on contiguous disk space, tell me if I am wrong, I try

Re: sql query read from text file

2001-06-20 Thread Vladimir Begun
On Jun 19, 2001 at 11:15:46PM, Vladimir Begun wrote: On Jun 19, 2001 at 12:17:32PM, Seema Singh wrote: Hi If i have one file a.txt and I want to put that content in where clause of sql statement then how can I do it. Example : a.txt content 98989 67676 898989 Select x,y,z from

Re: New system, cart blanche, what to buy

2001-06-20 Thread Connor McDonald
I've seen very successful systems on Solaris, HP, AIX and Sequent. I've seen disasters on Solaris, HP, AIX and Sequent. I honestly don't think that the vendor is (too much of) an issue (presuming you go with one of the major ones) That said, as the Oracle consultants always tell us, there is

RMAN Suggestion

2001-06-20 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
I need some suggesations regarding RMAN. I want to spread the backup in two drives. one drive has 27GB free space and other has 9 GB free space. How do I divide thru channel ? I want maximum will go to 27gb and minimum will be in 9 gb . I have used channel limit facility but it is not solving

RE: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Sinardy Xing
Hi Keren, I was same with you, I started from 0% knowledge in computing, I stated as an office boy cleaning computer showroom Eveready, and then I started leaning how to install PC 8088 (long long time ago), monochrome monitor and then PC 80286 then PC 80386 then PC 80486 then Pentium

Calling Stored Proc in SQL Server from Stored Proc in Oracle

2001-06-20 Thread Ravindra P Channe
Hello everybody, One of my developers is having the following requirement. * He has PL/SQL stored proc say proc_1 in Oracle database. * Now within this proc_1 he runs a loop and gets some values in say variables v1, v2 and v3 * From the loop itself he needs to pass these

missing link

2001-06-20 Thread Raymond Lee Meng Hong
Hello , currently I have install TOAD, when I click the sqlnet-help , it highlight the error l:\oracle\dev16\ is not in system path ? But it did work ok .I manage to connect to my db server , but why this error come up ??? Actually I 'm network connect with my oracle server locate in other

RE: Calling Stored Proc in SQL Server from Stored Proc in Oracle

2001-06-20 Thread Ravindra P Channe
Hello everybody, Sorry for the previous post. I think I need to RTFM. It can be done through Oracle Open Gateway. I haven't tried it till now. If there are any suggestions then it would be appreciated. Regards Ravindra Channe

RE: Tablespace recovery - Point in time (TSPITR)

2001-06-20 Thread A. Bardeen
Nirmal, I've not done a tablespace PITR via RMAN, so I can't help you there. I've done it manually many times and find the following doc has described the steps needed very well: Note: 96197.1 Recovering a Dropped Table from a Full Database Backup Essentially a tablespace PITR is accomplished

Oracle Passwords

2001-06-20 Thread nlzanen1
Hi All, Basic question: Just tried to find the restrictions on Oracle passwords in the online documentation and had no luck Does anybody know what the restrictions are for the passwords (allowed characters etc...) TIA Jack

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Joseph S. Testa
Viraj, hahahahah, it couldnt have been said any better :), i've been thinking that way for years as well as a few others on the list :) joe Viraj Luthra wrote: I dont want to sound rude here, and my comments are NOT directed at you personally. What is the standard of these OCP's, when a

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Pete Wang
Dear Viraj, I can totally understand how you feel. But I hope you can appreciate that it takes a lot of courage and perseverance for a person who doesn't know Oracle to take any of the OCP papers. Many of us have to do a lot of additional studies on top of the Oracle training material

Oracle 9i onlinux, the continuing saga

2001-06-20 Thread Joseph S. Testa
Ok most of last night putting it on laptop, be prepared for what seems like eternal swapping if you dont have the RAM, toshiba satellite 2545xcdt laptop, amd k6, 333Mhz, 192M of ram. It finally installed. Now to hack genclntsh, relink the binaries and build a database. :) joe -- Joe Testa

Re: Oracle Passwords

2001-06-20 Thread A. Bardeen
Jack, This info is in the SQL Reference manual under the Create User command: Passwords must follow the rules described in the section Schema Object Naming Rules, unless you are using Oracle's password complexity verification routine. That routine requires a more complex combination of

Re: ps -ef | grep sqlplus

2001-06-20 Thread Gene Sais
I prefer to use externally identified userids. Most of the dba scripts run as / (i.e. unix user oracle, oracle user ops$oracle). You can also wrap the sql in a ksh script where password is not known from ps -ef. If I do this, I have 1 common script w/ username/password, 1 place to change,

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread William Beilstein
My first question is what is your field of study in school? Is it computer related? Have you graduated, many employers want to see you graduate before they will hire you. Have you asked any of your larger companies about any IS extern programs that they might have. If you have graduated, have

RE: Transportable tablespace problem in 817

2001-06-20 Thread Kumanan Balasundaram
Thanks. I'll also try it with 816 and see if it works fine there. Kumanan -Original Message- From: Solomon, Saul M. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 June 2001 21:41 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Transportable tablespace problem in 817 This is a

RE: New system, cart blanche, what to buy

2001-06-20 Thread Gene Sais
Vendor=dec (well compaq) Cost=moderate Reliable=sometimes, if openvms Support=good Positives=cluster sw Negatives=pc company, not sure of future for vms or digital unix Vendor=hp Cost=moderate/high Reliable=yes Support=good Positives=ha mc service guard Negatives=you are on your own Vendor=ibm

Re: What the difference between qio and direct I/O option in VxFS

2001-06-20 Thread KC
Connor, You have confirmed what I believed to be true, you don't need the Veritas database edition for direct I/O. Just need to convince our SysAdmin now. KC -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 5:44 PM Direct

RE: ps -ef | grep sqlplus

2001-06-20 Thread Guy Hammond
$ echo system/manager |sqlplus @myscript Alternatively, schedule your jobs with DBMS_BATCH. Cheers, g -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 7:38 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L hi, do you know how to hide oracle passwords from ps -ef? we pass in our pw

RE: Yahoo!

2001-06-20 Thread Ron Rogers
I have often wondered about the pronunciation of the word Yahoo . Is the a long or short?? Yahoo stands for You Always Have Other Options Congrats on the successful install. ROR mª¿ªm -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ron Rogers INET: [EMAIL

Re: Disk configuration

2001-06-20 Thread KC
Connor, It would be easy if I am the SysAdmin, our Mr. Unix here doesn't like raw just because he can't see the files in the file system. I am just exploring different ways to stripe the disk, I noticed that we made one subdisk for each disk and stripe the volume on them. This is quite different

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Cherie_Machler
Karen, Does your college or university have a formal internship program? If they do, a short-term internship might be the way to go. That would be some experience under your belt. Once you got into a company, you'd make good contacts there to try to extend your employment once the formal

RE: New system, cart blanche, what to buy

2001-06-20 Thread Guy Hammond
Compaq's Alpha and Tru64 platform has been turning in some impressive Oracle benchmarks, they're definitely worth a look. g. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 7:38 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L All, For a position that would (possibly) like me to set up

Re: ps -ef | grep sqlplus

2001-06-20 Thread Surjit Sharma
This is what I do nohup sqlplus /nolog @script script.log 21 The script1 look like the following: start local_var -- This has the user_name and password defined in it connect username/password ... local_var.sql define user_name=app_owner define password =pass123 Hope it helps. Cheers

RE: What the difference between qio and direct I/O option in VxFS

2001-06-20 Thread Hillman, Alex
How do you specify direct I/O option in /etc/vfstab? Alex Hillman -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L VxFS Direct I/O is enabled simply be specifying in the mount options in /etc/vfstab (on Solaris). You can do it even

freelists Value Limitation - ORA-1590 on ver 7.3.4.5

2001-06-20 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
When Creating a Table with a Certain Value of freelists in Oracle 7.3.4 , Error ORA-1590 Occuring $ oerr ora 1590 01590, 0, number of segment free list (%s) exceeds maximum of %s // *Cause: storage parameter FREELIST GROUPS is too large. // *Action: Reduce storage parameters FREELIST

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-20 Thread Ron Rogers
I don't doubt that there are openings available in the Govt sector. The pay scale for Govt workers is notoriously lower that the open market. I had a job offer to work for the Dept of Natural Resources in GA but I could not handle the $20K pay cut. ROR mª¿ªm -- Please see the official

RE: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
I agree, if you have no experience and take the exams it will give you some level of knowledge about oracle. I have started taking these exams and recognize one issue with getting certified. It's great and all, but it's like any other test. You can study your arse off and pass with flying

Re: freelists Value Limitation - ORA-1590 on ver 7.3.4.5

2001-06-20 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Hey ! I have just replied in the other list. Incase if you don't get here again.. Looks like you are using 2K block size and trying to bump the freelists to abnormal limits and getting this error. Coming to your question, the structure of freelist descriptor approximately takes 20 bytes in the

Listener problems

2001-06-20 Thread Mikael Granhed
Hi everybody, I have problems starting a listener on creatded in the net8assistant on Sun Solaris. When I try to start the listener with the command start in the LSNRCTL I get the following error message: TNS-01201: Listener cannot find executable /opt/oracle/product/8.0.6/bin/mtipdb for SID

RE: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
FWIW.. There is a discussion topic on http://www.lazyDBA.com on the subject of OCP (for quite sometime now). There are quite a few interesting comments from both sides. I have not read them all, but enough. By the sheer volume of those, I believe it has become a 'touchy' subject for many.

RE: What the difference between qio and direct I/O option in VxFS

2001-06-20 Thread Christopher Spence
Direct I/O is part of the Database Edition. 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 19, 2001 8:15 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L VxFS

Re: How to find the table size?

2001-06-20 Thread Ron Rogers
To calculate the storage needed for a table (assuming that all rows will contain all of the data) use the following formula. TO DETERMINE THE SIZE OF A TABLE STORAGE step 1. NUMBER OF ROWS IN TABLE. --- step 2. NUMBER OF ROWS IN BLOCK. NUMBER

export of longs

2001-06-20 Thread Hillman, Alex
Am I correct that in 7.3.4 it was not possible to do direct export for tables with LONG datatypes and there is no such restriction in 8i? I tried 8i and it worked. I checked the docs for 7.3.4 and it does not tell that you cannot export LONGs with direct option, but I remember 2 years ago I

RE: How to find the table size?

2001-06-20 Thread Guy Hammond
I think what he wants to do is find out how big a row could possibly be, for example CREATE TABLE mytable ( column1 VARCHAR2(40), column2 VARCHAR2(30), column3 VARCHAR2 (20)); select table_name, sum(data_length) from user_tab_columns group by table_name; TABLE_NAME

RE: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Need help getting started Karen, for what it's worth: What did you study in college? Studying CSCI in college is absolutely not a prereq for getting into technology but it at least demonstrates that you can think that way. I did study CSCI and I think half of it was a waste of

Re: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Dennis Taylor
At 11:15 PM 6/19/01 -0800, you wrote: What is the standard of these OCP's, when a person who has not worked with oracle, can pass them, for the sake of discussion it does not matter which tests they were? It seems doing an OCP is a complete waste of time! Uh, couldn't the same comment then be

RE: Yahoo!

2001-06-20 Thread Rachel Carmichael
that I know of, the a is pronounced ah (as when the doctor tells you to open wide and say h) From: Ron Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Yahoo! Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 05:11:28 -0800 I have often

RE: Need help getting started

2001-06-20 Thread Guy Hammond
Joe, I don't think we've enough information to state that she doesn't have Oracle running on her Linux machine at home, and hasn't diligently practiced and studied. I learnt Java in a similar way before getting my first Java developer job back in '96. I would expect people on this list to be a

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-20 Thread Gene Sais
yeah - i went from a .com to govt, 17k pay cut. but heck, i work 4 10 hr days. money isnt everything :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/20/01 08:42AM I don't doubt that there are openings available in the Govt sector. The pay scale for Govt workers is notoriously lower that the open market. I had a

Oracle DBA Needed in Nashville..

2001-06-20 Thread OraStaff
Position: Oracle DBA Location: Nashville, Tennessee Description: This position is with a highly respected client that needs an Oracle DBA to provide database support. Oracle is running on an IBM RS/6000 (AIX). Looking for someone who can optimize system, knowledgeable about replication,

RE: New system, cart blanche, what to buy

2001-06-20 Thread Page, Bruce
Here is a quick blurb from Metalink's page on product availability for R11i Applications. It maybe of some help. Oracle Platform Roadmap Oracle's customers deploy data servers, development tools, applications, and application servers on a short list of systems. This system consolidation

Re: New system, cart blanche, what to buy

2001-06-20 Thread Jared Still
On Tuesday 19 June 2001 14:45, Deshpande, Kirti wrote: FWIW .. truss will be available with AIX 5L (this fall, I was told). It's about time! What's up with them anyway? All the cool utilities that you take for granted on Solaris and Linux simply do not exist on AIX. Jared -- Please see the

RE: sql query read from text file

2001-06-20 Thread William Rogge
How about this simple script: # Script to check processing the_pids=`cat a.txt | awk '{printf(%s,,$1)}' | sed 's/,$//'` sqlplus / EoI select x,y,z from abc where x in ($the_pids) / exit EoI Short and sweet and simple. -Original Message- From: Seema Singh [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: dual error

2001-06-20 Thread Shirish Khapre
i used sql.bsq and it worked shirish -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:47 PM To: LazyDBA.com Discussion Can you enlighten us with the resolution ? -Original Message- Sent: 20 June 2001 14:18 To: LazyDBA.com Discussion thanks all,,my probs with dual is

RE: dual error

2001-06-20 Thread Shirish Khapre
thanks all,,my probs with dual is is solved now Shirish Khapre, SE Rolta India Ltd. Off Ph No. (+91) (022) 832,826,8300568 Ext'n 2730 Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Shirish

RE: New system, cart blanche, what to buy (9i Launch in the UK)

2001-06-20 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Any other UK based listers going to the joint-hosted Compaq/Oracle launch of Oracle 9i in Reading on the 12 July. Sounds like a good day out. Launch and demos etc. until 17:30 then entertainment (BBQ and drinks and hot air balloon rides and stuff). Cheers Lee -Original Message- Sent:

RE: New system, cart blanche, what to buy

2001-06-20 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
All the cool utilities that you take for granted on Solaris and Linux simply do not exist on AIX. I think that may change, in it's own way... Here is what IBM is saying about Linux AIX 5L Ver 5.1 (we just have to wait and see ;) More stuff at

Sql loader help please (newbie)

2001-06-20 Thread Johnston, Steve
Thanks in advance for help, been lurking for a couple of weeks. I am using sqlldr73.exe to load a text file into an oracle 7.3.2.1.1 table. Field datatype is number(14,0). What is the correct statement in the tablename.clr file that will correctly load the data. The clr file info latest

Re: New system, cart blanche, what to buy

2001-06-20 Thread Jared Still
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 05:56, Christopher Spence wrote: I like Sun actually, but I think AiX is the best choice money wise. Comparable computing power on RS6000 is about half the cost of Sun. Jared -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jared Still

Re: What the difference between qio and direct I/O option in VxFS

2001-06-20 Thread George Schlossnagle
Quick I/O is part of the database edition. Direct I/O is a generic mount option for vxfs artition (standard part of vxfs). Mounting something convosyn=direct avoids s buffer cache for everything, whereas quick i/o actually provides an interface for accessing the file as a raw character device.

Re: timed statistics

2001-06-20 Thread Don Granaman
Timed statistics has very little performance impact - most of the work is already done internally anyway. It is very useful - for tkprof, wait statistics, and a few other things. I always set it and have for years - even on exceptionally hot OLTP systems. A guy I know from the Oracle Center of

Passwords - another angle - sqlarea

2001-06-20 Thread Yosi
All, I just tested changing my password and looking in the v$sql... views to find my new pw. As I figured, the statement stops at ident. How does this work? Does Oracle automatically not keep parsed pw-changing SQL in memory, giving up parse time for security? Obviously, you'd never rerun that

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-20 Thread Yosi
There's a posting from New York City for an Oracle DBA, but it would involve a minimum 25k pay cut. I have friends who work for the city and like it, but I just can't see taking out the 25k. Money isn't everything, but I've got a bunch of mouths to feed. I'm not complaining - I thank God every

Re: Sql loader help please (newbie)

2001-06-20 Thread Helen rwulfjeq
Try: SICK_ACCRUAL POSITION(569:583) integer external(14), VAC_ACCRUAL POSITION(585:599) integer external(14) Helen "Johnston, Steve" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks in advance for help, been lurking for a couple of weeks.I am using sqlldr73.exe to load a text file into an oracle 7.3.2.1.1

timed statistics

2001-06-20 Thread Greg Solomon
Hi Has anyone experienced any problems after setting timed_statistics to true on a prod database (at system level) ? Can anyone give me a guess as to the performance hit of doing this ? Running Oracle 8.1.6, there are fairly predictable periods of high, medium, and low load so I can avoid

RE: What the difference between qio and direct I/O option in VxFS

2001-06-20 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
--- Hillman, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you specify direct I/O option in /etc/vfstab? Use the forcedirectio mount option in the vfstab. = Have a nice day !! Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan, Bangalore, INDIA.

RE: Transportable tablespace problem in 817 (But OK with 816)

2001-06-20 Thread Kumanan Balasundaram
I'll try to implement on 817 some other time after applying the patch that Saul suggested. It worked with 816. See below. Kumanan Transportable tabblepsces. Ensure following UNIX environment variables are set for this to work: NLS_LANG=; ORACLE_SID= ; ORACLE_HOME= Check dependencies are not

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-20 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
and the UK. I have pretty much upped my salary by about 225% since I left. One of Her Majestys Disloyal servants :-) -Original Message- Sent: 20 June 2001 16:36 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ron Rogers schrieb: I don't doubt that there are openings available in the Govt

RE: New system, cart blanche, what to buy

2001-06-20 Thread Kevin Lange
I was told to Design us a system to use . it was fun.What was decided on was : 1. AIX on an S70a (biggest at the time) 2. 32 - 2 GB SSA Drives 3. 32 - 4 GB SSA Drives 4. 32 - 9 GB SSA Drives 5. 4 GB Memory 6. 4 Processors 7. 2 5GB Scsi Drives for the System What this gave us was 1. We

RE: Digestive

2001-06-20 Thread Mark Leith
WOW! Adam Eve were DBAs? Back from hols guys - and now have some 1400 emails to get through so thought I'd start with the largest thread of the lot - as they are usually the more FUN! :) Still in holiday mode.. I have to agree with somebody at the start of the thread - it has to be McCallun!!

Re: timed statistics

2001-06-20 Thread MHately
Greg, No, though in early versions of Oracle 8 there are bugs that can trip you up. At 8.1.6 timed_statistics is stable and low-cost in my experience. I've tried to measure the performance hit but I've never noticed any difference at all. I personally wouldn't run without it. Regards, Mike

Re: timed statistics

2001-06-20 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Greg, In general, the benefits of having timed_statistics set on far outweigh any (usually negligible) performance hits. Rachel From: Greg Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: timed statistics Date: Wed, 20

OT RE: dual error

2001-06-20 Thread Mohan, Ross
re: Your sig line on parachutes. Yes, but to be considered properly prepared for use, they must be closed. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 10:06 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L thanks all,,my probs with dual is is solved now Shirish Khapre, SE Rolta

RE: timed statistics

2001-06-20 Thread Post, Ethan
I believe the consensus is there is no substantial impact for running timed stats and the benefits far outweigh any small performance impact. - E -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 8:16 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Has anyone experienced any problems

RE: New system, cart blanche, what to buy

2001-06-20 Thread Mohan, Ross
Right...so we can cross compile Linux==AIX under AIX 5.0L? has anyone out there tried to compile a Linux binary set into AIX to run it yet? -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 11:11 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L All the cool utilities that you take

'reorging' tables -Oracle 8i on NT

2001-06-20 Thread Manas Dasgupta
Hi: I have been noticing that some of our large tables have been badly fragmented - running into hundreds of extents. Also a few of them have chained row counts of over 200 thousand. This is a vendor supplied application and the tables were not sized correctly to begin with. My task at hand is

RE: LDAP

2001-06-20 Thread Mohan, Ross
Stephane, This was very interesting...I am still perking on this...i have looked at the dbmsldap package, and admit to some ignoranceit seems that this PL/SQL package is good for making calls to OID (Oracle's LDAP) but I do not see how these package calls could be used to access the

Quick select question

2001-06-20 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
All, Anyone know how to get a list of tablenames and the count of rows in them TABLE_NAME COUNT === == LEE 10 LEE1 25 LEE2 17etc etc I know it can be done if the tables are analyzed and from user_tables but was wanting to know how to do it from sqlplus.

Re: timed statistics

2001-06-20 Thread JOE TESTA
hardly makes a difference anymore, i think it used to be an issue in early 7 days but no anymore, i dont think you'll even notice. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/20/01 11:16AM HiHas anyone experienced any problems after setting timed_statistics to trueon a prod database (at system level) ?Can

RE: What the difference between qio and direct I/O option in VxFS

2001-06-20 Thread Connor McDonald
ufs: forcedirectio vxfs: convosync=direct,mincache=direct hth connor --- Hillman, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you specify direct I/O option in /etc/vfstab? Alex Hillman -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: ps -ef | grep sqlplus

2001-06-20 Thread Connor McDonald
or even DBMS_JOB --- Guy Hammond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ echo system/manager |sqlplus @myscript Alternatively, schedule your jobs with DBMS_BATCH. Cheers, g -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 7:38 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: Disk configuration

2001-06-20 Thread Connor McDonald
Although it would be difficult to prove, you could always (once the volumes and file systems are created) try creating your high usage stuff first (redos etc etc) and hopefully it will land where you want it to go. You could then try the reverse (add the high use stuff last) and see which is

RE: export of longs

2001-06-20 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Alex, You are always right, in a very special way ;-) But I do export a table using direct=y. The table has a LONG RAW column (not a LONG, though). It is in a 7.3.4.3 database on AIX. It works. See: Connected to: Oracle7 Server Release 7.3.4.3.0 - Production With the distributed and

Oracle DBA Needed in Milwaukee, WI..

2001-06-20 Thread OraStaff
Oracle Data Administrator Years Exp 3 - 7 Location: Milwaukee, WI Salary $45000 - $68000 + full benefits+ bonus Prod Offered: Manufacturer Milwaukee based, global manufacturer. Large IT dept. that promotes from within. Multi-platform, good technology: Oracle, Java Script, VB, C++, Java,

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-20 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Plus the cost of living is higher in Europe, I think. Is this correct? Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-20 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I received an e-mail from a recruiter in Belfast, they need a DBA... : ) Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de

Re: Quick select question

2001-06-20 Thread Brian_McQuillan
Lee, try this script - it should do what you want Brian start script set pause off set pages 0 set feedback off set echo off set verify off accept TNAME prompt Enter the table name / string, hit ENTER for all tables : accept TOWNER prompt Enter the table owner to count, hit ENTER for

RE: New system, cart blanche, what to buy

2001-06-20 Thread Yosi
That sounds wrong. Thanks everybody, not just Gene. This discussion is great. I just meant I liked Gene's format on this posting. y -Original Message- From: Yosi Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 12:06 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: New system, cart blanche,

RE: timed statistics

2001-06-20 Thread Mohan, Ross
Of course, to actually *measure* any performance difference, you'd need to turn timed_statistics on anyway...lol. Reminds me of Schrodinger's Cat. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 12:56 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I believe the consensus is

Re: timed statistics

2001-06-20 Thread A. Bardeen
On 8i there are several cursor sharing bugs (1210242, 918002, and others) where cursors aren't shared when timed_statistics is enabled. Most of them have been fixed in 8.1.6.3 and 8.1.7.1. A workaround for most of them is to set _SQL_EXEC_PROGRESSION_COST=0. Symptoms are contention on the

RE: Quick select question

2001-06-20 Thread Daemen, Remco
Hi Lee, Here's how you can do it in PL/SQL. It can easily be converted to SQL if realy realy want it :). set serveroutput on size 100declarecursor c is select table_name from user_tables;rec c%rowtype;begin open c; fetch c into rec; dbms_output.put_line('select ');

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-20 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Yup -Original Message- Sent: 20 June 2001 18:33 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Plus the cost of living is higher in Europe, I think. Is this correct? Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes

SQL DISTINCT alternate

2001-06-20 Thread Seema Singh
Hi In a sql stmt what will be the impact if we used DISTINCT clause and how we can overcomes on the performance bottleneck caused by DISTINCT. like ... SELECT DISTINCT A,B,C FROM TAB_1 I want to get same output without using distinct?Is this possible?If, YES then how? Thanks in advance -Seema

sqltext query

2001-06-20 Thread Shirish Khapre
hi all i am using the following query to get the sql_text and user select a.ADDRESS,a.SQL_TEXT,b.USERNAME from v$session b, v$sqltext a where a.address=b.SQL_ADDRESS; the user has changes his password... but i am not getting the sql_text when the user changes his password plz

how to find CPU utilisation at Oracle level

2001-06-20 Thread Seema Singh
Hi Is there any way to find which oracle process is taking much CPU except at OS level.Is there any view available from which we can see the cpu utilisation of particular user query. Thanks in advance -Seema _ Get your FREE

oracle 9i on linux.....

2001-06-20 Thread JOE TESTA

RE: dual error

2001-06-20 Thread Shirish Khapre
it creates various support tables and views for eg dual, or tab(when u do select * from tab) etc for more info open the sql.bsq from u'r orant/home/rdbms80/admin/sql.bsq Shirish Khapre, SE Rolta India Ltd. Off Ph No. (+91) (022) 832,826,8300568 Ext'n 2730 Minds are like parachutes. They

ora-1041?

2001-06-20 Thread Dennis Taylor
We just got an oracle error ora-1041 on an operation. The oracle error text is: ora-1041: internal error. HOSTDEF extension does not exist. In typical oracle clarity, the book says this: Cause: The pointer to the HOSTDEF extension in HOSTDEF is null. Can anyone give me a little more

RE: Quick select question

2001-06-20 Thread Yosi
I use this script, counter.sql: set echo offset pages 0set trimspool onset lines 199set feed off set term offspool counter1.sql prompt col table_name form a30 head 'Table Name'prompt col cnt form ,999,999 head 'Count'prompt spool counter.lstprompt set term onprompt prompt Table

RE: Calling Stored Proc in SQL Server from Stored Proc in Oracle

2001-06-20 Thread Harvinder Singh
u can try hetrogenous services(HS) provided by oracle..it comes with the product... u have to set the entries in ur oracle machine to talk to sql server box.. i use this method to setup replication between oracle sql server. Thanks Harvinder -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June

RE: Quick select question

2001-06-20 Thread Bala, Prakash
This is another way, although you don't get it in your required format: select 'select count(1) '||table_name|| ' from ' || table_name ||';' from user_tables; HTH Prakash -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 1:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Lee,

RE: ps -ef | grep sqlplus

2001-06-20 Thread Mecci, Shaheer (MBS)
You could use files with passwords. PASSWD_FILE=/directory/pass.file cat ${PASSWD_FILE} | sqlplus user@ORACLE_SID @file.sql password does not show up with the ps command. periodically changing passwords is made simple too. Shaheer. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001

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