Oracle Tools Comparable with OEM ?

2003-08-01 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Any Oracle Tools Comparable with OEM having  Free Evaluation Copy or Freeware for Download  ? Any names ,  Links etc ? Thanks

FW: ORA-27101 RH linux 9 Oracle 9.2.0.3

2003-08-01 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi, Ilooked at metalink for bugs on ORA-27101 and did not find anything. Possibly because I'm on 9i and looked for that as well. These are my Oracle settings. The only thing odd may be that the lkORA92 file is all capitals whereas everything else is initCap for the sid. Only 1 Oracle is

RE: ORA-03115 (TOAD question!!)

2003-08-01 Thread Charu Joshi
Jared, Snip from my original post However, I have set the default home to ORA_8i_HOME(which has Net8) using the 'Home Selector' utility. Also, TOAD is reading the TNSNames.Ora file from this home, so should be using Net8 rather than SQL*Net. /Snip from my original post The question

RE: Interesting Locking Problem

2003-08-01 Thread John Kanagaraj
Interesting indeed... I didn't see a version number in your note, but I am assuming that it is 8.1.7.x. We have also had some _very_ strange occurrences of 'library cache lock' / 'library cache pin' problems - sessions en-masse went into this state during high activity times on a Solaris based

9i - Dynamic SGA - SGA_MAX_SIZE

2003-08-01 Thread Stephen . HODGKINSON
Hi, does anybody have any experience with setting the SGA_MAX_SIZE in 9i. I assumed the purpose of this parameter was that SGA would grow as requested to that limit. Example: You could configure your SGA to be 80M Set the SGA_MAX_SIZE to be 250M. I would have expected oracle to acquire 80M

Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Munish Bajaj
Hi Listers, One of my remote Clients is facing a problem with Redo Logs. The Redo Logs and the Archive logs in turn have suddenly started to generate at an alarming Rate. This has suddenly started from the last 1 week without any changes to Database Configuration or any other system

Re: sar

2003-08-01 Thread Nuno Souto
That's weird. I'm not aware of any security issues relating to sar and its use. Sounds like paranoia mode just because the thing might have the setuid bit on. Which means nothing as far as security goes, unless sar allows interactive command shells. Which it doesn't. Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL

RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-08-01 Thread Gudmundur Bjarni Josepsson
Yep, and they use the same definition of an hour as Oracle did with the Oracle Applications One-Hour Install :) 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

Re: read only tablespace

2003-08-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Of course it would make complete sense to give DBA's an option like immediate on such commands. you do recall the oxymoron: common sense Oracle :) --- Mark Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is very easily explained once you consider that a transaction can consist of many statements

RE: 9i - Dynamic SGA - SGA_MAX_SIZE

2003-08-01 Thread Venu Gopal
Stephen, That's the way it's meant to work. This is how Oracle guarantees that you can grow upto the value of SGA_MAX_SIZE. Look at the case below: DAY 1: you have your sga_max set to 100m but you are currently using only 50m of it. DAY 2: you want to use all 100m and you try to increase the

RE: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Hatzistavrou John
Have you checked whether any tablespace is left in hot backup mode? Kind Regards, Hatzistavrou Yannis Database Administrator SchlumbergerSema Phone ext. 478 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Munish Bajaj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

RE: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Naveen Nahata
Redo is not effected by database configuration but by database activity. Has the no. of transactions increased significantly? If the activity is the same,a wild guess -Has someone issued a command "ALTER TABLESPACE name BEGIN BACKUP" and forgot to issue the command "ALTER TABLESPACE name

Re: 9i - Dynamic SGA - SGA_MAX_SIZE

2003-08-01 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! You should check mem usage from OS instead. Using ipcs -m for example. Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 12:54 PM Hi, does anybody have any experience with setting the SGA_MAX_SIZE in 9i. I

RE: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Munish Bajaj
I've Checked this in both the v$backup table and v$datafile_headers table (fuzzy column). But the v$backup table shows "Not Achive" and Fuzzy is Null. Any Other Advice. Regards Munish Bajaj -Original Message-From: Naveen Nahata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, August 01,

Re: 9i - Dynamic SGA - SGA_MAX_SIZE

2003-08-01 Thread Stephen . HODGKINSON
Tanel, I have done this. ipcs -m would not give me the size of the memory acquired on my system so I used ipcs -a I have also looked into the ps vax Which gives more detail: Currently this shows 199M reserved to the SGA EM9I /oracle/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/dbs ps avx|head -1 PID TTY

Re: Another UNION question

2003-08-01 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! AFAIK, Rule Based Optimizer always converts ORs to Union alls (except when doing an outer join or connect by query). That's called OR expansion. CBO seems to prefer inlist iterators: SQL create table t as select * from sys.obj$; Table created. SQL select * from t where obj# = 1 or obj# = 2

RE: Viewing the trigger source code - Piggyback Qu.

2003-08-01 Thread Charu Joshi
Is there any we way can see the 'line number' along with the trigger code text. For ex. with stored procs, packages etc. we can get the exact line number for a line of code. This helps greatly when any error occurs, it mentions the line number which you can jump to. Can we not do the same about

RE: 9i - Dynamic SGA - SGA_MAX_SIZE

2003-08-01 Thread Stephen . HODGKINSON
Venu, this does help and this is what the guys on metalink said. What I do not understand - what a waste. If I have to grab 100M initially on the OS side I may aswell use it. In my metalink tar I quoted many references in the documentation: E.G.

AW: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi Poster ;) Just a guess: Is it possible, that a tablespace is still in hot backup mode ? Or: Do you just happen to have more load ? Stefan Stefan Jahnke Consultant BOV Aktiengesellschaft Tel.: +49 201/45 13-289 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bov.de Abonnieren Sie unseren

RE: Interesting Locking Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Jared Still
Sorry for omitting that info. Version: 8.1.7.4.1 ( maybe patched to 8.1.7.4.6, would have to get on the server to check ) OS: Windows 2000 Server Thanks for the insights John, I hadn't considered that it might actually be a bug, given that this app often has similar issues. There are

RE: ORA-03115 (TOAD question!!)

2003-08-01 Thread Jared Still
Sorry, I must have been shooting from the hip. Not taking enough time to read more carefully. The LAST_HOME is likely being read by TOAD. Could be that TOAD stores the Oracle home it was last initialized with, compares it to the current on on subsequent startups, and tries to revert by using

RE: 9i - Dynamic SGA - SGA_MAX_SIZE

2003-08-01 Thread Hately, Mike (LogicaCMG)
Stephen, The documentation is pretty wooly regarding this issue but the way it seems to be intended to work is this: At startup Oracle will allocate an SGA sized as specified in the sga_max_size parameter. This is to ensure that the system has enough memory accomodate what you see as a maximum

RE: Viewing the trigger source code - Piggyback Qu.

2003-08-01 Thread Jared Still
The line number referenced by pl/sql for packages, stored procedures and functions is the dba_source.line column. This won't work for triggers however, as they are stored in dba_triggers as long text: no line numbers. Jared On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 05:20, Charu Joshi wrote: Is there any we way

RE: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Naveen Nahata
You didnt answer. Do u have more load? You canmake outthat info from v$archived_log Regards Naveen -Original Message-From: Munish Bajaj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 4:54 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Redo Logs Problem

Re: Set Role in Trigger

2003-08-01 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Just try it out in test env... There's gonna be a lot of compiling, inserts on source$, idl_ub1$ and idl_sb4$ tables (actually more tables such are procedure$, access$, obj$ etc..). Of course if your trigger code is small, then no huge amounts of data will be generated... Also 5 implicit

RE: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Sarnowski, Chris
You don't mention the database version, but if it is 8i or later, you could use logminer to view the contents of the redo logs. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 6:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Listers, One of my remote Clients is facing a problem

Re: 9i - Dynamic SGA - SGA_MAX_SIZE

2003-08-01 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Oracle says this is what you would expect. It will grab the entire value of SGA_MAX_SIZE. This certainly seems to be correct I just think it is stupid. Why grab the memory from the os but never use it. Check from man pages of ps, top or other utility, how to check how much of the

RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-08-01 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Oracle, in a Real Application Clusters configuration, can run multiple instances against one database. --- Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I understand what you have said, Oracle runs an instance per database where MSSQL is one instance running multiple

Re: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Which version of DB? Do you allow end users into database? Maybe someone is doing massive DML? Maybeyour temporary tablespaces are dictionary managed and in logging mode - some user has forgot few where clauses in SQL and is doing huge sorting/joining? You should check redo size

RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-08-01 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Stephen, I suggest reading the concepts manual... (for 9i Release 2, see http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96524/toc.htm in .pdf format http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96524.pdf ) If you're going to work with Oracle you will have to

RE: Viewing the trigger source code - Piggyback Qu.

2003-08-01 Thread Chaim . Katz
Charu, Allthough the trigger text is stored as a long, you can take the long field, chop it at the linefeed characters and print it out (with line numbers). The lines you get will match the line numbers in the error message. Somewhere I have a pl/sql anonymous block that does that using instr.

MTS v$session

2003-08-01 Thread Wiegand, Kurt
Title: MTS v$session I've got an 8.1.7.4.0 instance running under Solaris 2.8. I've never worked with MTS before, but got a call from a user telling me that there were about 700 rows in v$session but they only had about 130 sessions open. The user believes that when the session is ended,

RE: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: Redo Logs Problem This has suddenly started from the last 1 week without any changes to Database Configuration or any other system settings (as per client). Clients lie. Jerry Whittle ASIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 618-622-4145 -Original

Re: MTS v$session

2003-08-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
did you look at the status column in v$session for the ones that don't match? IIRC, there can be a status of SNIPED where the session is not actually connected but has not been cleaned up. curiosity -- why is a user looking at v$session? --- Wiegand, Kurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an

RE: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Title: Message This may have already been asked, but is it possible there is a datafile in backup mode even though a backup is not running? -Original Message-From: Whittle Jerome Contr NCI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 10:24 AMTo: Multiple

RE: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Probably an application has started generating lots of changes, causing the jump in redo generation rate. The client needs to get a delta of each session's value for 'redo size' in v$sesstat when this is happening, then they can identify the culprit session. There is one bug that could cause

RE: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Wiegand, Kurt
Title: Message Sure. Check v$backup. STATUS will give you part of your answer, but TIME will be the real key. Match it to the alert log and/or to the time you normally run your backup and you should discover what happened. Typically this is caused by a failed backup. Some backup scripts

oracle logical standby

2003-08-01 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
folks - listening to a preso from a vendor where they will use logical standby to accomplish some of the 99.999 availability requirements... so I'm wondering, does anyone have some extensive experience with the logical standby to share? the good stuff, the bad stuff, pitfalls,

RE: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Hately, Mike (LogicaCMG)
Hi, you may be able to identify the sessions that are generating a lot of redo by running this query. It will list the amount of redo generated by eash session. select s.sid,s.value from v$sesstat s where s.statistic#=99 and s.value!=0 Cheers, Mike Hately -Original Message- Sent: 01

RE: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Wiegand, Kurt
Title: RE: Redo Logs Problem Update activity is obviously occuring at an alarming rate. Look at the times of the log switches and you should be able to pinpoint the 'when' Then, catch them in the act!Look at v$sess_io and find

Re: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread AK
One more thing to look at , if there were any object or tablespace in nologging mode earlier ? -ak - Original Message - From: Munish Bajaj To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 4:24 AM Subject: RE: Redo Logs Problem I've

RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-08-01 Thread Clarkson, Timothy T SEOP-OEIRH/1
I would have to disagree there. We run multiple SQL Server instances (which consists of the memory structure, physical files and logical structure) on one server. The reason for this is multiple sort code, which is like the same as the character set in Oracle. Personally I think the

Re: elapsed_time in 9i v$sqlarea

2003-08-01 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Thanks Mladen. So, I was looking at the wrong place. Since I was referring to the column elapsed_time in v$sqlarea, I expected to find it documented under v$sqlarea. I did not have the foresight or the hindsight to look at v$sql : -) Thanks Raj -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Re: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread M Rafiq
He should monitor v$session and v$sqlarea for all processes with status = 'ACTIVE' and track those DML which are resulting so much redolog specially when they are generating lot of redologs. HTH, Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

RE: elapsed_time in 9i v$sqlarea

2003-08-01 Thread Cary Millsap
This is a good time to mention that it's a lot better idea to query V$SQL than to query V$SQLAREA when you really only need what's in V$SQL. It's less workload to use V$SQL, and therefore it's more scalable. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Hotsos

impersonating another user???

2003-08-01 Thread Rick_Cale
Hi DBAs, Oracle 8.1.7.4 I want to be able to have users log into the database with an OS integrated account and set up only certain users that log in to act on the behalf of another integrated user account. (i.e. A manager is given access to a database where he may delegate his authority to

Re: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Statistic#'s vary between versions (and possibly platforms), so one should use statistic names instead of numbers in scripts. Statistic# 99 is physical reads direct (lob) in my test environment for example. Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Re: union all problems

2003-08-01 Thread Ed Lewis
Yes, this is a trace file that contains ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump... - Original Message - From: Jamadagni, Rajendra To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:39 PM Subject: RE: "union all" problems What

Re: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Not only that, but the query shown will show redo generation for the entire life of a session. So if a daemon has been logged in for a long time but generating redo slowly, it can still look like the top redo generator. To do this in a purely analytical way, a delta of two selects from v$sesstat

RE: MTS v$session

2003-08-01 Thread Nuala Cullen
Title: MTS v$session Hi Kurt, Have you set the sqlnet.expire_time in the sqlnet.ora file? N. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Wiegand, KurtSent: 01 August 2003 16:19To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: MTS

Re: Redo Logs Problem

2003-08-01 Thread Daniel Fink
Tanel Poder wrote: Hi! Statistic#'s vary between versions (and possibly platforms), so one should use statistic names instead of numbers in scripts. Statistic# 99 is physical reads direct (lob) in my test environment for example. Tanel. An alternative is to use v$sess_io and examine

RE: MTS v$session

2003-08-01 Thread Wiegand, Kurt
Title: MTS v$session Yes; at least on the server side. # SQLNET.ORA Network Configuration File: /u01/app/oracle/product/817/network/admin/sqlnet.ora# Generated by Oracle configuration tools.#NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH= (TNSNAMES)SQLNET.EXPIRE_TIME= 10 -Original Message-From: Nuala

Metalink FTP Woes

2003-08-01 Thread Stephen Andert
I've been doing a lot (unfortunately) on Metastink lately and have been having trouble uploading files with their web interface. I've successfully uploaded several files and then when I try and upload another file, I get an error that says the link I'm going to doesn't exist or something about

RE: Metalink FTP Woes

2003-08-01 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: Metalink FTP Woes I have been having similar problems downloading patches... all of a sudden it just... dies and provides the ever so useful error screens... I think they are having problems. April Wells Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA Corporate Systems Amarillo Texas Few people

How to display FLOAT in 99999.999 format

2003-08-01 Thread Odland, Brad
How do I force display of a FLOAT in a format like Original number Result 1234.34 1234.340 12345.45612345.456 123.1123.100 123123.000 The dev on a project wants to preformat the data for a report on the database side. He wants 3

RE: MTS v$session

2003-08-01 Thread Wiegand, Kurt
Title: RE: MTS v$session No, they are not SNIPED; I've worked with those before. They are in fact all INACTIVE. I suspect they are waiting on the client for their next messages. As for your 2nd question: I've got 7 users with the DBA role on this database! Why? I'm too new here to ask. I

Re: Set Role in Trigger

2003-08-01 Thread Jared . Still
Thanks Tanel. I didn't want to know badly enough to test it myself. :) Looks like about 3.5 hours on your system. Jared Tanel Poder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/01/2003 06:49 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Oracle to launch a Linux Center next week

2003-08-01 Thread Jared . Still
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-08-01-013-26-OS-BZ-DV -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web

Analysis of SCO vs Linux from Open Source Development Labs

2003-08-01 Thread Jared . Still
http://www.osdl.org/osdlpress/2003_07_31_beaverton.html -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services

RE: Metalink FTP Woes

2003-08-01 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Metalink FTP Woes we prefer to use something like getright or wget. Or I go home and download it using cable modem, burn it on CD and bring it back to work. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn

RE: MTS v$session

2003-08-01 Thread Rachel Carmichael
okay that sounds a lot like the connection got broken (PC turned off, sqlnet expire time, which I see you've set, etc) badly being a newbie is the perfect time to ask. You can sound totally innocent (I was just wondering how you have things set up here) --- Wiegand, Kurt [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to display FLOAT in 99999.999 format

2003-08-01 Thread Jay
Not sure if this is the best way but you could do something like SELECT TO_CHAR(1,'999.999') FROM DUAL; Only drawback that I have been running into is if you don't allot of enough spaces before the decimal it display a value of . Hope this helps. - Original Message -

RE: 9i - Dynamic SGA - SGA_MAX_SIZE

2003-08-01 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
It does not work as advertised, in AIX either... I played with this in AIX 5L. - Kirti --- Hately, Mike (LogicaCMG) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen, The documentation is pretty wooly regarding this issue but the way it seems to be intended to work is this: At startup Oracle will

RE: How to display FLOAT in 99999.999 format

2003-08-01 Thread Odland, Brad
Tried that. 1234.1 won't show the trailing zeros... -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 1:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Not sure if this is the best way but you could do something like SELECT TO_CHAR(1,'999.999') FROM DUAL; Only drawback that I

RE: How to display FLOAT in 99999.999 format

2003-08-01 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
Try 9.000 instead. - Kirti --- Odland, Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried that. 1234.1 won't show the trailing zeros... -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 1:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Not sure if this is the best way but you could

RE: How to display FLOAT in 99999.999 format

2003-08-01 Thread Jay Wade
Could it be something with the program you are executing it from? When I ran the 1234.1 in SQL*Plus I got the below. I'll see if I can dig up another formatting optoin. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:SQL select TO_CHAR(1234.1,'9.999') FROM DUAL; TO_CHAR(12 -- 1234.100 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:SQL

RE: How to display FLOAT in 99999.999 format

2003-08-01 Thread Kevin Toepke
SQL select to_char(1234.4, '0.000') from dual; TO_CHAR(12 -- 1234.400 -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 2:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Tried that. 1234.1 won't show the trailing zeros... -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August

RE: How to display FLOAT in 99999.999 format

2003-08-01 Thread Sarnowski, Chris
use a 0 instead of a 9 for leading/trailing zeroes. SQLselect to_char(123.45, '999.990') from dual; TO_CHAR( 123.450 SQLselect to_char(123.45678, '999.990') from dual; TO_CHAR( 123.457 SQLselect to_char(123.45, '0999.990') from dual; TO_CHAR(1 - 0123.450

RE: MTS v$session

2003-08-01 Thread Goulet, Dick
Title: MTS v$session First question I would have is Why does a user have access to V$SESSIONS in the first place? Dick GouletSenior Oracle DBAOracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message-From: Wiegand, Kurt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 11:19 AMTo:

RE: Analysis of SCO vs Linux from Open Source Development Labs

2003-08-01 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Didn't Microsoft buy shares in SCO recently? I vaguely recall... http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58904,00.html Problaby I didn't understand... Patrice. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 3:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: How to display FLOAT in 99999.999 format

2003-08-01 Thread Odland, Brad
Cripes...I wasn't adding the format and just doing a straight TO_CHAR. ghh. Thanks people -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 1:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Try 9.000 instead. - Kirti --- Odland, Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Analysis of SCO vs Linux from Open Source Development Labs

2003-08-01 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Looks like it was an injection of cash. Not sure but I think the other undisclosed company was SUN Microsystems (?). Patrice. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 4:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Didn't Microsoft buy shares in SCO recently? I vaguely

Re: oracle logical standby

2003-08-01 Thread Paul Baumgartel
We were going to use logical standby but quickly abandoned the idea after testing. 1. The APPLY process on the standby crashed regularly (every 10 minutes or so). Oracle claimed it was a fixed bug, but there was no port to Windows, so we'd have had either to wait for the next RDBMS release or

9i then 8i Installs

2003-08-01 Thread Jay
Hello: I got an odd request today to install 8.1.7 on an existing server which is running 9.2 (Windows 2000). Has anyone successfully been able to install Oracle 8.1.7 on the same Windows Server that already has 9.2 running? I know that if you install 8.1.7 then 9.2 both in different homes it

RE: 9i then 8i Installs

2003-08-01 Thread Weaver, Walt
Well, I'm on Linux, not Windows, but I installed 8.1.7 on a box running 9.2 a couple of weeks ago with no problems. Didn't do anything out of the ordinary, just ran a plain ol' regular install. --Walt Weaver Bozeman, Montana -Original Message- From: Jay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Oracle to MSSQL conversion?

2003-08-01 Thread Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI
Thanks, I didn't have much to do over the weekend anyway. g v/r Stephen S. Wolfe, GS-11, DAFC Data Services Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] (813) 827-9974 DSN 651-9974 -Original Message- From: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 11:04 AM To:

RE: Analysis of SCO vs Linux from Open Source Development Labs

2003-08-01 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Analysis of SCO vs Linux from Open Source Development Labs Nah Micro$oft ... who else would like Linux to die? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email

RE: 9i then 8i Installs

2003-08-01 Thread Kevin Toepke
I've done 8.1.7 client installs on my personal machine (win2k) that was also running an 9.2 database with no troubles. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 4:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Well, I'm on Linux, not Windows, but I installed 8.1.7 on a box

Re: 9i then 8i Installs

2003-08-01 Thread Jared . Still
No problem, did 4 of them just that way a couple days ago. Jared PS. As an added special bonus, here's a cmd file to apply patch 8.1.7.4.6 @REM from the instructions in the 8.1.7.4.6 README.txt file @REM be sure to change these two variables. set ORACLE_HOME=D:\oracle\PRD\ora81 set

RE: Analysis of SCO vs Linux from Open Source Development Labs

2003-08-01 Thread Jared . Still
Both MS and Sun bought into this. Sorry, don't have a url handy to support that. Jared Jamadagni, Rajendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/01/2003 01:49 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

Re: 9i then 8i Installs

2003-08-01 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
I haven't actually done it in this order, but I don't see any reason why the order would matter as long as you install into separate homes. In case you do run into problems, I would take out the refreneces to the Oracle 9 paths, including java from the path and classpath environment variables.

RE: impersonating another user???

2003-08-01 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Rick Since nobody has responded to your question, I'll answer: No, haven't tried that. Most of us work hard to keep a user from impersonating another user. ;-) Seriously, this whole system might get you fired someday. I can just see you trying to explain how this is a legitimate request several

Re: 9i then 8i Installs

2003-08-01 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
Jay: When you do the install, insure that you use the 9i installer to install the 8i software. If you don't , the 8i installer will write to the inventory file and that would be bad. The 8i installer would not be able to read the file and would not know that 9i is already installed. Believe

Re: 9i then 8i Installs

2003-08-01 Thread Ron Thomas
This is why you setup an orainventory file specific to each oracle home. YMMV. Ron Thomas Hypercom, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. -- Kernighan

Re: 9i-OCP Question

2003-08-01 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Wednesday, July 30, 2003, 1:19:31 PM, you wrote: Q If you have 2 redo log groups with 4 members each, how many disks does SK Oracle recommend SKto keep the redo log files? My first thought was 8, and I think you might be able to make a case for 8. However, you should have at least 4, because

OID - Help Reqd(Integration Server/Change Logs)

2003-08-01 Thread Corniche Park
Not sure of the terms. I have been approached to troubleshoot the following scenario. Using OID. Intergration server is used besides 3rd party tools from Sun , IBM. The change logs need to be picked up by the 3rd party tools. How do i do it. TIA -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: