Re: Oracle 9i on AIX 5L(JSF2)

2003-12-19 Thread dhill
Jerome - I have heard that there is a problem with performance but... if you get to 5.2 with ML01, that is supposed to resolve the issue. If anyone knows differently... I would appreciate the knowledge too. Dave - Original Message - Anybody having problems with Oracle DB hanging up

RE: OEM permissions

2003-12-19 Thread jo_holvoet
I believe a role 'OEM_MONITOR' is created in 9i when you create a DB; pre-9i you can create it yourself (via catsnmp.sql or something like that) and you can use that instead of granting specific other privileges. Oracle claims that it contains a minimum set of privileges for OEM use, but maybe

How does Performace Manager Disk IO chart get those device names

2003-12-19 Thread Uldis Pavuls
Yes, just where do those disk names in the Disk IO chart come from on HP UX 11.00? There is no -x option for iostat, and I haven't been able to find out what source Oracle is using. Altogether it's hard to tie together the output of (b)df and sar with the picture on the chart without knowing it.

10g new features question for beta testers

2003-12-19 Thread ryan_oracle
I saw a presentation from Oracle on 10g new features last night in Reston,VA. I know atleast one other person from the list was there. Since Oracle is releasing details and its going to be released(in theory) in the next 2 weeks, I was wondering if you guys could talk about it. 1. does ASMs

RE: 10g new features question for beta testers

2003-12-19 Thread Goulet, Dick
That is not exactly a new feature. Oracle 9i has Oracle Managed Files where you give it a directory and then just build tablespaces. The database picks the filenames for you. Now mind you it does work, but I'll be damned if I use it in anything other than a development environment. For some

RE: RE: Career Advice

2003-12-19 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Viktor, Ryan - Is what you are experiencing the result of companies moving to open-systems Web-based architectures? Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 8:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I agree

Re: RE: 10g new features question for beta testers

2003-12-19 Thread ryan_oracle
no ASMs are considerably different. Its supposed to manage everything. You dont give it a file, you give it entire disks and oracle does everything. Sets up files, manages, I/O, everything. you only look at the tablespace level. you dont even install any software on it. If your on SAN, you

Unable to coonect to database after server upgraded from NT to W2K

2003-12-19 Thread Paul Vincent
Hi folks, Our server team has just upgraded a server from Windows NT4 to Windows 2000, and when I tried connecting to the database from my workstation, using OEM or TOAD, I get an error message after half a minute or so: ORA-12535: TNS: Operation Timed Out, and cannot complete the connection.

messages

2003-12-19 Thread bulbultyagi
Hello list, I am using 9.2.0.1.0 enterprise edition on windows. Earlier when I use to specify nls_lang=French_France.US7ASCII in 9i release 1 I would get the following messages in French c: sqlplus Entrez le nom utilisateur : But now when I specify nls_lang=French_France.US7ASCII , sqlplus

RE: RE: 10g new features question for beta testers

2003-12-19 Thread Goulet, Dick
HUMM, That gives me an even worse feeling. Not something I'll use that's for sure. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 9:45 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L no ASMs are considerably different. Its

RE: RE: Career Advice

2003-12-19 Thread ryan_oracle
the last two projects I have been on we are using client server with .Net. Tons of .net people, verify few database people. oracle is pushing jdeveloper hard. You need skilled java people to use that. From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/19 Fri AM 09:44:25 EST To:

sys as sysdba with password through ODBC

2003-12-19 Thread Craig Richards
Can this be done a want to connect through ODBC, for a php web page Can this be done if so how do I declare the username, password and db string Currently i do $username = name $password = password $dsn=dsn Any help appreciated Cheers

Re: RE: 10g new features question for beta testers

2003-12-19 Thread Connor McDonald
As with anything I suppose, if a single vendor can be in control of more of the stack between application and physical server structure then there is a greater opportunity for benefits. For example, ASM offers the ability to add disks to a stripe without needing to redistribute(reload) the entire

RE: sys as sysdba with password through ODBC

2003-12-19 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Craig, did you try: $username = SYS $password = syspassword AS SYSDBA $dsn=dsn Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 10:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Can this be done a want to connect through ODBC, for a

RE: Unable to coonect to database after server upgraded from NT to W2K

2003-12-19 Thread Norris, Gregory T [ITS]
The server was probably added to a domain (or moved to a different one) as part of the upgrade. Try adding the following entry to your sqlnet.ora file. SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES = (NONE) -Original Message- Paul Vincent Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 8:49 AM To: Multiple

RE: RE: 10g new features question for beta testers

2003-12-19 Thread Goulet, Dick
And the more that vendor, namely the database in this case, controls more and more of the stack the more any performance problem must be a database problem. No thank you. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 10:34 AM

RE: sys as sysdba with password through ODBC

2003-12-19 Thread Craig Richards
I have done that it works through SQLPLUS but through my page i can connect to the dsn but now i get Warning: odbc_exec(): SQL error: [Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-03114: not connected to ORACLE , SQL state S1000 in SQLExecDirect From: Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

RE: RE: 10g new features question for beta testers

2003-12-19 Thread Joe Frohne
Hi, I sat in a presentation up here in Wisconsin. I got the distinct feeling that most of the new features aren't optional. Either you use them or you don't use 10g. I can't remember if ASM was one of those mandatory features. -- Joe Frohne Rawson Oaks Consulting, Remote Oracle Admins

RE: sys as sysdba with password through ODBC

2003-12-19 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Craig, the correct syntax is sys/[EMAIL PROTECTED] as sysdba. So you might try: $username = SYS $password = syspassword $dsn=dsn AS SYSDBA PS - can you tell I'm guessing? :) Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 10:50 AM

RE: sys as sysdba with password through ODBC

2003-12-19 Thread Craig Richards
Oh yes From: Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: sys as sysdba with password through ODBC Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 07:39:26 -0800 Craig, did you try: $username = SYS $password = syspassword AS

problem with mult datafiles and local mng tblspaces

2003-12-19 Thread John Blake
I have a 9.2.0.3 DB running on AIX 4.3.3 An application running on W2K using SQLLDR to load approx 6g of data using local managed tablespaces ie.. CREATE TABLESPACE PARENTDAT DATAFILE '/vol01/oradata/e450dev/parentdat01.dbf' SIZE 2000M REUSE,

what is business intelligence?

2003-12-19 Thread ryan_oracle
I see this alot when people look for data warehouse people. any idea what is meant by this? Not look for the obvious oxymoronic joke. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services--

RE: RE: Career Advice

2003-12-19 Thread Viktor
I think so. Most of ourWebapps arewritten in Java, _javascript_, and Perl. Some minor web stuff is generated by PL/SQL. Viktor DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Viktor, Ryan - Is what you are experiencing the result of companies movingto open-systems Web-based architectures?Dennis

RE: Unable to coonect to database after server upgraded from NT t o W2K

2003-12-19 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
8.1.6? Patrice. -Original Message- Sent: December 19, 2003 10:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi folks, Our server team has just upgraded a server from Windows NT4 to Windows 2000, and when I tried connecting to the database from my workstation, using OEM or TOAD, I get

Re: what is business intelligence?

2003-12-19 Thread Bricklen Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see this alot when people look for data warehouse people. any idea what is meant by this? Not look for the obvious oxymoronic joke. This was briefly covered several days ago in c.d.o.misc (watch for wrap)

RE: no longer listening

2003-12-19 Thread Yong Huang
Hi, Julio, Windows doesn't have a nsswitch.conf equivalent. Windows hosts file is equivalent to UNIX /etc/hosts. Imagine Windows has a nswitch.conf like this: hosts: files dns But it's missing other lines such as protocoles, services... in this file. This topic is much less off-topic than some

End of Roche contract

2003-12-19 Thread Gordon, Emery {PGL~Palo Alto}
Hello all, Monday December 22 is my last day at Roche. It has been a wonderful experience working and interfacing with all of the fantastic people at Roche and I hope I get to work with many of you some time in the future. Thanks to all who provided support and assistance many times. It will

RE: no longer listening

2003-12-19 Thread QuijadaReina, Julio C
Yong, Thanks for the making that correction. Julio Cesar Quijada-Reina Programmer Analyst Computer Services at Alfred State College -Original Message- Yong Huang Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 12:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, Julio, Windows doesn't have a

Duplicating with rman

2003-12-19 Thread Stephen.Lee
I was using RMAN to duplicate a database -- my first time (please be gentle). Copied an on-disk rman backup to target box. started clone instance nomount. rman nocatalog connect target abc/[EMAIL PROTECTED] connect auxiliary xyz/[EMAIL PROTECTED] @script (see below) Everything was going OK until

RE: OEM permissions

2003-12-19 Thread Yong Huang
Hi, Raj, 9i doesn't allow a user with select any table privilege to view any object owned by SYS. So the sys.link$ risk is gone. But select any dictionary, a new privilege in 9i, allows that. In practice, I always grant select_catalog_role to any developer, but refrain from granting select any

Linux

2003-12-19 Thread Seema Singh
Hi Does anyone know good Linux administration book? Can you guyes suggest any good linux user group? thx -Seema _ Tired of slow downloads? Compare online deals from your local high-speed providers now. https://broadband.msn.com --

Re: End of Roche contract

2003-12-19 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Awww...we love you too man! ;-) --- Gordon, Emery {PGL~Palo Alto} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Monday December 22 is my last day at Roche. It has been a wonderful experience working and interfacing with all of the fantastic people at Roche and I hope I get to work with many of you

RE: RE: 10g new features question for beta testers

2003-12-19 Thread Pete Sharman
Just a couple of comments on this which hopefully won't go down the Marketing track too far. :) 1. I'm pretty sure Steve Adams agrees with you, since he co-presented on ASM at OracleWorld in San Fran. Not sure if he monitors this group actively or not, but I believe the presentation he did is

RE: 10g new features question for beta testers

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Thomas
I was in Reston last night, too. Also, Tom repeatedly emphasized RMAN, which I've not spent enough time mastering, will be even more important in 10g. Does everyone here use RMAN that is using 9i currently? BTW. Tom mentioned SAME, as you say, but I can not remember what he said about it. Sorry.

RE: OEM permissions

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Thomas
A possibly related question: I'm curious if everyone allows your developers to see V$SQL... views? If not, then ... whatever ... no comment. I'm disappointed with some perspectives in these threads regarding developers. Rather than close doors, why not use 'development' instances, and role based

Re: problem with mult datafiles and local mng tblspaces

2003-12-19 Thread Jared . Still
I think a good start would be to do level 8 10046 trace and see what the waits are. Probably disk waits, but the question of course is 'why?'. Before you can ask that though, you need to be sure what you're waiting on. Jared John Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: RE: 10g new features question for beta testers

2003-12-19 Thread Jared . Still
Right. Then the finger pointing will be contained within Oracle Corp. I don't know whether ASM is a good idea, a bad one, or a mediocre one, but I don't believe holding one vendor responible will help resolve issues in a more timely manner. Pete Sharman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL

RE: RE: 10g new features question for beta testers

2003-12-19 Thread AdamDonahue
This could simplify life, particularly with wait event-based tuning. If Oracle properly instruments these additional layers for timing, it makes it easy to diagnose performance problems, not harder. Interested in Cary's thoughts on this. Adam Goulet, Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:

RE: OEM permissions

2003-12-19 Thread Stephen.Lee
Maybe I'm a being a bit touchy here; but it seems that my comments about having access to dba_users went completely unnoticed. Let's put it this way: There is NO WAY you can prevent somebody from setting up their own private oracle instance. It they have access to dba_users in your database,

RE: OEM permissions

2003-12-19 Thread Jesse, Rich
Sure it does, just not by default. Check out the 07_DICTIONARY_ACCESSIBILITY parameter. Enjoy! Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003

Re: RE: 10g new features question for beta testers

2003-12-19 Thread ryan_oracle
SAME is stripe and mirror everything. There is a doc on otn by that name. ASMs will do that for you, 'in theory'. kyte is the technical face of oracle. This is why they pay him so much money. presentation would have been better if people didnt play 'stump the dba'. It seems like people were

SAMPLE BLOCK

2003-12-19 Thread jaysingh1
Hi Gurus, I don't understand the SAMPLE BLOCK behavior. Why is it giving different results for the query? [EMAIL PROTECTED] SQL select * from SALGRADE sample block (1); GRADE LOSAL HISAL -- -- -- 2 1201 1400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] SQL

Who fired the trigger

2003-12-19 Thread Goulet, Dick
To All, I'm feeling in a LAZY mood this afternoon so I'm going to ask the list if someone has an answer to this. Otherwise I guess it will wait till Monday. We have a before update trigger on a table to prevent assemblies on the line from being unscrapped. But we also have a

RE: Who fired the trigger

2003-12-19 Thread Chris Stephens
Couldn't your trigger fire off a procedure to evaluate userenv and the proceed or not? -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 1:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L To All, I'm feeling in a LAZY mood this afternoon so I'm going to ask the list if someone

Finding the most actively DML'd table

2003-12-19 Thread Daniel Hanks
Is it possible to find how many DML operations have ocurred on a given table in a given time period? I'd like to be able to rank the tables in a database based on the number of DML actions performed on them in a given time period. It would be interesting to see which are the 'hot spots' so to

Re: Who fired the trigger

2003-12-19 Thread Jared . Still
You can identify the user via sys_context ('userenv', 'sessionid') and raise an exception, or just exit the code block. Jared Goulet, Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/19/2003 11:49 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Who fired the trigger

2003-12-19 Thread John Weatherman
Would this help? CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER [schema].[trigger_name] BEFORE [CONDITIONS] ON [table_name] FOR EACH ROW WHEN ( ( USER != '[USERNAME]' ) AND ... John P Weatherman Oracle Database Administrator Replacements, Ltd. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 2:49

Re: Who fired the trigger

2003-12-19 Thread H elp_me
I think Jared means.. sys_context ('userenv', 'session_user') to identify the username. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Who fired the trigger Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:59:41 -0800 You can identify

RE: Finding the most actively DML'd table

2003-12-19 Thread Goulet, Dick
Alter table table_name monitoring; then look in DBA_TAB_MODIFICATIONS Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 3:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Is it possible to find how many DML operations have ocurred

RE: Finding the most actively DML'd table

2003-12-19 Thread Daniel Hanks
Is there any significant overhead to leaving tables in monitoring mode? For example, if I left them as such for a few days or two, and then gathered the stats on them? Thanks again, -- Dan On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Goulet, Dick wrote: Alter table table_name monitoring; then look in

RE: what is business intelligence?

2003-12-19 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Euphemism for Oracle Discoverer in many cases. It is about the ability of mgt. to know how their company is doing, e.g. sales reports, etc. Someone posted an item on Wal-Mart and K-Mart recently, that kind of thing. If Mgt. doesn't have accurate info on how their company is doing, the company

RE: Finding the most actively DML'd table

2003-12-19 Thread Singh, Ratnesh (GEI, GEFA, Contractor)
it may be helpful if u take the stats from V$SEGMENT_STATISTICS and compare them over a period of time. I believe this view might be available only from 9i upwards. regards ratnesh -Original Message- Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 3:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Is

RE: what is business intelligence?

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Milligan
It's the ability to use your operational data, such as invoicing, patient visits, etc., and aggregate them in ways that tell you trends, good and bad. What age group had the most doctor visits? What product sold the most? These sound very simplistic and obvious but there are many nuances. For

Re: Who fired the trigger

2003-12-19 Thread Jared . Still
I think Jared means.. sys_context ('userenv', 'session_user') to identify the username. Actually I didn't mean that, though it will also work. John Weatherman had a better way to do it, in any case. Jared H elp_me [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/19/2003 12:19 PM

RE: Finding the most actively DML'd table

2003-12-19 Thread Jared . Still
IIRC, Steve Adams said that the impact was 1% Jared Daniel Hanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/19/2003 01:24 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Finding the most actively

RE: OEM permissions

2003-12-19 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
That's why we have scripts which give us a report every few days on users that have db_links, any of the *_ANY_* privs (like alter any table), dba privs etc, also a list of some sensitive schemas too. Our application support needed to work with users to grant/revoke roles and private synonyms.

Hit Ratio

2003-12-19 Thread jkstill
Just thought I would share my hit ratio with y'all. LOGICAL I/O PHYSICAL I/O BLOCK HIT USERNAME SID OS USERPROCESS BLOCKS BLOCKS CHANGES RATIO -- -- -