Re: Installing Oracle on W2k

2001-12-09 Thread Robert Chin
Any-body had any similar experience? Oh yeahand how. Yours is a Pentium 4 box ? then read on... It's a well-known problem... The reason for this is that the P4 architecture has problems with the Java Just In Time installer. I'm not going to repeat it here. The detailed answers are on

Backups

2001-12-09 Thread Ryn
Hello folks, We are looking into the VxFS/UFS snapshot utlities, and I am curious how you can quiesce an Oracle instance? I would like all changes to the buffer cache to be flushed to the file system and checkpoints to occur. What would I need to run to do this? I assume this would give the file

RE: OCP

2001-12-09 Thread CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC)
Hi, Does the material from technet.oracle.com sufficient to pass the exam ? Regds, New Bee -Original Message- From: Ed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 12:05 AM To: Multiple recipients

Where is the memory gone?

2001-12-09 Thread WinterSun Zhao
Hi, DBAs: I find that one of our database's Shared Pool's memory decreased every day. It is Oracle 8.1.7 on Windows 2K, with 512M Physical memory. When I check v$sgastat, I find the miscellaneous part of shared pool increased every day, it begans with 500K, then, after two days, it

RE: Where is the memory gone?

2001-12-09 Thread Kimberly Smith
This sound pretty much like the same problem I had with 8.1.7 on HP. They have a memory leak when you connect/disconnect and it you have a lot of those you start to see it in your SGA. I had to patch to 8.1.7.1 plus an additional bug fix. Check on Metalink to see if there is the same problem

Re: Generating a SQLLDR Sequence Number

2001-12-09 Thread Maria Aurora VT de la Vega
try replacing document_number sequence (max,80,1), with document_number sequence (max,1), sqlloader is taking 80 as your increment... docs show only 2 arguments for sequence function... hth -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:01 AM To: Multiple

RE: OCP

2001-12-09 Thread Mr. Clark
I wouldn't suggest it. That's probably TOO much information to digest. Best, Ed On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC) wrote: Hi, Does the material from technet.oracle.com sufficient to pass the exam ? Regds, New Bee -Original Message-

Re: diagnosing latch free

2001-12-09 Thread George Schlossnagle
A sort extent pool latch? That's weird. You can get the sid of the guy holding the latch by joining v$latch.addr (or v$latchchildren if it's a latch with children - sort extent is not) against v$latchholder.laddr. something like select sid from v$latch l, v$latchholder lh where l.addr =

Re: RE: Where is the memory gone?

2001-12-09 Thread WinterSun Zhao
Hi, Kimberly: Thank you for your guide. I checked Metalink and find that is a bug. Bug No. 1397603. I think I will add the parameter _db_handles_cached to 1 later. I will also patch it to 8.1.7.2 too. Thank all of you. B.R. This sound pretty much like the same problem I had with

Re: Cannot Drop Column

2001-12-09 Thread Nikunj Gupta
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Re: RE: Where is the memory gone?

2001-12-09 Thread A. Bardeen
WinterSun, Hmm, this doesn't sound like bug 1397603. That bug manifests itself as a memory leak in the 'State objects' area of the shared pool, not the 'Miscellaneous' area. Bug 1397603 is also fixed in the 8.1.7.2 patchset, so if you already have that applied (hint, hint!) you're not

Re: diagnosing latch free

2001-12-09 Thread A. Bardeen
Hi Doug! It sounds like SMON is busy doing something else, most likely coalescing free space or deallocating temp segments. See metalink Note: 61997.1 SMON - Temporary Segment Cleanup and Free Space Coalescing While there are events that can be set to prevent smon from coalescing or cleaning

Re: Backups

2001-12-09 Thread A. Bardeen
Ryn, I know nothing about the VxFS/UFS snapshot utlities, but from a backup standpoint, other than using RMAN, the only way a valid backup can be taken with the database up and running is to put the tablespaces in backup mode before the datafiles, or the filesystems on which they reside, are

RE: Installing Oracle on W2k

2001-12-09 Thread RAJESH DAYAL
Hi Robert, Yea, you got the right point. I was using a server, which had a P4 processor. After lots of searches on metalink, I found the problem and The workarounds ;-)) Great Bug for Great architecture ;-) Thanks for your response, Rajesh -Original Message-