Re: So, What is a 'Production DBA'?

2002-05-31 Thread Alexandre Gorbatchev
Prod. DBA tends to be more responsible. App. DBA tends to be more creative. But could be both 8=) and the best are. -- Alexandre -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Alexandre Gorbatchev INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858)

Re: Jr.DBA, Mid level DBA, Sr.DBA

2002-05-31 Thread Alexandre Gorbatchev
Junior DBA's job is a learning. Mid DBA's job is a science. Sr. DBA's job is the Art. Srs feel database, users, developers and everything else. They feel what, where, how, when and why should by done. Their intuition is of high degree. ... and everybody is sure - the Sr DBA knows everything. (so

Re: Jr.DBA, Mid level DBA, Sr.DBA

2002-05-31 Thread Yechiel Adar
Title: RE: Jr.DBA, Mid level DBA, Sr.DBA We Since I live in Israel I do not know the salaries ranges. Senior DBA lives in Spain Junior DAB lives in England Midlevel DAB lived 200 years ago in Europe. Yechiel AdarMehish - Original Message - From: Richard Huntley To:

RE: For real Gurus only

2002-05-31 Thread Sinardy Xing
wow, so turf -Original Message- Sent: 30 May 2002 17:23 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello Gurus I got this link through SAG-L. Have a try. www.quest-pipelines.com/newsletter-v3/Crossword_Puzzles/puzzle0502.html Yechiel Adar Mehish -- Please see the official ORACLE-L

RE: RE: Advice needed please

2002-05-31 Thread Stephane Faroult
Lee, I am always reluctant to post something which may look even remotely commercial but Oriole markets this kind of tool. It's, we believe, reasonably priced and you can try it for free, so perhaps it's worth for you to have a look before going into a full-blown development. As far as

ORA-600

2002-05-31 Thread Nalla Ravi
Dear All, I am gettying the follwoing error on our alert_log file,though no porblem in the activity of database. Has any one faced this problem, It is AIX, Oracle 8.1.7 Database and non archived mode. We never gave like recover any thing, why it is trying to recover from error message as

Archive log full

2002-05-31 Thread sam d
Hi List, I am new to oracle, Archive Log has filledup the entire hard disk. (No error thrown by the Oracle) Can I move those(zip) files safely to other location. (win2k,Oracle 8.1.6) (I did went thru the manual) thx Sam __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! -

Re: RMAN error registering database

2002-05-31 Thread Cherie_Machler
Danny, Many RMAN errors will show a hit when searching Metalink. I found the following related document on Metalink when I searched with the RMAN-10031 error: fact: Oracle Enterprise Edtion 8.1.7 fact: Recovery Manager (RMAN) symptom: Unable to register a database

Re: So, What is a 'Production DBA'?

2002-05-31 Thread Joe LaCascio
For what it's worth I'll add my .02 cents worth to this. I've been in IT now for 14 years, started with Informix for my first 3 or 4 years, the rest with Oracle. I've seen my share of duhvelopers but get the best giggles from the fights that happen between DBA's and System Admins. You know

RE: Urgent: Prodution database recovery

2002-05-31 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hand, Michael T

RE: problem using ROWNUM and ORDER BY clause together

2002-05-31 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Harvinder, My experience has been that Oracle applies rownum first, then order by. So, first it retrieves records that pass the 'where' clause, then sorts them. The results of your examples may be explained by the use of an index - try running explain plan against them to see if an index was

Re: RMAN error registering database

2002-05-31 Thread MICHAEL.SALE
Without having better information (i.e. I assume you are running Oracle between 8.1.6and 8.1.7.2), I would say that you are running into bug 1467871 fixed in 9i and patched in 8.1.7.3 and 4. The work around is to recreate your control file, thus loosing all your backup information stored in the

RE: Archive log full

2002-05-31 Thread Clinton Naude
Title: RE: Archive log full Do a backup that includes deleteing the archive logs. -Original Message- From: sam d [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 2:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Archive log full Hi List, I am new to oracle, Archive

Re:RE: partition tables

2002-05-31 Thread dgoulet
BigP, You'll have to rebuild the table from scratch as a partitioned table. Yes you can expect a performance gain, based on the fact that you partition it appropriately Also, if you haven't already licensed the partitioning option from Oracle, or installed it, you will have to. One

Re: Archive log full

2002-05-31 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi If no error now you'll get one soon (read the alert logs) you can safely move all the archive logs that are finished writing. I assume you have more than a day worth of archives so if you move anything older than a day for now you should be fine. after that it's time to write your

Re: RMAN error registering database - solved

2002-05-31 Thread Danny Hughes
Thanks Cherie I saw that one too...I was hoping that there was another fix rather than having to shut our production database down, but after many hours on the phone with oracle and getting nowhere, I just recrreated the control file and it did solve my problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/31/02

RE: Archive log full

2002-05-31 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Sam, Yes, you may move and delete the files and copy them to tape for safekeeping. Note: If you are using Rman, you should run an Rman archivelog backup - otherwise, it will complain about needing to back the files up. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message-

RE: ORA-600

2002-05-31 Thread Michael P Sale
This is an error that occurred while recovering from a rolled back transaction. Not a database recovery. This could be caused by doing a control-c while trying to truncate a large table (Bug 1400739 fixed in 8.1.7.1). Could also be from an undo operation on a leaf key of a bitmap index. You

RE: Archive log full

2002-05-31 Thread Michael P Sale
You absolutely need to keep the log archive destination disk space free to create new logs. You NEED to keep these archives for at least the time of the last beginning of a hot backup, or, if you're doing cold backups (with the database service stopped) then you need the archives from at least

Re:RE: partition tables

2002-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
One item I've learned about Oracle from our recent audit is that if you have not licensed an option, but installed it they don't really get bent out of shape so long as your not using it. I've had Oracle Support tell me to install EVERYTHING and just use what I'm licensed for. The logic

RE: So, What is a 'Production DBA'?

2002-05-31 Thread Hately Mike
Wow Joe, how very like-minded we are. I'm not in the least swayed in this opinion by my programmer/system administrator/oracle DBA career path. 3 years PL/1,DL/1 and Assembler programming for those of you with good memories. 3 years mainframe system admin (VSE? VM?). Actually still programming

* Certified Oracle DBAs Needed in the Dallas area..

2002-05-31 Thread OraStaff
Great Company located in Greater Dallas, Texas area (Richardson) needs 2 CERTIFIED (OCP) Oracle DBAs for full time staff positions. PLEASE Do Not send your resume for this position UNLESS you are fully certified and have the skills outlined below for this position. Please Do Not send your

Re: partition tables

2002-05-31 Thread paquette stephane
You can use insert select , export/import, create as select to move data from a non-partitionned to a partitionned table. Partitionning helps in the management of large tables more than in speeding the queries. Will you delete data from that table one day ? Choose the partition key carefully.

MySQL versus Oracle

2002-05-31 Thread Joe Testa
Anyone on the list done a comparison(or worked with both) MySQL and Oracle and can give me the good/bad points of My SQL? Doing interviewer thing and someone has My SQL who would like to move into the oracle world and i know nothing about mySQL and am wondering if the transition from one to

RE: partition tables

2002-05-31 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
BigP - I agree with Dick that you will need to create your new partitioned table and copy the rows from your current table into it. Given your questions, before you charge into partitioning, carefully study the ways partitioning can increase your performance. It isn't just some magic pixie dust

Re: So, What is a 'Production DBA'?

2002-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
see, this is why I always bribe my SAs. chocolate seems to work well, beers after work as necessary :) --- Joe LaCascio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what it's worth I'll add my .02 cents worth to this. I've been in IT now for 14 years, started with Informix for my first 3 or 4 years, the

Re: partition tables

2002-05-31 Thread Steven Lembark
-- paquette stephane [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can use insert select , export/import, create as select to move data from a non-partitionned to a partitionned table. Partitionning helps in the management of large tables more than in speeding the queries. Will you delete data from that table

RE: So, What is a 'Production DBA'?

2002-05-31 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Amen to that. Keep on the good side of the sys admins! Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 9:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L see, this is why I always bribe my SAs. chocolate seems to work well, beers after

Re: * Certified Oracle DBAs Needed in the Dallas area..

2002-05-31 Thread Joe Testa
no aliens either the foreigner or outer space kind, this response follows the same as the HELP command. I just feel the need. joe OraStaff wrote: Great Company located in Greater Dallas, Texas area (Richardson) needs 2 CERTIFIED (OCP) Oracle DBAs for full time staff positions. PLEASE Do

Re:MySQL versus Oracle

2002-05-31 Thread dgoulet
Joe, I would say that depends on the needs of the job. If the guy/girl is trying to get a development slot, yeah not too hard. If a DBA slot, the difference is kind of night day. As a junior DBA I'd be inclined to say yes, then pack the person off to an Oracle DBA class pretty quick.

RE: partition tables

2002-05-31 Thread Jack Silvey
Big (or should we just call you P?), I have become somewhat experienced at manipulating large partition tables since I have had to do it so often (can you say poor initial design?). Export / import is not the fastest way to go. Here are some tips from the trenches: 1) You mention that each

Re[2]: So, What is a 'Production DBA'?

2002-05-31 Thread dgoulet
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RE: partition tables

2002-05-31 Thread Ron Rogers
BigP, You stated that you would like to limit the number of rows in a partition. The partitioning option uses a range function on a column to determine what partition to place to data into. If you do not have a column that is used in your where clause, you are going to have a difficult time

RE: MySQL versus Oracle

2002-05-31 Thread Weaver, Walt
We use both here, use'em as back-end databases for our hosted web sites. MySQL is fast, easy to set up and maintain, and free. Works great for our small and medium-sized web sites. But, it doesn't scale as well as Oracle and we've had better luck using Oracle with our large, active sites. MySQL

RE: RE: partition tables

2002-05-31 Thread Michael P Sale
I can confirm that this is true and a good idea. Testing is also done in this fasion. Besides that, an Oracle salesperson would gladly have you pay more without having to do anything on their part or yours. ;) Regards, Michael Sale Author: Oracle9i for Windows(R) 2000 Tips Techniques

RE: * Certified Oracle DBAs Needed in the Dallas area..

2002-05-31 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
I like: REQUIRED: Oracle OCP certification, 3+ yrs. OCP DBA experience, Oracle Database 8.x, 8I uh-8.x has not been out for 3 years, has it? Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Design question.

2002-05-31 Thread Grabowy, Chris
We have a designer that is adding a FK on two columns from one table to another. These two columns are not in the parent table's primary key. So we are kind of scratching our heads wondering if you can, from a proper design point of view, create such a FK? It appears that if you update one of

rebuilding indexes

2002-05-31 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, MABG, 088130)
Title: rebuilding indexes Under what conditions would an 'alter index .. rebuild' actually case the size of the index to increase by about 12 percent? Matt Adams - GE Appliances - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contrary to popular opinion, Unix is user friendly. It's just particular about who

Re: MySQL versus Oracle

2002-05-31 Thread Joe Raube
I've seen MySQL truncate data on insert without warning. MySQL also does not have foreign keys. It accepts the syntax of create foreign key, but nothing is created, nothing is enforced. I recently did a migration from MySQL to Oracle, and these were the two major issues I faced. Let me know if

RE: * Certified Oracle DBAs Needed in the Dallas area..

2002-05-31 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: * Certified Oracle DBAs Needed in the Dallas area.. I have a stable work history! As a teenager I worked at a race track cleaning out stables. Some of those skills and the working environment translated well into being a DBA. Jerry Whittle ACIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems

Peoplesoft/EPM Administrator with Oracle/Unix Needed..

2002-05-31 Thread OraStaff
Stable Financial Services Company in Memphis, Tennessee needs a Peoplesoft/EPM Administrator for a full time staff position. PLEASE Do Not send your resume UNLESS you have the skills outlined below for this position. * Please do not send your resume unless you have a stable work history.

RE: MySQL versus Oracle

2002-05-31 Thread Bill Pass
The transition to oracle from mysql is a great deal more complicated than the inverse. I am hoping that is what you meant :} --- Weaver, Walt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use both here, use'em as back-end databases for our hosted web sites. MySQL is fast, easy to set up and maintain, and

How to grant privileges on all the tables of owner1 to owner2?

2002-05-31 Thread Mandal, Ashoke
Greetings, Here is the scenario. I have 2 users(owner1, owner2) in an oracle database. owner1 owns 150 tables. owner2 needs select,insert,update,delete privilege on all the tables owned by owner1. One option is : login as owner1 and grant select,insert,update,delete on owner1.table1 to

RE: MySQL versus Oracle

2002-05-31 Thread Weaver, Walt
Yes, that's exactly what I meant. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 9:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The transition to oracle from mysql is a great deal more complicated than the inverse. I am hoping that is what you meant :} --- Weaver, Walt [EMAIL

SQL Question

2002-05-31 Thread Carle, William T (Bill), ALCAS
Hi, I have a table with 1 field and 2 dates: field1, date1, date2. I need to find the max value of date2 for all the field1, date1 combinations. Then I want to join the table to itself on field1 and find all the rows where field1 matches, date1 date1, and max(date2) max(date2). I did

RE: MySQL versus Oracle

2002-05-31 Thread G . Plivna
I'm trying to collect some links of resources that compares various databases Here is the result until today http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/compare_db.htm You all are welcomed to send more! Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

RE: How to grant privileges on all the tables of owner1 to owner2

2002-05-31 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Ashoke, Run the following script from the owner1 account: set head off set lines 120 set pages 200 spool grant.sql select 'grant select,insert,update,delete on ' || table_name || ' to owner2;' from user_tables / spool off @grant.sql good luck! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional

RE: Design question.

2002-05-31 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Chris, The column in the parent table needs to be the PK or be unique. Should be no problem. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 11:33 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We have a designer that is adding a FK on two

RE: Design question.

2002-05-31 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: Design question. Chris, Is there a unique constraint based on the two fields in the parent table? If so it might work OK. Still there are the problems of referential integrity, orphan records, etc. If there isn't a unique constraint in the parent table, you can also add in

Re: How to grant privileges on all the tables of owner1 to owner2?

2002-05-31 Thread Jack Silvey
try something like this: set serveroutput on size 100; declare v_sql varchar2(4000); cursor c_cur is select table_name from user_tables; begin begin for v_cur in c_cur loop v_sql = 'grant select,insert,update,delete on '||v_cur.table_name||' to owner2'; dbms_output.put_line('did

CLOBS AND Semicolons

2002-05-31 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Most of our Oracle databases are not that busy. I decided a week ago to start capturing individual SQL statements. I run a korn shell script every minute to do so. The script invokes the following SQL insert into oracle.statement_info (SID, USERNAME, STATUS, OSUSER, MACHINE, RUNTIME,

RE: SQL Question

2002-05-31 Thread Kevin Lange
Try this select a.f1, a.d1, a.d2 from (select field1 f1,date1 d1,max(date2) d2 from temp group by field1,date1) a, (select field1 f1,date1 d1,max(date2) d2 from temp group by field1,date1) b where a.f1 = b.f1 and a.d1 b.d1 and a.d2 b.d2 -Original Message- Sent: Friday, May 31,

RE: Design question.

2002-05-31 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: RE: Design question. I agree that "Not Good" might characterize this - what it points out is "not good" table design. the parent table now will have a row with two unique items - the existing primary kay, and a combination of two other columns. I would review the tabl3e designand

RE: * Certified Oracle DBAs Needed in the Dallas area..

2002-05-31 Thread Freeman, Robert
8.x has been out for some time. I was using 8.0.4 back in '96 or so... RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP Oracle DBA Technical Lead CSX Midtier Database Administration Author: Oracle9i New Features  Mastering Oracle8i    Clark Griswold

Re: MySQL versus Oracle

2002-05-31 Thread Alex
This depends on what the interview is for. MySQL, Oracle, Access, PostgresSQL, and SQLServer are all databases and can be accessed with SQL. Other than that, they are all completely different. On Fri, 31 May 2002, Joe Testa wrote: Anyone on the list done a comparison(or worked with both)

Functions

2002-05-31 Thread Sherrie . Kubis
Hello all. I am seeking opinions of experienced database folks on this issue: I am implementing a replication environment between IBM DB2 and UNIX Oracle using DataMirror's Transformation Server (TS) product. TS replicates and transforms data between disparate databases. (Right now I am

RE: MySQL versus Oracle

2002-05-31 Thread Gogala, Mladen
I read few articles in Linux magazine and had it installed on my box for a while and here are my impressions: a) It's blindingly fast as a single user database, faster then oracle. b) It uses more or less standard SQL minus all the unnecessary functions like substr, decode, nvl and alike

RE: * Certified Oracle DBAs Needed in the Dallas area..

2002-05-31 Thread Eric D. Pierce
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RE: partition tables

2002-05-31 Thread Cherie_Machler
Jack, Thanks for these great hints. I have not seen lots of these before and they have given me lots of ideas. Here's a question that you've induced: How do you determine what a good value is for INITRANS? What are the downsides of setting it too high? Thanks, Cherie Machler Oracle DBA

Re: Design question.

2002-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
FK can be on unique columns, not just PK columns and you would not be allowed to add a row in the child table with a value not in the parent table unless the child row had a null in it --- Grabowy, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a designer that is adding a FK on two columns from

Re: rebuilding indexes

2002-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
storage parameter difference? are you moving from one tablespace to another without specifying parameters? pctfree/pctused influence? --- Adams, Matthew (GEA, MABG, 088130) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under what conditions would an 'alter index .. rebuild' actually case the size of the index

RE: Any Equivalent of SAR command in NT/2000

2002-05-31 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Well, I was a VAX/VMS system administrator, and we were a spoiled lot who was used to things like the source code (on microfish, can you believe it?) and very good internal books. I once knew precisely at what IPL a page fault occurs (IPL 2), at which IPL is the clock running (IPL_SYNCH=8) and

RE: * Certified Oracle DBAs Needed in the Dallas area..

2002-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
since '98 I've changed jobs about once a year. Of course from '78 to '98 I worked at the same company... wonder which of those they'd look at to determine if I had a stable work history --- Whittle Jerome Contr NCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a stable work history! As a teenager I worked

RE: * Certified Oracle DBAs Needed in the Dallas area..

2002-05-31 Thread JoJo Al-Zawawi
It's pretty funny what some people have bookmarked! :D JoJo -Original Message- | Joan Miro, Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement | (Homme et femme devant un tas d'excrements), 1935 97/8 x 125/8, | Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona

RE: rman duplicate dbid? AND rman catalog config options

2002-05-31 Thread Pat Howe
Bill : I have currently been wrestling with the same issues as you are : How best to configure RMAN. I have put together an 'RMAN Configuration Doc' with 'PROs and CONs' from information that I have scrapped together from this list, papers and books. Like anything in Oracle - no one

RE: rebuilding indexes

2002-05-31 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, MABG, 088130)
Title: RE: rebuilding indexes storage parameter difference? None are you moving from one tablespace to another without specifying parameters? No pctfree/pctused influence? none I should have put this in the original message. Indexes stayed in original tablespace with identical

Re: rebuilding indexes

2002-05-31 Thread Jack Silvey
Matt, 1) Storage parameter changes? Do you specify storage at the index or tablespace (or top partition) level?pctfree go up? initrans go up? bigger INITIAL or NEXT? 2) did you build it the first time using parallelism and rebuild using single thread? When a PQ processes is used to build an

RE: rebuilding indexes

2002-05-31 Thread Jeffrey Beckstrom
But when you rebuild, it will reestablish the pctfree in all of the index blocks. If you had a lot of activity this free space would have been used in the original index and is now reclaimed. Jeffrey BeckstromDatabase AdministratorGreater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority1240 W. 6th

UPGRADE

2002-05-31 Thread Hamid Alavi
Hi List, I have decided to Upgrade the database from 8.1.7.0 to 8.1.7.4 this afternoon on sun solaris. Please give me any advise before I go for upgrade. Thanks allot and have a good weekend Hamid Alavi Office 818 737-0526 Cell818 402-1987 === Confidentiality

RE: Jr.DBA, Mid level DBA, Sr.DBA

2002-05-31 Thread Fink, Dan
I agree, the Jr. DBA must focus on learning. Mid DBA...is still learning. Many Mid still view tuning/troubleshooting as an art (with a little magic thrown in) Sr. DBA...is still learning. Realizes that database management is a science, requiring research, expirementation and a very healthy dose

Re: Design question.

2002-05-31 Thread Jared . Still
Well then, that's not an FK. That's just two columns that the 'duhsigner' is copying to some other table, presenting a nice little update anomaly. You can soon expect different programs to return different answers from the database, depending on which table the data is queried from. Jared

Re: MySQL versus Oracle

2002-05-31 Thread Jared . Still
Joe, If the interviewee's experience is all MySql, then he/she will not know about: * stored procedures * foreign keys * triggers ( I think ) * probably never heard of an ERD * no check constraints That's about the extent of my MySql knowledge. Depends a lot on the indivual, whether or not

RE: Jr.DBA, Mid level DBA, Sr.DBA

2002-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Attends sessions at IOUG Junior - Assumes that all speakers know exactly what they are talking about and all vendor tools work as advertised. Mid - Listens to and believes Tim, Cary, Craig, Rich, Rachel, Gaja and all other High Holy Oracle Gurus preach Senior - Listens to, questions and tests

Re: UPGRADE

2002-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
don't do it this afternoon... read the release notes, check for any known bugs on Metalink and PLAN what you are going to do, including backout of the upgrade if necessary. upgrades are not not something you do on the spur of the moment. of course if you decide to do this anyway and it breaks,

Re: rebuilding indexes

2002-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I'm sure it's #6 :) --- Jack Silvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, 1) Storage parameter changes? Do you specify storage at the index or tablespace (or top partition) level?pctfree go up? initrans go up? bigger INITIAL or NEXT? 2) did you build it the first time using parallelism and

RE: Jr.DBA, Mid level DBA, Sr.DBA

2002-05-31 Thread Jack Silvey
The jr thinks that she knows. The mid knows that she knows. The sr knows that she knows not. Awareness of ignorance is the mark of true knowledge. I like cake. jack silvey --- Fink, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree, the Jr. DBA must focus on learning. Mid DBA...is still learning. Many

RE: rman duplicate dbid? AND rman catalog config options

2002-05-31 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Pat - I think you've pretty well covered the pros/cons from what I understand. I haven't implemented in production, so hopefully some people with some experience of living with RMAN will respond. How about it guys? One point bothered me. You didn't explicitly say that you were keeping

RE: rebuilding indexes

2002-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
then the only thing I can think of is that there was heavy activity on the index prior to the rebuild and the blocks filled and the rebuild evened it out. --- Adams, Matthew (GEA, MABG, 088130) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: storage parameter difference? None are you moving from one

RE: Jr.DBA, Mid level DBA, Sr.DBA

2002-05-31 Thread Freeman, Robert
A few thoughts... Jr. DBA: Asks the Mid or Sr. DBA where to look. Mid DBA: Kind of knows where the answer is, but takes a bit to find it. Sr. DBA: Answer is dog eared in one or more of his office full of books. Really Sr. DBA: Answer is dog eared in his own book or paper. Jr. DBA: Feels a lot

RE: Oracle apps 10.7 client on Windows 2000

2002-05-31 Thread Jared . Still
Thanks John John Kanagaraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/30/2002 03:28 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Oracle apps 10.7 client on Windows 2000 Jared,

Veritas Quick io

2002-05-31 Thread Kathy Duret
We are using Veritas Quick IO on our Solaris Box 6500 with Oracle Apps 11.5.6 on 8.1.7.2 database. Right now we do not have the temp files converted to quick io and wonder if we should. The guy who installed Quick IO didn't seen to think we could but he was a pretty junior person.

Re: rebuilding indexes

2002-05-31 Thread Jack Silvey
Lose 20 blocks in 10 days! Load as much as you normally do and still lose index width. no segment size restrictions or tiring delete routines that never seem to finish. easy-to-follow substr(column,1,1) update routine that guarentees a maximum of data loss and a minimum of storage! email to

Re: UPGRADE

2002-05-31 Thread Jack Silvey
I second that emotion. Write your plan down and think it through. Do some research about what problems you will encounter. Decide how to backout in the event that the data dictionary goes poof or all the datafile headers become inconsistent. Script and test your upgrade on another system if

Re: MySQL versus Oracle

2002-05-31 Thread Tim Bunce
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:40:51AM -0800, Gogala, Mladen wrote: I read few articles in Linux magazine and had it installed on my box for a while and here are my impressions: a) It's blindingly fast as a single user database, faster then oracle. b) It uses more or less standard SQL minus all

RE: Veritas Quick io

2002-05-31 Thread Mohammed . Ahsanuddin
Hi, The following link has the procedure to convert temp files to qio files.. http://support.veritas.com/docs/233722 We have converted our temp files to qio files and I think from performance point of they should be converted to qio. Mohammed Ahsanuddin Oracle DBA -Original Message-

RE: Jr.DBA, Mid level DBA, Sr.DBA

2002-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
AIX? Come on all really senior DBAs work on SUN (ducking and running broken field pattern :) ) --- Freeman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few thoughts... Jr. DBA: Asks the Mid or Sr. DBA where to look. Mid DBA: Kind of knows where the answer is, but takes a bit to find it. Sr.

Re: rebuilding indexes

2002-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
it's definitely friday :) --- Jack Silvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lose 20 blocks in 10 days! Load as much as you normally do and still lose index width. no segment size restrictions or tiring delete routines that never seem to finish. easy-to-follow substr(column,1,1) update routine

RE: Veritas Quick io

2002-05-31 Thread Jay Earle (DBA)
Hi Kathy, Here is an excerpt from the Veritas Admin Guide. Chapter 3, Using VERITAS Quick I/O P69 Handling Oracle Temporary Tablespaces and Quick I/O You cannot convert temporary tablespaces using regular files to Quick I/O files. By default, qio_getdbfiles skips any tablespaces marked

Re:RE: Jr.DBA, Mid level DBA, Sr.DBA

2002-05-31 Thread dgoulet
Better run like WIND!! All Real DBA's use HP. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Rachel Carmichael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 5/31/2002 11:01 AM AIX? Come on all really senior DBAs work on SUN (ducking and running broken field pattern :) ) ---

Using RMAN

2002-05-31 Thread Debi
At 10:11 AM 5/31/2002 -0800, DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote: Pat - I think you've pretty well covered the pros/cons from what I understand. I haven't implemented in production, so hopefully some people with some experience of living with RMAN will respond. How about it guys? I have been using RMAN in

RE: Jr.DBA, Mid level DBA, Sr.DBA

2002-05-31 Thread Freeman, Robert
(ducking and running broken field pattern :) ) Opens black looking suitcase with secret Nuclear launch codes, chanting the mantra, there is always a solution. Enjoying that new job? RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP Oracle DBA Technical Lead CSX Midtier Database Administration Author:

RE: Jr.DBA, Mid level DBA, Sr.DBA

2002-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
it's fun so far. and one of these days I'll get to do DBA work too.. right now I'm trying to Teach yourself Data warehousing in 2 weeks --- Freeman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (ducking and running broken field pattern :) ) Opens black looking suitcase with secret Nuclear launch

RE: rebuilding indexes

2002-05-31 Thread Ron Rogers
Mathew, There has to be something that changed in the index or the storage parameters. The index storage is basically based on the database block size, the pctfree, the average length of the index entry, and the number of rows in the index. If you changed none of these the index should remain

Stubborn Table

2002-05-31 Thread kkennedy
Well, it's time to call for the cavalry. I have a table where the optimizer stubbornly insists on doing full table scans for practically every operation in spite of the fact that full table scans have gruesome performance. Every hint I have tried has either been ignored or doesn't help (and

RE: Jr.DBA, Mid level DBA, Sr.DBA

2002-05-31 Thread Fink, Dan
REAL DBAs have 28 Etch-A-Sketches configured as RAC with Big Chief Tablets as their hot standby Daniel W. Fink Sr. Oracle DBA MICROMEDEX 303.486.6456 -Original Message- Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:01 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L AIX? Come on all really senior DBAs

RE: RE: Jr.DBA, Mid level DBA, Sr.DBA

2002-05-31 Thread Weaver, Walt
You guys are rookies. The Gods all use Linux. --Walt -Original Message- Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:17 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Better run like WIND!! All Real DBA's use HP. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Rachel

SQLServer copy table from 1 db to another

2002-05-31 Thread Gene Sais
Is there a way to copy a table in 1 sqlserver db to another, similar to Oracle's exp/imp, or create tablle as select.., etc. It appears the only way you can do it is thru DTS packages. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Gene Sais INET: [EMAIL

RE: Jr.DBA, Mid level DBA, Sr.DBA

2002-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
you win :) --- Fink, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: REAL DBAs have 28 Etch-A-Sketches configured as RAC with Big Chief Tablets as their hot standby Daniel W. Fink Sr. Oracle DBA MICROMEDEX 303.486.6456 -Original Message- Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:01 PM To: Multiple

Re: Stubborn Table

2002-05-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
your first statement SELECT Record_Type, Archive_Input_File FROM MDMA_Input_File GROUP BY Record_Type, Archive_Input_File why GROUP BY and not ORDER BY? I mean, what are you grouping? I *think*, vague recollections, of reading that group by will force a full table scan. would be interesting

Re: SQLServer copy table from 1 db to another

2002-05-31 Thread Joe Raube
command line bcp bcp out bcp in -Joe --- Gene Sais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to copy a table in 1 sqlserver db to another, similar to Oracle's exp/imp, or create tablle as select.., etc. It appears the only way you can do it is thru DTS packages. -- Please see the

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