RE: * Sr. Oracle 8i DBA Needed in NYC- Locals Only..

2002-10-14 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Keep on dreaming. On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Sinardy Xing wrote: Hi US friends, How high is your income tax ? 90-110K is this the take home pay ? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Lyndon Tiu INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services--

RE: Oracle9i upgrade exam - Recommended books/material? (Borderin

2002-10-14 Thread Bishop Lewis
Didn't cover all of the 9i upgrade material? Why not? As one who is soon to purchase some 9i upgrade preparation materials then I would be interested to know the reasoning behind this (offline if necessary). Are the missed topics from Robert's book covered in the book by Daniel Benjamin?

RE: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schemas

2002-10-14 Thread Robson, Peter
Just for the record (and perhaps to confirm that there are always two sides to a story). Readers may like to see the article Chris Date wrote to Ralph Kemball on the subject of business rules and integrity constraints: http://www.dbdebunk.com/kimball1.htm peter edinburgh -Original

Scramble or Delete data in Oracle HRMS 11i

2002-10-14 Thread CHAN Chor Ling Catherine (CSC)
Hi, I've cloned the Oracle HRMS 11I Application to another machine. I can access the form but still cannot view output and change HRMS Oracle password. I need to scramble or delete the data (not sure which api?) in Oracle HRMS Applications. Any advice ? TIA Regds, New Bee -- Please see the

RE: Thanks for those replied my How to see

2002-10-14 Thread Stephane Faroult
FrTvcvc5-7_Hgfdft_ijn6(789jgr6. HTH S Faroult - Original Message - From: hukangang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:38:19 encoded content removed -- binaries not allowed by ListGuru -- Please see the official

Replication

2002-10-14 Thread Robin Li
Hi all, Does anyone have the appropriate time on implementing replication for a newbe? I am given a time frame on doing the replication for 10 days which is including testing on test server and move to production. I've never done that before, now just start reading. This DB is about 30G on

hot backup mode

2002-10-14 Thread Adams, Matthew (GECP, MABG, 088130)
Title: hot backup mode Does the unmodified image of the datafile block get recorded in the redo log as well as the modified image when a tablespace is in hot backup mode? I'm being told that it does, but that is not my understanding. Is this documented somewhere? Matt Matt Adams -

RE: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schemas

2002-10-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Peter - What does this article have to do with snowflake vs. star schema? I didn't see where Chris Date was advocating snowflaking. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 4:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: * Sr. Oracle 8i DBA Needed in NYC- Locals Only..

2002-10-14 Thread Rodd Holman
Figure on paying about 30% of that to Federal, State, and Local taxes, Social Security, Medicaid Taxes, etc.. On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 02:43, Lyndon Tiu wrote: Keep on dreaming. On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Sinardy Xing wrote: Hi US friends, How high is your income tax ? 90-110K is this

RE: Replication

2002-10-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Robin Your management sounds like some people I dealt with that assumed they would just flip the replication switch. How much of the 30-gig. do they plan to replicate? What replication interval? What tools do they plan to use? What is the replication direction - master-slave, peer-peer? How

[no subject]

2002-10-14 Thread Bruno Vanters
Hello, Could you explain me how to deal with folowing error: select * from sysaudit@tg.big * ERROR at line 1: ORA-28509: unable to establish a connection to non-Oracle system ORA-02063: preceding line from TG.BIG (HP-UX 11, Oracle 8.1.6, tg4ifmx 8.1.6, Informix 9.2)

Phew ... Finally Migrated

2002-10-14 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Phew ... Finally Migrated Over the weekend we migrated all our production systems on 9201 on AIX. I know it is not all that important, but thought I'd let everyone know. I also learned the magic of commit=y/n setting on imp. I have one table (it had a long column) that was taking

RE: Replication

2002-10-14 Thread Stephane Faroult
I have recently heard some people say it had taken them several months to master, and *now* it would take them about 15 days to implement. - Original Message - From: Robin Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 05:58:24 Hi

RE: Advice needed on move to Sun 15K (losing spindles)

2002-10-14 Thread Johnson Poovathummoottil
We too are moving to a Sun Fire 15 K box, with 8 partitions and 40 CPUs. But Our storage is on EMC. And since we have many partitions they are like separate machines. We will be housing two production warehouse databases and 5 production OLTP databases, with all other environments supporting

RE: Advice needed on move to Sun 15K (losing spindles)

2002-10-14 Thread Stephen Lee
Theoretically, if the activity of the database doesn't involve too much disk writing, and the cache is large enough, etc., etc., you can use parity. When disk drives cost a lot of money, there was some justification for it. Now that drives are cheap, there really is no justification. To

stupid RMAN question

2002-10-14 Thread JOE TESTA
Ok i've been thru all of the 817 docs multiple times, searched metalstink, read the chapters in backup/recovery 101 multiple times. Where in the heck is the "spool" command for rman? Can i only spool stuff(and its an either to a file or to the screen, not both?) using the log parameter when

RE: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schemas

2002-10-14 Thread Robson, Peter
No no - it wasn't to do with the specifics of snowstorms or cosmic radiation, rather a further discussion of the issues of database design, which ultimately has to be the reference point in any discussion of star schemas etc. peter -Original Message- From: DENNIS WILLIAMS

RE: hot backup mode

2002-10-14 Thread Fink, Dan
Title: hot backup mode No, it does not. Being in hot backup mode does not affect the generation of UNDO, only redo. When you modify a column, Oracle stores only the column address, operation, original data (if update or delete) and some internal information.This is the same whether the

RE: * Sr. Oracle 8i DBA Needed in NYC- Locals Only..

2002-10-14 Thread Kevin Lange
Dpeneding on the state of course . at least here in Texas there is not (currently) state income tax. -Original Message-From: Rodd Holman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 9:54 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: * Sr. Oracle 8i

RE: Replication

2002-10-14 Thread Robson, Peter
Yeah - replication - a tasty subject. I too have been working on it for years (about 15 - how long has Oracle had a replication facility?!). I've cut the implementation time down to about, h, a few minutes all done using scripts which build scripts which call scripts which build scripts

RE: Replication

2002-10-14 Thread Baker, Barbara
and, if possible, start with Anita Bardeen's white paper Replication DOs and DON'Ts. (You'll probably find it at OTN). This is only a few pages, but it's full of invaluable tips. Barb -- From: DENNIS WILLIAMS[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: stupid RMAN question

2002-10-14 Thread Markham, Richard
Joe are you on UNIX? you could pipe the stdout to a program called tee -Original Message-From: JOE TESTA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 11:14 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: stupid RMAN question Ok i've been thru all of the 817

RE: Phew ... Finally Migrated

2002-10-14 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: Phew ... Finally Migrated I appreciate the feedback Raj. -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 11:24 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Phew ... Finally Migrated Over the weekend we

RE: stupid RMAN question

2002-10-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Joe - quoting from Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference, p. 107 SPOOL (Oracle 9i only) Causes output generated from RMAN to be written to a log file. Syntax SPOOL LOG { OFF | TO filename } [APPEND][;] As for 817, you might try not logging the output, and run the script from a ksh (Unix)

Re: stupid RMAN question

2002-10-14 Thread Joe Raube
You are correct - only the log command is available in 8i, spool is available in rman in 9i. -Joe --- JOE TESTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok i've been thru all of the 817 docs multiple times, searched metalstink, read the chapters in backup/recovery 101 multiple times. Where in the heck is

RE: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schemas

2002-10-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Peter - I wouldn't even presume to pass judgements on two such titans of their respective industries, but taking it down a notch, here is what I would make of their discussion. The relational model has been extremely powerful, based as it is on a firm mathematical foundation. I would count

Re: stupid RMAN question

2002-10-14 Thread Connor McDonald
(IMHO) There ain't none...dontcha just love it! Once you've entered the dark side (ie the rman prompt) there is no turning back... hth Connor --- JOE TESTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok i've been thru all of the 817 docs multiple times, searched metalstink, read the chapters in

Re: Replication

2002-10-14 Thread Rachna Vaidya
Replication implementation for a newbie in 10 days? Having worked on replication for two and half hears, I would say it should not be done. Replication is way too complex. Read the Anita Badreen's white paper and it would emphasize the importance of understanding and planning repliction.

Re: Phew ... Finally Migrated

2002-10-14 Thread Jared Still
Raj, The effect of commit=y is greatly effected the the setting of buffer=N. How big was your buffer? If you left at default, that would seriously slow down your import. I think the default size is platform dependent and possibly db block size dependent ( too lazy to RTFM ), but it's always

RE: Replication

2002-10-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Peter - I entered PLOUG in Google, and it returned the Polish Oracle User's Group. I doubt that I will be able to attend. Any chance you could post your presentation afterward? Dennis Williams DBA - Still being threatened with replication Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

RE: Phew ... Finally Migrated

2002-10-14 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Title: Phew ... Finally Migrated Raj, Thanks for sharing this. When COMMIT=y, and if the table has columns with LONG datatype (among a few others), IMP will not use array inserts (BUFFER=) and will commit each row.Committing each row for large tables with thesedatatypesadversely affects

No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schemas)

2002-10-14 Thread Jesse, Rich
On the link below is this quote from C.J.Date: I don't want you to think that my SQL solution to your problem means I advocate the use of nulls. Nulls are a disaster. Of course, he doesn't expound upon it (probably not a need except for dummies like me). Anyone care to comment? (On the

RE: Oracle9i upgrade exam - Recommended books/material? (Borderin

2002-10-14 Thread Freeman, Robert
Didn't cover all of the 9i upgrade material? Why not? Because the we wanted to get the book out as quickly as possible to the Oracle community so they could start using the more important 9i New Features ASAP. We were trying to be a first strike new features book (as evidenced by the

DW setup

2002-10-14 Thread becker . bill
Hello, BACKGROUND: We've been planning a 300GB datawarehouse architecture for Oracle 9.2 on Solaris, and have proposed the following: 1) 2 separate instances of Oracle 9.2, - Instance A will be the staging instance, all ETL processing will take place here - Instance B will be the

Elementary question about triggers

2002-10-14 Thread Charu Joshi
Dear Listers, I hope you won't mind a question that (I think) looks unfit for this list: Can we prevent a delete trigger from deleting a row? To make it clear, here's the code for a trigger: CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER temp_trig BEFORE DELETE ON temp_tab FOR EACH ROW ??? END; What

Re:RE: * Sr. Oracle 8i DBA Needed in NYC- Locals Only..

2002-10-14 Thread dgoulet
That holds true for New Hampshire as well (for the time being), course there are few high paying jobs up this way either so we end up paying Mass income tax instead. Dick Goulet One of the many NH residents who work in MA. Reply Separator Author: Kevin

RE: Oracle9i upgrade exam - Recommended books/material? (Borderin

2002-10-14 Thread Freeman, Robert
Text of a previous email reply where I answer this question: What I would suggest is that you goto http://www.oracle.com/education/certification/objectives/index.html?dba9i_tc c.html and download the test objectives for the exam. In those objectives you will find each subject area that is

RE: Elementary question about triggers

2002-10-14 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Elementary question about triggers Basics: 1. Delete trigger doesn't delete the row, the DELETE command does it. 2. DELETE command invokes the delete trigger (if the trigger conditions are met). Solution: 1. Revoke delete priv so no deleted can take place. 2. Create a

RE: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem

2002-10-14 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey Dick, Thanks for your response. The reason I ask the question is because I *wish* our ERP system supported NULLs, at least in date fields. To properly explain why, I need to preface it with a short explanation: Our 3rd party ERP system is one that was designed in the '80s using indexed

Re: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schemas)

2002-10-14 Thread Jared . Still
Rich, NULLs are one of those religious war topics. They have a legitimate place in an RDBMS, but I think you need to be judicious in using them. If a column is to be used as part of a where clause, I prefer to use a default value, particularly with dates. NULLs can be a real performance

Re:No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem

2002-10-14 Thread dgoulet
Jesse, I'll refrain from personal comments, but on CJ's quote, he's correct. Nulls are an oddity. They cannot be true or false (column_name = NULL or column_name != NULL), nor can they equal anything. They are in effect a third logical state of nothingness. You also have to code most

Re: Replication

2002-10-14 Thread Jared . Still
Is this simply replicating data to another system read only? Replicated for what purpose? High Availability? Querying and reporting? Jared Robin Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/14/2002 06:58 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of

RE: Oracle and Informix on one server memory issues

2002-10-14 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Oracle and Informix on one server memory issues Guys, Are there any known issues with running both Informix and Oracle on the same box with Solaris 2.6 and Oracle 8.0.6, Oracle 8i and Oracle 9i - reason is we are using same box for disaster restore/recovery testing for Oracle

RE: DW setup

2002-10-14 Thread Gesler, Rich
Why seperate instances? Why not seperate schemas in the same instance? -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 1:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello, BACKGROUND: We've been planning a 300GB datawarehouse architecture for Oracle

Re: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schemas)

2002-10-14 Thread JApplewhite
Rich, Several years ago in the old Database Programming and Design magazine (a really useful publication, IMHO - too bad it's gone), C. J. Date and another database guru (I can't remember his name) carried on a debate that lasted several months about the badness (Date) vs goodness (the other

Re:RE: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star s

2002-10-14 Thread dgoulet
Jesse, You would not happen to be talking about ManMan-X now would you??? Oh, the wonderful days of ManMan on HP TurboImage where the maximum date that it would populate was 32767 and date 1 was actually 31-OCT-1971. Yes, ManMan stored dates as a number where the starting point was

RE: Interpretation of TKPROF output

2002-10-14 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Wow! This is a completely new view on the TKPROF. So far, I've been inclined to look upon the TKPROF output as on the holly scripture. Mentioning the tkprof bugs is like discovering Kumran rolls! -Original Message- From: Cary Millsap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October

security alert #45

2002-10-14 Thread Ray Stell
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/showDoc?db=NEWid=215900.996 Oracle Security Alert #45 Dated: 04 October 2002 (Updated: 10 October 2002) Severity: 1 Security Release of Apache 1.3.27 Description Apache has released version 1.3.27 of its HTTP Server that contains fixes for the

RE: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem

2002-10-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Rich If you were to give each of your developers a pop quiz on nulls, how many do you think would pass? I agree with Dick, that nulls are a confusing concept that usually only the DBA really understands. I feel that an important decision when beginning a new application is whether or not to

Re: Elementary question about triggers

2002-10-14 Thread Jared . Still
Here's one way: drop table d; create table d( x integer ); create or replace trigger d_nodelete_trg before delete on d begin raise_application_error(-2,'No Deletes Allowed!'); end; / show error trigger d_nodelete_trg Jared Charu Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re:DW setup

2002-10-14 Thread dgoulet
Bill, Why use two instances? If you believe that the second instance can be protected against performance degradation during ETL processing your wrong. Both instances will be looking for the same resources (CPU memory) and worse if your using net attached storage, they will end up

RE: Elementary question about triggers

2002-10-14 Thread Balakrishnan Subramanian
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER temp_trig BEFORE DELETE ON temp_tab FOR EACH ROW BEGIN RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-2,'Do not delete ...'); END; / Bala. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 1:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dear Listers, I hope you won't

RE: Oracle and Informix on one server memory issues

2002-10-14 Thread Brian McGraw
Title: RE: Oracle and Informix on one server memory issues In the past, we ran an older incarnation of Informix SE here, on a Solaris 2.6 box along with 8.1.6 and 8.1.7. There were no issues / problems. Brian -- | Brian McGraw /* DBA */

RE: Elementary question about triggers

2002-10-14 Thread Kevin Lange
Why not just remove delete authority from anyone not authorized to delete from it ?? -Original Message- Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 2:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER temp_trig BEFORE DELETE ON temp_tab FOR EACH ROW BEGIN

Re: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schemas)

2002-10-14 Thread JApplewhite
Rich, I piqued my own curiosity and looked at Database Programming and Design On-Line. Below is a link to a lengthy response (1995) by Date and others to Tom Johnston's article defending MVL (Multi-Valued Logic). Plenty to chew on. http://www.dbpd.com/vault/dateresp.htm Jack C. Applewhite

RE: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem

2002-10-14 Thread Adams, Matthew (GECP, MABG, 088130)
Title: RE: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem No application that I can reasonably think of should use NULLS, except those pre-81 where there are obsolete columns. Everytime somebody says this to me, I ask them: How do you handle still employed employees in an

RE: DW setup

2002-10-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Rich - Good point! I haven't used Oracle Resource Manager, but in theory it should be able to do a better job of implementing priorities than the operating system can. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 1:54 PM To:

Re: Replication

2002-10-14 Thread Robin Li
Thanks to all who replied. The idea comes from the application manager. Because there is a new server for his application, we have to move the DB from the old server to the new one. Our original plan was by using RMAN's duplicate method which I've done for couple times and feel confident. By

Re: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem

2002-10-14 Thread Igor Neyman
Title: RE: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem END_EMPLOYEMENT date for still employed employees equals to "01/01/4000" (or any other pre-defined date in distant future). Igor Neyman, OCP DBA[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Adams,

Re:DW setup

2002-10-14 Thread becker . bill
*** Comments by BECKER, BILL Mon Oct 14, 2002 -- 02:24:00 PM Thanks for the response, Don. RichG. also wondered why 2 instances. I should have included the fact these will be running on 2 different platforms as well. Apologies for the confusion. Actually, I didn't include that fact

Re: Replication

2002-10-14 Thread Jared . Still
How about: Copy your database to the new server. This needs to be done in real time. I've done this a number of times by putting the database in hot backup mode, copying the datafiles to the new server. Then when you're ready to switch, shutdown the old database, copy all archive logs

RE: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem

2002-10-14 Thread Fink, Dan
Title: RE: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem The problem I see with NO NULLS is that artificial data must be created, where the data is truly not known. Whether you deal with NULLs or artificial data, you will always have to code accordingly, so it is a wash. Igor's

Re[2]: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star s

2002-10-14 Thread dgoulet
I'll agree with Igor. Actually my 'preferred' option would be to use their birth date + 80 years which is the generally accepted life expectancy of a human being. Lets face it, you aren't going to employ the guy/girl after their dead! And if their not dead by then, then sure as heck they'll be

Re: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem

2002-10-14 Thread Marc Perkowitz
Title: RE: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem I disagree with the use of "dummy" values to represent missing data. It reminds me of the olden days when we coded in 12/31/99 and such. Shades of COBOL HIGH-VALUES! You're introducing a lot of dependencies and

RE: CodeNotes for Oracle9i... Destress on the way home!

2002-10-14 Thread John Kanagaraj
Dennis, See below is an email conversation that I had with the 'Goddess' in 2000 on the same subject. Those were the days when Goddesses had to sleep and de-stress on their way home (Ducking as the Goddess takes out her six-shooter magic wand) John Reply from Rachel: == Geek!

Re: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem

2002-10-14 Thread Igor Neyman
Title: RE: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem Or you'll have to explain to the HR manager why all of the employees appear to be terminated! they aren't terminated! at least not yet :-) Igor Neyman, OCP DBA[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From:

RE: Informix gateway error

2002-10-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Bruno I don't believer that many people on this list use the Informix gateway. Also, I feel that if the subject line of the email is filled in, you stand a better chance of getting a reply. That said, my experience with a gateway product is zero, but I'll post the output of oerr on the off

RE: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem

2002-10-14 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Title: Message Hmmm...but what about the index? Which is faster? select * from table where END_EMPLOYMENT IS NULL; OR select * from table where END_EMPLOYMENT = '01/01/4000'; I like NULL, but I am leaning towards Igor, and others, to agree upon and use a default value, or a "business

Re: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem

2002-10-14 Thread Igor Neyman
Title: RE: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem Actually, you don't have to deal with "01/01/4000" date (at least on "select"), all you have to do in order find currently employed employees, is: where END_EMPLOYMENT sysdate asfor inserts, all you have to do, is define

RE: CodeNotes for Oracle9i... Destress on the way home!

2002-10-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
John - Wow! An impressive memory tour de force! My problem is that I am driving during my commute. You get the strangest looks when the next driver glances over and sees your face buried in a PDA. Actually that last phrase might become prophetic. I was just asking if there was a way to get a

interview question ???

2002-10-14 Thread Leslie Lu
Hi, My agent asked me these couple of questions through email, can any one give me some idea? Thank you! Leslie --- What are a couple ways to detect block corruption within an oracle database? What is the wait interface? What v$view would you query to get a list of

Re: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem

2002-10-14 Thread Ora NT DBA
Both would likely do FTS since at any given time more than 50% of your employees will be current (have an end date of 1/1/4000' making it very unlikely that the cbo would choose this index. The RBO, would, but it would likely degrade not improve your performance. John Grabowy, Chris

RE: CodeNotes for Oracle9i... Destress on the way home!...OT

2002-10-14 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Dennis, I also have a driving commute, and I was also thinking about asking her to voice record her book. But I think I would get into an accident hearing her sexy voice describing how to recover a database...:P :) :P :) -Original Message- Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 5:34 PM To:

Re: CodeNotes for Oracle9i...

2002-10-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
It's a little difficult to see how code samples and illustrations (which I find invaluable) could be translated to audio It's technically copyright infringement (I believe) to translate the books. I don't own the copyright, so I'm not about to call out the lawyers. I am supposed to contact

RE: DW setup

2002-10-14 Thread Freeman, Robert
Thats what we are planning on doing here with our data warehouse. Unfortunately, your CPU's have to be at 100% for resource manager to become effective. I'd like to be able to have a bit more control over sessions than that. RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP Oracle Database Architect CSX

Re: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem

2002-10-14 Thread Marc Perkowitz
Title: RE: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem This is true. But you still need to add logic to your application to suppress displaying the termination date when it is = "01/01/4000". Ican pretty well guarantee your users will not like seeing a "dummy" date on their

RE: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem

2002-10-14 Thread Jesse, Rich
Thinking about Matt's question, would it be proper to move the column to a EMP_TERMINATED table with an outer join on EMPNO? There wouldn’t be any NULLs... Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex,

oracledba

2002-10-14 Thread Seema Singh
Hi How to check which query is using full table scan? Thx -Seema _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Seema Singh

RE: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schemas)

2002-10-14 Thread Freeman, Robert
But from a practical, operational standpoint, NULLable columns can cause problems, the least of which is lack of index-ability (for lack of a better term) when issuing queries containing NOT NULLs and the like. Of course one might say that one should know the database one is issuing a query

RE: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schem

2002-10-14 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Title: Message That's not a problem for me...I told all my duh-velopers that RBO was dropped from Oracle8i(big grin) -Original Message-From: Ora NT DBA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 5:53 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list

Re: interview question ???

2002-10-14 Thread Jared . Still
Is this for a job interview? I for one, am not going to help proliferate the number of DBA's that don't know what they're doing, when there are many available that do. If I'm way out of line here, then let me know, but this sure looks like a good opportunity to recommend some RTFM. Jared

RE: stupid RMAN question

2002-10-14 Thread Kurth, Michael J.
If you're on Unix, you can use the UnixSCRIPT command to write the terminal output to a file. -Original Message-From: JOE TESTA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 10:14 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: stupid RMAN question Ok i've

local Bimap indexes

2002-10-14 Thread sat0789
Hello All, This problem pertains to local bitmap index in dw env. We are using informatica to load our fact tables. i have a fact table partitioned on period key (range partition). We have built local bitmap indexes on the foreign keys. During the loading of the fact table for month 1, we are

Re: Replication

2002-10-14 Thread alan . aschenbrenner
Robin, If you can have an hour of downtime, you could probably just create a clone of the original database and be done with it (but make sure you change the DB Name and the DBID if you are using RMAN). Of course, depending on your disk and network speed, this could take more or less that

RE: CodeNotes for Oracle9i... Destress on the way home!

2002-10-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
smart aleck! :) I've spent time on the train reading and working. I've learned that I need the time between leaving work and getting home to turn off my brain and relax before dealing with reading this and the OT lists at home! I can't believe you saved that email. Sheesh, you really ARE a

RE: interview question ???

2002-10-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Leslie Instead of just providing the answers, I'll show you how to find them. Go to http://www.google.com, and search for Oracle block corruption and Oracle wait interface. You'll find several articles that will teach you more about these subjects. For the last question, click on

Re: Informix gateway error

2002-10-14 Thread Adriano Freire
Bruno Are you using HSODBC for connections between ORACLE and INFORMIX? Adriano Freire -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Adriano Freire INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California

Re: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schemas)

2002-10-14 Thread Jared . Still
That was a great magazine. I've clipped and saved or printed from the web site and saved, a number of articles from that mag. If you *really* want to discuss dates, read the Snodgrass series on temporal data, then by his book. :) Jared [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: stupid RMAN question

2002-10-14 Thread Jared . Still
Unix SCRIPT command? Never heard of it. Hmm. man script | col -b Thanks! Learn something every day on this job. Jared SCRIPT(1) System General Commands Manual SCRIPT(1) NAME script - make typescript of terminal session SYNOPSIS script [-a] [-f] [-q] [file]

RE: CodeNotes for Oracle9i... Destress on the way home!...OT

2002-10-14 Thread Fink, Dan
We could put together a whole Namesakes series about Oracle stuff... Morgan Freeman reads Oracle 9i New Features by Robert Freeman Patch Adams reads Oracle8i Internal Services by Steve Adams Apologies to Spinal Tap for the distorted idea... -Original Message- Sent: Monday, October 14,

RE: local Bimap indexes

2002-10-14 Thread Khedr, Waleed
In Informatica there is a stored procedure transform (runs any Oracle SP) that you can make it pre source load. So the SP would be called before loading the table. Regards, Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 7:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello

RE: interview question ???

2002-10-14 Thread Fink, Dan
Here, Here! Bravo! AMEN, Brother... I'm with you on this. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 4:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Is this for a job interview? I for one, am not going to help proliferate the number of DBA's that don't know what they're

RE: interview question ???

2002-10-14 Thread Johnston, Tim
Seems in line to me... There is a big difference between Help me with this problem at my current job and Help get this job that I'm not qualified for... Tim -Original Message- Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 6:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Is this for a job

OT: CodeNotes for Oracle9i... Destress on the way home!

2002-10-14 Thread John Kanagaraj
smart aleck! :) I've spent time on the train reading and working. I've learned that I need the time between leaving work and getting home to turn off my brain and relax before dealing with reading this and the OT lists at home! I can't believe you saved that email. Sheesh, you really

RE: local Bimap indexes

2002-10-14 Thread sat0789
Thats what we exactly did except that iniformatica starts a separate session when it is loading the target which results in the error unusable state . sathish On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:44:02 -0800, Khedr, Waleed [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In Informatica there is a stored procedure transform (runs

How to fix ORA-03113 error

2002-10-14 Thread Nguyen, David M
I could not start database due to ORA-03113 error, someone please advise what it means and how to fix it ASAP. I really appreciate your help. Thanks, David SVRMGR startup ORACLE instance started. Total

RE: stupid RMAN question

2002-10-14 Thread Nguyen, David M
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Re: How to fix ORA-03113 error

2002-10-14 Thread Jared . Still
At least one of your control files is corrupted, or the disk it is on is bad: 00204, 0, error in reading (block %s, # blocks %s) of controlfile // *Cause: A disk I/O failure was detected on reading the controlfile. // *Action: Check if the disk is online, if it is not, bring it online and

RE: How to fix ORA-03113 error

2002-10-14 Thread Johnston, Tim
Your instance crashed because the lgwr died... There should be a trace file for lgwr in the bdump directory... What does it say in the trace file? Are you having any filesystem issues? The LGWR: terminating instance due to error 204 means that there is an I/O error when accessing the

RE: interview question ???

2002-10-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
reminds me of my most favorite BAD review of DBA 101: I consider myself as an Oracle DBA beginner and want to lie on my resume. Though I have completed the whole book I still feel confused about the Oracle architecture and basic Oracle DBA commands. This book is not a good reference book for a

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