RE: bitmap index with nosort

2002-03-13 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Sinardy : It is expected behavior only. Bit map indexes are not stored in a tree format and sorting will have no impact. Have a look at bit map concepts in Oracle Documentation. Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan Bangalore, INDIA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 11:38 PM

tkprof plan missing rows

2002-03-13 Thread Baker, Barbara
Oracle 7.3.4, OpenVMS 7.1 My tkprof report is missing the row count in the execution plan. Does anyone know why what I might be missing? If I autotrace the same query in the same database, I do get cardinality. The tables have been analyzed. If I tkprof another database using the same

RE: Number of Transaction Slots

2002-03-13 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
The transaction slots are visible as KTUXESLT in X$KTUXE. You can get them using this SQL.. select count(*) ktuxeslt from X$ktuxe group by ktuxeusn; For a complete value you can get the slot size form V$TYPE_SZIE and do a simple math.. Let me know if you can't. I will do that for you Best

RE: Free scripts

2002-03-13 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: Free scripts I use Tim Onion's site which has a comprehensive listing of basic DBA scripts and there is also a zip file to download the lot in one go. www.timonions.com John -Original Message- From: Nguyen, David M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 12 March 2002 22:54

Re: Do you use RMAN? DB clone problem

2002-03-13 Thread Pullikol Kumar
Hi Lists I have encountered error(ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments arguments: [qersoAggDist.0], [3], [], [], [], [], [], [] ORA-06512:) while running package called 'JC_PR_SPLIT_PROCESS' Error message is listed below . I am using SQL Navigotor to process this package. Any idea

Re:Strangeness with PL/SQL and ProC

2002-03-13 Thread dgoulet
Lee, Stop a minute and take a look at what your doing. I assume that when the process was pure PRO*C there must have been a pile of communication between the database and the program. This communication, even if done by IPC takes time. Now when you re-code it in PL/SQL there is no reason

Oracle Upgrade Issue

2002-03-13 Thread Suresh Ramanath
Hi: Just wanted to know if a DBA has to perform an upgrade (patch) across more than one instance(let's say 5 instances) then how does he about doing the same... Is there any third party tool that is available which will make things easier for him? Regards, Suresh -- Please see the official

unable to apply patch

2002-03-13 Thread Harvinder Singh
HI, When we try to apply patch 9.0.1.2.0 on 9.0.1.1.1 oracle we got error: There are no patches that need to be applied from patch set Oracle9i Patch set 9.0.1.2.0. Earlier we are able to apply the same patch on other machine. What might be the possible reason for this error? Thanks

RE: USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS

2002-03-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
select to_char(1) from dual; to_char is a user defined function (already built for you) by oracle. I am yet to find someone who says UDF is a bad thing ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN

Anyone use V$SESSION_LONGOPS ???

2002-03-13 Thread Orr, Steve
Is my V$SESSION_LONGOPS view broken? Check out the curious results below. Notice the changing SID-serial# and how elapsed seconds gyrates. None of the below sessions are in V$SESSION. The sql address and hash is not extant in V$SQL, V$SQLAREA, etc. (Note, we are using PQO with timed

RE: Free scripts

2002-03-13 Thread Mark Leith
Check out the OSM package from www.orapub.com HTH Mark === Mark Leith | T: +44 (0)1905 330 281 Sales Marketing | F: +44 (0)870 127 5283 Cool Tools UK Ltd | E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

selecting the nth value from a varray column

2002-03-13 Thread Szecsy Tamas
Hi, could someone please help me with this? I have a table where a column is of type varray of numbers. I need the 4th and 5th values that are coordinate values. How can I select only these columns` value? Every help will be highly appreciated. Tamas Szecsy -- Please see the official ORACLE-L

RE: PL/SQL

2002-03-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
It depends ... to quote my SA, 'You can never be paranoid enough about security ... but you need to know when to stop and have a life. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion

Re: bitmap index with nosort

2002-03-13 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Offline - I'm sure you already know this, but technically they are stored in a tree format, loosely speaking as an IOT with columns: {column values(s)}, starting rowid, ending rowid, {string of bits} where the {string of bits} is the 'data' component of the IOT, and the rest is the

RE: bitmap index with nosort

2002-03-13 Thread Sinard Xing
Hi, Thanks This is just for the testing purpose, because one of my oracle book state the syntax like this : CREATE BITMAP INDEX [schema.] index ON [schema.] table (column [ ASC | DESC ] [, column [ ASC | DESC ] ] ...) [ TABLESPACE tablespace] [ PCTFREE integer ] [ INITRANS

RE: USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS

2002-03-13 Thread
Larry Thanks for a fine and detailed info. Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Larry Elkins [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sun, March 10, 2002 4:13 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS

RE: DB2

2002-03-13 Thread Jon Baker
http://nscpcw.physics.upenn.edu/db2_docs/ could be useful. i'm still trying to get a free trial copy of db2... -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 4:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi there, Does anybody know if there's a list such as this

Names Servers, performance / load balancing

2002-03-13 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi All, Anybody know a good document on performance issues for ORACLE NAMES SERVERS. Also how is load balancing done if I have more than one nameserver? TIA Jack === De informatie verzonden in dit e-mailbericht is

SQL Query

2002-03-13 Thread RShankar1
Hi Friends, I just need a help in a SQL statement. There is a test table with one number field say X. I needed a sql statement which will show the value of x for each row and the sum of all X. For ex , if 3 rows are there with values 3,6,9 then the output should be XSum(X)

THANKS Re: problem in creating control file?

2002-03-13 Thread Bunyamin K. Karadeniz
I want to thank to everyone on the list for their replies for my problem. I lastly managed the problem and cloned a new db . But I have seen an important thing and I want to share with you. You can be careful about it... THe original database was in archive log mode. It is very

RE: selecting the nth value from a varray column

2002-03-13 Thread Ciprian Maftei
Hi, could someone please help me with this? I have a table where a column is of type varray of numbers. I need the 4th and 5th values that are coordinate values. How can I select only these columns` value? Every help will be highly appreciated. Tamas Szecsy -- Please see the official ORACLE-L

RE: Smart Update, How ?

2002-03-13 Thread Daemen, Remco
Hi Steven, Exclude the rows with XXX is null in the cursor definition. Does that get you what you want ? HTH, Remco -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: steven wndy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: dinsdag 12 maart 2002 22:34 Aan: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Onderwerp: Smart

RE: SQL Query

2002-03-13 Thread RShankar1
Hi Friends, I found the answer . sorry for troubling you. Thanks Shankar -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Friends, I just need a help in a SQL statement. There is a test table with one number field say

RE: Now: IOUG : Was: PocketDBA

2002-03-13 Thread Freeman, Robert
Gotta go see that!! Live demo's. always fun! Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP Oracle DBA Technical Lead CSX Midtier Database Administration The Cigarette Smoking Man: Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him. -Original Message- Sent:

RE: Now: IOUG : Was: PocketDBA

2002-03-13 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
How about a seat near the power outlets ?? Then, it will be a fun experiment for Joe Susan ;) I will be doing my first ever presentation at IOUG-A.. Just a Quick Tips (Q31) - Wait Events in a Nutshell.. (bring your lunch with you, if they allow it :) All Quick Tips Sessions are during lunch

RE: Cost vs Rule

2002-03-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Well, since hints are implemented within comments, I would assume that other databases would simply ignore them. If anyone has direct experience, that would be interesting. Being completely database-agnostic may play against tuning. Just a thought. I suppose you analyzed all tables when

Re: Anyone use V$SESSION_LONGOPS ???

2002-03-13 Thread Jonathan Lewis
No version numbers, and no O/S details. Cary Millsap mentioned to me a little while ago that on one of his linux platforms the values you got from timed_statistics seemed to be a very good random number generator ;) Possibly this is just a 32-bit/64-bit misalignment in code - I've seem similar

RE: Number of Transaction Slots

2002-03-13 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Rajesh, The transaction slots are clearly visible in the Undo Header dumps. I think this takes some 40 bytes space in the undo header block and this limits the number of ***concurrent** transactions for that undo segment. Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan Bangalore, INDIA -Original

Re: Service Names

2002-03-13 Thread Suzy Vordos
Does your tnsnames.ora have SID or SERVICE_NAME for CONNECT_DATA? It should be SERVICE_NAME. Peter Barnett wrote: We are attempting to install SQLNet in a failover configuration. The environment consists of two AIX servers with version 4.3.3 OS, Oracle 8.1.7.2 on both servers. These

RE: How to deregister OEM 2.2 jobs and events when agent is not a

2002-03-13 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Title: How to deregister OEM 2.2 jobs and events when agent is not available? There is a paper on this in MetaLink. Log a TAR, they will point you to it. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-13 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
That as Oracle software becomes larger, fewer DBAs are required. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de

Re: Number of Active Users inside the Database

2002-03-13 Thread Joan Hsieh
SELECT s.client_info client,s.username,s.osuser,s.PROGRAM,p.pid,p.spid, s.sid,s.serial#, to_char(S.LOGON_TIME,'MONDD HH24:MI') LOGON TIME from v$session s, v$process p where s.status='ACTIVE' and s.type != 'BACKGROUND' and p.addr=s.paddr / Joan Abul Fazal wrote: Hello List, Just a stupid

Re: SOFT PARSE RATIO?

2002-03-13 Thread Bjørn Engsig
Here are a few indications, which I believe also were to be found in 7: - Parse/elapsed time CPU substantial part of CPU used by this session - parse count (almost) as large as execute count - latch free wait time high compared to CPU used by this session and the latches really hit are library

RE: Anyone use V$SESSION_LONGOPS ???

2002-03-13 Thread Mark Leith
Is it just me, or am I having a slight case of de ja vu here ;P -Original Message- Lewis Sent: 13 March 2002 11:34 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L No version numbers, and no O/S details. Cary Millsap mentioned to me a little while ago that on one of his linux platforms the

RE: Names Server

2002-03-13 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
Jack: It appears that the names server is up and running. Try this: 1. Invoke the namesctl utility from a dos prompt. 2. Type services (I think) to see what service names are processed. 3. Type status to see the status of the names server. Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Technical Alliance

RE: Time for a reorg?

2002-03-13 Thread Mark Leith
Wow - does nobody reorg databases anymore? ;P Thanks for all your help guys.. I'll take that as a cue to put some time aside..;0P -Original Message- Sent: 12 March 2002 11:43 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Does anyone have any set limits to know when it would be time for

NUMERIC_OR_VALUE_ERROR_ORA-6502 !!!

2002-03-13 Thread Jackson Dumas
Yeah My clients had a problem a couple weeks ago for the same application but different databases on different platforms, different weeks. First occurance on DB1 : This happend on one user's machine and it came out that his PC was not properly setup. DB1 was running on WINDOWS NT. Second

Re: cannot find database in OEM ???

2002-03-13 Thread Ora NT DBA
Hi Andrea, Have you stopped and restarted the Intelligent Agent? The databases are discovered and stored in the services.ora file when the agent is started? Your discovery actually reads this file. Best regards, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I created one db and after OEM

RE: cannot find database in OEM ???

2002-03-13 Thread Mark Leith
When you created the new database, did you add the relevant connection info in to the Net8 connection definitions such as tnsnames.ora or your names service? -Original Message- Oracle Sent: 12 March 2002 21:49 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all, I created one db and after

RE: selecting the nth value from a varray column

2002-03-13 Thread Szecsy Tamas
I give an example, just to make clear what I mean: How do I retrieve coordinate values from Oracle Spatial Object model? 1. Create a table: create table sdo (geometry mdsys.sdo_geometry); 2. Insert a record with coordinate values ( 19.135147 and 47.021199 are the coordinates) insert into sdo

NUMERIC_OR_VALUE_ERROR_ORA-6502 !!!

2002-03-13 Thread Jackson Dumas
Yeah My clients had a problem a couple weeks ago for the same application but different databases on different platforms. First occurance on DB1 : This happend on one user's machine and it came out that his PC was not properly setup. DB1 was running on WINDOWS NT. Second occurance on DB2

Re: Poll Questions

2002-03-13 Thread Gene Sais
Tracy - 75 gb is nothing. Lets see: dba hourly rate to create test from data subset of production vs. cost of 75gb disks? Hmm, seems like a no brainer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/12/02 05:43PM We currently have a production, system and development database here. The system and development

Re:RE: Time for a reorg?

2002-03-13 Thread dgoulet
Yes, I think databases still get reorg'd today. It is just that our definition of a reorg and a database I think are changing. In the past if you said you were going to reorg a database that a full export, possibly a rebuild and an import. Way too time consuming for today's 24x7 requirements.

Re: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-13 Thread tday6
My favorite (or at least the one that annoys me the most) is Every object in the INITIAL extension. After that would be OFA where the DBA doesn't get the difference between an LV and a physical drive.

Weird Report Problem

2002-03-13 Thread Viktor
All, We've got a weird report problem where the report is called from a form when a user clicks on a button located on the canvas of the forms screen. The button has a trigger on which run 1 of 2 reports based on the value user selects from a drop down list in the form's screen. Trigger is

Re: Poll Questions

2002-03-13 Thread tday6
The best argument is that you have the hardware and software on-site for disaster recovery. It's not a failover situation but it does mean that production would be down for hours instead of days.

RE: DB freezes ... no indications of any kind

2002-03-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Thanks to all who helped me with this one, looks like we have * bug *. OWS is working on resolution and probably a patch. Once I get a clear research note from dev, I'll update the list if anyone is interested. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni

RE: RE: Re: NYOUG

2002-03-13 Thread Jim Hawkins
Rachel, SLOUG would definitely pay your travel expenses, and since our meetings run from 1PM to 5PM, it could really amount to just a day trip for you if you want. You could fly in that morning, have some lunch, deliver your topic, then take off (unless you wanted to see the city of St.

RE: Poll Questions

2002-03-13 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: Poll Questions I agree the work involved in creating a representative subset of data , complete with full RI in place can be quite significant. I know there are tools in place that do some of the work (Checkmate by BitybyBit and Quest have one - data factory I think) but these

RE: OCP Test on Oracle 8i New features Upgrade : study

2002-03-13 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
and we are all grateful to all of you for your time and efforts and obvious sacrifices in giving that help. Regards Lee -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 4:28 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L oh man, what makes you think *I* feel all that worthy of writing

RE: database clone:

2002-03-13 Thread Vincent Cimino
Mitchell; Mitchell; I don't know if this has already been said but my take is; If you have the time and space export import should be oK. However if you don't have one or the other, but do have a network, the best way is to use create table as select across the network. You'll need to

RE: cannot find database in OEM ???

2002-03-13 Thread Seefelt, Beth
Also, check your services.ora -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 6:48 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L When you created the new database, did you add the relevant connection info in to the Net8 connection definitions such as tnsnames.ora or your names

Re: Poll Questions

2002-03-13 Thread Charlie Mengler
Given that I saw a 120GB disk for $229 in Sunday's paper, I'm not convinced that the cost of hardware should be an issue. At $50/hour for the DBA, the break even point is less than 5 hours. A development system doesn't need to be fast or contain RAID. It just should be big enough to hold a copy

RE: Anyone use V$SESSION_LONGOPS ???

2002-03-13 Thread Orr, Steve
No... it's Deja vu all over again. Yogi Berra -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:53 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Is it just me, or am I having a slight case of de ja vu here ;P -Original Message- Lewis Sent: 13 March 2002 11:34 To: Multiple

RE: RE: Time for a reorg?

2002-03-13 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: RE: Time for a reorg? Thanks Dick, I think what you are saying ties in exactly with my post on the matter John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 March 2002 13:53 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re:RE: Time

RE: Time for a reorg?

2002-03-13 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: Time for a reorg? Having a sulk Mark? :-) There may be a number of factors involved here 1) Database well designed and managed and reorganisation does not become a problem 2) Regular use of alter table move and rebuild index reduces/removes the need to reorg 3) LMT and well

Passing in NULL via SQL ACCEPT

2002-03-13 Thread Magaliff, Bill
I'm writing an anonymous PL/SQL block that accepts various input from SQL*Plus via ACCEPT commands. I then take the SQL input and use it in the block, usually by assigning it to a PL/SQL variable. If no value is specified on the ACCEPT line, it appears that nothing is passed into PL/SQL, not

oracle and shared scsi raid array

2002-03-13 Thread Danny Hughes[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--FDQSKIOZYLYJZUDZQANS Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=CTAMBEFQWATMTARUCPBS --CTAMBEFQWATMTARUCPBS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We are looking into purchasing a shared scsi disk array and placing

RE: Smart Update, How ?

2002-03-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
I don't understand you said ... In my cursor loop, I have an update statement, see below. Now I need to the update only for the field (in that cursor) that has data in it. (which means when is null, that field will not be updated). 1. do you want to update the columns in the table, if the

RE: Smart Update, How ?

2002-03-13 Thread Steven Joshua
I thought I reply to all previously, but can't see it up. Anyway, the answer to the exclude option is NO. That cursor row also contains a lot of other information to update other tables. So no row can be excluded. Any other ideas? Thanks in advance Wendy --- Daemen, Remco [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-13 Thread Connor McDonald
And I forgot... * Index space is never reused ever (Corollary: set PCTFREE=0 on all indexes) * Bind variables simply serve to add complexity to the application (a Tom Kyte special) --- Jonathan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My next to favourite legends. Small tables don't need to

RE: Anyone use V$SESSION_LONGOPS ???

2002-03-13 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: Anyone use V$SESSION_LONGOPS ??? There have been a few posts today which are repeat posts from a few days ago -Original Message- From: Mark Leith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 March 2002 12:53 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Anyone use

RE: Anyone use V$SESSION_LONGOPS ???

2002-03-13 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Title: RE: Anyone use V$SESSION_LONGOPS ??? John: These are not reposts.. Infact one of my post (which I have sent long back) appeared today. Jared: Any ideas? Best Regards,K GopalakrishnanBangalore, INDIA -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Smart Update, How ?

2002-03-13 Thread Steven Joshua
No, I can't do that. The whole row contains a lot of other information for other updates. Any other ideas? Steven --- Daemen, Remco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Steven, Exclude the rows with XXX is null in the cursor definition. Does that get you what you want ? HTH, Remco

RE: Do you use RMAN?

2002-03-13 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Rob, Can one use 9i RMAN to backup lower version databases (8.0.x, 8.1.x)? What new functionality will be supported in doing so? We do not use RMAN at the moment, but we may consider it in the near future. Thanks. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 3:28

Oracle.exe taking too much physical ram

2002-03-13 Thread Arslan Dar
Hi gurus, My Production Box has 1Gb Ram with single 933Mhz PIII processor , though the db is not that big (4 GB), the oracle process is taking too much of memory, causing server to slow down on peak times of the day, and even after words, tonight, I looked up the memory which

Oracle taking too much physical memory

2002-03-13 Thread Arslan Dar
Title: Oracle taking too much physical memory Hi gurus, My Production Box has 1Gb Ram with single 933Mhz PIII processor , though the db is not that big (4 GB), the oracle process is taking too much of memory, causing server to slow down on peak times of the day, and even after words,

Re: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-13 Thread Rachel Carmichael
oh yes, one more, I got this from a vendor, as an explanation of why they didn't do a lookup table but instead added columns to the row for EVERY possible value in the lookup table: Oracle doesn't handle joins with more than 4 tables very well --- Jonathan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My

RE: Smart Update, How ?

2002-03-13 Thread Daemen, Remco
Can't you extract the update out of the cursor loop, and build a new cursor just for this update, in which you exclude the rows with XXX is null ? If you execute both loops, the result would be the same ... -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Steven Joshua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden:

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-13 Thread Freeman, Robert
Yep, had that one... another of my fav's! Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP Oracle DBA Technical Lead CSX Midtier Database Administration The Cigarette Smoking Man: Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
My humble suggestions 1. CBO doesn't work ... (well it failed 3 years ago when I compiled a Forms 3.0 form against 803 database, so it is STILL true). 2. Writing reusable code is not good, it is waste of time. 3. Exception handling ... Oracle is pretty good are reporting them ... 4. We need

RE: repeat messages

2002-03-13 Thread Baker, Barbara
Naw, it's not just you. Looks like all the messages that got re-posted have an attachment that says winmail.dat Odd -- From: Orr, Steve[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:28 AM To: Multiple recipients of

Re: Oracle.exe taking too much physical ram

2002-03-13 Thread Ora NT DBA
Hi Arslan, Without know anything else it would be difficult to diagnose exactly what to do. But from the size of the allocated SGA it appears that you need to reduce some of these parameters. >From v$sga you have 640 MB of database buffer cache 80 MB of shared pool and other things What

RE: Oracle taking too much physical memory

2002-03-13 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Title: Oracle taking too much physical memory You have one gigabyte of memory on your machine and your SGA isover 700 MB. That seems excessive I doubt you need 640megabytes' worth of block buffers. There is nothing wrong by the way with nearly exhausting physical memory. However improperly

RE: Passing in NULL via SQL ACCEPT

2002-03-13 Thread Guidry, Chris
ACCEPT variable PROMPT 'message' DEFAULT 0 -- Chris J. Guidry P.Eng. EE ATCO Electric, Metering Services Phone: (780) 420-4142 Fax: (780) 420-3854 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Magaliff, Bill [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 07:43 AM To:

RE DATA Modelling Tool

2002-03-13 Thread Dave Morgan
Hi Eva, I find all data modelling tools create lousy SQL so the DBA ends up rewriting the SQL anyway. Having said this I use tgif on Linux (other Unisexes also). Similar to Visio except it has a link feature that allows you to edit the actual SQL in the text file without disrupting your

Re: Oracle taking too much physical memory

2002-03-13 Thread tday6
Reduce the number of DB_BUFFERS. Unless my eyes deceive me, if you have a 2k block size, then you're trying to allocate 1.2G of SGA just for the DB_BUFFERS. On an Intel system (I assume W2K), I wouldn't try to allocate more than 1/2 the physical RAM for the total SGA. Windows will still swap

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-13 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Hey Guys,Did anyone have a look at Gaja's new paper on myths and folklore about Oracle at Craig Shallahamer's site? Wonderful reading.RajHallas John [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]03/13/2002 06:28 AM PSTPlease respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Oracle.exe taking too much physical ram

2002-03-13 Thread Arslan Dar
Title: Oracle.exe taking too much physical ram Hi gurus, My Production Box has 1Gb Ram with single 933Mhz PIII processor , though the db is not that big (4 GB), the oracle process is taking too much of memory, causing server to slow down on peak times of the day, and even after words,

RE: Riddle me this Oracle riddle...

2002-03-13 Thread Freeman, Robert
Interesting, I wonder if this is 4000 bytes then for 9i and the manual was not updated? I will ask about this. So, this implies that my original answer would be b or c (depending on 9i behavior). This is what I understood Oracle to be telling me. RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP Oracle DBA

VMS, large database

2002-03-13 Thread Michael Kline
I have a large 7.4 db running under VMS... Database has limited objects, 125,148 meg, with 1,131 tables and 1,022 indexes. (Total objects = 3,445) It runs around 256 I/O per sec and 7,011 logical I/O per sec. Fetch vs. Scan is 5%.. They run about 87 db waits per minute and get 176 I/O per

Re: bitmap index with nosort

2002-03-13 Thread Igor Neyman
Most probably it says: CREATE [BITMAP | UNIQUE] INDEX [schema.] index ... Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:48 AM Hi, Thanks This is just for the testing

Re:RE: RE: Time for a reorg?

2002-03-13 Thread dgoulet
Your welcome. The problem with these changing paradigms is that there are folks, like Mark, out there creating tools to make our lives easier but at the same time the shift makes theirs more difficult. It follows my theory on the balance of life. If you change the amount of effort required to

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Oracle doesn't handle joins with more than 4 tables very well maybe because they wrote their application for sql server?? Tell them if you set _allow_tables_to_join = n hidden parameter it WILL allow you to join n tables, but not n+1. Raj __

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-13 Thread Orr, Steve
If you buffer cache hit ratio is 90% you're experiencing poor performance and you're a DBA wimp. :-) -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:43 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I'm putting the final touches on my IOUG-A presentation (I got an extension for those

Re: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-13 Thread Igor Neyman
Reading it right now. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:28 AM Subject: RE: Fav. Urban Legend... Hey Guys, Did anyone have a look

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-13 Thread Orr, Steve
Bigger is better. This is the best biggest myth. Say that fast 3 times. :-) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:18 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L That as Oracle software becomes larger, fewer DBAs are required. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst

RE: Do you use RMAN?

2002-03-13 Thread Freeman, Robert
Rman is backwards compatible, but to be honest I have not tried the new features on 8i databases, so I can't tell you for sure that they work in that way. My guess is that they probably do, but don't hold me to that. RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP Oracle DBA Technical Lead CSX Midtier

RE: Number of Transaction Slots

2002-03-13 Thread Freeman, Robert
Yes, the man is a X$ marvel What that I could remember all of the things that he seems to have at the tip of his emails. RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP Oracle DBA Technical Lead CSX Midtier Database Administration The Cigarette Smoking Man: Anyone who can appease a man's conscience

RE: Hundreds of schemas in one instance?

2002-03-13 Thread Ben Poels
Hi The assumption is that every user of this system will have totally unique requirements. There will be no data sharing and no commonality of purpose. As far as alternatives I am not even thinking about multiple instances. Other alternatives include - many schemas and one tablespace, or many

Upgrading JServer (or Is Jserver Installed)

2002-03-13 Thread Wiegand, Kurt
I just upgraded an 8.1.5.0.0 database to 8.1.7.0.0 and was totally willing to skip the Upgrading JServer section under Upgrading Specific Components..until, I saw JServer Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production in the svrmgrl banner. I went and looked at my 8.1.5 banner and found and Java

Re: Cost vs Rule

2002-03-13 Thread Joe Raube
How much have you played with Oracle Hints??? -Joe --- Magaliff, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work in a dev shop - most of the sql is canned and pretty basic. We've been running CBO in all of our dev environments, but we have a few long txns that just take forever. At the request of

RE: Oracle.exe taking too much physical ram

2002-03-13 Thread Seefelt, Beth
Title: Message You're DB_BLOCK_BUFFERS parameter is way too high. -Original Message-From: Arslan Dar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:34 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Oracle.exe taking too much physical ram Hi

Errors in Alert Log - 12571

2002-03-13 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Hi List, Checking the alert log file I found this error ARC2: Completed archiving log# 3 seq# 736Mon Mar 11 07:46:18 2002Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 738Mon Mar 11 07:46:18 2002ARC1: Beginning to archive log# 2 seq# 737Mon Mar 11 07:46:18 2002 Current log# 1 seq# 738 mem# 0:

Re: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-13 Thread Jonathan Lewis
How about - Oracle's decision to use an index for a query is determined by the percentage of rows from the table identified by the index. Hints are only suggestions and Oracle is allowed to ignore them Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Next Seminar - UK,

RE: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-13 Thread Lyuda Hoska
1)they'll be a code to generate a code to generate a code to generate a code, and there'll be self-maintening databases, too. no developers and dba's will be needed. :-0 2)Y2K was turned out to be a myth, too. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 12:24 PM To: Multiple

RE: Time for a reorg?

2002-03-13 Thread Mark Leith
Hi John It's my party and I'll cry if I want to! ;P I accept everything you say below.. And have no argument against it.. ;) What I am trying to do is come up with a script that reports on a number of factors that would lead a DBA in to feeling that it is time for a reorg. For example, you

Re: Fav. Urban Legend...

2002-03-13 Thread Igor Neyman
Actually this is true for MS SQL Server: can not handle efficiently more than 6 joined tables, at least on 6.5 version. So, m.b. vendor's product was supposed to run not only on Oracle, but other databases as well. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To:

RE: Oracle.exe taking too much physical ram

2002-03-13 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Title: Oracle.exe taking too much physical ram Because shared_pool_size, db_block_buffers, log_buffer, java_pool_size,and perhaps other memory-related init.ora parameters, are set too high. Cut them down to size. Allow enough memory for user sessions. db_block_buffers x db_block_size =

RE: Anyone use V$SESSION_LONGOPS ???

2002-03-13 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: RE: Anyone use V$SESSION_LONGOPS ??? Man! I'm glad somebody else said something. I was frantically adjusting my medication. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message-From: Hallas John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002

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