Re: Client Search Info Needed

2003-10-31 Thread John Shaw
In order to find all your clients with wild cards you would have to use a function like upper(lastname) like 'MCD%' - but you really don't want to be doing full table scans. You could create a function based to look at your data based upon the function ie: CREATE INDEX emp_name_index ON emp

Re: ora-600 question

2003-10-28 Thread John Shaw
TOAD puts a hint in. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/28/2003 1:29:25 PM does toad or the oracle instance itself slip in rule hints? We got an ora-600 error off of a data dictionary read. i think it has to do with explain plan. ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [17182], [2325084336], [], [],

Re: Re: ora-600 question

2003-10-28 Thread John Shaw
rule by support? any idea why toad would bother slipping it in? From: "John Shaw" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/28 Tue PM 02:59:25 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ora-600 question TOAD puts a hint in.[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/28/2003

RE: infrastructure database

2003-10-09 Thread John Shaw
You can try and see ifthe old oneisin your oiddas.conf. and if you haven't deleted your inventory yet it's in $ORACLE_HOME/inventory/Components21/oracle.iappserver.iappcore/9.0.2.0.1/installlog.xml [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/9/2003 5:19:27 PM Running Infrastructure database from 9iv2 release on

Re: 9.2.0.4 anyone

2003-09-11 Thread John Shaw
Just 2 minor ones on the upgrade so far - it had to have the compatible init parameter set - otherwise it tried to default to Ora 8 and I am using LMT's so it complained. Also I had a problem with the listener not being able to connect, so I deleted and recreated a new one - everything

Re: Oracle 9iAS form displays gray box

2003-09-11 Thread John Shaw
Just a guess - but you might need to create / configure a provider for forms - also you might check your display setting in the conf file. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/10/2003 4:49:29 PM Hi NT 2000 Oracle 9.0.2.0.1 Oracle 9ias 9.0.2.0.1 Installed infrastructure and tested

Re: OT: Oracle 9iOAS install help needed

2003-09-09 Thread John Shaw
are you using the full host name? webbox.mycompany.com? Is iasdb or whatever you named your infrastructure instance up and running? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/9/2003 8:59:26 AM Hi All,I am trying to install Oracle 9iAS on Win 2000I installed Infra structure successfully. While trying to install

Re: Wel it appears the 10g world is coming soon

2003-09-05 Thread John Shaw
I'd love to see what you come up with on this one. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/4/2003 11:59:31 AM During my free time(ha, between developing pages for kid's soccer association, redcross instructor and board member, family, work), are you all interested in my discoveries when i start trudging thru

Another great respone from Oracle support (not really Friday

2003-09-05 Thread John Shaw
I filed a tar to get all the steps needed to do a new install of 9ias and bring up to the current patch release 9.0.2.3. This is their detailed list of instructions: " After applying 9iAS 9.0.2.0.1, you can/should apply 9.0.2.3 directly..There are some things you need to do

Re: 9iAS 9.0.2. singlebox installation, two apache servers

2003-09-03 Thread John Shaw
Title: Message I have set up 9ias on both one box (two oracle homes) and on 2 separate boxes. Forms, reports and java code run from the mid tier, OID runson theinfra structure. It does seem easier to keep it all straight if they are on separate boxes. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/2/2003 12:59:29 PM

Re: Poor performance after moving Extempore database from

2003-08-14 Thread John Shaw
Have you run statistics and changed your optimizer_index_caching and optimizer_cost_adj parameters? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/11/2003 2:14:28 PM We recently upgraded an application (Extempore) database from Oracle7.3.4 to 8.1.7. The clients say the test database, still on Oracle7.3.4 is much

Re: OT -- Boston Globe job listings

2003-08-14 Thread John Shaw
It maynot be a good idea from a security perpective - but I know my bosses are looking into purely for the cost. The idea seems to be keep a core set of people here and outsource everything else. This is happening at several companies I know of in the southeast (US). Eventually we will end

64 and 32 bit on same box

2003-07-30 Thread John Shaw
Is it possible for a 32 bit database and a 64 bit database (in different homes) to peacefully coexist on the same server? we currently have that setup and it seems like random bits of strangeness occur. In this scenario would it matter which listener the 64 bit or 32 bit that you would use?

Re: [Q] how to make Develper 6i talk to ORACLE 8i client??

2003-07-25 Thread John Shaw
It's been awhile since I worked on this - but I think you can trick it if you make a copy of your net8 directory and name it network. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/25/2003 2:39:24 PM ORACLE Developer 6i come with ORACLE 8.0.6 clientsql*net. Does their has way to make Developer 6i useORACLE 8i (8.1.7)

Re: Update through a DBLink

2003-07-24 Thread John Shaw
There is or at least was a problem if you had a autonomous transaction across a dblink with a commit. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/24/2003 10:59:27 AM One of or developers is work on a routine that will trigger a procedurethat will use a dblink to update a table on another database. It seemslike I

Re: RULE hint

2003-07-09 Thread John Shaw
what are your optimizer_index_caching optimizer_index_cost_adj optimizer_max_permutations set to? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/9/2003 3:39:31 PM Few sql queries run fast (less than a second) when I use RULE hint and without RULE hint it takes 30 seconds. The queries are not that complicated, but

Re: JDBC and MTS

2003-06-17 Thread John Shaw
Refer to Note:139775.1 - see if this helps out - basically it says to configure the jdbc driver so that it has to use dedicated server - using MTS is the problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/17/2003 7:24:50 AM OK. Let me get some things straight:a) I'm not a developer. I'm one of those vile

BI tools recommendations or disaters

2003-06-09 Thread John Shaw
We have created a monster. I started with a small datamart for the finance group. Now everyone wants their own - and of course bigger, better, faster, and linked with all the other data to drill to anywhere. So now I get to pick out some data warehouse tool to roll all this data together.

When will long datatype no longer be supported

2003-06-03 Thread John Shaw
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Re: DBXray anyone?

2003-03-13 Thread John Shaw
I've got installed - my boss likes BMC so we bought it. I really don't use it too much. It doesn't seem to have much different from OEM - a little better graphics, but since I have my set of scripts that I've come to rely on I really don't use the gui stuff a lot except for my freeware

Re: Purely for your amusement

2003-02-27 Thread John Shaw
This wouldn't happen to be Discoverer would it? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/27/03 03:24PM Barbara,Don't worry about the explain plan... What's the BHR looking like?I guess in all seriousness this query is most likely missing some joinsgiven the CARD result and the CARTESIAN's in the plan. Have

Sun admininstrator

2003-02-25 Thread John Shaw
I normally wouldn't post this kind of thing on this forum - but since the job market stinks ya'all might know someone who's looking. Mycompany has an opening for a experienced Solaris admin. We are installing a F 12k (32processor) and they want somebody with experience on it and haven't

Re: Hanging query puzzle

2003-02-05 Thread John Shaw
What version are you running - I have a similar problem on 9.2.0.2 on Solaris 9 that I've had an open tar on since November - Support has finally called up and said other people are having the same kind of problem - especially in regards to parallel processes. I am supposedly getting a test

RE: Statspack recomendations.

2003-01-24 Thread John Shaw
I get the error on solaris 9 and 9.2.0.2 except it's 103 Connected.ERROR:ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [ktfthcf-1], [103], [], [], [], [], [], [] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/23/03 04:16PM BUT, I don't get the error on 9.0.1.0.0 on Solaris 5.8!-Original Message-Sent: Thursday,

RE: SQLplus question unusual behavior

2003-01-21 Thread John Shaw
or a subordinate user? Check in the USER / DBA_POLICIES view where the OBJECT_NAME='FACILITY' -Original Message-From: John Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 20 January 2003 15:31To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: SQLplus question unusual behavior I am trying

Re: SQLplus question unusual behavior

2003-01-21 Thread John Shaw
I bounced the databases and just like rebooting a pc (even though this db is on solaris) it started working - one of the mysteries of Oracle - Maybe it was really windy and it was having sympathy pains with the yacht. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/20/03 08:44PM John Shaw wrote: I am trying to update

SQLplus question unusual behavior

2003-01-20 Thread John Shaw
I am trying to update a small table from a remote table with sqlplus 9.2.0.2 . It seems to indicate that it has inserted 233 row into my local table - howeverthat doesn't really happen. Am I suffering from a severe lack of caffine oris this really odd? SQL select count(*) from facility;

Re: SQLplus question unusual behavior

2003-01-20 Thread John Shaw
It's a table. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/20/03 11:04AM Just a thought - is facility a table or is it some synonym/view pointingsomewhere else..Babu|-+---| | John Shaw || | John.Shaw@correctio|| | nscorp.com || | Sent by: || | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: SQLplus question unusual behavior

2003-01-20 Thread John Shaw
defined the table in lowercase using quotes.CREATE TABLE FACILITY is not the same as CREATE TABLE "facility".HTH.ArupFrom: "John Shaw" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: SQLplus question unusual b

RE: compatible in 9iRel2

2003-01-13 Thread John Shaw
I had a 9.2/solaris database that I could set compatible 8.1.7 on - but since I have done the 9.2.0.2. upgrade I can't set compatible below 9 either - never really needed it so I haven't bothered with metalink/tar. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/13/03 11:16AM I am trying to apply a "fix" for some

RE: compatible in 9iRel2

2003-01-13 Thread John Shaw
system is data dictionary - the rest lmt's with uniform extents [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/13/03 12:35PM Were you using any of the new tablespace features or using dictionary managed tablespaces? David Ehresmann -Original Message-From: John Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday

filesystemio_options question

2003-01-08 Thread John Shaw
9.2.0.2, solaris 9 , Hitachi san BeforeIgot herethe company had a consultant come in and configure the data warehouse instance. One of the init parameters he set was filesystemio_options=none. The jr. dba that is here recalled the reason he set it to none because it was using the san - is

TNSPING another question

2002-12-20 Thread John Shaw
It's probably in the fine manual somewhere - but I haven't found it yet From my pc: I can ping the IP address of the server and response time is 10 ms ping the name of the server and response time is 10 ms tnsping of IP is 10 ms but tnsping of the name is 1000 ms any reason why this would be?

Re: corrupted database

2002-12-20 Thread John Shaw
If you ever findout the problemplease post your findings - I'm going thru a similar issue (9.2.0.2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/20/02 01:50PM Lindon,We have had a controller card go intermittently hay-wire and corruptedthe database. It even caused corruption to read-only tablespaces. It isquite

RE: sys login -probably a dumb question

2002-12-09 Thread John Shaw
on instance2. If you specify "as sysdba" it basically ignores the password if you are authorized as an OS user (belong to group oracle, for example). Adam -Original Message-From: John Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 4:05 PMTo: Multiple

sys login -probably a dumb question

2002-12-05 Thread John Shaw
I have 2 instances on a sun box. instance abc I can connectby just --sys/not_default@abcbut on instance def I can't connect by sys/not_default2@def it gives a ERROR:ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied Warning: You are no longer connected to ORACLE. I have to use

RE: sys login -probably a dumb question

2002-12-05 Thread John Shaw
Nope - they are both 9.2.0.2 solaris 9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/05/02 02:08PM Any chance that instance 2 is 9i, and instance 1 isn't? -Original Message- From: John Shaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 11:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: INIT 6 on Solaris not working with Oracle automated

2002-12-02 Thread John Shaw
I'm not having a problem withSolaris 9 and init 6 - in fact I have to use init 6 to get my scripts to work. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/02/02 07:58AM Has anyone encountered a problem rebooting a Solaris box using INIT 6 withthe Oracle dbstart/dbshut scripts enabled?My sysadmin seems to feel the

RE: LGWR using lots of CPU time, low CPU usage

2002-11-27 Thread John Shaw
I should have said spread across local drives. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/26/02 05:35PM H. I got to thinking about a previous reply which was while doingsomething else:I don't think changing the logmembers will do much goodI agree. 4 groups, they are on the local drive.BOOM!!Then got to

Re: LONG's

2002-11-26 Thread John Shaw
you can use the copy command for the longs - but I don't think it works for long raws - write a pl/sql that pulls it in in 32k chunks or create temp tables with the pk and long raw and do the insert/update routine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/25/02 09:59AM OK, so you can't CTAS on tables with

RE: LGWR using lots of CPU time, low CPU usage

2002-11-26 Thread John Shaw
I don't think changing the logmembers will do much good - I have a v880 with 16 GB and a Hitachi san. I have only 3 logmembers - 4 groups, they are on the local drive. I have some kind of performance issue with periodic slowdowns (47 minutes lgwr cpu in one day on a very low transaction

Re: Primary Key Constraints

2002-11-26 Thread John Shaw
how about select table_name from user_tables where table_name not in (select table_name from user_constraints where constraint_type = 'P'); [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/26/02 01:25PM Is there an easy query to get a list of tables that don't have any primarykey? I've tried a couple of different ones,

RE: AIX vs Solaris

2002-11-18 Thread John Shaw
We had IBM come in and try to tune the depth queue - apparently there is some bug between their aix box and the hitachi san - they could only get a depth queue of 1 - whereas the sun box could go to a depth queue of 32. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/17/02 08:18AM John, You should be able to tune

Re: Event 10046 and Performance

2002-11-18 Thread John Shaw
I am in the middle of this fight myself. We had an Oracle consultant come in to look at our performance problems. He spent a 3 days examing the sql and coming up with various reasons that our code was slow. Then the "BUG" cropped up - one of his reports that had been running great all of a

Re: Import from FoxPro to Oracle

2002-11-15 Thread John Shaw
Foxpro has a upsizewizard to move data into an oracle database. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/15/02 06:03AM Hi ALL, Can WE IMPORT DATA from DBF files of Fox Pro into Oracle 8.1.7. If yes how. TIA Hussain

RE: surprising result:8CPU Sun 3500 VS 4CPU Dell 6650

2002-11-15 Thread John Shaw
I am also having a weird performance issue with a sun box - mine is a new v880 4 cpu (900mz) with 16g of ram and a 2 T hitachi san. For example - I do an import of a table (partitioned 3 m rows ) and it takes almost 8 minutes vs 3 minutes on my laptop. both running 9.2.0 . many reports take

Re: AIX vs Solaris

2002-11-13 Thread John Shaw
We had an aix box and ended sending it back and going with sun - only because we had a hitachi san and there seems to be a bug between ibm and hitachi - something about depth queue. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/13/02 12:48PM Hello,What are the major differences between AIX and Solaris

RE: When will Oracle 10i be out?

2002-11-08 Thread John Shaw
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Patch 9.2.02 and Solaris 9

2002-10-28 Thread John Shaw
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