RE: Transparent database objects after merging

2003-07-16 Thread Jorma.Vuorio
Ave ! If it's so, that user_a like to use customer table and user_b customer_b table with same application, why You can't use synonyms? User_a synonyms points to customer table and user_b synonyms points customer_b table etc. Or is there some decision making before start using

RE: How to make SPFILE in sync with INIT.ORA ?

2003-07-16 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi, The java_pool_size can also be edited through sqlplus just use 'scope=spfile' (You'll need to bounce though). No need to open pfile edit and create spfile. Quite frankly I like to think that using SQL*Plus to edit the spfile directly gives me added benefit of a syntax check (Ran a very very

AW: Object Types in PL/SQL

2003-07-16 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Thanks all. Looks like I'll have to go with the add-an-extra-parameter method for now as a workaround. I don't know yet wether we're going to raise a TAR right away. The manual is a little bit unclear about overriding the default constructor. So I might contact a friend at Oracle first. I'll post

RE: Rollback Segs

2003-07-16 Thread Fermin Bernaus
Which database version are you using? as long as I know, at least on Oracle 8.0.6 you can not specify which rollback segment a particular transaction should use. We disable all rollback segments and only enable those which we know won't make big updates / deletes crash. -Mensaje

RE: Rollback Segs

2003-07-16 Thread Lee Cullip
set transaction use rollback segment only works if it's the first statement in your transaction, an easy way to make sure this is the case is to issue a commit directly before issuing this statement. I believe this has been a feature of Oracle since way back in version 7 (Correct me

OT: BANN

2003-07-16 Thread Senthil Kumar D
Hi Group Where I can get the details about BANN. TIA Senthil. -Original Message- Stefan Jahnke Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 1:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks all. Looks like I'll have to go with the add-an-extra-parameter method for now as a workaround. I

Re: Online tech books - Not online anymore

2003-07-16 Thread Peter . McLarty
Remember this one well it seems the publisher may have had some impact No books now with some bullshit apology about bandwidth issues HAHAHAHA Cheers -- = Peter McLarty E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical ConsultantWWW:

Re: enterprise manager

2003-07-16 Thread Gudmundur Bjarni Josepsson
Check (in Control Panel) if your OMS service is running. Gudmundur hi i run ora8 on w2000 server. my problem is i can ping my database mydb without problems i can login with sqlplus as sys and it works fine but if i start the enterprise manager console and try to login as sys a error

RE: Rollback Segs

2003-07-16 Thread Fermin Bernaus
Yes you are right, sorry but I made a mistake, since we are using Baan IVc4 which works against Oracle we have no means to interfere with its transactions when they are commited to Oracle and we can not modify them so that it uses a specific rollback segment, so the only way for us to do it

Oracle Instances not starting up via services

2003-07-16 Thread Nuala Cullen
Hi All, I have inherited a couple of databases on one of the servers here. The server was taken down for hardware repairs during the week and when it came back up the databases did not start. (They are set to start automatically via the services) I have done some research via the internet and I

RE: inline views

2003-07-16 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Daniel, List Can you give more detail with an EXAMPLE please ? Thanks -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 7:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have used an inline view to reduce network traffic when retrieiving data from a remote db. Instead of using a nested

re: how to keep SPFILE in Sync...

2003-07-16 Thread Piet de Visser
Group, I try to only use spfile if I HAVE TO, avoid it if possible. conservatism ? maybe. I agree with all arguments against spfile posted so far. RAC : use a CFS and keep a single, central db.ini somewhere, link your ORACLE_HOME/dbs/initINST.ora to it. If you have to use spfiles (RAC on

Re: RE: security without using different usernames

2003-07-16 Thread rgaffuri
i know you can get the IP in a client-server mode and i think its with sys_context. Ill have to look it up. in web mode you have to use a client side script. I know there is a javabean you can write to do it(its actually in the forms 9i demo). dont know how to do it in .net(which is what we are

Re: Object Types in PL/SQL

2003-07-16 Thread Nuno Souto
- Original Message - We actually don't use Object Types that much (who does anyway ;). But I have to say, that I'm a little bit disappointed by Oracle's implementation (Ever I do. Only way to use some of the DMBS_* library items and one of the best ways of speeding up Java/JDBC

Re: Re: Object Types in PL/SQL

2003-07-16 Thread rgaffuri
how does the object features improve performance of the jdbc? its fairly common now to have a java or .net(which we are using) and an Oracle backend. your comments would be much appreciated. From: Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/07/16 Wed AM 07:54:32 EDT To: Multiple recipients of

Re: RE: inline views

2003-07-16 Thread rgaffuri
you can get the same performance improvements by passing a REF Cursor out to the client also. basically he is saying that if you are over a network particularly in a web application where you cant always control the speed of the internet access that the client is using and you do: select

AW: Re: Object Types in PL/SQL

2003-07-16 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Blind shot: I guess what's meant here is speed up the development because you safe your usual OR mapping problems. ??? Prost, Stefan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2003 14:20 An: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Rollback Segs

2003-07-16 Thread Lee Cullip
I think that's probably the case with most third party applications, if developers haven't coded their apps to use a large rollback segment for certain transactions (which I find is the case with most developers ;-) ) then the only option is to turn off all but the large rollback seg.

10i reg.

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RE: Oracle Instances not starting up via services

2003-07-16 Thread Lee Cullip
Hi, Reading your mail, your registry setting for ora_wms_pfile is set to c:\oracle\ora8\database\initwms.ora, but your oracle home is c:\oracle\ora81, not sure if this is just a typo, but it may help you. Cheers Lee -Original Message- Sent: 16 July 2003 12:24 To: Multiple recipients of

Re:unix shell script question

2003-07-16 Thread Dilip
Hi Pete, Garry and Stephan, Thanx a lot for the solution. It is working for me. Thanx once again, Regards, ~Dilip Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestsellers.indiatimes.com Bid for for Air Tickets @ Re.1 on

how to schedule a job every alternate sundays in unix cron

2003-07-16 Thread kommareddy sreenivasa
Hello All, OS: Solaris 2.8 I have to run a backup script in every alternate Sunday. I cant find a way to submit it in cron. Can somebody help me how to setup a job to run alternate Sundays in unix cron . Thanks and Regards, Srinivas __ Do you

Re: Rollback Segs

2003-07-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
Well, the other option is to start developing apps and test them using larger data sets then available in EMP and DEPT tables. Even with full table scans, everything seems to work miraculously on those tables. On 2003.07.16 08:59, Lee Cullip wrote: I think that's probably the case with most third

Re: Oracle has out-smarted me again.

2003-07-16 Thread Thomas Day
Yes, but that just re-installs the prior, 2.2.0.12.0, installer. The directions say to extract the zip to some file. How do you tell the install where some is?

Re: how to schedule a job every alternate sundays in unix cron

2003-07-16 Thread Jay Hostetter
I'm not a Unix expert, but one thing you could do is schedule the script to run every Sunday, then within the script add some logic so that the script completes every other Sunday. For example, in ksh: # Check to see if this script ran last Sunday. if [[ -a ran_last_week.dat ]]; then rm

RE: Oracle Instances not starting up via services

2003-07-16 Thread Nuala Cullen
Sorry Lee - it's a typo!! Thanks though for pointing it out to me. N. :--Original Message- :-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :-Behalf Of :-Lee Cullip :-Sent: 16 July 2003 14:10 :-To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L :-Subject: RE: Oracle Instances not starting up

Insert 8000 Byte into LONG column

2003-07-16 Thread Guido Konsolke
Hi dear list members, we run a database 8.1.6.2 I've run into a problem. I've got a table that contains a LONG column (I know, I know). I have to insert a string into it that has a length 8500 Byte. Whenever I issue the insert statement SQL/PLUS throws the error 'ORA-01704: string literal too

Re: enterprise manager

2003-07-16 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Is it an 8.0.x or 8i database? What version of OEM are you running? We need more info to be able to help you. Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 6:19 AM hi i run ora8 on w2000 server. my problem is i

Re: Oracle Instances not starting up via services

2003-07-16 Thread Jared Still
Check the registry entry ORA_SID_PFILE. Try hardcoding the entire path rather than use variables. ie. ORA_WMS_PFILE would be set to c:\oracle\ora81\database\initwms.ora. Be sure ORA_WMS_AUTOSTART is set to TRUE. Jared On Wednesday 16 July 2003 04:24, Nuala Cullen wrote: Hi All, I have

Re: inline views

2003-07-16 Thread Daniel Fink
In one case, the statement's execution plan used a nested loop, where it read the local table then probed the index on the remote table. This caused several million trips across the network to retrieve less than 10,000 records (IIRC). select local.cola, local.colb, remote.colc, remote.cold from

Re: enterprise manager

2003-07-16 Thread Jose Luis Delgado
Check: drive:\ORACLE_HOME\sysman\log review the oms.log file... and send the details... HTH JL --- Ruth Gramolini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it an 8.0.x or 8i database? What version of OEM are you running? We need more info to be able to help you. Ruth - Original Message -

Re: Oracle has out-smarted me again.

2003-07-16 Thread Paul Baumgartel
It's been a month or two since I did this, but I did verify that the version was ...18.0, and I could swear that was the jar file I used. I'm going to install it on another machine and note my steps, then I'll post another reply. --- Thomas Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but that just

Rauch report: Oracle vs DB2

2003-07-16 Thread Jesse, Rich
Any Oracle/DB2 dual DBAs out there that can comment on the Rauch report (no doubt financed by Oracle Corp)? http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/database/theme_pages/index.html?ma_04252003. html Not that I'm particularly impressed on the ease of generating stats in Oracle vs. DB2, but I'm just

* Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread OraStaff
Minneapolis, Minnesota company has a great opportunity available for a Sr. level Oracle DBA to join their IT staff. The selected candidate must be highly skilled in solving extremely complex and very critical customer issues. With preferably over 10 years experience in a large-scale

RMAN SQL Backtrack

2003-07-16 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Title: Message We have been using SQL Backtrack for backup and recovery forabout 6 years now. We are being pressured to start using RMAN because it is free. Makes sense but I am wondering about reliability, complexity, learning curve, etc... Has anyone had experience with both products or

Re: MicroSlop DTC

2003-07-16 Thread Jared Still
You can also supply a filename to the dump_tnsnames command. ie. dump_tnsnames /tmp/tnsnames.tmp Jared On Tuesday 15 July 2003 11:14, John Kanagaraj wrote: Jesse, You could always get around this problem by obtaining an upto date TNSNAMES.ORA on any Names-aware client using the 'namesctl

Re: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread rgaffuri
Jared, can we get orastaff banned from the list? I know people need jobs but Orastaff is a notorious spammer. I get spammed from these guys through my home email. From: OraStaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/07/16 Wed AM 10:54:27 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Re: Insert 8000 Byte into LONG column

2003-07-16 Thread Arup Nanda
Try using sql*loader. Put the input data string in a single file as the input file. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:54 AM Hi dear list members, we run a database 8.1.6.2 I've run into a problem. I've

RE: RMAN SQL Backtrack

2003-07-16 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Title: Message Ron: I don't know SQL Backtrack, but two things popped into my head as I read your message. One,RMAN does not have a media interface layer. It depends on a utility such as Legato (also currently included with Oracle) or Netbackup or OmniBack. Two,EMC just bought Legato.

RE: RMAN SQL Backtrack

2003-07-16 Thread Stephane Paquette
Title: Message HI, We are a backtrack shop also and we are happy with it. We have not yet pressure to go to rman. If you switch to rman, I'm interested in knowing the migration effort. Stephane Paquette Administrateur de bases de donnees Database Administrator Standard Life

RE: Rauch report: Oracle vs DB2

2003-07-16 Thread Stephane Paquette
If you go on DB2 site, http://www-3.ibm.com/software/data/pubs/pdfs/dhbrown.pdf , you'll find a similar document that concludes that TCO of DB2 is below Oracle's one. Stephane Paquette Administrateur de bases de donnees Database Administrator Standard Life www.standardlife.ca Tel. (514) 499-7999

Antw: Re: Insert 8000 Byte into LONG column

2003-07-16 Thread Guido Konsolke
Thanks for the answer, but this no way for me. Ain't got sqlldr on my client pc and no telnet to the server 8-(( [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16.07.2003 16.59 Uhr Try using sql*loader. Put the input data string in a single file as the input file. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of

RE: Rauch report: Oracle vs DB2

2003-07-16 Thread Goulet, Dick
Having seen the report previously I can say that IMHO it's an apples vs. oranges report. Given an experienced DBA on both systems I still believe that can do the same basic task in a similar amount of time effort. Why, because they 1) understand the process for their RDBMS, and 2) they've

Re: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Some of us like seeing the possibilities. The delete key is just to the right of the backslash. Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:04 AM Jared, can we get orastaff banned from the list? I know people

RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread Regis Biassala
and they had NO H-1B candidates please. What a discrimination... -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 4:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Jared, can we get orastaff banned from the list? I know people need jobs but Orastaff is a notorious spammer. I get

Re: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
That, or use Block Sender. My $0.02 worth, Ken Janusz, CPIM - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:14 AM Some of us like seeing the possibilities. The delete key is just to the right of the backslash. Ruth

RE: Oracle Instances not starting up via services

2003-07-16 Thread Nuala Cullen
Hi Jared, Thanks for the advice, I checked out the registry settings ORA_WMS_PFILE is set to c:\oracle\ora81\database\initwms.ora. ORA_WMS_AUTOSTART is set to TRUE. I'm a bit confused what you mean by using variables. I think you mean not to use %oracle_home% etc but the error message:

RE: Insert 8000 Byte into LONG column

2003-07-16 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Guido, Can you use utl_file for this within a PL/SQL block? Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi dear list members, we run a database 8.1.6.2

Re: security without using different usernames

2003-07-16 Thread Pete Finnigan
Hi You can get the ip address as follows: oracle:jupiter sqlplus system/[EMAIL PROTECTED] SQL*Plus: Release 9.0.1.0.0 - Production on Wed Jun 25 20:45:54 2003 (c) Copyright 2001 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.0.1.0.0 - Production

RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed.. depends on the keyboard... I have one where it is right next to the enter key and backslash is next to the back space key. April Wells Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA Corporate Systems Amarillo Texas You will recognize your own path

RE: RMAN SQL Backtrack

2003-07-16 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Title: Message I don't haveany experience with SQL*Backtrack and I do have some experience with RMAN. Here are my comments: a) RMAN is reliable. Once you write the backup scripts, they are executed by operations and there no surprises. In order to rely on those scripts, one needs to test

Re: Oracle has out-smarted me again.

2003-07-16 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Here's what I did: 1. Started up Disk1\install\win32\setup.exe. 2. Chose Disk1\stage\products.jar in Path: field as location of product list. 3. Accepted defaults for installation. 4. After installation completed, returned to Next install screen and chose About; version showed as 2.2.0.18.0.

ORA-0600: [kzckini: nzdsi_i], [28750]

2003-07-16 Thread Jose Luis Delgado
List... OS: SunOS 5.8 Oracle: 8.1.6.1.0 I'm getting the above error in the alert file... my db is up and running, and the trace file says that the error was generated without user session. I looked at metalink and it says that it can be a pga problem or virtual memory problem... but... my

Re: Antw: Re: Insert 8000 Byte into LONG column

2003-07-16 Thread Jose Luis Delgado
Guido... change the datatype! :-) Of course, you can't. Well, have you tried with a Pl-Sql anonymous block? or... Oracle says that using BIND variables you can get more than 4000 chars... have you tried with bind vars? HTH JL --- Guido Konsolke Hi dear list members, we run a

RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Regis, that's not discrimination as it is defined in the US. it is a business decision not to spend money to hire someone to work for you. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Intersting... I get spammed at work, but never at home. I always access this list from work. Could be just a coincidence though. Patrice. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 12:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Jared, can we get orastaff banned from the

RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread Goulet, Dick
Title: RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed.. Of the total SPAM I get each day, OraStaff is so far down in the noise to be unnoticeable. Heck I'll tolerate any spammer who only bothers me once or twice a month. Dammed those who bother me twice an hour! Dick GouletSenior

RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread Meng, Dennis
While the statement itself strikes me as blunt, I don't think it is discriminatory in this case. Because of the availability of a large number of qualified DBAs, companies don't want to go through the hassle of providing sponsorship these days. The 'No H-1B' clause is to filter out candidates

RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread Ron Rogers
I find the opening from OraStaff to be very helpfull in the job search arena. The function that Bill offers has been helpfull in the past. Ron -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Ron Rogers INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services--

RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Is it the key with a funny upper arrow marked Shift? Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Some of us like seeing the possibilities. The delete key is

H1-B (was: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..)

2003-07-16 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Why would the H1-B cost the employer money? Usually if you want to travel and get a visa you can pay a small fee at the local embassy or consultate and that's it. Work visas may be different, I don't know Do U.S. employers pay H1-B visa employees' health benefits? Just curious, I have never

Re: Oracle has out-smarted me again.

2003-07-16 Thread Thomas Day
Thanks. The problem was with my inattention. Having unzipped the zip file, I failed to note that I had to unzip the jar file. Old age and assuming that zipped files would be .ZIP files were my problem.

Re: should you separate indexes from tables in separate dataf

2003-07-16 Thread Dwayne Cox
On a related note: We recently installed an app from a vendor and I noticed that the installer stored the indexes in the same tablespace as the data (even though I had a separate tablespace just for indexes). Should I take the time now to separate the two? My gut says yes. Sorry if this is

Re: Oracle Instances not starting up via services

2003-07-16 Thread AK
what about ora_wms_autostart ? -ak - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 4:24 AM Hi All, I have inherited a couple of databases on one of the servers here. The server was taken down for hardware repairs

RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Title: RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed.. Does TX have special keyboard layout? I know that everything is big in TX, but I didn't realize that was the case with the keyboards? Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original

RAC or Oracle Fail Safe

2003-07-16 Thread Hussain Ahmed Qadri
Hello all, We have setup a Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) cluster, with two nodes, using W2K, and now are in the process of deploying Oracle 9i on it. For the purpose of high availability (HA), we are deliberating on setting up either RAC or Oracle Fail Safe. The confusion is over the fact

RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread Regis Biassala
Tom, I see that...and I wish only if things were different... -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 4:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Regis, that's not discrimination as it is defined in the US. it is a business decision not to spend money to hire someone to

Re: security without using different usernames

2003-07-16 Thread Don Yu
Pete, I follow your steps to enable audit_trail = db in init.ora located in ORACLE_HOME/dbs and restart my Oracle database on solaris. After my database is up, I do the exact query in your paper and results as followings: SQL

RE: Oracle Instances not starting up via services

2003-07-16 Thread Nuala Cullen
Nice try but it is set to TRUE already. :-( N. :--Original Message- :-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :-Behalf Of :-AK :-Sent: 16 July 2003 16:54 :-To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L :-Subject: Re: Oracle Instances not starting up via services :- :- :-what

RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Title: RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed.. Especially if he always uses his own, real address. I've put him in my "kill file" and I don't even have to pres "Delete" key or whatever it is they have in TX. Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL

Re: RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread rgaffuri
what country is 'ie'? is that india? its the same thing if Americans started flooding to your country on the Indian equivalent of an H1-B. If its easier and less expensive to hire Indians, why hire the Americans? US immigration laws are FAR less stringent than Europes btw. I tried getting a

RE: enterprise manager

2003-07-16 Thread Cunningham, Gerald
the problem is you're trying to use enterprise mangler :P -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Check: drive:\ORACLE_HOME\sysman\log review the oms.log file... and send the details... HTH JL --- Ruth Gramolini [EMAIL

Antw: RE: Insert 8000 Byte into LONG column

2003-07-16 Thread Guido Konsolke
Hi Tom, thanks for trying to help. Unfortunately I have no chance because I've no account with write permissions. So it seems impossible to put the data on the server through ftp. Oh: and (of course!) no UTL_FILE_DIR defined in the init...ora. Any other suggestions? tia, Guido [EMAIL

Re: security without using different usernames

2003-07-16 Thread Arup Nanda
What is your database version? 9i? If so you are probably using the SPFILE; changing the init.ora file wouldn't help. Shutdown trhe database and startup with the pfile option startup pfile=init.ora being in the same directory. You will be able to see the parameter being set. HTH. Arup Nanda

Constraint creations limits.

2003-07-16 Thread Ron Rogers
List, Oracle 8.1.7.4 OpenVMS 7.3-1 I have to drop the current PK constraint on a partitioned table and recreate it with additional columns. The table and partitions are quite large 3GIG + and I was wondering if anyone has found a method if creation the PK constraint one partition at a time.

RE: Interview Questions for a Unix Solaris System Admin

2003-07-16 Thread Stephen Lee
-Original Message- you forgot to list the answers :) Waleed Having been a past sys admin, it was difficult to resist the temptation to respond to the initial post. But, since at least one person appears to have taken it as an indication of what kind of sys admin a candidate

RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread Orr, Steve
If you use Outlook try SpamBayes. I recently implemented it and it works exceptionally well It uses derivatives of Bayesian algorithms and is extremely accurate considering the nature of spam-crap. If you have an existing spam folder it analyzes that and starts getting smart about what you

RE: RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed.. ie is probably Ireland ... IN is for India. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly

are fast refreshes really fast?

2003-07-16 Thread Henry Poras
I've been working with Materialized Views and fast refreshes lately. I finally stopped to think about what is going on. Amazing what happens when I stop to think. When I think of fast refreshes, I assume the materialized view is refreshed from the MLOG$ tables associated with the base tables

Re: RE: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..

2003-07-16 Thread rgaffuri
noones hiring H1-Bs. there are so many DBAs out there who were H1-Bs in the past and are now permanent residents or US citizens that they dont need to anymore. there are typical multiple qualified applicants for every job these days. Many of which are over-qualified. From: Meng, Dennis

RE: Interview Questions for a Unix Solaris System Admin

2003-07-16 Thread Matthew Zito
Yeah, wellummm...yeah, okay - that was dumb of me. Here they are: 1) What is an inode? Answer: An inode is an on-disk data structure that contains information about a file. Useful things it includes are size, modification time, and number of links that point to it (among other things)

Re: H1-B (was: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..)

2003-07-16 Thread Glenn Stauffer
Boivin, Patrice J wrote: Why would the H1-B cost the employer money? Usually if you want to travel and get a visa you can pay a small fee at the local embassy or consultate and that's it. Work visas may be different, I don't know Do U.S. employers pay H1-B visa employees' health benefits? Just

Re: RAC or Oracle Fail Safe

2003-07-16 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! RAC - One database, two (or more) instances servicing it concurrently. If one node crashes, second one starts recovering, your uncommitted transactions and session state variables (package variables) on failed instance are lost. FailSafe - One database, one instance servicing it at any time,

Re: H1-B (was: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..)

2003-07-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
you have to spend money to hire someone with an H1-B visa, as you are basically sponsoring them for citizenship. You have to prove that you cannot find an American citizen who can fill that job etc etc. --- Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would the H1-B cost the employer money?

Re: RMAN SQL Backtrack

2003-07-16 Thread Arup Nanda
Title: Message Wow! Heady!! It's mighty nice of you to include my name in this illustrious list, Mladen; but I don't considermyself tobe in the same league :)Better yet, count yourselfin there. Talking about the business at hand - you are absolutely right; one of the "myths" (of the

Damagement

2003-07-16 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Does anyone here have the original Dilber comic page that introduced the term damagment? I'd appreciate if someone sent it to me. Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone:(203) 459-6855 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Gogala, Mladen

RE: H1-B (was: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..)

2003-07-16 Thread Anjan Thakuria
Not true.. Rachel with due respect.. -Original Message- Rachel Carmichael Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 12:15 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L you have to spend money to hire someone with an H1-B visa, as you are basically sponsoring them for citizenship. You have to

RE: are fast refreshes really fast?

2003-07-16 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: are fast refreshes really fast? vw_nso_1 is probably an inline view look for statements in the trace file ... something that has inline views .. Thanks for this analysis ... Raj Rajendra dot

RE: enterprise manager

2003-07-16 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Martin, I am wondering if the OMS is running at all... oemctl status oms on UNIX or check the services applet if you are in Windows. Patrice. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 1:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L the problem is you're trying to use

Re: RMAN SQL Backtrack

2003-07-16 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Title: Message If you have to work on the cheap, you can put the backups to tape and then copy them to tape using the OS backup software. It isn't elegant, but it works! Ruth - Original Message - From: Arup Nanda To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent:

RE: Interview Questions for a Unix Solaris System Admin

2003-07-16 Thread Matthew Zito
Well, the purpose of the original post was to list a set of questions that, while admittedly academic in that they involve facts, cross 1) a broad cross-section of what a sysadmin might be asked to do and 2) range from easy to difficult. The point is not to know the answer to every question,

Re: RMAN SQL Backtrack

2003-07-16 Thread Ron Rogers
I'll second what Ruth says about backup to disk then use the OS tape routine to archive off of the diaks. I would keep at least 2 disk backups available on disk. It is faster to perform a restore from a disk based backup than from a sequential tape. Restore on datafile from RMAN - 20 min. mount

RE: H1-B (was: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed. .)

2003-07-16 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Sounds rigid as a system. Thanks for the answer Glenn. Patrice. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 2:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L needed..) Boivin, Patrice J wrote: Why would the H1-B cost the employer money? Usually if you want to travel and get a

Re: RMAN SQL Backtrack

2003-07-16 Thread AK
Title: Message why not backup to disk and then transfer to tape . -ak - Original Message - From: Arup Nanda To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 10:24 AM Subject: Re: RMAN SQL Backtrack Wow! Heady!! It's mighty

RE: H1-B (was: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..)

2003-07-16 Thread Jay Wade
Like most laws there is always a different way to look at it http://www.h1bvisalaw.com/ From: Anjan Thakuria [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: H1-B (was: * Sr. Oracle DBA with 8i and 9i experience needed..)

RE: Antw: RE: Insert 8000 Byte into LONG column

2003-07-16 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Guido, Where are getting the data from - other database tables? Because, you could build a PL/SQL block that contains PL/SQL variables that can hold up to 32k of data. You could build the string in the variable and insert it into the LONG column. Something like: declare str_var

Cary/Others RE: should you seperate indexes from tables in

2003-07-16 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
Based on Cary's paper regarding when to use an index, would there not be value in having index tablespaces with a smaller block size vs tables using a larger block size? American Express made the following annotations on 07/16/2003 10:11:40 AM

Find the table's name that using sequences

2003-07-16 Thread Mitchell
Title: Message Hi All At first I thought it is easy to find those tables to use sequences but I failed. dba_sequence don't give too much info. Is there any idea? Thanks in advance Mitchell

RE: Damagement

2003-07-16 Thread Jesse, Rich
Nope, but this one's pretty good: http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/img/DILBERT.gif And there's some here, too... http://www.cps.unizar.es/~spd/dilbert/ Or, try and find it at http://www.dilbert.com Exactly what you didn't ask for. I could be a s/w developer! :) Rich Rich Jesse

Re: Find the table's name that using sequences

2003-07-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
no table uses a sequence. And there is no reason (other than sanity checks) to have one sequence per table. SQL code will use the sequence, usually to retrieve a value from the sequence to then insert into or update a column in a table. --- Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All At

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