Move SQL Server Tables to Oracle

2003-09-18 Thread Gunnar Berglund
Hi all, I need to move some sql server tables to oracle. Do you have some ideas how to do it. I have no idea ... rgds GWant to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger

Antw: Move SQL Server Tables to Oracle

2003-09-18 Thread Guido Konsolke
Hi G (10? scnr), if it's really about some tables I would spool them to a flat file and use sql loader to 'import' them. Or use the Oracle Migration Workbench. hth, G(uido) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18.09.2003 09.59 Uhr Hi all, I need to move some sql server tables to oracle. Do you have some

Re: Move SQL Server Tables to Oracle

2003-09-18 Thread Peter Gram
Hi Gunner You can push data from the sql server via DTS (Data transformation services) or pull the data from the Oracale database via (Heterogeneous services) Gunnar Berglund wrote: Hi all, I need to move some sql server tables to oracle. Do you have some ideas how to do it. I have no idea

RE: Move SQL Server Tables to Oracle

2003-09-18 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
You can always use the SQL Server DTS package to do this. Dave -Original Message-From: Gunnar Berglund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:00 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Move SQL Server Tables to Oracle Hi all, I

Re: Confuzzled on OPTIMiZER_INDEX_COST_ADJ

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
To get the 10053 trace, you will need to reparse the query - you might have to flush the shared pool or perform other shared sql invalidations (such as I normally just modify the query to have comment /* test1 */ or /* test2 */ etc. in it. That way it's easy to search from possibly long 10053

Re: How to extract data directly from a datafile ?

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
Heh, strangely, this kind of idea of freeDUL (or whatever) has been also in my mind for couple of years, I planned to write it in C, but since I'm lazy, I've not got past of planning phase :) Anyway, keep up the good work and if your source happens to be free, put it up somewhere allowing others

Re: Tempfile weirdness

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
It also can be caused by bad sectors or other hardware errors, but I'd bet on sparse file problem as you described. When I create temp tablespaces, I either copy the tempfile into another filename and then rename to original using cp, that way the file isn't sparse anymore, thus no problems using

OT: Tempfile weirdness

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
Heh, look what happens if you try to help someone ;) (an automatic reply to my message) --- Trend SMEX Content Filter has detected sensitive content. Place = Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L; ; ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender = Tanel Poder Subject = Re: Tempfile weirdness Delivery Time =

Re: Re: SQL help needed

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
You raise an interesting idea in my mind... How useful would it be for us if Oracle created an INFINITE_DUAL table - One where you could select as many rows as you wished. I guess it might be dangerous but it would at least be very efficient if Oracle coded it as a special table. Then you

Re: ORA-600 Error [Possible Data Loss]

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! If even Oracle hasn't seen this error, then probably we can't help much here either. Just a wild guess, try to move this partition to another location and select from it then (although koxsisz1 isn't a data layer error as far as I understand). Try to read using index if available, then using

Re: How to extract data directly from a datafile ?

2003-09-18 Thread Pete Finnigan
Hi Tanel, A free DUL in C would be very nice to have and to study the source code of. maybe you should also contact Kurt van Meerbeek of jDUL project on sourceforge, maybe you have some ideas or info he doesn't have that could help his efforts or of course Richard's efforts. kind regards Pete

Re: [Q] ORACLE 9iR2 two ethernet cards, two listeners auestions?

2003-09-18 Thread Yechiel Adar
You do not need two addresses. The parameter address_list really means what its name applies. You can have two addresses in a single listener. Just put in the host= the tcp/ip address of each network card. The same applies also to tnsnames.ora. You can write two addresses in the address_list

Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Juan Miranda
There are DUL?s manual. http://www.fors.com/velpuri2/dul_ucg8.html May be interesting for someone. -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nombre de Pete Finnigan Enviado el: jueves, 18 de septiembre de 2003 13:55 Para: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: tuning a massive delete

2003-09-18 Thread Binley Lim
In this example, yes, looks like you need a union. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 12:44 PM Perhaps this small example can make it clear? I have two tables, orders and order_to_delete. I want to find

spurious threads

2003-09-18 Thread Jeffrey Beckstrom
We have had an ongoing problem for nearly 1.5 years now starting with 8.1.7.3.2. If we patch the Oracle Apps 11i, a majority of the time, the oracle.exe process gets a runaway thread. A thread exists in the oracle.exe but not in v$process/v$session. Shutting down the database does not

IBM AIX 32-Bit

2003-09-18 Thread Daiminger, Helmut
Title: IBM AIX 32-Bit Hi there! I got a question: Can I run Oracle 64 Bit on IBM AIX 32 Bit? I know that AIX 64 Bit can run either Oracle 32 Bit or 64 Bit. Does it also work the other way round? Thanks, Helmut

Re: OT: Tempfile weirdness

2003-09-18 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
Yeah, I got that too.. I did not have in my post any of those words you mentioned. - Kirti --- Tanel Poder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heh, look what happens if you try to help someone ;) (an automatic reply to my message) --- Trend SMEX Content Filter has detected sensitive content.

RE: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Wouldn't something like DUL need to read Oracle's dictionary? My impression is that a lot of stuff in the data files is heavily encoded, like date and number formats. Wouldn't you need the dictionary to understand where one column stops and the next starts, and maybe even where one row ends and

Re: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
Call Oracle Support ;) Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 3:39 PM There are DUL?s manual. http://www.fors.com/velpuri2/dul_ucg8.html May be interesting for someone. -Mensaje

Re: IBM AIX 32-Bit

2003-09-18 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
Metalink Note # 225551.1 'AIX - 32bit vs 64bit' will explain what is supported and how to do it. - Kirti --- Daiminger, Helmut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! I got a question: Can I run Oracle 64 Bit on IBM AIX 32 Bit? I know that AIX 64 Bit can run either Oracle 32 Bit or 64 Bit.

Re: spurious threads

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Orakill is able to kill threads based on thread id. But since you can't find out the "runaway" thread id-s from v$process, you could find all thread id-sin oracle.exe, minus those spids which exist in v$process and kill those. But I definitely recommend to turn to support first,

RE: How to extract data directly from a datafile ?

2003-09-18 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
At the recent OW conf, Oracle folks did announce that Oracle10g will support TTS across platforms/OS. No word on any data extraction tool as you guys are discussing here. - Kirti --- Richard Ji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KG, Yes, if Oracle start to address this, then it will be pretty hard

Re: spurious threads

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
Btw, if you're applying bigger patches, you have shut downAppsanyway, shutting down the database service for a sec doesn't add much downtime... Tane. - Original Message - From: Tanel Poder To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, September 18,

Tuning Question (Long)

2003-09-18 Thread New DBA
Hi All, I'm new on this list and need help on tuning the following query. I hope the gurus on this list will help me with ideas so that I can attack the problem with a much wider knowledge. I'm providing you withall the details i can manage now, but 10046 trace data is not available since we

Re: OT: Tempfile weirdness

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
Aha, I found it in OP :) Is this another one of those spiffy cool things in Oracle that are just something else to go wrong and make life a bitch? Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 4:39 PM Yeah,

Re: spurious threads

2003-09-18 Thread Jeffrey Beckstrom
We know the thread id from running pslist from sysinternals.com. Orakill will not kill it probably since doesn't think it really exists. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/18/03 9:49:41 AM Hi! Orakill is able to kill threads based on thread id. But since you can't find out the "runaway" thread id-s from

RE: OT: Tempfile weirdness

2003-09-18 Thread Johnston, Tim
Nah... I think it was the... something else to go wrong and make life a bitch? In the original post... Looks like the scanner looks at the entire message... Tim -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 9:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Yeah, I got that

Re: spurious threads

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
Well, have you tried it? In my understanding orakill is actually an OS thread killer written by Oracle, it just searches the appropriate oracle.exe based onSID and killsthe thread with OS threadid in it. It does notlog on to Oracle to check whether Oracle knows anything about this thread

Re: tunning an index built

2003-09-18 Thread Craig Munday
Hi, How many CPUs do you have on your machine? I assume not 32 - perhaps reducing the degree of parallelism might help (less is sometimes more). How much memory do you have on your machine? I suggest fixing your virtual memory paging problem first - do this by resizing areas like the buffer

Re: spurious threads

2003-09-18 Thread Jeffrey Beckstrom
Tried it a number of times. Lately Oracle has us run a MS utility to take "hang dump" but no answers so far. "Tanel Poder" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/18/03 9:17:17 AM Well, have you tried it? In my understanding orakill is actually an OS thread killer written by Oracle, it just searches the

RMAN in NOCATALOG mode?

2003-09-18 Thread Denham Eva
Hello Wondering about this. If backing up the database with RMAN in NOCATALOG mode. When would be the best time to do backup of the controlfile? Before backup / after backup /before and after backup. Does this aid your recovery from a crash? What advantage would it have? Many Thanks Regards

Re: Oracle's use of Indexes

2003-09-18 Thread Craig Munday
Craig, Just out of interest, what type of application is running on the database? I was just wondering why you were not using the plan stability features in 8i on your production database. Regards, Craig Munday. At 05:45 AM 2/06/2003 -0800, Craig Healey wrote: OK, I'm confused. Maybe it's

RE: RMAN in NOCATALOG mode?

2003-09-18 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Denham Whether you need to back up the control file depends on whether you can recover the database without it. On Oracle8i, I gave up trying to extract the controlfile from the RMAN backup, and simply back the controlfile up after the backup completes. Others on this list have reported they

RE: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Anyone have a copy of DUL ?? at about 10K/hr make sure you have PO on hand. From what I have heard, they install, work and de-install. You just get to see the end result. If you can get DUL copy, you could also send email to uncle Larry and ask for Oracle source code. Raj

create standby db confusion

2003-09-18 Thread Joan Hsieh
Hi Listers, I followed the Note:118409.1 Creating a standby database using rman. The production database is ADVDMO7 on harrier unix box. The Recovery catalog is ADVDMO on harrier Unix box. The standby database is STANDBY on hawk Unix box. The production db is in open status. I did rman full

RE: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Anyone have a copy of DUL ?? probably not, in absence of DD it will probably dump column id and table ids and rowids. If you dump a block, you will see that column length is also stored to indicate how many bytes to read. Raj -Original Message- From: DENNIS WILLIAMS

9iAS v 1.0.2.2.0 Installation Problem

2003-09-18 Thread Luis deUrioste
We are trying to install 9iAS 1.0.2.2.0 on a Dell Poweredge 2650 / P4 2Gig, we have succesfully installed this software in older model machines. When we try to run the installer from the distribuition media we get an error that the installer did not run because it was probably aborted and to

RE: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Juan Miranda
I do it but there say don´t have DUL -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nombre de Tanel Poder Enviado el: jueves, 18 de septiembre de 2003 15:50 Para: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Asunto: Re: Anyone have a copy of DUL ?? Call Oracle Support ;)

RE: RMAN in NOCATALOG mode?

2003-09-18 Thread Hemant K Chitale
It's so much easier to include an sql alter database backup controlfile to filename; in the rman script. Backup the Database first. Then backup the archive logs. Then backup the controlfile. Hemant At 06:54 AM 18-09-03 -0800, you wrote: Denham Whether you need to back up the control file

RE: AW: RMAN Backup to tape or disk (SAN) ???

2003-09-18 Thread Craig Munday
Hi, If I remember correctly MMLs like Veritas and/or Legato let you rebuild the indexes if you have the tape in hand - It can be slow but I thought it could be done. Regard, Craig. At 09:46 AM 8/05/2003 -0800, Stephen Lee wrote: One consideration with MML if this is a case of a tornado

Re: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Yes, you have to start from very beginning, you have be able to decode number date columns, have to know internal row structure, block structure, be able to find the start of tab$ and clu$, you have to be able to read extent maps from segment headers (in LMT you don't have anything in uet$

Re: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Pete Finnigan
Hi Juan, There are some interesting papers on the rest of this site as wqell if you scroll around the directories. 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

RE: Tuning Answer (Short)

2003-09-18 Thread Stephane Faroult
- --- Original Message --- - From: New DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 05:59:37 Hi All, I'm new on this list and need help on tuning the following query. I hope the gurus on this list will help me with ideas

oraperf.com is now Veritas

2003-09-18 Thread Jesse, Rich
Sort of OT, but it is Oracle information related: Veritas has taken over http://oraperf.com I don't know if this is good, bad, or indifferent, but it's a change that I thought some might find interesting. Or not. Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL

RE: Backup controlfile does not include ALTER TABLESPACE ...

2003-09-18 Thread Hemant K Chitale
A backup controlfile allows me to do Point-in-Time or Incomplete Recovery. This I have to do when a) I am cloning a database from a Hot Backup and cannot afford to shutdown the source database to copy the active controlfile and online redologs b) If I have lost ALL my files in the source

RE: 'Test' Note on Metalink...

2003-09-18 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
And I guess the hidden text feature doesn't work. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 2:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Have a laff! See Note 240863.1 (esp the first sentence). This seems to have been around since 11-Jun-2003 (if the Modified date can

RE: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Richard Ji
Indeed, the row directory is in the block header. And like Raj said, there is a length value to tell you how far to read. The values are encoded in Oracle's internal format, such as the 7 bytes coding for Date type. Richard Ji -Original Message- From: Joe Testa [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
Regular blockdump interprets the result into human readable format. However, if you set event 10289 at level 1, you'll have hexdumps instead can continue from there :) Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18,

Re: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
They give DUL only for big money for customers with big problems (e.g. not solvable otherwise) Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 6:04 PM I do it but there say don´t have DUL -Mensaje

Re: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Joe Testa
Dennis, i dont think those 2 items you mentioned are that encoded, using the dump command you can see how they are stored. joe DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote: Wouldn't something like DUL need to read Oracle's dictionary? My impression is that a lot of stuff in the data files is heavily encoded, like

Re: RMAN in NOCATALOG mode?

2003-09-18 Thread Joe Testa
I always backup the controlfile as a separate statement AFTER the back is done so hopefully the backup i just completed is in there :) joe Denham Eva wrote: Hello Wondering about this. If backing up the database with RMAN in NOCATALOG mode. When would be the best time to do backup of the

HELP: HD crashed, oracle get Error ORA-00205

2003-09-18 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
Hello, I am running oracle on Linux as my development server. Somehow, the hard drive crashed last night. When I run fsck on the partition that has the oracle installation and oradata, it always failed with all kind of stuff (Bad/Duplicate block, short read block, etc), so I assume fsck cannot

Re: 'Test' Note on Metalink...

2003-09-18 Thread Hemant K Chitale
The modified date is unreliable. I have seen notes relating to 7.3 and 8.0 and Apps 10.7 which, from the text, I know have *not* been modified for two or more years and yet the modified date appears as being only a month ago -- particulary Desupport Advisories. e.g. see Note 39013.1 -- The

RE: DBMS_STATS and CBO

2003-09-18 Thread Stephen Lee
(Resending) Any comments on the following?? When creating index, got ORA-00603: ORACLE server session terminated by fatal error apparently caused by ksedmp: internal or fatal error ORA-01114: IO error writing block to file 121 (block # 149) ORA-27063: skgfospo: number of bytes read/written is

max parallel query

2003-09-18 Thread rgaffuri
We run multiple instances on the same server. My understanding is max_parallel_servers should be set to 4 x CPU. We have 4 CPUs which means 16. however, does this take into account multiple instances on the same server? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net --

RE: 9iAS v 1.0.2.2.0 Installation Problem

2003-09-18 Thread Anderson, Brian
I remember the command window that opens and doesn't do anything. closing it manually is what I was told so the install can continue. I think their were also some places where it opened windows behind the installer, minimize the installer or check the task bar.

RE: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Tanel, Richard That was what my innocent question related to. I had played with LogMiner without a dictionary and it was challenging. Naturally with a program you can take care of some of those issues in the program. Anyway, from the replies this sounds feasible and probably really useful.

RE: DBMS_STATS and CBO

2003-09-18 Thread Stephen Lee
Sorry about the last post. Forgot to change the subject. Duh! -- 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

Re: Query related to 9i

2003-09-18 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
This means that the program needs to either be relinked or the LIB_PATH variable is pointing to the wrong directory. This error usually turns up when you have 32-bit and 64-bit libraries on the system and one of them must be first in the LIB_PATH. Determine if the program was compiled with a

RE: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Rachel Carmichael
1) it's Field Support not Tech Support that has it 2) Oracle does not sell nor does it release the code for DUL. A field support technician comes to your site, installs it, runs it and removes it. You pay a fee for this. when I used it (in '98), the fee was $5k per every 8 hour period, with a

RE: DBMS_STATS and CBO

2003-09-18 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Stephen, I had something similar happen to me. In 8i, Temp files are not fully allocated when they get created. So if you create a temp file of 600M, only a small portion gets immediately allocated. The Temp file grows into the full 600M as needed. They did this to speed up the creation of

[Q] how to partition and format Disk Array dedicate for ORACLE use???

2003-09-18 Thread mike mon
We have new SUN V480 with SAN 6820 will arrive soon. I like to get some information about how to format, partition SAN 6820. This SUN 6820 SAN is dedicate for ORACLE database to use and we want partion and format it best for ORACLE to use. ANyone has information ? Thanks.

Re: DBMS_STATS and CBO

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
Btw, how much free space do you have in OS where your tempfiles are? Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 6:49 PM (Resending) Any comments on the following?? When creating index, got ORA-00603:

Re: Tempfile weirdness

2003-09-18 Thread Hemant K Chitale
For a critical database where I want to be SURE that the file system has enough space for the TempFile, I run a large SELECT * FROM DBA_SOURCE UNION SELECT * FROM DBA_SOURCE UNION

RE: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Mark Leith
One problem I see with giving this away free is that you will be supplying a tool that allows you to extract data from the database, bypassing all inbuilt security. A BIG no no. I suppose that also applies to this kind of tool even under a paid license structure. How many of you would shout at

RE: oraperf.com is now Veritas

2003-09-18 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: oraperf.com is now Veritas I noticed that when I read Anjo's paper at OOW .. Raj -Original Message- From: Jesse, Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:30 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: oraperf.com is now Veritas

Re: [Q] how to partition and format Disk Array dedicate for ORACLE use???

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
I suggest you to split it in half, with an axe preferably. Ok, seriously, don't you think it would be useful if you described how many which sized disks you'll have in your array, what will the nature and size of your DB be? Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list

Re: max parallel query

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
There is no simple magic formula how many parallel slaves you should have. It all depends on your CPU and IO utilization. Yes, utilization, because if your CPUs or IO are running at their limits already, you won't benefit from parallel execution at all. In fact PX may make the situation even

Re: RMAN in NOCATALOG mode?

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Denham Whether you need to back up the control file depends on whether you can recover the database without it. On Oracle8i, I gave up trying to extract the controlfile from the RMAN backup, and simply back the controlfile up after the backup completes. Others on this list have

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Re: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
You can't bypass Oracle security (well if configured and patched well) from remote with any tools (at least I surely hope so that there wouldn't be any backdoors). There is no magic tool which can log on to Oracle without password from remote and start scanning all the datafiles. This DUL works

Re: How to extract data directly from a datafile ?

2003-09-18 Thread tjambu_fatcity
Hi Juan For which platform do you want it for? Not saying I have it! ;-) ta tony At 12:19 AM 17/09/2003 -0800, Juan Miranda wrote: We need to extract the data of a datafile directly, because we don´t have the rest of the database (other tablespaces, controlfile, etc). Are there some utility

RE: DBMS_STATS and CBO

2003-09-18 Thread Stephen Lee
At this moment it's 13 Gig. The tempfile was created as 5 Gig, but since it remained unused, it didn't grab any significant disk space. It's possible, that at some time, the free space in the file system fell below 5 Gig. When I tried to create the index, the error occurred immediately. So,

Re: IOUG April 18-22, Toronto

2003-09-18 Thread Daniel Fink
Karniotis, Stephen wrote: Does this help everyone understand what we are looking for? SUBMIT SUBMIT SUBMIT shuffling and cringing Yes, master. Whatever you wish, master. Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Technical Alliance Manager Compuware Corporation Direct: (313) 227-4350 Mobile:

RE: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Richard Ji
Mark, I see what you are talking about, but my developers don't have access to data files. Heck, I don't have access to data files in production. The production DBA controls the account. I totally agree that a tool such as this in the wrong hands can be very dangerous, same thing applies for

Re: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Pete Finnigan
Hi Mark I agree with you Mark, even if its supplied by Oracle technicians - it is as you say possible to by-pass security completely. Does anyone in Oracle check that the field support personnel dispatched to a site ( in urgency ) are dumping data for the owner of it? - I covered the issue of

RE: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Orr, Steve
Well if they can hack at it with Perl it's not really the tool that's the problem and preventing access to the tool is not a solution. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 10:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L One problem I see with giving this away free

dbms_job issue.

2003-09-18 Thread Avnish.Rastogi
Hello List, I am running into weird dbms_job issue. I have a dbms_job to collect perfstat every 1 hour , job was running fine for last 8-9 months without any issue. For last 3 days job is stopping every night around 2 AM. I amnot seeing any trace file, any logs in alert file. Any idea what

RE: ORA-600 Error [Possible Data Loss]

2003-09-18 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
The error was first discovered when we tried to move a partition. ( alter table archive_wave_i move partition SEP1103 tablespace CHANARCH_NLC_2003_09_DATA). The table was renamed to OLD_archive_wave_i once it was determined that no new varray data was accessible. My theory is that this is

RE: RMAN in NOCATALOG mode?

2003-09-18 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
me too. learned this from testing Rman back in 8.1.6. plus, you need this control file to recover from to get as late (most recent) timestamp as possible for recovery purposes. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:45 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I

Re: DBMS_STATS and CBO

2003-09-18 Thread zhu chao
Hi, I have hit similiar situation in my datawarehouse server. As temp file are sparse, it did not allocate the actual space when it was created. But as you really begin to sort and the filesystem is full , you can get this error. I offlined that tempfile and add another tempfile in another

RE: dbms_job issue.

2003-09-18 Thread Venu Gopal
Re-submit the jobthat should work It has a long theory!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: dbms_job issue. Hello

RE: DBMS_STATS and CBO

2003-09-18 Thread M Rafiq
Tom, Your observation on which platform? On HPUX 11.0 I think it allocates full given physical size of tempfile at the time of creation and it was 8.1.6.2 when I created it 2 years back. I remember that I created 6 files of 501 MB each and it occupied disk space of 3GB+. Regards Rafiq

RE: dbms_job issue.

2003-09-18 Thread Igor Neyman
You said for the last 3 days, so what do you do to get it running again? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 12:30 PM To: Multiple

Re: HELP: HD crashed, oracle get Error ORA-00205

2003-09-18 Thread M Rafiq
How many control files you have? try to remove it from your initSID ora and start again. Try to remove one by one, if you have more than one controlfile. Otherwise restore it whole cold back up if you have. Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

confused about SID and SERVICE_NAME in tnsnames.ora

2003-09-18 Thread Gene Gurevich
hi all. i have two databases running oracle 817 on different machines (AIX 4.3). I am trying to connect to these databases remotely from my desktop. when I use the SERVICE_NAME = in the connect_id for one of the databases, I get ora 12500 error. When I replace it with SID= everything works

RE: DBMS_STATS and CBO

2003-09-18 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Rafiq, SunOS 5.8 Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 1:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Tom, Your observation on which platform? On HPUX 11.0 I think it allocates full given physical size of tempfile at

RE: dbms_job issue.

2003-09-18 Thread Avnish.Rastogi
Already tried to resubmit it twice, everytime its breaking around mid night. -Original Message-From: Venu Gopal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 10:40 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: dbms_job issue. Re-submit the

Re: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Peter Gram
Hi Pete I have used Dul many times at customer sites when I was employed by Oracle Denmark. Every time the customer management had to verify by phone and fax that they understood the full impact of using Dul. Oracle have disclaimer that explains the problems with missing transaction

OraPerf account

2003-09-18 Thread tjambu_fatcity
Hi all Been trying to get www.oraperf.com (oraperf.veritas.com ) to resend my forgotten password as well as new registration on the site but am not getting any email from them. I need to try something out in the next day and would appreciate it if someone could provide me with an account and

RE: dbms_job issue.

2003-09-18 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
IIRC it is a bug, on 5L oracle sometimes _forgets_ to run the job. We noticed this in early versions of 9i. We stopped using it and we use cron instead. If you want to test this, set job_queue_processes to say 20 and see, it will probably work. The workaround from oracle states to set it

RE: dbms_job issue.

2003-09-18 Thread Avnish.Rastogi
Resubmit it and it runs fine until mid night. So I really dont have any stats for this week. -Original Message-From: Igor Neyman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 10:45 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: dbms_job issue.

Re: DBMS_STATS and CBO

2003-09-18 Thread Tanel Poder
Hm, it's strange. When you create a temp datafile there is some data written to it despite you actually store anything there or not (headers or whatever control structs). So, the tempfile is being used from beginning. The mechanism of creating sparse files is quite simple: just forward seek

FAO: Peter Gram

2003-09-18 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: FAO: Peter Gram Sorry list ... Pete, your email has again gone secure Raj This e-mail message is confidential, intended only for the named recipient(s) above and may contain information that is

Re: Re: max parallel query

2003-09-18 Thread rgaffuri
i know there are no magic formulas, but im hoping for something better than trial and error. i would assume that parallel query helps most when: 1. are doing work off of multiple mount points. 2. Have alot more LIOs to perform than PIOs(such as sorts). am i close on this? From: M Rafiq

RE: confused about SID and SERVICE_NAME in tnsnames.ora

2003-09-18 Thread Avnish.Rastogi
To use service_name, make sure that you have defined local_listener and service_name in init.ora file. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 10:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L hi all. i have two databases running oracle 817 on different machines (AIX

Re: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread tjambu_fatcity
Juan I have the URL that you can get a copy from but you need access to Oracle's network. Wrote about it in Select Journal. In 1999 - I wrote: DUL - Data recovery UnLoader DUL or Data recovery UnLoader is a utility that that will generate either a data file or an Oracle Export file by reading

Re: syntax to remove TEMPORARY Tablespace?

2003-09-18 Thread zhu chao
Hi, guang: Another possible solution is like, just similiar. You can individually drop tempfile from temporary tablespaces, not like datafiles. SQL create temporary tablespace tmptest tempfile '/home/oracle/tmp1.tmp' size 30m; Tablespace created. SQL alter tablespace tmptest add tempfile

RE: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Rodd Holman
What DBA, in their right mind, is going to give any user or developer file level access to their datafiles? That is what user and group permissions are there to restrict. All our db's have 600 level file permissions for oracle user access only. If we have to bring someone on site for using a

Re: Anyone have a copy of DUL ??

2003-09-18 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Peter, I used DUL (one of my last 40 hour days) under extreme urgency. We didn't have to fax anything, but then, our senior Vice President did call Ray Lane's secretary to get Field Support to pull someone in off vacation to come to our site, so I guess that's pretty good verification. The

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