RE: RE: Silver vs. Gold support

2001-05-11 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: RE: Silver vs. Gold support -Original Message- From: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I am confused now ... Likewise with Oracle, and other vendors - why complicate things needlessly? Life is bad enough as it is, why try to mess things up for other

RE: Export question.

2001-05-11 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
You should check size of table from dba_segments like select segment_name,bytes from dba_segment where segment_name = 'TABLE_NAME'; HTH Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 06:51:17 -0800 OK, To answer a

Re:ODBC Connections Bad?

2001-05-11 Thread dgoulet
Walter, Are ODBC connections, not really. Are Access connections bad, damn good possibility. The problem that I see with ODBC is two fold, 1) there are additional DLL's needed to make it work and 2) there are s many ODBC drivers out there. DLL's are probably the worst of the

End-user DDL?

2001-05-11 Thread Jesse, Rich
So, there I am. An Oracle DBA with a host of MS Access databases that end-users have created to do reporting via linked tables. Fine. All of a sudden, one of these MS Access databases gets corrupted. Guess what? It was also used to enter and hold production data! Eek! I would like to

Intermedia

2001-05-11 Thread Miller, Bryan
Does anyone have instructions or know where to find concise instructions on setting up the Intermedia database objects (i.e. CTXSYS and what not) in an 8.1.6 instance? Like what scripts to run or is there a utility. TIA Bryan M. Miller Junior Oracle DBA IT Operations Telergy Inc. Email: [EMAIL

Re: Fwd: oracle replication

2001-05-11 Thread A. Bardeen
Jared, I'm replying to the list since I don't see Nihar's email address. Multi-master replication would be an ideal candidate for this situation as long as there is a primary key on the table or one or more columns which can be used to simulate a PK. It's always important to implement conflict

RE: RE: Silver vs. Gold support

2001-05-11 Thread Ron Rogers
Look how much you are saving using Silver support. The tell you the 800 # to call for support 24 / 7. You never had that with Bronze support.. You had to pay the phone company to place the call and then you couldn't get any price break for calling in the evening because the Bronze support was

DBSNMP user?

2001-05-11 Thread Smith, Ron L.
I have a user that keeps showing up in my NT database called DBSNMP. The OS user name is SYSTEM. Does anyone know where this user might be coming from? Ron Smith Database Administration [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Smith, Ron

Shared Memory Problem

2001-05-11 Thread Upanesh Patel
Hello, We're Running Oracle 8.1.6.2 on Sun 420R with solaris 7. We have a front-end Siebel 2000 Sales Package. We have about 50 concurrent users and a lot of Siebel Workflow Process (which basically just route the work from one user to the next... so lot of sql it send to the server...) and

Re: 9i Real Application Clusters

2001-05-11 Thread Ron Rogers
Check COMPAQ site for info. They partnered with Oracle to produce Oracle RAC. ROR mª¿ªm [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/11/01 04:25PM Rajnedra, Oracle9i RAC is what we now call Oracle Parallel Server. Oracle9i RAC is still BETA, so there may not be any white papers at the moment. I have looked and

DATABASE COMPARE SCRIPT

2001-05-11 Thread SRAJENDRAN
Title: RE: When to go for ORACLE NAMES Server I am trying to find out the schema differences between two databases. Differences like Column size,column datatype,column data length, indexes,tables,constraints etc. If anyone has a script or know where I can get one that will accomplish this,

RE: Can I partition my primary key constraint index?

2001-05-11 Thread Vadim Gorbounov
Hello, Cherie, Short note first - when you drop primary key the associated index will be dropped too. To partition the index you will create this index first and then alter table table name add constraint index name primary key(column list); HTH Vadim Gorbounov

Re:End-user DDL?

2001-05-11 Thread dgoulet
Rich, As I stated in a previous post, we've got that GOD forsaken tool running around here as well. Now Access is capable of doing it's own DDL in Oracle, but I would not allow it since you get all of these object names with spaces case sensitivity in them. Basically to access them from

Re: Arkeia Backup software

2001-05-11 Thread Oliver Artelt
Arkeia's rman media manager is only aviable for linux. I've asked them, maybe they're too stupid or too lazy to port its interface library to other platforms :-( oli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Does anyone use this? It looks funky and I am interested in any opinions before I try it out. Im

Re: Fwd: oracle replication

2001-05-11 Thread Thater, William
On Fri, 11 May 2001,A. Bardeen scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -Bottom line... if you implement replication without -knowing what you're doing it's only a matter of time -before your luck will run out and you'll have -problems. Keeping your resume up to date would be a -good idea ;) -

Re: Rollback Segments

2001-05-11 Thread sheisey
Don, I hate to be a stick in the mud but there are some things I think need to clarified. 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

RE: Shared Memory Problem

2001-05-11 Thread Behar, Rivaldi
Title: RE: Shared Memory Problem Try to flush shared pool. Rivaldi -Original Message- From: Upanesh Patel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 4:06 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Shared Memory Problem Hello, We're Running Oracle 8.1.6.2

Turning off redo logging

2001-05-11 Thread Vikas Kawatra
If I use NOLOGGING as part of a CREATE TABLE or INDEX - it means that I don't want the creation of these objects logged. However , say I want to turn off the logging for conventional Inserts - through transactions - how can I do that ? vikas -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Re: Why do I still see index partitions when I dropped the

2001-05-11 Thread Cherie_Machler
Ron, Thanks for your kind reply. I'll give it a try. Cherie Ron Rogers

RE: RE: Silver vs. Gold support

2001-05-11 Thread Rachel Carmichael
honey if I am the goddess here then who would I be afraid of exactly? lol From: Mohan, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: RE: Silver vs. Gold support Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 08:50:50 -0800 Is this truly

RE: When to go for ORACLE NAMES Server

2001-05-11 Thread Jesse, Rich
Oh, you wanted to set it up on NT? I CAN'T EVEN GET 8.1.6 ONAMES *INSTALLED*, much less running! I finally just gave up and went with our development HP9000 L-class as the backup server. Erm, one other thing I just remembered: We are running 8.1.6 Networking on the HP. Since my ONAMES is

??? how to interpret query plan

2001-05-11 Thread Janet Linsy
Hi all, I know how to generate the query plan but how to interplate the query plan, really? The only thing I know is if there is a FULL TABLE SCAN, that most probably is bad, need to build an index. However, if the query plan shows me something else, I don't know what to improve. For example,

Re: Intermedia

2001-05-11 Thread A. Bardeen
Bryan, A good start is Note: 101493.1 QUICK START GUIDE: InterMedia Text Installation There are others on metalink: Technical Libraries button Server - Oracle interMedia Text and ConText Option HTH, -- Anita --- Miller, Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have instructions or know

Re: Alert log

2001-05-11 Thread A. Bardeen
Raj, It's new archiving tracing introduced in 8i. If you're on 8.1.6 or later you can control the level of tracing with the LOG_ARCHIVE_TRACE parameter. See the following docs: Note 94055.1 Init.ora Parameter LOG_ARCHIVE_TRACE Reference Note Note 104405.1 ARCH tracefile messages VALIDATE,

RE: Turning off redo logging

2001-05-11 Thread Rajaram
When you are doing a DIRECT LOAD INSERT, I know of a way to disable logging. First what is a Direct LOad Insert, An Insert stmt is said to be a Direct-Load insert when the INSERT INTO SELECT command is used. This option is not available when INSERT INTO VALUES command is used. So, to disable

SQL Tuning question?

2001-05-11 Thread Seema Singh
Hi Gurus When I run one complex query I get the following statistics. Statistics -- 832 recursive calls 4 db block gets 98502 consistent gets 0 physical reads 0 redo size 995 bytes

RE: Intermedia

2001-05-11 Thread Srinagesh Battula
To install Intermedia as a separate product, the db has to be shutdown for oracle exe to be relinked Once the Intermedia product has been installed, the following steps must be performed to configure it as shown below. How to configure Intermedia? Create the CTXSYS tablespace create tablespace

Duplicate DB to different host using RMAN ...help

2001-05-11 Thread Janardhana Babu
Dear List, I have a target database on host A and trying to duplicate to host B and getting the following errors. It seems to me that host B is unable to read the RMAN backup (tape file) created by host A. I tried setting NSR_CLIENT variable at unix level, but without any success. If I take

Duplicate DB to different host using RMAN/Veritas Netbackup ...he

2001-05-11 Thread Janardhana Babu
Dear List, I have a target database on host A and trying to duplicate to host B and getting the following errors. It seems to me that host B is unable to read the RMAN backup (tape file) created by host A. I tried setting NSR_CLIENT variable at unix level, but without any success. If I take

Re: saving billions? / fwd: GE Scales Back Amid Struggle To Connect Suppliers

2001-05-11 Thread Nuno Souto
- Original Message - The $130 billion conglomerate, which boldly predicted last June that it would use Internet technology to cut $10 billion in costs by mid-2002, conceded last week that it will only record $1.6 billion in savings this year. Hmmm, sounds like GE has already spent

Re: Rollback Segments

2001-05-11 Thread Don Granaman
I think that is essentially what I said ... with a lot less detail. I seem to have muddied it up a bit by not saying but only for Oracle7. The specific case in point for the first correction was indeed Oracle7. Later, in the discussion of rollback segments, you say that can't happen, then

error 356 on oracle 7.3.2

2001-05-11 Thread srinivas aradhyula
hai gurus, i am getting the error ORA-00356. the redolog file cannot be applied to the disaster site. i ran trace but could not find any thing. oracle support could not give a proper answer. does any one got this error before. what could be the possible reasons to cause this error. Thanks in

RE: ODBC Connections Bad?

2001-05-11 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
There is a problem with multithreaded OCI programs connecting to an 8.1 database via an Oracle ODBC driver. A long running query can block all other access to Oracle from the same application server. We have some Visual Basic programs running on an IIS webserver which have run into this.

RE: RE: Silver vs. Gold support

2001-05-11 Thread Eric D. Pierce
|| -Original Message- || From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] || Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 10:21 AM || To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L || Subject: RE: RE: Silver vs. Gold support || || || so the support bill we just paid should get refunded because ||

RE: RE: Silver vs. Gold support

2001-05-11 Thread Eric D. Pierce
HELP On 11 May 2001, at 10:41, Mohan, Ross wrote: ... But, even if I leave the happy world of Power Units, Armani suits, and self-tuning apps, I will still stay on this list, just to ask people my favorite question: Are you an idiot? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: Oracle 9i Articles - self tuning, launch delayed to

2001-05-11 Thread Eric D. Pierce
Scott, Agreed, but we were just letting off some steam due to the great ongoing decline of civilization (a decline, which as the old saying goes, started as soon as civilization was invented) as epitomized by the meaningless insanity of reading an article about details that contains no

Shutdown database abort

2001-05-11 Thread CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC)
Hi, To shutdown the database for daily backup, I issue the following commands : 1) shutdown database abort 2) startup database normal 3) shutdown database normal. Is this the recommended procedure, could gurus share your experience ? Thanks. Regds, New Bee -- Please see the

Re: When to go for ORACLE NAMES Server

2001-05-11 Thread Jared Still
Ross, What I was referring to was using Oracle Forms directly on Unix, *not* through iAS. iAS takes care of that stuff for you. Lesse, I tried using forms 5.x on Solaris a couple of years ago, and much to my dismay found that tnsnames.ora was *required* in order to connect to a database.

Re: Shutdown database abort

2001-05-11 Thread Shreepad Vaidya
Hi, Preferably try for 1) Shutdown (normal mode ) .If your application has many user connected tell them to disconnect first else this might take eons. or 1) shutdown immediate . (Remember this will rollback transactions , but for long uncommitted transactions this will take a long

RE: RE: Silver vs. Gold support

2001-05-11 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Eric, Hm, I guess I will have to be a bit sharper next time (too much time spent being nice to people, have to stop that)... yes I was being sarcastic. :) I want to see you, Ross Mohan and lately Paul Drake in a face-off somewhere for posts that are large, esoteric and wonderfully funny

Re: DATABASE COMPARE SCRIPT

2001-05-11 Thread Jared Still
--Boundary-00=_I6J7K4TVKE7DS65S6BN5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Perhaps this will help. If the attachments don't go through, I will resend as part of the message. FYI I haven't used the schema_diff.sql script in awhile, but it

RE: Shutdown database abort

2001-05-11 Thread CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC)
Hi Shreepad, For scheduled batch job, I need to shutdown the database regardless whether there are users connected to the system. Hence I use 1) shutdown abort 2) startup normal 3) shutdown normal. I know if I were to use shutdown immediate or shutdown normal, the database will not be able to

Urgent: Why is system tablespace growing?

2001-05-11 Thread abdul latif
Does anyone know why system tablespace is changing? I'm doing an fromuser touser import and the system tablespace is for some reason is being written to. Here what is being reported: IMP-00017: following statement failed with ORACLE error 1652: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX PK_BF ON PAGE (ID ) P

Re: I want to re-install system, how can I backup and recover?

2001-05-11 Thread Paul Drake
Robert Chen wrote: hi, Because a hacker hackered our system, I have to re-install the solaris. How can I backup the oracle database? Just backup all the physical files? I am not a back up and recover expert. Please help me... Robert, If your Solaris box is truly compromised, a

Re: Shutdown database abort

2001-05-11 Thread Paul Drake
Shreepad Vaidya wrote: Hi, Preferably try for 1) Shutdown (normal mode ) .If your application has many user connected tell them to disconnect first else this might take eons. or 2) shutdown immediate . (Remember this will rollback transactions , but for long uncommitted

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