Re: SQLPROMPT

2002-10-26 Thread Mark J. Bobak
There is no truly automated way to do this. Why Oracle doesn't make this a builtin SQL*Plus option, I have NO idea. Seems to me like something that ought to have been there since day one. Anyhow, one work around I have seen is: Create conn.sql put 'connect 1' as the first line add in the lines

RE: can clustering help INSERTS ?

2002-10-26 Thread Rahul
the DB is *not* experiencing any waits... i'm trying to bring down the run time of the insertion process, currently it takes around 9 hrs... the management wants to bring it down to 5-6 hrs...again.. i OD NOT see any wait events while the process is running.. there are no indexes on the tables

RE: can clustering help INSERTS ?

2002-10-26 Thread Naveen Nahata
Dennis, Did he publish any figures? I mean, it seems common-sense that adding the first index will hurt but adding 11th index to a table won't hurt that much. As stephane pointed out, cost of an index is 2.5 times more than the cost of insert in a non-indexed table. So assuming cost is 1,

Database Creation

2002-10-26 Thread Santosh Varma
i am using oracle 8.1.7 and have a product ready for release to the customer in my office. in the client's place, only the oracle is installed. next step i presume is database creation to which my application will interact .. right ?? how do i make sure that the database i create is the

Re: Database Creation(RANTING)

2002-10-26 Thread Joe Testa
copy the init.ora look at the size of the redo logs, size of the datafiles. make all the directories on the new machine. Wait, how did you create the first database? I'm 99% sure you didnt type create database. use the same scripts and oh yes READ THE DOCUMENTATION. Most of the people here

RE: Database Creation(RANTING)

2002-10-26 Thread Naveen Nahata
Well said Joe! I liked the second part. Regards Naveen -Original Message- Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 6:33 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L copy the init.ora look at the size of the redo logs, size of the datafiles. make all the directories on the new machine. Wait,

tnsnames and sqlnet connectivity question

2002-10-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: tnsnames and sqlnet connectivity question suppose I have an entry like this in tnsnames.ora ... ESSNCS = (DESCRIPTION_LIST = (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = apollo)(PORT = 6521)) (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = aquarius)(PORT = 6521)) ))) I try

Re: can clustering help INSERTS ?

2002-10-26 Thread Tim Gorman
Can you display to the list the output from one of the queries, just for fun? - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 1:33 AM the DB is *not* experiencing any waits... i'm trying to bring down the run time of the

Re: SQL*Plus COPY error

2002-10-26 Thread Tom Pall
I've not seen this particular error. Over the years I've found SQL*Plus COPY to be buggy. I just did a search on Metalink for sqlplus copy error. Your problem is not addressed directly, but other problems point to bugs in the GUI version of SQL*PLUS. Oracle's advice is to use the command line,

Oracle RDBMS for Linux

2002-10-26 Thread PiotR
Hi all ! I'm new in this group :) I'm new in Oracle for Linux too :) Previously i used to Oracle for NT. Now i have to start manage Oracle for Linux. After successful instalation what should i do to start my database (created during instalation). And ... forgive me my english - this is not my

Re: Location of Trace file

2002-10-26 Thread Tom Pall
My query was executed on an Oracle installed, Oracle created Oracle 9i version 2 database on Windows 2000. Oracle really started following OFA on Windows starting with version 8i. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 25,

RE: can clustering help INSERTS ?

2002-10-26 Thread Naveen Nahata
Is timed_statistics set to true? Regards Naveen -Original Message- Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 8:48 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Can you display to the list the output from one of the queries, just for fun? - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of

Re: tnsnames and sqlnet connectivity question

2002-10-26 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: tnsnames and sqlnet connectivity question The socket 6521 cannot be active on "apollo", so you'll either have to take the TNS Listener down along with the instance or restart the TNS Listener so that it is not listening on that socket after taking the instance down. Taking the entire

RE: Oracle DBA vs JAVA programmer???

2002-10-26 Thread Schauss, Peter
Janet, When I was laid off a year and a half ago, I created three resumes: - one which emphasized my programming experience. - one which emphasized my DBA experience - one which emphasized my UNIX SA experience Then I looked for jobs in all three categories. Good luck, Peter Schauss

Re: Database Creation(RANTING)

2002-10-26 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I got well, you know Ingres, that's a database so you're the Oracle DBA read and re-read and re-read the Oracle docs (all two books, this was version 5) until the lightbulb went off... went VERY gingerly into the database to look at things. And prayed. A lot Reading the manual is NEVER a bad

Re: DB monitoring using SNMP MIBs

2002-10-26 Thread Jared Still
I seem to be missing part of this thread, and have been gone most the week. Re SNMP: I haven't played with it myself, but there are ~100 Perl modules dealing with SNMP. It would take some research to determine which are the most useful, and go from there. Definitely doable. Maybe Perl for

Re: Deploying a 6i Form to the web

2002-10-26 Thread Jared Still
Dan, I've done it, so I know it's possible. :) The learning curve on this can be fairly steep, as there's several pieces of technology that must be setup and working. iAS needs to be configured. When I did this, it was with OAS. I hope it's become easier since then. Unix is easier to setup

Re: DB monitoring using SNMP MIBs

2002-10-26 Thread Jared Still
This documentation is found under the 'Oracle Enterprise Manager' section of the documentation. Jared On Thursday 24 October 2002 08:08, Kevin Lange wrote: Raj; Here is a link to the SNMP Support Reference Guide that Ray talked about for 8.1.7. I am sure its probably somewhere on your

Re: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-26 Thread Jared Still
I was going to suggest MD5 as well. Though I was thinking of the Perl version. The DBMS_OBFUSCATION version is fine, but I was thinking of the unload method. Chris, how are you creating the flat files? UTL_FILE? SqlPlus? Perl is much faster than sqlplus, dunno about UTL_FILE, as I haven't

Re: Database Creation(RANTING)

2002-10-26 Thread Mark J. Bobak
I agree 100%. I recommend starting w/ the least read and most useful piece of documentation a newbie can be exposed to. That would be the concepts manual. -Mark On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 15:03, Rachel Carmichael wrote: I got well, you know Ingres, that's a database so you're the Oracle DBA

Siebel + Oracle on Sun ?

2002-10-26 Thread Leonard, George
Hi all Just a friendly enquiry Who else is running Siebel + Oracle on Sun, Would you mind sharing your system configuration. What spec hardware, HD layout. Table distribution I will start: Oracle 8.1.6.3 EE (32 bit) + Solaris 2.6 fully patched. E10K Domain #1, OLTP Siebel DB Domain 8 CPU

Re: Download Oracle 7.3.4

2002-10-26 Thread Jared Still
Anyone HERE actually get SCO 7.3.4 working on Linux? If so, anyone got a copy - I would love to take a pop at it (never had the opportunity). Yeah, I had SCO Oracle 7.x ( forget what the x was ) running on Linux about 7 years ago. Yeah, I was on the bleeding edge. :) There were

Re: ORA-600

2002-10-26 Thread Jared Still
Weeny. Try using a very small magnet on your hard drive. On Wednesday 23 October 2002 14:49, Stephane Faroult wrote: Joe Testa wrote: Hack the oracle kernel to fix those errors. Use your favorite binary editor. joe Binary editors are for sissies. You probably can do it with cat and

Re: PDBA toolkit (from Perl for Oracle DBAs) question

2002-10-26 Thread Jared Still
Paul, I don't understand the question. What are you trying to do actually? Use sqlplus and retrieve the passwords in the command line? If you're using Perl utilities from the book, there isn't any sqlnet connect string. Maybe an example of what you are trying to do would help. Jared On

Re: Record count within a procedure

2002-10-26 Thread Jared Still
SQL%rowcount cursorname%rowcount RTFM the PL/SQL Users Guide and Reference, available at tahiti.oracle.com Jared Read the Application On Monday 21 October 2002 14:23, Smith, Ron L. wrote: Within an update or load procedure, is there any way to return the transaction count for the number of

Re: Get together at OOW

2002-10-26 Thread Jared Still
John, Yes, it would be nice to meet. I'm not planning anything, I'll let someone else do it. I won't be available during the day at the conference, so it would be best if someone else put's something together. My previous post didn't make it to the list: I'm attending a couple of Veritas

Re: RV: Nuestra Profesión Ing. Sistemas

2002-10-26 Thread Jared Still
que? On Thursday 24 October 2002 12:05, Alexander Ordonez wrote: Ups colegas ! @lex Lic. Alexander Ordóñez Arroyo Soporte Tru64Unix BD Oracle Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social Telefono: 295-2004, San José,

Re: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-26 Thread Jared Still
And I don't have proof, but I am absolutely positive that using UTL_FILE is faster then Perl...I just know it isit's gotta be... :) I'm currently working on a little project for someone to create a table unloader in PL/SQL. Before you ask, I can't share on this one, it's

RE: DB monitoring using SNMP MIBs

2002-10-26 Thread Leonard, George
Hi Jared Someone mentioned that you have a perl+dba tool set, would you mind telling us more about it, etc etc. Sorry guys but it is 02:56 and I am monitoring a db build, (100GB) need things to amuse me. Thx Ps: thx for all the people that send me scripts on how to monitor rollback segment

RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-26 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Hey Jared, The current thinking is using a PL/SQL package to create the external flat file. And I don't have proof, but I am absolutely positive that using UTL_FILE is faster then Perl...I just know it isit's gotta be... I will take a look at sqlunldr.pl, thanks. CG

Re: can clustering help INSERTS ?

2002-10-26 Thread Jared Still
*no* waits? How is this possible? Is intantaneous computing now a reality? Sorry for the sarcasm. Wait, no, not really. ;) Seriously, all databases wait, all operations take time. The question on everyone's lips is 'How long are *yours* taking?' Jared On Saturday 26 October 2002 00:33,