RE: career questions

2002-12-13 Thread John.Hallas
Good question Maria and something a lot of us on the list either do, have done or have considered. I have no intention of questioning your abilities but being the sole DBA on a site it is quite easy to be seen as a good dba because the users and your management have nothing to compare against. It

ORA-01031 error

2002-12-13 Thread JayK
Hi all, I tried to connect to a remote database running Oracle 9.2.0.1.0. from my Oracle Client (SQL*Plus) which is of version 8.0.5.0.0 as SYS. I get an error message :- ORA-01031 : Insufficient Privileges I tried using Password file as well, but in vain... Could someone help me in this

RE: Netbackup 4.5 Oracle Agent on Windows 2000 Cluster/Oracle Fai

2002-12-13 Thread Panicker, Thankam S.
Yes, I have contacted both Metalink and Veritas Support. Both are working on the problem and no resolution has been reached till now. I am thinking of using hot backup scripts. Thanks Suamthy Thankam -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Ora - 27086 - NSF

2002-12-13 Thread helpdesk . hcl
Hi all, We have two boxes,hp and linux. db is running at hp. and we mounted the linux volume at hp. we can able to create/copy files. But when we attemp to create a tablespace, we got the following errors. What could be the problem? DB : 8.1.6 OS : HP-UX 11.0

RE: IOT Issues?

2002-12-13 Thread Larry Elkins
The Alon Peled paper? Sure have. It prompted some limited testing some time back. And not using Forms at this site so we are clear there. Thanks, Larry G. Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] 214.954.1781 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Reardon,

RE: ORA-01031 error

2002-12-13 Thread Venu Gopal Andem
Title: Message Try connecting as some other user and see. You may connect SYS as SYSDBA ONLY from 9i onwards, keep that in mind! Also check whether your client supports connecting as SYSDBA, I'm not sure it does! Rgds, Venu G. OCP 8i 9i -Original Message-From: [EMAIL

FW: DBMS_JOB problem

2002-12-13 Thread Magaliff, Bill
OK OK so I missed the semicolon after the 'statspack.snap' command . . . sorry. problem fixed - back to normal state. -bill -Original Message- From: Magaliff, Bill Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:55 AM To: Oracle-L (E-mail) Subject: DBMS_JOB problem I'm

Re: Shared Pool Size

2002-12-13 Thread Babu Nagarajan
Statspack is installed under the username PERFSTAT. You should be able to tell if such user exists by quering the dba_users table. There are two good articles on the Oracle Magazine on how to install and use Statspack. Search the technet.oracle.com site Babu - Original Message - To:

GNU C + Pro*C Help?

2002-12-13 Thread Kirsch, Walter J (Northrop Grumman)
From a fellow employee of mine: I am in the process of upgrading from an Oracle 7.3.4 environment using Pro*C and an HP 32-bit C Compiler (version A.10.32) to an Oracle 8.1.7 64-bit environment using 64-bit Pro*C and a GNU (gcc) 64-bit C Compiler. All software is on an HP UNIX version 11.00 box.

RE: Need help Reformatting output

2002-12-13 Thread Steve McClure
Title: RE: Active sessions chewing up a huge amount of RAM What tool are you using to produce this? sqlplus? If you can use plsql, my first thought would be to builda plsql table that would be laid out in the format you want the data presented in. load the array in one pass, and then loop

RE: warehouse builder's dependance on oem job system.

2002-12-13 Thread Chris Stephens
Title: RE: warehouse builder's dependance on oem job system. wow. thank you. i will be testing this in the afternoon but before i do, i have one more question. we have ~50 jobs we would like to cron instead of submit to oem. so my question is, are these tcl arguments in the same order and of

RE: IOT Issues?

2002-12-13 Thread Stephane Paquette
I've did some tests on 816. The tables were small, 3-4 fields including the PK with a number of rows between 200 000 and 300 000. The query time was the same except that the IOT read 50% less blocks. --- Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY) [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Larry, Have you seen paper 138

Re: warehouse builder's dependance on oem job system.

2002-12-13 Thread Scott Canaan
I run the jobs via cron, without any parameters and we don't have any problems. If you look at the parameter list, you'll find that most (if not all) have default values anyway. I have been running them via cron for months without any issues, other than the fact that we can't multitask.

RE: Shared Pool Size

2002-12-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Shuan - Thanks for explaining the Chinese character. Let me make it clear that I am only a novice where wait statistics are involved, although it solved 2 ugly problems for me yesterday very quickly. And the buffer hit ratios were really great during both situations. I would highly recommend

Re: IOT Issues?

2002-12-13 Thread Stephane Faroult
Larry Elkins wrote: Listers, Solaris 7, 8.1.7.4 64 bit, E10K. Have a test IOT of around 120 million rows being created as we speak -- partitioned by month (3 months for the test), overflow by naming the column at which to break, compressing the concatenated key, using secondary BMI's.

RE: career questions

2002-12-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Maria - I think John has offered some very good advice. Often DBA tasks can be split into development support tasks and production support tasks. At larger sites these may be separate jobs. When you say you are thinking of part-time DBA work, are you thinking of marketing yourself, or seeking

Another myth goes by the wayside

2002-12-13 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: Another myth goes by the wayside I learned something new today. We were getting an error when our VB app was connecting to the base: ORA-12505 TNS: listener could not resolve SID given in connect descriptor. It was an obvious tnsnames problem. So we punch up the

RE: sql with bind variable in stored procedure doesnt use

2002-12-13 Thread John Kanagaraj
Shaleen/Kirti, If this is version dependent, then Oracle will brand this a 'feature' rather than a bug. And I think I know why this is happening As per the Concepts manual, When you create a stored procedure, Oracle parses the procedure and stores its parsed representation in the database. I

RE: career questions

2002-12-13 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: RE: career questions Hi Maria, Having bounced back and forth between consulting and being an employee I'd go for it. Whether you should go for it or whether you will enjoy the consultant role is a matter of personal preference. One way to find out is to just jump in but it also

New course for 9i - Dumps/Crashes from Oracle University

2002-12-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: New course for 9i - Dumps/Crashes from Oracle University http://education.oracle.com and search for D12856GC10 Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal

Re: OT: Guidelines/Standards for supporting non-oracle databases

2002-12-13 Thread Jared Still
By all means, try to use SQL Server rather than Access. SQL Server is much more capable than Access. If by 'small' you mean 'free database servers', consider PostGreSQL or MySQL. Jared On Tuesday 10 December 2002 13:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We are virtually an Oracle shop with 2-3

DBMS_JOB problem

2002-12-13 Thread Magaliff, Bill
I'm trying to use DBMS_JOB to schedule hourly statspack snaps. Per note on Metalink, I've try to run the following: SQL variable x number; SQL begin 2 dbms_job.submit(:x,'statspack.snap',sysdate,'sysdate + 1/24'); 3 end; 4 / begin * ERROR at line 1: ORA-06550: line 1, column 108:

Re: Increase size of data files and rollback segments

2002-12-13 Thread Jared Still
Behave children. ;) No, I wasn't reading the list. Another story... Jared On Tuesday 10 December 2002 10:20, Rachel Carmichael wrote: 1) he's reading the list while traveling 2) I'm having dinner with him tonight I'll tell him :) --- Ruth Gramolini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stop

Re: Netbackup 4.5 Oracle Agent on Windows 2000 Cluster/Oracle Failsaf

2002-12-13 Thread Jared Still
Have you tried: 1) www.veritas.com/support 2) metalink.oracle.com Jared On Wednesday 11 December 2002 12:05, Panicker, Thankam S. wrote: Hi All I am trying to create a template on a Oracle Failsafe Database using Netbackup 4.5 Oracle Agent GUI. I try expanding the database node and after

SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in

2002-12-13 Thread Stephane Paquette
Hi, We have a lot of views. Now the users have a new requirement, only the user 'admin' can see all the data from the views. The user 'typical' must see all data except the one from group 380. A basic solution is to create 2 sets of views with one set having a group number 380. I'm looking for

RE: Netbackup 4.5 Oracle Agent on Windows 2000 Cluster/Oracle Fai

2002-12-13 Thread Panicker, Thankam S.
After working for the past 4 days on a continual basis with Oracle/Veritas support, I have come to a conclusion that templates are not going to work on an Oracle Failsafe database on Windows 2000 cluster. I was able to backup the database and the archive logs from the Veritas Master server

RE: DUAL

2002-12-13 Thread Babette Turner-Underwood
Thanks for the great suggestion! I will remember to use that one when those developers start getting too lippy ;-) Babette -Original Message- Richard Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 4:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Howdy, I believe that truncating DUAL has also been

RE: STATSPACK

2002-12-13 Thread Govind.Arumugam
STATSPACK related can be found under $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin directory in these documents. Version 8.1.6 or prior ( must be 8i ) $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/statspack.doc Version 8.1.7 $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/spdoc.txt Prior to 8i: ( No statspack! ) $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/utlbstat.sql

Re:GNU C + Pro*C Help?

2002-12-13 Thread dgoulet
Walter, Since I just finished pulling a pile of hair out on a similar, although not identical, problem yesterday he might look to see if things are the same. In Pro*C we use a data type called a VARCHAR inside the Oracle declare section. Something like: EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;

RE: sql with bind variable in stored procedure doesnt use

2002-12-13 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
John, Shaleen mentioned to me, in a direct e-mail, that there was a bug in 8i and there was some workaround available. I do not have the bug number. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Shaleen/Kirti, If

RE: Another myth goes by the wayside

2002-12-13 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: Another myth goes by the wayside Chris, yeup. oldie but goodie - works that way all the way back to version 6.2 on VAX VMS. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message-From: Bowes, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:49

RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in

2002-12-13 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in OLS -- Oracle Label Security... I think that's the key you are looking for. -Original Message- From: Stephane Paquette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in

2002-12-13 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Add this to where clause: group decode(user,'typical',380,-100) Instead of -100 use any number not used by the groups. Also read about contexts and grain level security. Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 2:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi,

RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in

2002-12-13 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in Hi Stephane, This may be more effort but have you considered having a security table to join to in the one view, instead of two views? Multiple views can really hose the optimizer, as I am sure you know. However adding a table then

Re:Ora - 27086 - NSF

2002-12-13 Thread dgoulet
I believe the error message stack is telling you what the problems is. There's an instance of something using that datafile. Try running fuser on it. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12/13/2002 8:37 AM Hi all, We have

RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in

2002-12-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in dbms_rls is cheaper to use ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN

RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in

2002-12-13 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in Has anyone used context and fine-grained security? I seem to remember the performance hit was not minimal when using this functionality. -Original Message- From: Khedr, Waleed [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13,

Re: sql with bind variable in stored procedure doesnt use

2002-12-13 Thread Shaleen Garg
The bug number is 2398050. You can read about it in metalink alongwith the workaround. It is fixed in 9i. But the problem is that even workaround does not work for me. I am working with oracle support on this. Meanwhile I have resolved my basic problem with AQ for which I was trying all this by

Re: New course for 9i - Dumps/Crashes from Oracle University

2002-12-13 Thread Thomas Day
LOL

RE: New course for 9i - Dumps/Crashes from Oracle University

2002-12-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: New course for 9i - Dumps/Crashes from Oracle University hmmm ... http://education.oracle.com/web_prod-plq-dad/plsql/cdesc?dc=D12856GC10_org_id=1001=US Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN

RE: Oracle 9i installation - Basic Qs - HELP!

2002-12-13 Thread Brian Dunbar
I had problems running Exceed XWindows and the 9i V2 installer - turned out theTCP/IP stack on my W2K system was fubar'd - uninstalled, reinstalled TCP/IP thenI could run the installer and X-Window. ~brian -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in

2002-12-13 Thread JApplewhite
Lisa, A couple of years ago, when I was a consultant, I implemented Application Context and Fine-Grained Access Control, AKA Row Level Security for a client. Since it causes a predicate to be appended to the Where clause of every SQL statement issued against the tables having a Security Policy,

RE: New course for 9i - Dumps/Crashes from Oracle University

2002-12-13 Thread John Kanagaraj
I took this course via Online learning network and it was conducted by Lex deHaan, who knows what he is talking about. Recommended if you want to understand the difference between _corrupted_rollback_segments and _offline_rollback_segments :) And of course, in an ILT course, you can always quiz

RE: Online Index Rebuild Tuning

2002-12-13 Thread Babette Turner-Underwood
Sorry to take so long to respond (not much time for list lately...) If you are going to be rebuilding regularly, then DO NOT use compressed indexes. They save lots of space and seem to work fairly well, but you cannot do online index rebuilds with them (at least it was that way in 8.1.6) Another

RE: IOT Issues?

2002-12-13 Thread Johnston, Tim
The first one (seen in 8.1.6 and 8.1.7) was deadlocks caused by simultaneous SELECTs and the addition of a new partition (even though the queries were not querying the partition). Those deadlocks were occurring at the dictionary level - because even if an IOT is physically a single index,

Re: DBMS_JOB problem

2002-12-13 Thread JRicard982
Bill, Try putting a ';' after snap that may fix it. SQL variable x number; SQL begin 2 dbms_job.submit(:x,'statspack.snap;',sysdate,'sysdate + 1/24'); 3 end; 4 / I'm trying to use DBMS_JOB to schedule hourly statspack snaps. Per note on Metalink, I've try to run the following: SQL

RE: warehouse builder's dependance on oem job system.

2002-12-13 Thread Mandar A. Ghosalkar
true they hv default values, but i think the Chris's runtime parameters are diff than his default values. ill try to give another look at it come monday. -Original Message- From: Scott Canaan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:39 AM To: Multiple recipients

Re: ORA-600 error(solution for all of them).

2002-12-13 Thread Joe Testa
Jeremy, you've been left out of the camel joke, evidently. It will come around again. I guess pointless is better than useless :) joe Jeremy Pulcifer wrote: So, Joe, are you pointless for a reason, or is there a joke I'm not aware of. -Original Message- From: JOE TESTA

OEM 9.2 to collect Unix server stats from IA

2002-12-13 Thread Hemant K Chitale
In 9iRelease2 [probably 9.0.1 as well] , the Data Gatherer is included in the Intelligent Agent. I could use the OEM Console to see Unix performance charts [CPU, IOs, FileSystems] online but when I enabled collection of statistics, I began seeing errors in the dbsnmp.log : NMS-1: Warning:

9i / 9iRAC : Segment_Space_Management AUTO, with LOB Segments

2002-12-13 Thread Hemant K Chitale
The first time we tried importing our 8.1.5 [OPS] database into 9.0.1 and 9.2.0.1 with EXTENT_MANAGEMENT Local for ALL tablespaces SEGMENT_SPACE_MANAGEMENT Auto we found that tables with LOB segments could not be created. This was a 9.0.1 bug which was expected to have been fixed in 9.2 [I