Re: export user definitions

2001-09-13 Thread Jared Still
On Wednesday 12 September 2001 21:05, Deshpande, Kirti wrote: I thought Joe was working on some kewl tool to address processing of exported dump file to get some meaningful SQL out Maybe this would work? Far from perfect, it mostly massages the table definitions into something

Re: Data Warehouse/weekly loads

2001-09-13 Thread Don Granaman
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!If this is really a separate database, not just a separate instance (i.e. OPS), then there may not be any really good options. You still have to move the new data to the other database. Replication MIGHT work, but don't take it lightly!

testing new header

2001-09-13 Thread Jared Still
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! ignore this message -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public

Re: Webserver..

2001-09-13 Thread nlzanen1
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi, So many options. WEBDB or PORTAL APACHE PHP IIS PHP APACHE PERL etc I use for my intranet playground apache PHP (both freeware) Jack Aldi Barco [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fatcity.com on 12-09-2001 18:40:26 Please respond to [EMAIL

Required Help on Analyzing dmp File

2001-09-13 Thread Ketan Patel
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!Hi list, Is there any utility provided by oracle through we can extract only table definitions , procedures in another file? -Ketan _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at

RE: Life: is that really OT?

2001-09-13 Thread Thomas, Kevin
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!Unfortunately this does happen in London and it happens in Northern Ireland. I've lost Uncles and friends who have been posted in NI to fight the war with the terrorists in Ireland. It's a war Britain will never win. My dad was sent there twice when

RE: db link from oracle 8.1.7 to 8.0.5

2001-09-13 Thread nlzanen1
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi, Indeed with public synonyms it won't work (neither with private synonyms). ORA-04043: Object does not exist Select works fine. Cheers jack Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fatcity.com on 12-09-2001 16:05:24 Please respond to

RE: Required Help on Analyzing dmp File

2001-09-13 Thread Sinardy
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!How about using spool to flat file ? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, 13 September 2001 4:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L !! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!Hi list, Is there any utility provided by oracle

Fwd: Interesting article from a canadian newspaper

2001-09-13 Thread Bill Conner
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!This article is awesome Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:43:05 -0600 From: Christopher Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Navidec X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en To: Samuel Schetter [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Required Help on Analyzing dmp File

2001-09-13 Thread claudio cutelli
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!yes, imp indexfile=filename table/index def - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:05 AM !! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!Hi list, Is

RE: Required Help on Analyzing dmp File

2001-09-13 Thread Rajesh Dayal
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!Same as my previous mail import using indexfile option. Sorry, I mean use show=y logfile=filename option .. Right Kirty? ;-)) Rajesh -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 12:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

OT: Oops

2001-09-13 Thread Thomas, Kevin
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!My apologies if any further OT topics come through this morning. I replied to some messages before I got to Jareds plea for an end to these. This IS the last one. K. hit any user to continue __ Kevin Thomas Technical

RE: WinNT / 8.0.5 / DECODE function affecting Century result in date

2001-09-13 Thread Greg Solomon
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!Hi George Your code looks fine to me and I have no idea why it wouldn't work. But if it turns into a pain in the neck, why not write a wee PL/SQL function to do the century thing for you and also trap nulls ? There's a reason you might want to do

Re: Required Help on Analyzing dmp File

2001-09-13 Thread Christian Trassens
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!imp.. show=y rows=n log=script.sql. And then working with awk over the file script.sql. Regards. --- Ketan Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: !! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!Hi list, Is there any utility provided by oracle

RE: Required Help on Analyzing dmp File

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RE: Data Warehouse/weekly loads

2001-09-13 Thread Greg Solomon
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!Another (really simple) approach to the problem is to avoid loading all the data in one hit, ie load say ten thousand rows, wait say sixty seconds to give the users' queries time to execute, and then load ten thousand more. The load takes longer,

RE: Required Help on Analyzing dmp File

2001-09-13 Thread Mark Leith
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Re: Surprising event

2001-09-13 Thread Connor McDonald
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!Are you regularly performing the appropriate analysis of optimiser stats? Its not too uncommon for performance to suddenly go over the edge rather than degrade in the nice linear fashion. For example, sorts suddenly needing to go to disk - just

Re: Data Warehouse/weekly loads

2001-09-13 Thread Connor McDonald
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!Sounds like a perfect case for - partition exchange - transportable tablespaces hth connor --- Connie Milliken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the options for being able to keep a data warehouse available to users, but still being able to

I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-13 Thread nlzanen1
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi All, Does anybody here on the list have experience with EMC/symmetrix storage units.? We have our databases on this machine and I have a feeling the the I/O performance is not very good. I can not proof it since I do not have any

RE: STOP THE PRESS!!

2001-09-13 Thread Raj Gopalan
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!Its Peacemaker. Infact I saw this movie this monday.. -Original Message- Sent: 12 September 2001 16:05 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Peacekeepers I believe -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 11:10

EBU Question

2001-09-13 Thread nlzanen1
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi All I have following request. At one of our customers site they are working with EBU and since I have no knowledge of this I figured to tap into the list's

RE: Dump Oracle Tables To ASCII/Comma Delimited File

2001-09-13 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!Go to http://www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/util/util_master.html and download utility. It works well for this. Rick -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:20 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi everybody, Can

RE: Dump Oracle Tables To ASCII/Comma Delimited File

2001-09-13 Thread Bala, Prakash
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!Check out TabExp that allows you to export any oracle table to several file formats like CSV, HTML, XML or a list SQL commands at http://www.materialdreams.com/products.html HTH Prakash -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, September 13,

Re: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-13 Thread Gene Sais
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!EMC supplies very good tools and support. Ask your EMC rep to show you how to use them. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/13/01 07:55AM !! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi All, Does anybody here on the list have experience with

RE: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-13 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix At one site I worked using Oracle Financials we were having serious performance problems at what seemed to us random intervals. Spent months looking at the database after the Unix boys had said that there was no way we could have I/O

Re:Multiple Oracle Homes on Unix

2001-09-13 Thread dgoulet
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Darren, I assume you have an account for your 8.0.5 Oracle software and hopefully the previous DBA created an 805 subdirectory off of $HOME to put $ORACLE_HOME in. If that is the case, just setup an 816 directory off $HOME for your new

RE: User Processes Taking 200 Megs of RAM Upon Connecting

2001-09-13 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Top shows the SGA size with each process, using pmap you can actually see the break down. With a 200Mb SGA (or slightly less actually) you will see 200Mb tied to each process, plus the process memory. Unfortunately I have not seen a tool as

Re[2]: Surprising event

2001-09-13 Thread dgoulet
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Connor, For the most part I agree, but I have also seen circumstances where a function (in my case) works very consistently for months and then goes totally south right out of the clear blue. This gets especially nerve racking when there are

High parse to execution Ratio on database

2001-09-13 Thread Gupta, Brijesh
Hi all, I am seeing very high parse/execution ratio. These statements are using bind variable. Can somebody help me understand why this is high. Database : 8.0.5 Using Oracle Application 10.7 SGA = 8.5 GB Shared pool : 1.5 GB Lately I have stated seeing the sqlarea miss and some

RE: Smon in trouble?

2001-09-13 Thread Walthour, Jon (GEAE, Compaq)
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Ian: Try this: 1. shutdown immediate or shutdown abort 2. startup restricted 3. Take all online user tablespaces offline then back online (not TEMP, RBS, SYSTEM, etc.) This will stop SMON from trying to recover information in the corrupted

RE: Dump Oracle Tables To ASCII/Comma Delimited File

2001-09-13 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! If your using PL/SQL Developer, there is a way to do this using SQL Window and just do a save results. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes.

RE: USE_NL with or without ORDERED

2001-09-13 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: USE_NL with or without ORDERED Picked this up on metalink - seems to cover your case well + Here is a good excerpt from Development on hints and the CBO... Query hints are used to restrict the number of alternative execution plans the optimizer has to choose from.

Re: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-13 Thread Don Granaman
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! WOW! Is the other workload on these similar when this job runs? Are you sure the problem is the Symmetrix and not something in the OS or instance configuration? Does this job spend a lot of time waiting (in Oracle) on physical I/O - or on

Re: Smon in trouble?

2001-09-13 Thread Ruth Gramolini
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! You are going to have to let smon do his thing. If you database is up and users are on they may experience slower perfomance but smon will do the cleanup in background. If you can afford to have user off, even better. You can so a shutdown

RE: Dump Oracle Tables To ASCII/Comma Delimited File

2001-09-13 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! deepender, there are not tools provided, but you can use several oracle products to do this. The first one to look at is Sqlplus. If the tables are not large, you can always do : select col1||','||col2||','||col3 from table and spool the

RE: Dump Oracle Tables To ASCII/Comma Delimited File

2001-09-13 Thread Stephane Faroult
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi everybody, Can anybody tell me the command/tool in oracle that can dump Oracle Tables To ASCII/Comma Delimited File. Regds deepender gupta You can do it with SQL*Plus for small volumes - a number of utilities, including Jared's

Re: Any shareware/gnu ER diagramers out there?

2001-09-13 Thread Joan Hsieh
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Not sure this is what you want. Joan set pagesize 24 set linesize 132 col fk_owner format a10 col fk_table format a15 col pk_owner format a10 col pk_table format a15 col fk_col format a15 col pk_col format a15 select fk.owner fk_owner,

RE: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-13 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
Title: RE: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix We saw this at a previous location and we found that we had logical volumes on the same disk.. Used for different applications, and even different systems!! For example-someone placed TEMP for DB1 and TEMP for DB2 on the same disk

Need script to generate DDL for snapshot/materialized view recrea

2001-09-13 Thread HAWKINS, JAMES W [IT/1000]
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hello all, I need to regenerate the DDL to recreate a snapshot/materialized view in an 8.1.6 database, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. Can anyone help me out with a script? Thanks in advance, Jim

Re:RE: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-13 Thread dgoulet
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Try Precise Software's DBTuner product. It has some sort of EMC proprietary connection into the storage array so that you can actually see what disks are being whacked. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author:

RE: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-13 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix Good list Don, and a dentist as well (repairing a bridge)!!! -Original Message- From: Don Granaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 September 01 15:15 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: I/O

Re[2]: Surprising event

2001-09-13 Thread Michael Barger
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I have noticed in the past that if you pin certain packages or functions in memory, they can become corrupt. They still show their state as being 'VALID', but they are of no use. The only thing I have found to do is recompile. We try to

Re: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-13 Thread nlzanen1
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi, The other workload I would say was about the same (Relatively speaking) Both machines did have idle time on the CPU (I/O intensive job). The quicker test machine was a bit stretched on memory at the time (running about 8 databases) but not

What happens if you lose the alert log?

2001-09-13 Thread Carle, William T (Bill), NLCIO
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi, I had a situation yesterday where a rogue process wrote millions of error messages into the alert log. I was able to get rid of the process, then delete the error messages out. But it would have been quicker to just blow it away and create

Re: USE_NL with or without ORDERED

2001-09-13 Thread Christian Trassens
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Using hints don't force Oracle to use the path choosen when you write the query. Much more true in a join operation where Oracle has many choices. What you do is to restrict options. However Oracle have to look at the statistics for a final

Re: Dump Oracle Tables To ASCII/Comma Delimited File

2001-09-13 Thread Chaim . Katz
SQL*PLus set colsep , spool x.csv select hth chaim Deepender Kr Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fatcity.com on 09/13/2001 09:20:25 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list

Re: Dump Oracle Tables To ASCII/Comma Delimited File

2001-09-13 Thread Ruth Gramolini
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! There is a script on Steve Adams' ixora website to do this for a whole DB. Ruth Hi everybody, Can anybody tell me the command/tool in oracle that can dump Oracle Tables To ASCII/Comma Delimited File. Regds deepender gupta

RE: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-13 Thread Greg Solomon
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi Given that you don't seem to have access to the hardware, I'd suggest timestamping. Choose say a few dozen points in the process and collect timestamps at each one. Compare the prod timestamps to the test timestamps, something may jump out,

Most cowardly act of terrorism

2001-09-13 Thread Ravi R
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! It is an irony that US which helped so many countries in the world in terms of economy/welfare/protection has got hit by terrorists. US should take all measures to protect itself from happening even to little extent anytime later. Strict measures

RE: What happens if you lose the alert log?

2001-09-13 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! You can rename or delete the SISAlrt.log on the fly. I do this on all my databases which is versions 7.3.4, 8.0.5, and 8.1.7. The next time that Oracle has to write to the log it will just create another log. Dave -Original Message-

RE: What happens if you lose the alert log?

2001-09-13 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! cp alert_SID.log alert_SID.date cp /dev/null alert_SID.log Works well. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes. Christopher R. Spence Oracle

RE: export user definitions

2001-09-13 Thread Baker, Barbara
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! As an 8.0 to 8.i migration tool, Oracle provided a checklist for upgrades (Metalink note 133920.1). This note has a couple of scripts that do a full export, then awk the dmp into a somewhat reasonable script. You'd need to play with it a bit to

RE: EBU Question

2001-09-13 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: EBU Question Hi Jack, I had to use it before. It's a MESS. Even the documentation and the notes on Metalink are wrong. Support gave me some internal documents that showed exactly how to create/update a repository. That was the only way I got it to work. I think your best option

RE: What happens if you lose the alert log?

2001-09-13 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: What happens if you lose the alert log? Bill, IF the alert log suddenly disappears (you delete it), Oracle will create a new one without skipping a beat. Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Administrator Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 954-935-4117 -Original Message- From: Carle,

Re: What happens if you lose the alert log?

2001-09-13 Thread Ruth Gramolini
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Oracle will just create another one whenever it needs to write to it. You can copy it to another place if you need to keep of just delete it. I delete mine periodically with no ill effect. Regards, Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple

RE: WinNT / 8.0.5 / DECODE function affecting Century result in d

2001-09-13 Thread Steven Monaghan
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! What about RRMMDD as the date format? Will that work? - Steven Monaghan Oracle DBA MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. Melville, NY [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mscdirect.com -

VIEW USER_SUMMARIES

2001-09-13 Thread JOE TESTA
anyone got a description for this one, i read on metalstink that for a query rewrite to work it must match EXACTLY the code in user_summaries, i've been thru 8i docs, 9i docs and the website to description of it anywhere. thanks, joe

RE: User Processes Taking 200 Megs of RAM Upon Connecting

2001-09-13 Thread tcarlson
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Thanks for all who have replied. My lack of Unix understanding is becoming very clear. Please bear with me. If top is showing the SGA's memory added to the user's allocation, why does pmap show what it does? Oracle has been less than helpful.

RE: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-13 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix John, I have to say that's a very interesting post. Two shops I've worked in utilizing an EMC Symmetrix claimed that there's no way you could ever end up with i/o problems and you shouldn't even consider it when creating a database on

Re:What happens if you lose the alert log?

2001-09-13 Thread dgoulet
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! If you delete the alert log and Oracle needs to make an entry thereafter the file will re-appear all by itself. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Carle; William T (Bill); NLCIO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

find out the rollback

2001-09-13 Thread Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane)
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi lists can anybody post me how much rollback (approx in bytes/kb/mb) will be generated if I delete my table that has 2 lakh rows. the avg row len is 50. often The query is getting failed due to the error unable to extend the rollback segment.

RE: What happens if you lose the alert log?

2001-09-13 Thread Haskins, Ed
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Oracle will automatically recreate the ALERT log file and begin writing to it. Ed -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L !! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!

Re: What happens if you lose the alert log?

2001-09-13 Thread JOE TESTA
Bill, its been a mixed bag recently as to the best, unix i've blown it away, rm or cat /dev/null alertSID.log with no problems whatso ever, windoze now thats another story someone else can take on. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/13/01 10:50AM !! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!Hi,

Re: What happens if you lose the alert log?

2001-09-13 Thread Scott Canaan
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! There is no problem with this. Oracle will just create a new one on the next write. I have a script that moves the alert.log to a backup file every Sunday. Carle, William T (Bill), NLCIO wrote: !! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !!

RE: EBU Question

2001-09-13 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: EBU Question If you re-post with more detail I can give you a hand. Tony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: EBU Question !! Please do

RE: WinNT / 8.0.5 / DECODE function affecting Century result in d

2001-09-13 Thread George Hofilena
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Thanks for all the responses. I just switched the operators like this. Seems to work. TO_DATE(DECODE(:bdate,NULL,NULL,'19'||:bdate),'MMDD') This is legacy data so the '19' prefix is only temporary. RR was one of the first that I tried.

RE: Required Help on Analyzing dmp File

2001-09-13 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: Required Help on Analyzing dmp File I've used this script to process the indexfile produced by imp. ## # ## ## Autor: Martin Zahn Akadia AG ## ## Purpose: Generieren der CREATE TABLE Statements aus

RE: USE_NL with or without ORDERED

2001-09-13 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: USE_NL with or without ORDERED Hi Ed, how many records are in the tables? Hash join is favored when there aren't so many records and there's enough memory to slam together the result set. I think you aren't seeing typical behavior. Try this on much larger tables and see

RE: Dump Oracle Tables To ASCII/Comma Delimited File

2001-09-13 Thread schmoldt
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! TOAD can do that. Browse the table, right-click the data grid, and choose SaveAs. You can also export fixed length, Excel, etc. The free version can be downloaded at www.toadsoft.com The free version will be receiving a major upgrade soon.

!! List members known to be safe !!

2001-09-13 Thread Jared . Still
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Please do not reply to the list. I've posted this here since so many of us know these people, and we all want to know that they are OK. Reply to me privately if you wish, but let's not start more Off Topic discussion.. Consider this a public

New off-topic listserv for oracle-l

2001-09-13 Thread JOE TESTA
I emailed Jared earlier and proposed a new listserv group for OT posts. So i started a group on yahoogroups.com, it is oracle-l-ot --- off-topic. This is the new place for off topic posts, ranting, flames, recipes, jokes, DBehs, etc. Now NO cross-posting as we'd lke to keep the [EMAIL

explain plan is changing ...

2001-09-13 Thread Gene Gurevich
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi all: I have a query, which behaves differently depending on the input data (month/year). I have more than 15month worth of data in the database. The query is completed under 1 minute for the first 13 month, but for the last two months it

Re: User Processes Taking 200 Megs of RAM Upon Connecting

2001-09-13 Thread DBarbour
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! What are your hard and soft ulimits? David A. Barbour Oracle DBA, OCP AISD 512-414-1002 tcarlson@tripo

RE: EBU Question

2001-09-13 Thread Christian Trassens
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! When I was working with 7.3 and obackup and after the ebu, I had a print copy of Enterprise Backup Utility Administrator's Guide. Nowadays we have technet: http://technet.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle7/doc_index.htm Regards. --- Koivu, Lisa

RE: USE_NL with or without ORDERED

2001-09-13 Thread Larry Elkins
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Eduard, Someone else commented on this as well a while back. This behavior is not unexpected and is documented and explained in the docs. But, your example doesn't exactly fit the scenario described in the manuals -- e.g. the CBO chooses as the

RE: WinNT / 8.0.5 / DECODE function affecting Century result in d

2001-09-13 Thread Larry Elkins
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! George, The behavior is explained by the nature of the DECODE statement. The data type of *all* the return arguments is defined by the datatype of the *first* return argument. In your case, NULL is the first return argument, and, the DECODE

Oracle DBAs with 11i and AIX experience needed in Los Angeles

2001-09-13 Thread OraStaff
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! A top manufacturing company located in Westlake Village, California (Greater Los Angeles area) has a requirement for several Oracle DBAs who have 11i and AIX experience to join its' I.T. team. * This company is looking for candidates local to the

RE: What happens if you lose the alert log?

2001-09-13 Thread Kevin Lange
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Alert logs can be destroyed at any time. If it is not there, oracle recreates it when it needs to log to it. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L !! Please do not post

Re: User Processes Taking 200 Megs of RAM Upon Connecting

2001-09-13 Thread Rocky Welch
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi Todd, How many users are there and what is the nature of their database access and are you running Multi-threaded server? -Rocky --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: !! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! What are your hard and soft

RE: explain plan is changing ...

2001-09-13 Thread Nicoll, Iain (Calanais)
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Have they been analyzed recently? as if you were using histograms then if the last two months were added after your last analyze it would think they were fairly rare. Cheers Iain Nicoll -Original Message- Sent: 13 September 2001 19:11

RE: explain plan is changing ...

2001-09-13 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! You probably have histograms, and very skewed data. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978)

RE: WinNT / 8.0.5 / DECODE function affecting Century result in d

2001-09-13 Thread George Hofilena
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Larry, Just what I needed to know. Everything's clear now. Thanks for your excellent response. George -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 11:56 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L d !! Please do not post Off

RE: Need script to generate DDL for snapshot/materialized view re

2001-09-13 Thread Glenn Travis
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! quick and dirty; select 'create snapshot '||owner||'.'||name||' as ',query,';' from dba_snapshots where owner = upper('ownernm') order by name; Join to dba_tables for storage params... -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, September 13,

Re: User Processes Taking 200 Megs of RAM Upon Connecting

2001-09-13 Thread tcarlson
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! 5 users and no MTS. I have found out that the users where doing something they should have, which caused the problem. What a suprise. The list was right, top reports the user process memory allocations incorrectly. The whole issue is solved for

Re: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-13 Thread Jonathan Lewis
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I have had, and heard of, poor performance from EMC boxes before now because of the big black box principal. You might check out James Morle's book (scaling Oracle 8i) for some thoughts. From an Oracle perspective, you may find that simply

Re: USE_NL with or without ORDERED

2001-09-13 Thread Jonathan Lewis
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I think this is the best description I have seen so far of the way in which the optimiser has evolved. Currently I believe that the optimizer HAS to obey hints if the hints can be applied to the paths it has been constrained to check. If this

Re: USE_NL with or without ORDERED

2001-09-13 Thread Shevtsov, Eduard
Title: RE: USE_NL with or without ORDERED Hi John, thanks for theexplanation. I think you are right in general, but do you think it's a little out of logic. I have two tables 'a' and 'b'. If I point the table 'b' as an inner table for N-L join with the hint USE_NL(b), what is the table

RE: explain plan is changing ...

2001-09-13 Thread g g
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I have analyzed them today via: analyze table ... estimate statistics; analyze table ... estimate statistics for all indexed columns; No data were added/modified agter that --- Nicoll, Iain (Calanais) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: !! Please do not

Re: USE_NL with or without ORDERED

2001-09-13 Thread Shevtsov, Eduard
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi Christian, Sorry, I'm not sure I share your opinion. CBO can decline hint only if the path is not possible at all. It doesn't matter whether statistics exist or not. AFAIK that's the idea of hints. As you can see earlier that path (N-L) is

RE: explain plan is changing ...

2001-09-13 Thread g g
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Christopher: I don't have the histograms. Regarding the data, I actually think they are equally spread, but I will check. Is there any tool to do this, or is it just select count() from .. where ...? --- Christopher Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Required Help on Analyzing dmp File

2001-09-13 Thread Christian Trassens
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Sorry, but imp indexfile, don't produce an output of the procedures, packages or every piece of code of the database. Regards. --- Aponte, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used this script to process the indexfile produced by imp. ##

RE: Oracle DBAs with 11i and AIX experience needed in Los Angeles

2001-09-13 Thread John Lewis
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I guess I just don't get it. Do they check drivers license at the interview? Would they turn someone down who was willing to move themselves to LA? Could I go and get a fake id? (I had one in high school to buy beer.) You people post the most

Re: USE_NL with or without ORDERED

2001-09-13 Thread Shevtsov, Eduard
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Someone else commented on this as well a while back. This behavior is not unexpected and is documented and explained in the docs. But, your example doesn't exactly fit the scenario described in the manuals -- e.g. the CBO chooses as the

RE: User Processes Taking 200 Megs of RAM Upon Connecting

2001-09-13 Thread Christian Trassens
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! pmap isn't lying. This entry of your output is related to the shared memory segment: 8000 222376 222376 - 222376 read/write/exec/shared [ ism shmid=0x65 ] Match the id with the output of the ipcs -ma Oracle is not all the helpful

RE: OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-13 Thread Gogala, Mladen
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Don, failover, dispatcher cross registration and server load balancing require MTS. Second, I'm not on AIX, that is why I was guessing about semaphores. Here are my versions: SQL*Plus: Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production on Thu Sep 13 15:36:53 2001

Re: USE_NL with or without ORDERED

2001-09-13 Thread Christian Trassens
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! The meaning of the word hint doesn't imply anything forceful. If you allow me, I may say that is a piece of advice. You say that CBO declines when hint is not possible, however as we saw at the end of his mail the path is feasible. Stole from the

RE: Life: is that really OT?

2001-09-13 Thread Bill Conner
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Sorry, should have let that one go but, i know people who were on the planes and in the buildings (being a DBA it really is a small world), and i am tired of just letting this go on, on while we worrie about upsetting the world while the

RE: Automanagement of extent sizing

2001-09-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Cherie - We have been using the autoextend feature for 6 months now and have been really pleased with it. I am now studying the Oracle White Papers on the locally managed and uniform extent philosophy and beginning to follow that scheme. I would

RE: Automanagement of extent sizing

2001-09-13 Thread Kimberly Smith
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I am using it for some of my new databases and so far there are no issues. I have long ago given up on caring how many extents there will be. I only tend to size for tablespace sizing purposes. I had no issues before hand and I have no issues

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