RE: DBMS_JOB

2001-08-27 Thread Jon Walthour
this right now and the SYSDATE+1 parameter says, Then run this again at this same time tomorrow. Jon Walthour -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 5:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hallo, How can I schedule a pl/sql job, I want this to happen

Re: Migrate/Update-which way is better?

2001-08-23 Thread Jon Walthour
Utilities manual says that a full export exports the entire database. So, I'm almost certain that includes SYS. Jon Walthour -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jon Walthour INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX

Re: sql query

2001-08-22 Thread Jon Walthour
a.userid=b.superid group by a.userid, a.superid) y where x.userid = y.userid(+) order by 1, 2; Jon Walthour From: Seema Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2001/08/22 Wed AM 09:00:28 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sql query Hi One table has

RE: Freelist Contention

2001-08-21 Thread Jon Walthour
Raja: You will know you have freelist contention if you have a significant buffer busy waits ratio (5%). Jon Walthour -Original Message- Luthra Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 11:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello folks, How do I come to know

Re: What is in archive log...

2001-08-21 Thread Jon Walthour
Check out the Oracle 8i Administrator's Guide, look at the chapter entitled: Using LogMiner to Analyze Online and Archived Redo Logs. Jon Walthour From: Aldi Barco [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2001/08/21 Tue AM 11:41:32 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: RE: Freelist Contention

2001-08-21 Thread Jon Walthour
No. Just because you have a high bbw ratio, that doesn't indicate strictly a freelist problem. However, having problems with freelists often results in a high bbw ratio. Jon Walthour From: Johnson Poovathummoottil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2001/08/21 Tue AM 11:21:02 EDT To: Multiple

Re: How do they get the answer?

2001-08-21 Thread Jon Walthour
in the where clause, the IN says any teachers that are in any of these subjects. Since there are two subjects in the IN set and at least 2 teachers have to teach each subject, 2*2=4. Basic mathematics: at least 4 teachers will get a raise. Jon Walthour From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2001/08

Re: User access within/outside of app

2001-08-21 Thread Jon Walthour
Create another user with select privileges only on the objects in the app's schema. Give that one to them and then change the password on the original app id so they won't be able to use that one anymore. Jon Walthour From: Larry Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2001/08/21 Tue AM 11:21:04 EDT

RE: User access within/outside of app

2001-08-21 Thread Jon Walthour
it in an .ini file that the app decrypted and used to log into the database. That way, the users couldn't use the ODBC connection with that userid outside of the app. That may not be an option for you here, but that's about all I can think of as an alternative. Jon Walthour -Original Message- Sent

Re: environmental variables

2001-08-20 Thread Jon Walthour
Simple. Put them in a batch file: @echo off set env1 = One set env2 = Two set oracle_sid = mydb ... Then reference like normal C:\ echo %oracle_sid% mydb Jon Walthour From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2001/08/20 Mon PM 02:36:36 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RE: WARNING: CURSOR_SHARING=FORCE on 8.1.7

2001-08-20 Thread Jon Walthour
Rich: Please let me know if the problem goes away for you with any of the patches or if the only real fix is to go to 9i. Jon Walthour From: Jesse, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2001/08/20 Mon PM 01:32:30 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: WARNING

Re: How to sign-off this group?

2001-08-20 Thread Jon Walthour
you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jon Walthour INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San

RE: net 8 / 8i ?

2001-08-20 Thread Jon Walthour
. I use an 8.1.7 client to connect to db's version 7.1.6 and up all the time. No problem. You just can't go the other way and expect to do anything and everything (i.e., if you use a 7.x client to connect to an 8i database, don't expect to be able to work with LOBs). Jon Walthour -- Please see

RE: changing long to lob

2001-08-20 Thread Jon Walthour
- COL1 VARCHAR2(30)COL_LOB LONG SQL alter table test_lob modify col_lob clob;alter table test_lob modify col_lob clob *ERROR at line 1:ORA-22858: invalid alteration of datatype Thanks, Jon Walthour -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Please Help - ora error

2001-08-18 Thread Jon Walthour
the sorted result set. For more information on this topic, take a look at Steve Adams' website http://www.ixora.com.au. Jon Walthour -Original Message- Alex Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 11:52 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Are you sure enough to post an answer? Alex Hillman

RE: How to find maximum number of concurrent sorts from instance star

2001-08-18 Thread Jon Walthour
= 'sort_segment_locks')); Jon Walthour -Original Message- Alex Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 7:01 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L star -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Hillman, Alex INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

Re: Recovering WITHOUT tablespaces

2001-08-17 Thread Jon Walthour
. You edit that script to include on the files you're recovering and use it to bring up the database. Jon Walthour From: Kumanan Balasundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2001/08/17 Fri AM 07:55:29 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Recovering WITHOUT

Re: linux for oracle

2001-08-17 Thread Jon Walthour
Uma: From what I've seen and used myself, SuSE seem to be officially endorsed distro. I've heard of people installing on RedHat, but I've also heard (especially concerning 9i) that it is a pain in the a__ to get working--if at all. Jon Walthour From: Rao, UmaSankara S (CAP) [EMAIL

Re: RE: Recovering WITHOUT tablespaces

2001-08-17 Thread Jon Walthour
to apply archive redo logs of the DB? If so, that will be great. Thanks Kumanan -Original Message- From: Jon Walthour [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 August 2001 14:16 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:Re: Recovering WITHOUT tablespaces

RE: A modification time question

2001-08-16 Thread Jon Walthour
If you can't modify the structure to add a timestamp column or add a trigger to insert a timestamp into another table, there's no way I know of to track it. Oracle doesn't track this sort of thing on its own; you need some sort of timestamp field. Jon Walthour -Original Message- Bronfin

RE: Q about Oracle Optimizer

2001-08-16 Thread Jon Walthour
the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jon Walthour INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists

Re: RE: What file(s) does Oracle read in deciding what has been insta

2001-08-16 Thread Jon Walthour
Delete the directory structure under C:\Program Files\Oracle, as well. That's where Oracle keeps the inventory information (among other things). Jon Walthour From: Christopher Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2001/08/16 Thu PM 01:28:15 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

RE: An SQL question , not easy ;-)

2001-08-15 Thread Jon Walthour
:MI:SS') AS call_time , -1 AS incr FROM calls))); Jon Walthour From: Lord, David - CS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2001/08/15 Wed AM 11:01:33 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: An SQL

RE: different stats in sga..

2001-08-14 Thread Jon Walthour
for the log buffer of 4 * db_block_size. This rounding up is reflected in v$sga, but not in v$sgastat. Jon Walthour -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Saurabh SharmaSent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 6:46 AMTo: Multiple recipients

Re: Downloading patch from metalink

2001-08-14 Thread Jon Walthour
. Download the patch for your particular platform. Simple as that. Jon Walthour From: Rukmini Devi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2001/08/14 Tue AM 08:11:43 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Downloading patch from metalink Hi All, I want to download

Re: Pathname for Spool - [NT]

2001-08-14 Thread Jon Walthour
Sean: Use the shorter 8.3 directory name. You can get it with the dir /x command. Then you could do something like: t:\oracle\output\system~1\free_space.log Jon Walthour From: O'Neill, Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2001/08/14 Tue AM 10:15:23 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: rollback tables

2001-08-13 Thread Jon Walthour
AND rn.usn = t.xidusn AND s.sid = m.sid; HTH, Jon Walthour -Original Message- Shrinivas (MED, Keane) Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 4:36 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L HI dba's can anybody tell me from which tables can i find whether my statement is generating rollback

RE: 07_DICTIONARY_ACCESSIBILITY

2001-08-13 Thread Jon Walthour
Ron: All I can find on it is that it's an Oracle 8 parameter used to provide Oracle 7 dictionary accessibility. Not much, I know. Jon Walthour -Original Message- L. Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 11:51 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Does anyone have any experience

RE: which segment need more freelist?

2001-08-12 Thread Jon Walthour
periencing bbw's. If anyone knows of any way, please let me know as I would love to know. Regards, Jon Walthour, BSCDCincinnati, Ohio-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of chao_pingSent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 9:30 AMTo: Multiple recipient

RE: SGA info.

2001-08-12 Thread Jon Walthour
FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jon Walthour INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists To REMOVE

Re: avoid duplicate sql

2001-08-08 Thread Jon Walthour
Srinivas: How about this: select sid , serial# from sys.v_$session where (sysdate-logon_time) = (30/(24*60)); This will give you a list of all the sessions that have been connected for 30 minutes or less. HTH Jon Walthour From: Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane) [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PL/SQL length overflow prob

2001-08-08 Thread Jon Walthour
Uma: This is a restriction of DBMS_OUTPUT. It can only output a line of up to 255 characters. To fix it, you'll need to break up the output into multiple lines or use DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT instead of DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE to concatonate several pieces together into one line. HTH! Jon Walthour

Re: divide with decode

2001-08-04 Thread Jon Walthour
where name = 'physical reads') , (select to_number(value) as db_block_gets from sys.v_$sysstat where name = 'db block gets'); Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 12:20 PM

Re: ora-600 ..sort extent pool??

2001-08-04 Thread Jon Walthour
of the DEFAULT STORAGE clause of the temporary tablespace in which you are sorting. Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 4:55 PM Hi Friends, When Iam rebuilding my index and clearing TEMP tablespace

Re: Import Issue/question

2001-08-03 Thread Jon Walthour
That you have to do on your own by analyzing the tables and indexes after the import is finished. Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 4:37 PM What about generating statistics? Mike Hand

Re: Your ideas will be helpful

2001-08-03 Thread Jon Walthour
)group by asset_num; Hope this helps. Jon Walthour - Original Message - From: Helen rwulfjeq To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 5:12 PM Subject: Your ideas will be helpful Hello, all: I'm import data from schema1

Re: cleaning up oracle homes on NT

2001-08-01 Thread Jon Walthour
will not uninstall itself. List, please correct me if I'm mistaken here. Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 7:41 AM Andrea asked about removing NT services. What about Oracle homes? The Oracle Universal

Re: Help, processes won't die

2001-08-01 Thread Jon Walthour
Title: Help, processes won't die Ivan: The problem is that there is no way to "wake up" PMON. PMON is cleaning up and rolling back all uncommitted transactions every 3 minutes and this isn't configurable. If this is 8i, you could have used alter session ... kill session immediate, although

Re: Help, processes won't die

2001-08-01 Thread Jon Walthour
and would require recovery of the database and transactions could be lost. I would not recommend a shutdown abort except as a last resort. Hope this helps. Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 3:06 PM

Re: import table from SQL server To Oracle

2001-08-01 Thread Jon Walthour
and SQL*Loader. Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 3:31 PM Dear DBAs is there any tool available to import table from SQL 2000 server To Oracle 8.5 online or by other way. Mitchell

Re: simple sql problem

2001-07-31 Thread Jon Walthour
Raja: Let me put my two cents into the idea bin. How about: select decode(sign(num-1),-1,'0' || to_char(num), to_char(num)) as num from t1; Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:10 AM Hello all

Re: no create system tbs ?????

2001-07-28 Thread Jon Walthour
Sinardy: The SYSTEM tablespace is created with the CREATE DATABASE statement. Its datafile is the file set out in the DATAFILE portion of the statement. Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 12:20 AM

Re: Unusable index

2001-07-28 Thread Jon Walthour
Prasad: If you have access to MetaLink, see Note 1054736.6 How Do Indexes Become Index Unusable? If you don't, let me know and I'll copy the article for you. Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 1:45

Re: Urgent..DB creation problem..

2001-07-28 Thread Jon Walthour
assistant gets done with all the setup and offers to either create the db or save off the scripts for running later, save the scripts then edit the initSID.ora to make sure the MTS_DISPATCHERS parameter isn't there. Then run the scripts yourself and you shouldn't have that problem. Jon Walthour

RE: Rollback seg for big job

2001-07-27 Thread Jon Walthour
that rbs as well. However, if you're running it at night, wouldn't your activity level be lower and thus the odds of getting another transaction in the same rbs be much lower as well? Just my 2 cents. Jon Walthour --- Original Message --- From: prasad maganti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients

RE: RE: CURSOR_SHARING = FORCE

2001-07-27 Thread Jon Walthour
with any of 'em. Jon Walthour --- Original Message --- From: Larry Elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/27/01 12:41:20 PM Mark, Thanks for running the test. I would be interested if anyone could test on the latest version of 8.1.7

Re: Securing passwords in scripts

2001-07-26 Thread Jon Walthour
). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jon Walthour INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists

Re: how do i explain this ?

2001-07-26 Thread Jon Walthour
Is it possible that under 7.3.2 the optimizer was rule-based (I don't know when CBO was introduced) and that under 8.1.5 it is set to CHOOSE or FIRST_ROWS or ALL_ROWS? Also, is there anyway you could move to 8.1.6 and take advantage of the CURSOR_SHARING parameter? Jon Walthour - Original

RE: catparr.sql

2001-07-26 Thread Jon Walthour
Alex: I run catparr.sql as part of every database creation I do because it provides views that help with performance tuning, such v$bh for buffer cache data. The tables the script creates keep track of the status of all SGA blocks, too. Jon Walthour --- Original Message --- From: Hillman

RE: moving tables to a different tablespace

2001-07-26 Thread Jon Walthour
George: I think you need to do a fromuser/touser export/import here. Jon Walthour --- Original Message --- From: Rusnak, George A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/26/01 1:50:41 PM Hi Group, Please explain what I am doing wrong. 1

RE: Information about User-defined Locks

2001-07-25 Thread Jon Walthour
(+) AND l.id1 = la.lockid(+) AND l.type = 'UL'; Thanks, everyone, for your continued help through this forum. Jon Walthour -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jon Walthour INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538

Re: The number of used cursors?

2001-07-24 Thread Jon Walthour
, but cancelled. This allows most system resources to be released while still allowing the cursor to be reused if need be. There is currently no view that ill provide this information as to how many cursors are really open and in use (i.e., open and not cancelled). Hope this helps. Jon Walthour

Re: Starting Oracle services remotely (Win2K).

2001-07-24 Thread Jon Walthour
Add the computer in the MMC (Microsoft Management Console) and then you can control whatever you want (if you're an Administrator). Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:05 AM Hi all, Has anybody

RE: Input truncated

2001-07-24 Thread Jon Walthour
Andrea: Open up your .sql file in notepad or the like and put a carriage return after the last line so you, in effect, have a final blank line. Jon Walthour --- Original Message --- From: Quaglio Andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/24

RE: what do I tune?

2001-07-24 Thread Jon Walthour
this helps. Jon Walthour --- Original Message --- From: Gene Gurevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/24/01 11:56:29 AM Hi all: I am trying to tune some queries. I ran them all in one stream (in sequence) and then ran them in several (up to 64

RE: Data Modeling opinion? Help?

2001-07-24 Thread Jon Walthour
there to add something, not to detract from it. Just my two cents. Jon Walthour --- Original Message --- From: Grabowy, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/24/01 2:40:24 PM Hmmm...when the spec is changed because of some business

Re: both dbms_stats dbms_utility are gathering stats on sys objects

2001-07-24 Thread Jon Walthour
Well, first of all, you could use dbms_utility.analyze_schema() and analyze all the schemas except SYS ... or couldn't you run dbms_utility.analyze_database() and then dbms_utility.analyze_schema('SYS','DELETE') to remove SYS's stats. What about one of those? Jon Walthour - Original Message

Re: ERROR IN INSTALING PATCH 8.1.6.3.0

2001-07-24 Thread Jon Walthour
, but I've seen installation programs mark all their DLL's read-only for protection. Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 4:45 PM Hi, I am trying to install patch 8.1.6.3.0 on WIN 2 and i am

Re: data files the busiest

2001-07-24 Thread Jon Walthour
to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jon Walthour INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego

Re: select on v$ tables

2001-07-23 Thread Jon Walthour
' order by table_name; Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 5:25 AM hi dba's i need to give select permission to scott user on all v$ tables. is there any role for that. or should i grant the selection

Re: OUTPUT WIDTH..

2001-07-23 Thread Jon Walthour
SVRMGRL is more primitive than SQL*Plus and doesn't have all the formatting capabilities that SQL*Plus does. So, there are no SET commands in SVRMGRL. Why can't you do the query in SQL*Plus just as well? Jon Walthour - Original Message - From: Saurabh Sharma

Re: init.ora

2001-07-23 Thread Jon Walthour
), then there's no way to know other than knowing what parameters are different between the two init.ora files and querying sys.v_$parameter to check those differences. Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 5:20 AM hi

RE: Re: Jobs

2001-07-23 Thread Jon Walthour
Listers: Is it appropriate to be sending one's resume to the mailing list (especially as an attachment)? I don't think so, but have not heard much to that effect thus far. So, maybe it is. Can someone please enlighten me? Jon Walthour --- Original Message --- From: C.S.Venkata Subramanian

RE: get yesterdays date

2001-07-23 Thread Jon Walthour
John: To get yesterday's, simply subtract 1 from sysdate ... like this: select sysdate-1 as yesterday from dual; Jon Walthour --- Original Message --- From: John Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/23/01 7:35:53 AM Anyone know how

RE: RE: Re: Jobs

2001-07-23 Thread Jon Walthour
Jenny, et. al. I'm right there with you on this. I don't have a problem with someone announcing, Hey, I'm looking for a job. Anybody know of positions in blah-blah? What I don't care for the resume attachments and would just ask if it could be discontinued in the future. Jon Walthour

RE: The number of used cursors?

2001-07-23 Thread Jon Walthour
Try this: select sum(value) as open_cursors from sys.v_$sesstat s , sys.v_$statname n where s.statistic# = n.statistic# and n.name = 'opened cursors current'; Jon Walthour --- Original Message --- From: Szecsy Tamas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

RE: Re: init.ora

2001-07-23 Thread Jon Walthour
for finding the init.ora. Jon Walthour --- Original Message --- From: Rodd Holman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/23/01 9:20:54 AM This won't tell you of aditional config files (referenced using ifile= in you init file) but it will tell you

Re: Insufficient priveleges

2001-07-23 Thread Jon Walthour
Sounds like you may be on Windows NT? If that's so, is your ID a member of the ORA_DBA group? If not, add it to the group and reboot the server. Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 3:57 PM I keep

Re: version

2001-07-22 Thread Jon Walthour
Easy. Log in to sqlplus or svrmgrl and run the following query: select * from v$version; The first line will tell you what version of Oracle you are running. Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 12:16

Re: Extent allocation

2001-07-21 Thread Jon Walthour
-at-a-time when, in point of fact, it is much more complex. Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 6:30 PM Jeremiah is right. Depending on the version of the database this is an imaginary problem. I have

Re: Off topic: Linux - NT dual boot

2001-07-21 Thread Jon Walthour
I think this site should provide you with what you need: http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-6.2-Manual/ref-guide/ch-dualboot.h tml Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 7:05 AM Hello listers

Re: Extent allocation

2001-07-21 Thread Jon Walthour
. Sometimes it will also look, as another lister has pointed out, as if Oracle is always going to the biggest datafile in the tablespace. Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 11:45 AM What do you mean

Re: oracle dba and tuning books

2001-07-21 Thread Jon Walthour
Personally, for tuning, I would suggest "Oracle Performance Tuning Tips and Techniques" by Richard Niemac, et. al. In the DBA arena, I've never really found a good book that I could wholeheartedly recommend (sorry, Rachael, I'venot gotten around to readingyour book yet). Jo

Re: sql help

2001-07-21 Thread Jon Walthour
sys.dba_clusters WHERE owner = 'SCOTT' ORDER BY 1 , 2; Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 11:45 AM hi dba's how to find out a users all objects+the tablespaces in which they reside. i

Re: table scan vs idx scan

2001-07-21 Thread Jon Walthour
Prasad: Have you run an explain plan on the the query on tab2 to see what Oracle is doing? Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 12:15 PM Hi dbas we have a situation here. can anybody tell me why

Re: Locally managed tablespaces

2001-07-19 Thread Jon Walthour
Yes, you can make any tablespace a locally-managed tablespace except SYSTEM. What they're saying, I think, is that you can't set up temporary tablespaces and shouldn't set up rollback segments with the AUTOALLOCATE allocation management. Jon Walthour - Original Message - To: Multiple

Re: security problem with 8i

2001-07-18 Thread Jon Walthour
that if it isn't a necessary patch, don't apply it in fear of breaking something else. What do you think? -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 1:26 PM Hi

RE: RE: New Listener Question

2001-07-18 Thread Jon Walthour
Actually, it's called dynamic service registration and you need both the INSTANCE_NAME parameter and the SERVICE_NAMES parameter defined in the init.ora. Then, when the instance starts up, it will register the services it supports with the listener(s). Jon Walthour --- Original Message

Re: RE: New Listener Question

2001-07-18 Thread Jon Walthour
multiple listener address to register with. For example: LOCAL_LISTENER = (ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=db01.acme.com)(PORT=1521)) (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=db02.acme.com)(PORT=1521))(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TC P)(HOST=db03.acme.com)(PORT=1521))) Jon Walthour - Original Message

RE: RE: Problem connecting to a db

2001-07-17 Thread Jon Walthour
Steven: To log on as INTERNAL in svrmgrl on NT, the user must be a member of the ORA_DBA group, not the Administrators group. Is the user in question a member of the ORA_DBA group? -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio --- Original Message --- From: Steven

RE: RE: ORA-24323

2001-07-17 Thread Jon Walthour
your SQLPATH environment variable. -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio --- Original Message --- From: Daemen, Remco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/17/01 10:06:16 AM How about trying c:\mypath\mysql.sql ? Note

Re: Scripts for tuning in 8.1.6

2001-07-17 Thread Jon Walthour
Eca: A great place to start would be bstat/estat or stats pack. After that, I'd pick up Richard Niemac's book on Performance Tuning. Then, I'd round that off with a look at Steve Adams' website http://www.ixora.com.au when you're ready for it (it's pretty advanced). -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA

RE: How to get the list of tables used in a view?

2001-07-13 Thread Jon Walthour
For clarification, a query to SYS.DBA_DEPENDENCIES works all the way back to 7.1.6. -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio From: Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: URGENT ORA-03113

2001-07-12 Thread Jon Walthour
Helen: Try reducing your SHMMAX kernel parameter to under 4GB and see if that works. -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio --- Original Message --- From: Helen rwulfjeq [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/12/01

RE: Re: rollback gen

2001-07-12 Thread Jon Walthour
it. -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio --- Original Message --- From: Nicholas Tufar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/12/01 12:01:36 PM On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, kommareddy sreenivasa wrote: will a ddl statement

RE: how to check BG process in WIN2000

2001-07-12 Thread Jon Walthour
on NT/2000 is from within the database. Hope this helps. -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio --- Original Message --- From: Seema Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/12/01 2:40:58 PM Hi How to check Oracle

RE: unable to allocate 4096 bytes of shared memory - HELP!!!!

2001-07-11 Thread Jon Walthour
, or (2) increase the amount of available shared memory by increasing the value of the initialization parameters SHARED_POOL_RESERVED_SIZE and SHARED_POOL_SIZE. Hope this helps. -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio --- Original Message --- From: John Dunn [EMAIL

RE: ORA-12564: TNS:connection refused

2001-07-11 Thread Jon Walthour
Chris: That's odd because you're not supposed to be able to see this error message. Why don't you turn on tracing and do what you were doing again. Then see what the trace file yields in terms of more information. -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio

RE: Rename alert log

2001-07-10 Thread Jon Walthour
Ron: If you mean, Can the alert log be renamed for archiving purposes while the db is up? the answer is yes. Oracle will just recreate the alert log the next time it needs to write an entry to it. -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio --- Original Message

RE: Date / Time

2001-07-10 Thread Jon Walthour
)) || ' minute(s) and ' || TO_CHAR(ROUND(MOD(((MOD(date1 - date2 - 1, 1) * 24) - (TRUNC(MOD(date1 - date2 - 1, 1) * 24))) * 60, 1) * 60, 1)) || ' seconds.' -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio --- Original Message --- From: Sajid Iqbal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients

Re: Why default domain?

2001-07-10 Thread Jon Walthour
In short, I don't. I use local resolution (as our ONS is frequently down and unreliable) and none of my aliases have domain names attached to them. In my sqlnet.ora, the entries about default domain, etc. are all commented out. -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati

RE: Is this data skewed?

2001-07-09 Thread Jon Walthour
for a histogram. Again, a good candidate is also one that is used in a where clause of a commonly-used query as a literal predicate. Hope this helps. -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author

RE: PX Idle Wait?

2001-07-09 Thread Jon Walthour
Tom: It's a wait that indicates that the Parallel Query slave is waiting for something to do. You can ignore it. -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio --- Terrian, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After looking at the top waits in my databases, I see PX Idle

Re: RE: RULE versus CHOOSE

2001-07-07 Thread Jon Walthour
for data in indexed columns that are used in where clauses as literal predicates where the data is not evenly distributed in the column. These generally make good candidates for histograms. Hope this makes sense. -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Cincinnati, Ohio - Original Message

Re: HP9000/HP-UX/8.1.5 System Move

2001-07-07 Thread Jon Walthour
of right now. See if either of these ideas work for you. -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Cincinnati, Ohio - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 9:40 PM Hi DBA's: We just moved some instances from an HP K220

Re: RULE versus CHOOSE

2001-07-06 Thread Jon Walthour
to do it now IMHO is that, according to Oracle, RULE is going to be desupported in the near future. CHOOSE will soon be the default. Anyone with more experience than I here, please chime in. -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio -- Please see the official ORACLE

RE: RE: RULE versus CHOOSE

2001-07-06 Thread Jon Walthour
can't give you an hard empirical evidence, just anecdotal evidence that, when properly used, histograms do seem to have dramatic impacts. -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio --- Original Message --- From: Terrian, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients

RE: temp resize?

2001-07-03 Thread Jon Walthour
Raghu: After you're done with the rebuild, you should be about to run: ALTER DATABASE database name DATAFILE 'filename' OFFLINE DROP; Then go out to the OS and delete the file. HTH. Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio --- Original Message --- From: Raghu

Re: ALTER SYNONYM?

2001-07-01 Thread Jon Walthour
Rick: No. There is no alter synonym command in SQL (none that I can find or know of, at least). The way you describe is the only way to do it. -- Jon Walthour, OCDBA Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Re: which initSID?

2001-06-25 Thread Jon Walthour
Can't you go to $ORACLE_HOME/dbs and see where the symbolic link is pointing? ... or am I not grasping the full extent of the question? -- Jon Walthour Oracle DBA Computer Horizons Cincinnati, Ohio From: Deshpande, Kirti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego

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