Re: image storage confusion ??

2002-12-04 Thread Mark J. Bobak
Not to mention, backups can take a REALLY long time, unless you backup the raw volume image, in which case you can only restore at the filesystem level. On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 14:44, Connor McDonald wrote: Exactly. We had a system that used to drag emails (from qmail so each mail was a

RE: image storage confusion ?? -- UUDECODE

2002-12-04 Thread Connor McDonald
As Cary as mentioned, there's some new goodies in v9. In our case, the controlling of attachments etc is done before processing into the db. I can't remember the specifics (read: I'm no longer at that site) but we found some shareware (mimencode? + a few other little things) we separated encoded

RE: ORA-1653: unable to extend table - Why?

2002-12-04 Thread Mark J. Bobak
Hmm...not sure if this is what's biting you, but if you're out of ITL slots on the block, Oracle will move to the next block on the free list. If all the blocks on the free list have filled ITLs, Oracle will add an extent to the free list. I don't suppose you have MAXTRANS set to 1 or some other

RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-04 Thread Mark Leith
Mark, I didn't mean to turn this in to a tool discussion, I merely tried to point out the down side to the original idea, due to not *fully* checking availability, by showing what tools typically do. Sorry Mark -Original Message- Richard Sent: 03 December 2002 21:45 To: Multiple

OT: Toasters

2002-12-04 Thread John.Hallas
As a bit of light relief John Carry on til the end for the SAP toaster If IBM made toasters ... They would want one big toaster where people bring bread to be submitted for overnight toasting. IBM would claim a worldwide market for five, maybe six toasters. If Xerox made toasters

RE: oracle precompiler in O 9.2

2002-12-04 Thread Markus Reger
thank you very much for the reply. now my problem seems to be that I didn't install appropriately - but I couldn't find any hint on metalink. find a short summary of my situation - actually the same on linux or SunOS9: === $sqlplus / as sysdba SQL*Plus:

Re: Import Table from Full Backup

2002-12-04 Thread Yechiel Adar
I think that SQLBackTrack from Precise can restore a table from a backup. Of course you will need to backup with it, not Rman. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 12:39 AM Hi Listers, Is

RE: Sr. Oracle DBA Position- Must be 8i and 9i Certified-

2002-12-04 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Title: RE: Sr. Oracle DBA Position- Must be 8i and 9i Certified- You can also register with the Boston Globe to get an e-mail listing Oracle job ads in the Boston area. I use it as a gauge of how well things are going in the market south of the border. At one point there were a dozen or

Re: move some records of some tables

2002-12-04 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello Murat Export has a parameter Query that allow you to specify selection criteria for exporting a subset of records from the table. Import also has parameter Ignore=y and then the import ignore the error of the create table statement and append the imported records into an existing table. So

Re: ORA-1653: unable to extend table - Why?

2002-12-04 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
I always overlook things, so I'll just ask and hope it isn't already on the thread: Exactly what kind of activity is going on against this wonderful table? Is this table placed in an LMT? If yes, is it a Uniform LMT? Could you trace the processes/users doing stuff to the table so that we could

RE: Help with Java

2002-12-04 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Alex - And the funny part is that the person who nailed the solution, Steve Ollig, also works for us and isn't a part of our official Java initiative. Do you think he'll ever get good enough to be sent to Java training? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 4:20 PM To:

RE: Import Table from Full Backup

2002-12-04 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
Hi, you can recover a tablespace to a point in time. That's the only option you would have using RMAN. Regards, Mike Hately -Original Message- Sent: 04 December 2002 11:54 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I think that SQLBackTrack from Precise can restore a table from a backup.

Re: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-04 Thread Yechiel Adar
So do a select from a view based on sys.x$dual. That does not have cause LIO. I checked a few months ago. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 4:32 PM and that select 'PING' from dual is

Re: Import Table from Full Backup

2002-12-04 Thread Ruth Gramolini
In order to use rman to restore a single table you have to restore the tablespace to a clone and then export the table you need and import it to the 'real' database. So yes, it can be done! Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: Open Source Security Comes Under Fire

2002-12-04 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Rodd, Where do you see evidence that Ziff-Davis is owned by Microsoft? The links seem to lead to a UK publishing firm. www.ziffdavis.com -- http://www.willisstein.com/ -- www.emac.com Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday,

RE: Import Table from Full Backup

2002-12-04 Thread Connor McDonald
Both RMAN and manual methods exist but they're tacky...Basically you create a new database, recover just the appropriate datafiles, export the data and then do what you want with it... hth connor --- Hately, Mike (NESL-IT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, you can recover a tablespace to a point

RE:

2002-12-04 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: Red Buttons is a fine comedian and actor. He won an Academy Award and Golden Globe. Still I can't see how he can HELP in this case. Oh - you said Button not Buttons. Nevermind. Jerry Whittle ASIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 618-622-4145

RE: Import Table from Full Backup

2002-12-04 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
I'd agree that you can achieve the same result. I think I'd argue that it's not a feature of RMAN though. I can also take that restored table, spool it a text file and edit it using MS Word but I wouldn't claim that RMAN can generate Word files. Mind you, this is probably word class pedantry on

RE: Open Source Security Comes Under Fire

2002-12-04 Thread Rodd Holman
David Coursey, one of their Editors/Columnists made the disclaimer some time back when he was comparing different software offerings of some type. He mentioned that MS had some type of ownership in them or their parent company. I don't recall which. Rodd On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 08:03, Boivin,

Re: Import Table from Full Backup

2002-12-04 Thread Yechiel Adar
Sorry, as Kirti pointed to me the product belong to BMC. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 1:53 PM I think that SQLBackTrack from Precise can restore a table from a backup. Of course

Ora-600 [2103] (oracle 8172/aix 4.3.3.0)

2002-12-04 Thread Stephane Paquette
Hi, We've hit Ora-600 [2103] on a production database (oracle 8172/aix 4.3.3.0). We already have aix patch IX 81863. According to Oracle support, it's caused by IO contention. Anybody has faced this one ? = Stéphane Paquette DBA Oracle et DB2, consultant entrepôt de données Oracle and

RE: Open Source Security Comes Under Fire

2002-12-04 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Ok, thanks. After trying to follow the trail of owners, I think tracking who owns what is a full-time job... Pat. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 11:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L David Coursey, one of their Editors/Columnists made the disclaimer

RE: Single-task message waits

2002-12-04 Thread Jesse, Rich
But since my case is a single package running, there's no end-user interaction. If I understand you correctly, then I'm only collecting response time. I guess I never thought of it in those terms for non-interactive executions. If that's the case, then aren't the waits worth investigating? Or

RE: Import Table from Full Backup

2002-12-04 Thread tim
The 9i RMAN method is nicer, as the DUPLICATE TARGET DATABASE command now has a SKIP TABLESPACES clause... Both RMAN and manual methods exist but they're tacky...Basically you create a new database, recover just the appropriate datafiles, export the data and then do what you want with it...

Re: Recipe for application design to run on RAC

2002-12-04 Thread Boris Dali
Whoa! Tim, thanks a lot for sharing this. Quite an insight. So SELECTs are not a concern. INSERTs are a come and see DBA thing (physical design issue). DELETEs are relatively infrequent and many get translated into UPDATE (logical as opposed to physical delete). Application partitioning as you

RE: Toasters

2002-12-04 Thread Baswannappa, Shiva
And And... if Enron had made toasters... The toast would have come out crooked, and later 'magically' shred itself into croutons! : Shiva -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L As a bit of light relief John Carry

Oracle 8i Certification Will Terminate When???

2002-12-04 Thread Peter Barnett
I have been looking at the Oracle web site for the termination date of Oracle 8i certification tests. There is nothing there. Only Oracle 8. Rumor has had it that there is a termination date. Does anyone have an authoritative answer? = Pete Barnett Lead Database Administrator The Regence

RE: Single-task message waits

2002-12-04 Thread Cary Millsap
If... 1) you're collecting time consumption data for ONLY the session you care about, AND 2) you're collecting the data for a time interval [t0,t1] that includes ONLY response time that you care about eliminating, ...then the waits are worth investigating. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises,

RE: Open Source Security Comes Under Fire

2002-12-04 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Okay, since I provided the original remark that provoked this line of discussion, let me clarify. The organization I was asking whether they were a shill for Microsoft is the Aberdeen Group, the people that did the report that made Microsoft look great and Linux look bad. I don't think it matters

RE: Single-task message waits

2002-12-04 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey Cary, Yes and Yes. Which brings me back to my original question: How do I go about tracking down single-task message waits? Thanks! Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

RE: Toasters

2002-12-04 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I saw a video clip on our National News show here in Canada last night (The National), they talked about corruption at Enron, etc. Apparently the accounting consulting firms are still lobbying to let them continue negotiating consulting contracts with firms they are supposed to be auditing at

RE: Oracle 8i Certification Will Terminate When???

2002-12-04 Thread John.Hallas
Peter, I don't think a date has been announced yet. When they do state a date they give 6 months notice though John -Original Message- Sent: 04 December 2002 15:59 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have been looking at the Oracle web site for the termination date of Oracle 8i

Re: Semi-OT: Pics from OracleWorld

2002-12-04 Thread Jared . Still
Cool, thanks Connor. Next week I will be dining with some of the other erstwhile (other than email) members of this list, past and present. I'm planning to take my Digital Camera, better go pop it into my suitcase now. Jared Connor McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Oracle 8i Certification Will Terminate When???

2002-12-04 Thread Ora NT DBA
I went to the Oracle Certification page and looked at the NEWS and the FAQ. Both had mentions of the retirement of various tracks but neither mentioned the retirement of the 8i track. The abscense of an announcement on the official web site would indicate to me that it has not been announced

Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Kieran Murray
Hey people! A friend of mine was just asking me about getting Oracle certified (I completed the Oracle 8i cerfication exams last year), he told me that to his knowledge Oracle requires that you've done Oracle courses before you can be certified now. I knew nothing about this, but can't believe

RE: Import Table from Full Backup

2002-12-04 Thread Jeremy Pulcifer
Title: RE: Import Table from Full Backup From: Hately, Mike (NESL-IT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I'd agree that you can achieve the same result. I think I'd argue that it's not a feature of RMAN though. I can also take that restored table, spool it a text file and edit it using

Including properties in URL string

2002-12-04 Thread Vaughn, Rick
I have a need to use a Secure Thin JDBC Connection from a 3rd party product to a Oracle 9i database. The 3rd party product will only allow me to specify a URL, User and Password for the connection. So, I would like to be able to specify a URL like the following:

RE: ORA-1653: unable to extend table - Why?

2002-12-04 Thread Miller, Jay
No triggers, no snapshots. Thanks for the thougth though. Jay -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 2:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hum. My last thought would are there triggers or snapshots defined on the table? Ron Thomas Hypercom, Inc [EMAIL

Re: Oracle 9iR2 on Red Hat 8.0

2002-12-04 Thread l-oracle
If you've installed Oracle 9i on RH 8.0, please let me know. Also, please let me know of any difficulties and workarounds you may have encountered. Just put a new 40Gig HD in my laptop, and wondering if I can install RH 8.0, or should use 7.2. Jared: I put together some notes when I

RE: ORA-1653: unable to extend table - Why?

2002-12-04 Thread Miller, Jay
freelist groups is 1 -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 9:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What is the FREELIST GROUPS for the table? Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 3:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: ORA-1653: unable to extend table - Why?

2002-12-04 Thread Miller, Jay
The activity is almost all inserts (there is also some minimal update activity on two CHAR(1) columns later, but it was failing on the inserts). Looking at it, I'm surprised that I have freelists=1 since so much of the activity is insert related. I should probably increase that even if it

Re: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Lyndon Tiu
You are not required to take the expensive course if: 1) You are upgrading from 7 8 or 8i certification. 2) You took your very first 9i certification exam before Sept 1, 2002 3) You are only shooting for the Associate certification level. -- Lyndon Tiu Quoting Kieran Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
My instructor in a recent Oracle Education class said that there were a couple of smart alecs that caused quite a stir within Oracle. After receiving their OCP, they couldn't log into a database, and claimed it was because they had never actually used Oracle. The instructor indicated that the new

Ora 29540 error

2002-12-04 Thread Randy Pace
Title: Ora 29540 error I get the following when trying to use the utl_tcp package on 8.1.7 database. The following error has occurred: ORA-29540: class oracle/plsql/net/TCPConnection does not exist ORA-06512: at SYS.UTL_TCP, line 537 ORA-06512: at SYS.UTL_TCP, line 199 ORA-06512: at

Re: Semi-OT: Pics from OracleWorld

2002-12-04 Thread Rachel Carmichael
oh God, remind me to break that camera ! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool, thanks Connor. Next week I will be dining with some of the other erstwhile (other than email) members of this list, past and present. I'm planning to take my Digital Camera, better go pop it into my suitcase

RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now? My understanding it is true for 9i but not for the upgrade test for 9i so I am feverishly getting certified (okay not so feverishly) in 8i so I can do the upgrade path. Question is: When do the 8i tests expire?

RE: Oracle 8i Certification Will Terminate When???

2002-12-04 Thread Lyndon Tiu
I'm barely done with my 9i certification track and I'm hearing of 10i coming out soon. All's too fast! -- Lyndon Tiu Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Peter, I don't think a date has been announced yet. When they do state a date they give 6 months notice though John -- Please see the

RE:

2002-12-04 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: I believe that is the easiest/cleanest way to restore from patches esp. when you don't know what those patches contain. -Original Message- From: Scott Stefick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 2:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: ORA-1653: unable to extend table - Why?

2002-12-04 Thread Miller, Jay
MAXTRANS is set to 255. Thanks anyway :) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hmm...not sure if this is what's biting you, but if you're out of ITL slots on the block, Oracle will move to the next block on the free list.

RE: ORA-1653: unable to extend table - Why?

2002-12-04 Thread Miller, Jay
Yes, these are definitely the questions to be asking. And some of the freelist blocks are being written to since we had another insert run night before last and the number of freelist blocks declined somewhat although more extents were also claimed in the new datafile. So sometimes it's writing

RE: Recipe for application design to run on RAC

2002-12-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Recipe for application design to run on RAC H... it is probably not an good example but we too have a (couple of) mission critical app (affects on air production) running on 9i RAC. One of which has two major schema. We logically partitioned the application such that, for two

Re: Ora 29540 error

2002-12-04 Thread Jeff Herrick
Install the JVM...see MetaLink Note:156477.1 Jeff Herrick On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Randy Pace wrote: I get the following when trying to use the utl_tcp package on 8.1.7 database. The following error has occurred: ORA-29540: class oracle/plsql/net/TCPConnection does not exist ORA-06512: at

RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Hey William, Why are you 40% OCP - does this mean you are an OCA? When did you take your very first 9i certification exam? If you took it before Sept. 1, 2002, the you're a 50% OCP. -- Lyndon Tiu Quoting DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My instructor in a recent Oracle Education class

RE: Single-task message waits

2002-12-04 Thread Cary Millsap
Rich, Well, at least we've cleared up the whether. Now the question turns to the why. Once you have identified a program's dominant response time contributor, solving any optimization problem degenerates to a very simple strategy: 1. Reduce the number of times the dominant contributor's

RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-04 Thread Jared . Still
Don't forget to handle connection attempts that hang and never return. Jared Post, Ethan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/03/2002 02:04 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:

RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Jeremy Pulcifer
Title: RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now? From: Kieran Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hey people! A friend of mine was just asking me about getting Oracle certified (I completed the Oracle 8i cerfication exams last year), he told me that to his

RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Lyndon Tiu
This is unfortunate or maybe just it's just an urban legend? Hands on training, may it be $$$ or self taught at home is necessary. But $$$ is definitely not a requirement. I use Oracle at work and do more Oracle at home for my certs. I am able to log-in to Oracle on Linux and Solaris. Oracle

RE:

2002-12-04 Thread Stephen Lee
I got to thinking a little more about this. If you have an oraInventory directory under your product directory, I think you need to back that one up too ... at least it wouldn't hurt. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

how to modify query

2002-12-04 Thread Harvinder Singh
Title: Ora 29540 error Hi, Following code works in sql server but IF NOT EXISTS dosn't work in oracle how can we modify this code so that it should work on both sql server and oracleif not exists ( select col1 from t_suspended_txn wherecol2='A'begin insert into t_suspended_txn

Slightly Off Topic Question

2002-12-04 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
I need some help running an Oracle education CDROM. I am taking the 9i Certification course via CDROM for 1Z0-007. I attempt to start the installed CDROM with Start/ Run. I go to the D: drive and it automatically selects autorun.exe. When I hit run is asks if I want help? If I say no,

RE: ORA-1653: unable to extend table - Why?

2002-12-04 Thread Khedr, Waleed
What is the average row length? Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L freelist groups is 1 -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 9:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What is

RE: ORA-1653: unable to extend table - Why?

2002-12-04 Thread Miller, Jay
1895 -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 2:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What is the average row length? Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L freelist groups is 1

Export from Oracle 8 to Oracle 7

2002-12-04 Thread Bartolo, David
Hi all Can I export from a Release 8.1.7.0.0 oracle db to a Release 7.1.4.1.1? Is there a setting in the export utility to be backward compatible with V7? Thanks David -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Bartolo, David INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City

RE: Single-task message waits

2002-12-04 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey Cary, No magic bullet? I was afraid you were going to say that. :) I see that there are some parsing issues from the first of many 10046 traces. Most of these high-parsing statements are generated by Oracle when a Context index is used in a query. The good news, if TKPROF output can be

Re: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Alan Davey
Hi Lyndon, Well I don't know about your setup, but I can connect just fine with the connect string you listed below on Win2K, Oracle 9.2. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 12/4/2002 2:09 PM, Lyndon Tiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is unfortunate or maybe just it's just

RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Cornio, Georgette Ms USACFSC
How do you startup shutdown the database on NT/W2K ? As I am able to, from the DOS Command Prompt set oracle_sid=orcl sqlplus /nolog connect / as sysdba startup pfile=initorcl.ora or shutdown immediate Just fine, at least with O 9.2 -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 04,

RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Lyndon - I have completed 2 of the 5 Oracle8i exams. Hey - when I took each exam, the testing organization says that I should receive something from Oracle within a couple of weeks. Got nothing. Should I be worried? Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Something that might be of use

2002-12-04 Thread Stephen Lee
We often need to refresh test and development databases with exports that have extent sizing a lot bigger that what we want. In test and ESPECIALLY dev, space and file system availability often require us to just get something working without regard for performance. In these cases, extent

RE: Ora 29540 error

2002-12-04 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Randy, I don't think the JVM is missing. try installing the $ORACLE_HOME/plsql/jlib/plsql.jar file using sqlloader. the class files from this file are what are missing. hope this helps Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002

RE: Recipe for application design to run on RAC

2002-12-04 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
Title: RE: Recipe for application design to run on RAC So when I access the fantasy football league on the espn web site-I go to schema2 because my team(s) are losing :-) I guess thats what I get when I picked a group of guys that are all on the injured reserve Seriously though--What if

Re: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Boris Dali
Alan, I think what Lyndon meant is this SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES thing on MS Win that toggles your ability to connect with the syntax described. Comment it out and you might see something like ORA-1031 --- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lyndon, Well I don't know about your

Re: Oracle 9iR2 on Red Hat 8.0

2002-12-04 Thread Jared . Still
Thanks Sean. I installed 9iR2 on both my laptop and a desktop, both running RH 8.0. Pretty straightforward, except for the usual failure in linking intermedia. I would have thought they would fix that by now. Jared [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/2002 09:44 AM Please

RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now? if the DOS command prompt doesn't work, try starting it at the services level. -Original Message- From: Cornio, Georgette Ms USACFSC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:27 PM To:

Re: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Hmmm. So it's a config issue then. I will certainly poke around a bit more. See what happens if you send a Unix person to do a Windows job : I'm 100% sure though that setting up Oracle on NT to work like Oracle onUnix is different so it is still possible that a bunch of OCP Unix Oracle DBA's

Re: how to modify query

2002-12-04 Thread Mark Richard
Harvinder, Let's see what we can come up with: insert into t_suspended_txn select 'A', 'B' from dual where exists (select col1 from t_suspended_txn where col2 = 'A') Although I don't honestly know if dual exists in SQL Server (in Oracle it's a single row, single column table - you could easily

Re: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Igor Neyman
Dennis, IIRC you receive certificate from Oracle only after completion of all 5 exams. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 4:13 PM Lyndon - I have completed 2 of the

Experiences with global temp tables

2002-12-04 Thread Rick_Cale
Hi All, Oracle 8.1.6, NT 4.0, Forms/Reports 6i, Has anyone had any trouble using global temp tables in above environment or elsewhere where it cause Oracle to complete lock up. Only way out was to kill oracle.exe...not a good thing. I have found some postings on MetaLink that may be related

RE: ORA-1653: unable to extend table - Why?

2002-12-04 Thread Miller, Jay
Kirti, Thanks for suggesting the Note, I'm reading it now. I tried replying to you directly but my thank you was blocked by your company's spam filter. I'm really curious to know what key word flagged it as spam. Oracle? Jay -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002

RE: Recipe for application design to run on RAC

2002-12-04 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
I know I know (he says jumping up and down) Just did the 9i New Features class. The answer is lazy dynamic remastering. Over time, resources are gradually moved to the instance that is using them. More quotes from the manual: Should an instance leave the group, the background processes only

RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Lyndon Tiu
When you say at least with O 9.2, does this mean we cannot do this in 8i ? We have 8i on EnTee and WinTuKee. Thanks. -- Lyndon Tiu Quoting Cornio, Georgette Ms USACFSC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How do you startup shutdown the database on NT/W2K ? As I am able to, from the DOS Command Prompt

RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Lyndon Tiu
I certainly did not get anything after each exam, only after each level. I got the OCA level certificate and a letter from some Veep two weeks after I completed the second 9i exam (which I'm happy to say I did before the Sept. 1, 2002 deadline !!!). -- Lyndon Tiu Quoting DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL

RE: Recipe for application design to run on RAC

2002-12-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Recipe for application design to run on RAC Greg, FantasyFootball is a different beast and is not hosted on this database. This one deals with live scores and the bottomline ... g. There are only few tables that are shared by both schema, 50% ownership .. hasn't happened yet. We

RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Cornio, Georgette Ms USACFSC
Title: RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now? I haveused the service level stuff also,but wanted to figure out the DOS Sqlplus stuff, soif there is a problem with the database, and need to do a startup mount or a recovery, or do all those nice command level stuff that

Re: Export from Oracle 8 to Oracle 7

2002-12-04 Thread Barbara Baker
David: You always want to use the older export utility when exporting from an older DB version, and use the new import untility to import into the newer database. To export from an 8.1.7 database, use the export utility from the version 7 database and export using a link to the new database (exp

Re: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Lyndon Tiu
OK. Thanks. -- Lyndon Tiu Quoting Boris Dali [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alan, I think what Lyndon meant is this SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES thing on MS Win that toggles your ability to connect with the syntax described. Comment it out and you might see something like ORA-1031 --- Alan

RE: ORA-1653: unable to extend table - Why?

2002-12-04 Thread Khedr, Waleed
I guess this is reason. pct_used and pct_free are very closed. after the deletion if the pct_free is just below 75% it will join the free list. Suppose the block header is Y bytes. And you have pct_free = 10% and pct_used = 75%, this means if a block is 30% free (70% used) it will have (4096

RE: Export from Oracle 8 to Oracle 7

2002-12-04 Thread Jeremy Pulcifer
Title: RE: Export from Oracle 8 to Oracle 7 Just use an Oracle7 client to do the exp -Original Message- From: Bartolo, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Export from Oracle 8 to Oracle 7

RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Yah. That's what we do on EnTee/WinTuKee. Also, on DOS prompt: oradim -startup -sid=SID -pfile=PFILE PATH But on EnTee, I think you can't do, at least I couldn't, maybe someone has tried this and it worked for them 8i on NT4/W2K: sqlplus /nlolog connect / as sysdba startup nomount create

RE: Database up longer that host?

2002-12-04 Thread Stephen Andert
Give the man a cigar. (virtual one of course :) That is what I was looking for and makes unix uptime and db_uptime.sql report a compatible time frame. Thanks Jared. Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/03/02 04:02PM Try: col uptime format a40 head 'UPTIME' select to_char(sysdate,'hh:miam')

RE: ORA-1653: unable to extend table - Why?

2002-12-04 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Sorry, I've just seen these stats: num_freelist_blocks: 2266966 avg_space_freelist_blocks: 3895 My message completely contradicts with that fact, so forget about it except if the statistics are wrong. Too weird! let's know what you find. Is it partitioned? What is the extent size? Waleed

RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Scott Stefick
Are you getting a sheet after each exam showing how many you got correct for each section and your overall score? I received that sheet at the testing center after each exam. Other than that, you won't get anything from Oracle until you finish your final exam. It took me about a month to

DB corruption question

2002-12-04 Thread Nick Wagner
With Oracle 8.1.7, Solaris 8 OS. I have a shared storage device for storing all my datafiles, control files, redo logs, archive logs, etc.. everything except for the ORACLE_HOME and Oracle binaries. If I have the file system and database mounted to one machine, and have a fully open,

RE: Database up longer that host?

2002-12-04 Thread Jared . Still
Thanks, but I'd rather have a nice shot of Scotch. :) Jared Stephen Andert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/2002 03:39 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE:

RE: Recipe for application design to run on RAC

2002-12-04 Thread Scott
Dennis, I hate to see do all this jumping up and down but the dynamic re-mastering feature was not implemented in 9i. There is a view called V$GCSPFMASTER_INFO that is supposed to show which node was the master, which node is currently the master and how many times the resource has been

RE: Recipe for application design to run on RAC

2002-12-04 Thread Boris Dali
Thanks, Raj. H... it is probably not an good example ... Why not? On the contrary. I am sure damanagement here would love to here this. Besides it fully supports Oracle's statement that application can be migrated to RAC as is (as I think Hemant mentioned). Wait... did you say 9i? release

Re: Recipe for application design to run on RAC

2002-12-04 Thread Tim Gorman
comments inline... - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 8:53 AM Whoa! Tim, thanks a lot for sharing this. Quite an insight. So SELECTs are not a concern. Well, not directly. They do not directly cause

Online Index Rebuild Tuning

2002-12-04 Thread Mark Richard
Folks, I know that when creating indexes a couple of settings such as SORT_AREA_SIZE can have a big impact on duration. What settings apply during online rebuilds? Are the rules the same? What tips do you have? Basically we have some very large indexes in an OLTP system (several indexes are

Re: Something that might be of use

2002-12-04 Thread Dale
Hi Stephen The program is functional but not necessarily elegant. Of course, no guarantees about anything are made. If you make any improvements, I would be most appreciative if you sent them. If you need this sort of thing you might consider having a look at the freeware DBATool. It is