Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread Jared Still
Dear list, I found something rather interesting on MetaLink today. While doing a little research on UTL_FILE, I came across document # 1050919.6. This document deals with how to dump a table to an ascii file.

Can't create job...

2002-10-10 Thread Daiminger, Helmut
Title: Can't create job... Hi! I'm experiencing a weird problem here... Why can't I create this job??? SQL variable jobno number; SQL begin 2 dbms_job.submit(:jobno, 'PROBLEM_MELDUNG', sysdate, 'sysdate+1/3600'); 3 commit; 4 end; 5 / begin * ERROR at line 1: ORA-06550: line 1, column

RE: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread Cary Millsap
I've learned that those two emotions are not mutually exclusive. If you name's not in Oracle's source code somewhere, then I'd suggest you write someone at Oracle a note. It's an easy problem for them to solve. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: -

RE: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread John . Hallas
Jared, You should feel upset as well as flattered. In my view you have a strong case against Oracle for some form of compensation, as a minimum you should be credited in the article. Whether you can win against a big corporation is another matter of course. I and many others can confirm that the

RE: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread Naveen Nahata
Reminds me of a famous quote 'Copying from one author is plagiarism, and copying from multiple authors is research' :-) Naveen -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 12:43 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dear list, I found something rather interesting on

RE: ORA-472 DBWR terminated/SOLVED

2002-10-10 Thread Jack van Zanen
THX Investigation revealed that this one directory belonged to root(?). Jack -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 7:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Are privileges of the oracle user and the directory where the alert log goes the same for all three

RE: Can't create job...

2002-10-10 Thread moyam
Title: Can't create job... Like the previous mail, add a semi-colon at the end of the PROBLEM_MELDING (i.e. 'PROBLEM_MELDING;') -Original Message-From: Daiminger, Helmut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 10:58 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list

RE: RMAN and TSM

2002-10-10 Thread Adrian Roe
Ian, You need TDP installed on all target nodes, however you don't need TDP installed on the node where the catalog resided. Also, you need only one tdpo.opt per node, but don't need one for the catalog ('cos TDP will not be installed there). We have always used the default of adsmorc for

Re: RMAN and TSM

2002-10-10 Thread Connor McDonald
There is a Metalink note (73431.1) which talks about the rman version compatibility, but it also states: Ensure that the RMAN executable version matches the version of the target database that it is backing up which I presume to mean that you need to run rman from each target and push to the

Re: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread Connor McDonald
Just tell them you'll happy with a small amount of acknowledgement...say, a 4-node Tru64 cluster with 9.2 rac and a year's free support. Cheers Connor --- Jared Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list, I found something rather interesting on MetaLink today. While doing a little

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2002-10-10 Thread Santosh Varma
Hello all, I have a client who will be doing the data capture and give me the data in a flat file. what i need to do in oracle is load from that flat file to my database. any scripts available ?? please send me across. ASAP Thanks and regards,Santosh

RE: Making a tablespace read-only - identifying blocking tx

2002-10-10 Thread Rachel Carmichael
so if it's waiting for any active transaction, I guess you could put the database in restricted mode until existing transactions complete. Of course, that sort of defeats the purpose of putting it in read-only so other people can access it. um, 9ir2 has an export parameter of tablespace, if you

Re: Storage Recommendations

2002-10-10 Thread Anjo Kolk
Joshua, There are papers on the internet, I have two papers on my site (not done by me, so I can advertise). But one thing I should point out to you: the size of the database is not important for buying storage. It is the number of users and the number of I/O operations per second that the I/O

RE: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread Rachel Carmichael
you put the code out in the world without a comment in it about copying is not allowed and you've made it free for the taking. Compensation isn't likely. Credit is definitely due and should be given. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jared, You should feel upset as well as flattered. In my view

RE:

2002-10-10 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Lookup SQL*Loader -Original Message- Sent: 10 October 2002 11:59 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello all, I have a client who will be doing the data capture and give me the data in a flat file. what i need to do in oracle is load from that flat file to my database.

RE: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread April Wells
At least they TOLD me that if I ever get our Unique configuration for Apps to work they expect me to write thier documentation for them April -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 10/10/2002 2:13 AM Dear list, I found something rather interesting on

Loading a flat file into Oracle

2002-10-10 Thread John . Hallas
Santosh. Putting a subject on your e-mails is useful to everyone I suggest you look at sqlloader. There are some good pages on the FAQ associated with this site http://www.orafaq.com http://www.orafaq.com HTH John -Original Message- Sent: 10 October 2002 11:59 To: Multiple

RE: DROP DEVELOPER not working

2002-10-10 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: DROP DEVELOPER not working (taking a cue from RMAN syntax) drop developer developer_name from third_floor position upside_down immediate / works for me all the time ... (sorry couldn't resist ... I have been a developer too for 8+ years) BTW 10046 will write the sql statement

Shutdown/Startup user

2002-10-10 Thread O'Neill, Sean
Does anyone know if it is possible to create a user who only has rights to Shutdown a database?. I'm thinking about scenario that if the password for this user were ever compromised, e.g. seen in a script then worst case scenario would be database might be shutdown. Indulge me on this please as

Re: RMAN and TSM

2002-10-10 Thread Mark J. Bobak
We are in the midst of a big move to RMAN. We use EMC's EDM to do backups, and the SAs have been pushing us towards RMAN for a while now, cause the EDM interface intergrates w/ RMAN seamlessly. It really is a nice backup solution. (We started the process by upgrading all our EDM units to 5.0)

bioinformatics

2002-10-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is there any strategy from oracle in bioinformatics? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web

RE: Shutdown/Startup user

2002-10-10 Thread John . Hallas
Sean, The role sysoper is already provided Details are There are two main administrative privileges in Oracle: SYSOPER and SYSDBA These are special privileges as they allow access to a database instance even when it is not running and so control of these privileges is totally outside of the

RE: Loading a flat file into Oracle

2002-10-10 Thread moyam
You have got SQLLoader example scripts on your PC/laptop on which Oracle is installed. Check out C:\ORACLE\ORA81\RDBMS\DEMO on your Windows Installation. You will find scripts names UTCASEn.CTL. Edit these scripts to relfect your destination table, fields and you will be done. Moses Moya

Re: Making a tablespace read-only - identifying blocking tx

2002-10-10 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Why don't you just to a consistant export? That will not take any transaction after the start of the export, at leasst this is how I understand it. Ruth. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 4:48 PM I am

RE: Packed decimal

2002-10-10 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Russ - What do you have in mind? Oracle stores numbers in its own format in its own datafiles. Are you looking to hack the Oracle datafiles? Or do you have an input file in packed decimal format that your are looking at loading into Oracle? If you could tell us the objective you are seeking to

RE: cpu on AIX

2002-10-10 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Henry - One idea for you to try is to nice the import job when you start it. Check your O.S. documentation for available values. This has helped me on some jobs that have tended to overwhelm the online users. Just a thought. Good luck, sounds as if you may have other system problems. Dennis

Re: Index Oracle-l

2002-10-10 Thread Ray Stell
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:18:30PM -0800, Joshua Becker wrote: INDEX ORACLE-L indexing here won't help... - ListGuru GENERAL Command HELP - This help file

Re: Storage Recommendations

2002-10-10 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Anjo, I'm pretty sure Jared would let you advertise papers you wrote as well as papers written by others! We are installing new servers, new data center, new apps, new databases. I have been given NO input into the decision-making process, other than to tell them how large my databases will

RE: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Jared, I think you have a case for at the very least getting credit for your work. It's one thing for someone to see what you've done and use the functionality like you did. It's completely something else for someone to lift all the code verbatim without even changing a comment. It just shows

Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery

2002-10-10 Thread Freeman, Robert
Well, our new Oracle Press Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery book is at the printer. We have a sample chapter available and TOC for you all to look at if you like. Here is the URL: http://shop.osborne.com/cgi-bin/osborne/0072226625.html Enjoy! Robert Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP Oracle

RE: SOLARIS to linux

2002-10-10 Thread Molina, Gerardo
Or, if money is no object, then you can use Shareplex from Quest. It can replicate from one platform to another. Gerardo -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 8:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L One needs to use export/import while changing hardware

ora-01115 after datafile autoexetend from 3.9 GB to 4.1 GB

2002-10-10 Thread Yechiel Adar
Title: Message Hello all HELP - and I am not an idiot. Oracle 8.1.6.3.4 on NT. We have a problem that the datafile for the application tables autoextended from 3.9 GB to 4.1 GB. We are getting ora-01115 errors and the datafile is offline. We tried export but it gets the same error. The

Re: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread Jared Still
Not interested in compensation. Just a litte irritated that the only change to the script was to remove my name. Jared On Thursday 10 October 2002 04:08, Rachel Carmichael wrote: you put the code out in the world without a comment in it about copying is not allowed and you've made it free

Re[2]: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread dgoulet
Jared, Should you be irritated? I've had some of the things I published on the list put out as gospel elsewhere with my name attached it's been a real pain in the ^^$. I don't know. I think I'd feel flattered and relieved that no one knows where it came from. Dick Goulet

RE: Index Oracle-l

2002-10-10 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
how 'bout a reverse bitmap hash-partition leading-edge index? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 9:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 09:18:30PM -0800, Joshua Becker wrote: INDEX ORACLE-L indexing here won't help...

Space... confusion

2002-10-10 Thread April Wells
Please forgive the cross postings, but I am hoping that someone in all of the sets of eyes that see this might have an idea I haven't thought of. *** Facts ** aix 4.3.3 oracle 9.0.1.3 new instance, up for 2 weeks locally managed tablespaces nothing with

RE: Making a tablespace read-only - identifying blocking tx

2002-10-10 Thread Fink, Dan
It is not the export per se that causes the problem. It is the copying of the datafile that is the issue. The tablespace must be made read only so that the datafile can be copied in a consistent version. I can understand (and support) no active tx in the tablespace, but why the whole (*#(*$#

RE: ora-01115 after datafile autoexetend from 3.9 GB to 4.1 GB

2002-10-10 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Title: Message Note # 148894.1 on Metalink has a possible solution... NT has a limit of 4GB for the file size :( - Kirti -Original Message-From: Yechiel Adar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 10:08 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject:

RE: Index Oracle-l

2002-10-10 Thread Gogala, Mladen
BITMAP INDEX ORACLE-L TABLESPACE LOST_IN_SPACE STORAGE (INITIAL 1M NEXT 1M) -Original Message- From: Joshua Becker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 1:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Index Oracle-l INDEX ORACLE-L

RE: cpu on AIX

2002-10-10 Thread Scott . Shafer
Henry, I had a similiar situation occur recently on HPUX, Oracle 817. CPU was pegged out and users were complaining of taking over 5 minutes to quey one record (usually took 5 seconds). It was a matter of statistics not being present on certain schema. A quick analyze cleared it all up. Just

Re:DROP DEVELOPER not working

2002-10-10 Thread dgoulet
Raj, I'll take OTS's point of view on the subject, namely if the duhveloper can drop the table via SQL*Plus then he needs to call the vendor of the third party application. The database responds to a command the same way no matter where the command is issued from if it is complete and

RE: Making a tablespace read-only - identifying blocking tx

2002-10-10 Thread Fink, Dan
That would be one option, but we are trying to avoid the overhead of the import process as we move the data to a new database. This process will happen daily and transporting a tablespace and plugging in a datafile is perceived to be faster (has not been tested yet). Dan -Original

RE: Listener Problem

2002-10-10 Thread Peter Barnett
Unfortunately, our company is large enough that no one ever really has to admit to anything because it is simply too difficult to run down the perpetrators. The listener did start. Some users could connect to the databases from one server but not another. We think it was related to an

RE: DROP DEVELOPER not working

2002-10-10 Thread Fink, Dan
Title: RE: DROP DEVELOPER not working I hear that they are enhancing that command in 10i. You know have the option of naming the employment position: drop manager drop user drop cow-worker etc... I recall that in Unix, the trace file is written right away, but NT waits for the process

RE: Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery

2002-10-10 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Congratulations, Robert!! Looking forward to receiving my copy... - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 9:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Well, our new Oracle Press Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery book is at the printer. We have a sample

RE: Space... confusion

2002-10-10 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
April: I'm just guessing here, but is it a journaling file system? Could the journal be eating up your available space? HTH, Mike -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 8:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Please forgive the cross postings, but I am hoping

RE: DROP DEVELOPER not working

2002-10-10 Thread Jesse, Rich
DROP COW-WORKER only works here in the Dairy State... ;) Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:09 AM To: Multiple recipients

RE: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Wow! That's the way to have your name remembered for eternity! Having your name carved in stone is one thing, but having your name embedded into the oracle source code is something much better. Jared, in a few millenniums, with Oracle 256(i?) you'll be one of the most celebrated individuals in

RE: DROP DEVELOPER not working - 10046 trace

2002-10-10 Thread Rajesh . Rao
And I Used oradebug at level 12 and set the file size to unlimited, and I am not running out of space in the udump destination. So, why dont I see the execution plan? - Forwarded by Rajesh Rao/CHASE on 10/10/02 11:22 AM -

RE: Loading a flat file into Oracle

2002-10-10 Thread Don Malzahn
Santosh, The Oracle Utilities manual is not bad either, it explains sqlldr and export and import, all database utilities that come with the database. Find it at the Oracle web site if you don't have a copy. I suggest you look at sqlloader. There are some good pages on the FAQ associated

Re: Advice needed on move to Sun 15K (losing spindles)

2002-10-10 Thread Tim Gorman
More than separate ORACLE_HOMEs, you might also consider individual oracle software owner accounts and dba and oper groups for each database... Folks often install all Oracle distributions under a single account, oracle, specifying a single SYSDBA group (dba) and a single SYSOPER group (oper).

RE: DROP DEVELOPER not working - 10046 trace

2002-10-10 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: DROP DEVELOPER not working - 10046 trace execution plan comes at the end ... that's why ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't

Not Oracle DBA problem:APPS 11/ WinNt: HRMS export of query results generates FRM-99999 error 2 with Explorer 5 on win2000

2002-10-10 Thread Inka Bezdziecka
Good morning, if it is good, which I doubt... It is not Oracle database problem, unfortunately is showing within Oracle, so...need I say more? I wonder if any of you had a misfortune (which I truly hope one had) of running into the PC set-up problem, which generates the error: FRM-9:

RE: Making a tablespace read-only - identifying blocking tx

2002-10-10 Thread Henry Poras
But can you know for sure if an open txn will hit your tablespace until the txn is closed? Henry -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L It is not the export per se that causes the problem. It is the copying of the datafile

RE: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread Inka Bezdziecka
Jared, Yes, you should be both. Well, this not a legal advise, just my personal view: I would find a layer, who specialises in the intellectual property laws, sue Oracle ... and settle. Add a clause to the header, which will allow for usage of your scripts the way you mean it. For all those

RE: Space... confusion

2002-10-10 Thread Fink, Dan
Which files were being reported in the ORA-01114s? Could you provide more info as to the exact architecture of the db files and file system. For example, is it a single file system and ALL database files (including redo logs/archived logs/temp files/...) are stored on it. Are the control

RE: ora-01115 after datafile autoexetend from 3.9 GB to 4.1 GB

2002-10-10 Thread Johnston, Tim
Title: Message Looks like your stuck... Maybe someone else can help... Good luck... Doc ID: Note:148894.1 Subject: ALERT: Problems with Datafile AUTOEXTEND/RESIZE on Oracle8i on

RE: DROP DEVELOPER not working - 10046 trace

2002-10-10 Thread Rajesh . Rao
As I was investigating more on this issue, I took a close look at the select statement which runs just before the drop. Isnt this select statement supposed to have a STAT with the execution plan in the 10046 trace file. Why dont I see it here? The entries in the trace file are : PARSING IN

RE: ora-01115 after datafile autoexetend from 3.9 GB to 4.1 GB

2002-10-10 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Title: Message This is interesting. I had a vendor do an install on one of our NT servers, and they set the files to autoextend to 8GB. When I modified that limit down to 2GB (our company standard) they clouded up and rained all over me! They said there was no physical reason to limit the

RE: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread Gesler, Rich
Actually, Oracle 256i is slated for a June, 2012 release. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Wow! That's the way to have your name remembered for eternity! Having your name carved in stone is one thing, but having

RE: Space... confusion

2002-10-10 Thread April Wells
Is journaling, but journal isn't in that file system, just on the raw part of the volume group April Wells Oracle DBA Keep yourself well oiled with life, laughter, new ideas and action. Otherwise you will rust out. _Anonymous -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:29

RE: DROP DEVELOPER not working - 10046 trace

2002-10-10 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Execution plan is not generated by using event 10046 for tracing. If you using 8i+, there is a way to prevent owner of the table from performing ddl. Here's a post by Joe Testa quite some time ago. And I have used this process successfully. HTH, - Kirti On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Joseph Testa

RE: Index Oracle-l

2002-10-10 Thread Fink, Dan
Are you sure an index is appropriate? Will it actually reduce the LIOs or will it artifically inflate the BCHR? This is just the kind of thinking that Cary is trying to eradicate! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 9:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L how

RE: Re[2]: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Dick, the difference is that Oracle is a corporation that is making money on someone else's work. they are quick to hammer the people we work for over license issues and, in this case, use someone elses work as a part of their software suite. it's not right. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified

Re: Space... confusion

2002-10-10 Thread Connor McDonald
Are you using tempfiles ? Just a hypothesis: Tempfiles are created sparse, so you ask for 100M, but in reality only 1M might be allocated. As people sort, you actually start needing the 100M and kapow! hth connor --- April Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please forgive the cross postings,

RE: Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery

2002-10-10 Thread Freeman, Robert
I hope it meets everyone's expectations. We worked like dogs to get this one done by OOW. RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP Oracle Database Architect CSX Midtier Database Administration Author of several Oracle books you can find on Amazon.com! Londo Mollari: Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in

Oracle Financials DBA Needed in New York City..

2002-10-10 Thread OraStaff
Position: Oracle Financials DBA Location: New York, New York Industry: Financial Institution Salary Range: Up to 120K-depends on experience. * This company may consider candidates outside the Greater New York City area who have the skills outlined below and are willing to pay thier own

RE: Space... confusion

2002-10-10 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
April - This is what I hear you saying: - The database was set up on a file system, and there was room to spare. - The file system ran out of space. - Don't know what occurred to take up space, there should have been nothing. - The situation is fixed now. HOW?? If the above is true, I

Re: sequence numbers

2002-10-10 Thread Tim Gorman
CACHE 20 is the default, so if you remove the clause, it will have absolutely no impact on performance or anything else... ...of course, I get the feeling that that wasn't the gist of your question, was it? - Original Message - From: April Wells To: Multiple recipients

Re: Packed decimal

2002-10-10 Thread Tim Gorman
SQL*Loader understands how to translate PACKED and ZONED DECIMAL format; pretty sure that PRO*Cobol does as well, though I don't do Cobol... If you're interested in conversion routines, I've a "C" function named "ptof()" that converts packed-decimal to floating-point; wrote it 10 years ago

Re: Space... confusion

2002-10-10 Thread Tim Gorman
Probably due to tempfiles in your TEMPORARY tablespace... Tempfiles are sparsely populated files (not certain if that is the correct term). That is, if you display them with the command ls -l, you'll see them apparently consuming the full amount of space you specified when you created them.

RE: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread John Weatherman
That's interesting. I'd heard it was for OpenWorld '07. John P Weatherman Database Administrator Replacements Ltd. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 1:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Actually, Oracle 256i is slated for a June, 2012 release.

RE: Space... confusion

2002-10-10 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Anything reported in the system logs? Can you get the SAs to run the 'errpt' report to make sure there were no disk related problems. Do the permissions on the mount point directory keep others away? Once I had a smart developer(and a newbie DBA), who pointed his vi 'directory' to one of the

RE: Making a tablespace read-only - identifying blocking tx

2002-10-10 Thread Fink, Dan
Forehead Slap D'OH! You are absolutely correct. I completely overthought the issue and missed the obvious. Thanks Henry -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L But can you know for sure if an open txn will hit your

RE: DROP DEVELOPER not working - 10046 trace

2002-10-10 Thread Rajesh . Rao
I am not talking of the execution plan for the drop table statement, but for the select that's run prior to it? I opened a TAR for it, and Metalink states: sql trace messages are not in sync with the session. Some messages will only dump to trace when the cursor is closed, or the program

RE: Oracle9i upgrade exam - Recommended books/material? (Borderin

2002-10-10 Thread Freeman, Robert
Thanks Dennis! I'm sitting here dying because one of my stereo headphone speakers i do ng t is t m ri gt n w. ARRRUUU. Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP Oracle Database Architect CSX Midtier Database Administration Author of several Oracle books you can find on Amazon.com! Londo

RE: Oracle9i upgrade exam - Recommended books/material?

2002-10-10 Thread Freeman, Robert
May I offer my Oracle9i New Features book as one source of preparation. While it does not cover 100% of the 9i OCP objectives (nor was it intended too), I think you will find it a good introductory guide to 9i and the new features you will need to know about. I also agree with others here that

RE: Re[2]: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread Fink, Dan
From Oracle's Terms of Use on Metalink... Confidentiality --- Except for information in Web sites controlled by third parties that are accessible via hyperlinks from the MetaLink Web site, the information contained in the Materials is the confidential proprietary information of

RE: Making a tablespace read-only - identifying blocking tx

2002-10-10 Thread Rachel Carmichael
ah! transportable tablespaces? you did't SAY that --- Fink, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is not the export per se that causes the problem. It is the copying of the datafile that is the issue. The tablespace must be made read only so that the datafile can be copied in a consistent

Re: DROP DEVELOPER not working

2002-10-10 Thread Stephane Faroult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a developer here, installing a third party application, who claims one of his delete campaign process is hanging. I looked at the wait events, saw nothing, and asked him to politely to go look at the code. After much analysys, the developer now complains,

RE: DROP DEVELOPER not working - 10046 trace

2002-10-10 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Thanks Kirti. While I cannot stop drops completely, I am thinking I could use dbms_system with the scripts, to write to the alert log whenever a drop statement is executed. And by the way, I did a level 12 trace, and for the statements it does put in the execution plan : PARSING IN CURSOR #3

RE: Space... confusion

2002-10-10 Thread April Wells
Oh good... isn't that special... du -k says they are 3401728 k... not 'quite' 4000 meg... that makes sense. anywhere I can look this up to do more research (ie... is there a friendly manual)? April Wells Oracle DBA Keep yourself well oiled with life, laughter, new ideas and action. Otherwise

RE: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread Gesler, Rich
2007 would not give enough time to complete the class time for the more rigorous OCP 256i requirements. Quit spreading false rumours. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 2:28 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L That's interesting. I'd heard it was for

RE: Oracle9i upgrade exam - Recommended books/material? (Borderin

2002-10-10 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Robert, If you don't mind , both books are good as I passed my 9i upgarde with the help of both books and I shall give credit to you and Daniel for writing these books. However, yours was the first one which I bought sometime in Jan'2002 and his book was released end March, 2002. Thanks

RE: SOLARIS to linux

2002-10-10 Thread Seema Singh
Yes,Let me know is any other way except EXPORT/import I can do ? Thx -Seema From: Deshpande, Kirti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: SOLARIS to linux Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 19:03:41 -0800 One needs to use

Re: Re[2]: Verrrry interesting article at MetaLink

2002-10-10 Thread Ruth Gramolini
I agree! Stick it to 'em. They do it to us all the time. Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 3:24 PM From Oracle's Terms of Use on Metalink... Confidentiality --- Except for information

RE: Space... confusion

2002-10-10 Thread April Wells
At the OS level, the files are 4000 meg. If they are created sparse, would it show at the OS level? April Wells Oracle DBA Keep yourself well oiled with life, laughter, new ideas and action. Otherwise you will rust out. _Anonymous -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002

CPU WAIT I/O statistic

2002-10-10 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
Hi list Can anyone explain me what exactly does the WAIT I/O column of the sar -u output mean? Does it represent the % of CPU used by the kernel processes to perform I/O? As far as I know the waiting processes do no wait actively when they ask for an I/O. right? The OS uses the SLEEP

RE: DROP DEVELOPER not working - 10046 trace

2002-10-10 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Sorry, I did not pay attention to what level trace you were generating... :( - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 2:25 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks Kirti. While I cannot stop drops completely, I am thinking I could use dbms_system with the

Re: bioinformatics

2002-10-10 Thread Greg Moore
is there any strategy from oracle in bioinformatics? Oracle has application software they call Oracle Clinical. Apparently it is designed to support clinical trials of new drugs. If you find out more on this topic I hope you'll post it to this list. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: Space... confusion

2002-10-10 Thread April Wells
That is it EXACTLY... thank you.. it was created sparsely, du -ak gives what df -k believes, but ls -al gives what Oracle thinks it is... Now if I can just find the manual to research the logic behind why. Okay... Oracle's answer was it can't happen, therefore it didn't happen and it therefore

RE: SOLARIS to linux

2002-10-10 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Seema Perhaps you can give us some idea of why export/import is unsatisfactory for your purposes. Too much data? If so, how much data? Too small an amount of time for production to be down? Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Thursday,

Re: DROP DEVELOPER not working

2002-10-10 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Whoa Stephane You might be onto something here. The developer confirmed that they do use Pro*C and cursors in the process. Will investigate. Thanks a ton Raj

RE: CPU WAIT I/O statistic

2002-10-10 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Pablo - I posted the following paragraph yesterday: 3) I looked in Oracle Performance Tuning 101 to see what Gaja has to say. He points out that the Solaris sar -q command has a %wio column, a measure of processes that are currently using the CPU, but are waiting for I/O requests to be serviced

RE: SOLARIS to linux

2002-10-10 Thread Weaver, Walt
How about a database link? --Walt (RTFM are my middle initials) Weaver Bozeman, Montana -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 2:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Yes,Let me know is any other way except EXPORT/import I can do ? Thx -Seema From:

RE: DROP DEVELOPER not working - 10046 trace

2002-10-10 Thread Fink, Dan
Raj, This reminds me of a similar situation I encountered several years ago, perhaps there will be something in it that will help... A 3rd party app was periodically committing only 2 of 3 changes that were required. The most likely explanation of the problem was that there was an

RE: Making a tablespace read-only - identifying blocking tx

2002-10-10 Thread Fink, Dan
That information is not relevant and should be ignored. I would expect YOU to know as much! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 1:25 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L ah! transportable tablespaces? you did't SAY that --- Fink, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: CPU WAIT I/O statistic

2002-10-10 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
Dennis: Thanks for answering, what do you mean by, or may be what do you think Gaja means by: He points out that the Solaris sar -q command has a %wio column, a measure of processes that are currently using the CPU, but are waiting for I/O requests to be serviced and hence are not making

RE: CPU WAIT I/O statistic

2002-10-10 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
Dennis: Thanks for answering, what do you mean by, or may be what do you think Gaja means by: He points out that the Solaris sar -q command has a %wio column, a measure of processes that are currently using the CPU, but are waiting for I/O requests to be serviced and hence are not making

RE: DROP DEVELOPER not working - 10046 trace

2002-10-10 Thread Cary Millsap
The STAT lines are emitted into the trace file only when a cursor closes. I wish the kernel would emit them right after the plan is constructed, but it's just not the way it works. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Hotsos Clinic, Oct 15-17 Dallas,

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