RE: 9.2.0.3 online index builds resolved (we hope)

2003-06-05 Thread Hallas, John, Tech Dev
Stephen, (BWhen you say there IS an problem with index rebuilds what do you mean? (BHave Oracle acknowledged it as a bug? (B (BYour work around basically slows the volume of data being passed through the buffer (Bcache, presumably allowing other users to get on with their work. (BI assume

Cost info in Explain Plan

2003-06-05 Thread Eric Mortensen
Hello world, Can anyone explain (forgive the pun) how to get cost/card/bytes information out of the Explain Plan? I'm using Toad and sometimes it gives me cost info and sometimes it doesn't. Why? Regards, Eric -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Eric

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Mark Leith
That could be quite a LARGE update.. ;) -Original Message- Carmichael Sent: 05 June 2003 01:49 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L geez, back to the very very first presentation Marlene Theriault and I did together, about version 6, called All the Things THEY Didn't Tell You you

RE: Cost info in Explain Plan

2003-06-05 Thread Eric Mortensen
It just occurred to me why - it's the analyze, stupid! One of my tables wasn't analyzed. :-) Eric -Original Message- From: Eric Mortensen Sent: Thu 05.06.2003 10:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Cost info in Explain Plan

Off-Topic (InstallShield Installation Problem)

2003-06-05 Thread Santosh Varma
Hellolist, I have installed InstallShield(comes along with Delphi)in my PC. When i run it, it gives me the message : Installshield for Windows Installer is unable to start. Ensure that the Windows Installer engine has been installed properly. but when i go to control panel/services/and

Create index script in pl/sql

2003-06-05 Thread roland . skoldblom
Hallo all, anyone whom could help me with this: I would like to have an example of pl/sql procedur which does the following: CREATE INDEX ART_HIERARKI_LOCKEDIX1 ON ART_HIERARKI_LOCKED(SELSKAP, SETT_ID, VGRP, ART_GRP, ART_UGRP) TABLESPACE PBKIX PCTFREE 10 STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT

RE: Shite of the day

2003-06-05 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
If you do exp/imp... grab DDL on package bodies, grab the SYS grants, ... Patrice. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 6:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Rich, No. I guess by manual I mean I didn't use the gui. I ran the appropriate upgrade script.

example to use bind variables with OO4O/VB

2003-06-05 Thread Prem Khanna J
Guys, can someone give a simple example ( piece of code ) for: How to use bind variables with OO40/VB6 to connect to a 8.1.6 database ? ..peeped into metalink too. can u give me any other example / URL for the same ???! TIA. Jp. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: Off-Topic (InstallShield Installation Problem)

2003-06-05 Thread Seefelt, Beth
Hi, Anything in the event log? HTH. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 6:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello list, I have installed InstallShield(comes along with Delphi) in my PC. When i run it, it gives me the message : Installshield for Windows

Re: Re: Snapshot too old during stress test... how to avoid

2003-06-05 Thread rgaffuri
why would removing optimal setting help with snapshot too old? what I dont understand is that each of my DML transactions are independent of each other. They query and perform DML on different tables. None of them overlap. The only time they overlap is when they hit the data dictionary for

RE: MS Access 97 to Oracle 8.1.7 Scheduler

2003-06-05 Thread Seefelt, Beth
Hi Bob, I don't know if its possible to do it by those means, but it is definitely possible, using heterogeneous services to have Oracle pull the data from Access over a database link. You could schedule that through the Oracle scheduler, or have MS scheduler execute a sql script. HTH. Beth

RE: Limiting Concurrent Sessions Not Working

2003-06-05 Thread Goulet, Dick
Good question. I see it very intermittently with sessions (robot cells) that stay connected for days on end. Just had an occurrence this week. The DB has been up for 96 days before all heck broke loose. Thankfully we only need to reconnect/restart the robots. Dick GouletSenior Oracle

RE: FW: ora 1017 -solved

2003-06-05 Thread Richard Ji
Doh, I replied to Jared only. Here it is: -Original Message- I knew that was coming. :) Should of explained in the last e-mail. Sorry, was busy with many things. The error ora 1017 says logon denied. That got me chasing all the connection stuff. Turns out the package uses a remote

Thanks -- Re: example to use bind variables with OO4O/VB

2003-06-05 Thread Prem Khanna J
Thanx Ganesh,Jared,Jay,Roy and Chajol. Thanks for the info'. Jp. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Prem Khanna J INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list

Mailing List

2003-06-05 Thread Sameer Ghadge
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Re: Oracle Data Backup

2003-06-05 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Have a look at rman which is part of the Oracle installation. You should be able to do any kind of backup you want with this product. Regards, Ruth - Original Message - From: Santosh Varma To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 8:25

Re: Re: question about large pool (now NetApp)

2003-06-05 Thread rgaffuri
thanks for your excellent responses. I guess striping doesnt help with netapps. I was finding alot of waits for redo logs, full table scans, and index reads. However, I guess I have to live with it with the netapps. I believe we have a 1GB pipe. Does it matter if I put my indexes in seperate

RE: Chris: Thank you!

2003-06-05 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
I have a bit of Oracle memorabilia but I probably won't be willing to part with it. Maybe the Oracle Museum should be virtual, with a registry of who has what archaic Oracle stuff. I have all the version 5 for DOS diskettes, which it sounds like you have as well. I tried running the installer

RE: Chris: Thank you!

2003-06-05 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
Title: RE: Chris: Thank you! got some 6.0.36 diskettesfor those interested:-) -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:31 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Chris: Thank you! Dang ... last

Sum of Previous Record

2003-06-05 Thread Walid Alkaakati
Hi list , Can you help me please . I have a report that show data as follows : debit credit balance 30-3 0 -1 2 1 0 3 Is their a way to get balance without using a separet query in a formula

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

2003-06-05 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
But then Larry's yacht appeared racing in the America's Cup ;) May be a bug? ;) - Kirti --- Binley Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Big Blue button that ships with the new OEM. Hold down the shift key and triple click on the middle mouse button. - Original Message - To:

RE: Chris: Thank you!

2003-06-05 Thread Goulet, Dick
Hey, I've got an old Leading Edge 486DLC in my basement. Needs a new set of drives. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 9:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have a bit of Oracle memorabilia but I

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-05 Thread Henry Poras
Title: RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores Paula, IIRC 'MISSING' means it is in the data dictionary, but not the control file. I've gotten that before, but haven't played that game in a while. You might be able to 'DROP' them, but I'm not sure. Check that first on a

RE: passing ref cursor on a procedure

2003-06-05 Thread Igor Neyman
Title: passing ref cursor on a procedure If in SQL*Plus: Just declare variable of REFCURSOR type and pass it to stored procedure: DECLARE lCursor REFCURSOR; Begin procedure_name(par1, par2, , :lCursor); end; / Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

FW: Shite of the day

2003-06-05 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Oh-My-Gosh. Worry free? I just upgraded another 8.1.7.4 database to 9.2. When I set the COMPATIBLE parm to 9.0.2 (or 9.2, which would make sense) I get really messy errors: ORA-00402: database changes by release 9.0.1.3.0 cannot be used by release 135294976 ORA-01571: redo version

RE: Sum of Previous Record

2003-06-05 Thread Stephane Faroult
Have a look at analytical functions (LAG() and the like) - --- Original Message --- - From: Walid Alkaakati [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 05:10:14 Hi list , Can you help me please . I have a report that

RE: Quick Question of APPS DBA

2003-06-05 Thread Nelson, Allan
If this is a regular CONCSUB job and your stuff is in default spots then look at $APPL_TOP/admin/your instance/log Allan -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 10:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Any APPS DBAs out there? I need to know where to find the argltp

RE: Interesting!

2003-06-05 Thread Khedr, Waleed
I think it's good to have (forgive me Jared :)). It reminds me with Pascal language. Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 9:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L My first real PL/SQL program used this technique. Of course since it was my first program I ran

RE: Sum of Previous Record

2003-06-05 Thread Lord, David - CSG
Walid You can use SUM as an analytic function like this: - SQL select credit, debit, sum(credit + debit) over (order by rowid) from foo; CREDIT DEBIT SUM(CREDIT+DEBIT)OVER(ORDERBYROWID) -- -- --- 3 0

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-05 Thread Igor Neyman
Title: RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores Paula, It was very entertaining to read this thread -J Did you answer all your questions?-J Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Snapshot too old during stress test... how to avoid

2003-06-05 Thread Garry Gillies
From memory (of a course attended looong ago), Oracle recommends one rollback segment for every three to four users. Four rollback segments between thirty six processes does seem a little mean. Garry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/06/03 13:59 Please respond to ORACLE-L

RE: Shite of the day

2003-06-05 Thread Goulet, Dick
Lisa, Did you do the upgrade manually or via the GUI? I'm interested because I'm looking forward to 20 upgrades several of which will have to be done in place as their too big otherwise. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent:

RE: passing ref cursor on a procedure

2003-06-05 Thread Igor Neyman
Title: passing ref cursor on a procedure Oops Its supposed to be: Variable lCursor REFCURSOR; Not: declare lCursor REFCURSOR; Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Igor Neyman

RE: Sum of Previous Record

2003-06-05 Thread Walid Alkaakati
Hi , Iam looking on how to solve this in a report ,,, -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Walid Alkaakati INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-05 Thread Clarkson, Timothy T SEOP-OEIRH/1
Title: RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores I had this problem yesterday. not sure if what I did is correct but it seemed to work for me. 1) Create another tablespace (TEST) 2) move the objects from the tablespace that has the missing files into TEST tablespace

RE: Shite of the day

2003-06-05 Thread Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI
I agree with you Lisa ... g, I don't understand the PR ... v/r Stephen S. Wolfe, GS-11, DAFC Data Services Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] (813) 827-9974 DSN 651-9974 -Original Message- From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 10:40 AM To: Multiple

RE: Sum of Previous Record

2003-06-05 Thread Gogala, Mladen
How about SELECT DEBIT,CREDIT,CREDIT-DEBIT FROM WHATEVER_THE_TABLE WHERE CREDIT*CREDIT=-1; Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 9:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi list , Can you

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-05 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores Sometimes it just helps to "talk" it all out. Virtually or otherwise. April Wells Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA Corporate Systems Amarillo Texas You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly

??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Orr, Steve
I've just been informed that there is a 2GB datafile size limit with Oracle 8.1.7 on Linux... PERIOD. This despite the fact that we've had files in excess of this for some time and they work just fine. The problem occurs when the autoextend feature reaches the 2GB threshhold. Of course, Oracle

Re: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-05 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Title: RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores Paula, Have you tried backing up your controlfile to trace, editing the trace file to get rid of the unwanted datafiles, and reopening the database with the new edited controlfile? That should get rid of them. Of course, to a

RE: passing ref cursor on a procedure

2003-06-05 Thread Regis Biassala
Title: passing ref cursor on a procedure example -Original Message-From: Hatzistavrou John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:40 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: passing ref cursor on a procedure Dear All, I have a vendor

RE: Quick Question of APPS DBA

2003-06-05 Thread John Clarke
Or $AR_TOP/$APPLLOG, if $APPLCSF is unset. If $APPLCSF is set, $APPLCSF/$APPLLOG. - John -Original Message- From: Nelson, Allan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 6/4/2003 10:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Cc:

RE: Sum of Previous Record

2003-06-05 Thread Pardee, Roy E
Depending on the structure of your table, you can also use plain SQL with a self-join, similar to: select v1.cust_id , v1.order_date , v1.order_total , sum(v2.order_total) cumulative_total from orders v1 , orders v2 where v1.cust_id =

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-05 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
Paula, Was the tablespace read-only? Those weired MISSING... names refer to data files in those tablspaces. Do you have a controlfile trace? Look in there to see what is what.. Here is what I see in the CF trace for my read-only tablespace: # Files in read-only tablespaces are now named. ALTER

RE: passing ref cursor on a procedure

2003-06-05 Thread Hatzistavrou John
Title: passing ref cursor on a procedure Example Package ll is Type lrec is record( ? A ?integer, ? B? varchar2(72)); Type lrectype is REF CURSOR return lrec; Procedure getl( par1 in varchar2, ?? Xcursor IN OUT lrectype); End; Now , HOW do

Re: Snapshot too old during stress test... how to avoid

2003-06-05 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
Try removing optimal setting, and shrinking RBS to the min extents (or even below) before running your tests. - Kirti --- Garry Gillies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From memory (of a course attended looong ago), Oracle recommends one rollback segment for every three to four users. Four

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-05 Thread Jose Luis Delgado
--- Igor Neyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paula, It was very entertaining to read this thread -:-) Did you answer all your questions?-:-) I agree with Igor! ;-) well, Paula... you have MISSING datafiles because they are registered on your data dictionary and they were not included in

RE: Shite of the day

2003-06-05 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Hi Dick, This was a manual upgrade. I sure hope your upgrades go better than mine have. Lisa -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 11:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Lisa, Did you do the upgrade manually or via the GUI? I'm interested because

AW: Interesting!

2003-06-05 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi Possible scenario where it might make sense: You want to hide some implementation from people that use your package. Since, AFAIK PL/SQL doesn't have information hiding (private, protected, public etc.), this might be a way of not showing your private helper method's signature in your

Re: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Jan Pruner
I think it is the limitation of Linux, not Oracle. Use LVM and don't worry about file size limit. :-) JP - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 5:40 PM I've just been informed that there is a 2GB datafile size

RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores

2003-06-05 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: Good technical documents/references on tuning restores I had that problem in a 9.2.0.3 AIX4.3.3 to AIX 5L upgrade... missing with really weird names... if you look at your tablespace sizes, the ones that are 0 bytes are the ones that have the missing files. If you can figure out

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Branimir Petrovic
I'd say file size limit/autoextend feature has been Oracle's dirty little secret for quite a while. For a very long period of time there was similar 4GB 'magic' barrier on Windows, that was allegedly fixed. Workaround for the problem was to create datafile 1 MB larger than the 'magic' number, and

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Orr, Steve
See my note: There is no such O/S file size limit. We have datafiles 2GB which work just fine. The problem is with autoextending datafiles that extend from 2GB to 2GB. It's not a Linux limitation but a limitation imposed by Oracle's implementation on Linux. Oracle 9i on Linux doesn't have this

RE: Interesting!

2003-06-05 Thread Igor Neyman
I think, you did. Using packages you still can hide procedures/functions. Just have them in package body, and don't declare them in package header/declaration. Thus, describe package_name will not show private procedures/functions. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

RE: RE: Schedule Analyze using DBMS_STATS ???

2003-06-05 Thread Ganesh Raja
There are a Lot of options to DBMS_STATS .. And be Judicious in using the same. Read the docs before attempting it. BTW .. What is the session waiting for .. Just Check v$session_wait. HTH Best Regards, Ganesh R DID : +65-6215-8413 HP : +65-9067-8474 ===

RE: Shite of the day

2003-06-05 Thread Ganesh Raja
Set the Compatiable Parameter to the Actual Version you Upgraded and not to any patch rel that was rel later on. HTH Best Regards, Ganesh R DID : +65-6215-8413 HP : +65-9067-8474 === Live to learn... forget... and learn again.

RE: Interesting!

2003-06-05 Thread Pardee, Roy E
I believe PL/SQL packages let you do a fair bit of information hiding--any signature you leave out of the package spec is essentially private to the package. You can also decare package-wide variables in the package body to keep them private to the package. For instance: create or replace

ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact

2003-06-05 Thread Zabair Ahmed
Any Oracle Apps DBA out there.. Am getting the following error when am trying to install 11.5.8 on Redhat 8. The error messgae in the adcrdb_PROD.txt is as follows:- ORA-12547:TNS:lost contact SP2-0640 Not connected. Am getting the error when rapwiz is running adcrdb.sh - creating the database

oraInst.loc question

2003-06-05 Thread Rich Holland
I have two Oracle installations on the same host. Between installs I updated /etc/oraInst.loc and /var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc accordingly so that I have two inventory directoies, one per installation. My question is that /etc/oratab has a facility for multiple installations via 'SID:$ORACLE_HOME

RE: Shite of the day

2003-06-05 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Hi Ganesh, Thanks for your reply. Still, no dice. Now it thinks it's in recovery and I can't force it to do an incomplete recovery with OPEN RESETLOGS. The brilliant response I got from support is Restore from backup and try again Lovely. This is the second upgrade I have tried to

RE: library cache pin wait

2003-06-05 Thread Johnson, Michael
real quick thought from mostly a lurker Your soft parsing % probably indicates what you suspected in string literals.The % of your physical reads is way to high versus logical reads.Check you SQL area and see if their are any obvious dogs in there. Your second wait latch free

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Steve - are you saying that there is a workaround by increasing the size of the file manually to something larger than 4G? Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 1:25 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L See my note: There

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Orr, Steve
NICE! Thanks. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 11:57 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L It's a combo problem between oracle and linux. When Linux first implemented largefile support, many of the traditional linux apps were not aware of the concept of 2GB

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Matthew Zito
It's a combo problem between oracle and linux. When Linux first implemented largefile support, many of the traditional linux apps were not aware of the concept of 2GB files and were using 32-bit offsets for file pointer storage. So, as a workaround, 32- and 64-bit versions of the various file

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Orr, Steve
Thanks Branimir for confirming my right to be peeved. :-) I never liked the autoextend feature but we use it because: 1) We have this nifty end user driven feature where they can clone their data via a nice web GUI interface. (This is for web site upgrades scheduled by the end user.) 2) We don't

RE: oraInst.loc question

2003-06-05 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: oraInst.loc question We have one oraInst.loc file for each individual set of binaries (two on production, three in development/test) and every time we patch/upgrade/install we rename the oraInst.loc file to whatever we are working on. Not an optimal solution, but the only one I

Limiting Concurrent Sessions Not Working

2003-06-05 Thread Sam Bootsma
Oracle7 Server Release 7.3.4.5.0 (yes, I know, old); AIX 4.3.3 Hello All, I am trying to limit concurrent sessions on my database. The Oracle documentation says I can do it. However, when I follow the steps (create profile with sessions per user set to one, then assign Oracle user

Re: Those installing Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2L

2003-06-05 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Title: Those installing Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2L Raj, Here was what my SA (Claus)sent me when I asked him what we did special to AIX that Oracle required: Standard 5.2 installation with 64-bit support and the basic JFS filesystem.Graphics were included (Oracle needs X windows).Only extra

Re: Those installing Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2L

2003-06-05 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Title: Those installing Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2L Raj, On more thing to remember. If you are going to apply the 9.2.0.3 patchset, be sure to pick the 5L version, not the RS6000 version of the patchset to download. If you pick the wrong one, it will be full of errors. If you pick the 5L version,

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
This almost sounds like the problem that existed for Oracle 7.3 and the 2G threshold a couple of years ago... J'ai une impression d'avoir déjà vu ceci. : ) Patrice. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 3:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Steve - are you

RE: Shite of the day

2003-06-05 Thread Jesse, Rich
Lisa, when you say you manually migrated, did you use exp/imp after a fresh CREATE DATABASE in 9i? Also, what platform? 32-bit? Thx! Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA -Original

RE: Those installing Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2L

2003-06-05 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Those installing Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2L Thanks Ruth ... I'll pass this to my SA. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Orr, Steve
Well... datafiles 2GB seem to work okay but since Oracle is being a weenie about supporting them altogether I'm choosing not to. One of the first hoops OWS had me jump thru in the wild goose chase was to manually extend datafiles via maxsize without using unlimited. Eventually the only

RE: Those installing Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2L

2003-06-05 Thread April Wells
Title: Those installing Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2L But it is on disk 1 of the installation set for 5L! April Wells Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA Corporate Systems Amarillo Texas You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you

RE: Those installing Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2L

2003-06-05 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Those installing Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2L Thanks for reminding ... we have been through this about 4 times ... once it almost brought down the system, but luckily we shut down the affected site and the other side supported the users while we screamed at Oracle. Raj

RE: Those installing Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2L

2003-06-05 Thread April Wells
Title: Those installing Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2L I got several "can't write to insert string.so" errors... but renaming those files allowed it to finish... and I always get those errors. April Wells Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA Corporate Systems Amarillo Texas You will recognize your own path

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Steve - Is there a Metalink note on this? What would a person search for? Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 12:25 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L See my note: There is no such O/S file

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
nice. either way, you're screwed into doing more work than you had planned. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 3:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Well... datafiles 2GB seem to work okay but since Oracle is

Re[2]: performance questions

2003-06-05 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Tuesday, June 3, 2003, 10:59:42 PM, you wrote: MR 3) If the company has done something which makes it impossible for the MR service provider to maintain the SLA then re-negotiation is required. This is probably harder than it sounds. How does the service-provider prove that the client has done

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Orr, Steve
Yeah, now I call it the outta-extend feature. :-) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 12:28 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: Orr, Steve nice. either way, you're screwed into doing more work than you had planned. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional

RE: Limiting Concurrent Sessions Not Working

2003-06-05 Thread Sam Bootsma
Bingo! Thanks Dick, it is working now. Sam GBC -Original Message- From: Goulet, Dick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 4, 2003 2:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Limiting Concurrent Sessions Not Working Do you have resource_limit =

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Nevermind, a search on 2gb yielded Note 112011.1, which seems to explain it all. Oh well, one more item for my to do list. Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ??? Upgrading was number 2? NO way!?! I am (genuinely) surprised that it wasn't number 1 suggestion... April Wells Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA Corporate Systems Amarillo Texas You will recognize your own path when you come upon it,

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Orr, Steve
As per Branimer's previous post, try searching under dirty little secrets. :-) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 1:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Steve - Is there a Metalink note on this? What would a person search for? Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100%

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Orr, Steve
It doesn't seem to be a problem on other platforms... Just when I stopped feeling like a neglected step child for running on Linux. Don't worry... Be happy... There's a workaround... Upgrade and buy more software... D'ai jobu desu... er, eh, Ca ne fais rien. -Original Message- Sent:

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Matthew Zito
Title: Message Oracle 8i on linux, while functional, definitely had/has a whole boatload of problems. 9i is much better all around, and I'm not surprised that Oracle support is pushing it heavily. We're getting a lot of customers that are trying to get off 8i because of problems like this

RE: Those installing Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2L

2003-06-05 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
As root, from other session, you can run 'slibclean' (check the man pages for more info). Then there is no need to rename/remove so *.so library files. - Kirti --- April Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got several can't write to insert string.so errors... but renaming those files

RE: Limiting Concurrent Sessions Not Working

2003-06-05 Thread Goulet, Dick
OK, now watch out for Oracle bug 643709 which can send your users a pile of "ORA-02394: exceeded session limit on IO usage, you are being logged off" even though you don't have any IO limits set. It's fixed in 8.1.x. Dick GouletSenior Oracle DBAOracle Certified 8i DBA -Original

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ahem . . . according to Note 112011.1, these problems can affect all platforms except OS/390 which does NOT support datafile resizing (fiendishly clever those mainframe types). It looks like 8.1.7.4 and above is not affected. I would highly recommend that all Oracle DBAs take a look at this note.

Problem using CLOB with ADO

2003-06-05 Thread Yadav, Shailesh
Hello List, We are developing an application using Visual Basic and Microsoft ADO. We are also using Oracle Provider for OLE DB and the database is Oracle 8.1.7. We were using client side cursors in application and had some problems. We switched to server side cursors and explicit Begin and End

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Orr, Steve
We are on 8.1.7.4 and it aflicted us anyway. Maybe I'll just wait a couple of years and let other customers QA this Oracle feature until they get it right. Steve -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ahem . . . according

RE: get hit ration

2003-06-05 Thread Niall Litchfield
Title: Message A library cache hitmeans that when parsing a statement the object definition is already found in the cached data dictionary (likely it has been recently used). A library cache miss means that it aint there. Now if you can explain to your line of business boss why you would

RE: Chris: Thank you!

2003-06-05 Thread Niall Litchfield
I understand why you wouldn't wish to part with it, but a virtual museum will never work. The 'where to find a leading edge PC' problem has already been mentioned, where to find an industry standard floppy disk will become an issue as well. For my money the best route for a museum would be a

RE: Shit of the day

2003-06-05 Thread Niall Litchfield
That would be next to Oracle is half the cost of sqlserver for packaged apps, which would apeear to me to be a lie, in the sense that it is a statement which would be untrue for any given customer migrating. Niall -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Shite of the day

2003-06-05 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Hi Rich, No. I guess by manual I mean I didn't use the gui. I ran the appropriate upgrade script. Gosh I hope it doesn't come to exp/imp... I can't even export my database. Lisa -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:46 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread Goulet, Dick
Dennis, Thanks a lot, the diamond of the day from the list. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 4:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ahem . . . according to Note 112011.1, these problems can

RE: Those installing Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2L

2003-06-05 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: Those installing Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2L We don't GET access to man pages here... they take up too much space... so does the C compiler. April Wells Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA Corporate Systems Amarillo Texas You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you

RE: Benchmarking of ASP.NET with Oracle v/s MSSQL

2003-06-05 Thread Niall Litchfield
What do you wish to discover? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Satya Prakash Viswanath Sent: 03 June 2003 05:40 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Benchmarking of ASP.NET with Oracle v/s MSSQL Hi List, Anybody

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-05 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Steve Personally I am VERY glad you mentioned this today. Since I run 64-bit Unix, I didn't think this applied to me, but after reading the note, I ran their formula and found a file on one of my databases that was very close to the limit. Plenty happy to dodge that bullet. Dennis Williams

RE: Interesting!

2003-06-05 Thread Niall Litchfield
But every time you modify test_test2, c1 will become invalid - using a package will not have this issue. Niall -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Khedr, Waleed Sent: 04 June 2003 15:20 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

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