RE: Slow select distinct

2002-04-30 Thread Shaw John-P55297
If not distinct there's about 9900 records, there are some physical rw' going on but I've bumped sort area up to 2M. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 5:38 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L John, If you don't use the DISTINCT, how many records are

Re: VIRUS!!! VIRUS!!! VIRUS!!!!! BE CAREFUL!!!

2002-04-30 Thread Ron Rogers
JP and list, My mail server detected a virus in the original message and deleted it. JP is your response to a valid message that you read? Ron ROR mô¿ôm [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/30/02 08:43AM Use non-Windoze workstation! JP On Tue 30. April 2002 13:33, you wrote: HELP -Original

Re: Root Cause Analysis White Papers

2002-04-30 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello Peter A good source if the calls themselves. After each call analyze the root cause and start checking for it. This way you will be able in a short time to eliminate a lot of problems. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Re[4]: Oracle wants your job

2002-04-30 Thread Robert Eskridge
Curiously, as an ASP we've been contracted by some organizations for just that reason. Someone in upper management decides that their ability to enhance shareholder value is hindered by their current business rules. So they mandate using our application with little or no customization, driving

RE: FILE IDENTIFY wait event

2002-04-30 Thread Daniel W. Fink
The volume was offline. Once it was back online, Oracle resumed the process of creating a tablespace. Which brings up another question...why did Oracle wait on this condition instead of terminating with an error? If afile-system directory/drive cannot be found, the attempt to create a

RE: pl/sql is INTERPRETED?

2002-04-30 Thread Koivu, Lisa
You have a point Chris, but pl/sql is nowhere near as complex as an OO language like java or C++, IMHO. I agree with Tom that pl/sql can be learned fairly easily in comparison to the many other choices out there. However, it takes a bit of database savvy to do it correctly. (Not much tho) I

RE: Partitioning Quandry

2002-04-30 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
Thanks to Dennis, I found that partitioning on a concatenated key solves my dilema. For those who are interested, here is my new partitioning clause: PARTITION BY RANGE (invoice_state, update_date) ( PARTITION inv_active VALUES LESS THAN ('B', TO_DATE('01-jan-',

Re: ANTI-VIRUS SPAM - YOUR EMAIL ADMIN IS A DIKHEAD

2002-04-30 Thread Tim Gorman
snif! Gee, thanks all! hok! snif OK, I'm better now... grin! On the idea that Mogens started... How about an ORACLE-L conference on a cruise ship? I had a beer or two with Suzy on a cruise from Vancouver to Alaska on a woefully under-attended Geek Cruise (www.geekcruises.com) last summer.

Oracle-l conference (was RE: ANTI-VIRUS SPAM - YOUR EMAIL ADMIN

2002-04-30 Thread Paul . Parker
I had the pleasure of meeting some of the oracle-l list members during the recent IOUG in San Diego. I also brought my family with me to San Diego, to combine my business with their pleasure. The IOUG (rightly perhaps) did not cater for any family-related events (although the Big Bash may have

Re: FILE IDENTIFY wait event

2002-04-30 Thread Tim Gorman
If a wait-event (i.e. FILE IDENTIFY) was posted, then Oracle was undoubtedly making a system call such as "open()" or "fstat()" or something. If those system calls "hang" when the device file exists but the underlying device is offline, then there is nothing Oracle can do about it... It

groupping and percentages

2002-04-30 Thread Gurelei
Hi all: There have been a few threads here dealing with calculating percentages e.g: Group Number Percent 1 10 10% 2 10 10% 4 70 70% 9 10 10% I'm also sure I saw articles on how to create a report like this via Oracle, but I couldn't find one when I

Re: pl/sql is INTERPRETED?

2002-04-30 Thread Don Granaman
I wrote something more substantial up on this a few months ago, but can't easily find it right now. So, I'll just cut-and-paste a blurb I found: "DIANA (Descriptive Intermediate Attributed Notation for Ada), is a high-level tree-structured intermediate language that provides communication

Oracle is paying off every politician in sight / RE: How Oracle screwed California

2002-04-30 Thread Eric D. Pierce
ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 120 -- From: Steven Lembark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 09:30:40 -0500 Subject: RE: How Oracle screwed California -- Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know if Microsoft negotiates -- do they

Re: bad execution plan

2002-04-30 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I'd guess the optimizer is applying transitivity to use your constant against all three tables at the optimise stage, and something about the specific value is fooling it. What are the low_value and high_value columns in user_tab_columns for the three columns in the WHERE clause ? Is EV000154

Prod problem, please help!!!

2002-04-30 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
I have opened a TAR with Oracle and am waiting a resolution. In the meantime, I am wondering if anybody else has any ideas while I wait. Specifics: IBM AIX 4.3 Rdms 8.1.7.3 Database ~75g OLTP database with approximately 500 dedicated connections and 500 shared connections with

Re: FILE IDENTIFY wait event

2002-04-30 Thread Anjo Kolk
Daniel, It is not Oracle decision to wait. Basically the file identity means that Oracle will open the file and read the first block to find the name of the file and the size of the file. So two system calls are done. The driver for the file that you will make the decision to return an error.

Re: Oracle wants your job

2002-04-30 Thread Danisment Gazi Unal
Hello List, Maybe, some of you will not be agree with me, But, I think centralization will occur. Let's imagine that There is no banking system in the world and everyone keeps their money at home. And, someone claims that there will be banks and people will give money to banks. In this case, we

Re: CPU Pegged at 100%

2002-04-30 Thread Igor Neyman
You can see process threads in NT Performance Monitor. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 8:28 AM Do you know how to see the threads in NT? Yechiel Adar Mehish -

Re: Iraje. - Active tools - for comparing

2002-04-30 Thread Keith Peterson
Mark, we have been using the Active tools for some time and are kind of entrenched, particularly for comparing, designing and auditing: Active Compare http://www.iraje.com/compare-diff.htm Choices: TOAD, DBDiff, and Scripts? Why do we use ActiveCompare?: - we like the diff presentation as

RE: good pl/sql coding/debugging tool?

2002-04-30 Thread schmoldt
TORA also runs under Windows... I tried it, much preferred TOAD. -Original Message- From: Joe Testa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 6:48 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: good pl/sql coding/debugging tool? give up windoze, go to

Re: pl/sql is INTERPRETED?

2002-04-30 Thread Don Granaman
Sometimes they appear and disappear so quickly that tracking them is akin to particle physics! According to the pundits, every new technology is the one that is going to revolutionize the industry. ;-) A few from Oracle - OPO (Oracle Power Objects), ODP (Oracle Developer Programme), CDE, OPS

Re: Prod problem, please help!!!

2002-04-30 Thread lembark
The database hangs, and no user is able to connect to the instance, except locally through srvmgrl. Even within svrmgrl, we are unable to select anything from the database without the query hanging. However, we can abort the instance (shutdown abort) and start it up again just fine. This

what is wrong with this export?

2002-04-30 Thread Raghu Kota
Hi friends, Iam exporting some of tables, but keep getting error!! Could you help.. Mine is AIX415 with oracle4.3, If I want import an individual table, what is correct form of parameters? exp user/passwd tables = \ ( table1, tab2, tab3,

Re: Prod problem, please help!!!

2002-04-30 Thread Ruth Gramolini
If your database is in archivelog mode,is your archive_log_dest full? This will stop the database dead until you remedy the situation. Just my $0.02, Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 3:21 PM I have

Dangerous BUG in Oracle. Oracle Unbreakable ???

2002-04-30 Thread Jason Rowski
An dangerous bug has been reported in Oracle lastest database which is supposed to be 'Unbreakable'. See http://www.dbresources.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=94 for details. Oracle9i Database Server could allow a remote attacker with limited database privileges could create a SQL

RE: ERD generation tool

2002-04-30 Thread Ray Gordon
any idea on the pricing for these tools? I dont see a price on any of these sites. Ray Mark Leith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject : RE: ERD generation tool Date : Tue, 30 Apr 2002 06:03:36 -0800 ERWin

MS process/thread monitoring tools / RE: CPU Pegged at 100%

2002-04-30 Thread Eric D. Pierce
consider using qslice, or an alternative?: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/qslice-o.asp - http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/existing/pstat-o.asp --- http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=3023 ... | Process

Dangerous BUG in Oracle. Oracle Unbreakable ???

2002-04-30 Thread Jason Rowski
An dangerous bug has been reported in Oracle lastest database which is supposed to be 'Unbreakable'. See http://www.dbresources.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=94 for details. Oracle9i Database Server could allow a remote attacker with limited database privileges could create a SQL

Re: Prod problem, please help!!!

2002-04-30 Thread Danisment Gazi Unal
Hi, Please take system states dumps every 5 seconds withing 20-30 seconds. Let's read what's happening or not happening ? Also, You can upload your HANGANALYZE trace files to iOraHangAnalyzer. It's free. regards... Tracy Rahmlow wrote: I have opened a TAR with Oracle and am waiting a resolution.

Re: VIRUS!!! VIRUS!!! VIRUS!!!!! BE CAREFUL!!!

2002-04-30 Thread Jan Pruner
Well, it was the answer on Dave's email. Every day I get about 3-4 emails from servers without antivirus and from users without basic knowledge of don't click on all attachments in your emails. I removed all Microsoft OS from computers in our company 3 years ago. So, I only laugh reading news

Oracle-l conference (was RE: ANTI-VIRUS SPAM - YOUR EMAIL

2002-04-30 Thread Gene Sais
Cruise sounds like an idea, out of Miami :) 3 day cruise to bahamas is not too expensive. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/30/02 02:43PM I had the pleasure of meeting some of the oracle-l list members during the recent IOUG in San Diego. I also brought my family with me to San Diego, to combine my

Re: Prod problem, please help!!!

2002-04-30 Thread Jared . Still
Tracy, You can start by using the query below to determine what the sessions are actually waiting on: select s.username username, e.event event, s.sid, e.p1text, e.p1, e.p2text, e.p2, e.wait_time, e.seconds_in_wait, e.state from v$session s, v$session_wait e where

Database Normalization-Outdated?

2002-04-30 Thread Lisa R. Clary
Hi all, I sort of come from an old school where you should normalize data where you can (typically 3rd or 2nd) so that you get the efficiency of normalization but not the difficulty of data extraction. Additionally, I always thought that putting RI on tables was fairly important (prevention of

Re: what is wrong with this export?

2002-04-30 Thread Jan Pruner
I'm not working on AIX, but I use syntax exp user/passwd tables=(TABLE1,TABLE2) ... etc. Why do you use \( and \) ? JP On Tue 30. April 2002 21:38, you wrote: Hi friends, Iam exporting some of tables, but keep getting error!! Could you help.. Mine is AIX415 with oracle4.3, If I want

RE: export to tape!!/Import from tape

2002-04-30 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Yes, you can import any table from that export if your export dmp have it. you can use following syntax imp userid=abc/abc file=/dev/tape tables=(a,b,z) buffer=4096 fromuser= abc touser= xyz commit=y Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Prod problem, please help!!!

2002-04-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Tracy - Two ideas: On Metalink, get note 61552.1 Diagnosing Database Hanging Issues I would try to run STATSPACK (or utlbstat/utlestat) while the database is hanging. You can also run STATSPACK on a schedule. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

Re: ERD generation tool

2002-04-30 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
ERWin is about $3,500 for a single user license. Ken Janusz, CPIM - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 2:38 PM any idea on the pricing for these tools? I dont see a price on any of these sites. Ray Mark Leith

Problem in Dropping a MV : ORA-07445: exception encountered: co

2002-04-30 Thread Reddy, Madhusudana
Hello ALL, I am having a problem in dropping an un-used Materialized view and getting the following error when I am trying to drop ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [kkzmtab()+76] [SIGSEGV] [Address not mapped to object] [588] [] [] I have found in metalink that it was a bug in

RE: what is wrong with this export?

2002-04-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Raghu - I notice that your command string extends over several lines. Perhaps you should consider putting your export parameters into a parameter file. I can send you an example if that would help. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday,

Re: ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 120

2002-04-30 Thread Eric D. Pierce
are you a roland? ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 120 -- From: Ravindra B [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:37:28 -0700 Subject: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0067_01C1EF83.01703690 Content-Type:

RE: Oracle-l conference (was RE: ANTI-VIRUS SPAM - YOUR EMAIL

2002-04-30 Thread Mandal, Ashoke
Where are you planning to have it? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 2:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Cruise sounds like an idea, out of Miami :) 3 day cruise to bahamas is not too expensive. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/30/02 02:43PM I had the pleasure of

RE: Prod problem, please help!!!

2002-04-30 Thread Arun Chakrapani
If nothing works and when u know the database has frozen u can run the following command to take dump of the database so that u can send it to oracle for analyzing or u can analyze it too. As jared says keep querying the session_Wait u will defnetly bound to catch the guy who might be causing the

Re: Dangerous BUG in Oracle. Oracle Unbreakable ???

2002-04-30 Thread Ora NT DBA
Hi Jason, This was reported two weeks ago on this list by Jonathan Lewis. A patch has already been released. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An dangerous bug has been reported in Oracle lastest database which is supposed to be 'Unbreakable'. See

Re: what is wrong with this export?

2002-04-30 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Raghu Still do you want to send your export dmp to tape or on disk. Much better to study Oracle Utilities Manual for complete understanding. For short type exp (or imp) help=y enter on unix prompt and you will find all options available with your oracle release. To export on tape (for 7.3.4)

Re: Iraje. - ActiveWarehouse - fraud detection

2002-04-30 Thread Keith Peterson
Mark, The other tool we use is the ActiveAuditor/Warehouse solution as described below: ActiveAuditor/ActiveDataWarehouse http://www.iraje.com/accbig.htm Choices: informatica? DB Triggers? Why use it? - records DATA changes, just by a few clicks. - Lets say you have an OLTP app.

zombie extent

2002-04-30 Thread Ray Stell
An associate is running a 8.1.5 db and he came to me with a horror story. I don't have specific info on the event, but it makes me wonder about the concept. All users off the db, coming down for a cold backup. He said some extent owned by sys in TEMP ts was not released and so the db would

Meghraj Thakkar - Quest - Oracle 9i on Windows NT/2000 / Re: ORACLE-L Digest -- Volume 2002, Number 120

2002-04-30 Thread Eric D. Pierce
Meghraj Thakkar - Quest Oracle 9i on Windows NT/2000 http://www.oracle.com/pls/oow/oow_user.show_public?p_event=6p_type=sessionp_id=11958 - Whitepaper: http://www.oracle.com/pls/oow/oow_user.download?p_event_id=6p_file=W11958.zip (expands to 105.doc) | Some parts of this paper have

Re: Prod problem, please help!!!

2002-04-30 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
Hi, I am unable to query from the database when it hangs up. I am only able to execute the shutdown abort command. To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:Tracy Rahmlow@AMEX Tracy, You can start by using the query below to determine what the sessions are actually waiting on: select

RE: Problem in Dropping a MV : ORA-07445: exception

2002-04-30 Thread Godlewski, Melissa
Title: RE: Problem in Dropping a MV : ORA-07445: exception encountered: co Try to drop the materialized view log first. Also are you dropping the materialized view as the object owner? -Original Message- From: Reddy, Madhusudana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30,

Re: Database Normalization-Outdated?

2002-04-30 Thread Ray Gordon
Lisa, Before you go about abandoning the entire phylosophy of database modeling, let me say this: This 2 table (actually 3 table), meta-modeling is not the wave of the future. It could be the wave of the past. In fact, Oracle designer was like this, with just 2 tables SDD_ELEMENTS and

RE: Oracle wants your job

2002-04-30 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: Oracle wants your job You are correct about one thing - some of us will not agree with you especially about centralized information and democracy. Jerry Whittle ACIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 618-622-4145 -Original Message- From:

PL/SQL Mail Question

2002-04-30 Thread dmeng
Hi All - I am in the process of developing a PL/SQL procedure to monitor all production databases and run into a road block: The PL/SQL procedure is supposed to run my monitoring sql scripts and use the UTL_SMTP package to send the output ( list of invalid objects, near extent limits etc ) to the

Re: Prod problem, please help!!!

2002-04-30 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
Hi, It has been confirmed that we are not running out of space due to the archiver. To:Tracy Rahmlow@AMEX cc: My initial stab in the dark is that if this DB is in archive mode, that the archiver process could be halting additional transactions due to lack of space in the archive

RE: Prod problem, please help!!!

2002-04-30 Thread John Hallas
Tracy what do the Sys Admin staff say. How long since the last reboot of the server, has there been any kernel changes recently, any rogue processes? I always try and think away from Oracle initially and get other people involved as well. It is easy to assume it is just an Oracle issue (which it

RE: Problem in Dropping a MV : ORA-07445: exception encountered:

2002-04-30 Thread Khedr, Waleed
did you try: drop snapshot .? Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello ALL, I am having a problem in dropping an un-used Materialized view and getting the following error when I am trying to drop

export tables from sql Server to Oracle

2002-04-30 Thread Kader Ben
Hi listers, Can someone tell me how import tables from SQLServer to Oracle. Thanks for your help, Ben __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: Prod problem, please help!!!

2002-04-30 Thread Jay Mehta
Tracy, How is the CPU and memory usage on the server when the database hangs? It's likely that database might be experiencing severe latch contention, preventing you from running any queries. To diagnose the problem, you should look at the Oracle Wait events statistics periodically before

RE: Database Normalization-Outdated?

2002-04-30 Thread STEVE OLLIG
Lisa - not sure i follow the specific example, but i say RI is still a wonderful feature of an RDBMS and should not be thrown out. Many package apps have not implemented RI because they run on many RDBMS platforms, and each handles RI differently. So put the RI in the app they say - right! Not

RE: Meghraj Thakkar - Quest - Oracle 9i on Windows NT/2000 / Re:

2002-04-30 Thread Jesse, Rich
Don't forget to turn #%^%#@#$% cookies on in your browser. The site won't work without them and is too stupid to tell when they're off. Where's the Cookie Monster when you need him? Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech

Re:Database Normalization-Outdated?

2002-04-30 Thread dgoulet
Lisa, Care to reveal the consultant and the title of his/her book? There are many prophets out there who claim to have the key to the future. In reality it is their pipe dream that they are trying to pass off as gospel when in fact it is bull dung. As for an application handling all data

RE: Prod problem, please help!!!

2002-04-30 Thread Wong, Bing
Check to see if old dedicated processes are still hanging at the unix level. I had those happened to me and we had to kill them manually. I mean old is one day or few hours old. What's the size of the memory? What's the size of SGA? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002

Two instances with same name on the same Server

2002-04-30 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Hello Folks, I was teaching DBA stuff to a newbie, and I had him play with an Oracle 7.3.4 instance on an old HP box. I was teaching him about oradebug, ipcs and how to associate shared memory segments with an Oracle Instance. After some time, he came back and said there were 2 Oracle instances

RE: Two instances with same name on the same Server

2002-04-30 Thread Ben Poels
Hi This could happen if you have Oracle installed twice on the box. The same SID could be started up from each of the binaries. Ben -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 5:48 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello Folks, I was teaching DBA

RE: How to deinstall oracle 9i and leave 8i intact

2002-04-30 Thread Miller, Jay
I had a similar problem on a Unix box where I had once had a 9i test instance installed as well as an 8i instance. I was unable to install 8.1.7 for an upgrade while I had 9i installed. The problem was in the oraInventory entries. No matter how many times I uninstalled 9i it left a record that

Re: FILE IDENTIFY wait event

2002-04-30 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Depending on the OS, one could maybe trace the call made by Oracle's OSD-layer to the OS (I can't remember the name of the trace facility in Solaris, but it's also sort of available now in AIX version 5 and there are similar freeware things available for HP/UX and other OS'es). Tim Gorman

RE: Two instances with same name on the same Server

2002-04-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Raj - I believe I've seen this sometime ago. It is like a set of processes have no connection like normal. You'll probably have to kill those processes manually before you restart the instance. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, April

Re: Oracle-l conference (was RE: ANTI-VIRUS SPAM - YOUR EMAIL ADMIN

2002-04-30 Thread Don Granaman
Hmmm... I would seriously consider it also. I like the idea of a halfway deal - Iceland and/or Greenland, but I actually like colder climates (I thought the San Diego weather for the IOUG-A conference was fine)! If nothing else, perhaps a long ORACLE-L round table at the next IOUG-A Live to

Re: Database Normalization-Outdated?

2002-04-30 Thread Charlie Mengler
If this concept is so simple (simplistic?), why does it take a whole book to elaborate on it? Lisa R. Clary wrote: [...snip...] Recently, a consultant who has published a book about SQL is now telling me that there is a better model--that of value pair combinations (e.g. variable, value) to

RE: Two instances with same name on the same Server

2002-04-30 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
I've seen this happen in the following circumstance: Log in as oracle owner. svrmgrl - startup - exit. Log out. The instance is running. Now log in as another user who is a member of the dba group. svrmgrl - startup - exit. Do a ps -ef. You will see two instances running. Been there.

Re: export tables from sql Server to Oracle

2002-04-30 Thread Jan Pruner
Easiest and no-brain way is to use MS Export/import wizard in MS SQL Enterprise Manager. JP On Tue 30. April 2002 23:16, you wrote: Hi listers, Can someone tell me how import tables from SQLServer to Oracle. Thanks for your help, Ben __

Re: Database Normalization-Outdated?

2002-04-30 Thread Jared . Still
Too funny! The first problem that comes to mind is duhvelopers: There are a lot of developers that would simply be incapable of dealing with Meta Data for every day queries. We tried to use some very flexible meta data in a DW, and it turned out to be too hard for the developers to grasp, many

unix df -k .. not giving extact space at point in time

2002-04-30 Thread Narender Akula
hi gurus, This is unix question but hope someone got the answer I ran df -k yesterday on my oracle directories. /oradata4 81% /oradata3 77% /oradata6 72% ( this not exact out put only inclueded mount on ,capacity) I removed some files from /oradata4 and added some files to /oradata4

Re: FILE IDENTIFY wait event

2002-04-30 Thread Tim Gorman
"truss" on Solaris and AIX, "tusc" on HP-UX, and "strace" on Linux... - Original Message - From: Mogens Nørgaard To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:10 PM Subject: Re: FILE IDENTIFY wait event Depending on the OS, one

RE: Problem in Dropping a MV : ORA-07445: exception

2002-04-30 Thread Reddy, Madhusudana
Yes I did. I am getting end of comunication channel error and then ORA-07445 in alert.log Any Idea ??? --Madhu -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 3:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L encountered: did you try: drop snapshot .? Waleed -Original

Re: ERD generation tool - ActiveDesigner pricing

2002-04-30 Thread Keith Peterson
and, pricing for ActiveDesigner (2001 dec. prices) Active D'lite approx: 995/- to the ActiveDesigner enterprise approx: 6,995/- (there are some intermediate points, dont have that info.) Keith Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 12:13:56 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: unix df -k .. not giving extact space at point in time

2002-04-30 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Did you try: sync before df -k Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 6:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L hi gurus, This is unix question but hope someone got the answer I ran df -k yesterday on my oracle directories. /oradata4 81% /oradata3 77%

RE: what is wrong with this export?

2002-04-30 Thread Miller, Jay
Basing it on my Solaris experience the \ is a control character so the system will treat the ( and ) as part of the export command. But doesn't it need to be immediate before the ( and )? I.e., \( instead of \ (? What is the error you're getting? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday,

RE: unix df -k .. not giving extact space at point in time

2002-04-30 Thread Miller, Jay
If any of the files were being accessed when you removed them they won't show up in an ls command but will still occupy space (and not actually be deleted) until they are no longer being accessed. For example, if you rm all your data files while the database is running the space will not be

Re: unix df -k .. not giving extact space at point in time

2002-04-30 Thread Peter . McLarty
It is possible that some process was attached to those files and until that process released those files it wouldn't release the space, Also Unix will take its own time to actually clean up a delete. It will delete the inode reference from the directory listing but can take some time to

Re: Root Cause Analysis White Papers

2002-04-30 Thread Peter . McLarty
Also Have a look around TechRepublic http://www.techrepublic.com. They usually have articles about things like this and may even have some templates that you can use as a guide to get started. There approach would be very IT generalist Cheers --

RE: what is wrong with this export?

2002-04-30 Thread Wong, Bing
Just run like this. It will ask for password. Assuming you are running it manually. Make sure you have ORACLE_SID set correctly. exp user FULL=N tables = ( table1, tab2, tab3, tab40,tab5,ttdsls051061,ttdsls051110,ttdsls051120,ttdsls051130,

RE: what is wrong with this export?

2002-04-30 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Does Oracle 4.3 have export utility? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 3:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi friends, Iam exporting some of tables, but keep getting error!! Could you help.. Mine is AIX415 with oracle4.3, If I want import an individual

Re: Two instances with same name on the same Server

2002-04-30 Thread Anjo Kolk
ORACLE_HOME + ORACLE_SID together uniquely identify an instance. Anjo. Vergara, Michael (TEM) wrote: I've seen this happen in the following circumstance: Log in as oracle owner. svrmgrl - startup - exit. Log out. The instance is running. Now log in as another user who is a member of

RE: FILE IDENTIFY wait event

2002-04-30 Thread Cary Millsap
Hit http://www.pugcentral.org/howto/truss.htm for a complete description of truss and a listing of where you can obtain it for several different OS brands. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hotsos.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Solid DB and Oracle (NNM)

2002-04-30 Thread Sujatha Madan
Hi, Sorry but this situation is specific to a particular application ... so don't read past this line if you don't know what NNM (Network Node Manager) is. We're using NNM 6.2 with the default solid db for trend data, event data, topology etc. They have now decided that it is about time we

Re: Solid DB and Oracle (NNM)

2002-04-30 Thread Peter . McLarty
Hi I suggest you go to www.itrc.hp.com and study up there. Your sysadmin will have a full login that you can use to access all of the secrets. The openview manager probably has one linked to the openview license. I think only the management station will have a the oracle database. It is

RE: Solid DB and Oracle (NNM)

2002-04-30 Thread Sujatha Madan
Hi, I have checked on ITRC. There are some things, but they don't really explain much. I thought as much that we couldn't have different Oracle instances on each collector. Have you done this before?? Did it go alright? Regs suji -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, 1 May 2002 3:38

Re: Two instances with same name on the same Server

2002-04-30 Thread ltiu
What's with the Service_name? vs. SID? On Tuesday 30 April 2002 18:03, you wrote: ORACLE_HOME + ORACLE_SID together uniquely identify an instance. Anjo. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: ltiu INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services--

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