RE: help in SqlLoader; NULLIF function

2001-05-09 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: help in SqlLoader; NULLIF function see answer below > -Original Message- > From: Venkatesh, Sankar (CAP, GEFA) > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Using Solaris and Oracle 8.1.7 > > What is the syntax of NULLIF condition in "sqlldr ", when we > have multiple > null conditi

RE: looking for export with dynamic compress script on VMS

2001-05-09 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Export to NLA0: would do 100% compression. Nope, I'm afraid that you can not use pipes in VMS. You may be able to create a permanent mailbox and write a program that would compress it and forward it through the network, but it would be an extremely complicated thing. My advice is to export it to

RE: Anybody Using Veritas Database Edition

2001-05-09 Thread Behar, Rivaldi
Title: RE: Anybody Using Veritas Database Edition Agree. After using Quick IO the performance is better. But I still have one problem : autoextend datafile and also extending a datafile manually is not working for datafile using quick IO. Rivaldi -Original Message- From: Vijay R

Re: Anybody Using Veritas Database Edition

2001-05-09 Thread Vijay R
No. The main disadvantage is you need to shut the database to convert the database files to quick I/O files and you can not grow quick I/O files online. In other words, you can have database file with autoextend on. We haven't enabled cached quick I/O. - Original Message - To: "Multiple

Terminal Emulation Sw.

2001-05-09 Thread DKTS
Hi listers... Could you recomend me some good free (not shareware) terminal emulation software for Windows? Something little better than windows telnet.exe? Thanks in advance -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: DKTS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City N

RE: Optimizer and block size changes = trouble...

2001-05-09 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Nuno (and list), Changing 'optimizer_index_caching' and 'optimizer_index_cost_adj' does seem to inhibit cursor sharing under 8i. You may want to try the following test under 8.0 and see if it is any different. SQL> create table t as select * from dual; Table created.

RE: shutdown immediate

2001-05-09 Thread Leyden, Joseph
Title: RE: shutdown immediate I am at Oracle 8.0.5 AIX 4.3.2 should I upgrade my Oracle db to get a good shutdown immediate? -Original Message-From: Behar, Rivaldi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 2:46 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubjec

LSNRCTL Password

2001-05-09 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Can anyone tell me what the syntax is to start, stop, or reload the listener when there is a password on it? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Smith, Ron L. INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San

RE: Cool way to crash an Oracle database, any time, any place

2001-05-09 Thread Tim Sawmiller
Not as pissed off as the time he trusted me with the root password, and I absent mindedly ran this command from the root partition: chown * >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/09/01 03:16PM >>> On Wed, 9 May 2001,Mohan, Ross scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: ->make exponentially growing files and

RE: Terminal Emulation Sw.

2001-05-09 Thread Ed Maurer
look at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ HTH Ed Maurer > -Original Message- > From: DKTS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:26 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Terminal Emulation Sw. > > > Hi listers... > > Could you recomend me s

never mind -- Re: ??? Again: run unix script on NT

2001-05-09 Thread Leslie Lu
--- Leslie Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for all those who answered my question. > > I just installed uwin. I'm running a script > upgrade_db.ksh. In the script, there is someting > like: > > function check_login { > > >

RE: never mind -- Re: ??? Again: run unix script on NT

2001-05-09 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: never mind -- Re: ??? Again: run unix script on NT Look in ORACLE_HOME\bin for the correct name of the SQL*Plus executable. Be sure to use the line command version (the one WITHOUT a W at the end of the file name.) Depending on the version of Oracle, it could be SQLPLUS, or PLUS80,

RE: LSNRCTL Password

2001-05-09 Thread Rajaram
If password protection is being used, you must set the password before you can issue the STOP command. When using passwords for the listener, you cannot issue the STOP command at the operating system level because the password can only be set within the lsnctrl utility. There are two types of p

RE: Hey, looks like MS got .NET to work!!

2001-05-09 Thread Eric D. Pierce
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RE: Hey, looks like MS got .NET to work!!

2001-05-09 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Hey, looks like MS got .NET to work!! > -Original Message- > From: Eric D. Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Here is Elvis Presley's (suitably cheesy) rendition: > >    http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/metal/114/spanishlive.ra > > From:     Jacques Kilchoer <

Re: consistency in cost?

2001-05-09 Thread Rachel Carmichael
woo hoo! Bambi's back and we've got her! :) welcome home, you've been missed >From: "Bambi Bellows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: consistency in cost? >Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 14:31:01 -0800 > >Tim -

RE: Optimizer and block size changes = trouble...

2001-05-09 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Hi Steve, I tested it on Oracle 8.1.6.3 (Solaris 2.6). Parse_calls gets incremented every time the sql gets executed but the version_count continues to be 1. Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 6:15 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Nuno (an

Re: Rollback Segments

2001-05-09 Thread Don Granaman
I can think of no practical(?) use except for parallel server. In parallel server an instance will aquire private rollback segments specified in init.ora. If none (or too few) are specified, it will aquire public rollback segments. Public rollback segments are, in my opinion, only useful in

RE: username

2001-05-09 Thread Seley, Linda
I suppose you could but I'd rather not touch the default views when a simple join in my query can give me the same results Linda -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L why dont you go to that view and edit that sql then it

Re: Oracle books

2001-05-09 Thread SuzyV
Haven't used my copy much either. Agree that it's hard to read, maybe because it's organized such that it's difficult to find things in haste, or there isn't enough white space, or the font bugs me, I dunno :-) Rachel Carmichael wrote: > > hm, I'm surprised you don't like the DBA Handbook... I

FW: help in SqlLoader; NULLIF function

2001-05-09 Thread Venkatesh, Sankar (CAP, GEFA)
Thanks Jacques Your suggestion worked perfectly for me. The following is the exact translation in my case (ditto of your suggestion). TerminationDate POSITION(58:63) "decode (:TerminationDate, '00', NULL, '99', NULL, '731014', NULL, to_date (:TerminationDate, 'YYMMDD') )"

??? Again: run unix script on NT

2001-05-09 Thread Leslie Lu
Thank you for all those who answered my question. I just installed uwin. I'm running a script upgrade_db.ksh. In the script, there is someting like: function check_login { # Login to the database using the variables provided ##

RE: Hey, looks like MS got .NET to work!!

2001-05-09 Thread Eric D. Pierce
Jacques, Thanks for the great tip, you are right, Humperdinck is *vastly* superior! http://www.interhit.com/engelbertlp.html "THE DANCE ALBUM" http://www.interhit.com/engelbertlpcredits.html - l'canta: http://www.interhit.com/spanisheyes.ram - ("spanglish" version): http://www.i

Re: consistency in cost?

2001-05-09 Thread Bambi Bellows
Tim -- Oh, sure, bring LOGIC into it. Truth of the matter is that Oracle is trying to phase out the last vestiges of v5, and that's never EVER going to happen. Logic be dammed! Mwahahahaha! Bambi. --Original Message- Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 05:01:06 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of

Re: Cool way to crash an Oracle database, any time, any place

2001-05-09 Thread Jared Still
yeah? Well how do you like this? while : do mkdir ./t cd ./t done ;) Jared On Wednesday 09 May 2001 09:00, Norrell, Brian wrote: > You want to crash the server? On any Unix box, execute the following four > commands: > > echo './t.sh &' > t.sh > echo './t.sh &' >> t.sh > chmo

Re: LSNRCTL Password

2001-05-09 Thread Jared Still
I see someone has already given you instructions on how to use a password with listener.ora. Just thought I might add that they are fairly useless, as you *cannot* prevent someone with dba group privileges on another node of the network from shutting down your listener. They won't be able to st

Re: Pl/sql loop assistance

2001-05-09 Thread Jared Still
I'll have to disagree with not using commit within a loop. If you identify what a transaction is within your code, and write it accordingly, using commit where appropriate, you will not get ORA-1002 or ORA-1555, at least not due to your own code. I've written a number of routines to do just t

Re: select for update...

2001-05-09 Thread Jared Still
Dick explained the locks, I'll talk a little about how I've used it and seen it used. In an user application, doing a SELECT FOR UPDATE and letting the user update the data in the form at his or her leisure and then COMMIT the data is very bad practice. Sounds kind of like Designer 2000 in that

Re: Terminal Emulation Sw.

2001-05-09 Thread Jared Still
If what you need is terminal emulation, such as VT100, etc, goto www.download.com and do a search for terminal software. I have used Tere Term Pro a number of times and am quite happy with it. There is another piece of software on the net that that will let it use SSH. Here are some links, ho

RE: Password expiry bug 8.1.6

2001-05-09 Thread sinardyxing
Hi all, I tried without word bear is not working too I tried password that contain numbers, special characters, not common english word the ORA-00988 still there :( Sinardy -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2001 9:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L sinardy,

ORACLE startup

2001-05-09 Thread Liu Te Hua
hello... I wonder, why I have to startup my ORACLE database manually..(using SVRMGRL then STARTUP). I checked the NT services and oracle TNS listener plus services for ORCL are already automatic. need answers. thank you. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Auth

Re: Oracle books

2001-05-09 Thread Rachel Carmichael
can you imagine how BIG that book would be if the font was larger??? >From: SuzyV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Oracle books >Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 16:21:01 -0800 > > >Haven't used my copy much either

RE: Hey, looks like MS got .NET to work!!

2001-05-09 Thread Rachel Carmichael
you blow your nose at? Man, the quality of friendly insults on this list has risen dramatically :) >From: Jacques Kilchoer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Hey, looks like MS got .NET to work!! >Date: W

Re: Terminal Emulation Sw.

2001-05-09 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I'm using TeraTerm Pro with the SSH add-on... works beautifully for us www.download.com >From: Jared Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Terminal Emulation Sw. >Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 18:27:21 -0800 >

Re: Cool way to crash an Oracle database, any time, any place

2001-05-09 Thread Rachel Carmichael
why do I get an image of you sticking your tongue out at Brian? :) >From: Jared Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Cool way to crash an Oracle database, any time, any place >Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 17:

RE: Optimizer and block size changes = trouble...

2001-05-09 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Waleed, I ran the test below under 8.1.6.0 on NT using SQL*Plus and I would have expected the same results under 8.1.6.3 on Solaris. Do you possibly have a small shared pool with very quick reuse? @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/

RE: OT: Off Topic - Blah, Blah, Blah...

2001-05-09 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Just another viewpoint: The Oracle server newsgroup does have some very knowledgeable contributors - eg Jonathan Lewis and members of Oracle's own ODBC group amongst probably others. Also, the lazydba list which (if I remember correctly) started this comparison is distinct to the newsgroup. Reg

RE: ??? Again: run unix script on NT

2001-05-09 Thread Rajesh Dayal
Give full path of sqlplus executable. eg. BAD_LOGIN=`d:/orant/sqlplus -s ${SQLUSER}/${PW}@${DB} HTH, Rajesh -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 2:36 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thank you for all those who answered my question. I just installed uwin.

RE: Optimizer and block size changes = trouble...

2001-05-09 Thread Shevtsov, Eduard
Hi Steve, Waleed on 8.1.6.0 Solaris I've got the same results as Waleed has. Shared pool is huge, about 250M and user activity is low at the moment (users haven't woken up yet :) Is it NT-specific? Regards, Ed > > > Hi Waleed, > > I ran the test below under 8.1.6.0 on NT using SQL*Plus

comp.oracle.databases.server vs ORACLE-L: deathmatch

2001-05-09 Thread Paul Drake
I have to say that the newsgroup comp.oracle.databases.server is much more NT Friendly. (IOUG: Did anything happen from IOUG concerning the ORACLE-NT-L mailing list?) Not just Jonathan Lewis, but Sybrand Baker, Howard Rodgers, Ricky Sanchez put out some pretty good stuff. I'd post to the ORACLE-L

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