Re: MTS IS CONFIGURED BUT STILL DEDICATED CONNECTIONS USED

2001-07-25 Thread Christian Trassens
Probably your clients or the users have in their sqlnet.ora the parameter use_dedicated_server=TRUE or in the entry of the tnsnames.ora a clause like (SERVER=DEDICATED). Also issue an netstat to see if everything is alright. If you find any problem with the ports of the dispatchers, try forcing

RE: constraint naming

2001-07-25 Thread Guy Hammond
That's precisely the point - we have a bunch of system-generated names that we'd like to change to meaningful names... g -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:32 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L g, Why use system generated FK names. does SYS12345 maen any thing

4 drives, 2 controller ( 3 drives on the SAME controller !)

2001-07-25 Thread Rahul
list, in my rs/6000, i found the following... # lsdev -Cc adapter ascsi0 Available 00-06Wide SCSI I/O Controller Adapter ascsi1 Available 00-07Wide SCSI I/O Controller Adapter # lsdev -Cc disk hdisk0 Available 00-06-B1-2,0 16 Bit SCSI Disk Drive hdisk1 Available 00-07-A1-3,0 16 Bit SCSI

RE: Starting Oracle services remotely (Win2K)

2001-07-25 Thread O'Neill, Sean
Mark, RCMD from the Resource Kit for NT4, and presumably for W2K, might provide a solution. I have not used it myself so can't comment on it's operation etc. Sean :) Rookie Data Base Administrator [0%] OCP Oracle8i DBA [0%] OCP Oracle9i DBA

latch free waits on LIBRARY CACHE latch and bind variables

2001-07-25 Thread John Dunn
Can someone please explain how to monitor latch free waits on LIBRARY cache and provide examples of using bind variables. THE PL/SQL reference does not seem to make much reference to bind varaiables John -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: John Dunn

statement for directory objects

2001-07-25 Thread Beatriz Martínez Jiménez
Hello List, I would like to know any statement to know which 'object directory' exists in the oracle instance, for a specified user. TIA, begin:vcard n:Jimenez;Beatriz Martinez x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Fundación CIDAUT;Departamento de Informática adr:;;Parque Tecnológico de Boecillo

Capacity of LONG datatype

2001-07-25 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
How many Characters(Alphanumeric) can be inserted into a Field of Datatype LONG ? Why ? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: VIVEK_SHARMA INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California

OT: Micsoft Technically Correct

2001-07-25 Thread Rajesh Dayal
A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communications equipment. Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position. The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it,

urgent..! ANSI Standard SQL for Outer Join (ORACLE SQL SERVER)

2001-07-25 Thread Rangachari Sundar
Dear All, Can anyone of you help me for the following. I want to give a generalized SQL syntax for Outer Join for both oracle SQL server. Can I use ANSI Syntax say for example select empno, ename from emp join dept on emp.deptno = dept.deptno (Something like this) Bye Sundar -- Please see

severe lib cache contention !!

2001-07-25 Thread Rahul
list, i just ported a system to 8.1.5, the application DOES NOT make use of bind variables, each and every query (fired from 8 clients every 2-3 seconds) parses and executes, this keeps the shared pool patch also very busy... i cannot tune the app, is there something i can do to reduce the lib

Re: 4 drives, 2 controller ( 3 drives on the SAME controller

2001-07-25 Thread Peter McLarty
Rahul You may need to rebuild the system completely depending on what is currently on those disks. On the other hand if you are using something similar to the HP Logical Volume Manger then you may be able to drop that volume out with out deleting the contents and when you reboot the system

RE: Capacity of LONG datatype

2001-07-25 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Character data of variable length up to 2 gig. The length of LONG datatype values may be limited by the memory available on your computer. Dave -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 6:56 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L How many Characters(Alphanumeric) can be

Re: waits on sequential scans - how did i solve it

2001-07-25 Thread Igor Neyman
Jack, I was going to suggest, what you did, but then I noticed the version Rahul was using. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA Perceptron, Inc. (734)414-4627 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 5:58 PM

Re: urgent..! ANSI Standard SQL for Outer Join (ORACLE SQL SERVER)

2001-07-25 Thread Igor Neyman
Why don't you try it? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA Perceptron, Inc. (734)414-4627 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 8:35 AM Dear All, Can anyone of you help me for the following. I want to

RE: books on data modelling

2001-07-25 Thread Tirumala, Surendra
Thanks for all replies. Suren -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 5:58 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Handbook of Relational Database Design by Candace C. Fleming and Barbara von Halle is pretty solid.Not sure if its still in print or not though.

RE: Information about User-defined Locks

2001-07-25 Thread Jon Walthour
Listers: Solved my own problem and thought I would share the solution with you all. To find the name of a user-defined lock: SELECT s.sid , s.serial# , DECODE( s.process , NULL, DECODE(SUBSTR(p.username, 1, 1), '?', UPPER(s.osuser), p.username)

RE: OT, WOW really early

2001-07-25 Thread Christopher Spence
What is required to submit a paper/presentation to IOUGA and get excepted. 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, July 24, 2001 8:41 PM To: Multiple

Re: severe lib cache contention !!

2001-07-25 Thread ARUN K C
Set your time_statistics=false i think this is a bug in 8.1.5 we had the same issue. and also I am not sure whether you can set cursor_sharing=force in 8.1.5 if yes try this out this will convert all the literals to bind variables From: Rahul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: retrieving BLOB column..

2001-07-25 Thread Guy Hammond
I don't remember in ODBC/OLEDB, but in JDBC there's quite a nice streams interface to CLOBs. You open the CLOB, then just read it as any other stream, for example as if it were a disk file, using the CLOB as a handle rather than a file descriptor. g -Original Message-From:

Re: OT, WOW really early

2001-07-25 Thread Brian McGraw
Depends on if it's a user-defined exception or not. : ) Seriously, I presented for the first time at IOUG-A 2001. I submitted a topic by the deadline date, which contained a brief ( 250 words, I believe) synopsis of what I wanted to speak about. The accept/reject decision is made from that

RE: Data load options

2001-07-25 Thread David Wagoner
You can use Materialized Views in Oracle 8i to load data from one database to another (via the DB link) either manually or at scheduled intervals. David David B. Wagoner Database Administrator Arsenal Digital Solutions Worldwide Inc. 4815 Emperor Blvd., Suite 110 Durham, NC 27703 Tel. (919)

UNIX SCRIPT ISSUE - URGENT

2001-07-25 Thread Johan Muller
I need to extract the first 16 bytes of a filename (AIX 4.3) which consists of an IP address (nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn), and move that to first 16 positions in the file itself, plus adding a pipe (|) sign for a delimiter, and save the IP address as a file name with a .dat extension, before loading the

RE: OT, WOW really early

2001-07-25 Thread Hillman, Alex
Maybe some spelling errors in the abstract -:) Alex Hillman -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:46 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What is required to submit a paper/presentation to IOUGA and get excepted. Walking on water and developing software from a

RE: Data load options

2001-07-25 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Data load options Hi Sean, Others have given you different options. Here's some considerations: 1. SQL Script. Can be SLOW May require intermittent commits in your script Manual and error prone Must go through SQL engine 2. SQL Loader Can be very fast (direct - bypassing

Re:Data load options

2001-07-25 Thread dgoulet
Sean, Depends on what the data is, volume thereof, do you need real time loading, etc... We use to use SQL*Loader, but found a lot of problems scrubbing bad data from our testers during the load process as well as other problems. Consequently we now use Pro*C exclusively. Dick Goulet

Dangerous AIX Bug!

2001-07-25 Thread Mohan, Ross
...just kidding, thought that would get your attention. But seriously: does anyone out there use Oracle 8i on AIX 4.3 or 5L? I'd like to chat w/you if so. Thanks! - Ross p.s. hmmm...maybe there *is* a bug in AIX and that's one of the things I'll learn:-) -Original

RE: OT, WOW really early

2001-07-25 Thread Rachel Carmichael
to submit a paper, you just need an idea, a title and an abstract. The abstract needs to be somewhat catchy, the idea should be relevant and something that might interest attendees (anything on version 6, Oracle7 or Oracle8 is not a good idea G). To be accepted (to be excepted would be to be

RE: Data load options

2001-07-25 Thread Guidry, Chris
Hi, COPY command. -- Chris J. Guidry P.Eng. ATCO Electric, Metering Services Phone: (780) 420-4142 Fax: (780) 420-3854 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: O'Neill, Sean [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 04:16 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Need SQL Example

2001-07-25 Thread Yadav, Shailesh
Ethan, Is it possible for you to use your function instead of decode? I guess that way you can evaluate situations wherein decode would not work. That way you could have it work on older versions of Oracle. Shailesh -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 1:29 PM To: Multiple

OCI

2001-07-25 Thread Ramon Estevez
Title: Blank Hi, Does anyone know about the Oracle Certified Instructor program. I looked in the Oracle site and didn't found anything. Regards Ramón Estévez (809-565-3121 x 225 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blank Bkgrd.gif

Re: urgent..! ANSI Standard SQL for Outer Join (ORACLE SQL SERVER)

2001-07-25 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Hello Rangachari, Oracle9i supports the ANSI join syntax. I just finished an article on it that should appear in the Nov/Dec (I think) issue of Oracle Magazine. Best regards, Jonathan Gennick mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * 906.387.1698 http://Gennick.com * http://MichiganWaterfalls.com *

Re[2]: Information about User-defined Locks

2001-07-25 Thread dgoulet
Jon, User defined locks do not lock anything, except a very small chunk of the SGA, part of the shared pool. Now the question is: is the procedure hanging while holding the UL or while trying to acquire the UL? A UL must be acquired by using the DBMS_LOCK package, namely the

RE: OT, WOW really early

2001-07-25 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)
Title: RE: OT, WOW really early For those of you who have been speakers before, there appears to be a new wrinkle in the submission process. They now want an outline of the presentation submitted along with the abstract. I don't remember submitting an outline for past conferences.

Re: Metablink .... down again?

2001-07-25 Thread Thater, William
Guy Hammond wrote: Is there a web site where we can submit bug reports for MetaLink itself?! yes you can submit an iTAR on metalink.;-) -- Bill Shrek Thater Certifiable ORACLE DBA Telergy, Inc.[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~ You gotta program

Re: Data load options

2001-07-25 Thread tday6
My experience with getting data into Oracle on an NT platform. If a small number of rows are being inserted or updated, use an application or SQL script. If the data already exists in some form outside of Oracle, transform the data into some form of a flat file and use SQL*Loader. If the data

MTS IS CONFIGURED BUT STILL DEDICATED CONNECTIONS USED

2001-07-25 Thread Harvinder Singh
Hi, I have configured the server to use MTS and still dedicated connections r used. What might be the reasondatabase is 8.1.6.3.4 LSNRCTL services Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=IPC)(KEY=EXTPROC0))) Services Summary... ora2000 has 6 service handler(s)

RE: Data load options

2001-07-25 Thread Johan Muller
Hydrocodone Acetaminophen. Pain reliever for DBA's most probably; at present jobsite we get dosage of Prosac when we swipe our access badges. --- Hallas John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go on then Lisa, I rise to the challenge For us UK based listers what is Vicodin? John

Re:RE: Information about User-defined Locks

2001-07-25 Thread dgoulet
Jon, Your right, thanks. But for the edification of others who may not be using user defined locks today, here is the results of Jon's query from one of my DB's that does use them: SIDSERIAL# PROCESS USERNAME TERMINAL -- --

RE: Starting Oracle services remotely (Win2K)

2001-07-25 Thread Guidry, Chris
Mark, If you have the Resource Kit you can also use NETSVC.EXE. If you do not, you may download freely from microsoft the Resource Kit Support Tools which contains SC.EXE. HTH -- Chris J. Guidry P.Eng. ATCO Electric, Metering Services Phone: (780) 420-4142 Fax: (780) 420-3854 Email: [EMAIL

Re: OT, WOW really early

2001-07-25 Thread Thater, William
Christopher Spence wrote: What is required to submit a paper/presentation to IOUGA and get excepted. brains, knowledge and skill? or sheer luck? all i have to depend on is the luck part.;-) now to figure out if it's good or bad.;-) -- Bill Shrek Thater Certifiable ORACLE DBA Telergy,

RE: RE: Data Modeling opinion? Help?

2001-07-25 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Chris, I don't think anyone is disagreeing with your evaluation of what SHOULD be done (emphasis on purpose). But, you have to deal with the people and politics of the client. As I said before, it sounds like something else is going on in the organization, and someone decided to pull and

Re: UNIX SCRIPT ISSUE - URGENT

2001-07-25 Thread Larry Strickland
Since you have so many files, you are likely to hit problems with the line length of the various shells. Assuming that all of the files are in the directory /usr/myfiles and that the script mentioned below is named cvtip, is executable and is in /usr/local/bin (or some other directory in the

RE: Data load options

2001-07-25 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Title: RE: Data load options Cheers John, I wason the verge of asking myself -Original Message-From: Hallas John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 25 July 2001 15:57To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Data load options Go on then Lisa, I rise to the

RE: UNIX SCRIPT ISSUE - URGENT

2001-07-25 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: UNIX SCRIPT ISSUE - URGENT No unix expert but the first option can be achieved automatically by running the following script for filename in `ls *.file` do unix script as listed done Rename a couple of the files and try out the syntax and work out the timings. Once it all

RE: UNIX SCRIPT ISSUE - URGENT

2001-07-25 Thread Anderson, Brian
for i in `ls` do YourScript.shl $i done Unless you are also processing your newfile.dat in the script you need to make unique names for the output files. Something like: sed s/Report by Hosts/$IP| Report by Hosts/ $FN new_${FN}.dat so you will get an output file from each input file.

RE: OT, WOW really early

2001-07-25 Thread JOE TESTA
ouch it hurt my brain :) joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/25/01 11:16AM "Oracle 9i XML Web Apps for Wireless ERP/CRM Support in Deep DB2/SiebelTerritory"Is that catchy enough? Something you can sink your blueteeth into?;-)-Original Message-Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 10:52 AMTo:

RE: statement for directory objects

2001-07-25 Thread Gogala, Mladen
select * from user_objects; -Original Message- From: Beatriz Martínez Jiménez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 7:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: statement for directory objects Hello List, I would like to know any statement to

RE: Data load options

2001-07-25 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: Data load options Go on then Lisa, I rise to the challenge For us UK based listers what is Vicodin? John -Original Message-From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 25 July 01 15:26To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Data load options

RE: Input truncated

2001-07-25 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Andrea, Look at the last line of your procedure. I'll bet you a dozen donuts that you do not have a carraige return after the last line of typed cdode, and that the last line of code is 35 chars long. Simply add a carraige return at the last line. hope this helps Tom Mercadante Oracle

Re:RE: Data load options

2001-07-25 Thread dgoulet
Lisa, SQL*Loader in direct path can cause you storage problems since it always appends to the table(s) ignoring blocks on the free block list. I found that out after a developer was using it for our data warehouse. At the end of a year he had burned almost 100GB of disk it kept increasing

re-archiving a redo log file

2001-07-25 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)
Title: re-archiving a redo log file Is it possible to re-archive an already archived but still online redo log file? the 8.1.6 sql*plus manual says it is, but I can't get the syntax down right apparently. SQL archive log 227 returns a ORA-16013 (does not need archiving) error and SQL

RE: Metablink .... down again?

2001-07-25 Thread Guy Hammond
Is there a web site where we can submit bug reports for MetaLink itself?! -Original Message- Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 3:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Is it me or everyone? Is Metablink working for anyone this morning ? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Rollback Segment Question

2001-07-25 Thread GL2Z/ INF DBA BENLATRECHE
Hi All I had a long PL/SQL prg to run . I created a special rollback segment for that script with the storage of (initial 1 m next 1m minextents 2). After a few minutes of running I got the Snapshot too old error. In the v_$rollstat view I got : extents=2, rssize ~ 2 M, hwmsize ~ 2 M.

RE: MTS IS CONFIGURED BUT STILL DEDICATED CONNECTIONS USED

2001-07-25 Thread Austin, Steve S
Check the client's sqlnet.ora. It can override the server config with USE_DEDICATED_SERVER=ON setting. Steve -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 10:36 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I have configured the server to use MTS and still dedicated

Re: both dbms_stats dbms_utility are gathering stats on sys objects

2001-07-25 Thread Prasada . Gunda1
Hi Jon, Thanks for your reply. I am aware of this option and I am currently doing the same way(i.e.,analyze database and delete SYS schema stats). But, I was wondering which release of 8.1.7 fixed this problem since Oracle claims that it is fixed in 8.1.7. Excerpt from oracle tech support mail:

RE: OT, WOW really early

2001-07-25 Thread Mohan, Ross
Oracle 9i XML Web Apps for Wireless ERP/CRM Support in Deep DB2/Siebel Territory Is that catchy enough? Something you can sink your blueteeth into? ;-) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 10:52 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L to submit a paper, you just

RE: Data load options

2001-07-25 Thread Jared . Still
I will second Lisa's recommendations. If you have much data, and/or will be doing this frequently, SQL*Loader is your friend. It is very fast. Loading from a SQL script is very bad unless you have small amounts of data. I once worked with a duhveloper who could not be dissuaded from loading

RE: ERROR IN INSTALING PATCH 8.1.6.3.0

2001-07-25 Thread Miller, Jay
We had a similar problem when installing the patchset for Oracle Client on Windows. We ended up renaming each existing .dll (.dll.old) and continuing. Worked fine. Jay Miller -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Had a

RE: OT, WOW really early

2001-07-25 Thread JOE TESTA
yeppers, if i've got the outline done, then the whole presentation is done at that point, geez. :( joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/25/01 11:06AM For those of you who have been speakers before, there appears to be a new wrinkle in the submission process. They now want an outline of the

Re: UNIX SCRIPT ISSUE - URGENT

2001-07-25 Thread Mustafa
Try awk or perl. They can handle string manipulation from OS commands simply and quickly. A simple awk script to take the first 16 characters of the output of ls and put it into a data file follows: gawk 'BEGIN { while (ls | getline) print substr($1,1,16) | Report by Hosts}' new.dat Defry

Tuning question - Why did this index help so much?

2001-07-25 Thread Miller, Jay
The other week a new production process was running much more slowly than anticipated. A file needed to be sent out by 6:00pm and at the rate the table was being populated it wouldn't complete until around 9:30pm. The production people and developers came to me for help and I saw that the SQL

RE: OT, WOW really early

2001-07-25 Thread Jared . Still
What is required to submit a paper/presentation to IOUGA and get excepted. Christopher R. Spence Why Chris? Were you excepted? ;) Jared Christopher

RE: Dangerous AIX Bug!

2001-07-25 Thread Durinda.Jones
Ross, We're running 8162 OPS on AIX 4.3. Chat away... Durinda -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:36 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L ...just kidding, thought that would get your attention. But seriously: does anyone out there use Oracle 8i on AIX 4.3

RE: Sun cluster vs Veritas cluster

2001-07-25 Thread Austin, Steve S
We're using Sun Cluster 2.2 and a mix of VCS implementations, all on Solaris -- 2.6, 2.7 and 8. It seems likely our HP Service Guard will also migrate to VCS as well. The SC2.2 product has had more sensitivity to the Oracle version than the VCS product. It also seems to have more of its guts

RE: OT, WOW really early

2001-07-25 Thread Henry Poras
Yes, Big Blue-teeth. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:17 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oracle 9i XML Web Apps for Wireless ERP/CRM Support in Deep DB2/Siebel Territory Is that catchy enough? Something you can sink your blueteeth into? ;-)

Best way to upgrade database/move data

2001-07-25 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
Hi DBAs, Currently I have NT server 4.0/Oracle 8.0.5 with about 400 million records/450 tables,indices,etc. We will be getting a new NT server with Oracle 8.1.7. We will increase block size from 2k to 8k What would be the best way to move data/users/sequences,etc from existing server to new

OT, It's all about Alex

2001-07-25 Thread Mohan, Ross
Alex, how did the paper/present go? -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 10:42 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Maybe some spelling errors in the abstract -:) Alex Hillman -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:46 AM To: Multiple

RE: Sun cluster vs Veritas cluster

2001-07-25 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Austin, Steve Hey, didn't I see you on Monday Night Raw and Smackdown?? :o) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 10:26 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We're using Sun Cluster 2.2 and a mix of VCS implementations, all on Solaris -- 2.6, 2.7 and 8. It seems

Patch Level

2001-07-25 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
How could we check patch level(like c,d etc) for AP module. We are running Oracle Financials 10.7 char with database 7.3.4.5. TIA MOHAMMAD RAFIQ _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp --

RE: Rollback Segment Question

2001-07-25 Thread Yadav, Shailesh
Kamel, Looks like you may have had multiple transactions in your PL/SQL prg. Since one transaction ended, the slot used by it to store undo information was reused by other transactions. Your query did not find the required undo information and thus Snapshot too old error. Had this been a long

RE: both dbms_stats dbms_utility are gathering stats on sys obj

2001-07-25 Thread Miller, Jay
Yep. That's what we do also. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 8:51 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L objects Well, first of all, you could use dbms_utility.analyze_schema() and analyze all the schemas except SYS ... or couldn't you run

Looking for a tool

2001-07-25 Thread Andrey Bronfin
Dear friends ! I'm desperately looking for a reporting tool with the following characteristics. It should be able to deploy various types of charts (Bar, Column, Line, Pie etc.) to a web environment. It should be able to extract its raw data from an Oracle (or other) RDBMS , using SQL. It

Re: Best way to upgrade database/move data

2001-07-25 Thread Mustafa
Your best way is to do a full export of the 8.0.5 data and import it into the new 8.1.7 database. Hope this helps, Defry - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 12:02 PM Hi DBAs, Currently I have NT server

Re: statement for directory objects

2001-07-25 Thread Beatriz Martínez Jiménez
Hello again, Before sending this email,I have done some intents to get this information. One of this was through this view (user_objects) but there is no object directories in it. The way in which I have created it is 'create directory XX AS 'E:\XXX';, and I get no error, the one I think is the

Re: Tuning question - Why did this index help so much?

2001-07-25 Thread Rachel Carmichael
it's possible that the index was small enough to stay cached in the SGA? From: Miller, Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tuning question - Why did this index help so much? Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:31:28 -0800

Re:RE: Data load options

2001-07-25 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Truncation was the solution in this case as I observed in the past that direct load option use empty blocks above HWM thus using lot of space above it. If it is possible target table should be truncated before such loads... Regards MOHAMMAD RAFIQ Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple

RE: books on data modelling

2001-07-25 Thread Guy Hammond
I've seen some data models where the only book they read was probably How To Smoke A Big Fat Pipe O' Crack. About the only book I've actually needed was Korth's Database System Concepts - all the rest of the knowledge needed is application-domain specific, for example, understanding how the

Re: data files the busiest

2001-07-25 Thread Jared . Still
The fact that you see the same busy file from your script as Jon's script shows is merely coincidence. Consider the output with varying levels of read and write activity. Jon's approach is more correct. Jared

Re: Data load options

2001-07-25 Thread Mustafa
Title: RE: Data load options It's a pain-killer: http://www.painmanagementsolutions.com/products/vicodin/vicodin.html BTW, in the US, a lot of Hollywood stars are in rehab due to the addictive effects of this drug. Defry - Original Message - From: Robertson Lee - lerobe

RE: version

2001-07-25 Thread Ramasamy, Baskar
Rukmini, select * from V$version Baskar -Original Message- Sent: 22 July 2001 17:17 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi All, How can we find what version of oracle (standard/enterprise/workgroup) is running in the system. Is there any view/table ? Thanks rukmini --

Re: Data load options

2001-07-25 Thread Denny Koovakattu
At least she didn't have a commit after every insert and ask you to tune the database ;) Denny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will second Lisa's recommendations. If you have much data, and/or will be doing this frequently, SQL*Loader is your friend. It is very fast. Loading from a SQL

effect of Initial and Next exents...

2001-07-25 Thread Raghu Kota
Hi Friends I obsered in my big database Tables and Indexes set different Initial and next extents..So How it will effect on performance?? Suppose one my big table has initial 72Mb and next 245Mb..All big indexes(6Gb) was set low Initial and next around 245Mb..Any ideas about the

Re: re-archiving a redo log file

2001-07-25 Thread Igor Neyman
Title: re-archiving a redo log file I don't think, it's possible. Most probably it checks 'archived' column in v$log. Also, it keeps track of archived files in v$archived_log. Igor - Original Message - From: Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130) To: Multiple recipients of list

UNIX command

2001-07-25 Thread Seema Singh
Hi gurus Which command is for to see disk layout in sun cluster and veritas cluster on sun solaris. Thanks in advance. -Seema _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp -- Please see the official

RE: MTS IS CONFIGURED BUT STILL DEDICATED CONNECTIONS USED

2001-07-25 Thread Harvinder Singh
this option is not set so i assume default is OFF... any other clue... -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 12:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Check the client's sqlnet.ora. It can override the server config with USE_DEDICATED_SERVER=ON setting.

RE: Looking for a tool

2001-07-25 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Discoverer 9i the demo at ODTUG was capable of doing almost everything that you mention here. Only two problems ... 1. works with Oracle only (AFAIK) 2. It is not available yet (last time I saw, it wasn't). Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni

RE: Tuning question - Why did this index help so much?

2001-07-25 Thread Miller, Jay
Kirti made a similar suggestion. But I had done a select count(*) on the table so that all the table rows would be loaded into memory. I suppose that the index blocks might not have been, but even there the likelihood that any given one of the million plus reads wouldn't find one of the 4,000

Re: Looking for a tool

2001-07-25 Thread Rocky Welch
Hi Andrey, Try Cognos. http://www.cognos.com/ HTH, -Rocky --- Andrey Bronfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends ! I'm desperately looking for a reporting tool with the following characteristics. It should be able to deploy various types of charts (Bar, Column, Line, Pie etc.) to a

RE: Tuning question - Why did this index help so much?

2001-07-25 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
I think it's because the optimizxer did not have to go to the table b to satisfy the query - it went to the index only. does this make sense? Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 12:57 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: books on data modelling

2001-07-25 Thread Jared . Still
I haven't yet seen a reference to David Hay's 'Data Model Patterns : Conventions of Thought'. If you haven't read and understood it, then sorry, you don't know data modeling. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932633293/qid=996081527/sr=2-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_1/104-1357679-6149513 'A

Re: Data load options

2001-07-25 Thread Jared . Still
I forgot to add: there was a commit for every 1000 rows. Jared Denny

RE: 4 drives, 2 controller ( 3 drives on the SAME controller !)

2001-07-25 Thread John Kanagaraj
Rahul, The 3 drives are sharing the controller and are daisy-chained. An IBM CE can reroute the cables, and depending on what's currently there, you *may* need to purchase cables/end connectors. Since you have the same Wide SCSI adapters/drives, this is less complicated than it could have been..

Re: statement for directory objects

2001-07-25 Thread Igor Neyman
You should be able to see the one you created in dba_directories: select * from dba_directories; Igor Neyman, OCP DBA Perceptron, Inc. (734)414-4627 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 1:10 PM

RE: books on data modelling

2001-07-25 Thread Rachel Carmichael
but you haven't lived until David Hay has made an origami animal for you :) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: books on data modelling Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:28:37 -0800 I haven't yet seen a

RE: MTS IS CONFIGURED BUT STILL DEDICATED CONNECTIONS USED

2001-07-25 Thread Durinda.Jones
A couple of things I would check. I don't believe you need the ADDRESS_LIST parameter, unless you will have multiples. I would remove the spaces in the parameter. I would make sure that the HOST equals the machine name, possibly make the entry upper case. As foolish as it sounds, I've seen

RE: re-archiving a redo log file

2001-07-25 Thread Miller, Jay
Hmm, would it work to do an OS level copy so long as you get to the redo log before it starts being written to again? Just a random thought... -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 12:42 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I don't think, it's possible. Most probably

OT -- RE: Sun cluster vs Veritas cluster

2001-07-25 Thread Austin, Steve S
You're showing your age. ;) I'm more akin the the $6.0 E+06 homo sapien. You know, a man barely alive; we have the technology, blahblahblah -- all that Six Million Dollar Man stuff (whose character was -also- Steve Austin for those who haven't caught it in reruns). It's amazing how much of

RE: Tuning question - Why did this index help so much?

2001-07-25 Thread Miller, Jay
Hi Tom, That's why I expected a 25% decrease in processing time (instead of reading 2 index blocks and 2 table blocks it read 2 index blocks and 1 table block). But why would it give a 75% decrease? Jay -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:29 PM To: Multiple recipients

Re[2]:RE: Data load options

2001-07-25 Thread dgoulet
Mohammad, That only works if you can truncate the table. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Mohammad Rafiq [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/25/2001 9:16 AM Truncation was the solution in this case as I observed in the past that direct load option

RE: MTS IS CONFIGURED BUT STILL DEDICATED CONNECTIONS USED

2001-07-25 Thread Harvinder Singh
i tried removing the spaces but it didn't help..if the client and server r on the same machine ... will it use ipc instead of tcp and if so do i have to configure dispacher for ipc and mention ipc in local_listener. -H -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:09

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