RE: cannot allocate new log -- Problem Solved

2003-06-04 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Naula - Don't worry about it. You've given me something to look for the next time. I'd rather learn from someone else's problems. :-) Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 5:25 AM To: Multiple recipients

RE: Schedule Analyze using DBMS_STATS ???

2003-06-04 Thread Mark Leith
Prem, Use DBMS_JOBS to run the analyze: === undef username undef password grant analyze any to username / connect username/password CREATE or REPLACE PROCEDURE analyze_tables ( v_stat_type IN VARCHAR2 := 'COMPUTE') AS CURSOR c IS SELECT

RE: Tablespace management.

2003-06-04 Thread Bryan, Miriam
-Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 11:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Yes, it is fixed in 9.2.0 Hemant At 04:25 AM 02-06-03 -0800, you wrote: Hope it's fixed in 9iR2 ! Jp. 2003/06/02 20:54:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cannot create lob columns if segment

RE: When will long datatype no longer be supported

2003-06-04 Thread Gogala, Mladen
-Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 6:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Your case against LOB is That was probably the case against LONG? -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the

Re: Re: question about large pool

2003-06-04 Thread rgaffuri
you only want DBWR_IO_SLAVES or multiple DBWRn if you have datafiles spread over multiple I/O points correct? We are using 'Network Appliance' hard disk array that Im not all that familiar with. It looks like we have 3 I/O points and 5 mount points. my boss told me that striping data files and

RE: SQL Loader

2003-06-04 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: SQL Loader If SQL loader loads a table it takes the first record in the file and stuffs it in the top of the table... like a stack... last in, first out so if you were to read the table like you read the sequential file, it is in there with the bottom record in the file as the

RE: cannot allocate new log -- Problem Solved

2003-06-04 Thread Naveen Nahata
Having multiple tnsnames.ora, and multiple init.ora always create unanticipated problems. -Original Message- From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 7:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: cannot allocate new log -- Problem

RE: When will long data type no longer be supported

2003-06-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: When will long data type no longer be supported Also be aware that in some early versions of 901x temporary lobs used to _leak_. We use CLOBS all ESPN stories, (even) scores are transmitted as CLOBS containing XML data. So, yeah ... use CLOBS, they rock compared to LONGs.

How to Uninstall apps11i

2003-06-04 Thread Senthil Kumar D
Hi Group, How do I uninstall apps 11i. any specific procedures are there to uninstall??? thanks Senthil. -Original Message- Gogala Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 5:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Well, I was talking about cursors, sort areas and hash areas. I probably

Re: SQL Loader

2003-06-04 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
That's what I thought. LIFO. Why does the order matter? Can you sort the result to suit your needs? - Kirti --- Pradeep Kumar G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I queried the table to which SQL Loader loaded data from the .dat file, the first record in the table was the 5th record and

Re: RE: IN or Exists --- performance issue

2003-06-04 Thread rgaffuri
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:247354401321242398::NO::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID,F4950_P8_CRITERIA:953229842074, that will give you a detailed explanation From: Stephane Faroult [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/06/03 Tue AM 09:01:28 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Re: RE: Schedule Analyze using DBMS_STATS ???

2003-06-04 Thread Prem Khanna J
Thanx a lot Mark. Sure , your code has given me a starting point. let me change accordingly to use DBMS_STATSe and give a try :-) So,can i conclude that DBMS_STATS is better than ANALYZE ?! Someone over the list mentioned that DBMS_STATS is slower. is it so ? What is your opinion regarding this

RE: IN or Exists --- performance issue

2003-06-04 Thread Kevin Toepke
I nearly alwayshave issues with blanket statements on performance. That includes the statement that EXISTS should be used in place of IN. If the IN performs better in the particular case, use it. If it doesn't perfom adiquately then, by all means, convert it to an EXISTS. And do the

MView data problem

2003-06-04 Thread Manoj Ahuja
Hi All, I have a mview(Materialized View) that i refresh ONDEMAND. This Mview takes 15 minutes in refresh as it involves a complex query and lots of data in master table. But as soon as the refresh starts old data gets deleted from the mview and there is no data in mview untill the refresh is

RE: Which method is more efficient

2003-06-04 Thread Abdul Aleem
Perhaps it is late to answer, but you might want to have a table that is populated with PK and column values, via column level trigger indicating the changed column and data? Aleem -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 10:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: OCP Test Order

2003-06-04 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: OCP Test Order to tell the truth the networking exam is basically some rote memorization and the questions are straightforward - I prepared while waiting 1/2 hour to take exam at most. The performance tuning exam is what I have been told to immediately forget by some certifiable

Re: Re: question about large pool

2003-06-04 Thread Jared Still
Not sure what you mean by I/O points. Whether or not multiple DB writer will be of benefit to you depends on a couple things. First of all, can you use async IO? I don't see any mention of what platform you are on. If you're using Windoze, it is async IO by default. Async IO is generally a

test delete

2003-06-04 Thread James Howerton
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RE: RE: Schedule Analyze using DBMS_STATS ???

2003-06-04 Thread Mark Leith
Sorry JP, I should have clarified that DBMS_STATS is the way to go, when on a 9i or above release. One of the simple factors being that ANALYZE is being deprecated.. There seemed to be a number of bugs/quirks, whatever you want to call them, in certain 8.1.x versions, which are now fixed within

Database recovery question

2003-06-04 Thread Clarkson, Timothy T SEOP-OEIRH/1
Title: Database recovery question I have a hot backup of an Oracle database (all files located on E:), I now want to restore the hot backup location as F:. Now if this was a cold backup I could recreate the control files :-) But since it is a hot backup I need to do a recover database using

RE: Schedule Analyze using DBMS_STATS ???

2003-06-04 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Thanks Mark - That is exactly what I was just getting ready to write! (B (BDennis Williams (BDBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA (BLifetouch, Inc. (B[EMAIL PROTECTED] (B (B (B-Original Message- (BSent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:02 AM (BTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L (B (B (BPrem,

RE: Database recovery question

2003-06-04 Thread Clarkson, Timothy T SEOP-OEIRH/1
Thanks, was not sure if you could rename the files before you had done the required recovery of the database. Since you can rename using the backup controlfile before recovery then everything should go smoothly as I have done the cold backup restore process LOTS :-) Cheers -Original

RE: Re: question about large pool

2003-06-04 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
My experience with NetApp says that it is easy to clog up your bandwidth to the device. I would worry more about that issue and finding just how much throughput you could get to the device. Usually the DBWR tuning is for the situation where you have lots of devices with separate paths to those

RE: performance questions

2003-06-04 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Sai - I think the whole point is to open this up for discussion / negotiation. My suggestion would be to agree with the business users on a typical query and the response time they expect. Ideally response time is measured at the user's terminal. But if necessary just for the database, you might

Unix host name change - what happens to db?

2003-06-04 Thread Carmen Rusu
My boss has decided to change the name of the Sun OS 2.8 host of my Oracle 8i databases. Question: how does this name change affect my Oracle software installation and my databases? Has this happened to any of you? Thanks, Carmen Rusu

RE: RE: Schedule Analyze using DBMS_STATS ???

2003-06-04 Thread Goulet, Dick
JP, After you've initially created statistics and set the tables into monitoring mode this script will create a DBMS_JOB that keeps them up to date each morning: set serverout on size 10 prompt Connecting to SYS connect sys@_dbname grant select on dba_tab_modifications to system;

Re: Database recovery question

2003-06-04 Thread Hemant K Chitale
1. Restore the controlfile backup and all your datafiles to F: 2. Configure the initSID.ora to set the control_files parameter to the controlfile at F: 3. STARTUP MOUNT 3. Run the ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE oldfilein E: TO newfile in F: for each datafile (including the SYSTEM Tablespace

Re: question about large pool

2003-06-04 Thread Tim Gorman
The UGA contains cursors, session state info, etc. The PGA contains sort area, hash area, bitmap merge area, read buffers for direct-path, etc. on 6/3/03 4:39 AM, Mladen Gogala at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I was talking about cursors, sort areas and hash areas. I probably did confuse

Re: When will long datatype no longer be supported

2003-06-04 Thread Arup Nanda
Thanks, Mladen. It was case against LONG, not LOB. Arup - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 10:24 AM -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 6:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

get hit ration

2003-06-04 Thread AK
found that gethitratio in v$librarycahce is very low for indexes. what does it mean ? is there any way to improve this . thanks, -ak

Corrupt Block

2003-06-04 Thread Satya Prakash Viswanath
Hi List, How do I identify a corrupt block in my system tablespace datafile because I cannot any more access my data dictionary meta-data? What is the work around for this? Regards, Satya Prakash -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Satya Prakash

RE: Schedule Analyze using DBMS_STATS ???

2003-06-04 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
This may be a little over-the-top for your needs, but it works for us. We have a standard DBA-level user that we create in every instance. This is a stored procedure within that instance. We schedule it using DBMS_JOB. Typically, we don't analyze every schema every time. Usage patterns vary

RE: Re: question about large pool

2003-06-04 Thread Jared . Still
I would think that the situation where multiple DB writers would be useful on a single mount point would become more and more common. This is due to SAME. If you were to create 5 RAID 10's with 5 physical disks each, and striped a single volume across them, and you are not using async IO, you

Re: Oracle DB Upgrade TO DO LIST

2003-06-04 Thread Jared . Still
Ken, The best to do list will be the one you create yourself. You can do this by reviewing the migration manual, and determining which steps are appropriate for your environment. Jare KENNETH JANUSZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/02/2003 08:49 PM Please respond to

Re: MView data problem

2003-06-04 Thread Arup Nanda
Manoj, This is a problem with the full refresh of an MV. The refresh initially truncates the table and then issues a full refresh. To resolve this problem, here are some steps: Create the MV as a table first and then build the MV with ON PREBUILT TABLE clause. When created this way the drop

RE: RE: Schedule Analyze using DBMS_STATS ???

2003-06-04 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
DBMS_STATS is quicker because it can run in parallel mode. Analyze cannot. (B (B-Original Message- (BSent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 11:25 AM (BTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L (B (B (BSorry JP, I should have clarified that DBMS_STATS is the way to go, when on (Ba 9i or above

RE: Unix host name change - what happens to db?

2003-06-04 Thread Sarnowski, Chris
We've juggled names several times here. The tricky part is network connections to the database. You need to make sure that tnsnames.ora files point to the right server. Also, if people are using database connections in other programs (e.g. perl, Pro*C, java, python) they need to make sure they

Re: Unix host name change - what happens to db?

2003-06-04 Thread Jose Luis Delgado
It should not affect you... except, of course, in your CONFIG ora files if you are using HOSTS instead of IP addresses! JL --- Carmen Rusu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My boss has decided to change the name of the Sun OS 2.8 host of my Oracle 8i databases. Question: how does this name

RE: Schedule Analyze using DBMS_STATS ???

2003-06-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Schedule Analyze using DBMS_STATS ??? (B (B (B (B (BWe don't analyze schema, we use dbms_stats ... (B (B (BI wrote a package that analyzes everything using dbms_stats and (for my instance) it runs in 10 parallel streams. It splits all the tables in 10 streams so that all of

RE: Unix host name change - what happens to db?

2003-06-04 Thread Stephen Lee
If your network people are good people who pray to the correct gods, then all you need to do is allow the update to the DNS servers propagate. What?! You don't use DNS?! Oh! Well, that's different. (Emily Littella) -Original Message- My boss has decided to change the name of the

RE: Schedule Analyze using DBMS_STATS ???

2003-06-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Schedule Analyze using DBMS_STATS ??? (B (B (B (B (BThe sample output looks like ... (B (B (B[EMAIL PROTECTED] sys (BSQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.2.0 - Production on Tue Jun 3 11:57:51 2003 (BCopyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. (BConnected.

RE: Unix host name change - what happens to db?

2003-06-04 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Carmen - I haven't had this happen, but I think the main issue would be in your listener.ora and tnsnames.ora files. If you are referencing the host name in those files, then those will need to be changed. Is the IP address changing? Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc.

RE: Unix host name change - what happens to db?

2003-06-04 Thread Stephen Lee
rollback previous post. For a moment there I was thinking IP address change. Never mind (Emily Littella) Now, there is the subject of aliases. I mean, as long as a manager wants to be ridiculous, you might as well go whole hog. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net --

RE: How to Uninstall apps11i

2003-06-04 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
Senthil: When you say you want to uninstall, do you want to completely remove the software from the machine? What is the OS you have the software configured upon? Are you upgrading to another release of 11i? Please be a bit more specific. Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Product Architect

Re: Corrupt Block

2003-06-04 Thread AK
use dbms_repair package . -ak - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:54 AM Hi List, How do I identify a corrupt block in my system tablespace datafile because I cannot any more access my data dictionary

RE: Schedule Analyze using DBMS_STATS ???

2003-06-04 Thread Stephen Andert
With some versions, dbms_stats has issues with partitions. Since we use partitioning, we wrote a script to simulate the gather stale functionality. Monitoring is enabled and we do a compute of any table or partition thereof that has more than x% modified. This is essentially what the gather

RE: Oracle's use of Indexes

2003-06-04 Thread Craig Healey
From: DENNIS WILLIAMS I believe that all the statistics that CBO uses to make a decision are in USER_TABLES and USER_INDEXES. You might compare the values for both tables to see if there is a difference that might cause the CBO to make a different decision. I'll look into that,

Re: Corrupt Block

2003-06-04 Thread Morten Egan
You can use a tool called dbv. It takes two args: blocksize and datafile. Regards, Morten Egan On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 17:54, Satya Prakash Viswanath wrote: Hi List, How do I identify a corrupt block in my system tablespace datafile because I cannot any more access my data dictionary

RE: Problem with TOAD is solved !!

2003-06-04 Thread Satya Prakash Viswanath
Hi List ! My problem with TOAD was fixed.I do not call it great. Solution Obtained: 1. Reverted back to TOAD 7.2 (IT still did not work even though I was able to connect thru SQL *PLUS) 2. I took a back-up of my database and ran the catexp.sql script. I got a few warnings but all my data

RE: Problem with TOAD is solved !!

2003-06-04 Thread Satya Prakash Viswanath
Sorry it is the catalog.sql script -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 11:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi List ! My problem with TOAD was fixed.I do not call it great. Solution Obtained: 1. Reverted back to TOAD 7.2 (IT still did not work even

RE: Oracle DB Upgrade TO DO LIST

2003-06-04 Thread Ben
Ken, Jared is probably right as far as a checklist for the actual upgrade. A test run through will probably highlight any problem areas. After the upgrade there are a number of things that usually need to be checked/modified/recompiled (of course it depends on how you upgrade). Here is a list

RE: Re: question about large pool

2003-06-04 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Jared - You are probably right. I was just making the point that all your disk interaction is going over a network link which can be a lot more restrictive than the normal direct attached storage we are used to. When I see people configuring multiple DB writers I tend to think it will just help

RE: Oracle DB Upgrade TO DO LIST

2003-06-04 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ben - Thanks, I printed that for my checklists file. Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ken, Jared is probably right as far as a checklist for the

Re: 9.2.0.3 online index builds resolved (we hope)

2003-06-04 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
or wait till OracleX ? ;) - Kirti --- Stephen Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well folks, there IS an issue with online index builds in 9.2.0.3. Not only have we experienced normal SQL getting blocked, but we have seen index builds hang indefinitely -- while holding the blocking lock

OT: Is there a simple perl utility or program similar to Oracle's dbms_profiler?

2003-06-04 Thread gmei
Hi: I have a perl program which calls lots of subroutines, and plus it calls sqls through DBI/DBD. I am wondering if there are some utilities or programs similar to Oracle's dbms_profiler that I could use to identify parts that are heavy-hitters? TIA. Guang -- Please see the official ORACLE-L

RMAN reports

2003-06-04 Thread Jim Neugebauer
Hello everyone, I am woundering if anyone on the list has scripts written to create backup reports for all databases registered in an RMAN catalog directly from the RMAN catalog tables.I am looking for advice on the simplest way to report on the status of backups for many, many enterprise

RE: performance questions

2003-06-04 Thread John Kanagaraj
Sai, To quote part of an excellent article from the 'Goddess' on SLAs: (titled: Managing User Expectations with Service Level Agreements) When people talk about availability, the discussion almost always begins with hardware. Numbers and sizes of servers, disk arrays, communication lines and, on

RE: Oracle's use of Indexes

2003-06-04 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
The cardinalities are the same, but the costs are different. It looks as if production has somehow optimizer_index_cost_adj set to 50 or lower or has db_file_multiblock_read_count set to 8. It's the same instance so that is not possible unless they are changed at a session level. To check that,

Re: OT: Is there a simple perl utility or program similar to Oracle's

2003-06-04 Thread Alex
If you're asking for a profiler of your perl code you can try dprof and dbiprof. On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, gmei wrote: Hi: I have a perl program which calls lots of subroutines, and plus it calls sqls through DBI/DBD. I am wondering if there are some utilities or programs similar to Oracle's

RE: Oracle's use of Indexes

2003-06-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Oracle's use of Indexes Wolfgang, I have a similar problem that I am still trying to work on. Except for * nls_sort ('binary' = performance is better, null it is bad) and * sort_area_size (8388608 = bad performance, 8688000 = good performance) all other parameter

Re: Is there a simple perl utility or program similar to Oracle's dbms_profiler?

2003-06-04 Thread Philip Douglass
Module Benchmark is part of the core perl distribution, you can use that for simple benchmarking. The CPAN has several profilers. Devel::SmallProf is a nice per-line profiler. You would invoke it like so: perl -d:SmallProf myscript.pl and it will dump profiling information into smallprof.out. Or

Re: get hit ration

2003-06-04 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Keep reading the same stuff from the indexes in a useless loop. That should improve it. Or use Connor McDonald's script on oracledba.co.uk to get any hitrate you like. Seriously, hitratios don't mean a thing. Long story. Don't worry. AK wrote: found that gethitratio in

Re: OT: Is there a simple perl utility or program similar to Oracle's dbms_profiler?

2003-06-04 Thread Jared . Still
http://search.cpan.org/search?query=profiler+benchmarkmode=all gmei [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/03/2003 01:24 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:OT: Is there a

Chris: Thank you!

2003-06-04 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
I have to tell you this, my friends: Today, a package arrived here in Maaloev on the oak table. It contained Oracle version 5.1.C and 6.0 on 5.25'' diskettes. The sender was Chris G. from Nokesville, VA. This will go right into the Oracle Museum, and I hope to be able to let you guys one day

Interesting!

2003-06-04 Thread Khedr, Waleed
I've just discovered this, never thought if it was possible or not. Just wanted to share it with you, so forgive me if you know it already. Procedure can contain other procedures: create or replace procedure test_test1 as procedure test_test2 as begin dbms_output.put_line('hello2'); end;

RE: performance questions

2003-06-04 Thread Mark Richard
I agree totally... Adding more databases to a server doesn't invalidate a negotiated SLA. If you can't meet the SLA then someone has a problem. Perhaps tuning is required, perhaps more hardware is required, perhaps the SLA is wrong and can be renegotiated. The issue revolves more around

Re: Chris: Thank you!

2003-06-04 Thread M Rafiq
Mogens, I am very far away from my employer otherwise I could have sent you 5.25 disks for Oracle version 4 under DOS for your museum. That employer is still using successfully version 5.0.22.1 under Unix. We started that version in 1988. Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple

RE: Interesting!

2003-06-04 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Interesting! -Original Message- From: Khedr, Waleed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I've just discovered this, never thought if it was possible or not. Just wanted to share it with you, so forgive me if you know it already. Procedure can contain other procedures:

RE: performance questions

2003-06-04 Thread Sai Selvaganesan
hi here is where the issue is: perhaps tuning is reqd,perhaps more hardware is reqd,perhaps SLA is wrong. exactly what i am trying to find. i do this when i feel that SLA is not viable ..but it would be great if i get stats on paper. how do we renegotiate SLA? or how do we get a new value for

Re: Interesting!

2003-06-04 Thread AK
we use it quite often to make logic looks simple like .. Procedure create_oe_line procedure add_order procedure make_adjustment procedute create_delivery Begin add_order; make_adjustment; create_delivery; End

RE: archiving data

2003-06-04 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: archiving data Thanks Dennis for the encouragement. I really try not to take it out on them. I work for the financial security of my family but I also don't want it to impact (or at least as little as possible) my relationship with my kids. I feel as their mother I need to be as

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-04 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores Also found on monitoring performance of RMAN jobs: Note:144640.1 on Metalink -Original Message- From: Stankus, Paula G Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:36 PM To: Stankus, Paula G; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Good

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-04 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores Seems to be taking awfully long to read files from tape and write to disk. I allocate multiple tape channels like I do for the backup which only takes about 45 minutes. Does not seem to be spawning multiple sessions. Do I need

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-04 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores See nwadmin shows parellism = 32. I am not the tape person - that is my sys admin. I don't believe they actually have 32 tapes involved only 4. Can this impact performance by setting this too high? I also notice one backup

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-04 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores Okay - from my reading you don't need to have multiple tape io slaves if you are using asynch. I/O. Again, best document for perf. tuning database restores using RMAN would make mucho difference. Read old note about someone

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-04 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores Did I say that throughout this restore/recovery process my tapes being mounted and unmounted while other database backups and cloning was occurring. Big duh - this has got to be slowing down the process. Any ideas on how to

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-04 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores Strange: looking at v$backup_async_io found some datafiles where active bytes per sec long-waits 2154608297 7489829297 How can I start finding the disparity? -Original Message- From: Stankus, Paula

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-04 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores This is what I have set on my target database: --- --- --- backup_tape_io_slaves boolean FALSE tape_asynch_io boolean TRUE Version 8.1.7.4 database and RMAN catalog - 32

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-04 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores SELECT SID, SERIAL#, CONTEXT, ROUND(SOFAR/TOTALWORK*100,2) % complete, SUBSTR(TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'HH24:MI:SS'),1,15) Time now FROM V$SESSION_LONGOPS WHERE OPNAME like '%restore%'; . showed all 100% complete but msglog from

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-04 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores Found this white paper: http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/availability/pdf/rman_performance_wp.pdf Anything better? -Original Message- From: Stankus, Paula G Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:33 PM To: Stankus, Paula G;

RE: Interesting!

2003-06-04 Thread Steve McClure
My first real PL/SQL program used this technique. Of course since it was my first program I ran into a very annoying variable scope issue. Of course after spending hours debugging the code, I realized I should have taken the advice of our DBA, the infamous Jared Still, and just used a package.

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-04 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores Okay, almost 4 minutes for a datafile that was 78168 blocks - how do I know if this is reasonable? Also, seems to write these files out (restore sychron.) why can't it restore different datafiles in parallel? - stupid

Re: Tablespace management.

2003-06-04 Thread bulbultyagi
Oracle 9i release 2 new feature ( from the admin guide ) Removal of LOB Column Restriction: You can now create LOB columns in tablespaces that specify automatic segment-space management. Before release 2 There were some bugs with Auto Segment Space Mgmt and LOB type fields - Original

RE: archiving data

2003-06-04 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: archiving data Hmmm. thought I was just mailing that to Dennis. Sorry, Now I do my Pat laugh -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 9:25 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE:

RE: performance questions

2003-06-04 Thread Mark Richard
I guess the issue is never that simple, but it seems that in the ideal world... 1) The company would define the SLA - It's the level of service they expect and require to operate their business successfully. Note: They define successfully. For example the SLA might be database recovery must

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-04 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores Okay, Database open and I wanted to not restore and not reference certain index and materia. view datafiles. Now the datafiles show up with weird MISSING.. names. How do I clean this up? Thanks, paula -Original

Quick Question of APPS DBA

2003-06-04 Thread Maria Aurora de la Vega
Any APPS DBAs out there? I need to know where to find the argltp log file. (AR to GL transfer process log file) Thanks. =) -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Maria Aurora de la Vega INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051

RE: How to Uninstall apps11i

2003-06-04 Thread Nelson, Allan
Erase with rm if on unix all $APPL_TOP's you have set up and then kill the database. No formal uninstall is needed. Allan -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:02 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Group, How do I uninstall apps 11i. any specific procedures

RE: Unix host name change - what happens to db?

2003-06-04 Thread Nelson, Allan
Your tnsnames.ora will probably need to change. If you are using the Apache instance that comes with the db then you will need to do some work on those config files as well. Allan -Original Message-From: Carmen Rusu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003

StoredProc SQL statistics

2003-06-04 Thread sam d
Hi People, Is there any way to find the statistics(like tkprof gives) of SQL's within storedproc , when storedrpoc is called. Basically I want to find culprit SQL within StoredProc. Any help is appreciated Regards Sam __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free

library cache pin wait

2003-06-04 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
For a Hybrid Banking Application , following waits are Observed :- Oracle ver 9.2 (Dedicated Server connections) Solaris 8 M/c SF15K Application mostly uses Static Queries (i.e. with Bind variables) , though there may be some amount of Literal SQLs too DB Size = 250 GB Qs How may the following

library cache pin wait

2003-06-04 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Application - Hybrid Banking Application Oracle ver 9.2 (Dedicated Server connections) Solaris 8 M/c SF15K Application mostly uses Static Queries (i.e. with Bind variables) , though there may be a small amount of Literal SQLs too DB Size = 250 GB Qs How may the following waits be

RE: StoredProc SQL statistics

2003-06-04 Thread Hatzistavrou John
DBMS_PROFILER Kind Regards, Hatzistavrou Yannis Database Administrator SchlumbergerSema Phone ext. 478 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi People, Is there any way to find the statistics(like

Migrating from Informix to Oracle 9.2 ( with O.S. Change from AIX to Linux )

2003-06-04 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
What may be Easier ways of doing the same ? Thanks -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: VIVEK_SHARMA INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting

RE: StoredProc SQL statistics

2003-06-04 Thread Stephane Faroult
Hi People, Is there any way to find the statistics(like tkprof gives) of SQL's within storedproc , when storedrpoc is called. Basically I want to find culprit SQL within StoredProc. Any help is appreciated Regards Sam x$kglrd, x$kglcursor, sys.obj$, x$kgldp and sys.dependency$ ... I don't

Re: library cache pin wait

2003-06-04 Thread Anjo Kolk
Increase shared pool. VIVEK_SHARMA wrote: For a Hybrid Banking Application , following waits are Observed :- Oracle ver 9.2 (Dedicated Server connections) Solaris 8 M/c SF15K Application mostly uses Static Queries (i.e. with Bind variables) , though there may be some amount of Literal

RE: How to Uninstall apps11i

2003-06-04 Thread Senthil Kumar D
Hi stephen, Thanks. I'm using Win2K. I want to remove all the oracle products, including my apps. I need to prepare a installation doc with the snapshots. So I need to reinstall all the oracle products. TIA, Senthil. -Original Message- Stephen Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 11:10 PM To:

RE: library cache pin wait

2003-06-04 Thread Mark Leith
How about also looking at pinning procedures, or even tables (if small and you have enough memory) in to the library cache too? Look for the for those that have a high execute/parse ratio.. Get PctPinPct Invali- Namespace Requests Miss

RE: How to Uninstall apps11i

2003-06-04 Thread Naveen Nahata
Stop all oracle services. Remove the whole directory structure under APPL_TOP. remove admin and java directories and also ORACLE_HOME. Go to Program Files and remove folder Oracle if it exists. Open the registry using regedit and remove the following HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - Software - Oracle

Shit of the day

2003-06-04 Thread Jan Pruner
Trade SQL Server for Oracle9i Database and get up to 100% license credit and peace of mind. Tired of applying patches? Frustrated with managing mulitple database servers? In the time it takes you to apply all Microsoft's patches to your servers, you can successfully migrate your database to

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