AW: Oracle and OpenLDAP server

2003-07-29 Thread Stefan Jahnke
We don't use it, yet. I considered using AD, because we already have an AD. But, I would prefer OpenLDAP for the UNIX world. OID is not an option since it is pretty much overkill for our needs. Let's try and see ;). Stefan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Oracle Banner

2003-07-29 Thread Pete Finnigan
Hi Chris, Nice idea!, Out of interest I was looking for a way to hide or alter the listener banner info when i was writing the Oracle security step-by-step book for SANS but i didn't consider how to alter the banner info for the server as well. I wanted to find a way to hide banner info to

RE: Emacs on SQLPlus, er uh... SQLPlus on emacs.

2003-07-29 Thread Lord David
Ok, I like vi, that's why I turn on vi emulation in emacs. I use vim for quick file viewing because it loads faster than emacs. But, over time, I've found that emacs gives you a load of little extras that suck you in and become indispensible. A few that spring to mind: - - jde - java IDE, does

RE: Oracle and OpenLDAP server

2003-07-29 Thread Hatzistavrou John
I have found the following link. It might be what you are looking for http://home.nc.rr.com/jtlayton/oid2openldap.html Kind Regards, Hatzistavrou Yannis Database Administrator SchlumbergerSema Phone ext. 478 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003

AW: Oracle and OpenLDAP server

2003-07-29 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi Yannis (or John ?) That's GREAT. Exactly what I was looking for. I'll play around with it on the weekend and give some feedback to the list next week (if somebody is interested, that is). Thanks a lot ! Stefan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Hatzistavrou John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

undo tablespace and set transaction use rollback segment

2003-07-29 Thread A.Bahar
when we were using oracle8i , whe had some process which use set transaction use rollback segment. and now we use undo tablespace and we have still same porocesses . how can set a rollbback segment for process with undo tablepsace -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: Emacs on SQLPlus, er uh... SQLPlus on emacs.

2003-07-29 Thread Lee Cullip
Thanks for this David, it's given me somewhere to start!!! Cheers Lee -Original Message- Sent: 28 July 2003 17:35 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Here's mine with references to optional packages (mainly jde) removed. Its set up for windows and cygwin, so if you're using

RE: Oracle and OpenLDAP server

2003-07-29 Thread Hatzistavrou John
I am looking forward to your feedback. Kind Regards, Hatzistavrou Yannis Database Administrator SchlumbergerSema Phone ext. 478 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Yannis (or John ?) That's

RE: Integration with IBM Mqueue series

2003-07-29 Thread Tim Onions
Did anybody get to download the presentation? When I try and get it form the NJ downloads page I get a: The requested URL /download/Oracle PRN Streams.ppt was not found on this server. message. I would very much like to read this. Thanks T¬ _ Tim Onions Speech

Re: latch

2003-07-29 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Shared pool latch protects memory allocation and de-allocation in shared pool. Thus probably you have a very volatile shared pool currently. You have several options, first of them would be to check whether you'r application is using bind variables. If it is mostly using literal values in

ocp question

2003-07-29 Thread rgaffuri
Im using the osborne OCP books for review. They say you can do analyze table table_name validate structure into storage of bad rows table I do that I get ORA-14510 only place its documented is on metalink and it says: Error: ORA 14510 Text: can specify VALIDATE INTO clause only for

RE: Integration with IBM Mqueue series

2003-07-29 Thread Indy Johal
Tim I am attaching the file to your Email Id Directly and will also pass the message to the support team of the site for correction. Indy Johal Tim Onions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/29/03 08:11 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of

Resend : Question about EXTPROC and vulnerability

2003-07-29 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Resending this email, hoping for a reply this time. Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 07:49:24 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Comment: Oracle RDBMS Community Forum X-Sender: Hemant K Chitale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From:

Please look at this imp command

2003-07-29 Thread Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI
imp tpocs/[EMAIL PROTECTED] file=c:\Latest_Reference_Files\pharm_jul_2003.dmp log= c:\Latest_Reference_Files\pharm_jul_2003.log fromuser=tpocs touser=tpocs tables=arc_ndc commit=y ignore=y buffer=8388608 Scenario: I ran this command (as instructed by the tier III tech), got a couple of warnings

Re: clustering

2003-07-29 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Tanel, I think that you've had some unfortunate experiences with RAC. Mind elucdating them ? I don't see nodes hanging when one node dies [I'm running a 2-node Tru64 RAC Cluster] Hemant At 03:04 PM 28-07-03 -0800, you wrote: However, failed transactions must be handled from client side. Queries

BYTES in DBA_DATA_FILES shows NULL

2003-07-29 Thread Gunawan Yuwono
Hi all, Can somebody explain how you can have NULL value for BYTES field in DBA_DATA_FILES? However, V$DATAFILE view shows the correct size under BYTES field. Query the SYS.X$KTFBHC, ktfbhccval field is equal to 1 for the offending datafiles. Tempting to bounce this production database later if

ORA-03115 (TOAD question!!)

2003-07-29 Thread Charu Joshi
Hi, I have Oracle 8i Enterprise Server, Oracle 9i Enterprise Server and Oracle 7.3.4 client on my NT4 machine. When I connect to remote/local databases through TOAD 6.5 (which supports LOBs) and try to fetch a CLOB value I get the 'ORA-03115: Unsupported network datatype or representation'. I

Re: Resend : Question about EXTPROC and vulnerability

2003-07-29 Thread Arup Nanda
I sent a reply on that day. Here it is, once again. Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 12:25:59 -0400 Subject: Re: Question about EXTPROC and vulnerability Hemant, You are right in wondering why there are three steps. 1. The lsitener must not be listening for the EXTPROC connections - that is the first

RE: ORA-03115 (TOAD question!!)

2003-07-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: ORA-03115 (TOAD question!!) It is a TOAD question you need to read the sqlnet setup section from help file. It is pretty detailed and will help you resolve the problem. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni

Re: Oracle AQ monitoring questions

2003-07-29 Thread AK
We are using AQ for long time . No problems so far . -ak - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 8:29 PM Hi, I am looking at using Oracle AQ to post messages.I know they are just like any other database table but

Re: ORA-03115 (TOAD question!!)

2003-07-29 Thread AK
Not sure but this might have something to do with charset (if toad can handle clob??? ) . what is db charset ? is it utf8 . -ak - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 8:19 AM Hi, I have Oracle 8i Enterprise

direct path write waits, please help

2003-07-29 Thread Hans de Git
Hi All, Please help me tune this i/o related wait event. This is my 8.1.6 statspack top-5 wait list: Top 5 Wait Events ~ Wait % Total Event Waits Time (cs) Wt Time

RE: direct path write waits, please help

2003-07-29 Thread Gorbounov,Vadim
Hi Hans, direct path write cause would be writing temporary segments when sorts are too large to be performed in memory, direct path operations like INSERT /+ APPEND or LOB access. It's hard to guess which one is causing your problems, so I'd suggest you profiling the call having performance

RE: Please look at this imp command

2003-07-29 Thread Gorbounov,Vadim
Hi Stephen, No imp wouldn't close or otherwise impact Oracle instance. I'd look at init.ora . Someone could make changes there, effective at reboot time Vadim -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 11:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: clustering

2003-07-29 Thread Matthew Zito
Title: Message Hrrrmm - well, we've never seen the problem you describe, and we've got a pretty big RAC environment here (clusters from two to six nodes, and we combine dev clusters to build bigger ones as we need). What the situation you describe sounds like is what happens when there's

RE: Emacs on SQLPlus, er uh... SQLPlus on emacs.

2003-07-29 Thread Grant Allen
Hi I use vi on Unix and textpad on windoze. I like to write macros for vi so it types repetitive code for me...:-), although I should probably use an editor with more powerful macro facilities. cheers Pete Pete! Another textpad fan ... way to go! An outstanding text editor for windows

RE: direct path write waits, please help

2003-07-29 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Hans I did a search on Google, and found this article: http://www.faqchest.com/prgm/oracle-l/ora-02/ora-0206/ora-020638/ora02062414 _22868.html (you'll probably have to patch the link together) According to this article, your biggest and second biggest wait may be connected. Dennis Williams

Number of processors and standard edition

2003-07-29 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I am trying to find any info on if there is a maximum number pf processors that a server can have and have Oracle standard edition run on it. Just looking to see if there is a cutoff point in the number of processors where I would be forced to go to Enterprise Edition of Oracle 8i.. I'm

Re: Please look at this imp command

2003-07-29 Thread Arup Nanda
Two things to check immediately: (1) Is the Oracle service defined as started automatically in the services? (2) If yes, is there any error reported in alert log of the database? Import does not shut the database down. HTH Arup Nanda - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of

Re: Please look at this imp command

2003-07-29 Thread Daniel Fink
Stephen, From your email, here are the steps as I understand them: 1) run imp command 2) reboot the server (NT/Win2k?) 3) check database and find it is not open The reboot closed the database (and probably not gracefully). When the server restarted, the service may have started, but the

RE: Number of processors and standard edition

2003-07-29 Thread Tim Onions
Last time I checked it was 4 for Windows NT/2000. Not a UNIX shop so can't comment on that OS. T¬ _ Tim Onions Speech Machines -Original Message- Sent: 29 July 2003 18:04 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am trying to find any info on if there

RE: Number of processors and standard edition

2003-07-29 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Dave - Maximum of 4 processors. http://www.pro-dba.com/oracle_database_standard_edition.html Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am trying to find

RE: Emacs on SQLPlus, er uh... SQLPlus on emacs.

2003-07-29 Thread Jesse, Rich
Or, for you GPL, cross-platform fans, there's NEdit at http://www.nedit.org I've made a simple addition to it's extensible config file so that it properly highlights all available Oracle 8i parameters when editing an init.ora file. My v5.3 .nedit file can be nabbed from

RE: Number of processors and standard edition

2003-07-29 Thread Grant Allen
My memory is 4 ... and with typical Oracle Licensing Shennanigans attached ... I remember a few cases from 2001 where clients where arguing whether SE could be licenced for up to and including 4, or up to but not including 4. But given that's a two-year-old memory, I can pretty much guarantee

Oracle 7.3.2

2003-07-29 Thread Ehresmann, David
We are going to upgrade a server from HP10.2 to HP11 or HP11i. There is an old version of Oracle 7 running on the box, Oracle 7.3.2. I looked through Oracle's certification matrix and found nothing about HP11 and 7.3.2. I am not concerned if Oracle has certified or desupported this, I just

RE: Please look at this imp command

2003-07-29 Thread Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI
I'm starting to gather that -- that the reboot did it. Entertainingly enough I had enough presence of mind to use EM As SYSDBA and open the database using the InitTPOCS.ora. The users have been using the application for the last four hours without any issues, so, what is the graceful way of

RE: Please look at this imp command

2003-07-29 Thread Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI
INLINE snip Two things to check immediately: (1) Is the Oracle service defined as started automatically in the services? Yes (2) If yes, is there any error reported in alert log of the database? Compared line-by-line the last three starts and they seem identical, nothing unusual in the

RE: direct path write waits, please help

2003-07-29 Thread John Kanagaraj
Hans, Now let me guess Your disks are all RAID 5, right? And you possibly are bottlenecking on CPU as well? It is clear from the Top 5 that writes are an issue across the board, to TEMP (direct path write), Redo (log file sync) and DB files (db file parallel writes). Creating a RAID 1 set of

RE: Oracle 7.3.2

2003-07-29 Thread Nelson, Allan
We ran 7.3.4 on HPUX 11 and 11i. It ran but we knew we could not relink and we were headed for another release anyway as part of a migration. It will run, but not recommended. Allan -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We

RE: ORA-03115 (TOAD question!!)

2003-07-29 Thread Jesse, Rich
It's a TOAD issue. It's fixed in one of the v7.x versions. The current supported version is 7.5. Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- From: AK [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Oracle 7.3.2

2003-07-29 Thread M Rafiq
David, You have to install 7.3.2 binaries for HP 11. Both HP 11 and Oracle binaries (whatever version you decide) to be installed from scratch as moving from from 10.20 to 11 itself is not supported. You may request support to provide 7.3.4 version for HP 11.Down load latest patch 7.3.4.5 and

RE: Oracle 7.3.2

2003-07-29 Thread Goulet, Dick
Sounds like time to upgrade. To the best of my limited knowledge on this, it may well run, but in 32 bit mode which may mean modifying the .mak files, manually. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 1:05 PM To: Multiple

RE: direct path write waits, please help

2003-07-29 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
But, I would like to know how this seemingly high wait for 'direct path write' is affecting the overall response time. (ResponseTime = WaitTime + ServiceTime) If the 'CPU used by this session' is not considered in light of these wait times, aren't you getting ready to bark at the wrong tree?

Re: Resend : Question about EXTPROC and vulnerability

2003-07-29 Thread Mladen Gogala
Or, alternatively, you could live EXTPROC where it is, no matter how wulnerable it is, and trust a good firewall. If you are in a commercial environment, breaking in a box through the buffer overflow hole would require a major talent, which is very hard to come by in these days of cost cutting. I

RE: Emacs on SQLPlus, er uh... SQLPlus on emacs.

2003-07-29 Thread Pardee, Roy E
LOL--I'm the sole ultraedit fan in a den of textpad users have had many conversations that start with the phrase yeah, but can your editor do this I was of the opinion that they were pretty much equal until someone (Dennis Williams?) wrote in reminding me of ue's ability to open/edit/save a

Re: Oracle 7.3.2

2003-07-29 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
We are running 7.3.4.0 on HP 11.0 with no problems at all, with compatible set to 7.3.3.0. The Application uses some old OO stuff written in GemStone. - Kirti --- Ehresmann, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are going to upgrade a server from HP10.2 to HP11 or HP11i. There is an old

Re: Number of processors and standard edition

2003-07-29 Thread Tim Gorman
I'm pretty sure that SE will run on any size server, but you'll be charged for EE when that server has more than 4 CPUs... :-) You'll see info for this at http://oraclestore.oracle.com; when you try to price an SE license on a per-processor basis. Click on the explanation of User Minimums for

Re: direct path write waits, please help

2003-07-29 Thread Tim Gorman
WHO LET THE DOGS OUT!!! on 7/29/03 11:14 AM, Kirtikumar Deshpande at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, I would like to know how this seemingly high wait for 'direct path write' is affecting the overall response time. (ResponseTime = WaitTime + ServiceTime) If the 'CPU used by this session' is

RE: Oracle 7.3.2

2003-07-29 Thread Ehresmann, David
I found out that the OS is HP11i 64bit. Does this change anything, or just make it harder? thanks, David Ehresmann. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 1:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We are running 7.3.4.0 on HP 11.0 with no problems at all, with

Re: Maximum Open Cursors on Insert Trigger

2003-07-29 Thread Jay Hostetter
Thank you for the replies. It turn out to be a code issue. The developer added olecmd.dispose(), which fixed the problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/28/03 11:54AM There are some relevant notes on MetaLink that may be of help. Search on 'visual basic ora-1000' Jared On Monday 28 July 2003

Re: ORA-03115 (TOAD question!!)

2003-07-29 Thread Jay Wade
I would recommend upgrading to 7.6.x you can download it from www.quest.com From: AK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ORA-03115 (TOAD question!!) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:49:23 -0800 Not sure but this might have

RE: Oracle 7.3.2

2003-07-29 Thread M Rafiq
We were using hp 11 64 bit OS but used Oracle software 32 bit because of Oracle Fianancials 10.7 32 but software. We also tried HP 11i 64bit OS with 7.3.4 in test environment without any issues. Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Inlist Iterator and NULLs

2003-07-29 Thread Daniel Fink
Is the INLIST ITERATOR unable to use the index unless we specify NOT NULL? I wanted to bounce this off the list before we log a TAR. We are examining the performance of a query and I am trying to understand why an INLIST ITERATOR is not used if there is not an explicit IS NOT NULL predicate

RE: ORA-03115 (TOAD question!!)

2003-07-29 Thread Jesse, Rich
7.6 is BETA. 7.5.2 is the current release. New betas appear frequently. Also, this version is not free. It's listed at just under $800 US. The freeware version is v6.x, which has the LOB bug, among a host of others. Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator

RE: Please look at this imp command

2003-07-29 Thread Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI
I'm embarrassed ... Shutdown immediate via SQL*Plus after verifying all users have disconnected. v/r Stephen S. Wolfe, GS-11, DAFC Data Services Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] (813) 827-9974 DSN 651-9974 -Original Message- From: Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI Sent: Tuesday, July

buffer busy waits and v$filestat

2003-07-29 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Folks, Say a session issues a read request, and finds another session already reading the block into the buffer cache. If this session waits N ms on a buffer busy waits event, does this N ms of wait get added to the read times in v$filestat? Or is the readtim in v$filestat purely physical I/O?

SQL Loader problem

2003-07-29 Thread Anna Li
Hi All, I'm trying to use SQL Loader to load data from a text file into a table. However, I always get error as column SKILL_DESCRIPTION field in data file exceeds maximum length where the column SKILL_DESCRIPTION is declared as varchar2(4000). I know the data is 4000 characters, but 1000

Re: buffer busy waits and v$filestat

2003-07-29 Thread Mladen Gogala
Buffer busy wait has a different correlation with v$filestat and I/O. Buffer busy wait simply means that the buffer you're waiting for is pinned by somebody else. There are 3 classic situations: 1) DBWR hasn't finished writing to the disk yet. 2) Block is locked by another node (OPS, RAC). 3)

RE: clustering

2003-07-29 Thread Balakrishnan, Ashok - VSCM
Title: Message We used to experience problems in our RAC environment when there's an interconnect failure. There's a workaround for that problem, that was worked for us - Create a directory under $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms called ".aixopt". Create (touch) a file called SUSTAIN_IPC_FAILURE

Re: SQL Loader problem

2003-07-29 Thread Mladen Gogala
Try with external tables. The best thing since sliced bread. On 2003.07.29 17:39, Anna Li wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to use SQL Loader to load data from a text file into a table. However, I always get error as column SKILL_DESCRIPTION field in data file exceeds maximum length where the column

8.1.7.4 interim patch management strategy

2003-07-29 Thread Mandar A. Ghosalkar
Hello All, There are 188 interim patches after 8.1.7.4 patchset. I know that 8.1.7.4 is the last patchset. 1. What methods/strategy do you'll have for installing patches on a 8.1.7.4 64 bit hp-ux 11.11 database? 2. Is there opatch for 8.1.7.4? AFAIK opatch is only for 9i. 3. Should one install

upgrade to 9i

2003-07-29 Thread AK
Hi where can I find steps ( procedure ) for upgrading from 8.1.7 to 9i . Thanks, -ak

RE: upgrade to 9i

2003-07-29 Thread Avnish.Rastogi
If its not an then you can simply run catalog.sql and catproc.sql to upgrade oracle dictionary tables. Also during 9I installation Oracle ask to upgrade existing databases on that system. -Original Message-From: AK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 3:54

Re: SQL Loader problem

2003-07-29 Thread Tim Gorman
Sliced bread or not, the syntax problem will be the same since external tables are modeled on SQL*Loader syntax... :-) Anna, I suspect that there is confusion on the SQL*Loader concepts of external datatypes and internal datatypes, which incidentally is shared by external tables currently.

Re: upgrade to 9i

2003-07-29 Thread Gudmundur Josepsson
AK, Start with Note:159657.1 on MetaLink. Gudmundur - Original Message - From: AK To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 10:54 PM Subject: upgrade to 9i Hi where can I find steps ( procedure ) for upgrading from 8.1.7

Re: buffer busy waits and v$filestat

2003-07-29 Thread Diego Cutrone
Hello Raj. BBW with a p3=0 are a consecuence of the I/O subsystem not being able to provide enough throughput to the database, as Mladen has said. But there are also many others causes for BBW. Check p3. Also if the session A is waiting for a buffer in the buffer cache (that's a BBW), the

Re: Inlist Iterator and NULLs

2003-07-29 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
Can you post the sql, or even the 10053 trace up to the GENERAL PLANS section. That would also answer the question which exact version/release of Oracle 9? At 12:59 PM 7/29/2003 -0800, you wrote: Is the INLIST ITERATOR unable to use the index unless we specify NOT NULL? I wanted to bounce this

Re: buffer busy waits and v$filestat

2003-07-29 Thread Mladen Gogala
That's On 2003.07.29 19:59, Diego Cutrone wrote: Another thing I think (I'm sorry to disagree with Mladen on this) is that when DBWR hasn't finished writing a buffer to the disk, and a session wants that buffer in exclusive mode, there's a wait and that wait is computed as a write complete wait

RE: Please look at this imp command

2003-07-29 Thread Rachel Carmichael
don't be... this means you are doing something we strongly advocate on this list... reading the manuals and learning. --- Wolfe Stephen S GS-11 6 MDSS/SGSI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm embarrassed ... Shutdown immediate via SQL*Plus after verifying all users have disconnected. v/r

RE: upgrade to 9i

2003-07-29 Thread Kirtikumar Deshpande
Are you missing something in your reply? If its not an then. From migrating 8.1.7 to 9i, one has to follow prescribed procedure. To my knowledge one needs to run u0801070.sql after starting the 8i database in 'migrate' mode...etc.. etc... I have the GUI thing, sorry! - Kirti --- [EMAIL

Re: buffer busy waits and v$filestat

2003-07-29 Thread Prem Khanna J
Gogala, quote RMAN is writing the block. That's right, RMAN locks (pins) blocks in memory, otherwise it couldn't ensure consistent backup. That is the reason why RMAN doesn't need alter tablespace begin backup command. /quote I have read that RMAN has the advantage of not

Re: buffer busy waits and v$filestat

2003-07-29 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 2003.07.29 21:36, Prem Khanna J wrote: Gogala, quote RMAN is writing the block. That's right, RMAN locks (pins) blocks in memory, otherwise it couldn't ensure consistent backup. That is the reason why RMAN doesn't need alter tablespace begin backup command. /quote I

Re: buffer busy waits and v$filestat

2003-07-29 Thread Prem Khanna J
Thanks a lot for your explanation Gogala. Eagerly waiting for Steve's revised edition of Oracle Internals. Regards, Jp. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Prem Khanna J INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051

Re: Index Usage ?!

2003-07-29 Thread Prem Khanna J
Once again thanx a lot Tanel for spending your precious time to make me understand. Regards, Jp. 28-07-2003 22:59:25, Tanel Poder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The point is, that index access is cheap in reality, but CBO thinks it's very expensive and chooses next best executin plan in it's

Re: Problem with Autotrace - Is this a BUG ?

2003-07-29 Thread Prem Khanna J
The user is able to query the v_$ views and statistics are (Bexplained properly. (B (Blet me enable "Event 10046" and see what happens. (B (BThanx Tanel. (B (BRegards, (BJp. (B (B28-07-2003 22:34:30, "Tanel Poder" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (BHi (BHm, but try to query sys.v_$session