Serial# changes when rolling back

2001-12-11 Thread Hallas John
Title: Serial# changes when rolling back Jared,Deepak I did not see a reply on this. From a brief experiment I don't see the serial# changing when rolling back a transaction. The code posted by Jared certainly works as the number of blocks to rollback reduces as the job nears completion. If

RE: Duplexing Archived Log Files

2001-12-11 Thread Christian Trassens
Under 8.0.X you can use log_archive_duplex_dest. It is also available on 8i. However, if you use log_archive_dest_n on 8i, you cannot set log_archive_duplex_dest. Similarly, on 9i, if you use log_archive_dest, you could not set log_archive_dest_n. Finally and regarding rman on 9i, you can

Re: Serial# changes when rolling back

2001-12-11 Thread hemantchitale
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RE: Database down

2001-12-11 Thread SARKAR, Samir
Or check whether u have a large pool too..reduce the large_pool_size parameter. Samir Sarkar Oracle DBA - Lennon Team SchlumbergerSema Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone : +44 (0) 115 - 95 76217 EPABX : +44 (0) 115 - 957 6418 Ext. 76217 Fax : +44 (0) 115 - 957

Setting Expiry Date of User Password

2001-12-11 Thread Zinsmeister, Klaus {PTBF~Basel}
Hi List, is there a possibility to set the expiry date of the password to a date ? Background: After a migration to Oracle 8.0.6 we set the expire password option to all users but when the user logs on ORA-1841 ((full) year must be between -4713 and +, and not be 0 Only after the user

The Oracle List Archive?

2001-12-11 Thread Denham Eva
Title: The Oracle List Archive? Hi, Forgive the rather dumb newbie question. However I regularly see people on this list refer to the archive. How can I access this? I have poked around at fatcity.com and not found much help! TIA Denham This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses

Re: Database link

2001-12-11 Thread Witold Iwaniec
db_domain in init.ora is commented out in both cases. I also set it to: db_domain = but it didn't make any difference. Setting GLOBAL_NAMES to false helped but someone mentioned that it is not a good practice. Can anybody explain little bit why? Thanks Witold On 10 Dec 2001 at 21:50,

nomount

2001-12-11 Thread Sajid Iqbal
Hi Anyone now which 2 V$ views can be accessed while in nomount mode ? Also what is a tempfile ? TIA Saj Iqbal -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Sajid Iqbal INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858)

DB Design and Views

2001-12-11 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi, as I remember, it was always recommended to avoid the use of views upon views upon views in the design of an Oracle DB (as for version 7/8), since the optimizer might get confused. Does that still apply ? I'm supposed to give some guidelines to developers about the usage of views. My point

RE: The Oracle List Archive?

2001-12-11 Thread Hallas John
Title: The Oracle List Archive? Hi Eva, Try the following link to access the archives. http://www.fatcity.com/ListGuru/login.php I can't remember where you get the password from (I think it might be blank) - it validates on your e-mail address I believe John -Original

Re: nomount

2001-12-11 Thread orantdba
Hi Saj, I just tried at least 4 on 8.1.7 v$instance v$sga v$sgastat v$parameter There are probably more, don't know where the two number is coming from. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Anyone now which 2 V$ views can be accessed while in nomount mode ? Also what is a tempfile ? TIA

RE: nomount

2001-12-11 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: nomount Is this some sort of OCP test for us listers?? -Original Message- From: Sajid Iqbal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 December 2001 12:20 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: nomount Hi Anyone now which 2 V$ views can be accessed while in

RE: DB Design and Views

2001-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Uh Oh ... I have a forms application that is built on views that are built on views that are built on views ... up to 5 levels deep. The fun part is we have to go to CBO now ... and the tables underlying the views range from 10 rows to 20M rows. Talk about fun ... Raj

Re: Database link

2001-12-11 Thread Edward Shevtsov
Hi Witold, if you use oracle replication you're limited to use global_name=true I don't know any other restrictions. Regards, Ed db_domain in init.ora is commented out in both cases. I also set it to: db_domain = but it didn't make any difference. Setting GLOBAL_NAMES to false

RE: nomount

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Leith
lol looks like it eh? I know that you can view v$instance while the database is not mounted - not sure about the other one.. And - straight from the Oracle Concepts Manual (page 126) Locally managed temporary tablespaces have temporary datafiles (tempfiles), which are similar to ordinary

RMAN - archive log files

2001-12-11 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Must I have RMAN back up the archive log files? We are at the delicate position of getting acquainted with RMAN. We are using it but not yet ready to completely trust it, or rather trust that our setup is entirely correct (we production DBAs tend to be a conservative lot). We are just

RE: RAID system max throughput

2001-12-11 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Thanks to everyone that shared their thoughts on this issue. Steven - Thanks very much for your insight of throughput vs. latency. I think this reduces the concepts to a simple enough level that I can explain them to others. The system administrators also do our wide-area networks and the focus

Listeners listening to multiple IPs

2001-12-11 Thread Djordje Jankovic
Something I learned today, but haven't seen it documented anywhere and would like to see whether anybody has come across it. We have a Sun server (call it oracle.acme.com). It came to life by combining two machines (oracle1.acme.com and oracle2.acme.com). So now it has two IP addresses: hme0:

Re: DB Design and Views

2001-12-11 Thread Jared Still
Forget the optimizer, what about the developer? This just doesn't seem like a good idea, or in the words of Wayne Brady 'That is just wrong on so many levels'. Jared On Tuesday 11 December 2001 04:30, Stefan Jahnke wrote: Hi, as I remember, it was always recommended to avoid the use of

Re: select data using trigger

2001-12-11 Thread Jared Still
Hope I'm not being blunt here, ( I will admit to being frank, but not Frank ) What you're suggesting here is to put a patch on a bad design. 15 indexes? That's too many. Your table is undoubtedly highly denormalized and has too many columns. How many columns does this table have? You

Re: The Oracle List Archive?

2001-12-11 Thread Jared Still
No, the password is not blank. You have to supply one the first time you use it. Jared On Tuesday 11 December 2001 05:00, you wrote: Hi Eva, Try the following link to access the archives. http://www.fatcity.com/ListGuru/login.php http://www.fatcity.com/ListGuru/login.php I can't

Re: query rewrite

2001-12-11 Thread Christian Trassens
Try with TIMESTAMP literal. Like this: create materialized view mv_test enable query rewrite as select * from birthdays where birth= timestamp '1971-05-03 09:00:00 PM' at time zone 'Europe/London'; Regards. --- elain he [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how can I create a

RE: DB Design and Views

2001-12-11 Thread Kimberly Smith
I would avoid views based on view. As well, I would avoid using views where you will later turn around and throw a distinct or a group by or anything else on it (especially if you are dealing with a lot of data). Basically, You cannot be assured that the optimizer will pick the proper path once

RE: nomount

2001-12-11 Thread David Ehresmann
v$parameter v$sga v$option v$process v$session v$version v$instance nomount stage, right from my Oracle Admin book published by Oracle. David Ehresmann Oracle DBA 8 8i OCP MCI Worldcom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sajid Iqbal

Re: nomount

2001-12-11 Thread Mujeeb Chowdhry
Hi, Views that can be read in the nomount stage are: v$parameter, v$sga, v$option, v$process, v$session, v$version and v$instance. And tempfile is latest method of defining Oracle database temporary files for Temp tablespaces. Mujeeb Chowdhry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/11/01 07:20AM HiAnyone

RE: select data using trigger

2001-12-11 Thread Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane)
Hi Thnq for responding. I am mistaken, in understanding the request. I am supposed to create a trigger that will do update onto a target table con2 whenever the contract is updated. 15 indexes on a table: There are several tables that have 15 indexes. All such tables will have 10-20,000

RE: nomount

2001-12-11 Thread Sajid Iqbal
No, these are questions I have been asked but couldn't readily find the information on... so I thought someone out there must know :-) Regards Saj On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Mark Leith wrote: lol looks like it eh? I know that you can view v$instance while the database is not mounted - not

Why is this code not working?

2001-12-11 Thread Ken Janusz
When I run this code both columns I get no rows returned. When I do a desc on one of the tables I see both columns. So, why am I not getting any data? select table_name, column_name from dba_tab_columns where (column_name = 'REGISTRATION_NUMBER' and column_name = 'DOCUMENT_NUMBER') Thanks,

TEMP Tablespace Problem

2001-12-11 Thread Ken Janusz
Somehow I deleted the TEMP tablespace but not the datafile. How do I go about recreating this tablespace? Thanks, Ken Janusz, CPIM Database Conversion Lead Sufficient System, Inc. Minneapolis, MN -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ken Janusz INET:

RE: nomount

2001-12-11 Thread Kevin Lange
And you believed it ? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 9:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L v$parameter v$sga v$option v$process v$session v$version v$instance nomount stage, right from my Oracle Admin book published by Oracle. David Ehresmann Oracle

RE: select data using trigger

2001-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Well ... According to a document on Metalink .. it is pretty safe to assume the cost of a DML action on an index as 3 times of that of on the table. So, if inserting one record costs you one unit, on your table with 15 indexes it would be (1 * 1 table) + (3 * 15 indexes) = 46 units. And this

excel data into oracle through sql loader

2001-12-11 Thread Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane)
Hi lists, I need to load the excel sheet data to oracle tables. A date column is improperly entered by users. In the excel sheet the date column was filled up without using hyphens or slashes the data is like this todays date: 10th Dec 2001 (it is supposed to be 10/12/2001 or 10-Dec-2001

sql query

2001-12-11 Thread Steven Hovington
Hi, I have this sql statement: select to_number(null) as id, to_char(null) as car_make from dual union select id, car_make from carmake order by car_make; So this selects a blank record and then the records from carmake. But I want the blank record to appear at the top of the

Re: Why is this code not working?

2001-12-11 Thread Dennis M. Heisler
Change the 'and' to 'or'. Ken Janusz wrote: When I run this code both columns I get no rows returned. When I do a desc on one of the tables I see both columns. So, why am I not getting any data? select table_name, column_name from dba_tab_columns where (column_name =

RE: Why is this code not working?

2001-12-11 Thread Jeroen van Sluisdam
This was returned by the mailer-daemon because of a locking problem ?? -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Jeroen van Sluisdam Verzonden: dinsdag 11 december 2001 17:08 Aan: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Onderwerp: RE: Why is this code not working? You need an or-clause because one row has either

RE: Why is this code not working?

2001-12-11 Thread Iulian . ILIES
I guess this is what you want: select table_name, column_name from dba_tab_columns where (column_name = 'REGISTRATION_NUMBER' or column_name = 'DOCUMENT_NUMBER') or select table_name, column_name from dba_tab_columns where column_name in ('REGISTRATION_NUMBER', 'DOCUMENT_NUMBER')

Re: RMAN - archive log files

2001-12-11 Thread Ruth Gramolini
If you want to be able to restore your database to a point in time or do a complete recovery you database you must have all of the archive logs you need. If you don't include them in a backup you must keep them in the archivelog destination, Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple

RE: Why is this code not working?

2001-12-11 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
U - cause one row cannot have both values in the same column??? How about changing it to: select table_name, column_name from dba_tab_columns where (column_name = 'REGISTRATION_NUMBER' or column_name = 'DOCUMENT_NUMBER') or where (column_name in

RE: Why is this code not working?

2001-12-11 Thread Johnston, Tim
You are trying to look for a column name be equal to two different names... I assume you want an OR instead of the AND... select table_name, column_name from dba_tab_columns where (column_name = 'REGISTRATION_NUMBER' OR column_name = 'DOCUMENT_NUMBER') -Original Message- Sent:

Re: Why is this code not working?

2001-12-11 Thread Pat Hildebrand
I think you are confusing the logical and with the fact that you want both columns. Try using or in place of and (column_name = 'REGISTRATION_NUMBER' or column_name = 'DOCUMENT_NUMBER') Pat When I run this code both columns I get no rows returned. When I do a desc

RE: excel data into oracle through sql loader

2001-12-11 Thread Iulian . ILIES
Have you considered to use findreplace tool in excel and replace all the th string with nothing, and then reformat the cell as you need. Iulian -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 6:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Why is this code not working?

2001-12-11 Thread Mohan, Ross
funny, i run it in my database (mutatis mutandis for column names, natch) and it works JUST FINE with AND. buti am hoping an acknowledged SQL guru will step in and say this -Original Message- Change the 'and' to 'or'. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Re: excel data into oracle through sql loader

2001-12-11 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi Workaround: Treat the Column as text (within Excel) and transform it with a little VBA Macro into the format you want to use in Oracle. Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane) schrieb: Hi lists, I need to load the excel sheet data to oracle tables. A date column is improperly entered by

Re: Listeners listening to multiple IPs

2001-12-11 Thread Rachel Carmichael
it's not so much a feature of the listener as it is of DNS as far as I know. One of the reasons it's best not to hard-code IP addresses into the listener.ora is because when you do a failover, or combine machines as you have, the listener.ora and tnsnames.ora files need to be updated. If you use

RV: Import/Export table

2001-12-11 Thread Natalia Laracca
Hi, you can try: exp file= log= tables= owner = A imp file= log= ignore=y tables= fromuser=A touser=B - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 5:35 AM Hi list. I

CREATE DATABASE scripts

2001-12-11 Thread Stoddard, Lindsay
Hi, I am trying to generate some generic CREATE DATABASE scripts from the Oracle Database Configuration assistant and I cannot see the Generate Database Creation Scripts option that is mentioned in the HELP. It is not listed on the screen with the Create Database and Save as a Database Template

Re: TEMP Tablespace Problem

2001-12-11 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi Assuming that you actually use the TEMP tablespace as a real temp tablespace and didn't put any actual data in it, you can just go ahead recreate it by reusing the old datafile. Ken Janusz schrieb: Somehow I deleted the TEMP tablespace but not the datafile. How do I go about

RE: sql query

2001-12-11 Thread Iulian . ILIES
Does this suit you? select to_number(null) as id, to_char(null) as car_make, 0 ordcol from dual union select id, car_make, 1 ordcol from carmake order by ordcol, car_make; Iulian -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 5:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of

Re: TEMP Tablespace Problem

2001-12-11 Thread tday6
Use the REUSE option on the CREATE TABLESPACE command. Ken Janusz ken.janusz To:

RE: Why is this code not working?

2001-12-11 Thread Kevin Bass
Change the and in your WHERE clause to an or. Kevin L. Bass Database Administrator Americal Corporation -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 9:20 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L When I run this code both columns I get no rows returned. When I do a desc on

RE: TEMP Tablespace Problem

2001-12-11 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ken - I assume you dropped the TEMP tablespace, which doesn't delete the datafile. I'm assuming you are on Unix. Just remove the data file and recreate the TEMP tablespace the same way as you originally did. I believe that the temp tablespace settings for all users will be unaffected, but you

Re: Why is this code not working?

2001-12-11 Thread Rachel Carmichael
one column (COLUMN_NAME) can't have two separate and distinct values. I think you want an or not an and in the query --- Ken Janusz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run this code both columns I get no rows returned. When I do a desc on one of the tables I see both columns. So, why am I not

Re: Listeners listening to multiple IPs

2001-12-11 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi I did this (don't know wether it's documented or not), but somebody recommended to split it up into 2 listeners (1 for each interface) to have a better way of controlling the workload (especially with multiple instances). Made sense to me. Djordje Jankovic schrieb: Something I learned

RE: sql query

2001-12-11 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: sql query add NULLS FIRST after the ORDER BY CAR_MAKE: select to_number(null) as id, to_char(null) as car_make from dual union select id, car_make from carmake order by car_make NULLS LAST; Tony Aponte -Original Message- From: Steven Hovington

RE: sql query

2001-12-11 Thread Larry Elkins
Steve, Use the NULLS FIRST option of the ORDER BY (and you probably want to change your UNION to a UNION ALL). Note that you could also include a constant in each select to enforce order, do an order by nvl(col,looow value), etc. Lots of ways, but, the NULLS FIRST option seems clearest to me.

ORA 0600 on histgrm$ after computed statistics on database

2001-12-11 Thread SAURY Alain
Title: ORA 0600 on histgrm$ after computed statistics on database Hello, I keep getting numerous ORA 600 since I have launched: dbms_utility.analyze_database and dbms_stats.gather_database_stats Has anybody run into this type of problem ? PS: get ORA 600 on : select /*+ rule */

RE: sql query

2001-12-11 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: sql query Oops. The statement was wrong. I'll try it gain: select to_number(null) as id, to_char(null) as car_make from dual union select id, car_make from carmake order by car_make NULLS FIRST; Tony Aponte -Original Message- From: Aponte, Tony

RE: RE: Where is the memory gone?

2001-12-11 Thread CC Harvest
I agree with Christian. We had the same memory leak problem here before. It turned out there are some heavily used sql statement without the bind variables. --- Christian Trassens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Answering your first message about the shrink of free space in shared pool. Check the

RE: DB Design and Views

2001-12-11 Thread John Kanagaraj
Stephan, Contrary to what has been mentioned, the optimizer actually performs a number of transformations on the submitted query using the Query transformer - this includes 'view merging' which basically rewrites the query by merging the view query block into the query block that contains the

RE: Lookup table design thoughts needed

2001-12-11 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: Lookup table design thoughts needed I would start by considering how the application is deployed. For code that is easily deployed (E.I.. executables are located on a few application servers or a shared drive) I would consider compiling the rule data along with the logic. It

RE: RMAN - archive log files

2001-12-11 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Thanks, Ruth. Because we aren't yet ready to bet the farm on RMAN, we are keeping them in both locations. And since we only do a weekly cold backup, we keep a week's worth on disk. I'm thinking that for the time being we can forgo RMAN backing up the archive logs. Thanks. Dennis Williams DBA

UKOUG Drink!

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Leith
Hi guys and gals, OK - so who's going to be going to the UKOUG on Monday? And who wants to meet up for a beer? I have a partial list of people, but if we could all confirm now that would great! The thoughts on the venue were Broad Street - maybe somewhere like Ronnie Scotts? Or the

UKOUG

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Leith
Hi guys and gals, OK - so who's going to be going to the UKOUG on Monday? And who wants to meet up for a beer? I have a partial list of people, but if we could all confirm now that would great! The thoughts on the venue were Broad Street - maybe somewhere like Ronnie Scotts? Or the

How Big is Your SAP Database?

2001-12-11 Thread Jon Behnke
We are trying to get an idea of how much disk we'll need to roll out the MySAP suite to about 200 users on Oracle 8.1.7/HP-UX 11. We're planning on using most of the core SAP package and not CRM or APO. Can anyone else give me a guess on how much disk space we might need? Jon Behnke Applications

Re: ORA 0600 on histgrm$ after computed statistics on database

2001-12-11 Thread claudio cutelli
Title: ORA 0600 on histgrm$ after computed statistics on database Hi, I think you should not analyze sys schema. - Original Message - From: SAURY Alain To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 6:10 PM Subject: ORA 0600 on histgrm$

RE: Oracle on Pentium 4 conflict

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Leith
I have a P4 - which I actually had the below problem with on both 8.1.7, and 9i. The below problem fixed the install problems with 8.1.7, but 9i STILL won't install on my machine (Win2K O.S.). It keeps complaining that it cant find jrew.exe, and that I need to install JRE 1.2.1(?) or greater.. I

RE: Listeners listening to multiple IPs

2001-12-11 Thread Djordje Jankovic
I tried doing this but had problems running two listener that listen on the same port number on two different IPs. One of the two did not want to start. Djordje -Original Message- From: Stefan Jahnke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 12:01 PM To: Multiple

RE: UKOUG

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Leith
WOW!! They got through!! I only sent these last Wednesday!!! -Original Message- Sent: 11 December 2001 17:55 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi guys and gals, OK - so who's going to be going to the UKOUG on Monday? And who wants to meet up for a beer? I have a partial list of

RE: Listeners listening to multiple IPs

2001-12-11 Thread Djordje Jankovic
I am not talking whether putting DNS entry works, but am just pointing to the fact that oracle behaves differently if you put hardcoded IP - it than listens to one IP only, and if you put the dns name - listens to all IPs. Djordje -Original Message- From: Rachel Carmichael

RE: RMAN - archive log files

2001-12-11 Thread SARKAR, Samir
Dennis, To perform media recovery using RMAN, it is necessary that u backup archived log files too since it is the key to a successful recovery. I suggest that u store the RMAN recovery catalog on a different machine cos if ur machine crashes thus crashing the database, ur RMAN catalog goes

netasst in linux

2001-12-11 Thread Yohans Mendoza
Hi all, I'm trying to ruin netasst in a linux box running RH7.2, but it only sits there doing nothing. Does anybody know if I have to set something before? I was able to create the DB w/o a problem. any help greatly appreciated TIA --Yohans -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: Listeners listening to multiple IPs

2001-12-11 Thread Rachel Carmichael
well yeah... that's the whole point of USING DNS, so that it will work like that --- Djordje Jankovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not talking whether putting DNS entry works, but am just pointing to the fact that oracle behaves differently if you put hardcoded IP - it than listens to

RE: Listeners listening to multiple IPs

2001-12-11 Thread Khedr, Waleed
I used to define it on localhost (127.0.0.1) and this worked great with all ip addresses (only on Solaris). Did not work on NT! Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 9:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Something I learned today, but haven't

9i install.

2001-12-11 Thread Yuval Arnon
Title: 9i install. Hi, I am trying to run dbca (the new name for dbassist) on Sun Solaris 2.7 and I get the following java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/omg/CORBA/UserException at oracle.sysman.emSDK.common.registry.PropertiesFileRegistry.get(Proper tiesFileRegistry.java:44) at

Re: Database down

2001-12-11 Thread Jeff Wiegard
Well, I think the issue is two-fold. 1. They have been tinkering with user sessions, and the trace file output below is discussed on Steve Adams' website. PMON unable to acquire latch 80002060 modify parameter values

Re: select data using trigger

2001-12-11 Thread Connor McDonald
I always find it amusing that the SDD_ELEMENTS table which is part of an Oracle product meant to encourage good design (ie Designer) has more than this number of indexes :-) --- Jared Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hope I'm not being blunt here, ( I will admit to being frank, but not Frank

RE: Listeners listening to multiple IPs

2001-12-11 Thread Jared . Still
Ditto. In addition, DNS will use multiple IP's in a round robin fashion as a crude form of load balancing. Jared Rachel

SQL Lock consistency - a great answer

2001-12-11 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I have to share this post I got on another list. Someone had asked a question about how Oracle locks work, here is the question... Q: i'd like to understand the lock modes (share exclusive) how to make them on table in DML transaction why locking is automatically use the lowest

Re: ugly sql contest entry / Re: ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2001, Number 333

2001-12-11 Thread Connor McDonald
I've seen a 14 page (9 point Courier point) SQL which was generated by my ol' favourite Discoverer! It actually ran fine, it was more of Discover's penchant for writing code along the lines of: select column_list from ( select column_list from ( select column_list from ( select

RE: 9i install.

2001-12-11 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Title: 9i install. I hate Java! -Original Message-From: Yuval Arnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 2:20 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: 9i install. Hi, I am trying to run dbca (the new name for dbassist) on Sun Solaris 2.7

RE: 9i install.

2001-12-11 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: 9i install. can you check javaversion...as i recall it should be 1.1.7 or better for 9i. -Original Message-From: Yuval Arnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 2:20 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: 9i install. Hi, I am

RE: CREATE DATABASE scripts

2001-12-11 Thread David Wagoner
I did something similar on 9i recently and I believe there was a check button in DBCA for Create Scripts, in addition to Create Template. Did you follow DBCA through to the last screen? I think it is there. I tried to use the 9i DBCA to create a custom database with rollback segments instead

RE: 9i install.

2001-12-11 Thread Yuval Arnon
Title: 9i install. Hi, java -versionjava version "1.1.7" Yuval. -Original Message-From: Mohan, Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 3:25 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: 9i install. can you check javaversion...as i

RE: 9i install.

2001-12-11 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: 9i install. ah well, a swing and a miss. -Original Message-From: Yuval Arnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 4:25 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: 9i install. Hi, java -versionjava version "1.1.7" Yuval.

Insatiable smon process

2001-12-11 Thread Jo King
OS Environment HP-UX 11.0 Oracle Version 8.0.5.2.1 A situation arose whereby the DBA issued a shutdown immediate, which did not complete in what was considered a reasonable time period, so a shutdown abort was issued. I believe there was active transaction(s) running at the time. The

RE: 9i install.

2001-12-11 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Title: 9i install. Check the required O/S patches (in Oracle installation doc), required Java release, CLASSPATH env variable. -Original Message-From: Yuval Arnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 2:20 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list

RE: 9i install.

2001-12-11 Thread Godlewski, Melissa
Title: 9i install. Is your classpath set? -Original Message-From: Khedr, Waleed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 3:45 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: 9i install. I hate Java! -Original Message-From: Yuval

ODBC Microsoft Transaction Server

2001-12-11 Thread Stephen Andert
Hello, The application frequently (several times per day) hangs. Restarting the MTS (Microsoft Transaction Server) (Package shutdown) resolves the problem and the users are able to work again. The database appears to be unaffected and appears ready to process. The Oracle ODBC version is

RE: SQL Lock consistency - a great answer

2001-12-11 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Absolutely tremendous. No mention of core dumps, I noticed -Original Message- Sent: 11 December 2001 20:10 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have to share this post I got on another list. Someone had asked a question about how Oracle locks work, here is the

Re: SQL Lock consistency - a great answer

2001-12-11 Thread Deepak Thapliyal
this was treat man .. cool and imaginative for sure!! --- Farnsworth, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to share this post I got on another list. Someone had asked a question about how Oracle locks work, here is the question... Q: i'd like to understand the lock modes

Re: Serial# changes when rolling back

2001-12-11 Thread Deepak Thapliyal
yeah i did read this thread but still wonder why oracle needs to use serial# column at all. Does the SID not gaurentee uniqueness for a session ... damn the name says so atleast (session identifier).. or maybe they just coded it like that and make some use of the serial # Deepak --- [EMAIL

Update table problem

2001-12-11 Thread Harvinder Singh
Hi, We inserted data into 1 of the column as test 1 abc while the actual value is test1abc without spaces. There are about 1 million rows in a table. Is there a way to update the table column and remove the extra space . Thanks --Harvinder -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Re: diagnosing latch free

2001-12-11 Thread Doug C
Hey Anita! Thanks for the useful info. Actually, after the stats were hanging I started querying various tables and those queries also started hanging; queries on v$latch and a couple of others. I finally shutdown abort and got an ORA-600 error. I looked it up on the extremely handy ORA-600

Re: Serial# changes when rolling back

2001-12-11 Thread hemantchitale
One explanation I had heard for the combination of Sid+Serial# goes something like this ... say you identify a particular session to monitor ... you then decide to kill it. However, it could so happen that that user logged out between the time you decided to kill the session and the time you

Feedback please for PROGNOSIS's db monitoring tool !

2001-12-11 Thread Shantanu Talukder
Hello everybody, My team is currently evaluating Oracle monitoring tool from a company called PROGNOSIS. Is there anybody currently using this tool or evaluated the tool before? May I get some feedback about the Oracle monitoring tools of PROGNOSIS from any one of you? Your insight would be

Re: Serial# changes when rolling back

2001-12-11 Thread Deepak Thapliyal
intresting ... --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One explanation I had heard for the combination of Sid+Serial# goes something like this ... say you identify a particular session to monitor ... you then decide to kill it. However, it could so happen that that user logged out between the time

like 'wall' unix comman in forms

2001-12-11 Thread hernawan
Hi all, How to broadcast a message to all user who running Forms 6i ? we use Sun as the database server. I use 'wall' command from root to user when we still use Forms 3.0 ( they login via telnet). regards -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: hernawan

Set Time Zone

2001-12-11 Thread Mike T
Hi Gurus, How can I set up a time zone for each region that connect on SAME Database 8i Case: Database in NewYork. Clients in San Franciso, Paris .. When they use select sysdate from dual ; ( on Client or server side ) They should see their local time .?? Thanks in advance Tran -- Please

Re: Set Time Zone

2001-12-11 Thread hemantchitale
Can't , not in 8i. 9i has introduced a TIMEZONE datatype where time can be reported offset by the UTC+/- offset. You'd have to build the logic in your application to increment/decrement the sysdate, depending on the user/client location (use a lookup table for location and timezone-offset) when

Re: SQL Lock consistency - a great answer

2001-12-11 Thread Robert Chin
I have to share this post I got on another list. Excuse me but what List is this ? Thanks Robert Chin - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 3:10 PM I have to share this post I got on another list. Someone

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