Sample program on arrays

2001-06-26 Thread Venugopal Tenkayala
Hi, Can some one send me a sample program on arrays ,like how to place values in arrays( PL/SQL tables ) and how to retrieve values from the array etc., Thanks for your help in advance, Venu -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the

Re: Archive log destination space check - shell script

2001-06-26 Thread Viraj Luthra
Thanks Jared for the script, have modified (the little that had to be done :-), and works like a charm. the next problem that I have, is that I want to make this an automatic affair, so I want that this shell should first read the parameter, LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST, get the archive destination from

Installing forms6i ...

2001-06-26 Thread Harsh Agrawal
Hi All, The Environment is Windows NT Server 4 SP5 with Oracle 8i Ver 8.1.6 Enterprise edition. When i am trying to install forms6i it takes the current oracle home and denies to install it as it is already being used. Moreover i can not even change the oracle home from this list item of

Re: SGA QUESTION

2001-06-26 Thread Bunyamin K. Karadeniz
I had read from a paper that . NEVER EXCEED 55% of totaL memORY FOR NT . but I KNOW THAT YOU CAN NOT EXCEED 2 GB TOO. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 10:53 PM Does anyone have an idea of what percentage of

Re: Multiple Oracle Instances on NT

2001-06-26 Thread Bunyamin K. Karadeniz
Title: Multiple Oracle Instances on NT yOU CAN RUN SEVERAL ÝNSTANCES ON nT . I DO IT NOW. NOTHING IS DIFFERENT. BUT DO NOT FORGET TO MAKE ONE INSTANCE DEFAULT . - Original Message - From: Yttri, Lisa To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Monday, June 25,

Re: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
Hi Smith, As everyone in the list has rightly pointed out that NT is stable and may also lead to problems. I myself installed a 50gigs DB in aIBM Netfinity server with RAID 1+0 combination in MSCS. Even tough the client lost a datafile and was unable to restore the whole db. Instead they

RE: db_file_multiblock_read_count

2001-06-26 Thread Ravinder_Bahadur
Nice colour choice .. Guy Hammond guy.hammond@To: Multiple recipients of list

Re: SGA QUESTION

2001-06-26 Thread Bunyamin K. Karadeniz
My database will be growing 20 GB per year. Anyway . Forget it . Thank you All. Bunyamin - Original Message - From: Christopher Spence To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 6:32 PM Subject: RE: SGA QUESTION Who knows.

RE: Griping about auditing (not the Oracle Kind)

2001-06-26 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Excuse me but you are a little presumptious and rude with that last mail. If a process is put in place that requires a form to be signed and authorisation to be given before action can be taken then I would be going totally against the grain and would get into trouble for not adhering to the

RE: Multiple Oracle Instances on NT

2001-06-26 Thread TAG DBA
Hello Lisa... I have been handling Oracle on NT last 6 months - and I much prefer UNIX. Here are some things I learnt the hard way... - can you run multiple instances of Oracle on one NT machine yes u can. Another lister has replied to u about this - how one uses oradim80 to create

DOC BUG: DB_WRITER_PROCESSES IS INCORRECTLY LISTED AS NOT SUPPORT

2001-06-26 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
I thought this might be of interest to people as there have been a number of discussions as to whether multiple DB writers are supported on NT. Regards, Bruce Bug No. 1839458 Filed 19-JUN-2001 Updated 22-JUN-2001 Product Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition V7 Product Version 8.1 Platform

RE: Griping about auditing (not the Oracle Kind)

2001-06-26 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Title: RE: Griping about auditing (not the Oracle Kind) My point precisely. I'm not putting my neck on the line because someone won't allow me to do my job. Let them be the one who takes the hit when the s**t hits the fan. Thanks Chris, good point well made (better than my knee jerk

RE: Multiple Oracle Instances on NT

2001-06-26 Thread Szecsy Tamas
We are running an Oracle 8i (8.1.6.) server on NT 30-250 concurrent users day and night since two years. It is a dedicated Compaq Proliant server, never had any problems. Since two years the databse is running without a single reboot. Tamas Szecsy -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June

RE: Trace Evaluation

2001-06-26 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Ed Respective Table is NOT partitioned ACID is the UNIQUE Key on the Table . There are NO Constraints whatsoever Thanks Indeed . Vivek -Original Message- From: Shevtsov, Eduard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:22 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

Re: Need help/hint creating a quiry

2001-06-26 Thread Stephane Faroult
Hi all Lets say I have a table: f1 char(10) f2 char(2) f3 number where f1 is a name, f2 is a code and f3 is a number. What I want to produce is a report that looks something like this: F1 F2 IS A F2 is B F2 IS C F2 is X f1f3f3 f3 f1f3

trigger on user logoff session

2001-06-26 Thread Raymond Lee Meng Hong
Hello , Can I know whether is it possible for me to set up a trigger to activate if any user active this in-house logoff function to kick off any user who is activate this script ? ALTER TRIGGER CFLOG DISABLE / UPDATE CFsecurity SET LOGON = 'N' WHERE STFID = UPPER('STFID') / UPDATE CF88LOG

RE: Trace Evaluation

2001-06-26 Thread Shevtsov, Eduard
Hi Vivek, you have the best plan that you can get via index path. I'm afraid, there are only 2 way here that I can offer for you. 1. Decrease number of executions. Is such huge number of executions justified in your case? 2. If you can't change application logic (don't have access to SQL code),

RE: Multiple Oracle Instances on NT

2001-06-26 Thread Sinardy Xing
Title: Multiple Oracle Instances on NT Hi, If I am not wrong Oracle instance on NT is a single process composed of all oracle's threads. UNIX ps -ef MTS is not supported by NT Sinardy -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bunyamin

To IOT or not

2001-06-26 Thread paquette stephane
Hi all, Vacation is over ! We'll have some tables with a PK and between 1 and 3 other fields . Those tables will be insert once and read 2 to 7 times. I'm wandering about the use of IOT and done some tests. When inserting 700 000 rows, the IOT and the standard table with a PK took the same

RE: MTS problem

2001-06-26 Thread Libal, Ivo
These are my network conf files: listener.ora LISTENER = (ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL= IPC)(KEY = PROD)) (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL= TCP)(HOST = 10.17.150.5)(PORT = 1521)) (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL= IPC)(KEY = extproc)) ) SID_LIST_LISTENER = (SID_LIST = (SID_DESC =

Re: MTS problem

2001-06-26 Thread Ravinder_Bahadur
Ivo, I guess it should look like this in you init file mts_listener_address=(address =(protocol=tcp)(host=10.17.150.5)(port=1521)) mts_service=ORASIDa mts_dispatchers=(ADDRESS =(PARTIAL=TRUE)(protocol=tcp)(host=10.17.150.5))(dispatchers=5) mts_max_dispatchers=10 mts_servers=5

Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread novicedba
Hi everyone, I visited Jeremiah Wilton's web page http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton I was shocked to read Hot backup mode explained If this is true then I may be a victim of a disease called 'Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions' . Somebody help me!! (Jim carrey-MASK style) Please help me. If

Re: hash partitioning algorithm

2001-06-26 Thread Connor McDonald
They don't publish it, but I'm pretty sure that dbms_utility.get_hash_value calls the same routine - so you can pre-test values by passing them through that to see what they hash to hth connor --- elain he [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone know the algorithm used in hash

RE: SGA QUESTION

2001-06-26 Thread A. Bardeen
Kevin and John, The original limit was 2GB on NT, but since service pack 3 and above this can be extended to 3GB by changing a few settings. There is also a special driver that can be obtained to allow access up to 8GB. I have never tried this driver since I don't have any boxes with 4GB, but

Re: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread Vladimir Begun
On Jun 26, 2001 at 01:05:59AM, novicedba wrote: Hi everyone, I visited Jeremiah Wilton's web page http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton I was shocked to read Hot backup mode explained If this is true then I may be a victim of a disease called 'Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions' . Somebody

Install Database and Developer software on the same machine

2001-06-26 Thread Beatriz Martínez Jiménez
Hello List, I have trying to install both of them (Oracle database software and Developer software) on the same machine, but it has been completely impossible for me. Could anybody tell me whether there is or not any way to do it? Thanks in advance begin:vcard n:Jimenez;Beatriz Martinez

Re: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread Ravinder_Bahadur
well whats wrong with the article. It is true. It is the way Oracle Handles the HOT Backup. Ravinder Vladimir Begun

Re: trigger on user logoff session

2001-06-26 Thread Stephane Faroult
Hello , Can I know whether is it possible for me to set up a trigger to activate if any user active this in-house logoff function to kick off any user who is activate this script ? ALTER TRIGGER CFLOG DISABLE / UPDATE CFsecurity SET LOGON = 'N' WHERE STFID = UPPER('STFID') /

RE: To IOT or not

2001-06-26 Thread Amar Kumar Padhi
Title: RE: To IOT or not While evaluating the use of IOT for over db, i came across some points: --IOTs will use cost based optimization, even in rule environment. --IOTs are faster than normal tables when queries are based on the primary key. --Secondary indexes on IOTs may not perform as

RE: Multiple Oracle Instances on NT

2001-06-26 Thread A. Bardeen
Sinardy, MTS has been available on NT since Oracle 8.0.3. -- Anita --- Sinardy Xing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Multiple Oracle Instances on NTHi, If I am not wrong Oracle instance on NT is a single process composed of all oracle's threads. UNIX ps -ef MTS is not supported by NT

Re: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread Joseph S. Testa
Well i dont know about everyone else, but i knew thats how the hot backup worked, but then again, i've not attended oracle education classes either, just some hard core reading and have gotten all of my backup/recovery concepts from Rama Velpuri's book. An excellent book if you dont have it.

ORA-02270 error during import

2001-06-26 Thread Easaw T Mathew
hi Error during import: ORA-02270: no matching unique or primary key for this column-list i am in the process of migrating my oracle databases from dg/ux to solaris8 OS. at the same time, i am taking the opportunity to resize the tables, indexes to cater for growth in the near future. to do

QUERY HELP

2001-06-26 Thread Nirmal Kumar Muthu Kumaran
Title: QUERY HELP Dear Guru's, How can i refer the previous record detail(s), when oracle fetchs the current row details?. sql SELECT rownum rnum, empno eno, ename FROM EMP; RNUM ENO ENAME -- 1 7369 SMITH 2 7499 ALLEN 3 7521 WARD 4 7566 JONES 7 7782 CLARK

RE: Ora-1654 Unable to extend index on tablespace

2001-06-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Ora-1654 Unable to extend index on tablespace Mitchell have you tried coalescing your tablespace? How big are your extents? -Original Message- From: Mitchell [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 5:28 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

need urgent reply..

2001-06-26 Thread Saurabh Sharma
hello all, i installed and configured the OEM 2.0.4 successfully. and also do the configuration for Oracle Management server as required. but unable to start the oracle agent service. I've Oracle 8.1.5 on NT 4.0 Server. the error was: Error 0015: could not find the file specified. i came

RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Bruce, great reply! great points to ponder! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ron, I'm going to say that it might be possible with some provisions.

RE: QUERY HELP

2001-06-26 Thread Lisa Clary
Title: QUERY HELP One way to do this is in the procedure, use variables that hold the previous values (e.g. last_rnum := rnum). Then, do your comparison of your current value to your last stored value (e.g. if rnum - last_rnum 1 then flag='*'). I am sure there are more than one way to skin

Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Thater, William
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001,Mohan, Ross scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -I agree with His Chrisness on this one. - -If the avg(NT Admin) avg(Unix Admin), we'd -all be reading this mail on Window's boxes. -Er.what I mean to say is.. - -sly grin - -but, in all seriousnesswhen there

RE: QUERY HELP

2001-06-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: QUERY HELP Have you tried this: select tab2.col1, tab2.col2, x.col1, x.col2 from (select column1 col1, column2 col2 from tab2 where ( your independent conditions here, can't refer to outer query here) ) x, tab2 where x.col1 = tab2.col1 [etc...] Is that what you are

Re:RE: Griping about auditing (not the Oracle Kind)

2001-06-26 Thread dgoulet
Lee, In my case (please see my previous post on the subject) I had proposed a change that was rejected. In short I wanted to move a datafile during a maintenance down day from one drive to another where there would be more room for expansion. OK, so management rejected the change for dumb

RE: which initSID?

2001-06-26 Thread nlzanen1
Hi I always have my init files in the OFA locations so I'm guessing here. Isn't the startup command listed in the alertlog if you use the pfile command? Sounds like a good one to be in there. Jack

RE: NOLOGGING

2001-06-26 Thread Ramon Estevez
As I am concerned, the only redo information it generates is related to the system tablespace, the one refering to the manage of the extents. Ramon Estevez *809-565-3121 x 225 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En

Re[2]: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread dgoulet
HUMM, Our last unscheduled Unix down was due to the local power utility whereas the last unscheduled down on NT was due to the Blue screen of death (Ok, so the screen is Black on 2000). Reply Separator Author: Thater; William [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

RE: QUERY HELP

2001-06-26 Thread Larry Elkins
Nirmal, You said I need this in reports. If you mean Oracle Reports, there are a few ways to do it. If not Oracle Reports, skip down to the SQL part. 1) Create a placeholder column outside query (or use a package variable, whatever floats your boat). 2) Create a formula column within the group.

RE: iAS 1.0.2.2. error during installation (update)

2001-06-26 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
FYI, I was told that this error occurred because not all Oracle NT services were stopped during the installation. Only the origin database's service and the TNS Listener service have to be running. Add this to your list of things to do, because the Installer does a bad job of re-installing iAS

Re: ORA-02270 error during import

2001-06-26 Thread Ron Rogers
Easaw, It appears that you are trying to import the child table before the parent table exists. I think the disabeling the constraint before you export should help. Or break the export into smaller parts and export the tables in different dmp files then import them in the proper order for the

Re: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread Rachel Carmichael
we've had this discussion here a number of times. And I know that Oracle teaches how hot backup works, at least in the Server Internals classes I didn't think it was shocking though :) From: Joseph S. Testa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: QUERY HELP

2001-06-26 Thread Daemen, Remco
Title: QUERY HELP Do you want a query to return the missing numbers, or do you want a query to return the records AFTER some numbers have been skipped ? The first can be done in pl/sql (loop with counter compared to rownum), the latter in sql (use "where not exists ..."). HTH, Remco

Re[2]: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread dgoulet
Joe company, Jeremiah has it exactly correct. The only part of the data file that is un-writable is the datafile header block, which gets frozen until the hot backup of that tablespace completes. Look at it this way, when the start backup command gets issued Oracle is in fact freezing

Re:RE: RE: RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread dgoulet
Well, I guess so if that was the only occurrence. I'll never know and I doubt that they will fess-up. At any rate, If one wants to use NT or any other OS for that matter in a 24x7 guaranteed manner then one should look into making as much as possible redundant. Back in my Blue Suit days we

RE: Re[2]: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Mohan, Ross
Well, I betcha the reliability of NT2K and unix is very similar, given high level of SA competence and following good system engineering procedures. Anecdotal failure tales ( like Sun on Ebay, or any of the other Unix failures on NASDAQ, etc. ) are more than a bit similar to a game of

RE: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread Holman, Rodney
Yep, that's the way it works. Whoever started the rumor that the datafiles were unwriteable hadn't looked into the process deeply enough to understand it. The Oracle Ed. class that I took for backup and recovery explained the process exactly as it is, using the checkpoint, redo, and rollbacks

RE: which initSID?

2001-06-26 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Really? Can please you post the results from such an query against your version of the database? Thanks. - Kirti Deshpande Verizon Information Services http://www.superpages.com -Original Message- From: Saurabh Sharma [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001

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2001-06-26 Thread Raj
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RE: Griping about auditing (not the Oracle Kind)

2001-06-26 Thread Michael Kline
When I worked for a large Oracle Office install for the state I was the technical ops mgr. (Largest distributed Oracle Office install in the US.) One of the rules we had in place is every one was given 3 meg of storage for email. If you needed more, you had to ask the Oracle Office

EMN0 process problem

2001-06-26 Thread Seema Singh
Hi Gurus Some times one of instance is shutdown.When I checked alert log found following error message. Mon Jun 18 09:04:21 2001 Restarting dead background process EMN0 EMN0 started with pid=15 Mon Jun 18 09:04:24 2001 The similar kind of problem I faced when I shutdown the database by shutdown

RE: Griping about auditing (not the Oracle Kind)

2001-06-26 Thread Kevin Lange
Different situations . different solutions. Its all subjective. What will work at one location is like using a feather to stop an elephant at another. rather useless. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 1:31 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sorry but

set autotrace error ??

2001-06-26 Thread ef 8454
We have ORACLE 8.1.6.1 database and I login as DBA and tried to turn on autotrace. I got following error messages: SQL set autot on ERROR: ORA-00904: invalid column name SP2-0611: Error enabling EXPLAIN report Any ideal? Thanks

RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Bond Mike A Contr OC-ALC/TILC
We are running Oracle on a clustered Unisys Aquanta system and have had very few problems. I can only think of one time this year that I had unplanned downtime. The database files are on shared drives and the database software is installed on two nodes, allowing us to switch to node B in the

RE: DUPLICATE VALUE CHECK

2001-06-26 Thread Shirish Khapre
i am getting duplicate records if the whole (say XYZ_A_LO_001) value is repeated without much probs.. but my prob is checking duplication of the last 7 digits.. Shirish Khapre, SE Rolta India Ltd. Off Ph No. (+91) (022) 832,826,8300568 Ext'n 2730 Minds are like parachutes. They

RE: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread Rodd Holman
Same as in normal operation. That's where the before image of any data changed is stored for undo. My point was that Oracle operates as you would normally expect it to, except the header block of the files are frozen at the start backup checkpoint, and you generate more redo as it is

Script to find space bound objects

2001-06-26 Thread nlzanen1
Hi All, I thought I had a script to check for space bound objects (can not allocate next extent for whatever reason) but seem to have misplaced it. Anybody want to save me the time? TIA Jack = De informatie verzonden in

RE: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Rollbacks? What's their role in the hot backup mechanism? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Holman, Rodney wrote: Yep, that's the way it works. Whoever started the rumor that the datafiles were unwriteable hadn't looked into the process deeply enough

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Sherman, Edward
Well, my UNIX box would probably run forever except that the DDS3 tape changer can't seem to last a whole year without breaking. Need to shut the machine down to replace the tape changer. I'm hoping to get lucky this year. Only 120 days till victory! # uptime 12:09 pm up 245 days, 1:01, 4

Does OEM affect Oracle performance

2001-06-26 Thread Gene Gurevich
Hi, We are running Oracle 8.1.6 and are planning to install OEM. Are there any issues regarding OEM affecting oracle negetively (performance or otherwise) that the people are aware of? thanks g = __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email

RE: Griping about auditing (not the Oracle Kind)

2001-06-26 Thread Hillman, Alex
Full authority and no responcibility - looks like very much an HMO. I don't think I would survive in this environment for so long. Maybe if I did not have where to go and had small children to feed. This is exactly what I posted. This is no win game and possible only if payd by the hour and payd

RE: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread Christopher Spence
yeah, that is an awesome write up he did. "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message-From: novicedba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 5:06

RE: Installing forms6i ...

2001-06-26 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
I believe you're hosed if you installed Oracle 8i into the 'DEFAULT_HOME'. When I do this setup, I install Forms first into the 'DEFAULT_HOME' which is X:\ORANT. Then I do the installation of Oracle into a new home, usually Ora816, this works just fine. Basically, I believe you need to install

RE: DUPLICATE VALUE CHECK

2001-06-26 Thread Norrell, Brian
Not ins are nasty, try something more like: create table tmp ( dup_valule varchar(100), keep_row rowid); create index t1 on tmp(dup_value); insert into tmp select my_column_name, max(rowid) from my_table group by my_column_name having count(*) 1); select my_table.* from my_table, tmp where

RE: which initSID?

2001-06-26 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Yes, I agree, I was unable to see a path using this view:)? KK -Original Message- Kirti Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:56 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Really? Can please you post the results from such an query against your version of the database? Thanks. - Kirti

RE: Multiple Oracle Instances on NT

2001-06-26 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
For every SID there will be 2 services in NT - one called OracleServiceURSID and another OracleStartURSID. If u keep the latter as start automatically - ur db will come up auto when NT boots up. Just thought I would mention, that is only for 8.0, 8i has one service:) Kev -- Please see the

RE: RE: RE: RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Christopher Spence
Ross Mohan for president! Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 12:27 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am hearing such

Re: EMN0 process problem

2001-06-26 Thread Stephane Faroult
Hi Gurus Some times one of instance is shutdown.When I checked alert log found following error message. Mon Jun 18 09:04:21 2001 Restarting dead background process EMN0 EMN0 started with pid=15 Mon Jun 18 09:04:24 2001 The similar kind of problem I faced when I shutdown the database by

RE: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread Christopher Spence
I think he was shocked by the fact he had a completely different opinion, and many as well as oracle preach similar opinions. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message-

RE: Install Database and Developer software on the same machine

2001-06-26 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
What versions, what OS?:) -Original Message- Martinez Jimenez Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 7:01 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello List, I have trying to install both of them (Oracle database software and Developer software) on the same machine, but it has been

RE: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread Scott . Shafer
Thank you - I just spewed coffee all over my monitor! ROFLMAO!!! Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 26,

RE: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread Christopher Spence
Bhahahaah Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:47 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I've never found hot backups shocking

Re: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Jeremiah, Marlene and I did an exploding the myths paper very similar to what you are doing.. always set pctincrease on your temporary tablespace to 1 and my OOW submission is very very similar to yours. Not quite, but really close. It will be interesting to see if they choose one, both or

RE: Does OEM affect Oracle performance

2001-06-26 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Well don't set too many events, remember these are queries. The more navel-gazing your database does the slower it will be. : ) Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services

RE: Script to find space bound objects

2001-06-26 Thread Mark Leith
Jack, Here's one that we use.. -- CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW SPACE_BOUND_OBJECTS ( TS#, NAME, BLOCKSIZE, MAXFREEBLOCKS, TOTFREEBLOCKS, FREEEXTENTS ) AS select a.ts#,a.name,a.blocksize, nvl(max(b.blocks),0), nvl(sum(b.blocks),0),

RE: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread Christopher Spence
Well perhaps you can start writing articles for people. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 8:01 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

Re: set autotrace error ??

2001-06-26 Thread DBarbour
My ideal is a vast ranch - as far away from technology as I can get. In the meantime: The error enabling EXPLAIN report is your best clue. You've enabled autotrace with it's default options, which include executing an EXPLAIN PLAN. You probably have not created the PLAN table. Try running

RE: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread Terrian, Tom
oh yea baby. Tom Terrian Oracle DBA WPAFB - DAASC [EMAIL PROTECTED] 937-656-3844 -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:47 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I've never found hot backups shocking myself. Is it possible that rather than visiting Jeremiah's site

Re: Alter Table Move

2001-06-26 Thread Terry Ball
That is correct. The move command can not move a table with a LONG column. You can try exporting, dropping, recreating in new tablespace and importing. Terry Walter K wrote: Hi, I'm on 8.1.6 and need to move some tables to a different tablespace. The problem is that some of them contain

Java, Vector, and PLSQL

2001-06-26 Thread Witold . Iwaniec
Hi In a web application taht I write in java I need to pass a number of parameters to a PL/SQL stored procedure. Since the number of parameters can be different a Vector, ArrayList, or HashTable on the java side would be a good choice. Can you pass a Vector to a PL/SQL stored procedure? If I

RE: Monitoring Memory on DYNIX

2001-06-26 Thread Mohan, Ross
cheers, Genehope it behaves itself for you! -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 6:03 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ross, To this question I have a very straight answer. I don't know. I asked a few people and couldn't get an answer. Our SAs are not on

RE: Re[2]: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Mohan, Ross
Mark! This is cool...you got the bleeding edge so far out it's amazing MaximumPC has had some great articles on the Ge3 technology...programmable textures, in hardware... amazing having said that, the number one ( and two, and three and four ) problems with NT is that, in supporting

Re: Ora-1654 Unable to extend index on tablespace

2001-06-26 Thread Mitchell
Title: RE: Ora-1654 Unable to extend index on tablespace Hi DBAs Whenever I have the ora-1654, I will 1. alter index/table name deallocate unused 2. alter tablespace name coalescs; 3.runquerys to check dba_free_space and dba_data_files There are total 140 indexes on this tablespace with

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Thater, William
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001,Mohan, Ross scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -well, then there must be a whole lot of unix boxes out there because we've -got 40 of them right here. i'd say all of my 32 databases have been up that -much too, but i've only had 25 of them up a whole year.;-) yup, i

Re: Griping about auditing (not the Oracle Kind)

2001-06-26 Thread DBarbour
Rama, I've also worked with some top-notch consultants and contractors. Unfortunately, I don't always have input into the hiring and purchasing process. Sometimes you get blind-sided. My job is to make whatever comes in the door work. It's tough when you're faced with this kind of lunacy

RE: NOLOGGING

2001-06-26 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
DELETE is not a finction that NOLOGGING has any effect on. You can't reduce the amount of redo generated in a delete by making the object NOLOGGING. It is a common misconception :-) that NOLOGGING pertains to all types of DML and DDL. Please consult the following section of the Concepts Manual:

OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Mohan, Ross
lolI just quote the Groucho Marx line: I wouldn't want to be in any club that would have people like me as a member. ;- -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 1:31 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ross Mohan for president! Walking on water and developing

RE: Re[2]: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread Jenkins, Michael
Sad to say but I suspect that Oracle Education is responsible for the popular misconception about frozen writes on data files during a hot backup. It's interesting to me that it doesn't occur to most people that you would blow out a rollback segment if you had to hold all of those changes to

RE: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread Terrian, Tom
Based on Gaja's book, tune based on waits not based on hit ratios. Tom Terrian Oracle DBA WPAFB - DAASC [EMAIL PROTECTED] 937-656-3844 -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 1:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L All right folks, I'm collecting misconceptions, of

Instance up scripts

2001-06-26 Thread Seema Singh
Hi Gurus I want to check every 5 minutes interval whether instances are up or not.If its not up then I will get page.Let me know any one have such scripts. Thanks -Seema _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at

RE: RE: RE: RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-26 Thread Mohan, Ross
I am hearing such amazing storiesrunning for seven years no failures in 4 years.never any failures except when the NT administrator brought down the power grid, etc. I am not an old hand, nor am I a greenhorn, but in my experience, real, live production systems ( e.g. more than 100

Legato NetWorker RMAN: A troublesome pair?

2001-06-26 Thread Ed Bittel
The subject line may be overstating things a bit, but I'm pretty frustrated at the moment. Backups are working fine when I run them manually (i.e., from a command line or within the RMAN utility). The problem is trying to schedule the Oracle backups through the NetWorker Administration

OT RE: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-26 Thread Mohan, Ross
Yea, hit ratios are never important. Ever. For anything. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2:01 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Based on Gaja's book, tune based on waits not based on hit ratios. Tom Terrian Oracle DBA WPAFB - DAASC [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is it possible???

2001-06-26 Thread Simon . Anderson
The question of restricting users to the 'approved' applications only comes up every couple of months... Yes, you can use PRODUCT_USER_PROFILE but remember: It only works Oracle SQL*Plus connections - If you can control what your users can run on their PCs, why do you let them have SQL*Plus?

RE: DUPLICATE VALUE CHECK

2001-06-26 Thread Daemen, Remco
How about: create table tmp_table as select substr(rowid,length(rowid)-7,7) last_seven from your_table; and then: select last_seven duplicates from ( select last_seven,count(*) from tmp_table group by last_seven having count(*) 1 ); I didn't test it, but it should be pretty fast with only

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