RE: SAME and separating disk and index tablespaces

2003-10-09 Thread Hans de Git
Dave, during a 'db file sequential read', an index is _not_ accessed sequentially. An index is not a sequential structure, so reading from an index in order will cause multiple seeks on the index itself. And we're talking single user here regards, Hans Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

DB Parameters

2003-10-09 Thread Walid Alkaakati
Hi List , Can you help me please , What are the database parameters that i have to increase or modify in order to increase the speed of my ddl statments ,i have a statment that delete a table with 4 record but it takes about nine hours to accomplish !!! Is their any parameters on

RE: DB Parameters

2003-10-09 Thread Sinardy Xing
use bind variable -Original Message- Sent: 09 October 2003 16:29 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi List , Can you help me please , What are the database parameters that i have to increase or modify in order to increase the speed of my ddl statments ,i have a statment

RE: Find an unprintable character inside a column....

2003-10-09 Thread Stephane Faroult
Steve, If you are patient, I guess that something like where dump(problem_column) like '%target hex%' should more or less answer your question. HTH SF - --- Original Message --- - From: Steve Main [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Re: SAME and separating disk and index tablespaces

2003-10-09 Thread David Hau
Hans, Your statement is true except in the case of a fast full-index scan. But that's not my point. What I'm trying to say is: 1. In scenarios where response time is important, for example when you want to obtain the first n rows of a query result as quickly as possible, then access time

Re: SAME and separating disk and index tablespaces

2003-10-09 Thread David Hau
Isn't this true when the query is a parallel query, i.e. when you're doing a parallel index range scan using a partitioned index? In such case, reading the index is the producer operation, and using the rowid to retrieve the row from the table is the consumer operation, and the data flow

RE: Find an unprintable character inside a column....

2003-10-09 Thread Robson, Peter
Yes, exactly Stephane - Non-printable characters like this are a proper pest in our environment, to the extent that I have exception reports running every night looking for them (cannot trust the users...). I have a small PL/SQL piece of code used to detect these things, if anyone wants it.

Re: RE: Find an unprintable character inside a column....

2003-10-09 Thread Prem Khanna J
Peter, i would be interested in that. can u mail it to me ? Jp. 09-10-2003 18:29:33, Robson, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a small PL/SQL piece of code used to detect these things, if anyone wants it. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Prem

Re: Find an unprintable character inside a column....

2003-10-09 Thread Dias Costa
Peter, i would be interested in that. can you mail it to me ? Dias Costa Robson, Peter wrote: Yes, exactly Stephane - Non-printable characters like this are a proper pest in our environment, to the extent that I have exception reports running every night looking for them (cannot trust the

Re: DB Parameters

2003-10-09 Thread ManojKr Jha
Hi, What is volume of ur table, and 4 records that u want to delete is what % of total records. One thing that u can try is introduce index hint in delete statement. The optimal solution can be find out only if know exact statement and volume of tables and indexes. Also can u check the size

RE: A quick note

2003-10-09 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
At the risk of being dragged off and strung up (and keeping it brief as I am very busy), I really thought it was quite good. Maybe it is the change is as good as a rest syndrome. Quite intuitive and fairly easy to get dramatic performance gains by parameter tweaking and runstats (equiv. of

Re: RE: Cary's Book - new topic

2003-10-09 Thread Mladen Gogala
Connor, you're the best! On 2003.10.08 21:09, Connor McDonald wrote: Cary, you're intention is good, but you need to take the more effective (Dirty Harry) approach: Customer: It's Slow Me: What is? Customer: The application. Make it fast. Me: Maybe I can make it fast, maybe I can't. You've got

Concurrent Manager

2003-10-09 Thread Sultan Syed
Hi , In Oracle Apps why concurrent manager and report server should be indatabase tier when other application servers are in application tier.? Thx

Re: SAME and separating disk and index tablespaces

2003-10-09 Thread Nuno Souto
- Original Message - the striped array. However, this does not improve access time. If you have your tables and indexes on the same striped array, necessarily the two I/O's have to be done sequentially, incurring two times access time at a minimum. However, if you separate the

Re Db Parameters

2003-10-09 Thread Walid Alkaakati
Hi Can You please give an example on using bund varables .. THANKS

Re: EMC Snapshot Technology

2003-10-09 Thread Gene Sais
I don't use snapshots, but have used EMC BCV's in the past and now use IBM's Flashcopy for backups. I backup 1TB db in ~20 mins using Flashcopy. Then I take it off to tape, i.e. filesystems monted on a TSM Backup server, hence no resources needed from the production server :). hth, Gene

RE: DB Parameters

2003-10-09 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Walid TRUNCATE Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 3:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi List , Can you help me please , What are the database parameters that i have to

Re: RE: BROKEN_PIPE during Weblogic J2EE deployment

2003-10-09 Thread rgaffuri
do they mean the ora -03113 end of file communication error(number may be off)? Alot of stuff causes that error. that is a very vague response on their part. From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/08 Wed PM 11:34:24 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

desupport date for 8i

2003-10-09 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
FYI... Oracle extended the desupport date for 8i by a year, end of error correction support is now 31-dec-2004. They posted that end of ECS for 9i Rel 2 will be 31-dec-2005, I am doubtful about that, only 1 year lag time between two terminal releases? Patrice. -- Please see the official

RE: how to keep statistics up to date for CBO

2003-10-09 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Bob, I do the following: First, alter all tables turning monitoring on: alter table {table name} monitoring; Monitoring says: Specify MONITORING if you want Oracle to collect modification statistics on table. These statistics are estimates of the number of rows affected by DML statements over

RE: RE: Cary's Book - new topic

2003-10-09 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: RE: Cary's Book - new topic This comment coming from Mladen means something ... Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any

Shared Storage and backups

2003-10-09 Thread rgaffuri
Oracle documentation discusses multiplexing control files, data files, redo log files across multiple volumes in a RAID array. How do you handle this if your using shared storage? Where you just have one or a few logical volumes. has anyone developed a backup plan for this? -- Please see

RE: Concurrent Manager

2003-10-09 Thread April Wells
Not sure why you would necessarily want the reports server on the database tier... Concurrent managers wake up periodically (like 60 or 90 seconds), query their tables to see if there are any jobs to run... run them if there are and then go back to sleep. If they are all on the same tier,

RE: RE: Cary's Book - new topic

2003-10-09 Thread Hately, Mike (LogicaCMG)
But what !? Wedding bells? Mike -Original Message- Sent: 09 October 2003 12:59 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This comment coming from Mladen means something ... Raj Rajendra dot

Re: RE: how to keep statistics up to date for CBO

2003-10-09 Thread rgaffuri
does monitoring have any real overhead in a high transaction system? From: Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/09 Thu AM 08:59:33 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: how to keep statistics up to date for CBO Bob, I do the

RE: EMC Snapshot Technology

2003-10-09 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Gene, What happens when you need to perform a recovery from the Flashcopy backup? Is Flashcopy done while the database is open or closed? If the database is open, then I assume that you would need to perform an incomplete recovery? Just curious. I am in the middle of setting up new

RE: BROKEN_PIPE from Weblogic

2003-10-09 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Agreed. By the way, since my original posting, this error has occurred several more times. Yes, it is a catch-all error that sounds a lot like an ORA-3113. Since they using the Oracle thin JDBC driver, which talks directly to the listener, Net8 isn't involved. If the server is shut down or

RE: DB Parameters

2003-10-09 Thread Henry Poras
Lee? -Original Message- Walid Alkaakati Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 4:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi List , Can you help me please , What are the database parameters that i have to increase or modify in order to increase the speed of my ddl statments ,i have

Re: desupport date for 8i

2003-10-09 Thread Joe Testa
never mind found it, d Boivin, Patrice J wrote: FYI... Oracle extended the desupport date for 8i by a year, end of error correction support is now 31-dec-2004. They posted that end of ECS for 9i Rel 2 will be 31-dec-2005, I am doubtful about that, only 1 year lag time between two

Re: desupport date for 8i

2003-10-09 Thread Joe Testa
Patrice, where did you find that, i'm not having much luck under desupport notices. joe Boivin, Patrice J wrote: FYI... Oracle extended the desupport date for 8i by a year, end of error correction support is now 31-dec-2004. They posted that end of ECS for 9i Rel 2 will be 31-dec-2005, I am

RE: SAME and separating disk and index tablespaces

2003-10-09 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
Title: RE: SAME and separating disk and index tablespaces Maybe we have been lucky. But we use the SAME methodology. We have removed a considerable amount of human effort in regards to layout of datafiles and disk layout. And based on the stats that I have seen from the Storage team/SA's, we

RE: how to keep statistics up to date for CBO

2003-10-09 Thread Bob Metelsky
Thank you very much Tom. That gives me an excellent starting point. I'll begin to implement this in a devel environment and get a feel for it. Thanks again! bob -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 9:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Bob, I do the

RE: SAME and separating disk and index tablespaces

2003-10-09 Thread Thater, William
Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: Hi Hans/Vikas, I tend to agree that the old draconian rule that thou shalt always separate indexes from tables may not apply any more. We used to apply that principle in the past when the number of available spindles was

RE: where can I find sample db creation script (9.2.0.1.0 installation)?

2003-10-09 Thread Bob Metelsky
Yes Im on Windows xp the script names and dir structure should be the same though... Here is buildall.sql buildall.sql spool \build.log SET TERMOUT OFF SET ECHO OFF connect internal @@build_db.sql @C:\oracle\ora81\RDBMS\admin\catalog.sql

RE: desupport date for 8i

2003-10-09 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Patrice Oracle's goal is to create a major release every 18 months, and someone figured out they historically have been pretty much on track. So then desupport intervals should theoretically be about 18 months apart. My guess is that 8i is very popular among large clients so its desupport is

RE: DB Parameters

2003-10-09 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
No -Original Message- Sent: 09 October 2003 14:15 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Lee? -Original Message- Walid Alkaakati Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 4:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi List , Can you help me please , What are the

Temp Tablespace

2003-10-09 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: RE: SAME and separating disk and index tablespaces All, Is there a way to clear a TEMP tablespace defined as Temporary? We had a couple of long-running jobs that have totally clogged up the TEMP tablespace (54 Gig worth) and it doesn't seem to be releasing the space. I know a db

Re: DB Parameters

2003-10-09 Thread Mladen Gogala
You can try with the _db_perf_silver_bullet=42, which is the straightforward approach, or you can be a backward hick like me and trace your session with 10046, see what events are you waiting for and adjust your application, OS and instance parameters to really solve the problem. On Thu,

Re: OT - Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-040 (828750)

2003-10-09 Thread Mladen Gogala
You should try with RHN or Red Carpet. They work just fine. On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 18:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Microsoft issued this critical update on the 3rd, which I found out about, when I did a Windows Update from my IE.

Re: Concurrent Manager

2003-10-09 Thread Sultan Syed
Thanks April,

RE: desupport date for 8i

2003-10-09 Thread Nigel Bishop
Joe, Look at Doc IDs 250629.1 148054.1 - the extension is for some platforms only Regards -Original Message- Sent: 09 October 2003 14:29 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Patrice, where did you find that, i'm not having much luck under desupport notices. joe Boivin,

RE: desupport date for 8i

2003-10-09 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
My Headlines screen, KnowledgeBase section, top two items (I got two copies because I have two CSIs ? not sure). Or, note 148054.1 Patrice -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Patrice, where did you find that, i'm not

RE: A quick note

2003-10-09 Thread Gene Sais
Lee - Interesting you were using IBM Flashcopy and you had problems. I am using FlashCopy v2 and have not seen any problems. Can you enlighten me what I should look out for? Thanks, Gene [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/09/03 06:44AM At the risk of being dragged off and strung up (and keeping it

RE: EMC Snapshot Technology

2003-10-09 Thread Gene Sais
Tom - I can do either a cold or hot backup. It is all scripted. I prefer cold backups. IBM did try to sell us TDP for Oracle, get this, to open the db on the backup server to back it up using RMAN. The files on the backup server are just that files, no need for Oracle utilities to back them

RE: SAME and separating disk and index tablespaces

2003-10-09 Thread Cary Millsap
Title: RE: SAME and separating disk and index tablespaces Good stuff. Plus, watch this: If saving dozens of hours of labor cost actually does cost a full 5% performance penalty on access time, and if reads from disk account for 10% of total response time for a given user action, then

RE: EMC Snapshot Technology

2003-10-09 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Hey Tom, I'm in the same boat. Have you looked over some of the red papers at www.storage.ibm.com/ess??? If not, check this one out... Storage Management for SAP and Oracle8i on SUN SOLARIS Split Mirror Backup/Recovery with IBM's ESS. Granted its for Solaris, but I would think the

Avoiding full table scan

2003-10-09 Thread Jack van Zanen
Title: Avoiding full table scan Hi All, I wish to avoid a full tablescan on the following data V. Zanen Zanen Van Zanen ... ... ... Lot's more data Select * from table where upper(name) like '%ZANEN%' I could create a function based index on upper(name) but this does not take care

RE: how to keep statistics up to date for CBO

2003-10-09 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: how to keep statistics up to date for CBO Tom, why would you want to collect table/index stats separately? Any reason? I prefer cascade=true with mine. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot

RE: how to keep statistics up to date for CBO

2003-10-09 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: RE: how to keep statistics up to date for CBO Raj, Of course you are correct. I didn't see the "cascade" option until just recently. And I'm a bit lazy. And it's currently working just fine. Need any other lazy-a**ed excuses? :) Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional

RE: Temp Tablespace

2003-10-09 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi A.F.A.I.K the space is free for use by new queries. Oracle just does not release the extents to save resources on extent management. Just that your monitoring scripts keep yelling 100% used :-) Jack -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 4:14 PM To: Multiple

RE: how to keep statistics up to date for CBO

2003-10-09 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: how to keep statistics up to date for CBO Likewise all my options are shaken .. not stirred . Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly

Re: Temp Tablespace

2003-10-09 Thread Hemant K Chitale
If it is a TABLESPACE TEMPORARY, query on v$SORT_SEGMENT to get the current size of the sort segment. Then issue an ALTER TABLESPACE tablespacename DEFAULT STORAGE (PCTINCREASE 0). Re-query V$SORT_SEGMENT and the segment would have been released. If there were current users in the segment, you

Re: DB Parameters

2003-10-09 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
I was tempted to point to the /*+ _try_harder */ hint (revealed by Jonathan Lewis at this year's IOUG), but that won't be available until Oracle 10. Until then we have to use the old methods of identifying where the time is spent and figure out what can be done to eliminate as much of it as

RE: where can I find sample db creation script (9.2.0.1.0 installation)?

2003-10-09 Thread Guang Mei
Which oracle version is your buildall.sql for? I just queried my 9i db and got this: SQL select TABLESPACE_NAME from dba_tablespaces; TABLESPACE_NAME -- SYSTEM UNDOTBS1 TEMP CWMLITE DRSYS EXAMPLE INDX ODM TOOLS USERS XDB Where is Undo tablespace part in your

RE: BROKEN_PIPE from Weblogic

2003-10-09 Thread Jeff Herrick
I don't think it's accurate to say that NET8 isn't involved when you're talking directly to the listener =8-) More correctly you are eliminating the NET8 client DLL's...but you could still have the connections dropping due to transient network failures. I have a particular problem with CISCO

RE: how to keep statistics up to date for CBO

2003-10-09 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
One reason to collect index stats separately would be if you use estimate for the collection of the table statistics. In that case I collect the index stats separately with a compute. Index statistics collection is fast enough to always go for exact statistics rather than sampling. At 08:44 AM

RE: how to keep statistics up to date for CBO

2003-10-09 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: how to keep statistics up to date for CBO So Wolfgang, in that case, should _wait_ till table stats (which are probably estimate) are complete to perform index stats (which you recommend compute) or can that happen in parallel. Raj

Re: Temp Tablespace

2003-10-09 Thread M Rafiq
Tom, What type of temporary? Dictionery managed or LMT. If dictionary managed then 2 solutions. a)make it offline and online again during offpeak period. 2)Make it permanent tablespace to avoid this situation. If LMT based (temp_datafiles) then check v$sort_usage instead of header table. If

RE: DB Parameters

2003-10-09 Thread Cary Millsap
Walid, It's unlikely that a database parameter will provide the solution to your problem. Trace the DELETE if you can (DBMS_SUPPORT.START_TRACE_IN_SESSION), to see what's taking so long. Odds are that your DELETE is poorly optimized SQL that's simply doing more work than it needs to be doing.

Turning off undo for one session

2003-10-09 Thread Browett, Darren
We are trying to load 23Gb's of raster images into our 9.2.0.2/Rac Database, using ESRI's SDE GIS package, and as usual there is a big rush to load the data. If we try to load 14 images at one time, we run out of undo space (datafile is currently 2 Gb). I could simply add another datafile and

RE: DB Parameters

2003-10-09 Thread Guang Mei
Does the table you are deleting has any child table(s)? If yes, then are the foreign keys in the child table(s) indexed? Guang -Original Message- Wolfgang Breitling Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I was tempted to point to the /*+

Re: Fw: 'shared pool'

2003-10-09 Thread Mladen Gogala
It's because of the SGA_MAX_SIZE parameter, which is, of course, rounded so that the SGA can be aligned to the page boundary. On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 19:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mladen ,is all this documented anywhere or is it all very common knowledge ? I can't believe that all you expert

Re: Turning off undo for one session

2003-10-09 Thread Mladen Gogala
Undo cannot be turned off because without commit/rollback capability, RDBMS can no longer manage resources and cannot observe ACID properties. What you can do is to load files as BFILE type, which, essentially, means that you are copying them to file system and just recording the pathname into

Redos gone crazy--a job for audit?

2003-10-09 Thread Barbara Baker
Hi, list. Ya, I'm still alive and kickin'. We have this small database that's running a weird vendor application. (We get all the gems.) It's on Solaris 5.8, Oracle 8.1.7.2 The database suddenly went from kicking out 50 meg redo logs 2 or 3 times a day to churning them out every 15 minutes.

RE: how to keep statistics up to date for CBO

2003-10-09 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
I don't see any reason why that couldn't happen concurrently. The table and its indexes are different physical segments. At 09:59 AM 10/9/2003, you wrote: So Wolfgang, in that case, should _wait_ till table stats (which are probably estimate) are complete to perform index stats (which you

RE: Temp Tablespace

2003-10-09 Thread Guang Mei
Title: RE: SAME and separating disk and index tablespaces Hi: I had this situation last month and I finally bounced the db. "drop tablespace temp INCLUDING CONTENTS" might work if you want to wait long enough. I tried this and the db just hang for 30 min before I killed it. My temp ts

RE: Redos gone crazy--a job for audit?

2003-10-09 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Redos gone crazy--a job for audit? log miner should give you what you want ... why not? On last friday something happened and in our database which usually averages about 100x100M archive logs, it started throwing 41 files between 2pm-3pm, 248 between 3pm-4pm, 95 between 4pm-5pm.

RE: Temp Tablespace

2003-10-09 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
I think you are right Jack. With a Temporary Temp tablespace, there is nothing I can do to lower the HWM. And I don;t really think it's full - just the HWM shows it filled up. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:19 AM To:

RE: alter session

2003-10-09 Thread Goulet, Dick
Paul, Not true. It has no effect on privileges. If you can't access the table normally using alter session won't change that. Dick GouletSenior Oracle DBAOracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message-From: Paul Drake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003

Re: Redos gone crazy--a job for audit?

2003-10-09 Thread Mladen Gogala
Here is a query that will help you find the biggest consumer of redo blocks: select sid, value from (select s.sid,s.value from v$sesstat s, v$statname n where s.statistic#=n.statistic# and n.name='redo blocks written' order by value); However, 50MB redo

RE: alter session

2003-10-09 Thread Goulet, Dick
That only affects how Oracle finds objects. If for instance you would have to access dba_users normally as sys.dba_users then using the alter session command means you can drop the 'sys.' portion thereof. It has no affect on your priviledges. Down side is that if you then want to reference

Re: Redos gone crazy--a job for audit?

2003-10-09 Thread Mladen Gogala
It should have been redo entries, not redo blocks written. The only guy writing redo blocks is LGWR, so the previous query would always give a hume amount for SID=4 and 0 for everybody else. On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 13:09, Barbara Baker wrote: Hi, list. Ya, I'm still alive and kickin'. We have

RE: Redos gone crazy--a job for audit?

2003-10-09 Thread Rich Gesler
Just a quick thought, are any tablespaces left in Hot Backup Mode? Rich -Original Message- Barbara Baker Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 1:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, list. Ya, I'm still alive and kickin'. We have this small database that's running a weird

RE: RE: how to keep statistics up to date for CBO

2003-10-09 Thread Goulet, Dick
None that I've noticed the database in question is processing something like 1B transactions per day. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 9:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L does monitoring have any

RE: Avoiding full table scan

2003-10-09 Thread Goulet, Dick
Title: Avoiding full table scan Jack, In a recent copy of SELECT magazine there is a discussion in defense of full table scans. I believe you might find it VERY interesting. Although I was aware of some of what the author spoke he put it in a vein that makes extreme sense. Dick

RE: Turning off undo for one session

2003-10-09 Thread Browett, Darren
Thanks for the response, unfortunately the application requires the data to be stored in the database, loading the files as BFILE type and then using DBMS_LOB.READ is not possible. Darren -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

Using ' in Update statement

2003-10-09 Thread Hamid Alavi
List, How can I user comma ' in my update statement? update tablea set fielda =' james'ste Camp 'first,'sec' ' Thanks, Hamid Alavi Office : 818-737-0526 Cell phone : 818-416-5095 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Hamid Alavi

Re: SAME and separating disk and index tablespaces

2003-10-09 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
David and list, Some points to keep in mind in our discussion: * Throughput can be measured both by IOPS and MB./sec, it depends on the application, whether it is purely transactional or is just hauling loads of data. Access time normally is a function of the number of I/O operations the disk

Can someone please verify this for me?

2003-10-09 Thread Nuno Souto
I have a problem with the new procedure based roles, Secure Application Roles. The following is taken from an example in ASKTOM. Basically, I'm trying to setup a role that is enabled or not by a procedure. The original code from Tom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] l 1 create or replace procedure

Re: Using ' in Update statement

2003-10-09 Thread Mladen Gogala
It's in the documentation. Start with the concepts manual, then SQL*Plus manual and SQL reference. I'm sure that you'll run across the answer because that's where I have found the answer to the very same question. On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 13:59, Hamid Alavi wrote: List, How can I user comma '

RE: Redos gone crazy--a job for audit?

2003-10-09 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Do you have the database in backup mode? Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 1:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, list. Ya, I'm still alive and kickin'. We have this small database that's running a weird vendor application. (We get all the

RE: encrypt traffic across internet?

2003-10-09 Thread Jared . Still
Here's URL that shows how. http://www.akadia.com/services/ssh_connect_tunnels.html I've tried it, works well. Jared Richard Ji [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/08/2003 08:44 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Re: Can someone please verify this for me?

2003-10-09 Thread Mladen Gogala
Maybe you should try with DBMS_SESSION.SET_ROLE? On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 11:09, Nuno Souto wrote: I have a problem with the new procedure based roles, Secure Application Roles. The following is taken from an example in ASKTOM. Basically, I'm trying to setup a role that is enabled or not by a

Re: Populating BLOB's from a SQL Script? - Solution

2003-10-09 Thread Jared . Still
Mark, I didn't fully understand you're earlier post, but now it seems that the sqlunldr.pl script in the PDBA toolkit may do what you want. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleperl/pdbatoolkit/ It will dump blobs to hex in a sqlldr compatible file, along with the control and parameters script

RE: Using ' in Update statement

2003-10-09 Thread Eberhard, Jeff
Do you mean a single quote? like this?: SQL update tablea set fielda = ' james''ste Camp ''first,''sec'' '; 1 row updated. SQL select * from tablea; FIELDA james'ste Camp 'first,'sec' 1 row

interesting dynamic pl/sql question

2003-10-09 Thread rgaffuri
Im on 8.1.7. Is it possible to do something like this? Im getting errors: create or replace procedure myproc is TYPE myRecord is RECORD ( field_1 number, field_2 number); TYPE storageArray IS TABLE OF myRecord INDEX BY BINARY_INTEGER; myStorageArray storageArray; i

RE: Redos gone crazy--a job for audit?

2003-10-09 Thread Barbara Baker
Well, that was an excellent idea. But sadly, that's not it. (We actually don't use hot backups, but I checked just in case someone mucked with it. No dice.) Thanks. Barb --- Khedr, Waleed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have the database in backup mode? Waleed -Original Message-

RE: more on Oracle Standard One

2003-10-09 Thread Rothouse, Michael
Title: Message I was told by our Oracle Rep it is the number of users using the front-end application. If you have 10 specific users using the application, then a 10-user license must be purchased. -Original Message-From: AK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October

RE: Can someone please verify this for me?

2003-10-09 Thread Igor Neyman
Strange... works fine here (same environment 9.2.0.1 on Win2K server): SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Oct 9 13:43:23 2003 Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production With the

RE: Can someone please verify this for me?

2003-10-09 Thread Khedr, Waleed
It worked for me 9.2.0.2 Solaris 2.8 But I'm surprised since I always thought that roles are disabled in stored procs. Even it worked for me but it's still disabled in the stored proc after the execute immediate. Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:09 AM To:

Re: Redos gone crazy--a job for audit?

2003-10-09 Thread Daniel Fink
Barb, Every time I have run into this situation, I have used the following approach and it has always worked. I've never validated it in all cases, so take it with a grain of salt. Redo is generated by block changes. Find the session that is generating the most # of block changes

Re: more on Oracle Standard One

2003-10-09 Thread AK
Just curious , If Ibuy named user licence and use some application to connect using same user (Just like any app server with connection pooling ) does the cost multiply to no of user_connecting_to_app_server or no_of_users_actually_connected to database( mean schemas) ?? -ak -

RE: Temp Tablespace

2003-10-09 Thread M Rafiq
Under the senario rely on v$sort_usage view. Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 09:24:24 -0800 I think you are right Jack. With a Temporary Temp tablespace, there is nothing I can do to lower the HWM. And

RE: Redos gone crazy--a job for audit?

2003-10-09 Thread Khedr, Waleed
Sample the top sessions from v$sesstat for statname 'redo size' (statistic# 115 in my database) Then joining to v$sql should give you the sql that generates that redo. Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 2:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Well,

Re: Redos gone crazy--a job for audit?

2003-10-09 Thread M Rafiq
You can track the sql which is doing DML while redo being generated. Look at v$sqlarea or v$sql. Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 09:09:24 -0800 Hi, list. Ya, I'm still alive and kickin'. We have this

Re: Can someone please verify this for me?

2003-10-09 Thread Nuno Souto
Nope. Tried with that one as well, same result. Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - Maybe you should try with DBMS_SESSION.SET_ROLE? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Nuno Souto INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

Re: Can someone please verify this for me?

2003-10-09 Thread Jose Luis Delgado
Sure... there you go! SQL create role new_role identified by password; Role created. SQL 1 create or replace procedure turn_on_role 2 authid current_user 3 as 4 begin 5 execute immediate 6 'set role new_role'; 7* end; SQL / Procedure created. SQL set role

RE: interesting dynamic pl/sql question

2003-10-09 Thread Igor Neyman
You should be getting errors, because PL/SQL inside execute immediate knows nothing about mystorageArray (or i for that matter) declared in your stored procedure. Probably, you could get by using package variables (and referring to them properly: package_name.var_name, specifically inside your

RE: interesting dynamic pl/sql question

2003-10-09 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: interesting dynamic pl/sql question Ryan, what errors are you getting? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can

Re: Using ' in Update statement

2003-10-09 Thread Rick_Cale
I assume you mean quote update tablea set fielda =' james'ste Camp 'first,'sec' ' update tablea set fielda =' james''ste Camp ''first,''sec'' '; Just use 2 single quotes

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