RE: Function

2001-10-24 Thread Ramasubramanian, Shankar (Cognizant)
Hi Divya, you have to use dynamicsql for calling the function . First step select the function name into a variable say ls_fn_name from the table func .Then create a dynamic statement 'Select' || ls_fn_name || ' from dual ' and cpature the return value into another variable . If u

DB FILE PARALLEL WRITE

2001-10-24 Thread nlzanen1
Hi, I have this DB FILE PARALLEL WRITE as the top event (right after SQL*NET,rdbms.,pmon smon) and according to the documentation this has to do with my DBWR but no mention is done on how to solve this. Is this purely another indication of poor disk performance or should I be looking

ora-03116

2001-10-24 Thread Bunyamin K. Karadeniz
we are experiencing ora-03116 error (invalid buffer length) How can we solve this . ? Urgent please . Thank you . Any Ýdea please ? bunyamin

analyze partitioned indexes

2001-10-24 Thread Daiminger, Helmut
Title: analyze partitioned indexes Hi, I want to write a procedure that analyzes all my indexes. But I'm not sure whether my source code will also analyze partitioned indexes. What I'm doing is: delete from admin.tb_index_stats where index_owner = '1'; commit; FOR

Re: os block size versus oracle bock size

2001-10-24 Thread Edward Shevtsov
Hi Jack and List, we have the same situation. Our DB (mainly OLTP) was built with db_block_size 8k and ext2 filesystem (Linux) has 4k block size. AFAIK 4k is max block size for ext2. Do you think it's worth to rebuild the DB with 4k block in order to adjust it to ext2's block size? I know it's

Re: v$sqlarea statistics

2001-10-24 Thread BINAY . KUMAR
Hi Deepak, Can you elaborate what is consistent gets - Eric, here's a high level from my understanding on this issue: Buffer gets {also called Logical IO's} These happen as oracle scans blocks of data in the buffercache(in-mem scans). Many people believe that since these are

RE: tool to dump out space info

2001-10-24 Thread Andrey Bronfin

Re: analyze partitioned indexes

2001-10-24 Thread Joe Testa
Helmut, have you tried your code, that would be the best way to see if it works(hint: partitioned indexes work pretty much like normal indexes, in that you can analyze the table and the indexes will be analyzed also, including partitioned tables/indexes). joe Daiminger, Helmut wrote: Hi,

RE: Function

2001-10-24 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Dpb, within PL/SQL you can: -- declare a variable to store the result from the function func_res number; -- within the PL/SQL block, call the function and store the result: func_res := calc_radius(5); -- or, you can select calc_radius(5) into func_res from dual; You do NOT need to

Code to Validate email addresses

2001-10-24 Thread Oweson Flynn
Hi, We have implemented a form that emails reports. The user has to enter his email address. However, we are finding that a lot of users are entering incorrect and invalid email addresses. Obviously, we can do nothing if they enter an incorrect (but syntactically correct) email address. What

AW: ADO.NET and Oracle 8.1.6

2001-10-24 Thread Schoen Volker
Try to connect with complete connect string (tnsname + names_default_domain from sqlnet.ora) regards Volker Schoen E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inplan.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2001

Help with passwords

2001-10-24 Thread G . L . Alink
Hi all, I've got a little question, which i can't find simply on metalink. I've got one user with a not know password and i want to temporary change it;s password. I know it is possible to save the hex-key in dba_users. But how can i change it back to that hex-key? I need temporary this user

RE: Code to Validate email addresses

2001-10-24 Thread Erik Williams
If it is an html form, you may want to consider implementing the code as JavaScript. This is how it was done at the last company I worked for. This way, the addresses are validated long before they get to the db. This was also the case for credit card numbers. Also, this moved the processing off

RE: Code to Validate email addresses

2001-10-24 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Quite tricky this one...I would imagine there will be a few combinations for valid email addresses, you could try looking at the World Wide Web Consortium page www.w3.org, or some similar site for the standards documents. HTH Kev. hit any user to continue __ Kevin Thomas

RAID for a development box

2001-10-24 Thread tday6
We're setting up a development box that will have a number of instances on it. We won't need any backup, since we can easily re-create the databases from testing instances. I'm planning on implementing the disk storage as RAID0 - a single logical volume stripped across all the drives (6), with

Re: Help with passwords

2001-10-24 Thread JOE TESTA
save the key then to set it back alter user username idenfified by values 'HEX KEY HERE'; joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/24/01 10:10AM Hi all,I've got a little question, which i can't find simply on metalink.I've got one user with a not know password and i want to temporary changeit;s

AW: Help with passwords

2001-10-24 Thread Schoen Volker
Hi Marco, Following select will generate a alter user with old password. After generating SQL you can change password of a user. With the generated SQL ypu can set password bak to original one. SELECT 'alter user ' || username || ' identified ' ||

Re: Help with passwords

2001-10-24 Thread Simon . Anderson
It's just ALTER USER username IDENTIFIED BY VALUES 'hex-key-whatever'; Substituting the username and password value from dba_users as appropriate. There are scripts that save it in a file with the commands to switch it back, but it's easy enough to do manually. Simon Anderson Hi all,

utl_file and record delimters

2001-10-24 Thread John Dunn
I need to use utl_file on a Unix server to process DOS format(CRLF) files. can I sepcify to utl_file waht the record delimiter is...or do I need to convert the files to Unix format before utl_file will read them correctly? John -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com --

Hostname

2001-10-24 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi, how can I retrieve the hostname from within PL/SQL ? TIA Stefan -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Stefan Jahnke INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public

Re: Code to Validate email addresses

2001-10-24 Thread Peter Gram
Hi The definition is found in RFC 2822 Internet Message Format (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2822.txt) Oweson Flynn wrote: Hi, We have implemented a form that emails reports. The user has to enter his email address. However, we are finding that a lot of users are entering incorrect and

RE: RMAN: nocatalog; remove backed up archived redos

2001-10-24 Thread Ramon Estevez
Leng, If you dont use a catalog with rman you wouldn't be able to store scripts to make automated backups and restore. Also that means that all the information about your backups will be stored in the control file of the target database, if you loose your controlfiles will loose all the

Re: Function

2001-10-24 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi, I guess what you want is more heading towards dynamic sql: Start with a PL/SQL block like this: DECLARE v_funcName VARCHAR2(50); v_statement VARCHAR2(255); BEGIN SELECT function_name INTO v_funcName FROM function WHERE function_name; v_statement := 'SELECT ' ||

RE: utl_file and record delimters

2001-10-24 Thread Ramon Estevez
Include it n your select statement select emp||','||name||','||sal from emp; This would return 10,MILLS,9 Here using comma as a delimiter Ramon E. Estevez [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 809-565-3121 -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: utl_file and record delimters

2001-10-24 Thread Igor Neyman
You can not specify the record delimiter with UTL_FILE. You can use UTL_FILE.GET_LINE to read records terminated with LF. LF will not be included in the return string. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA Perceptron, Inc. (734)414-4627 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of

Re: Code to Validate email addresses

2001-10-24 Thread Jared Still
If you want a definitive answer, this is it: http://RFC.net/rfc2822.html My suggestion would be that you don't actually allow all valid forms of addressing. The code to check that would be rather large to say the least, and the testing routine for it would not be too trivial either. Jared

RE: utl_file and record delimters

2001-10-24 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Does utl_file not just read the file a line at a time and then it is upto you to programmatically divide the data up into it's chunks using substr etc. Kev. hit any user to continue __ Kevin Thomas Technical Analyst Deregulation Services Calanais Ltd. (2nd Floor East - Weirs

Re: Help with passwords

2001-10-24 Thread tday6
The script below will generate a script that can be used to restore the userid to its original state. select 'alter user ' || username || ' identified by values ''' || password || || ' default tablespace ' || default_tablespace ||' temporary tablespace ' || temporary_tablespace || ' ;' from

Re: Hostname

2001-10-24 Thread Jared Still
select host_name from v$instance; Jared On Wednesday 24 October 2001 07:55, Stefan Jahnke wrote: Hi, how can I retrieve the hostname from within PL/SQL ? TIA Stefan -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City

RE: providing 24*7 database ---

2001-10-24 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: providing 24*7 database --- I couldn't verifythat the non-partitioned indexes become unusable after exchanging the partition for the normal table. In the sample I posted Isnipped the output of the queries on USER_INDEXES and USER_PART_INDEXES, but my tests showed that they remain

Re: Code to Validate email addresses

2001-10-24 Thread George Schlossnagle
- Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:15 AM Hi, We have implemented a form that emails reports. The user has to enter his email address. However, we are finding that a lot of users are entering

SQL Loader questions

2001-10-24 Thread YTTRI Lisa
Hi everyone - I need some help. We have an application running on 8.0.5 on NT. My programmer tells me that she should be able to add columns to a table simply by changing the sql loader control file definition of the input. I have looked through the documentation and tried several tests, but

sequence pool

2001-10-24 Thread Marin Dimitrov
Hi, is there a smart way to generate IDs in chunks? getting an ID with nextval is perfectly ok most of the time, but sometimes the application would need to generate a pool of IDs and keep them for later use as I can't manipulate the currval of the sequence, I wander what the best solution

wait events v$filestat.readtim

2001-10-24 Thread Ed Bittel
Are the 'db file scattered read' and 'db file sequential read' waits directly related to the readtim values in v$filestat? For every 1/100th sec of v$filestat.readtim, should I see corresponding wait time reported for the 'db file scattered read' or 'db file sequential read'? If this is the

How to detect transactions being rolled back?

2001-10-24 Thread Lau, John
Is there a way to detect if a transaction is currently being rolled back? ie. If it fails part way thru or is cancelled by the user? Thanks in advance, John This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No

Re: Help with passwords

2001-10-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
this is documented in Kevin Loney's 7.3 edition of the DBA Handbook (look for become_another_user.sql) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've got a little question, which i can't find simply on metalink. I've got one user with a not know password and i want to temporary change it;s

RE: sequence pool

2001-10-24 Thread Brian MacLean
Why not have the sequence increment by 20 (or something to your liking) and then in the application use the number from the sequence and the 19 numbers the sequence will skip. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 9:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, is

ORACLE 8.1.5 on NT run very slow ??

2001-10-24 Thread aaa aaa
We have HP server with NT 4.0 installed. This server dedicate for ORACLE use. The ORACLE version is 8.1.5 (no patch installed). we found the performance NOT really good. I turn on the performance monitor and found the memory page fault and memory pages/sec are very high while SQL statement

RE: How long are statistics good for

2001-10-24 Thread Anand Prakash
John My initial tests indicated that not all tables which had any DMLs were getting into the'stale category'. I checked the ratioA/B where: A is the sum of inserts+deletes+updates from user_tab_modifications B is num_rows from user_tables (or user_tab_partitions). I observed that if this

RE: RAID for a development box

2001-10-24 Thread Christopher Spence
On my NT Quad Development box I have 9x2 Raid 1 for OS/Oracle Files. Then Raid 0+1 for the 6 drives for data. It isn't perfect, but works good. If you do raid 0 with 6 drives, make sure you look into a good stripe size so you actually use the girth. Otherwise 0+1,1+0 may be a better option.

Please help! Recover a database on another server

2001-10-24 Thread Smith, Ron L.
We are trying to recover a database to another server. The backup was a hot backup. The files are all copied to the new server, along with the archive log that was created a few seconds after the hot backup was run. We bring the database up and apply the archive log and Oracle says recovery

RE: providing 24*7 database ---

2001-10-24 Thread Jim Conboy
Seemed fine when I tried it (and thanks for the idea!). The trick with the indexes is that the ones on the partitioned table have to be local, which was in the scripts provided, and the 'exchange partition' had to say 'including indexes', which was not. Adding 'including indexes' made this

RE: providing 24*7 database ---

2001-10-24 Thread Cherie_Machler
Tony, If the partitioned indexes have a locality of global (not local), then they become invalid after activity on the underlying table partitions. Does Narender say whether his indexes are global or local? Cherie Machler

Re: sequence pool

2001-10-24 Thread Marin Dimitrov
- Original Message - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 18:33 Why not have the sequence increment by 20 (or something to your liking) and then in the application use the number from the sequence and the 19 numbers the sequence will skip.

Re: SQL Loader questions

2001-10-24 Thread Yosi Greenfield
Lisa, No and no. Loader loads rows into tables. If you ask nicely, it will clean out the table completely before it does that. That's all it does. And it does it pretty well. It does not let users redefine tables. And it does not do selective update and delete based on the incoming data file.

RE: Please help! Recover a database on another server

2001-10-24 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Please help! Recover a database on another server sometimes the error message is a little strange... when it comes back 'media recovery complete' you can usually just do a 'alter database open;' command and not worry about resetting the logs. If you backed up the controlfiles,

RE: Please help! Recover a database on another server

2001-10-24 Thread Mohammed . Ahsanuddin
Ron, Make sure you have atleast applied the archive logs between Archive old log sequence number before start of hot backup and Archive current log sequence number after end of hot backup. It may not need all of them but you need the last one for incomplete recovery.. Mohammed Ahsanuddin

Re: SQL Loader questions

2001-10-24 Thread tday6
You might ask your programmer to read the manual. However, the first might be a nice enhancement but it's not currently available. As for the second, SQL*Loader either inserts into an empty table or appends to a table with existing data. It doesn't do an implicit update. However, if your

RE: RAID for a development box

2001-10-24 Thread tday6
use the girth -- I'd love to pretend that I knew what this means but someone might call me on it. What does it mean? Each drive is 36G. Christopher

RE: to find who is waiting for lock

2001-10-24 Thread Amar Kumar Padhi
Title: RE: to find who is waiting for lock DBA_WAITERS A table which gives information about sessions holding the lock and sessions waiting to lock the same object. rgds amar -Original Message- From: Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: sequence pool

2001-10-24 Thread tday6
Here's a kludged-together work-around. After you do your rare pool requests, drop the sequence and recreate it starting at MAX(ID)+1. There is no easier way to reset the sequence number.

Re: Help with passwords

2001-10-24 Thread John Carlson
Here is a script I use all the time to run jobs for other users. It saves the current password, sets the password to temp, connects to user, and sets it back to original setting. Now you are logged in as the new user but their password was only changed for less than a second. The script

RE: Please help! Recover a database on another server

2001-10-24 Thread John Kanagaraj
Ron, The backup was a hot backup. The files are all copied to the new server, along with the archive log that was created a few seconds after the hot backup was run. We bring the database up and apply the archive log and Oracle says recovery complete. We then do an alter database

Re: Please help! Recover a database on another server

2001-10-24 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Try ' recover database until time '2000/10/24 12:00:00' using backup controlfile;' That should eliminate this problem. Regards, Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 12:40 PM We are trying to recover a

Re: SQL Loader questions

2001-10-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
what documentation has your programmer been reading? as far as I know you can't add a column on the fly through a sqlloader control file, nor will oracle do an update to existing data. I'm not an expert, but I've never been able to do that --- YTTRI Lisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone

Weirdness

2001-10-24 Thread Kimberly Smith
Oracle 8.1.7.1 on HPUX 11 I have a table that I have just indexed every column. This has improved the query performance however, its going to slow down the load. Thing that has me confused is that I tried this as an IOT and it actually hurt performance. This table is joined to another table

Re: Please help! Recover a database on another server

2001-10-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
the key is when did you create the backup controlfile? Try using a backup controlfile as opposed to a copy of the controlfile. yes, there is a difference. --- Smith, Ron L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are trying to recover a database to another server. The backup was a hot backup. The

RE: SQL Loader questions

2001-10-24 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
That's it folks. We can all go home. Rachel says I'm not an expert. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L what documentation has your programmer been reading? as far as I

* Oracle Financials DBA needed in Maine..

2001-10-24 Thread OraStaff
Come work for this R D Company in beautiful Coastal Maine that is search of an ERP Oracle DBA to join it's I.T. staff. This company is near the ocean, mountains, forrests, lakes, and trails in a very low cost of living area. If you love high tech challenges but you're looking for a more natural

This is driving me nuts. What am I doing wrong here?

2001-10-24 Thread tday6
SQL declare 2 w_a number := 0; 3 w_b number:= 0; 4 w_c char(10) := null; 5 w_d number := 0; 6 cursor v_c_t is 7 select a,c,b from civ_test; 8 begin 9 for v_c_t_row in v_c_t loop 10 :w_d := w_d + 1; 11 :w_a := 0; 12 :w_c := null: 13 :w_b := 0; 14 :w_a := select c

v$tempstat question

2001-10-24 Thread Ed Bittel
I've been trying to track down the source of high 'direct path read' and 'direct path write' waits. It appears the waits are related to locally managed temporary tablespaces. However, I'm puzzled by what is reported in v$tempstat. SQL select FILE#, READTIM, WRITETIM, AVGIOTIM,

RE: Code to Validate email addresses

2001-10-24 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: Code to Validate email addresses I'd like to make a suggestion for a different approach. I'm thinking of something like a reverse check of the address. Check out this web service (http://beta2.eraserver.net/webservices/mxchecker/) that accepts an email address for validation. It

RE: providing 24*7 database ---

2001-10-24 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: providing 24*7 database --- Narender hasn't replied yet. But the sample I sent only uses local indexes since there is only one partition. I did see that Jim Conboy pointed out that I missed the 'including indexes' option. Tony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: This is driving me nuts. What am I doing wrong here?

2001-10-24 Thread eric harrington
Do you need a space when declaring the variable, w_b number := 0? -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:31 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L SQL declare 2 w_a number := 0; 3 w_b number:= 0; 4 w_c char(10) := null; 5 w_d number

RE: This is driving me nuts. What am I doing wrong here?

2001-10-24 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Remove the colons from the assignment statements. SQL declare 2 w_a number := 0; 3 w_b number:= 0; 4 w_c char(10) := null; 5 w_d number := 0; 6 cursor v_c_t is 7 select a,c,b from civ_test; 8 begin 9 for v_c_t_row in v_c_t loop 10 w_d := w_d + 1; 11 w_a := 0; 12

Re: This is driving me nuts. What am I doing wrong here?

2001-10-24 Thread Rakesh Gupta
change :w_b to w_b, :w_c to w_c and so on. you do not need to user :(colon) to assign values Rakesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/24/01 02:31PM SQL declare 2 w_a number := 0; 3 w_b number:= 0; 4 w_c char(10) := null; 5 w_d number := 0; 6 cursor v_c_t is 7 select a,c,b from

protocol adapter error ???

2001-10-24 Thread Janet Linsy
Hi, I installed 815 client and server on NT 4.0. When I use svrmgrl to connect to the database, I got 12560 protocol adapter error. I already commented out all the entries in sqlnet.ora file. What should I do ??? Thank you! Janet __ Do You

FW: ADO.NET and Oracle 8.1.6

2001-10-24 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: FW: ADO.NET and Oracle 8.1.6 (p.s. tday6 - please ignore my previous message, I hit the send button too quickly.) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Are the ODBC driver and SQL*Plus using the same tnsnames.ora file? Yes, as far as I can

[Q] what difference between count(0), count(1) and count(*)

2001-10-24 Thread aaa aaa
Can anyone tell me what is difference between : select count(*) ... from .. select count(0) ... select coun (1) ... select count(2) ... Thanks. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at

Re: v$sqlarea statistics

2001-10-24 Thread Deepak Thapliyal
Binay, from what i understand, these type of block reads relate to read consistancy .. meaning that if oracle wants to read block x but it finds that it is dirty , it reads from the rollback segments to give you the point in time snapshot as it existed at the time when you had first started the

Re: Please help! Recover a database on another server

2001-10-24 Thread Deepak Thapliyal
why does he need a backup control file? this appears to be a straightforward case of moving databases(i mean restoring to a new host). does not look like they have done structural changes or things like that. ron do you use rman? if not then someone earlier suggested taking the datafiles off

Re: [Q] what difference between count(0), count(1) and count(*)

2001-10-24 Thread Deepak Thapliyal
i think count(*) gives count of all columns .. where as count(col1) gives count for col1 ignoring nulls in col1 Deepak --- aaa aaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me what is difference between : select count(*) ... from .. select count(0) ... select coun (1) ...

Re: ORACLE 8.1.5 on NT run very slow ??

2001-10-24 Thread Jared . Still
aaa aaa, ( if that's your real name :) Considering that your page faults are very high, take a look at the sizes of db_block_buffers, db_block_size, and shared_pool_size for starters. 512 Meg of RAM isn't exactly an overabundance, but will perform especially badly if you've allocated all of it

RE: Please help! Recover a database on another server

2001-10-24 Thread Smith, Ron L.
The control file was backed up the same time the data files were backed up. The control file from the backup is what we are using. Ron -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 1:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L the key is when did you create the backup

Re: Please help! Recover a database on another server

2001-10-24 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Are you sure, if you don't state 'using backup controlfile' it will use the control file you usd to startup the database. Just a thot, Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 3:46 PM The control file was

RE: analyze partitioned indexes

2001-10-24 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: analyze partitioned indexes -Original Message- From: Daiminger, Helmut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I want to write a procedure that analyzes all my indexes. But I'm not sure whether my source code will also analyze partitioned indexes. ... - with the command analyze

RE: RAID for a development box

2001-10-24 Thread Christopher Spence
If you have a Raid 0 of 6 drives and set a strip size to be 16K, then the girth (or commonly referred to as stripe width) is 16k x 6 or 96K, if you write less than 96K you will only use some of the drives. With a write-back caching controller it can hold writes to speed transactions but also to

RE: SQL Loader questions

2001-10-24 Thread YTTRI Lisa
Thanks to all for reconfirming this for me. I had never heard of SQL Loader doing these things, but couldn't quite convince the programmer. What I have since found out is that once upon a time, a consultant came in and set up the job that loads their data - and left without documenting it. Lo

RE: protocol adapter error ???

2001-10-24 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: protocol adapter error ??? -Original Message- From: Janet Linsy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I installed 815 client and server on NT 4.0. When I use svrmgrl to connect to the database, I got 12560 protocol adapter error. I already commented out all the entries in

RE: Please help! Recover a database on another server

2001-10-24 Thread Alexander Ordonez
try to recreate a control file!!! @lex Lic. Alexander Ordóñez Arroyo Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social Soporte Técnico - División de Informática Telefono: 295-2004, San

RE: Please help! Recover a database on another server

2001-10-24 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Aren't they the same? If I restore the control file from the backup. There was no control file on the server before I did the restore. Ron -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 3:06 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Are you sure, if you don't state 'using

RE: analyze partitioned indexes

2001-10-24 Thread Cherie_Machler
If you analyze all of the partitions in an index (one partition at a time) is the performance of the the end result the same as it would be if you just analyzed the entire index at one time (not partition by partition). Thanks, Cherie

RE: RAID for a development box

2001-10-24 Thread tday6
Thanks. Now all I have to do is coach our SA past the HP auto-config. -- 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

BLOB ???

2001-10-24 Thread Andrea Oracle
Hi, all I have a table that has a column with BLOB data type. When I do a select I got: SP2-0678: Column or attribute type can not be displayed by SQL*Plus And I don't know how the data got inserted there. Could anyone let me know how to insert and display BLOB contents. Thank you! Andrea

RE: Please help! Recover a database on another server

2001-10-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
it depends on how you created the control file that was on the backup. If you just copied the control file from disk, that would explain your problem. If you did a alter system backup controlfile to file and then backed that one up and moved it to the other server and then did a recover

Re: BLOB ???

2001-10-24 Thread Brian McGraw
Andrea - That's a standard message when you perform a select * against a table with a BLOB column, or explicitly select the BLOB column via SQL*Plus. You say that you don't know how data got into the table - are you sure that data is actually in the BLOB column? You can use the

Can I add redo log group diffrent from

2001-10-24 Thread Seema Singh
Hi My redo log group# is 5,6,7.If I want to add more redo log group then Can I add group#9? As far I know there will be not impact on Database but let me know group view please. Thanks -Seema _ Get your FREE download of MSN

RE: BLOB ???

2001-10-24 Thread Johnston, Tim
Title: RE: BLOB ??? Look at the documentation for the Supplied PL/SQL Package Reference... Read the information about DBMS_LOB... That should get you started... Tim -Original Message- From: Andrea Oracle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 5:16 PM To:

RE: Weirdness

2001-10-24 Thread Johnston, Tim
Title: RE: Weirdness First off... Did you place a separate index on every column or one index that included every column? Second, either of those is methods is probably overkill... The real questions you have to ask are... Have you determined the execution plan of the statement yet? What was

Speaking the same language

2001-10-24 Thread Djordje Jankovic
We need to communicate inside a team made of DBAs that support different database platforms: oracle, sql*server, Sybase, adabase (Am I wrong that sql*server and sybase terminology is pretty much the same?). There are some terminology differences between different databases (to start with the

RE: ORACLE 8.1.5 on NT run very slow ??

2001-10-24 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Hi, If you open up task Manager on the server, and swap to the performance tab, how much physical memory is shown as available? While you're on that tab, how much total physical memory does Task Manager report? As per Jared's question, what do the following 2 queries show? select * from v$sga;

RE: Please help! Recover a database on another server

2001-10-24 Thread Deepak Thapliyal
especially if you are restoring to a new server then typically i would issue rman -- restore controlfile which would get the backup from tape --- Smith, Ron L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aren't they the same? If I restore the control file from the backup. There was no control file on the

RE: How to detect transactions being rolled back?

2001-10-24 Thread Brian MacLean
The script included will produce the following output. The key for you would be to watch the #Of Undo Blks Used column. If it's incrementing the updates, etc. are in progress. If it's decreasing, the transaction is being rolled back. Hope this helps. Wed Oct 24 page1

Re: Can I add redo log group diffrent from

2001-10-24 Thread Deepak Thapliyal
Seema, so long as you dont drop the current log you are fine:) adding logs will have zero impact in terms of db impact or availabilty. One of the things you could do is immediately take a backup of your control file just in case; Deepak --- Seema Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi My redo

Re: [Q] what difference between count(0), count(1) and count(*)

2001-10-24 Thread dist cash
Thank you for answer. How about count(0)? From: Deepak Thapliyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Q] what difference between count(0), count(1) and count(*) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:41:11 -0800 i think

RE: Oracle Vs SQL Server / Re: ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2001, Number 296

2001-10-24 Thread Eric D. Pierce
http://certcities.com/editorial/columns/story.asp?EditorialsID=23 - http://www.google.com/search?as_q=num=100btnG=Google+Searchas_epq=oracle+vs.+sql+serveras_oq=as_eq=lr=as_qdr=allas_occt=anyas_dt=ias_sitesearch=safe=off ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2001, Number 296 --

Re: [Q] what difference between count(0), count(1) and

2001-10-24 Thread Arn Klammer
As I understand it, count(*) counts all rows. Anything other than * is treated as an expression and it returns the number of rows where that expression evaluates to not null. So what Deepak said below about count(col1) giving the count of non-null instances of col1 is correct. That also

equivalent of LPAD in Transact SQL

2001-10-24 Thread Suhen Pather
List, Bit of an inappropriate question to the Oracle List. Does anybody know the SQL Server (Transact SQL) equivalent of the LPAD function. Regards Suhen

RE: SQL Loader questions (9i will let you do a merge)

2001-10-24 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
For interest, 9i introduces the SQL Loader merge command which combines update and insert. So if they were reading 9i doco then they might have been partly right. Refer to Jonathan Gennick's article from Oracle Magazine - available online at

Re: sequence pool

2001-10-24 Thread Doug C
We had a situation like this - we wanted to get a large batch of sequences at once with one trip to the database. We used a stored procedure that took an argument how many do you want - and it used an execute immedate select nextval into an array and passed the array back. On Wed, 24 Oct

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