RE: UTL_FILE question

2004-01-31 Thread Niall Litchfield
Title: Message I would create a new version of the procedure that took the date from and to as parameters and output a file named appropriately for the date range. You would then just call this 24 times.   Niall -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: Bye...

2004-01-30 Thread nelson flores
drop list ORACLE-[EMAIL PROTECTED] \rm –r FATCITY bye -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 5:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Bye...   bye...

Re: ORA-01722 invalid number

2004-01-30 Thread Joe Testa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 last post Wolfgang Breitling wrote: | My guess would be that company is not a number but because you do | compare it to a number "company=2000" Oracle does an implicit | conversion "to_number(company)=2000" and that fails when it hits a | row where co

Re: ORA-01722 invalid number

2004-01-30 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
My guess would be that company is not a number but because you do compare it to a number "company=2000" Oracle does an implicit conversion "to_number(company)=2000" and that fails when it hits a row where company is not numeric. If my guess is right try company='2000' At 07:59 PM 1/30/2004, you

RE: Bye...

2004-01-30 Thread Paula_Stankus

Re: ** v$log.status

2004-01-30 Thread Hemant K Chitale
LGWR will always write to the redo-logs in a "round-robin" fashion.  So, on completing Group2, it would wait for Group3 to be INACTIVE.  {One exception is when you ADD a new Log Group.  If you added a new log file without specifying a Group#, it would be allocated Group#4, would be set to status

RE: Bye...

2004-01-30 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
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RE: Bye...

2004-01-30 Thread Chris Stephens
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Re: Bye...

2004-01-30 Thread Joe Testa
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Re: ** v$log.status

2004-01-30 Thread A Joshi
Thanks Mladen and David    It is great to get such detailed info. If we take your example of three redo logs then you could have a situation where one is is 'CURRENT'  status and two are in 'ACTIVE' status. As follows :   GROUP# STATUS --  1 ACTIVE 2 CURRENT 3 ACTIVE  Now i

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Igor Neyman
Yes, I'm sure. If in the services control panel you change OracleService starup properties, it does not affect "ORA__AUTOSTART" key in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME0" (and does not change the way the database is started when the service is started). What it does, it changes the valu

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Dharminder Softhome
Igor, What you have mentioned is right i.e. if I set "ORA__AUTOSTART" to "FALSE" for the database in question and set OraceServiceSID startmode to Automatic then as windows starts it starts the OracleSID service (or I should say background services needed for the database to run and I believe I nee

Re: ** v$log.status

2004-01-30 Thread Mladen Gogala
David Hau explained this much better and in much more clear fashion then me. Here is the most important part from the usenet thread he was referring you to: ** This makes sense if you think about where the various v$ dynamic per

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
> -Original Message- > Igor Neyman > > OracleServiceSID starts the database automatically, because by default > the registry key "ORA__AUTOSTART" IN > "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME0" is set to "TRUE". > If you don't want your OracleServiceSID to start the database > automaticall

Re: ** v$log.status

2004-01-30 Thread A Joshi
Mladen,   Thanks for info. So all the dirty blocks need to be written to disk after each checkpoint. After that is done the status becomes 'INACTIVE'. Just that sometimes this is very unpredictable. My question : If a log switch always causes a implicit checkpoint then what is the need for this ex

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Igor Neyman
Dharminder, OracleServiceSID starts the database automatically, because by default the registry key "ORA__AUTOSTART" IN "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME0" is set to "TRUE". If you don't want your OracleServiceSID to start the database automatically, change the value to "FALSE". This way se

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Well, you can't. Windows is different from other systems in that you have these "services" that have to be running in the background. Once the services are running, you can use OEM to shutdown and startup the database. But the service has to be running first. Sorry. Have you looked at OEM Jobs

Re: ** v$log.status

2004-01-30 Thread David Hau
There is a pretty good explanation in this usenet thread: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=OoSWa.122%246d2.89%40newssvr22.news.prodigy.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dv%2524log.status%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3DOoSWa.122%25246d2.89%2540new

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas Day
Dharminder Softhome"To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Dharminder Softhome
Tom, As stated earlier, here the intention is to startup the database using OEM only and without using windows service. As for as I understand if the OracleServiceSID is properly setup and if startmode for the service is set to automatic then it will startup the database automatically once you boot

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to start a dedicated ....

2004-01-30 Thread Dharminder Softhome
, 2004 12:39 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to start a dedicated There is not enough memory to start a dedicated connection. so change the server mode from dedicated to shared, (you can do it change some

Re: ** v$log.status

2004-01-30 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/30/2004 01:24:26 PM, A Joshi wrote: Hi, In view v$log there is a column status. This changes from current (if the redo log is in use) to atcive then to inactive. Documentation says : ACTIVE: The log is active but is not the current log. It is needed for crash recovery. It may be in use f

RE: Changes to RULE based optimizer between Oracle8 and 9i

2004-01-30 Thread Goulet, Dick
Logic says one thing, experience says another.  Question one, are the tables analyzed?  If so, since RBO is deprecated in 9i even setting OPTIMIZER_MODE=RULE will invoke the CBO.   Dick GouletSenior Oracle DBAOracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message-From: Keith Moore [mailto:

Re: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to start a dedicated ....

2004-01-30 Thread Vélez
There is not enough memory to start a dedicated connection. so change the server mode from dedicated to shared, (you can do it change some parameters in init_sid.ora file see oracle documentation).   If you are going to change the server mode to shared and you have two database on the same machine,

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Jared . Still
/30/2004 07:44 AM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:                 Subject:        RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star Dharminder, Changes the service to AutoStart when th

Re: [Fwd: ! READ THIS - Oracle-L@fatcity.com is shutting down as

2004-01-30 Thread Jared . Still
              Subject:        Re: [Fwd: ! READ THIS - [EMAIL PROTECTED] is shutting down as Jared, I think you should ask the maintainers of orafaq.com to update their information about oracle-l as well, it's the first hit in google when you search for oracle-l. Tanel. - Original M

RE: Changes to RULE based optimizer between Oracle8 and 9i

2004-01-30 Thread Bobak, Mark
Title: Message Keith,   To my knowledge, RBO has not changed.  That includes NOT dealing w/ IOT.  So, I think if you execute a query that references an IOT, you'll implicitly invoke the CBO.  That would explain why the plan is changing.  So, did you change a table from heap to IOT when you m

Re: [Fwd: ! READ THIS - Oracle-L@fatcity.com is shutting down as

2004-01-30 Thread Tanel Poder
Jared, I think you should ask the maintainers of orafaq.com to update their information about oracle-l as well, it's the first hit in google when you search for oracle-l. Tanel. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 30,

RE: [Fwd: ! READ THIS - Oracle-L@fatcity.com is shutting down as

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas Day
So, is anyone posting on the new list? I believe that I'm subscribed there but I'm only getting fatcity posts. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Thomas Day INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San

Re: [Fwd: ! READ THIS - Oracle-L@fatcity.com is shutting down as

2004-01-30 Thread Joe Testa
last post(its kinda like first post on slashdot.org) joe Thater, William wrote: Jared Still scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: A repost of a previous message. This is the last day for this address folks. good-bye fatcity my old friend, won't get to talk to you again... -- Bill

RE: [Fwd: ! READ THIS - Oracle-L@fatcity.com is shutting down as

2004-01-30 Thread Thater, William
Jared Still scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: > A repost of a previous message. > > This is the last day for this address folks. good-bye fatcity my old friend, won't get to talk to you again... -- Bill "Shrek" Thater ORACLE DBA "I'm going to work my ticket if I can..." -- Gil

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Dharminder, Changes the service to AutoStart when the machine reboots. As Thomas said, the NT service has to be running for you to be able to start the database. The service will stay running even if you shut the database down. Think of the service as a backgrouond placeholder for the database.

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to start a

2004-01-30 Thread Dharminder Softhome
Thomas, That is the real problem. I can start the database using Windows 2000 OracleServiceSID. But I want to start up the database using OEM only. Thanks. -Original Message- Thomas Day Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 9:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L start a Go to the S

Re: Trigger question

2004-01-30 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/30/2004 09:29:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, I would like to write the code to atrigger that makes insert into another table inly if there is the condition Oracle9i Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals, Ch. 15. - "Using Triggers". There are examples there, too. -- Please se

Re: SV: Date Format: Mystery

2004-01-30 Thread Garry Gillies
Sent by: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: SV: Date Format: Mystery

Re: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to start a

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas Day
Go to the SERVICES and start the service. "Dharminder

Re: SV: Date Format: Mystery

2004-01-30 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Friday, January 30, 2004, 2:24:25 AM, Jesper Haure Norrevang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: JHN> Certainly som conversion is going on here. This might be the reason why JHN> there has been confusion about 7 or 8 bytes in a DATE datatype. That's really interesting, that switch between 7 and 8 bytes. Or

Re: Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-30 Thread Tanel Poder
MAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 2:49 PM > > From: "Jonathan Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2004/01/30 Fri AM 04:09:25 EST > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [Q] wait time /lob d

Re: Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-30 Thread ryan.gaffuri
27;mostly' LOBs? > > From: "Jonathan Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/01/30 Fri AM 04:09:25 EST > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Q] wait time /lob def > > > Tanel, > > Oracle 9-2 SQL Ref manual.

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-30 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi Jonathan, > I don't think the last one appeared until 9.2 > I was wrong about caching only writes, though - > one of the joys of trying to quote everything from > memory. Thank you for this note, I had somehow missed this important improvement. > > The CACHE READS option means that the > LOB

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-30 Thread Jonathan Lewis
It's just one example of my general suggestion that messing about with block sizes rarely has any direct performance benefit. But if you can put something out of the way where it can't do so much damage then the performance of everything else might benefit. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.j

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-30 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Tanel, Oracle 9-2 SQL Ref manual. Lob storage clause. The options for lobs on creation are: CACHE NO CACHE CACHE READS I don't think the last one appeared until 9.2 I was wrong about caching only writes, though - one of the joys of trying to quote everything from memory. The CACHE R

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-29 Thread Barbara Baker
Thanks, Tanel. Yes, I'll be at RMOUG. I'll be in the front row for your presentation. Again, thanks for the info. Barb --- Tanel Poder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Comments below. > > - Original Message - > To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursda

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-29 Thread Tanel Poder
Comments below. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:04 PM > Jonathan / Tanel: > I, however, AM having this problem. Didn't know where > to look till I saw this message. (I love this list!) So do I ;)

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-29 Thread Tanel Poder
: Friday, January 30, 2004 1:04 AM Subject: Re: [Q] wait time /lob def That is an interesting use of an alternate block size Jonathan. "Jonathan Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  01/29/2004 09:59 AM  P

RE: Date Format: Mystery

2004-01-29 Thread Pillai, Rajesh
, January 29, 2004 4:29 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: Date Format: MysteryRajesh,A look into the docs might help you:In date-format SS means seconds as of the seconds 00-59 in a minute.S means seconds since midnight, thus 0 - 86399Compiling the statement the

Re: Date Format: Mystery

2004-01-29 Thread Carel-Jan Engel
Rajesh, A look into the docs might help you: In date-format SS means seconds as of the seconds 00-59 in a minute. S means seconds since midnight, thus 0 - 86399 Compiling the statement the longest part is recocnized first. So: SS give 06 in your first example. gives 20, but twice: 2020

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-29 Thread Tanel Poder
Jonathan, about which version are you talking here? > (You do also have the option in more recent versions > of refining the caching properties so the LOB can be > readcache only, writecache only or read/write cache > or nocache, I believe). I haven't found a way to explicitly set read or write

Re[2]: merge command ???

2004-01-29 Thread Jonathan Gennick
>> Hi, for Merge command, how to specify if matched, not >> to do anything, I tried NULL, not working. Thank you! >> >> MERGE INTO caption c3 >> USING [EMAIL PROTECTED] c1 >> ON (c3.caption_id = c1.caption_id) >> WHEN MATCHED THEN >> NULL -- don't need to do anything when matched! >> WHEN N

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-29 Thread Jared . Still
TECTED]>         cc:                 Subject:        Re: [Q] wait time /lob def There is a note in one of the manuals about nologging lobs (or nocache lob, I forget which) that points out that the "unrecoverable SCN" for file that holds the LOB has to be updated in the control file whenever the

Re: merge command ???

2004-01-29 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Can't do it (until version 10) 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 appearances: Jan 29th 2004 UKOUG Unix SIG - v$ and x$ Marc

RE: UNION ALL Query: Riddle

2004-01-29 Thread Jared Still
If what you are describing is completely accurate, ( no DML, change S_A_S fixes the problem ) then it would appear you have encountered a bug. A search on MetaLink is in order, and failing that, you need to open a TAR. Jared On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 04:59, Wendry wrote: > I have the same problem li

RE: [Fwd: ! READ THIS - Oracle-L@fatcity.com is shutting down as of

2004-01-29 Thread Goulet, Dick
RIP old friend! Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L A repost of a previous message. This is the last day for this address folks. --- [EMAIL

Re: [Q] sql loader problem while load record more than one line???

2004-01-29 Thread Krishna Kakatur
You may want to add CONTINUEIF clause and try the load again ... infile 'data.asc' CONTINUEIF NEXT (1) != '"' into table test ... For complete reference, see this URL: http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96652/ch05.htm#1005518 -- Thanks, Krishna ~~

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-29 Thread Jonathan Lewis
There is a note in one of the manuals about nologging lobs (or nocache lob, I forget which) that points out that the "unrecoverable SCN" for file that holds the LOB has to be updated in the control file whenever the LOB is updated. If you actually have a performance problem because of this - i.e

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-29 Thread Barbara Baker
Jonathan / Tanel: I, however, AM having this problem. Didn't know where to look till I saw this message. (I love this list!) I've yet to capture the sid (and therefore track back to the table) where the 'direct path write' occurs. Definitions for the tables were supplied by the vendor. When I l

RE: FW: pl/sql array processing?

2004-01-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
There is no simple way, What is important for you ... value of the element or the index of the element in the pl/sql table? Looks like the index of the element is important for you. Tell us again what is the problem? is it that you have too many array elements? where does the time goes? it sho

RE: What to look for in STATSPACK report

2004-01-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
27-01-04 -0800, you wrote: >Anjo > >So what was the deal with oraperf.veritas.com if you don't mind my asking? >I subscribed to it sometime before Christmas, but when I went to use it a >week or so ago, it had disappeared and I had to (re)subscribe to >www.oraperf

RE: [Q] sql loader problem while load record more than one line??

2004-01-29 Thread dba1 mcc
Thank you for answer. I did not said clearly. Most records are fine. ONly some records have this problem. re-transfer from PC to UNIX will not fix problem. --- Nikhil Khimani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a hack but ... you might want to look into > ftp-ing a file to U

RE: measuring TPM

2004-01-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
And these would be CPM (commits per minute) and RPM (rollbacks per minute). If you really want a transaction, you have to code it yourself, otherwise all you can get is CPM and RPM. If your transactions_per_minute ( or commits_per_minute) is low use this handy script to bump it up. create tabl

Re: [Q] sql loader problem while load record more than one line???

2004-01-29 Thread Mladen Gogala
So, why don't you use migration workbench, when it's available? On 01/29/2004 10:34:27 AM, dba1 mcc wrote: We are migrate from MS Access to ORACLE(9.2.0.4) use SQL*Loader. The problem we have are some of MS Access dump records (ASCII output) have to several lines(EOL before end of record). For e

RE: [Q] sql loader problem while load record more than one line??

2004-01-29 Thread Nikhil Khimani
This is a hack but ... you might want to look into ftp-ing a file to Unix, run a 'tr' or 'sed' to get rid of the EOL character. Thanks, Nikhil -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 10:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We are migrate from MS Access to ORACLE

Re: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-29 Thread Yechiel Adar
I really do not understand all this topic. I just sent subscribe, reply to the message that I received and that's all. Oh, yes, I had to update the e-mail address in my favorites. Another minute down the drain. Jared has enough work to do, without having to what is a minimal effort from you. Yech

RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-29 Thread babette . turnerunderwood
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RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-29 Thread Rachel Carmichael
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RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-29 Thread babette . turnerunderwood
28 12:25 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!! > > > may i just say - this resource is worth the minimal effort it took > > -Original Message- >

RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-29 Thread Rachel Carmichael
004-01-28 12:25 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!! > > > may i just say - this resource is worth the minimal effort it took > > -Original Message- >

Re: [Q] wait time on stat

2004-01-29 Thread M Rafiq
Mladen, Here I will humbly disagree with you. It is not fault of Windows but the person who created the database and defined tiny size log files while creation. If he used custom database option he can define whatever size he wants. These options are same for both Windows and Unix. Regards Ra

RE: UNION ALL Query: Riddle

2004-01-29 Thread Wendry
I have the same problem like you Rajesh, the query also gives different rowcount each time executed eventhough there's no one updating base tables, in my opinion it's because of the sorting operation (your group by clause). In my case after I remove some group functions, the result goes well. Also

Re: [Q] wait time on stat

2004-01-29 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! > Do you have any LOBs defined with > the nocache nologging attribute ? This was what I initially thought would be the problem, but then I thought, in case of nocache lobs you should see direct path writes (lob) a lot... Tanel. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.

RE: [Q] wait time on stat

2004-01-29 Thread Niall Litchfield
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mladen Gogala > Sent: 29 January 2004 01:54 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Re: [Q] wait time on stat > > > Defaulty Windows installation usually cr

Re: [Q] wait time on stat

2004-01-29 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Do you have any LOBs defined with the nocache nologging attribute ? 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 appearances: Jan 29th 2

RE: [Q] wait time on stat

2004-01-28 Thread Bobak, Mark
"Defaulty Windows installation..." Hehehe;-) -Original Message- From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 1/28/2004 8:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Cc: Subject:Re: [Q] wait time on stat Defaulty Windows installation usual

Re: [Q] wait time on stat

2004-01-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
Defaulty Windows installation usually creates log files of 20M. The person who posted the problem explicitely mentioned Windows platform. Size of 20M is so small that the database will start to checkpoint like crazy when you start using it for real. The number that I gave is my rule of thumb. It'

Re: [Q] wait time on stat

2004-01-28 Thread Jared Still
How did you determine the size of the logs? Or are you just guessing that they are significantly less than 250m? Could just be a very busy database that needs redo and controlfile on faster disk. Jared On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 12:24, Mladen Gogala wrote: > Increase redo logs to 250M each. You're c

RE: UNION ALL Query: Riddle

2004-01-28 Thread Jared Still
gt; Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 2:29 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Re: UNION ALL Query: Riddle > > > Q: What does "different results" mean? > > Different row count? &g

Re: measuring TPM

2004-01-28 Thread Daniel Fink
I would say that it depends on the system. If we are talking about a stock trading system, then TPM is very important as is transaction-time-to-completion. For a data warehouse, this may be absolutely meaningless. Of course, does TPM describe the width of the database pipe or it's depth? In the fir

RE: merge command ???

2004-01-28 Thread Bobak, Mark
Janet, How about something like: Insert into caption c3 (c3.CAPTION_ID, c3.CAPTION_NAME, c3.VISIBILITY_ID, c3.MOD_DATE, c3.MOD_USER) Select c1.CAPTION_ID, c1.CAPTION_NAME, c1.VISIBILITY_ID, c1.MOD_DATE, c1.MOD_USER >From [EMA

RE: measuring TPM

2004-01-28 Thread Thater, William
Daniel Fink scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: > If that is what this is for, the formula is very simple. TPM = x*42 > where x is a number sufficient to justify the really cool hardware > system you want. as a serious question, is TPM a valid measurement for a database? or are there other

Re: [Q] wait time on stat

2004-01-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
Increase redo logs to 250M each. You're checkpointing. On 01/28/2004 03:09:26 PM, dba1 mcc wrote: WE have ORACLE 9.2.0.3 database run under Win2000. I run "statspack" and found "Top 5 timed event". Look like "control file parallel write " and "redo file parallel write " take lots time. How to

RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-28 Thread babette.turnerunderwood
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RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-28 Thread Rachel Carmichael
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RE: measuring TPM

2004-01-28 Thread Charlie_Mengler
I now have a cronjob which runs hourly which contains: #!/usr/bin/ksh SID=MWH HOST=`uname -n` . /u01/home/oracle/oracle.${HOST}.${SID}.env ACCESS=`cat /home/oramwh/sql/ctrl/${SID}/bcm` sqlplus << EOF ${ACCESS} set pause off echo on term on verify on serveroutput on insert into sysstats select sy

RE: UNION ALL Query: Riddle

2004-01-28 Thread Pillai, Rajesh
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RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-28 Thread babette.turnerunderwood
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RE: measuring TPM

2004-01-28 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey Charlie, I made a DBMS_JOB here that runs this procedure every 5 minutes: CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE QT_TX_MONITOR AS -- 06/17/2001 REJesse Created. v_value NUMBER; BEGIN SELECT SUM(VALUE) INTO v_value FROM V$SYSSTAT WHERE NAME IN ('user commits','us

Re: measuring TPM

2004-01-28 Thread Daniel Fink
If that is what this is for, the formula is very simple. TPM = x*42 where x is a number sufficient to justify the really cool hardware system you want. Mladen Gogala wrote: > On 01/28/2004 12:34:26 PM, "Post, Ethan" wrote: > > Charlie, > > > > What is the perceived relevance of gaining this infor

RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-28 Thread Rachel Carmichael
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RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-28 Thread babette.turnerunderwood
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2004-01-28 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
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Re: measuring TPM

2004-01-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/28/2004 12:34:26 PM, "Post, Ethan" wrote: Charlie, What is the perceived relevance of gaining this information? The information is necessary so that manager and director can make a lovely excell spreadsheet for the VP, who will, in turn, insert it into a slide show for the CIO. -- Mladen

RE: measuring TPM

2004-01-28 Thread Post, Ethan
Charlie, What is the perceived relevance of gaining this information? You would be much better off correlating statistics such as overall non idle wait time and database workload (# Users, Ion's/CPU etc...) to actual business functions the database is performing (invoices, sales orders, etc...).

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2004-01-28 Thread Paula_Stankus
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2004-01-28 Thread Goulet, Dick
that painful anyway.   Dick GouletSenior Oracle DBAOracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 12:09 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!You

Re: measuring TPM

2004-01-28 Thread Jared . Still
My reply would be something along the lines of "A transaction as you would like it to be measured is  best measured in the application.  I can provide you with IO per minute, broken down into reads and writes, and a number of other statistics." What they are asking for cannot be measured from d

RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-28 Thread Jared . Still
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2004-01-28 Thread Tony Johnson
Logminer has been of use in looking at past activity as far as INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE and then COMMIT;. Looking at a day of lofs we have been able to measure activity to all of our tables, indexes and queues and as been very helpful in giving us infor we need for future capacity planning. -Or

RE: measuring TPM

2004-01-28 Thread Goulet, Dick
Charlie, I use the following to determine this: EXEC SQL SELECT ROUND(VALUE/((SYSDATE-STARTUP_TIME)*1440),1) INTO :tp FROM V$SYSSTAT, V$INSTANCE WHERE NAME='user commits'; Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Mes

RE: measuring TPM

2004-01-28 Thread Niall Litchfield
Check out 'user commits','user rollbacks' and (maybe) 'user calls' in v$sysstat. These get collected by statspack so you can plot a chart over time. Niall > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 January 2004 15

Re: measuring TPM

2004-01-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
Well, as you are well aware of, you cannot measure without impacting. I know of the following methods: 1) Turn on auditing, count all transactions from dba_audit_trail table within a day and divide by the number of minutes in 9 hours. That will give you an average TPM number during the working

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