OT: fast tape drive for AIX

2002-09-30 Thread Rahul
list, we are looking for a fast tape drive to backup all the volume groups on our IBM H70.. around 100GB+, our current backup takes around 5-6 hours !!! any ideas about a faster tape drive ? or an optical one ? regards -Rahul -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com

Memory Based FS on Solaris 8

2002-09-30 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
With Online Redo Logfiles placed on Memory Based File system i.e. tmpfs on Solaris 8 with Oracle 8.1.7.2) can Heavy / Data Intensive SQL Loads (DIRECT=TRUE , PARALLEL) Cause Other regular File systems to Crash ? SQL Loading happening for 5 Tables Concurrently Also Within Each Table 16

Does the case of an Oracle query statement affect query performance?

2002-09-30 Thread Shantanu Datta
Hi, Pardon me for such a naive question, coz I am a novice when it comes to Oracle. This is basically got to do with how Oracle parses a query. Consider the following queries: a) SELECT column1, column2 FROM table WHERE column0 = 5; b) SELECT COLUMN1, COLUMN2 FROM TABLE WHERE COLUMN0

RE: RAC (Real Application Clusters)

2002-09-30 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Scott Wrote :- This software configuration is only supported on EMC 8XXX series towers (firmware 5567.35.20 or higher) and the Hitachi HDS 9910 and 9960 series( firmware 01-16-40-00/00 or higher). It also recommended you use JNI controllers. Your disk drives will also have to support SCSI-3

Re: Does anyone know the HACMP for oracle 8i in an AIX box? -- Attachment

2002-09-30 Thread Jack van Zanen
it works hukangang

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
What if we need Extent SIZES Greater than 20 MB to Check Fragmentation ? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 2:33 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We tend to use multiples of 1Gb and add 1 Mb to the file so that we get 2001, 10001 Mb etc Solaris 2.8 LMT

RMAN Question

2002-09-30 Thread GL2Z/ INF DBA BENLATRECHE
Hi ALL Is there any way with RMAN to overwrite the backup files if they already exist. Example generating backup files with the same names each time. Thans Kamel B. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: GL2Z/ INF DBA BENLATRECHE INET: [EMAIL

RE: OT: For the MicroSoft bashers

2002-09-30 Thread Mark Leith
Same here ;P -Original Message- Sent: 27 September 2002 21:53 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L H...even after flushing the cache, MS is still the top link for me on Google (except for the news stories). Rich -Original Message- From: Thomas Day [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: MIcrosoft Blackmail

2002-09-30 Thread Yechiel Adar
DENNIS, I think that I did not explain my idea. I do not understand the complain of Thomas. I do not see any harm in a company choosing its dealers based on their commitment to the goals of my company. Microsoft has a right to prefer dealer who embrace the .net, or do you think that anybody

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread Rachel Carmichael
with evenly sized extents, there is no such thing as fragmentation anymore and Oracle can deal with objects with numbers of extents up to about 4000 before it starts to slow down a bit. --- VIVEK_SHARMA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if we need Extent SIZES Greater than 20 MB to Check

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2002-09-30 Thread Santosh Varma
Hello all, I have a query - i have 2 tables - client and project fields in project table - clientid/projectid fields in client table - clientid/name i want to get the maximum orders one client has got. i mean a project having the greatest clients how to write it in single query ??

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2002-09-30 Thread beau
HELP -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services

Opening an 8.0.5 Database with 8i

2002-09-30 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi I got a question from a co-worker about opening an 8.0.5 database using 8.1.7 Since I don't have 8.1.7 here to test it, does anybody know wether this is possible or not ? I guess not, maybe it can exclusively mounted/opened followed by some script to upgrade it to 8.1.7 ? Regards, Stefan

RE: Opening an 8.0.5 Database with 8i

2002-09-30 Thread Bishop Lewis
Under NT when doing the upgrade from 8.0.5 to 8i the database will be mounted once the 8i services are created (assuming -startmode auto has been supplied). There are various data dictionary objects that need upgrading via the upgrade script (u0800050.sql) so it's a good idea to restrict access

RE:

2002-09-30 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
ARE YOU AN IDIOT? -Original Message- Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 6:33 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: HELP -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051

RE: Help can't restore archive logs from networker through RMAN

2002-09-30 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Help can't restore archive logs from networker through RMAN Guys, hanging on restoring archive logs only and need for urgent recovery. Oracle suggest doing a trace on allocate channel but can't find syntax for 8.0.6 just 8i which doesn't work. Help!

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: datafile sizing question Rachel, Are there any studies or papers that test and explain this new magic 4000 extents number? My manager is excited about LMT, but no so excited about number of extents. So, if there is a good paper, I can make him feel happy about this ... Thanks in

RE: Does the case of an Oracle query statement affect query perfo

2002-09-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
As long as you stick to either (a) or (b) you will be okay ... if you mix-n-match that will make Oracle do more work. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal

RE: Remember me? Oracle DBA veteran considering getting certifi

2002-09-30 Thread John . Hallas
Paula, Your experience sounds very similar to mine which I documented on http://www.hcresources.co.uk/ocp.htm http://www.hcresources.co.uk/ocp.htm . I used the Exam Cram series and was very happy with them. I am booked for the 8i upgrade next week but despite using 8i for however long it has been

RE: Determine process of index build - HOW

2002-09-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Determine process of index build - HOW v$session_longops select with last_update_time desc and use the sid ... it is pretty cool .. it will also tell you for current operation how many seconds are remaining. Raj __ Rajendra

RE: Determine process of index build - HOW

2002-09-30 Thread George Leonard (ZA)
Title: RE: Determine process of index build - HOW This is a query I build to see this, midnight Saturday Comment welcome column % Done format 999.99 column opname format a15 column sql_text format a70 column T Left format 9 select a.sid, (a.sofar/a.totalwork)*100 % Done,

Re:

2002-09-30 Thread Leszek Ignaszak
try it: select name from (select c.name, count(p.id) p_count from clients c, projects p where c.id = p.cl_id group by c.name) a, (select max(count(id)) p_max from projects group by cl_id) b where a.p_count = b.p_max Regards, Leszek At 03:23 2002-09-30 -0800, you wrote: Hello

Re: Does the case of an Oracle query statement affect query

2002-09-30 Thread Mark J. Bobak
No, there will not be any noticable difference in performance. -Mark On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 03:58, Shantanu Datta wrote: Hi, Pardon me for such a naive question, coz I am a novice when it comes to Oracle. This is basically got to do with how Oracle parses a query. Consider the

RE: Does the case of an Oracle query statement affect query perfo

2002-09-30 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Oracle sees (a) and (b) as two different queries and parses them both. For them to be identical the text must match, including the white spaces. I suggest a small test under *identical conditions* to see if execution time varies ;) - Kirti -Original Message-From: Shantanu

Re: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: RE: datafile sizing question Do your own testing. Don't rely on papers. Prove it yourself. It's easy. There are two types of "performance" implied in this discussion about extent allocation and deallocation: performance of SQL statements like SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE (i.e.

Re: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread Tim Gorman
Fragmentation or tablespace fragmentation does not simply mean more than one extent, as it appears you are assuming. Also, it is an obsolete concept where LMTs are involved, in all but a few difficult-to-imagine situations. Please read one or more of the following: Craig Shallahamer's All

RE: Does the case of an Oracle query statement affect query perfo

2002-09-30 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Raj, Do you have any test cases or white papers to support your statement? Especially the part about "if you mix-n-match that will make Oracle do more work." never heard of this before and I am interested if it is true. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original

Re: RMAN Question

2002-09-30 Thread Ruth Gramolini
No, you can't do that. I just run a OS job everyday which removes the old backups to make room. HTH, Ruthg - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 5:28 AM Hi ALL Is there any way with RMAN to overwrite the

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Raj Print http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/availability/pdf/defrag.pdf http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/availability/pdf/defrag.pdf - very well-written, direct from Oracle's site, so he will accept it as official. BTW - In this paper, for Oracle 8 and above, the correct extent sizes are 120-k, 4-m,

RE: MIcrosoft Blackmail

2002-09-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Yechiel - Sorry, I was reacting to your analogy of the paper company. I agree that dealers are an entirely different matter. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 5:33 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I haven't seen any papers.. I was told this (4096 is the exact number) in an Internals class. However, there are lots of papers out there saying multiple extents are not a problem, and you should be able to find them on the web. --- Jamadagni, Rajendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rachel, Are

Re: MIcrosoft Blackmail

2002-09-30 Thread Jared Still
Microslop is not a private company, and has not been for quite some years now. Jared On Monday 30 September 2002 03:33, Yechiel Adar wrote: DENNIS, I think that I did not explain my idea. I do not understand the complain of Thomas. I do not see any harm in a company choosing its dealers

Re:

2002-09-30 Thread Ray Stell
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 04:23:22AM -0800, Farnsworth, Dave wrote: ARE YOU AN IDIOT? I think so. - ListGuru GENERAL Command HELP - This help file contains basic

RE: Determine process of index build - HOW

2002-09-30 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Title: RE: Determine process of index build - HOW And if you have OEM/DBA Studio, you can watch the progress graphically.. :) - Kirti -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 7:38 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list

Utl_file and OPENVMS

2002-09-30 Thread Ron Rogers
List, I have a package that creates files on the server. The directory location and file name are obtained from tables in oracle. The procedure works as designed on Novell 7.3.4 and no changes were needed when the database way loaded on Linux Oracle 8.1.7. I am trying to move the database from

RE: data file sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: data file sizing question Thanks Tim, I'll try to do this exercise today/tomorrow ... The reason I mentioned papers is Managers are easily impressed by thing that are done by outsiders (they are considered experts, in-house knowledge is never sufficient). You probably know

OT: oracle-dba.com domain auction

2002-09-30 Thread JOE TESTA
With as much interest as i'd seen, i'd thought it would have been above $102.50, oh well unless you all run up the price in the last few days, guess i'll just be holding onto it for a while. joe

RE: extremely long parse time

2002-09-30 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, MABG, 088130)
Title: extremely long parse time Nope, Oracle 8.1.7.2 on HP-UX 11. 148 seconds on the wall clock to parse: select null as table_cat, owner as table_schem, table_name, 0 as NON_UNIQUE, null as index_qualifier, null as index_name, 0 as type, 0 as ordinal_position, null as column_name,

RE: Does the case of an Oracle query statement affect query perfo

2002-09-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Does the case of an Oracle query statement affect query perfo Tom, Well it simply comes to when Oracle will parse the query and try to find a matching sql to hash to in SGA, if it finds one, it will hash to the same one, else it will have to create a new hash entry. In pre-8i

RE: Two Q's for SAP DBA's

2002-09-30 Thread Hand, Michael T
Thank, Jared, Service.sap.com has a limited number of notes on Oracle partitioning (even though they went to great lengths to negotiate that option into their customer's Oracle licenses). And none that I've found that combine the topics of data archive partitioning. If I do find something,

Re: Memory Based FS on Solaris 8

2002-09-30 Thread Hemant K Chitale
It wouldn't Cause Other regulat File systems to Crash. However, if the Server crashes, you wouldn't be able to restart your database ! Database Instance recovery requires the online redo logs which wouldn't be available when your server restarts. Hemant At 11:53 PM 29-09-02 -0800, you wrote:

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: datafile sizing question Thanks you Dennis, Rachel, Tim for the pointers. 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

RE: Does the case of an Oracle query statement affect query perfo

2002-09-30 Thread Joe Raube
I believe Raj is referring to the fact that Oracle will reuse SQL from the SQL Cache if the statement has been parsed already, but they must match verbatim. for example: a)SELECT column1, column2 FROM table WHERE column0 = 5; b)SELECT COLUMN1, COLUMN2 FROM TABLE WHERE COLUMN0 =5; will

Re: OT: oracle-dba.com domain auction

2002-09-30 Thread Joe Raube
What are you hoping to get for it? -Joe --- JOE TESTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With as much interest as i'd seen, i'd thought it would have been above $102.50, oh well unless you all run up the price in the last few days, guess i'll just be holding onto it for a while. joe

Re: Does the case of an Oracle query statement affect query perfo

2002-09-30 Thread Tim Gorman
All that he is referring to is the possibility that "mixing-n-matching" will cause the same SQL statement to be hashed differently, thus stored individually in the Shared SQL Area cache, thus more "hard parses" unnecessarily. More "hard-parses" is indeed "more work"... Though technically

dabase hang on update statement

2002-09-30 Thread Joan Hsieh
Hi list, oracle 8.1.7.2 os AIX 4.3.3 Occasionally we had hang situation on our Financial production database. The batch job supposed to finish within 2 hours at 3:30 am. But sometimes it just hang there and never finished the process. We have to kill the job in oracle session and os level.

RE: Does the case of an Oracle query statement affect query perfo

2002-09-30 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I don't have papers to substantiate this, but in our 9012 database before we started using cursor_sharing we used to run out of our 600M SGA, but since we started using CS, it went down. That should have nothing to do with the case of a statement and everything to do with using literals.

RE: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Title: RE: datafile sizing question If Next Extent Sizing is NON-Uniform for an LMT , will the Larger Number of Extents cause Fragmentation Performance Degradation ? If so What Number of Extents may be Considered as a Candidate for DE-Fragmentation ? NOTE - We have been Manually

Partitionin or not partition?

2002-09-30 Thread Cantisano Francesco - Matrix
Hi dba's, I have the following questions about partitioning. Whe have a 20 million row's table (about 2G) and we are thinking if it's worth tho partition it. The table doesn't contain historical data , the data are inserted or deleted (very few updates) (about 20 insert/deletes per day) and

RE: OT: oracle-dba.com domain auction

2002-09-30 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Dr. Evil voice One million dollars... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA -Original Message- Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 10:33 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L What are you hoping to get for it? -Joe --- JOE TESTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With as much interest as i'd

Unsuscribe

2002-09-30 Thread Pablo Campos Durante
-Mensaje original-De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En nombre de Tim GormanEnviado el: lunes, 30 de septiembre de 2002 17:04Para: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LAsunto: Re: Does the case of an Oracle query statement affect query perfo All that he is

RE: Does the case of an Oracle query statement affect query perfo

2002-09-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Does the case of an Oracle query statement affect query perform Thanks Tim, I didn't knew these differences between PROC/PLSQL and other modules ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com

RE: Remember me? Oracle DBA veteran considering getting certifi

2002-09-30 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Remember me? Oracle DBA veteran considering getting certifi Ah - brethren - nice and complete adventure documented - thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 8:38 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Does the case of an Oracle query statement affect query perfo

2002-09-30 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Rachel, This is what I thought, but list members say differently. I just tried a simple test: Ran the following two queries: select count(*) from tomsqltest; SELECT COUNT(*) FROM TOMSQLTEST; and then: select hash_value,executions,sql_text from v$sql where upper(sql_text) like '%TOMSQLTEST%'

RE: extremely long parse time

2002-09-30 Thread Jesse, Rich
H, also running on 8.1.7.2 on HPUX 11, this comes back to me sub-second. My explain plan pukes in TOAD, but that's a TOAD issue...everything looks good in SQL*Plus. 1) Are you using CBO? 2) If yes from 1, verify that there are no stats gathered in SYS. 3) Try init.ora

Oracle 8i R3, and 9i R2 on Same NT Box

2002-09-30 Thread Sam Bootsma
Hello, Does anybody out there run Oracle 8.1.7 and Oracle 9.2 on the same NT (or Windows 2000) box? Is it running smoothly. Any difficulties installing or running both versions on the same box? I ask because one of my colleagues has encountered difficulties installing and running Oracle 8.1.7

Re: OT: oracle-dba.com domain auction

2002-09-30 Thread Kent Wayson
At 06:58 AM 9/30/02 -0800, you wrote: With as much interest as i'd seen, i'd thought it would have been above $102.50, oh well unless you all run up the price in the last few days, guess i'll just be holding onto it for a while. joe Well, just for fun I bid on it (so at least it's not

Re: datafile sizing question

2002-09-30 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: RE: datafile sizing question I don't know if you intended to "shout", but using color for your reply certainly does so... Can you prove any benefit from the extraordinaryactions of overriding LMT extent control and using EXP/IMP, ALTER TABLE ... MOVE, ALTER INDEX ...

Re: Oracle 8i R3, and 9i R2 on Same NT Box

2002-09-30 Thread ltiu
This is interesting. I have installed and run multiple Oracle versions on the same Unix box but not NT. Sam Bootsma wrote: Hello, Does anybody out there run Oracle 8.1.7 and Oracle 9.2 on the same NT (or Windows 2000) box? Is it running smoothly. Any difficulties installing or running both

urgent help: replication, shareplex

2002-09-30 Thread Ji, Richard
Hi All, I needed some help here involving shareplex. We run two databases (an OLTP type, and a repository type) on the same E10K domain which has 8 CPUs and 8GB of RAM, using Hatachi SAN (RAID 5). Shareplex is being used to replicate a table from the OLTP type to the repository. The current

RE: Does the case of an Oracle query statement affect query perfo

2002-09-30 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I never said both wouldn't be listed separately... in fact I said they WOULD. I said cursor_sharing would NOT change case, but would only affect the statement if you used a literal in it. --- Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rachel, This is what I thought, but list members say

Re: MIcrosoft Blackmail

2002-09-30 Thread Jared . Still
Wow! What a Freudian slip. I had intended to type 'Microsoft', though I was *thinking* Microslop. Jared Jared Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/30/2002 07:03 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FW: urgent help: replication, shareplex

2002-09-30 Thread Ji, Richard
Oh, and I forgot to add that the table that's being replicated is partitioned in the repository database. with local indexes. Each partition holds a day worth of volume. -Original Message- From: Ji, Richard Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 12:08 PM To: Multiple

RE: OT: oracle-dba.com domain auction

2002-09-30 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey Kent, I just saw your e-mail address and was curious...what does MPS use Oracle for? Big DBs? Little ones? Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- Sent:

Re: Selecting Next X Values From Dual

2002-09-30 Thread Jared . Still
You may find this article interesting: http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/02-sep/o52sql.html Jared Gary Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/27/2002 11:53 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: extremely long parse time

2002-09-30 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, MABG, 088130)
Title: RE: extremely long parse time We are using First_rows for the optimizer mode, but the last_analyzed column in DBA_TABLES and DBA_INDEXES is NULL for all objects owned by SYS. The really wierd part is: Changing the query to use rule based optimization (via the /*+ RULE */ hint

RE: Does the case of an Oracle query statement affect query

2002-09-30 Thread Naveen Nahata
Well, if oracle stores all the meta data in UPPERCASE, then for a query in which object names are written in lowercase characters will force the parser to convert it into UPPERCASE for comparison, in which case there should be a negligible difference if the name of the objects referenced by the

Re: dabase hang on update statement

2002-09-30 Thread Jared . Still
Joan, You may be able to diagnose this when it happens again by logging in as SYS using svrmgrl. Run the following SQL statement if the logon was successful: select s.username username, e.event event, s.sid, e.p1text, e.p1, e.p2text, e.p2, e.wait_time,

RE: Oracle 8i R3, and 9i R2 on Same NT Box

2002-09-30 Thread Jesse, Rich
Yes, I am. I needed an 8i client because some programs still can't talk 9i. The only issues I've run into are with the products themselves. Some Quest products have problems with multiple Oracle Homes. Their solution is to hack the Registry to make the LAST_ORACLE_HOME the one to point the

Cache OCI Calls to Improve Oracle Performance on Solaris[tm] Syst

2002-09-30 Thread Post, Ethan
Anyone tried this one? http://soldc.sun.com/articles/oci_cache.html -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Post, Ethan INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list

RE: Utl_file and OPENVMS

2002-09-30 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey Ron, If I'm not mistaken, access to the UTL_FILE directories needs to be given to the account that started the Oracle instance and not an Oracle schema name. Also, make sure that your entries for the filenames and directories in the UTL_FILE packages are UPPER CASE, or at least match the

RE: extremely long parse time

2002-09-30 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hmmm...anything SYS in DBA_TAB_COL_STATISTICS or DBA_ANALYZE_OBJECTS? Is the COST column in your PLAN_TABLE null??? Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- Sent: Monday,

RE: Oracle 8i R3, and 9i R2 on Same NT Box

2002-09-30 Thread Fink, Dan
I am currently running 8.1.5, 8.1.7, 9.0.1.2 and 9.2 on the same Win2k Pro machine. I rarely have more than 2 running at the same time due to memory considerations, but I have not encountered any problems related to install/runtime. I always make sure I install in order of oldest to newest. I

Strange performance problem

2002-09-30 Thread Scott Canaan
I got a call from a customer earlier. He said that he was trying to run a query and it was taking way too long. He ran the same query last Friday and it came back in seconds. I looked at it in OEM and noticed that two of the tables were being accessed by full table scans. These tables

RE: extremely long parse time

2002-09-30 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, MABG, 088130)
Title: RE: extremely long parse time OK, I think we're on to something here. The DBA_TAB_COL_STATISTICS shows no rows for tables owned by sys (although strangely, owner is not a column of this table). However, the DBA_ANALYZE_OBJECTS view IS listing objects owned by SYS, which implies that

Re: ok so i'm bored working on rman scripts

2002-09-30 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Joe, What are you trying to do with rman? Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 2:17 PM so i took the first 2 stories and put them on http://www.oracle-dba.com/bdbafh nothing pretty, maybe i'll mess

RE: OT: oracle-dba.com domain auction

2002-09-30 Thread Jesse, Rich
Yes, obviously this wasn't meant to go to the list... blush Rich -Original Message- From: Jesse, Rich Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 12:28 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT: oracle-dba.com domain auction Hey Kent, -- Please see the official

RE: DBA work load - BDBAFH #1

2002-09-30 Thread Conboy, Jim
The phone rings. Another user. Still pissed off, I pick it up... Database Administration, can I help you? I answer professionally. Troubled silence on the phone. Politeness is a very bad signal from me and they know it. He was rattled. Uh, hi, this is Joe, technical lead on that

Re: Strange performance problem

2002-09-30 Thread Babu Nagarajan
I have seen something like this in the past and it was because there were two tables - named the same in two different schemas (public synonym, private synonym and all that mess).. Do you know whether this could be the same case as yours? Also check to see if the explain plan differs when u run

Re: Strange performance problem

2002-09-30 Thread Babu Nagarajan
I have seen something like this in the past and it was because there were two tables - named the same in two different schemas (public synonym, private synonym and all that mess).. Do you know whether this could be the same case as yours? Also check to see if the explain plan differs when u run

Re: Strange performance problem

2002-09-30 Thread Babu Nagarajan
I have seen something like this in the past and it was because there were two tables - named the same in two different schemas (public synonym, private synonym and all that mess).. Do you know whether this could be the same case as yours? Also check to see if the explain plan differs when u run

RE: DBA work load - BDBAFH #1

2002-09-30 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
LMAO -Original Message- Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 2:58 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The phone rings. Another user. Still pissed off, I pick it up... Database Administration, can I help you? I answer professionally. Troubled silence on the phone. Politeness

disable validate on a partitioned table?

2002-09-30 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: disable validate on a partitioned table? I read the following in the Oracle 8.1 manual: Oracle8i SQL Reference, Release 3 (8.1.7), Part Number A85397-01 SQL Statements: CREATE SYNONYM to DROP ROLLBACK SEGMENT, 3 of 31 DISABLE VALIDATE disables the constraint and drops the index

TSPITR Question

2002-09-30 Thread Brian McGraw
List I have the opportunity to learn first-hand about TSPITR today. I need to recover a good bit of data that was recently deleted, and do not have a recent enough export to work from. My question is this Im reading the documentation now, and one of the big, bold Notes is that you

RE: oracle-dba.com domain auction

2002-09-30 Thread Paula_Stankus
I will up the price to $150.00 -Original Message-From: JOE TESTA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 10:58 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: OT: oracle-dba.com domain auction With as much interest as i'd seen, i'd thought it would

Data guard

2002-09-30 Thread Seema Singh
Hi Does some one set up data guard in oracle 8.1.7? can some on send stuff how to administor data guard? If Data guard has set up in between server1 and server2 then how to stop and restart instance and data guard? Thx -Seema _

Perl::DBI problems after charset change

2002-09-30 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey all, We've just changed our charactersets on our 8.1.7.2 (and 8.1.7.4) DBs from US7ASCII to WE8ISO8859P1 using the Oracle-approved ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET WE8ISO8859P1 and accompanying commands. Everything works like a champ, but our Perl::DBI connections now all cause an invisibile

RE: DBA work load - BDBAFH #1

2002-09-30 Thread Bob Metelsky
I don't know how he can live with himself LMAO -Original Message- Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 2:58 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The phone rings. Another user. Still pissed off, I pick it up... Database Administration, can I help you? I answer

STILL HAPPENING: Metalink problems loading images?

2002-09-30 Thread Jesse, Rich
OK, this is still bombing. nslookup gts214.us.oracle.com fails here as well as thru Telocity (DirecTV). Feedback from MetaLink says to flush my cache sigh. Anyone else having problems getting images from Metalink? - Or do I need to talk with our networking group about the firewall?

RE: STILL HAPPENING: Metalink problems loading images?

2002-09-30 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: STILL HAPPENING: Metalink problems loading images? On what kind of page do you see the error? I can't get to gts214... either but when I go to the Metalink start page I don't see any images missing. -Original Message- From: Jesse, Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] OK,

RE: disable validate on a partitioned table?

2002-09-30 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Title: disable validate on a partitioned table? As you know for a partitioned table: unique constraints could be enforced by a local index or global index. For local index: the unique key will be part of the partitioning key. So for a partitioned

RE: disable validate on a partitioned table?

2002-09-30 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: disable validate on a partitioned table? -Original Message- From: Khedr, Waleed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] As you know for a partitioned table: unique constraints could be enforced by a local index or global index. For local index: the unique key will be part of the

Re: ok so i'm bored working on rman scripts

2002-09-30 Thread Joe Testa
Ruth, just some experiments, going to implement it for ERP at longaberger, so i need to do proof of concept. not stuck(yet) just experimenting. joe Ruth Gramolini wrote: Joe, What are you trying to do with rman? Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: TSPITR Question

2002-09-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Brian - Since nobody seems to have responded to your question, yes, there are plenty of opportunities for gotchas with TSPITR. To recover deleted data, you may want to take a look at LogMiner. Less risk. Normally, to recover deleted data, you will be performing the TSPITR on a test (or recovery)

Re: Way of extracting record

2002-09-30 Thread Raymond
Hi guru , I need your advise , currently our customer have a production and development system , if there is a problem log being raise , then we need to port the data from development to production but not the whole database sometime is only certain record. Is there any method to use

Re: Perl::DBI problems after charset change

2002-09-30 Thread Mark J. Bobak
Rich, Do you have export NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1 in the client environment where perl is running? -Mark On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 17:48, Jesse, Rich wrote: Hey all, We've just changed our charactersets on our 8.1.7.2 (and 8.1.7.4) DBs from US7ASCII to WE8ISO8859P1 using the

RE: extremely long parse time

2002-09-30 Thread Alexander . Feinstein
Title: RE: extremely long parse time Matt, optimizer_mode = FIRST_ROWS means CBO, and for SYS schema without statistics. Oracle 8.1.7.2 on HP-UX 11. optimizer_mode = CHOOSE I run your original SELECT, then with the hint FIRST_ROWS. From trace file: PARSING IN CURSOR #1 len=888 dep=0

RE: Way of extracting record

2002-09-30 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
1. You can use SQL*Plus COPY command to copy data from Production into development database. 2. You can create a link from Development database to Production database, and then use insert into Development database table by selecting data from table@Production database. 3. You can use export with

RE: disable validate on a partitioned table?

2002-09-30 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Title: RE: disable validate on a partitioned table? This is probably b/c the unique key does not include the partitioning key. Waleed -Original Message-From: Jacques Kilchoer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 8:33 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list

RE:

2002-09-30 Thread Santosh Varma
cannot perform an aggregate function on an expression containing an aggregate or subquery is the error i am getting while i am executing the query. SELECT name FROM (SELECT c.name, COUNT(p.clientid) p_count FROM client c, project p WHERE c.clientid = p.clientid GROUP BY

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