RE: Sequences in 8.1.7 vs 9i

2003-01-23 Thread Sony kristanto
Stephen, What about this, SQL Create sequence a; SQL Create table xxx(numtest number, testvalue varchar2(100)); SQL declare x number:=0; begin select a.nextval into x from dual; Insert into xxx values(x, 'TEST'); end; Rgrd, Sony

Re: RE: Upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.0.6

2003-01-23 Thread Cyril Thankappan
sorry for not being 'directly relevant' But I was just wondering why you were upgrading from 7.3.4 to 8.0.6 (and then having to upgrade to 9.2) when Oracle has provided for an upgrade path from 7.3.4 to 9.2 Can you please let me know your reason for upgrading to 8.0.6 Thanks Cyril On

Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Markus Reger
SORRY - this was the wrong list. the other pertinent list is one about controlling machines via a DDL protocol and a demon called the alike. kr mr [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/22/03 16:49 PM hi what's your exact question? you mean autocommit like in database applications? what tool are you using to

Date conversion

2003-01-23 Thread Leonard, George
Hi all One of the developers came to me. They are using a Genesys call logging system. It has apparently stored a date time in a number field as the number of seconds since 1970 1 Jan 0:00 They need to know exactly what time this is. I can not off hand remember that oracle got a conversion

RE: Date conversion

2003-01-23 Thread Stephane Faroult
Hi all One of the developers came to me. They are using a Genesys call logging system. It has apparently stored a date time in a number field as the number of seconds since 1970 1 Jan 0:00 They need to know exactly what time this is. I can not off hand remember that oracle got a conversion

RE: Date conversion

2003-01-23 Thread Naveen Nahata
SELECT to_date('01-01-1970','DD-MM-') + no_of_seconds / (24*60*60) from dual; Regards Naveen -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi all One of the developers came to me. They are using a Genesys call logging system.

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
remember this functionality of committing before a DDL statement has been around from the beginning. Autonomous transactions have not. It may simply be a case of Oracle not getting around to adding that change to the kernel code. Or, as Kirti quoted from Tom Kyte, that might just be the way they

Help on DBMS_PROFILER required

2003-01-23 Thread Satya V Prakash
Hi, I need to use the DBMS_PROFILER package for PL/SQL in between the procedures. I used the corresponding script located in Oracle_home\rdbms\admin\PROFLOAD.sql . I ran this script, it ran without any problems. But I am still unable to invoke the DBMS_PROFILER package, The error is Identifier

TOra

2003-01-23 Thread Mark Warner
Hi Has anyone had issues with TOra and Outlook not playing together nicely? It seems that since I installed it, I have been getting blank emails and email attachments have no name (or extension). Thanks Mark __ The information contained in this

Re: senior oracle dba

2003-01-23 Thread Dwayne Cox
Very good point. I know where I work, HR classifies DBA as an analyst for pay reasons. The Senior DBA position, is more of a management-type role. More money, more management responsibilities but less actual DBA work. -D- -- Dwayne Cox Oracle Database Administrator Info Tech, Inc. 5700 SW

Re: RE: Upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.0.6

2003-01-23 Thread Tim Gorman
MetaLink article #144804.1 describes the process of migration from Oracle7 to Oracle9i... - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 1:13 AM sorry for not being 'directly relevant' But I was just wondering why

Query Tuning Documentation

2003-01-23 Thread rgaffuri
I have the Oracle Performance Tuning 101 book and I have been reading the Performance Tuning Guide on OTN, however, I found its explanation of when to use messages and how to write queries extremely terse. Are there any websites or books which focus strictly on query tuning that provide more in

Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Ora NT DBA
Hi Rachel, Good point about the autonomous transactions. If I remember correctly that was new in 8i. My general theory on WHY questions is "That's the way they coded it!". They probably could have coded it differently, but they didn't. The important thing is that it is well documented how

RE: senior oracle dba

2003-01-23 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
-The Senior DBA position, is more of a management-type role. More Damagement!! Dave -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 7:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Very good point. I know where I work, HR classifies DBA as an analyst for pay reasons. The Senior

Re: Help on DBMS_PROFILER required

2003-01-23 Thread Tim Gorman
Run GRANT EXECUTE ON SYS.DBMS_PROFILER TO you first; it appears that your permissions were granted through a role... - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 4:59 AM Hi, I need to use the DBMS_PROFILER package

RE: Query Tuning Documentation

2003-01-23 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Go have a beer, relax and re-read it. Get him Kirti!! ;o) Dave -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 7:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have the Oracle Performance Tuning 101 book and I have been reading the Performance Tuning Guide on OTN, however, I

RE: RE: Upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.0.6

2003-01-23 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: RE: Upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.0.6 A valid question. With a pseudo-valid answer, which is: Because there is no 8i for hp-ux 10.20. We have been asking for upgrades and all for the last 4+ years and the management answer is do nothing until SAP is completed. SAP was started in 1996 and

Re: Global names

2003-01-23 Thread Jared Still
Sorry, no, I can't find it. Maybe someone else knows? Jared On Wednesday 22 January 2003 21:03, Justin Cave wrote: At 12:07 PM 1/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It recently came to my attention that the DBA's where I work have adopted a convention where the global_name of a

Re: Help on DBMS_PROFILER required

2003-01-23 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
Satya, pls grant the privileges from sys to the user running the DBMS_PROFILER package Venkat -- On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 03:59:00 Satya V Prakash wrote: Hi, I need to use the DBMS_PROFILER package for PL/SQL in between the procedures. I used the corresponding script located in

Re: Help on DBMS_PROFILER required

2003-01-23 Thread pradeep
Hi, Please ask the DBA to check whether the self checking by dbms_profiler was completed. The package upon completion should give SYS.DBMS_PROFILER successfully loaded. Also please grant execute privilege on DBMS_PROFILER to the user . Pradeep

RE: senior oracle dba

2003-01-23 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
Senior isn't an absolute term. A senior DBA in a small development house could be the guy who knows how to add a tablespace. A senior DBA in a large company may have to combine a good level of technical ability with a good deal of management and business skills. The term also seems to be used to

Re: Sequences in 8.1.7 vs 9i

2003-01-23 Thread Igor Neyman
Steven, m.b. this is dumb question, but did you check, that there is no function called nextval inside user-written package called a, which hides actual retrieval of sequence next value? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Slow SQL*Plus connect.

2003-01-23 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
I would also verify that Oracle Trace is turned off and that within $ORACLE_HOME/otrace/admin there are no files. Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Product Architect Compuware Corporation Direct: (248) 865-4350 Mobile: (248) 408-2918 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.compuware.com

RE: New Schema or New Database?

2003-01-23 Thread Grant Allen
Our DBA group has recently been getting numerous requests for new databases (training, inventory, customer contacts, etc..) from different departments within the company. Our normal procedure is to create a new instance for the database, create the schema, users, etc..., set up backups and

trigger problem in Oracle 8i

2003-01-23 Thread Shishir Kumar Mishra
Hi List ! Can we disable and enable trigger from Inside a same trigger. I am updating records of a table from statement level trigger on same table . Iit causes recursion so, want to avoid it. regards .. Shishir Kumar Mishra Agni Software (P) Ltd. www.agnisoft.com -- Please see the official

RE: Query Tuning Documentation

2003-01-23 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
R - When this came up on this list recently, the consensus seemed to be that Guy Harrison's Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning is best. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0130123811/qid=1043332563/sr=8 -1/ref=sr_8_1/103-9193296-9002269?v=glances=booksn=507846 Dennis Williams DBA,

RE: Sequences in 8.1.7 vs 9i

2003-01-23 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
Yes. I agree that works. The problem is that there are over 2000 lines of code similar to the one I identified. I'm not interested in recommending changing all of it unless it's a conversion issue. Thanks for the help. Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Product Architect Compuware Corporation

Statspack recomendations.

2003-01-23 Thread Ron Rogers
List, I am looking for a recommendation on a book or web site covering statspack and it's use. A moderate level usage rather than an expert level literature is desired. Any recommendations please. Thanks, Ron -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Ron

RE: Query Tuning Documentation

2003-01-23 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
encoded content removed -- binaries not allowed by ListGuru The previous attachment was filtered out by the ListGuru mailing software at fatcity.com because binary attachments are not appropriate for mailing lists. If you want a copy of the attachment which was removed, contact the sender

Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Jared Still
It could also have something to do with the status changes of objects that may be affected by the DDL, though I am speculating here. Jared On Thursday 23 January 2003 02:58, you wrote: remember this functionality of committing before a DDL statement has been around from the beginning.

RE: trigger problem in Oracle 8i

2003-01-23 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: trigger problem in Oracle 8i Change the logic ... it will be easier and the right way to handle this. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and

RE: Slow SQL*Plus connect.

2003-01-23 Thread Mark Leith
Hi Tim, and Steve, Thanks for the comments. I did check whether tracing was enabled, and it wasn't.. Thanks for the thought though. Cheers Mark -Original Message- Stephen Sent: 23 January 2003 13:49 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I would also verify that Oracle Trace is

Shutting down Oracle servers

2003-01-23 Thread Nuala Cullen
Hi, Can anyone point me to any web sites that have information on the following two issues 1. Running oracle forms on the oracle server Our customer wants to take away our access to the client machines and they were wondering about running the actual forms on the server. (We are a bit worried

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Fink, Dan
Arup, I see your point and agree that the DDL should be an autonomous tx. Perhaps an enhancement request is in order? Since Oracle has the autonomous tx code, integrating into the kernel should be considered...perhaps for Oracle 38i? In the absence of that change, I must disagree

RE: Sequences in 8.1.7 vs 9i

2003-01-23 Thread Fink, Dan
Stephen, Wild-hair idea...could you create a function with the name nextval and use it to populate from the sequence? Dan Fink -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 6:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Yes. I agree that works. The problem is that

hide password from being seen on screen

2003-01-23 Thread Robin Li
-- Hi all, All users on the server can see the password when they issue a ps -ef|grep rman comman after the RMAN job runs, such as rman target [name]/[password] Is there any way to prevent the password being seen on screen? TIA Robin -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: Sequences in 8.1.7 vs 9i

2003-01-23 Thread Stephen Lee
sed will fix that in a big hurry. PERL?! We don't need no stinkin' perl! -Original Message- The problem is that there are over 2000 lines of code similar to the one I identified. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephen Lee INET:

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Well, then even Tom's vague on this one. DDL locks are automatically placed against objects during a DDL operation to protect them from changes by other sessions. Well, then even an insert statement makes changes to DD objects. Ain't locks taken then? DDL Starts by commiting. Why not declare a

RE: Statspack recomendations.

2003-01-23 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Don Burleson has a book called Oracle9i High-Performance Tuning with STATSPACK. Check out the link below. http://www.dba-oracle.com/books.htm Dave -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 8:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L List, I am looking for a

RE: Replication question

2003-01-23 Thread Nguyen, David M
Title: RE: Replication question We don't update data on slaves, we update data from master then slave pull data from the master every 5 minutes. David -Original Message- From: BigP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 7:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: Statspack recommendations.

2003-01-23 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ron - There are a series of articles available on-line. http://www.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/00-Mar/index.html?o20tun.html Don Burleson has some articles on-line http://www.dba-oracle.com/articles.htm And Don has an entire book titled: Oracle High-Performance Tuning with STATSPACK. Let us

RE: TOra

2003-01-23 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Nope. Tora works perfectly well with the Evolution. They cause no problems to each other. -Original Message- From: Mark Warner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 7:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: TOra Hi Has anyone had issues

RE: hide password from being seen on screen

2003-01-23 Thread Spears, Brian
Here it is in Unix... $ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman EOF_script connect catalog ${CATALOG_OWNER}/${PASS_VALUE1}@${REPOSITORY_DB} connect target ${TARGET_RMAN_USER}/${PASS_VALUE1}@${ORACLE_SID} @${rman_script_path} EOF_script RMAN_RETURN_CODE=$? Brian Spears Sr. Oracle Database Administrator Limited

RE: Global names

2003-01-23 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
We can't use global names here either, same reason. it is set to false, one of the first things we do when we create a new instance. Pat. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 9:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sorry, no, I can't find it. Maybe someone

RE: Shutting down Oracle servers

2003-01-23 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Nuala - It would be really helpful if you could mention what type of servers these are. For example, we have had Alpha (Dec a.k.a. Compaq a.k.a. HP) servers up for over a year without a problem. Also the Oracle version might make a difference. This is Oracle 8.1.6. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP

RE: Statspack recomendations.

2003-01-23 Thread Mark Leith
Oracle9i High-Performance Tuning with STATSPACK Donald K. Burleson, Oracle Press http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0072190582/qid=996445780/sr=1-4/ref=s c_b_4/102-7596303-7878550 URL will be wrapped.. Also on Don's site: http://www.dba-oracle.com/art_statspack.htm HTH Mark

RE: Statspack recomendations.

2003-01-23 Thread Gogala, Mladen
I second that motion. Also, to get you started quickly, there is a whole load of white papers on Metalink and OTN. -Original Message- From: Vergara, Michael (TEM) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

Re: Global names

2003-01-23 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Interesting question. Why should it be mandatory to have distinct global names ? For convenience, manageability etc, yes. But mandatory for operations ? AFAIK, the only place where GLOBAL_NAMES is enforced is in Replication. I've inherited a site where the DBA created a database image and

RE: Statspack recomendations.

2003-01-23 Thread Ron Rogers
Thanks to all who replied. I will look for the book at the local book store this weekend. Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/23/03 10:44AM Don Burleson has a book called Oracle9i High-Performance Tuning with STATSPACK. Check out the link below. http://www.dba-oracle.com/books.htm Dave

over-normalized?

2003-01-23 Thread Saira Somani
Is there such thing as an over-normalized database design? What defines over-normalization? And what are its consequences? (Other than the obvious degraded database performance and lots of tuning) I hear rumblings that our ERP system is over-normalized. Just curious, Thanks! Saira Somani IT

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Hemant K Chitale
I tend to agree with the argument that's the way they wrote it. If I remember correctly, DDL always commits the current transaction in the session, even back in Oracle5 [and earlier ?] days. Most likely they couldn't write autonomous transactions then. That autonomous transactions have been

RE: Sequences in 8.1.7 vs 9i

2003-01-23 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
Daniel: You are a sick person. Not going to change the code that much. I need to evaluate the pain for the development team. Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Product Architect Compuware Corporation Direct: (248) 865-4350 Mobile: (248) 408-2918 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:

RE: Slow SQL*Plus connect.

2003-01-23 Thread Cary Millsap
I had a similar problem once that was solved by editing my SQLNET.ORA file. I set: SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (None) ...instead of: SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (NTS) I'm not sure what functionality this change eliminated, but my connection times are sure a lot faster

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Jeremy Pulcifer
Title: RE: simple question on DDL From: Gogala, Mladen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 8:45 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: simple question on DDL Actually, DB2 (pardon my French) doesn't issue a commit after a DDL. I'm not

Re: Re: How to parallel index scan.

2003-01-23 Thread chao_ping
Hi, After your words, I did a single thread of index creation and i was so surprised to find that the time spent on index creation is less: SQL CREATE INDEX IDX_PRO ON PRODUCTS(SELLER_ID) NOLOGGING ; Index created. Elapsed: 00:01:12.65 God! But I still think there is something we can

RE: Statspack recomendations.

2003-01-23 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Get Don Burleson's book - I think it's called Oracle 9i High Performance Tuning with STATSPACK. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 6:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L List, I am looking for a recommendation on a book or web site covering statspack and

Re: over-normalized?

2003-01-23 Thread Rajesh . Rao
How many join table operations do you perform, in most of the queries? As more tables are added to the join, you take a performance hit? Plus, all the space for the indexes on the additional tables? An update could end up having to write to multiple tables. So, I guess, you have to walk the tight

hi people need some help here again

2003-01-23 Thread Paulo Gomes
i'm trying to configure a new system (aix 4.3.3 or any other unix or even any linux) to work as a development server with 9i r2 and 9ias r2. One of the things i allready know is that i have to create a aix user to be owner of each one of those tools (i've been working with the previous versions

senior oracle dba

2003-01-23 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
It just occurred to me that maybe senior DBAs should get discount cards for shopping, etc. : ) Pat. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Boivin, Patrice J INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San

Sizing the RMAN Catalog

2003-01-23 Thread Patterson, Mark
Hi, I'm going to be implementing RMAN sometime soon and am putting together the RMAN catalog server spec. Have had a look around for formulae to size the RMAN catalog tablespace(s) but have had no luck. Best information I can find is to size the catalog tablespace(s) at between 10 MB to 20 MB

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Actually, DB2 (pardon my French) doesn't issue a commit after a DDL. I'm not aware of any standards specifying the presence or absence of a commit after a DDL. I know that, for instance, EXPLAIN PLAN can be rolled back. -Original Message- From: Fink, Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: simple question on DDL Set autotrace on ... and then do explain plan for You'll see. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't

Program name in v$ views

2003-01-23 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Does anyone know why sometimes a program name appears in the v$ views for user sessions, and sometimes nothing? I noticed that sqlplus appears as sqlplus.exe, and other problems as their executable file name, but for TOAD nothing appears. Is there a way to force Oracle to collect this

RE: Program name in v$ views

2003-01-23 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Program name in v$ views TOAD sets the module name as T.O.A.D 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 Inc. QOTD:

Re: hide password from being seen on screen

2003-01-23 Thread Robin Li
Thanks a lot. Spears, Brian wrote: Here it is in Unix... $ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman EOF_script connect catalog ${CATALOG_OWNER}/${PASS_VALUE1}@${REPOSITORY_DB} connect target ${TARGET_RMAN_USER}/${PASS_VALUE1}@${ORACLE_SID} @${rman_script_path} EOF_script RMAN_RETURN_CODE=$? Brian Spears

RE: senior oracle dba

2003-01-23 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: senior oracle dba would you like reserved parking with that?? 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 Inc. QOTD:

Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Jonathan Lewis
One question to ask is whether whether all DDL use the same strategy. Similarly, if you have multiple code paths for do a ddl call how much more risk of error do you introduce to the kernel. Finally how do you get a consistent error response to the end user if the error condition of apparently

RE: over-normalized?

2003-01-23 Thread Jeremy Pulcifer
Title: RE: over-normalized? From: Saira Somani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Is there such thing as an over-normalized database design? Sure. But usually that would be in the case of doing olap-type reporting in a transactional app. What defines over-normalization? And what are its

Re: senior oracle dba

2003-01-23 Thread Ron Rogers
Pat, We do, AARP, O'l HIP, AAA, and some times AA. Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/23/03 12:09PM It just occurred to me that maybe senior DBAs should get discount cards for shopping, etc. : ) Pat. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Boivin, Patrice J

RE: Statspack recomendations.

2003-01-23 Thread Ron Rogers
List, There have been a lot of good suggestions and recommendations from all of you. I thank you very much. The information sources list information about a Unx / NT os and I need to read up on what happens when the creation scripts fail on OpenVMS. Hopefully the sources will supply some

Re: over-normalized?

2003-01-23 Thread Jared . Still
An update could end up having to write to multiple tables. So, I guess, you have to walk the tight rope between these issues, and having a perfectly normalized database. You might want to rethink that statement. The goal of a relational database is to have no redundant data. If you have to

Slow database, too MANY buffers???

2003-01-23 Thread Michael Kline
I've got a cust that is showing some signs that one would think is having a horrible problem onI/O... I suspect it is the "error" of having a **HUGE** value in db_block_buffers and it's constantly crunching memory trying to figure out which ones to free up. It's only 256 meg, but

RE: senior oracle dba

2003-01-23 Thread Spears, Brian
Title: RE: senior oracle dba Actually we need a cot, 2 females... one popping grapes into mouth and the other waving palm leaf for cool air... HOLD the flames...Im kidding.. bs -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, January 23,

Re: senior oracle dba

2003-01-23 Thread Peter Barnett
Hard to answer this. I am a 'lead' DBA for my current employer but I do not lead anything. I was a Senior DBA for a consulting firm. That was mostly to bill me out at higher rates. For two different employers I was a plain, unadorned DBA. I was completely in charge of everything related to

RE: Slow database, too MANY buffers???

2003-01-23 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Michael - Can you run a STATSPACK report or otherwise get a query of the wait statistics? Once you have that, you'll know where to go. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:47 PM

Clean Up Win2K Event Log

2003-01-23 Thread Post, Ethan
Saw a message somewhere (Usenet maybe) about someone having trouble with the Win2K event log filling with Oracle messages whenever SYS privs are accessed. Here is a little free tool that might be useful if you are having this problem. http://ntsecurity.nu/toolbox/winzapper/ - Ethan -- Please

BMC's Patrol

2003-01-23 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
Is anyone using BMC's Patrol tool on their Oracle DB? If so, what do you like / dislike about it? Any problem areas? Customer support from BMC? Thanks, Ken Janusz, CPIM

AUTORAID and VA7100 disk arrays for rp7400

2003-01-23 Thread Mandar A. Ghosalkar
Hi, i am in the process of defining the specs for a rp7400. a lil overwhelmed by the storage offerings from HP. i wanted to know if any of ull hv any inputs regarding a disk array. we currently hv a Model 30/FC disk array with 9gig drives. I am looking for a similar or the next higher

RE: STATSPACK INFO UPDATE

2003-01-23 Thread Ron Rogers
List, While doing a very broad search on Metalink I found an answer to one of my questions about where the readme files are on openvms... VMS: Oracle8i 8.1.7 For Oracle8i 8.1.7.0.0, to get the README file, please contact Oracle Support Services, and request patch for bug: [BUG:1745567] -

Re: Slow database, too MANY buffers???

2003-01-23 Thread Jonathan Lewis
You could try: selectfile#, dbablk, count(*) fromx$bh group by file#, dbablk having count(*) 5 ; (technically you should include the tablespace number, but that won't matter if you have less than 1022 files). This will report the blocks which have an

RE: AUTORAID and VA7100 disk arrays for rp7400

2003-01-23 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Apologies to all for shouting, but ... DO NOT USE AUTORAID! ** *** *** * I used an AutoRaid system when I was at Petco. Performance was el-sucko. There was more I/Os happening in the disk array (by observing the disk lights) than was being caused by the application and database. Plus,

RE: Statspack recomendations.

2003-01-23 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Anyone know a work around to joining v$tempfile and dba_temp_files by file#? I'm using 9.2.0.1.0 on XP and I'm issuing the statement: select a.file_name from dba_temp_files a, v$tempstat b where b.file#=a.file_id; I get an ora-0600 on this with a [ktfthcf-1] [202] Argument. I looked this up on

RE: Statspack recomendations.

2003-01-23 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Go to bookpool.com. Best prices on tech books. I've ordered several books from them and have always been happy. Robert G. Freeman Technical Management Consultant TUSC - The Oracle Experts www.tusc.com 904.708.5076 Cell (it's everywhere that I am!) Author of several books you can find on

RE: Statspack recomendations.

2003-01-23 Thread Bob Metelsky
Don Burleson has a book called Oracle9i High-Performance Tuning with STATSPACK. Check out the link below. http://www.dba-oracle.com/books.htm Dave Unfortunatly the ordering feature dosnt work on that site. IE 6 or Mozilla 1.2.1 I was interested in Conducting the Oracle Job Interview

RE: AUTORAID and VA7100 disk arrays for rp7400

2003-01-23 Thread Jesse, Rich
NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID, NO AUTORAID, NO

RE: Program name in v$ views

2003-01-23 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Title: RE: Program name in v$ views Doesn't show up in my OEM 9.2.0.1.0 listing of sessions. Pat. -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 2:01 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Program name

Dictionary location or initSID.ora and PWDsid.ora

2003-01-23 Thread Bob Metelsky
Can I dynamicall find the location of initSID.ora Eg C:\admin\INSTANCE\PFILE\initSID.ora and the password dir E.g C:\Oracle\Ora81\DATABASE\*.ora Im setting up a cold backup script and would like to include these 2 dir Im poking around in the v$ tables but cant seem to find it Id like to avoid

RE: STATSPACK INFO UPDATE

2003-01-23 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ron - I'm confused (easily done) Statspack is just a set of SQL and PL/SQL scripts for the installation, to create the tables and procedures. What is VMS-specific? Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 1:50

committed row insert doesn't show first time...

2003-01-23 Thread Purcell, Sandra
two oracle 8174 databases on one aix 4.3.3 server database1 = CMS database2 = HAT In database2 (HAT) insert a row into table card_status_log on hat --The insert is happening directly in database2 from a --direct sqlplus connect to the hat database. --no link involved with insert

RE: AUTORAID and VA7100 disk arrays for rp7400

2003-01-23 Thread Mandar A. Ghosalkar
Michael, a dumb question. does this stops me from using VA7100 with 0+1 or are u talking about going some other disk array product? Thanks Mandar -Original Message- From: Vergara, Michael (TEM) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:00 PM To: Multiple

RE: Statspack recomendations.

2003-01-23 Thread Jared . Still
Robert, Here's the script I use. Jared -- showdf8i.sql -- shows autoextend features -- displays sizes in meg clear computes clear breaks clear columns set pagesize 60 heading on col file_name format a30 col tablespace_name format a15 col bytes format 999,999.99 head BYTES|MEG col

RE: AUTORAID and VA7100 disk arrays for rp7400

2003-01-23 Thread STEVE OLLIG
i echo the autoraid opinion Mike. had the pleasure of working with HP's sluggish autoraid drives at Cargill. that was Sybase, but same problem. if memory serves, took 3 times as long to get same benchmark through on autoraid than anything else we got out hands on (best case). -Original

Re: Slow database, too MANY buffers???

2003-01-23 Thread Jared . Still
Well, I'm close. I just ran this on the DEV database for an app that is in the 'upgrade' process. FILE# DBABLK COUNT(*) -- -- -- 10 38968 6 11 22753 6 11 40180 6 11 74893

RE: Statspack recomendations.

2003-01-23 Thread Bob Metelsky
Go to bookpool.com. Best prices on tech books. I've ordered several books from them and have always been happy. Yes definetly... But this one Conducting the Oracle Job Interview Is not available at bookpool or amazon... (personally I like the buy used books from amazon) quite a few

Re: Dictionary location or initSID.ora and PWDsid.ora

2003-01-23 Thread Stephane Faroult
Bob Metelsky wrote: Can I dynamicall find the location of initSID.ora Eg C:\admin\INSTANCE\PFILE\initSID.ora and the password dir E.g C:\Oracle\Ora81\DATABASE\*.ora Im setting up a cold backup script and would like to include these 2 dir Im poking around in the v$ tables but cant seem

RE: Slow database, too MANY buffers???

2003-01-23 Thread Stephen Lee
From your e-mail, I get the impression that there is a 687 Mb SGA on a box with 256 Mb. If that is the case, then the majority of the instance is sitting out on a swap file ... on a hard drive ... not in memory. For what it's worth, 687 Mb SGA is not **HUGE** (actually, it's rather small these

Sort (Collating Sequence)

2003-01-23 Thread Burton, Laura L.
Title: Sort (Collating Sequence) I have a question concerning a situation with our ORDER BY clauses. We have a vendor table which allows the user to input any case. Therefore we have 'Vendor' and 'VENDOR'. When using the ORDER BY clause it sorts VENDOR first and then Vendor. I need for the

RE: Statspack recomendations.

2003-01-23 Thread M Rafiq
Robert, It works in HP-UX 11 Oracle version Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.0.1.0.0 - 64bit Production SQL select a.file_name 2 from dba_temp_files a, v$tempstat b 3 where b.file#=a.file_id; FILE_NAME

RE: AUTORAID and VA7100 disk arrays for rp7400

2003-01-23 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
I'm not sure what a VA7100 is, so I don't want to tell you to avoid it. The AutoRaid I used just said AutoRaid on the front. It had 12 disks...I think they were 9G or 18G each. It had only 96M of cache, not expandable. Only 2 SCSI channels - not expandable. What happened was that our whole

RE: Statspack recomendations.

2003-01-23 Thread Eberhard, Jeff
I get the same results. Strange!?!? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 1:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Anyone know a work around to joining v$tempfile and dba_temp_files by file#? I'm using 9.2.0.1.0 on XP and I'm issuing the statement: select

  1   2   >