Re: Oracle Warehouse Builder 9.2.0.2.8 and Workflow 2.6.2 on linux

2004-01-17 Thread Ir Forex
Hi, I found Workflow 2.6.2 on the 9.2.0.1 Database cdrom set. You get to it by picking Enterprise Edition and then custom. -moi __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus -- Please

free performance tuning books @ Veritas

2004-01-17 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Oracle Performance Tuning 101 eBook (by Gaja, Kirti and John Kostelac) is available to download in PDF from http://www.veritas.com/offer?a_id=3805 Btw, veritas has a free SQL Server tuning book on their site as well. Tanel. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net

Strange Query Result,... urgent please

2004-01-17 Thread Wendry
Dear All, I need help on the following query, the following has been simplified to show you the exact problem. Due to this error, the sql query is giving unstable result which affects on production reporting in my company. I wonder what's the real problem? SQL SELECT COUNT(1) FROM 2 (SELECT

Re: Strange Query Result,... urgent please

2004-01-17 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Use SET TRANSACTION READ ONLY before your run the queries and run them again (without any commits or rollbacks in the middle). That way you can be sure that any hidden changes to data won't be reflected. Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

any student versions of 'business objects' ab initio or informatica?

2004-01-17 Thread Ryan
Something affordable. These are hot right now and I'd like to learn how to use them. I cant find anything on the web.

Re: any student versions of 'business objects' ab initio or

2004-01-17 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: Re: any student versions of 'business objects' ab initio or informatica? Probably best to contact them directly? I suspect that Ab Initio in particular will be out of reach for this purpose. My understanding is that they choose their customers based on their capability to deliver a data

Re: any student versions of 'business objects' ab initio or

2004-01-17 Thread Ryan
Title: Re: any student versions of 'business objects' ab initio or informatica? does business objects = crystal reports? anyone can use crystal reports? why are employers picky about people with business objects knowledge? https://secure.businessobjects.com/default.asp - Original

RE: any student versions of 'business objects' ab initio or infor

2004-01-17 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ryan - Some more thoughts for your consideration. 1. Consider studying Data Warehousing. These tools are deliberately made easy to use, so shouldn't take much effort, but understanding how to design a star schema will make data more accessible to any tool. A good start can be had at

RE: (Non)Unique Index Vs Unique Constraint

2004-01-17 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Jay That is a good one. The question is: How is the uniqueness constraint being enforced when the index is nonunique? Offhand I would have assumed your constraint would have been rejected since the index is nonunique -- nope. Then I would have guessed the index would have been converted to a

Re: Rename tablespace in 9I

2004-01-17 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
No. It is coming in 10g (from Oracle World presentations I attended last year). - Kirti --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyway to rename tablespace in Oracle 9202. Thanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes

Re: (Non)Unique Index Vs Unique Constraint

2004-01-17 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Depends what you want to achieve. A non-unique index enforcing a unique constraint allows the constraint to be deferrable - so you could load some 'nearly unique' data against it and find the duplicates efficiently. However, a non-unique index requires one byte per entry more than the

RE: (Non)Unique Index Vs Unique Constraint

2004-01-17 Thread Jay
Thanks a lot for your quick response Mr.Jonathan and Mr.Dennis. One more silly question... What is the difference(pros cons) between creating PK Vs (UK+NOT NULL) Vs (UK+check constraint with Not null condition)? 1) drop table constraint_test; create table constraint_test(c1 number,c2

Re: (Non)Unique Index Vs Unique Constraint

2004-01-17 Thread Arup Nanda
Jay, Remember, both UK and PK are enforced by unique indexes. The important difference between them is a null value is allowed in UK, not in PK. In (1), your constraint is specifically named as ct_pk1. Oracle does the for you: a) create a unique index ct_pk for you in the default tablespace of