Re: OT: Perl question

2001-06-21 Thread Jared Still
Nice job of investigating the problem. Glad you got it working. Installing Perl is much easier after the first 3 or 4 times. :) Jared On Monday 18 June 2001 01:45, Nguyen, Long (ITS, Limestone Ave) wrote: Hi Jared, Thank you for your advice. Without setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH before the

Storing wait event information via after logoff trigger

2001-06-21 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Hi, We have an application that connects to our DB via ODBC runs a query and disconnects. This query could do any type of DML and is triggered off from external interfaces (eg radio and scales). I would like to capture the wait event information and wonder if anyone has written a DB after

Re: OT: Working from home

2001-06-21 Thread Jared Still
Unless I disremember, that is from Fred Brooks 'The Mythical Man Month' and referred to writing an IBM OS ( forget which one ), and was assembly code. This was for fully documented and unit tested code. And it was 6 lines, not 10. :) Jared On Monday 18 June 2001 05:00, Boivin, Patrice J

Re: OT: Working from home

2001-06-21 Thread Jared Still
I have fond memories of writing 1300 lines of code in one 12 hour day a few years back. This was a front end to a DOS version of RCS ( or something like RCS ) and it was for versioning an entire set of application code. Written in a compiled language called 'Force'. It even worked when I was

RE: Yahoo!

2001-06-21 Thread Guy Hammond
http://www.sun.com/950523/yahoostory.html This is an interview with the founders of Yahoo from back in '95. It's a fascinating read, if only to reflect on how much things have changed over the last few years. g -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 9:21 PM To: Multiple

RE: Re[2]: LDAP

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
Oh my, iPlanet has about...oh...TWELVE THOUSAND products, most of them compete with something of Oracle's.. The guys i have met from there are fairly sharp... -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 6/20/2001 6:56 PM That's interesting, and something I

RE: Re[2]: Yahoo!

2001-06-21 Thread Mark Leith
It's pronounced as Yah'-who as in the wild shout of excitement.. There are ads on the telly over here for Yahoo.. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 08:18 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L So the website would be pronounced as ...? :) -Original Message-

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-21 Thread Daemen, Remco
I disagree ! The dollar is very strong these days. Maybe a few years back the cost of living was cheaper in Europe, but now things are different. I was on holiday in the States last year ... my bank account still suffers :). And now the dollar is even stronger than it was back then.

Re: Auditing

2001-06-21 Thread Saurabh Sharma
i think u can use triggers such kind of auditing. create aud$ table with one more column, and try updating the column as soon user fires some sql. this is just a thought. could find another opinion. saurabh - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: LDAP

2001-06-21 Thread Guy Hammond
iPlanet are what's left of Netscape Corporation's server products group, after they were eaten by the unholy alliance of Sun and AOL. They had an application server (Netscape App Server, nee Kiva plus LiveWire) which used a mysterious combination of C++ and JavaScript to create AppLogic(tm). It

Ora 1552 during startup of DB

2001-06-21 Thread Libal, Ivo
Hello we have a problem with a database: The database cannot start up and we get: ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1 ORA-01552: cannot use system rollback segment for non-system tablespace 'INDEX' Is there any chance to create new rollback segment when the database is mounted

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-21 Thread Guy Hammond
Working for the govt., you're trading ca$h money for job security. Business is risky, but you get rewarded for taking that risk - if the company goes bankrupt or has to make you redundant, then your nice paycheck isn't getting cut that month. I can't see the govt. going bankrupt anytime soon

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-21 Thread Mark Leith
I disagree with your disagreement :) I would still say - like Lee - that the cost of LIVING over in the states is far less than over here - maybe not in the Netherlands (But I'd be shocked if it wasn't). House prices, taxes, food bills, clothes, petrol, car prices.. The list could go on and

RE: Tuning in VXFS Quick I/O

2001-06-21 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Your point Taken . Will Check with Higher Stripe Size Whenever possible . NOT Using Parallel Query Option (PQO) in the Application Thanks again -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:41 AM To: VIVEK_SHARMA Subject:

Re: large SORT_AREA_SIZE usefullness

2001-06-21 Thread Danisment Gazi Unal (Unal Bilisim)
Thank you Greg, We can discuss itrprof results in this great list. Greg Moore wrote: all the quries which used the larger sort_area_size actually ran slower Why don't you simply run a trace for the small sort_area_size, do the same with the larger sort_area_size, and then submit the

RE: Auditing

2001-06-21 Thread Anand
This will not work as you can't create triggers on sys objects. So tell me the way how i should create triggers on aud$. -Original Message- Sharma Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 2:56 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L i think u can use triggers such kind of auditing. create

Re: How to do a bitwise OR from SQL*Plus

2001-06-21 Thread Connor McDonald
AND: select bitand(23,45)+0 from dual; OR: select 23+45-(bitand(23,45)+0) from dual; XOR: select 23+45-2*(bitand(23,45)+0) from dual; hth connor --- Orr, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, for the alpha geek award of the day... Who can tell me how to do a bitwise or from SQLPlus -- NOT

RE: New system, cart blanche, what to buy (9i Launch in the UK)

2001-06-21 Thread Mark Leith
Where can I find out more about this? Who cares about the launch - I'm up for the BBQ :) As long as it doesn't RAIN!! Is it at the Oracle UK HQ? -Original Message- Lee - lerobe Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 03:31 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Any other UK based listers

RE: OT - interviewing your superior

2001-06-21 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Do you require the OCP certification? What are your qualifiactions? How many bytes are there, exactly, in a kilobyte? What are hexadecimal numbers? Do you have test servers to try things before implementing them on production systems? Are these test systems the same size as the production

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-21 Thread Mark Leith
SHOCK Is this the recipe GOD I see before me? G /SHOCK Come on Guy, where is our Friday Recipe? Good to see you back on the list! Mark -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:18 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Working for the govt., you're trading ca$h money

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-21 Thread Jenner Mike
Contract rates are lower as well as permanent salaries and there is none of the 'extra job security' applied to contractors. However I work close to home and the out of hours requirements are minimal, so I'm happy. - Mike. -Original Message- Sent: 20 June 2001 17:37 To: Multiple

RE: Thanks for all the responses

2001-06-21 Thread Mark Leith
Give her a job :) -Original Message- Gennick Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:41 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Wednesday, June 20, 2001, 5:56:12 PM, Karen wrote: Sac I believe the reason that I passed the tests is Sac because I Sac have personal Oracle on my home computer

Re: How to do a bitwise OR from SQL*Plus

2001-06-21 Thread Vladimir Begun
On Jun 20, 2001 at 01:50:48PM, Orr, Steve wrote: OK, for the alpha geek award of the day... Who can tell me how to do a bitwise or from SQLPlus -- NOT PL/SQL? Isn't there an internal undocumented bitand function and how could you use that to implement a bitor function from SQL?

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-21 Thread Jenner Mike
Mark, You are correct cost of living in states is less than UK. However the first on your list of examples is House prices. Generalisations can be made in all arguments but house prices differ hugely depending on location. ie, In UK north/south/London house price difference. I lived in NJ

Totally OT -- big foot tracks found in northern Ontario

2001-06-21 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
This is bizarre, I thought this was a 70s fad. I heard this on CBC radio last night. Natives yesterday reported big foot tracks found in northern Ontario. 14 inches long, 5 inches wide, 6 feet apart. The band chief said that they were definitely not bear tracks, and that the person who

RE: New system, cart blanche, what to buy (9i Launch in the UK)

2001-06-21 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Go to the following link For more information and to register go to http://www.oracle.com/uk/start/9iopenday or call 01252 771499 Might see you there !! -Original Message- Sent: 21 June 2001 11:36 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Where can I find out more about this? Who

RE: OT - interviewing your superior(fun question)

2001-06-21 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
How about: Are you ISO9000 certified? : ) Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique Maritimes Region, DFO

Problem DB 8.1.6 64 bit on AIX

2001-06-21 Thread PPU
Hi fans, I 've got problem during installation of DB 8.1.6 on AIX platform (version 4.3.3). It ran succesfully with 32 bit version. Here is the error message : Linking Oracle 8I Enterprise Edition Error in invoking target install or makefile

RE: Thanks for all the responses

2001-06-21 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Actually, if you sent a simple e-mail with three letters in it: OCP, you would start a new thread. : ) Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services technologiques Informatics Branch

Probably stupid question about sum of SGA sizes on NT server...

2001-06-21 Thread Paul Vincent
Hi folks, as the subject indicates, I feel really stupid asking this question, but here goes... If I have several Oracle 8i instances running on an NT Server with, say, 256Mb of memory available, then does this mean that the sum of the SGA sizes for all the instances, taken together, can't

Re: OT: Working from home

2001-06-21 Thread Nuno Souto
Hehehe! My record is 125 PL/SQL procedures in a day. Lost count of the lines of code. But I had VIM to help me... Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den - Original Message - I have fond memories of writing 1300 lines of code in one 12 hour day a

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-21 Thread Guy Hammond
I was having a similar conversation with a friend of mine a couple of months ago. We were both London (England) based consultants, but we'd been staffed on engagements in Amsterdam (Holland). The cost-of-living is indeed a lot less, if you look at things like grocery shopping, the cost of riding

RE: SQL DISTINCT alternate

2001-06-21 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
There are also a lot of cases where you can get rid of a subquery. Consider the following SELECT DISTINCT emplid FROMemp_history eh1 WHERE salary 10; SELECT emplid FROM emp_history eh1 WHERE rowid = (SELECT MAX(rowid) FROM emp_history eh2 WHERE eh1.emplid = eh2.emplid

Re: EXP-00002 error when doing full export

2001-06-21 Thread Gene Sais
FYI for all AIXer's - there is a 64gb filesize limit on AIX 4.3, soon to be fixed in AIX 5L jfs2. Time to use Oracle's new exp (817) features like file and filesize. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/20/01 04:46PM AIX 4.3.3, attached to ESS Shark Oracle EE 8.1.7 When doing a full db export I get a

RE: How to do a bitwise OR from SQL*Plus

2001-06-21 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
but, why do you need to do a bitwise or within sqlplus? just curious. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 5:51 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L OK, for the alpha geek award of the day... Who can tell me how to do

RE: [OT] List of Spam Subjects * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-21 Thread Rajaram
Everybody, 1. The initial Looking for ... is not Spam. But that mail generated a lot of spam. 2. I am just adding to the spam :- (pardon me - I could'nt resist) - Does anyone know of any leads or pointers to websites regarding working in UK? 3. Also, this is for the active participants - If

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Lisa Clary
I tried this same thing (procedure below) and received the error messages below when I was trying to truncate a schema.tablename, which was not the schema I was logged in as. What is interesting is that the schema to which I was logged into, does have select, insert, delete and update privs on

Use of Oracle 8 objexcts

2001-06-21 Thread Stephen N. Visokay, VA Inc.
Hi! Where can I get an answer to the question How many places out there are using Oracle 8 objects and to what extent? Thanks, Steve Visokay -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Stephen N. Visokay, VA Inc. INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

RE: New system, cart blanche, what to buy (9i Launch in the UK)

2001-06-21 Thread Mark Leith
Cheers Lee, Me and Gerry are now registered for both the Grand Opening, and the celebration dinner afterwards.. Hope to see you, and any one else from the list there.. Let the BBQ begin :) Mark -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:17 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Witold . Iwaniec
Not 100% sure but I think only the table owner can use TRUNCATE Witold Raymond Lee Meng Hong [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/21/2001 01:10:52 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Witold Iwaniec/ATL_BLUECROSS_CA) Got

No Subject

2001-06-21 Thread Lakshminarasimhan Santhanam
hi dba's i want to see the underscore parameters such as _db_block_max_dirty_target etc which view should i use for it S.Lakshmi Narasimhan Technology Infrastructure Services WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES 044-4500200 extn 2059 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author:

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-21 Thread Daemen, Remco
Sounds like I'm working in one of the more relaxed countries of the world, with a low cost-of-living :). You've just made my day. I'll go home whistling and in a very good mood, today ! -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Guy Hammond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: donderdag 21 juni 2001

Re: Probably stupid question about sum of SGA sizes on NT server...

2001-06-21 Thread Joe Raube
You can exceed the 256Mb, if you don't mind the continual swapping to disk, and the thrashing that comes with that.;-) Usually not a good thing to do. It's usually a good idea to allow some room for the Operating System as well. just remember, Virtual Memory = disk swapping (usually)..

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
anyone who has delete any table can truncate. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 04:46:31 -0800 Not 100% sure but I think only the table owner can use TRUNCATE

RE: Probably stupid question about sum of SGA sizes on NT server...

2001-06-21 Thread Mark Leith
Paul, This depends on the performance impact you are ready to endure on the instances. You can in fact extend your memory to larger than the total of 256Mb, but swapping memory from physical to virtual can cause some pretty poor performance. There are other things you also need to take in to

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Kevin Lange
Actually ... you can truncate someone elses table if you have the authority. I find that I need to put the users Schema on the front even if there is a synonym. -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 7:47 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

OT: Oracle T-Shirt scam or genuine?

2001-06-21 Thread Jesse, Rich
Anyone else get the attached message? It's been thru the virus wringer, so I'm not too worried about it (with fingers crossed). After checking out the headers, it looked genuine and having me fill out a survey at Oracle for 9iFS is a distinct possibility, but the reply message I sent bounced.

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Mark Leith
You are right on this to a certain extent, you either have to be the schema owner, or you need to have been granted the DROP ANY TABLE system privilege. Have you satisfied both or either of these Raymond? If not, try it out.. HTH Mark -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: OT - interviewing your superior

2001-06-21 Thread Hillman, Alex
This guy may be very good to work for if the pay is hourly. Immediately cut all bs. And even if there is a lot of stupid things one has to do - at least one is paid. Alex Hillman -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 9:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L no, the

Re: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Dennis M. Heisler
Oracle 7 docs state you need delete any table, Oracle 8 docs state you need drop any table privilege to truncate another owner's table. Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not 100% sure but I think only the table owner can use TRUNCATE Witold Raymond Lee Meng Hong [EMAIL PROTECTED] on

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-21 Thread Ravindra P Channe
money isnt everything :) Right... Like itz not SUFFICIENT.. :) Ravi -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ravindra P Channe INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California--

RE: OT - interviewing your superior(fun question)

2001-06-21 Thread Mark Leith
Or just - are you certified? :) -Original Message- Patrice J Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:36 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L How about: Are you ISO9000 certified? : ) Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit.

Re: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-21 Thread Terry Ball
There was something on the news the other day about this. It seems that the dollar is so strong, that some groups are petitioning to get it weakened. Terry Daemen, Remco wrote: I disagree ! The dollar is very strong these days. Maybe a few years back the cost of living was cheaper in

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL Didn't someone already say you have to have drop any table privilege to truncate another user's table? That's at least part of the problem. Or have you looked at compiling the procedure with another user's privs? I haven't used that myself but I know it's

RE: new instances on Linux different from NT?

2001-06-21 Thread Rodd Holman
Also need an entry in the /etc/oratab file for the new SID. Original Message On 6/20/01, 8:10:19 PM, Kevin Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding RE: new instances on Linux different from NT?: There is no task related to ORADIM80. You simply reset your ORACLE_SID and then create the

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Bala, Prakash
You can by using the following statement: execute immediate 'truncate table table_name'; Prakash -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 10:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello guru , how can I execute a truncate table in PL/SQL ?? It only work for delete

Test Database Schema.

2001-06-21 Thread Mark Leith
Hi Guys and Girls, I was just wondering if anybody has a script that will create a schema - much like the Scott or SQLServer North wind - in a test database, but with a little more depth.. I'm looking for something that will create the tables, indexes, constraints, maybe some users though I'm

RE: OT - interviewing your superior(fun question)

2001-06-21 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
ISO9000 because it will tell you whether the shop is methodical or not. Whether there are expected consistent deliverables or not. At the same time, because ISO certification is a double-edged sword, you will find out whether the manager is an empire builder, and whether they implemented ISO

Completely OT: Rental-car firm exceeding the privacy limit?

2001-06-21 Thread A. Bardeen
This is scary stuff... not to mention the fact that it's going to cost me a fortune to rent a car ;) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-6333149.html?tag=3Ddd.ne.dht.= __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail

RE: Prompt in Korn shell

2001-06-21 Thread Hillman, Alex
Thanks everybody who answered. Alex Hillman -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Anybody knows how to show current working directory and in general shell variable in Korn shell that prompt change when variable changes - for

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Lisa Clary
Not true...If I open a sqlplus window and issue a truncate on the schema--no problem. If I try and do it through a procedure like below--I get the errors lc -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 8:47 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Not

RE: Prompt in Korn shell

2001-06-21 Thread Hillman, Alex
Now I have another problem. export PS1='$LOGNAME@$HOST:$PWD:${ORACLE_SID:-ORUNDEF}\n!-' - result is: oracle8i@coin-app:/u01/app/psoft/PSTEST/appserv:PSTESTn133- instead of oracle8i@coin-app:/u01/app/psoft/PSTEST/appserv:PSTEST 133- Looks like it does not understand \n as a new line

OPS on Tru64

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
Anyone out there using OPS ver7 on Tru64 Alpha? I'd be interested in swapping DLM parameters. We just applied an OWS-suggested fix and it apparently ran the box into the ground. Any thoughts welcome. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Mohan, Ross

RE: Auditing

2001-06-21 Thread Norrell, Brian
aud$ is one of the few system tables that can have an owner other than sys. You can create it under another schema (like system) and give sys a private synonym pointing to system.aud$. Then put the trigger on the alternate aud$ create table system.aud$ as select * from sys.aud$; drop table

RE: OT - interviewing your superior(fun question)

2001-06-21 Thread Christopher Spence
The way I see the ISO900x stuff is this. If you say I kick every box before I ship it to a customer, and you do just that consistency. You are a ISO900x perfect company. Although consistency is extremely important, so isn't efficiency, credibility, as well as many other big words. Walking on

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
All, that's because there are special security rules attached to stored procedures and packages. from sql*plus, you can do a truncate if you have the DBA priv. The DBA priv is a ROLE, and the ROLE gives you the {delete any table} system priv. from a stored procedure/package, you may NOT

RE: Quick select question

2001-06-21 Thread Raj Gopalan
Try with dynamic sql from user_tables which displays the table_name and then the count on it. -Original Message- Sent: 20 June 2001 18:17 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L All, Anyone know how to get a list of tablenames and the count of rows in them TABLE_NAMECOUNT

Re: Tablespace recovery - Point in time (TSPITR)

2001-06-21 Thread Ruth Gramolini
You can do a tspitr if you are using rman. You can make a clone database, import the tablespace in question with the until time option. T hen export the clone database tablespace and import it into the live database. I hope this helps. Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-21 Thread Mark Leith
Yeah I do agree with you, I was going by the cost of a house here (Worcester 25M South of Birmingham) to the cost of the same sized house in Houston, TX where my former employer was based.. There was in fact a HUGE difference! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 01:22 To:

cursor 0 in sql_trace and event10046 raw trace files

2001-06-21 Thread Danisment Gazi Unal (Unal Bilisim)
Hello list, some of itrprof users encounter cursor 0. Since there is no parsed SQL statement which has a cursor number 0, itrprof prompts "itp-05 [x] : File corrupted." message. I examined raw trace files and could not see an SQL statement which has a cursor number 0. I think this is a bug.

RE: How to do a bitwise OR from SQL*Plus

2001-06-21 Thread Orr, Steve
why do you need to do a bitwise or within sqlplus? Good question... I have a really good engineer who is working with C and Oracle OCI. He's developing an install routine and assures me that he needs bitwise operators from SQL because he can do some really powerful things with them. Then he

RE: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Oracle 8 (8i) docs were finally corrected for this age old mistake ;) - Kirti -Original Message- From: Dennis M. Heisler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 9:07 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL Oracle 7 docs

Re: Listener problems

2001-06-21 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Have you put the datbase mtipdb into the tnsnames.ora file? If not, you must do so. You could also check for the lsnrctl executable in $ORACLE_HOME/bin. HTH, Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 9:40 AM Hi

RE: OT: Working from home

2001-06-21 Thread Christopher Spence
Blah, I do about 2,000 lines just during lunch on a napkin before I go back to work. And I ussually put it on two napkins, one in assembly and one in a high level language like c++ so other people can read it. One time, I actually had to disassemble Oracle.exe as there was some code I didn't

RE: Oracle T-Shirt scam or genuine?

2001-06-21 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
The Rasmussen Files... that rings a bell... Can't remember what that was. Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de

Re:setup alert on oracle

2001-06-21 Thread Mitchell
Dear DBAs Is anobody here setup email alert sent to exchange server from unix box on Oracle or Oracle application server. Any suggested reading, white paper I can get. Thanks in advance. Mitchell -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Mitchell INET:

RE: Completely OT: Rental-car firm exceeding the privacy limit?

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
I sure as heck won't be renting from Acme! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:27 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This is scary stuff... not to mention the fact that it's going to cost me a fortune to rent a car ;)

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-21 Thread Mark Leith
Oh I agree by far!! Having visited Amsterdam a couple of times myself in the past couple of years I have to say from what I saw, that Holland has be to the MOST relaxed country in the whole of Europe if not the world!! And the golf courses are GREAT!! I would recommend anybody to visit the place

RE: Prompt in Korn shell

2001-06-21 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Alex, Sorry, about that messed up post. Hit send before completing the cutpaste: Here is one way to do this: PS1='$LOGNAME@$HOST:$PWD:${ORACLE_SID:-ORUNDEF} !-- ' export PS1 Split the string for PS1 in two lines. Hope this helps. Regards. - Kirti Deshpande Verizon Information Services

RE: Transportable tablespace problem in 817

2001-06-21 Thread Solomon, Saul M.
No, this bug is one where the export hangs forever as per Kumanan's description. It's fixed by patching 8.1.7 or by putting event = 10297 trace name context forever, level 1 in the init.ora. I think the note is 144794.1 on Metalink. Saul Solomon Senior Database Administrator PPG Industries

RE: Completely OT: Rental-car firm exceeding the privacy limit?

2001-06-21 Thread Scott . Shafer
Darn! No more taking the rental cars out to turn donuts, local street division races, etc... Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 I hate the country, all those animals walking around un-cooked. -Original Message- From: A. Bardeen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June

RE: OPS on Tru64 - Followup

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
Note:118005.1 says, at one point, that the DLM_LOCKS_CFG parameter is the maximum amount of DLM locks available this is somewhat misleading and therefore somewhat dangerous. Our SAs set it to the maximum and (yes, foolishly, i think) wound up setting it to about 1GB, and getting a kernel

RE: Prompt in Korn shell

2001-06-21 Thread Hand, Michael T
Alex, I just substituted a real CR for the \n and got the two line prompt you are looking for. Mike Hand Polaroid Corp. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:26 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Now I have another problem. export

RE: OT - interviewing your superior(fun question)

2001-06-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: OT - interviewing your superior(fun question) Interesting post Patrice. Thanks for sharing this. -Original Message- From: Boivin, Patrice J [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:02 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT -

Re: RMAN Suggestion

2001-06-21 Thread Ruth Gramolini
I would create a file system that spans the two drives to hold your backups. That way you dont have to split the backup into parts. HTH, Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 5:26 AM I need some suggesations

RE: Prompt in Korn shell

2001-06-21 Thread Scott . Shafer
Remove the newline. Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 I hate the country, all those animals walking around un-cooked. -Original Message- From: Hillman, Alex [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:26 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

Re: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL

2001-06-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
and the docs (can't remember if it's 6 or 7) used to state drop any table priv after all, the docs are NEVER wrong From: Dennis M. Heisler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TRUNCATE IN PL/SQL Date: Thu, 21

RE: OT - interviewing your superior(fun question)

2001-06-21 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Ahh, but in ISO9000 land, you need to fill the paper-work out to prove that you have kicked every box before you shipped it like you said you would, and then ask the customer if they can attest to the fact that you have kicked the box. what this has to do with delivering the product is quite

RE: Transportable tablespace problem in 817

2001-06-21 Thread A. Bardeen
Kevin, I believe the bug to which he was referring is bug 970640 documented in Note: 76670.1 ALERT: Transportable Tablespaces can Corrupt Target Database This bug is specific to 8.1.5 and is fixed in 8.1.6+ The bug is in the way export creates the dmp file of the transportable tablespace

RE: OT - interviewing your superior (fun question)

2001-06-21 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
ISO9000 also proves another thing even if you are not technically competent, you can write big documents that no one will ever want to read. Happened to me at 2 companies that became iso9000 compliant ... HTH Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni

RE: Prompt in Korn shell

2001-06-21 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Alex, Right, Again! It doesn't work. Try the following: - Kirti Deshpande Verizon Information Services http://www.superpages.com -Original Message- From: Hillman, Alex [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:26 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: * I'm Looking for an Oracle Financials DBA for Miami,

2001-06-21 Thread Daniel Curry
I recently moved from Tulsa OK, to Silicon Valley. Talk about cost of living adjustments. In 17 months, my salary has doubled from what it was in Tulsa. My standard of living has remained about the same. Daniel Curry Systems Administrator CGtime, Inc. 625 Second Street Suite 201 San

RE: Prompt in Korn shell

2001-06-21 Thread gregory . t . norris
You can embed an actual newline in the assignment, as long as it's between quotes. For example: PS1='part1 part2' -Original Message- From: Alex.Hillman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:26 AM To: ORACLE-L; Alex.Hillman Subject: RE: Prompt in Korn shell

Re:setup alert on oracle

2001-06-21 Thread Amr Hambazaza
Look into Oracle Enterprise Manager 2.1 and greater. Works great, we use it for notification all the time, it can email and/or page on certain events. You can also include fix-it jobs that kick off on a particular event. Good stuff. Regards, Amr

RE: OT - interviewing your superior (fun question)

2001-06-21 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I did say it was a double-edged sword... : ) Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 1:07 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: OT: Working from home

2001-06-21 Thread Mohan, Ross
LOL! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:07 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Blah, I do about 2,000 lines just during lunch on a napkin before I go back to work. And I ussually put it on two napkins, one in assembly and one in a high level language like

RE: Hidden Parameters

2001-06-21 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Hi, These things are not in any view. You can write your own. Use following query to see them (run as sys). select ksppinm, ksppdesc from x$ksppi where translate (ksppinm, '_', '*') like '*%'; HTH, Regards, - Kirti Deshpande Verizon Information Services http://www.superpages.com

RE: Prompt in Korn shell

2001-06-21 Thread gregory . t . norris
On a related note, once the PWD's been crammed in there is it possible to substitute ~ for the home directory (like bash does)? Something like: mehoo@somewhere[~]$ instead of mehoo@somewhere[/foo/bar/mehoo]$ It looks like ksh93 has some string replacement features which might

RE: Prompt in Korn shell

2001-06-21 Thread Smith, Ron L.
What do you use the sequence number at the end for? Ron -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:07 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Alex, Sorry, about that messed up post. Hit send before completing the cutpaste: Here is one way to do this:

RE: OPS on Tru64 - Followup

2001-06-21 Thread A. Bardeen
Ross, Have you tried submitting an enhancement request? Note 146178.1 How Do You Create an Enhancement Request through Metalink? HTH, -- Anita --- Mohan, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note:118005.1 says, at one point, that the DLM_LOCKS_CFG parameter is the maximum amount of DLM locks

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