Tablespace Design

2002-08-28 Thread Pawan Dalmia
Hi DBA gurus, One of the application is going live .At presenr data is 15GB and will grow more by 10 GB in year time. What is the right approach of tablespace design having more files of smaller size(10 files of 2 GB ) or less file of bigger size (3 files of 8 gb ). No tables in this

Re: [Q] security between Cold fusion and oracle database?

2002-08-28 Thread Alexandre Gorbatchev
One of the most important rules - to use difficult/criptic passwords. That's true for any system. Simple passwords - 90% of succesful attaks. You can set up you own procedure to check quality of passwords in Oracle. Alexandre - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

strange data format error: ora-01821

2002-08-28 Thread zhu chao
hi, list friends: I have a oracle 8.1.7.4 database in redhat linux 7.2,which is used to support a development datawarehouse project.Now i hit some strange error message about date format through dblink The error only appear in oracle warehouse builder, it cannot be reproduced in

Re: Rollback !

2002-08-28 Thread Alexandre Gorbatchev
1.) Can we rollback a drop statement ? No. However, you can use Log Miner. Alexandre -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Alexandre Gorbatchev INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego,

RE: Virtual drive on Solaris

2002-08-28 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Hi Tim Wrote Buying an NVRAM unit would probably be more sensible, since at least then you have some probability of the file-system on such a unit surviving node failure or restart. Qs Such Units are available on which machines , Operating Systems ? Any Model Numbers , Links , Other Info

Re: Re: Rollback !

2002-08-28 Thread zhu chao
Alexandre Gorbatchev, As far as i know, you cannot recover from drop using logmnr.It is internal dml to data dictionary, maybe in 9i it will work, i am not sure.But in 8i, it won't work. Regards zhu chao Eachnet DBA 86-21-32174588-667 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===

How to increase maxextents of ROLLBACK segment_type?

2002-08-28 Thread Jonny Delmont
Dear Gurus, Could you please help me out with this - I want to increase the maxextents of below segment. TIA, SQL select OWNER,SEGMENT_NAME,SEGMENT_TYPE,EXTENTS,MAX_EXTENTS 2 from dba_segments 3 where ((max_extents-extents)/max_extents)*100 40 and max_extents != 0 4 / OWNER SEGMENT_NAME

RE: How to increase maxextents of ROLLBACK segment_type?

2002-08-28 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
I don't wantto sound too obvious but isn't the answer in the error message ?? . RTFMtime. As an aside, why do you need to extend your system rollback segment Lee -Original Message-From: Jonny Delmont [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 28 August 2002 10:53To: Multiple recipients of

RE: How to increase maxextents of ROLLBACK segment_type?

2002-08-28 Thread Mark Leith
Do you mind if I ask why? Do you have any other rollback segments in place other than the SYSTEM one? In answer to your question though, look at the error message.. You missed out the word segment. alter rollback SEGMENT sys.system storage (maxextents 1024); HTH Mark

Re: How to increase maxextents of ROLLBACK segment_type?

2002-08-28 Thread Stephane Faroult
Jonny Delmont wrote: Dear Gurus, Could you please help me out with this - I want to increase the maxextents of below segment. TIA, SQL select OWNER,SEGMENT_NAME,SEGMENT_TYPE,EXTENTS,MAX_EXTENTS 2 from dba_segments 3 where ((max_extents-extents)/max_extents)*100 40 and

RE: How to increase maxextents of ROLLBACK segment_type?

2002-08-28 Thread Hately Mike
ORA-01902: SEGMENT keyword expected alter rollback segment sys.system storage (maxextents 1024); regards, Mike -Original Message- Sent: 28 August 2002 10:53 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dear Gurus, Could you please help me out with this - I want to increase the

Re: Re: Rollback !

2002-08-28 Thread Alexandre Gorbatchev
For 9i: http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle9i/doc_library/901_doc/server.901/ a90117/logminer.htm#18681 For 8i not sure. Has anyone tried DROP undo in 8i? (8i docs are very poor on LogMiner) Alexandre - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: How to increase maxextents of ROLLBACK segment_type?

2002-08-28 Thread Jonny Delmont
Mark, Thanks, your command doesn't help. To answer your question, Database was setup'd by previous DBA. Still i've never seen this type of segment... SQL alter rollback SEGMENT sys.system storage (maxextents 1024);alter rollback SEGMENT sys.system storage (maxextents 1024) *ERROR at line

RE: Getting view definitions

2002-08-28 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
If on 9I, access the db using the new Enterprise Manager Console, go to schema, pick the user name, and locate the view in the tree. In the right pane you will see the view's code, and if you press compile the text will change colour at the point the error occurs. (It may already be colour

RE: How to increase maxextents of ROLLBACK segment_type?

2002-08-28 Thread Mark Leith
Jonny The SYSTEM rollback segment is/was created initially on a database build, and the recommendation has always been to add extra rollback segments straight away for normal transactional processing. You really *should* have other rollback segments available for your users.. What output do you

RE: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-28 Thread Juan Miranda
PL/SQL Developer. http://www.allroundautomations.nl/plsqldev.html very very good. -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de Ofer Harel Enviado el: miércoles, 28 de agosto de 2002 9:13 Para: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Asunto: RE: PL/SQL

rman question(allocating channels)

2002-08-28 Thread JOE TESTA
I've tried to find this in the docs to no avail. If I'm writing out an RMAN backup to one disk(yes this is not ideal), then does it make sense to allocate multiple channels? Are multiple channels related to CPUs or to destinations? thanks, joe

Question on Oracle 9iAS and Oracle 6i/9i tools...

2002-08-28 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
We will be building an environment (multiple hosts and environments) that will be used for reporting. And we will be using the Oracle suite of products (9iAS, iDS). I'm tasked with determining some of the architecture of the environment. And primarily for the Oracle 9i environment used as a

Re: How to increase maxextents of ROLLBACK segment_type?

2002-08-28 Thread Jack van Zanen
The message tells you already Alter rollback segment sys.system etc i.s.o. Alter rollback sys.system Jonny Delmont

Fw: Virtual drive on Solaris

2002-08-28 Thread Tim Gorman
I've worked on such units in HPUX environments, first in the1996 timeframe until about 2 years ago. I don't know if it was HP's own product or a 3rd-party, but it was used on HP T-class and K-class servers. Maybe call an HP rep and ask about it; that'll get a more helpful response from the Sun

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2002-08-28 Thread P.V.Sankar
Hi, I would like to know which datatype is best to use for storing text data of around 50 lines.The data is basically a variable length user feedback.I am in confusion whether to go for VARCHAR2 or LONG type. Also in CLOB and NCLOB, can somebody clarify me about CLOBS store single-byte

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2002-08-28 Thread Naveen Nahata
First things first. NEVER use a LONG datatype. Oracle says so too but alas uses it in a lot of data dictionary tables. Long has many limitations. The data in VARCHAR2 and CLOBs is stored according to the charcter set defined at the time of database creation. The data in NCLOBs is stored

Re: controlling CPU usage through Oracle

2002-08-28 Thread Ed Lewis
Raj, Thanks for your input. From what I understand with profiles, the session will be terminated once a threshold is reached. In this particular case, I cannot terminate the session. I need to be able to control the CPU usage of a session, without ending it. If this cannot be done

Re: rman question(allocating channels)

2002-08-28 Thread Ed Lewis
Joe, I have the same situation. I my case I used 2 channels, and so around a 25-30% decrease in thebackup time for a 30gb database. Once I increased it to 3 channels the payback was minimal. It also became very cpu intensive, so I kept the setting at 2. - Original Message -

RE: How to increase maxextents of ROLLBACK segment_type?

2002-08-28 Thread Rachel Carmichael
create a rollback tablespace, create new rollback segments IN the rollback tablespace and take the rollback segment named SYSTEM offline. Do NOT use it. Having an active rollback segment in your system tablespace is like allowing users to create objects there. Especially listen to Stephane and

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2002-08-28 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Sankar, Use Varchar2 for storage of character data up to 4000 characters in length. Never use LONG datatypes. Use CLOBS for characters data 4000 bytes up to 4Gig in length. I'm not sure why anyone would use NCLOBS. Hope this helps Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional

Re: rman question(allocating channels)

2002-08-28 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Rman channels are like processes, and you can have multiple channels writing to one disk and reading from one disk in a restore, If your server has the horsepower, then multiple channels will increase the speed of backups and restores, HTH, Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple

Re:Getting view definitions

2002-08-28 Thread dgoulet
Eric, For one whenever I do an import I keep a log file. If a view is invalid the sql to recreate it is in there. Also look in user_views and/or dba_views the text field will provide the sql. When quering these views it helps to set long 1000 and column text format A70 word. Makes

RE: rman question(allocating channels)

2002-08-28 Thread Adrian Roe
Joe, We only write out to tapes, so one channel equals one tape drive, each extra channel goes and gets another drive. Not too sure about disks, I guess it depends on I/O bandwith. Two channels will be faster than one, if the disk can cope with the input from two channels then maybe it

Re: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-28 Thread Place for oracle
I really like Emace with PL/SQL+SQLplus mode. It is KISS. :=) mvh HEnrik --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, which is the best PL/SQL editor available as a trial version . the editor should support Oracle sql,PL/SQL and may or may not support debugging. The tool

Re:RE: Getting view definitions

2002-08-28 Thread dgoulet
Also it helps to use create or replace instead of drop and create. First it's one statement vs two and second it retains any grants. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 8/27/2002 2:24 PM Eric set long 2000

Re[2]:RE: sql loader control file help - solved

2002-08-28 Thread dgoulet
Rachel, Then why did you not put it that way in the first place? Damn I hate those $1,000,000,000 words that I don't understand. Dick Goulet :-) Reply Separator Author: Rachel Carmichael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 8/27/2002 5:58 PM accents over

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2002-08-28 Thread Jack van Zanen
Oracle 8.0.5 AIX 4.3.3 I Have following statement, which takes forever and does lots of physical reads ** insert into test_table SELECT v1.engagement, v1.YEAR, v1.period, MAX (v2.net_fee_earned_ptd) ,

RE: rman question(allocating channels)

2002-08-28 Thread Altizer, Bronwyn K.
Yep its me answering a question for you for a change - I was able to bounce your questionoff of Dinis (our RMAN guru)and he said: ( Yeah I could have pretended that I knew the answer but I don't think you would have fallen for that!) Channels are streams. Basically when you have multiple

RE: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-28 Thread Magaliff, Bill
we're currently looking into this, too Our developers like TOAD, but the licensing cost is pretty steep - $700 a pop for the most pared down version. Quest was willing to offer us a one-time half-price offer, but for the 50 users we were considering it still comes out to over $15,000. PL/SQL

Re: password aging and expiration in oracle 8.1.7

2002-08-28 Thread Philip Douglass
Title: RE: How to notify the password expiration in oracle? The 8.7.1 SQL*Plus does not handle ORA-28002 warnings when connecting to an 8.1.7 database account that is in the grace period (dba_users.account_status = 'EXPIRED(GRACE)'). It is listed as BUG# 1326865 on MetaLink, with a patchset

Re: Re[2]:RE: sql loader control file help - solved

2002-08-28 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Dick, But I DID put it that way originally... in my initial email. Which was at the bottom of yours :) Besides, my goal is to make programmers who speak English actually learn to use the language EG Rachel --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rachel, Then why did you not put it that way in

Re: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-28 Thread Jan Pruner
Why didn't you tried TOra? http://www.globecom.se/tora I like it very much and I use it together with SciTE (text editor). JP On Wednesday 28 August 2002 16:18, you wrote: we're currently looking into this, too Our developers like TOAD, but the licensing cost is pretty steep - $700 a pop

RE: How to increase maxextents of ROLLBACK segment_type?

2002-08-28 Thread Jonny Delmont
Thanks all for your help. Jonny Rachel Carmichael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: create a rollback tablespace, create new rollback segments IN therollback tablespace and take the rollback segment named "SYSTEM"offline. Do NOT use it. Having an active rollback segment in your system tablespace is

RE: Re: Rollback !

2002-08-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Alexandre - Thanks for posting the link. I read the document. It describes how to track the DDL statements. Unless I overlooked something, it doesn't say you can UNDO DDL. I think the reason was explained earlier on this post, that Oracle doesn't write any redo records. For example, in the case

RE: strange data format error: ora-01821

2002-08-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Zhu - I compliment you on your preparation. You have avoided the normal pitfall and posted a great deal of information about your issue, which I hope will allow one of the experts on the list to diagnose your problem. The query you post is select 1 from dual@dblink. Is this really the

Re: sql loader control file help - solved

2002-08-28 Thread Manavendra Gupta
gee, this is so cool. The authors I used to read in flesh and blood, and actually giving away a signed copy! I'm gonna make sure I drop everything and answer the next query Rachel puts. (And then pray hard its right and I get a copy too!) With Warm Regards, Manav. - Original Message -

Re: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-28 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Take a look to TORA, I prefer it over Toad and has a free version too. Ramon - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 9:18 AM we're currently looking into this, too Our developers like TOAD, but the licensing

RE: controlling CPU usage through Oracle

2002-08-28 Thread Cary Millsap
Trying to accomplish it through the OS will do what you want on rare occasion, but on many other occasions, it will cause performance problems that will, for all outward appearances, seem to be deadlocks. The behavior will be random. Theres lots of discussion about this on the list from a

Sequential Tables' Selects Versus Joins

2002-08-28 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Which would Perform Better ? 1) Having an SQL Query Doing a Join between 6 Tables 2) Running 1 SQL Query on a Single Table , getting the Output Values in a Cursor passing the Cursor Values as Arguments to the where Clause of a 2nd SQL Query Running on a 2nd Table thus so on ... thereby

RE: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-28 Thread Magaliff, Bill
can you please post URL for this program? thx bill -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 9:53 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I really like Emace with PL/SQL+SQLplus mode. It is KISS. :=) mvh HEnrik --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, which is

RE: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-28 Thread Magaliff, Bill
cool - so the freeware version checks the v$session view and counts the existing number of TOAD programs/modules? -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 10:31 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Bill, You said One note about the Freeware version of TOAD

RE: Fail Over Options

2002-08-28 Thread Peter Barnett
WOW!!! Thanks a lot. Someone from Big Blue is not speaking the truth. Pete --- Ji, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter, That sounds pretty strange that they only support thin but not the OCI driver. Anyhow, the bottom of this page seems to have OCI on the support list.

RE: Sequential Tables' Selects Versus Joins

2002-08-28 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
if properly written the first one would be faster because even if you optimize the second solution, you can NEVER get rid of context switches between SQL and PLSQL code. There will always be overhead in second solution. Raj __ Rajendra

Schedule Statspack Report Creation

2002-08-28 Thread Erik Williams
I would like to schedule the creation of statspack reports with DBMS_JOBs. The statsrep.sql script does not take any arguments and seems to require user interaction. Has anyone here tried to automate the creation of these reports? I am being asked to produce these reports by other people in my

Slightly OT: Rounding Negative Numbers

2002-08-28 Thread Bill Buchan
I'm trying to consolidate some numbers generated by a PL/SQL report vs. a Java based report and these seem to be out due to rounding errors on negative numbers. In PL/SQL if I for example, round to 2 decimal places: SQL select round(-0.875,2) from dual; ROUND(-0.875,2) ---

Re: RE: strange data format error: ora-01821

2002-08-28 Thread zhu chao
DENNIS WILLIAMS, hi, thanks for your answer. First i appolygize for input so much data in the mail. As i said,the query runs well in sql*plus.But in OWB(Oracle WareHouseBuilder, it just refused to work. As i posted in the trace file: *** SESSION ID:(8.21) 2002-08-28

Re: Sequential Tables' Selects Versus Joins

2002-08-28 Thread Stephane Faroult
VIVEK_SHARMA wrote: Which would Perform Better ? 1) Having an SQL Query Doing a Join between 6 Tables 2) Running 1 SQL Query on a Single Table , getting the Output Values in a Cursor passing the Cursor Values as Arguments to the where Clause of a 2nd SQL Query Running on a 2nd Table

RE: Re: Rollback !

2002-08-28 Thread Cary Millsap
Oracle definitely *does* generate redo and undo for DDL. The reason you can't roll back a DDL statement is that each DDL statement is actually a macro for a sequence of DML statements on the data dictionary; that sequence of DML statements ends in a COMMIT. You cannot roll back a committed

ORA-3120 querying across a DB-Link from a 9i2 db to and 8.1.7

2002-08-28 Thread Hemant K Chitale
We get ORA-03120 errors when using Windows SQLPlus 8.0.6 connecting to a 9.2.0.1 Database and querying across a DB-Link to an 8.1.7 database. Server Database : 9.2.0.1 on Solaris 2.8 Client SQLPlus : 8.0.6 on Windows Target DB which DB-Link connects to : 8.1.7.2 on Tru64 A Public Database

RE: Re: Rollback !

2002-08-28 Thread Gogala, Mladen
There is a way of undoing DDL and it is described in the RMAN manual. The solution is simple: recover the database to the point in time before the problematic DDL. -Original Message- From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 10:49 AM To:

RE: controlling CPU usage through Oracle

2002-08-28 Thread Jeff Holt
If your purpose is to slow down query execution instead of killing a query (or a process), then you cannot use resource profiles. Using resource profiles you can only kill a statement execution or kill a session. An OS resource manager might have a feature that just slows down a CPU

Oracle DBA with People Mgt. experience needed in Atlanta..

2002-08-28 Thread OraStaff
Stable international company in north Atlanta Georgia area seeks a Sr. Level Oracle DBA with people management experience to join its North American headquarters. The selected candidate will be managing a team of 6 individuals. Relocation Assistance could be provided for the right candidate.

RE: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-28 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Beware ... TORA is not free on Windows platform ... it is free however on Linux ... Funny no once has mentioned Oracle's built-in editor that comes with Forms ... My preferences are 1. Vi 2. Vim Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS,

RE: How to increase maxextents of ROLLBACK segment_type?

2002-08-28 Thread Fink, Dan
Before taking the system rbs offline, contact tech support. I recall (perhaps incorrectly...I don't remember whether or not I have tested this) that the system rbs is used by the kernel for normal operations and by other transactions if the other rbs are too full. The system rbs should never be

HIPAA compliance and Win2k

2002-08-28 Thread Jared . Still
Sure to start a discussion. ;) http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/02/08/27/2030205.shtml?tid=109 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California

RE: ORA-3120 querying across a DB-Link from a 9i2 db to and 8.1.7

2002-08-28 Thread Inka Bezdziecka
It is a known problem; see note 19796.1 on MetaLink -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 11:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We get ORA-03120 errors when using Windows SQLPlus 8.0.6 connecting to a 9.2.0.1 Database and querying across a DB-Link to an 8.1.7

RE: Tablespace Design

2002-08-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Pawan - The gurus are sleeping in this morning, so you're stuck with the aspiring guru. According to Oracle's documentation, v$waitstat breaks buffer waits down by block class. You may be better off starting with v$system_event and v$session_event and if this shows a lot of buffer busy waits,

RE: Oracle 81745 upgrade and PL/SQL version

2002-08-28 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
Bruce: Actually I have seen this. My server installations were at 8.1.7.3 and I applied the 8.1.7.4 patch to it. The version still says it is 8.1.7.3 and the package STANDARD is invalid. This was on AIX 4.3.3. On the Solaris installations, I have not had a problem. Check out my TAR on

Re:RE: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-28 Thread dgoulet
Well, since someone else cares to mention it, I do use Procedure Builder, Oracle's PL/SQL development tool from Developer and I like it a lot. The latest version even does syntax highlighting, indentation, and click on the error I'll show you where it is. Dick Goulet Reply

RE: What is an API?

2002-08-28 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Application Programming Interface ... http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exactAcronym=API Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't

Re: Slightly OT: Rounding Negative Numbers

2002-08-28 Thread Rick_Cale
I would think -0.875 would round up therefore -0.87 is my guess. Rick Bill Buchan

Re: Schedule Statspack Report Creation

2002-08-28 Thread Ray Stell
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 08:52:03AM -0800, Erik Williams wrote: I would like to schedule the creation of statspack reports with DBMS_JOBs. The statsrep.sql script does not take any arguments and seems to require user interaction. Has anyone here tried to automate the creation of these reports?

Re: Slightly OT: Rounding Negative Numbers

2002-08-28 Thread Ron Rogers
Bill, I haven't tried it with negative numbers but I found round to create error where commission dollars are concerned. I use the trunc function to give the results in two decimal places where the extra half cent makes a difference over the period of time. total = trunc(sum * %,2) Select

Re[2]: controlling CPU usage through Oracle

2002-08-28 Thread dgoulet
Ed, The only way your going to do this is through Oracle Resource Manager. You'll need an 8.1.x Enterprise database. Then you can setup your resource plans and groups to manage who gets how much CPU at a time. Any of the operating level tools out there cannot get down to the level of

RE: Fail Over Options

2002-08-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Peter - A couple of issues come to mind: 1) So you are saying that connection failover is your prime interest at this stage? I was thinking database failover when I saw your question. 2) So what is wrong with thin client? At my site we are tending to go with thin so we don't have to install

RE: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-28 Thread Jay Wade
Benthicsoftware has a good series of editors. They are all about US$30 a piece or so. Not as powerfull as TOAD but if you are just doing PL/SQL Development they work great. From: Magaliff, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Re: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-28 Thread Jan Pruner
I think, he's talking about Emacs - huge and powerful OS without text editor :-))) JP On Wednesday 28 August 2002 17:43, you wrote: can you please post URL for this program? thx bill -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 9:53 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Sequential Tables' Selects Versus Joins

2002-08-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Vivek - Offhand I'd say it depends. If there are 10 rows in each table, I'd vote for the 6-table join. If there are 10 billion rows in each table and you only need one row from each, I'd vote for the individual queries. Another factor would be how option 2 is accessing the database. If it is in a

What is an API?

2002-08-28 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
I have read a lot about the term API. I have searched the web and documentation and cannot find "API" is an abbreviation for?And, I cannot find a definition of what an API is?If someone could help me on this I would appreciate it. All the documentation I have assumes that the reader knows

Re: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-28 Thread Philip Douglass
I'll second that -- I haven't used Benthic's PL/SQL editor very much, but I use Golden almost religiously as a replacement for SQL*Plus because it is small and fast and has a tabbed window interface with spreadsheet style output that works well for me. -- Philip Douglass Internet Networking Group

RE: Sequential Tables' Selects Versus Joins

2002-08-28 Thread Jeff Holt
If it appears as though this might perform better than a single query, then it's probably because the existing query's execution plan is sub-optimal. Fix it and forget about splitting it up. If you feel compelled to split it up, then consider that act as an exercise in learning how to optimize

RE: RE: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-28 Thread Magaliff, Bill
haven't looked at that in a while, but don't you have to install Developer to use that? (It's not available standalone, is it?) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 1:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Well, since someone else cares to mention it, I do use

Re: How to increase maxextents of ROLLBACK segment_type?

2002-08-28 Thread Jared . Still
Johnny, Sorry to point out the obvious, ;) but the error message is telling you what to do. It's ALTER ROLLBACK SEGMENT ... Jared Jonny Delmont [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/28/2002 02:53 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: rman question(allocating channels)

2002-08-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Joe - 1) Why do you feel writing RMAN backup to one disk is not ideal? Is it the one disk, or disk vs. tape? 2) I would watch the I/O while it is running to see how close you are coming to maxing out your I/O subsystem. 3) I suspect, but haven't investigated, that RMAN defaults are

RE: Fail Over Options

2002-08-28 Thread Jared . Still
Pete: This surprises you? I know better than that. Jared Peter Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/28/2002 08:58 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Fail Over

RE: Slightly OT: Rounding Negative Numbers

2002-08-28 Thread Jesse, Rich
My guess would be that neither is wrong, but just using different rounding methods. If you are concerned about both returning different results, you could add (or subtract, based on sign) .0001 before doing the ROUND. SELECT ROUND(mynum + SIGN(mynum)*0.0001) FROM DUAL; Of course, this

RE: What is an API?

2002-08-28 Thread Magaliff, Bill
wow - what a great web site! thanks! -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 2:03 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: What is an API? Application Programming Interface ...

Re: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-28 Thread Denis Vasconcelos
I am getting this error: ORA-01731 Saying that I can't do it because of circular view, I can't create a view from another view; What's the workaround? Denis Vasconcelos DBA - Fábrica de Software Portais Brasil Tecnologia S.A. ( 0 XX 81 3465 - 3211 Ramal 37 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original

Re: What is an API?

2002-08-28 Thread Philip Douglass
API stands for "Application Programming Interface". An API is the rules that must be followed in order that the program you are writing can interface with the program whose API you are writing against. An API usually means that the developer of the application has given you the developer,

RE: What is an API?

2002-08-28 Thread Jeff Herrick
Beyond what the acronym stands for I would add that it's an interface to the 'guts' of COTS (Commercial Off-The Shelf) packages. Two examples I have worked with personnally are 1) WinFax API - ships as a set of DLL's that allow you to interface directly to the WinFax OLE object so that you

RE: RE: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-28 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Nope ... actually Procedure builder is a deprecated (sp?) product. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc. QOTD:

Re: What is an API?

2002-08-28 Thread ltiu
What's CPIM? ltiu Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote: Application Programming Interface ... http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exactAcronym=API http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exactAcronym=API Raj __

RE: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-28 Thread Magaliff, Bill
can you please post URL's for these? thanks -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 2:28 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I'll second that -- I haven't used Benthic's PL/SQL editor very much, but I use Golden almost religiously as a replacement for SQL*Plus

RE: PL/SQL Editor

2002-08-28 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
Well, I will throw our hat in. Compuware has a tool called DevPartner DB Tuner Debugger that can be used to create, optimize, tune and debug both SQL PL/SQL. Great tool (yes I do use it quite a bit) for PL/SQL profiling and debugging of code. www.compuware.com Thank You Stephen P.

RE: What is an API?

2002-08-28 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
API - Application Programming Interface An API is a series of functions that programs can use to make the operating system do their dirty work. These are nice for functions that many programs may have to use so the programmers do not have to reinvent the code. Dave -Original

RE: How to increase maxextents of ROLLBACK segment_type?

2002-08-28 Thread Rachel Carmichael
hm, it might be that I was thinking of the second rollback segment you had to create in the system tablespace before you could create any other tablespaces remove that might, that sounds more along the lines of what I was thinking. sorry for the confusion. I bow to the redo/undo/rollback

RE: Schedule Statspack Report Creation

2002-08-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Erik - Two thoughts for you. 1) If you are looking at regular collection of STATSPACK statistics, take a look at Don Burleson's book Oracle High-Performance Tuning with STATSPACK. He offers many scripts for reporting on selected STATSPACK statistics over time, rather than just point in time

Re: What is an API?

2002-08-28 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
Thanks much to all of you who let me know what API stands for and how it is used. Also, thanks to those who sent me the URL for acronyms. CPIM stands for Certified in Production and Inventory Management by the American Production and Inventory Control Society. This certification has been

RE: What is an API?

2002-08-28 Thread Hately Mike
Application Programming Interface Regards, Mike -Original Message-From: KENNETH JANUSZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 28 August 2002 18:08To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: What is an API? I have read a lot about the term API. I have searched the web

Oracle DBA opportunities in Portland, OR

2002-08-28 Thread zhangli
I am an Oracle Certified DBA(in 8 and 8i) with 7 years hands-on experiences. I am currently looking for an job in Portland, OR. Anyone can help? Thanks, -Lily Zhang -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

RE: Tablespace Design

2002-08-28 Thread kkennedy
Design tablespaces with more files of smaller size (2Gb is a nice size). Use this rule unless the number of datafiles in the database will get unmanageable. You describe a 15Gb database that will grow to 25Gb in a year -- this is not a large database, stick with 2Gb or smaller datafiles.

RE: How to increase maxextents of ROLLBACK segment_type?

2002-08-28 Thread Ron Thomas
FYI- FWIR, it is no longer required to create a second rollback segment in SYSTEM at database creation. This requirement was removed at version 8 (or possibly even 7.3.4). Ron Thomas Hypercom, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law. -- Roy

Oracle to publish pricing guide on Aug. 28

2002-08-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Has anyone seen this pricing guide yet? http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/08/16/020816hnoraguide.xml?0816f ram Oracle to publish pricing guide on Aug. 28.url Description: Binary data

RE: Schedule Statspack Report Creation

2002-08-28 Thread Carle, William T (Bill), ALCAS
Erik, I don't automate creation of any reports, but I do automate creation of the snapshots. I have a script that is set up to take snapshots every hour and delete any snapshots over 7 days old. That way I always have a week's worth of snapshots taken every hour. If there is a problem and

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