Re: Web site of messages

2002-01-30 Thread Marin Dimitrov
- Original Message - Hi, Is there a website, which keeps all the messages posted to this forum, which can be accessed without subscribing to the forum? try http://www.fatcity.com/ListGuru/my.php and http://www.mail-archive.com/oracle-l%40fatcity.com/ hth, Marin ...what

RE: Microsoft plans to bundle iFS copycat into it operating syste -- Attachment

2002-01-30 Thread nlzanen1
Hi, I'm surprised nobody came up with this. Microsoft is famous the world over for their Blue Screens of Death and even have their own acronym BSD. I have not yet encountered these in any other O/S. Jack Jamadagni, Rajendra [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fatcity.com on 29-01-2002 19:50:59 Please

RE: Microsoft plans to bundle iFS copycat into it operating syste -- Attachment

2002-01-30 Thread nlzanen1
Hi Sorry Kevin missed your post Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fatcity.com on 30-01-2002 09:05:22 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Jack van Zanen/nlzanen1/External/MEY/NL) yste --

Pl/sql - shell script

2002-01-30 Thread Roland . Skoldblom
Hallo, is there anyone who can tell me if it ispossible run unix shell script from PL/SQL Anyone who has a good example too that I can use. Thanks in advance. Roland -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-30 Thread Thomas, Kevin
There's nothing to stop you posting on this list. My gripe has always been that I personally would use this list as a 'last resort' (no disrespect to anyone), after exhausting every other avenue! It's the only way to learn. -Original Message- Sent: 29 January 2002 21:46 To: Multiple

RE: Pl/sql - shell script

2002-01-30 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Roland, Please see the example I posted some time ago to this list. I'm sure Sam Roberts will be able to point you in the direction of it. Failing that please see. Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:20:24 -0700 Hi

RE: Rman again. Long screen output removed

2002-01-30 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: Rman again. Long screen output removed Jack, Your date format is set until time 'to_date(''29012002094700'',''ddmmhh24miss'')'; whereas one that works for me and matches the documentation is set until time to_date('18-SEP-2001 01:00:00','dd-mon- HH24:MI:SS'); Note

RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-30 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Don't stop posting. I'm not a DBA either. Don't have any intention of being one. I'm an Oracle duhveloper (as people sometimes point out..LOL). I read this list to get a better understanding of how databases 'hang together'. I never profess to being an expert in DBA related stuff...I'm far, far

RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-30 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
JoJo, Don't let this little episode put you off the list my friend. I have seen you post to the list on a couple of occasions and they have been valid questions. Keep reading, keep learning - stay subscribed. Lee -Original Message- Sent: 29 January 2002 22:29 To: Multiple recipients

RE: Web site of messages

2002-01-30 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: Web site of messages I also found this site by searching Google for Oracle-L http://faqchest.dynhost.com/prgm/oracle-l/ -Original Message- From: Marin Dimitrov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 January 2002 08:00 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Web

INFORMIX 7.3 to ORACLE 8.1.7

2002-01-30 Thread Sonja ehovi
Thanks to all who helped. I'll inform you how it works, maybe someone will need it too. Sonja -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Sonja_=A9ehovi=E6?= INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858)

Performance Tuning

2002-01-30 Thread BINAY . KUMAR
Hi Everyone I am interested in purchasing some exceptionally good book on Oracle Performance Tuning. Can anyone suggest me some very good book on Oracle Tunning worth purchasing Binay Kumar Oracle Cerified DBA London *** Binay Kumar Focus 3

RE: OT: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-30 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Before you go slagging people off! Ensure you know their name! If that was an email I sent 6 months ago (not sure, there are a few Kevins on the list), then fine. But I think you'll find that a) you had to search back 6 months for a question from me b) how many others did you find? I'll wager a

RE: Rman again. Long screen output removed

2002-01-30 Thread nlzanen1
Hi John, Tried it (and many other formats already) and still no luck. I logged it with Oracle Support and apparantly it's a bug. But you got it to duplicate to a certain time? or were you using restore until time (that one works fine) THX Jack Hallas John [EMAIL

RE: Rman again. Long screen output removed/SOLVED

2002-01-30 Thread nlzanen1
Hi All, It was an Oraclebug. The only , very workable, workaround Oracle could come up with is to set NLS_DATE_FORMAT at Unix level and use : set time until 'string'; (STRING BEING IN THE FORMAT OF NLS-DATE_FORMAT AT UNIX LEVEL) 9.0.2 is supposedly fixed. Jack

SQL Loader error

2002-01-30 Thread iashraf
i have these 2 errors in the log file 1.Record 2389: Rejected - Error on table IA_TEST, column COMMENTS. Field in data file exceeds maximum length 2. Record 885: Rejected - Error on table IA_TEST. ORA-01401: inserted value too large for column whats the differennce between the 2? cheers --

Alter system check datafiles

2002-01-30 Thread Hallas John
Title: Alter system check datafiles Paul Sherman wrote 'I tried an 'alter system check datafiles' I had never come across that command before and looked at the documentation which states that 'in a distributed database system, such as an Oracle Parallel Server environment, updates an

RE: Performance Tuning

2002-01-30 Thread SARKAR, Samir
Practically, u should get two books to have a full grasp on Oracle Performance Tuning : 1. Oracle Performance Tuning Tips and Techniques by Richard Niemiec 2. Oracle 8i and Unix Performance Tuning by Ahmed Alomari If u r in an exceptionally high development environment where u have lots of SQL

RE: OT: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-30 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Jared, My apologies for this being posted to the on-topic list. I read your request to take this off-topic after I'd sent it. Apologies, Kev. -Original Message- Sent: 30 January 2002 09:11 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Before you go slagging people off! Ensure you know

RE: SQL Loader error

2002-01-30 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Could you post the control file? Kev. -Original Message- Sent: 30 January 2002 09:15 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L i have these 2 errors in the log file 1.Record 2389: Rejected - Error on table IA_TEST, column COMMENTS. Field in data file exceeds maximum length 2. Record

RE: Performance Tuning

2002-01-30 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Binay, The Oracle Performance Tuning book from O'Reilly (ISBN 1-56592-237-9) is an excellent book. Covers just about everything, database, code, environment tuning. Regards, Kev. -Original Message- Sent: 30 January 2002 10:25 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Everyone

RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-30 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL) Kevin, I am afraid your post shows a distinct lack of ambition. :-) No flames please John -Original Message- From: Thomas, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 January 2002 08:50 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

Truncate Table Privilige ?

2002-01-30 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
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RE: Microsoft plans to bundle iFS copycat into it operating syste

2002-01-30 Thread
The 640K memory limit. Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tue, January 29, 2002 8:51 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Microsoft plans to bundle iFS

RE: CASE statement

2002-01-30 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
Jared et al: Yes, the case statement has made it into 9i. There is the CASE expression that is usable in SQL (and PL/SQL) and two types of CASE statements as part of the PL/SQL language specification. Kevin -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 1:25 AM To: Multiple

RE: SQL Loader error

2002-01-30 Thread iashraf
heres the ctl LOAD DATA INFILE 'sierras.dat' INTO TABLE ia_test trailing nullcols ( SWREGNOterminated by ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '', commentsterminated by ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '') dat file looks something like:

RE: Performance Tuning

2002-01-30 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Oracle Performance Tuning 101- Oracle Press - Gaja, Kirti Oracle Performance Tuning 101- Oracle Press - Gaja, Kirti Oracle Performance Tuning 101- Oracle Press - Gaja, Kirti Oracle Performance Tuning 101- Oracle Press - Gaja, Kirti Oracle Performance Tuning 101- Oracle Press - Gaja, Kirti

RE: RE: sqlplus question

2002-01-30 Thread
Don't you know that Kimberly is The Lord Of The Rings. Prudo is already on his way with the Ring. Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tue, January 29, 2002 8:01 PM To: Multiple

RE: Oracle Tunning

2002-01-30 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Binay, I totally agree with this recommendation from Jared for a tuning book. Read the first three chapters, stop and re-read them. And if you play your cards right you can even get a question answered by an author on this list. Cool, eh. Dave -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday,

RE: Performance Tuning

2002-01-30 Thread nlzanen1
Hi, are they up to release 5 already? I'm 4 releases behind :-)) Jack K Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fatcity.com on 30-01-2002 13:30:23 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Jack

RE: SQL Loader error

2002-01-30 Thread Thomas, Kevin
If I remember right, SQL*LOADER has (or used to have) a maximum field size of 256 characters. This can be overcome by specifying the size you want to load like: LOAD DATA INFILE 'sierras.dat' INTO TABLE ia_test trailing nullcols ( SWREGNOterminated by ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '',

RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-30 Thread
Hello JoJo Do not stop using the list and asking silly questions. Of course, smart questions are a lot better. I did a blooper myself a week ago and got the deserved responses. So what. I learn a lot and enjoy even a good flame. Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: SQL Loader error

2002-01-30 Thread
The first is a SQL loader error: SQL*Loader-00621 Field in data file exceeds maximum length Cause: A field exceeded its maximum allowable length. The maximum length is either the length specified in the SQL*Loader control file, or, for delimitable fields without a length specified, the maximum

Oracle Error - 1467

2002-01-30 Thread Ramasubramanian, Shankar (Cognizant)
Hi Friends, I am having a sql statement where select field1,field2.. field15, sum(fieldx1), sum(fieldx2).. sum(fieldx200) from t1 group by field1,field2.. field15; when i execute this statement , i am getting error - 1467 which says sort key too long Cause Mentioned in the document :

RE: SQL Loader error

2002-01-30 Thread Ron Rogers
Iashraf, Not knowing what your table desc looks like for the columns in question and what the actual data, (record 2389 and 885) looks like I can take a wild guess at the explaination. Record 2389 the comments column Delimited data was specified with a maximun length and the data value exceeded

Unbreakable Oracle - Metaslink

2002-01-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Seems to be down this morning must be the flu ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc. QOTD: Any clod can

Oracle sites 1/30/2002 ?

2002-01-30 Thread Brian Wisniewski
Can anyone get to the oracle sites this morning? I've tried since 7:30 EST and haven't been able to get on. oracle.com technet.oracle.com metalink Hope this isn't the Unbreakable claim being seriously broken by hackers. - Brian __ Do You Yahoo!?

RE: RTFM questions (formally RE: PL/SQL)

2002-01-30 Thread Rick_Cale
JoJo, If you can not find the answer then by all means continue to post your questions. There are only a dozen or so who are a bit touchy and always will be. I know on most keyboards there are at least 2 delete keys perhaps they can find one of them if they choose not to contribute

RE: Oracle sites 1/30/2002 ?

2002-01-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
I just got on 8:41EST. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, but having an

Re: OT: ODBC port

2002-01-30 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the OT post, but I cannot find this elsewhere. We need to get connectivity from outside our firewall into an Oracle database using ODBC. Our network guy thinks there should be a port designation or something to allow these odbc connects through. I'm clueless.

Re: Microsoft plans to bundle iFS copycat into it operating syste

2002-01-30 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, since sed was in use while BG was still in high school... and edlin looked an lot like UNIX ed. -- -- Bill Shrek Thater ORACLE DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] You gotta

RE: Oracle sites 1/30/2002 ?

2002-01-30 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
not me -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 7:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Can anyone get to the oracle sites this morning? I've tried since 7:30 EST and haven't been able to get on. oracle.com technet.oracle.com metalink Hope this isn't the

RE: Unbreakable Oracle - Metaslink

2002-01-30 Thread Thomas, Kevin
It was up and running earlier on (8am-1pm GMT) -Original Message- Sent: 30 January 2002 13:15 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Seems to be down this morning must be the flu ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS,

RE: Performance Tuning

2002-01-30 Thread Raghu Kota
Yeah its very good book!!!Especially I like that chapter Method behind madness!!..Every body should read that book. From: K Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Performance Tuning Date: Wed, 30 Jan

Re: CHECKPOINT?

2002-01-30 Thread Seema Singh
Mogen I checked log file sync is increasing log file sync 41355 276686 I set log_checkpoint_interval and log_checkpoint_timeout is ZERO. The diffrence between background checkpoints Completed and background checkpoints started is always 1. What can I do for this

RE: e: deleting a datafile on OPS

2002-01-30 Thread Rachel Carmichael
yes it prevents users writing to the datafile... but it leaves your database in a precarious state if you have to do recovery.. or if you do a shutdown and try to open the database normal. --- Sherman, Paul R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Jared et al, The Oracle Reference Manual for 8i,

RE: Oracle Error - 1467

2002-01-30 Thread Sandeep Kurliye
Not sure, which Oracle version u r using If it is 7.3.4.0.0 then it is a bug and this bug is resolved in 7.3.4.0.5 HTH, -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Friends, I am

PMON CRASHED INSTANCE

2002-01-30 Thread Seema Singh
Hi My instance was crashed when one of users was truncating the table.the following are the error message in alert log Wed Jan 30 00:15:13 2002 Errors in file pathname/udump/ora8_ora_9453.trc: ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [ksqcmi()+5792] [SIGSEGV] [Address not mapped to object]

Re: OT - using winsock.dll from within forms 6i

2002-01-30 Thread Jared Still
Buried somewhere within the Forms directory tree is a 'DEMO' directory, containing a number of .PLL files and associated .HLP files. It's been awhile since playing with Forms, but there's some pretty cool stuff in that directory, and there maybe a .PLL for using winsock IIRC. Jared On Tuesday

OEM question

2002-01-30 Thread Shaw John-P55297
I have 2 8.1.6 instances running on a NT4 (sp6) server using the same listener. With Enterprise manager (oem server is a different machine), I can see - discover one of the instances but not the other. If I use toad or sqlplus I can connect to the other instance. Any guesses as to what I need to

RE: OT - using winsock.dll from within forms 6i

2002-01-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
There isn't anything for Winsock.dll, but you could use FORMS_FFI interface to hook into any DLL. For examples lookup D2KWUTIL.DLL and D2KWUTIL.PLL these hook into windows API to get an idea. If you install FFIGEN package, it will let you specify a DLL and import all available interfaces in

RE: RE: sqlplus question

2002-01-30 Thread Kimberly Smith
OK, lets take poking fun at Kim back to the OT list please. Ross, I don't know how but I am going to get you back for this. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Don't you know that Kimberly is The Lord Of The Rings. Prudo

Re: ALTER ROLLBACK SEGMENT rbs SHRINK

2002-01-30 Thread Rachel Carmichael
no, you can't shrink a rollback segment below the optimal value --- Sinard Xing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Assume INITIAL * MINEXTENT = 2M and also = OPTIMAL Do you think ALTER ROLLBACK SEGMENT rbs SHRINK TO 1M; will work ? Thanks, Sinardy -- Please

RE: Unbreakable Oracle - Metaslink

2002-01-30 Thread Murray, Margaret
Can't get in either. Been trying for a couple of hours (it's not 10:50 am) with no luck. So much for checking on my tars... -Original Message- From: Thomas, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:11 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

RE: Session_wait

2002-01-30 Thread Babich , Sergey
Hi, everybody, However, I made the following entry into init.ora file: Event= 10046 trace name errorstack level 12 and it rebooted over the weekend. Then I got a call from my boss on Monday morning (I was home sick) letting me know the system had come to a crawl and was producing a trace file

RE: PMON CRASHED INSTANCE

2002-01-30 Thread Kevin Lange
I had the same occurance on an 8.0.5 database. We had a long job running , also a trucate, that was killed. When this happened the database core dumped and died. We looked it up on Metalink and found that it was a known error with that version of the database. It appears to happen with heavy

RE: Rman again. Long screen output removed/SOLVED

2002-01-30 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: Rman again. Long screen output removed/SOLVED Jack, We are on 8.1.7.1 on Compaq Tru64 (5.1) and we are sure that we have done both a duplicate database and a restore using PITR (format to_date('18-SEP-2001 01:00:00','dd-mon- HH24:MI:SS'); I am not really in a position to

RE: Session_wait

2002-01-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
By setting it in init.ora, you essentially enabled it for all sessions. I'd recommend it doing only for the processes that you think need to be tuned. At process level you could do a alter session and set the same level. Raj __ Rajendra

RE: Performance Tuning

2002-01-30 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I would perhaps suggest Oracle Performance Tuning 101 instead of Rich's book (if you had to make a choice). the 101 book conforms most closely to Oracle's current thinking on performance tuning --- SARKAR, Samir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Practically, u should get two books to have a full

Re: Truncate Table Privilige ?

2002-01-30 Thread Rachel Carmichael
no --- VIVEK_SHARMA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a Particular Table Created by a One Oracle User , Is it possible to TRUNCATE the SAME Table by ANOTHER Oracle user by Giving Some Suitable Priviliges Other than DBA DROP ANY TABLE Priviliges ?

RE: Unbreakable Oracle - Metaslink

2002-01-30 Thread JoJo Al-Zawawi
I'm reposting this because it got bounced back to me, so this might show up twice. When I was purchasing my CD pack a couple of weeks ago, the site was so slow, it would take 2-3 minutes for any page to load (on my DSL). I finally gave up and called Sales on the phone. I asked him up was up

Re: OEM question

2002-01-30 Thread Marin Dimitrov
- Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 17:20 I have 2 8.1.6 instances running on a NT4 (sp6) server using the same listener. With Enterprise manager (oem server is a different machine), I can see - discover

RE: Unbreakable Oracle - Metaslink

2002-01-30 Thread Witold Iwaniec
Must be entire Oracle - technet.oracle.com or www.oracle.com seem to be down too. www.microsoft.com is alive ;-) (I don't want to start another OT thread) Witold On 30 Jan 2002 at 7:50, Murray, Margaret wrote: Can't get in either. Been trying for a couple of hours (it's not 10:50 am) with

RE: Unbreakable Oracle - Metaslink

2002-01-30 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I can't get into drudge either... Maybe they are on the same server ??? ; ) Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 11:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:RE: Unbreakable

RE: AW: auditing tables

2002-01-30 Thread Bala, Prakash
We had implemeted the following design in my previous project (a Mortgage Origination System) to accomplish this. We had marketing tables to keep track of mortgage products, rates etc. These tables were query intensive. Inserts/Updates/Logical deletes were less. The primary key was made up with

RE: Session_wait

2002-01-30 Thread SARKAR, Samir
Sergey, There is no LEVEL clause associated with the ERRORSTACK. When u use ERRORSTACK, Oracle creates a stack to store the information relating to a particular error. Your syntax should have been : 10046 trace name errorstack forever Hope this helps, Samir Samir Sarkar Oracle DBA - Lennon

RE: Performance Tuning

2002-01-30 Thread SARKAR, Samir
Maybe u r right, Rachel.since except for me, all the others have suggested the 101 book. Thing is, I bought Rich's book based on the customer reviews on Amazon and I must say that I am not disappointed but then, I haven't read the 101 book. At the same time, TUSC is supposed to have some of

RE: Truncate Table Privilige ?

2002-01-30 Thread Baker, Barbara
If I'm remembering this correctly, you can get around this by creating a pl/sql procedure that uses dbms_sql to truncate the table. Then you can grant the user execute privilege on the procedure. Worth a shot. Barb -- From: Rachel Carmichael[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply

RE: Oracle sites 1/30/2002 ?

2002-01-30 Thread Jesse, Rich
Down for me, too... :( Maybe I should log an iTA...whoops... Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jesse, Rich INET:

RE: Unbreakable Oracle - Metaslink

2002-01-30 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
There are more hacking attempts against oracle.com since Larry declared that Oracle is unbreakable. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 12:31 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

RE: Session_wait

2002-01-30 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Babich , Sergey wrote: However, I made the following entry into init.ora file: Event= 10046 trace name errorstack level 12 and it rebooted over the weekend. Then I got a call from my boss on Monday morning (I was home sick) letting me know the system had come to a

Re: Truncate Table Privilige ?

2002-01-30 Thread orantdba
Not directly, but you may have the owner of the table create a stored procedure that performs a truncate and then grant execute on that procedure to whoever he wants to run this procedure. by default a stored procedure runs under the privilege of the compiler of the procedure. Hope this helps,

RE: Unbreakable Oracle - Metaslink

2002-01-30 Thread Glenn Travis
I read this on another list this morning; The database may be unbreakable, but that doesn't matter if the network or hardware is broken. There's a major network failure outside of Oracle. Apparantly, there's a network issue outside of Oracle's site. -Original Message- From: Murray,

RE: Performance Tuning

2002-01-30 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Rachel, Thank you so much for you kind words and the very interesting comparison.. :) - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I would perhaps suggest Oracle Performance Tuning 101 instead of Rich's book (if you had

Re: Upgrade from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7

2002-01-30 Thread Joan Hsieh
Hi Hamid, We upgraded our peoplesoft db from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 last year. This is just give you a reference check. You HAVE TO read the upgrade note do exactly what the notes said. Since all the platform is different, it might change the procedures according to your platforms. Joan Oracle 8.1.7

RE: OEM question

2002-01-30 Thread
Just went into the OEM console and choose Navigator from the menu. It says: discover NODES. Discover is discovering the computer that the instances are on. After the discovery query the node and you should see the two instances. BTW: Marin, I think that the OEM agent is one per node(computer)

RE: Performance Tuning

2002-01-30 Thread Scott . Shafer
Umm, how do you really feel about it? grin I have to concur though - OPT101 is excellent! Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate. -Original Message- From: K Gopalakrishnan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: ALTER ROLLBACK SEGMENT rbs SHRINK

2002-01-30 Thread Johnston, Tim
You know what? I thought the same thing... But, the curious side of me decided to give it a try to be sure... And guess what... It works? Learn something new everyday... SQL select segment_name,sum(bytes) from dba_segments where tablespace_name = 'RBS' and segment_name = 'RBS17' group by

Re: ALTER ROLLBACK SEGMENT rbs SHRINK

2002-01-30 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Yes, it can be shrinked below optimal as per following details specially R03 rollback segment Regards Rafiq before: NAME EXT MB OPTSIZE ACTIVE WATER SHRINKSWRAPS WAITS STATUS --- --- --- --- --- --- -- ---

RE: Unbreakable Oracle - Metaslink

2002-01-30 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
My.oracle.com is down too. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 11:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:RE: Unbreakable Oracle - Metaslink Can't get in either. Been trying for

RE: PMON CRASHED INSTANCE

2002-01-30 Thread
Kevin wrote: I hope its fixed in 8.1.7 because thats where we are heading to. Just to remind you all: 8.1.6 IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED (al least for NT). I had a problem two weeks ago with snapshot too old during analyze table that crashed the instance and they refused to back port a correction

RE: Performance Tuning

2002-01-30 Thread Orr, Steve
Rachel IS kind but her words are also true and I think this was her main focus in this case. ;-) My Alomari book was for v7 and was good but is now dated... Is it up to date for 8i/9i? -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:11 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: ALTER ROLLBACK SEGMENT rbs SHRINK

2002-01-30 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Here is the confirmation of what Sandeep posted: SQL select a.usn, b.name, a.optsize 2 from v$rollstat a, v$rollname b 3 where a.usn = b.usn; USN NAME OPTSIZE -- -- -- 0 SYSTEM 1 RBS01

Re: PMON CRASHED INSTANCE

2002-01-30 Thread Ron Rogers
Seema, It looks like the user tried to cancel the operation. ORA-01013. after they started the truncate. Could be it caused the insanity and crashed the system. That might be why you never saw it before. Try to create the same failure on a test system and see if the cancel causes a crash. ROR

RE: OEM question

2002-01-30 Thread Rao, Maheswara
Shaw, Check these things. 1. Check whether OEM agent is running on NT4. (On unix the command is - lsnrctl dbsnmp_status). Perhaps on NT this might work. 2. One OEM agent is enough on one machine. This agent would monitor all the databases running on that machine. 3. Now, in the second step,

Re: OEM question

2002-01-30 Thread orantdba
Hi John, Have you bounced the IA since this instance was created. My understanding is that upon discovery the IA looks in a file called services.ora and/or snmp_ro.ora to see which services have been discovered. On NT this file is created with the IA is started by checking listener.ora,

can sharepool error cause sna to go down?

2002-01-30 Thread Wong, Bing
My developer asked me this. can sharepool error cause sna to go down? Has anyone heard of this? I don't think so. Thanks in advance. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Wong, Bing INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858)

RE: Oracle sites 1/30/2002 ?

2002-01-30 Thread Shaibal Talukder
I have been trying since 8.00 AM Central standard time. No matter what ORACLE claim, it appears to be broke. From: "Jamadagni, Rajendra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Oracle sites 1/30/2002 ? Date:

RE: Unbreakable Oracle - Metaslink

2002-01-30 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Not sure if this 'unbreakable' stuff is completely broken.. May be it has 'bent' completely out of shape.. 'cause, I just received an automated e-mail after they did something to my 'iTAR'.. I can access it yet, however! So it may be working for some 'privileged' ones.. hiding behind the

Re: Unbreakable Oracle - Metaslink

2002-01-30 Thread Glenn Stauffer
From Eastern PA, there are quite a few west coast web sites that are not available right now. www.sun.com and www.amazon.com to name two. On Wednesday 30 January 2002 11:35 am, you wrote: I read this on another list this morning; The database may be unbreakable, but that doesn't matter if

RE: OEM question

2002-01-30 Thread Seefelt, Beth
And make sure the 2nd instance is in your services.ora. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 12:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Shaw, Check these things. 1. Check whether OEM agent is running on NT4. (On unix the command is - lsnrctl dbsnmp_status).

RE: Session_wait

2002-01-30 Thread Babich , Sergey
Thanks a lot. That's what a lack of knowledge does... Regards, Dummy -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 11:56 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:RE: Session_wait On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Babich , Sergey wrote: However, I made the

RE: Session_wait

2002-01-30 Thread Babich , Sergey
Hi, Samir, Yes, I received it. Thank you very much. Maybe, I shouldn't have done that cause, anyway, the problem is poor SQL code... -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 11:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:RE: Session_wait Sergey,

RE: Performance Tuning

2002-01-30 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
No... we are not.. still at #1. Must be something wrong with K.Gopal's keyboard or mouse (or finger;) I sincerely thank you all for 'discussing' our book. Gaja is still catching up with his office e-mail after returning from a long vacation. But he will join the list soon.. Regards, -

Oracle 8i DBA with AIX and Siebel Needed in Columbus, Ohio

2002-01-30 Thread OraStaff
Columbus, Ohio company is looking for an Oracle DBA who has Siebel and Unix AIX experience to join their I.T. staff. General duties will include data management, upgrades, patching, tuning, security, capacity planning and back/up recovery. *Candidates should currently reside in the Mid-West

RE: ALTER ROLLBACK SEGMENT rbs SHRINK

2002-01-30 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Yes, Mohammad is right !! I messed up by not seeing the correct column... Oracle will not honor the size you asked for (to shrink), if there are other transactions using up space more than what you asked for, but it can go below the OPTSIZE... Thanks, Mohammad. - Kirti -Original

Answer to SCOTT/TIGER

2002-01-30 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Here is the answer: SCOTT, is the last name of Bruce Scott, who was the early Developer working with Bob Miner (Larry's Technical Partner in 1980), TIGER, was the name of Bruce's cat. Source: Oracle8i for Dummies Foreword by Ned Dana, who worked with Bruce and Bob in rewriting the Oracle

RE: can sharepool error cause sna to go down?

2002-01-30 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
I cannot translate sna this morning. What is it? Is it as in SNA; i.e., System Network Architecture? If so, then the statement alluding to no one ever hearing of a sharepool error bringing down SNA is undoubtedly correct. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Oracle standby strange behavior

2002-01-30 Thread Yuval Arnon
Title: Oracle standby strange behavior Hi, I ran into a strange behavior of a standby database. On the primary db I have an application schema and a query schema. All tables from the appl schema have public synonyms and a grant select to public. User query is created with connect and resource

Re: ALTER ROLLBACK SEGMENT rbs SHRINK

2002-01-30 Thread Rachel Carmichael
what are the minimum extents on the rollback segments (specifically r03) as well as initial and next sizes please? If optimal is higher than the minimum extents, you're right, it can shrink down to minimum extents*initial but it doesn't make a lot of sense to set things up that way ---

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