Storage guidelines in 9iR1 ??

2003-03-19 Thread Prem Khanna J
Guys, The paper How to stop defragmenting and start living has some SAFE rules for extent management in dictionary managed tablespaces (in oracle 8 and 8i) as below: -- Segments smaller than 128M should be placed in 128K

RE: error configuration database oracle 9.2.0 on Redhat

2003-03-19 Thread Sinardy Xing
Hi Pomin, This is syntax error, why don't you check your create database syntax including init.ora file and system environment variable. Just my speculation. Sinardy -Original Message-From: pomin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 19 March 2003 09:49To: Multiple recipients

Restricting the size of a BLOB column

2003-03-19 Thread Naveen Nahata
Hi All, Apologies if this question is naive. How to restrict the size of a BLOB column? I mean the column is defined as BLOB, and I want data not more than lets say 100KB to be in it, how to achieve this? Regards, Naveen DISCLAIMER: This message (including attachment if any) is confidential

Questions about constraints

2003-03-19 Thread roland . skoldblom
Hallo, I get this errormessage while inserting to this table. How can I check this constraint problem? Any wrong with the table definition 9.03.2003 09:46:38 Db_Transfil.AVSTEM - ORA-2: db_filtype_ik.AVS TEM: - ORA-2: db_filtype_ik:OVERFOR_TIL_KUN:

Re: can't create database (NOW WORKING!)

2003-03-19 Thread Schwerdtfeger,
Am Die, 2003-03-18 um 15.58 schrieb Schwerdtfeger, Christoph: Am Mon, 2003-03-17 um 18.32 schrieb Ray Stell: On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 07:03:43AM -0800, Joe Johnson wrote: Hi, This site has a good description of how to use the ipcs and ipcrm commands to clean up these left-over

Re: Storage guidelines in 9iR1 ??

2003-03-19 Thread Connor McDonald
Treat dictionary managed tablespaces as being obsolete. Use LMT's for everything. On an unrelated note, if you can, go for 9.2 not 9.0, its streets ahead. hth connor --- Prem Khanna J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, The paper How to stop defragmenting and start living has some SAFE

Re: Storage guidelines in 9iR1 ??

2003-03-19 Thread Mogens N?rgaard
Go to LMT asap. Whether you want to use uniform sized extents in LMTs or system managed (or whatever it's called) is a matter of dispute. My personal opinion is for uniformed sizing. Mogens Prem Khanna J wrote: Guys, The paper How to stop defragmenting and start living has some SAFE rules for

Rownum

2003-03-19 Thread Santosh Varma
Hello list, I wanted to know the concept of Rownum.. Is it similar to Row Id ? Thanks and Regards, Santosh

RE: error configuration database oracle 9.2.0 on Redhat

2003-03-19 Thread Schwerdtfeger,
Am Mit, 2003-03-19 um 09.23 schrieb Sinardy Xing: Hi Pomin, This is syntax error, why don't you check your create database syntax including init.ora file and system environment variable. Just my speculation. Sinardy -Original Message- From: pomin

Re: Autoallocate (was Re: LMT monitoring)

2003-03-19 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Commit; Mogens Nrgaard wrote: Money, sex and power. No exceptions to my knowledge (read: so far in my life). Connor McDonald wrote: Stepping back into reality briefly: With great power comes great licensing fees, great amounts of advertising literature, great

Re: Storage guidelines in 9iR1 ??

2003-03-19 Thread Prem Khanna J
Thanks Mogens. but any thumb of rule to fix the UNIFORM SIZE in LMTs. how do u go about fixing the size ?! Regards, Jp. 2003/03/19 18:15:52, Mogens N?rgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go to LMT asap. Whether you want to use uniform sized extents in LMTs or system managed (or whatever it's called)

Urgent - ORA-03001 Error While creating BLOB in 9.0.1 ?!

2003-03-19 Thread Scott Nealy
Guys, CREATE TABLE NAO.MSG ( MEMNO NUMBER(10, 0), PROFNO NUMBER(10, 0), NAME VARCHAR2(20), AGE VARCHAR2(10), SEX NUMBER(1, 0), JANLNO NUMBER(5, 0), SUBJECT VARCHAR2(50), CONTENT VARCHAR2(500), DELFLAG NUMBER(1, 0) DEFAULT 0, POSTDATE DATE DEFAULT SYSDATE, EXPDATE DATE, POSTNO

RE: Storage guidelines in 9iR1 ??

2003-03-19 Thread Kevin Toepke
Funny this came up. I had just finished doing research on this for a potential 9iRAC implemenation. What I came up with from reading the docs and from experimentation is to keep the number of extents of each table and each indexes to less than 1024. 1024 seemed to be a majic number. Performance

Data Capture program

2003-03-19 Thread Santosh Varma
Hellolist, I am in a project where the client wants a data capture program without any validation in any fields.. the back-end is Oracle 8.1.7. what is the best way to give the user the data capture program ? please provide me any solution as soon as possible. Thanks and regards,

RE: Rownum

2003-03-19 Thread ISI/BDD/HAOUHACH
just do select rownum, col1,col2, from table1 -Message d'origine-De: Santosh Varma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Envoyé: mercredi 19 mars 2003 09:44À: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LObjet: Rownum Hello list, I wanted to know the concept of Rownum.. Is it

Force to use a tablespace

2003-03-19 Thread roland . skoldblom
Hallo, anyone who knows how to force a table to use a special tablespace? Thanks in advance. Roland -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego,

Re: Rownum

2003-03-19 Thread Darrell Landrum
Santosh, Good question. Actually these 2 are not related. Rowid is an actual attribute assigned to each row of a table and is unique. Rownum is logically assigned to rows returned in a query (nothing to do with the table). It is assigned sequentially as rows are returned (meaning if you can't

SQL*LOADER question

2003-03-19 Thread Rick_Cale
Hi All,

RE: Force to use a tablespace

2003-03-19 Thread ISI/BDD/HAOUHACH
do like this example: CREATE TABLE TABLE_NAME (COL1 TYPE1, COL2 TYPE2, ... ) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 TABLESPACE TABLE_SPACE_NAME STORAGE (INITIAL 20K NEXT 372K PCTINCREASE 50 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 249 ); -Message d'origine- De :

Re: Force to use a tablespace

2003-03-19 Thread Darrell Landrum
Hi Roland, What do you mean by special tablespace? When a segment is created (table or partition) you can specify a particular tablespace. Let us know if more information is needed, Darrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/19/03 05:53AM Hallo, anyone who knows how to force a table to use a special

RE: ERWIN vs Designer

2003-03-19 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: ERWIN vs Designer Check out Total Access Analyzer at http://www.fmsinc.com/Products/access.asp Jerry Whittle ASIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 618-622-4145 -Original Message- From: IT - Database (Do Not Use) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I

RE: Rownum

2003-03-19 Thread John Blake
no, rownum is a sequential number whereas rowid is a pointer to the row of the table within the database. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Santosh VarmaSent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 4:44 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list

Good Book for tuning UNIX O/S!

2003-03-19 Thread Murali Menon
Any recommendations on a good UNIX o/s more specifically focusing on tuning scenarios and examples. Thanks Menon Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop!

RE: Storage guidelines in 9iR1 ??

2003-03-19 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Prem (B What do you mean by "fixing" the size? Is it broke? In your earlier (Bmessage you mention the sizes that Oracle recommends for the extent sizes, (Bso I assume that isn't what you mean. (B (BDennis Williams (BDBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA (BLifetouch, Inc. (B[EMAIL PROTECTED] (B (B

Re: Force to use a tablespace

2003-03-19 Thread Babu Nagarajan
create table table_name column_list tablespace tablespace_name; babu - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 6:53 AM Hallo, anyone who knows how to force a table to use a special tablespace? Thanks in

RE: Job Needed

2003-03-19 Thread Peter Barnett
Dice had a job somewhere in Ohio yesterday. --- Kevin Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hear the job of Prime Minister in England will probably be open soon. Any political ambitions ? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

buffer busy due to global cache

2003-03-19 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi All, Anybody knows what this wait event is casued by?? TIA Jacob A. van Zanen Oracle DBA Quant Systems Europe b.v. Tel : +31 (0) 251 - 268 268 Mobile: +31 (0) 6 51308813 Fax: +31 (0) 251 - 268 269 E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our web site at http://www.quantsystems.nl/ --

RE: Urgent - ORA-03001 Error While creating BLOB in 9.0.1 ?!

2003-03-19 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
There was an issue in 9.0.1.0 with BLOB and ASSM feature. It was rectified in 9.0.1.2. Are you sure the Oracle version is *exactly* the same? And that the machine B, is not missing any Oracle patches applied to machine A? - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003

Re: Re: Rownum

2003-03-19 Thread
Darrell Landrum,ÄúºÃ£¡ thanx for your explaination. I wonder :whether i can judge the select return. I find the rowNUM is not 0, is right? === 2003-03-19 05:03:00 ÄúÔÚÀ´ÐÅÖÐдµÀ£º=== Santosh, Good question. Actually these 2 are not related. Rowid is an actual attribute

OT: determining bytes written to tape

2003-03-19 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
[/begin rant] We ran into a bit of a puzzle here. It started innocently enough, with someone asking whether Oracle tablespaces that are largely empty are really being compressed before they are written to tape. We use Veritas Enterprise NetBackup with a StorageTek tape silo. Our backups are

RE: Force to use a tablespace

2003-03-19 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Roland, Don't know if I understand you correctly, my english is not good, but what if you specify the tbs to use at the moment of the creation of the table CREATE TABLE mitabla ( CODE NUMBER(4)) TABLESPACE mitbs Suerte Ramon -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: buffer busy due to global cache

2003-03-19 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Jack I did a quick search on Google and this seems to be related to using RAC. Do you have that implemented? Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 8:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: SQL*LOADER question

2003-03-19 Thread Igor Neyman
Should not be a problem: sqlldr control=your_ctl_file data=your_data_file userid=login/pwd@remote_machine where remote_machine is an entry in your local/client tnsnames file. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

RE: Questions about constraints

2003-03-19 Thread Stephen Lee
You are trying to insert a row that contains values that already exist in the table, and there is a constraint on the table that says the values for the row(s) must be unique. Now about that column BONGID ... What are you smoking? -Original Message- Hallo, I get this

RE: Good Book for tuning UNIX O/S!

2003-03-19 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Menon Do you mean tuning Unix itself or Oracle on Unix? Which Unix? The only book for tuning Oracle on Unix that I am aware of is Oracle and Unix Performance Tuning by Ahmed Alomari. I have difficulty reading it, but others on the list whom I respect have recommended it highly. Dennis

Re:Data Capture program

2003-03-19 Thread dgoulet
Santosh, As one who has written a pile of these, you've left out a lot of details. The first question I would have is where is the data coming from and how is it being written. If the data is flat ASCII text, and is from a batch process SQL*Loader or an external table (9i V2) would be

RE: Rownum

2003-03-19 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
No. It is not similar to a rowid. It is just a pseudo sequential number assigned to the rows in the result set (after the result set is prepared) from the query. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello list,

RE: Force to use a tablespace

2003-03-19 Thread John Blake
create table tbl_name (col data_type) tablespace tablespace_name ; -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 6:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hallo, anyone who knows how to force a table to use a special tablespace? Thanks in advance.

RE: ERWIN vs Designer

2003-03-19 Thread Robson, Peter
We have met just your requirement using Visio Professional. Easy, minimal learning curve. But it is not a case tool. In passing, we also use the Oracle tool for design work. And it is a significant learning curve. peter edinburgh -Original Message- From: IT - Database (Do Not Use)

Gather_system_stats

2003-03-19 Thread david hill
Title: Gather_system_stats Hi everyone I was trying to migrate one of our applications to 9.2 and put in cost at the same time I came across Gather_system_stats and was wondering if anyone had used it? Did it improve the executions plan choice at all? Thanks David Hill DBA

Re: SQL*LOADER question

2003-03-19 Thread Rachel Carmichael
sqlldr username/[EMAIL PROTECTED] control=controlfilename I do it all the time sqlnet works for all Oracle utilities (sqlldr, exp, imp) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All,

RE: Force to use a tablespace

2003-03-19 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
The 'create table foobar (foo number) tablespace special_tablespace;' syntax would do it. Check the SQL Reference Guide for more info. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 5:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hallo, anyone who knows how to force a

RE: Data Capture program

2003-03-19 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Can you tell us a bit more about this requirement? Does this data need to be loaded into the database? Or captured from (as in extracted) from the database? - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 5:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello list,

Re: Re: Rownum

2003-03-19 Thread Darrell Landrum
That's correct, there's no rownum of 0. ex. SQL select rownum, username from dba_users; ROWNUM USERNAME -- -- 1 SYS 2 SYSTEM 3 OUTLN 4 OEM_DLAND 5 DBSNMP 6 HR 7 PM 8 DLANDRUM 9

switch logfile vs. archive log current

2003-03-19 Thread Schauss, Peter
In my hot backup script, should I be using alter system archive log current; instead of alter system switch logfile;? At present this is what I am doing: For each tablespace: sqlplus internal EOF alter tablespace ERGO_USR begin backup; exit EOF # cp $DIR3/ERGO_USR.dbf $BACKUP_DIR$DIR3 #

Ab Initio, Unix Scripting, and Datawarehousing

2003-03-19 Thread rgaffuri
1. Has anyone ever used Ab Initio? Is it some kind of data conversion tool? What is the the learning curve on it? Is there online documentation and do they have a freeware version to download? I want to learn it. Dont want to use it for development. 2. What is a good Unix scripting book for

RE: SQL*LOADER question

2003-03-19 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Sure, you can do it. Just use Oracle Net8 connect string to connect to the remote database when specifying userid for sqlldr. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 7:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi All,

RE: ERWIN vs Designer

2003-03-19 Thread Stephane Paquette
I've used Designer but never used Erwin. Designer has a medium to big learning curve. Stephane Paquette Administrateur de bases de donnees Database Administrator Standard Life www.standardlife.ca Tel. (514) 925-7187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-

Re: buffer busy due to global cache

2003-03-19 Thread Anjo Kolk
An instance lock that protects a buffer is being downgraded or upgrade, while that is in process the buffer can't be accessed so sessions have to wait on this event. Anjo. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003

Re: SQL*LOADER question

2003-03-19 Thread Joseph S Testa
Rick, am i missing something in the picture here??, why not use sqlloader(you'll need it on your local PC) and send it across sql*net? joe Hi All,

RE: determining bytes written to tape

2003-03-19 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Patrice Just be sure and do a test restore to make sure Veritas restores the file identically to the original :-0 There have been problems where systems see unused space in Oracle data files and eliminate it to save you some space. Oracle doesn't see the humor ;-) Dennis Williams DBA,

RE: Questions about constraints

2003-03-19 Thread Schauss, Peter
This message is telling you that your insert violates the primary key constraint for the table. This means that the primary key, KUNHOD_TMP1_ID, value in your inserted record already exists in the table. HTH, Peter Schauss -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 4:16 AM To:

RE: SQL*LOADER question

2003-03-19 Thread Kevin Toepke
Rick You sure can -- as long as you can establish SQL*Net connection to the instance on the remote machine. All you have to do is specify [EMAIL PROTECTED] either on the command line or in your parameter file. If the OSs are exectly the same, you can even use direct path inserts Kevin

RE: switch logfile vs. archive log current

2003-03-19 Thread BALA,PRAKASH (HP-USA,ex1)
Hello Peter, If you are going to backup the archive logs, I would recommend '.. archive log current;' because it ensures that the current logfile gets archived first before you do the backup. The problem with the other command is it will switch but Oracle may not archive the file immediately.

Re: How to calculate the working hours?

2003-03-19 Thread Igor Neyman
Title: RE: How to calculate the working hours? What about holydays? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Jacques Kilchoer To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 9:53 PM Subject: RE: How to calculate

RE: SQL*LOADER question

2003-03-19 Thread Schauss, Peter
Rick, Assuming sqlldr is installed on your client machine, you should be able to run it locally. HTH, Peter Schauss -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 8:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi All,

Re: switch logfile vs. archive log current

2003-03-19 Thread Hemant K Chitale
A switch logfile isn't mandatory and an archive log current is highly recommended. The switch logfile command would return immdiately and would not wait for the archiver to complete archiving the log. The archive log current would return only after the archiver has completed it's job. You must

Re[2]: Rownum

2003-03-19 Thread dgoulet
Darrell, Pretty damn close. Rowid is the actual absolute address of a row in the database. It use to come in the format of .. up to version 8.0 which was decoded as the file number, block number, and row address within the block. At version 8.0 it took on the format we see

RE: Gather_system_stats

2003-03-19 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
David Are you using RULE alone on your current system? Probably some of your queries will run faster and some will run slower if you switch to CBO. Guess which ones your users will complain about? My suggestion to avoid a riot at your cubicle is to try to identify the queries that will need

Test - Delete me

2003-03-19 Thread Gene Sais

RE: Job Needed

2003-03-19 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: RE: Job Needed Scouting report: I don't know about any jobs but I do know that whoever hires this Kevin guy will have wisely scored a major talent acquisition... a real 1st round draft pick! -Original Message- From: Kevin Toepke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday,

Oracle 9iAS Training

2003-03-19 Thread Glenn Stauffer
We're running web applications, forms, and reports on a a 9iAS server and we're looking at two big projects over the next year, so I'm planning to sign up for a training class or two. Has anyone attended any good 9iAS configuration and management courses? Thanks! Glenn Stauffer -- Please

RE: Ab Initio, Unix Scripting, and Datawarehousing

2003-03-19 Thread BALA,PRAKASH (HP-USA,ex1)
1. It's an ETL tool like Informatica. Heard it's much better than Informatica. You need to check their website for further information. 3. You just deal with a lot of data at one time and so keep in mind to optimize your code so that the end-to-end processing time is less. HTH Prakash

DB_FILE_MULTIBLOCK_READs and Extent boundaries -- was RE: db

2003-03-19 Thread Hemant K Chitale
See Note 181272.1 on MetaLink. The Multiblock I/O never spans Extent Boundaries even if the Extents are continuous and also if using Locally Managed Tablespaces. Hemant At 07:44 AM 17-03-03 -0800, you wrote: How can you tell that DB_FILE_MULTIBLOCK_READ will not span extents? I was unable to

RE: Force to use a tablespace

2003-03-19 Thread Ron Rogers
Roland, If the table is already established and you want the next extents to be in a different datafile then you can force that situation. Onca a table was been created in a perticular tablespace I don't know of a way to split the table across multiple tablespaces other that partitioning. To

Test

2003-03-19 Thread Natalia Laracca

RE: determining bytes written to tape

2003-03-19 Thread Stephen Lee
I wonder if you could run a backup, then start dd-ing stuff off the tape until you run out of stuff to dd. The problem is, this is an after-the-fact count. For what it's worth Legato Networker (which I'm not particularly fond of) reports the bytes it has written to a tape. -- Please see the

RE: Ab Initio, Unix Scripting, and Datawarehousing

2003-03-19 Thread Stephen Lee
-Original Message- 2. What is a good Unix scripting book for Oracle Developers? There is more than one good scripting language for Unix. I suspect others with chime in with Perl, Python, etc.; so I'll throw in some comments on Korn shell programming. If you want a good book for ksh

What happened ... no email?

2003-03-19 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: What happened ... no email? Hey ... anyone out there ?? Raj - Rajendra dot Jamadagni at espn dot com Any views expressed here are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having an opinion is an art !!

Thin JDBC and IPC -- was re: OT: 11i Autoupgrade and IPC

2003-03-19 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Your issue really relates to Thin JDBC and IPC. I'm not sure that Thin JDBC can use IPC. See Note 70154.1 on MetaLink. The JDBC Thin driver connects to any Oracle database of version 7.2 and higher, although at the time of this writing the lowest level of Oracle server supported is 8.1.7.

RE: Ab Initio, Unix Scripting, and Datawarehousing

2003-03-19 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
RG 1. I don't recognize Ab Initio. 2. For Unix scripting, there are several alternatives. You should first decide what you should learn (this list can help), before you spend a lot of time learning it. For example, I wasted a lot of time learning csh only to find it isn't a very good

Re: Restricting the size of a BLOB column

2003-03-19 Thread Justin Cave
At 01:53 AM 3/19/2003, Naveen Nahata wrote: Hi All, Apologies if this question is naive. How to restrict the size of a BLOB column? I mean the column is defined as BLOB, and I want data not more than lets say 100KB to be in it, how to achieve this? I believe you should be able to put a check

Value of OCP

2003-03-19 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Foote Partners surveys the value of certifications. They support that over the past two years, the OCP pay premium increased by nearly 40%. In the same period, the value of Microsoft MCP declined by nearly 60%. A good article on the value of certifications.

RE: Job Needed

2003-03-19 Thread Brian Dunbar
Perhaps the most telling statement about the state of the economy today. Job, singular. On DICE. ~brian -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 8:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dice had a job somewhere in Ohio yesterday. --- Kevin Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RE: Ab Initio, Unix Scripting, and Datawarehousing

2003-03-19 Thread rgaffuri
been to their website and cant find the free download. Any idea what the learning curve is on Ab Initio? I constantly try to improve my skills and Im trying to decide whether this is worth the time at the moment. From: BALA,PRAKASH (HP-USA,ex1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/03/19 Wed PM

RE: How to calculate the working hours?

2003-03-19 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: How to calculate the working hours? (re-sending because my e-mail from yesterday never made it to the list) see answer below -Original Message- From: Andrea Oracle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] We have open Time for every order, ef: Open Time --

Re: What happened ... no email?

2003-03-19 Thread Tim Gorman
--MS_Mac_OE_3130916029_1658585_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Well ...I know most folks in Denver aren't at work today. We've got four feet of snow and still coming down. I'm stuck in Salt Lake City, missing the best blizzard in a

RE: switch logfile vs. archive log current

2003-03-19 Thread Hand, Michael T
I use switch logfile exclusively within my hot backups (because at the time I wrote the scripts I was unaware of the difference) but also check V$LOG to make sure the archive write is complete before proceeding with the backup. I has worked fine on my 8.x production database for the last 4+ years

Re: Gather_system_stats

2003-03-19 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
Title: Re: Gather_system_stats DO understand the implications of gathering system statistics. Once you have system statistics, the cbo adds a cpu cost element to the plan costs. In my experience it is largely marginal, especially if you have fast cpus. The bulk cost is still coming from

Rownum

2003-03-19 Thread Daniel W. Fink
ROWNUM is the order in which a row is returned to the result set after all predicates (WHERE clause) are applied. It can be affected by implicit sorts (i.e. DISTINCT) and access paths (i.e. INDEX v. TABLE). An ORDER BY will preserve the rownum, but will not display it in sequential order.

RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-19 Thread Pete Sharman
Dang, I gotta get a copy of that report to my manager! After going through the 7.3, 8, 8i and 9i OCP AND the OCM, I don't think any of them got me a pay increase! ;) Pete Controlling developers is like herding cats. Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!

Re: Test - Delete me

2003-03-19 Thread Daniel W. Fink
delete from oracle-l where subscriber = 'Gene Sais'; commit; select count(*) from oracle-l where subscriber = 'Gene Sais'; COUNT(*) -- 0 -- Daniel W. Fink http://www.optimaldba.com IOUG-A Live! April 27 - May 1, 2003 Orlando, FL Sunday, April 27 8:30am - 4:30pm - Problem

RE: RE: Ab Initio, Unix Scripting, and Datawarehousing

2003-03-19 Thread BALA,PRAKASH (HP-USA,ex1)
If you have worked on any other ETL tools, picking this one up should be relatively easy. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 12:50 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L been to their website and cant find the free download. Any idea what the learning curve is on Ab

Re: What happened ... no email?

2003-03-19 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Title: What happened ... no email? Yup! Ruth - Original Message - From: Jamadagni, Rajendra To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:49 AM Subject: What happened ... no email? Hey ... anyone out there ?? Raj

RE: Test - Delete me

2003-03-19 Thread Naveen Nahata
a small technical mistake :-) delete from "oracle-l" where subscriber = 'Gene Sais'; ^ "-" is not allowed in identifiers ;-) Regards Naveen -Original Message-From: Daniel W. Fink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:57 PMTo: Multiple recipients of

RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-19 Thread April Wells
Know what... OCP didn't get me one, either... but Mine is just ocp and just 8 and 8i (9i in a few weeks) ajw -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 12:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dang, I gotta get a copy of that report to my manager! After going

RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-19 Thread M Rafiq
Same with me for 7.3 to 9i OCP , no increment even no reimbursement of test fees either. Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:35:32 -0800 Dang, I gotta get a copy of that report to my manager!

RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-19 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Depends on the orginazation. Some organizations are rigid seniority based traditionaly managed where it does not matter if you have a PhD or not. If you've been with the company 10 years, then you get a raise and get to do neat things. -- Lyndon Tiu Quoting Pete Sharman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

RE: buffer busy due to global cache

2003-03-19 Thread Gogala, Mladen
This can also happen during creating a consisten version of the block with cache fusion enabled. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L An instance lock that protects a buffer is being downgraded or upgrade, while that is in

RE: RE: Ab Initio, Unix Scripting, and Datawarehousing

2003-03-19 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
RG This tool will only be worth it if your prospective employer purchased this particular tool. Another approach is to find what most DW sites use again and again. Like ksh. Like SQL*Loader. You could even write some useful utilities and scripts to impress a prospective employer. Like a ksh

Re: Value of OCP

2003-03-19 Thread Alex
Certifications are good for self marketing just like a degree from a prestigious school. Does a certification mean anything? It means the person took time to study and pass a test. It shows a little dedication. A certification by itself means the individual is competent enough for an entry level

partitioning

2003-03-19 Thread Basavaraja, Ravindra
Hi, I am wondering if there is any way to achieve horizontal partitioning in Oracle. Assuming that I have about 8 partitions for a table.When there is INSERT onto this table I want one record to be inserted into each partition i.e 1st record goes into partition 1 2nd record goes into

RE: RE: Ab Initio, Unix Scripting, and Datawarehousing

2003-03-19 Thread rgaffuri
I already know that stuff. Im seeing AB Initio posted on the job sites. Sometimes you gotta pick up the buzzwords enough to talk about them. I would assume its not that big of a deal though. Market is just really tight. I only have 3.5 years experience and Im competing aganst guys with 10

Re: RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-19 Thread rgaffuri
Ive noticed that in consulting these things matter more. Makes it easier to sell you. Ive been on projects where people have said so and so has an OCP so they know what they are doing. Ive also seen some jobs that require OCPs. Not tons, but a few. From: Lyndon Tiu [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-19 Thread Ron Rogers
I don't think that getting OCP certification is any guarantee of a pay raise unless it is in the initial requirements for the particular job or in the yearly review requirements. I hold my OCP certifications for my own satisfaction and well being not for the advantage of my employer. It is some

RE: partitioning

2003-03-19 Thread Khedr, Waleed
read about hash partitioning -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 2:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I am wondering if there is any way to achieve horizontal partitioning in Oracle. Assuming that I have about 8 partitions for a table.When there is

Re:partitioning

2003-03-19 Thread dgoulet
I'm not sure what your trying to accomplish. You get one insert for one record. Which partition is used depends on how you set them up. If your wanting the partitions to be used in a circular fashion I believe that is accomplished with a hash partition and you get to create the hashing method.

RE: partitioning

2003-03-19 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: partitioning You could accomplish this with a before insert trigger and a partitioning column that contains the value 0 through 7. e.g. create trigger before insert for each row begin select mod (sequence.nextval, 8) into :new.partition_column from dual ; end ; / Something

Re: buffer busy due to global cache

2003-03-19 Thread Anjo Kolk
Because the instance locks are now called Global Cache Services .. ;-) - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 7:59 PM This can also happen during creating a consisten version of the block with cache fusion

RE: switch logfile vs. archive log current

2003-03-19 Thread Schauss, Peter
At what point do you insert the sleep command and how many seconds do you specify? Why exclude the last archive log? Thanks, Peter Schauss Northrop Grumman Corporation -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 11:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L A switch

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