RE: shared memory issues in 9.2.0.3

2003-06-09 Thread Mark Brooks
Yes. Check your limit settings. On 4.3 we were running with defaults and no issues, then we upgraded to 5L and had to set the limits since the defaults were too low. Mark... -Original Message- Sai Selvaganesan Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 9:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Isolation Level to get Phantom Read

2003-06-09 Thread Saminathan_Seerangan
Hi All, How to achieve Repeatable Read isolation level in oracle? I mean the application should allow Phantom Read but NOT Dirty Read,Lost Update Non-Repeatable Read Note:- If i choose SERIALIZABLE isolation level Phantom read is NOT allowed if i choose Read Committed isolation

Information out of the Explain Plan?

2003-06-09 Thread Waleed Haggagy
Hello All, Can anyone help me to get details information to understand what is mean of cost/card/bytes information out of the Explain Plan? Regards, Waleed Haggagy -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Waleed Haggagy INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City

Re: Information out of the Explain Plan?

2003-06-09 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Check out the documentation on this. Another thing you might want to study afterwards is Martin Berg's method of Throw-away of rows that he invented while working for me in Premium Services in Oracle. Mogens Waleed Haggagy wrote: Hello All, Can anyone help me to get details information to

Re: Information out of the Explain Plan?

2003-06-09 Thread Gudmundur Bjarni Josepsson
--NextPartbf015f676fdbdf85872906f35cec485d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mogens N=F8rgaar wrote: Martin Berg's method of Throw-away of rows Where can this be found? Gudmundur =DEessi p=F3stur var sendur me=F0 vefp=F3sti mi,

anyone have any soundex scripts?

2003-06-09 Thread rgaffuri
I was on a project a few years ago where we used a soundex algorithm to determine and eliminte duplicate data. For example we would have: 301 Fairfield Lane 301 Faerfield Lane Notice the typo? The soundex algorithm caught it. Unfortunately I forgot to grab a copy before I left. Everytime I do

RE: anyone have any soundex scripts?

2003-06-09 Thread Seefelt, Beth
There is a SOUNDEX sql function. Check tahiti.oracle.com for info. HTH. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 8:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I was on a project a few years ago where we used a soundex algorithm to determine and eliminte duplicate data. For

RE: anyone have any soundex scripts?

2003-06-09 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Have you checked out the Oracle SOUNDEX() function? Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 7:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I was on a project a few years ago where we used a soundex

RE: book for ocp 8i performance tuning

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen Lee
-Original Message- THEN you should buy: Tom Kyte's first book (one-on-one). Jonathan's only book James Morle's only book Gaja's only book. ... and of course Cary's coming book. - AND THEN, you get that device, from the old Star Trek series, that you

Re: RE: anyone have any soundex scripts?

2003-06-09 Thread rgaffuri
yes, Im familiar with that function. but you have to write a soundex algorithm in order to get advanced functionality. I wouldnt even know where to start with something like that. Im hoping there is one on the web some where. From: Seefelt, Beth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/06/09 Mon AM

RE: HP-Sun Cross Platform Migration - Exp/Imp, CTAS over dblink or ..

2003-06-09 Thread Goulet, Dick
Exp/imp of a 200GB database is possible, but I'd think the time required would be the long pole in the tent. I'd say your looking at at least a 4 day weekend at best and only if you used direct mode. Someone has hinted that you can simply move the datafiles from one box to the other. Well

RE: Oracle ambushes Peoplesoft with $5.1bn bid

2003-06-09 Thread Goulet, Dick
Well, If Oracle simply adds their methods of releasing patches to PeopleSoft it will be a win for all of those PeopleSoft administrators out there. PeopleSoft's patch release and implementation methods are really a pain in the ___. Dick GouletSenior Oracle DBAOracle Certified 8i DBA

RE: HP-Sun Cross Platform Migration - Exp/Imp, CTAS over dblink or ..

2003-06-09 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
You may want to review an article, Cross Platform Migration of a Large Production Database, in the latest issue(2nd Qtr 2003) of SELECT journal (by IOUG). The author details the procedure he followed to migrtate a 300GB production database from HP-UX to IBM AIX. - Kirti --- Goulet, Dick

Re: HP-Sun Cross Platform Migration - Exp/Imp, CTAS over

2003-06-09 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Aah !Hint, hint that some certain RDBMS vendor will offer cross-platform compatibility of database files soon. Hemant At 04:14 AM 07-06-03 -0800, you wrote: Sashidar: In THEORY HP datafiles and Sun data files are compaible. That is you can just move the HP data files to the Sun server and

RE: RE: anyone have any soundex scripts?

2003-06-09 Thread Seefelt, Beth
What advanced functionality are you looking for? -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 10:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L yes, Im familiar with that function. but you have to write a soundex algorithm in order to get advanced functionality. I wouldnt even know

RE: Isolation Level to get Phantom Read

2003-06-09 Thread Ganesh Raja
Maybe you can read up this... http://tinyurl.com/du9v Best Regards, Ganesh R DID : +65-6215-8413 HP : +65-9067-8474 === Live to learn... forget... and learn again. === -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: HP-Sun Cross Platform Migration - Exp/Imp, CTAS over dblink or

2003-06-09 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
1. Join the 10i beta program 2. Convert your 9.2 datafiles using the cross-platform transportable tablespaces feature of a dummy 10i instance. ;-) Or... Back when one of our system swas at around 200M, we had a C program that dumped table data in parallel by rowid ranges, wrote the streams in

RE: HP-Sun Cross Platform Migration - Exp/Imp, CTAS over

2003-06-09 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Direct mode doesn't work across platforms [or, at least, I haven't tried it]. It isn't supported. SQLLDR, Parallel Export-Import, Parallel Index Build are options -- these can be done in parallel. Run at least two rounds of testing to see how you can migrate the data. Hemant At 06:29 AM

RE: statspack snapshots cause 3-4 sec of 100% CPU utilization

2003-06-09 Thread Boris Dali
Nice one, John! And quite portable. Runs on Solaris and Linux alike. On HP-UX 11.0 I had to modify it slightly, but it looks good too: if [ $# -eq 1 ] ;then UNIX95= ps -eo pid,pcpu,ruser,time,etime,args | grep $1 | sort -nr +1 | awk '{if (NR = 20) print substr($0,1,80)}' else same as above

RE: HP-Sun Cross Platform Migration - Exp/Imp, CTAS over dblink or ..

2003-06-09 Thread mkb
Wondering out aloud here. Could you export/imp using pipes. I remember doing this on a 200gb database going from 7.3 to 8 on Solaris, granted on the same server. Took about 4-6 hours if I remember correctly. Anyway to create a remote pipe on another server to listen for inputs from another

RE: RE: anyone have any soundex scripts?

2003-06-09 Thread Tierstein, Leslie
Soundex essentially takes a single word and produces a value which can be compared to a similar value, to determine if the words are logically equivalent, mostly by paying attention to consonants. PROD select soundex('Fairfield') from dual 2 / F614 1* select soundex('Faerfield') from dual

International User Community

2003-06-09 Thread April Wells
Title: International User Community While not trying to sound like this is coming off like a shameless plug, because it isn't... I have an Apps book going to publisher in a couple weeks and they want to do PR. To that end, they have asked me to fill out a fairly extensive paper on who might

DB Link in forms6

2003-06-09 Thread Hussain Ahmed Qadri
Title: DB Link in forms6 Hi all, Does anyone know of any bug of Oracle, which doesn't allow Database link to work properly in side a Developer 6 form? The problem is that we have a form in which we are connected with one database and on pressing a button, want to insert data in another

Re: How to Uninstall apps1

2003-06-09 Thread chris blais
Forrest, Apologies for not getting back to u sooner. Cloning on Nt (adv. Server) works very well when u have a SINGLE instance on each box. Also, O/S does not support multi to single clones (per the Feb 12 white paper). Our env is1157, nt Adv srvr)runningautoconfig for cloning, via Feb 12white

RE: RE: anyone have any soundex scripts?

2003-06-09 Thread rgaffuri
one that is already written to find duplicates. like I stated earlier. you have to write quite a bit of logic into the SOUNDEX function to make it tell the difference between 301 Fof Lane 301 Faf Lane From: Seefelt, Beth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/06/09 Mon AM 11:04:53 EDT To: Multiple

Re: statspack snapshots cause 3-4 sec of 100% CPU utilization

2003-06-09 Thread Boris Dali
Mogens, Dennis, I know I am going to catch flames for this, but here goes: It seems to be quite fashionable to bash statspack, but help me out in understanding the alternatives to the StatsPack in the following cases: Case1: - At the client I am currently with, they have some 50+

RE: International User Community

2003-06-09 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Title: International User Community IOUG? Is that an "Iraqi Oracle User Group"? Boy, thing are developing fast! Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: April Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 12:04

RE: RE: anyone have any soundex scripts?

2003-06-09 Thread Regis Biassala
rgaffuri, Ok let get down to the algorithm of SOUNDEX. As I reminisce, this is what SOUNDEX does: A. It keeps the FIRST letter in the chain of characters and REMOVES all vocals that follows: a, e, h, i, o, u, w and y. B. It assigns the numbers to remaining letters as follow: 1 = b, f, p, v

Sun to Linux on Dell

2003-06-09 Thread Michael Kline
I have a cust pounding a Sun E450 I believe they said it was with a large RAID with fiber channels. They pound this thing at 2,037 I/O per seconds and end up having about 3,868 I/O per data block wait. This is averaged over 3-5 days, 24 hr/day, so there are times it's way over that.

BI tools recommendations or disaters

2003-06-09 Thread John Shaw
We have created a monster. I started with a small datamart for the finance group. Now everyone wants their own - and of course bigger, better, faster, and linked with all the other data to drill to anywhere. So now I get to pick out some data warehouse tool to roll all this data together.

Re: How to Uninstall apps1

2003-06-09 Thread chris blais
Forrest, Apologies for not getting back to u sooner. Cloning on Nt (adv. Server) works very well when u have a SINGLE instance on each box. Also, O/S does not support multi to single clones (per the Feb 12 white paper). Our env is1157, nt Adv srvr)runningautoconfig for cloning, via Feb 12white

RE: ??? Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 2GB file size limit ???

2003-06-09 Thread Weaver, Walt
FWIW, we use 2048m here. --Walt (who feels obligated to make some posts since Steve's off today) Weaver Bozeman, Montana -Original Message- From: Jared Still [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 11:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: ???

Re: How to Uninstall apps1

2003-06-09 Thread chris blais
From: "Forrest Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 09:32:26 -0700 Subject: Re: How to Uninstall apps1Forrest, I had a 'few' emails on this so I'll list the steps here. Please note these are for our env (1157, NT Adv Srvr).We usea DR drive (operating system with ALL needed 3rd party

RE: Form question

2003-06-09 Thread Pardee, Roy E
bell ; Roy Pardee Programmer/Analyst/DBA SWFPAC Lockheed Martin IT Extension 8487 -Original Message- Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 11:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Good morning, This a question for Oracle form and report I want to add a beep or sound to a form when a

RE: International User Community

2003-06-09 Thread Shamita Singh
Hi April, There is TOUG - Toronto Oracle Users Group. Thanks, Shamita "Gogala, Mladen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IOUG? Is that an "Iraqi Oracle User Group"? Boy, thing are developing fast! Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From:

RE: MS Access 97 to Oracle 8.1.7 Scheduler

2003-06-09 Thread Pardee, Roy E
You can specify the name of a macro for msaccess to run on startup w/the /x parameter of the msaccess executable. That macro can do a RunCode action to run a VBA procedure that you specify (which is where you can do your data loading) followed by an Exit action to shut down msaccess. IIRC, you

Re: any intro statspack docs online?

2003-06-09 Thread Yechiel Adar
I know it is late but: Since nobody mention it - upload the report to http://www.oraperf.com/ and you will get a report with explanation and recommendations. Yechiel AdarMehish - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Using bind variables with ADO in VB

2003-06-09 Thread Pardee, Roy E
I thought the .Prepared property of the command object was what you needed to use bind vars from ADO. Have a look at the following code, adapted from the ADO help entry for .Prepared. It purports to compare response times for prepared unprepared versions of the same SQL command. In the

RE: Isolation Level to get Phantom Read

2003-06-09 Thread Richard Ji
Oracle doesn't support repeatable read isolation level. Only read committed and serializable. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 3:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi All, How to achieve Repeatable Read isolation level in oracle? I mean the application

Re: International User Community

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen Andert
April, I know IEEE has been trying to increase their influence in the computer world. They've been trying to get me to join for the past few years and have added computer publications to their list. Worth a shot. Good luck Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/09/03 09:04AM While not trying to

RE: Sun to Linux on Dell

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen Lee
If you price the Dell servers, I think you will find there is little price advantage over a comparable (sort of) Sun 8-CPU box -- for example, Sun Fire V880. If the Sun 450 of which you speak is a few years old, then changing to almost any platform will get you CPU's that are a heck of a lot

RE: International User Community

2003-06-09 Thread Richard Ji
Title: International User Community I thought Iran registered it first. -Original Message-From: Gogala, Mladen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 12:35 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: International User Community IOUG? Is that an

Cascading Triggers

2003-06-09 Thread carol . legros
Hi listers... I have a question related to triggers. One of the developers here has created two triggers as follows : Trigger #1 is an AFTER UPDATE trigger on TABLE-A - the trigger has PL/SQL code including an UPDATE dml statement on TABLE-B.COL-2 Trigger #2 is an AFTER UPDATE trigger on

RE: RE: anyone have any soundex scripts?

2003-06-09 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Store the soundex version of the word you are interested in, then create a unique index on that column. Consider a function-based index based on the soundex function. If each row potentially contains a variable number of words of interest, you could create a child table. The possibilities are

RE: BI tools recommendations or disasters

2003-06-09 Thread Tierstein, Leslie
Title: Message I would start by checking out Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) which is supposed to be bundled with Oracle 9iDS. So the price is right (ie, "free") if you already use 9iDS. Plus, its architecture is built around Oracle's (PL/SQL procedures; use of AQ; etc) If that doesn't work,

Re: International User Community

2003-06-09 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
Title: International User Community When I worked for Oracle back in 1998-99 Oracle had an office in the capitol of Iraq as I recall. Ken Janusz, CPIM - Original Message - From: Richard Ji To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 12:50

RE: International User Community

2003-06-09 Thread Seefelt, Beth
Title: Message Were'nt US companies forbidden to do business with Iraq in 98-99? -Original Message-From: KENNETH JANUSZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 3:10 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: International User Community When I worked for

RE: RE: anyone have any soundex scripts?

2003-06-09 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Try the Levenshtein Distance algorithm. If you scroll to the bottom of the page you will see a PL/SQL implementation. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] yes, Im familiar with that function. but you have to write a soundex algorithm in order to get

RE: Sun to Linux on Dell

2003-06-09 Thread Matthew Zito
There's just not enough performance info here to go on. If the service times for the storage are high, simply improving the back-end storage (faster drives, more spindles, more cache, etc.) could solve the problem. As far as Solaris vs. Linux cost, its definitely true that a Linux server

Re: Oracle's use of Indexes

2003-06-09 Thread Jared . Still
Oops, I meant an 'instead of' trigger on a view. Jared Jared Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/07/2003 07:14 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Oracle's use of

RE: Cascading Triggers

2003-06-09 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Carol, I see two possible issues here: 1). Is the COL-2 value changing either from/to a null value? if so, then the WHEN clause is incorrect and the Table B trigger will not fire at all. In other words, if COL-2's before or after value is a NULL, then the trigger will not fire. You should

Re: anyone have any soundex scripts?

2003-06-09 Thread JApplewhite
You might consider an interMedia Text index on the column(s) of interest. The interMedia Fuzzy Search and scoring functionality (and others) may prove more flexible than Soundex. Jack C. Applewhite Database Administrator Austin Independent School District Austin, Texas 512.414.9715 (wk)

RE: HP-Sun Cross Platform Migration - Exp/Imp, CTAS over dblink or ..

2003-06-09 Thread Jared . Still
This is *exactly* what I would like to do on our SAP systems when we upgrade, since this is the best way to move to LMT's. Unfortunately for me and a lot of other folks, Windoze don't do that. :( You can't imagine just how much I wish we were on Solaris. Jared Kirtikumar Deshpande

FW: RE: anyone have any soundex scripts?

2003-06-09 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
I guess a link would help. http://www.merriampark.com/ld.htm -Original Message- From: Jacques Kilchoer Try the Levenshtein Distance algorithm. If you scroll to the bottom of the page you will see a PL/SQL implementation. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: International User Community

2003-06-09 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Los Angeles (California, USA) Oracle user's group: http://www.laoug.org/ Orange County (California, USA) Oracle user's group: http://www.ocoug.org/ I would think that the IOUG would be able to send you a list of all the Oracle user groups. -Original Message- While not trying to sound

RE: Cascading Triggers

2003-06-09 Thread Chaim . Katz
Carol, As long as the triggers aren't declared as autonomous transactions, they'll see all the previous changes that the session made. Are the two columns in the where condition maybe two date columns loaded with different times?, or is one a varchar and the other a char so that the comparison

RE: Cascading Triggers

2003-06-09 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Okay ... unless old.table2.col_1 = new.table2.col_2 the trigger won't fire. I don't see anything wrong here Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly

RE: Sun to Linux on Dell

2003-06-09 Thread Steve McClure
I would agree there is not much to go on, and I admit I am leary to jump on the migrate to Linux bandwagon. True you can get dirt cheap hardware to run your Linux install, but then you are running a very solid OS on dirt cheap hardware. Performance will suffer unless you purchase really top

RE: Sun to Linux on Dell

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen Lee
You have to watch out for those who think RAC is a synonymous with RAIB (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Boxes). It ain't. -Original Message- I feel like I should have started this response Hello my name is Steve McClure and I am a RAC on Linux doubter Really I have felt this way

RE: Cascading Triggers

2003-06-09 Thread carol . legros
Thanks for the responses so far... The transactions weren't declaraed as autonomous, so I, too, expect what you suggest. The two columns in question are of the same datatype -- numeric. This is a strange one. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/09/2003 04:14 PM Please

Re: International User Community

2003-06-09 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
And of course the world-famous Oracle User Group Denmark (OUGDK) :-))). Shamita Singh wrote: Hi April, There is TOUG - Toronto Oracle Users Group. Thanks, Shamita "Gogala, Mladen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IOUG? Is that an "Iraqi Oracle User

RE: Sun to Linux on Dell

2003-06-09 Thread Jared . Still
Steve, You hit the nail on the head with RAC licensing. Oracle is currently offering discounts on RAC, likely due to that reason. Look for an article on this subject by Mogens Norgaard in the upcoming issue of SELECT. Interestingly enough, RAC for Oracle Collaboration Server is a mere $60 per

Re: Sun to Linux on Dell

2003-06-09 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Good one. The I in RAID started out as Inexpensive, but is now Independend - for obvious reasons :-). Just had a DML-heavy customer in an exotic country who saw 45% scaling on the third Linux node, and 0% when adding the fourth. 50% of time spent enqueue'ing. Yes, it's probably an application

Re: International User Community

2003-06-09 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Who knows? I know for at fact that Oracle UK sold Oracle 5 to Ghadaffi (or however his name is spelled) back in the 80's. They also had a lively trade with South Africa - known back then as "South England"... rumor has it, though, that - due to stuff happening high over Lockerbie - Oracle UK

RE: Extent allocation for objects

2003-06-09 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
Fyi, Note I was referring to the other day. 04:11 PM PST Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: At 02:16 PM 5/19/2003 -0800, you wrote: Adding the initial clause appears to work fine.

Re: statspack snapshots cause 3-4 sec of 100% CPU utilization

2003-06-09 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Good points, Boris. Thanks for that. If all users are doing the same things, then I guess system-wide data could indicate what's wrong for the average user. You can also use system-wide data to see if something changes overall on the system, then try to dig deeper - but only if you are very

RE: Sun to Linux on Dell

2003-06-09 Thread Steve McClure
Interestingly enough, RAC for Oracle Collaboration Server is a mere $60 per user, significantly less than normal RAC licensing. $60 per user...lets see Oracle claims we have 80,000 users...(not including the infinite internet users)...So that may not apply to us CPU licensers, I am guessing most

RE: International User Community

2003-06-09 Thread Richard Ji
Very interesting. I will start a virtual campfire. -Original Message-From: Mogens Nørgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 5:15 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: International User CommunityWho knows? I know for at fact that

Legal Mumbo Jumbo

2003-06-09 Thread Post, Ethan
I just got this question put to me and I didn't know the answer. For the most part I have always supported applications running commercial software such as ERP systems. In these cases it is clear that a license is required for Production and Development servers. But let's say the following

RE: Sun to Linux on Dell

2003-06-09 Thread Matthew Zito
Oracle Collaboration Server (Suite?) is licensed per-mailbox user, not by logged-in user, like the database. So, you can run the database powering OCS on as big a machine as you want, as long as you're paying your $60/mailbox. Thanks, Matt -- Matthew Zito GridApp Systems Email: [EMAIL

RE: passing ref cursor on a procedure

2003-06-09 Thread Mohammed Shakir
I used the following program to learn bind variables and ref cursor long time ago. This might help. Put this code into a file called getstaff.sql and then run it. Bottom lines show how to declare a cursor and pass it to a procedure using SQL. HTH Mohammed Shakir -- rem filename

RE: query run time vs IN list elements

2003-06-09 Thread Mohammed Shakir
This is what the book (page 196 Oracle SQL High-Performance Tuning - Second Edition, Guy Harrison.) says about your situation. INLIST ITERATOR step indicates that each subsequent step was executed once for each value in an IN list. A large number of elements in the IN list can be time consuming,

RE: StoredProc SQL statistics

2003-06-09 Thread Mohammed Shakir
It is nice to have good tools to find what and how want quickly. I simply use statspack to find out my most time consuming SQL. To me SQL is SQL. Whether I execute it using SQL prompt, or it comes from one of my PL/SQL procedures. What I look for it is, how many time I am executing each sql, how

Re: statspack snapshots cause 3-4 sec of 100% CPU utilization

2003-06-09 Thread Anjo Kolk
What you need is detailed information over time. Start with SQL statements, into sessions, into the instance level. The problem is that this means that tons of data will be collected. So one has to be clever and reduce the amount of data collected. If you have data over time (SQL, session,

RE: Sun to Linux on Dell

2003-06-09 Thread Steve McClure
Ah much more reasonable. I can't believe I typed the word licensers -- I am guessing licensees was what I was going for Steve McClure Oracle Collaboration Server (Suite?) is licensed per-mailbox user $60 per user...lets see Oracle claims we have 80,000 users...(not including the infinite

Re: International User Community

2003-06-09 Thread Daniel W. Fink
Also look at Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) formerly DPMA. April Wells wrote: International User Community While not trying to sound like this is coming off like a shameless plug, because it isn't... I have an Apps book going to publisher

RE: Benchmarking of ASP.NET with Oracle v/s MSSQL

2003-06-09 Thread Mohammed Shakir
Last year in May I had a chance to develop back-end software using ASP.NET with SQL Server and Oracle. Microsoft did an excellent job integrating SQL Server with ASP.NET. However, not such a good job with Oracle. I had to create stored procedure manually if I wanted to use Oracle. My main problem

Re: Sun to Linux on Dell

2003-06-09 Thread Anjo Kolk
A 4WD will get you much further into the swamp before you're stuck. But stuck you will be sooner or later. I thought that Anette had a GPS systems in her car ;-) -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Anjo Kolk INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

How to put a TOP 1 in a select

2003-06-09 Thread Teresita Castro
Hi!! I was working with SQL Server 2000, and now the company decided to change to Oracle. So I don't know much about Oracle, I am just reading a book and try to find information on the net. I am trying to do the next query, but I guess Oracle did not have the function TOP. How can I do a TOP

Re: How to put a TOP 1 in a select

2003-06-09 Thread Daniel W. Fink
You are right, Oracle does not have the functionality built in. You can use an inline view to accomplish the same thing. select ictrans1.item, ictrans1.trans_date from (select rownum i_rownum, ITEM, TRANS_DATE from ICTRANS where(COMPANY = 2000) AND (TRANS_DATE

Re: How to put a TOP 1 in a select

2003-06-09 Thread Mark Richard
Your english is fine, lets see if I understand the query... Does it return the Item and Trans_Date of the record with the smallest quantity (ie: first row returned given that query is ordered by quantity)? Oracle (at least version 8 - not sure about 9) doesn't really support this SQL but there

Re: How to put a TOP 1 in a select

2003-06-09 Thread Daniel W. Fink
OOPS! Mea Culpa! I improperly used rownum in the query. The previous reply from Mark is correct. However, the info on my website is correct. Daniel W. Fink http://www.optimaldba.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Daniel W. Fink INET: [EMAIL

Re: Sun to Linux on Dell

2003-06-09 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Yes, and it allows her to find her way home - but only after someone has dragged her car out of the swamp. Anjo Kolk wrote: A 4WD will get you much further into the swamp before you're stuck. But stuck you will be sooner or later. I thought that Anette had a GPS systems in