OT Re: RE: What is a large database?

2003-09-12 Thread Guido Konsolke
Hi Mladen, please excuse me. Since I try to improve my knowledge about the English: what do youmean with muave? Some kind of wood? Please enlighten me. Greetings, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11.09.2003 20.49 Uhr And the database must be muave. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -- Please see

Can i have a copy of metalink doc 52576.1 ?

2003-09-12 Thread Prem Khanna J
Hi List, Sorry to post this again.Hope i will get some replies this time. I don't find Doc 52576.1 (Reg. cleaning up a RMAN catalog) on metalink. Can someone mail me if u have a copy of the same ? TIA. Jp. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Prem

RE: Migrating RMAN catalog database to 9.2.0 and supporting 8.0.6

2003-09-12 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Migrating RMAN catalog database to 9.2.0 and supporting 8.0.6 Dear Chip, Was there a bug number and was it logged in Metalink? Do you know which procedure/package was involved of the top of your head? -Original Message- From: Chip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: URGENT REPORTS WONT START

2003-09-12 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: URGENT REPORTS WONT START It was a problem with 2 things: 1-someone had changed the display on me! 2-conf file was corrupted. Worked it out but can anyone tell me where I can get more robust descriptions of the conf files and how to edit them and each part of them? Thanks,

Connect sys/password@database as sysdba E-Business suite

2003-09-12 Thread Jack van Zanen
Title: Connect sys/[EMAIL PROTECTED] as sysdba E-Business suite Hi All, I have seen some weird behaviour and must have been searching in the wrong places. When logging in to a 9i RAC environment using the syntax sys/[EMAIL PROTECTED] as sysdba it works fine at the primary instance but

Re: array question ???

2003-09-12 Thread Yechiel Adar
Here is a code snippet from one of my functions that get a list of ranges, i.e '1_10,11-100,' and separate them into a vector. (needs comma also after last value for easier parsing). The function operates under a package so I can retain variables between activation of the functions. I keep the

Re: DataBase Sizing Guide

2003-09-12 Thread Yechiel Adar
Try Google. Last month I needed a script to estimate new index size and Google gave great links. Yechiel AdarMehish - Original Message - From: Munish Bajaj To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 3:19 PM Subject: DataBase

RE: 64 bit Oracle (8.1.7) on a 32 bit AIX kernel (AIX 4.3.3)

2003-09-12 Thread Dunscombe, Chris
Peter, I know that this looks odd but as the hardware is 64 bit the AIX O/S has some sort of translation layer that allows it to run Oracle 64 bit even though the kernel is in 32 bit mode. I discovered this when investigating running Oracle 9.2 and Oracle 8.1.7 on AIX 5L. After raising a TAR with

RE: Migrating RMAN catalog database to 9.2.0 and supporting 8.0.6

2003-09-12 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Migrating RMAN catalog database to 9.2.0 and supporting 8.0.6 Found out it is this: Errors for PACKAGE BODY DBMS_RCVMAN: LINE/COL ERROR - 2256/1 PLS-00593: default value of parameter "PARTIAL_RCV" in body

RE: Migrating RMAN catalog database to 9.2.0 and supporting 8.0.6

2003-09-12 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Migrating RMAN catalog database to 9.2.0 and supporting 8.0.6 Found the note referencing bug and says it is fixed in 9i. I am running 9.2.0.1.0 and the upgrade catalog on 8.1.7 catalog worked - we will see if backup actually does. Trying on 8.0.6 -Original Message-From:

RE: Migrating RMAN catalog database to 9.2.0 and supporting 8.0.6

2003-09-12 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Migrating RMAN catalog database to 9.2.0 and supporting 8.0.6 Was able to upgrade the catalogs as getting "catalog too old error" and found great note and compatiblity matrix: http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOTp_id=73431.1

Granting object privileges as SYS

2003-09-12 Thread Paul Vincent
Title: RE: Migrating RMAN catalog database to 9.2.0 and supporting 8.0.6 Hi, I'm trying to grant SELECT privileges on some tables in schema X to userid Y. I'm currently connected as SYS. But when I try typing GRANT SELECT ON X.MYTABLE TO Y; ...I get an ORA-01031 error - Insufficient

Re: What is a large database?

2003-09-12 Thread Nuno Souto
you should send them over to Australia. At least they'd be better than the standard of dba we get here... Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - In Estonian language, the word administrator also means receptionist. Guess how many former hotel receptionists or

Re: Granting object privileges as SYS

2003-09-12 Thread Bill Buchan
At 02:49 12/09/2003 -0800, you wrote: Hi, I'm trying to grant SELECT privileges on some tables in schema X to userid Y. I'm currently connected as SYS. But when I try typing GRANT SELECT ON X.MYTABLE TO Y; ...I get an ORA-01031 error - Insufficient Privileges. Now I thought SYS had all the

RE: OT Re: RE: What is a large database?

2003-09-12 Thread Mark Leith
LOL, Mauve is a shade of the colour Purple. And of course, everybody knows that purple databases run faster! ;) Personally, I've always preferred Electric Blue databases, funky, fast, and FAR easier to manage! -Original Message- Guido Konsolke Sent: 12 September 2003 08:54 To:

Good small reference !

2003-09-12 Thread Veeraraju_Mareddi
Dear Friends, I am looking for a good reference of all ( some which are very much useful required for DBA ) the SQL scripts ,packages and all required views. UTL*.sql , DBMS_* DBA_* V$* I just want to memorize the important of above. Any document, PPT or white paper or any URL will be helpful.

RE: Good small reference !

2003-09-12 Thread Mark Leith
http://otn.oracle.com/pls/db92/db92.docindex?remark=homepage Reference: http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96536/toc.htm Supplied PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference: http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/appdev.920/a96612/toc.htm Have Fun! That's some

Re: Granting object privileges as SYS

2003-09-12 Thread Joe Testa
not until the 9i world, you must login as the schema owner or build a procedure to be able to do it. joe Paul Vincent wrote: Hi, I'm trying to grant SELECT privileges on some tables in schema X to userid Y. I'm currently connected as SYS. But when I try typing GRANT SELECT ON X.MYTABLE TO

RE: OT Re: RE: What is a large database?

2003-09-12 Thread Hately, Mike (LogicaCMG)
Hmm, applied Feng Shui for Oracle Performance. For optimum throughput storage should be coloured red and white in alternating bands of colour. It's called disk-striping. Badummp-k !! I'll get me coat ... and back on topic. Mike -Original Message- Sent: 12 September 2003 11:14

RE: Granting object privileges as SYS

2003-09-12 Thread Paul Vincent
Thanks Bill - not good news, then! Trouble is, I'm setting up a bunch of "read-only" userids which can see (but not touch) tables in several other schemas. So instead of doing all the grants with a single connect (as SYS), evidently I'll have to connect as each schema-owner in turn, and

Re: Good small reference !

2003-09-12 Thread Prem Khanna J
Raju, SQL select * from dictionary; this will give u list of dictionary views/tables. ...no idea about the scripts though. Jp. 12-09-2003 20:19:25, Veeraraju_Mareddi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, I am looking for a good reference of all ( some which are very much useful required

RE: (long and boring) converting long to lob - the easiest and fastest way ?

2003-09-12 Thread Siddharth Haldankar
Thanks a lot Tanel and GovindanK for answering to my query. With Warm Regards Siddharth Haldankar Cisco Systems Inc. ODC Zensar Technologies Ltd. # : 4128374 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Connect sys/password@database as sysdba E-Business suite

2003-09-12 Thread Tanel Poder
Title: Connect sys/[EMAIL PROTECTED] as sysdba & E-Business suite Hi! Are you sure that you have correct password file in second instance? Maybe you're using wrong password (or do not have pwdfile) buf on first instance you just belong to os DBA group, thus you can log on using whatever

RE: Good small reference !

2003-09-12 Thread Charu Joshi
Raju, Have you tried the 'Oracle 8i Reference Guide' for DBA_*, V$* views, and 'Supplied packages Reference' for DBMS_*, UTL_*? (If you have, you would do well to mention so, to send right signals to some of the list members.) If you are looking for the source code for the supplied packages, you

Question about unix

2003-09-12 Thread roland . skoldblom
Hallo everyone, I have a unix question, hope you can help me. Maybe this is too simple but would appreciate any help. I would like to rename the files konkurrenter.txt.1,konkurrenter.txt.,,konkurrenter.txt.3 to be renamed to konkurrenter.txt at the same time. So the result would be 3 files,

Re: Good small reference !

2003-09-12 Thread Joe Testa
$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin and documentation happy reading. joe Veeraraju_Mareddi wrote: Dear Friends, I am looking for a good reference of all ( some which are very much useful required for DBA ) the SQL scripts ,packages and all required views. UTL*.sql , DBMS_* DBA_* V$* I just want to

RE: Connect sys/password@database as sysdba E-Business suite

2003-09-12 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi Tanel I did not mention that w/o the connect string it works Will look at the password file. I have not tried to run a query in SQL*Plus, will ask the cst to do so. I use a new user for the repository (not apps) Jack -Original Message- Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 1:49 PM

RE: Granting object privileges as SYS

2003-09-12 Thread Bill Buchan
At 03:34 12/09/2003 -0800, you wrote: Thanks Bill - not good news, then! Trouble is, I'm setting up a bunch of read-only userids which can see (but not touch) tables in several other schemas. So instead of doing all the grants with a single connect (as SYS), evidently I'll have to connect as

RE: Good small reference !

2003-09-12 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Good small reference ! If you want to memorize all of things you mentioned, get at-least an yearlong sabbatical and stay away from this material world. Jokes aside, don't try that, there is no need. Oracle provides manuals just for the very reason. Raj

Re: Connect sys/password@database as sysdba E-Business suite

2003-09-12 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi Tanel I did not mention that w/o the connect string it works Try to log on as sysdba with bogus password (without connect string), you should be able to log on anyway, because you're in os dba group. Tanel. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Tanel

RE: Question about unix

2003-09-12 Thread Stephane Faroult
If konkurrenter means competitor, they have nothing to fear. - --- Original Message --- - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 03:59:25 Hallo everyone, I have a unix question, hope you can help me. Maybe this

Any known problems with installing new MS patch on Oracle server

2003-09-12 Thread Rick_Cale
Hi All, Has anyone heard of any known gotchas with installing the latest MS patch on Oracle server? Thanks Rick -- 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

Re: Any known problems with installing new MS patch on Oracle server

2003-09-12 Thread JApplewhite
If MS means Micros**t, our Techs have been applying patches like crazy to all our Win2k servers. Our production Student Info. database lives on one of those - it's EE 8.1.7.4 - and I've seen no ill effects. We just had to find a time to reboot the server so the patches would take effect. Jack

How to give permission

2003-09-12 Thread roland . skoldblom
Hallo, anyone whom could help me with a unix command how to give permission to delete files from a special directory? I am trying to use chmod command but it doesnt work with chmod 755 It says permission denied then. Thanks in advance Roland -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: Good small reference !

2003-09-12 Thread Mladen Gogala
Send me a check to $100 and I'll create you username on http://technet.oracle.com that will make it possible for you to reach the requested information at any given moment. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: Connect sys/password@database as sysdba E-Business suite

2003-09-12 Thread Mladen Gogala
Title: Message You should set remote_os_authent and remote_os_rolesto true, otherwise RMAN will not be able to connect to the remote isntance as sysdba. On the other hand, you might want to reconsider it, because that would open your instance wide to the various forms of network attacks.

RE: Question about unix

2003-09-12 Thread Mladen Gogala
3 different files, having the same name in the same directory? Only Microsoft can do that, but only if you buy enterprise wide license for Windows, Exchange and SQL*Server. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: how can I see which database I am logged into without - thanks!!!

2003-09-12 Thread Gene Gurevich
Hi. Just wanted to thank all who replied to my original question. I was only looking for one way and I got several from different people (which is great) within just a few hours. Thanks you all very much!!! Gene __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free,

RE: Copying statistics : used a lot ????

2003-09-12 Thread Stephane Paquette
Well no, I have bought the Expert one on one book. I check on his web site and I found one reference where he addresses the use of changing the stats. Usually you can find what is its opinion just by the tone, but this time I was not able to see if he's against or not on this. Can you share more

RE: 64 bit Oracle (8.1.7) on a 32 bit AIX kernel (AIX 4.3.3)

2003-09-12 Thread Schauss, Peter
Thanks for the response. I have Metalink note 231901.1 which explains the options for installing 8.1.7 on AIX 5L, so I understand what I have to do (after reading it three times). Additional questions: - If we run the 64 bit kernel and put on the required patch for 8.1.7 will I be running

Oracle Locks

2003-09-12 Thread Veeraraju_Mareddi
Dear All, Please share / url for a good document / presentation explaining different locking mechanism in Oracle , and Oracle DBA reacts to each kind of lock , with some scenarios. Please post any relative material. TIA, Rajuveera

RE: How to give permission

2003-09-12 Thread Nelson Flores
If you can't do a chmod 755 XXX, then you can´t do this ... you don't have enough privileges... Do a su root (if you can), or ask the owner of the files to do the chmod ... BTW, Chmod 755 isn't enough, I think you need a 777 ... (my chmod numbers are a little hazy) (is this an oracle related

RE: Question about unix

2003-09-12 Thread Brian Dunbar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Friday, September 12, 2003 6:59 AM Hallo everyone, I have a unix question, hope you can help me. Maybe this is too simple but would appreciate any help. I would like to rename the files konkurrenter.txt.1,konkurrenter.txt.,,konkurrenter.txt.3 to

RE: Oracle Locks

2003-09-12 Thread Mladen Gogala
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96524/toc.htm -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Veeraraju_Mareddi Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 10:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

Re: 9.2.0.4 anyone

2003-09-12 Thread Nancy Hu
How can I not see the init parameter, _kghdsidx_count in 9.2.0.3.0? From: Tanel Poder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 9.2.0.4 anyone Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:54:30 -0800 Hi! Oh yeah, I forgot to say that in

RE: 9.2.0.4 anyone

2003-09-12 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Is this for all platforms? I haven't heard about it for AIX5.2 but that doesn't mean I shouldn't apply it. Thanks in advance, Ruth -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Lee Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 5:29 PM To: Multiple

Re: 9.2.0.4 anyone

2003-09-12 Thread Tanel Poder
It's a hidden parameter, use this query instead: select n.ksppinm name, v.ksppstvl value from x$ksppi n, x$ksppsv v where n.indx = v.indx and n.ksppinm = '_kghdsidx_count'; Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12,

RE: asp page errors, odbc drivers for Oracle

2003-09-12 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Yes, I saw it. NT Server 4, IIS4, connecting to Oracle 8.0.4.. Patrice. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 5:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Have you tried the kb? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;kbhowtosd=MSDNln=E N-USFR=0

RE: Question about unix

2003-09-12 Thread Brian Dunbar
Mladen Gogala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Friday, September 12, 2003 9:19 AM said; 3 different files, having the same name in the same directory? Only Microsoft can do that, but only if you buy enterprise wide license for Windows, Exchange and SQL*Server. (blink) is that an example of

RE: Copying statistics : used a lot ????

2003-09-12 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Copying statistics : used a lot Our production and test systems are same ... test lags 24 hours behind production that's all. But I have successfully used dbms_stats to copy over stats from production to test on a table by table basis to verify explain plans. My opinion WAD -

RE: Question about unix

2003-09-12 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Mladen is losing patience with all questions simple. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 11:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Mladen Gogala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Friday, September 12, 2003 9:19 AM said; 3 different files, having the same name in

Re: 9.2.0.4 anyone

2003-09-12 Thread Nancy Hu
Thanks, Tanel. You always provide good solution. From: Tanel Poder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 9.2.0.4 anyone Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 07:14:24 -0800 It's a hidden parameter, use this query instead: select

Re: 9.2.0.4 anyone

2003-09-12 Thread Tanel Poder
I don't recommend setting any hidden _* parameter just because someone thinks it's neat or it has once worked form someone. If you got a problem, which isn't solvable by any other mean, then turn to underscore parameters or other unsupported actions... Tanel. - Original Message - To:

RE: 9.2.0.4 anyone

2003-09-12 Thread Stephen Lee
There is a known bug in Oracle's handling of the shared pool in 9.2.0.X (at least) where the shared pool becomes increasingly fragmented and eventually gets to where no more space can be allocated. Attempts to flush the shared pool to clear it fail (Yes, I know this means everything has to be

RE: Good small reference !

2003-09-12 Thread Jose Luis Delgado
Hey!!! don't do that! send me $50!... I can create your account too! of course, at the same place! :-) JL --- Mladen Gogala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send me a check to $100 and I'll create you username on http://technet.oracle.com that will make it possible for you to reach the requested

RE: Connect sys/password@database as sysdba E-Business suite

2003-09-12 Thread Mladen Gogala
You are not right. SYSDBA is authenticated through the operating system. You must have a DBA role to be a SYSDBA, be it local or remote. To allow authentication of a remote user as a sysdba, you must explicitely tell oracle to do so. Dictionary accessibility has nothing to do with that. --

RE: 9.2.0.4 anyone

2003-09-12 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Stephen, Surely, you must be mistaken. I just finished reading the Oracle 10G article in the latest Oracle magazine about how they regression test every little change made to the Oracle Rdbms code to ensure that bugs do not make it out into production. It *can't be* their fault. It *has to be*

RE: Question about unix

2003-09-12 Thread Mladen Gogala
Coffe is always good. Have one for me as well. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dunbar Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 11:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Question

RE: Question about unix

2003-09-12 Thread Michael Boligan
That's only if the file ends in .DLL :) Mladen Gogala

Re: Connect sys/password@database as sysdba E-Business suite

2003-09-12 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! No, o7_dictionary_accessibility controls whether SYS user can log on to database without SYSDBA privilege (starting from 9.2). If it's false, sys always has to connect as sysdba. Mladen, don't you think that if you have created passwordfiles for each instance in RAC and set

Re: Question about unix

2003-09-12 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
You can combine the files into one file, but Unix is like any other operating system: file names must be unique. In VMS, the OS would use versioning on the file name. In UNIX and other OSes, it doesn't happen like that. Your syntax will combine all the files into one file. RWB

RE: OT Re: RE: What is a large database?

2003-09-12 Thread Jesse, Rich
It's supposed to be mauve, the color. The reference is from a Dilbert cartoon. Google found a copy here: http://www-dbs.cs.uni-sb.de/~dbs02/images/dilbert.gif Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI

RE: 64 bit Oracle (8.1.7) on a 32 bit AIX kernel (AIX 4.3.3)

2003-09-12 Thread Dunscombe, Chris
Peter, I'll answer the 2nd question first as it's easier. - You will need to change the word size of your database from 64 bit to 32 bit. This involves running a few scripts and bouncing the database were required. The exact process is described in a Metalink note, sorry but I don't have the

Re: Question about unix

2003-09-12 Thread Tanel Poder
It's Friday evening here already. One beer for me! :) Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 6:59 PM Coffe is always good. Have one for me as well. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original

_cpu_count vs cpu_count

2003-09-12 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! I just noticed that there's two parameters in 9.2, cpu_count (which defaults to number of CPUs OS says), but what is _cpu_count? It seems to be independent from cpu_count defaults to zero on my machine... Tanel. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author:

archive old data

2003-09-12 Thread Nancy Hu
We have some tables that have data for many years. We are going to archive the data that are older than 3 years. I would like to find out how you guys usually do this or a best way to do this. Thanks for any inputs in advance. Nancy

XDB,Context questions

2003-09-12 Thread becker . bill
Hello, We are starting to investigate different methods of searching large medical documents for key words or phrases. The documents may be text, html, xml, or MS word documents. The main idea is to search and retrieve a list of documents quickly that match a given medical key word(s) or

RE: archive old data

2003-09-12 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Nancy: It's the standard answer: It Depends. We are running SAP, and SAP has it's own flavor of archiving, and each transaction type has it's own archiving rules. Archived data is stored in special files that SAP can read, so that even though the data is no longer in the Oracle database, it is

RE: how can I see which database I am logged into without

2003-09-12 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Mladen, doesn't your spell checker dictionary include RUMPELSTILTSKIN? ;-) --- Mladen Gogala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about: SELECT 'RUMPELSTILSKIN' FROM DUAL; That should be a good guess. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Connect sys/password@database as sysdba E-Business suite

2003-09-12 Thread Tanel Poder
You are not right. SYSDBA is authenticated through the operating system. You must have a DBA role to be a SYSDBA, be it local or remote. To allow authentication of a remote You probably meant SYSDBA privilege to be a SYSDBA? DBA role is irrelevant here. Tanel. -- Please see the official

Re: archive old data

2003-09-12 Thread Stephen Andert
Nancy, As with so many things, it depends. If you *might* need some of the data back, then you need to be able to recover it. That means if you do an export, you need to know what version it is and track whether that table ever has any changes. If it does change, you will need to jump through

RE: archive old data

2003-09-12 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: archive old data Hi Nancy, Unless you are having serious performance / storage problems or another valid option would be just to delete the data, don't do it. I inherited a database where we archive data yearly. I started working on the checklist and scripts last month and we

RE: How to give permission

2003-09-12 Thread Stephen Lee
From ls -l command. -rwxrwxrwx First character, the dash in this case, identifies the kind of file (in Unix everything is a file). The next three are the owner's permissions. The next three are the group's permissions. The next three are the world's permissions. r=read w=write x=execute These

RE: archive old data

2003-09-12 Thread Stephane Faroult
In an ideal world, tables are partitioned and you just have to archive partitions - either to other tables in an ARCHIVE schema, or by exporting them - and then you can truncate them (=partitions). In the real world, you always have some rows at a very old date which are *not* in the CLOSED

Re: ** package problem

2003-09-12 Thread A Joshi
Govindan, Everything was successfully compiled. Even then the problem was happening. Your asktom note was helpful. It clarified a lot of related subjects. We have a package and we declare a lot of application wide variables in the package (not the body). However since this problem can happen in

RE: Connect sys/password@database as sysdba E-Business suite

2003-09-12 Thread Mladen Gogala
You're right. I made a mess of this. I'm busy, and I'll stay away from the list today. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tanel Poder Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 1:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of

Re: Re: archive old data

2003-09-12 Thread rgaffuri
fastest and easiest way to do it is the following. create another tablespace with another user. Set it to nologging. alter session enable parallel dml; create table /*+ parallel(max#,s) */ as select * from old_tablespace.table where -- your filter. export this new tablespace so you have a

RE: OT Re: RE: What is a large database?

2003-09-12 Thread Mladen Gogala
Selling -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jesse, Rich Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 12:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT Re: RE: What is a large database? It's

RE: 9.2.0.4 anyone

2003-09-12 Thread Stephen Lee
And for you cobol users out there: we have been told that the bug related to setting cursor_sharing=force when using cobol has been fixed in 9.2.0.4. So maybe that will help keep the 4031 bug in its box. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephen Lee

Re: ** package problem

2003-09-12 Thread Govindan K
Forgot to mention yesterday. I ran into a similar situation two weeks ago. Whenever this happens in a SQL*Plus session, just do a DESCRIBE PACKAGE. You should be able to describe successfully , and verify the signature (including datatype) tallies. Also,keep track of the session session_roles and

RE: Sqlloader question

2003-09-12 Thread David Scott
Roland, There are 2 techniques you can use. The first is what I call a 'dynamic control file' - other posters have given you examples of that one, using sed. The next is create a 'loop loader'; essentially a script file that fires off sqlldr for each loadable file. Here's an overly simple

RE: offshoring article

2003-09-12 Thread John Kanagaraj
All (in the US at least ;-) - maybe this explains it all... http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/12/business/12NORR.html?ex=1064030400amp;en= 5e8977089c9764eeamp;ei=5062amp John Sorry Jared for posting this - I think we do need to understand what may be affecting our professional lives..

RE: _cpu_count vs cpu_count

2003-09-12 Thread Alexander . Feinstein
Title: RE: _cpu_count vs cpu_count Tanel, 33 cpu_count initial number of cpu's for this instance system modifiable 34 _cpu_count current number of cpu's for this instance non-modifiable For most of hidden parameters x$ksppsv.ksppstvl set to 0 by default. Alex. -Original

RE: Metalink doc 52576.1 ?

2003-09-12 Thread Faan DeSwardt
Prem, You may want to check out Note# 1058332.6 for this. It appears that the reference to Note# 52576.1 is bogus. Good Luck! Faan -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 10:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi List, I don't find Doc 52576.1 (Reg.

RE: archive old data

2003-09-12 Thread Nancy Hu
I really appreciate all replies. Those solutions are very good. I think partition works for our case. Nancy From: Stephane Faroult [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: archive old data Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003

RE: Any known problems with installing new MS patch on Oracle ser ver

2003-09-12 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
We haven't had any problems with those here. Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique Maritimes Region, DFO

RE: archive old data

2003-09-12 Thread Mladen Gogala
Partitioning in itself is not a complete solution, because it doesn't keep track of changes. You may also want to try Princeton Softech, which has a great product that archives things directly to CD juke box and keeps track of what is where and changes needed in order to get it back online, if

Bus Error (Urgent)

2003-09-12 Thread bhabani s pradhan
Hi All I am able to connect to my database from a set of different clients from different machines. From one particular machine i am not able to connect to the DB server machine. ping db_machine_ip works fine but tnsping service_name gives Bus Error (core dumped) Please help Thanks and

RE: Bus Error (Urgent)

2003-09-12 Thread Mladen Gogala
Which platform version, how did you define your ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID, did you export them, what do your tnsnames.ora and sqlnet.ora look like? This way, I can only tell you to wait for another bus. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RE: Bus Error (Urgent)

2003-09-12 Thread bhabani s pradhan
both client and server on Sun OS 5.8 ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID in .profile tnsnames.ora TRADEDB1 = (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = trade-db1)(PORT = 1521)) ) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVICE_NAME = TRADEDB1) ) )

Re: Bus Error (Urgent)

2003-09-12 Thread bhabani s pradhan
From the listener.log I am getting: 12-SEP-2003 11:24:20 * (CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=TRADEDB1)(CID=(PROGRAM=)(HOST=trade-host2)(USER=rubix))) * (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=10.10.8.28)(PORT=40837)) * establish * TRADEDB1 * 12500 TNS-12500: TNS:listener failed to start a dedicated server

RE: Bus Error (Urgent)

2003-09-12 Thread Stephen Lee
Maybe find something at http://sunsolve.sun.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephen Lee INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting

Re: Bus Error (Urgent)

2003-09-12 Thread alan . aschenbrenner
Oddly enough, I received the same error today on one of our Solaris servers while trying to start a listener. I ran 'top' and noticed that all of the available swap space on the machine was being used. After the guilty process was killed, I was able to start the listener. FYI, the process was

RE: Bus Error (Urgent)

2003-09-12 Thread Mladen Gogala
You cannot start process. You need to increase PROCESSES in init$ORACLE_SID.ora. You may have to increase SHMMAX and SEMMNS in /etc/system. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bhabani s pradhan Sent:

RE: 9.2.0.4 anyone

2003-09-12 Thread Stephen Lee
On the 9.2.0.3 databases I checked, it is 3. -Original Message- Can't get my hands oon 9.2.0.2 or 0.3, but in 0.4 (on Windows), the _kghsidx_count defaults to 1 anyway, check it out on your systems. Tanel. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net --

Re: RE: Bus Error (Urgent)

2003-09-12 Thread bhabani s pradhan
While running tnsping and sqlplus i am getting this: WW_WS tnsping TRADEDB1 Bus Error (core dumped) WW_WS sqlplus rubix/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bus Error (core dumped) WW_WS /usr/sbin/ping 10.10.8.44 10.10.8.44 is alive WW_WS echo $ORACLE_HOME /export/home/oracle/product/8.1.7 WW_WS echo $ORACLE_SID

Re: Re: Bus Error (Urgent)

2003-09-12 Thread bhabani s pradhan
listener is running okay it has refused some connections: WW_DB lsnrctl stat LSNRCTL for Solaris: Version 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on 12-SEP-2003 14:49:01 (c) Copyright 1998 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=IPC)(KEY=EXTPROC))) STATUS of

RE: RE: RE: RE: Bus Error (Urgent)

2003-09-12 Thread Mladen Gogala
Then, you have a problem with the number of processes on the OS level. The investigation should continue on the server. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: bhabani s pradhan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 5:46 PM To: Mladen Gogala

Re: RE: RE: RE: RE: Bus Error (Urgent)

2003-09-12 Thread bhabani s pradhan
yes that problem is resolved actually there are two problems: 1] Solaris Error: 12: Not enough space sys admin killed some processes and now other client machines can connect and work on the db 2]tnsping and sqlplus on one particular client machine give Bus Error (core dumped) seems its a disk

Rac 9.2.0.4 udlm bug ?

2003-09-12 Thread Ravi Kulkarni
Upgrading RAC 9203 to 9204 on Solaris. First step is to upgrade ORCLudlm to 3.3.4.6. We ran into issues when running package if Install group is other than dba (it hardcodes the group as dba in one of the files it uses). We had to manually edit the file to get it to work. Had to upgrade to fix a

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