RE: 9i D/l

2001-09-18 Thread Molina, Gerardo
I think you just have to keep trying. Maybe at different times. I experienced the same as you but with the 9i for Linux download. HTH Gerardo -Original Message- Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 11:15 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi List Have any of you been

ORA-00600

2001-09-18 Thread Sirisha
Hi I get this error ORA-00600 when i try to execute a stored procedure. The stored procedure gets compiled perfectly but gives this error at run-time while executing it from a java code. This is what i found in the alert log. Tue Sep 18 04:57:14 2001 Errors in file

RE: Way off topic - Volunteering

2001-09-18 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Also Enlisted as volunteer Being Physically in INDIA , may NOT be of much help -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 10:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Way off topic -

RE: Subtract 1 month from current date

2001-09-18 Thread Hatzistavrou Giannis
select ADD_MONTHS(trunc(your_date),-1) from dual; -Original Message- From: Smith, Ron L. [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 17:40 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Subtract 1 month from current date Can someone tell me how to subtract

RE: Perl code example

2001-09-18 Thread Hatzistavrou Giannis
A good solution might be to read the eviromental parameters of the UNIX session. In there you can set the SID and username/password. From within the Perl code then do: $data_source=dbi:Oracle: . $ENV{SID}; $dbbscs = DBI-connect($data_source,$ENV{username},$ENV{passwd}); $sqlstmt_tmcode = select

RE: The DBA in the IS organization

2001-09-18 Thread Guy Hammond
Satar, I'm afraid that I'm going to have to take issue with this. Bad English food is, I agree, fairly grim, but the same could be said of bad food everywhere. Have you ever been to New Jersey? All they eat there are chicken parm subs! London is one of the great places in the world if you like

RE: ORA-00600

2001-09-18 Thread Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran
Hi sirisha, ORA-00600 ORA-00600internal message code, arguments: [num], [?], [?], [?], [?], [?] Cause:This is a catch-all internal message for ORACLE program exceptions. It indicates that a process has met a low-level, unexpected condition. Various causes of this message include:

7 step guide to constructing a Disaster Recovery Plan

2001-09-18 Thread O'Neill, Sean
The site below contains a 7 step guide to constructing a Disaster Recovery Plan. Enjoy =:-0 http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=091301-SevenDRPsteps 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

Determining Oracle status

2001-09-18 Thread Barry Deevey
Hi all, I am trying to write a script in unix that determines if a specific oracle instance is available. I'm trying to avoid using the 'ps' command, so I thought the easiest method would be to connect via sqlplus - If it connects its up, if it doesn't then its unavailable. However, the problem

Turning off output when running pl/sql

2001-09-18 Thread Steven Hovington
Hi, I'm running a block of PL/SQL in SQL Plus (8.1.7), and when its completed it says the usual: PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. at the end. I'm spooling the output of the PL/SQL block to a file using dbms_put.put_line but I want to get rid of the above line. Anyone know how I can do

Re: Perl code example

2001-09-18 Thread lembark
-- Hagedorn, Linda [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/17/01 15:00:22 -0800 I'm looking for a Perl example passing parameters. The code below has the userids and passwords hardcoded in clear text in the system line, parms 3 and 5 (five lines from the bottom), and the Oracle sid is hardcoded also.

Re: Determining Oracle status

2001-09-18 Thread Gene Sais
here is a snippet i use to determine if the db is up. u can use any sql script, i choose to get the db name and compare to sid. if [ `which sqlplus | grep no sqlplus | wc -l` -eq 0 ] [ `print \n\n\n | sqlplus -s guest/guest@$sid @$ORABIN/db_get_dbname | grep Instance_Name | awk '{print

Re: Turning off output when running pl/sql

2001-09-18 Thread Jared . Still
set feedback off Jared Steven Hovington

Accept statement

2001-09-18 Thread Steven Hovington
I'm am trying to use an accept statement to grab some info from the user in an SQL script, and then use that in a subsequent PL/SQL block. I can do the Accept ok, but can't sem to access the variable onside the block. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance. Steven H.

RE: 9i D/l

2001-09-18 Thread Mark Leith
You know, this list is the greatest! I specifically submitted my name to the OTN site, to be told *apparently* as soon as the version I am interested in is released - which was 9i for Win2K. Guess what? The first I hear of this being released was HERE!! Still haven't heard anything from Oracle!!

Deta_default value not getting imported...

2001-09-18 Thread Amar Kumar Padhi
Title: Deta_default value not getting imported... We did full export of a database and then imported the same in another database. The issue is that none of the data_default values have been imported. Has anyone encountered this before. Any links, bugs, actions to point to? Oracle: 8.1.7

Materialized View/dbms_mview.refresh Question

2001-09-18 Thread mohammed bhatti
I have a materialized view created by user A in schema A. The view consists of simple table joins and union statements. I want user B to be able to execute the refresh on the MV using dbms_mview.refresh. I've granted select on all the tables to user B along with creating public synonyms for

RE: Looking for 24 X 7 Design Considerations

2001-09-18 Thread Jared . Still
7.3.4.5? Ok, Charlie, now you're too far the other direction. :) Jared Charlie

Internal troublemaker

2001-09-18 Thread Sinardy
Hi all, How to ensure our scripts are not changeable by other user, unix and sql script. I remember some unix guru said I need Pro C Can I use embedded Java Sinardy -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Sinardy INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City

RE: Re: The DBA in the IS organization

2001-09-18 Thread O'Neill, Sean
I wrote: So what perks if any do you get for being called in on a Saturday?. The longer I hang around in this DBA field the more it seems to be like a vocation ;) Rachel Replied: From: Rachel Carmichael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:07:08 + Subject: Re: The DBA in the IS

RE: Determining Oracle status

2001-09-18 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Barry, A while ago, when I wrote a script to do this for a site, I attempted to login with a bogus userid/password and then checked for the Oracle error message. Thereby, eliminating a security hole, and not hugely impacting Oracle by logging in for a simple check. Also, I was poking around

RDA from OWS - anyone used it?

2001-09-18 Thread Orr, Steve
Has anyone implemented and used RDA? (It's a diagnostic tool from OWS.) It might be semi-cool ;-) ...Comments? Steve Orr -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Orr, Steve INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858)

Ora-03121

2001-09-18 Thread Ahmed Gholam Hussain
Hi listers , I am getting this error while trying to connect to Oracle Designer2000(1.3.2) on Oracle 8.0.5 -Plattform NT4 : Ora-03121 : No interface driver connected-function not performed Does this thing requires the installation of some Oracle patches Any help would be

Good/Cheap Backup Agent?

2001-09-18 Thread Walter K
Hi, We're looking for an inexpensive backup agent for our databases. The databases are 8i and are on Sun boxes but we're looking to have the agent/client hosted from an NT box (because it appears to be cheaper that way). What are your recommendations? Do all of the agents work through RMAN

Re: Accept statement

2001-09-18 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Tuesday, September 18, 2001, 1:30:17 PM, you wrote: SH I'm am trying to use an accept statement to grab some info from the user in SH an SQL script, SH and then use that in a subsequent PL/SQL block. I can do the Accept ok, but SH can't sem to SH access the variable onside the block. Can anyone

Re: ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2001, Number 261

2001-09-18 Thread Eric D. Pierce
http://pnnonline.org/ ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Eric D. Pierce INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access /

RE: Determining Oracle status

2001-09-18 Thread Haunschmidt Andreas VASL/FAS
Hi Barry! We use the Oracle supplied program tnsping as in the following shell script snippet : - #!/bin/sh PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/$ORACLE_HOME/bin export PATH # get SQL*NET alias from first argument or use ORCL as default oradb=${1:ORCL}

Re:Determining Oracle status

2001-09-18 Thread dgoulet
Barry, Do you get the IOUG-A mag? There was a piece of Pro*C code therein (I'm the author) that did exactly what you want, but does not use SQL*Plus. There is also 'oiconnect' that should be in $ORACLE_HOME/bin. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author:

RE: Dump Oracle Tables To ASCII/Comma Delimited File ..Summary

2001-09-18 Thread Deepender Kr Gupta
Hi All, Here is the summary of all the mails I have recieved to Convert an oracle table into ASCII/Comma delimeted file. 1. Using sqlplus Set head off set pages 1000 spool result.lis Select col1 ||','|| col2 ||','|| col3 from table; spool off or 2. Set colsep , spool

RE: Determining Oracle status

2001-09-18 Thread Smith, Ron L.
We tried that but we had times that tnsping would work but the client could not connect to the database and return data. We changed to a sqlplus call which read the v$database view. If we could read that, everyone should be able to connect. That doesn't solve the timeout problem though. Ron

Re: ORA-00600

2001-09-18 Thread Joe Testa
call support. joe Sirisha wrote: Hi I get this error ORA-00600 when i try to execute a stored procedure. The stored procedure gets compiled perfectly but gives this error at run-time while executing it from a java code. This is what i found in the alert log. Tue Sep 18 04:57:14

RE: Determining Oracle status

2001-09-18 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Determining Oracle status tnsping $ORACLE_SID works pretty well... Nick -Original Message- From: Barry Deevey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 8:46 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Determining Oracle status Hi all,

AW: test schema from prod

2001-09-18 Thread Schoen Volker
Syntax is imp user/pw@instance file=export.dmp fromuser=PORDSCHEMA touser=TESTSCHEMA log=import.log If you call imp help=y you can see all import parameters. regards Volker Schoen E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inplan.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Smith, Ron L.

RE: Determining Oracle status

2001-09-18 Thread JOE TESTA
tnsping does not check for database up, its nothing more than a ping to a listener, they only sure way to see if the database is up is to connect to it. and its still that way in 9i. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/18/01 02:40PM Hi Barry!We use the Oracle supplied program tnsping as in the

RE: Accept statement

2001-09-18 Thread Guidry, Chris
Hi, Use variable -- Chris J. Guidry P.Eng. ATCO Electric, Metering Services Phone: (780) 420-4142 Fax: (780) 420-3854 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Steven Hovington [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 11:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of

Re: Materialized View/dbms_mview.refresh Question

2001-09-18 Thread mohammed bhatti
Just solved it...Duh! as sys grant alter any materialized view to User_B; --- mohammed bhatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a materialized view created by user A in schema A. The view consists of simple table joins and union statements. I want user B to be able to execute the refresh

Re: Good/Cheap Backup Agent?

2001-09-18 Thread DBarbour
Write your own scripts. Not inexpensive considering the labor cost, but highly satisfactory. David A. Barbour Oracle DBA, OCP AISD 512-414-1002 Walter K

Re: Good/Cheap Backup Agent?

2001-09-18 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Go for it! Rman is cheap (free with Oracle) and works well. You can either run it from OEM (Backup Manager) or directly from the rman prompt or using shell scripts. Good luck, Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September

RE: The DBA in the IS organization

2001-09-18 Thread Grabowy, Chris
I have done a couple DBA trips to the UK. For food, I always skip the restaurants and goto the pubs, the food has always been fresh and just great!! I usually order the special for the day, just to try different things. As for people, everyone has always been very polite and friendly. On one

Deploying middle-tier on unix.

2001-09-18 Thread Amar Kumar Padhi
We use 3-tier architecture to run our application, the middle tier being an OAS. How many of you have the middle tier on UNIX platform? I want to know the pros and cons of having my executables kept on unix server which are then being accessed from a windows based client. Most of the links I

Re: Determining Oracle status

2001-09-18 Thread DBarbour
Barry, Depending on your shell, start a timer (korn supports TMOUT). If you don't get a valid response within N seconds (trap the signal), you've got a problem. David A. Barbour Oracle DBA, OCP AISD 512-414-1002

RE: Lots and lots of redo logs

2001-09-18 Thread Bill Buchan
Out of curiosity and as a test I scrubbed my 16Mb RAID1 array and set it up again with 5 x 50Mb redo groups. I ran the following script to generate lots of redo: begin for i in 1..1500 loop insert into test_table values (mod(i,10)); delete from

Re:Determining Oracle status

2001-09-18 Thread DBarbour
Dick, I haven't seen oiconnect since v7x. I used to use it (as we've discussed here previously, tnsping and grepping processes for smon, pmon and the like won't provide you with a definitive answer for a variety of reasons), but have since switched to actually logging into the database via a

RE: ORA-00600

2001-09-18 Thread Jeffery Stevenson
What version of Oracle are you running? I've seen this ORA-00600 mentioned in two different patchset fixes (but I guess the bugs weren't public, 'cause I couldn't view any details on them, so I can't be sure that the other arguments in the 600 are referring to the same type of error you're

RE: Alternatives to roles in procedures?

2001-09-18 Thread Jesse, Rich
Surely, my good man, you jest! I'm just happy that I convinced peoples that SELECT ANY TABLE, DELETE ANY TABLE, etc were BAD for app accounts. That's why I need to do all the GRANTs. Waiting for that first accidental drop of a SYS object... Rich Jesse System/Database

RE: DB Names in multiple oracle installs

2001-09-18 Thread Walthour, Jon (GEAE, Compaq)
Title: Message Sujatha: I've never done this myself, but I would think if you set us a second listener on a different port, it should work from a SQL*Net point of view. However, you'd probably have problems in the ORATAB file and in the local environment itself with things like svrmgrl. On

time synchronization

2001-09-18 Thread Shevtsov, Eduard
Hi List, we have about 2 min difference between the time on our db server and the rest boxes in our network. Actually, the time on DB server is 2min slow than the network time.It causes real pain to us. I think about the following order of time synchronization: 1. Normal shutdown the DB and

RE: Determining Oracle status

2001-09-18 Thread Glenn Travis
Here's mine. Substitute 'user/pass' for 'internal' when running against external instances... if sqlplus -s EOF | grep -q XOK internal select dummy||'OK' from dual; EOF then echo Oracle Instance ${ORACLE_SID} is up. else echo Oracle Instance ${ORACLE_SID} is down. fi

Need assistance with a 'VIEW'.

2001-09-18 Thread William Rogge
I have been given the nice task of creating a view of some data in our database. This doesn't seem like a major task, but after 2 days of work, I am stumped. Given table 'table1' code1, code2, date, value1, value2 I need to produce a view showing code1, code2,

OT: Need Hardware advice under Linux

2001-09-18 Thread Schoen Volker
Title: OT: Need Hardware advice under Linux Hi List, I want so setup new oracle server (for developement) under linux. I will install RedHat 7.1. What I like to know is what processor should I choose AMD Athlon 1,4 Ghz or Intel 1,5 Ghz, I would prefer AMD. Are there any know problems

Need assistance with a 'VIEW'.

2001-09-18 Thread William Rogge
I have been given the nice task of creating a view of some data in our database. This doesn't seem like a major task, but after 2 days of work, I am stumped. Given table 'table1' code1, code2, date, value1, value2 I need to produce a view showing code1, code2,

RE: Copy Oracle's binary.

2001-09-18 Thread Feng, Jun
Your were right. If you want to upgrade the copied Oracle, you would have problem. What we didwas move the executables from environment to environment, so we only do one time install on development machine, and copy the executables to all others (test and product). Jun -Original

RE: 9i D/l

2001-09-18 Thread Christopher Spence
Been getting that error for a long time when I tried getting the Linux version. 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)

RE: Looking for 24 X 7 Design Considerations

2001-09-18 Thread Christopher Spence
Only a little over 4 years here and a sys admin for 7, but I completely agree 100%. What a lot of people neglect is the bugs that he mentioned, yeah it may test well under development, or under certain testing, and may even run fine for a while even months, but when one of those new bugs come up

OT RE: The DBA in the IS organization

2001-09-18 Thread Michael Barger
*How* is this related to oracle? There is an OFF-TOPIC list for this list for these kinds of posts.. Please keep them there. Michael B, Who is not afraid to ask people to keep off-topic stuff off this list. At 07:46 AM 9/18/01 -0800, Grabowy, Chris wrote: I have done a couple DBA trips to

Re: 8.1.7.2.1 patch for hp-ux 64 bit

2001-09-18 Thread Joan Hsieh
I have no problem to download this patch for AIX. I used winzip to unzip it. Joan -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Joan Hsieh INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California

RE: How to interpret Alert.Log Trace files...

2001-09-18 Thread Christopher Spence
Sometimes you can resolve ORA-600 messages, there are a few documented ones (not by oracle of course). But generally I would say it to be very good practice to call Oracle and have a tar in place for it, they do very little to document ORA-600 messages, there are many combinations. Although, I

OT: Web Logic Server

2001-09-18 Thread Ivan_Rivera
Title: OT: Web Logic Server Greetings to all. Are there any Web Logic Guru's out there? Does anyone know of any forums/lists or url's that deal with web logic issues. Searching google seems to only point to bea's site. Anyone out there running 4.5.1? We're having some complications here

RE: any body come across, decreasing db_block_size.

2001-09-18 Thread Christopher Spence
Yes, it would work both ways. 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 Fuelspot 73 Princeton Street North,

RE: Determining Oracle status

2001-09-18 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Barry: I've seen responses saying to use TNSPING, but all that does is tell you if the listener is running on the destination machine. If the listener is up and no databases are up you will still get a positive response from TNSPING. So, here's what we do. This ksh function snippet requires

Info request for installing Ora 7.3 on AIX 4.1

2001-09-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Dba's, in my company they told me to create a DB on an IBM AIX box. I'm new on the AIX environment (I come from VMS) and I have only found the Oracle installation manual (Oracle7 Installation and Configuration Guide for IBM RS/6000 ) that seems to me a little confusing. There is someone,

Resources for Gateway to MQ Series

2001-09-18 Thread Bond Mike A Contr OC-ALC/TILC
Good morning, I am investigating Procedural Gateway for IBM's MQ Series. Documentation seems to be hard to find.Can anyone suggest a resource (links, books, etc) that would help in this area? Thanks, Mike

Re: Good/Cheap Backup Agent?

2001-09-18 Thread Walter K
I neglected to mention that we're trying to backup to tape. I'm not sure what is involved with configuring a media manager for Oracle that will allow Rman to work with a tape drive but it would seem to me at that point I'm into a 3rd party solution anyway. Yes? No? What does it take to get a

Re: Determining Oracle status

2001-09-18 Thread Richard Ji
Don't know how to change it to only 1 login attempt. But I would do a select sysdate from dual; after connect via sqlplus. This way if the 1st login failed, the SQL statement will cause the next two attemt fail as well and sqlplus will exit. Richard Ji [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/18/01 11:45AM

RE: truncating snapshots

2001-09-18 Thread A. Bardeen
Henry, OK, I think I see what you're trying to accomplish. By truncating the snapshot between refreshes, the refresh is essentially populating the snapshot with only the changed rows from the master site. Probably not supported, but I can't see that it would cause any real problems. The way

RE: ORA-00600

2001-09-18 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Call 1-800-223-1711, give them your CSI and tell them that I sent you. -Original Message- From: Sirisha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 2:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: ORA-00600 Hi I get this error ORA-00600 when i

## 7.3.4 to 8.1.6 Migration issue

2001-09-18 Thread Warkentien, Stephen
I am migrating from 7.3.4 to 8.1.6 (Enterprise Edition) on Solaris 2.8 Before running the migration I took all the tablespaces except SYSTEM and Rollback offline as recommended. When I issued Alter database open resetlogs; I got the following message for almost every file in the database: File

Re: Perl code example

2001-09-18 Thread Jared Still
I'm looking for a Perl example passing parameters. The code below has the userids and passwords hardcoded in clear text in the system line, parms 3 and 5 (five lines from the bottom), and the Oracle sid is hardcoded also. The code has to be changed to 1) read .pwd1 and .pwd2 files

sizeiof table!!!

2001-09-18 Thread Alexander Ordonez
Hi gurus, I need get the size in bytes of any table!!! thanks!!! @lex Lic. Alexander Ordóñez Arroyo Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social Soporte Técnico - División de Informática

List of changed objects in the DB

2001-09-18 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Hi all, is it possible to identify only those objects that have changed since a given date? Wait ... I know last_ddl_timestamp but we would like to EXCLUDE stored code which has been recompiled and INCLUDE only those procedures/ functions/ packages that were created. any ideas? TIA Raj

RE: Need assistance with a 'VIEW'.

2001-09-18 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
William, Views can't prompt the User for values. Maybe a stored function or procedure would be better? An application interface could store a User-provided Date in a public packaged variable, which could be referenced in the Where clause of the view. Do you want to Group By just Code1,Code2

RE: Determining Oracle status

2001-09-18 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
I don't how to stop after 1st failed attempt, but here is a script that I use to check if database is up or not. #!/usr/bin/ksh # # dbcheck : Script to check if datbase is up and accessible. #It tries to connect via SQL*Net (Net8) using a non-existing userid and password. # #

Re: Turning off output when running pl/sql

2001-09-18 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Just SET FEEDBACK OFF. SQL set feedback off serveroutput on size 2 SQL begin 2 dbms_output.put_line('Foo'); 3 end; 4 / Foo --- Steven Hovington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running a block of PL/SQL in SQL Plus (8.1.7), and when its completed it says the usual: PL/SQL

Re:Accept statement

2001-09-18 Thread dgoulet
Steve, Is that 'inside the block' or 'outside the block'? I assume inside. therefore try: accept var_a char prompt 'Insert your variable' declare local_var varchar2(100) := var_a; begin end; / Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Steven

RE: Looking for 24 X 7 Design Considerations

2001-09-18 Thread Kimberly Smith
Man, that was one of their most stable releases. Missing some nice features mind you. I wish I could bring one of my databases up to that level. I have one on a very buggy release of 7.3.3 but the vendor application that runs on it is not supported higher then that. -Original Message-

RE: Alternatives to roles in procedures?

2001-09-18 Thread Jesse, Rich
Interesting! However, if I had shown a real-world example, I think it would've poked a hole in your excellent idea. Add schema C (and D and E) onto this example that schema B also needs to access. Ain't no way in hell the devs are gonna rewrite all of their code to accommodate Jeff T's

RE: Determining Oracle status

2001-09-18 Thread Christopher Spence
Use sqlplus internal, although this goes away with 9i 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 Fuelspot 73

RE: RDA from OWS - anyone used it?

2001-09-18 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Steve, I've used it a couple of times on NT against a test instance. It seemed to produce some useful information re wait events, tablespace sizings etc but probably nothing that you wouldn't be collecting anyway. It does however put them into a nice html report. Would be useful I imagine for

Re: Determining Oracle status

2001-09-18 Thread Sakthi , Raj
Check out the following script. *** SCRIPT STARTS HERE* #!/usr/bin/sh ### # # Auther : Raj Sakthi # # Modification History: #

Re: time synchronization

2001-09-18 Thread John Carlson
Oracle is designed to handle time changes. For example switching to and from daylight savings. This is because the archive logging is not dependent on a date. It has its own sequence. Therefore changing the date and time even while oracle is up is no problem. I have done this many times for

RE: List of changed objects in the DB

2001-09-18 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: List of changed objects in the DB you might want to take a look at Schema Manager from Quest Software (www.quest.com)... it will not only show you what has changed since the last time you used it... but also build you the code to apply and rollback those changes to different

need an 8.0.5 client and an 8.1.7 client on same machine

2001-09-18 Thread Doug C
I need to get an 8.0.5 client and an 8.1.7 client working on the same machine. Currently, the 8.1.7 is the only one installed. This is an NT winframe/metaframe server running NT 4.0. Some apps use the 8.1.7 client and some will require the 8.0.5. Any suggestions before I start the surgery?

Re: Need assistance with a 'VIEW'.

2001-09-18 Thread Greg Moore
A view is simply an SQL statement. In your case you want the user to be able to specify a specific date. The problem is quite specific: Each different date makes a new SQL statement. But a view is based on a single SQL statement, not multiple SQL statements. It's like saying you want to sew

RE: Need assistance with a 'VIEW'.

2001-09-18 Thread Gogala, Mladen
And you want be able to do it. Views do not prompt, do not execute anything and do not run marathons. Views are static views of data. Please, read the fine manual. -Original Message- From: William Rogge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 11:47 AM To:

Re: Deploying middle-tier on unix.

2001-09-18 Thread Jared . Still
Amar, I've use OAS on both platforms. The unix variety is easier to maintain for the most part. The only unix specific difficulties I ran into were caused by case sensitivity. Many forms were calling other modules with inconsistent case, and I had to find these and modify them before the

RE: RDA from OWS - anyone used it?

2001-09-18 Thread Orr, Steve
Bruce and List, probably nothing that you wouldn't be collecting anyway Yup, it's pretty lightweight as a database monitoring tool... but I don't think that was the intent. When you consider everything they've brought together it makes a decent system documentation tool... especially from a

Re: Renaming GLOBAL_NAME

2001-09-18 Thread Mario Alberto Ramos Arellano
I tried all the suggestions and the only one that worked was updating the global name directly to the table. Mario Alberto Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17/09/01 16:35 Thank you all for your replies. I bounced the database and still it has the same problem. Regards, Prasad

Sqlplus tunning

2001-09-18 Thread Sinardy
Hi, I have 2 big tables, ITEM (is about 1 million rows) and RTNITEM (is about 20K rows) When I do: SELECT ITEM.no, NVL(SUM(ITEM.CUSTSOLD), 0), NVL(SUM(RTNITEM.CUSTRTN) FROM ITEM, RTNITEM WHERE ITEM.no=RTNITEM.no GROUP BY ITEM.no; Time to execute above query is to long.

RE: Alternatives to roles in procedures?

2001-09-18 Thread Rachel Carmichael
isn't it still simpler to let the schema owner own procedures that access tables in that schema, and grant execute on the procedures rather grant SIUD on all tables owned by each schema owner? I'd think there would be fewer procedures than tables in each schema From: Jesse, Rich [EMAIL

Re: Compiling package

2001-09-18 Thread Raymond Lee Meng Hong
Hello guru I need help on this , I got 2 database reside in 2 server , 1 is a AIX -server , another is a winnt server , everything go smooth when I compile my package( which consist of 10 procedure , 10 function inside)in the winnt server , but when I move my package to another testing

RE: need an 8.0.5 client and an 8.1.7 client on same machine

2001-09-18 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Doug, I wrote the below without noticing that it was a winframe server. I haven't used a winframe server before. So, if it was a normal PC I would do what is below. I would probably do the same thing on a winframe server - I would just want to try it on a test server first. 805 on NT is not

Re: Sqlplus tunning

2001-09-18 Thread ASHRAF SALAYMEH
Try to use Index for big table ITEM To avoid full table scan. Create index item_index on item(no); This will speed the process... --- Sinardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have 2 big tables, ITEM (is about 1 million rows) and RTNITEM (is about 20K rows) When I do: SELECT ITEM.no,

Re: Lots and lots of redo logs

2001-09-18 Thread Paul Drake
Bill Buchan wrote: Out of curiosity and as a test I scrubbed my 16Mb RAID1 array and set it up again with 5 x 50Mb redo groups. I ran the following script to generate lots of redo: begin for i in 1..1500 loop insert into test_table values (mod(i,10));

CLOB trigger problem

2001-09-18 Thread Campbell, James
Dear listers, I am trying to copy an updated CLOB from a table in one database (let's call it A) to the equivalent table in another database (called B just to be original). I have written triggers and procedures to do this (one package on each database), and I am passing the contents of the

Re: Sqlplus tunning

2001-09-18 Thread Deepender Kr Gupta
try nested query in place of sort join method... - Original Message - Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 11:10 am Try to use Index for big table ITEM To avoid full table scan. Create index item_index on item(no); This will speed the process... --- Sinardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]