Re: HOW TO SUBSTR INSTR THIS LIST

2001-06-27 Thread JOE TESTA
ok so i'm in a good mood, how about this: i input ur names into a table and ran this against it, if u want to know what its doing email me if you can't figure it out. joe select substr(name,1,(instr(name,' ')-1)) first, substr(name,instr(name,' ',-1,1)+1) last, decode(instr(name,'

RE: LISTENER.LOG file compress

2001-06-27 Thread Tirumala, Surendra
To rename the listener.log, try this(on Unix) 1) cp listener.log listener.log.bu 2) cat /dev/null listener.log OR you can have the following shell script submitted to cron to rename log file at regular intervals. === DT=`date +%m%d%y%H%M` cp listener.log listener.log.$DT cat

Heads Up: Virus coming from list - Venkata Apparao

2001-06-27 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: Heads Up: Virus coming from list - Venkata Apparao Looks like Venkata Apparao has a virus. This person called me fat! -Original Message- From: NAV for Microsoft Exchange-FFLMAIL Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:46 PM To: Koivu, Lisa Subject: Norton AntiVirus detected a

Re: Virus?

2001-06-27 Thread kjanusz
Kevin: Yes, I got 2 of them and immediately deleted them. They looked fishy to me. Ken Janusz, CPIM Hey, did anyone recieve a bunch of emails for a Venkata Apparao N with attachments. It appears to just be peaces of emails and then a see attached and an attachement? Yeah, I'll get right

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Kimberly Smith
Arn't you going to make sure you actually have the disk space to resize that data file first? Something OEM does not do for you. Must go out to the server and check. -Original Message-From: JOE TESTA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 7:22 AMTo:

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Kimberly Smith
And I thought I was in a bad mood today. All nighter last night. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:41 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Now I'm confused John - Is it a 2nd or 3rd rate O/S? :) The name is Jon. While Douglas Adams may have thought it to be

RE: Data Modeling - The Vehicle/Insurance Scenario

2001-06-27 Thread DBarbour
Tracey, Sorry I didn't keep the original message - seems I've only got about 10K of space on the mail server - I have to delete almost everything immediately. Anyway, your question intruiged me. Most everybody thought you should have at least three tables, I suspect it's even more. Here's my

RE: timed_os_statistics initSID.ora parameter

2001-06-27 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I only get os_roles and os_authent_prefix. ??? This timed_os_statistics has potential, esp. if we can then monitor info similar to Performance Monitor or snmp from within Oracle stats. More views means more CPU drain though, I suspect. Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

RE: Mark's Wild A** Vid Card

2001-06-27 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)
Title: RE: Mark's Wild A** Vid Card It's been 10 years since I read it, but this is the guy who wrote Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, right? Robert Pirsig called those gumption traps, and they can make us wind up cranky, misanthropic NT haters. (He didn't say that last part.)

Re: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Mustafa
True Fact: Unix was first invented in 1913 by my great great uncle (twice removed) Ralph Unix. Ralph worked with him as THE first DBA. I bet most of you didn't know that the Unix server Ralph is talking about is powered by steam engine! ;-) Defry - Original Message - To: Multiple

Re: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-27 Thread Mike Killough
How about timed_statistics=true is a performance overhead. Or you still worry about temp segments not being released after a sort. From: Jeremiah Wilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Common Oracle RDBMS

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Jon Allen
Now I'm confused John - Is it a 2nd or 3rd rate O/S? :) The name is Jon. While Douglas Adams may have thought it to be 2nd rate, I believe it to be 3rd rate. Too much to handle? you can't have written that on a Windoze box - it would have corrected it for you ! :) Are you a genius or

RE: Another NT question

2001-06-27 Thread Thater, William
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001,Mohan, Ross scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -Not so fast, there, Cisco Kid. It's not quite dead. - -There is some talk about doing the EV7 thing all the way, -and even if the branding goes away, the technology is -likely to migrate. - -Alpha has/had some killer

Re: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions - standby db?

2001-06-27 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Stephane Faroult wrote: But in practice, why would you switch to the standby database, unless the primary database is crashed or worse? - Hardware replace/repair - Move to a larger host - O/S upgrade - File layout revision - Planned/impending infrastructure outage -

Re: timed_os_statistics initSID.ora parameter

2001-06-27 Thread A. Bardeen
Patrice, I don't know which version of the manuals you're looking at, but there was a doc bug where the values for the parameter were listed as OFF, CALL LOGOFF. The correct way to use it is to set it to an integer value representing the number of seconds the OS stats will be refreshed. Also,

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Jon, Just curiousity here, are you an Oracle DBA (certified or otherwise)? As for using a text based mua on a sun machine, which doesnt attempt to correct mistakes, thus not creating its own, well, you are right about that, but then it doesn't seem as if you need any help in introducing

SQL-Server Presentation/Reality Check

2001-06-27 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: SQL-Server Presentation/Reality Check I have the privilege of being tasked to attend a SQL Server presentation to be conducted by Microsoft at our site. Our company's current take on SQL Server is that it's to be used only in the case where a packaged application requires it, or when

Re: direct I/O with VxFS

2001-06-27 Thread KC
Connor, Thanks for your input. I agreed with you on what you said about the cache, however what I was asking is the read-ahead that the file system provided, for a physical read request, the file system actually read more blocks into the buffer, so the next physical read request can be satisfied

RE: Sqlplus--how to suppress Connected.

2001-06-27 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Thanks for the example. Case closed :) - Kirti -Original Message- From: Vladimir Begun [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:47 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Sqlplus--how to suppress Connected. On Jun 27, 2001 at

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Speaks, Chuck W.
John,oops JON, Sounds like someone 1) Woke up on the wrong side of their UNIX box and 2) Has no tolerance for anything not similar to their own way of thinking. I think most of us will agree that UNIX is heads a shoulders a better platform for MOST systems that run apps like Oracle,

Re: Virus?

2001-06-27 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I also just told our network/mail person here... From: A. Bardeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Virus? Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 10:31:50 -0800 Kevin, Yes, I received them too. I've already notified him

Re: Virus?

2001-06-27 Thread JOE TESTA
yepppers, look like viruses :) joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/27/01 01:42PM Hey, did anyone recieve a bunch of emails for a Venkata Apparao N withattachments. It appears to just be peaces of emails and then a "seeattached" and an attachement? Yeah, I'll get right on opening that

Re: OT:OT: LITTLE HUMOR:)

2001-06-27 Thread Michael Barger
Sorry, I have to argue here. Seems like wasting bandwidth is o.k. on this list as long as OT is in the subject... :-) These stats are only for *Registered* gun owners! How many have guns that *nobody* knows about? This may actually decrease the deaths per gun owner stat, so the gap

RE: OT.OT.OTRE: DUPLICATE VALUE CHECK is Clumsy

2001-06-27 Thread Thater, William
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001,Mark Leith scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -And here's me thinking that the great US of A had an Executive Order banning -them from ever taking part in any assassination - ever.. :) Or do you mean -of the military kind Shrek? i'm afraid i can't answer that question.

Re: HOW TO SUBSTR INSTR THIS LIST

2001-06-27 Thread JOE TESTA
well if it was just first last, it would be simple select substr(name_column,1,(instr(name_column,' ')-1) first there is the part to pull off the first, i'll let you experiment with the rest :) no reason to give you the WHOLE answer :) joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/27/01 12:26PM Hey

RE: OT.OT.OTRE: DUPLICATE VALUE CHECK is Clumsy

2001-06-27 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Title: RE: OT.OT.OTRE: DUPLICATE VALUE CHECK is Clumsy I'll tell you what is disrespectful and will not be tolerated by any means. Turning up for class with a hint of alcohol on your breath. My instructor went ballistic. I only had a small glass of lager at a lunchtime but (according to

RE: how to know latest file creation on a partition

2001-06-27 Thread Kevin Lange
One easy way is the touch and the find command 1. Touch a file with the date you want to search from. touch -t date_time file_name where date_time is in the form of mmddhhmi.ss and file_name is the name of a temp file to use on the search. I

RE: HOW TO SUBSTR INSTR THIS LIST

2001-06-27 Thread Nicoll, Iain (Calanais)
Just as a starter you could start with the below the first two decodes check whether there are any spaces and the third decode checks that the first and last space are different i.e there is a middle name. The instr(full_name,' ',-1) is checking for a space from the end of the string. You

RE: how to know latest file creation on a partition

2001-06-27 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
man find will tell you how to do it. - Kirti Deshpande Verizon Information Services http://www.superpages.com -Original Message- From: Seema Singh [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:41 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: how to

Re: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions

2001-06-27 Thread A. Bardeen
Jeremiah, You've hit most of mine, but here are a few more: * It's OK to continue using a db after you've forced it open. * To remove a datafile from the db, all you need to do is offline drop it. * All there is to switching from RBO to CBO is to analyse the tables. * You can apply

RE: NT Script ?

2001-06-27 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Tom, Yes I also recieved that script. However I thought about it, and for what I am doing, just scheduled exports of schemas, I don't need the seconds. All that I really need is the hour, but the minute comes in handy!! Thanks again:) Kev -Original Message- Thomas F Sent:

Urgent! Virus Alert.

2001-06-27 Thread Yosi
All, I just got two emails from Venkata Apparao 'replying' to posts I made weeks go. The only line in the text told me to see the attachment. Yeah, I'll do that. My mail server told me it found and cleaned a virus. I imagine most of you, if you also received such, figured it out yourselves.

RE: Common Oracle RDBMS Misconceptions - standby db?

2001-06-27 Thread Mike Killough
I'm not sure, but he was probably referring to resyncing a standby. Some people think that in order to get the standby back up after a crash, they need to start over by copying all of the datafiles. Instead, all you have to do is ftp the archive log files over, recover standby database and

translate question

2001-06-27 Thread tday6
I've got this check constraint on a column (NBR) (which is actually a VARCHAR2(10)). translate(lpad(NBR,9,'0'), '0123456789','--') = '-'andNBR between 1 and 1) As far as I can see it's left padding the string with 0's to a length of 9, translating

Interesting query

2001-06-27 Thread David Turner
My users are writing many of their own functions and it is causing performance to suffer on a few simple queries. For example, I have a query that just selects count(*) from a table. With the function select count(*) from a_table where a_column = cdk(1234567890); It takes 5 minutes By

RE: timed_os_statistics initSID.ora parameter

2001-06-27 Thread Henry Poras
Ross, Do you mean to check v$sysstat and statname? (not parameter) If I remember correctly, the statistics that are populated are OS dependent (not all OS's populated all stats). Henry -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:33 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: Virus?

2001-06-27 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Yes, I received it also and attachment was having virus so I deleted it. Regards Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:42:08 -0800 Hey, did anyone recieve a bunch of emails for a Venkata Apparao N with attachments.

RE: Heads Up: Virus coming from list - Venkata Apparao

2001-06-27 Thread Rocky Welch
Lisa, I'm sure he meant: Phat. ;o) -Rocky --- Kimberly Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes being called Fat is a complement. I really am not sure why but its those same people who think stupid is a complement. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 10:42 AM To:

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Will everyone please drop the 24 x 7 from the subject?! I asked the question a few days ago and the discussion now has nothing to do with the question. Thanks to those who actually had input to the original question. Ron -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:57 PM To:

RE: Heads Up: Virus coming from list - Venkata Apparao

2001-06-27 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Crush him with that Ninja kick ;-) - Kirti -Original Message- From: Koivu, Lisa [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:42 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Heads Up: Virus coming from list - Venkata Apparao Looks like Venkata

Re: Virus?

2001-06-27 Thread Terry Ball
Yes, I got a couple. Terry Kevin Kostyszyn wrote: Hey, did anyone recieve a bunch of emails for a Venkata Apparao N with attachments. It appears to just be peaces of emails and then a see attached and an attachement? Yeah, I'll get right on opening that up. Sincerely, Kevin Kostyszyn

RE: Heads Up: Virus coming from list - Venkata Apparao

2001-06-27 Thread Kimberly Smith
Title: Heads Up: Virus coming from list - Venkata Apparao Sometimes being called Fat is a complement. I really am not sure why but its those same people who think stupid is a complement. -Original Message-From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001

RE: SQL-Server Presentation/Reality Check

2001-06-27 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Title: SQL-Server Presentation/Reality Check Be sure to ask them about Micro$ofts new pricing method. Also be sure to find out why they are making their customers prove that they have the appropriate number of legal licenses for each install of all M$ software. This had our network guys

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Thater, William
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001,Marty Bonner scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -I just got a shiver down my spine as I realized... you got kicked off of -Slashdot, didn't you? Not playing nice with the rest of the kids? - -Anyhoo, your rhetoric is more appropriate for that forum than this one.

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Thater, William
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001,Rachel Carmichael scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: - -As for using a text based mua on a sun machine, which doesnt -attempt to correct mistakes, thus not creating its own, well, you are right -about that, but then it doesn't seem as if you need any help in introducing

Re: translate question

2001-06-27 Thread tday6
I'll answer my own question. It's testing to make sure that the VARCHAR2 only contains numeric characters. I asked my roomie to help and as I was explaining what we were looking at I answered my own question. Now, why they're doing this is another question. -- Please see the official

ADMIN: Virus (it's NOT on the list)

2001-06-27 Thread Bruce Bergman
Hi folks... I've checked the list and the virus is NOT being propagated via the list. The person with the infection is sending replies to all of you individually. Each time you post a message to the list, your message is re-sent to him/her, and the virus on their computer is sending you a reply

virus question

2001-06-27 Thread Pat Hildebrand
I think I must have something confused here. If this list removes attachments to avoid viruses, how does a virus in an attachment come through the list? I would think that it might be sent out directly. This makes some sense as it seems that not everyone is receiving the

Number of books sold 10000

2001-06-27 Thread Hillman, Alex
I am curious if data available of number of Oracle books copies sold. Sorry for being incredibly rude because this is apparently another thinly vailed attempt to find out how much money certain authors make :-) Alex Hillman -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com --

Re: Interesting query

2001-06-27 Thread Connor McDonald
select count(*) from table where a_column = ( select cdk(123) from dual where rownum = 1 ) or you can use DISTINCT or a NO_MERGE hint - anything to force the subquery to be evaluated in isolation hth connor --- David Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My users are writing many of their own

Re: direct I/O with VxFS

2001-06-27 Thread Connor McDonald
My understanding is that most modern disks have track buffers anyway which would obviate the need for this... (I'll happily stand corrected if anyone knows better) hth connor --- KC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Connor, Thanks for your input. I agreed with you on what you said about the

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
It is sort of looking like he got kicked off of this one as well:) -Original Message- Bonner Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 3:15 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I just got a shiver down my spine as I realized... you got kicked off of Slashdot, didn't you? Not playing nice

Re: Interesting query

2001-06-27 Thread Rocky Welch
Hi David, Can you have them write the query with a variable then populate the variable with the function? -Rocky --- David Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My users are writing many of their own functions and it is causing performance to suffer on a few simple queries. For example, I have a

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Hillman, Alex
Bad day man? Lighten up a little bit. Would be nice first to answer some Oracle questions posted on this list and then publish your opinion about idiots around there. Alex Hillman -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Now

RE: Heads Up: Virus coming from list - Venkata Apparao

2001-06-27 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Why would anyone compare you to a file allocation table??? Bizarre. Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- From: Koivu, Lisa [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:42 PM To: Multiple recipients

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
S !! Alex is awake !!! ;-) - Kirti -Original Message- From: Hillman, Alex [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? Bad day man? Lighten up a little bit.

RE: Interesting query

2001-06-27 Thread Khedr, Waleed
select count(*) from a_table where a_column = (select cdk(1234567890) from dual); Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 3:01 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L My users are writing many of their own functions and it is causing performance to

RE: virus question

2001-06-27 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Pat, I received the email directly (not thru the list) from Mr. V.. luckily, the email virus software stripped his attachments out before I got'em. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 4:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

Re: Global edit of table

2001-06-27 Thread Stephane Faroult
John Dunn wrote: I would like to be able to amend all occurences of a string in all columns of all rows of a table. Can I do this, without specifying individual column names? Please note that the string may include forward slashes / John John, If you do not want to specify

RE: Deadlock Detection - Resolved

2001-06-27 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Kevin, sorry, missed the last digit (another 9) Bug # 1328999 Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message-From: Kevin Kostyszyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:17 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE:

RE: Urgent! Virus Alert.

2001-06-27 Thread Guidry, Chris
Same here. I deleted right away -- Chris J. Guidry P.Eng. ATCO Electric, Metering Services Phone: (780) 420-4142 Fax: (780) 420-3854 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:17 PM To: Multiple

RE: Another NT question

2001-06-27 Thread Mohan, Ross
Too many bugs I guess? g,d, rlh Thanks, Anita. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:42 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ross, It is as far as Oracle is concerned. Compaq Alpha NT was desupported as of 4/30/01 (see note 93651.1). -- Anita ---

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT? - now tell if sufficient free space exis

2001-06-27 Thread Paul Drake
this is not elegant, but works: execute this is sqlplus: host (srvinfo -od ) disk_info.txt host blat disk_info.txt -to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which will provide you with output of the format: -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 3:48 PM To: log_files C$,NTFS,2048,1890,158

RE: SQL-Server Presentation/Reality Check

2001-06-27 Thread Ed Maurer
Privilege ? Reality? Reality and MS is an oxymoron. I've had the fortune (misfortune) to become a SQL Server DBA in addition to my Oracle duties, due to packaged application requirements. As an admitted defiler of all MS stands for and it's dubious accomplishments, I'll offer a few grains of

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Ron Rogers
Right on Rachel!! You go get'em girl. To add to the mix.. Some of the participants on this list are extremely knowledgeable and published. They are willing and able to offer assistance when the opportunity arises. All people are given the chance to voice their opinion and should do so with

RE: Heads Up: Virus coming from list - Venkata Apparao

2001-06-27 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHHHwow that was good:) -Original Message- Patrice J Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 3:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Why would anyone compare you to a file allocation table??? Bizarre. Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

RE: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

2001-06-27 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Jon, slowly now - no - slower than that, take you hands away from the keyboard. carefully now, shutdown your machine. slowly back away from your desk. now run like hell for your car. go home, get a glass of lemonade, and find the nearest shady place. breath deeply. now, isn't that

RE: translate question

2001-06-27 Thread Kevin Lange
The first part translate(lpad(NBR,9,'0'), '0123456789','--') = '-' checks to see if the string is ENTIRELY made up of numbers. And it also assumes there is at least 1 character in the string (using lpad of 9 instead of 10) The second part .

RE: timed_os_statistics initSID.ora parameter

2001-06-27 Thread Mohan, Ross
OOPS! STATISTICS names, not PARAMETER names: e.g. OS User time used OS System time used btw, it's flavor-dependent...somes OS'es have ALOT! hth -Ross -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:17 PM To: Multiple recipients

Re: Oracle Table Record Lock

2001-06-27 Thread Svend Jensen
Hi You migth try something like: select rowid, columnX from tab where conditions for update Svend Kevin Lange wrote: Hey Gang; Does anyone know of a way to find exactly which rowid is locked in a table ?? I have a developer who has a requirement to report exactly which record is

OT RE: Mark's Wild A** Vid Card

2001-06-27 Thread Mohan, Ross
Yes! :-) I thought so, tooPirsig is still around, and may well be working on a third booklet's hope so! -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 3:08 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L THAT was an awesome book! -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday,

RE: virus question

2001-06-27 Thread lhoska
I think it might've been send directly because I did not receive any of the infected e-mails from that individual. Again I just joined the list recently. To refresh your memory, I also don't receive as many recruitment adds as you guys do. So, some people might've got a hold of the list

RE: virus question

2001-06-27 Thread Kevin Lange
It did come directly. But I think they got our addresses from the list. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 3:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I think I must have something confused here. If this list removes attachments to avoid viruses, how does a virus

RE: SQL-Server Presentation/Reality Check

2001-06-27 Thread Post, Ethan
Can you provide some references to lack of support of read-consistency. Not that I don't believe you but I just read that to a guy next to me and he is clamoring for evidence. - E -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:07 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: Oracle Table Record Lock

2001-06-27 Thread ARUN K C
why dont you find that out from the v$session in which u can find out which object_id,file_number,block_number and rownum on that blockid. based on this use the package dbms_rowid to extract the rowid of that table you want to know From: Svend Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

Re: Oracle Table Record Lock

2001-06-27 Thread ARUN K C
why dont you find that out from the v$session in which u can find out which object_id,file_number,block_number and rownum on that blockid. based on this use the package dbms_rowid to extract the rowid of that table you. From: Svend Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

An approach to isolating external users--opinions wanted

2001-06-27 Thread Lisa Clary
We have approximately 40 or so people external to this office and to our operation that require access to confidential information (with that population is increasing). The connections to Oracle are made through DSN/ODBC using various applications (access, excel,etc) and data are restricted

db won't mount

2001-06-27 Thread Henry Poras
I've got a cute one here. I saw something like this years ago, but I can't remember what I did. The database is running Oracle 8.0.6 on Solaris 2.6. I was just brought into this problem, so I don't know too much about the database. It is shutdown nightly for a cold backup, and by the looks of

ORA-12638: Credential retrieval failed URGENT!!!!

2001-06-27 Thread Helen rwulfjeq
Hi Guru: We have a window's machine runing oracle database. Originally the database uses static IP address. Everything is fine. Now we change the network config to use DHCP server to assign IPaddress dynamically. We have the error message. Database is up but we can't use svrmgrl, sqlplus and

What's lock/unlock mechnism

2001-06-27 Thread Helen rwulfjeq
Hi , Oracle database system uses very complicated lock/unlock design for readlock,writelock and row/recordlock etc. Does anyone know lock/unlock is implemented both client like sqlplus and server side or just on server side or just client side. For instance, one user using sqlplus access

ADMIN: **IMPORTANT** About dis-invited subscribers

2001-06-27 Thread Bruce Bergman
Folks... It is very important that you all read and adhere to this message. The list may have had a problem recently with a hacker, and/or viruses from an unknown source. The potential abusers have been removed, so we have a small window of opportunity to make sure this doesn't escalate. The

RE: db won't mount

2001-06-27 Thread Mohan, Ross
1) What are the last few lines in the alert log? ( as you try to open it) 2) is there a process that is taking alot of CPU? 3) what are the mtime, ctime, and atime of the SGA shmmem segs? Appropriate? -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 5:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of

Re: db won't mount

2001-06-27 Thread DBarbour
Henry, Couple of immediate things come to mind you didn't mention: (1) Is your archive destination full? (2) I'm not sure at what point this file comes into play, but have you removed any occurrence of lckSID file when the DB is shut down? I'm sure others will have more (and probably much

RE: SQL-Server Presentation/Reality Check

2001-06-27 Thread Zhong Hong
Title: SQL-Server Presentation/Reality Check I went through this 'Reality Check' a couple of months ago. And I have deep experience with both products. The result of check is, SQL Server is NOT as cheap as you thought. Zhong It's another beautiful day! -Original Message-From:

Re: db won't mount

2001-06-27 Thread Michael Netrusov
Henry, Look at doc # 61552.1 on Metalink. HTH, Michael www.atelo.com - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 17:54 I've got a cute one here. I saw something like this years ago, but I can't remember what I

RE: SQL-Server Presentation/Reality Check

2001-06-27 Thread Mohan, Ross
Microsoft itself will tell you that it won't allow you to read a record/row that someone is actively changing. They give a few examples that make very good sense to yours truly. I am sure that others can come up with examples that make it look like the stupidest thing since poisonivy-based

Pocket Guide

2001-06-27 Thread jon baker
Has anyone run across a Pocket Guide for SQL. I don't need one for SQL*Plus or PL/SQL. Just sometimes I cannot remember complete syntax for some commands and a quick guide really helps. Sucks getting old. I don't see one from O'Reilly which normally handles a series like this. -- Jon

Re: db won't mount

2001-06-27 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Please check for space ,specially where your log files are. Most possible file system containing your alert log has no space left... Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 13:54:07 -0800 I've got a cute one

convert empty table to a message

2001-06-27 Thread Helen rwulfjeq
Hello, I have a file to contain info about the reports detailed info (stored in a temp table in the DB) we created every night. Such as: report ID, report_name... However, sometimes there is no report generated overnight. In this case, the temp table would be empty. But this file will still spool

Re: ORA-12638: Credential retrieval failed URGENT!!!!

2001-06-27 Thread Thater, William
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001,Helen rwulfjeq scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: -ORA-12638: Credential retrieval failed - - -BM_28047 - -Cause: The authentication service failed to retrieve the credentials of -a user. - -BM_28048 - -Action: Enable tracing to determine the exact error. did you

RE: db won't mount

2001-06-27 Thread Paul Drake
Original Message Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:50:09 -0800 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I got the answer. It's amazing what changing a couple of words in a

RE: [Fwd: ORA-12638: Credential retrieval failed URGENT!!!!]

2001-06-27 Thread Paul Drake
Helen, change the following in the sqlnet.ora file: SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (NTS) to SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (NONE) that will fix it. Paul Original Message Subject: ORA-12638: Credential retrieval failed URGENT Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001

Re: An approach to isolating external users--opinions wanted

2001-06-27 Thread Stephane Faroult
Lisa Clary wrote: We have approximately 40 or so people external to this office and to our operation that require access to confidential information (with that population is increasing). The connections to Oracle are made through DSN/ODBC using various applications (access, excel,etc) and

RE: SQL-Server Presentation/Reality Check

2001-06-27 Thread Ed Maurer
From SQL-Server BOL (Books on Line) READ COMMITTED Specifies that shared locks are held while the data is being read to avoid dirty reads, but the data can be changed before the end of the transaction, resulting in nonrepeatable reads or phantom data. This option is the SQL Server default.

Re: db won't mount

2001-06-27 Thread Riyaj_Shamsudeen
Hi Henry You may be hitting a bug 1399885 due to timer overflow. Can you check the uptime ? Also check the clock ticks per second. Due to a timer overflow problem, when the machine is up and running for more than 248 days (ticks=1000) or 24 days (ticks=100) then the database will hang and

Re: Number of books sold 10000

2001-06-27 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Hello Alex, Is there a reason you are asking this question? Are you thinking of proposing a book? Ingram (http://www.ingram.com), a large book distributor, used to have a phone number that you could dial, punch in an ISBN number, and then hear Ingram's sales figures for that book for the

RE: Wher is an error ?

2001-06-27 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: Wher is an error ? HA! Shows what I know. I just re-read. Sorry Alex and everyone. I completely missed it. Yeah, if anyone can shed light, I'd like to know too! --Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Hillman, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: Wher is an error ?

2001-06-27 Thread Bowes, Chris
Title: RE: Wher is an error ? Hewlett-Packard Company 3000 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA 94304 U.S.A. Rights for non-DOD U.S. Government Departments and Agencies are as set forth in FAR 52.227-19(c)(1,2). userid=xxy export userid echo $userid xxy if [ $userid=xxx ]; then echo 'aaa';

Re: Pocket Guide

2001-06-27 Thread Jonathan Gennick
I'd like to follow up on this, because I wrote the SQL*Plus Pocket Ref, and I'm planning to revise it soon. One of the things I want to do when I revise the book is to add material about the more commonly used SQL statements, because, frankly, I'm convinced that's what readers really want. One

Fwd: Re: Number of books sold 10000

2001-06-27 Thread Jonathan Gennick
My apologies. I meant for my note to go directly to Alex, not to the list. I forgot to paste in his email address before I hit send. Sorry about that. -- Best regards, Jonathan Gennick mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 906.387.1698 http://Gennick.com * http://MichiganWaterfalls.com *

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