How to know Oracle Down ?

2001-07-31 Thread Harsh Agrawal
Hi Xperts, Platform is Windows NT Server SP-6 , Oracle Enterprise Edition 8.1.6 Question: 1. How do I know before someone tells me that Oracle is down ( e.g. in Unix we check dbw process ) 2. If Oracle is Down , Why ? means which file should be looked for the possible causes. Thanks,

RE: simple sql problem

2001-07-31 Thread Viraj Luthra
No, I mean, if (x+y) 1, that is a value of .92 which it prints out, but I want it to print out like, 0.92, that is a 0. is concatenateed to the result. therefore, when i have, select x+y from blah I should get 90 when the value is really 90 and I should get 0.92 when the value is really

Re: JMS vrs AQ

2001-07-31 Thread Henrik Ekenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Which performance do you need ? We have really bad performance with AQ (300 req/s) or JMS from Oracle. We will use a JMS driver from an other company. Regards Henrik --- Experience is a hard teacher because she

Re: How to know Oracle Down ?

2001-07-31 Thread Peter McLarty
Other than using some third party tool you might like to use either a windows or Perl script to poll the listener and see if it can connect to the instance. and that would send you an alert of some kind I thought someone had posted one in the past but I don't seem to have a copy in my stored

using ora dbf as datafile extensions..

2001-07-31 Thread Saurabh Sharma
hi all, is there any problems using different filetypes for various datafiles in the same database. i mean using some files as .dbf extension while some as .ora i'm using system, rbs, temp, oemrep as .dbf, while the one i creted later are using .ora extension. does it cause any problem in

RE: no create system tbs ?????

2001-07-31 Thread Sinardy
Hi all, In 8i Is there a way to restrict user with dba role to drop system tbs ? while not interrupting oracle work with that tbs. I always think of triggers which is mean we have to protect those triggers... to cover security hole : ( perhaps Just recreating oracle dba role without drop any

Re: ORACLE8i cc compiler on SOLARIS

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RE: simple sql problem

2001-07-31 Thread Swapna_Chinnagangannagari
Title: RE: simple sql problem Hello Raja, You can try this way 1)select x+y sum1 from blah 2)col sum1 format 09.99 3)select x+y sum1 from blah rgds swapna -Original Message- From: Viraj Luthra [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:31 PM To: Multiple

RE: simple sql problem

2001-07-31 Thread Amar Kumar Padhi
Title: RE: simple sql problem or, set numformat '0.99' (in sql*plus) -Original Message-From: Swapna_Chinnagangannagari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:26 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: simple sql problem Hello

CTAS with the DIRECT LOAD Option

2001-07-31 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Can somebody please Tell the COMMAND Syntax for CREATE TABLE AS SELECT * FROM ANOTHER TABLE with the Direct LOAD Option ? Seem to have Seen it Before on the List . -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: VIVEK_SHARMA INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City

Creating DDL level triggers in Oracle 8.1.7

2001-07-31 Thread Arslan Dar
Title: Creating DDL level triggers in Oracle 8.1.7 hi list, Oracle 8.1.7 It supports DDL level triggers but i cannot find the proper syntax for writing such triggers not even in OEM (DBA STUDIO or Schema Manager) ..can anybody guide me to a link or a sample trigger set on DDL (like create

RE: using ora dbf as datafile extensions

2001-07-31 Thread O'Neill, Sean
Saurabh, My views are that I tend to use datafile extentions to reflect the type of tablesapces I use in the file or the file type: For example: .DBF for datafile .RBS for Rollback .ARC for Archived redo logs (can confuse Winzip utility on Windoze) .RDO for Online Redo .CTL for control file In

utl_smtp query

2001-07-31 Thread Michael
Hi again everybody, Since you were all so helpful last time, I'm going to bug you again. I've been fiddling with utl_smtp recently, trying to get the silly thing working without having to copy off an example. Sadly, in the end, I've had to copy :( I'm ripping off the example code from

RE: Largest Oracle Databases

2001-07-31 Thread Mark Leith
I hear rumors of Oracle databases of hundreds of terabytes at the CIA, but I have no way to confirm them. I'm sure a member of their team will knock on your door shortly, just for mentioning their name and data in the same email - why not ask them then :) -Original Message- Ian A.

Re: using ora dbf as datafile extensions..

2001-07-31 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
Till Oracle 8.0 the default extension was .ora. But from Oracle 8i the extension was changed to .dbf=databasefile. .ctl=extension for controlfiles. When u create datafile for OEM_repository from the OEM config assistant, by default it gives an extension as .ora. But as a good practise keep

RE: simple sql problem

2001-07-31 Thread Pulikkol Kumar
OR SELECT LPAD(TO_CHAR(x+y),LENGTH(x+y)+1,'0') FROM BLAH

Evaluation questions

2001-07-31 Thread O'Neill, Sean
I'm still slogging away at selection process of DB monitor tool. I'm now at stage where I'm compiling a list of specific tasks I'd like to take the contenders through and score them on same. E.G. Can package alert if Oracle DB goes down? Can package alert if Control File extends? I'd appreciate

RE: (Fwd) Oracle8i Database Administration Boot camp [small/Sacr

2001-07-31 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
This is a bit like book-selling: All you wanted to know about C++ and Oracle in 24 hours, including the Idiot's guide to the Mystery of Life and how to successfully avoid reincarnation with minimum effort. Avoid the mistake of having to live your life all over again! Just send us US$60 and

RE: using ora dbf as datafile extensions

2001-07-31 Thread paquette stephane
I do not use the CTL extension for database control files as it is used by sql*loader control files. I'm using dbf for all data files including data, indexes, temp or rbs. The naming of the files shows what the file contains. I do not think different extensions could lead to problem but I

Re: How to know Oracle Down ?

2001-07-31 Thread Joe Testa
the only way to make sure oracle is up/down is to connect to the database. the listener could be up but that doesnt prove anything at the dblevel. joe Peter McLarty wrote: Other than using some third party tool you might like to use either a windows or Perl script to poll the listener and

SUMMARY: Re: ORACLE8i cc compiler on SOLARIS

2001-07-31 Thread okhalid
hi all this is the summary of my findings on the question is cc Compiler is required for installing ORACLE 8i on Solaris 2.6' Solaris ships in with every thing you need, with the exception of the cc Compiler itself. Solaris ships with the include files, make,an assembler,linker and libraries.

Re: simple sql problem

2001-07-31 Thread Jon Walthour
Raja: Let me put my two cents into the idea bin. How about: select decode(sign(num-1),-1,'0' || to_char(num), to_char(num)) as num from t1; Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:10 AM Hello all,

RE: Rollback Segment needs recovery

2001-07-31 Thread A. Bardeen
Folks, All of the underscore parameters used to force the db open or ignore inconsistency in the redo logs or the RBS's, such as the one below, have two major drawbacks: 1. The db MUST be recreated afterwards (recreating the RBS and/or RBS tablespace is not sufficient). 2. Most likely there

Re: using ora dbf as datafile extensions..

2001-07-31 Thread Joe Testa
oracle doesn't care. joe Saurabh Sharma wrote: hi all, is there any problems using different filetypes for various datafiles in the same database. i mean using some files as .dbf extension while some as .ora i'm using system, rbs, temp, oemrep as .dbf, while the one i creted later

RE: Largest Oracle Databases

2001-07-31 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I would think that some of the physics research facilities like Fermi, Argonne, Sandia or Los Alamos would have some rather large data repositories. I've been out of the nuke industry to long. I doubt my Q clearance is any good any more. Cray had many of the computers for these places but they

Re: Rollback Segment Question

2001-07-31 Thread A. Bardeen
Kamel, Just because an RBS can extend doesn't mean it will. From the description you've given I suspect that the transactions were committing fast enough that when it came time to wrap around from one exent to the next, the next extent didn't have any active transactions so it was reused

Re: no create system tbs ?????

2001-07-31 Thread Joe Testa
if you have to restrict someone with DBA role from dropping the system ts, take away the dba role since that person EVIDENTLY shouldn't have it. joe Sinardy wrote: Hi all, In 8i Is there a way to restrict user with dba role to drop system tbs ? while not interrupting oracle work with

Re: Largest Oracle Databases

2001-07-31 Thread Joe Testa
thats not exactly true. Since the CIA is a govt agency, they HAVE to tell you that kind of info, they just dont have to tell you what the data is. But layouts, tuning recommendations, etc all can be gotten, worst case here in the US, you can always invoke FOIA(aka Freedom of information act).

Re: Evaluation questions

2001-07-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
one I want is can the package tell me when a datafile extends also, I want (and have NEVER found) a package that can tell me the locking SQL, when the locker has gone on and done other SQL after the lock. ex. user1 does: select * from table for update where some where clause update

RE: Largest Oracle Databases

2001-07-31 Thread Page, Bruce
http://oracle.com/features/insider/index.html?oi_bonvanie_04.html -Original Message- From: MacGregor, Ian A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 8:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Largest Oracle Databases One of the smaller Physics

RE: Largest Oracle Databases

2001-07-31 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Are you saying that if I called up the CIA and said Hey guys, I was just wondering how many bytes you db's are and what platform your using they would HAVE to tell me:? That's sweet!!! I'll give them and the NSA a call, if I disappear, you'll know why:) -- Please see the official ORACLE-L

RE: Perl Script for Alert Log

2001-07-31 Thread Smith, Ron L.
The book is Teach yourself Perl in 21 days It's is written so anyone can understand it. The book was first published in 1996 and is out of print but I found it at www.AllBooks4Less.com for $11.99. The original price was $39.95. Our company has bought at least 6 of the books. Ron

RE: Quest's SharePlex

2001-07-31 Thread Smith, Ron L.
We looked at it. It looked great. The vendor would admit it would still take about 25% of a DBA's time to maintain it though. Also, it was expensive. You have to buy a license for every server. Ron Smith Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, July

Re:SUMMARY: Re: ORACLE8i cc compiler on SOLARIS

2001-07-31 Thread dgoulet
Omar, I believe that if you look a little further you will find that the C compiler and utilities included with any Unix OS are there primarily to allow you to rebuild your kernel. Consequently while they are fine for installing Oracle (all you really need is the linker) you may find them

Re[2]: SQL*Loader question- Transforming Data

2001-07-31 Thread Jonathan Gennick
David, SQL*Loader probably can't help here, because, unfortunatly, the WHEN clause is not nearly as flexible as a SQL WHERE clause. If no other solution presents itself, you could load the data into a work table and write some PL/SQL code to filter out the records that you don't want. You're

RE: (Fwd) Oracle8i Database Administration Boot camp [small/Sacr

2001-07-31 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Chris, Come-on! Never heard the phrase There's a sucker born every minute - and two to take'em? The good news is that it only costs $250. You get what you pay for. PS. they have no overheads - what does THAT mean? Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message-

RE: (Fwd) Oracle8i Database Administration Boot camp [small/Sacr

2001-07-31 Thread Christopher Spence
They can market what they want, but as a participating member of this list, I wanted to let everyone know how far fetched it sounds. Hey if someone thinks they can handle it, by all means, but it would be sad day if someone went into it and thought it was a good quick get me up and found out

RE: performance pl/sql for DW conclusion

2001-07-31 Thread Christopher Spence
Loadprof is it. Then you need to make profiler tables. Proftab under the appropriate schema. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 7:31 PM

RE: JMS vrs AQ

2001-07-31 Thread Christopher Spence
Using JMS on E450 on Solaris we are lucky to do 4/s without having problems. 300/s would be great. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: simple sql problem

2001-07-31 Thread Ramon Estevez
Use Decode function Ramon Estevez *809-565-3121 x 225 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de Viraj Luthra Enviado el: Tuesday, 31 July, 2001 12:10 AM Para: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Asunto: simple

RE: How to know Oracle Down ?

2001-07-31 Thread Kevin Lange
1.Your users complain loudly . 2. First check to see if your smon processes are running. If it is not then you know oracle is down. If it is up then check a query against the catalog. If you get what you expect then Oracle is up. From this information you can then either set a

RE: (Fwd) Oracle8i Database Administration Boot camp [small/Sacr

2001-07-31 Thread Christopher Spence
I can only imagine. Perhaps they have them circled around a tree ;) 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, July 31, 2001 9:55 AM To: Multiple recipients

iAS 1.0.2.2. and mod_ssl CA

2001-07-31 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I am reading technical note 112490.1, which explains how to set up secure socket layer connections for the Oracle Portal. The note refers a few times to a CA, to whom I am supposed to send the new certificate request. Who is this CA? How do I contact him/her/them? I am new at this, can you

RE: Largest Oracle Databases

2001-07-31 Thread JOE TESTA
yeppers thats exactly what i'm saying they have to tell you the metrics but not what they store. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/31/01 09:55AM Are you saying that if I called up the CIA and said "Hey guys, I was justwondering how many bytes you db's are and what platform your using" theywould

OT Congrats to Dick Goulet

2001-07-31 Thread Ron Rogers
Dick, Congrats on the being published in the SELECT magazine this month. The Oralive program looks like it could be very helpfull to a lot of the forum users. Thanks for providing the source code. ROR mô¿ôm -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ron Rogers

Re: SQL*Loader question- Transforming Data

2001-07-31 Thread Scott Canaan
You could try: when (9:12) 'UNIX' However, this will only work if you have fixed field lengths in the input file. Jonathan Gennick wrote: David, SQL*Loader probably can't help here, because, unfortunatly, the WHEN clause is not nearly as flexible as a SQL WHERE clause. If no other

RE: (Fwd) Oracle8i Database Administration Boot camp [small/Sacr

2001-07-31 Thread Mark Leith
Probably that they are doing the training from somebody's back yard on PC's that run on a generator powered by 1000 hamsters running on spinning wheel transformers. Lunch is self-service at your local McDonalds. :) In short they are really telling you that they are suckering $250 out of you -

Re[2]: Evaluation questions

2001-07-31 Thread dgoulet
Rachel, Now that's a darn good question. Can you specify when such an alarm should be triggered? Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Rachel Carmichael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/31/2001 4:55 AM one I want is can the package tell me when a

RE: (Fwd) Oracle8i Database Administration Boot camp [small/Sacr

2001-07-31 Thread HAWKINS, JAMES W [IT/1000]
I'm supposed to know all this? Oh, oh. ;) Jim -Original Message- Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 3:57 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [small/Sacr I would be curious how one can obtain to be amoung the best after a single 7.5 hour course which I assume has an 1 hour lunch

RE: Evaluation questions

2001-07-31 Thread Mark Leith
Rachel, You are right, I have not seen a tool that does this as standard either, though I think there could be a way of doing this with our particular product, that I will look in to - but I have a couple of questions: In a real world situation - what would the timeframe be for a user to update

Re: iAS 1.0.2.2. and mod_ssl CA

2001-07-31 Thread Dennis M. Heisler
CA is an abbreviation for Certificate Authority. One is Verisign. You can request a certificate by filling out a form on their site and pasting the certificate request into a text box on the form. They will verify the data, then send you the certificate. Dennis Boivin, Patrice J wrote:

RE: performance pl/sql for DW conclusion

2001-07-31 Thread Hillman, Alex
I also did not find any reporting scripts. In the tables created by proftab.sql - there is only line numbers, not PL/SQL text. So I need to get text from the module using line numbers - right? Anybody have report script which join these table with dba_source? Alex Hillman -Original

RE: Largest Oracle Databases

2001-07-31 Thread Jon Baker
Title: RE: Largest Oracle Databases In theory, Oracle can handle 512 Picobytes (or roughly 512,000 Terabytes) for Oracle 8i. Have not heard if this has been increased for 9i. -Original Message- From: MacGregor, Ian A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 8:00

alter index??

2001-07-31 Thread Raghu Kota
Hi Friends What is the best way of rebuilding of following Index?? Index has total size 5.8Gb But lot of deletions, may be the real data around 2.5Gb has initial extent 71M, next 197M. So How my doubt which is best way for setting initial=next or give more space for initial for putting more

RE: (Fwd) Oracle8i Database Administration Boot camp

2001-07-31 Thread Guidry, Chris
Thats funny... -- Chris J. Guidry P.Eng. ATCO Electric, Metering Services Phone: (780) 420-4142 Fax: (780) 420-3854 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Post, Ethan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 05:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

pinned objects

2001-07-31 Thread Li, Xiangli
Hi, all I kept packages in shared pool, try to reduce number of parses for main packages. But I still found many parse counts in trace file as following. (Status for package ModelCache in v$db_object_cache is 'YES', and db is 8.0.5 on NT4.0) BEGIN ModelCache.RemoveModelData(INCASENO = :001); END;

RE: iAS 1.0.2.2. and mod_ssl CA

2001-07-31 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Certification Authority ... probably the company who issues certificates. HTH Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN

RE: Largest Oracle Databases

2001-07-31 Thread Mohan, Ross
Save yourself the trouble and read James Bamford's new book, Body of Secrets. Amazing http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385499078/qid=996585632/sr=2-1/107-9 950210-2774136 -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 9:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Are

Re: Perl Script for Alert Log

2001-07-31 Thread Okan CIMEN
Hello, I have a soft copy of the book Teach yourself perl 5 in 21 days by David Till. I can give it on demand Cheers Okan - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 4:41 PM The book is Teach yourself Perl in 21 days

Version of personal oracle that runs on Window ME

2001-07-31 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
Hi All, Does anyone know where I can get/download copy of Oracle that runs on Window ME I downloaded 8i for 98 but BSOD. 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--

RE: Largest Oracle Databases

2001-07-31 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Is it a good book? Like the Discovery channel on hardcover? KK -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:26 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Save yourself the trouble and read James Bamford's new book, Body of Secrets. Amazing

RE: iAS 1.0.2.2. and mod_ssl CA

2001-07-31 Thread Vadim Gorbounov
Hi, Patrice, It seems to be Certificate Authority, like http://www.verisign.com/ Regards Vadim Gorbounov Oracle DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:42 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am reading technical note 112490.1, which explains how to set up

Re: iAS 1.0.2.2. and mod_ssl CA

2001-07-31 Thread Thater, William
Boivin, Patrice J wrote: I am reading technical note 112490.1, which explains how to set up secure socket layer connections for the Oracle Portal. The note refers a few times to a CA, to whom I am supposed to send the new certificate request. Who is this CA? How do I contact

RE: (Fwd) Oracle8i Database Administration Boot camp [small/Sacr

2001-07-31 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I have been doing Oracle admin for about 6 months now. I have literally spent a couple hundred hours RTFM and reading books. I feel that I have gotten much better in my understanding of Oracle, BUT, I would not consider myself an Oracle guru or anything close to it, which is obvious from the

Re:utl_smtp query

2001-07-31 Thread dgoulet
Mike, Check out notes 130785.1 and 105472.1 on MetaLink. I followed there instructions and it worked first time. NOTE: After you run $ORACLE_HOME/javam/install/initjvm.sql you need to manually run $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/initplsj.sql. It's a listed bug. Dick Goulet

RE: Encrypting a password

2001-07-31 Thread Rick_Stephenson
The problem is that I need one to encrypt a password in the same manner as the Sun OS. This is because we use the database to populate /etc/passwd. So if the OS can't compare passwords with what is stored in the database, then nobody will be able to log into the Unix box. Thanks for you help,

RE: How to know Oracle Down ?

2001-07-31 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Are you sure you can do that with NT? NT makes Oracle one large process called Oracle.exe, I know there are programs that will let you see the individual processes though. For me the easiest way is to just try and log on to the db, if you can't, it's gone:) KK -Original Message-

OT RE: Largest Oracle Databases

2001-07-31 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Largest Oracle Databases "picobytes"? lol. Attoboy! -Original Message-From: Jon Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:56 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Largest Oracle Databases In theory, Oracle can handle

Re: How to know Oracle Down ?

2001-07-31 Thread Sakthi , Raj
You can use the following shell script and have it email you the error message . Th eemailing is not enabled in teh script because I use it for HP OpenView monitoring which reads the text out put constantly . ** Script Starts here SCRIPT TO CHECK THE AVAILABILITY

RE: Evaluation questions

2001-07-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Mark, Transactions should not typically last more than 15-20 minutes. But I want a warning that there is a lock, not a kill, as it is possible that a non-typical transaction would last longer. As an example, I'm thinking of taking phone orders and entering them into a system (catalog sales).

RE: Largest Oracle Databases

2001-07-31 Thread Anderson, Brian
Actually, speaking from a state college, the official policy is you get forwarded around and put on hold for a couple hours, until you get to someone sitting in a closet somewhere at the public information desk, who will research your question and send it right to you in 6 - 8 months.

RE: Perl Script for Alert Log

2001-07-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
thanks! From: Smith, Ron L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Perl Script for Alert Log Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:41:14 -0800 The book is Teach yourself Perl in 21 days It's is written so anyone can understand

RE: OT Congrats to Dick Goulet

2001-07-31 Thread Christopher Spence
Grats, nice honor to be published. 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, July 31, 2001 11:02 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dick, Congrats

Re: iAS 1.0.2.2. and mod_ssl CA

2001-07-31 Thread nlzanen1
Hi This is an organisation that is allowed to create valid certificates(Certificate Authority I think) Verisign is a well known one. Jack Boivin, Patrice

RE: Sun cluster vs Veritas cluster - Any Docs / Links ?

2001-07-31 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Steve Are there any Docs / Links Comparing the Same ? Thanks indeed though for your Experienced Valuable input . Also do need to present Some Documents for taking a Decision . Vivek -Original Message- From: Austin, Steve S [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Add hours and minutes to date

2001-07-31 Thread John Dunn
I have 2 varchar2 variables, one containing a number of hours and the other containing a number of minutes, which I want to add to a date variable. How can I do this? John -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: John Dunn INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat

RE: (Fwd) Oracle8i Database Administration Boot camp [small/Sacr

2001-07-31 Thread Christopher Spence
Perhaps what they are doing is great, I just wanted to put in my thought that I think it is very far fetched and doesn't smell right. Perhaps it is completely useless perhaps it is great, I didn't want to go on and say anything more than that. Just didn't want to see anyone go into it thinking

RE: alter index??

2001-07-31 Thread Page, Bruce
Use the alter index rebuild command. It uses the existing index to build the new one rather than going to the table. -Original Message- From: Raghu Kota [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 11:23 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: alter index??

RE: Encrypting a password

2001-07-31 Thread Christopher Spence
Try looking into PAM under Unix. That should help. Also, contact Collective Technologies. They are a consulting firm I interviewed for, but I know they were able to do single login to Windows 2000, Oracle, and Unix. I am sure they will be able to help out in such a task. There solution was

RE: Evaluation questions

2001-07-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Gary, I wish it did. I worked with Q Diagnostics for quite a while, and worked directly with the developer (although calling John Beresniewicz a developer is an understatement, he's brilliant!) on answering that problem. Neither Q nor anything from Platinum (does that tell you how long ago it

OT: RE: (Fwd) Oracle8i Database Administration Boot camp

2001-07-31 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
they need to hold another class to make enough money to develop the next web page... Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 11:16 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thats funny... -- Chris J. Guidry P.Eng. ATCO

DLM/OPS latch waits

2001-07-31 Thread Mohan, Ross
in my 816/Tru64 4.0f instance, I have alot of latch waits/sleeps/longholds on: dlm resource table freelist dlm lock table freelist I have downloaded Note 72316.1, but this does not contain material exactly on these latches. Further, I have very very high system-level waits for: lock manager

RE: iAS 1.0.2.2. and mod_ssl CA

2001-07-31 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Thanks for the responses. This is free, right? Like PGP? Otherwise why put it in a web server suite based on Apache? ; ) Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From: Vadim Gorbounov [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: alter index??

2001-07-31 Thread Kevin Lange
If you have the space in the tablespace you could always use ALTER INDEX REBUILD -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:23 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Friends What is the best way of rebuilding of following Index?? Index has total size 5.8Gb But lot of

disk layout

2001-07-31 Thread Seema Singh
Hi Which Unix command is used to see disk layout in sun cluster and veritas cluster on sun solaris? Thanks in advance. -Seema _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -- Please see the official

RE: How to know Oracle Down ?

2001-07-31 Thread Kevin Lange
You can easily check if you can make a connection. The rest ???/ well, I am not sure. I use a real OS. (Ok, so I am a Unix Biggot). -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:31 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Are you sure you can do that with NT? NT makes

RE: Add hours and minutes to date

2001-07-31 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
John, SELECT SYSDATE + ((TO_NUMBER(HOUR_VAR)*3600) + (TO_NUMBER(MINS_VAR)*60))/86400 FROM DUAL; HTH Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't

Re: Source for DB links

2001-07-31 Thread JOE TESTA
kinda sorta in link$ (including the in the clear password) woohoo. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/31/01 11:48AM All,Where is the source for database links stored ? Perhaps, another to state myquestion is:How can I fully reconstruct a database link ?TIAAl Rusnak804-734-8453[EMAIL PROTECTED]--

RE: iAS 1.0.2.2. and mod_ssl CA

2001-07-31 Thread JOE TESTA
I think you're going to have a rude awakening, there is nothing free from verisign, heck they charge u a yearly fee to get a personal certificate, i hate to see the other fees. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/31/01 01:21PM Thanks for the responses.This is free, right? Like PGP?Otherwise why put

RE: Add hours and minutes to date

2001-07-31 Thread Kevin Lange
Add the hour field converted to a number divided by 24 plus the minute field converted to a number divided by (24*60) For example: declare num_hours varchar2(10) := '24'; num_mins varchar2(10) := '10'; date_field date := sysdate; new_date_field date := null; begin new_date_field := date_field

Re: Version of personal oracle that runs on Window ME

2001-07-31 Thread Witold . Iwaniec
I have installed Personal Oracle 8i for Windows 98, on Windows Me, and it runs. There was a change required in win.ini to get the installer to work properly but other than that everything was OK. Witold Cale, Rick T (Richard) [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/31/2001 12:30:52 Please respond to

Re: Add hours and minutes to date

2001-07-31 Thread Rodd Holman
Try select date+(hours/24)+(minutes/60/24) this would give you the decimal equivalent of the hours and minutes added to your date field for a time stamp type output. This assumes that your date field is a date datatype and that all entries are for date 00:00 and not just a sysdate input.

OT Bamford/Puzzle Palace thread

2001-07-31 Thread Mohan, Ross
lol...i wouldn't know..i don't watch TV, buthis first book, Puzzle Palace, was amazing, truly. What i've read about this one ( i have not read it myself yet) is that it's a bit less nuts and bolts and a bit more political. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 11:23 AM

No control files created.

2001-07-31 Thread Bartolo, David
Hi all, I have a new install of Oracle 8.1.7 on a Compaq ES40. The install all went fine, (so it seemed) I tried starting up the db and got the error ORA-00205 Error in identifying controlfile, check alert log for more info. I looked around the entire system thinking the control files were

Weird character

2001-07-31 Thread Behar, Rivaldi
Title: Weird character Hi List, I got ora 911 (invalid character) or ora 904 (invalid column name) when running application from VB. I've turned trace session and found weird character in the SQL in output of tkprof on trc file as the following : UPDATE Address SET ZIPCOa=:1 AND E^=:32

RE: iAS 1.0.2.2. and mod_ssl CA

2001-07-31 Thread Vadim Gorbounov
Patrice, Nop, it's not free. Simply it's different service to your Apache, like gas for new car - your either can put or not - it still shines. Seriously, the Certificate needs some efforts and resources from Authority to support - it's like domain name. Cheers, Vadim Gorbounov Oracle DBA

RE: Source for DB links

2001-07-31 Thread Nicoll, Iain (Calanais)
George, The code below will near enough do it (at least way back here in 7.3.4) assuming the passwords aren't encrypted (I think you can force that in the init.ora) -Original Message- Sent: 31 July 2001 16:48 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L All, Where is the source for

RE: Add hours and minutes to date

2001-07-31 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Add hours and minutes to date -Original Message- From: John Dunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I have 2 varchar2 variables, one containing a number of hours and the other containing a number of minutes, which I want to add to a date variable. a) - read manual on

Weird character

2001-07-31 Thread Behar, Rivaldi
Title: Weird character Hi List, I got ora 911 (invalid character) or ora 904 (invalid column name) when running application from VB. I've turned trace session and found weird character in the SQL in output of tkprof on trc file as the following : UPDATE Address SET ZIPCOa=:1 AND E^=:32

Re: No control files created.

2001-07-31 Thread Igor Neyman
Did you create the database? Or, just installed oracle software? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA Perceptron, Inc. (734)414-4627 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:46 PM Hi all, I have a new install

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