Re: Roles and Responsibilties

2001-09-05 Thread Jeram
Hi... You can try this link http://www.orafaq.org/faqdbacv.htm Rgds/Jeram -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 4:42 AM Hi. My boss asked me to supply him with a detail paper on what DBA functions, roles

Backup Recovery Scenarios

2001-09-05 Thread Sujatha Madan
Hi, I want to test and learn more about backups and recovery's. Does anyone have a list of backup/recovery scenarios that I can test??? Thanks Sujatha Madan -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Sujatha Madan INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

Create Database ORA-907 need help

2001-09-05 Thread Sinardy
Hi all, Can someone tell me whats wrong with my script ? CREATE DATABASE TEST LOGFILE ( '/test/redo01.log' SIZE 10K, '/test/redo02.log' SIZE 10K, '/test/redo03.log' SIZE 10K ) MAXL0GFILES 6 MAXINSTANCES 4

Re: Backup Recovery Scenarios

2001-09-05 Thread Jeram
Hi... To implement backuprecovery strategy is depend on your Database/Application environment, there are 3 scenarios provided by Oracle for your Backup and Recovery strategy : 1. Offline Backup 2.Online Backup 3. Logical Backup You can get more informations about those backup scenario from

RE: RE: Oracle DBA With Internet Experience Needed in

2001-09-05 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Not anymore Gene, It's just the people ;-) ( I live in Scotland so I'm allowed to say that...lol) -Original Message- Sent: 04 September 2001 21:57 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Especially the ones in the UK. They are all mad :) Gene [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/04/01 04:41PM

Re: Backup Recovery Scenarios

2001-09-05 Thread Jeram
Oracle Backup and Recovery Book written by Rama Velpuri is a good book to learn, there are some good cases to test and learn. Rgds/Jeram -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 2:11 PM Hi, I want to test and

RE: Create Database ORA-907 need help

2001-09-05 Thread Rajesh Dayal
You don't need to put any Bracket after keyword 'LOGFILE' See following lines... CREATE DATABASE OHIR LOGFILE 'D:\Oracle\oradata\OHIR\redo01.log' SIZE 1024K, 'D:\Oracle\oradata\OHIR\redo02.log' SIZE 1024K, 'D:\Oracle\oradata\OHIR\redo03.log' SIZE 1024K MAXLOGFILES 12 MAXLOGMEMBERS 2

Re: Create Database ORA-907 need help

2001-09-05 Thread Jeram
Try to remove the brackets. Rgds/Jeram -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 2:27 PM Hi all, Can someone tell me whats wrong with my script ? CREATE DATABASE TEST LOGFILE ( '/test/redo01.log' SIZE 10K,

Re: Create Database ORA-907 need help

2001-09-05 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
Chk the spelling of maxlogfiles. You have used 0(zero) instead of 'O'. -- On Tue, 04 Sep 2001 23:55:42 Sinardy wrote: Hi all, Can someone tell me whats wrong with my script ? CREATE DATABASE TEST LOGFILE ( '/test/redo01.log' SIZE 10K,

RE: OT: any spam today?

2001-09-05 Thread G . Plivna
I accidently did it some 3 or 4 years ago, received these mails some 2 years as valuable excite customer but after 2 years of my absolute ignorance they have stopped sending. Just put it all in trash bin ;) ESPECIALLY with EXCITE. my kids sign up for stuff all the time, and I am NEVER able to

Correct DBVERIFY logic?

2001-09-05 Thread O'Neill, Sean
I'm not sure if I have my logic correct here so I'm asking list advice. I run DBVERIFY utility on files which have been backed up to (1) Check they backed up successfully and (2) To check if the orignal file was free from corruption at time of backup. Does (2) above make sense?. Sean :)

Veritas feature disable - Slightly OT

2001-09-05 Thread O'Neill, Sean
I know this is probably a case of RTFM BUT, BUT, BUT, if it is relatively simple to answer please do. The tape backup software here is Veritas Backup Exec which is managed by someone else (job demarcation!). I don't use it or have experience of it. We've had the odd occurrence of SIDs

Re: create sequence in PL/SQL anonymous block - needs to be in separa

2001-09-05 Thread Connor McDonald
I'm not sure if what you've posted is just an example, but why not just do insert into t select rowum from sys.source$ where rownum 1000; It's a lot quicker and easier hth connor --- Jacques Kilchoer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using Oracle 8.1.6 on Windows 2000 I try to use EXECUTE

Re: Correct DBVERIFY logic?

2001-09-05 Thread Christian Trassens
Yes. Because the main purpose is to check the physical corruption. You can do it whether the database is open or not. However you can check corruption through other means. Fe., exp file=/dev/null, with rman, or a logical corruption too with analyze validate structure. Regards. --- O'Neill,

RE: Interesting News..

2001-09-05 Thread Guy Hammond
On the contrary, I'd say this is a godsend for Sun. Compaq made a mess of truly epic proportions when they tried to integrate DEC and Tandem into their operations. HP did just as badly with Apollo. There are going to be bitter turf wars between the HP/UX and Tru64 (or Ultrix or whatever it's

RE: Backup Recovery Scenarios

2001-09-05 Thread O'Neill, Sean
From: Sujatha Madan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:38:42 +1000 Subject: Backup Recovery Scenarios Hi, I want to test and learn more about backups and recovery's. Does anyone have a list of backup/recovery scenarios that I can test??? In addition to what has already been

oracle 8i/win2000/newbie

2001-09-05 Thread agc
I have installed oracle, win200, and now I am trying to run the dbastudio, I choose login tothe oracle managment server and so it asks for administrator id and passwd, I give the info and does no accept me, I check the information that I am giving to it and is ook, so what am I oing wrong_`?

RE: Export/Import question

2001-09-05 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Thanks Tom and others that replied, That was the explanation that I needed. I also was informed that exporting with COMPRESS=Y is a mistake due to sizing issues so I will do another export with COMPRESS=N. Dave -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 3:48 PM To: Multiple

Re: query rewrite question

2001-09-05 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Sorry about the delay in replying. Attached is a simple SQL example of materialized views which may give you a clue to where things are going wrong. Since Oracle can rewrite even complex variations, a little thing like changing the case is NOT going to be the problem. The script builds a demo

Re: Interesting News..

2001-09-05 Thread Stephane Faroult
I agree. First of all there is no certainty that the marriage will ever be consummed (there has been a lot of corporate engagement break-ups in the past years. Remember GE/Honeywell, Jack Welch's apotheosis? German and French banks? Pharmacy?). There's too much overlap between the two (all those

RE: Roles and Responsibilties

2001-09-05 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Is this another case of a manager who has no idea what his DBA does? They only pay attention to us if something goes awry. Sigh. Whine. Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services

RE: RE: Oracle DBA With Internet Experience Needed in

2001-09-05 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Possibly because they finally realized what (who) they were eating... They must have overheard a farmer talking, and the word spread. Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From: Gene Sais [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

8i OCP

2001-09-05 Thread Sajid Iqbal
Hi Does anyone have any links (url's) for practice OCP tests. Also can anyone recommend any good books for this TIA -- Sajid Iqbal -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Sajid Iqbal INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858)

Dumb MTS Concepts Question

2001-09-05 Thread Bill Buchan
I've not used MTS before and am just reading up on it. Anyone help me out with the following? In a dedicated server environment each PGA has a UGA where things like cursor state and session data is held. In a MTS environment, this UGA is in the large pool in the SGA instead. This is just

Re: Backup Recovery Scenarios

2001-09-05 Thread Joe Testa
buy the backup/recovery book by Rama Velpuri, all you'd ever want to know about backup/recovery. joe Sujatha Madan wrote: Hi, I want to test and learn more about backups and recovery's. Does anyone have a list of backup/recovery scenarios that I can test??? Thanks Sujatha Madan

PL/SQL : how to drop all the white characters from a string

2001-09-05 Thread Andrey Bronfin
Dear all ! I need a PL/SQL proc that will drop all the white characters (spaces , tabs , enters etc.. ) from a string stored in a VARCHAR column I'm not trying to load my work to others , but ... if U have such a proc ready , would U please share . Thanks a lot in advance. DBAndrey *

oracle 805 on linux mandarake 7 install error.

2001-09-05 Thread Bunyamin K. Karadeniz
I try to install oracle 805 on linux mandarake 7 but . When installing the selected products it gives the error below. error : command : make -f ins_rdbms.mk /u01/./rdbms/lib/psoliblist sh : command not found why can it be ? Thank you

RE: Export/Import question

2001-09-05 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Arun, Thanks for the suggestion. I am doing export/import because I do not know how to ship a database to another server. For that matter, I am doing export/import for the first time. I figured that since our DB is not a 24X7 that I could get a clean export. I guess I have to get my hands

Re: 8i OCP

2001-09-05 Thread Jeram
Buy Oracle8i OCP preparation Guide by Oracle Press, there you can sample of question and Offline test of OCP Rgds/Jeram -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 6:39 PM Hi Does anyone have any links (url's) for

RE: Create Database ORA-907 need help

2001-09-05 Thread BELOV
Hi Sinardy! First of all take a look at $ORACLE_HOME/RDBMS/admin/build_db.sql for sample code. Rajesh was right - brackets not needed here. cu, Igor -Original Message- From: Sinardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 11:56 AM To: Multiple recipients of

download 9i for linux

2001-09-05 Thread wolfgang . ludewig
Hello gurus, I want to download the 9i database from technet. The download works fine, but the uncompress fails. Has anybody done a successfull download ?? Wolfgang Ludewig -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City

Test Message

2001-09-05 Thread Walthour, Jon (GEAE, Compaq)
Title: Message This is a test message. Please ignore. Jon Walthour Oracle Database Administrator COMPAQ DBA Team Cincinnati, Ohio

RE: Export/Import question

2001-09-05 Thread ARUN K C
First of all why do u have to do the import and export why dont u ship the whole database across, if you want to rename the database create a service and start service and bring up the database. I feel that is much better than doing the whole export and import across. From: Farnsworth, Dave

RE: download 9i for linux

2001-09-05 Thread Christopher Spence
Yes, anything over 200Mb you almost always need to use a download manage like get right or it doesn't work. Perhaps it is already ungziped, rename it without the gz and see if that works. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a

RE: oracle 8i/win2000/newbie

2001-09-05 Thread Mark Leith
Firstly is your management server started? You can check this my checking the service under Start/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services: look for Oracle{Oracle Home}ManagementServer service. You may also want to make sure that the Oracle{Oracle Home}Agent service is also running. Secondly

RE: Roles and Responsibilities

2001-09-05 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
How about some of these... Administer data... plans for database-related implementation and upgrades ensure the database integrity, security and availability (backups!! standby databases, OPS) Use data dictionary to ensure data integrity and security Recover corrupted data (use the backups now)

RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-09-05 Thread Christopher Spence
What is the purpose of having a dba if he is not allowed to do anything? 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. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978) 322-5744 Fax:(707) 885-2275

RE: Notification when something changes in the DB

2001-09-05 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
John, we are using ADO, VB and ASP pages for our application. all transactions are stateless, much the same way you are explaining your system. To ensure that an update can occur with a high degree of confidence that the record did not change, we do the following: Every database table has a

Re: oracle 805 on linux mandarake 7 install error.

2001-09-05 Thread Jan Pruner
You haven't installed 'make' on your machine? 'make' is required to link Oracle libs during the installation. JP Dne st 5. zá?í 2001 14:05 jste napsal(a): I try to install oracle 805 on linux mandarake 7 but . When installing the selected products it gives the error below. error :

Re: Dumb MTS Concepts Question

2001-09-05 Thread Christian Trassens
Yes the resources move around. However when you use MTS, you share the server sessions. Therefore, it is possible depending the kind of the application that Oracle will share the UGA of those shared server sessions for all the users. In other words, if your application is an OLTP one, you will

RE: PL/SQL : how to drop all the white characters from a string

2001-09-05 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Andrey, how about the function below. you can change the SUBSTR commands below to tailor to your use. To use the function, you can : update {table} set column_name = wtw_name_fix(column_name); hope this helps. CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION WTWDBA.Wtw_Name_Fix(in_string IN VARCHAR2)

Re: Export/Import question

2001-09-05 Thread Stephane Faroult
Farnsworth, Dave wrote: Arun, Thanks for the suggestion. I am doing export/import because I do not know how to ship a database to another server. For that matter, I am doing export/import for the first time. I figured that since our DB is not a 24X7 that I could get a clean export. I

RE: Roles and Responsibilties

2001-09-05 Thread Rachel Carmichael
join the club. I've figured out that I either have NO boss, or else everyone is my boss. No one tells me what to do about the databases. No one ASKS me about the databases. I get requests from programmers for new tables, help with SQL, data cleansing, data correction (let's manually fix the

RE: Duhvelopers and DB-ehs?

2001-09-05 Thread Rachel Carmichael
yeah I took over code from someone like you before. back in COBOL programming days, he had just learned COBOL and was determined to use EVERY single command. I learned to absolutely loathe ALTER paragraph statements. he'd have a goto (which I already hated), and then would alter the

RE: create sequence in PL/SQL anonymous block - needs to be in se

2001-09-05 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
like Connor said, why use a sequence? you have a perfectly good sequence number in the loop index. why waste the time of creating and dropping a sequence? change your proc to: SQL declare 2 i pls_integer ; 3 begin 5 for i in 1..1000 6 loop 7 insert into t (n)

Re: download 9i for linux

2001-09-05 Thread tday6
I haven't tired it but I think that I read on this list about a week ago that dispite the file extension, these files do not need to be uncompressed. They are not compressed to begin with.

RE: oracle 8i/win2000/newbie

2001-09-05 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
I don't believe that you need to use OEM to log onto DBA Studdio. I don't use it, I just go right to DBA studio and log on as an oracle user. Kev -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 8:31 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Firstly is your management server

Re: download 9i for linux

2001-09-05 Thread JOE TESTA
rumor has it, the files are not compressed. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/05/01 09:00AM Hello gurus,I want to download the 9i database from technet.The download works fine, but the uncompress fails.Has anybody done a successfull download ??Wolfgang Ludewig-- Please see the official ORACLE-L

RE: OT: Oracle DBA With Internet Experience Needed in Harrisburg, PA

2001-09-05 Thread Scott Graves
Fishing, Hunting, skiing, no traffic and quarter beers Sounds too good to be true. Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Scott Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 7:31 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT:

RE: Export/Import question

2001-09-05 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Hi, I sort of agree with this, but had a little bit of a different idea. I guess depending on the size of the user and how many other users it may dependant on, why don't you just export the user? If you are exporting the db, that means you already have Oracle installed on the other

RE: OT: Oracle DBA With Internet Experience Needed in Harrisburg,

2001-09-05 Thread Weaver, Walt
Hey, I'll bet you're from Missoula. :) --Walt Weaver Bozeman, Montana -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 6:31 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Harrisburg, PA Walt and all may like Bozeman but beware, Bozeman is a beautiful city but if you are a big

RE: create sequence in PL/SQL anonymous block - needs to be in se

2001-09-05 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
I do not know the history behind this thread but wouldn't this solution only work in a single user system? I can see problems in a mult-user system. Rick -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 9:27 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L se like Connor said, why

manage oracle on SAP system

2001-09-05 Thread chao zhu
hi, list: I just be an ERP system oracle dba, and find Oracle and SAP are tightly related. Is here someone else also managing Oracle on SAP system? Give out some key point and suggestions? I am yet not familier with SAP system . Thanks. chao_ping. Oracle DBA DTT corp.

RE: Number and Integer

2001-09-05 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Following might help ... * Integer Operations in PL/SQL PL/SQL supports PLS_INTEGER as a native datatype: the operations on PLS_INTEGER are performed by the PL/SQL interpreter itself. Numeric types, such as INTEGER and NUMBER, are represented in the 22 byte Oracle number format. Oracle number

Re: download 9i for linux

2001-09-05 Thread Rachel Carmichael
the files don't need to be uncompressed... they just named them wrong rename them and use them as they are From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: download 9i for linux Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 05:00:22 -0800 Hello

RE: download 9i for linux

2001-09-05 Thread Uday C Basavaraj
Follow the following steps Directions 1. After downloading the software 2. Create directories Disk1, Disk2 and Disk3 3. cd Disk1 4. cat fullpath_to_disk1.cpio | cpio -icd This will extract all the files for disk1. 5. Repeat steps 3 4 for disk2 and disk3 6. To run the

Re: download 9i for linux

2001-09-05 Thread Steven Lembark
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven't tired it but I think that I read on this list about a week ago that dispite the file extension, these files do not need to be uncompressed. They are not compressed to begin with. gzip took them for me. Main problem was that one of them was 20% smaller after

question about the query..

2001-09-05 Thread Srinivas_Madala
Hi List I have a question regarding a SQL query I am working on. I have a table named 'tmp_scores', with a column 'rank' and other columns. Rank varies from 1 to 12. I need to get the top 10 million records based on the rank. I have used the logic behind the following query(to get top 4

what to check in alert.log

2001-09-05 Thread Hillman, Alex
Any suggestions what to check for in alert.log besides ORA- ? Alex Hillman -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Hillman, Alex INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California--

Re: Test Message

2001-09-05 Thread tday6
HP has not cut you off from the internet ... yet. Walthour, Jon (GEAE,To: Multiple

RE: question about the query..

2001-09-05 Thread Christopher Spence
How many rows in the table? Did you do an explain plan of this query? 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. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978) 322-5744 Fax:(707) 885-2275

RE: Notification when something changes in the DB

2001-09-05 Thread Val_Gamerman/Victoria_Financial . VICTORIA_FINANCIAL
Thanks to everybody who replied. We already have a solution similar to this implemented (via triggers) which allows us to not re-query the databse before doing an update, since the fields we are interested in are spread across multiple tables, etc., etc. I also realize that there multiple ways

Re: OPS on a single machine ?

2001-09-05 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi, thanks alot for all the information. It is ok if it is not officially supported by Oracle since I need the configuration just for testing. The future purpose is an installation at a client's side to have one instance optimized for OLTP and one for reporting. But they have to access the

RE: question about the query..

2001-09-05 Thread Daemen, Remco
How about: select distinct ename,job,sal from ( select ename,job,sal from ( select * from emp order by salary desc ) where rownum = 1000 ); Uses a lot of temp tablespace, though, and will not be very fast for large tables ... you should probably try one of the new

RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-09-05 Thread Miller, Jay
You mean you think DBAs should do things? My company's auditors were aghast when I told them that I did things such as write Unix scripts to monitor the database. They were firmly of the opinion that DBAs should not be allowed to write code, only developers should write code. That was a major

RE: question about the query..

2001-09-05 Thread Srinivas_Madala
There are 43 million records in the table. I did the explain plan .Is there any mistake with the query. thanks srinivas -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San

Re: Notification when something changes in the DB

2001-09-05 Thread Yosi Greenfield
I'm fairly certain Oracle Forms does this too. I've had to write some complex forms that worked on updateable views, and I had to re-write Forms' on-update and on-lock triggers myself. yosi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not so weird, PeopleSoft does things in a similar manner. When a panel in

Re: !! *Very* important Oracle-L message !!

2001-09-05 Thread Yosi Greenfield
I was away, and when I came back responded with the following, which the list bounced because of the V-word! How dare I take a v.! Here it was, with a few words now slightly touched up: Aw man, I was on v*a*c_a.t_i*o*n and missed the whole thing! Perkins Pond, Sunapee, New Hampshire.

RE: PL/SQL : how to drop all the white characters from a string

2001-09-05 Thread Andrey Bronfin
Many thanks to all who replied !!! DBAndrey * 03-9254520 * 053-464562 * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 3:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, An example to remove the spaces using the translate function is as follows. create table test

RE: what to check in alert.log

2001-09-05 Thread Taylor, Shirley
I check for these strings: ORA- TNS- trc cannot exceeded That works well for me. Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèms Technology Services | Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique Maritimes Region, DFO | Région des

RE: download 9i for linux

2001-09-05 Thread Molina, Gerardo
I have downloaded them successfully using a DSL connection and Netscape 4.7. The 9i files for Linux on OTN are compressed. I used gunzip to uncompress them and then cpio -idv file_name Notice the less than symbol in front of the file name. HTH Gerardo -Original Message- Sent:

RE: !! *Very* important Oracle-L message !!

2001-09-05 Thread Ken Janusz
Did you stop by Portsmouth and visit my old friend the USS Albacore (AGSS-569)? Ken Janusz, CPIM Database Conversion Lead Sufficient Systems, Inc. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 11:16 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I was away, and when I came back

RE: question about the query..

2001-09-05 Thread Srinivas_Madala
I am using the oracle 8.1.7.0. thanks srinivas -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists

RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-09-05 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Re. Windows security... http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,46531,00.html http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,46531,00.html Seems WindowsXP is circulating already. Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From:

object_type = 'UNDEFINED' ??

2001-09-05 Thread Jerry C
Hi there. What the heck is an object_type of undefined? When I select * from dba_objects where status = 'INVALID' , I get a bunch of objects with an object_type of UNDEFINED. Thanks for any insight! - Jerry _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your

Oracle DBA Leader Needed in Beaumont, Texas..

2001-09-05 Thread OraStaff
This company is located in Beaumont, Texas and needs an Oracle DBA team leader to join its' I.T. staff. Selected candidate must have leadership skills to lead a team of 4 or 5 developers and junior DBAs'. This company is currently running Oracle 7.3 and 8.0 on VMS and 8.1.5 on NT.. migrating to

oem 2.2 web based

2001-09-05 Thread Jeffrey Beckstrom
Accessing via fat client works. Installed web portion on our web server and configured apache per the docs. However, it keeps trying to download oemapp_cgi.exe. Any ideas would be appreciated. Jeffrey BeckstromDatabase AdministratorGreater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority1240 W. 6th

RE: 81721 upgrade and event 10520

2001-09-05 Thread Hillman, Alex
It is for avoiding of firing DDL triggers when running upgrade scripts. Alex Hillman -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 2:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, In the release notes for 8.1.7.2.1 there is a requirement to

RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-09-05 Thread Christopher Spence
You build a better mouse trap, the mice get bigger and smarter. 1. There is always a smarter hacker out there than you. 2. Locks are made to keep your friends out. 3. Why waste so much money on complicated schemes when ultimiately within 6 months it will be cracked 4. Your just giving

RE: 81721 upgrade and event 10520

2001-09-05 Thread Hillman, Alex
Sorry I mixed this event with undoc. parameter _system_trig_enabled=false Alex Hillman -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 12:52 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L It is for avoiding of firing DDL triggers when running upgrade scripts. Alex Hillman

Re: archive query - revisited

2001-09-05 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Grant, I am glad that you found reason for lot of archiving. Yes, even with nologging, if table/tablespaces are dictionery managed, there are redologs generated for extent management. Archiving may be minimized by commiting after certain amount of rows like rows = 1 or whaever which your

Re: object_type = 'UNDEFINED' ??

2001-09-05 Thread Stephane Faroult
Jerry C wrote: Hi there. What the heck is an object_type of undefined? When I select * from dba_objects where status = 'INVALID' , I get a bunch of objects with an object_type of UNDEFINED. Thanks for any insight! - Jerry UNDEFINED is how an Oracle 7 (client) SQL*Plus calls any

Re: object_type = 'UNDEFINED' ??

2001-09-05 Thread Connor McDonald
If you look at the definition for dba_objects, eventually you get a massive decode which aligns object type number to object type name. If the decode fails, you get undefined hth connor --- Jerry C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. What the heck is an object_type of undefined? When I

OT: Application stress testing tool

2001-09-05 Thread Val_Gamerman/Victoria_Financial . VICTORIA_FINANCIAL
Hello, Apologies for an off-topic posting. Does anybody have any positive or negative experience with any system stress testing tools? I do not mean DB stress testing (we have software fot that) but a test package for system with a fat GUI client? Need something that would simulate user

unable to execute procedure containg pl/sql tables

2001-09-05 Thread Harvinder Singh
Hi, I have a procedure containing pl/sql tables and i am getting error: PLS-00418: array bind type must match PL/SQL table row type ORA-06550: line 1, column 340: PLS-00418: array bind type must match PL/SQL table row type ORA-06550: line 1, column 9: PL/SQL: Statement ignored I am not able to

RE: PL/SQL : how to drop all the white characters from a string

2001-09-05 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Now HERE is something to research.. thanks Jared! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 1:32 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You guys are all doing this the hard way! Regular expressions to the rescue!

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RE: Application stress testing tool

2001-09-05 Thread Christopher Spence
SQA robot is suppose to be one of the best. Out of curiosity, what do you do on the DB end? 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. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978) 322-5744 Fax:

RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-09-05 Thread Ron Thomas
Who was the Auditing Co? If they think that NT is more secure than unix, I don't want them around any company I work for... Ron Thomas Hypercom, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Either lead by example, or become a terrible warning

Re: PL/SQL : how to drop all the white characters from a string

2001-09-05 Thread Jared . Still
You guys are all doing this the hard way! Regular expressions to the rescue! Here's a complete test: declare tstr varchar2(100) := 'this contains tabsmultiple spaces and single spaces'; begin dbms_output.put_line( tstr); owa_pattern.change( tstr, '\s', '', 'g');

Procedure Builder vs SQL question.

2001-09-05 Thread Ron Rogers
List, One of the developers here is using Procedure Builder to create and compile his PL/SQL packages. It works file until he sends me the package in text format to compile on the database. I call the package by @g:\packages\test1 where test1 is the test1.sql of the package text. Question.

RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-09-05 Thread Miller, Jay
It was our Internal Audit department. And their issue with Unix is the same issue they have with Oracle. root can do anything, sys can do anything. This is evil incarnate. External security problems aren't nearly as important. And yes, it's crazy. Jay Miller -Original Message- Sent:

RE: Interesting News..

2001-09-05 Thread Miller, Jay
More agreement. How many companies did ATT buy only to drive them into the ground? How much advantage did Compaq take of the impressive Alpha technology? These mega mergers rarely produce anything much. Unless the HP strategy is to run Compaq's product line into the ground so more people turn

RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-09-05 Thread tday6
Who audits auditors? Ron Thomas rthomas@hypeTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Procedure Builder vs SQL question.

2001-09-05 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Ron, if you enter the line set define ~ command before you @g:\. you should be fine. this is a difference between sqlplus and pb. note that toad works like pb - anything within the /* */ is a comment. wouldn't it be great if Oracle could produce two products that work consistently

RE: Interesting News..

2001-09-05 Thread Hand, Michael T
Interesting to say the least. We have a meeting with our Compaq reps tomorrow to discuss the Alpha processor move to Intel. I'll put money down that a discussion of the HP/Compaq merger will eclipse Alpha/Intel. If anything worthwhile comes up, I'll let you all know. Mike Hand Polaroid Corp.

RE: create sequence in PL/SQL anonymous block - needs to be in se

2001-09-05 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: RE: create sequence in PL/SQL anonymous block - needs to be in se Jacques, sorry if we confused you. some of us on this list tend to answer questions that were not asked, but we thought "should have been"! :) hope we're helpful! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional

RE: Procedure Builder vs SQL question.

2001-09-05 Thread Nicoll, Iain (Calanais)
You could try set define off -- stops SQL*Plus looking for substitution variables off or ser scan off-- much the same thing I think -Original Message- Sent: 05 September 2001 19:41 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L List, One of the developers here is using Procedure

RE: Fail over with ODBC and standard edition

2001-09-05 Thread Shaw, John B
The problem I have is with the TnsNames.ora. With no changes it doesn't fail over (this is expected). I make the changes to the the file with the parameters from the failsafe doc's and get ora-01012 not logged on and then sp2-0575 use of sql feature not in sql92 entry level whenever I try to log

RE: create sequence in PL/SQL anonymous block - needs to be in se

2001-09-05 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: create sequence in PL/SQL anonymous block - needs to be in se Thank you for the suggestions Thomas and Connor. This was only an example pulled from a much larger procedure that doesn't have a for loop. My main question was about the missing sequence error. -Original

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