RE: guidance

2003-09-29 Thread Bellow, Bambi
- From: Connor McDonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 9/27/2003 7:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Cc: Subject: RE: guidance Conversely, on *my* 30min drives to school with my Dad, his advice was: Why don't

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2003-09-29 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: guidance WOW... and with sticks and stones... I'll bet abends were extremely painful and resulted in broken bones! April Wells Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA Corporate Systems Amarillo Texas /\ / \ / \ \ / \/ \ \ \ \ Few people really enjoy the simple pleasure of flying a kite

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2003-09-27 Thread Connor McDonald
Conversely, on *my* 30min drives to school with my Dad, his advice was: Why don't you take the bloody bus! :-) --- Cary Millsap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I say this... Don't confuse learning how to pass the performance tuning exam with learning how to make systems faster. I'll

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2003-09-27 Thread Caffrey, Melanie
Cc: Subject: RE: guidance Conversely, on *my* 30min drives to school with my Dad, his advice was: Why don't you take the bloody bus! :-) --- Cary Millsap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I say

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2003-09-27 Thread Mogens Nrgaard
below! -Original Message- From: Connor McDonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat 9/27/2003 7:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Cc: Subject: RE: guidance Conversely, on *my* 30min drives to school with my Dad, his advice

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2003-09-26 Thread Cary Millsap
How can I say this... Don't confuse learning how to pass the performance tuning exam with learning how to make systems faster. I'll offer you my Dad's advice on this, which he reiterated frequently on our 30-minute drives to and from school: There are two answers to every question your teachers

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2003-09-26 Thread Cary Millsap
until tomorrow for an answer... :) -Original Message- From: Mogens Nørgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: guidance Just talked to Jonathan Lewis from Helsinki. He went through some

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2003-09-26 Thread rgaffuri
-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: guidance How can I say this... Don't confuse learning how to pass the performance tuning exam with learning how to make systems faster. I'll offer you my Dad's advice on this, which he reiterated frequently on our 30-minute drives to and from school

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2003-09-26 Thread Cary Millsap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/09/26 Fri AM 11:29:40 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: guidance How can I say this... Don't confuse learning how to pass the performance tuning exam with learning how to make systems faster. I'll offer you my Dad's

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2003-09-26 Thread Jared . Still
PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/26/2003 08:34 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: guidance I'd be interested to see the sequence of tests that support the hypothesis that disk sorts are about

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2003-09-26 Thread Rognes, Sten
Mogens Nørgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: guidance Just talked to Jonathan Lewis from Helsinki. He went through some of the examples given in the latest issue of Oracle Magazine, and they

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2003-09-25 Thread Guido Konsolke
Hi Nameless, no advice from me than: learn your stuff, be confident in what you know. And as you could see from some other answers: ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI. ;-) Still one of my favorites. Good luck, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24.09.2003 23.04 Uhr List , I am planning to give

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2003-09-25 Thread Naveen Nahata
, September 25, 2003 3:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: guidance In US it is called take the exam while in INDIA it is give the exam . ug need ANSI english . -ak - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday

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2003-09-25 Thread Mark Leith
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/33042.html -Original Message- Stephane Faroult Sent: 25 September 2003 02:45 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L RANT Well, concerning point 4), I am surprised by the resilience of users to often dreadful applications. Perhaps that with age

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2003-09-25 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
. Regards Naveen -Original Message- From: AK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 3:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: guidance In US it is called take the exam while in INDIA it is give the exam . ug need ANSI english . -ak

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2003-09-25 Thread Jesse, Rich
I'll have to wait until tomorrow for an answer... :) -Original Message- From: Mogens Nørgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: guidance Just talked to Jonathan Lewis from Helsinki. He went

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2003-09-25 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
ORACLE-L Subject: Re: guidance Just talked to Jonathan Lewis from Helsinki. He went through some of the examples given in the latest issue of Oracle Magazine, and they were just plain wrong. I can't recall them in detail, but I think one of the questions were which parameter to set

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2003-09-25 Thread Jared . Still
PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET Jesse, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/25/2003 09:34 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: guidance OK, I'll bite: If SORT_AREA_SIZE isn't to be set

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2003-09-25 Thread bulbultyagi
Tanel , good you drew that smiley . I am so worried about this exam that for a minute there I was noting down what you wrote. Thanks for cheering me up though. Here is a question for you Which two statements about row migration are true? (Choose two) A. Row migration is caused by a PCTREE value

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2003-09-25 Thread bulbultyagi
Thanks O'mladen one. No really, thanks , good advice. I am really going hyper about performance tuning exam. The course is so vast, and the exam so expensive. Honestly how can you test a newbie in performance tuning ? shouldn't it be a part of ocm ? Instead of putting that riduculous condition

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2003-09-25 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
I took the 8i Performance exam a little while back and I think my book is by the same author as yours (Jason Couchman). I found that it gave a really good feel for the level of the exam. In fact, I did better on the actual exam than on the practice exams. As far as the many

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2003-09-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Give or take the exam? Makes a big difference ;-) Is this your first OCP module? If not, which other modules have you taken? What are you using as study materials? Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 24,

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2003-09-24 Thread Mladen Gogala
Realx and feel the force. Only if you open your mind, you can master the force. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 5:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of

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2003-09-24 Thread Tanel Poder
Forget the modern tuning skills and when you're asked what shows the best that your database works optimally; 1) Buffer cache hit ratio is 99% 2) Buffer cache hit ratio is 99,999% 3) Buffer cache hit ratio is 99% 4) Users aren't complaining Then answer 3 for sure ;) Tanel. - Original

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2003-09-24 Thread AK
In US it is called take the exam while in INDIA it is give the exam . ug need ANSI english . -ak - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 2:14 PM Give or take the exam? Makes a big difference ;-) Is this

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2003-09-24 Thread Orr, Steve
Is that where questions are answered before they are asked? I need a database like that on the stock market. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 3:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Forget the modern tuning skills and when you're asked what shows the

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2003-09-24 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Just talked to Jonathan Lewis from Helsinki. He went through some of the examples given in the latest issue of Oracle Magazine, and they were just plain wrong. I can't recall them in detail, but I think one of the questions were which parameter to set in order to let a user do large sorts. In

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2003-09-24 Thread Stephane Faroult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List , I am planning to give my 9i performance tuning exam on the first . Any advice you all want to give me ? Pretty nervous about it. Sure would appreciate your guidance. At least something which will disappear from 10g ironical grin -- Regards,

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2003-09-24 Thread Stephane Faroult
RANT Well, concerning point 4), I am surprised by the resilience of users to often dreadful applications. Perhaps that with age I am getting more and more impatient, but in their place I would have flown terminal and keyboard across the room. Perhaps I have memories of a time when machines weren't

Re: RE: guidance for career in US as D.B.A.

2001-03-09 Thread Cyril Thankappan
Hi! Maybe this is off topic, but nevertheless it is relevant to our lives! With economies 'slowing down' globally can each of you please tell what is the 'general IT scene'and Oracle scene in particular, in your country? Thanks - Original Message -- Mandar

Re: RE: guidance for career in US as D.B.A.

2001-03-09 Thread Cyril Thankappan
Hi! Maybe this is off topic, but nevertheless it is relevant to our lives! With economies 'slowing down' globally can each of you please tell what is the 'general IT scene'and Oracle scene in particular, in your country? Thanks - Original Message -- Mandar

RE: guidance for career in US as D.B.A.

2001-03-07 Thread Mandar Ghosalkar
Hi neena Hi All , I am in India . I am an OCP DBA (8i) having three years IT experience ( Oracle( 7.3, 8 ) and Developer2000 , OS - windows NT).Three months back I have joined one of the known company of India. The role of mine in the present job is of DBA. I