QUERY?

2002-10-24 Thread Seema Singh
Hi Can some one suggest whats wrong in this query?The same query run fine on development db but not running on production? select count(a.xxx_id) from gorp_cats_stats_view a , static_pages b where b.xxx_id = a.xxx_id andb.words like '%test%' anda.main not like '%test%' and

Oracle DBA/Developer with Solid 9i experience- Position in

2002-10-24 Thread OraStaff
Large Software Company in Atlanta, Georgia needs an Oracle DBA /Developer with solid 9i experience to join its' IT staff. This is an excellent company that will pay relocation expenses. PLEASE Do Not send your resume for this position UNLESS you have the skills outlined below for this

RE: RMAN - It's Here

2002-10-24 Thread Freeman, Robert
WOW! I just got this one!! SLOW today... Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP Oracle Database Architect CSX Midtier Database Administration Author of several Oracle books you can find on Amazon.com! Londo Mollari: Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you.  

HP-UX 11i/8.1.7/SAP

2002-10-24 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Hey Gang... If you have a SAP instance, what is your listener port? Our SAP systems listen on 1527. All six of them. Yesterday, one of the SAP/R3 admins asked us why we use 1527 instead of 1521. I told her I thought it was a SAP requirement because it pre-dates my working here. None of the

Re: Suggestions solicited - Change Column Datatype from Number to

2002-10-24 Thread Stephane Faroult
Rachel Carmichael wrote: Dennis, That's a good thought, and it works if you don't have grants, constraints or dependencies on the original table. If you drop table1, you lose them all Rachel --- DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deepak, If there are many columns on these

RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Title: Message Well, it's kinda like saying your backups will never fail. The backup script works now, and it has for many months, so I should never worry. Right? Well I'm paranoid, and Andy Groove is my god. So I have to put in place some checks to make sure the data is ok, before I load

RE: Suggestions solicited - Change Column Datatype from Number to

2002-10-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Yeah, well the developers are always pi$$ed about something anyway. ;-) Seriously, good point, I've been spoiled, because most of my applications have kept the RI in the application as was being discussed earlier. Now they are switching to Java and in future projects will be implementing RI in

RE: Suggestions solicited - Change Column Datatype from Number to

2002-10-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Stephane - You asked: But why the second CTAS ? What about RENAME ? Seems faster to me ... Well, it depends on whether you are okay with changing locations of the table. Personally, I'm with you, just accomplish everything with one move of the data. But I figured someone would object,

Re: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas... DBMS_OBFUSCATION_TOOLKIT has an (undocumented) function called MD5 which uses that protocol (MD5) to calculate checksums. Look at $OH/rdbms/admin/dbmsobtk.sql... - Original Message - From: Jamadagni, Rajendra To: Multiple

RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Chris - Your comment about the other systems maybe sending you the wrong file sparked an idea. XML! Yeah, it has been overhyped, but the basic idea is that the file specifies the format. So you could get a file and ensure the content conforms to your expectation. I am an XML novice, but I believe

RE: Streams

2002-10-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
David - I recently discussed this with an industry expert. Here is my note from that conversation: Look at Oracle Streams, which uses Oracle's Advanced Queuing facility. This may be available in Standard Edition. The architecture is log-based, similar to Quest Shareplex. This means that it has

Re: Table Index sizing utility

2002-10-24 Thread Tim Gorman
Nice website, but the basic flaw with such formulas is what to input into the field marked "average row size"... If you know the "average row size", then you must already have a sample of data present in a table somewhere. After all, without actual data already in an Oracle table, you could

Re: simple ? question

2002-10-24 Thread Stephane Faroult
Joan Hsieh wrote: Hi Listers, I am trying to find a way to know the schema name. Say, if I logged in as jjin01@ngd. When I run a program, how can I get the schema name which should be ngd? If I logged in as bkrasnof@pr, in this case, the schema name will be pr. Thanks in advance,

Re: Streams

2002-10-24 Thread Tim Gorman
The statement about no performance impact on the database being replicated from may not be entirely accurate. In order to work, Oracle Streams (which uses Log Miner) needs supplemental redo data to be generated by the originating system, resulting from the ALTER DATABASE ADD SUPPLEMENTAL LOG DATA

RE: Multiple Listeners

2002-10-24 Thread Stephen Andert
Test first We discovered a bug on Tru64 that prevented this from working correctly in at least a couple versions of Oracle. 8.1.7 was suppossed to fix this, but it didn't. 8.1.7.3 did *I think*. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/16/02 11:39AM You can use the 'higher' version of the listener for all

RE: Streams

2002-10-24 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Streams The supplemental logging information adds quite a bit of into to each record. 1) it writes the actual column offset, rather than the logical offset (which it needs to query to find) 2) it writes the original head rowid for the row in addition/or instead of the rowid for

Re: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread Mark Richard
Unfortunately it is a trust issue... Trust me when I say a file can get scrambled. I have seen it happen. In our wierdest scenario two received files appeared to be merged into a single file - on the source system they had two intact files, on our system 1.5 files merged into a single file and

RE: Flat file generation integrity ideas...

2002-10-24 Thread Mark Richard
Chris, Our favourite footer (at a previous project) was: #EOF#count_of_detail_recordssum_of_numerical_column1sum_of_numerical_column2... Sometimes there were no numerical columns, sometimes 1 and sometimes 12 or more. In most cases we were the recipients of the files, so we wrote a utility

Re: simple ? question

2002-10-24 Thread Joan Hsieh
Stephane, Well spoken- my bad. Our developer threw me this question when I was just leaving from work. ( I copied from her email) Now I am at home to look it over. I am not clear what she asked for. I think she wants to pass a variable based on the @xxx to access this schema. I will make it

Re: simple ? question

2002-10-24 Thread Joan Hsieh
Stephane, Well spoken- my bad. Our developer threw me this question when I was just leaving from work. (I copied her email to the list) Now I am at home and taking a chance to look it over again. I am not sure what she asked for. My guess is she wants to pass a variable based on @xxx to access

Re: Suggestions solicited - Change Column Datatype from Number to

2002-10-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Stephane, It's easy if there is only one level of dependency... but what if (as they did in one of my systems) there are levels of dependency? It's sort of like trying to write (or rewrite) the ideptree view. Only you have to save off the scripts, in the proper order. Oh yes, don't forget views

RE: Suggestions solicited - Change Column Datatype from Number to

2002-10-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
9i -- dbms_redefinition should do it for you :) --- DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, well the developers are always pi$$ed about something anyway. ;-) Seriously, good point, I've been spoiled, because most of my applications have kept the RI in the application as was being

SID and DB_NAME

2002-10-24 Thread ora ak
I know this novice question for dba's but just wanted to refresh this , what is difference between SID and DATABASE_NAME , why init.ora file shouldhave database name same as SID and in what circumstances SID and DB_NAME can be different . TIA oramagic Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert

Re: RAC on the cheap

2002-10-24 Thread Scott
Steve, You can create a RAC environment on SUN if you get can get the necessary software. The hardware for SUN is easy to get if you purchase it for eBay but the clustering software is whole other story. You need Sun Cluster 3.0 and and a LVM for the disks. Getting SC3.0 may be easy but the LVM

Re: secure connection

2002-10-24 Thread Justin Cave
At 06:08 AM 10/24/2002, MURAT BALKAS wrote: Hi, how can I be sure that the connection between our web server and Oracle Server to be secure. What's the best method to accomplish this? Any good links for Oracle Nwtwork Security. I'd start with the Oracle Advanced Security

The life time of the data in v$sqlarea

2002-10-24 Thread Chuan Zhang
Dear All, I wonder how long the life time of data in v$sqlarea. Is it a cumulative data collecting in v$sqlarea since last database startup?or do the data in v$sqlarea only reflect some recently data in Least Recetly List? Why do I ask this is after I used alter system flush shared_pool, I

RE: The life time of the data in v$sqlarea

2002-10-24 Thread Naveen Nahata
It will show you the SQL atatements that are residing in the shared pool. Once you flush shared pool all the statements cached there gets flushed, and so V$SQLAREA will only show information about the queries which are currently held by open cursors and are not flushed. Regards Naveen

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