RE: Oracle 9.0.1.3 or 9.2.0?

2002-06-13 Thread Connor McDonald
Thats what Metalink has to say ( dunno what the note id is)..Expect '10i' sometime next year I'd say. For similar reasons, 8.1.7 is supported longer than 9.0 (since 9.2 is the terminal release) hth connor --- Grabowy, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello? 9.2 is the terminal release for

Free Buffer Waits

2002-06-13 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi All, We have a production database that has a batch job running on it for months now. Last night one part of the batch job that normally takes between 20-30 minutes took well over 6 hours. The only difference I can see between today other days is that the Free Buffer Wait event was the top

AW: RDBMS - key strength

2002-06-13 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi Keith To me it's the easily to understand underlaying relational model, which is flexible enough to deal with a lot of (especially business) problem domains ... if it only were implemented correctly by most vendors ;). Regards, Stefan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Keith Peterson

RE: Oracle Text index question, somewhat urgent

2002-06-13 Thread Lord, David - CSG
I'm no expert, but yes - by default, text indexes are case-insensitive (in english at least). I believe its something to do with the Lexer preferences. The default value of the mixed_case attribute of the basic lexer object is NO. HTH David Lord -Original Message- From: Jonathan

RE: RDBMS - key strength

2002-06-13 Thread Robson, Peter
Great question. Before answering myself, lets just be very careful to distinguish between RDBMS and SQL-databases. Oracle falls into the latter category, but not the former. Can anyone name a TRUE relational database management system currently available today?? ;-) peter edinburgh

RE: Job Scheduler in 9i

2002-06-13 Thread Connor McDonald
Sorry - I should have been more specific with earlier versions - I was referring to 8.0 and (if memory serves) one of the 8.1.x's. I was pondering whether this had crept into 9 (although I would doubt it) Keep us posted on what happens :-) Cheers Connor --- Freeman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Memory utilization

2002-06-13 Thread Connor McDonald
From the OS pmap From the DB select * from v$sesstat where stat# in ( select stat# from v$statname where name like '%ga%' ) hth connor --- CP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gurus, How can I find out the amount of memory utilized (grabbed from the available memory of the OS) by a

RE: !ls from sqlplus

2002-06-13 Thread Stephane Faroult
Would it be possible that an alias has been defined on the production server ? Type 'alias' to check if 'ls' has been redefined. Another possibility is an alternate ls command found before the usual one in your path. 'which ls' or 'whereis ls' on the prod server might help you identify this.

Re: Oracle Text index question, somewhat urgent

2002-06-13 Thread Bill Pass
This did work for us and is documented in the following document: Oracle Text Application Developers Guide Case-Sensitive Indexing and Querying By default, all text tokens are converted to uppercase and then indexed. This results in case-insensitive queries. For example, separate queries on

RE: How to find out the latest object created in DB?

2002-06-13 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
From sqlplus type the following desc user_objects and everything should become clear. Regards Lee -Original Message-From: Jalil Zabourdine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 13 June 2002 11:03To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: How to find out the latest object

Re: How to find out the latest object created in DB?

2002-06-13 Thread Jack van Zanen
Try: select object_name from dba_objects where created = (select max(created) from dba_objects); Jack Jalil Zabourdine [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

RE: How to find out the latest object created in DB?

2002-06-13 Thread Mark Leith
How about something like: select * from (select object_name, object_type, created from all_objects order by created) where rownum = 1; HTH Mark === Mark Leith | T: +44 (0)1905 330 281 Sales

RE: How to find out the latest object created in DB?

2002-06-13 Thread Bernard, Gilbert
select owner, object_type, object_name, to_char(created,'/mm/dd') created, to_char(last_ddl_time,'/mm/dd') last_ddl_time, status from sys.dba_objects where owner like upper('ow%') and object_type like upper('ot%') and object_name like upper('on%') and status like

RE: Oracle 9.0.1.3 or 9.2.0?

2002-06-13 Thread Bill Pass
I thought the original question was what is more stable 9.0 or 9.2. If that is the basis for your decission stick with 9.0.1.3 or better until 9.2 gets a couple dot releases on it. With all the problems we have had with 9.0.1.x, I have not had one support person recommend we go to 9.2 to solve

RE: ORA-00604 and ORA-01578

2002-06-13 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Is there any PERFORMANCE Overhead on Setting DB_BLOCK_CHECKING = TRUE in the init.ora . Any Best practice on this parameter Setting ? Thanks -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 12:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Resend. -Original Message- Sent:

Re: Free Buffer Waits

2002-06-13 Thread Nuno Souto
It's in centiseconds (100th sec) in all versions up to 9i. In 9i, some have changed to (1th sec) IIRC. So, if you're not in 9i, each of your waits is one second (100.8971 * 0.01) and it waited a total of around 22000 secs (between 7 and 8 hours). Bad. As for the reasons, they can be many

RE: How to find out the latest object created in DB?

2002-06-13 Thread Ferenc Mantfeld
How about : select owner, object_type, object_name from dba_objects where created = select max(created) from dba_objects ; That ought to do it. Cheers : Regards: Ferenc Mantfeld Senior Performance Engineer Siebel Performance Engineering Melbourne, 3000, VIC, Australia Please note 17

Re: How to find out the latest object created in DB?

2002-06-13 Thread Jalil Zabourdine
Thanks Jack and all who replied. Best regards, -Jalil Jack van Zanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try:select object_name from dba_objects where created = (select max(created)from dba_objects);JackJalil Zabourdine<[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multiplerecipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>m cc: (bcc:

Re: Oracle Text index question, somewhat urgent

2002-06-13 Thread Jonathan Gennick
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 01:08:29 -0800, Conner wrote: I don't have Text installed on a db thats readily to hand, but isn't this just a case of running the following and seeing what happens: snip Well yes I could have tested it, but I don't have Text installed either, and even if I did have it

RE: 9iRAC on AIX

2002-06-13 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Are Concurrently Accessible MOUNTED FILE SYSTEMS (NOT Raw FS) possible on AIX ? If so which , on what machine platforms , AIX versions , Oracle versions ? Thanks -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L It is available on a

ORA-00036: maximum number of recursive SQL levels (50) exceeded

2002-06-13 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I got this error in my SIDAlert log yesterday. I found that this usually has to do with triggers that keep calling itself. Is this recursive SQL level an internal parameter that cannot be changed? I do not see this in my init.ora. Is this error due more to coding error? Thanks, Dave --

Any Good , Complete Docs , Source , Links on OUTLN ?

2002-06-13 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
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Re:dedicated sessions

2002-06-13 Thread dgoulet
BP, What you are asking falls somewhat into the realm of Black Magic. Will you see a decrease in resource requirements from Multi Threaded Server (MTS) which is what I believe your asking. Possibly. It depends on the total number of connections to your database and the type of transaction

Re:oracle error logging

2002-06-13 Thread dgoulet
BP, Error detection and handling are one of those subjects that I probably could write a book on and is one of my pet peeves with the development guys/gals. But to get started, please let us in on what the environment is, Operating system, development environment, database version,

RE: ORA-00036: maximum number of recursive SQL levels (50) exceeded

2002-06-13 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Thanks for the link Gints. Dave -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:13 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L exceeded I wrote something about it in my limitations page http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/oracle_limits.htm see No of cascading triggers = 32 Note1:

RE: Oracle 9.0.1.3 or 9.2.0?

2002-06-13 Thread Freeman, Robert
We are toying with the idea of crafting a policy that we only upgrade to a terminal release of a given version (e.g. 8.1.7, 9.0.1.3) in most cases, unless a different version is required by a vendor. It seems that these terminal release versions tend to be the most stable. Anyone else doing that?

Varrays as Lobs Tablespace Changing

2002-06-13 Thread Walter K
Some VARRAY questions... 1. How do I determine a VARRAY data type within the database--just simply an odd name for a datatype (i.e. O_EXT_XYZ...) ? 2. If I have a VARRAY that has been stored as a LOB, is there a way I can change the tablespace on the underlying LOB via an ALTER

RE: ORA-00036: maximum number of recursive SQL levels (50) exceeded

2002-06-13 Thread Peter Barnett
This is a limitation that appears in most industrial strength databases. It over rides the bad coding that allows a trigger to recursively call itself forever. --- Farnsworth, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the link Gints. Dave -Original Message- Sent: Thursday,

RE: Any Good , Complete Docs , Source , Links on OUTLN ?

2002-06-13 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
The ones I know: http://www.google.com http://metalink.oracle.com - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 8:33 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Deshpande, Kirti INET: [EMAIL

Wait event problems

2002-06-13 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
All, Oracle 8.0.5.0.0 Tru64 v4.0f We are running a job and statspack reports show that our only problem (it is running like a dog) is the following SQL*Net more data from client. Done some reading and still none the wiser. Anyone else had this sort of problem and if so how did you

RE: set sort_area_size, sort_retained_size,hash_area_size but sti

2002-06-13 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: set sort_area_size, sort_retained_size,hash_area_size but still writing to temp Have 12Gb RAM available , using parallel query with large mv joined to small code tables and setting session parameters to use Gb's of memory (have system to myself at the time) but system shows 12Gb

Re: Wait event problems

2002-06-13 Thread Hemant K Chitale
The database server is waiting for the client. The client could be Oracle Reports --- thus you are running a report which does some calculations in the report before executing the next SELECT on the server. Hemant At 07:23 AM 13-06-02 -0800, you wrote: All, Oracle 8.0.5.0.0 Tru64 v4.0f We are

RE: I/O contention with external process reading the oracle logs (online redo logs)

2002-06-13 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: I/O contention with external process reading the oracle logs (online redo logs) I think Yechiel is referring to a statistical claim by Quest that only 30% of the redo stream is usable in re-assembling the SQL statement. The rest is like you suspect, index maintenance, rbs segment

Management Reports

2002-06-13 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Good Morning Everyone! My management wants a chart that shows the performance of the database. If this was your boss, what would you show them? Thanks, Mike P.S. This is a repeat e-mail. I never saw my other one hit the list. ---

Database restore question

2002-06-13 Thread Gurelei
Hi. I have posted a question yesterday regarding a partial database restore.This is sort of a fallout of that restore. Because I was only interested in restoring two tables which are very stable I decided not to restore a rollback tablespace. But when my restore was completed and the databse

oratcl

2002-06-13 Thread Arslan Bahar
How can I found a complete reference or book etc about oratcl -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Arslan Bahar INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public

RE: Any Good , Complete Docs , Source , Links on OUTLN ?

2002-06-13 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: Any Good , Complete Docs , Source , Links on OUTLN ? Chapter 11 in Tom Kyte's Oracle one-on-one Export (start here if you can and save yourself time) Metalink Note 92202.1 How To Specify Hidden Hints in SQL Oracle Corporation paper by David McElhoes, Stabilizing Query

RE: Management Reports

2002-06-13 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Mike, Get him the free version of Quests Spotlight on Oracle. Puts a pretty interactive chart up on his screen. Green means good. Yellow means caution, Pink means almost danger. Red means bad. This should be a good start for him! :) Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional

Re: Wait event problems

2002-06-13 Thread Jack Silvey
Lee, This is an idle wait event, meaning that the query process is waiting on instructions from the client. Usually this process is benign, but sometimes can indicate that the feeding process is not providing data in a timely fashion. hth, jack silvey --- Robertson Lee - lerobe [EMAIL

RE: Wait event problems

2002-06-13 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Ha ha, not quite but I think I know where the problem may lie. It does a lot of OS file handling between inserts. Thanks for that Lee -Original Message- Sent: 13 June 2002 16:44 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The database server is waiting for the client. The client

Re: !ls from sqlplus

2002-06-13 Thread Hemant K Chitale
If your default shell is csh, check the .login file in your $HOME directory. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 13 June, 2002 8:09 AM OS: Solaris 2.7 Database: 8.1.7 On dev server, !ls from sqlplus gives the files of

RE: oratcl

2002-06-13 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: oratcl I use TCL/TK Tools by Mark Harrison. It has a chapter on Oratcl. There's also good information in the OEM's Intelligent Agent Users Guide. HTH Tony Aponte -Original Message- From: Arslan Bahar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 11:29 AM

RE: Management Reports

2002-06-13 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: Management Reports Is your management looking for real-time charts or are they looking for higher-level scorecard-like info (i.e.. number of transactions yesterday, last 7 days, yada yada yada?) Tony Aponte -Original Message- From: Vergara, Michael (TEM) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Wait event problems

2002-06-13 Thread Rachel Carmichael
You may want to search the archives of the list as well, I seem to recall Cary Millsap posting something not too long ago where they found that this idle wait event was a real problem. If you can't find it, I can try to dig it out of my files Rachel --- Jack Silvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: RDBMS - key strength

2002-06-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
The relational algebra foundation upon which RDBMS design rests. I found it very enlightening to study RDBMS theory, starting with relational algebra. Few other areas of computer science have this rock-solid foundation upon which to build. Dennis Williams DBA, 20% OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL

RE: set sort_area_size, sort_retained_size,hash_area_size but sti

2002-06-13 Thread Jack Silvey
Paula, what is the size of your hash_area_size, sort_area_size, and sort_area_retained_size? what does your explain plan look like? hashes, sort/merge, or nested loops? do you have a lot of parallel to parallel, parallel to serial in your plans? jack silvey --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: Management Reports

2002-06-13 Thread Stephane Faroult
Anything looking resolutely optimistic. Seriously, it means nothing. A database is not 'performant' per se, it's just layers of software easing the coding work to access and concurrently update data stored in file (sorry to be so down to earth). If developers have done a bad job, it will be

Init.ora and Config.ora

2002-06-13 Thread Fink, Dan
Beware...DBA heresy below... I am in the process of cleaining up parameter files and wonder why we still maintain an init.ora and config.ora. The original rational was that one contained the database configuration/creation parameters while the other was used for tuning. Is there a good

Re: Management Reports

2002-06-13 Thread Thomas Day
Log switches. This is a pretty good indicator of database usage. I haven't documented where I got this script but I've found it useful. Multiply log switches by log size and you have a very rough indicator of how many bytes per hour your database is doing. Management might understand that

RE: oracle error logging

2002-06-13 Thread Aponte, Tony
PL/SQL Tips Techniques from Oracle Press hasa few sections that may interest you. There's one on encapsulating exception blocks, with code to set up an infrastructure for exception routines. Another good on is a complete package to encapsulate UTL_FILE exception handling. HTH Tony Aponte

RE: Management Reports

2002-06-13 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Tom - I like your style! Hit 'em when they are asking for it. If he just wants some color charts printed daily a creative solution from Don Burleson in his Oracle High-Performance Tuning with STATSPACK book is to get the statistics by doing queries on the STATSPACK tables and using grep and

Re: Oracle 9.0.1.3 or 9.2.0?

2002-06-13 Thread Hemant K Chitale
We are currently planning to upgrade an 8.1.5 OPS instance to 9i. We had rejected the idea of upgrading to the first release of 9i -- implementing a standing rule not to upgrade to Release1 of any new version. Therefore, we had always planned to wait for 9iRelease2. Within two weeks of the

Locally Managed Tablespaces

2002-06-13 Thread Marmdba
Hi All, I am setting up a 9i instance and am wondering if there are any tablespaces that you would not set up as locally managed. Would system and rollback tablespaces be set up as dictionary managed or locally managed? Are there any guidelines when considering lmt or dmt? Thanks, Michele

RE: Wait event problems

2002-06-13 Thread Cary Millsap
SQL*Net more data from client is a probable indication that your application is passing huge SQL statements from the client to the server (very hard on your database performance for a number of reasons) instead of calling stored procedures.   Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. [EMAIL

Cleanup of child records...

2002-06-13 Thread Richard Huntley
Title: Cleanup of child records... TIA List, What is the most efficient way to remove child records from a table that have no parent records in it's parent table. I want to build a FK, to keep this from happening, but I need to do some cleanup first.

RE: good documentation explaining sorts

2002-06-13 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: good documentation explaining sorts I have explored all that it is available from metalink (that I could find) and various books. Anyone know where there is a good comprehensive explanation of sortings/sorts/temporary segments/sorting and buffer cache in one place/document?

RE: Management Reports

2002-06-13 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Title: RE: Management Reports Tony: Scorecard/historical. My management would not know what to make of a Spotlight screen if they sat on it. Can I say that? Mike -Original Message-From: Aponte, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 8:33 AMTo: [EMAIL

Re: Init.ora and Config.ora

2002-06-13 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I tend to only use the init.ora file --- Fink, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beware...DBA heresy below... I am in the process of cleaining up parameter files and wonder why we still maintain an init.ora and config.ora. The original rational was that one contained the database

RE: Any Good , Complete Docs , Source , Links on OUTLN ?

2002-06-13 Thread Jay Earle (DBA)
Title: RE: Any Good , Complete Docs , Source , Links on OUTLN ? Oracle High-Performance SQL Tuning by Don Burleson608 pagesISBN 0-07-219058-2 The following excerpt is from Chapter 13 of this publication. Tuning with Optimizer Plan Stability This chapter discusses the use of optimizer plan

INITRANS question

2002-06-13 Thread Hamid Alavi
Hi List, I have few tables with a lot of transaction by many users, I change the Initrans from 1 to 5 and for some to 25, My question is what's the best way to findout which value is the optimum value for INITRANS for each table? Thanks for Help. Hamid Alavi Office 818 737-0526 Cell818

Re: Wait event problems

2002-06-13 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
I think Rachel is referring following email from Carry Millsap.. It is a really nice explanation of this issue Regards Rafiq I have an example for you (Anjo, I hope you won't mind). A prospect we visited once upon a time had been fighting a performance problem with an Oracle Payroll

Re: ORA-00036: maximum number of recursive SQL levels (50) exceeded

2002-06-13 Thread Jared . Still
From MetaLink: Error: ORA 36 Text: Maximum number of recursive sql levels (%s) exceeded --- Cause: An attempt was made to go more than the specified number of recursive SQL levels was made. Action:

RE: Free Buffer Waits

2002-06-13 Thread Cary Millsap
free buffer waits waits indicate that your DBWR can't keep up with its workload. Often caused by inefficient SQL competing with DBWR for an I/O device.   Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hotsos.com -Original Message- Zanen Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002

9i R2 not automatically starting up after upgrade

2002-06-13 Thread Yexley Robert D Contr Det 1 AFRL/WSI
I upgraded a database yesterday from 9i R1 (9.0.1) to 9i R2 (9.2.0.1.0), and am now having problems with the database starting up automatically on system reboot. This is on a Windows 2000 Pro machine. The error that I get when I try to connect with SQL*Plus is ORA-27101: shared memory realm

Re: Oracle DB2 DBA Needed in Nebraska (near Colorado border)

2002-06-13 Thread Tim Gorman
...reminds me of the marketing slogan for a Mexican restaurant chain: On de border -- off de map... Sounds like Cabela's to me -- anyone like free hunting gear? - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 2:48 PM Huh.

OT: SqlServer Interview Questions

2002-06-13 Thread Ron Thomas
I've just been elected to particiate in the candidate interview process for a SQL Server DBA at one of our satelite offices. After 10 years of working with Oracle, the only thing I know about SQL Server is the weekly security advisories for either it or Win 2k. Any tips, links, flames, etc

RE: Management Reports

2002-06-13 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
LOL! But I'm already in the doghouse, so I don't think they'd see it as funny! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:23 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L hi! select 1998, 'a lot to do' from dual; select 1999, 'even more to do' from dual; select 2000, 'ph

RE: Cleanup of child records...

2002-06-13 Thread Magaliff, Bill
Title: Cleanup of child records... delete from child_table where fk_field not in (select pk_field from parent_table); or delete from child_table where not exists (select pk_field from parent_table where parent_table.pk_field = child_table.fk_field); not exists usually out performs not

Re: Init.ora and Config.ora

2002-06-13 Thread Jared . Still
Can be useful on servers with multiple databases. config.ora can contain parameters that you may wish to be common among all databases on the server. e.g. NAME VALUE VAL? MOD? MOD? - --

Re: Cleanup of child records...

2002-06-13 Thread Rachel Carmichael
alter child table add constraint foreign key ... references ... exceptions into exception_table then delete the rowids in the child table that are in the exception table --- Richard Huntley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TIA List, What is the most efficient way to remove child records from a

RE: Wait event problems

2002-06-13 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hi Lee, I'm investigating a very similar problem on 8.1.6.0.0 on Solaris. So far, I've found out that the 3rd-party vendor who setup this debacle had inserted invalid values for SDU/TDU in tnsnames.ora on the client and listener.ora on the server. I'm correcting them now as we speak.

Re: Locally Managed Tablespaces

2002-06-13 Thread Connor McDonald
I would treat dmt's as obsolete. (In 9.2, all tablespaces default to locally managed, and furthermore, if you create system as lmt in 9.2, all subsequent tablespaces must also be lmt).. I would not be surprised to see dmt's disappear altogether at some stage in future. hth connor --- [EMAIL

RE: Cleanup of child records...

2002-06-13 Thread Seefelt, Beth
Title: Message delete from childtable a where not exists (select 1 from parenttable b where b.key1=a.key1 and b.key2=a.key2...) ; try it as - select *from childtable a where not exists (select 1 from parenttable b where b.key1=a.key and b.key2=a.key2...) ; to make sure it is going

RE: !ls from sqlplus

2002-06-13 Thread Li Zhang
Hmmm, but ls from unix command shows the current directory, just run it from sqlplus, it does to the user's home directory. I am thinking something related sqlplus setting. -Li -Original Message- Faroult Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 2:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: Init.ora and Config.ora

2002-06-13 Thread Tim Gorman
I always thought it was for separating instance-specific parameters from database-specific parameters in an OPS environment. At least, that's one place where it is very useful to have separate files. Of course, it was a matter of style whether "config.ora" was the database-level one or

Cannot connect to DB error

2002-06-13 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
I have installed 9.0.1 on my Dell PC with XP Prof. When I installed it I installed the demo DB and everything worked fine. Now I have installed a second DB and I cannot connect. I made changes to listener.ora and tnsnames.ora as recommended by others on this list. I also added the IP

Re: Memory utilization

2002-06-13 Thread Tim Gorman
Sure! One way is to use the UNIX pmap utility... Here is 8.1.7.3 on Sol 2.8; my apologies if this output wraps and comes out really ugly -- there's really no way to prettify this on the plain text email formats enforced by the list server... I've made notes indicating where the Oracle PGA/UGA

RE: SqlServer Interview Questions

2002-06-13 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Ask them if they plan on using SQL Servers DTS to load data to/from your Oracle databases? Ask if they are planning on making a linked server to your Oracle databases and how they plan to handle security on it? I also do the SQL Server DBA crap here Dave -Original Message- Sent:

sequence question

2002-06-13 Thread BigP
Hi List , I want to create a sequence which will be used by some external process to generate some unique number . since this sequence will be used very frequently I would prefer to cache around 1 numbers . Am I going to loose some numbers ? what is SEQUENCE_CACHE_ENTRIES and how does it

RE: Oracle 9.0.1.3 or 9.2.0?

2002-06-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
We started with 9011 then had bunch of patches for the bugs we discovered for Oracle, then we went to 9012 and some problems (like temp blobs leak, xml parts crash, smon leak etc) still persisted. But the application is holding itself better than first version. Due to world cup we have delayed

Re: I/O contention with external process reading the oracle logs (online redo logs)

2002-06-13 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: RE: I/O contention with external process reading the oracle logs (online redo logs) It shouldn't need to be a "theoretical" or "statistical" claim at all. A prospective customer should be able to ship a few archived redo log files (the more the better!) to Quest and have them run it

Re: Wait event problems

2002-06-13 Thread Tim Gorman
This is never an idle event. The phrase more data from client indicates that the individual SQL operation is larger than a single SQL*Net packet. No big deal; it happens all the time, and SQL*Net handles it with continuation packets. Only issue is that the client is taking a lot of time

RE: RDBMS - key strength

2002-06-13 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
It is simple to learn, use and it works. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc. QOTD: Any clod can have facts,

Re: Wait event problems

2002-06-13 Thread Rachel Carmichael
yep, that's the one --- Mohammad Rafiq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Rachel is referring following email from Carry Millsap.. It is a really nice explanation of this issue Regards Rafiq I have an example for you (Anjo, I hope you won't mind). A prospect we visited once

8.1.7 7.3.4 on one listener?

2002-06-13 Thread Dave Morgan
Hi All, Is anyone running versions 7.3.4 and 8.1.7 using the SQLNet8 listener? Haven't tried with 8.1.7 and I don't want to assume it works just like 8.1.6 . Been there, . No MTS Solaris 2.6 Also anyone running SUN T3 arrays? Advice? I'm starting to believe SAME is a cult New

RE: 9iRAC on AIX

2002-06-13 Thread Bill Pass
No. Only the quickly evaporating Tru64. --- VIVEK_SHARMA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are Concurrently Accessible MOUNTED FILE SYSTEMS (NOT Raw FS) possible on AIX ? If so which , on what machine platforms , AIX versions , Oracle versions ? Thanks -Original Message- Sent:

Re: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-13 Thread Tim Gorman
Carmen et al, Did some testing on this. On solaris 2.8 there doesn't seem to be any upper-limit on single, atomic disk I/O, probably because someone finally got smart and started allocating memory buffers for I/O dynamically using the malloc() package instead of hard-coding a fixed-length

RE: Wait event problems

2002-06-13 Thread Seefelt, Beth
Hi Rich, I'm curious, what value did you decide on for SDU? Let us know how it works out. Thanks, Beth -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 1:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Lee, I'm investigating a very similar problem on 8.1.6.0.0 on Solaris. So

RE: Cleanup of child records...

2002-06-13 Thread Ganesh Raja
You can Enable Parallel PML and Delete the Records on the child Table that are not there in the Parent Table. You can use the Not Exists instead of the Not In. If you are going to use the In Caluse then ry enabling Parallel Optiuon on the select also ... HTH Best Regards, Ganesh R Tel : +971

RE: INITRANS question

2002-06-13 Thread Ganesh Raja
5/25 Sounds a Bit High. Maybe you should check your waits and see if there is a contention for Block Headers and if so then try increasing it till u get a Pretty low number. HTH Best Regards, Ganesh R Tel : +971 (4) 397 3337 Ext 420 Fax : +971 (4) 397 6262 HP : +971 (50) 745 6019

RE: sequence question

2002-06-13 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Short answer - yes you could loose some numbers. Have a look at http://www.ixora.com.au/scripts/library.htm and the unload_sequences.sql and keep_sequences.sql which mention that you can lose when: Shutdown abort is done the sequence gets aged out of the library cache The

catalog.sql takes forever after applying 8.1.7.4.0 patch

2002-06-13 Thread Daiminger, Helmut
Title: catalog.sql takes forever after applying 8.1.7.4.0 patch Hi! I just installed the 8.1.7.4.0 patch on Sun Solaris. I followed the instructions closely and when it says to run catalog.sql, I started the script, but it just sits there and does seemingly nothing (for approx 30

RE: Management Reports

2002-06-13 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Dennis, I see your %OCP is growing! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 12:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Tom - I like your style! Hit 'em when they are asking for it. If he just wants some color charts

RE: SqlServer Interview Questions

2002-06-13 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
You can evaluate his / her general attitude about work. Most people give the right answers at first, but you can dig in a bit more to see if they really believe in being organized, etc. Re. SQL Server I don't know enough about it at this point to be helpful, finding practical issues that aren't

Re: 8.1.7 7.3.4 on one listener?

2002-06-13 Thread Tim Gorman
I'm starting to believe SAME is a cult You are absolutely right (i.e. SAME is a cult) according to these lines from Monty Python's Life of Brian... Brian (preaching to a crowd):You are all individuals! Crowd (slowly, in unison): YES! WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS! Lone man

Strange Bug

2002-06-13 Thread Hamid Alavi
List, I have a table when I run a query on this table return nothing(no record returns!!!), but when I create a temp table from this table return the records E.G: select cola,colb,colc from tableA where cola=1 and colb='A' 0 records return Now: create table a_temp as select * from tableA

RE: Management Reports

2002-06-13 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Mike, My suggestion was silly, I agree. But it forces management to come up with a better question. How's the database running? is as silly a question as you asking your child How you feeling today?. Both answers are a flat fine. I would suggest you have a dialogue to ask what kind of

Re: Init.ora and Config.ora

2002-06-13 Thread Rachel Carmichael
REAL DBAs don't need comments? :) --- Tim Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always thought it was for separating instance-specific parameters from database-specific parameters in an OPS environment. At least, that's one place where it is very useful to have separate files. Of course, it

RE: Init.ora and Config.ora

2002-06-13 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Dan, I agree with Rachel. I have one init.ora file for each database instance. I personally *HATE* the "ifile" business. All that it does is make me go searching in another directory to see what the parameters are set to. I like to go to one directory/one file to set/review my init

Re: ORA-00604 and ORA-01578

2002-06-13 Thread BigP
Just to learn this thing , ..how can I corrupt a block in my test environment . o . but be ready to help me if I am not able to repair it . Thanks , Bp - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 4:23 AM Is there

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