RE: Teradata baned from IOUG???

2003-02-13 Thread Dilip
gt;Isn't DBA usually a second or third career at the least? Is it ??? I am a DBA now and this is my first carrer. Initially I was sort of sql/pl-sql support person for 10 months and after that I am a DBA. What should I consider myself ? Lucky or Unlucky ??? Get Your Private, Free E-mail

RE: Hotsos Symposium in Dallas

2003-02-13 Thread Cary Millsap
Thank you Kirti, and thank all of you who attended for your overwhelmingly enthusiastic feedback! It was a tremendous honor to have almost three hundred of you in our home this week. I hope we can earn that privilege again next year. Thank you again, Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd.

Re: Select Query -- Return all rows of column as a single record ??

2003-02-13 Thread oraora oraora
Thanx Rohit. Thanx everybody. for helping me to do this. On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 Negandhi, Hiten wrote : Is the number of rows in the test table fixed? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: oraora oraora INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

Re: ODBC through server side sql

2003-02-13 Thread Justin Cave
At 12:23 AM 2/13/2003, Dilip wrote: Actually lots of users are connecting to this database from remote locations and connections are very slow because of network. So these clever people wants some sqls/reports to be run from ODBC connection and get data into excel and then work on that data.

DBMS_SQL

2003-02-13 Thread Hatzistavrou John
Title: DBMS_SQL Dear All, I am trying to pass to dbms_sql.parse dynamic values from a cursor declared before the call by the dbms_sql.parse. I am getting ORA 1001 . How can I do that? Kind Regards, Hatzistavrou Yannis

Re: Hotsos Symposium in Dallas

2003-02-13 Thread Connor McDonald
I'd be more worried about the bull being nervous :-) --- Mogens_Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those rumors about me being nervous on that bull are untrue. All of them. It was good seing you again, Kirti. Take care until next time. Mogens Deshpande, Kirti wrote: The Hotsos

Re: database file sizes....more of smaller size or less of larger size?

2003-02-13 Thread Connor McDonald
For me, simplicity and functionality is the key. For smaller db's, I like every datafile 1G or 2G. Then if I know that roughly every file takes the same time to backup. If I need to swap two for io balancing reasons, then I know space-wise I'll be fine. Any datafile that I drop can easily be

Re: buffer pools

2003-02-13 Thread Connor McDonald
It may have changed in 9, but I'm pretty sure the keep, recycle pools are not identical to the default cache in terms of the hot/cold boundary. You could always tweak the relevant underscore parms to make them all the same - but you'd want to be very sure that you could get maximal use out of

Re: Teradata baned from IOUG???

2003-02-13 Thread Rachel Carmichael
frm Dilbert: Pointy-Haired Boss the stereotypical damager --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PHB's? I looked it up and all I could find that fit was Psycho Hose Beast. Is that correct? http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=PHB

Re: SOLVED: RBS datafile recovery

2003-02-13 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Suji, When you post a question and figure out the answer, please tell us as well so we don't have to reinvent the wheel should it ever happen to us! Rachel --- Sujatha Madan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I've figured it out and now I have more info (after researching a bit more) to solve

Sizing databases

2003-02-13 Thread Paulo Gomes
Hi people Need some to fresh size a new database (9iR2, or other). Any one happens to know were i can get such tool??? Please Paulo Gomes -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Paulo Gomes INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051

Re: Re: ODBC through server side sql

2003-02-13 Thread Dilip
gt;Have you considered a reporting tool like Brio or Crystal Reports? You can gt;define reports that users can run whenever they like or have those reports gt;pushed out to them on a schedule when database activity is lower. You can gt;present the reports as HTML, or download them as CSV's

RE: Teradata baned from IOUG???

2003-02-13 Thread Rachel Carmichael
yeah but I'm not listed as a speaker either (they haven't updated the matrix for Wednesday since December 19) and I'll be there. The IOUG site is notorious for being updated slowly or incorrectly. --- Adams, Matthew (GECP, MABG, 088130) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Exhibitor List at at the

Ora-1001

2003-02-13 Thread Hatzistavrou John
Title: Ora-1001 Dear all, I am trying to construct the following PL/SQL block. When I run it I always get an 0RA-1001 error. May you please help me Environment Oracle 8.1.7.0 O/S W2K Sp3 declare l_cursor integer := dbms_sql.open_cursor; output utl_file.file_type; cursor lnklst_cur

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

2003-02-13 Thread Tim Gorman
Standard Edition(SE)will do the good, old standby database thing quite well, but without the bells-and-whistles that became available in v8.1.x (i.e. automated log shipping, log shipping over SQL*Net, automated log apply, up to 5 archive destinatios, etc). You'll essentially be running in

RE: Hotsos Symposium in Dallas

2003-02-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Hotsos Symposium in Dallas He was !! 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: Any clod can have facts,

Re: DBMS_SQL

2003-02-13 Thread Igor Neyman
Title: DBMS_SQL Would you mind to post a sample of your code? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Hatzistavrou John To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 5:06 AM Subject: DBMS_SQL Dear

RE: ODBC through server side sql

2003-02-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Dilip - I think you are on the right track. I saw your post to Justin, and that is what what we often run into -- we give the users a report tool and hope they'll go away, but they come back and ask IS to create the reports. Here are the issues as I see them: 1. Users are developing more

Re: database file sizes....more of smaller size or less of larger size?

2003-02-13 Thread Stephen Evans
i generally will not permit a file to exceed 2 gig for reasons of managability. eg since a file is the smallest recovery unit, i want something small enough so that i can easily recover it without incurring too much downtime. if i need to move some files around, 2 gig is small enough so that i

RE: Re: parallel index creation again:in which case, can we use p

2003-02-13 Thread Stephen Evans
tom, if the process is IO bound (ie consumes little cpu) then you can achieve a lot. thanks, steve Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/12/2003 02:23 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tuning instance for batch processing

2003-02-13 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi list Does anyone know of any good white papers online (or maybe a Metalink Note ID, I couldn't really find the right thing) about tuning an Oracle instance for batch processing ? Thanks, Stefan Jahnke Consultant BOV Aktiengesellschaft Voice: +49 201 - 4513-298 Fax: +49 201 - 4513-149 mailto:

Re: Ora-1001

2003-02-13 Thread Igor Neyman
Title: Ora-1001 You are opening your cursor(l_cursor) outside of the loop, and you are closing it inside the loop. So, on the second iteration your l_cursor is invalid. Move closing cursor statement outside the loop: end loop; dbms_sql.close_cursor( l_cursor ); end; / Igor Neyman, OCP

Fwd: Histograms on VARCHAR2 columns ?

2003-02-13 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Resending and hoping for some responses, even some real-world stories ... ?... Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 18:38:35 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: Hemant K Chitale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Histograms on VARCHAR2 columns ? I have just begun trying

10046 trace - weird library misses

2003-02-13 Thread Gorbounov,Vadim
Dear friends, I traced one of our test cases and found something weird. Did anybody else observe this? Env: server - 9.0.1.4, Solaris. client - weblogic 7, uses original oracle thin 9.0.1 jdbc driver to connect. In fact, I can reproduce all this from SQLPlus Here is an excerpt

RE: Commit boundary - Stripe Unit Size Co-relation

2003-02-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Vivek - I just wanted to make sure that your tests accurately reflect your production situation. The easiest tests to construct are the simplest ones. I've seen people draw wrong conclusions from those tests and even widely publish those conclusions. :-( Your original question just asked how

AIX Oracle 9.2

2003-02-13 Thread Henry, Keith
If I have Oracle 9.2 on AIX 4.3.3 and we upgrade to AIX 5.1, do I need to re-install the Oracle 9.2 software or will it all just work after the upgrade? Anybody know? Keith H. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Henry, Keith INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

max block size on sun solaris

2003-02-13 Thread babu . nagarajan
Hi Is anyone running ORacle on Sun solaris with db_block_size 16K? We are getting an error while creating a 32K block size database on Sun and Oracle says 16K is the max on Sun solaris.. Thanks a lot... Babu _ This e-mail transmission and any attachments to it are intended solely

RE: 10046 trace - weird library misses

2003-02-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: 10046 trace - weird library misses Are you using dynamic sql? execute immediate? That might explain ... because exec immediate does a hard parse ... and it is documented too. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra

Send Mail in Unix

2003-02-13 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
All, I'm trying to send an email attachment (Oracle Tablespace Report) from a Sun Unix box to myself when the batch job runs. Anybody been able to do this? I can send the text of the file, but what I really want to do is to send the file (it's an Excel Spreadsheet). thanks in advance. Tom

Re: Teradata baned from IOUG???

2003-02-13 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Mice. Adams, Matthew (GECP, MABG, 088130) wrote: RE: Teradata baned from IOUG??? The Exhibitor List at at the IOUG web site does not list Teradata. Matt Adams - GE Appliances - [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have enough youth. How about a fountain of

RE: Teradata baned from IOUG???

2003-02-13 Thread Weiss, Rick
The PHB is from Dilbert (Pointy Haired Boss) Rick Weiss -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 8:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L PHB's? I looked it up and all I could find that fit was Psycho Hose Beast. Is that correct?

RE: Count(*) last 30 seconds

2003-02-13 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Let's see ... Your DB_CACHE_SIZE is 16MB == 2048 blocks The table is approx 14,677 blocks The record-size is something like 800bytes Each multiblock read call will read 32-blocks Your DB_CACHE will be filled in less than 64 read-calls and will have less than 1/7th of the table. Your server will

Re: max block size on sun solaris

2003-02-13 Thread Tim Gorman
believe the error message! - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 8:03 AM Hi Is anyone running ORacle on Sun solaris with db_block_size 16K? We are getting an error while creating a 32K block size database

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

2003-02-13 Thread Johnston, Tim
Now you've done it... I'll never be able to listen to that song again without thinking... "We will, we will, RAC you" :-) -Original Message-From: Mogens Nørgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:19 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list

Re: RE: Re: parallel index creation again:in which case, can we use p

2003-02-13 Thread chao_ping
Stephen Evans£¬ÄúºÃ£¡ It seems your words are right, after i balanced my disk io and retest the index build, wait time during index parallel creation increases. I will retest my creation next morning. Thanks. 2003-02-13 06:38:00 ÄúÔÚÀ´ÐÅÖÐдµÀ£º

RE: 10046 trace - weird library misses

2003-02-13 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Hi, It is just telling that you are doing HARD PARSE. Hard Parse is indicated in the trace file as 'misses in library cache'; Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan -Original Message- Gorbounov,Vadim Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 6:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dear

RE: Re: parallel index creation again:in which case, can we use p

2003-02-13 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Steve, I believe what you say, but it seems counter-intuitive. If you only have one cpu, and you start two jobs, then it follows that the cpu needs to split itself to do the work. So, what are we gaining? The CPU can only go so fast and do so much work. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified

Re: 10046 trace - weird library misses

2003-02-13 Thread Tim Gorman
Not an RDBMS bug -- it is the behavior of both your JDBC thin program as well as SQL*Plus. Every execute is preceded by a parse in SQL*Plus -- they didn't write that utility with parsing efficiency as a primary goal. Apparently, neither was the JDBC thin code... - Original Message - To:

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

2003-02-13 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Good points. In Denmark we have a lot of Damgaard/Navision/Microsoft Business Solutions sites running these - usually modestly-sized - ERP-systems on SE. Tim Gorman wrote: Standard Edition(SE)will do the good, old standby database thing quite well, but without the

RE: Moving slightly OT - Commit boundary - Stripe Unit Size Co

2003-02-13 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Dennis, I think you need to change your tag line to: Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP 100%DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers! RF -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 2/13/2003 9:04 AM Vivek - I just wanted to make sure that your tests accurately

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

2003-02-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Jailhouse RAC !!! anyone? 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: Any clod can have facts, but having an opinion

RE: Tuning instance for batch processing

2003-02-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Stefan - Batch jobs can vary quite a bit. There are report batch jobs that just do queries. There are update batch jobs that query and write. It is hard to have any rules of thumb that apply just to batch jobs. Actually, batch jobs tend to be easier to tune because it is easier to run repeated

RE: Teradata baned from IOUG???

2003-02-13 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
It's just amazing to me the ideas that people latch on to and will defend with their very lives. I had, long ago, ae DBA manager that worked for a client, who was just sure that object oriented databases were the wave of the future. He blasted Oracle all the time because it didn't have OO

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

2003-02-13 Thread Jesse, Rich
With all this discussion on Why RAC?, I thought I'd chime in with our reasoning, at least as it stands before any testing. We currently have a few major databases for our ERP/MRP system, Engineering drawings, and legacy (I loathe that word) data. These databases are spread across three larger

RE: AIX Oracle 9.2

2003-02-13 Thread Scott . Shafer
How about relink all from the $OH/bin directory? Or is this utility gone in 9i? Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210.581.6217 -Original Message- From: Tim Gorman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 10:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

Re: max block size on sun solaris

2003-02-13 Thread babu . nagarajan
I forgot to mention that the Oracle version is 8.1.7.4 TIA Babu babu.nagarajan@Cu

Re: Re: parallel index creation again:in which case, can we use p

2003-02-13 Thread Tim Gorman
Simply put, CPU is swifter than I/O (though not as much as some would have us believe!). 7-8 years ago, we benchmarked Oracle 7.1 PQ on single-processor IBM RS6000 nodes and found that the "sweet spot" was DOP=4 (where "DOP" means "degree of parallelism"). In testing on those 60Mhz PowerPC

RE: max block size on sun solaris

2003-02-13 Thread MARREIROS,RUI (HP-Portugal,ex1)
in oracle 9.0.1 Documentation: DB_BLOCK_SIZE 2048 to 16384 (Linux, Solaris) 2048 to 32768 (AIX, HP, Tru64) Of course you can always use the multiple block_size option in non system tablespaces. See e.g :Marlene Theriault,paper at IOUG live 2002 ...As with earlier databases, the

RE: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-13 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: RE: Oracle License for Training For me the question is not If? but When? Any prognostications? -Original Message- From: Cary Millsap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 9:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Oracle License

RE: Ora-1001

2003-02-13 Thread Farnsworth, Dave

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

2003-02-13 Thread Post, Ethan
If you asked me last week I might not have formulated much of an opinion, but I have been tainted by Mogens presentation on RAC or Not To RAC. Here are some questions you need to ask... Why not go with a box capable of the CPU's you will eventually need. Why add machines when adding CPU's might

Re: Send Mail in Unix

2003-02-13 Thread Jose Luis Delgado
Hi! This should work: $ sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] your_report_file.xls -v means: verbose you can skip it! HTH JL --- Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I'm trying to send an email attachment (Oracle Tablespace Report) from a Sun Unix box to myself when the batch

External procedures

2003-02-13 Thread Bahar, Rivaldi (BBASSI-CHQ)
Hi Listers, I'm trying to build the shared libraries for external procedures : $ make -f demo_rdbms.mk extproc_no_context SHARED_LIBNAME=shell.so OBJS=shell.o I tried in HP as well as Sun machine, both I got the following error : Make: Don't know how to make shell.o. Any idea what's wrong ?

Unix research source ???

2003-02-13 Thread Andrea Oracle
Hi all, Does Unix has an on-line research source, like metalink for Oracle? Pls send me the links. Much appreciated. Also is Linux pretty similar to Unix. What's the major difference? Thank you in advance! Andrea __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!

Re: AIX Oracle 9.2

2003-02-13 Thread Tim Gorman
At least you're going to want to relink everything in Oracle on the server. Go to $OH/rdbms/lib and make -f ins_rdbms.mk install. Also go to $OH/network/lib and make -f ins_netserver.mk install. In fact, do a find for all files named ins_*.mk and consider whether to do similar steps... -

RE: Send Mail in Unix

2003-02-13 Thread Kevin Lange
UUENCODE the file then send it as text.UUDECODE it back to a file at the recipient. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L All, I'm trying to send an email attachment (Oracle Tablespace Report) from a Sun Unix box to

RE: AIX Oracle 9.2

2003-02-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: AIX Oracle 9.2 don't reinstall if you already have 64bit installed, just recompile ... it should work fine. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal

RE: 10046 trace - weird library misses

2003-02-13 Thread Gorbounov,Vadim
Yes KG, I understand this. The question is why HARD every time, only when trace is on, and taking into account 9.2.0.2 doesn't suffer this weirdness, this must be a bug. Metalink says - fixed in 8.1.7.2. If the bug, somebody else must be hit since 10046 profiling used by many people these

Re: Send Mail in Unix

2003-02-13 Thread Ceri Townsend
Hi I have a function called mail_dba which i load in my .profile In .profile FPATH=$ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_SID/dbafuncs export FPATH autoload mail_dba Then in the location specified by FPATH i have a file called mail_dba which contains the following: mail_dba_ () { mailx [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Deep OPS tuning info

2003-02-13 Thread MARREIROS,RUI (HP-Portugal,ex1)
Hi all: I'm tuning an OPS env. and the things are getting quite deep, DLM latch issues and so on (e.g. lots of waits on dlm resource hash list). So I was wondering if any of you know of any site or doc. which could help me on this (OPS tuning specific and very deep information). Of course the

Re: Send Mail in Unix

2003-02-13 Thread mkb
You mean: mailx -m -s Test Message [EMAIL PROTECTED] EOF `ux2dos /home/report/tbsp.lst | uuencode /home/report/tbsp.lst` This is from an HP-UX system hth mohammed --- Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I'm trying to send an email attachment (Oracle Tablespace Report)

RE: RMAN or SQLBacktrack?

2003-02-13 Thread Michael Kline
8.1.7.2 Is there a short list of steps for a successful RMAN install and ramp up under Legato in the final phase. I'm looking at a server with about 4-6 databases on it. We're basically looking at the following: Create RMAN database. Create test area for disk first, then tape as we put it under

RE: 10046 trace - weird library misses

2003-02-13 Thread Jared . Still
Raj, where is it documented that EXEC IMMEDIATE always does a hard parse? Thanks, Jared Jamadagni, Rajendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/13/2003 07:44 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

Re: Send Mail in Unix

2003-02-13 Thread Robert Eskridge
Thomas, Thursday, February 13, 2003, 9:44:07 AM, you wrote: M All, M I'm trying to send an email attachment (Oracle Tablespace Report) from a Sun M Unix box to myself when the batch job runs. M Anybody been able to do this? I can send the text of the file, but what I M really want to do is to

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

2003-02-13 Thread Orr, Steve
I'm RAC --ing my brains on this cluster... -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:50 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: [new info] Redhat Advanced Server Dev Edition - RAC Jailhouse

RE: 10046 trace - weird library misses

2003-02-13 Thread Gorbounov,Vadim
Title: RE: 10046 trace - weird library misses Raj, It's not dynamic. From SQLPlus prompt it looks like SQL BEGIN :n := FNC_SP_GET_SUBID_BY_EXT_KEY (:v); END; 2 / Thank you, -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, February 13,

RE: 10046 trace - weird library misses

2003-02-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Tim - Your statement about the JDBC thin client really grabbed my attention since we plan to create some important systems based on this. I thought parsing was related to bind variables (using PrepareStatement in Java), and whether that SQL statement was previously executed and is still

Re: AIX Oracle 9.2

2003-02-13 Thread Tim Gorman
Still there! Thanks! - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 10:03 AM How about relink all from the $OH/bin directory? Or is this utility gone in 9i? Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210.581.6217

Re: Fwd: Histograms on VARCHAR2 columns ?

2003-02-13 Thread Jared . Still
I setup histograms on a table a little over a year ago to help with a query that was taking much too long. The query: SELECT MIN(DOCNUM) FROM SAPEDIDC WHERE RECSTAT = 'U' All values for recstat: SELECT recstat, count(*) recstat_count FROM cimuser.SAPEDIDC group by recstat / R

Re: Re: parallel index creation again:in which case, can we use p

2003-02-13 Thread Jared . Still
Oh, this is just *begging* for me to do some testing. Anything that isn't real work. ;) Jared Tim Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/13/2003 08:34 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

Re: Unix research source ???

2003-02-13 Thread Lyndon Tiu
1) Solaris http://docs.sun.com 2) Linux http://www.linux.org/docs/index.html 3) AIX http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/library/sp_books/index.html 4) Got questions: try Google at http://www.google.com 5) There's more out there but these sites are a good start. -- Lyndon Tiu

RE: Send Mail in Unix

2003-02-13 Thread John Kanagaraj
Tom, Look at the 'uuencode' utility - it can do what you want. Care to share how you generated an Excel Spreadsheet in Solaris? John Kanagaraj Oracle Applications DBA DBSoft Inc (W): 408-970-7002 I don't know what the future holds for me, but I do know who holds my future! ** The opinions and

Re: Send Mail in Unix

2003-02-13 Thread Ana Choto
try 'uuencode server filename to whateverfilename | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Thanks Ana E. Choto Systems Programmer American University e-Operations - Information Technology Phone (202) 885-2275 Fax (202) 885-2224

RE: 10046 trace - weird library misses

2003-02-13 Thread Richard Ji
Tim, By JDBC Thin program, are you referring to the JDBC Thin driver or the program that uses the JDBC Thin driver, i.e. the application. I assume you are talking about the later. Our application is written in Java and uses JDBC Thin and I don't see any of the hard parse problem. Thanks

RE: Re: parallel index creation again:in which case, can we use p

2003-02-13 Thread John Kanagaraj
Stephen/Chao-ping, I will side with Tom on this. In a single CPU situation, you want to avoid context switches by _reducing_ the number of processes in a single CPU box. Depending on other stuff such as processor/L2 cache flushing, this can be quite a significant overhead. So PQ on a a single

RE: Send Mail in Unix

2003-02-13 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Mohammed, thanks, but the -m option does not seem to exist in Sun Unix. $ mailx -m mailx: illegal option -- m Usage: mailx -eiIUdFntBNHvV~ -T FILE -u USER -h hops -r address -s SUBJECT -f FILE users any other ideas? Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original

Re: Teradata baned from IOUG???

2003-02-13 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
I was with Oracle when the OO thing was big. At least it meant that the whole OCI layer was rewritten for 8.0, which was good for many things. Today, that's what's happening with XML databases. Oracle will store them in LOBs (and in 9.2 in a number of tables) while dedicated XML databases will

RE: Re: parallel index creation again:in which case, can we use p

2003-02-13 Thread STEVE OLLIG
Tom - think of it like a bartender serving beers. the bartender is the CPU, the beer is the data, the glass is the disk. give him 2 glasses, turn on parallelism (let him use both hands), and he can get your beer to you faster... -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:40

RE: Send Mail in Unix

2003-02-13 Thread Anderson, Brian
I use mutt which has the option to attach a file. mutt -s 'subject' -a filename user@mailserver /dev/null would send an attachment with no body, put a file instead of /dev/null if you want a body for the message. With mailx in unix, I've been told it can be done by piping through uuencode or

[Q] how to start intelegent agent on ORACLE 9.2 version?

2003-02-13 Thread dist cash
We just upgraded the ORACLE from 8.1.7 to 9.2 on SUN server. I tried to start up the intelegent agent on it and have error happen. %lsnrctl dbsnmp_start LSNRCTL for Solaris: Version 9.2.0.2.0 - Production on 13-FEB-2003 12:14:41 Copyright (c) 1991, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights

RE: Send Mail in Unix

2003-02-13 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
All, I guess I made the mistake mentioning Excel. I am creating a tab delimited text file with an .xls file type that Excel can easily open. It is not a binary Excel file. I just need to be able to send the file as an attachement. thanks again and sorry for the mis-statement! Tom

RE: 10046 trace - weird library misses

2003-02-13 Thread Gorbounov,Vadim
Tim, Thanks for you idea, doesn't solve the mistery though. AFAK, eliminating _HARD_ parses doesn't seem to be client-side responsibility, server takes care of this. This is definitely true about soft parses, i.e., client side cursor caching. BTW JDBC 9.x driver is capable of maintaining

Re: Send Mail in Unix

2003-02-13 Thread Peter Johnson
Tom, Here is a perl script that will send the file as an attachment. HTH Peter #!/usr/bin/perl -w # mail_attach.pl -- Mail files as attachments # Created new perl script mostly from MLB 11/09/1999 # The Perl Journal 14 mail_attach.pl example # # $ARGV[0]: The sender e-mail address #

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

2003-02-13 Thread Jared . Still
And don't forget, RAC ( or a cluster ) will be of little benefit if the SAN fails. ( it happens ) Jared Post, Ethan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/13/2003 09:14 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Newbie to Oracle DBA

2003-02-13 Thread O'Neill, Sean
From: Santosh Varma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 15:34:46 +0530 Subject: Newbie to Oracle DBA Hello list, I wanted to know of some good sites where i can learn the basics as well as advanced DBA topics. Could anybody help me out ? Thanks and Regards, Santosh I'd go along

RE: Deep OPS tuning info

2003-02-13 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Rui, It is very difficult to identify the problem by just looking the contention for dlm resource hash list. What are the current values of lm_% parameters. Basically that latch protects the resources in LM resource structures in the lock manager resource table. And I would compare the values

Off Topic: Where is the software industry headed?

2003-02-13 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
Does anyone know of an article(s) that discuss the future direction of the software industry (availableon the web)? Thanks much, Ken Janusz, CPIM

RE: Re: parallel index creation again:in which case, can we use p

2003-02-13 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Steve, I appreciate the beer-related example. A man after my best interests. But if the customers are on the far-ends of the bar, then the bartender is wasting time walking back and forth! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 13,

Re: Deep OPS tuning info

2003-02-13 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Ask Anjo. I know everybody says he's neither pretty nor smart, but I think that's just a little unfair... Mogens MARREIROS,RUI (HP-Portugal,ex1) wrote: Hi all: I'm tuning an OPS env. and the things are getting quite deep, DLM latch issues and so on (e.g. lots of waits on dlm resource hash

Re: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-13 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Whoever is going to help do it, please make sure it has a really good wait interface from the beginning :). Orr, Steve wrote: RE: Oracle License for Training For me the question is not "If?" but "When?" Any prognostications? -Original Message-

RE: Send Mail in Unix - solved!

2003-02-13 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
OMG!!! Thanks to all! It actually works! This is what works for me: I run a sql script that produces a tab delimited report showing tablespace usage (think of the OEM screen showing all the tablespaces with size, used and free listed). I then use the following command to send the report to

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

2003-02-13 Thread Jesse, Rich
Jared, point well taken. One SAN goes and we lose access to 7 DBs. However, the paranoia between me and my Team Lead will certainly opt for dual network path, dual power (to go with our current UPS and Ford V8 generator), and some mix of RAIDs 0 and 1. I'm thinking that this will get us to the

RE: 10046 trace - weird library misses

2003-02-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: 10046 trace - weird library misses hmmm... I shouldn't work on two emails at the same time anymore... Can't work in parallel. The statement should be ... There will be a parse, but it could be a soft if the SQL exists ... but a parse will happen so, my answer was absolutely

Re:External procedures

2003-02-13 Thread dgoulet
As one who has created a number of external procedures on HP, Yes you do have to acquire and install the HP ANSI C compiler. The C compiler that HP ships with HP-UX is only good enough to build a new kernel and link up the Oracle executables. It's most likely giving you that error because in the

RE: Count(*) last 30 seconds

2003-02-13 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Title: Message Tks Herman, will make that change. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Hemant K ChitaleSent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 10:15 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Count(*) last 30

Re:RE: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-13 Thread dgoulet
Steve, I'd say IF. Reason is that MySql has a commercial company behind it and it appears that they see looming in the near future. Their licensing costs have risen in the last 3 months. Granted their a pile cheaper than Oracle (correction, make that a mountain), but as always if

RE: Send Mail in Unix

2003-02-13 Thread Daniel Garant
Here what I do on our SUN (cat $ORACLE_BASE/THO1/scripts/backup_misc.log ; uuencode $ORACLE_BASE/THO1/scripts/crontab_content.txt crontab_content.txt ; uuencode $ORACLE_BASE/THO1/scripts/pfile_content.txt pfile_content.txt)| $MAIL -s Backup misc files THO1 $EMAIL_ADDRESS Hope it helps Daniel

RE: [Q] how to start intelegent agent on ORACLE 9.2 version?

2003-02-13 Thread Chris Stephens
Title: RE: [Q] how to start intelegent agent on ORACLE 9.2 version? Agentctl start (from the command line...not in lsnrctl) -Original Message- From: dist cash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 12:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: [Q]

RE: Send Mail in Unix

2003-02-13 Thread Post, Ethan
I usually ... uuencode filename filename | mailx -s foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 11:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Post, Ethan INET: [EMAIL

RE: 10046 trace - weird library misses

2003-02-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: 10046 trace - weird library misses I wonder if soft parsingapplies to pl/sql blocks as it applies to just plain sql?? do you see the sql inside the function parsed less times compared to execute? Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni

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