how to find the version ?

2003-02-11 Thread rahul
list, my appologies for asking question regarding ias (solaris), but i could not find any info regarding this on the net.. i'm on solaris, running ias, i'm new to this environment, and have been asked to audit the setup !! to start, i simply want to find out the version of forms/reports

RE: [new info] Redhat Advanced Server Dev Edition - RAC

2003-02-11 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
Advanced Server (developer's edition) seems to be much easier than the standard edition simply in terms of getting OCFS to work so that's the way I've gone. I've tried Suse 8.0 and RedHat 8.0 and I could load the OCFS module but it wasn't stable and frankly I didn't trust it much. Also using the

Re: how to find the version ?

2003-02-11 Thread rahul
i found the solution shortly after i sent the mail.. runinstaller and it will show all the installed product with verions ;-)) On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 00:33:36 -0800, rahul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : list, my appologies for asking question regarding ias (solaris), but i could not find any info

Re: how to find the version ?

2003-02-11 Thread rahul
i found the solution shortly after i sent the mail.. runinstaller and it will show all the installed product with verions ;-)) On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 00:33:36 -0800, rahul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : list, my appologies for asking question regarding ias (solaris), but i could not find any info

find out the backup time in RMAN

2003-02-11 Thread kommareddy sreenivasa
Hi DBA's Can somebody give me sql query that can get me the last backup time of my database (cold backup thru RMAN) and its start_time, backup_endtime from rman catalog. donot require LIST commands, as I have to produce a report of backuptime for several databases. a single database is hosting

ODBC through server side sql

2003-02-11 Thread dilip7772002
Hi Guys, One simple ODBC question. Our management wants a set-up where user from remote location will access oracle database through ODBC connection, execute some sql scripts, download data into excel files and then do whatever reporting on that excel data. Now management wants all these sql

RMAN Feedback

2003-02-11 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
RMAN reports its progress provinding such information as channel c1: starting piece 1 at 11-FEB-03 channel c1: finished piece 1 at 11-FEB-03 piece handle=df_485669402_63_1 comment=API Version 2.0,MMS Version 2.2.1.0 channel c1: starting piece 2 at 11-FEB-03 channel c1: finished piece 2 at

AW: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi Lyndon hsql == HypersonicSQL. It's a pure Java, lightweight database server. Not suitable for large amounts of data, more the way to go if you're looking for an SQL database to embed into your Java app. Regards, Stefan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Lyndon Tiu [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: HISTOGRAMS , CBO and OLTP

2003-02-11 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
How do randomly inmserted keys result in an unbalanced B-TREE index? Please define your use of the term unbalanced. Perhaps I understand the term differently. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED],edu -Original Message- Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003

Commit boundary Stripe Unit Size Co-relation

2003-02-11 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
CASE - If Size of 1 INSERT/UPDATE Statement = 1K Stripe Unit Size is 128 K ? How will 1 COMMIT issued after 300 1K INSERT/UPDATE Statements DIFFER from 1 COMMIT issued after EACH 1K INSERT/UPDATE Statement with respect to Writing to the datafiles on the Underlying Striped Volume ? If 1

RE: find out the backup time in RMAN

2003-02-11 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Srinivas, First look in the RC_DATABASE view to get the DB_KEY value for your database. Then look at the RC_BACKUP_SET and RC_BACKUP_PIECE views within the Rman catalog. Sort by COMPLETION_TIME desc. You will see your backups listed there. The RC_BACKUP_SET is the parent record, while the

Re: RMAN Feedback

2003-02-11 Thread Tim Gorman
Set the OS environment variable NLS_DATE_FORMAT to the date/time format-string you wish... - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 5:18 AM RMAN reports its progress provinding such information as channel c1:

RE: Backup and Recovery

2003-02-11 Thread Gene Sais
Sony - I suggest you take the Oracle Backup/Recovery course. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/10/03 08:28PM Hi Ruth,In my company we run export for our daily backup. Why is it not best way todo backup ? and about RMAN, is it third party program on oracle or it isalready include in oracle, or if it is a

Error in Rownum Select

2003-02-11 Thread emre . hancioglu
Hello, Can anyone tell me the reason, why I get an error because of the Order By in Oracle 8.1.5. It works fine in 8.1.7 and 9.2. declare v_t number(8); begin SELECT tagesdatum into v_t FROM (SELECT rownum n, tagesdatum FROM (SELECT tagesdatum FROM kalender

RE: RMAN Feedback

2003-02-11 Thread Kurth, Michael J.
Try setting: export NLS_DATE_FORMAT='Mon DD HH24:MI:SS' -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 6:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L RMAN reports its progress provinding such information as channel c1: starting piece 1 at 11-FEB-03 channel c1: finished

Oracle TEMPORARY SEGMENT

2003-02-11 Thread Zabair Ahmed
Is their any way of identifying which user/process is holding onto a temporary segment. I've got a 50Mb temporary tablespace and there is a temporary segment which is 47Mb which is not being freed up by SMON. And, if i can't identify who is holding onto this TEMP segment, is their a way in whichI

RE: Bind variables

2003-02-11 Thread Bahar, Rivaldi (BBASSI-CHQ)
Thanks. I'm running 8i and it worked fine with that statement. Rivaldi -Original Message- Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 4:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi. You would need to wrap the ALTER SESSION into an Execute Immediate statement: EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'ALTER

Re: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-11 Thread Rodd Holman
Maria, Here's something you may want to consider with this licensing. If it comes to blow$ with Oracle, and you do have to pay, go for the standard edition not the enterprise edition. It is much cheaper on a named user basis. Cost is in hundreds per user vs. thousands per user. You could

RE: ODBC through server side sql

2003-02-11 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Dilip Sounds as if your management is deciding to get things under control. You can move your SQL into PL/SQL stored procedures and use ODBC to execute the stored procedure. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 11,

Re[2]: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread dgoulet
Lyndon, pg_dump equals export in Oracle. Actually pg_dump all = export full=y. It's just a syntax difference. And if you have a full export all you need to to recreate the database is create the system tablespace. And yes it is easy with Oracle, if you keep it simple. Dick Goulet

Breaking down values in a large table

2003-02-11 Thread John Hallas
Listers, I have a table of 125M rows (not partitioned) which I am exporting. I want to break the export into 4 dmp files using the query command on the pk column. I am looking at how the best way of finding the values of the PK (number) which are at 25%, 50% and 75% ish for the table

RE: 8.1.7.4 databases going bad

2003-02-11 Thread Jesse, Rich
My knee-jerk would be to check the file dates on the 8.1.7.4's ORACLE_HOME to make sure that nothing changed accidentally. Perhaps a rogue libary or some such? GL! Rich Rich JesseSystem/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex,

RE: RMAN Feedback

2003-02-11 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Ian, I'm not aware of any way to change the date format mask from within RMAN. Robert -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 2/11/2003 6:18 AM RMAN reports its progress provinding such information as channel c1: starting piece 1 at 11-FEB-03 channel c1:

Re:RE: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread dgoulet
Michael, What version or Rman are you looking at? I really did not appreciate Rman before 8.1.7 and it's predecessor in version 7. Rman for Oracle 9i is damn nice. Instead of those messy scripts and a recovery catalog you now have the ability to store all that stuff in the control file.

RE: RMAN Feedback

2003-02-11 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Interesting I wondered if that would work. I'll have to try it and see... :-) RF -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 2/11/2003 7:28 AM Set the OS environment variable NLS_DATE_FORMAT to the date/time format-string you wish... - Original Message

RE: Backup and Recovery

2003-02-11 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Sony I'm not Ruth, but perhaps I can provide some helpful information. Export is a logical backup. It is useful for recovering from some types of failures, but not for others. For example, if I have a small codes table that doesn't change much, and a developer makes some changes to the table

RE: Oracle TEMPORARY SEGMENT

2003-02-11 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: Oracle TEMPORARY SEGMENT Hi, This is what I use to clean up a temp tablespace. The tablespace is named 'temp' and it is normally set to PCTINCREASE of 10. You will need to insert the correct values for your temp tablespace. Altering the tablespace a little wakes us SMON which

RE: [new info] Redhat Advanced Server Dev Edition - RAC

2003-02-11 Thread Khedr, Waleed
I was doing some research on firewire disks when saw this article: http://technet.oracle.com/oramag/webcolumns/2002/opinion/coekaerts_linux01.h tml Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 4:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Advanced Server

RE: Breaking down values in a large table

2003-02-11 Thread Koivu, Lisa
John, Look at the FILESIZE parm of export. Lisa Koivu OracleMonkey Administrator Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 5259 Coconut Creek Parkway Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA 33063 Office: 954-935-4117 Fax: 954-935-3639 Cell: 954-683-4459 -Original Message-From: John Hallas

RE: Bind variables

2003-02-11 Thread Stephen Lee
TMTOWTDI ... It's everywhere. All these choices. Why do they have to make life so complicated? I'm just curious: How do you turn if off? level(0)? -Original Message- Hi, in 8i etc, you can use dbms_system.set_ev(sid,serial#,10046,level(1-12),'') too. -- Please see

RE: Version Controlling in Oracle database - Ideas ?

2003-02-11 Thread Adams, Matthew (GECP, MABG, 088130)
Title: RE: Version Controlling in Oracle database - Ideas ? Have you checked out Mark Stock's Presentation at the 2002 SEOUC conference entitled: TAG! Whose Code is it? Code Management Data Encryption Should be available at www.seouc.org. Matt Adams - GE Appliances - [EMAIL

RE: Error in Rownum Select

2003-02-11 Thread emre . hancioglu
It seems so.. Thanks. Regards M.Emre HANCIOGLU Masterfoods Services GmbH ISI Application Support Tel : +49 2162 500-2576 Fax: +49 2162 41497 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Forwarded by Emre M. Hancioglu/VSN/Effem on 11.02.2003 16:10 - Stephane Faroult [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RE: Oracle TEMPORARY SEGMENT

2003-02-11 Thread chao_ping
Whittle Jerome Contr NCI, I think your sql should not work on a really TEMPORARY tablespace, and temporary tablespace do not need to be cleaned either. Regards zhu chao msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.happyit.net www.cnoug.org(China Oracle User Group) === 2003-02-11 06:49:00

RE: Breaking down values in a large table

2003-02-11 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
John, Have you looked at using the FILE and FILESIZE params that are provided via the Export utility? According to the docs, you can provide multiple FILE names, and specify a FILESIZE. Once Export has created a file that is FILESIZE in size, it creates the next export file you designated

RE:

2003-02-11 Thread Gogala, Mladen
That mandates proper initrans and pctfree setting, don't you think? -Original Message- From: Arup Nanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 11:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Raj, Another consideration is a potential for a

Re: Breaking down values in a large table

2003-02-11 Thread Arup Nanda
John, Why bother with the query; why don't you use the FILESIZE parameter of the export to break down the export files into manageable chunks? Arup From: John Hallas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Breaking

Re: Re[2]: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: pg_dump equals export in Oracle. Actually pg_dump all = export full=y. It's just a syntax difference. And if you have a full export all you need to to recreate the database is create the system tablespace. And yes it is easy with Oracle, if you keep it

RE: [new info] Redhat Advanced Server Dev Edition - RAC

2003-02-11 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
yep I must know this by heart now. Also see Metalink Tech notes, 183408.1 and 220178.1 and http://www.dbasupport.com/oracle/ora9i/RacLinuxFirewire1.shtml regards, Mike -Original Message- Sent: 11 February 2003 14:40 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I was doing some research

Re: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-11 Thread Lyndon Tiu
This sounds like Oracle is pricing/licensing itself out of the market. This is not good because I see a lot of new student with MS SQL skills and no Oracle skills. Guess what, they will want to work with MS SQL when they finally start working. Some of these grads will become bosses one day and

Re: AW: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Quoting Stefan Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Lyndon hsql == HypersonicSQL. It's a pure Java, lightweight database server. Not suitable for large amounts of data, more the way to go if you're looking for an SQL database to embed into your Java app. I thought we were talking about Oracle

Re: 2k and 8k block size

2003-02-11 Thread Rajesh . Rao
The purpose of this feature, I believe, is to accomodate transportable tablespace restores, so that it is possible to say,transport a tablespace from a 2K block size database, to a 4k block database. Raj

RE: Oracle TEMPORARY SEGMENT

2003-02-11 Thread Zabair Ahmed
Hi Jerry, I tried your suggestion of altering the pctincrease to a non-zero value, although the original temp segment has disappeared from the dba_segments. I now have a different temp segment which is lingering around in dba_segments. Zabair Whittle Jerome Contr NCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

AW: Error in Rownum Select

2003-02-11 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi Maybe I miss the point, but I don't really see the need for an order by here ? Can't you just dismiss it ? Regards, Stefan Stefan Jahnke Consultant BOV Aktiengesellschaft Voice: +49 201 - 4513-298 Fax: +49 201 - 4513-149 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove nospam to contact me via

Re: Oracle TEMPORARY SEGMENT

2003-02-11 Thread Sergey Ten
Hello Zabair, Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 6:03:42 AM, you wrote: ZA Is their any way of identifying which user/process is holding onto a temporary segment. Try this: http://www.geocities.com/oraperf/tempseg/ -- Best regards, Sergeymailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --

AW: AW: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi I just posted that as reply to your question about hsql (what is it ?). But you're right here, it is not very scalable and also not meant to compete with Oracle or PostgreSQL. Enjoy your day, Stefan Jahnke Consultant BOV Aktiengesellschaft Voice: +49 201 - 4513-298 Fax: +49 201 - 4513-149

Count(*) last 30 seconds

2003-02-11 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Title: Message Hi list, I issue a select count(*) from mytable and last 30 seconds. The table has 1,466,196 records and were loaded witha batch process, so they are in a countinous space. I consider that time exagerated. The TBS is LMT with a Uniform size of 128 MB. The block size is

Re: [new info] Redhat Advanced Server Dev Edition - RAC

2003-02-11 Thread Jared Still
This is all cool technology, and fun stuff to play with. It all begs the questions, How many of us work for a business that actually need this? Are they willing to pay $400/user $20k/CPU above the cost of Oracle 9i EE to use it? Are they willing to pay the extra overhead required to maintain

RE: RE: Oracle TEMPORARY SEGMENT

2003-02-11 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: RE: Oracle TEMPORARY SEGMENT Hi, It does work on temporary (that are truly temporary and not permanent) tablespaces in 7.3.4 and 8.1.7. I use it when I don't want to wait for SMON to clean things up. Just yesterday one our 'power users' ran SQL that selected from two tables with

RE: Breaking down values in a large table

2003-02-11 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
Hi John, the FILESIZE parameter would certainly work but if you don't know how big your export file will be then it won't help you to split it accurately into 4. This query should get you the 25%, 50% and 75% marks. The 100% is easy. select * from (select rownum rnum,a.* from (select

RE: AW: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Ji
Well no. Since you are comparing Postgresql with Oracle, why can't I compare it with HSql or any other database for that matter. And is postgresql scalable compare to Oracle? Can it handle my Terabyte database? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:54 AM To: Multiple

[Q] ctl-c on sql/plus hange the terminal session on LINUX system?

2003-02-11 Thread dist cash
We are test ORACLE on LINUX system (RedHat 7 and 8) wirh ORACLE databases (8i and 9i). Their has one problem happen when we open sql/plus on console termineral or telnet session. If sql/plus have long list and we press ctl-C, the termineral session hang. If outside sql/plus and press ctl-C,

RE: Count(*) last 30 seconds

2003-02-11 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ramon - Start by adding an index? :-) Do you have any indexes on this table? My first guess is that it is doing a full table scan. This does seem to be a bit long for a full table scan. Do you expect to do a lot of full table scans on this table? If so, then you may want to look at how to tune

RE: Count(*) last 30 seconds

2003-02-11 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: Message well, have you traced the statement yet? That's where to start, with autotrace. My count(*) which executesa FTS (in a load to mitigate any ORA-1555 error) takes 15 minutes to count 50 million rows. Lisa KoivuTired, Tired, Tired. Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 5259 Coconut

RE: [new info] Redhat Advanced Server Dev Edition - RAC

2003-02-11 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
I don't know anyone who needs it but Oracle is behind it and that means that sooner or later they'll start to shift licenses. I'd be foolish to ignore the chance to experiment with RAC at home for £150 (I had a lot of the kit already) rather than pay Oracle £1158 for a 3 day RAC course (plus the

RE: Error in Rownum Select

2003-02-11 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
Stefan, The original query returns the 6th highest value so the ORDER BY is crucial. At least if I read it correctly. Cheers, Mike -Original Message- Sent: 11 February 2003 16:24 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Maybe I miss the point, but I don't really see the need

AW: Error in Rownum Select

2003-02-11 Thread emre . hancioglu
In this statement, I'm trying to get (last working day - 6 days) from a specific table. If I remove the ORDER BY, I can never retrieve the correct rownum and of course the date. Regards M.Emre HANCIOGLU Masterfoods Services GmbH ISI Application Support Tel : +49 2162 500-2576 Fax: +49 2162

RE: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Ji
I totally agree. I alway thought Oracle should just give it away to class rooms. The more people knows Oracle, they will want to use it at their work. At a small, mid size company is often the tech guy who will have a big saying over what technology to use. -Original Message- Sent:

RE: Bind variables

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Ji
alter session set events '10046 trace name context off' or exec sys.dbms_system.set_ev(sid, serial#, 10046, 0, '') Richard Ji -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L TMTOWTDI ... It's everywhere. All these choices. Why do

Re: AW: AW: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Quoting Stefan Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi I just posted that as reply to your question about hsql (what is it ?). I misunderstood your previous answer. I thought you were talking about an Oracle command that can export a plain text sql script like pg_dump that's why I asked. Thank you.

RE: AW: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Ji
I agree that HSql is not meant to compete with Oracle or Postgresql. But then is Postgresql meant to compete with Oracle? I don't think so. My point of bring HSql in is to show that you aren't comparing the samething. It would make more sense say to compare the diffculty of backup/recovery

RE: Breaking down values in a large table

2003-02-11 Thread John Hallas
Tom, Lisa, Stephane I did consider that but I was originally exporting using direct export and I could get the whole table out in 4 hours (compressed via a pipe). However the import takes 24 hours. I was looking at using a normal (via the buffer ) export with a query in so that I could import

RE: [new info] Redhat Advanced Server Dev Edition - RAC

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Ji
And what is the point of sending text messages to someone elses phone when you could just call them? Sending SMS is not meant to replace phone calls, but there are situations when sending a SMS is more desirable. Such as you need to get a message to a person who is in a meeting and can't take

RE: AW: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Quoting Richard Ji [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well no. Since you are comparing Postgresql with Oracle, why can't I compare it with HSql or any other database for that matter. You can compare anything here. I misunderstood hsql as an Oracle command/script/package (new?, hidden?, secret??) that I

Re: dump.sql

2003-02-11 Thread M Rafiq
Tim, Besides it is available on Metalink, accessable to those users who are holding valid support licence and Jared is just pointing to that direction. There is nothing wrong in it as far as copyright is concerned. There is no theft involved of any sort as Jared did not claim ownership of that

Re: Count(*) last 30 seconds

2003-02-11 Thread Jan Pruner
Hi, 1. create unique index or primary key AND update statistics of the table 2. use count(1) instead of count(*) JP On Tuesday 11 February 2003 17:19, you wrote: Hi list, I issue a select count(*) from mytable and last 30 seconds. The table has 1,466,196 records and were

RE: [new info] Redhat Advanced Server Dev Edition - RAC

2003-02-11 Thread Joseph S Testa
I'm with Mike on this one, except I was just told earlier this morning that the current client I'm at wants to move the 11i apps to RAC. DO they need it, nope, do they want it, yep(and have basically already cut the check for the cost of RAC(since its on sale till end of month) :) So the

RE: RE: Oracle TEMPORARY SEGMENT

2003-02-11 Thread M Rafiq
Jerry, Your sql will never run on Temp tablespace 'that are truly temporary' in 8.1.7 Just see the results Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production With the Partitioning option JServer Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production SQL alter tablespace temp default

Re: [Q] ctl-c on sql/plus hange the terminal session on LINUX system?

2003-02-11 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Quoting dist cash [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We are test ORACLE on LINUX system (RedHat 7 and 8) wirh ORACLE databases (8i and 9i). Their has one problem happen when we open sql/plus on console termineral or telnet session. If sql/plus have long list and we press ctl-C, the termineral session

RE: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-11 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Quoting Richard Ji [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I totally agree. I alway thought Oracle should just give it away to class rooms. The more people knows Oracle, they will want to use it at their work. At a small, mid size company is often the tech guy who will have a big saying over what technology

RE: AW: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Quoting Richard Ji [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wonder how scalable PostGreSQL is by default using default configs? I know Oracle in it's default configuration ain't scalable. Funny cause I know certain companies use Oracle thinking this is the solution to their database scalability problem. Only to be

[Q] how to check object or role grant to public?

2003-02-11 Thread dist cash
e have ORACLE 8.1.7 on SUN erver. My question are: 1. how to check which object or role are grant to public (from DBA)? (e.g. grant select on tax to public) 2. How to check which object or role are grant to which users? Thanks.

RE: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-11 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Richard - How do you think the Oracle Education division would react to this proposal? ;-) Never underestimate the power of corporate politics. But seriously a large organization succeeds to the extent that it can look at the long-term good of the organization. Overall I think Oracle Corp. has

RE: Count(*) last 30 seconds

2003-02-11 Thread Sunil_Nookala
Interestingly enough, I haven't seen an official statement on count(*) being slower than count(column name). Sunil Nookala DBA Dell Corp. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 11:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, 1. create unique index or

RE: AW: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Ji
It does sound like a database command, doesn't it? There are a quite a few open source database out there, depends on what you need, they might just do the job as good as any others. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

rootpre.sh

2003-02-11 Thread Ehresmann, David
I am trying to run rootpre.sh. My admin just upgrade the kernel to 64-bit. We were running 32-bit on this box and everything was fine. No Oracle software is running. I am going to install 64-bit 8.1.7 Ent Ed for AIX 5.1L when I got this trying to run rootpre.sh. This is what I get when I run:

RE: Count(*) last 30 seconds

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Ji
Why use count(1) instead of count(*)? They all does the same thing. So does count(primary key). Richard Ji -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, 1. create unique index or primary key AND update statistics of

Updating error

2003-02-11 Thread Nguyen, David M
I attempt to update a record and receive following error. How do I fix it? update trunkgroup set originating_carrier = 0110,trunkgroup_id2 = 606,' where trunkgroup_id = '0TWPAAEDS0' and gateway_id = 'GAAA0'; ERROR at line 1: ORA-02291: integrity constraint (DBIMPL.CARRIER_FK9) violated -

RE: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-11 Thread Markus Reger
I have to manage MySQL and ORACLE for the web likewise. There seems to be a strong tendency towards MySQL if people newly enter the area of webpresence, students or profs doesn't make a difference. PLEASE spare me the pain: I *DO* know the differences between ORACLE and MySQL. (... at least

Re[2]: Re[2]: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread dgoulet
Lyndon, True, an export file is peculiar to Oracle. The difference between a commercial database and an open source one. IBM and MicroSludge do the same. The functional purpose though is the same. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Lyndon Tiu

RE: [new info] Redhat Advanced Server Dev Edition - RAC

2003-02-11 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Welcome to Corporate America, where damagers who have never written a code in the last decade (if ever) and have been promoted beyond their competence level make decisions about what is best for their systems and applications. DBA's and the like are little peeon grunts that do the work. Who

RE: AW: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Ji
Why should the default be scalable? Please tell me, how does Oracle know how many CPU, Memory, the type of IO system, transaction volume and whether it's OLTP or DSS, on and on... Every database application is different. Scalability means different things to different database environments. And

RE: AW: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread STEVE OLLIG
you really want to go there? compare MS SQL's backup recovery training to Oracle's. MS: 1 day of the 5 day intro admin class Oracle: more than a day of the 5 day 9i Admin II class - and you have 5 days in Admin I before that used to be worse - was a separate 3 day course in Oracle land. of

Re: [Q] how to check object or role grant to public?

2003-02-11 Thread Thomas Day
This asks for two parameters, the userid and the db_link. If you leave the db_link blank then it looks for the userid on the present database. To check for public give auserid of public. Slice and dice to fit your needs. -- Posted by Jacques Kilchoer [EMAIL PROTECTED] on ORACLE-L set linesize

SQL Plus Environment

2003-02-11 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I want to set up a glogin.sql and a login.sql. I am reading the manual and I find this. Oh yea. I'm on 8.1.7 on NT. When you install SQL*Plus, LOGIN.SQL is copied to the DBS subdirectory, and GLOGIN.SQL is copied to the SQLPLUS\ADMIN subdirectory of your Oracle home directory. If you modify

Re:RE: AW: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread dgoulet
Richard, In theory, yes it can. Would I want to push a postgresql database that hard, maybe not. But I will agree with Lyndon, it is a very nice open source db. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Richard Ji [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/11/2003

Re: [Q] how to check object or role grant to public?

2003-02-11 Thread Suzy Vordos
dba_tab_privs dba_role_privs dba_sys_privs dist cash wrote: e have ORACLE 8.1.7 on SUN erver. My question are: 1. how to check which object or role are grant to public (from DBA)? (e.g. grant select on tax to public) 2. How to check which object or role are grant to which

RE: [new info] Redhat Advanced Server Dev Edition - RAC

2003-02-11 Thread John Kanagaraj
Joe, Moving a 11i environment to RAC to 'fix' performance issues will only worsen it IMHO. Apps 11i is a complex beast, with a lot of cross-functional queries as well as a hard-hit central set of tables belong to the AOL. You can bet that there will be a ton of cross-instance pinging - albeit

RE: Updating error

2003-02-11 Thread Weiss, Rick
David: I would say that there is a foreign key on the originating_carrier column and the value 0110 does not exist in the parent table. Rick Weiss -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 11:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I attempt to update a record and

How to send/receive email through pl/sql ??

2003-02-11 Thread Janet Linsy
Hi, I have the following code. it compiles fine and runs successfully. But when I checked email in [EMAIL PROTECTED], I didn't get any mail. I'm testing on the same machine (win2000, 817). Anybody knows why? Thank you in advance. create or replace PROCEDURE send_test_message IS mailhost

Re: [Q] how to check object or role grant to public?

2003-02-11 Thread Rachel Carmichael
look at dba_tab_privs for object grants (this will include stored procedures) look at dba_role_privs for roles and read the manuals, you'd be amazed at how many questions can be answered by doing that --- dist cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: e have ORACLE 8.1.7 on SUN erver. My question are:

RE: rootpre.sh

2003-02-11 Thread Ehresmann, David
I just found out from Oracle support that you can't run Oracle 8.1.7 64-bit on AIX 64-bit. Is this true and has anyone ever done it? Thanks. David Ehresmann. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am trying to run

Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Lyndon, True, an export file is peculiar to Oracle. The difference between a commercial database and an open source one. IBM and MicroSludge do the same. The functional purpose though is the same. Question: Why a binary file? More efficient? I find the

Re: Breaking down values in a large table

2003-02-11 Thread Jared . Still
John, use the 'volsize' parameter. Look at 'exp help=y' Jared John Hallas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/11/2003 06:19 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Breaking

RE: Count(*) last 30 seconds

2003-02-11 Thread Sutton, Reed
Unfortunately I don't have the reference in front of my right now, but I believe the optimizer has a built in way to understand a count(*) and it is just as fast or faster than count(column_name). -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Looking for simple monitor script dbup.bat

2003-02-11 Thread Husak, Orysia - Perot
sorry my script is a UNIX script! Orysia Husak Database Management Services perotsystems - CHW Phoenix (602) 307-2896 (602) 300-9752 (Cell) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Could you post it to the list? Igor

RE: Count(*) last 30 seconds

2003-02-11 Thread Rachel Carmichael
If I remember correctly, there was a discussion here a while ago (like a few years) on which was faster and I believe (caffeine levels are low, so memory could be faulty) that it was determined that it made no difference which you used. This was pre 9i so things could have changed. --- [EMAIL

NEVER MIND - WAS - RE: SQL Plus Environment

2003-02-11 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I fixed it. I decided if the DBS directory was not created by the Oracle install than I will go and create the directory for Oracle. I then dropped my login.sql into the directory, fired up SQLPlus and my login.sql worked. Maybe I should of just sent a HELP instead. ;o) Dave -Original

RE: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-11 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Quoting Markus Reger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have to manage MySQL and ORACLE for the web likewise. There seems to be a strong tendency towards MySQL if people newly enter the area of webpresence, students or profs doesn't make a difference. For web work. MySQL is very popular (Together with

RE: Count(*) last 30 seconds

2003-02-11 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
With Oracle 6 and sometimes in Oracle 7 one count was faster than the other. With Oracle 8.0+ you'll see that count(1) == count(*) == count(unique column) == count(not null column) Don't believe me? Try it. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:55 PM To: Multiple

RE: [Q] how to check object or role grant to public?

2003-02-11 Thread Charu Joshi
Hi, You want to check the views: DBA_ROLE_PRIVS, DBA_SYS_PRIVS, DBA_TAB_PRIVS, ROLE_SYS_PRIVS, ROLE_ROLE_PRIVS. You can refer the 'Oracle 8i reference' for description of these. Regards, Charu. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 6:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

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