RE: RE: SQL Brain Teaser Challenge

2002-11-06 Thread Stephane Faroult
Ooops. Was rather late (or rather early) when I sent this. Obviously the ascending CONNECT BY subquery should not be in the WHERE clause but in the descending CONNECT BY to stop recursion. - Original Message - From: Orr, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread prem
Dear List, I need some inputs from you all regarding purging data from the database. This is the requirement We define a retention period for all the data in the system. When the retention period is reached, the data should be deleted, but then at a later time, some user might request for

Re: ORA-19502 ON RAID 5 DISKS WITH ENOUGH FREE SPACE

2002-11-06 Thread Yechiel Adar
I started to tell you that there were no arch trace file, but got a call, while writing this mail (1.5 hours ago), that the system stuck again. This time we put :alter system set archive_log_trace=32; so we have trace. The trace file for the arch process that stuck is: Tue Nov 05 14:21:36 2002

RE: SQL Brain Teaser Challenge

2002-11-06 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
Directly from TFM Notes on Hierarchical Queries: If you specify a hierarchical query and also specify the ORDER BY clause, the ORDER BY clause takes precedence over any ordering specified by the hierarchical query, unless you specify the SIBLINGS keyword in the ORDER BY clause. The manner

Re: suggestion w/c platforms to choose from...

2002-11-06 Thread Yechiel Adar
First rule: Do not mix OLTP and datamart. Datamart access is very heavy and complex SQL's that will impact your OLTP system. I think that an NT with 2-4 CPUs and a lot of memory will do (a not so educated guess). Controller with a lot of cache memory and fast disks (15,000 rpm). Yechiel Adar

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Prem, I would re-visit the requirement. Why do you feel the need to delete the data from the database? What is the purpose for this type of requirement? It would be far easier to modify the requirement than to do what you are thinking of doing. Adding columns to database tables

Re: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread Tim Gorman
This is adata-archival requirement, not a data-purge requirement. It only resembles a purge requirement based on the multiple-database-migration strategy you outlined. There are alternatives... Depending on the volume of data in your database and your availability requirements,

RE: OCP Exams - What to study out of?

2002-11-06 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: OCP Exams - What to study out of? But I did. All I did was study the Corioulus book - and took the exams. -Original Message- From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 4:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OCP

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Tim, my problem with moving data to tape is as follows: Your one strategy involved moving read-only tablespaces to tape. what if you upgrade Oracle versions. will these read-only files still be valid? will they still be able to be put back on-line, or will they need to be converted along

Re: Re: Clone Production Server to Stand by Server on 8.1.7 on Win 2k

2002-11-06 Thread chao_ping
Yechiel Adar, Use standby database, and you won't lost any transaction if your online redo log is there. To add a datafile, just add it in the standby database , no need to rebuild the standby database. Global name have nothing to do with standby,

Re: OCP Exams - What to study out of?

2002-11-06 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
Title: RE: OCP Exams - What to study out of? Unfortunately there are no Corioulus books for 9i. Ken - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 8:08 AM Subject: RE: OCP Exams - What

Oracle DBA with SAP Needed

2002-11-06 Thread OraStaff
If you are an Oracle DBA With SAP experience looking for a stable company where you can work within a great team environment, this company in Toledo, Ohio is the place for you. This Fortune 500 employer has experienced steady growth over the hundred years it has been in business and is looking

RE: OCP Exams - What to study out of?

2002-11-06 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: OCP Exams - What to study out of? Just the first one. That is the only one I have tried. I have the second one Nov. 12th. I am spacing them out a little because I have football games to go to, holidays, elderly parents, etc. I will let you know the gory details if you wish. My

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread Conboy, Jim
A poor man's solution might be to load the offline database with appropriate data, then do a tablespace export and store the results on CD labelled by date. Restoring needed data would entail a tablespace import of stuff from the appropriate CD into the offline DB. I'm sure

ORA-01089

2002-11-06 Thread Saira Somani
Hello Gurus, This morning our database locked us out with the error code ORA-01089. Circumstances surrounding this occurrence were that a cold backup by Tivoli is taken performed every night at 4AM. When I spoke with our senior DBA, he confirmed that the database never shutdown properly before

Differences between Oracle 9.2.0 EE and SE

2002-11-06 Thread Rick_Cale
I have given up on trying to find document detailing differences between Oracle 9i (9.2.0) EE and SE. Can someone provide a link,etc for this? Thanks Rick -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services--

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Prem - You are receiving some excellent advice from Tom and Tim. I would mention two items in addition: - If you ever hope to re-use the data you archive off-line, you must also archive all the related tables, because after all, this is a RELATIONAL database. - PrincetonSoftech has a product

Help required: Enterprise Manager Console - Export/Import/Backup

2002-11-06 Thread Arif Khan (GWL)
Come on folks...Help me, I am stuck... I run Oracle 8.1.6 on Win 2k (Both standard ed.). I am trying to run the export wizard through the Enterprise Manager Console by doing the following: Under Database folder, I right click the Global Name (say ORCL) - Data Management - Export ... and it comes

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread John . Hallas
In response to a post on data purging Tim Gorman wrote some on SAN-based disk, some on NAS-based storage. Can someone please explain the differences between these technologies please. My understanding that a SAN is a group of disks which are available on a network and are not 'owned' by a

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread John . Hallas
Hey Dennis, Mark Leith is the only person on this list allowed to mention 3rd party products. I am sure he bought the franchise from Jared :) John -Original Message- Sent: 06 November 2002 14:15 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Prem - You are receiving some excellent advice

RE: SQL Brain Teaser Challenge

2002-11-06 Thread Madhavan Amruthur
Hi Steve, You can get the below query to work in 8.1.7 (not sure about previous versions) by setting the undoc parameter _new_connect_by_enabled = true and can be set for a session SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM treenode ORDER BY parentid, nodeorder) START WITH parentid=0 CONNECT BY PRIOR ID =

RE: suggestion w/c platforms to choose from...

2002-11-06 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Grace - Amen to Yechiel's first rule. At the VERY least, warn your management that they need to consider a second system for the datamart. This way, if it works terribly, you don't look dumb. My experience is mainly Unix, so 200 OLTP users on an NT box sounds iffy from a throughput point of

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Hey, thanks for mentioning that, I'll have to mind my manners. I really don't have a connection to that vendor, just attended a demo. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:56 AM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: ORA-01089

2002-11-06 Thread Paulo Gomes
could u check please the user rigths on disk place he needs? colud u please check the ramaing free space of any directory needded to oracle and its backup? i supose the problem is in one of those steeps regards paulo -Original Message- Sent: quarta-feira, 6 de Novembro de 2002 14:59 To:

RE: OCP Exams - What to study out of?

2002-11-06 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
Hi, I remember that replication isn't really covered in Robert's book. The way I did this was to step through the candidate guide and compare it to the index of the New Features book to see what was missing. Regards, Mike Hately -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002

RE: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed

2002-11-06 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed What does Base Salary is 55K-to maybe high 60s Firm. mean? You can throw the possibility of a raise out the window? =) -Original Message- From: OraStaff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:49 AM To: Multiple

RE: OCP Exams - What to study out of?

2002-11-06 Thread John . Hallas
Just bought Oracle Press 9i New Features by the illustrious Robert Freeman. Seems good and I have also seen another Oracle Press Book 9i New Features Exam Guide by Daniel Benjamin. This follows the Corioulus format of a chapter and questions and a big test at the end. The worrying thing about

RE: ORA-01089

2002-11-06 Thread Jack van Zanen
Do you have Enterprise manager running? That may hang up a shutdown immediate as well. Shut down agent first and then the database. Everything ok.? He felt gutsy and decided ORACLE was robust enough to handle the abort. Maybe he checked the previous backup was alright and that archives were

Re: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread Jared . Still
Someone asked about this 3 weeks ago. Here's my take on archiving data. I don't expect everyone to agree with this, but nonetheless, I have an opinion. :) Here's an email from last month. You can undoubtedly find some other ideas on this by searching the archives of this list at fatcity.com

RE: OCP Exams - What to study out of?

2002-11-06 Thread Peter Barnett
In many cases the exams extract exact sentences from the Oracle Uinversity manuals for their correct answers. --- DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eva - Everything I've heard says that all the exam questions come out of the Oracle University class Student Guides. To put it bluntly,

How can I tell if MTS is activated

2002-11-06 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
Oracle 8i How can I tell if MTS is activated? Which parameters should I look at? (in init.ora and listener.ora) thanks Pablo ___ Yahoo! Messenger Nueva versión: Webcam, voz, y mucho más ¡Gratis! Descárgalo ya desde

RE: Differences between Oracle 9.2.0 EE and SE

2002-11-06 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
http://otn.oracle.com/products/oracle9i/pdf/9idb_rel2_prod_fam.pdf At the end of the paper is a matrix that compares feature-by-feature. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 8:49 AM To: Multiple

AW: Differences between Oracle 9.2.0 EE and SE

2002-11-06 Thread Daiminger, Helmut
Title: AW: Differences between Oracle 9.2.0 EE and SE Rick, there is a note on Metalink that gives you all the differences: 112591.1 But it only covers releases up to 8i. 9i should be somewhat similar (of course stuff like RAC only works with EE). As far as I know, there is no

RE: Help required: Enterprise Manager Console - Export/Import/Ba

2002-11-06 Thread Paulo Gomes
u need to set the system operating credentials for the node u are using with a acount that has at least logon as a batch job directly assigned to it. Noramally it would administrator/Password regards Paulo -Original Message- Sent: quarta-feira, 6 de Novembro de 2002 15:04 To: Multiple

Is Oracle Forms going away?

2002-11-06 Thread Gillian
Have anyone heard about Oracle Forms going away with Oracle 9.0.1.4? I was in a technical meeting with Retek (a retail application), and they presenter said that. I did not see anything on the metalink site relating to that information. If Forms is going away, what will replace it? Thanks in

Convert TEMP tablespace from datafiles to tempfiles

2002-11-06 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey all, I've got some downtime coming up on an 8.1.6 DB on Solaris, and I'd like to take the opportunity to convert the datafiles of the TEMP tablespace to tempfiles. My reason for this change is primarily to get the TEMP tablespace LMT, but also to shrink our hotbacks w/o modifying the working

RE: OCP Exams - What to study out of?

2002-11-06 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: OCP Exams - What to study out of? I took 8i - am taking 8i because I am hoping that then I can just take an upgrade exam for 9i without the $1,000+ course requirement. I believe that is still the case. Please tell me if I am wrong. -Original Message-From: KENNETH

RE: ORA-01089

2002-11-06 Thread John . Hallas
Don't know the exact circumstances but the following note from Metalink (1014091.102) may be appropriate However the best way to learn anything is to ask the senior DBA what he meant. An explanation from him may include looking at the alert log and the scripts that were used. That is more than

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread Mark Leith
LOL! Thanks John! ;) As a matter of fact.. ;P I do actually know of another tool that does just this, it's called Checkmate from a company called BitByBit http://www.bitbybit.co.uk (which I have just checked and it now seems they have been acquired by OuterBay!).. We actually used to promote

RE: How can I tell if MTS is activated

2002-11-06 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
To see how many dispatchers/shared servers are started up with the RDBMS, check the value of 'mts_dispatchers' and 'mts_servers' in the init.ora. You can also tell by looking in the alert.log(default location is $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/log). Sample: PMON started DBWR started LGWR started RECO

RE: Help required: Enterprise Manager Console - Export/Import/Ba

2002-11-06 Thread Phil Wilson (DBA)
A couple of things come to mind... 1. Set credentials for the node ORATEST, usually the user you installed oracle with on the node. 2. Set credentials for the database to be a user with DBA privileges, possibly even create a specific user to act as the primary user that you will do this and other

Re: Help required: Enterprise Manager Console - Export/Import/Backup

2002-11-06 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Sysman is not a user on the database. Set preferered credentials to someone who has sysdba privs or export full database, import full database privs. Ruth - Original Message - From: Arif Khan (GWL) To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday,

RE: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed

2002-11-06 Thread Paulo Gomes
unfortunatly i don't work with SAP or i would be interessed regards Paulo -Original Message- Sent: quarta-feira, 6 de Novembro de 2002 14:49 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L If you are an Oracle DBA With SAP experience looking for a stable company where you can work within a

Re: Differences between Oracle 9.2.0 EE and SE

2002-11-06 Thread Yechiel Adar
The list of 9i options can be found at: http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/database/oracle9i/index.html?packagingandopt ions.html Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 4:49 PM I have given up

Re: Help required: Enterprise Manager Console - Export/Import/Backup

2002-11-06 Thread Yechiel Adar
If I remember correctly ( a big if) there is an option in the OEM menus to set the preferred credentials. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 5:04 PM Come on folks...Help me, I am

Re: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed

2002-11-06 Thread Alan Davey
Well with the ridiculous salary they are offering, they could at least train you in the use of SAP. This is a Fortune 500 company after all. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 11/6/2002 10:56 AM, Paulo Gomes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unfortunatly i don't work with SAP or i

Re:Is Oracle Forms going away?

2002-11-06 Thread dgoulet
JDeveloper Reply Separator Author: Gillian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11/6/2002 9:18 AM Have anyone heard about Oracle Forms going away with Oracle 9.0.1.4? I was in a technical meeting with Retek (a retail application), and they presenter said that.

RE: Convert TEMP tablespace from datafiles to tempfiles

2002-11-06 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Rich, I have a better set of steps for you: 1). Create a new tablespace (TEMPLMT) and make it a LMT. 2). One by one, issue ALTER USER {username} TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TEMPLMT; 3). Bounce the database 4). DROP TABLESPACE TEMP INCLUDING CONTENTS; 5). Backup the database 6). Let users at it.

Re: Convert TEMP tablespace from datafiles to tempfiles

2002-11-06 Thread JApplewhite
Rich, If you've got the disk space, do it while the DB is up. Much simpler. Create a new Temporary LMT - call it NewTemp - with the appropriate tempfiles. Switch everyone to NewTemp by spooling and executing this and running the spooled file: Select 'Alter User ' || UserName || ' Temporary

Oracle to Excel

2002-11-06 Thread Burton, Laura L.
Title: Oracle to Excel I think I have seen traffic concerning the extracting of data from Oracle into an Excel spreadsheet. We now have a need for this. Could anyone enlighten me? Thank you in advance. Laura

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread Jared . Still
That reminds me: Mark, your annual stipend is due. Make it a case of Glenmorangie this time, Sherry finish. :) Jared [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/06/2002 07:56 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Oracle to Excel

2002-11-06 Thread Kevin Lange
Title: Oracle to Excel Without extra software the easiest way is to setup a delimited file in a sql statement and spool output to a file. Then import the file into a spreadsheet. If you have it, Toad will save data into spreadsheets for you. -Original Message-From: Burton, Laura

RE: OCP Exams - What to study out of?

2002-11-06 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
And I hope it is okay to take 9i New Features before you've finished all your 8i modules, because I wound up taking a new features class to use up some education money that was expiring. The Oracle instructor, John Hibbard, is superb. He makes the class very entertaining and he has done a lot of

RE: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed

2002-11-06 Thread Jared . Still
I doubt they can fill this position at that salary. Oracle DBA's that work with SAP can easily earn much more than that. Jared Markham, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/06/2002 07:56 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Oracle to Excel

2002-11-06 Thread Saira Somani
Title: Oracle to Excel I usually spool my queries to a .txt (ascii) file and import into Excel. Easiest way for me. Im sure there are other more sophisticated solutions out there. Regards, Saira -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf

RE: Oracle to Excel

2002-11-06 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: Oracle to Excel Laura, lots of tools do this for you automatically. Oracle discoverer will export the results of a query directly into Excel format. You can do this yourself as follows: in SqlPLus select col1||chr(10)||col2||chr(10) from table. the chr(10) is the tab

RE: SQL Brain Teaser Challenge

2002-11-06 Thread Jared . Still
I'm seeing some very strange results using _new_connect_by_enabled = true Login to the database, run these 2 commands: alter session set _new_connect_by_enabled = true; 1 SELECT * 2 FROM (SELECT * FROM treenode ORDER BY parentid, nodeorder) 3 START WITH parentid=0 4 CONNECT BY

Re: Convert TEMP tablespace from datafiles to tempfiles

2002-11-06 Thread Jared . Still
If have the space, create the new TEMP tablespace first, alter all users that have the old one to now use the new one, drop the old tablespace. Jared Jesse, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/06/2002 07:56 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple

Re: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed

2002-11-06 Thread Rachna Vaidya
Makes sense if... Base Salary is 155K-to maybe high 160s Firm. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 2:12 PM I doubt they can fill this position at that salary. Oracle DBA's that work with SAP can easily earn

RE: How can I tell if MTS is activated -- more problems

2002-11-06 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
Dave, I've seen these processes (ora_S00... and ora_d00..) but all connections are being made through dedicated processes. Here's my configuration: mts_listener_address = (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP) (HOST=10.20.81.78) (PORT=1521)) mts_service = PRUE1 mts_dispatchers = tcp,2

RE: Oracle to Excel

2002-11-06 Thread Rodd Holman
Title: Oracle to Excel Is there a reason why you can't just extract it directly in to Excel using ODBC or Oracle Objects for OLE? ODBC would be the easiest, OO4OLE will give you the most control and better macro scripting for auto updating. Both of these come with the Oracle client install.

Re: Oracle to Excel

2002-11-06 Thread Jared . Still
If you can live with dumping to a comma delimited file, just do that and import to Excel. If you want to write directly to an Excel format, you could do that with Perl. Have any Perl programmers around? Here's an example of one. Not really too much code. Jared

RE: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed

2002-11-06 Thread Weaver, Walt
The fact that the job's in or near Toledo might have something to do with the salary. I doubt the cost of living is that high around there. --Walt Weaver Bozeman, Montana -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:13 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I doubt

wrong financial calendar for an open period in 10.7 NCA

2002-11-06 Thread Mandar A. Ghosalkar
Hello Guys, i have posted this in Oracle apps mailing list also. We have a situation here. We have an Open Period for Oct defined as 01/oct/02 to 30/oct/02. We posted AP with no problems. While importing the sales from a different application(non-oracle) into GL we received errors in the

Re: Help required: Enterprise Manager Console - Export/Import/Backup

2002-11-06 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
You need to set the credentials for the node. If you are doing an export on the node, OEM must be able to log into the node. As good practice, you should create a valid userid and password for each node listed by OEM. OEM cannot run a job on a node without having a userid to log onto the node

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Port finish is better :) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That reminds me: Mark, your annual stipend is due. Make it a case of Glenmorangie this time, Sherry finish. :) Jared [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/06/2002 07:56 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L

RE: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed

2002-11-06 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Walt - I'm surprised to hear that from somebody in Montana. I would have expected you to say really expensive to live in the big city, pay for food rather than just kill your own, rent a house rather than just cut down some trees and make your own cabin, buy gas instead of ride your horse. Or

RE: Oracle to Excel

2002-11-06 Thread Kevin Lange
Title: Oracle to Excel Brain freeze thats the only reason I did not think of it doh ! -Original Message-From: Rodd Holman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 1:39 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Oracle to ExcelIs

Re: Convert TEMP tablespace from datafiles to tempfiles

2002-11-06 Thread Ron Rogers
List, Would you please explain to me how you are able to get TEMP and LMT combined together. I use 8.1.7 and it is not allowed. Oracle8i DBA Handbook Loney and Theriault, Osborne Oracle Press, Page 598 NOTE If you specify Local in a create tablespace command, you can not specify a default storage

RE: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed

2002-11-06 Thread Adams, Matthew (GECP, MABG, 088130)
Title: RE: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed It's Toledo. That ought to automatically double the salary. Saturday night in Toledo Ohio is like being nowhere at all All through the day, how the hours rush by you visit the park and you watch the grass die. - John Denver Matt Adams - GE

RE: OCP Exams - What to study out of?

2002-11-06 Thread Richards, Brian
So you took and passed the upgrade exam already? Brian -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 2:13 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L And I hope it is okay to take 9i New Features before you've finished all your 8i modules, because I wound up taking a new

RE: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed

2002-11-06 Thread Cary Millsap
An administrative requirement causes a lot of these types of postings with odd-looking salary ranges. Chances are that the company already has a foreign national candidate in the hiring pipeline for the job at this salary. INS requires that US citizens be given a fair shot at the job posting. One

Re:RE: How can I tell if MTS is activated -- more problems

2002-11-06 Thread dgoulet
What does your TNSNAMES.ORA file look like? If there is a line in there '(server=dedicated)' you might as well turn MTS off. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: =?iso-8859-1?q?Pablo=20Rodriguez?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11/6/2002 11:39 AM Dave,

RE: Convert TEMP tablespace from datafiles to tempfiles

2002-11-06 Thread Jesse, Rich
Yeah, from the List, this method seems to be preferred. My only problem is in step 7 -- change a to several. This could require more testing, however. I imagine I'll be trying to ATLER TABLESPAVE TMEP afterwards... Thx all! :) Rich Jesse System/Database

RE: Oracle to Excel

2002-11-06 Thread Burton, Laura L.
Title: Oracle to Excel Thank you for your response Tom. I received other responses as well, and I know that I can comma delimit a .txt file but I wanted to know if I could do it all at one time, which is why I tried your suggestion first. It works except that each field is in a separate

RE: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed

2002-11-06 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Cary - I think you have a good insight. I've encountered that before. Often that is the reason for some strange employment advertisements in national magazines. As you say, posting on ORACLE-L may meet the requirement, is free, and is fast (no need to wait months for the publication date). Dennis

RE: OCP Exams - What to study out of?

2002-11-06 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
No (sigh), I just took the class, so now I've got to get the energy to take the test. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 2:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L So you took and passed the

RE: Oracle to Excel

2002-11-06 Thread Mirsky, Greg
Laura, Check out Tom Kyte's site. He has posted the source code for a PL/SQL package called OWA_SYLK that will dump a SQL query to a *.SLK file (*.SLK files can be directly opened by Excel). Plug in the SQL and then go... send the output file to the user and they do the rest. Here is the link:

Re: How can I tell if MTS is activated -- more problems

2002-11-06 Thread Ray Stell
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:39:06AM -0800, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: Dave, I've seen these processes (ora_S00... and ora_d00..) but all connections are being made through dedicated processes. Here's my configuration: mts_listener_address = (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP) (HOST=10.20.81.78)

Re:RE: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed

2002-11-06 Thread dgoulet
Yeah, but is smacks of being unethical and un-American. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11/6/2002 1:08 PM Cary - I think you have a good insight. I've encountered that before. Often that is the reason for

Re: Convert TEMP tablespace from datafiles to tempfiles

2002-11-06 Thread Jared . Still
create temporary tablespace temp2 tempfile '/u01/oradata/dv01/temp2.dbf' size 10m extent management local uniform size 128k; HTH Jared Ron Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/06/2002 12:10 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of

Re: How can I tell if MTS is activated -- more problems

2002-11-06 Thread Scott Stefick
Pablo, init.ora -- Look at the dispatchers=... parameter (You can comment it out if you don't want MTS) listener.ora -- Look for (SERVER = DEDICATED) vs. (SERVER = SHARED) In SQLPLUS -- SQL SELECT servers_started FROM v$mts; -Scott Stefick -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday,

RE: RE: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed

2002-11-06 Thread Kevin Lange
In other words smart buisness sense -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 3:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Yeah, but is smacks of being unethical and un-American. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author:

RE: How can I tell if MTS is activated -- more problems

2002-11-06 Thread Molina, Gerardo
Another place to look is how connections are made to the database. Do you know if the connections are bypassing the tnsnames.ora altogether and using their own connect string wherein they could be specifying a dedicated server? First thing to determine is whether connections are in fact using

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread Steve McClure
Sherry Finish? I thought you liked scotch that tasted like burnt mud? -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L That reminds me: Mark, your annual stipend is due. Make it a case of Glenmorangie this time,

blast from the past

2002-11-06 Thread Jared . Still
Things seem a little slow on the list ( like I need more email :) Some choice bits from Dr Dobbs Journal, November 1988. Some you may actually have been working in IT then. ;) Jared - If a single word sums up the current state of

Re: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread Tim Gorman
Agreed. The current Oracle datafile format (7.3, 8.0, 8.1, 9.0, or 9.2) may not survive 10i -- who the heck know? However, the tape-based file-systems (i.e. SAMFS, Legato DiskExtender, etc) can be treated like a file-system in all respects (only slower). In other words, convert the

Re: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread Jared . Still
Tim, I missed the part earlier where you mentioned HSM. Though somewhat familiar with it, I've never used it. Pretty common in mainframe environments. Do you have experience with it? Drawbacks other than performance? This seems like a much better solution to me than archiving onto tape and

Fw: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread Tim Gorman
Sorry, forgot to reply-all... - Original Message - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 4:51 PM The SAMFS and Legato DiskExtender HSM file-systems are based on the idea of migration. Just like on mainframes, a file has a header that stays resident on disk-based

Re: blast from the past

2002-11-06 Thread Stephane Faroult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Things seem a little slow on the list ( like I need more email :) Some choice bits from Dr Dobbs Journal, November 1988. Some you may actually have been working in IT then. ;) Jared Plus ça change plus c'est la même chose. -- Regards, Stephane Faroult

RE: RE: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed

2002-11-06 Thread Cary Millsap
I think the official term is optimizing within the law. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Hotsos Clinic, Dec 9-11 Honolulu - 2003 Hotsos Symposium on Oracle® System Performance, Feb 9-12 Dallas - Jonathan Lewis' Optimising Oracle, Nov 19-21 Dallas

Re: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread Tim Gorman
In response to a post on data purging Tim Gorman wrote some on SAN-based disk, some on NAS-based storage. Can someone please explain the differences between these technologies please. My understanding that a SAN is a group of disks which are available on a network and are not 'owned' by a

Re: blast from the past

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Baumgartel
I had mostly forgotten about the bus architecture wars. The S-100 bus was another one that was very popular for a time. Every bus architecture had its manufacturing proponents, development systems, development environments. That was when computer magazines like BYTE were at their fattest--there

Re: suggestion w/c platforms to choose from...

2002-11-06 Thread grace
this will be build in-house... - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 11:56 PM Grace - Amen to Yechiel's first rule. At the VERY least, warn your management that they need to consider a second system for the

Re: blast from the past

2002-11-06 Thread Jared . Still
Oui, ce qui circule, vient autour. Probable imperfect translation courtesy oif babelfish. Jared Stephane Faroult [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/06/2002 03:33 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Oracle to Excel

2002-11-06 Thread Mark Richard
Laura, I have seen custom developed XLA's (Excel Add-Ins) for doing this, however I have also seen a couple of commercial ones. Check out www.oraxcel.com and their product SQL*XL - it provides what looks like nice functionality although I only looked at the demo and never purchased the

Shared_pool

2002-11-06 Thread Jos Someone
List, How do I find out how full my shared_pool is? Jos Yahoo! Careers - 1,000's of jobs waiting online for you!

Re: Shared_pool

2002-11-06 Thread Ray Stell
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:34:28PM -0800, Jos Someone wrote: List, How do I find out how full my shared_pool is? -- Diagnosing and Resolving Error ORA-04031 Type: Note Doc ID: 146599.1 Understanding and Tuning the Shared Pool in Oracle7, Oracle8, and Oracle8i Type: Note Doc ID:

RE: RE: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed

2002-11-06 Thread Weaver, Walt
I can't believe you people are talking about Toledo residents like this. It's disgusting. --Walt (Go Mudhens!) Weaver Bozeman, Montana -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 5:08 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I think the official term is optimizing within

Help: ORA-980 raised if a PLSQL block references a remote public synonym

2002-11-06 Thread Borrill, Chris
Title: Help: ORA-980 raised if a PLSQL block references a remote public synonym Hi, Oracle Version 9014 for Tru64 We are encountering the above problem which appears to be an instance of Bug 1698784 which Oracle claims was fix in 9013. It does not occur for private synonyms. Can anyone

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