RE: DBA work load

2002-09-24 Thread G . Plivna
Oh yea, and You are the only one knowing all the passwords :-) Rachel Carmichael [EMAIL PROTECTED] There should be at leat 2 DBAs -- what if you get sick or (as one of my bosses used to say) what if you get hit by a truck? Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga

DUAL Was: Consulting Position Available-Oracle DBA/Developer/NYC

2002-09-20 Thread G . Plivna
As well as in MySQL There is no need for such table in SQL Server. If you need, you do just: select 'whatever' without from clause. Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/ -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author:

Re: generate insert statement ???

2002-09-11 Thread G . Plivna
Look into http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/dba_selects.htm#s21 It seems exactly what You need Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

Re: View to check RI contrainsts infomration on tables?

2002-08-25 Thread G . Plivna
user/all/dba_constraints should be enough Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/ Abdul

Re: FW: assistance

2002-08-22 Thread G . Plivna
Oh, I get such mails usually once a month, although they are from persons of Nigeria. If these are from yahoo or so then I send them back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] else just press del Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

Re: OT: user CGI-BIN directories

2002-08-14 Thread G . Plivna
User's home directory (better special subdirectory - only for those scripts) should be registered in the config file of webserver as a directory where cgi scripts are running. For example if You look in the Apache config file You will find such info along with my examples # ScriptAlias:

Re: PL/Sql Error Handling Package

2002-07-12 Thread G . Plivna
I sent such code some 2-3 months ago to this list, cannot find it quickly now. That used autonomous transactions and stored errors in a table. I'm not posting much, therefore You may search in archives using my name ... Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga

Re: rename package

2002-06-06 Thread G . Plivna
Oh You may consider all these event triggers on create, on drop etc. Capture the previous code from data dictionary and store it in some table This is just an idea, not implemented procedure at least by me Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

RE: MySQL versus Oracle

2002-05-31 Thread G . Plivna
I'm trying to collect some links of resources that compares various databases Here is the result until today http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/compare_db.htm You all are welcomed to send more! Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

Re: script for comparing two schemas in two databases

2002-05-29 Thread G . Plivna
searching in google for script compare two schemas oracle gives as the 6th result http://www.arrowsent.com/oratip/tip15.htm that may be sufficient in your case Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

Re: what is meant by dirty buffers

2002-05-13 Thread G . Plivna
Working with FM Oracle8i Master Index: D press on DI Looking for dirty buffers found link dirty buffer (Concepts) and here is an excerpt: The buffers in the cache are organized in two lists: the write list and the least recently used (LRU) list. The write list holds dirty buffers, which

Re: Telephone Alerts

2002-05-13 Thread G . Plivna
That depends on mobile phone service provider, I think We all have e-mail addresses in form [EMAIL PROTECTED], where xxx is our number. By default they are closed and if we would like to get e-mails then we have to send special sms to special service number to enable this feature. And

Re: I have a black hole in my database

2002-05-10 Thread G . Plivna
I remember once a designer package compiled forever, it just hang up ... I looked in the previous release of Designer and found that the code has been changed although the meaning was really the same. So I took some 5-10 lines from previous version and voila! - it worked. Later this was

RE: pl/sql is INTERPRETED?- java test

2002-05-06 Thread G . Plivna
Sun Certified Programmer Practice Exam http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Orchard/9362/java/javacert/newboone1-19.html http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Orchard/9362/java/javacert/newboone20-39.html http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Orchard/9362/java/javacert/newboone40-70.html

Column level grants

2002-04-24 Thread G . Plivna
I deleted the original mail, but You can find this topic in Oracle8i SQL Reference Release 3 (8.1.7) Part Number A85397-01 SQL statement GRANT look under section syntax grant_object_privileges_clause image Although there is a note column Specify the table or view column on which privileges

Re: MySQL vs. Oracle database

2002-04-18 Thread G . Plivna
By default MySQL has no transactions You have to add special component to access transactional safe tables called Berkeley db tables. You can commit and rollback on only these tables. For others every wrong (not syntactically, but for example inserting characters into number column) insert and

RE: MySQL vs. Oracle database

2002-04-18 Thread G . Plivna
Thanks for clarification, all my knowledge about transactional tables are from MySQL docs. I'v used only not transactional safe tables for some web projects. Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

Re: Currently log-in users

2002-04-11 Thread G . Plivna
Some selects You can find in http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/dba_selects.htm I'm sure there are websites with more scripts around the net, of course... Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/ How do I check who is currently logging into database, where

Re: Pl/sql question - if statement

2002-04-09 Thread G . Plivna
You have messed up quotes in IF condition Maybe You can use some coding style other than chaotic? It helps in debugging, believe me. Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

Re: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread G . Plivna
File login.sql in %Oracle_home%\DBS\ Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

RE: Concatenating formated number and date doesn't work

2002-03-26 Thread G . Plivna
Simply as Catherine alraedy said formatting gives extra space. It takes one more byte in variable Emp_Bar_Code VARCHAR2(15) and this variable is too short Just look at example SQL select length( 2 TO_CHAR( 12345, '099' ) || 3 TO_CHAR( SysDate, 'MMDD' ) 4 ) 5 from dual;

Re: list wrapped PL/SQL

2002-03-07 Thread G . Plivna
It isn't an elegant solution but You can just look into source Something like SELECT owner ,type ,name FROM all_source WHERE line = 1 AND upper(text) like '%WRAPPED%' ORDER BY owner ,type ,name; Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13,

Fw: Just got back from SQL*Server 2000 training...

2002-02-19 Thread G . Plivna
I sent this e-mail to a friend who works with SqlServer and he sent this to a SqlServer list as You can see from headers Here are comments of a member :- Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/ - Original Message - To: SQL 7

Re: default DB

2002-02-13 Thread G . Plivna
You should read at least Oracle concepts manual a. How to login into Oracle thru sqlplus -how to know login and passwd? http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/def_usr_paswd.htm b. How to see what are the Databases already created. Hmm, I think You mean schema/user in Oracle language SELECT

Re: Scrolling Sideways in SQL*Plus

2002-02-07 Thread G . Plivna
I also have sometimes this weird situation I usually set buffer width 1000 and linesize also 1000 Sometimes I cannot use scrollbar to the right but the cure for that is simple if I change the dimensions of my SQL/Plus window then all is just fine Not too often, but anyway I don't know

Re: FW: how to Loading data file (SQL LOADER)

2002-02-05 Thread G . Plivna
i forgot to mention that i did look in to manual This soon will be the right style write it :- I really not expert in sqlloader but I can say what I would do in such a situation I would create a temporary table and load all data (of course remebering the order) there without any

Re: OUTLN

2002-02-04 Thread G . Plivna
Username: OUTLN Password: outln Created: when installing Oracle8i Description: (From Oracle8i Migration Release 3 (8.1.7)) Oracle8i adds the OUTLN user schema to support Plan Stability. The OUTLN user acts as a place to centrally manage metadata associated with stored outlines. This user has DBA

RE: Oracle Error - 1467

2002-01-31 Thread G . Plivna
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOTp_id=18870.1 explains that rather well Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

Re: Pl/sql question

2002-01-28 Thread G . Plivna
- pick out the name of the procedure thatis currently running, check http://osi.oracle.com/~tkyte/who_called_me/index.html, dbms_utility.get_call_stack, dbms_utility.get_error_stack -pick out the start_time of the procedure discussed some days ago - pick outthe end_time of the procedure when it

RE: Pl/sql question

2002-01-28 Thread G . Plivna
Just a note Inserting in an error table in the excpetion clause is a common problem because if something goes wrong and exception was thrown then You usually don't want commit But You cannot insert ereror record without commit So in ancient times there was dbms_pipe etc. Since 8.something You

Re: How to use a package variable in pkg1 inside of package pkg2

2002-01-25 Thread G . Plivna
You have to declare this variable in package1 specification create or replace package pkg1 is v_var VARCHAR2(10) := 'Blahblah'; end; / create or replace package pkg2 is procedure showvar; end; / create or replace package pkg2 body is procedure showvar begin

Re: Start - end time of procedure

2002-01-24 Thread G . Plivna
If you run procedure from SQLPlus then you can use option set time (or timing, didn't remember) on and simply count the difference If you need this info inside the procedure then just simply in the fisrt line of procedure remember the start time in some variable either from sysdate or

Re: data modeling

2002-01-10 Thread G . Plivna
Case*Method Entity Relationship Modelling by Richard Barker; 1990; ISBN 0-201-41696-4; Data Model Patterns / Conventions of Thought/ David C. Hay The Data Model Resource Book by L. Silverston, W.H.Inmon, K. Graziano; 1997; ISBN 0471-15364-8; Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga

RE: How to stop access to prod instance ...

2002-01-07 Thread G . Plivna
It seems that raise in on_logon trigger is equivalent to logoff or maybe NOT logon :-) so here is scenario 1. I tried to connect with gints/passwd@tuk Connected to: Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.0.1 - Production With the Partitioning option JServer Release 8.1.7.0.1 - Production

RE: Firing order of triggers

2001-12-28 Thread G . Plivna
Although there are already so many responses I would like to add one more You can of course put all logic in one trigger and then have control over events Sometimes it is impossible in the trigger because there is limitation of trigger size (32 K) So in that case You have to put logic in

Re: An Oracle logic error....

2001-12-13 Thread G . Plivna
Raeson is implicit data type conversion ie. explicit conversion is when you use to_number, to_char etc implicit is when Oracle silently does the same more http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle8i/doc_library/817_doc/appdev.817/a76939/adg04typ.htm#418827 Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa

Oracle Finacials and pdf report generation

2001-11-28 Thread G . Plivna
Hi! Unfortunately or maybe fortunately :-)? this is a problem of my friend, no my own, so I don't know more details, at least now. It is following: There are two servers running Oracle Financials production and test, they both produces reports in pdf format. And the problem is that test

Re: Find DBA users

2001-11-26 Thread G . Plivna
select * from dba_role_privs where granted_role = 'DBA'; Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

RE: How Can I get A sequence Current Value in PROC

2001-11-26 Thread G . Plivna
I don't know But You can get last_number from dba/user_sequences view I just looked at this view and found some interesting results If sequence is nocache then it seems last_number really is the last number But if some sequence values are stored in cache then last number values are something

RE: Metalink gone to sleep ?????

2001-11-21 Thread G . Plivna
NT 4.0 SP 6 with both IE 5.5 SP 1 and Netscape 4.73 Working... Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/ Boivin,

Re: PL/SQL question

2001-11-16 Thread G . Plivna
To make such things you need dynamic SQL either execute immediate (8.1.something and above) or dbms_sql (more clumsy) Here is example using execute immediate qaqa is table of one column col1, max (col1) = 17 qaqa_seq is sequence gints@ create table qaqa (col1 number); Table created. gints@

OT: NT cmd file parameters

2001-11-16 Thread G . Plivna
Hi! Maybe You can help me: One can call a cmd or bat file with parameters like example.cmd para parb parc and in this cmd file I can refer to them using %1 %2 %3 and so on My problem is following How can I get more than 9 parameters because when I use %10 in cmd file I get first passed

Re: Insert script generator

2001-11-14 Thread G . Plivna
As nobody gave me the script I really wanted to, I had to create one myself :((( Starting part is based on Jared's dump.sql but the rest of course is different. Here is link to it, just in case of need ;))) http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/dba_selects.htm#s21 Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13,

Re: Inserts with different conditions in pl/sql

2001-11-13 Thread G . Plivna
INSERT INTO target_table (target_column) SELECT decode(source_column, '?', 98, 'X', NULL, source_column) FROM source_table; 1. This isn't pl/sql, just pure insert statement 2. If datatype of target_column is Number You cannot insert 'Missing info' in this column, use NULLs instead 3. If You

Re: Sqlloader - important

2001-11-13 Thread G . Plivna
'98'!' contains too many quotes Just a question: Do you try a little bit to find error reasons yourself or just write an email on the spot? ;) Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

RE: utl_file example

2001-11-12 Thread G . Plivna
Just in case Do You have added correctly entries in utl_file_dir? If I remeber correctly there was a difference between Unix and NT. On one You need to put slash on the end, on another not. Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

Re: Oracle database users

2001-10-31 Thread G . Plivna
http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/oracle_limits.htm Second row from the beginning ;) Although You will face hardware limitations much sooner And remember about licensing ;) Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

RE: Where 1 = 1

2001-10-26 Thread G . Plivna
Maybe You could find useful such approach: where_clause = ''; comma = ' WHERE '; LOOP where_clause = comma || new_condition; comma = ' AND '; END LOOP; So in this case You don't need always WHERE in your select especially such interesting construction like 1=1 BUT as always IT DEPENDS...

Re: Move table to another tablespace

2001-10-25 Thread G . Plivna
above 8.something alter table table_name move tablespace tablespace_name; Or always you can 1. export table 2. recreate in another tablespace 3. import data in table created in step 2. Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

Re: Why does ittake long time?

2001-10-25 Thread G . Plivna
Just do explain plan for this and look... It seems it isn't so simple ;) Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

RE: Move table to another tablespace

2001-10-25 Thread G . Plivna
Your second step 2)alter user scott default tablespace tools,(before it's users) isn't that I explained in previous mail. In this case You have to 1) drop emp table 2) either alter user scott with another default tablespace or specify another tablespace in create table clause 3) create emp

RE: Sad News - Jets crashed into World Trade Center

2001-09-12 Thread G . Plivna
Maybe turn them to something like in Hirosima? Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/ Rachel

Re: What is maximum length of sql statement sent to Oracle server?

2001-09-12 Thread G . Plivna
You will find this and other Oracle limitations here http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/oracle_limits.htm Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

RE: OT

2001-09-11 Thread G . Plivna
I hope all list members are OK! I hope everybody thinking and laughing of something like that all around the world sees the results! I hope this isn't the start of 3rd World War! And don't be afraid of that and don't panic because this is exactly what terorists want. Of course, I know, it is

RE: OT: any spam today?

2001-09-05 Thread G . Plivna
I accidently did it some 3 or 4 years ago, received these mails some 2 years as valuable excite customer but after 2 years of my absolute ignorance they have stopped sending. Just put it all in trash bin ;) ESPECIALLY with EXCITE. my kids sign up for stuff all the time, and I am NEVER able to

OT Re: INDEXLEME ONEMLI

2001-09-03 Thread G . Plivna
Although there is European Basketball Championship in Turkey and I'm a big fan of it, I don't know Turkic (I suppose so) now ;))) Gints Plivna IT Sist?mas, Mer?e?a 13, LV1050 R?ga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

Re: Problem with DBMS_SQL

2001-08-31 Thread G . Plivna
You have to directly grant privilege CREATE TABLE to this DL user Not via role Dynamic SQL counts only directly granted privileges Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

Re: PLS-307 error - makes no sense

2001-08-24 Thread G . Plivna
Hi! It seems it is explained here http://technet.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle8i/doc_library/817_doc/appdev.817/a76939/adg10pck.htm#6142 excerpt: PL/SQL lets you overload packaged (but not stand-alone) functions. You can use the same name for different functions if their formal parameters

Re: Size of variable in PL/SQL

2001-08-01 Thread G . Plivna
Should be okay if you you use it only for plsql variables, which Oracle version do you have? Maximum size of a varchar2 plsql variable is 32000 Maximum size of a varchar2 column in a table is 4000 bytes see more about variable sizes in http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/oracle_limits.htm Gints

Re: Creating DDL level triggers in Oracle 8.1.7

2001-08-01 Thread G . Plivna
look in application developers guide or plsql user's guide for more info I've succesfully created for testing purposes them as follows create or replace trigger ON_ALTER AFTER ALTER ON DATABASE BEGIN INSERT INTO sys_aud_table ( event ,id ,timestamp ,login_user

Re: ER Diagram of a schema

2001-07-26 Thread G . Plivna
You cannot create ER diagram of a schema, you can create only server(data) model diagram If you want to create this diagram yourself, ie on paper, using some graphic tool like M$Word, Corel or M$Paint then you will need to use at least such data dictionary views like {all/dba/user}_tables

Re: Trigger on Create User

2001-07-26 Thread G . Plivna
Maybe you can simply call procedure with autonomous transaction in system trigger Is it possible? Gints Plivna [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: ER Diagram of a schema

2001-07-26 Thread G . Plivna
Yea and it can reverse engineer not only oracle, but for example mysql database too. Designer cannot because it has too strict rules for column types. Gints Plivna

Re: IAS-Apache and PHP

2001-07-24 Thread G . Plivna
I'm not an expert in this area but I do know that we haven't two apaches ie. our administrator installed Oracle and IAS and then added PHP module and this WASN'T very painful process ;) How? I don't know :( Oracle 8.1.7 on red hat linux 6.2 Gints Plivna

Re: get yesterdays date

2001-07-23 Thread G . Plivna
select sysdate - 1 from dual; Gints Plivna John Dunn

Re: how to make PL/SQL wait for 60 seconds

2001-07-20 Thread G . Plivna
use procedure dbms_lock.sleep Gints Plivna John Dunn

Re: offtopic-wishing to learn Solaris/Unix from scratch

2001-07-18 Thread G . Plivna
I would like to recommend to read some book about the very concepts, I don't think there are many changes from these times in process management, memory management, file system management and i/o management for example A.Silbuschatz, J.Peterson, P.Galvin Operating Systems Concepts Addison Wesley

Re: Naming Standards - Thoughts Needed

2001-07-16 Thread G . Plivna
You can find a little bit how it is in our organization http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/eng/naming_conventions.htm Gints Plivna Tracy

Re: Stand alone Procedure v/s Package Procedure

2001-07-09 Thread G . Plivna
There are some limitations regarding size of procedures You can find this info in http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/oracle_limits.htm Gints Plivna

Re: PL/SQL (remote procedure call)

2001-06-27 Thread G . Plivna
You should call it using parameters at the very end For example my remote procedure is: create or replace procedure qaqa (in_bzz IN varchar2 default 'bzzz') is begin insert into qaqa1 values (in_bzz); commit; end; / On current server execute such statements: SQL exec qaqa@repsislink PL/SQL

Re: AARRGGHH !!!

2001-06-25 Thread G . Plivna
Ho, ho, now I'm well prepared! I created an e-mail template with all subscribe statements needed for all fatcity lists I'm interested in. It will be like an event trigger on_bounce ;) I only hope that I will be bounced from all lists hosted in fatcity or the second alternative - I cannot

RE: Oracle 8i database ER diagram

2001-06-12 Thread G . Plivna
Wow, I'v always been thinking that Oracle docs are rather good including Designer. And I found them that. You need at least two steps 1. In design editor generate-capture design of-server model-fill in appropriate fields 2. In repository object navigator utilities-table to entity rettrofit- and

RE: LOT (Little OT): Interesting Oracle related URL's.

2001-06-08 Thread G . Plivna
Hi! I've removed all papers, You can test it ;) I do agree that it maybe is a sort of crime, but if You have read about Open Source, then You know their world outlook about how to get known in the Internet world. I think this is one of the reasons many people don't like M$ and like Linux. Ok,

Re: How to drop a system event trigger - endless loop?

2001-06-05 Thread G . Plivna
Yeah, another one ;) Before several months already somebody in this list faced this problem ;) If there is an error in a LOGON Trigger, nobody (not even SYS) may connect to the database. Connect with INTERNAL and drop the trigger may help in this situation. Gints Plivna

Re: How to drop unique index

2001-05-30 Thread G . Plivna
If it is an unique index that enforces unique constraint you cannot simply drop it You have to drop unique constraint alter table tablename drop constraint constraintname; an example follows SQL desc qaqa1 NameNull?Type ---

Testing, please delete

2001-05-10 Thread G . Plivna
Just testing, not understanding why I was bounced ;) -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists

Re: Conventions for naming indexes, constraints etc.

2001-04-18 Thread G . Plivna
Hi! How it is in our case http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/eng/naming_conventions.htm But this was not mentioned earlier because I created it some minutes ago ;) Gints Plivna

Re: current transaction in oracle

2001-04-17 Thread G . Plivna
COLUMN address NOPRINT COLUMN username FORMAT a12 BREAK ON address SKIP 1 SELECT a.address ,sql_text ,osuser ,username FROM v$sqltext a ,v$session s WHERE s.SQL_ADDRESS = a.ADDRESS AND s.status = 'ACTIVE' AND s.type

Re: Compare tow schemas

2001-04-05 Thread G . Plivna
Hi! I don't remember the original place but here is one. You may want to adapt it to Your needs. Gints Plivna undef prex undef prefx undef a undef thisuser undef b undef REMOTESCHEMA undef REMOTEPASSW undef connstring undef c undef todaysdate variable prefx varchar2(3) declare i number ; j

Re: new DBA/DBO basic training

2001-04-04 Thread G . Plivna
Hi! Give this list address and other links such as technet where to find info. Gints Plivna "andrey"

Offtopic: Oracle Server Class Diagram

2001-04-04 Thread G . Plivna
Hi! In case You have free time or like object oriented modelling, class diagrams and oracle You may explore such a link: http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/files/oracle/oracle_s.htm All suggestions and errors are welcome! Gints Plivna -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Re: NLS_DATE_FORMAT not effective..help!

2001-03-20 Thread G . Plivna
Yea, to see it on a clint's SQL*Plus You have to modify \Hkey_local_machine\software\oracle\NLS_DATE_FORMAT At least this is on NT, I don't know about 95, 98 Gints Plivna

Re: Limit

2001-03-19 Thread G . Plivna
I don't know the limit of columns making PK. But I can suggest to use surrogate key and populate it from sequence. What You will do with your 6 columns if you need a foreign key to this table? Gints Plivna

Re: DBMS_UTILITY ?

2001-03-13 Thread G . Plivna
You can get this from source or install scripts. Gints procedure analyze_schema(schema varchar2, method varchar2, estimate_rows number default null, estimate_percent number default null, method_opt varchar2 default null); -- Analyze all the tables, clusters and indexes in a schema.

RE: opinions on naming primary keys in new database (seriously)

2001-03-08 Thread G . Plivna
We have strict algorithm for table columns, keys, sequences and indexes 1. All tables have 3 cahracter long aliases So all columns are in form alias_colname for example emp_id, emp_name, emp_adr_id, adr_street_name 2. All tables have surrogate primary key column in form alias_id 3. All primary