Re:Downgrade Oracle 8.1.7 Enterprise to 8.1.7 Standard

2002-03-26 Thread dgoulet
Shutdown the instance back it up as a safety. Deinstall the EE edition of the software install SE. Works best if you use a different $ORACLE_HOME. Start the instance run catalog catproc from $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin. If you had run catrep run catnorep. Shutdown backup again your done.

RE: error testing jdbc connectin

2002-03-26 Thread Ticha Murehwa
Hi Charlie Via SQL*Plus I get connected without any problem via SQL*Net. When using the JdbcCheckup.java program,it sends back messages on whatever has gone through and one of them is the notification that it has connected successfully. If you look at the program which as I mentioned earlier on

RE: Creatin TBS in Raw Devices

2002-03-26 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Specify the size as 99M. You will not get an error. (why??? I will leave that reason to you ;) Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan Bangalore, INDIA -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:43 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi List, First time

What OraStaff was recruiting for?

2002-03-26 Thread dgoulet
** Mayo Sees Databases As Way To Improve Treatments The Mayo Clinic and IBM are developing an advanced medical database that would combine clinical records with demographics and even genomic information to give medical researchers a resource for supporting clinical trials and improving

Re: Error in compiling package

2002-03-26 Thread Rick_Cale
Never mind, REF_CURSOR should be REF CURSOR. It's early Rick Cale

Impact of striping on index range scans?

2002-03-26 Thread Cherie_Machler
What is the impact of striping on index range scans? Since we striped our disk that our indexes are located on, we have been showing more than thirty times the number of rows read during index range scans. How does disk striping (in our case using Veritas volume manager) affect range scans?

Error in compiling package

2002-03-26 Thread Rick_Cale
Hi DBAs, I have I think is a very simple package but I cannot get it to compile because of the following error. Can anyone see what the problem is? The message suggest an error in the specification. Wow only 2 lines of code in the spec. PLS-00905: object PKG_ARGS is invalid PLS-00304: cannot

Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
What is the file that I need to edit on my client PC to set personalized settings for SQLPlus so that I do not have to set these at the command prompt every time I start a new session? Thanks, Dave -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Farnsworth, Dave

Re: Function With Variable inpit

2002-03-26 Thread Igor Neyman
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE rUSERSX( Pusers IN DBMS_SQL.VARCHAR2_TABLE, Pweights OUT DBMS_SQL.NUMBER_TABLE) AS BEGIN FOR nJ IN 1..Pusers.COUNT LOOP SELECT NVL(Weight, 0) INTO Pweights(nJ) FROM TABLEA WHERE usera = Pusers(nJ); END LOOP; END; / Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL

How to duplicate production database onto development box

2002-03-26 Thread Daiminger, Helmut
Title: How to duplicate production database onto development box Hi! We want to put an exact copy of our production database (approx. 200 GB) onto a development box. What would be the best way to achieve this? Export/import would take kinda long... ;) Would transportable

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Thomas, Kevin
I think you just need to create a script called login.sql in the same directory as you would run SQLPLUS from. Certainly on unix if you login to SQL from a directory that contains a file called login.sql it will process the commands contained within it. HTH Kev. -Original Message- Sent:

Re: How much memory is consumed by cache tables?

2002-03-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Find the table's highwater mark. That tells you how many blocks are actually in use holding data, hence the maximum number of blocks that needs to be buffered. Remember that when updating or getting read-consistent blocks, Oracle may clone blocks in the buffer, and you can get up to 6 versions

Re: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread G . Plivna
File login.sql in %Oracle_home%\DBS\ Gints Plivna IT Sistçmas, Meríeïa 13, LV1050 Rîga http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

RE: Function to round to the nearest 15

2002-03-26 Thread Thompson, Todd
Thanks for everyone's help: Here's my final solution: I had to add 7 to get the rounding to work correctly. begin for x in 1..120 Loop dbms_output.put_line(to_char(x)|| ' ' ||to_char(floor((x+7)/60)+(.25 * floor(mod((x+7),60)/15))) ); end loop; end; / -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday,

Re: alter table tabname drop column colname checkpoint #;

2002-03-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I had to read my book to find the answer to this one ;) If you specify (at least under 8.1.5): alter table tabX drop column colX; then there is no checkpoint and you generate the worst volume of rollback. If you specify: alter table tabX drop column colX checkpoint NNN; then you

Re: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Rodd Holman
$ORACLE_HOME/sqlplus/admin/glogin.sql On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 07:38, Farnsworth, Dave wrote: What is the file that I need to edit on my client PC to set personalized settings for SQLPlus so that I do not have to set these at the command prompt every time I start a new session?

RE: How to duplicate production database onto development box

2002-03-26 Thread Bernard, Gilbert
clone database by copiyng all datafiles and rebuild the controlfile using a new database name. [Bernard, Gilbert] -Message d'origine- De: Daiminger, Helmut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mardi 26 mars 2002 14:48 À: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Objet: How to duplicate

How Could I identify the OS user name?

2002-03-26 Thread Beatriz Martínez Jiménez
Hello list, I want to know how could I identify the OS user name of a user acceding an application. Is there any view/parameter that shows it?? A lot of thanks, -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Beatriz =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDnez=20Jim=E9nez?= INET:

OT: Oracle HRMS Applications - Cannot view concurrent request ou

2002-03-26 Thread CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC)
Hi Gurus, We encountered the error FS-CANT OPEN TMPFILE when we tried to view the concurrent request report. Yesterday, we can view any report but not today. The only thing that's different is that we run the purge obselete workflow runtime data concurrent program this morning but it should not

Re: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Jack van Zanen
glogin.sql Farnsworth, Dave

Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread Mark Leith
Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management Putting muscle behind the outsourcing model of application management, Oracle Corp. said it is starting an international campaign to persuade customers to hand over maintenance of their Oracle software. We have decided to go in and actively go

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Mark Leith
glogin.sql -Original Message- Dave Sent: 26 March 2002 13:38 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What is the file that I need to edit on my client PC to set personalized settings for SQLPlus so that I do not have to set these at the command prompt every time I start a new session?

Re: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Brian_McQuillan
in your oracle /bin directory - you need to alter (Or create) a login.sql file here's what mine looks like - feel free to alter /* start */ set heading on set pause off set pages 23 set lines 100 set verify off set feedback on set space 1 set serveroutput on size 100 set echo off

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Bernard, Gilbert
Login.sql -Message d'origine- De: Farnsworth, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mardi 26 mars 2002 14:38 À: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Objet: Customize my SQLPlus login What is the file that I need to edit on my

Re: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Rachel Carmichael
login.sql and glogin.sql glogin.sql will be global, from wherever you start your sqlplus session, login.sql is run from your current directory so if you have changed directories it won't be run --- Farnsworth, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the file that I need to edit on my client PC

Re: How to duplicate production database onto development box

2002-03-26 Thread Peter Gram
Title: How to duplicate production database onto development box Hi There are several ways to move a database : 1 : Shutdown the db and copy all the data files, redologfiles, control file and the parameter file to the dev box then open the db. 2 : Take a online backup of the database and

RE: What OraStaff was recruiting for?

2002-03-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Doubtful. Do you think IBM would advocate using another database product for a new application in development? cool idea though. I dream of being on a project with a budget like this... Know what the budget was on my last project? staff = 2 people, hardware/software = $60,000. Lisa Koivu

RE: How to test BCV and backups

2002-03-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
May be late in responding... but here's how I did it I designated one disk associated BCV as a test group - had a sysadmin do it. I modified a copy of all the shell scripts to only affect that BCV with all the operations (sync, split, etc.) Then I created a little test db on that disk only,

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Thanks to all who responded!! Dave -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 8:08 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L $ORACLE_HOME/sqlplus/admin/glogin.sql On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 07:38, Farnsworth, Dave wrote: What is the file that I need to edit on my client PC to

Re: How to duplicate production database onto development box

2002-03-26 Thread Rachel Carmichael
why not just copy over your complete hot backup? If you need it to be as up to date as possible, you could do it as a standby database and apply logs until you are ready and then open the standby database and you will have an exact copy. Transportable tablespaces have some caveats -- and the

Re: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread tday6
gologin.sql Here's an example from Oracle: -- -- $Header: /plus/v3/spam/precious/files/ACTIVE/glogin.sql,v 1.6 1995/07/25 02:33:26 cjones Exp $ -- Copyright (c) Oracle Corporation 1988, 1994, 1995. All Rights Reserved. -- -- SQL*Plus Global Login startup file. -- -- This is the global

Re: How to duplicate production database onto development box

2002-03-26 Thread Ray Stell
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 05:48:23AM -0800, Daiminger, Helmut wrote: Hi! We want to put an exact copy of our production database (approx. 200 GB) onto a development box. I use a warmbackup to do this on a regular basis. This takes a long time, also, but it is pretty scriptable, so you don't

RE: How to duplicate production database onto development box

2002-03-26 Thread Guerra, Abraham J
Title: How to duplicate production database onto development box Just copy the files over and recreate the control file. Abraham -Original Message-From: Daiminger, Helmut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 7:48 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject:

RE: How Could I identify the OS user name?

2002-03-26 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
select username, osuser from v$sesssion Dave -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 7:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello list, I want to know how could I identify the OS user name of a user acceding an application. Is there any view/parameter that shows

Re: How Could I identify the OS user name?

2002-03-26 Thread Igor Neyman
OSUSER column in v$session view. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] The degree of normality in a database is inversely proportional to that of its DBA. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 8:53 AM Hello

Re: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
However, login.sql will run if it is defined in the SQL_PATH (or possibly SQLPATH) environment variable, which is set up using the same syntax at the normal PATH option, viz. directory names separated by colons. Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Next Seminar - UK, April 3rd - 5th

RE: How Could I identify the OS user name?

2002-03-26 Thread Jesse, Rich
You don't say what version of Oracle, but this function will work for 8i and up: SYS_CONTEXT('USERENV','OS_USER') Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday,

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Bernard, Gilbert
in your current directory put a login.sql file as login.sql -Message d'origine- De: Rodd Holman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: mardi 26 mars 2002 15:09 À: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Objet: Re: Customize my SQLPlus login

Re: Automatic shutdown of Oracle on NT

2002-03-26 Thread Schauss, Peter
OK. I followed Jared's suggestions and set the following: HKLM\software\Oracle\ora_sid_shutdown=TRUE \ora_sid_shutdown_type=i \ora_sid_shutdown_timeout=300 (5 minutes) HKLM\system\CurrentControlSet\Control\WaitToKillService=30 Whether it was

Rename Oracle User

2002-03-26 Thread Todd Carlson
Solaris 5.8 Oracle 8.1.7.2 Has anyone successfully renamed the Oracle user on a solaris box? At the moment I don't a test box and this is a rarely used development system. The current Oracle user and group are oracle2 and dba2. We have to change it to match our standards, i.e. oracle dba. The

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I have added some customizations to my glogin.sql. When I start a session of SQLPlus I get this; Connected to: Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production With the Partitioning option JServer Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production Input truncated to 13 characters SQL show pagesize

RE: How to duplicate production database onto development box

2002-03-26 Thread Reddy, Madhusudana
Title: How to duplicate production database onto development box if you not affordable to a down time , may be hot backups will help you out. 1. Copy the Hot backups to a different machine where you want to have a duplicate database. 2. Edit the Init.Ora and control file . 3. run the control

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)
Title: RE: Customize my SQLPlus login If you want it set for yourself, but not for everyone, AND need it to take effect from everywhere you run sqlplus, create a login.sql file in some directory under $HOME, and then set $SQLPATH to this directory. Matt Adams - GE Appliances -

Re: pL/SQL PROCEDUR

2002-03-26 Thread DBarbour
Roland, What a surprise! I thought you were moving to an Access list? Because I've taken a rather perverse interest in the questions you ask, I'll give you a hint: triggers and exception handling. By the way, if no one has answered your question regarding a table of table definitions, it's

Net 8 installation on a server rather than client question

2002-03-26 Thread Ron Cetnar
Title: Net 8 installation on a server rather than client question Question to the list. Is there was way to install Net 8 on a nt server and have client pc's execute the Net 8 from the server instead of loading Net 8 on the client's pc. To avoid installation of Net 8 on the clients. I already

RE: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Another publicity blunder by Uncle Larry. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 8:03 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management Putting muscle behind the outsourcing model of application management, Oracle Corp. said it is

AW: How Could I identify the OS user name?

2002-03-26 Thread v . schoen
Look at view v$session select username, osuser from v$session; regards Volker Schoen E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inplan.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Beatriz Martínez Jiménez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. März 2002 14:54 An: Multiple

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Lord, David - CSG
On solaris, you can set $SQLPATH in your environment and it will look in that path for a login.sql (and any other .sql files that it cannot find in the current directory). -Original Message- From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 March 2002 14:29 To: Multiple

Re: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
glogin.sql is on my PC but not login.sql. I'm on 9i. Ken Janusz, CPIM - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:23 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: glogin.sql u... i don't think glogin.sql is on the client

.dbf is a valid name for a datafile name?

2002-03-26 Thread Hamid Alavi
I have added a datafile to a the temp tablespace with the name of .dbf only is ithis a valid name?, is there any way to rename it without shutdown the database,if yes HOW? Thanks Hamid Alavi Office 818 737-0526 Cell818 402-1987 The information contained in this message and any

Re: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Dennis M. Heisler
Put a carriage return at the end of the last line. Farnsworth, Dave wrote: I have added some customizations to my glogin.sql. When I start a session of SQLPlus I get this; Connected to: Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.0.0 - Production With the Partitioning option JServer

RE: Remote or Not? Was: Production Oracle DBA Needed in Rocheste

2002-03-26 Thread Peter Barnett
We have security requirements that do not allow remote administration. There has been some discussion of vpn (for two or three years!) but it is likely that vpn will be for the execs to get their mail rather than database administration. Unfortunately, it is likely a security issue to discuss

RE: How to duplicate production database onto development box

2002-03-26 Thread Ji, Richard
Title: How to duplicate production database onto development box I use a hot backup to create a standby database then apply logs to the point I want to get a copy of production of a specific time. Then you can rename the database if you want to. -Original Message-From: Guerra,

Re: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: glogin.sql u... i don't think glogin.sql is on the client PC. well it's not on mine anyway.;-) -Original Message- Dave Sent: 26 March 2002 13:38 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What is the file that I need to edit on my client PC to

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Nicoll, Iain (Calanais)
Dave, It just needs carriage return at the end of the last line. Iain Nicoll -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 4:18 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have added some customizations to my glogin.sql. When I start a session of SQLPlus I get this; Connected

RE: pL/SQL PROCEDUR

2002-03-26 Thread Mark Leith
LMAO Obligatory Oracle Question: Does anybody have a sample init.ora file that they use for a 9.0.1 instance, for a sandbox database on Win2K with 512Mb RAM? Basically for my desktop PC play database.. -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 March 2002 16:39 To: Multiple

Re: .dbf is a valid name for a datafile name?

2002-03-26 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have added a datafile to a the temp tablespace with the name of .dbf only is ithis a valid name?, is there any way to rename it without shutdown the database,if yes HOW? it depends on your OS. and how you'd rename depends on that too. -- -- Bill Shrek Thater

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
What happens if the user then issues a connect statement to connect to another database? It would be nice if there was a .sql file run every time a new connection is set, I don't know if that is the case in the 8i / 9i versions. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)

Re: .dbf is a valid name for a datafile name?

2002-03-26 Thread Steven Lembark
-- Hamid Alavi [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have added a datafile to a the temp tablespace with the name of .dbf only is ithis a valid name?, is there any way to rename it without shutdown the database,if yes HOW? You can ln .dbf name_you_wanted any time you like. Unlink the .dbf basename whenever

RE: How Could I identify the OS user name?

2002-03-26 Thread Jesse, Rich
With a free OTN account: http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle8i/doc_library/817_doc/server.817/ a85397/function.htm#88700 (Note: The above URL will get chopped in two pieces by MS Lookout.) HTH! Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: .dbf is a valid name for a datafile name?

2002-03-26 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Hamid, .dbf is prefectly valid on all machines, as far as I know. You can rename it - look at the ALTER DATABASE RENAME FILE 'filename' to 'newfilename' clause to rename the data file. You will need to take the tablespace offline to do this. Hope this helps Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified

RE: .dbf is a valid name for a datafile name?

2002-03-26 Thread Reddy, Madhusudana
.dbf is perfectly OK -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have added a datafile to a the temp tablespace with the name of .dbf only is ithis a valid name?, is there any way to rename it without shutdown the database,if yes

Re: How Could I identify the OS user name?

2002-03-26 Thread Jan Pruner
Look at http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle8i/doc_library/817_doc/server.817/a85397/function.htm#88362 JP On Tue 26. March 2002 17:18, you wrote: Is there a detailed list of other USERENV information taht I can have access to by using SYS_CONTEXT? TIA, Tamas Szecsy -Original

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Mark Leith
not in Oracle_home/sqlplus/admin? It is on mine.. Then again, mine has a database on it as well.. ;) -Original Message- Sent: 26 March 2002 15:24 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: glogin.sql u... i don't think glogin.sql is on the client PC.

Re: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Rachel Carmichael
check sqlplus\admin under ORACLE_HOME --- bill thater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: glogin.sql u... i don't think glogin.sql is on the client PC. well it's not on mine anyway.;-) -Original Message- Dave Sent: 26 March 2002 13:38 To:

Re: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
It's possible that you have a line in the file (perhaps the last line) that consists of a string of blanks; or the last command line of the file does not have a carriage return. Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Next Seminar - UK, April 3rd - 5th

RE: RE: RE: Stand-by (Oracle9i Data Guard) vs. Replication

2002-03-26 Thread Sakthi , Raj
Robert, If I understand your requirements correctly, You have multiple sites separated geographically ( 200 Miles perhaps..?? ) and you are looking for a highly available , 'Multimaster' kinda environment. This kind of setup is common in oh-don't-say-the-name-companies i.e. 'dot bombs' and

RE: .dbf is a valid name for a datafile name?

2002-03-26 Thread Scott . Shafer
Drop and recreate your temp tablespace. Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate. -Original Message- From: Hamid Alavi [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:39 AM To: Multiple

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Nothing happens, the prompt stays the same unless you run @login, which I do to keep my head straight (INV-SYSTEM)show user USER is SYSTEM (INV-SYSTEM)connect elvis@inv Enter password: * Connected. (INV-SYSTEM)@login (INV-ELVIS) or create a script with the login name and sid that calls

Re: OT - How Could I identify the OS user name?

2002-03-26 Thread Jan Pruner
(Note: The above URL will get chopped in two pieces by MS Lookout.) Not only MS Outlook, but in every standard email software. The length of row is set to 78 (I think it's setting of terminal) JP On Tue 26. March 2002 18:13, you wrote: With a free OTN account:

RE: Automatic shutdown of Oracle on NT

2002-03-26 Thread Khushalani, Vikram
Peter, On the NT - the placement of the String/Key values matters. So try setting these parameters in the Registry in your current '\home' hive under \oracle. For example if you have a single Oracle Home on your Server/Machine then it would be something like 'home0', so your entries would

EXPORT FAST?

2002-03-26 Thread Seema Singh
Hi one of export for 35GB database is taking 12 hours.How to reduce this export time. Thx Seema _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Re: Rename Oracle User

2002-03-26 Thread Brian_P_MacLean
Surprised to not see a backup of the DB and $ORACLE_BASE after #2. You can combine #3 #4 with find / -user oracle2 -exec chown oracle:dba {} \; as long as oracle2 is the only member of the dba2 group and you're not using the oinstall as oracle2's default group. I think #4 should be -group

Re: Remote or Not? Was: Production Oracle DBA Needed in Rocheste

2002-03-26 Thread Paul Vallee
Hello everyone, This is a very interesting thread. Speaking as a part-owner of one of the companies John held up as an example of the successful outsourcers (thanks for mentioning us John), I'd like to make some points that I think will be of interest to all. The first is that working in a shop

RE: pL/SQL PROCEDUR

2002-03-26 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Can someone please create a table for me? Umm...I need last and first name columns. I don't want the DDL, I want you to connect to my database and create it for me. I need this done yesterday. Thanks, really, thanks. Hurry up!! -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:59

Re: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and response time than a well trained DBA can? Fair enough with bug checking and alike, but how long does it take for a lot of you to get iTARS answered etc.? maybe they aren't answering iTARs so they look better delivering it themselves? see we can do it faster

RE: .dbf is a valid name for a datafile name?

2002-03-26 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
In fact, here with Oracle 7.3 we had .dbf for data files, .ora for init.ora file and other config files, and .trc for trace files, .log for log files, etc. With the GUI tools introduced with Oracle 8, the extensions were different -- .ora for everything it seems to me, but I still prefer the

RE: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Oracle has been saying for years that you wil no longer need DBAs. I suppose it's possible, although the database gets more and more complicated each release, as more and more new features that can shoot themselves in the foot are added. On the other hand, SOMEONE will need those DBAs. Oracle?

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
I have a custom-coded @connect.sql script that I run instead of the build-in connect statement HOST chmod 600 /tmp/xxx.sql /dev/null 2/dev/null SAVE /tmp/xxx.sql REPLACE CONNECT 1 @login.sql /bin/rm -f /tmp/xxx.sql /dev/null UNDEFINE 1 -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Brian_P_MacLean
Create yourself a script called connect.sql that looks like: connect 1 @@glogin.sql Keep it in your SQL_PATH just like your glogin.sql. Now when you connect to something else just precede your connect statement with a @ as in: @connect un/pw@db02 Can't be much easier than

Re: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: check sqlplus\admin under ORACLE_HOME yup, my bad. -- -- Bill Shrek Thater ORACLE DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] You gotta program like you don't need the money, You

RE: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Are they implying that Oracle Applications is proving too difficult to administer for many sites? ; ) Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:18 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

RE: .dbf is a valid name for a datafile name?

2002-03-26 Thread Sakthi , Raj
Tom, if he is going to have the tablespace off line with database up and running , shouldn't the command be alter tablespace rename file ' ' to ' ' ; Cheers, RS --- Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hamid, .dbf is prefectly valid on all machines, as far as I know. You can

HDS ShadowImage and database backups

2002-03-26 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Hello All, Is anyone using HDS's ShadowImage for backing up large databases? Our Sys Admin Dgmt is pursuing this technique and is suggesting that all large databases be backed up using this software. Good? Bad? Any insights would be appreciated. My Damager is already crying foul as HDS will

RE: RE: RE: Stand-by (Oracle9i Data Guard) vs. Replication

2002-03-26 Thread Freeman, Robert
1. Is the critical data would be updated in the sites..? Yes... 2. If yes , are you expecting the other sites to 'see' this update...? Yes... 3. If one site is down, then are you expecting the other sites to share the load or you have the closest site in take in all the load...? Yes but add

Re: EXPORT FAST?

2002-03-26 Thread Diego Cutrone
I think you can use direct=y option. Are you taking this export to a file (over disk) or directly to tape? Greeting Diego Cutrone - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:13 PM Hi one of export for 35GB

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Grabowy, Chris
How do you know you ran the login script?? Maybe you forgot? And your really on production...when your about to truncate that table...that's unrecoverable...that's billions of rowswith hundreds of recent Fairfield customer reservations...that will be very upset... BTW, any chance you can

RE: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
From what I understand, the task is daunting keeping a release up to date. They've really built a beast. When you hear people on this list talking about APPS DBA's, you get the feeling that it is something special. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent:

RE: RE: RE: Stand-by (Oracle9i Data Guard) vs. Replication

2002-03-26 Thread Sakthi , Raj
Well, being in health care industry myself I know too well what do you mean. Apart from 100s of tousands of $ lost every hour we are down, we have to take some safety also into account. As to the question of advanced replication, having implemented multi-master replication myself I know what a

RE: Customize my SQLPlus login

2002-03-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
You don't. It's a habit you have to get into. And it only works if you haven't changed your directory. Like I said you can have another script that has login commands (INV-SYSTEM)@elvis Enter password: * Connected. (INV-ELVIS) My @elvis script is simply this connect elvis@inv @login I

8.1.7 LMTs Autoallocate vs Uniform Extents

2002-03-26 Thread sundeep maini
Can someone point me to good reading material on this subject. Is one better than the other for performance and manageability? Syntactically the autoallocate is shorter and seems to be more hands off (does that mean worry free also?). TIA = Sundeep Maini Consultant Currently on

Re: pL/SQL PROCEDUR

2002-03-26 Thread Jan Pruner
And do you expect a link or a real example script??? On Tue 26. March 2002 19:29, you wrote: Can someone please create a table for me? Umm...I need last and first name columns. I don't want the DDL, I want you to connect to my database and create it for me. I need this done yesterday.

RE: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread Freeman, Robert
I think that this is a marketing ploy by Oracle, much like the DBO (and frankly to a lesser degree the OCP) in an effort to deal with the simple supply/demand problem with Oracle DBA's. Somehow, the tag line on my emails seems to apply here... :-) Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP Oracle DBA

RE: pL/SQL PROCEDUR

2002-03-26 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
ok it's done. check your database. I also populated it with all the URL links to child-porn. the FBI is knocking at your door right now. check the BLOB columns. pretty nasty stuff stored there. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Money (Was: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management)

2002-03-26 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management = Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Money. Jerry Whittle ACIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 618-622-4145 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Whittle Jerome Contr NCI INET: [EMAIL

RE: Remote or Not? Was: Production Oracle DBA Needed in Rocheste

2002-03-26 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Get out the BS bingo cards.. ;o) -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Rocheste Hello everyone, This is a very interesting thread. Speaking as a part-owner of one of the companies John held up as an example

RE: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
It used to be better, when we could just call them. We used to have silver support. Then, at first, Web TARs were answered promptly. I don't know if there has been a change in policy, but as soon as it's past regular hours I get little feedback from Metalink technicians. They used to have a

RE: Oracle Wants Users to Hand over Apps Management

2002-03-26 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
In a sociology course I took they explained that capitalism and publicly traded companies naturally tend toward oligopolies, followed by monopolies. Not sure if that is true - I was hoping the antitrust laws would prove useful, but... Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified

RE: EXPORT FAST?

2002-03-26 Thread Anne Yu
do this: exp usr/pass buffer=4096 file=xx log=xx owner=xx. It takes 2 hours for a 59GB's database. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:13 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi one of export for 35GB database is taking 12 hours.How to reduce this export

Re: EXPORT FAST?

2002-03-26 Thread Sakthi , Raj
Make sure you didn't issue consustent=y and refer to meta link for any problems with direct export on your platform. Direct is the way to go. Cheers, RS --- Diego Cutrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you can use direct=y option. Are you taking this export to a file (over disk) or

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