Oracle Application Training Docs

2003-12-11 Thread Kirtish P Gaonkar
Hi , Do anybody have the oracle application training document for a fresher who might be knowing oracle and Developer 2000. If anybody has some material do forward would appreciate for the same . Regards Kirtish P. Gaonkar -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net --

Developer 2000 training document

2003-12-11 Thread Kirtish P Gaonkar
Hi , Do anybody have the Developer 2000 training document for a fresher . If anybody has some material do forward would appreciate for the same . Regards Kirtish P. Gaonkar Kirtish P. Gaonkar -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Kirtish P Gaonkar INET:

Re: Oracle Data Guard

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Can you clarify a couple of points for me. The SDU (session data unit) is presumably the packet size that the Oracle client and server want to pass back and forth - which is presumably the maximum size the one synchronous dialogue unit will be. The TDU (transport data unit) is presumably the

Re: Oracle Data Guard

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Lewis
But the last time I looked at it, you had to enable supplemental logging at the database level if you wanted to use logical standby. Two side effects - 1) As you said, you need a unique/primary key, and database supplemental logging copies such a key into the redo for every change to a row: but

Re: 10g new features (was: dc_used_extents ,dc_free_extents and d

2003-12-11 Thread Yechiel Adar
I concur. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 11:44 PM Excellent slide show Tanel! Robert -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 12/10/2003

Downloading patches

2003-12-11 Thread Naveen, Nahata (IE10)
Hi, This might be a rudimentary question. I'm trying to download patch 3095277 (9.2.0.4) from windows workstation behind a proxy. Is there any way I can use ftp to download the same rather than using the standard browser based download which seems to be a but slower? Regards Naveen

Re: analyze problems

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Take a look at user_tab_columns - your choice of: method_opt = 'for columns' On a quick test on 9.2.0.3 this seems to leave the columns with null statistics. (check select column_name, num_distinct from user_tab_columns ) In passing, computing histograms with 75 buckets for all

Re: sequences and cursors

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Lewis
That won't help, as the cursor would still be held open in the pl/sql cursor cache - despite the explicit close. It's also more efficient to use the implicit cursor in pl/sql for a single row fetch in the user's version of Oracle. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The

RE: Dblink fails between 8.1.7 (Unix) and 9i (Zos 390) due to invalid

2003-12-11 Thread Hybart, Clive
Title: Message Tnsnames is used to resolve aliases - we are currently looking at the global_names parameter -Original Message-From: Hybart, Clive [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 December 2003 15:19To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Dblink

Re: Configuring Veritas Netbackup Question

2003-12-11 Thread Yechiel Adar
He is talking about Veritas NetBackup which is different from BackupExec. Anyway, Veritas client just provide output option for RMAN. It is RMAN that perform the backup, so it can be hot or cold. It depends if you are serving coffee or mineral water. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message

RE: analyze problems

2003-12-11 Thread Jeroen van Sluisdam
Hi Jonathan, Can you please elaborate on this 75 buckets issue. I had an advice from an oracle consultant to implement analyzing Like this. BTW column statistics are there but it makes no difference In plans. I also added optimizer_index_caching=90 and Optimizer_index_cost_adj=40 both also

Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Richard Foote
Little competition for you all :) It's a two part question: What's wrong with the followingpiece of expert analysis? Which well know "Oracle Guru" published this (and continues to display it on his web-page) ? "Sadly, Oracle9i doesn’t allow you to specify the value for PCTFREE

Code Conversion from MSSQL into Oracle

2003-12-11 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Are there any TOOLs for converting Sample Code (like the following) from MSSQL into Oracle? SAMPLE :- DECLARE @entity_id char(32), @branch_id char(9) DECLARE cur_temp_GEMT CURSOR FOR select branch_id,entity_id from GEMT where other_party_name='' and entity_type='D'

RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Naveen, Nahata (IE10)
Well, Googling this statement, one can easily find the source of this statement :-) Naveen -Original Message-From: Richard Foote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:09 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Little competition Little

RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Suhen Pather (S)
Title: Message Don King SQL create table 2 test_table 3 (c1 number) 4 tablespace 5 asm_test 6 pctfree 20 pctused 30; -Original Message-From: Richard Foote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 1:39 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Code Conversion from MSSQL into Oracle

2003-12-11 Thread Shiva Maran
try oracle work bench from Oracle. HTH ShivaM -Original Message-From: VIVEK_SHARMA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:19 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Code Conversion from MSSQL into Oracle Are there any TOOLs for

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Nuno Souto
Well, I guess it's all about self-tuning, all this parameter stuff is out of date... :) Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - Little competition for you all :) It's a two part question: a.. What's wrong with the following piece of expert analysis ? b..

RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Wartiak Rastislav
Life would be worse w/o PCT_FREE. create table test_table (c1 varchar2(1000)) pctfree 20 ; select pct_free from user_tables where table_name='TEST_TABLE' PCT_FREE -- 20 rw Little competition for you all :) It's a two part question: What's wrong

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
i meant automatic segment management has fragmentation issues. From: Richard Foote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/11 Thu AM 06:39:26 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Little competition Little competition for you all :) It's a two part question:

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
who wrote that? automatic undo management has fragmentation issues. Niall Litchfield posted a test case a couple of months ago. From: Richard Foote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/11 Thu AM 06:39:26 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Little

RE: 10g stuff on otn

2003-12-11 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
"so are they really new versions or just minor upgrades to the 9i version?" let's see. Otn is a marketing tool. From a marketing point of view, what's better - changing the name to make it look like it's brand-spanking new, or making what is obvious obvious - that they are simply

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
hopefully i wont sound like a complete idiot, but what is wrong with wanting to be able to handle your own pctfree and pctused. Ok oracle handles the next and initial extent sizes...(which causes fragmentation). I use transportable tablespaces and in order to increase the time it takes to copy

RE: 10g stuff on otn

2003-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Duh !!! It is oracle ... create or replace public synonym "Application Server 10G" for "Application Server 9.0.4" / Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are

RE: rebuilding indexes - sure to cause a ruckus

2003-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Mark, I just met Elvis behind local Wal-Mart parking lot, we discussed the same topics ... funny you mention them. Oh ans we did talk about investing in Enron too (got a hot tip, the stock is going to go up). Raj

RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Richard, Don't know about the "guru", but sorry to hear that David Bowie is sick with Influenza. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD:

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: Re: Little competition I can cut 45 minutes off my load times by shrinking the data file? And how much overhead gets added to DML statements as blocks madly shift on and off the freelists with each operation? Priorities, priorities, priorities... If youre using 9i or above, the table

Antw: RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Guido Konsolke
Hi Raj, David Bowie? Didn't he publish something regarding 'space' management a long time ago? ;-) I may (as usual) be totally wrong here. Greetings, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11.12.2003 13.49 Uhr Richard, Don't know about the guru, but sorry to hear that David Bowie is sick with Influenza.

Re: Code Conversion from MSSQL into Oracle

2003-12-11 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: Re: Code Conversion from MSSQL into Oracle 10 years ago or so, I wrote a 105 line script for the UNIX sed (a.k.a. stream editor) command to convert Teradata BTEQ scripts into Oracle SQL*Plus. Painful, yet thrilling, and it took only about a day of concentration with the OReilly Awk and

RE: Pipelined functions

2003-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Pipelined functions Yes, I sent out another message shortly after that 'set arraysize 1' was the key. Thanks Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are

RE: Antw: RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
No, you are not but I think Richard from down under is a big David Bowie fan !! Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts,

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, December 11, 2003, 6:39:26 AM, Richard Foote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: RF a.. What's wrong with the following piece of expert analysis ? I don't know what's wrong with this analysis. There's not much really there. The claim is that it's bad not to be able to specify PCTFREE, but

RE: Dblink fails between 8.1.7 (Unix) and 9i (Zos 390) due to inv

2003-12-11 Thread Hybart, Clive
On UNIX 8.1.7 global_names = true On Zos 390 9i global_names = false Is this causing a mismatch perhaps ? Regards Clive -Original Message- Sent: 10 December 2003 12:10 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L inv Clive, during the upgrade has the global_names parameter somehow been

XP SP2 and the personal firewall

2003-12-11 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Title: Message As stated earlier, service pack 2 for XP will turn the personal firewall back on. http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/securityinxpsp2.asp Patrice.

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: Re: Little competition Neither the PCTFREE and PCTUSED clauses go inside the STORAGE clause. They are independent of it. That is why the error was thrown, not because PCTFREE is invalid with ASSM... Essentially, an erroneous interpretation of the error message. If it was really going

RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Jonathan, I've been coming to the same conclusion as you have. In all of my databases that I have ever worked on, there are only a select set of Oracle params that are really required. And with space management the way it is, a lot of the 'create table' params are really not needed for the

Re: Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
Ive been working on 'large' distributed databases lately and its not as high as alot of arrogant people make it out to be. Its just different. Im not sure tuning a database with alot of data and fewer transactions like in a datawarehouse necessarily 'harder' than tuning a higher transaction

Re: sequences and cursors

2003-12-11 Thread Mladen Gogala
It might be held in the cursor cache, it may even be held in session cursors cache but it will not be counted as an open cursor. My suggestion had diagnostic purpose only. The problem is, probably, with the tool which explicitly closes cursors too frequently and insufficiently sized shared pool

3rd Party Oracle Licenses

2003-12-11 Thread Jay Hostetter
We are purchasing a software package from a vendor. The vendor states that the package includes sufficient Oracle licenses. Since I'm supposed to keep on top of our licensing costs, I'm trying to make sure that there are no surprises down the road - such as additional Oracle support fees or

Re: 10g stuff on otn

2003-12-11 Thread Mladen Gogala
Yup. The new version will not get out until the books are written and their buddies are ready to start selling grid consulting skills. On 12/11/2003 07:44:33 AM, Mercadante, Thomas F wrote: so are they really new versions or just minor upgrades to the 9i version? let's see. Otn is a

Re: Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
yeah typical burleson carelessness then. anyone can make that mistake, but if your going to publish you should be more careful. should have known. From: Tim Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/11 Thu AM 08:34:32 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Mladen Gogala
1) Pctfree and pctused are not storage parameters. 2) Oracle allows using both of those parameters as shown by the next example: SQL select tablespace_name from dba_tablespaces 2 where segment_space_management='AUTO'; TABLESPACE_NAME -- CWMLITE DRSYS EXAMPLE

Re: 10g stuff on otn

2003-12-11 Thread Joe Testa
kinda like how 9ir1 was really 8.2 :) joe Mercadante, Thomas F wrote: so are they really new versions or just minor upgrades to the 9i version? let's see. Otn is a marketing tool. From a marketing point of view, what's better - changing the name to make it look like it's brand-spanking

Re: long raw risk

2003-12-11 Thread Yechiel Adar
I have a wild idea but maybe you can check with the vendor if it can be done. 1) Create a table that will hold only the other fields. 2) Create a second table that will have the same PK and long raw field. 3) Create a view that will combine them by the PK. 4) Since I am not sure in a view with

Re: Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
#1. these instances are still on 8i. We are supposed to go to 9i, but its not my call #2. its read only for the users. We do batch loads at night and I did not notice any slow down in the loads. I run statspack regularly. no problem. Just gotta do an alter table move periodically when we get

Re[3]: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, December 11, 2003, 8:44:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: rcn The biggest thing about working on database in the rcn multi-TB range is that its a nice buzzword for your rcn resume. Its not necessarily harder. This brings back some memories. I remember back when I moved

Re[2]: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, December 11, 2003, 8:34:32 AM, Tim Gorman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: TG Neither the PCTFREE and PCTUSED clauses go inside the STORAGE clause. They TG are independent of it. That is why the error was thrown, not because TG PCTFREE is invalid with ASSM... Oh my. I'm so blind! I

RE: analyze problems

2003-12-11 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
Not that he needs it, but I can confirm Jonathan's claim that the method_opt clause you are using does not collect column statistics: SQL @delete_table_stats tp1 PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. SQL @tblstats tp1

Re: OT: Web hosting

2003-12-11 Thread Robert Pegram
I have been thinking of using ipowerweb. http://www.ipowerweb.com/ Rob Pegram --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the off topic, but I don't have any one locally to ask this of. My co-workers that are developers tend to be somewhat MScentric. Can anyone recommend a good, inexpensive

Re: Downloading patches

2003-12-11 Thread Mladen Gogala
Nope. Not since oracle killed the ftp server they used (ftp://oracle-ftp.oracle.com). You could have used wget when the ftp server was there. That is the primary reason I had to purchase a cable modem connection. On 12/11/2003 03:54:24 AM, Naveen, Nahata (IE10) wrote: Hi, This might be a

RE: Dblink fails between 8.1.7 (Unix) and 9i (Zos 390) due to inv

2003-12-11 Thread Mark Leith
Clive, If the GLOBAL_NAMES parameter is set to true, then you must create the database link with the same name as the database to which it connects.. Is that the case? Mark -Original Message- Hybart, Clive Sent: 11 December 2003 12:24 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L inv On

RE: Antw: RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Guido Konsolke
Yes, I know. That David Bowie stuff comes up every few weeks / months in several c.d.o. groups. But what are 'fans'? In my opintion they make wind ;-) Anyway, I like this competition thread - mostly because there's nothing but bulls**t coming from me. Greetings to the list, Guido [EMAIL

RE: Downloading patches

2003-12-11 Thread Jerry Hess
Try using updates.oracle.com. -Original Message- Mladen Gogala Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 8:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Nope. Not since oracle killed the ftp server they used (ftp://oracle-ftp.oracle.com). You could have used wget when the ftp server was there.

Re: sequences and cursors

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Run your test case, and check the contents of v$open_cursor. Unless my memory has got it backwards, the pl/sql cursor cache is counted towards max_open_cursors, but the cursors that have been held open by the 'dirty tricks department' are closed as required if the limit is

Re: Dblink fails between 8.1.7 (Unix) and 9i (Zos 390) due to inv

2003-12-11 Thread Yechiel Adar
Yes. The name must be equal to select name from v$database. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 4:54 PM Clive, If the GLOBAL_NAMES parameter is set to true, then you must create the

Re: Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I managed to emulate Don Burleson's problem: SQL create table test_table 2 (c1 number) 3 storage (pctfree 20 pctused 30); storage (pctfree 20 pctused 30) * ERROR at line 3: ORA-02143: invalid STORAGE option But when I read the error message, and corrected the error that was

RE: Web hosting

2003-12-11 Thread Kevin Toepke
Title: Message I use PHP Webhosting for all of the sites I manage. http://phpwebhosting.com/ Kevin -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 6:40 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: OT: Web

RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Hately, Mike (LogicaCMG)
Good points Jonathan, The 'box' as far as I'm concerned was accomodated by v7.3.4. That had 95% of the features anyone could want for most environments. After that we've had a succession of 'nice to have' features. Don't get me wrong, some environments absolutely demand these new features and

Strange behavior with dbms_stats...

2003-12-11 Thread Jose Luis Delgado
List... SunOS 5.8, Oracle 8.1.6 (and 8.1.7 too). I use this proc to generate statistics: create or replace procedure get_statistics as cursor get_users_list is select username from dba_users where username != 'SYS' and username != 'SYSTEM'; begin for i in

RE: SQL Area Reloads

2003-12-11 Thread Ashish Sahasrabudhe
Title: Re: SQL Area Reloads Shared pool is free all the time. There are no DDLs executed, no analyze or no package compiles still there are SQL AREA reloads. The database is on 9i RAC. The reloads are appearing on RAC instances. -Original Message-From: Tim Gorman

Strange behavior with dbms_stats...

2003-12-11 Thread Jose Luis Delgado
List... SunOS 5.8, Oracle 8.1.6 (and 8.1.7 too). I use the proc at the bottom to generate statistics. It seems to work, but if I check statistics with: select owner, table_name, num_rows, blocks, av_row_len, to_char(last_analyzed, 'MM/DD/ HH24:MI:SS') from dba_tables; the tables have the

Re[2]: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, December 11, 2003, 8:44:32 AM, Hately, Mike (LogicaCMG) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: HML PS Yes, I'm aware that there will follow a list of post-7.3.4 features that HML people consider absolutely vital. =) And therein lies part of the challenge. I'm sure too, that every product manager

RE: Strange behavior with dbms_stats...

2003-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
after running the block, do you actually spool the output and run that?? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having

RE: Strange behavior with dbms_stats...

2003-12-11 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Um...the PL/SQL script at the bottom of your e-mail doesn't DO anything other than output a line. Do you use this in a subsequent command file? Cheers, Mike -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 8:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L List... SunOS 5.8,

RE: 3rd Party Oracle Licenses

2003-12-11 Thread Jesse, Rich
Our apps that use Oracle come with an Application license. By the terms of this license, we get to use that Oracle DB for that app and that app alone. The DB support comes from the app vendor and not Oracle. Not feeling particularly comfortable with this arrangement, we purchased separate

RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread nelson . petersen
What's wrong with the analysis? Wrong syntax in the 'CREATE TABLE' PCTFREE and PCTUSEDare not part of the storage clause. SQL create table t1 (c1 number) tablespace lmt1 pctfree 20 pctused 30; Table created. Lot's of potential to go down the wrong path on this one. Assumptions!

RE: SQL Area Reloads

2003-12-11 Thread Tim Gorman
OK, fair enough. Something to consider: the concept of reload probably also includes the concept of initial/first load. I don't know whether this is the case for certain, but one way to check might be to query the number of items in the V$SQLAREA (i.e. select count(*) from v$sqlarea). After

RE: Code Conversion from MSSQL into Oracle

2003-12-11 Thread Hallas, John, Tech Dev
Steve Perry from this list produced a perl script to read a import file (rows=n) and produce formatted DDL. Whilst it is not perfect (as Steve agrees) it does give a good basis of where to start with processing and transforming a text input stream into a text output stream whilst making a small

Re: 3rd Party Oracle Licenses

2003-12-11 Thread Yechiel Adar
Take their word - in a contract that specify that they are responsible in case Oracle ask for more money, and then check with Oracle. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 4:14 PM We are

Re[2]: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, December 11, 2003, 8:44:25 AM, Mercadante, Thomas F ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: MTF And I think a condensed documentation set is a great MTF idea. I wonder if there is a market for it? If I just wrote the book? No, I doubt it would sell in high-enough numbers. The Oracle book market is

RE: 3rd Party Oracle Licenses

2003-12-11 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Jay, I would call your local Oracle Sales office and run it by them. As my old boss used to say - ALWAYS cut the cards. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 9:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We are

Re: Strange behavior with dbms_stats...

2003-12-11 Thread anu
The proc generates the 'exec dbms_stats ' statements for all the users. Are yousaving theoutput and running it manually or not.IT would have the same statements that you run one by one. Jose Luis Delgado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List...SunOS 5.8, Oracle 8.1.6 (and 8.1.7 too).I use the proc at the

RE: 3rd Party Oracle Licenses

2003-12-11 Thread Goulet, Dick
Rule of thumb, NEVER trust the third party vendor to have it right. Call YOUR Oracle sales rep get his/her advice. We've had an application sold to us with Oracle licenses when the third party vendor was not licensed by Oracle to do so. Mind you as long as the contract between you and the

Re: Re: Strange behavior with dbms_stats...

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
put it into a a dbms_output to see what is passed as variables then wrap it in execute immediate. your doing dynamic pl/sql. i think that will work. From: anu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/11 Thu AM 11:54:35 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jared . Still
create table test_table (c1 number) tablespace users pctfree 20 pctused 30 / Works for me. ;) ( USERS is ASSM) Richard Foote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/11/2003 03:39 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Re: RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
oracle literature is really lacking in entry level docs anyway. The concepts document is way too large to be digestable by someone new to the topic. What we really need is: simple SQL book for newbies simple PL/SQL book for newbies Architecture book automatic features Beginning Oracle

RE: Strange behavior with dbms_stats...

2003-12-11 Thread Jose Luis Delgado
Oooppp... Sorry... I sent the testing proc... this is the original... procedure get_statistics as cursor get_users_list is select username from dba_users where username != 'SYS' and username != 'SYSTEM'; begin for i in get_users_list loop dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats(ownname=

Re: Dblink fails between 8.1.7 (Unix) and 9i (Zos 390) due to inv

2003-12-11 Thread Yechiel Adar
My bad. IGNORE PREVIOUS. It should be the same as: select * from global_name. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:34 PM Yes. The name must be equal to select name from v$database.

Re: NT - Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-11 Thread Yechiel Adar
The /3GB does not work for the simple reason that in W2K you have 3GB as max address space. At least that what my sysadmin tells me (after checking with MS). Yechiel AdarMehish - Original Message - From: Paul Drake To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent:

Re: 3rd Party Oracle Licenses

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
you need to contact oracle sales to make certain. The obligation is on your company double check. i doubt what they are saying is true. please post what you find out. From: Jay Hostetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/11 Thu AM 09:14:26 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

char is going away? - Thanks

2003-12-11 Thread Gene Gurevich
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RE: NT - Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-11 Thread Mark Leith
Hi all, Thanks for the pointers that you have all supplied. Sage advice that they shouldn't have changed Oracle whilst changing their OS at the same time. I also did some checking up on the /3GB switch before it was mentioned (having seen it on here in the past) - Windows 2000 does in fact

Re: RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Daniel Hanks
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oracle literature is really lacking in entry level docs anyway. The concepts document is way too large to be digestable by someone new to the topic. What we really need is: simple SQL book for newbies - O'Reilly's Mastering Oracle SQL?

RE: for security patches - going to 9.2.0.4

2003-12-11 Thread Paula_Stankus
Guys, I saved all of your writing including Todd Boxx, Richard Foote, Wolfgang... about issues with 9.2.0.4. We are currently on 9.2.0.3 and I understand (although have not hit it yet) that in this version we could get locks when building indexes. Also, that basically you need to set your

RE: SQL Area Reloads

2003-12-11 Thread Alexander . Feinstein
Title: RE: SQL Area Reloads No, reload does not include initial load. reload - Any PIN of an object that is not the first PIN performed since the object handle was created, and which requires loading the object from disk. First_loads = pins - pinhits - reloads Alex. -Original

Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Avnish.Rastogi
Hello Everyone, I am trying to get some help/suggestions reg. how to troubleshoot performance issues. Little back ground about our environment. Its third party application (Logician) from GE. There are total 11 databases, all on oracle 8174 H-UX 11i in cluster environment. All the databases

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Ummm ... what was the problem that prompted you guys to replace citrix servers? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have

Oracle Java stored procedure question

2003-12-11 Thread AdamDonahue
Folks, Anyone know if it's possible to pass a package record type as a parameter to a Java stored procedure? e.g., create or replace package el_zip_pkg is type file_rec_type is record ( namevarchar2(255) , datablob ); type

RE: Windows clustering???

2003-12-11 Thread Cunningham, Gerald
Oh yeah? Just this week we had a Windows box that had been up for 29 days straight!!! Yep. You read it right. I'm not giving out our secrets though. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This is a small, static, but

Re: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
DBAs should never 'guess' about performance. If they are guessing you need new DBAs. They should be running statspacks, sql trace, and looking at timing data. Its too much to explain in an email. Fire your DBAs and find people who dont 'guess'. How much are you paying these guys? From:

Re: Windows clustering???

2003-12-11 Thread Mladen Gogala
Let me guess your secret: Windows box is running X-windows X11R6 and an OS ending in x? Your version of windows has a bug in BSOD? On 12/11/2003 01:59:37 PM, Cunningham, Gerald wrote: Oh yeah? Just this week we had a Windows box that had been up for 29 days straight!!! Yep. You read it

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Avnish.Rastogi
Not really sure what happened and why we decided to that. I was involved in the beginning of project and remembered that PM was mentioning about talking to another Logician client who were facing same issues. -Original Message- Jamadagni, Rajendra Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003

RE: NT - Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-11 Thread Paul Drake
Mark, MS w2k3 server supports large memory in the standard product, advanced edition not required.For me,those (client) systems are still in acceptance testing, and I have not yet actually run them with a process memory 2 GB. I'll let you know after I do, sounds like a good test for a rainy

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Thanks I asked because we also use Citrix and so far we never had a problem related to Citrix, only problems we had were inefficient coding and oracle bugs, nothing related to HW/disk/WTS etc. The only problem initially with Citrix was configuring client printers, but our guys figured it out

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Odland, Brad
Oh I've run into THIS beforeyou are in a sticky technical AND political situation I am sure. It is really not that complex. I'll bet they (your DBAs) have already been told you that the app is horribly designed and it was a mistake and that the hardware is under powered canned dataserver

RE: 10g new features (was: dc_used_extents ,dc_free_extents and d

2003-12-11 Thread GovindanK
Yes .. that is good. GovindanK On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:44:34 -0800, Freeman Robert - IL [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Excellent slide show Tanel! Robert -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 12/10/2003 3:34 PM dc_histogram_defs) Pete, I'd like to

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
OK. Before we go blaming Oracle DB, you need to look at the entire picture. 1. Are other applications within the environment affected by slow performance? 2. What other apps are running on the network? 3. Have any network-related diagnostics been performed to ensure that Network bottlenecks are

Re: Oracle Data Guard

2003-12-11 Thread Yong Huang
Hi, Jonathan, I think your question is why I mentioned TDU, not just SDU, in my response to Guang's message. I admit I didn't give much thought and threw that in. Note:44694.1 says it's set to 32k by default and its adjustable range is 0 to 32k. Then the question is why Oracle chose the magical

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Avnish - Since nobody has mentioned it yet (my posts arrive late, so probably will by the time this appears), get Cary Millsap's book Optimizing Oracle Performance http://search.barnesandnoble.com/textbooks/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid =6WIANMIL0Hisbn=059600527XTXT=Yitm=1 His methods sound

Who are certified Oracle Masters?

2003-12-11 Thread Mladen Gogala
I know only of Pete Sharman. Who are other Oracle Certified Masters on this group? I suspect Tanel to be one, as well as Steve Adams, Cary Millsap, Mogens Norgaard, Anjo Kolk, Wolfgang Breitling, Gaja V. and Kirti Deshpande. Am I correct? Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -- Please see the official

Re: RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Tanel Poder
PCTFREE and PCTUSED are not part of the storage clause. SQL create table t1 (c1 number) tablespace lmt1 pctfree 20 pctused 30; Table created. Lot's of potential to go down the wrong path on this one. Assumptions! Maybe it has been already mentioned here, but with ASSM, pctused

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