Tuning Ville

2003-02-02 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Hi folks Ok, I've got this database that I'm tuning. Anyway, currently the architecture of the views goes several layers deep: 1. Principle table 2. Mview doing some denormalization 3. View on the Mview doing some further flattening of the table and some calculations. 4. Yet another view,

Re: re SHUTDOWN ABORT -- was RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and

2003-02-02 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Alter system checkpoint... You don't say... Hey, this is the first time this thread has concluded without the usual you guys better watch out b/c yer gonna break your database! post. I'd say this universal support for ABORT over IMMEDIATE represents a dramatic change in the prevailing DBA

Re: Tuning Ville

2003-02-02 Thread Stephane Faroult
Freeman Robert - IL wrote: Hi folks Ok, I've got this database that I'm tuning. Anyway, currently the architecture of the views goes several layers deep: 1. Principle table 2. Mview doing some denormalization 3. View on the Mview doing some further flattening of the table and

Re: tuning forms/reports application

2003-02-02 Thread M. Shuja Uddin
The application is not extremely slow. Actually, i want to do proactive tuning (instead of reactive). I want to see which application is misusing the database resources and correct that form or report.. Further, I am still unable to find the name of the forms/reports module that's currently

Re: tuning forms/reports application

2003-02-02 Thread M. Shuja Uddin
i don't see any data in the module/action columns, and ofcourse i don't wanna re-engineer all those forms/ reports... further, i can't see the statistics when i enable that parameters with statistics=YES I have tried it with the forms preferences statistics as well as runtime command line. Shuja

Re: tuning forms/reports application

2003-02-02 Thread M. Shuja Uddin
thanks for your suggestions Raj. FRD is nice thing to work. can you also provide more detail on pl/sql profiler and dbms_support package... Shuja "Jamadagni, Rajendra" wrote: Connor, Forms is dumb ... I mean it doesn't think it is important to use dbms_application info, you have to do it

Re: how to find current scn number?

2003-02-02 Thread Jonathan Lewis
You could try: select max(ktuxescnw * power(2,32) + ktuxescnb) from x$ktuxe; This gives you the highest SCN recorded in any of the undo segment headers. This would only be an approximation for Oracle 9, as the SCN seems to increment every 3 seconds in the complete absence of any

Re: re SHUTDOWN ABORT -- was RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and

2003-02-02 Thread Jared Still
I began using 'shutdown abort' on a regular basis in 7.x ( whenever shutdown immediate became available ) because that was the *only* way to guarantee a shutdown. Jared On Sunday 02 February 2003 01:23, Jeremiah Wilton wrote: Alter system checkpoint... You don't say... Hey, this is the first

RE: Tuning Ville

2003-02-02 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Stephane, Thanks for your thoughts. :-) I don't think that replacing a view with an in-line view brings, by itself, much benefit. I guess I see it differently. A MView by it's very nature is administratively more expensive than a regular view (I'm not talking about performance here).

RAC on linux

2003-02-02 Thread Joe Testa
Hello everyone, i've been quiet recently, for those of you who know what I've been up to class has been great, emergency medicine is really kewl. Now to the oracle stuff, We're having new requirements by multiple clients to ask about RAC(not necessarily on linux), so a couple of us thought,

Re: access/oracle

2003-02-02 Thread dgoulet
Bill, I have to live with people who want to usc Access too. I agree wfth you it is a pain in the a--. Our solution, with damagement's agreement, is to only do what is possible. I think that in your situation you'll have to do likewise. The problem being Access's local tables. What may help is

Re: how to create datafile in shared network drive ??

2003-02-02 Thread dgoulet
Steve, Oracle will allow you to create a datafile on a network drive. They just won't support you unless you have it on a supported storage system (like a NetApp Filer) and appriopriately configured (read that as meaning a dedicated TCP/IP cable). Dick Goulet Steve Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: re SHUTDOWN ABORT -- was RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and

2003-02-02 Thread Connor McDonald
You're absolutely correct - I have neglected the acknowledge many of the various places I've seen proposing the 'alter system checkpoint / shutdown abort' model, including your web site. Apologies. Cheers Connor --- Jeremiah Wilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alter system checkpoint... You don't

RE: tuning forms/reports application

2003-02-02 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
About 2), you'll have to use dbms_application_info to set teh name explicity. I had brought this to Formd developmemt'd atten, and I believe they logged an internal enhancement to do this, I have no idea about the status. Raj -Original Message-From: M. Shuja Uddin

RE: RAC on linux

2003-02-02 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Joe, do you know Mike Ault? He might well be the person to talk to about this. I think he's been doing some work in this area. RF 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

Re: re SHUTDOWN ABORT -- was RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and

2003-02-02 Thread Tim Gorman
...kind of a side story on the virtues of ALTER SYSTEM CHECKPOINT... About 6-7 years ago, I was teaching Oracle Education's Backup and Recovery Workshop, which was a 3 day class. The first 2 days are blabber/lecture and the last day is all lab. In that last day, students spend the morning

DBSNMP connecting ? -- was RE: The lightbulb goes on -

2003-02-02 Thread Hemant K Chitale
It could be DBSNMP connecting to the database because of the Intelligent Agent. Why did I call it un-Intelligent ? $O_H/rdbms/admin/catdbsnmp.sql grants the DBA role to DBSNMP. The DBA role includes the RESTRICTED SESSION privilege. You should be doing a SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE. Me ? What do I do

RE: RAC on linux

2003-02-02 Thread Craig Munday
Joe, I would be very interested in hearing how you go with this. Could you feedback any information you get on RAC/linux back to the list please. Thanks greatly. Cheers, Craig. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, 3 February 2003 10:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello

RE: how to create datafile in shared network drive ??

2003-02-02 Thread Richard Ji
They are correct that they don't want you to do it. The only approved NAS solution by Oracle is Network Appliance's product. Other NFS, shared drive etc aren't good idea to put Oracle database files. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 6:16 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Oracle 9.2 installation on Pentium 4, Windows 2000 machine

2003-02-02 Thread pradeep
I didn't apply any service packs to W2K. Let me see with applying the SP3 also. Jesse, Rich

RE: Oracle 9.2 installation on Pentium 4, Windows 2000 machine

2003-02-02 Thread pradeep
I just renamed the file and installation didn't start. So i downloaded a new version and copied to the concerned folder and installed it. no change. Thomas

Re: access/oracle

2003-02-02 Thread rabbit
We had same problems at 2 sites here. I dont allow access in Production, I can usually scare management enough to keep them out and I apply a LOGON trigger to stop any connection from access (and SQLPLUS etc for that matter, unless its a user that I allow). I do create a copy of PROD every day

Urgent - how to make SYSTEM tbls smaller ?

2003-02-02 Thread oraora oraora
guys, one of my instances here... has SYSTEM tablespace of size 25G (with one datafile). it has lot of indexes used by an application. the total size of indexes in SYSTEM tablespace is 21G. this was done by someone else and now they want me to : 1)drop some un-used indexes in SYSTEM

Slow query tuning

2003-02-02 Thread Krishnaswamy, Ranganath
Hi Listers, I have the below query which is taking almost 3 min. to execute. Can anybody help me in rewriting the query and/or reducing the query execution time. Please note that V_SHIP is a view created the source for which is as as follows: View Source CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW V_SHIP (

RE: Urgent - how to make SYSTEM tbls smaller ?

2003-02-02 Thread Richard Ji
Check dba_free_space to find out how much free space you have freed up for the SYSTEM tablespace. Then you can do: SQLalter database datafile 'path_to_system_tablespace' resize 800m; 800m is just an example. This will work if the space you freed up are towards the end of the datafile, not in

RE: Urgent - how to make SYSTEM tbls smaller ?

2003-02-02 Thread Naveen Nahata
'ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE datafile RESIZE 1024M' will resize it to 1GB Regards Naveen -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L guys, one of my instances here... has SYSTEM tablespace of size 25G (with one datafile). it has lot

RE: SQL*Plus Worksheet Question

2003-02-02 Thread Kaing, Leng
Eric, Not sure what you're talking about but here's a stab in the dark... set sqlprompt mydb.myusername This changes the output prompt, but not the prompt in the header of the window bar. If you can figure this one out, please let me know too. Rgs, Leng. -

Memory Free up Failing on Solaris 8 - Off-topic

2003-02-02 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Hi SITUATION - On a production APP Server having about 4000 Concurrent application processes , the memory allocated does NOT seem to be getting freed even though the application program is issuing the respective call to Free the memory . Qs Any /etc/system parameters , OS patches which should