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2003-07-31 Thread yerragudi reddy
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Re: Help me to unsubscribe

2003-07-31 Thread Prem Khanna J
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RE: Help me to unsubscribe

2003-07-31 Thread Naveen Nahata
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Run Forms 9i

2003-07-31 Thread Siddharth Haldankar
Hi, Do you have to do any setting to run forms9i, it does not have any forms runtime environment. It runs only in the web server. My forms are giving this link http://ciscow40s0249.cisco-temp.com:/forms90/f90servlet?form=C:\Prog

RE: On TRUNCATE table does the indexes also get truncated.

2003-07-31 Thread Denham Eva
Title: RE: On TRUNCATE table does the indexes also get truncated. Hello, I deserved that the comments that were made, it is after all logical that they will be cleaned out. However in my defence, there are some funny thoughts thatwent through through my mind just before I truncated that

Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-07-31 Thread Denham Eva
Hello, There is alot of talk about multi-skilling/reskilling going on here at my company. We use Oracle and MSSQL dbs. I have been wondering if anyone is aware of a resource that shows the oracle programming technique and what the corresponding MSSQL programming technique is. ie Oracle defines

Re: Resend : Question about EXTPROC and vulnerability

2003-07-31 Thread Pete Finnigan
Hi Or run the extproc as another low privilege user such as nobody on Unix. Then the hacker would not be able to run oracle owned libraries as oracle and if he did the classic of creating a library using libc and the system() call anything executed would be as nobody and not the owner of the

RE: rebuild index -initial extent - magic??!!

2003-07-31 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: rebuild index -initial extent - magic??!! I did the following in Oracle RDBMS 9i: _ SQL alter index xsc_uk rebuild tablespace ax_le_small storage (initial 128K 2 next 128K); SQL select

RE: rebuild index -initial extent - magic??!!

2003-07-31 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: rebuild index -initial extent - magic??!! If this is true: The rebuild creates a new temporary segment that is the same size as the required extents in the old index. If there is insufficient space to create this temporary segment you get this error. It doesn't reuse the

AW: Any German here ? Character set

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RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-07-31 Thread Gudmundur Bjarni Josepsson
I know Microsoft is offering a new course called 'Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for Experienced Database Professionals'. It is aimed at DBAs with experience with Oracle, DB2, Sybase etc. who want to know more about SQL Server. You can read more about this course at

Upgrade of OS and upgrade of Oracle apps (11.0.3 on Windows NT)

2003-07-31 Thread Naveen Nahata
Hi All, Current Environment: Oracle Apps 11.0.3, OS Windows NT 4 Since Windows NT is being desupported by the end of this year, we are planning to upgrade the OS to Windows 2000. Since 11.0.3 is not supported on Windows 2000, we have to upgrade oracle applications too. We are planning to upgrade

RE: Any German here ? Character set

2003-07-31 Thread NGUYEN Philippe (Cetelem)
Title: RE: Any German here ? Character set thanks all for all thoses relevant answers ;-) Philippe Nguyen CETELEM - Administration, Architecture Décisionnelle Direction Customer Relationship Management E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel

RE: 64 and 32 bit on same box

2003-07-31 Thread NGUYEN Philippe (Cetelem)
we have the same configuration, Metalink recommend registering you're 32 bit instance with 64 listener (startup / shutdown many times if necessary) De: John Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Envoyé: Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2003 22:49À: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LObjet: 64 and 32 bit on

RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-07-31 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I have a question re. these conversions... If an Oracle database has 120 tablespaces, how does that translate in MSSQL speak? (One of the tablespaces is USERS, home of dozens of schemas; the others are either RB, SYSTEM, TEMP or application tablespaces) How many separate schemas-tablespaces can

RE: 9i-OCP Question

2003-07-31 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
We use a SAN. Where does that leave me? : ) Patrice. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 7:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I'm constantly amazed (and relieved!) that there's disagreement on the most fundamental principles. First, I found myself nodding

Re: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-07-31 Thread Anjo Kolk
Hmm, must be a one hour course then ;-) On Thursday 31 July 2003 12:34, you wrote: I know Microsoft is offering a new course called 'Microsoft SQL Server 2000 for Experienced Database Professionals'. It is aimed at DBAs with experience with Oracle, DB2, Sybase etc. who want to know more

Re: buffer busy waits and v$filestat

2003-07-31 Thread Anjo Kolk
Not completely true. If the dbwr is going to write a buffer, it will set a bit that the buffer is being written. In the good old days, this meant that the buffer could be changed until the block was written ('write complete waits'). However in 8.1, cloning of buffers was introduced. So now

Re: read only tablespace

2003-07-31 Thread Ron Rogers
What was the activity on the database before you issued the alter tablespace command? It could be that the server was busy finishing up that activity. If you were creating massive indexes then the temporary indexes have to be made perminent. Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/30/03 03:34PM why does it

RE: 9i-OCP Question

2003-07-31 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I am wondering... where do these questions come from? There is a disclosure agreement at the beginning of each Oracle exam... Patrice. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Boivin, Patrice J INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services--

Re: clustering

2003-07-31 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! I found out that these hanging problems were version 9.0.1's problems. I wasn't directly involved with this setup. But in 9.2 they say these problems are fixed. (One instance hits ORA-600 with parameter 4519 and all instances would hang until restarted all instances). This was on 3-node

HP Data Protector

2003-07-31 Thread Patterson, Mark
Hi, has anybody any experience of HP's Openview Storage Data Protector product in relation to backing up Oracle databases? Any good or bad points to comment on? Am currently evaluating this product from Oracle RMAN perspective as well as our overall centralised backup management process. Using

RE: 9i-OCP Question

2003-07-31 Thread Senthil Kumar
Hi This ques from a model examnothing to worry about disclosure and all!!! -Original Message- Boivin, Patrice J Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 6:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am wondering... where do these questions come from? There is a disclosure agreement

RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-07-31 Thread Grant Allen
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Boivin, Patrice J Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:59 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion? I have a question re. these conversions... If an Oracle database

RE: ORA-03115 (TOAD question!!)

2003-07-31 Thread Jesse, Rich
rant Man, I hope not. The complete reversal of the security in TOAD from deny all / grant some to grant all / deny some in 7.3 made maintenance a nightmare (we're stuck at v7.2 for this reason). Security granted by default is not security -- it's a welcome mat with the key tucked underneath.

Re: read only tablespace

2003-07-31 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! The alter tablespace read only is waiting for every query which started before the alter tablespace was issued to finish. Just in case one of them might write to that tablespace and therefore fail. Do you mean DML? Or transaction? Anyway, I get following error on my 9.2.0.1 on Win2000

HELP! Index Debate!

2003-07-31 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Please help resolve this dispute. We have a query that runs over 5 hours. Sections of the query are listed below. The table QOH_DAY_FACT table had only on index and that was on the TIME_ID column. I propose adding an index with PROD_ID, WHS_ID, LOT_ID, WHS_LOC, TIME_ID and QUALITY_ID. My test

RE: 9i-OCP Question

2003-07-31 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: 9i-OCP Question didn't you say it was a question/answer out of the book? April Wells Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA Corporate Systems Amarillo Texas Few people really enjoy the simple pleasure of flying a kite Adam Wells age 11 -Original Message- From: Senthil Kumar

Re: read only tablespace

2003-07-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
9.2.0.1 on Linux and my alter statement just waited to complete without erroring out. We had both query only (select) and DML running. when I rebooted the database, and no one was logged in, the alter tablespace read only completed. if you search the archives you can find the discussion thread.

RE: ORA-03115 (TOAD question!!)

2003-07-31 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Where can we get a list of the bugs in freeware TOAD? Patrice. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L rant Man, I hope not. The complete reversal of the security in TOAD from deny all / grant some to grant all / deny some in

Re: Inlist Iterator and NULLs *SOLVED*

2003-07-31 Thread Daniel Fink
Thanks to Wolfgang for spotting the problem. It was not the inlist iterator at all but an outer join! The NOT NULL predicate invalidated the outer join, so the optimizer was smart enough to make a different decision. I am still perplexed as to why the table access information was so radically

RE: ORA-03115 (TOAD question!!)

2003-07-31 Thread Jesse, Rich
http://www.toadsoft.com I still think that the freeware version is excellent, just lacking in some features found in v7. Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- From:

Re: Run Forms 9i

2003-07-31 Thread Indy Johal
Siddharth Is your Http server running and can check it with http://ciscow40s0249.cisco-temp.com: If you got an error in it then it mean you need to start the OHS by using dcmctl utility or thru OEM which can be invoked by running http://ciscow40s0249.cisco-temp.com:1810 Then check if

Re: clustering

2003-07-31 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Ah. I never went to 9.0.1 I went from 8.1.5 OPS to 9.2.0.2 RAC, using Export-Import and migrating to LMT, AutoAllocate, ASSM etc. Hemant At 05:24 AM 31-07-03 -0800, you wrote: Hi! I found out that these hanging problems were version 9.0.1's problems. I wasn't directly involved with this setup.

Correct method of auto starting standby db

2003-07-31 Thread Bob Metelsky
All, I have a question of how to auto start a standby database. IOW, it seems the logs are only applies if I issue the command Recover managed standby database; With thatcommand, the logs are applied, however, if I (or someone else) exits the cmd window the process stops So, how can I

RE: ORA-03115 (TOAD question!!)

2003-07-31 Thread Charu Joshi
Title: RE: ORA-03115 (TOAD question!!) Hi, It worked!! As suggested by Raj, I browsed the TOAD help on SQL*Net installation and found out this piece of information: ** When Oracle connects, it will look in ALL_HOMES for the "LAST_HOME" value, which in this case is zero "0". It appends zero

RE: That Veritas thing

2003-07-31 Thread Goulet, Dick
Folks, While we're on Veritas's backs, I recently (like Tuesday night) heard from an Oracle employee (to remain nameless) that Orbitz will be issuing a retraction of their claim that their Oracle RAC implementation was the root cause of the outage they had. Seems the true culprit is, guess

RE: Correct method of auto starting standby db

2003-07-31 Thread Ross Collado
Hi, What version of Oracle and OS platform you're using? The document you read refers to an 8i db so I assume you are in 8i. In our Solaris box with 8i on it, I created a shell script like so: #!/bin/ksh sqlplus -s /nolog ! Connect sys/*** as sysdba recover managed standby database ; exit !

RE: rebuild index -initial extent - magic??!!

2003-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
Remember that initial_extent and next_extent in dba_indexes (and dba_tables) records what you requested in your storage clause - NOT what Oracle actually allocated. You need to look at dba_extents for tha. At 02:34 AM 7/31/2003 -0800, you wrote: If this is true: The rebuild creates a new

RE: ORA-03115 (TOAD question!!)

2003-07-31 Thread Jared Still
You may find it easier to just run the Oracle Home Selector that appears in the Startup-Programs-Oracle Installation Products menu. It has the benefit of also modifying the PATH variable. Jared On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 07:54, Charu Joshi wrote: RE: ORA-03115 (TOAD question!!)Hi, It worked!!

RE: 9i-OCP Question

2003-07-31 Thread Jared Still
Our Prod SAP system has 4 RAID1's dedicated to redo of 500m each on an Clariion CX600 SAN. Several groups with 2 members each. That's 600 gig of physical disk dedicated to redo, and nothing else. Jared On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 04:59, Boivin, Patrice J wrote: We use a SAN. Where does that

Re: read only tablespace

2003-07-31 Thread AK
Rachel , Thanks for the Reply . On checking further I found that this session was waiting on a lock from another session . But the table or object which was locked by other session does not belong to this tablespace . Then why does the read only operation waiting for the lock to release ?? Does

Re: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-07-31 Thread Jared Still
You might like to buy the ebook SQL Server 2000 for Oracle DBA's by Chris Kempster: http://www.chriskempster.com/ I bought it, printed it and had it bound at Kinko's. Appears to be a very good book, though I've only read parts of it. Jared On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 02:34, Denham Eva wrote:

RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-07-31 Thread Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI
Being more of a SQL 2000 DBA (I am experienced from SQL Server 6.5). At my installation I have 5 SQL-2000 database machines and recently acquired three Oracle 9i machines. The limit is essentially a function of your storage area and the amount of real memory available to the processor or

RE: ORA-27101 RH linux 9 Oracle 9.2.0.3

2003-07-31 Thread Jack van Zanen
Title: Message I set the value to 2147483648 and it still does the same thing. Oracle database is open but when trying to connect through sqlnet I get ORA-27101. I do shutdown immediate and startup and the problem is gone for a while. I now stopped the archiver again and see if that

RE: That Veritas thing

2003-07-31 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: Message Thanks for the " rumor gossip" Dick, Is this in reference to the Veritas clustered file systems technology? Or the Veritas Cluster Manager product? Or a file systems manager person? Curiouser and curiouser... -Original Message-From: Goulet, Dick

sar

2003-07-31 Thread Henry Poras
Just got this email from my SysAdmin when I asked for access to sar. Anyone know what he is talking about? We are on AIX 4 and 5. I cannot give you direct access to the sar command. Because of the parameters the command allows, it would be equivalent to giving full root access. If you could

Re: read only tablespace

2003-07-31 Thread Rachel Carmichael
What we found is that it doesn't matter which tablespace the session causing the wait is accessing. As explained to me (by Dan Fink I believe), Oracle doesn't KNOW if that transaction will involve the tablespace you are trying to make read-only or if it will not. So rather than take a chance, the

RE: Is Metalink Working

2003-07-31 Thread Barbara Baker
While Metalink is up and working, it's sporatically dropping out. A word to the wise. If you're about to spend a chunk of time updating a TAR, do it in a text editor, SAVE it, copy it into your TAR, then update. If you spend 30 minutes updating your TAR, push the update button, and get an

RE: rebuild index -initial extent - magic??!!

2003-07-31 Thread Avnish.Rastogi
Title: RE: rebuild index -initial extent - magic??!! Rebuild will use the same initial extent as it was before but will change the next extent size. Either drop and recreate index orYou can also think about using Locally managed Uniform Extent size tablespace, that way you dont have to worry

Imort Parameter File Question

2003-07-31 Thread Jay
Hello: Does anyone know if you can create a comment in a import parameter file? If so could you provide a sample of the syntax. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jay INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051

Re: Inlist Iterator and NULLs *SOLVED*

2003-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
Beacuse of the outer join, the optimizer had to ignore the inlist predicate and therefore the filter factor for the table became 1 (= all rows), manifested in TB_SEL 1.. At 06:29 AM 7/31/2003 -0800, you wrote: Thanks to Wolfgang for spotting the problem. It was not the inlist iterator at

RE: Imort Parameter File Question

2003-07-31 Thread Bob Metelsky
# your comment goes here # another comment # Bla bla -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Bob Metelsky INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web

RE: sar

2003-07-31 Thread Hallas, John, Tech Dev
Normally sudo is used to grant limited permissions. The SA would allow you to use sar and for you to access it you would type sar and be prompted for a password and you would enter the appropriate password. John -Original Message- Sent: 31 July 2003 16:45 To: Multiple recipients of

RE: Imort Parameter File Question

2003-07-31 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Jay - I don't think the exp and imp parameter files have provision for a comment. But you could try common comment formats and see if you find one that works. The person who wrote the parser might have added that but it didn't end up in the documentation. I notice testing is a habit of the more

RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-07-31 Thread Smith, Ron L.
An Oracle database with multiple applications using different schemas in the same database would be close to the SQL Server model. Ron Smith -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Being more of a SQL

Re[2]: Is Metalink Working

2003-07-31 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, July 31, 2003, 12:09:24 PM, you wrote: BB you're likely to say some VERY BB bad words that might get you escorted out of the BB building. I thought those words were a necessary incantation, to make our databases work. Else why would we say them so oftengrin. insert mental picture here

RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-07-31 Thread Grant Allen
Maybe now is a good time for me to ask these question since it is related to this thread's subject, can you say that an Oracle instance is essentially the same as a MSSQL database? I ask this because a MSSQL server can support multiple databases which can be configured different ways. But

RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-07-31 Thread Paul Baumgartel
An Oracle instance does not correlate to a SQL Server database. An Oracle instance is a running Oracle server, i.e., a set of background processes and a System Global Area in memory. It is what permits applications to _access_ the database. The database is on disk, the instance in memory. An

RE: sar

2003-07-31 Thread Henry Poras
Thanks John. I've used sudo, just not sure where sar is equivilent to 'full root access'. Henry -Original Message- Hallas, John, Tech Dev Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Normally sudo is used to grant limited permissions. The SA would

Re: Imort Parameter File Question

2003-07-31 Thread Jay
Dennis: I have tested through most of the common formats already, that is why I asked for help from the list. Your advise about testing is noted, but in this case based on incorrect assumptions. I used most of the major comments in PL/SQL, Java, etc. Though I missed trying the #, which per

Re: Correct method of auto starting standby db

2003-07-31 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Try: recover managed standby database disconnect; This should spawn a separate process for recovering. Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 5:54 PM All, I have a question of how to auto start a

Re: Imort Parameter File Question

2003-07-31 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! I have used # for that. Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 7:34 PM Hello: Does anyone know if you can create a comment in a import parameter file? If so could you provide a sample of the

RE: sar

2003-07-31 Thread Matthew Zito
Is sar on AIX setuid? If so, that could be where the reluctance stems from. Thanks, Matt -- Matthew Zito GridApp Systems Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 646-220-3551 Phone: 212-358-8211 x 359 http://www.gridapp.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Imort Parameter File Question

2003-07-31 Thread Hately, Mike (LogicaCMG)
Had a couple of minutes so ... The syntax you need is (cryptically enough) : # Comment Cheers, Mike Hately -Original Message- Sent: 31 July 2003 16:50 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Jay - I don't think the exp and imp parameter files have provision for a comment. But you

RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-07-31 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I haven't heard of an SQL Server instance before... do you mean a SQL Server server? (this is getting a bit confusing) Patrice. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 1:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Maybe now is a good time for me to ask these question

Re: read only tablespace

2003-07-31 Thread AK
The same is not true when you take tablespace offline with normal option . I just tested that if a transaction is pending then oracle waits before marking tablespace rea only BUTTT if x-saction is pending and I issue offline normal it succeds . Doesn't offline normal also checkpoints datafile ?

RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-07-31 Thread Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI
I think I understand what you have said, Oracle runs an instance per database where MSSQL is one instance running multiple databases. Is this right thinking? v/r Stephen S. Wolfe, GS-11, DAFC Data Services Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] (813) 827-9974 DSN 651-9974 -Original Message-

RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-07-31 Thread Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI
Yes, MSSQL is running as an instance and you can multiple instances on the same server (that is W2K or 2003 server), each instance is SQL server consuming it's predefined resources. Each instance of MSSQL can be servicing different databases. v/r Stephen S. Wolfe, GS-11, DAFC Data Services

Change nuber.+# to number

2003-07-31 Thread Liu, Jack
Hi,I want to get rid or those special char in a number string to a pure number, for an instance, from 89_. or 99,9 to 89 and 999.Which function should I use in SqlPlus?Thanks a lot, Jack Change nuber.+# to number

Re: Set Role in Trigger

2003-07-31 Thread JApplewhite
Jared, Yeah, I'm sure our Developers complain to their boss That dang DBA's Jacking with my application again. ;-) Actually, it would only take as long to generate the 50k triggers as it would to loop through the list of tables in a PL/SQL procedure and generate/execute the Dynamic SQL

** find whether table or index being accessed

2003-07-31 Thread A Joshi
Hi, Is there an easy way to find out if a table or anindex is being used. I mean short of going thru all code or keeping looking at v$sqlarea. I mean even if code is covered there are always ad hoc SQL queries etc. Same for other objects like views etc. Is there a place where oracle stores

RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-07-31 Thread Nelson Flores
An SQL Server instance IS the Server... -Mensaje original- De: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: jueves, 31 de julio de 2003 13:39 Para: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Asunto: RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion? I haven't heard of an SQL Server instance

RE: That Veritas thing

2003-07-31 Thread Goulet, Dick
Title: Message That point was not disclosed. Personally, I vote for the later. Dick GouletSenior Oracle DBAOracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message-From: Orr, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:59 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list

RE: 9i-OCP Question

2003-07-31 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Except that: 1) five disks was not one of the possible answers, and 2) we don't know that the database is in archivelog mode. For the 9i OCP examination the correct answer is answer number 4 (4 disks). I'm willing to bet on it! -Original Message- From: Ron Yount [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Change nuber.+# to number

2003-07-31 Thread Gorbounov,Vadim
Does it make a deal? SQL select translate('#33', '1234567890#,_', '1234567890') from dual; TR--33 -Original Message-From: Liu, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 2:10 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Change nuber.+# to number

RE: Change nuber.+# to number

2003-07-31 Thread Eberhard, Jeff
One way that might work is to use the translate function. For Example: SQLr 1* select translate('numberstring',1||translate('numberstring','0123456789',' '),'1') from dual Enter value for numberstring: 89_. Enter value for numberstring: 89_. old 1: select

RE: That Veritas thing

2003-07-31 Thread Matthew Zito
Title: Message I'd vote for the middle option. Veritas AC for RAC is hideously complex and there's about a million ways to be running on it even though the configis fundamentally broken. It could also be the clustered file system, of course, since cluster file systems are Hard Problems

RE: where does omniback generates log of backup ?

2003-07-31 Thread Jesse, Rich
Without a platform, version or other info, it's hard to say. On an HP/UX 11.0 machine running Omniback II vA.04.10, at least, you can look thru man omniintro to find the location of log files. However, those logs don't generally contain what was backed up. That's stored in the Omniback

union all problems

2003-07-31 Thread Ed Lewis
Hi, We have a query which uses a "union all". After upgrading to a patch release of Oracle this query no longer works. We get the following error : ERROR at line 1:ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel ORA-24323: value not allowedError accessing package

Oracle SCN Question

2003-07-31 Thread Nick Wagner
Internally, Oracle represents SCNs as a base and a wrap. The wrap is a 16-bit number and the base is a 32-bit number. A dump of a redo log file would display the SCN as 0x.. However, the SCN is represented as a number in a number of the dynamic performance views

logging oracle error code and message into a table within procedu

2003-07-31 Thread Basavaraja, Ravindra
Hi All, I want to log the oracle error code and messages that will be generated within a procedure/trigger into a table. I know i can write this in the exception block.Does anyone has any sample code to help me out. thanks ravindra -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net

RE: where does omniback generates log of backup ?

2003-07-31 Thread Nelson, Allan
So ya wanna do a little omniback eh? Omnidb -rpt -last gets you all yesterday's backup sessions. What you will see here depends on how your shop decided to setup backups. Filesystem is one way. Basically omniback backs you up mount point by mount point. Host based is the other way. Backup

RE: logging oracle error code and message into a table within pro

2003-07-31 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: logging oracle error code and message into a table within procedu create or replace log_errors (in_errors varchar2, in_calls varchar2) is szerrors varchar2(1000) := dbms_utility.format_error_stack; szCalls varchar2(1000) := dbms_utility.format_call_stack; pragma

Re: ** how to check version and problems

2003-07-31 Thread Pete Finnigan
Hi, have a look at $ORACLE_BASE/oraInventory/logs/installActions.log. hth kind regards Pete -- Pete Finnigan email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://www.petefinnigan.com - Oracle security audit specialists Book:Oracle security step-by-step Guide - see http://store.sans.org for details. --

RE: logging oracle error code and message into a table within pro

2003-07-31 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: logging oracle error code and message into a table within procedu sorry should be ... insert into error_log (error_ts, ora_user, error_text, call_stack) values (sysdate, user, szerrors,szcalls); Raj

where does omniback generates log of backup ?

2003-07-31 Thread AK

RE: Correct method of auto starting standby db

2003-07-31 Thread Bob Metelsky
Ok It looks like the disconnect is for 9i From metalink This recover command must be ended from a different session with recover managed standby database cancel. There is a timeout=n option to the recovery command which will cause recovery to end if a new archive log is not received in n

RE: Imort Parameter File Question

2003-07-31 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Jay I hope my reply didn't sound harsh. You are right, it is always a good idea to briefly describe what you've tried since that will allow everyone to make better use of their time. I was just trying to point out one of the great benefits I've derived from the experts on this list (and I don't

RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-07-31 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
: ) So an MS SQL server = an Oracle instance An MS SQL database = (roughly speaking) an Oracle schema. An MS SQL file set = (roughly speaking) an Oracle tablespace. and data files are data files. Is that correct? What would be the point of installing two SQL Server servers on the same box?

RE: upgrade to 9i

2003-07-31 Thread Cunningham, Gerald
Mladen you're crackin me up, dude! That looks good except for the reading part... -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 12:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L No, that's the wrong way. The right way is to read first 3 pages, then try it out, using your production

RE: Viewing the trigger source code

2003-07-31 Thread Jesse, Rich
If you look at the source of the ALL_TRIGGERS view (at least in 8i), you'll see that the CREATE ANY TRIGGER priv is needed for a schema to see triggers of another schema. Since this probably isn't what you want, you have some options: 1) GRANT SELECT ON DBA_TRIGGERS TO your_schema; 2) Reverse

upgrade 805 to 8174, type#10 objects

2003-07-31 Thread Barbara Baker
List: I'm testing an upgrade of a database from 8.0.5 to 8.1.7.4 (Solaris 2.6). I have 3 objects in the 8.0.5 database that are type# 10 in obj$. The objects do not show up at all in dba_objects. The objects apparently came from someone applying statspack to an 8.0.5 database. 8.0.5 doesn't

RE: HELP! Index Debate!

2003-07-31 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Please help resolve this dispute. We have a query that runs over 5 hours. Sections of the query are listed below. The table QOH_DAY_FACT table had only on index and that was on the TIME_ID column. I propose adding an index with PROD_ID, WHS_ID, LOT_ID, WHS_LOC, TIME_ID and QUALITY_ID. My

RE: HELP! Index Debate!

2003-07-31 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: HELP! Index Debate! How does one know that only one column is being used in an index and others are being ignored ... ?? This is new to me. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views

RE: HELP! Index Debate!

2003-07-31 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Title: Message No answer for that. -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:44 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: HELP! Index Debate! How does one know that only one column is being used

RE: ** find whether table or index being accessed

2003-07-31 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
A - For tables, you can turn on auditing. If you are on Oracle9i, there is a monitoring feature for indexes you can turn on. Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 12:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: HELP! Index Debate!

2003-07-31 Thread Ron Rogers
Ron, It has been my understanding that in order for the conpound index to be used the query had to match the order the index was created. Multiple indexes would not do a whole lot of good for you just make the optmizer work harder to figure things out. It would add a confusion factor other wise

RE: If you replied... Optimizer Mode question with regard v$sqlar

2003-07-31 Thread Johnson, Michael
All my e-mail was sys$hosed last night so could you please resend any and all responses to this since last night. Anybody run into a situation where you see optimizer_mode equal multiple_children_present when the optimizer_mode is set to choose in the init*.ora file ? If so, did you

RE: HELP! Index Debate!

2003-07-31 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Message do you have corresponding indexeson referenced columns on T1-5 tables ?? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod

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