Any scripts to check the health of the database

2002-04-24 Thread Praveen Sahni
Hi All, I need to write a report on the health of a database. Please send if any of us have a scripts and any report format for the health of the database. Thanks in advance Praveen -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Praveen Sahni INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Scott . Shafer
man kill Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Cronjob Anyone whom can tell me how to delete a job that is

RE: Number of File systems to use.

2002-04-24 Thread Bill Pass
Waleed, That's interesting. I just looked at the emc site and still do not see anything that would lead me to believe that they support hardware striping except for the IBM Sequential Data Striping. This was for the Symetrix 3000, 5000 8000 line. I would be keenly interested to know as we

RE: Number of File systems to use.

2002-04-24 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Look at the attached email message. There was a thread of discussion about this a month ago. Anyway I am going to test it on a small scale in one of my projects. I was told that 1MB (one track) stripe size is the smallest efficient size we should have b/c EMC will read 1MB anyway (one track)

Re: Any scripts to check the health of the database

2002-04-24 Thread Joe Raube
Do a search on Google -- you'll find plenty. -Joe --- Praveen Sahni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I need to write a report on the health of a database. Please send if any of us have a scripts and any report format for the health of the database. Thanks in advance Praveen -- Please

RE: Number of File systems to use.

2002-04-24 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Try this link: https://powerlink.emc.com/MediumFreq/21110_Symmetrix_3930_5930_Installation_ Manual.pdf starting from page 155 Waleed Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company -Original Message-

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Ivan Llamoca
crontab -r ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Currval and buffer gets

2002-04-24 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
Hello Yechiel, Not sure what you mean...I was referring to the cache buffers chains latch in my note NOT the library cache load lock. Gaja --- Yechiel Adar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Gaja I checked the report from YAPP and library cache load lock accounts only to 0.75% of the wait

Re: good value for optimizer_index_cost_adj

2002-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lewis
It's interesting that you should have heard that. My first interpretation of the optimizer_index_cost_adj was that it was an estimate of the table logical I/O that would become physical I/O (and ignore the fact that this was allowed to go above 100%) - which brings it into line, somewhat, with

RE: Currval and buffer gets

2002-04-24 Thread Glenn Travis
Title: RE: Currval and buffer gets On HP-UX: model = 9000/800/N4000-55OS release level= B.11.11processor count = 8clock speed = 550 MHzmemory = 16384 Mb SQL set serveroutput on size 1;SQL @test.sql27 /run time using view x_$dual in centiseconds=600run time using table dual in

Re: Any scripts to check the health of the database

2002-04-24 Thread Jared . Still
Personally, I think that many folks go a bit overboard when it comes to checking the health of a database. These are the things I like to check for: * is the database up? this is the most important tech check * status of jobs in DBA_JOBS * space issues. Will a table be able to extend N times

RE: Any scripts to check the health of the database

2002-04-24 Thread Gogala, Mladen
sqlplus / as sysdba EOF select 'Database is healthy!!!' from dual; shutdown abort prompt 'Database needs Clarinex' EOF -Original Message- From: Praveen Sahni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Any

Re: Why wait?

2002-04-24 Thread Greg Moore
Thats fine for expensive sql...but waits can be a whole lot more than that... Agreed. I'm just asking about db file scattered read and db file sequential read. What's the purpose of using the wait interface to investigate these two events? The accounts I've read of drilling down through the

RE: Memory?

2002-04-24 Thread Glenn Travis
Can you post this script inline as the list strips attachments. -Original Message- From: Sergey V Dolgov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 2:58 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Memory? Hello Clinton, Here is script for

Re: Major Security Canyon in 9i!!!!!!

2002-04-24 Thread Jared . Still
Robert, Jonathan Lewis posted this security issue last week. Jared Freeman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/24/2002 10:23 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:

Re: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Jared . Still
crontab -e is bad! 1000 points if you can figure out why. ( guess I'm watching too much 'Whose Line Is It Anyway? ) Jared Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/24/2002 10:07 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

good pl/sql coding/debugging tool?

2002-04-24 Thread Magaliff, Bill
I'm trying to evaluate tools for pl/sql coding/debugging - main options seem to be toad, sql navigator (both from quest) and rapid sql (from embarcadero). One nice thing I noticed about the embarcadero product is the ability to debug anonymous blocks . . .but haven't looked seriously into other

RE: Anything new from IOUG? + OWI Born!! (Anjo/Mogens, please n

2002-04-24 Thread Freeman, Robert
I don't remember the rest Was that because of the water in Tijuana?? :-)) Sorry I missed out on that, but I got otherwise involved in something. RF -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:28 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L please n One I know was bring a

RE: Major Security Canyon in 9i!!!!!!

2002-04-24 Thread Freeman, Robert
Ahhh I was at IOUG-A and didn't see itDon't remember seeing it in the MOUNTAIN (!) of messages posted here while I was gone... But anyway, just trying to do my duty as a good Oracle citizen of the world! :-)) RF -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:17 PM To:

Re: Currval and buffer gets

2002-04-24 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
Agreed! No arguments there. I am all for designing and writing scalable code from the starting block and avoiding wastage of resources. But sometimes the problem is much more complex. I am sure you have inherited bad application design or bad code enough times, and may I add Not by choice. Add to

OT: Job posting in Boca - possible relo

2002-04-24 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Hello all, Again I am sending this to the list because people on the list in the past have asked me for job leads in Florida. Jared, If this is not welcome, please let me know. I was just contacted about a job posting in Boca Raton for a Peoplesoft/Oracle DBA. Here's the description: They

RE: Currval and buffer gets

2002-04-24 Thread Sakthi , Raj
On ORACLE 8163/Win2K , I got some interesting results though... ONE SESSION ONLY SYS@ZETA@RSAKTHI run time using table dual in centiseconds=400 PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. Elapsed: 00:00:03.75 SYS@ZETA@RSAKTHI SYS@ZETA@RSAKTHI TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS SYS@ZETA@RSAKTHI/ run time

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Godlewski, Melissa
Title: RE: Cronjob A wrong keystroke could blow away the entire crontab file by accident. %:| -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 5:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Cronjob crontab -e is

OLAP Financial Function Calculators for Oracle 9i.

2002-04-24 Thread SRAJENDRAN
Hello: I would like to know if the Oracle Express feature of Financial Function Calculators are available with Oracle enterprise Edition 9.0.1.0.0. If my memory serves me correctly , I think Oracle has incorporated OLAP services as part of the 9i database enterprise edition. But I am not

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
So you wipe out a few jobs in the crontab. Big deal! It just means your sysadmin has to stay up late explaining my backups and payroll didn't run. Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Product Architect Compuware Corporation Direct: (248) 865-4350 Mobile: (248) 408-2918 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Marc Cure
You'll lose your entire crontab if you do a crontab -e when /var is full? (I've had this happen to me on HP-UX...) Marc Cure Oracle DBA, OCP 8i -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 5:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L crontab -e is bad!

RE: Any scripts to check the health of the database

2002-04-24 Thread Magaliff, Bill
love it! - this gets my vote - -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:58 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L sqlplus / as sysdba EOF select 'Database is healthy!!!' from dual; shutdown abort prompt 'Database needs Clarinex' EOF -Original Message-

Re: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Alex
-e Edit the current crontab using the editor specified by the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables. The specified editor must edit the file in place; any editor that unlinks the file and recreates it cannot be used. After you exit from the editor, the modified crontab will be installed

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Sherman, Edward
If you crontab -e and a job is scheduled to run during the time that you are editing, then the job doesn't execute while you are editing. No jobs will execute while you're in crontab -e. Even if you :w your changes. No cronjobs will execute while the editor is open so don't forget to close that

Re: Why wait?

2002-04-24 Thread Anjo Kolk
Greg, You wrote: If your goal is to find SQL that does a lot of physical reads, why not forget about these two events? Just go to v$sql and sort by physical reads. Now you have a comprehensive picture of what's going on. One of the problems with that is that you assume that 100 I/Os are always

Re: monitoring multiple databases using PL/SQL -- follow-up question

2002-04-24 Thread dmeng
Thanks all who replied to my E-mail. Right now I am still leaning toward having a centralized monitoring script running in a admin database because - 1. Ease of administration 2. We don't need anything fancy, don't need application level monitorin, so the requirements for different databases are

Re: good value for optimizer_index_cost_adj

2002-04-24 Thread Greg Moore
db file scattered read (associated with FULL table scans) and db file sequential read (associated with indexed scans) But see, Tuning 101, p. 35, where a db file sequential read is investigated and the waits are found to be reads from a *table*. And other examples elsewhere, where db file

Re: Any scripts to check the health of the database

2002-04-24 Thread Greg Moore
www.evdbt.com/library.htm has a health check script -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Greg Moore INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public Internet access /

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Sherman, Paul R.
Jared, You owe me 1000 points. And I know someone who did a crontab -r (so far from 'e' and yet so close!); lots of fun after that deletion. I always usecrontab -l crontab.mmdd Thank you, Paul Sherman DBA voice - 781-501-4143 (office) fax- 781-278-8341 (office) email - [EMAIL

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Steve McClure
-e Edit the current crontab using the editor specified by the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables. The specified editor must edit the file in place; any editor that unlinks the file and recreates it cannot be used. After you exit from the editor, the modified crontab will be installed

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Scott . Shafer
Come on, Jared, its more fun to: crontab /dev/null Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 4:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Cronjob

Re: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Suzy Vordos
Let's see, I do recall that changes made with crontab -e aren't always applied (think this was Solaris 2.5). [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: crontab -e is bad! 1000 points if you can figure out why. ( guess I'm watching too much 'Whose Line Is It Anyway? ) Jared Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Materilized view?

2002-04-24 Thread H elp_me
Hello Seema, It seems you are trying to run REFRESH every minute (1) instead of very hour.. Use start with sysdate next sysdate+ 1/24 Instead of start with sysdate next sysdate+ 1/(24*60) HTH Nikunj From: Seema Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients

Re: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Joe Testa
been there done that. crontab -l /tmp/c.c vi /tmp/c.c crontab /tmp/c.c joe Marc Cure wrote: You'll lose your entire crontab if you do a crontab -e when /var is full? (I've had this happen to me on HP-UX...) Marc Cure Oracle DBA, OCP 8i -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Ivan Llamoca
SORRY crontab -e Ivan Llamoca

Curious question about flushing the Pool

2002-04-24 Thread Johnson, Michael
I see a couple of folks who want to know how to flush the pool or are looking for a script to do it automatically. Shouldn't we be asking what is causing the behavior that got us to this quandry in the first place ? Just a stupid question .. I know ! Peace ! Mike -- Please see the

RE: Anything new from IOUG? + OWI Born!! (Anjo/Mogens, please n

2002-04-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
no, the Tijuana trip we were very careful not to drink the water (hm, that left only alcohol!) I just didn't write them down, was having too much fun just listening to them --- Freeman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember the rest Was that because of the water in Tijuana??

Re: DATA TYPE question

2002-04-24 Thread Meomeo Nguyen
Hi, I've tried to load data into a table with a data type number(5,3). For any reason, the system just rounded off the decimal number. It inserted the number 2 into the table instead of 1.5. Please direct me how to fix my problem. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. TrangDo You

Re: char vs. varchar2

2002-04-24 Thread Eriovaldo Andrietta
Friend : In my opinion, if you will use the ltrim(rtrim(column_char)) , i hope you solve the problem. Am i wrong ? Eriovaldo - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 7:12 PM Is there any overhead (ie. internal

Extent Math

2002-04-24 Thread Browett, Darren
I am in the process of loading some image data, and would like to pack the data as best I can. Version 8.1.7.2.0 Locally managed tablespace with a 3Mb extent. pctfree=1 pctused=95 After I do an analyze table I get the following results num_rows*avg_row_len=28896420 bytes by segment=34603008

Re: Patch Install (8.1.7.3) and oraInventory

2002-04-24 Thread Eriovaldo Andrietta
Hi Glenn : I just finished to do it today. I just deleted the temp files, and after it the Universal Installer showed for me the list of products. Regards Eriovaldo - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 5:51

Re: good value for optimizer_index_cost_adj

2002-04-24 Thread Tim Gorman
The naming of these two wait-events is unfortunate in that they are counter-intuitive. You would normally think that the phrase sequential implied one thing and the phrase scattered implied the opposite. They do, but not the way one would guess... Db file scattered read is the wait-event for

RE: Why wait?

2002-04-24 Thread John Kanagaraj
Greg, As one who has been using the (now (un)officially named) OWI since I read Anjo's paper in '98, I can speak for its' value. I believe we are approaching the same problem from two sides, and there is merit for each approach. The Wait interface provides invaluable information from a

Re: good value for optimizer_index_cost_adj

2002-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Well, Tim did say he was making a long story short. scattered reads = multiblock reads which are typically associated with tablescans, but can be index fast full scans. sequential reads = single block reads which are typically associated with index block reads, table blocks

Re: Curious question about flushing the Pool

2002-04-24 Thread Tim Gorman
begin rant - It's *ALWAYS* a good idea to try to understand the underlying causes, for any and every situation. Too often people attempt to attack new problems with the same approach that they used before (or heard some guru advise), in a different context, in a different environment,

Re: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
hm, I wonder if someone will do a top 20 Unix mistakes presentation :) --- Joe Testa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: been there done that. crontab -l /tmp/c.c vi /tmp/c.c crontab /tmp/c.c joe Marc Cure wrote: You'll lose your entire crontab if you do a crontab -e when /var is

Re: good value for optimizer_index_cost_adj

2002-04-24 Thread Tim Gorman
I've got it on my list of things I'd like to do (i.e. understand DBMS_STATS.GATHER_SYSTEM_STATS), but I don't see any time to do it anytime soon. :-( It makes sense that the use of this procedure should obsolesce both OPTIMIZER_INDEX_ parameters... - Original Message - To: Multiple

Re: Why wait?

2002-04-24 Thread Greg Moore
Anjo, You wrote: The problem in Oracle is that wait events are not broken down per SQL statement (only on the instance and session level). There are products that out there that do this for you, but that would be completely different post ;-) I'll bite. Which products do this? Do

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Rachel, I will be doing some of that on the 'big boat' next week ;) but from the DBA's viewpoint. Sounds like a good idea for the next IOUGA (or UKOUG, or both)... :) Thanks. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:18 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: Why wait?

2002-04-24 Thread Tim Gorman
I wrote a paper/presentation (entitled SQL Tuning for DBAs) in 1996, presenting it at several user groups and at Open World Australasia in late 1997. I still have it on my website (www.evdbt.com/library.htm). It advocated examining the SQL Area on one side (to find bad SQL statements) and

RE: Curious question about flushing the Pool

2002-04-24 Thread Cary Millsap
I think an excellent Oracle kernel enhancement would be to bias in the LRU scheme against SQL that uses literals, just like the buffer cache algorithm biases against blocks that are read via full-table scan. Think about it... What's the likelihood that a SQL statement that's filthy with literal

RE: TOAD schema browser

2002-04-24 Thread Kimberly Smith
Its telling you to stop signing in as sys. -Original Message- Dolgov Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 2:58 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello ORACLE-L, I'm connecting to oracle using TOAD under sys account - all works well. I can select from sys' tables and views,

RE: good value for optimizer_index_cost_adj

2002-04-24 Thread Cary Millsap
Check out Jeff Holt's Why are Oracle's Read Events 'Named Backwards'? (www.hotsos.com/dnloads/1.Holt2000.02.01-Backwards.pdf) for a description of why these events are named the way they are.   Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hotsos.com -Original

Attn. : Bill Pass (RE: Materialized View)

2002-04-24 Thread Atul Kumar
Hi Bill Thanks for your reply. In fact when I try following SQL i get result (few records available in table DEPT) select * from dept@softek1 I could not understand the meaning of your statement You can pull the clear text password out of sys.link$ for this puspose.. Please clarify and help.

Re: Why wait?

2002-04-24 Thread Greg Moore
John, Agreed. My comments were specifically about two events, db file scattered read and db file sequential read. I'm just a beginner at waits, so maybe I don't get it. My understanding is, all you need to do is three back flips, a few drill downs, interpret P1 and P2, analyze what STATE

RE: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Kimberly Smith
That's what the SA's are for. Restore please. They should have never let /var get full:-) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You'll lose your entire crontab if you do a crontab -e when /var is full? (I've had this

Legato Networker Module for Oracle!

2002-04-24 Thread kminerva
Help needed, what is the difference with these software. Legato Networker Module for Oracle, separate product which has to be purchased from Legato. And then Legato Software coming with Oracle CD. BR keijo __ Ota itsellesi luotettava kotimainen email http://www.jippii.fi/ Tutustu samalla

Experimentation set up

2002-04-24 Thread Ankita Shankar
Dear Gurus, I'm beginning to get into 'Experimenting' - would like to create a test-bench, measure statistics, develop benchmarks etc. Specifically, I would like to develop an area where the cost and other stats values of executing a statement/transaction can be measured without being

Re: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Jared Still
Yeah, logged in as root from someone else's workstation, and no one is watching. Jared On Wednesday 24 April 2002 15:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come on, Jared, its more fun to: crontab /dev/null Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 -Original Message- From:

Re: Cronjob

2002-04-24 Thread Jared Still
Well, no, it isn't. I didn't realize that particular peculiarity of -e. The problem with crontab -e is that it's too easy to remove jobs accidentally, with no record of it. Myself, I use: co -l crontab.txt crontab -l test.txt diff crontab.txt test.txt # proceed if there are no

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