RE: Slightly OT - Who would you take with you...

2002-11-26 Thread Connor McDonald
Exactly. I for one am not happy and resent being labelled as helpful or useful... I got into the DBA business to cause carnage, misery and suffering, not to make people happy! :-) Cheers Connor --- Johnson, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure you want to go down this road and get

RE: Mass updates to production tables (NULL to non-NULL)

2002-11-26 Thread Connor McDonald
pdml on non-partitioned tables is there in 9i hth connor --- Deshpande, Kirti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How true !! I just ignored the 'writing' part of the parallelized 'reading'. Sorry. Thanks for catching it, Waleed. Our own update process, that I am baby sitting, was on my mind that

9i Client permission required on WinXP

2002-11-26 Thread Jared Cooper
We've recently upgraded many client machines to WinXP and found that the only way we can get the 9i client to connect to the server is if the windows user account is an administrator on the client machine. We've tried giving full access to the c:\oracle and c:\program files\oracle directories

RE: Mass updates to production tables (NULL to non-NULL)

2002-11-26 Thread elkinsl
And that was 9iR2, right (I'm on 8.1.7 in real life)? The docs are rather amusing. From the 9iR2 documentation the New Features doc says You can now use parallel DML on nonpartitioned tables. This wasn't mentioned in the 9iR1 new features doc. And then the DW Guide for 9iR2 says Tables must be

RE: BackupExec Oracle

2002-11-26 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Title: BackupExec & Oracle We use NetBackup, it works well. ;) Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services | Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique

RE: The future DBAs?

2002-11-26 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
My comment is: Marketing based on false information can destroy people's lives. Can you imagine a clerk who decides to pay thousands of dollars to take computer courses, only to discover they can't do it, will go through? Wouldn't that turn their lives into a living Hell? Regards, Patrice

dynamic SQL - preformance?

2002-11-26 Thread Mohoni, Uma

RE: Mass updates to production tables (NULL to non-NULL)

2002-11-26 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Sure. The original post mentioned 8.1.7.2! - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 3:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L pdml on non-partitioned tables is there in 9i hth connor --- Deshpande, Kirti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How true !! I just ignored

RE: Slightly OT - Who would you take with you...

2002-11-26 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Rachel, I have saved over 2000 messages, from various posters, in my Oracle-l (oratips) folder, going back to 1998. And I still scan that folder before I go to Metalink (we still run 7.3 in production ;) When it comes to Oracle, I think I have learned a lot from people on this list. They

Re:Slightly OT - Who would you take with you...

2002-11-26 Thread dgoulet
Robert, Well I'll start you off on the other end. If it's got my name on it, trash it. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Freeman; Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11/25/2002 2:04 PM Board - If you had to choose the 10 top posters here at

Re: LONG's

2002-11-26 Thread John Shaw
you can use the copy command for the longs - but I don't think it works for long raws - write a pl/sql that pulls it in in 32k chunks or create temp tables with the pk and long raw and do the insert/update routine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/25/02 09:59AM OK, so you can't CTAS on tables with

Re: The future DBAs?

2002-11-26 Thread Jared Still
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 03:53, Boivin, Patrice J wrote: Can you imagine a clerk who decides to pay thousands of dollars to take computer courses, only to discover they can't do it, will go through? Wouldn't that turn their lives into a living Hell? Of course, that would be the goal of

error while deleting database

2002-11-26 Thread john
i need your advise with this one as i am trying to delete a database via the configuration Assistant tool. (deleting because of i had problems with this database as its control files were missing). so should i go ahead and delete the service, because most likely none of the files would be

Re: Problem doing RMAN backup of Clone?

2002-11-26 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Ditto! Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 9:59 AM Good to hear from you Lisa!! Welcome Back!! -Original Message- Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 7:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: BackupExec Oracle

2002-11-26 Thread Yechiel Adar
Title: BackupExec & Oracle We use BackupExec for remote sites. We installed the agent on the database server and configure the backup jobs from the BackupExec menus and all is well. We did a test yesterday and restored a database to a new computer and all works fine. When restoring to the

Re:Slightly OT - Who would you take with you...

2002-11-26 Thread Jan Pruner
Hmm, Roland??? :-) JP Reply Separator Author: Freeman; Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11/25/2002 2:04 PM Board - If you had to choose the 10 top posters here at Oracle-L who provided the biggest input and knowledge, who would they be? Who

Oracle 9i installation - Basic Qs

2002-11-26 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Oracle 9i installation on Solaris being attempted # xhost + Message - unable to open display : export DISPLAY=PC Client IP address:0.0 # xhost + Xlib : connection to client refused PC Client IP Address Xlib : cannot set display to PC Client IP Address NOTE - Installation being initiated from

RE: redo log file setup with mirrored drives

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Lee
If I may offer another view -Original Message- Having multiple redo log members has its advantages. The archiver process 'knows' these multiple members and it will optimize the archiving process, Is there any supporting documentation about this optimizing? Are you saying

RE: Slightly OT - Who would you take with you...

2002-11-26 Thread Freeman, Robert
Rachel, As I told Ian, this isn't an effort to run a popularity poll. I have an URGENT need to quickly cull down 20,000 messages to a reasonable number and store them on CD. I needed some criteria and this seemed the most logical. This newsgroup is a great resource, and I should hate to loose the

RE: 9i Client permission required on WinXP

2002-11-26 Thread Henry, Keith
I believe that we solved this by specifically giving access to the registry key [ORACLE] to the Users on the machine that required it. The administrator that helped us with this isn't in today, so I can't be totally sure. If I track down his write-up I'll post it. Keith H. -Original

RE: Slightly OT - Who would you take with you...

2002-11-26 Thread Freeman, Robert
Read the post Ian, this isn't a popularity poll, I have no interest in those. I *HAVE* to cull out my mail box for certain reasons I can't discuss at the *moment*. I offered to provide a summary of the results if the group was interested, but that's not the purpose. The truth of the matter is

RE: Oracle 9i installation - Basic Qs

2002-11-26 Thread Freeman, Robert
Ping yourself and find out what your IP address is (or run netstat, etc) say your IP is 122.33.22.126 now, on the server window type in: export DISPLAY=122.33.22.126:0.0 Then, you need to make sure you are able to run an X session, so find xclock and run it. If you get a clock up in your X

RE: dynamic SQL - preformance?

2002-11-26 Thread Mohoni, Uma

RE: Oracle 9i installation - Basic Qs

2002-11-26 Thread Adrian Roe
Go an X Server running on your PC ? Is the UNIX box behind a firewall, need to open up ports ? Need to add in any routes on the server ? -Original Message- Sent: 26 November 2002 14:39 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oracle 9i installation on Solaris being attempted # xhost +

RE: redo log file setup with mirrored drives

2002-11-26 Thread Fink, Dan
Pending further evidence to the contrary, I'll take mirroring external to Oracle as the better choice. Redo and archived redo logs are the most important files in the database. Lose a datafile? You can still recover the database. Lose all controlfiles? They can be recreated. Lose a single redo

RE: Oracle 9i installation - Basic Qs

2002-11-26 Thread Nancy McCormick
Try executing the xhost command as root first. Then you should be able to execute xhost + command. Nancy -Original Message- VIVEK_SHARMA Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 8:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oracle 9i installation on Solaris being attempted # xhost +

RE: Slightly OT - Who would you take with you...

2002-11-26 Thread Freeman, Robert
Connor, You positively make me miserable then... Feel better? It was good meeting you at OOW by the way. See you at UKOUG. :-)) Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP Oracle Database Architect CSX Midtier Database Administration Author of several Oracle books you can find on Amazon.com! Londo

RE: Oracle 9i installation - Basic Qs

2002-11-26 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
Hi, you'll need to be signed in as root in order to run the xhost + command. The rest of that looks fine so : as root : xhost + as oracle_user : export DISPLAY=PC Client IP address:0.0 xclock(to test yopur X config) NB Exceed has its own array of bugs when used with the Oracle

RE: LONG's

2002-11-26 Thread Hand, Michael T
Thanks all for the suggestions. I think I'll take a look at COPY and the PL/SQL options since I've used them before, and C Perl are not in my repertoire, I'm ashamed to say ;) To shed a little more light on the requirement, I'm researching the best (subjective) way to convert

RE: redo log file setup with mirrored drives

2002-11-26 Thread Jay Hostetter
Addressing the corruption issue, Kirti's statement is not speculation. Because my OS/hardware IS reliable a corrupted log file that is mirrored outside of Oracle will be corrupt - the original is corrupt, so is the mirror. If I mirror my log files using Oracle, logfile A may be corrupt, but

RE: Oracle 9i installation - Basic Qs

2002-11-26 Thread Anderson, Brian
on the client pc: Right click exceed - tools - configuration - security - host access control list I use file: click edit and add the ip address to let the db server connect to the x-server on your pc. -Original Message- From: VIVEK_SHARMA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: Mass updates to production tables (NULL to non-NULL)

2002-11-26 Thread Khedr, Waleed
It's nice to know they have it now. I have one database on 9.2.0.2 but the optimizer feature enable parameter is still on 8.1.7. We trying to reduce the amount of work needed to downgrade in case we have to. There are many problems we are working with Oracle to resolve. Still my point is

Re: The future DBAs?

2002-11-26 Thread Thomas Day
LOL. But it gives one an insight into why End Users Without A Clue seem to think that if they just yell a little louder into the phone then the gibberish that they're speaking will start to make sense to me.

RE: Slightly OT - Who would you take with you...

2002-11-26 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Just wondering... what about the archive for this list? Doesn't that include the info you want to store on CD? (call me clueless, I have over 1700 e-mails in my DBA Listserv folder). Pat. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 11:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Slightly OT - Who would you take with you...

2002-11-26 Thread Weaver, Walt
You're saving all my fly-fishing emails, right? Man, I wish I was popular. --Walt Weaver Bozeman, Montana -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 8:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Rachel, As I told Ian, this isn't an effort to run a popularity poll. I

RE: redo log file setup with mirrored drives

2002-11-26 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Sure... What I posted came from my discussions with others and from various resources on Metalink and from Oracle Training Classes. Note #45042.1 titled Archiver Best Practices summarizes it all. Agreed, that RAID and disk technologies have improved over the years, however, I would still

Re: Sr. Oracle DBA Position- Must be 8i and 9i Certified-

2002-11-26 Thread Peter Barnett
Hmmm I do not seem to qualify as an alien, extra-terrestrial or otherwise, and I never heard from them after I sent a resume'. --- Joe Testa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It could have been because they were aliens(either the non-US citizen type or the outer space kind, since neither need

RE: Slightly OT - Who would you take with you...

2002-11-26 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Well then, be sure to keep all posts from Dave Farnsworth, he's a freaking genius. ;o) -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Read the post Ian, this isn't a popularity poll, I have no interest in those. I *HAVE* to cull out

RE: Oracle 9i installation - Basic Qs

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Lee
I think the problem is the client. Does it have an xauth setting somewhere? -Original Message- Oracle 9i installation on Solaris being attempted # xhost + Message - unable to open display : export DISPLAY=PC Client IP address:0.0 # xhost + Xlib : connection to client refused

RE: The future DBAs?

2002-11-26 Thread Jesse, Rich
Interesting. I went to the local 2 year tech school to obtain my prominent A.D. in Data Processing. Out of the 130 or so in my class, only about half graduated. Most of the dropouts freaked when they got the rude awakening that real business computer work (at the time) was the likes of assembly

RE: Mass updates to production tables (NULL to non-NULL)

2002-11-26 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
MBRC stands for what ? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L It's nice to know they have it now. I have one database on 9.2.0.2 but the optimizer feature enable parameter is still on 8.1.7. We trying to reduce the amount of

RE: redo log file setup with mirrored drives

2002-11-26 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Also stand by that corrupted write will be restricted to just the affected member Hence one can simply overwrite the BAD (Corrupted) member with the Good one -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sure... What I posted

RE: 9i Lite

2002-11-26 Thread Saira Somani
No one uses 9i Lite? Gurus, help me out!!! Saira -Original Message- Somani Sent: November 25, 2002 10:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I wonder if there are any mailing lists out there for Oracle 9i Lite. Or for that matter, if any of you have used in the past or are using

RE: LONG's

2002-11-26 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
How may LONG , LON RAW be Converted to CLOB or LOB ? Which is Better ? Thanks -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks all for the suggestions. I think I'll take a look at COPY and the PL/SQL options since I've used

Re: How are rollback segments assigned?

2002-11-26 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Thanks Jared, thats not what I see. I have 20 rollback segments, and at no point in time, there were more than 4 transactions in the rollback segments. In fact, I happened to see it a couple of minutes ago. select usn, xacts from v$rollstat showed me 0 in 19 rollback segments, and 2 in one of

RE: Oracle 9i installation - Basic Qs

2002-11-26 Thread Jared . Still
Mike, Not necessarily. It depends on who started the Xsession. I regularly run 'xhost' on my workstation as a non-root user. Root is unable to do so on the same machine. Jared Hately, Mike (NESL-IT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/26/2002 07:54 AM Please respond to

RE: Oracle 9i installation - Basic Qs

2002-11-26 Thread Jared . Still
'xhost +' is terribly insecure. 'xhost client_machine' would be better. Jared Nancy McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/26/2002 07:59 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

RE: LONG's

2002-11-26 Thread Jared . Still
Ah, I missed that it was SAP. Yeah, they don't like you mucking about with their schema. I would like to see their cluster/pools go *away*! They are a major pain at times. Jared Hand, Michael T [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/26/2002 07:54 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L

RE: redo log file setup with mirrored drives

2002-11-26 Thread Jared . Still
Ditto. The biggest problem with non-Oracle-mirrored redo log is a personnel issue. Take it from someone who's experienced a SA deleting all files from a 500 Gig DW during the middle of the day. Jared Fink, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/26/2002 08:04 AM Please

Re:The future DBAs?

2002-11-26 Thread dgoulet
Well, I give MicroSlop pretty poor grades for predicting the future and Monster.com is absolutely useless (naw make that less than) at job stuff in general. I will agree with the person who wrote the article on one point. The job of being a DBA is changing and we all need to remain flexible to

LGWR using lots of CPU time, low CPU usage

2002-11-26 Thread Deborah Lorraine
We are on 9.2.0.2, Solaris 8 on Sunfire 3800 with 16 GB memory and 128 MB on a hardware-controlled, mirrored RAID5 StorEdge T-3 Array. Periodically throughout the day the LGWR background process clocks 20+ minutes of CPU time while actual CPU usage is quite low. I ran a statspack report and

RE: LONG's

2002-11-26 Thread Jared . Still
LONG's maybe converted to LOB's via the TO_LOB SQL function. There are strict limitations on this function: it can only be used in the SELECT subquery of an INSERT statement. e.g INSERT INTO lob_table SELECT n, TO_LOB(long_col) FROM long_table; As to which is better, LONG columns will

RE: Slightly OT - Who would you take with you...

2002-11-26 Thread Freeman, Robert
There are times that I do not have access to a network connection, so a traveling CD would be good. RF 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

RE: Mass updates to production tables (NULL to non-NULL)

2002-11-26 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
multiblock_read_count as in db_file_multiblock_read_count. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 11:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L MBRC stands for what ? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:29 PM To: Multiple recipients

RE: Mass updates to production tables (NULL to non-NULL)

2002-11-26 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey Jonathon, Two questions about your response: 1) Yes, you are obviously correct. My test was flawed. So, if NULLs use no space, then why does many NULL rows cause a table to extend? Is it because of the row directory in the data block header? Egad...going back to DBA school here. blush

RE: Slightly OT - Who would you take with you...

2002-11-26 Thread Hand, Michael T
And everything I've learned about single malts, I've learned from this list. And save in my Teetotaller folder ;) -Original Message- You're saving all my fly-fishing emails, right? Man, I wish I was popular. --Walt Weaver Bozeman, Montana +**+ This transmission is intended

RE: LONG's

2002-11-26 Thread OraCop
U can use To_LOB(long_col) to convert long to Clob/BLOB. OraCop --- VIVEK_SHARMA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How may LONG , LON RAW be Converted to CLOB or LOB ? Which is Better ? Thanks -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: LONG's

2002-11-26 Thread OraCop
Sorry I missed 2nd part of Ur question. LOB is not a datatype it self. LOB = Long Object. Oracle provides 2 kind of LOBs. CLOB and BLOB If U want to store Binary data, eg pdf files, movies, sound files, etc, use BLOB(Binary long Object). For other U can use CLOB. OraCOp. --- VIVEK_SHARMA

Re: How are rollback segments assigned?

2002-11-26 Thread Jared . Still
Raj, You're assuming that the transactions are lasting long enough for you to catch them in the rollback segments. Jared [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/26/2002 09:42 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: 9i Lite

2002-11-26 Thread OraCop
Saira Ji, I never heard of any Oracle lite list/Group. But When ever U encounter an issue with Oracle Lite, U may post it here and we can try to help U out. Thanks. OraCop. --- Saira Somani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No one uses 9i Lite? Gurus, help me out!!! Saira -Original

Re: LGWR using lots of CPU time, low CPU usage

2002-11-26 Thread Igor Neyman
Deborah, First, don't remove Oracle's RedoLog duplexing, you may regret about it later (see recent thread on this issue). Second, if what you are telling (logs are about 100 MB in 2 groups of 20 members each) is accurate, then this is your main problem. If you have your log switches on avg 2.5

SQL tuning help

2002-11-26 Thread Sergei
Hello everybody, I have the following query that runs every week. UPDATE tmp_brian_metareward1 tmp SET offers_seen = (SELECT count(f.fastcash_id) FROM metareward.fastcash f WHERE f.subsite_id = tmp.subsite_id and attempt =

RE: redo log file setup with mirrored drives

2002-11-26 Thread Stephen Lee
I was going to let the differences of opinion stand, but I suppose this requires an answer. -Original Message- Redo and archived redo logs are the most important files in the database. Lose a datafile? You can still recover the database. Lose all controlfiles? They can be

RE: Mass updates to production tables (NULL to non-NULL)

2002-11-26 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Larry, What I found was the explain plan in 9iR2 will tell you if the DML is getting parallelized. Here is what I see: SQL alter session enable parallel dml; Session altered. SQL explain plan for 2 update /*+ parallel (KED, 4) */ KED 3 set secondary = 'X'; Explained. SQL

Re: error while deleting database

2002-11-26 Thread Arup Nanda
John, Didn't I just complete quite a number of emails on this very issue? I hoped those resolved it. Anyway, the assistant can't start the database; so it can't determine the datafiles that made up the database. You would say Yes to delete the service anyway and look for the datafiles yourself,

RE: 9i Lite

2002-11-26 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Saira - I agree with OraCop, just ask questions here. My assumption is that there are few differences between Oracle Lite and other Oracle versions. I think it is based on the same Oracle code, with a few features removed. Here is the note from the FAQ for this list:

RE: Slightly OT - Who would you take with you...

2002-11-26 Thread Scott . Shafer
Well, there's Schlitz, King Cobra, Olde English, Mickey's Big Mouth, et al. Single Malt Liquor at its finest! Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210.581.6217 -Original Message- From: Hand, Michael T [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 12:17 PM To: Multiple

RE: LGWR using lots of CPU time, low CPU usage

2002-11-26 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
So what is discussed in this paper is outdated alreadyuh! www.sun.com/blueprints/0101/SunOracle.pdf Gosh, time flies ;) Pages 13-14 talk about Oracle Redo Logs. As a first attempt, I would consider reducing the number of log members (from 20 to 4, or even 3) than removing them

RE: 9i Lite

2002-11-26 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Saira - One other point. When you submit a message, it would be a really good idea to mention that you are using Oracle9i Lite. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 1:19 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Saira - I agree with

RE: LGWR using lots of CPU time, low CPU usage

2002-11-26 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
In some of our benchmarks with our hybrid application on Oracle 8.1.7 , Oversizing session_cached_cursors would HARM performance greatly . Our Optimal Value is 50 -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 12:20 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Deborah, First,

Primary Key Constraints

2002-11-26 Thread Mike Sardina
Is there an easy query to get a list of tables that don't have any primary key? I've tried a couple of different ones, but none of them work quite right. Seems like this should be easy. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Mike Sardin INET: [EMAIL

RE: How are rollback segments assigned?

2002-11-26 Thread Cary Millsap
Exactly. A guy might have to poll V$ROLLSTAT 100+ times per second to see the allocations happening on a system with well-designed transactions. You just can't do that with SQL. Raj, you *can* test the behavior by using some artificially *bad* transactions. On a quiescent system (nothing else

RE: LGWR using lots of CPU time, low CPU usage

2002-11-26 Thread Deborah Lorraine
Interesting; but would the specific performance affect of a high number of session_cached_cursors involve the LGWR process? At 11:25 AM 11/26/2002 -0800, you wrote: In some of our benchmarks with our hybrid application on Oracle 8.1.7 , Oversizing session_cached_cursors would HARM performance

RE: SQL tuning help

2002-11-26 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: SQL tuning help Sergei, How many records in each table? What indexes are in these tables? What version of Oracle? What do you mean by 'began to hang'? I'd try making the attempts in the WHERE clause into a Between. I'd also try grouping by f.subsite_id. You could always

Re: Mass updates to production tables (NULL to non-NULL)

2002-11-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
You do have to be careful in version 9, though, since the really is an MBRC - which is the system stat which is the average size of multi block read count actually achieved over a time period, rather than the value requested in the db_file_multiblock_read_count parameter. (The real MBRC is used

RE: Slightly OT - Who would you take with you...

2002-11-26 Thread Jesse, Rich
Schlitz gives me the Blatz. (But Blatz gives me the Schlitz) And most beers, even watered down American lagers (like malt liquors), use multiple types of grains in their malts. Olde English 800???!?? In the words of the immortal Don Martin, Blech!. And where's the venerable Colt 45? Of

Re: LGWR using lots of CPU time, low CPU usage

2002-11-26 Thread Deborah Lorraine
At 10:50 AM 11/26/2002 -0800, you wrote: Second, if what you are telling (logs are about 100 MB in 2 groups of 20 members each) is accurate, then this is your main problem. If you have your log switches on avg 2.5 per day, change your RedoLog configuration snip You will have more log switches

Re: Mass updates to production tables (NULL to non-NULL)

2002-11-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Point (1) As Larry Elkins pointed out to me in an offline post, I had forgotten to highlight the fact that even null CHAR columns do still use a length byte (unless they are trailing nulls - i.e. there are no following non-null columns). Apart from this, a row still needs: two byte entry in

RE: redo log file setup with mirrored drives

2002-11-26 Thread Fink, Dan
Stephen, Nothing is gained by personal attacks in this forum. This forum is intended to be a learning experience for all (myself included). I suggest that you review the archived list and examine the quality of posts by Kirti, Jared, et.al. They speak for themselves. BTW, 2 + 2

RE: Slightly OT - Who would you take with you...

2002-11-26 Thread Steve McClure
And everything I've learned about single malts, I've learned from this list. And save in my Teetotaller folder ;) This post is not near off topic enough...please forward this folder Steve McClure -Original Message- Michael T Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:17 AM To: Multiple

RE: LGWR using lots of CPU time, low CPU usage

2002-11-26 Thread John Shaw
I don't think changing the logmembers will do much good - I have a v880 with 16 GB and a Hitachi san. I have only 3 logmembers - 4 groups, they are on the local drive. I have some kind of performance issue with periodic slowdowns (47 minutes lgwr cpu in one day on a very low transaction

[Q] ORACLE 9i remote export insufficient previlege?

2002-11-26 Thread dist cash
I am doing the ORACLE 9iR2 database test and tried to export form a 8i computer to 9iR2 server. I got ORA-01031: insufficient privileges. my export parfile on 8i server is: userid='sys/passwd1@db92 as sysdba' file=/tmp/exp_db8i_full.dmp buffer=6400 compress=n grants=y indexes=y rows=y

RE: redo log file setup with mirrored drives

2002-11-26 Thread Jesse, Rich
Precisely why I name all Oracle files with .dbf extension. Who ever thought naming a redo log with .log was a good idea??? With all DB files the same, it's a simple rule: Don't touch .dbf files. No confusion there. If you need to mess with them (backups, etc), write and test a script. Try to

RE: Slightly OT - Who would you take with you...

2002-11-26 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
I did read your post. I stated you were taking a poll, the popularity characterization is no where to be found in my message. Nor is there any implication in my post that you were running a beauty contest. Perhaps my choice of the word important instead of useful or informative was what

RE: LGWR using lots of CPU time, low CPU usage

2002-11-26 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Debi, A log file sync event usually indicates that the application is probably committing too often, and LGWR cannot keep pace with it. You might be experiencing contention or I/O issues, on the disks where the redo log files are placed. Moving your redo log files away from RAID 5 is a step in

Re: 9i Lite

2002-11-26 Thread Ora NT DBA
Hi Dennis, This is a completely separate product, it is designed for mobile devices like pda's etc. Regards, John DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote: Saira - I agree with OraCop, just ask questions here. My assumption is that there are few differences between Oracle Lite and other Oracle versions. I think

RE: LGWR using lots of CPU time, low CPU usage

2002-11-26 Thread Deborah Lorraine
Thanks for this paper--I will share it with our Sun engineer. BTW, to clarify, I have 20 redo groups with 2 members each...I think I'm saying it right: LOGFILE Group 1 ('/disk1/log01.log', '/disk2/log01.log') size 100M, Group 2 ('/disk1/log02.log',

Re: SQL tuning help

2002-11-26 Thread Arup Nanda
Sergei, When the query is running try to collect some stats, especially session waits, from v$session_wait and see where the waits are happening. Or you could do this from command line alter session set event '10046 trace name context forever, level 8'; your query alter session set event

RE: Primary Key Constraints

2002-11-26 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Mike, How about: select table_name from user_tables a where not exists(select 1 from user_constraints b where a.table_name = b.table_name and b.constraint_type = 'P'); Constraint_type values are: P = Primary Key C = Check Constraint R =

Re: Primary Key Constraints

2002-11-26 Thread Igor Neyman
select owner, table_name from dba_tables where (owner, table_name) not in (select owner, table_name from dba_constraints where constraint_type = 'P'); Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: Primary Key Constraints

2002-11-26 Thread Fink, Dan
SQL select table_name 2 from dba_tables 3 minus 4 select table_name 5 from dba_constraints 6 where constraint_type = 'R'; This should work (does in my 8.1.7 test db). What methods have you tried? and what was not working? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 26,

Re: Primary Key Constraints

2002-11-26 Thread Dennis M. Heisler
select owner, table_name from dba_tables where not exists (select 'a' from dba_constraints where constraint_type = 'P' and owner = dba_tables.owner and table_name = dba_tables.table_name) order by owner, table_name; Mike Sardina wrote: Is there an easy query to get a list of tables that don't

RE: 9i Lite

2002-11-26 Thread Richard Ji
I thought Oracle lite is a different code base from Oracle PE, SE, EE. So it's very different. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 2:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Saira - I agree with OraCop, just ask questions here. My assumption is that there are few

RE: Primary Key Constraints

2002-11-26 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: Primary Key Constraints SELECT owner, table_name FROM DBA_TABLES t WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT 'X' FROM DBA_CONSTRAINTS c WHERE c.owner = t.owner AND c.table_name = t.table_name AND c.constraint_type = 'P') ORDER BY 1,2 Take off the ORDER BY to speed things up.

RE: Slightly OT - Who would you take with you...

2002-11-26 Thread Gabriel Aragon
Hey guys, in the name of all the persons (me too) who are not experts, genius, gurus, etc... Can we stop this useless discussion? I mean, the one that wants, just answer to Robert and let's to the rest of us to continue learning Oracle! Just a comment ;-) Gabriel --- MacGregor, Ian A. [EMAIL

RE: Primary Key Constraints

2002-11-26 Thread mantfield
select owner, table_name from all_tables A where not exists (select owner, table_name from all_constraints B where b.owner=A.owner and b.table_name=A.table_name and b.constraint_type='P') That ought to do it. Cheers : Ferenc Mantfeld -Original Message- From: Mike Sardina

Re: Primary Key Constraints

2002-11-26 Thread John Shaw
how about select table_name from user_tables where table_name not in (select table_name from user_constraints where constraint_type = 'P'); [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/26/02 01:25PM Is there an easy query to get a list of tables that don't have any primarykey? I've tried a couple of different ones,

RE: Mass updates to production tables (NULL to non-NULL)

2002-11-26 Thread Jesse, Rich
1) In a few trials on 8K blocks, I've been able to get a maximum 662 rows of CHAR(1) (and CHAR(2) and CHAR(4))populated with spaces in a single block. As these weren't exactly scientific, I don't remember if I had kept PCTFREE at 2 thru my trials. Is this info documented somewhere? The only

RE: LGWR using lots of CPU time, low CPU usage

2002-11-26 Thread Fink, Dan
These are out of left field, but have bit me in the past. Take with a big ol' grain of salt. Is the application issuing a 'COMMIT' after each 'SELECT'? This will cause a commit entry to be written to the log buffer and the buffer to be flushed. It could explain why LGWR is consuming time and not

Oracle Environment Documentation

2002-11-26 Thread Erik Williams
I need to document a number of Oracle environments for a client. I think that this is similar in scope to what Oracle Consulting calls an Operational Readiness Assessment. Has anyone on the list been through this sort of exercise? Can anyone share any documents that would be appropriate for this?

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