All backupers
If doing a off-line backup some call it a cold backup you should
backup All datafiles, All control files, All Redolog files and All
Parameter files
this vil produce a self-contained package that will be able ti start
assuming no media recovery is needed.
I know that Rman vill not
Hi,
I have some problem regarding the unique constraint and I would like to get
some ideas in order to solve a dup key problem.
Let's say I have a table with two columns: col1, col2.
In this table there are some rows with the same value for col1.
If I try this:
alter table dwd6 add constraint
Also thing big $$.
Business Objects is much more expansive.
Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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Business Objects is good although the learning curve is pretty big.
Although it
I assume that you run it for 2,5 hours when proces was running. So you
generate lots of redo log info and that took 20 mins to write it.
I think redo logs are doing fine for a update-intensive batch process.
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RS wrote: What kinda name is dual...sounds suspicious..;)
Especially when you consider that DUAL has ONE record only :-))
Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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While you are at it can
And one column :)))
SQL describe dual
Name Null?Type
-
DUMMY VARCHAR2(1)
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Alexandre
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Title: RE: Textfile into oracle
There is an option for filler fields in sqlldr
control fields.
This way you can skip unwanted fields in the csv
file.
Found it the other day when someone sent me a file to
load
with an extra field in the beginning of the
record.
The format for the field is:
Yup.
--- Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote: Does anyone know if 9i Release 2 is going to
be the
terminal release for 9i?
Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des
systèmes
Technology Services|
an informal complaint is going to IT management at work, cc'd to the Oracle sales
critters
responsible for our account.
I'm sure they will just toe the party line in favor of Oracle's corporate robotoid
mentality, but
who knows?
all of the IT staff at work will hear how much oracle tech
Hi
Santosh,
VARCHAR and VARCHAR2 are pretty much the same, but Oracle has them both
to be compatible ANSI types.
The N
prefix indicates that you can store multibyte data in these fields (like
Unicode). The reason behind it is,
that
you can either have the whole database be Unicode based
It didn't come from the list I think.
Sorry for any confusion.
Regards
Lee
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To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
From the list, or someone subscribed to the list?
If it was an attachment, was there actually anything
in the attachment?
--- Forwarded message follows ---
...
Going back to the original question because now I'm really
confused.
I know the feeling.
Everything is looking good in test with Forms 6i, Oracle 8i.
sounds good.
Would like to go to Oracle 9 on the database if possible.
According to
Interesting comments on replication - but something hit me between the eyes.
Primary Keys should NEVER, EVER be permitted to be updated, whether you are
using replication or not. Its a basic tenent of relational design. We have
been using triggers to prevent this for years.
peter
edinburgh
my prog looks like this (utl_file_dir=* is present in initSID.ora file):
DECLARE
fileHandler UTL_FILE.FILE_TYPE;
BEGIN
dbms_output.put_line('1');
fileHandler := UTL_FILE.FOPEN('/users/vijay', 'myoutput.lst', 'W');
dbms_output.put_line('2');
concepts guide?
Santosh Varma wrote:
i wanted to know the exact difference between the following data types -
NCHAR
NVARCHAR2
VARCHAR2
VARCHAR
Thanks and regards,
Santosh
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Peter,
Great idea, but would you care to share the impact of these triggers on
performance? I think it's a good principle to follow, but have always found
triggers a little unwieldy for most operations myself. I would have thought
this to be the case here, but I'd like to hear your experiences
I have 9iR2 and forms 6i on my pc and its running ok so far.
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--- Forwarded message follows ---
...
Going back to the original question because now I'm really
confused.
I know
Hello
I´m trying to connect as internal and I get the error 24314:service
handle not initialized.
Before executing the sqlplus command, I have set the oracle_sid variable
to my db one.
Any idea?
TIA
--
Beatriz Martínez
Do you miss a / at the end of the path?
/torben
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:58:19 -0800
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Vijaya Chander V.S [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Urgent : UTL file problem
my prog looks like
You are getting an unhandled exception so its not the
'invalid_path' error. Code in a handler for the other
possible exceptions which should assist.
hth
connor
--- Vijaya Chander V.S [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote: my prog looks like this (utl_file_dir=* is
present
in initSID.ora file):
DECLARE
Someone else said so on this list earlier this week.
Perhaps they are listening and can comment.
--- Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Sorry, previously sent with wrong subject line...
Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
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Do you miss a / at the end of the path?
/torben
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 03:58:19 -0800
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Vijaya Chander V.S [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Urgent : UTL file problem
my prog looks like
Alternative to Crystal: The Cheap Man's Reporting when you have no
capital/software budget
sql*plus formatting via Unix scripts to html format:-)
greg
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Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 3:43 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Also thing big $$.
I'mhaving a problem of logging on to my two
DB's. When I check"services" I notice that the listener is
not running. I startup thelistener and it shuts down
immediately. The listener will not stay up.When I try to log into
the DB's I get these errors.KEN database - Oracle generated name is
Title: RE: Urgent : UTL file problem
vijay,
check the permissions for the /users/vijay directory.
Directories that UTL_FILE can read from and write to must have permissions of the Oracle instance owner and the user running the package.
Also, utl_file_dir=* is not recommended.
Catalin
Yes it was.
The suppliers took the server and the oracle software to reinstall
everything. They blame the DB configuration. They are going to look for an
expert to install and configure the DB.
Ramon
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How about something like Brio Query? Some friends of mine in Holland sell
this (Jack?) and it's supposed to be a pretty good solution..
www.brio.com
HTH
Mark
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I think a '/' is missing after vijay.
The documnentation states
"The file location and file name parameters are supplied to the FOPEN
function as separate strings, so that the file location can be checked
against the list of accessible directories as specified in the
initialization file. Together,
Version of database?. Have you set ORACLE_HOME as well as ORACLE_SID?
What command are you typing. Are you running from an authorised account that
allows internal connection (within the dba group)
John
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You should ALWAYS include the OS in your posts.
I'd look to see if user oracle has write permissions into that folder/directory.
Vijaya Chander V.S wrote:
my prog looks like this (utl_file_dir=* is present in initSID.ora file):
DECLARE
fileHandler UTL_FILE.FILE_TYPE;
BEGIN
And what pain do you create by backing up the online redo logs anyway?
Considering you are backing up the database anyway-the online redo logs will
not add hours to that cycle.. It's worth the effort, cuz those puppies are
like gold(as well as the archived logs)..
Been burnt one too many times
Concepts manual
VARCHAR2 and VARCHAR Datatypes
BM_707The VARCHAR2 datatype stores variable-length character strings. When
you create a table with a VARCHAR2 column, you specify a maximum string
length (in bytes, not characters) between 1 and 4000 for the VARCHAR2
column. For each row, Oracle
Next thing you know some of the management types may
take offence to that column name...!!( However clearly
it depicts them..!!)
Lets rename the table as Janus after the 2 faced greek
GOD.
( Jared since we ARE discussing DUAL this is not OT is
it.?.;) )
RS
--- Alexandre Gorbatchev
[EMAIL
Hi DBAs,
Thanks for the prompt replies.
We have solved it using Java in the stored procedure. We created a java
function which will manipulate the numeric value and return it as string.
This java function is wrapped into a PL/SQL function which returns Varchar2
!.
Title: Message
This is likely a problem with the two IPs you reference in your
listener.ora:
172.27.57.22
172.27.57.21
If the listener cannot resolve these then you're not going to be able to
start the listener. The same is true for host names that the listener
cannot resolve LOCALLY!
This is a rather
Title: RE: Unique constraint
Armando,
I certainly would not want the enabling of a unique constraint to delete records even if they are duplicated in a column or two!
Exception helps you identify which records are duplicates so you can then handle the problem as you feel best.
Jerry
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attachments (or is it only binary attachments?).
Ferenc
Hi All,
Just a quick question..
Does anybody know if Oracle Objects and Oracle Object Translator comes with
the basic
Oracle server installation or is it a separate product or is it something
which comes with the
Oracle Client installation ??
Thanks and Regards,
Samir
Samir Sarkar
Oracle
sql reference manual actually
--- Joe Testa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
concepts guide?
Santosh Varma wrote:
i wanted to know the exact difference between the following data
types -
NCHAR
NVARCHAR2
VARCHAR2
VARCHAR
Thanks and regards,
Santosh
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Please
Sorry, posted using wrong subject header, DUH!
Use the following Exhibit to answer this question (note: This is not a
hacked OCP question. This question
came about out of the experience of one of our junior DBA's that I had to
come in and figure out...Several
Sr. DBA's that I know have
Use the following Exhibit to answer this question (note: This is not a
hacked OCP question. This question
came about out of the experience of one of our junior DBA's that I had to
come in and figure out...Several
Sr. DBA's that I know have gotten it wrong already... but we got some smart
fokls
All,
Thanks for everyone's help. I will research more in
Metalink.
Thanks,
--- Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I checked for that last week, I think something
needs to be installed on the
same machine as SQL Server for the Gateway to work.
? correct?
Regards,
Patrice
can you create a file in /users/vijay as the user oracle? remember oracle is the
writer needs access to do so.
hth,
gene
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/21/02 07:58AM
my prog looks like this (utl_file_dir=* is present in initSID.ora file):
DECLARE
fileHandler UTL_FILE.FILE_TYPE;
BEGIN
You have to tread softly with hash joins. They are not
suitable for every scenario.
Take a look at metalink and Steve adams site
http://www.ixora.com.au/
about hash joins tuning and problems.
HTH
RS
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I have a report which was taking 48 minutes. So I
added rule
Hi all,
Anyone patched their Oracle on Linux with 8.1.7.4 patch?
I patched my 8.1.7.0.0 on SuSE 7.2 to 8.1.7.4 and can't startup
the database anymore.
Keep getting ORA-24323 but I didn't change anything in my init.ora file.
Richard
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in pure client-server mode?
if so:
quick, someone tell oracle tech support !!! :)
what versions of the database? personal, standard, enterprise, etc???
On 21 Jun 2002 at 5:23, Shaw John-P55297 wrote:
Date sent: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 05:23:20 -0800
To: Multiple
Rachel,
Yes , I worked at JPL in Pasadena California for 8 years
and we had all these PHDs running around. Very smart people
who could never apply their knowledge and produce work.
They would let you know how smart they were though.
Since I have not taken every oracle class it was unfair
of me
you have just listed the lowest of biological life forms !
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I only engage in that particular activity when there's a good chance
it won't involve an attorney and/or judge.
Jared
Hi.
I'm tyring to find a good class dealing with
hardware stuff from an Oracle DBA perspective
(adapters, switches, LVs, PP, etc etc) on a beginners
level. Can anyone suggest something along these lines?
thanks
__
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! -
Unless I am having a senior moment, won't Oracle put some changes into your
init.ora file for you when installing/upgrading Oracle 8i. I am sure I was
bitten with this a few months back. Get a copy of your old init.ora file (if
you have it )or at least check through you init.ora file for a
List,
I have some generic scripts and templates etc that I use to create new
databases (Oracle 8, 8i and hopefully 9i on Solaris 2.6 and 2.8). These
scripts just enable me to quickly get a database up and running such that it
conforms to our practices, naming standards etc.
I had been using
Not necessarily, just saying that it is one more
bullet in the gun when it comes time to ask for more
money, and it is probably a decent investment.
--- Khedr, Waleed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you trying to promote it?
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They would like to have you go for 10i certification soon!
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Does anyone know if 9i Release 2 is going to be the terminal release for 9i?
Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle
After installing the patch, Oracle ask you to put
_system_trig_enabled=false in your init.ora
before you run catalog catproc etc.
I took it out and still have the problem.
I also compared the init parameter values in alerg.log
before and after applying the patch. Nothing's changed.
I even
What version of Oracle and operating system/type are you using.Is this
the Clarify help desk application?
If it is Clarify, you can contact their support and open a case with them.
They have some additional indexes, etc. that they recommend that helped us
quite a bit with our Clarify
Test complete - you have been assimilated.
-The borg
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test
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Here's a paper about SQL*Net Performance Tuning that might answer some
of your questions: http://www.fors.com/eoug97/papers/0285.htm
VIVEK_SHARMA wrote:
Qs 1 Is Data Sent Thru SQL*Net Compressed before Transmitting over the Network ?
Qs 2 In particular , in Standby Implementation Will
Listers,
We have two stored procedures that are suddenly
throwing random distributed operation not supported
errors.
These pieces of code are doing an insert into as
select across a database link. The data is being
pushed, not pulled. They have been running for months
in production without a
Richard,
The glibc patch has to be applied during every patchset application as the
patchset may overwrite the relinking makefiles.
Alessandro Guimarães
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After
Hello All,
I have a set of Materialized views in my DB . we refresh ( COMPLETE) these
MVs, couple of times a day. Web server ( application ) will hit these MVs to
show the data on web pages. But the complete Refresh of MVs are consuming
much time and , at this point of time , Application is not
Good catch. That was the problem. Thanks a lot.
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Richard,
The glibc patch has to be applied during every patchset application as the
patchset may overwrite the relinking makefiles.
I have an instance that is waiting on log file synchs. I suspect that the
waits are a result of a overly large redo log buffer. There are also
considerable waits on direct path writes. The redo logs are on QuickIO, so I
assume that the writes LGWR is writing asynchronously and not a source of
the
Madhu,
Go tell that SrDBA to go read up on MV's. They do support a fast refresh,
but you have to have a log table associated with the base tables in the view.
You can also set it up so that when anyone makes a change to the base tables the
MV gets updated as part of their transaction.
The Metalink techs told me it is too early to tell...
We'll see how it goes I suppose.
Pat.
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Yup.
--- Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote: Does anyone know if 9i Release 2 is going
Recreate the snapshot to allow fast refresh, (you will
have to create a snapshot log on your source table)
and refresh once every 5/10/20/30 minutes.
Fast refreshes are just one commit that is either
committed or rolled back at the end. Viola, fresh data
instantaneously.
You can do a refresh
Title: RE: Unique constraint
I
would agree, having a unique constraint delete records would cause big problems,
especially if only the column(s) in the unique key were
duplicated but the other values for the record were
different and the wrong one was deleted.
The
use of "exceptions into"
I created a user J1416 with default, temp tablespaces
with password expire.
Then I granted CREATE SESSION to J1416
And then I tried to give select privs to the user
J1416. Got the following error message. I did this
while logged in as system with DBA role (checked
select * from session_roles).
Hi,
I got the following info on MViews from metalink. It is very good info and
hope it is useful to you.
Best regards,
Problem Description
---
You are trying to create a materialized view which refreshes
automatically
when the underlying table is updated.
However, the
Oracle support is saying much the same thing. They are
advising an upgrade to 8.1.7.4 (from 8.1.7.2). Doesn't
give us the reason WHY it is happening, but it might
fix it. We have run 10053 and 10046 traces and can see
no obvious issues.
--- Michael P Sale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Without
Hi DBAs,
I am trying to combine 2 fields into 1 field to insert into a date field
using sql loader.
The csv files has the first 2 fields as follows
01/01/2002,00:00:01,...,
Can someone help on how to combine the 1st two fields to insert into a
single date field.
Thanks
Rick
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Please see
Without seeing more information, I have seen this type of a response
where either the instance is not registered with the listener, or the db
is not accepting connections for a variety of reasons (e.g. no more
memory all the way to the db is shut down).
Regards,
Michael Sale
Author: Oracle9i
Thanks DG,
To my understanding from your reply, Can I have a fast refresh on a MV,
which is based on multiple tables , just by having log tables on base tables
of the MV ??
And u also said You can also set it up so that when anyone makes a change
to the base tables the
MV gets updated as part
Madhu,
From the Oracle 8i Concepts manual:
Refreshing Materialized Views
Oracle maintains the data in materialized views by refreshing them after changes
are made to their master tables. The refresh method can be incremental (fast
refresh) or complete. For
materialized views that use the
Injecting Bio-nuerogenic agent into Borg Collective.
Freedom Rocks!
Assimilation sucks!
Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP
Oracle DBA Technical Lead
CSX Midtier Database Administration
Author: Oracle9i New Features
Mastering Oracle8i
Clark Griswold: Eddie, has
There are tons of restrictions for fast refresh!
Waleed
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Madhu,
Go tell that SrDBA to go read up on MV's. They do support a fast
refresh,
but you have to have a log table associated
Connect as J2400 user then execute the grant.
Srinivas wrote:
I created a user J1416 with default, temp tablespaces
with password expire.
Then I granted CREATE SESSION to J1416
And then I tried to give select privs to the user
J1416. Got the following error message. I did this
Thanks Prasad,
I shall read and understand the whole thing
--Madhu
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Hi,
I got the following info on MViews from metalink. It is very good info and
hope it is
Would you share those TONS :)- or any link to show them ..
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There are tons of restrictions for fast refresh!
Waleed
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To:
Jack,
Nice picture of the whole thing .
Through out your solution , mentioned SNAPSHOT , you mean Materialized view
???
Thanks,
Madhu
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Recreate the snapshot to allow fast refresh, (you
Yeah Waleed, share those notes because I'm not having problems with them.
:)
Dick Goulet
Ignorance sometimes is bliss!!
Reply Separator
Author: Reddy; Madhusudana [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6/21/2002 1:39 PM
Would you share those TONS :)- or any link
Thanks Mahu. Do you get the feeling that I might have
done that a few times? ;)
Snapshots and materialized views are the same thing. I
guess I might start calling them materialized views in
the next version or two, but it is so hard to give up
old habits.
Another thing you might need to know -
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Hi,
I have a report which was taking 48 minutes. So I added rule hint in that
now it is taking 14-15 min but, still it's not acceptable.. Is there any way
I can elimintae these nested loops or Can I replace them with hash joins. or
is there any other way to
General Restrictions on
Fast Refresh
The materialized view's defining query is restricted
as follows:
The
FROM list must contain base tables only (that is, no views).
It
cannot contain references to non-repeating expressions like SYSDATE and
ROWNUM.
It
cannot contain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi DBAs,
I am trying to combine 2 fields into 1 field to insert into a date field
using sql loader.
The csv files has the first 2 fields as follows
01/01/2002,00:00:01,...,
Can someone help on how to combine the 1st two fields to insert into a
single date
Ahh yes, the elusive Why. If you are already working with support then
I would set an errorstack on the ora-2064 error number you are getting(I
suspect that is what it is, you never say). This will give them
extensive information as to the state of the call at the time of the
error.
If you are
Give the LGWR its own processor. I have don't once in a particular benchmark
and reduced the log file sync wait time by a factor of 10.
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I have an instance that is
Anjo,
Give the LGWR its own processor. I have don't once in a
particular benchmark
and reduced the log file sync wait time by a factor of 10.
When you say 'Give the LGWR its own processor' did you mean that processor
binding needs to be done? As per my understanding, processor binding
Make sure that the LGWR runs freely on a processor, without interference
from other foreground processes.
On sun you can create processor sets for example.
Anjo.
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I don't see an attachment, just a message that it was removed
On Friday 21 June 2002 09:39, Thomas Day wrote:
This attachment was intact. I thought that the list didn't support
attachments (or is it only binary attachments?).
Ferenc
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