RE: Privileges needed for truncate /thanks all

2002-09-25 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi Thx all those that replied. I've decided to create a procedure to truncate the table and grant execute to the user. Jack Ron

RE: How to display a precedure from sql plus

2002-09-25 Thread Rahul
for procedure source you could query user_source to describe the procedure you could use SQL desc procedure_name -- From: Alaa Mostafa[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:37 PM To: LazyDBA.com Discussion Subject: How to display a

Subject: Hash Cluster Statistics

2002-09-25 Thread timboles
List, Does anyone know of some good resources about gathering statistics on Hash Clusters. I am particularly interested in finding out how full our buckets are and any chained links we have currently. Thanks before hand for you help. Tim Boles DBA Lockheed Martin Information Systems [EMAIL

Oracle InterMedia/Blob,Clob

2002-09-25 Thread Omar Khalid/IT/LotusCert/Pk
Hi Experts, Oracle interMedia enables Oracle8i to manage image, audio, video in an integrated fashion with other enterprise information. This means that complex multimedia data can be stored, retrieved, and manipulated by Oracle8i in the same fashion as traditional relational data using data

RE: RMAN need for alter system archive log all

2002-09-25 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Thanks for posting the results, Robert. I like the new feature. At least, I don't see how it hurts anyone. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 5:58 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L 9i backup results. Note

RE: ORA-03113 with dbms_output and sysdate

2002-09-25 Thread Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran
Your current session's DB has been gone out. Here is the scanario, Connected to: Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production With the Partitioning option JServer Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production SQL SET SERVEROUT ON SQL BEGIN 2 dbms_output.put_line(TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DY, MON DD

RE: ORA-03113 with dbms_output and sysdate

2002-09-25 Thread Inka Bezdziecka
Seems like not a network then. Have you read a note 1020463.6 (mind you, it is a bit dated)? inka -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 11:08 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I will try that. The confusing part is I can run : select TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DY,

How to do for point at the first line of openned cursor

2002-09-25 Thread Eriovaldo Andrietta
Hi Friends Is there any way to point at the first line of openned cursor ? For example : After apply the for ... loop at the finished i would like to set the first line , but i don't want to open it again Regards Eriovaldo Andrietta [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L

Initialzation of c:\winnt\system32\DLL user32.dll failed

2002-09-25 Thread Rick_Cale
Hi DBAs, WinNT service pack 6. Oracle 8.1.6. On several of the servers I am getting Initialzation of c: \winnt\system32\DLL user32.dll failed. Notes on MetaLink are not applicable. The only thing added to these servers was TrendMicro server protect 5.31. I do not know if coincidence or

Changing ONAMES enrtries fiasco

2002-09-25 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey all, I want to make changes to the ONAMES region database (8.0.5.0.1 on OpenVMS) entries because I didn't fully qualify the host names in the network aliases. And now that I can VPN in to work (thanks to DirecTV DSL!), I can't use ONAMES because my machine at home is in a different IP

9i : Segment space management

2002-09-25 Thread Kawatra V (Vikas) at Aera
Does anyone know of a way to modify existing tablespaces to use the Auto SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT in a 8i dbs upgraded to 9i ? thanks vikas -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Kawatra V (Vikas) at Aera INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

Re: ORA-03113 with dbms_output and sysdate

2002-09-25 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON BEGIN dbms_output.put_line(TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'DY, MON DD HH24:MI:SSYYY')); END; / WED, SEP 25 10:20:10002 - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 8:38 AM Your current session's DB

RE: Initialzation of c:\winnt\system32\DLL user32.dll failed

2002-09-25 Thread Sherman, Edward
First, try a simple reinstall of your current service pack. If that fails to solve the problem then see if this link applies: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q142676; Is another virus protect product running at the same time as TrendMicro server protect? If so then try

RE: Is the effect of modifying PCTFREE/PCTUSED immediate ?

2002-09-25 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Let me clarify my original question. I do not expect the FreeList for a table to get updated instantaneously after I change the PCTFREE/PCTUSED. What I meant by is the effect ... immediate is that do the new values come into play immediately -- even for existing blocks. Suppose I have a table

Re: Is the effect of modifying PCTFREE/PCTUSED immediate ?

2002-09-25 Thread Alan Davey
Hemant, If I understand your question correctly, trying using the alter table move command and specify new values for pctfree and pctused. This should affect existing blocks. Make sure to rebuild any indicies. HTH, -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 9/25/2002 11:38 AM, Hemant K Chitale

datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Okay, I'm about to create some locally managed tablespaces for some large partitioned tables. I plan on making each datafile 2GB, with an extent of 20M. What I've done other times when I use LMTs is add 64K to the file size, for the bitmap header, so that I don't waste most of an extent. But in

RE: Is the effect of modifying PCTFREE/PCTUSED immediate ?

2002-09-25 Thread John . Hallas
Hemant wrote Therefore, to reduce the contention for the hot blocks, I decide to have only 1 row in each block. Normally, with a *NEW* table, PCTFRE 99 and PCTUSED 1 would ensure that I have only 1 row per block. But if I have a large number of blocks in a few extents created when PCTFREE was

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Hi Rachel, I know the guy who creates the warehouses here uses 4Gb datafiles (I believe he creates them at 4050Mb). We are on Tru64 Unix He is on his honeymoon at the moment so I cannot ask him his reasoning. Regards Lee -Original Message- Sent: 25 September 2002 17:33 To: Multiple

Yet another request for your experiences

2002-09-25 Thread Freeman, Robert
On a system with ASYNC IO Enabled, have you seen any benefits from enabling multiple DBWR processes, and if so how much of an impact did you see? I've experimented with this before and didn't see much improvement, but I'm curious what others experiences are. RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP

OT: For the MicroSoft bashers

2002-09-25 Thread dgoulet
Google search leads to Gates of 'hell' Type go to hell (using the quotation marks) into Google's search engine, and the first result served up is Microsoft.com. http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0%2C4902%2C74566%2C0.html?nlid=AM -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com

Oracle trace file question

2002-09-25 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Hello all I am trying to debug a mysterious sporadic error that a Visual Basic program using ADO is hitting. In reviewing the trace file, we see an odd series of SQL statements. Before performing a 3 table join, a select * from table is issued for each of the tables to be joined. The developer

Help on Effect of changing NLS_LANGUAGE to maerican_america.utf8

2002-09-25 Thread Baswannappa, Shiva
Hi Gurus We customize pharmaceutical processing industry applications. One of our client is going global. The client needs to change NLS_LANGUAGE setting to NLS_LANG="american_america.utf8". I would like to know how to change this and what impacts will it have on reports and forms

Re:Backup Strategy - Informal Surve

2002-09-25 Thread Anubha Jalsingh
See Note:199416.1 and the Bug No.2410612 CONVENTIONAL EXPORT HAS WRONG DATA ON IMPORT on metalink. I recently had problem while reorganizing some tables in our Baan production database using export and import. The import was failing with duplicate key s in table errors. Manmohan.

RE: DBA work load

2002-09-25 Thread Miller, Jay
Yes, of course. If, like last night, I needed to dial in from home for 2 hours then I get compensated by coming in early the next day to answer questions about what happened. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 11:08 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Gogala, Mladen
I know that wuth 64 bit HP-UX and 64 bit Oracle RDBMS, I have no problems with 1 8GB file. I don't know much about Solaris, but I suppose the following will work: nm $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libclntsh.so|grep lseek64 Results should be nonempty and look something like this: __lseek64 |

RE: 9i : Segment space management

2002-09-25 Thread Gogala, Mladen
You want to use compressed table? Just do a quick ALTER TABLE and everything will be cool. -Original Message- From: Kawatra V (Vikas) at Aera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 11:28 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: 9i : Segment space

Re: Oracle InterMedia/Blob,Clob

2002-09-25 Thread Justin Cave
The interMedia Text option certainly handles PDF, DOC PPT. I believe JDeveloper is pretty well integrated with interMedia Text, so I suspect that it does what you're looking for. At 06:33 AM 9/25/2002, Omar Khalid/IT/LotusCert/Pk wrote: Hi Experts, Oracle interMedia enables Oracle8i to

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Fink, Dan
Are you going with 2048M or the traditional 2000m? A quick dirty way to not waste the space is to use 2001m or 2041m. You 'waste' a little space, but not much. Dan Fink -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 10:33 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Okay, I'm

Re: Help on Effect of changing NLS_LANGUAGE to maerican_america.utf8

2002-09-25 Thread Ron Thomas
What version of the database? What version of forms/reports? What platform? What is the current characterset of the database? Ron Thomas Hypercom, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. -- Kernighan

Best Practice - Partitioned object, one partition per tablespace,

2002-09-25 Thread Freeman, Robert
We currently are creating partitions of a given table in individual tablespaces (1 partition = one tablespace). To me, this seems like a reasonable practice. Anyone have any thoughts about this they would like the share? RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP Oracle Database Architect CSX Midtier

RE: Oracle trace file question

2002-09-25 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Okay, I think I answered my own question. If you look at the Fetch line on the select * calls, it is zero. My guess is that ADO is just checking for the existence of each table before it makes the real SQL call. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-

Fwd: Diets

2002-09-25 Thread Regina Harter
The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. The French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans. from a friend,,, The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: datafile sizing question We created two datafiles of 16GB+64K all LMT autoallocate ... never gave a problem. A basic testing concluded that fixed size allocation of 128M caused unnecessary delays whereas autoallocate was much faster. I don't know the full details yet, but I'll know

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Rachel Carmichael
AHA!I was going to go with 2000M so that's beautiful, 2001M would work perfectly without going over. I don't mind wasting less than a meg. I love the logic everyone here at work has. disk is cheap, don't worry about it. Except every time I ask for more disk, I hear it's too expensive Rachel ---

RE: Yet another request for your experiences

2002-09-25 Thread Jesse, Rich
On VMS, I believe the I/O is async by default (probably via $QIO calls), so there's no benefit there. This is from memory, as I'm not able to confirm or deny that with a quick search. On HP/UX, you can't use async with a cooked volume, and in MetaLink 139272.1 it says not to use multiple DBWRs

RE: Oracle trace file question

2002-09-25 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Dennis, I've seen ADO do some pretty strange stuff under the covers on my project also. Ny guess is that ADO is sending these sql statements kinda like a prepare statement, just to see if the query will pass muster - like basic security checks - does the table exists, etc. My guess is that it

RE: Oracle trace file question

2002-09-25 Thread Fink, Dan
That's one way to get a 99.99% buffer cache hit ratio for the statement! -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 11:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello all I am trying to debug a mysterious sporadic error that a Visual Basic program using ADO is

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I'm betting that it's not 64-bit Oracle. See, I am the development DBA. As an employee, I get to create the scripts, but I don't get to run them or even get access as oracle to the servers. In other words, all the grunt work, all the responsibility for problems (production is managed by a

RE: Best Practice - Partitioned object, one partition per tablesp

2002-09-25 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Best Practice - Partitioned object, one partition per tablespace, BTW, moving partitions from one tablespace to another is quick and easy so if later you have a real reason to have more tablespaces you can create them - our I/O configuration and access path did not warrant it at

RE: Best Practice - Partitioned object, one partition per tablesp

2002-09-25 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Robert - That is how I've generally done it. If you are partitioning because the table is very large, then separate tablespaces gives you the flexibility to place these partitions on separate devices so you can get some parallel I/O going. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Paul Baumgartel
I believe that the OS filesystem has to be configured for large file support (on HP-UX, it's a kernel parameter) to allow files 2 GB. I usually just add 1 MB to the file size to allow for the header. Personally, I'd play it safe and go with however many 2001 MB files you need to accommodate

RE: How to reproduce a hanging connect attempt

2002-09-25 Thread Jared . Still
OK, maybe adequate was the wrong word. It *can* be done with ksh. But it's rather ungainly. In Perl: my $dbh = ''; eval { local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die }; alarm 60; my $dbh = DBI-connect( 'dbi:Oracle:' . $db, 'scott','tiger', ); }; alarm

Re: Best Practice - Partitioned object, one partition per tablespace,

2002-09-25 Thread paquette stephane
That's the way I've done it. It let's you drop a partition and drop the tablespace so nothing is left. --- Freeman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : We currently are creating partitions of a given table in individual tablespaces (1 partition = one tablespace). To me, this seems like a

Re: Best Practice - Partitioned object, one partition per tablespace,

2002-09-25 Thread Rachel Carmichael
it's what I'm planning on doing... seems to me that when we decide to remove partitions, we can easily do so and retrieve the disk space this way --- Freeman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We currently are creating partitions of a given table in individual tablespaces (1 partition = one

RE: DBA work load

2002-09-25 Thread Inka Bezdziecka
-Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Yes, of course. If, like last night, I needed to dial in from home for 2 hours then I get compensated by coming in early the next day to answer questions about what happened.

V$sql_area 0 affected but commited.

2002-09-25 Thread Place for oracle
Hi, We have a strange behavior on our Oracle 8.1.7.x Db on Solaris. We have an update that 'probably' update all rows from a table. But when we check the v$sql_area view we have 0 rows affected and 1 execution. How is it possible ? // W.B __

Two Q's for SAP DBA's

2002-09-25 Thread Hand, Michael T
Got a couple of questions for those of you dealing with SAP: 1) Has anyone heard of a timeline as to when (or if) SAP R3 will support Oracle 9.x? And, 2) Has anyone implemented table partitions as a method of space management in conjunction SAP archiving? The table dependencies within SAP

RE: DBA work load

2002-09-25 Thread Inka Bezdziecka
It is your own fault. You should have called all interested parties with details as soon as that problem was resolved. And remember: if by any chance the problem resolution takes all night, call hourly with the progress report. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002

RE: Best Practice - Partitioned object, one partition per tablesp

2002-09-25 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Best Practice - Partitioned object, one partition per tablespace, What if working on limited I/O so that striping is done at the OS level mostly. In this case there is no advantage to one partition - one tablespace and if there are many partitions it just gets hard to maintain.

RE: Oracle trace file question

2002-09-25 Thread Henry Poras
Boy, I go to a new job and I don't have any of my old notebooks. I remember something like this from the past from a third-party app. The first three queries would just be verifying the existance of the object. Can't remember if it was via a SELECT * (I don't think so) or some other similar

RE: Diets

2002-09-25 Thread Gogala, Mladen
No habla Ingles. -Original Message- From: Regina Harter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Fwd: Diets The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or

RE: Best Practice - Partitioned object, one partition per tablesp

2002-09-25 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
That's the strategy I have followed in my databases. Each table partition and each index partition is in its own tablespace. Helps me a lot when I do any maintenance operations. Partitioning is by 4 digit calendar year. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Rachel, that is the same thing as with money itself. Everybody keeps telling me that money isn't everything and that there are many things in life which are more important then money, but when I ask for a check to $10,000 nobody wants to give it to me. Humans are so hard to comprehend for us

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Rachel, if you can execute sqlplus, you can do the nm thing. You don't need to log in as oracle. -Original Message- From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: datafile sizing

Forms 3.0 ; Oracle 8i/9i ; Patch 380665 ; HP-UX 11

2002-09-25 Thread Mandar A. Ghosalkar
Hello guys, I am trying to figure out the mystery of Patch 380665, which allows Forms 3.0 to be used with Oracle 8.1.7 I have a few questions 1. Does this patch exist or is it just a myth? 2. Is this a Database patch or Forms patch? 3. How to get this patch? I would really appreciate if any

RE: Help on Effect of changing NLS_LANGUAGE to maerican_america.u

2002-09-25 Thread Baswannappa, Shiva
Sorry Gurus The database version is: 8.1.6.0.0 Reports: 6.0.5.28.0 Forms: 6.0.5.2 Current NLS_LANGUAGE: AMERICAN Current NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET: WE8ISO8859P1 Current NLS_CHARACTERSET: WE8ISO8859P1 Current NLS_CALENDAR: GREGORIAN Appreciate your response Shiva -Original Message-

Re: Changing ONAMES enrtries fiasco

2002-09-25 Thread Johnson Poovathummoottil
After having little success with registering and dropping using the namesctl commands. I have used direct insert, update to the ONRS_REGION table as the peferred method to tp update the region database. No problems so far. make sure you have no space in any descriptions. I even have script to do

RE: Best Practice - Partitioned object, one partition per tablesp

2002-09-25 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Exactly the way we do it as well. Each table and index partition are in their own tablespaces (indexes are local and not global) Regards Lee -Original Message- Sent: 25 September 2002 20:54 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L tablespace, it's what I'm planning on doing... seems

RE: How to reproduce a hanging connect attempt

2002-09-25 Thread Bob Metelsky
In Perl: my $dbh = ''; eval { local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die }; alarm 60; my $dbh = DBI-connect( 'dbi:Oracle:' . $db, 'scott','tiger', ); }; alarm 0; unless ($dbh) { print db $db is down; } Humm do you know

RE: Oracle trace file question

2002-09-25 Thread Mandar A. Ghosalkar
Dennis, Ask Anjo about his Magic utility. Using that utility one has to set an environment variable on the client which would tune and avoid extra parse sql before they are sent to Oracle. Infact Cary mentions about this in his emails. btw we use delphi 3rd party ODAC component instead of

BLOB through java stored procedure

2002-09-25 Thread Manavendra Gupta
Hi, Is it possible to write a BLOB as a file on the OS through a Java stored procedure? Regards, Manav. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Manavendra Gupta INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I think it's automatic on Solaris 2.8 but I don't know for sure so I'd rather not rely on it. I'm going with 2001M and creating about a year's worth of tablespaces/partitions. 101 datafiles and tablespaces. Just to START. my aching typing fingers! --- Paul Baumgartel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best Practice - Partitioned object, one partition per tablespace,

2002-09-25 Thread Johnson Poovathummoottil
We have a database which stores 5 years data with most of the tables partitioned on year_month. We have three tablespces each for each table, with tablespace_1 having 01,04,07,10 months and tablespace_2 having 2,5,8,11 and tablespace_3 having 3,6,9,12 --- Rachel Carmichael [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Changing ONAMES enrtries fiasco

2002-09-25 Thread Jesse, Rich
Excellent! Glag to see I won't exactly be a guinea pig for this. One question: Do you issue an ONAMES RELOAD after this is done? I'm not sure how else the Names Server would be made aware of the change, except after it's daily (by default) region DB refresh. Thanks! Rich Jesse

RE: DBA work load

2002-09-25 Thread Gogala, Mladen
That sounds about right! You can get back to your boss with a little sleep deprivation tactics. Beep him hourly with the progress report and he'll trust you much more the next time. You can even beep you bosses boss and tell him that your boss told you to beep him hourly with a progress report.

RE: DBA work load - BDBAFH #1

2002-09-25 Thread STEVE OLLIG
It's backup day today so I'm pissed off. Being the BDBAFH, however, does have it's advantages. I reassign null to be the tape device - it's so much more economical on my time as I don't have to keep getting up to change tapes every 5 minutes. And it speeds up RMAN too, so it can't be all bad can

RE: Changing ONAMES enrtries fiasco

2002-09-25 Thread Johnson Poovathummoottil
Yes, you need a reload so that it takes immediate effect. --- Jesse, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent! Glag to see I won't exactly be a guinea pig for this. One question: Do you issue an ONAMES RELOAD after this is done? I'm not sure how else the Names Server would be made aware

Re: Yet another request for your experiences

2002-09-25 Thread Connor McDonald
Not on raw, but occasionally on filesystem-based async IO (Solaris) especially when using massive caches But generally - I'm in agreement with your observation hth connor --- Freeman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a system with ASYNC IO Enabled, have you seen any benefits from

Re: 9i : Segment space management

2002-09-25 Thread Connor McDonald
Unless you've got lots and lots on concurrent transactions on tables, I wouldn't touch ASSM if I were you. I've been told of some horror stories hth connor --- Kawatra V (Vikas) at Aera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a way to modify existing tablespaces to use the Auto SEGMENT

RE: 9i : Segment space management

2002-09-25 Thread Connor McDonald
How does ASSM relate to compressed tables? --- Gogala, Mladen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want to use compressed table? Just do a quick ALTER TABLE and everything will be cool. -Original Message- From: Kawatra V (Vikas) at Aera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday,

Web forms via PL/SQL

2002-09-25 Thread Ron Thomas
I need to write a pl/sql procedure to produce a form via the pl-sql cartridge. Not a problem- been doing this kinda thing now for a couple of years. Now I need to handle a INPUT TYPE=FILE tag in the form. Anyone know how to process the result via pl/sql or am I going to need to write a cgi

use_hash HINT

2002-09-25 Thread Pillai, Rajesh
Hi All, Please give me inputs on this hint and the affect of having a large HASH_AREA. Thanks, Rajesh

RE: How to reproduce a hanging connect attempt

2002-09-25 Thread Jared . Still
Unfortunately, this is one of those things that *doesn't* work on Windoze, no support in the kernel. Jared Bob Metelsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/25/2002 01:48 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: MIcrosoft Blackmail

2002-09-25 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: OT: MIcrosoft Blackmail This came to our DBA team today. I'd appreciate your thoughts. I'm not a business guy, just a plain old Apps DBA, but this really pisses me off. Is it common practice by MS? It is important from an Architecture point of view that we understand all the

RE: Help on Effect of changing NLS_LANGUAGE to maerican_america.u

2002-09-25 Thread Ron Thomas
Since WE8ISO8859P1 is not a strict subset of UTF8, you will need to recreate the database. Since you need to recreate, take to opportunity to upgrade to 8.1.7.4 or 9.0.2 Also, I would suggest upgrading to at least Dev 6i, patchset 6 (6.0.8.15), but preferable patchset 10 (6.0.8.19). This

Another datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Browett, Darren
I am in the process of upgrading our databases from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7, possibly 9i depending on application certifications. I currently have a tablespace that is made up of 4 - 200mb datafiles, my first thought would be to create a 800mb datafile and move all the data into it, The growth of this

fast_start_mttr_target in Oracle 9i

2002-09-25 Thread Nick Wagner
Is anyone using this new init.ora parameter? Does it really seam to help recovery times? Does anyone have any good or bad stories about this? Thanks!! Nick

Re: Oracle trace file question

2002-09-25 Thread Tim Gorman
It's ODBC, I think. The MS ODBC driver (are they using ODBC? If so, is it an MS driver or an Oracle driver?) tends to do SELECTs like this in lieu of a DESCRIBE. They don't fetch from the cursors; they just read the select-column information returned in order to perform a crude DESCRIBE of

RE: DBA work load - BDBAFH #1

2002-09-25 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Steve, this is great! I must bow to the master! -Original Message- From: STEVE OLLIG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 5:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: DBA work load - BDBAFH #1 It's backup day today so I'm pissed off.

Re: Web forms via PL/SQL

2002-09-25 Thread Torben Holm
Hi Ron, In short (as I am hitting the bed) What I have here is done via 9ias. It (ias) requiers that you define a document table with some specifick column (you can add your own ) (look in the documentation) The script I am sending you requiers some other scripts and access diffrent kind of

RE: Another datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Johnston, Tim
Is there a reason you can't just resize the existing file? -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 7:43 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am in the process of upgrading our databases from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7, possibly 9i depending on application certifications.

RE: Another datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Darren - My advice would be to read up on Locally Managed Tablespaces (LMT) and uniform extents. This is a new feature that will ease your management work. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 6:43 PM To: Multiple

RE: Another datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread paquette stephane
It's late at night maybe that's why I do not understand your answer but I do not see the link between LMT and the number/size of datafiles. One reason of multiple datafiles id to spread IO but since nowadays a majority of sites goes on huge disk box using raid 5 (that's what we have, the unix

Advanced Queues for dummies

2002-09-25 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Hi, We're investigating the use of Advanced Queues as a way of transferring information between OSI's PI and Oracle. The data will originate on the Oracle side and end up in PI. We were thinking of using Oracle's Heterogeneous services and PI's ODBC driver, but ran into 2 phase commit errors

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Rachel Carmichael
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RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I can't with the account they have given me. At least, not yet :( this is so well planned I will be amazed if it goes live on time. and I (and my boss) are living by two mottos failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine and if it fails, it will NOT be because of

RE: How to reproduce a hanging connect attempt

2002-09-25 Thread Cary Millsap
For more information see $ perldoc perlport Not much more information, mind you, but at least a positive statement that alarm is not implemented on Win32. This document also describes all the other stuff without which I can't believe an operating system can survive commercially...

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migrating 8.x-9i and charsets

2002-09-25 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: migrating 8.x-9i and charsets Ron I was reading your response about converting to UTF8 and it has risen some curiosity with my situation and recent upgrade of a DB from 8.1.7.2 to 9.1.0.3. A snippet from the migration manual states:If the old National Character Set is UTF8, then the

RE: migrating 8.x-9i and charsets

2002-09-25 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: migrating 8.x-9i and charsets what I found odd after reading the migration manual is that the 9i upgrade database is still showing: NLS_CHARACTERSET WE8ISO8859P1 NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET WE8ISO8859P1 I haven't found any issues with functionality, keeping in mind this two tier

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2002-09-25 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
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Re: Best Practice - Partitioned object, one partition per tablesp

2002-09-25 Thread Tim Gorman
placing them in different tablespaces also allows you to place older tablespaces into READ ONLY mode and reduce the volume of backups. also permits moving less-frequently accessed tablespaces to near-line storage, such as tape-based file-systems or CDROM... - Original Message - To:

Re: DBA work load - BDBAFH #1

2002-09-25 Thread Tim Gorman
It's backup day today so I'm pissed off. Being the BDBAFH, however, does have it's advantages. I reassign null to be the tape device - it's so much more economical on my time as I don't have to keep getting up to change tapes every 5 minutes. And it speeds up RMAN too, so it can't be all bad

Re: Best Practice - Partitioned object, one partition per tablespace,

2002-09-25 Thread Tim Gorman
Another approach is to partition according to your load strategy, but make them reside in tablespaces according to how you want to set them to READ ONLY. For example, if you load daily, partition daily. But if you want to set the data into READ ONLY to reduce backup volumes on a quarterly