read values from REF CURSOR

2001-08-03 Thread Don Dealy II
One of our web developers tells me that the values he is getting back from a REF CURSOR (dynamic SQL in 8.1.7 stored proc) is not returning the expected values.   Naturally, all the blame is placed on the database and the "stupid" Oracle stored procedure, because it all works just fine in $QL

Re: Redo Generation - Excessive ?

2001-08-03 Thread Jared Still
Vivek, You left a few things out. What's 'intensive'? As in how many rows are affected? How big are the transactions? Updates and deletes? 11 gig doesn't sound like all that much to me if it's you're doing massive dml. I had 1 gig logs on a similar hardware setup on a DW that would easily

RE: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
You can check alter index clause and you will find parallel option. You may use parallel 5 safely being default in initSID.ora. However it will start building 5 times extent in temp tablespace before completion of rebuilding. With rebuilding large indexes on regular basis we have to use all suc

Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-03 Thread Scott Shafer
I had filed down their horns at the time... --Scott - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 4:44 PM > I've met those hellspawn... NOT! > > > >From: Scott Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: completely off-topic question... Whoops! I'm tempted to say "damn you, US measurement system" (when is the USA going to switch to metric anyway?), but the fact of the matter is my brain was on the fritz. Thank you for correcting my mistake Mr. Norrell. All right then, perhaps the 9

RE: computer history stories - Now: Age discrimination?

2001-08-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
-6 month old? congratulations on the soon to be arrival :) if 34 = teen then late 20's = pre-teen/adolescent early 20's = child and I am ready for the old age home :) >From: "Anderson, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL P

Re: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
you are mixing up two of my favorite authors :) e.e. cummings (never used uppercase)... was a poet. He wrote my most favorite poem... somewhere i have never travelled E.E. "Doc" Smith wrote the Lensmen series -- yes, I have a complete set in paperback >From: "Thater, William" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Temporary Tablespace - Filling up

2001-08-03 Thread Denham Eva
Hi Gurus, I have a problem, perhaps someone can shed some light on this, please, I have a temporary Tablespace, which keeps on running out of space. At first I would increase the size, yet it still keeps filling up. Failing to be able to extend, until I increase it again. The object in the tables

RE: Management server??

2001-08-03 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Oracle techs constantly encouraged me to upgrade the Oracle agents, I can say from experience that it's probably the right thing to do - the newer agents are easier to work with. Post 7.3 that is. Once you create events or jobs, you should remember whenever you do work on those databases or befo

RE: Convert LONG to VARCHAR2

2001-08-03 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
Thanks for the reply but if that is all you have to offer please keep it to yourself. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 5:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L By loosing a gig or two of information. > -Original Message- > From: Cale, Rick T (Richard)

RE: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
ROFL - rolling on the floor laughing I believe there actually is a web site somewhere that keeps track of these acronyms. Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From: Babette Turner-Underwood [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: Unix terminal question

2001-08-03 Thread Naik, Kevin K
Title: RE: Unix terminal question You can also do a "last |more" Kevin Naik -Original Message- From: Aldi Barco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 August, 2001 00:52 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Unix terminal question Hi List, I have turned on the datab

Re: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread lyudah
This Is a simple one: BTW-bye the way. I visited www.acronymfinder.com. Here is something I wanted to share. /SOS [not an acronym] a common misconception is that SOS means Save Our Ship/Souls (a distress call); the letters don't actually stand for anything./ I always wanted to know what SOS r

RE: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
For those interested A site containing acronyms http://www.sharpened.net/glossary/acronyms.php http://www.magicpub.com/netprimer/acronyms.html http://www.kellywebworks.com/acronyms.htm Rick -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 7:56 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: OT:(Unix Q): Re-executing an old command

2001-08-03 Thread Gene Sais
did you do a: set -o vi >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/03/01 03:00AM >>> I'm using ksh. From the Unix prompt I do history which displays the last 170 commands I did. I would like to re-run #55 in the list (which happens to be a rm with a lot of arguments). How do I do it? I tried doing ESC-K t

Re: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Hope This Helps >From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: completely off-topic question... >Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 19:45:33 -0800 > >...which means it's probably going to start a great big thread :) >

Re: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Gene Sais
now i thought it meant 'Same Old Sh*t' or what we would have for breakfast in the corp 'Sh*t on Shingle' :) >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/03/01 08:51AM >>> This Is a simple one: BTW-bye the way. I visited www.acronymfinder.com. Here is something I wanted to share. /SOS [not an acronym] a common m

RE: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Christopher Spence
I highly believe SOS means save our soul. That sites gives no reasoning behind their claim, no one just picks letters for no reasoning. "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes." Christopher R

Re: Exploding the Myths paper

2001-08-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
That's right Babette, tell all my secrets to the world :) I always sit in the front row (or as close to the front as I can) at my friends presentations. Usually you can only really see the first few rows in those rooms, so this way there is a guarantee of a friendly face to present to. Speaki

Re: computer history stories - Now: Age discrimination?

2001-08-03 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
WOW, now I feel like slacker:) KK - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 7:51 AM > Cheers Lee! > > Out of curiosity how old did you think I was? I was actually turned down for > cigarettes a few months back!! I coul

RE: Urgent

2001-08-03 Thread Anand
Thanx for valueble information.It's working fine now. Regards, Anand. -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 7:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L If you're on NT/2000 you'll have to edit the registry, make sure you're not using terminal servic

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-03 Thread tday6
I had a VIC-20 with a TTY terminal emulator and a 300 buad modem that I used to access IBM mainframes from home (so I wouldn't have to drive 20 miles on a Saturday). The company found out that I was using my own equiptment to access their computers and "loaned" me a TI Silent 700 to use instead.

RE: Convert LONG to VARCHAR2

2001-08-03 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Rick, One way of doing this is: Add a new column to the table with a type of Varchar2. Write a PL/SQL routine to convert the long to a varchar2. You can do this simply by assigning the long data type to a varchar2 variable: create table tomtest(col1 long, col2 varchar2(100)); 1 declare 2

Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT

2001-08-03 Thread Gene Sais
now we are talking, honeymooners, benny hill, outer limits, and my favorite twilight zone. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/03/01 09:00AM >>> It look likes there are more of us older folks than one might think. And I loved Bullwinkle, Davy Crockett and Red Skelton and Danny Kaye movies. My husband is

Re: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Ron Rogers
Gene. Are you a JARHEAD too!. USMC "Unlimited S### and Mass Confision" or "Uncle Sam's Misguided Children" ROR mª¿ªm >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/03/01 09:40AM >>> now i thought it meant 'Same Old Sh*t' or what we would have for breakfast in the corp 'Sh*t on Shingle' :) -- Please see the offici

RE: Brain dead Friday question

2001-08-03 Thread Vadim Gorbounov
No, Srini, It's not friday, simply there is no view like this... Check Metalink Note:132629.1, this may help if you do really want all locks. HTH Vadim Gorbounov Oracle DBA -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 7:43 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Folks, How

RE: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread tday6
Well, I do remember enough Morse code to say that SOS is "dit-dit-dit, dah-dah-dah, dit-dit-dit". It's very easy to remember and recognize. There was a universal distress signal before that (1912 - HMS Titanic was the first ship to send an SOS) but I don't remember what it was. It was changed to

RE: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Another book to add to my "wish list", dang I need to retire RIGHT NOW and start reading. Good thing I read fast. Now if they would just stop publishing new books, so I could catch up :) >From: "Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple r

RE: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Greg Solomon
Or the now famous SSDD. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 03 August 2001 14:41 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L now i thought it meant 'Same Old Sh*t' or what we would have for breakfast in the corp 'Sh*t on Shingle' :) >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/03/01 08:51AM >>> This Is a simple

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-03 Thread tday6
Go for it. 30 years from now your graduates will be on this list bragging about how they started and bragging about how thier first server only had 1G of RAM. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re:RE: 9i

2001-08-03 Thread dgoulet
AH SO, we go back to the idea of BIF & AIF files again?? Sound like old Oracle 4 idea!! Oracle into re-cycling too then!! :) Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: "Deshpande; Kirti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 8/2/2001 1:14 PM With 9i, we have a choi

Re: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
I got one, but I am sure it will be answered in no time. Does anyone know where the terms "ok" and "going the whole nine yards" came from. Right now I am a little shady on the ok, but I will remember it soon:) KK - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROT

Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT

2001-08-03 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Out of the night, when the full moon is bright, rides a horse man is known as Zorro! Did you happen to catch the recent Zorro movie? Ruth - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 9:35 AM Or Zorro, or My Friend Fli

Re: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Brian McGraw
Hmmm SQL> select to_char(sysdate,'SSDD') from dual; TO_C 3903 : ) Brian -- -- | Brian McGraw -- Oracle DBA | | Central Alabama Oracle Users Group | || | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://bmcgraw.home

RE: Can I locally partition my primary key constraint index?

2001-08-03 Thread Cherie_Machler
Kevin, Have you actually done this? I have a test copy of the database now and have been testing this. I successfully created a locally partitioned index and then tried to add the primary key constraint to the same table using the same columns (in the same order) as the index was created using

Re: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Ruth Gramolini
The whole nine yards comes from the length of the ammo belts used on machine guns. If you fired all of the ammo is was the 'whole nine yards'. I don't know where OK comes from. Ruth - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 0

Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT

2001-08-03 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Some of us remember Elvis on Ed Sullivan.Ruth - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 9:46 AM >-That ran the same time a "bullwinkle". How about Fess Parker as Davy >-Crocket. Or Red Skelton's show with Freddy

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT

2001-08-03 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Can someone tell me how to find the support matrix on Metalink for Oracle 8, all versions? -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 9:16 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Out of the night, when the full moon is bright, rides a horse man is known as Zorro! Did you happ

RE: Can I locally partition my primary key constraint index?

2001-08-03 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Cherie, I handle it a bit differently. Here is what I have been using with no problems. ALTER TABLE DBM.CUST_CATEGORY_TOTALS ADD CONSTRAINT CUSTCT_PK PRIMARY KEY ( DIR_PUB_YR, <- This is partitioning key for the table partitions DIR_NUM, CUST_ID, ITEM_TYPE

Re: SQL Question

2001-08-03 Thread Scott Canaan
To add to this thread, you can make it only return the second record by changing the statement to: select table_name from dba_tables where table_name like 'EDL\_WORK\_%' escape '\'; This will force the _ character to be used as a literal. Yosi Greenfield wrote: > Darren, > > Just as the % char

RE: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Payne, Forrest
SOS - scatter or suffocate -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 8:51 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This Is a simple one: BTW-bye the way. I visited www.acronymfinder.com. Here is something I wanted to share. /SOS [not an acronym] a common misconception is t

starting OMS -- multiple jre processes

2001-08-03 Thread Barry Stubbs
I have oracle 8.1.7.1b running on redhat linux 6.2. Every time I start the oms with 'oemctrl start oms' at the command line, I get multiple jre process running ( around 60 of them). Does anyone have a remedy for this? Thanks, Barry Stubbs Windham School District -- Please see the official OR

Precise Pulse, SQL

2001-08-03 Thread O'Neill, Sean
Would appreciate feedback, good or bad, from those on the list using Precise/Pulse and Precise/SQL. From those who "looked" at it but did not go for it, why not? Sean :) Rookie Data Base Administrator Oracle 7.3.3, 8.0.5, 8.1.7 - NT, W2K [0%] OCP Oracle8i DBA [0%] OCP Oracle9i DBA

Re: ip restriction help

2001-08-03 Thread Charlie Mengler
within protocol.ora tcp.excluded_nodes=(a.b.c.d, w.x.y.z, clientA.mydomain.com) HTH & YMMV! Xiaohong Yang wrote: > > Hi Gurus, > > I would like to get your recommendation for connection restriction to the > databases via tcp/ip based on ip addresses. The restriction is required > for only th

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT

2001-08-03 Thread April Wells
Night Gallery! -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 8:58 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L now we are talking, honeymooners, benny hill, outer limits, and my favorite twilight zone. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/03/01 09:00AM >>> It look likes there are more of us olde

RE: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
W-H-A-T.T-H-E.F-U. is probably what the captain shouted at the top of his voice -Original Message- Sent: 03 August 2001 15:36 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Well, I do remember enough Morse code to say that SOS is "dit-dit-dit, dah-dah-dah, dit-dit-dit". It's very

Re: computer history stories - Now: Age discrimination?

2001-08-03 Thread Ruth Gramolini
But Kevin, having all under his belt doesn't mean he's ever used it. Maybe we're not slackers afterall. Ruth - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 10:15 AM > WOW, now I feel like slacker:) > KK > - Original

Re:RE: 9i

2001-08-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
"everything old is new again" it's called nostalgia, and retro :) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re:RE: 9i >Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 06:28:12 -0800 > >AH SO, we go back to the idea of BIF & AIF files ag

RE: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Norrell, Brian
SOS were picked because they are easy to send and understand in Morse code even by people who do not "know" Morse code. Brian Norrell Manager, MPI Development QuadraMed 511 E John Carpenter Frwy, Su 500 Irving, TX 75062 (972) 831-6600 -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 8:4

Re: cleaning up oracle homes on NT

2001-08-03 Thread Luis DeUrioste
To avoid this problem on cleaning Registry what I do know (after painful rebuilds of machines) is before I install any new Oracle Software, I export (Backup) the oracle key from the registry and save it with a proper description i.e.. Reg_before_9iAS, then I proceed to do the installs etc. etc. If

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT

2001-08-03 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
With Sean Connery, Antonio Banderas & Katherine Zeta-Jones? It was fun, but pretty predictable. Antonio & Katherine together was fun to watch. The sword fight was cute. "Did you happen to catch the recent Zorro movie?" Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message-

RE: Inserting a Record into a Table

2001-08-03 Thread Kevin Lange
Its not a bad Idea but I was trying to get away from specifying any fields at all in the insert so that there are no changes if we add fields to the table. If I Insert into table1 as select decode(key_field,old_value,new_value,old_value), field2, field3 from table1 where old_value = 1; Then I

RE: computer history stories - Now: Age discrimination?

2001-08-03 Thread Jon Baker
Title: RE: computer history stories - Now: Age discrimination? okay fellow geezershaven't you adopted the "I'm only 29" phrase yet? It also gets you alot of 30th birthday parties where you can continue to claim 29, just have to change jobs alot. Jon -Original Message- From

RE: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Norrell, Brian
Title: RE: completely off-topic question... Check your math: .311 * 250 inches = 77.75 INCHES, = 2.15 yards. That is for the projectile alone.  The cartridge is larger than that, plus a sizable gap between them could conceivably get you to 9. Brian Norrell Manager, MPI Development QuadraMed

advanced queuing

2001-08-03 Thread David Turner
Is anyone out there using advanced queuing for replication? Dave -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: David Turner INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet

any openings in Florida

2001-08-03 Thread Ron Rogers
List, I am looking for a position as an Oracle DBA with Sys Admin knowledge in the Jacksonville - Orlanda Florida area. Does anybody have any contact information for openings. The headhunters have been sharing the postings for the past 3 - 6 months and nothing new has appeared. I would great

Redo Generation - Excessive ?

2001-08-03 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
While Running a Set of BATCH Processing JOBs , Archived Redo of 11 GB is being Generated over a 6 Hours Run on a E6500 Server . NOTE - The batch jobs are DML intensive in nature indeed . Online Redo Logfile Size = 175 MB LOG_CHECKPOINT_INTERVAL= 40 Qs Is there any way to know whether this R

Re: advanced queuing

2001-08-03 Thread A. Bardeen
Dave, Oracle's Advanced Replication uses AQ as the propagation mechanism for asynchronous parallel propagation (serial and synchronous use the two-phase commit process). Or are you asking if anyone has written their own custom replication using AQ? HTH, -- Anita --- David Turner <[EMAIL PROTE

RE: computer history stories - Now: Age discrimination?

2001-08-03 Thread Anderson, Brian
I'm 34 with a 10 and 11 year old, and recently a -6 month old, and I sure feel old sometimes. But in this discussion, I guess I'm a teen. BLA > -Original Message- > From: Ron Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 12:47 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORA

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
oh yeah. you guys know that they published a book of the Fractured Fairy Tales? Yes, I have it. You had to ask? >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potenti

Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
High School ('70), I took a computer class -- we used a Hewlett Packard 9100B -- it was the size of a typewriter, had a memory that could hold 14x14 instructions. Just enough space to write a tic-tac-toe program. The smallest HP calculator today has infinitely more power that than thing did.

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT

2001-08-03 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
"Fractured Fairy Tales" was a PART of the "Rocky and Bullwinkle Show", as well as "There's no need to fear, UnderDog is Here!" - the Underdog Show. "Nor plane nor bird nor even fog, it's just little old me, Underdog". -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:04 PM To: Multip

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I didn't see my first color tv until 1978, when I bought one as an engagement present for my fiance. I always did wonder what all the fuss was about The Wizard of Oz before that :) >From: "Farnsworth, Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORAC

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-03 Thread Seley, Linda
The sad thing is, it really didn't matter back then! Character mode coming back to a orange or green monitor (at least on the Compaq), it didn't do too bad keeping up with typing. Or so it seemed, until the next boost came out then woohoo! look how fast I can go! Now if I'm not on cable or a T

Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT

2001-08-03 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
It's so much nicer for kids and college students alike today. Think of how awesome the computers are that they are getting(and were talking pc's nto servers). I love it now, I could build a sweet AMD machine for so cheap it's disgusting and sad, but pleasantly wonderful at the same time. I know

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-03 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
very well carry on:( -Original Message- Carmichael Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L young whippersnapper! quiet down and let us old fogies reminisce :) >From: "Kevin Kostyszyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multi

ot - rural anecdotes

2001-08-03 Thread Eric D. Pierce
dewd, to me grits is something you eat with poke salad, black eye peas and okra! during part of my wasted youth i lived in a cowboy shack on a ranch in the northern sierra nevada (plumas county, gennessee valley). tin roof, uninsulated walls/floor, cold water in winter, a small wood burning

Re: function as default constraint for column

2001-08-03 Thread Igor Neyman
No, it's not possible - use 'before' trigger. I think, I read you can use function as default in 9i.   Igor Neyman, OCP DBAPerceptron, Inc.(734)414-4627[EMAIL PROTECTED]  - Original Message - From: Harvinder Singh To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday

RE: completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Methuselah's Children >From: "Vergara, Michael (TEM)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: completely off-topic question... >Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 11:32:47 -0800 > >...and...oh PIQQ...I can't remember the na

Re: Converting Inner join in MS-SQL to Oracle SQL syntax

2001-08-03 Thread Rodd Holman
Cherie, I may be completely wrong on this, but I seem to remember my Intro to SQL instructor at Oracle Ed telling the class that a MS SQL inner join was the same as just a normal join in Oracle. HTH (List please correct me if I'm wrong) Rodd On 03 Aug 2001 09:10:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot

Re: Exploding the Myths paper

2001-08-03 Thread Babette Turner-Underwood
My apologies to the entire list for these last two messages I meant to send them to Rachel personally and I forgot that since the listserv changed a while ago I cannot hit "reply" (Need to open e-mail, right click properties in the title and get the address) go ahead and flame me all you want, .

Re: computer history stories

2001-08-03 Thread Charlie Mengler
I joined the USN in 1966 to avoid the draft. I got sent to Data Systems Technician school for computer training. We used a Univac CADET (Can't Add & Doesn't Even Try); which used a lookup matrix in place of real adder logic. It had 4K worth of 18 bit word magnetic core RAM. The programs were enter

Re: Exploding the Myths paper

2001-08-03 Thread Babette Turner-Underwood
Doh! Never mind. I just discovered how to use the scroll bar on my browser ;-) (I was looking under one of the main all day events and not under the general section) - Babette -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Babette Turner-Underwood INET: [EMAIL PROT

Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT

2001-08-03 Thread Yosi Greenfield
> > > 3) What company made the first "Portable" (luggable) computers? > It was either Kaypro or Osborne. The Ozzy had a little tiny 40-column > screen and dual 5.25" floppies. The Kaypro had an 80-column screen > and dual floppies. > I had a compaq 'portable' that was the size of an old, big, n

Re: NOARCHIVELOG, ONLINE redolog corrupted - solved

2001-08-03 Thread A. Bardeen
Joe, That's true, but only if the current logs are not needed for instance or media recovery. For example if you want to open from a cold backup and you don't have the online logs you can fake recovery and then open resetlogs and it will recreate them for you: startup mount recover database u

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-03 Thread Ivan_Rivera
Title: RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff Famous...I hope at least recognized by my deeds.  It's funny this is coming up, I am currently in the middle of starting a dream of mine. Basically I am starting a non profit organization designed to teach these hot in de

Re: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Ron Rogers
Lyuda, You didn't say if you have other disk space available or not. If you do I would create the index/indexes tablespace/s on different drives then drop them from the original location. After you get breathing room you can reorg the database to a more comfortable setup. When you have removed

Re: truncate during query

2001-08-03 Thread Yosi Greenfield
Ben, You could test this yourself in about a minute. I don't have a db in front of me, but I'm pretty sure the truncate, or any ddl operation, will fail telling you it couldn't get a nowait lock. Try it. Create a table, say t (a varchar2(1)); Then, insert into t ('x'); Then insert into t select

OT (fwd) Looking to resurrect .ZZZ archive file from Kaypro/CPM days

2001-08-03 Thread Pat Hildebrand
Since I don't think this got a usable reply on list it came from and it sounds like some people on this list had a Kaypro, I decided to see if we are geeky enough that someone has an answer. The closest I got to finding a solution at the time was someone who said it sounded familiar - didn't have

OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-03 Thread Eric D. Pierce
computer trivia from the pre-PC days: "what computer company had the first huge marketing success advertising its word processing system on TV during the Superbowl football game?" -- > From: "Boivin, Patrice J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:20:48

Re: 9i

2001-08-03 Thread Jared Still
It's an optional either/or thing Kevin. Alchohol induced? I dunno, anything you wanna tell us? ;) Jared On Thursday 02 August 2001 12:55, Kevin Kostyszyn wrote: > Uhhh...I thought that 9i wasn't going to be using rollback segments > anymore? Am I wrong, was this alcohol induced dream or som

Unix terminal question

2001-08-03 Thread Aldi Barco
Hi List, I have turned on the database audit and found that someone from terminal pts/1 deleted a record yesterday. How to know in Unix (Solaris) who (osuser and workstation) was login using pts/1 yesterday ? Or also can we find it from oracle audit (sys.aud$, etc) ? Tia for any clue. Aldi ___

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT

2001-08-03 Thread Gogala, Mladen
You mean that they didn't have PCs, internet, MS Windows and Night Show with Ed Sullivan back there at Alamo? What in the world has prompted Santa Anna to attack, then? > -Original Message- > From: Terry Ball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 1:36 PM > To: Mu

Re: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Peter Gram
Hi Lyuda This is not a nice situation to bee in, but the god new is that oracle can help you since you are using version 8.1.6 ! You can use the "ALTER INDEX REBUILD TABLESPACE ;" to move the index to a new tablespace and this can even be don online with "ALTER INDEX REBUILD ONLINE TABLESPACE

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-03 Thread Kevin Lange
Fractured Fairy Tales and "Mr. Peabody and Sherman" on Bullwinkle. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 1:12 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Okay, who remembers "Fractured Fairy Tales" and the Professor and his boy Sherman? >From: "Farnsworth, Dave" <[EMAIL

Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-03 Thread Pat Hildebrand
I can't really tell if no more answers are coming in or things are just very slow but I'll try to fill in the answers to my questions that have not been answered. Looks like the questions about the floppy drive (or should I say drives as I had the luxury of dual drives) are the ones that need som

RE: computer history stories

2001-08-03 Thread Kevin Lange
Paul; There are a lot more of us around than the youngsters like to acknowledge . My first and only programming course was at Texas A&M University, a fortran course where we had to do our programs on Punch Cards everything else is self taught. I got my Degrees in Nuclear Engineering a

RE: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Kevin Lange
Lyuda; 1. Create a new tablespace for the indexes on a seperate drive. Make sure you do this with a much more reasonable datafile size. (Watch it here maybe they did the big size because they were running out of possible files -- see the max_datafiles parm on the Create Database command)

RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-03 Thread Thater, William
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001,Rachel Carmichael scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: ->oh yeah. you guys know that they published a book of the Fractured Fairy ->Tales? Yes, I have it. You had to ask? yes and no, i expected it.;-) -- Bill "Shrek" Thater ORACLE DBA Telergy,Inc.

Re: 9i

2001-08-03 Thread Jonathan Gennick
>From what I read, Oracle9i supports rollback segments if you want to use them. Using them is now referred to as manual undo management. You also have the option of using an "undo tablespace", which is referred to as automatic undo management. I think you need to use undo tablespaces if you wish t

Inserting a Record into a Table

2001-08-03 Thread Kevin Lange
Can you insert an entire record into a table without having to specify each individual field ?? I need to copy multiple rows in a table after I have modified its key. I do not want to have to specify each field. Is there a way just to select the record, modify the particular field, and then in

Is Oracle-Sun honeymoon over?

2001-08-03 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
"Oracle wanted a consolidated infrasture...some junk..and Oracle chose HP" is flashing in Oracle website (www.oramag.com) Looks like oracle-sun honeymoon is over.. any one has more info what happened behind the doors? = Have a nice day !! -

Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT

2001-08-03 Thread Yosi Greenfield
I taught a high school class to program Turbo Pascal running on CP/M. Now that was a program. There was one kid in the class who knew way more about this stuff than I did. They all got As. > > If I remember correctly, Microsoft bought QDOS from Seattle Computer Works > for around $50k so they

Brain dead Friday question

2001-08-03 Thread Srini . Chavali
Folks, How can I determine rowids of rows locked by a given SID using V$ or DBA* or X$ views ? Can't think anymore today :-) DB Version is 8.1.6. TIA Srini Chavali Oracle DBA Cummins Inc -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat

Management server??

2001-08-03 Thread Raghu Kota
Hi Friends When Iam starting my Enterprise Manger console, Its asking Oracle Management server??? What is that?? I tried with giving host name, But it did't work?? How to connect my EPM?? Thanks Raghu. _ Get your FREE download

Advanced Queues

2001-08-03 Thread David Turner
I just started looking into Advanced Queues and I'm wondering what types of apps they're used for? What would be their biggest advantage? Dave Turner -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: David Turner INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services

Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

2001-08-03 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
And this 300/1200 Boud rate modems were without error correction mode resulting lot of garbage in between specially working from subcontinent to dialin in UK or USA machines...Same modems were working well if worked within USA or UKThat was 1990-91 era MOHAMMAD RAFIQ Reply-To: [EMAI

Re: Your ideas will be helpful

2001-08-03 Thread Jon Walthour
Helen:   How about a select statement that will do it for you instead of all the looping? Does this work?   select   asset_num   , decode(min(num), 1, 'DHI', 2, 'AHI', 3, 'CHI', '???') as company_id    from (select asset_num       , decode(company_id, 'DHI', 1, 'AHI',2, 'CHI',

Re: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread lyudah
Thank you everyone who replied. All suggestions were very helpful. I am bebuilding my indexes in a different tablespace. It runs very very slow.. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:51 PM > Lyuda; > 1.

completely off-topic question...

2001-08-03 Thread Michael
...which means it's probably going to start a great big thread :)   I see a lot of emails with HTH on them, seemingly some sort of way to say "thankyou" or something... as they're always at the end of somebodies message right before they sign off their name..   I have pondered, and pondered

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