RE: Inserts are taking time !

2002-09-06 Thread chris . w . johnson
Removing the auto-commit sounds good, on condition, of course, that you can afford to lose up to 999 recs in the event of a system crash. You probably may want to write them to a temp storage table first Chris -Original Message- Sent: 06 September 2002 09:28 To: Multiple

RE: Inserts are taking time !

2002-09-05 Thread chris . w . johnson
Marul, I think this question needs to be answered, otherwise impossible to make suggestions... Chris -Original Message- Sent: 05 September 2002 08:18 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Marul, what i fail to understand is: Are you running a batch job of inserting 350,000

RE: Inserts are taking time !

2002-09-05 Thread chris . w . johnson
Mahul, Sounds a bit of a classic problem - optimum performance and availability required with no time given for database admin/reorg work. One idea you might think about is messy but could involve the following: Step 1 Create 2 tables - Prob_table and prob_table_copy Step 2 Create indexes on

RE: Inserts are taking time !

2002-09-04 Thread chris . w . johnson
Marul, It sounds to me like the indexes are going into overflow - this will cause the insert time to increase. I would suggest batching up the inserts, dropping the indexes, running the inserts and re-creating the indexes. Chris -Original Message-From: Marul Mehta

RE: Inserts are taking time !

2002-09-04 Thread chris . w . johnson
Good question, Jared! Perhaps 'overflow' is technically not the correct term to use to decribe this scenario but it seemed to fit the bill sufficiently to mail off a quick one-liner solution without going into great depth. Some of us have work to do, you know ;) To redeem myself I probably

RE: Unix Script Quest : Urgent

2002-08-09 Thread chris . w . johnson
Hannah, I'm no Unix guru either but in this situation I use 'truss', e.g. truss procname HTH Chris -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 09 August 2002 16:08To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Unix Script Quest : Urgent

RE: Unix Q: ksh scripting

2002-07-24 Thread chris . w . johnson
Oops, missed a quotation mark in earlier posting. Should have read: sqlplus -s / EOF | grep -v ^$ | sed -n '$p' select sysdate from dual; exit EOF Regards Chris -Original Message- Sent: 24 July 2002 09:15 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Ross, You are hitting a couple of problems here:

RE: Unix Q: ksh scripting

2002-07-24 Thread chris . w . johnson
Ross, Not sure if original mail got through (looked garbled on Fatcity website) so here goes again You are hitting a couple of problems here: 1 - the 'tail' command needs to be on your first line (sqlplus / EOF | tail -1) 2. However, I suspect this will not give you what you want as

RE: Unix Q: ksh scripting

2002-07-24 Thread chris . w . johnson
Ross, You are hitting a couple of problems here: 1 - the 'tail' command needs to be on your first line (sqlplus / EOF | tail -1) 2. However, I suspect this will not give you what you want as sqlplus prints a blank line at the end. Try the following: sqlplus -s / EOF | grep -v ^$ | sed -n

RE: Unix Q: ksh scripting

2002-07-24 Thread chris . w . johnson
It works for me. Using the following code: #!/bin/ksh #set -x sqlplus / EOF | tail -1 select sysdate from dual; exit EOF I get: $ test.sh JServer Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production $ With -x flag set: $ test.sh + tail -1 + sqlplus nri/nri + 0 /tmp/sh27884.2 JServer Release 8.1.7.0.0 -

RE: Unix Q: ksh scripting

2002-07-24 Thread chris . w . johnson
Title: RE: Unix Q: ksh scripting I also assumed you may want the last line (rather than just sysdate) - grep -v ^$ | sed -n '$p' solution works for last line too :) -Original Message-From: Richard Huntley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 24 July 2002 14:49To: Multiple

RE: UNIX help needed for sed multi-line pattern space

2001-11-15 Thread chris . w . johnson
Title: UNIX help needed for sed multi-line pattern space Alan, Why not use awk? cat filename | awk '{if ( substr($0,length($0),1) == ";") {print " " $0 } else {printf($0) }}' Hope this helps Chris -Original Message-From: Martin, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 15