Incremental Checkpoint

2004-01-21 Thread k.sriramkumar
Dear Guru's Have a question. Does a incremental checkpoint update the datafile header with the SCN?. My understanding is that it doesn't update the datafile header but only updates the controlfile with the SCN and the datafile header is updated only during a full checkpoint Is my

Re: Oracle 8.1.7 can only use the first 15th indexes?

2004-01-21 Thread Jonathan Lewis
drop table t1; create table t1 nologging pctfree 50 pctused 50 as select 1 n01, 1 n02, 1 n03, 1 n04, 1 n05, 1 n06, 1 n07, 1 n08, 1 n09, 1 n10, 1 n11, 1 n12, 1 n13, 1 n14, 1 n15, rownum n16, lpad(rownum,10) v1 from all_objects ; create index i01 on t1(n01); create index i02 on

Defragmenting a RAID 5 volume?

2004-01-21 Thread Rhojel_Echano
Hello people, We recently experienced a hang in our database server, WIN2k Advanced server with raid 5 for Oracle 817 database files. Examining the perf logs showed that Event 2022 caused the hang: Event ID: 2022 Source: Srv Description: Server was unable to find a free connection 144

Re: Unusable partition index -- working funny

2004-01-21 Thread Jonathan Lewis
It's probably the case that the trigger fires the first time - but at parse/optimise time Oracle had already determined the sequence of actions needed to execute the statement based on the then session state, so that sequence is played out, irrespective of the fact that you changed the session

Re: Defragmenting a RAID 5 volume?

2004-01-21 Thread Frank B. Hansen
Hi Rhojel Tjeck out: http://www.baarf.com/ Rgds, Frank - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 9:04 AM Subject: Defragmenting a RAID 5 volume? Hello people, We recently

Re: FW: Disk capacity planning

2004-01-21 Thread chris
Mladen, I agree you can measure how many IOs are being done and how many a disk sub- system, such as those provided by EMC, can perform and still give good performance. What I meant is that it is hard and some would say impossible to estimate how many IOs per sec a new application will do. A

Re: Oracle 8.1.7 can only use the first 15th indexes?

2004-01-21 Thread Nuno Souto
Let's be realistic: any table with 15 indexes PROBABLY needs a little bit of a re-design exercise? ;) Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - snip (I assume the report intended to say the first 15 indexes on a specific table, 'cos the data dictionary alone has

Re: Oracle 8.1.7 can only use the first 15th indexes?

2004-01-21 Thread Nuno Souto
The first 15 indexes CREATED? Joking, are they? Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - I've just been reading a report for one of our systems and it says that Oracle 8.1.7 will only use the first 15 indexes created. Any index created after the 15th will be ignored

Re: Oracle 8.1.7 can only use the first 15th indexes?

2004-01-21 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Data warehouse with bitmap indexes ? But in OLTP I would assume guilty until proven innocent. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr Next

bind variables in VB using OO4O

2004-01-21 Thread John Dunn
Does anyone have examples of how to use bind variables in VB when using OO4O? John -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: John Dunn INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California--

OT : Happy Spring Festival

2004-01-21 Thread Stephane Faroult
... to whomever is concerned ... Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriole -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephane Faroult INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing

RE: ORA-904 after table rename

2004-01-21 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
When required I did it through a logon trigger ... wait I still do it. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having

9iAS Calender Servlet

2004-01-21 Thread Mark Leith
Does anybody by chance have any examples for creating a calender servlet for 9iAS? I have to admit to being a servlet virgin! ;) Any pointers much apreciated! Many thanks Mark -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Mark Leith INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: tnsnames.ora not working ?

2004-01-21 Thread John Flack
I've seen this sort of thing happen when you have more than one Oracle_Home and client tools get confused about which tnsnames.ora file to use. Fastest solution is to find every tnsnames.ora file on the client computer and make sure that they are all identical. Correct solution is usually to

Has anyone done any scalability work on dbms_lock?

2004-01-21 Thread Nuno Souto
As in: does it present an inherent or hidden performance problem when a lot of sessions try to lock/release the same lock? Or how many lock/release per second. Or some other idea of how efficient it is? Need to use it in a design, but not sure of any potential performance hits or scalability

RE: bind variables in VB using OO4O

2004-01-21 Thread Prem Khanna J
Hi John , i have mailed a doc . have a look at it . Regards, Prem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Does anyone have examples of how to use bind variables in VB when using OO4O? John -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: how do I interpret this in bstat/estat

2004-01-21 Thread nelson . petersen
Gene, I strongly recommend implementing Statspack. It is very straight-forward. Just do it when you have exclusive use of the database, or comment out the following two lines in ora_rdbms_admin:SPCUSR.SQL if you have these packages already installed. (We're running 8.1.7 on

Re: Has anyone done any scalability work on dbms_lock?

2004-01-21 Thread Carel-Jan Engel
As in: does it present an inherent or hidden performance problem when a lot of sessions try to lock/release the same lock? Will serialize perfectly! Or how many lock/release per second. Or some other idea of how efficient it is? Depends on the work done between acquiring the lock and

Re: Has anyone done any scalability work on dbms_lock?

2004-01-21 Thread Jonathan Lewis
On a light-weight test on 8.1.7.4 at 700MHz on W2000 - About 15,000 request/release per second if you are using an ID About 8,000 request/release per second if you are using a pre-allocated lock handle About 800 request/release per second if you have to allocate_unique on every

OT: Does SQL Server have a wait interface?

2004-01-21 Thread ryan.gaffuri
anyone know? -- 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-- Mailing list and web hosting services

Re: Has anyone done any scalability work on dbms_lock?

2004-01-21 Thread ryan.gaffuri
i think expert one on one has some comments on it. Its in a section referring to building your own insert locks. So if a table is locked, the user gets notified. I read the book last year. From: Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/21 Wed AM 07:49:25 EST To: Multiple recipients of

Re: Re: Has anyone done any scalability work on dbms_lock?

2004-01-21 Thread ryan.gaffuri
nuno-- what level are you trying to scale it to? how long will you hold the locks? I used it last year because only one process could run at a time. seemed to have similiar over head to 'select for update'. If you look at the PL/SQL Packages book by Fuerstein et al(not a real popular book, but

Re: All packages under sys is invalid

2004-01-21 Thread Mladen Gogala
Either re-run catproc or try with utlirp. On 01/20/2004 12:44:34 PM, Hamid Alavi wrote: so what's the solution? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Someone is messing with standard package ... so it would seem. Raj

Re: Has anyone done any scalability work on dbms_lock?

2004-01-21 Thread Nuno Souto
- Original Message - Or how many lock/release per second. Or some other idea of how efficient it is? Depends on the work done between acquiring the lock and releasing it. Not really. I'm asking how many lock/releases can be done before the thing starts putting a serious load on

RE: All packages under sys is invalid

2004-01-21 Thread nelson . petersen
Is sombebody playing with Statspack (spcreate.sql)? One piece of the install runs dbmspool.sql Nelson -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 3:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L So what's the recommendation, how can I recompile all the SYS packages?

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-21 Thread Igor Neyman
I was using Lattice-C on x286. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carel-Jan Engel Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Re[2]:

Re: AQ

2004-01-21 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
Thanks, Tanel. Sorry, if I caused any confusion. May be I should have used 'pipe get' event instead of 'SQL*Net message from client' as an example, which of course, should not be ignored in a multi-tier, networked environment. In fact, I remove it, among a few others, from

Re: pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak

2004-01-21 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
Setting P_A_T to a 1GB limit with over 2GB of *available memory* on AIX 4.3.3 and 9.2.0.4 caused ORA-4030, till we turned off hash joins. OS level resources (ulimit -a) were all set to 'unlimited'. In a very limited testing, setting P_A_T to less than S_A_S (and S_A_R_S) worked, however, the

Re: Has anyone done any scalability work on dbms_lock?

2004-01-21 Thread Nuno Souto
- Original Message - On a light-weight test on 8.1.7.4 at 700MHz on W2000 - About 15,000 request/release per second if you are using an ID sounds plenty good to me. Thanks a lot. Bear in mind that each request or release will hit the enqueue latch a couple of times, so you

Re: Has anyone done any scalability work on dbms_lock?

2004-01-21 Thread Nuno Souto
- Original Message - nuno-- what level are you trying to scale it to? Not much. A few hundred users, maybe 20 or so may need the lock. However, this app may explode in # users, so I want to make sure I'm not creating a monster. how long will you hold the locks? only long enough to

RE: Has anyone done any scalability work on dbms_lock?

2004-01-21 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
if it is single instance you could also use global application contexts ... (alas they don't work in RAC across node) ... Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are

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2004-01-21 Thread Ashish Sahasrabudhe
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Re: Defragmenting a RAID 5 volume?

2004-01-21 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/21/2004 03:04:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GB. My question is, can a RAID 5 volume be defragmented? Is it sane, technically? The volume is 130GB in size... You are defragmenting a file system, not a volume. Block based file systems cannot be defragmented, only extent-based file

Re: Parallel Query determined by?

2004-01-21 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
I could not find an Oracle wait event named 'Parellel Sync Wait' (in v$event_name view in 7.3.4, 8.1.7.4, 9.2.0.4). Precise may be calling something else a 'Parallel Sync Wait', or is smart enough to figure this out when it seems Oracle isn't instrumented for this particular wait(?). Just

RE:

2004-01-21 Thread Mark Leith
Title: Message must.resist..temptation. For more help, please dial 999 in the UK, 911 in the US, or open your phone and dial 712-BEAM-ME-UP for the year 2247. Live long and prosper. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

ORA-28575: RPC connection with external procedure cannot opened

2004-01-21 Thread Luc . Demanche
Hi DBAs, Here is my situation, I'm running Oracle8174 on Solaris. We are using an external procedure called in my pl/sql. I'll give you my example: I will use the Oracle example DEBUG_EXTPROC I'm on the Unix server and I connect with SQLPLUS, without the listener SQL connect c$mdlimol2 Enter

RE: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-21 Thread Goulet, Dick
yup Dick GouletSenior Oracle DBAOracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message-From: Carel-Jan Engel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:29 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs MysqlAt 03:29 PM 1/20/2004, you wrote:

Re: OT : Happy Spring Festival

2004-01-21 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/21/2004 07:20:00 AM, Stephane Faroult wrote: ... to whomever is concerned ... Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriole Spring??? What is spring? I live in New England, we have record colds and I dunno what the heck is spring? Is that something like 70 degrees? I've heard about that mythical event

RE:

2004-01-21 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Message Funny ...Ashish is from "Weight Watchers" and asking for HELP my advise ... stop starving yourself ... go eat something. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed

Re: Has anyone done any scalability work on dbms_lock?

2004-01-21 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Note in-line Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr Next public appearance2: March 2004 Hotsos Symposium - Keynote March 2004 Charlotte NC -

RE: 9iAS Calender Servlet

2004-01-21 Thread Chris Stephens
I did a quick and dirty one in pl/sql. No security, or checks on content yet though. I'd be more than happy to send it to you. It might be kind of ugly...i've not done a ton of coding. (something I am actively working on. Let me know, Chris -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January

RE: OT : Happy Spring Festival

2004-01-21 Thread Stefick Ronald S Contr ESC/HRIDA
Title: RE: OT : Happy Spring Festival At least you probably have a warm fuzzy feeling about your Patriots going to the supberbowl. -Original Message- From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 8:45 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: Renumber a set of grupped rows?

2004-01-21 Thread Maryann Atkinson
Just out of curiocity, and while I am trying to learn about Row_NUMBER(), how would you code the following to do an update on the 2nd column? select deptno, row_number() over (PARTITION BY DEPTNO order by deptno) x from emp thx maa the analytical functions are available in 8i (..) wrap then in

Host concurrent program whom call ar60runb

2004-01-21 Thread Kader Ben
Hi Listers, I'have registered host concurrent program on Oracle 11.5.9 as TEST.prog which include one line to execute the ar60runb on command line. Unfortunately this is does not work for me. The problem is the TEST.prog can execute any other command or script (shell, Perl,...) but not ar60runb

cman and oracle names

2004-01-21 Thread ryan.gaffuri
I sent this last night. Im not sure if it went through. If it did, I apologize for the spam. Does anyone use CMAN? Its in the certification books(yes I know certification isnt very good, but I might as well learn something if Im going to do it), but I dont know anyone using it. It strikes me

Re: OT : Happy Spring Festival

2004-01-21 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
I know what you are talking about. I lived in New Hampshire when I was in the US Navy and attended grad. school at the U. of New Hampshire. February seemed to be the big snow month. Not uncommon to get two feet of snow in a nor-easter and have 5-6 feet on the ground - in southern NH. The roads

RE: Does SQL Server have a wait interface?

2004-01-21 Thread Mark Leith
Ryan, Check out DBCC SQLPERF(WAITSTATS), and also take a look at the sysprocesses table - with columns waittype, waittime, lastwaittype and SPID. Something like: SELECT spid AS SPID, waittype AS WaitType, waittime AS WaitTime, lastwaittype AS LastWaitType FROM sysprocesses WHERE (spid 50)

Re: ADMIN: Status of list server systems (and update about

2004-01-21 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Bruce, You are doing a GREAT job keeping the lists running. And you seem to have put in some effort in developing/implementing the load balancers and then again in retrieving the squirreled-away emails. Thanks. We appreciate your work. Regards Hemant At 05:39 PM 19-01-04 -0800, you wrote:

Healty ratio of index segment size vs table segment size?

2004-01-21 Thread Branimir Petrovic
Wondering if there is a rule of thumb, quick'n fast but good enough to be used as an indicator, litmus paper so to speak, of overly indexed table(s)... Can, better yet - should, sheer size comparison of index versus table segments be used as a reliable pointer to problematic table indexing?

RE:

2004-01-21 Thread Odland, Brad
Title: Message Ashish realizing his time is short he crawls to the terminal and with his last remaining strength double clicks the outlook icon, clicks thenew button selects "New Mail Message" button,using the shift key he types H - E - L - P in the message body window and hits send and

RE: cman and oracle names

2004-01-21 Thread Norris, Gregory T [ITS]
I've used it to allow DB connections through a non-sqlnet-aware firewall, and also to enable SSH tunneling of DB sessions. In the former case the firewall was blocking the redirect, although port 1521 itself was open. In the latter, a redirect would have taken us outside the encrypted tunnel.

Re:

2004-01-21 Thread Joe Testa
Raj, bwahahaha, now thats funny :) joe Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote: Funny ... Ashish is from Weight Watchers and asking for HELP my advise ... stop starving yourself ... go eat something. Raj Rajendra dot

SQL Code release

2004-01-21 Thread Ashish Sahasrabudhe
Title: SQL Code release Is there a tool available to release same set of DDLs, DMLs, PL/SQL code in different database environments like QA, Unit Testing, Production Support etc. I guess this can done by writing shell or batch scripts. But I am looking for a GUI tools to do this. Thanks

Re[2]: OT : Happy Spring Festival

2004-01-21 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Wednesday, January 21, 2004, 9:44:48 AM, Mladen Gogala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: MG Spring??? What is spring? I live in New England, we have record colds MG and I dunno what the heck is spring? Is that something like 70 degrees? MG I've heard about that mythical event but at present I'm shoveling

Re: Renumber a set of grupped rows?

2004-01-21 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Although you've had a row-at-a-time version from someone, you might try something like the following if you can't do a create as select to rebuild the original data. Create table temp pctfree 0 nologging as select rowide_rowid, row_number() over (PARTITION BY DEPTNO order

Any comments on Open Source Projects for Oracle ?

2004-01-21 Thread Hemant K Chitale
OTN has published a list of Oracle Open Source Projects at http://otn.oracle.com/tech/opensource/projects.html Hemant K Chitale Oracle 9i Database Administrator Certified Professional http://hkchital.tripod.com {last updated 05-Jan-04} -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: OT : Happy Spring Festival

2004-01-21 Thread Guang Mei
Stephane probably meant Chinese New Year, which is tomorrow (1/22/04). This will be the Year of Monkey. I live in Boston, the weather has been brutal this winter so far. I cann't wait for spring to come so I can start to play soccer again. Guang -Original Message- Mladen Gogala Sent:

Re: SQL Code release

2004-01-21 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
Sure. You can try the Change Management Pack for Oracle Enterprise Manager from Oracle. Then there is the bevy of tools from Quest software. DB Artisan is another. RWB Reginald W.

Oracle 817 client on Windows 2003?

2004-01-21 Thread Michael Milligan
The database is on Unix, but we want to run client (OEM, SQL*Plus, etc.) on Windows 2003. Do you know if it is certified to, or will it do it? Thanks This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to

V$system_event

2004-01-21 Thread Shrake, Jolene
These results don't seem possible. I run the following query: select ((vse.time_waited/100)/60) time_waited, ((vse.time_waited/vse1.total_time)*100) p_time_waited, vse.event fromv$system_event vse, (select sum(time_waited) total_time from v$system_event) vse1 where

Re: Host concurrent program whom call ar60runb

2004-01-21 Thread Kader Ben
Hi Hemant, Many thanks. You are right. It's all about the variable environments. Now it works fine. Have nice day. Ben --- Hemant K Chitale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does your TEST.prog include the environment for ar60runb ? If it runs as a shell script, does it have $ORACLE_HOME, and

RE: SQL Code release

2004-01-21 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: SQL Code release OEM has such a tool built into it ... we went through a research, ended up writing our own because each environment is different. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All

RE: Oracle 817 client on Windows 2003?

2004-01-21 Thread Vaidya, ShreepadX M
Hi Michael, 1) You need to ensure that the listener is configured properly. 2) Your tnsnames.ora or namesserver is configured properly. 3) There are no problems in installation of Oracle client,server and database . If the above conditions are satisfied , you should have no problems in

Old thread - trace file location

2004-01-21 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Unless I am hallucinating (always a distinct possibility), there was a recent discussion on this list about the trace file location when you perform an ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE TO TRACE, with some ingenious solutions. I didn't think I'd need this, so deleted the postings. Well, guess what

Re: Host concurrent program whom call ar60runb

2004-01-21 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Does your TEST.prog include the environment for ar60runb ? If it runs as a shell script, does it have $ORACLE_HOME, and $PATH setup correctly ? Hemant At 07:09 AM 21-01-04 -0800, you wrote: Hi Listers, I'have registered host concurrent program on Oracle 11.5.9 as TEST.prog which include one line

Re: Oracle 817 client on Windows 2003?

2004-01-21 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
Do you mean Windows 2003 Advanced Server? Check the compatibility matrix on Metalink. RWB Reginald W. Bailey IBM Global Services JPMC Account - DCI ETS Database Management Your

Re: Healty ratio of index segment size vs table segment size?

2004-01-21 Thread ryan.gaffuri
www.ixora.com.au there is a script in there that will identify unnecessary redundant indexes. for the record, that is one of the best oracle websites out there. Lots of great stuff on it. From: Branimir Petrovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/21 Wed AM 10:39:25 EST To: Multiple

RE: Oracle 817 client on Windows 2003?

2004-01-21 Thread Ron Thomas
From metlink, it looks like the 8.1.7 client is not certified for Windows 2003 server. You should probably install the 9.2 client on the workstations. It should ahve no problems connecting to the 8.1.7 database on unix. Ron Thomas Hypercom, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] The box said I needed to have

RE: 9iAS Calender Servlet

2004-01-21 Thread John Flack
Calendar servlet sounds pretty generic. What more specifically do you want your servlet to do? If you are writing a PL/SQL Web app with mod_plsql, you might want to look into the OWA_UTIL procedure that takes a query and writes a calendar page in HTML. The query includes columns for the

Re: SQL Code release

2004-01-21 Thread eric king
Title: SQL Code release checkout tools for www.agileinfosoftware.com, we use DataAnalyst to do similiar jobs like yours. Eric - Original Message - From: Ashish Sahasrabudhe To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 11:09 AM

RE: OT : Happy Spring Festival

2004-01-21 Thread Goulet, Dick
Title: RE: OT : Happy Spring Festival 60 above zero. Floridians turn the heat on. People in New England plant gardens. 50 above zero. Californians shiver uncontrollably. People in New England sunbathe. 40 above zero. Italian and English cars won't start. People in New England drive with

RE: Healty ratio of index segment size vs table segment size?

2004-01-21 Thread Goulet, Dick
They appear to be Tango Uniform today!! Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:25 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L www.ixora.com.au there is a script in there that will identify unnecessary redundant

ORA-12540: TNS: internal limit restriction exceeded

2004-01-21 Thread Murali_Pavuloori/Claritas
Hi All, We are running 9.2.0.4 on windoze 2000 server and this morning we were forced to restart the database server. Users complained about not able to connect to database... TNS could not start dedicated server process...So I tried to connect to db using OS authentication...(sqlplus / as

Re: FW: Disk capacity planning

2004-01-21 Thread Jared . Still
See the Ratio Modeling paper at Orapub.com It is a quick and dirty method for capacity planning. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/21/2004 01:34 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:

Re: V$system_event

2004-01-21 Thread Mladen Gogala
The result depends on the number of sessions. If you have session A waiting for a 'enqueue lock' for 10 minutes and session B waiting for the same lock as session A for another 10 minutes, then the recorded time is 20 minutes, despite the fact that sessions are waiting concurrently. If you have,

How to set appropriate arraysize for an OLTP application?

2004-01-21 Thread jaysingh1
Dear All, We are trying to tune SQL*Net using SDU,TDU and Arraysize parameters. Could some one enlighten me how to calculate an optimal arraysize value for an application? I did search metalink. In our java applications few queries are returning 1 or 2 records and few of them returning 10s of

Re: FW: Disk capacity planning

2004-01-21 Thread Mladen Gogala
When I worked for Oxford, there was a way to force the application to either perform or die. The OLTP database was enforcing profiles and there was limit of 1500 logical reads per call, because it was estimated that our typical OLTP application never performs more then that. If application was

Re[2]: OT : Happy Spring Festival

2004-01-21 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Wednesday, January 21, 2004, 1:14:25 PM, Goulet, Dick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: GD 500 below zero. Hell freezes over. Red Sox win the World Series. LOL! Hey, that's funny. But you know, Hell freezes every year here in Michigan (zoom in one notch to see it):

RE: full recovery

2004-01-21 Thread Rich Holland
Sorry it took so long to get back to you; I've been caching the list for awhile and am just starting to catch up. :-) Page 43, in the grey box with title 'Re-Creating the Controlfile: RMAN Users Beware!' Rich -- Rich Holland(913) 645-1950SAP Technical Consultant print

after the discussion yesterday on db2/mysql/postgresql....

2004-01-21 Thread Chris Stephens
I thought this might be relevant and interesting... http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid13_gci945589,00.html?tr ack=NL-93 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Chris Stephens INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services--

Re: pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak

2004-01-21 Thread Jared . Still
Kirti, you're back! Must have finished the book. :) Re the PGA problems, what was the value for 'over allocation count' in v$pgastat? Did you try increasing P_A_T to a larger number? Oracle is supposed to grab the memory it needs, if available, regardless of the P_A_T setting. Also, did

RE: V$system_event

2004-01-21 Thread Cary Millsap
Jolene, Mladen's answer is a good one. There is also an in-depth discussion on this subject on pp210-217 of the book Optimizing Oracle Performance. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com * Nullius in verba * Upcoming events: - Performance Diagnosis 101: 1/27 Atlanta - SQL

What gives??

2004-01-21 Thread Nikhil Khimani
LG, I know there is a simple solution to this .. but I can't think of it right now. Any help will be appreciated ... Thanks, Nikhil = [ny-nikhil1:/export/home/nkhimani/bin]$ export AWK=awk '{print \$4}'

RE: after the discussion yesterday on db2/mysql/postgresql....

2004-01-21 Thread Goulet, Dick
Thought PostGreSql smelled a lot like DB2. And although I agree with their definitions on the surface they miss a lot of the underlying capability in Oracle. Sure, one database per instance, but you can them map multiple applications/schema's into that instance. Makes for a lot less fun when

Re: pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak

2004-01-21 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
Replies in line... - Kirti --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kirti, you're back! Thanks. Found some slack time from routine DBA work! Must have finished the book. :) Not yet.. Its tough.. Re the PGA problems, what was the value for 'over allocation count' in v$pgastat?

RE: SQL Code release

2004-01-21 Thread Ashish Sahasrabudhe
Title: SQL Code release It seems we also need to write our own tool. -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 11:20 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: SQL Code release OEM has such a tool

RE: Password management using profiles

2004-01-21 Thread Spears, Brian
Yup..we just added the functionalty to the verify_password functionwala. Brian S. -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You have to check for errors in the ORA-28000 range, for this is the range that

Re: Re: pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak

2004-01-21 Thread ryan.gaffuri
kirti-- would you recommend avoiding pga_aggregate_target for now? From: Kirtikumar Deshpande [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/21 Wed PM 02:44:31 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak Replies in line... -

Re: ORA-12540: TNS: internal limit restriction exceeded

2004-01-21 Thread Faan DeSwardt
Murali, Have you checked the OS event logs like the system log? Sounds like you have hit an OS limit. Please post the rest of the error stack that followed the ORA-12450 as this gives more information on what is the root cause of this failure? You can find this in the listener.log at the time

RE: Old thread - trace file location

2004-01-21 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Okay, I was hallucinating -- and it is only Wednesday! I had been looking through some old emails yesterday. The thread was on September 17 18, 2002. If you are interested, go to Google and enter Oracle-l backup controlfile to trace. Elegant solutions were posted by Waleed Khedr, Richard Markham,

10046 traces hit the mainstream

2004-01-21 Thread Jesse, Rich
I'm happy to see in the Jan/Feb '04 issue of OraMag that the use of Oracle's extended trace was being explained. I know I've heard that Traffic analogy somewhere beforeHey! Cary's the article's author! I also appreciated the reference to 10g as being in the future, since it's promise date

Re: What gives??

2004-01-21 Thread Stephane Faroult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] oriole]$ export AWK=awk '{print \$4}' [EMAIL PROTECTED] oriole]$ echo ${AWK} awk '{print $4}' [EMAIL PROTECTED] oriole]$ cal | awk '{print $4}' We 7 14 21 28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] oriole]$ cal | ${AWK} awk: cmd. line:1: '{print awk: cmd. line:1: ^ Invalid char ''' in expression

Re: ORA-12540: TNS: internal limit restriction exceeded

2004-01-21 Thread Murali_Pavuloori/Claritas
I apologise for the wrong error #...it was a typo on my partthe error # is 12540 Here is the error stack === TNS-12500: TNS:listener failed to start a dedicated server process TNS-12540: TNS:internal limit restriction exceeded

Re: V$system_event

2004-01-21 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/21/2004 02:29:26 PM, Cary Millsap wrote: Jolene, Mladen's answer is a good one. There is also an in-depth discussion on this subject on pp210-217 of the book Optimizing Oracle Performance. I knew that you will immediately recognize method C! -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Re: Password management using profiles

2004-01-21 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/21/2004 02:54:25 PM, Spears, Brian wrote: Yup..we just added the functionalty to the verify_password functionwala. Brian S. Brian, are you related to the young lady named Britney and whose marriage was shorter then the average transaction on my database? She happens to have the same

RE: Password management using profiles

2004-01-21 Thread Ana Choto
Thanks for your reponses. We're working on make these changes now. Ana E. Choto American University e-Operations - Information Technology Phone (202) 885-2275 Fax (202) 885-2224 Spears, Brian

Re: Re: pga_aggregate_target and a memory leak

2004-01-21 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
I think it depends on your applications. In DSS type environments we are still stuggling to figure out if P_A_T is helping or not. Initial tests are not in P_A_T's favor. But in another Application, that is 80% OLTP, P_A_T was the only choice to avoid swapping. This 9.2.0.3 database had the

RE: help

2004-01-21 Thread Jared . Still
LOL!! Ok, Ashish, the problem is you sent 'help' to the list address. Send HELP to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and all will be well. Ok, now back to work everyone. Jared Odland, Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/21/2004 07:59 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:

RE: Old thread - trace file location

2004-01-21 Thread Alexander . Feinstein
Title: RE: Old thread - trace file location For 9.2 users: Alter database backup controlfile to trase as '/disk1/backup/ccf.sql' reuse noresetlogs; Alex. -Original Message- From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:24 PM To: Multiple

RE: Does SQL Server have a wait interface?

2004-01-21 Thread Grabowy, Chris
I believe the Jan edition of SQL Server magazine has an article on this very subject. -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 8:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L anyone know? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net --

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