which oracle9i version is stable

2003-10-30 Thread Jeroen van Sluisdam
Hi, I'm planning a migration to oracle9i. We are testing on 9.0.1.0 because we want to be able to connect with this version to oracle 7.3.4 db. We started with 9.2 but found a known bug which prevented to connect to oracle7.3.4. Any advice on which version of 9i to go to will be

Re: which oracle9i version is stable

2003-10-30 Thread Mladen Gogala
In my experience, 9.2.0.4 is the best one so far. I don't think that you should be chosing versions based on 7.3.4 connectivity. On 2003.10.30 06:09, Jeroen van Sluisdam wrote: Hi, I'm planning a migration to oracle9i. We are testing on 9.0.1.0 because we want to be able to connect with this

RE: oracle internet directory

2003-10-30 Thread Daiminger, Helmut
Title: Nachricht Hi Paul, please see answers below... 1. Is this a stand alone OID or is it part of 9iAS infrastructure or OCS? This will bestand alone. Probably we need to integrate it with Windows Active Directory. Not sure yet. We are still discussing about it. 2.

Re: When would we see optimizer_mode=NONE in V$SQLAREA ?

2003-10-30 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Yes, I have seen the MULTIPLE CHILDS PRESENT as well. Yet still, how do you explain the high ratio of NONEs. Surely you/someone isn't running so any DDLs / ANALYZEs etc when you query V$SQL and find that 1261 of 2733 are NONEs ? I ran a test where I began a DBMS_STATS.GATHER_SCHEMA_STATS and

RMAN Error

2003-10-30 Thread tamizh
Hi List, I am getting the following RMAN error. Any help would be really appreciated. RMAN script:- == RMAN replace script ts_system_backup { allocate channel c1 type disk; allocate channel c2 type disk; allocate channel c3 type disk; sql 'alter system switch logfile'; resync catalog;

Re: RMAN Error

2003-10-30 Thread Tim Gorman
Tamizh, You are probably running out of space in the file-system you were located within when you invoked RMAN. It would be better to specify a full path-name in the FORMAT= clause (i.e. specify directory as well as filename), to make sure that the file-system where you are creating the

Re: which oracle9i version is stable

2003-10-30 Thread laura pena
What platform are you running 9.2.0.4? Thanks Mladen Gogala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my experience, 9.2.0.4 is the best one so far. I don't think that you should be chosing versions based on 7.3.4 connectivity.On 2003.10.30 06:09, Jeroen van Sluisdam wrote: Hi, I'm planning a migration to

RE: 9I RAC corporate standard.

2003-10-30 Thread Piet de Visser
Group, Tru64 was made for RAC. If you have the choice: Go Tru64 (just ignore the fact the platform will be decommissioned, some orgs still run openvms, that was clustering...) Linux will run RAC, but it will help if you bring the T64 methods to Linux when setting it up: - choose a CFS. -

RE: 10046 trace data question

2003-10-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: 10046 trace data question Thanks everyone for your replies. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts,

splitting files with tar

2003-10-30 Thread A.Bahar
how can I splitt a file into many files with tar command. Rgds. Arslan -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California

RE: 2G trace files - solved...sort of

2003-10-30 Thread Dobson, Lisa
Hi Guys, We are currently unable to do a full database export as it fails due to dump file being over 2GB. Will setting this parameter to unlimited get round the problem? TIA, Lisa. -Original Message- Sent: 29 October 2003 21:15 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks to

Re: which oracle9i version is stable

2003-10-30 Thread Mladen Gogala
RH Linux 8.0 with 2.4.22 kernel built manually. On 10/30/2003 09:29:25 AM, laura pena wrote: What platform are you running 9.2.0.4? Thanks Mladen Gogala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my experience, 9.2.0.4 is the best one so far. I don't think that you should be chosing versions based on

Re: splitting files with tar

2003-10-30 Thread Mladen Gogala
man split. On 10/30/2003 09:34:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can I splitt a file into many files with tar command. Rgds. Arslan -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

10046 level 8 trace - help required with 'direct path write' wait

2003-10-30 Thread Tim Onions
Gurus I've applied many of the things I've learnt from this list over the years and today I tried a 10046 trace for the first time on a reported slow transaction. From what I can tell the biggest offender is a wait seemingly associated with rollback (see below) called 'direct path write'. Is this

RE: which oracle9i version is stable

2003-10-30 Thread Jeroen van Sluisdam
I forgot to mention we will be running hp-ux11.11 64 bit, plan to run oracle also on 64 bit Jeroen -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Jeroen van Sluisdam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: Thursday, October 30, 2003 12:09 Aan: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Onderwerp:

RE: splitting files with tar

2003-10-30 Thread Stephane Faroult
tar to stdout and pipe into 'split' eg tar cvf - mydir | split ... - --- Original Message --- - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:34:38 how can I splitt a file into many files with tar command.

RE: Export Split Script (FAO LISA)

2003-10-30 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Also found this in my archives, courtesy of Rachel. Regards Lee -Original Message- Sent: 16 May 2001 22:28 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L there is a note out on Metalink on how to do this. You can also break the export into separate files in later versions of Oracle8i. or

RE: 2G trace files - solved...sort of

2003-10-30 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Sorry Lisa, This doesn't work for export files. Sounds like you are hitting an OS limit. What are you running Oracle on. You can export to a compressed file via a UNIX pipe. (if indeed it is UNIX you are running on). Regards Lee -Original Message- Sent: 30 October 2003 14:39 To:

RMAN: SVR4 Error: 27: File too large

2003-10-30 Thread tamizh
Hi List, How to fix this error without changing something in OS level? Is tehre any command to set max block size in RMAn before we do backup? Thanks in advance? RMAN-08031: released channel: c1 RMAN-08031: released channel: c2 RMAN-08031: released channel: c3 RMAN-00571:

RE: 2G trace files - solved...sort of

2003-10-30 Thread James Howerton
Lisa, Have you're SA set the ulimit to unlimited, or you can use the filesize parameter in export to break the export into several files. hth ..JIM... [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/30/03 8:39:26 AM Hi Guys, We are currently unable to do a full database export as it fails due to dump file being over

RE: 10046 level 8 trace - help required with 'direct path write'

2003-10-30 Thread Tim Onions
OK - so I'd not got round to reading a recent previous post on the same issue, seems tim= is in hundredths of seconds for 8i. So I got that bit of the answer. Still pondering on those 'direct path write' waits though. _ Tim Onions Head of Oracle Development Speech

RE: which oracle9i version is stable

2003-10-30 Thread M Rafiq
There is no version of 32 bit Oracle 9i for HP-UX 11. You have to use 64 bit Oracle binaries for HP Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:49:25 -0800 I forgot to mention we will be running hp-ux11.11 64

Tomcat

2003-10-30 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I have the impression that Oracle isn't keen on supporting Tomcat with iAS. Instead, OC4J is supposedly more compliant with J2EE and is faster. How popular is Tomcat? Tomcat is being mentioned more and more often at our site, I am wondering whether we are headed for a collision at some time in

Re: RMAN: SVR4 Error: 27: File too large

2003-10-30 Thread Mladen Gogala
Have you ever considered purchasing Robert Freeman's RMAN book? If memory serves me right, it does describe MAXPIECESIZE option to configure and allocate channel commands. On 10/30/2003 10:04:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, How to fix this error without changing something in OS

Re: Removing NUMGROUP from lexer in ConTerMedText index

2003-10-30 Thread Hemant K Chitale
I can't provide a solution. But I do agree with your nomenclature : Context/Intermedia/Text/whateverTheHell and ConTerMedText. I have [or rather HAD] Intermedia/Text setup in an 9iFS 1.1.9 and 9iFS 9.0.1 environment. The IFS_TEXT index was successful for not very many files. We've given up

RE: Export Split Script (FAO LISA)

2003-10-30 Thread Rachel Carmichael
you can also use the FILESIZE parameter available in export since 8i (the only docs I have are for 8.1.7 so I'm not sure if it was available before that release) --- Robertson Lee - lerobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also found this in my archives, courtesy of Rachel. Regards Lee

DBA Support Database

2003-10-30 Thread Smith, Ron L.
I was thinking about putting together a database that contains a list of DBAs, servers, databases, and applications. The database would be used by the Helpdesk and Management to see who is responsible for a given application or database when problems occur. I thought I would check first and

RE: DBA Support Database

2003-10-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ron Our help desk people use a software application that is capable of storing configuration information like this. You may want to check with them first to see if they already have something you can build on rather than starting something new. Unless I'm missing something, what you describe

RE: ORA-4031 error help.

2003-10-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Avnish Glad to see you are getting some excellent suggestions. We run Lawson here. Lawson itself uses the database in a pretty simple manner, so that rules out a lot of stuff, except if you've added customizations of your own. Lawson uses bind variables, so that rules out some suggestions. I

RE: 10046 level 8 trace - help required with 'direct path write'

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Baumgartel
IIRC, 'direct path write' represents writes to temporary segments. --- Tim Onions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK - so I'd not got round to reading a recent previous post on the same issue, seems tim= is in hundredths of seconds for 8i. So I got that bit of the answer. Still pondering on those

Re: DBA Support Database

2003-10-30 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
Ron: I have heard of this being done especially in large companies that have many, many databases. It is difficult to keep track of all the little details that are spread out all over the company. Having a central data mart for this information I thing would be very helpful. The only problem I

RE: 2G trace files - solved...sort of

2003-10-30 Thread M Rafiq
I think if you are having 32 bit Oracle software, this is the limit. There is a document on Metalink specifying export dump size limits with 32 and 64 bit software. Other listers already suggested you couple of options to resolve this issue. Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: RMAN: SVR4 Error: 27: File too large

2003-10-30 Thread Ron Rogers
Tamizh, To set the limit on the size of the output file use set limit channel d1 kbytes=30; for a 3 gig file . Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/30/03 10:04AM Hi List, How to fix this error without changing something in OS level? Is tehre any command to set max block size in RMAn before we do

RE: sqlplus prompt question in 9i

2003-10-30 Thread david hill
Title: RE: sqlplus prompt question in 9i It could be your sql Here is the prompt I have been using for a while with no problems at all If the db is down you get a prompt of Nolog set termout off define new_prompt='nolog' column value new_value new_prompt select SYS_CONTEXT('USERENV',

RE: DBA Support Database

2003-10-30 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
We recently signed a corporate agreement with Oracle that basically gave us a named-user license for every person in the company. Now, we have databases sprouting like rabbits. Our four-dba team now is supporting SAP, two different Siebels, a data warehouse, and myriad other projects - over 200

Re: 10046 level 8 trace - help required with 'direct path

2003-10-30 Thread Andy Rivenes
Looks sort spillage to disk due to the where clause. Andy Rivenes [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 06:44 AM 10/30/2003 -0800, Tim Onions wrote: Gurus I've applied many of the things I've learnt from this list over the years and today I tried a 10046 trace for the first time on a reported slow transaction.

proc to pl/sql

2003-10-30 Thread AK
Is there any tool out there that can convert pro*c codeto pl/sql ? thanks, -ak

RE: DBA Support Database

2003-10-30 Thread Robson, Peter
Just a quick reply to this. You are, in fact, formulating the sort of request which would be input to a corporate data architecture. We have built such a thing, and it includes the issues you refer to. More importantly, we have identified who is responsible for every single piece of data in the

Re: RMAN: SVR4 Error: 27: File too large

2003-10-30 Thread Andy Rivenes
It looks like you need to SET LIMIT ... for the channel allocation, if 8i, to less than 2GB. In 9i this can be set with MAXSETSIZE (not sure if SET LIMIT is still supported in 9i). Note that you cannot back up a file larger than the SET LIMIT size, so based on your ulimit command I assume

grouping sets

2003-10-30 Thread bulbultyagi
List , I am using Oracle enterprise edition 9.2.0.1.0 on windows. I was trying to write the equivalent for a rollup , using grouping sets. This works : select dept_id, title, sum ( salary ) from s_emp where dept_id 35 group by grouping sets ( (dept_id , title ) ); This also works : select

dual

2003-10-30 Thread bulbultyagi
List, here is a rtfm question which I was scared to ask, but its bothering me too much so I just can't stay quite : why do multiple inserts into sys.dual complete sucessfully when connected as sysdba, but a subsequent select * from dual show only 1 row ? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L

Outsourcing's dirty secret

2003-10-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
List - If a manager seems to be contemplating outsourcing, you might want to post this. Unless you work for an outsourcer. ;-) http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/Hidden_Costs_of_IT_Outso urcing.html Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the

Re: 10046 level 8 trace - help required with 'direct path

2003-10-30 Thread Yong Huang
Hi, Tim, Assuming you don't have more than 1000 files, what's your db_files set to and what's select file#, name from v$tempfile? If you do have more than 1026 files, select file#, name from v$datafile. Also show us select * from v$sort_usage if you can run that DELETE again. XCTEND rlbk=0:

RE: DBA Support Database

2003-10-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ken, Ron I think the most important step is to ask some very hard questions about what data you really need. From what I've seen (and been involved in), you begin with a burst of enthusiasm and tend to collect far too much data. Then you can't keep it all updated, so the data tends to get

New global RAC-SIG and discussion forum

2003-10-30 Thread Murali Vallath
Hello listers, At OW, SF RAC users, IOUG and Oracle put their heads together to launch a new RAC-SIG. IOUGhas started aRAC-SIG list server for its members.http://www.ioug.org/ioug_p/dynamic_pkg.show?v_name=DISPLAY_RAC_SIG Last week the RAC-SIG took a global turn, it wasofficially launched

RE: dual

2003-10-30 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
If you did not commit the inserts to dual, then everyone will only see one row. If you committed the data and still one row appeared, then you must have a row defined for dual. Suggestion: Don't add more rows to dual if you value your dba life. Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Technical

RE: proc to pl/sql

2003-10-30 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
Actually there is. It is called a consultant. Because of the mush within 3GL languages, it would be extremely difficult for a tool to convert. Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Technical Alliance Manager Compuware Corporation Direct: (313) 227-4350 Mobile: (248) 408-2918 Email:

Re: 10046 level 8 trace - help required with 'direct path

2003-10-30 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Yong: They are temp files. The file# for the temp files start with db_files+1. Because of this, there may be chances your pl will have 1000+ though you have only hand ful of datafiles. KG - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

RE: Tomcat

2003-10-30 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
Does not really fit into their open source initiative. Anytime we mention Tomcat as a supported product for our tools, Oracle's prod. Management team cringes. They are not seeing between the lines that the app server has more stuff than most organizations desire; tomcat solves most requirements.

RE: RE: DBA Support Database

2003-10-30 Thread Stephane Faroult
I have seen something of the kind done at one of my large customers (600+ databases, Oracle + Sybase), where I have had more than a hand into the Oracle part (the inventory is stored in *blush* Sybase) and I am working on something similar with a colleague elsewhere, where there are _only_ 80

Re: which oracle9i version is stable

2003-10-30 Thread Brian_P_MacLean
With Oracle, quality always ends with the number 4. 6.0.38.4 7.3.4 8.1.7.4 9.2.0.4 Mladen Gogala

RE: Outsourcing's dirty secret

2003-10-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
What is also unfortunate that the company X which outsourced its project to India, didn't do its job right ... If you just want the cheapest Rolex, you can't complain about its quality later on. I am not saying this couldn't have happened, whatever happened is unfortunate, but I am just saying

RE: DBA Support Database

2003-10-30 Thread John Kanagaraj
Ron, As you may have seen already, some issues have been pointed out. However, there are deeper issues... :( Databases need to run on Servers - these servers in turn rely on other services below them, namely Disk infrastructure (such as SANs, NAS, Switch fabric, etc.) as well as other networking

Don't bind pl/sql program units in a form to form fields

2003-10-30 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Straight from the TUSC Oracle Performance Tuning Tips Techniques book, pp 439-440. This is supposed to help reduce the number of network trips for Forms applications. My problem is... I don't know what this "bad" thing is supposed to look like from the server side. Is there a standard

how to get rid of default

2003-10-30 Thread Olga Gurevich
Hi. I have created a field in a table with a default clause. - f1 number(1) not null default 1. How can I get rid of the default now? thanks Gene __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/ -- Please

RE: which oracle9i version is stable

2003-10-30 Thread Kevin Toepke
Ends in 4? Unless you are trying to use Heterogeneous Services (HS) under 9.2.0.4 on an AIX 5L system. Then you are waiting for Oracle development to issue a patch. (Not that I am running into this situation or anything. And I'm not bitter :) FYI, 9.2.0.3 is the ONLY 9.2 version for AIX that HS

RE: Tomcat

2003-10-30 Thread mkb
Exactly per your last point - licensing is a big Goose Egg. We've just completed a whole suite of Cognos tool installs and Cognos are pushing Tomcat. They're app server is now standardized on Tomcat. I talked to one of the analyts onsite here and he mentioned that they are moving away from IIS

Re: proc to pl/sql

2003-10-30 Thread Todd Boss
Do you have any technical details on this Consultant package? What version, is it stable, what products does it work with? ... ;-) boss Actually there is. It is called a consultant. Because of the mush within 3GL languages, it would be extremely difficult for a tool to convert.

RE: how to get rid of default

2003-10-30 Thread Khedr, Waleed
default null -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 12:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi. I have created a field in a table with a default clause. - f1 number(1) not null default 1. How can I get rid of the default now? thanks Gene

Re: proc to pl/sql

2003-10-30 Thread AK
Is it a freeware :) -ak - Original Message - From: Karniotis, Stephen To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:24 AM Subject: RE: proc to pl/sql Actually there is. It is called a consultant. Because of

RE: how to get rid of default

2003-10-30 Thread Tim Fleury
I believe your only option with the alter table command is to set it to null (which it can't be on an insert that doesn't provide a value since the column is set up as not null). ALTER TABLE table_name MODIFY (column_name DEFAULT NULL); -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 30,

Re: how to get rid of default

2003-10-30 Thread Vladimir Begun
Olga Gurevich wrote: I have created a field in a table with a default clause. - f1 number(1) not null default 1. How can I get rid of the default now? Oracle9i SQL Reference Release 2 (9.2) ALTER TABLE column_clauses add_column_clause If a column has a default value, then you can use the DEFAULT

RE: dual

2003-10-30 Thread Pete Sharman
It's because we designed it that way. In earlier releases (can't remember the specific version we brought this in with), you could put more than one row in DUAL and then select them all, but all the things that should have returned only one row then failed with a 1403 (?) error - single row query

Re: 10046 level 8 trace - help required with 'direct path

2003-10-30 Thread Yong Huang
Hi, Gopal, Now I know where you are! I just joined this list. I left here two years because of too much spam (off-topic messages). I know that number is db_files + tempfile#. But if he indeed has 1026 datafiles, p1 *will* be file# in v$datafile. Yong --- K Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: proc to pl/sql

2003-10-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Yeah right ... Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having an opinion is an art ! -Original

RE: 10046 level 8 trace - help required with 'direct path

2003-10-30 Thread John Kanagaraj
Tim, As you have seen, this is due to writes to and reads from the TEMPORARY tablespace of that user. This could be due to both SORT segments (SORT_AREA_SIZE overflow) as well as HASH segments due to HASH Joins going to TEMP when they overflow HASH_AREA_SIZE. This can be seen from

Re: dual

2003-10-30 Thread Jared . Still
You may find this interesting. Looks like a 'where rownum = 1' is always imposed on dual. Same results on 8.1.7.4 and 9.2.0.4 Don't try this on anything other than a trashable test database. Jared === 10:42:04 dv03@dt 10:42:05 dv03 10:42:05 dv03set echo

Oracle failsafe and RMAN

2003-10-30 Thread Arnon, Yuval
List, This question is for anyone using RMAN with Oracle 8i and Failsafe on Win2k. What will happen when the primary node fails and Oracle Failsafe switches to the other node while RMAN is runningg.?? Will the database come up or it will not be able to?? Thanks. Yuval This transmission

RE: Oracle failsafe and RMAN

2003-10-30 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Yuval, I'm assuming you are running Microsoft Cluster Services. Are you running the Rman backup on the cluster, or on the physical box? Either way, I think your Rman backup will fail, but the database will come back just fine. Rman simply has a connection attached to the database running on

RE: 10046 level 8 trace - help required with 'direct path

2003-10-30 Thread Paul . Parker
John/Tim, The 'direct path read/write' are for cursor #14. The delete is cursor #15. Check the trace file for the preceding cursor #14. Paul -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Tim, As you have seen, this is due to

RE: 10046 level 8 trace - help required with 'direct path

2003-10-30 Thread Andy Rivenes
Hi John, don't know other than what you have speculated on. We would have to have more info to investigate further. Andy Rivenes [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 10:39 AM 10/30/2003 -0800, you wrote: Tim, As you have seen, this is due to writes to and reads from the TEMPORARY tablespace of that user. This

RE: dual

2003-10-30 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Do you think it will work if it has no rows ? Waleed -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:44 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: dualYou may find this interesting. Looks like a 'where

RE: DBA Support Database

2003-10-30 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
There are tools on the market that discover that for you. They will detect what databases and what applications use them for you automatically. Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Technical Alliance Manager Compuware Corporation Direct: (313) 227-4350 Mobile: (248) 408-2918 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: dual

2003-10-30 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
I have seen many databases crash, yes crash, when dual had more than one row or less than one? Why you say? As someone pointed out, this was an internal table to the kernel so Oracle used it as they felt. It was and still is considered a heartbeat mechanism within the kernel. In other

RE: 10046 level 8 trace - help required with 'direct path

2003-10-30 Thread Yong Huang
Hi, Tim, John has good input. You can't conclude that your DELETE requires a sort. v$sort_usage (or preferablly v$tempseg_usage beginning with 9.2) shows all types of usage of temporary segments. If the segtype column says it's 'SORT', the session is sorting. If it's 'HASH', it's hashing. For

RE: 9I RAC corporate standard.

2003-10-30 Thread Browett, Darren
Aren't the key features of Tru64 (trucluster, advfs) being ported to HP-UX, so there is some hope that the success I have had with Tru64 will show up in HP-UX. That's if we stay with Unix as opposed to moving to Linux. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:58 AM To:

Re: 10046 level 8 trace - help required with 'direct path write' wait

2003-10-30 Thread Mladen Gogala
So, when you look for the segment_type,segment_name,owner in dba_extents, what do you see for file_id=1026 and block_id's as listed in p2? On 10/30/2003 09:44:25 AM, Tim Onions wrote: Gurus I've applied many of the things I've learnt from this list over the years and today I tried a 10046

RE: 10046 level 8 trace - help required with 'direct path

2003-10-30 Thread Yong Huang
Thanks, Paul. Your message is more insightful than John's and mine! Sometimes it's too easy to see the tree without seeing the woods. Yong --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John/Tim, The 'direct path read/write' are for cursor #14. The delete is cursor #15. Check the trace file for the

Overhead Associated with Signon Audit in Financials 11.0

2003-10-30 Thread VICTORIA_PIERCE
Does anyone have any statistics about overhead associated with using the Signon Audit in an 11.0.3/ 8.1.7.4/8.0.6.3 environment. We are using full installs of AP, GL, FA and CE. Size of the production database is 100G. Can't tell you exactly what we'd be auditing; we are under siege by Internal

RE: Outsourcing's dirty secret

2003-10-30 Thread Jared . Still
The perception of outsourcing has been that you can send your work offshore, and get it done cheaper, with higher quality. I think that this article helps to dispel that as a myth. It may or may not be less expensive, it may or may not be better. Jared Jamadagni, Rajendra [EMAIL

RE: dual

2003-10-30 Thread Jared . Still
Didn't try no rows. I imagine all kinds of things would break. Khedr, Waleed [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/30/2003 11:04 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: dual Do you

RE: Outsourcing's dirty secret

2003-10-30 Thread April Wells
Same is true for getting the 'cheapest' price for a project that just requires a contractor to work in house. SOMETIMES you get what you pay for, and (from what I understand) occasionally what you deserve. April Wells Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA Corporate Systems Amarillo Texas /\ / \ / \ \

Re: dual

2003-10-30 Thread bulbultyagi
Thanks - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 23:49 It's because we designed it that way. In earlier releases (can't remember the specific version we brought this in with), you could put more than one row in

RE: dual

2003-10-30 Thread M Rafiq
I have observed 2 rows in dual till version 7.3.4. All application using dual in their logic having more than 2 rows were giving wrong results. Quick fix was to track it and delete more than one row(s). Duplicate import of sys/system stuff were known to be culprit. Regards Rafiq Reply-To:

Re: What happened to Howard Rogers ?

2003-10-30 Thread bulbultyagi
Thanks lisa - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 20:54 His essays are still available here http://www.geocities.com/lydian_third/ Lisa. -Original Message- Sent: 23 October 2003 15:04 To:

Re: Outsourcing's dirty secret

2003-10-30 Thread Mladen Gogala
But sure as hell does drive salaries down over here. On 10/30/2003 03:04:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The perception of outsourcing has been that you can send your work offshore, and get it done cheaper, with higher quality. I think that this article helps to dispel that as a myth. It

RE: proc to pl/sql

2003-10-30 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
consultants work with any product. they like to get paid so that they can eat. they are relatively stable, and are just looking to get along. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: proc to pl/sql

2003-10-30 Thread Thater, William
[EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: Do you have any technical details on this Consultant package? What version, is it stable, what products does it work with? ... consultant version bill1.0 is stable having been in production since 1968, all reported installations of

RE: dual

2003-10-30 Thread Thater, William
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 3:09 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: dual Didn't try no rows. I imagine all kinds of things would break. [Shrek] yes they will... trust me.

dbverify question

2003-10-30 Thread ryan_oracle
Total Pages Examined : 1280 Total Pages Processed (Data) : 0 Total Pages Failing (Data) : 0 Total Pages Processed (Index): 0 Total Pages Failing (Index): 0 Total Pages Processed (Other): 1 Total Pages Empty : 1279 Total Pages Marked Corrupt : 0 Total Pages Influx : 0 Total Pages marked corrupt:

RE: how to get rid of default - thanks!!

2003-10-30 Thread Olga Gurevich
Just to say thanks to all who replied- Waleed, Valdimir. Govidan. sorry if i missed anyone Gene --- Khedr, Waleed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: default null -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 12:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi. I have created a

RE: alter system reset

2003-10-30 Thread Richard Ji
On a Unix system, you can "tput reset" to clear up that mess after viewing a binary file by accident. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 3:39 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: alter

Re: Overhead Associated with Signon Audit in Financials 11.0

2003-10-30 Thread Mladen Gogala
It is true, auditing adds significant overhead, but not session auditing. Significant overhead is added by DML auditing because you ad significant amount of modified blocks to every transaction you audit, you are using space and additional CPU cycles. It can add to much more frequent checkpoints,

RE: Outsourcing's dirty secret

2003-10-30 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
Title: RE: Outsourcing's dirty secret not only salries, but job opportunities as well:-) greg -Original Message- From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 3:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Outsourcing's dirty secret

Enterprise Manager Console create report utility stops after 3%

2003-10-30 Thread Rick_Cale
Hi DBAs, Oracle 9.2.0.1 Win 2000 In Enterprise Console there is an option to produce a report on either 1 Database Configuration Report or 2. Database Status Report. When I choose either on I always get 3% complete and amount of time thusfar just keeps going. I never get a report and never

RE: Overhead Associated with Signon Audit in Financials 11.0

2003-10-30 Thread John Kanagaraj
Vicki, As long as your *Purge* Audit signon data, I really do not see any significant overhead. We have a 200 Gb DB and see no issues. What level is your Profile set to? The advantages of Signon Audit far outweighs the load it places - for e.g. you have no other way of seeing which user is logged

RE: dual

2003-10-30 Thread Jared . Still
I encountered the same problem once many years ago, for the same reason. Quite a pickle for a newbie - OWW bailed me out on that one. :) Jraed M Rafiq [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/30/2003 12:29 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list

RE: 10046 level 8 trace - help required with 'direct path

2003-10-30 Thread Tim Onions
Paul Oh well spotted, I'd completely missed that, cursor #14 is MUCH more complex and would require a fair degree of sorts. Thanks T¬ _ Tim Onions Head of Oracle Development Speech Machines (A MedQuist Company) ..the speech-to-data Application Service Provider

RE: DBA Support Database

2003-10-30 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
Title: RE: DBA Support Database I'll throw in my *very expensive free* comments... expensive free comments This begins to create the corporate metadata and architecture as Peter mentions. We are on this road, and there are several tools that can do *auto discovery*. There are some very nice

RE: Overhead Associated with Signon Audit in Financials 11.0

2003-10-30 Thread Murray, Margaret
Hi Vicki, We're not running 11.03 (we're on 10.7) and we have auditing running for sign-on audit set for Responsibility (so we get recorded what responsibility they're using). We were running it set for User so that the DBAs could use that information to get back who was running what. In

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