Re: Tracing a sql statement also to include bind variables

2001-09-26 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
Dear List, I couldn't find this dbms_support.start_trace_in_session(sid,serial#,TRUE,TRUE) Platform WinNT Oracle 8.1.7 Pl let me know venkat -- On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 03:05:19 Christian Trassens wrote: Execute as sys or dba user the package dbms_system.set_ev(sid,serial#,10046,12,''); Or with

Re: select * from dual;

2001-09-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Oracle has implemented an X$DUAL 'table' in recent versions of Oracle, which is the target for 'DUAL' when the database is not open. Like (all) X$ table, this mapping into the SGA contains an address, index, and instance id as well as the data column(s). It's just unfortunate that Orale

A range function ??

2001-09-26 Thread Denham Eva
Hi, I would like to exclude an arrange of characters. there is for instance: not in ('A','B','C','D','E'...); Is there not perhaps something easier? ie: not in ( A-Z, a-z) ; Does anyone know of a function or some other more economical way of doing this? Many Regards Denham -- Please

Number of locked rows or how many locks when update a bitmap inde

2001-09-26 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Hi, Is it possible to find out the actual number of locked rows? For example: SQL desc test Name Null?Type - F NUMBER(38) SQL select * from test; F -- 1 1 1

RE: A range function ??

2001-09-26 Thread Szecsy Tamas
try using not between 'a' and 'z' and not between 'A' and 'Z' ; -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 8:45 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I would like to exclude an arrange of characters. there is for instance: not in

RE: A range function ??

2001-09-26 Thread Iulian . ILIES
Try this ASCII(your_char) NOT BETWEEN ASCII('A') AND ASCII('Z') ASCII('A')-ASCII('Z') is an interval and ASCII('a')-ASCII('z') is another so be careful _ Iulian Ilies mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday,

RE: A range function ??

2001-09-26 Thread Denham Eva
Thanks Folks, So far all the examples have worked wonderfully. Thank You all Denham Eva -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 8:45 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I would like to exclude an arrange of characters. there is for instance: not in

external authentication issue

2001-09-26 Thread GKor
Hi everyone We introduced external authentication on windows 2000. I had the following init.ora parameter set REMOTE_LOGIN_PASSWORDFILE = EXCLUSIVE OS_AUTHENT_PREFIX= and i forgot to set REMOTE_OS_AUTHENT = true. connect with a / didn't work (of course). I searched on Metalink and found 2

RE: ORACLE VS. SYBASE

2001-09-26 Thread Guy Hammond
Ooops, I meant to say that a the article I was responding to was factually incorrect, not my own post :0) g -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hmm, quite a bit of this is factually incorrect, and may be based on a

stored outlines + remote db access

2001-09-26 Thread Hatzistavrou Giannis
Dear All, We have an application that was performing very bad when we migrated a remote database from 7.3.4.40 to 8.1.6.3.0. SInce we do not have time to tune all queries issued by the application we thought that stored outlines is the way to go. The application connect tos the remote side

RE: Tracing a sql statement also to include bind variables

2001-09-26 Thread Mark Leith
That is beacuase it is not DBMS_SUPPORT, it is DBMS_SYSTEM: exec sys.dbms_system.set_sql_trace_in_session(sid,serial#,TRUE|FALSE); HTH Mark -Original Message- Subramanian Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 07:45 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dear List, I couldn't find

RE: Alert log from Remote client

2001-09-26 Thread O'Neill, Sean
Nirmal, Perhaps the replies re AlertView have answered your question. AFAICR it requires FTP service to be running. You did not specify your Operating System. Do you simply want to view the Alert logs and Trace files for the various databases or be alerted if an error appears in Alert Log or

RE: Tracing a sql statement also to include bind variables

2001-09-26 Thread Mark Leith
WOW!! What a typo!! That should of course be *because*.. LOL.. Mark -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:45 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L That is beacuase it is not DBMS_SUPPORT, it is DBMS_SYSTEM: exec

How to tune treewalk sql statement

2001-09-26 Thread ASHRAF SALAYMEH
Dear List, I have an Sql statement use start with and connect by clause. How can I tune this sql statement? So it will take less time Regards, Ashraf Salaymeh __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo!

Re: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread O'Neill, Sean
Some comments and queries interspersed below. From: Steven Lembark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:18:05 -0500 Subject: Re: Physical access to servers for maintenance Begin Snip Simplest method would be to say no we don't need it now, what is the pager number of someone we can use

RE: Oracle DBA Team Leader Needed in Arkansas-4 Day Work Week..

2001-09-26 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Do they mean the Capitol, or the capital city? Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From: OraStaff [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 6:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: coalesce tablespace

2001-09-26 Thread Skurský Michal
Thanks for reply, especialy to Barbara and Bruce. I made some experiments: I think, fragmentation plays no role (PERCENT_BLOCKS_COALESCED is mostly 100). Execution plan is the same on Win NT and Open VMS. Optimizer methods choose and rule gives almost the same results. Select from table FET$ (

RE: How to tune treewalk sql statement

2001-09-26 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Can you post the query so we can have a nosey at it?? Kev... hit any user to continue -Original Message- Sent: 26 September 2001 12:20 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dear List, I have an Sql statement use start with and connect by clause. How can I tune this sql

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Christopher Spence
Title: RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance This doesn't work for NT machines, and it with Unix you cannot install 8.1.6 without X access. 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

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Christopher Spence
I do 99% of what I need from SSH as well, the only exception is hardware and installs, which I have someone in the data center do. Of course, under NT this is completely different. Although Win2000 does have a funky Telnet. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that

RE: Tracing a sql statement also to include bind variables

2001-09-26 Thread Christian Trassens
I think it comes with 8.0.4. I don't know exactly. However I enclose it one copy. Regards. --- Mark Leith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WOW!! What a typo!! That should of course be *because*.. LOL.. Mark -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:45 To: Multiple

Re: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Jan Pruner
Ohhh, it works! All you need is ... ??? (Telnet server alias telnetd) :-))) JP On Wed 26. September 2001 14:45, you wrote: This doesn't work for NT machines, and it with Unix you cannot install 8.1.6 without X access. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance OK, terminal services? I agree that install is an exception. It's nearly impossible if you aren't sitting in front of the host. -Original Message- From: Christopher Spence [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September

RE: coalesce tablespace

2001-09-26 Thread Libal, Ivo
Do you have the same parameters in init.ora file? Parameters like sort_are_size might be important for performace of such a query. What are waits during processing? Ivo -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 02:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks for

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)
Title: RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance Are you talking NT only or install in general? On unix all you need is a decent X-windows package for your PC (Exceed, ChameleonX, Reflection X?, etc). I've been here 3 years, installed at least 30 new systems and have never been in

RE: How TSPITR?

2001-09-26 Thread Christian Trassens
The controlfiles have to be a backup controlfile from the source database, as the one you create with: alter database backup controlfile to '.' Regards. --- Seema Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did. in initCLONE.ora file control_files = Name of control file would be new name or

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Christopher Spence
8.1.6 and higher you must use the interactive installer, it will not work through telnet. As far as I have seen, it is the same for 9i as well, unless I missed the documents on a new character based installer. Unless something has changed recently. Do not criticize someone until you walked a

FW: Platform

2001-09-26 Thread Libal, Ivo
If you are interested I found the answer on metalink: select dbms_utility.port_string from dual; Ivo -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 02:09 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Hello how is it possible in PLSQL to decide on which operating system (NT/LINUX)is server

RE: SQLNet.ora file

2001-09-26 Thread Guy Hammond
It was probably configured not to permit remote access. You don't need sqlnet.ora, but it's useful if you want to use authentication (for example, on an NT network). Cheers, g -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 8:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am

Forms Developer - Conversion Trouble

2001-09-26 Thread Iulian . ILIES
... w number; ... x := get_window_property(my_win, width); ... What's wrong with this code. I get the message '...ORA-06502...' I check the return value of get_window_property and it's a varchar2 value like '400,000' Oracle itself has in help an example like this a number variable is assigned

Preventing user access

2001-09-26 Thread O'Neill, Sean
If I wish to do work on a database logging in to server itself and want to prevent users from accessing the system via network is there another way to do this if I don't want to use the enable restricted session functionality. I'm thinking there's probably a neat way to utiltise the listener

DBA assessment - slightly OT

2001-09-26 Thread O'Neill, Sean
If you were to choose 10 questions to evaluate the competency of a DBA what would they be given that the result would be their competence would be rated as of the following: - TERRIBLE (I would not let them within 100 miles of a database) - FAIR (I'd show them some basic admin, but do

RE: How to tune treewalk sql statement

2001-09-26 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Does anyone else keep getting this message? K. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - no such user here. Hi, No such user found.Please check the Mail ID. Regards Sys Admin Team : Message contains [1] file attachments DISCLAIMER: This email is bound by the terms and conditions

RE: [Q] privilege allow user kill session???

2001-09-26 Thread ef 8454
Thank you for the answer. Do you have sample program? From: Jacques Kilchoer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [Q] privilege allow user kill session??? Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:55:34 -0800 Write a

Controlling disk space usage

2001-09-26 Thread O'Neill, Sean
Wondering what folk out there do to manage disk space usage by tablespaces. Is it common/bad practice to have MAXSIZE unlimited and/or MAX_EXENTS set to a value which if reached would be larger than disk capacity and therefore regular observation of space is required, or is there a better way to

RE: Preventing user access

2001-09-26 Thread Mark Leith
Sean, How about creating an admin listener (admin_listener for example) that is only defined in your own listner.ora file on your desktop PC, and not in the users listener.ora files. When you want to restrict them from access, simply shut down their listener, whilst keeping your own open? This

Re: Platform

2001-09-26 Thread nlzanen1
Hi, You can always check for the location of the datafiles. Their location on nt should start with {A-Z}:\ and can be evaluated through a substring command or something Jack Libal, Ivo [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fatcity.com on 26-09-2001 15:10:23 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:

RE: Platform

2001-09-26 Thread Daemen, Remco
How about trying one, build an exception, and on exception try the other ? HTH, Remco -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Libal, Ivo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: woensdag 26 september 2001 15:10 Aan: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Onderwerp: Platform Hello how is it possible

RE: the OT list

2001-09-26 Thread Gary Weber
Joe, I spoke to an Oracle employee about this recently (in past month). Since we utilize Names servers extensively,I would hate to redo entire infrastructure any time soon. Basically, I was told that Names will NOT go away any time soon, if at all. The idea to move to LDAP is great, but I

RE: Alert log from Remote client

2001-09-26 Thread Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran
Hi sean, My db is oracle816 on WinNT4. Acutally, i want to know how to access alert/trace files from the remote oracle server. Is the DBA should share access to the directory(background_dump_dest) for the remote adminstrator? In other way, i simply want to view the alert logs and trace files

Re: Preventing user access

2001-09-26 Thread nlzanen1
Hi, If U logon to the database server itself you can just stop the listener and nobody can logon through the tns connection. You can than set the oracle sid and logon using sqlplus username/password. If you want to use tns connection yourself you can set different temporary portnumbers and

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Rodd Holman
Not so. I have never installed using the host. We only have text console terminals attached to our host boxes, so we can't do an X install on the host. Have your SA or data center person copy the cd's to a place on the server and run it exporting your display using ssh or telnet to your

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance I meant install in general. It took forever to do it over a fairly weak network. Never went in the computer room? Really?? Cool :) But did someone physically load the cd on the host for you? Or did you run it from your pc? -Original

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread tday6
It's been a while but as I remember, for WinNT 4.0, I used to use the windows network to log in to the server, put the CD-ROM in my workstation, mount that on the server as a network drive, and do the GUI install. This worked with 8.1.4.

Re: Preventing user access

2001-09-26 Thread Jan Pruner
You can restrict access to db by IP address. JP On Wed 26. September 2001 16:25, you wrote: If I wish to do work on a database logging in to server itself and want to prevent users from accessing the system via network is there another way to do this if I don't want to use the enable

RE: Preventing user access

2001-09-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Preventing user access Hi Sean, someone on the list, his or her name escapes me, suggested two listeners. One for the general users and one for dba's only. You want to kick your users out, bring down the general use listener. Clever and slick! Lisa Koivu Oracle Database

Re: Preventing user access

2001-09-26 Thread Christian Trassens
You can use Connection Manager and define rules. Although you will need to change the net services entries of the tnsnames.ora or from the names or from LDAP, just to source the client to the Connection Manager before the server itself. Or if you use TCP/IP as the protocol for Net8, you can use

Re: Platform

2001-09-26 Thread Bill Buchan
I presume you mean utl_file, not dbms_file. Doesn't this need the utl_file parameter set up with the available directories - could you just check to see if this parameter includes c:\log or /log - Bill. At 05:10 26/09/01 -0800, you wrote: Hello how is it possible in PLSQL to decide on

RE: ANYONE OWN The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis

2001-09-26 Thread Mohan, Ross
Yes...it's quite impressive looking REAL metrics -- on top of sensible heuristics -- are hard to find. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 8:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Analysis Wow, I just went to read a few reviews on line and it does

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Last time we tried an install from a remote CD it took about 4 times longer to complete. Ron -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 9:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L It's been a while but as I remember, for WinNT 4.0, I used to use the windows network to

Re: the OT list

2001-09-26 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi, I think it's because they try to move more into the LDAP direction. Stefan JOE TESTA schrieb: Don't forget this list is now to be used for oracle topics only. If you want to post OT stuff, feel free to join the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ist. Although I've not seen the jokes/recipes on

RE: DBA assessment - slightly OT

2001-09-26 Thread Christopher Spence
1. What is the difference between a lock and a latch? 2. Explain what spinning is and why is it necessary? 3. What is the PL/SQL catch all exception called? 4. Where would you read about a deadlock that occurred? 5. How would you verify your data files you just backed up are not corrupt? 6.

RE: How to tune treewalk sql statement

2001-09-26 Thread Rachel Carmichael
me too -- Jared? please get rid of him? --- Thomas, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone else keep getting this message? K. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - no such user here. Hi, No such user found.Please check the Mail ID. Regards Sys Admin Team : Message

RE: Tracing a sql statement also to include bind variables

2001-09-26 Thread Mark Leith
You are right - DBMS_SUPPORT is for 7.something 8.0.5. 8i uses DBMS_SYSTEM AFAIK. List, please correct me if I'm wrong.. Mark -Original Message- Trassens Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 13:55 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I think it comes with 8.0.4. I don't know

RE: Performance problem with connect string (2nd attempt)

2001-09-26 Thread Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran
unable to open the zip files. -Original Message- From: Dharani Ravi [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:05 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Performance problem with connect string (2nd attempt) Hi, Last week I had

Re: How to tune treewalk sql statement

2001-09-26 Thread Anjan Thakuria
I am getting it too. I thought it was only me... Thomas, Kevin wrote: Does anyone else keep getting this message? K. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - no such user here. Hi, No such user found.Please check the Mail ID. Regards Sys Admin Team : Message contains [1] file

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)
Title: RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance We keep images of the cd-roms for all current (and past) versions on a 'software depot' (unix tar files) so I only need to have CDs loaded once for any given version. We only support Oracle on Unix, no NT systems. For most versions I

VB/Oracle question

2001-09-26 Thread Brian King
If I was going to distribute a client VB application connecting to Oracle, would I need to also distribute the Oracle Client tools or is there a small driver package to install without all the tools? Thanks, Brian King mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: Controlling disk space usage

2001-09-26 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: Controlling disk space usage Sean, I assume from your question that you are already using autoextend on your tablespaces. I personally do not use that option and therefore the chance of a tablespace expanding above available disk space never occurs. However in the event of my

enabling foreign key constraints

2001-09-26 Thread Harvinder Singh
Hi, When we do alter table table_name disable primary key cascade;..it also disable all the foreign key constraints but when we after do alter table table_name enable primary key..it does not enable foreign keys is there any syntax that we can enable all th foreign keys

RE: ANYONE OWN The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis

2001-09-26 Thread Mohan, Ross
I *did* miss you! Obligatory Oracle Message: Anyone hear about Oracle 10i yet? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 10:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Analysis Hehehe. I'll look at it. Just got back from vacation. I know you missed me... Scott SATX

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Kimberly Smith
Title: RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance Come to think about it, access to my server room for Unix installs would be a waste of my time. We have consoles on the servers with command line interface only. Works for maintaince during downtimes when the network is out (planned

RE: ORACLE VS. SYBASE

2001-09-26 Thread Miller, Jay
No guarantees as to accuracy, but I heard this story about 7 years ago from someone who said he was there. Apparently when the major Wall St. firms were deciding whether to go with Oracle or Sybase they arranged to have both companies come in and do presentations and say what special

dbsnmpc.log

2001-09-26 Thread Sandi . McClary
We have one server which is generating 4+ MB daily on the dbsnmpc.log and dbsnmpw.log. This is not generated on any of our other servers which are all supposedly set up with the same standards. The alert logs look fine, but the dbsnmpc.log, dbsnmpw.log, and nmiconf.log all show errors for

RE: Preventing user access

2001-09-26 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Preventing user access -Original Message- From: O'Neill, Sean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] If I wish to do work on a database logging in to server itself and want to prevent users from accessing the system via network is there another way to do this if I don't want

RE: How to tune treewalk sql statement

2001-09-26 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Can we block/filter whatever this message or user?? K. -Original Message- Sent: 26 September 2001 16:50 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am getting it too. I thought it was only me... Thomas, Kevin wrote: Does anyone else keep getting this message? K.

RE: Platform

2001-09-26 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Platform I've also used this query: select substr (banner, 9, instr (banner, ':') - 9) as os from v$version where banner like 'TNS for %' ; Because port_string is sometimes cryptic. For example, on my 7.3.4 database on Sun Solaris, here's what I get: SQL select

Re:VB/Oracle question

2001-09-26 Thread dgoulet
Brian, You need the SQL*Net/Net80 stuff to make the connection to Oracle. Regrettably the only way I know to get that to work is to install the Oracle Client. Otherwise there is bound to be something missing. OH, BTW: you'll also need to tell the end user how to configure their ODBC

Re: Preventing user access

2001-09-26 Thread JOE TESTA
protocol.ora file is no longer supported in 9i. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/26/01 11:25AM You can use Connection Manager and define rules.Although you will need to change the net servicesentries of the tnsnames.ora or from the names or fromLDAP, just to source the client to the

RE: VB/Oracle question

2001-09-26 Thread Shaw, John B
How are you connecting - if you are using odbc you will need the Oracle client software. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L If I was going to distribute a client VB application connecting to Oracle, would I need to

How to resolve Dr. Watson errors on Oracle clients when printing from forms...

2001-09-26 Thread Denmark Weatherburne
Hi DBA's I have been visiting a client user site that is reporting frequent Dr. Watson Application Errors when submitting report generation request from Oracle Developer 6.0 forms on Oracle 8.0.5.0.0 client machines. I observed that the same user can logon to another NT workstation and

RE: database link questions

2001-09-26 Thread Kathy Duret
This is what I eventually did and this fixed my database link problem. I could have done it like another list member suggested to use the whole edi.belkin.com in the database link name, but then I would have had to remember to do this for any future database links, so the one time alter of the

Re: Preventing user access

2001-09-26 Thread Christian Trassens
That's why I said Net8. On 9i the new name is Oracle Net and Oracle Net Services. Regards. --- JOE TESTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: protocol.ora file is no longer supported in 9i. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/26/01 11:25AM You can use Connection Manager and define rules. Although you

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Guy Hammond
VNC is fantastic, it's probably better for this sort of thing that a combination of X11 and PC Anywhere. Just for fun, I was running vncserver on a Sun, and vncclient on my Win2K machine, then I started up vncserver on Win2K and fired up the vncclient for Solaris (already running in a vncserver)

SQL*Loader Book

2001-09-26 Thread Ken Janusz
I will be using the book Oracle SQL*Loader The Definitive Guide to load flat files into an Oracle 8.1.5 DB. Would like to know if there are any errors / gotchas or missing information in this book that I need to be aware of? Thanks, Ken Janusz, CPIM Database Conversion Lead Sufficient Systems,

Tablespace fragmentation

2001-09-26 Thread Seema Singh
Hi How to remove tablespace fragmentation? Export/drop/import? If I export the db and import user wise then is it solve the problem? What are the precausion should taken care when we do such activities. Thanks -Seema _ Get your FREE

RE: How to tune treewalk sql statement

2001-09-26 Thread Jared . Still
He has been dispatched with alacrity, but not necessarily sanguinarily. Jared This electronic message contains information which may be confidential, privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. The information is intended to be used solely by the named recipient(s). If you are not a

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Kimberly Smith
Title: RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance You can use a tool such as ControlIT to connect to NT machines. Its how I do it, both from the office, and from home. How do all these people who claim you need access to the server room to do the day to day stuff provide remote

RE: ORACLE VS. SYBASE

2001-09-26 Thread Bryan, Miriam
Thanks to everyone that participated in this very informative, spirited and amusing discussion of these products, I'm wondering if we should go with MS server instead... Miriam -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 1:01 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L No

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread tday6
I didn't say it was perfect. I just said that it worked. (grin) If they insist on no physical contact then there are certain consequences, including network traffic being hosed during installs. This is also how I would install the client on users' workstations.

ENABLING FOREIGN KEY CONSTRAINTS

2001-09-26 Thread Harvinder Singh
Hi, When we do alter table table_name disable primary key cascade;..it also disable all the foreign key constraints but when we after do alter table table_name enable primary key..it does not enable foreign keys is there any syntax that we can enable all th foreign keys

RE: ANYONE OWN The Art of Computer Systems Performance

2001-09-26 Thread JOE TESTA
it will be installable thru the net and only run on dos 10i, which can be installed also. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/26/01 11:56AM I *did* miss you!Obligatory Oracle Message:Anyone hear about Oracle 10i yet?-Original Message-Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 10:35 PMTo: Multiple

RE: the OT list

2001-09-26 Thread JOE TESTA
interesting since the 9i docs basically say it wont be supported in the future, but look how long it took for server manager and connect internal to go away :) joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/26/01 11:00AM Joe, I spoke to an Oracle employee about this recently (in past month). Since we utilize

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance Thanks Mark. Lisa -Original Message- From: Mark Leith [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 11:56 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

Re:RE: Alert log from Remote client

2001-09-26 Thread dgoulet
Tony, Kindof a neat package, but I'd be looking for something that does not need a client to use it. I actually monitor my DB's from a program that then sends me the exceptions to it's capabilities. Oh, well, back to the drawing board!! Dick Goulet Reply

Re[2]: Preventing user access

2001-09-26 Thread Jonathan Gennick
--- O'Neill, Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I wish to do work on a database logging in to server itself and want to prevent users from accessing the system via network Wednesday, September 26, 2001, 11:25:29 AM, Christian Trassens wrote: CT You can use Connection Manager and define rules.

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Christopher Spence
I use VNC a lot on Win32 platform, and it is unbearably slow. On Unix platform it is much better. Although I must say VNC uses almost no resources and it tunnel able through SSH. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile

RE: Does start with/connect by uses full table scan?

2001-09-26 Thread Christopher Spence
You want to make sure there is an index on the start with and connect by clauses. 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:RE: ORACLE VS. SYBASE

2001-09-26 Thread dgoulet
Humm, IMHO Larry was right. Reply Separator Author: Miller; Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 9/26/2001 9:00 AM No guarantees as to accuracy, but I heard this story about 7 years ago from someone who said he was there. Apparently when the major Wall St.

RE: [Q] privilege allow user kill session???

2001-09-26 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: [Q] privilege allow user kill session??? From: Jacques Kilchoer Write a procedure that kills the relevant session(s) and grant the user execute access to that procedure. -Original Message- From: ef 8454 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Thank you for the answer. Do you have

Recall: ORACLE VS. SYBASE

2001-09-26 Thread YTTRI Lisa
YTTRI Lisa would like to recall the message, ORACLE VS. SYBASE. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: YTTRI Lisa INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet

RE: VB/Oracle question

2001-09-26 Thread Christopher Spence
You will need to distribute the drivers as well, of course, it depends on the type of interface, ADO, DAO, OLE. 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:

Help tuning the SGA...

2001-09-26 Thread Denmark Weatherburne
Hi DBA's/Developers, I've been monitoring our production Oracle database (8.0.5.0.0) on NT with Spotlight on Oracle. I've also read some documents relating to Oracle database tuning. I have identified some components that need to be tuned. One of them is the SGA. This is the current

Re: dbsnmpc.log

2001-09-26 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Try restarting the agent process on this server. If you are using scheduled jobs from OEM you will have to start these again. Remove the node from OEM. On the server stop the agent. Remove all of the .q files from ORACLE_HOME/network/agent. Then restart the agent and rediscover the node. This

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Jack C. Applewhite
Title: RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance Me too. We've got our 4 Production Win2k servers (2 Oracle8i servers, 2 Webservers) at a colocation facility and have used either PCAnywhere or Terminal Services to access them over the Internet for the last 9 months. The developers

RE: DBA assessment - slightly OT

2001-09-26 Thread Kimberly Smith
Look them up. Its the best way to learn. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 11:26 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Christopher, So, are you going to tell the list what the answers are so that those that don't know can benefit. Martin -Original

Re: SQL*Loader Book

2001-09-26 Thread Brian McGraw
You can find the information here: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orsqlloader/errata/ I have the same book, and think that it is a great one. Brian Ken Janusz wrote: I will be using the book Oracle SQL*Loader The Definitive Guide to load flat files into an Oracle 8.1.5 DB. Would like to

RE: ORACLE VS. SYBASE

2001-09-26 Thread Gary Weber
Stick to delimited text files and you'll be fine. Gary Weber Senior DBA Charles Jones, LLC||Superior Information Services, LLC 609-530-1144, ext 5529 -Original Message- Miriam Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 1:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks to everyone that

RE: VB/Oracle question

2001-09-26 Thread Brian King
We will be connecting OLEDB... -Original Message- B Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 12:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L How are you connecting - if you are using odbc you will need the Oracle client software. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 26,

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Steve . Parker
If you use Citrix on top of NT/2000 Terminal Services etc, your local drives can be mapped. I have used this to install printer drivers etc on a CD in my laptop onto the server. Local printers can be mapped too ! Steve Parker Technical Consultant LIS --

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