Oracle Express and transaction mode

2003-10-13 Thread Shibu MB
Hi all... I am working on a Datawarehouse, the OLAP engine is ORACLE EXPRESS. Whenever ORACLE EXPRESS fires a 'select' query to the oracle database, it sets the transaction in read only mode. This is done by first setting the session in READ ONLY mode. set transaction read only; and then firing

Re: Importing LOB segments

2003-10-13 Thread Kaing, Leng
LOBS are a pain to deal with. They take forever to import. I've put the tablespace and table in NOLOGGING mode. Have also increased import's buffer size and recordlength. If you find a way please let me know too. --- From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Joshua=20Becker?=

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

2003-10-13 Thread Robson, Peter
Just a brief foot-note to this discussion. The reason I selected the data, rather than attempted an automatic correction, was that sometimes two words would be separated by ascii(10) (forcing a line throw), and sometimes the corruption would appear as an additional spurious character in a line.

RE: RAC and Standby Dr

2003-10-13 Thread Pete Sharman
A couple of comments on this. First, if you did go the route of using SRDF, the only supported mode for Oracle databases is synchronous. That can be a real performance hit depending on your configuration. Second, since you mentioned RAC I assume you're on 9i and in that release you can switch

Reboot Solaris and Oracle 9i install

2003-10-13 Thread M.Godlewski
List, Does anyone know the correct Solaris commands to reboot a UNIX Solaris 64 bit os system. Is it init, shutdown or reboot? I'm attempting to install Oracle 9i Release 2 on a Solaris machine. I received a memory error when attempting to create an Oracle database, so I need the system rebooted

Re: Reboot Solaris and Oracle 9i install

2003-10-13 Thread Robert Jenkins
Use 'shutdown now' Then 'reboot -r' [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/13/03 7:3 4:24 AM List, Does anyone know the correct Solaris commands to reboot a UNIX Solaris 64 bit os system. Is it init, shutdown or reboot? I'm attempting to install Oracle 9i Release 2 on a Solaris machine. I received a

10g new featuers seminars from oracle

2003-10-13 Thread rgaffuri
my company just got invited to on next month in Wash DC. Anyone know if these will have meet or will they just be fluff? I dont want to waste my time going to a sales pitch. they had one last week that was just marketing. One of our guys went to it. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: 10g new featuers seminars from oracle

2003-10-13 Thread Melanie Caffrey
There was one here, in New York, last Thursday. If whatever you've been invited to has a title that runs along the lines of The Launch of 10g, then it's safe to say that it's probably pure marketing. Melanie -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 11:24 AM

Re: FW: Concurrent Manager

2003-10-13 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Well, I guess there's something more for me to learn. The last time I did an 11i install was more than 2.5 years ago, as a consultant, installing 11.5.3 Since then, I've been administering an 11.0.3 environment [alongwith 50 other databases]. Hemant At 10:39 AM 12-10-03 -0800, you wrote: It is

Re: Reboot Solaris and Oracle 9i install

2003-10-13 Thread Mujeeb Chowdhry
try init 6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/13/03 11:04AM Use 'shutdown now' Then 'reboot -r' [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/13/03 7:34:24 AM List, Does anyone know the correct Solaris commands to reboot a UNIX Solaris 64 bit os system. Is it init, shutdown or reboot? I'm attempting to install Oracle 9i Release

RE: RE: Separate Indexes and Data

2003-10-13 Thread JayMiller
I assume that what Rachel is referring to is the fact that indexes will generally not release much space when the underlying rows are deleted. They just keep growing, so if you have a large indexed table that frequently deletes and inserts the indexes can grow to fairly ridiculous sizes over a

resize data file

2003-10-13 Thread AK
Is it okay to resize datafile while user activity is going on ? version 8.1.7.4 hp-ux . -ak

Re: RAC and Standby Dr

2003-10-13 Thread AK
Rajesh , I think in 9i dataguard this task became little easier . It doesn't take that much time to change role of database from primary to standby and vice versa . That's what doc says I haven't tried it myself though. -ak - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

pct increase

2003-10-13 Thread AK
Hi List , I have a table set with pctincrease 50. After growingmany times now it is asking for 520M of disk space and I dont have that much space in dba_free_space . Now I want to change pctincrease to 0. So that it doesn't have spiraling requirement . But event after changing pctincrease

truncating decimal places asp,ado 8.1.7.4

2003-10-13 Thread Michael Boligan
List, We went throught an 8.1.5.0. to 8.1.7.4.0 server upgrade only (no code changes, co app server changes oracle client 8.0), database server is AIX 4.3.3. Before the upgrade everything was working fine, now when variables with decimal places are passed from ASP to Oracle, they

Re: Reboot Solaris and Oracle 9i install

2003-10-13 Thread AdamDonahue
Solaris, I believe, uses the System V shutdown command. Although you could use init to switch to the appropriate reboot runlevel, the typical way to reboot a Solaris system is: # /etc/shutdown -i 6 -g 0 -y I'll assume you haven't mucked with your inittab. (This provides no grace period for

SUPPRESS SQL STATEMENTS

2003-10-13 Thread Johan Muller
A script dumps out table info. (sqlplus on aix 4.3.3 and oracle 8.1.7). I cannot suppress the PROMPT@path/scriptname and PROMPT spool off statements from the report output. The script contains both set heading off and set feedback off as part of the formatting. Posssible solutions? --

Tools to Execute Stored Procedures in Debug Mode !

2003-10-13 Thread Rama, Shreekantha (K.)
Hi List, I am looking for a tool to debug the sql procedures. I tried with TOAD, but at times this is not working.. Any suggestions on any other tools would be great help.. Shreekanth -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Rama,

Replication Error -ORA-23394: duplicate propagator

2003-10-13 Thread Oracle DBA
Hi List, I am getting ORA-23394: duplicate propagator, but when I execute DBMS_DEFER_SYS.UNREGISTER_PROPAGATOR, it says ORA-23357: the propagator does not exist. How do i resolve this issue? Anyhelp would be really greatful. Kindly see below = SQL connect system/[EMAIL

Re: Tools to Execute Stored Procedures in Debug Mode !

2003-10-13 Thread rgaffuri
pl/sql developer is not bad. however, its the same debugging stuff as toad. most debugging interfaces are generic. step into, step over, break points, etc... From: Rama, Shreekantha (K.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/10/13 Mon PM 01:19:25 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

RE: Optimizer related init parameters

2003-10-13 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Gaja,List QUESTION IN CAPITALS BELOW :- Thanks indeed P.S. Welcome Back to the List . All have been missing you. -Original Message- Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 12:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Vivek and list, I don't think any reasonable person will be able to say

HP-UX 11i/Oracle 9.2.0.4/(Semi)Intelligent Agent

2003-10-13 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Hi List: I have a server with multiple network interfaces. When this server does an IP address lookup, the address returned is the private backbone between the database and application servers. The IA starts, and is listening on this address. I am trying to query the agent from the public

Re: Tools to Execute Stored Procedures in Debug Mode !

2003-10-13 Thread Joe Testa
dbms_output.put_line ?? joe Rama, Shreekantha (K.) wrote: Hi List, I am looking for a tool to debug the sql procedures. I tried with TOAD, but at times this is not working.. Any suggestions on any other tools would be great help.. Shreekanth -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: Tools to Execute Stored Procedures in Debug Mode !

2003-10-13 Thread Michael Milligan
PL/SQL Developer from allround automations is the best, hands down. Go to http://www.allroundautomations.com for a trial. It's only $150 and it's a whole, integrated PL/SQL development environment. Fantastic program. HTH, Michael Milligan Oracle DBA Ingenix, Inc. 2525 Lake Park Blvd. Salt Lake

Hiding the names of Web Toolkit procedures in Browser Address boxes

2003-10-13 Thread Melanie Caffrey
Hello Listers, I'm trying to work out a solution for a client that I've not been able to find any substantial documentation for. Anybody familiar with the 9iAS and the PL/SQL Web Toolkit out there? I thought I was, but a client of mine has come up with a very interesting (and, I believe, very

RE: Tools to Execute Stored Procedures in Debug Mode !

2003-10-13 Thread Rich Gesler
I really like PL/SQL Developer http://www.allroundautomations.com/plsqldev.html It is only $150 and bundled licenses are even cheaper. HTHs Rich -Original Message- Rama, Shreekantha (K.) Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 1:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi List,

Re: pct increase

2003-10-13 Thread Jared . Still
you will find the answer in the docs under 'alter table' pay particular attention to the 'storage' clause Jared AK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/13/2003 09:19 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

RE: Hiding the names of Web Toolkit procedures in Browser Address boxes

2003-10-13 Thread Igor Neyman
Will your customer allow displaying a synonym instead of the stored procedure name? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Melanie Caffrey Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 1:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L boxes Hello Listers, I'm trying to work out a

Re: pct increase

2003-10-13 Thread Mladen Gogala
A temprary solution would be to allocat it manually, using something like alter table emp allocate extent (size 65535M); On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 12:19, AK wrote: Hi List , I have a table set with pctincrease 50. After growing many times now it is asking for 520M of disk space and I dont have that

RE: Tools to Execute Stored Procedures in Debug Mode !

2003-10-13 Thread Igor Neyman
What she said. Very good tool. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 1:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Tools

Resource for index

2003-10-13 Thread Eca
Friends :I have a part of statment as below : select column1 from table1where column1 = v_parameter;The column1 is not indexed, so the table full scan will be executed.Right?Well, I would like to know if anyone knows the resource :select column1 from table1where column1 = v_parameter+0What does

RE: Hiding the names of Web Toolkit procedures in Browser Address boxes

2003-10-13 Thread Melanie Caffrey
Igor, Possibly. I've not tried this approach. Have you? Is the synonym, in fact, then displayed as opposed to the procedure name, in your address line? I am temporarily away from the testing site or I would test this out straight away. Thank you for your feedback. Cheers, Melanie

RE: RE: Separate Indexes and Data

2003-10-13 Thread Jared . Still
hmmm... fodder for an article I've been contemplating. Indexes: to rebuild or not to rebuild - that is the question There's no need to reclaim space, except in special circumstances. As Kirti pointed out once, a sequentially incrementing numeric key is possibly one of those circumstances. Not

Oracle Table API documentation

2003-10-13 Thread adamdonahue
Folks, Any good online documentation on Oracle's Table API/triggers, a deployable component available via Oracle Designer? The documentation for this suite of applications is poor -- in contrast to the database and iAS docs. Thanks, Adam -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Re: Tools to Execute Stored Procedures in Debug Mode !

2003-10-13 Thread VICTORIA_PIERCE
Try PL/SQL Developer from Allround Automations. The cost is modest and the tool was developed just for Oracle. Vicki Pierce Database Administration x2401 Rama, Shreekantha (K.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/13/2003 01:19 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

RE: Tools to Execute Stored Procedures in Debug Mode !

2003-10-13 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
I have used SQL-Programmer for several years. It was developed by Sylvain-Faust, but they were bought out by BMC. It used to be reasonably priced, but now BMC wants a ton of gold for it. Good tool, but now overpriced. We have also evaluated the SQL Navigator, Quest Software's PL/SQL development

RE: Resource for index

2003-10-13 Thread Stephane Faroult
Friends : I have a part of statment as below : select column1 from table1 where column1 = v_parameter; The column1 is not indexed, so the table full scan will be executed. Right? Well, I would like to know if anyone knows the resource : select column1

RE: Hiding the names of Web Toolkit procedures in Browser Address boxes

2003-10-13 Thread Igor Neyman
Melanie, I haven't used Web Toolkit. Just assumed, that if it includes db call in address line, than procedure name could be hidden, if application calls synonym created for stored procedure. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Melanie Caffrey Sent: Monday,

Re: Oracle Table API documentation

2003-10-13 Thread Mladen Gogala
You're looking for deplorable components? There are plenty on the market. On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 14:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, Any good online documentation on Oracle's Table API/triggers, a deployable component available via Oracle Designer? The documentation for this suite of

RE: RE: Separate Indexes and Data

2003-10-13 Thread John Kanagaraj
Title: Message Jared, Any indexes supporting a "In-Today; Gone-Tomorrow" status table will require index rebuilds. Most of them have monotonically increasing numbers which lends itself to a 'holey' index... (I have a bunch of them with Oracle Apps Concurrent Manager and Workflow tables)

Re: Oracle Table API documentation

2003-10-13 Thread adamdonahue
Sorry -- my question was probably unclear. Oracle Designer includes some deployable functionality known as a Table API -- it's basically a package of procedures on the table to automate checking and autopopulation of fields, along with triggers on various events on the table. The key is the

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

2003-10-13 Thread Jared . Still
perl -pe s/[[:cntrl:]]//g file_with_ctrl_chars file_without_control_chars Robson, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/13/2003 03:49 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE:

RE: CBO and cartesian product

2003-10-13 Thread John Kanagaraj
Tim/Dilip, Unfortunately, as this is an 'Apps' instance, the parameters DB_FILE_MULTIBLOCK_READ_COUNT should be set to 8 and the OPTIMIZER_INDEX_CACHING parameter should *not* be set (letting it default)... This is as per ML Note 216205.1 - non compliance = not supported. Since this is a

LMT and Fragmentation

2003-10-13 Thread Niall Litchfield
A week or so ago Jesse (I think) suggested a test to see whether auto-allocate LMTs were susceptible to fragmentation, or whether the fact that under the hood every allocation unit was 64k made this irrelevant. The test below shows that under 9.2 creating 32 tables, extending them until each has

Re: Hiding the names of Web Toolkit procedures in Browser Address boxes

2003-10-13 Thread Pete Finnigan
Hi Melanie you could use synonyms to hide the real names of the procedures if this is a suitable alternative to showing procedure names but it doesn't alter the fact that someone could then just call these synonyms if the goal is SQL injection. You might be interested in the three papers I wrote

RE: Hiding the names of Web Toolkit procedures in Browser Address boxes

2003-10-13 Thread Melanie Caffrey
Hi Pete, Thanks much for the links to your papers! The client has not stated as such that they'd like to hide the fact that it is a Web toolkit based site, for the rest of the URL would still be visible: http://the_server/pls/the_dad/this_is_the_part_they_would_like_to_hide It appears to be

RE: Optimizer related init parameters

2003-10-13 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
Vivek, I wrote: On a related topic, I think it is relevant to mention here that to carte-blanche curtail full-table-scans, may not work to the long-term benefit of your applications. However, I will assume here that you are aware of the core point - amount of logical I/O to be the most

Re: Concurrent Manager

2003-10-13 Thread Tim Gorman
You are absolutely correct for Apps 11.0.x and before. And I'm not saying that some performance is not lost due to network latency for some ConcMgr programs. But it ain't as bad as it used to be, because of the steady migration away from chatty PRO*C and Reports code to more network-friendly

RE: RE: Separate Indexes and Data

2003-10-13 Thread Rachel Carmichael
what Jay said :) in the beginning (hopefully this will have settled down), there were a large number of deletes of daily data as the load process was refined (ie, bugs were fixed) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume that what Rachel is referring to is the fact that indexes will generally

Re: RE: Separate Indexes and Data

2003-10-13 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Richard, Sorry for the confusion, let's see if I can clear it up a bit. Background information: our production database is monitored by a hosting company. This company will extend the datafile sizes if there is less than 20% free space in the tablespace. Each time they make a change, it counts

Data Modelling Tools for a DBAs Job

2003-10-13 Thread quriyat
How essential the following tools to a DBAs job? (viz) Rational Rose, Clear case for Versioning etc. What are Data Modelling tools avbl. in the market and which are widely used (other than Oracle Designer)?. TIA ___ No banners. No pop-ups. No

Re: Data Modelling Tools for a DBAs Job

2003-10-13 Thread Mladen Gogala
You forgot perl. On 2003.10.13 20:34, quriyat wrote: How essential the following tools to a DBAs job? (viz) Rational Rose, Clear case for Versioning etc. What are Data Modelling tools avbl. in the market and which are widely used (other than Oracle Designer)?. TIA

RE: Data Modelling Tools for a DBAs Job

2003-10-13 Thread Melanie Caffrey
If you're using Rational Rose, are you interested in UML modeling? For if so, you might want to check out a tool created by Dulcian, Inc. called BRIM. http://www.dulcian.com It's a free tool, but I do believe that you must contact them for an initial consultation. I am not sure about all of

RE: Reboot Solaris and Oracle 9i install

2003-10-13 Thread Brian Dunbar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, October 13, 2003 11:44 said; Solaris, I believe, uses the System V shutdown command. Although you could use init to switch to the appropriate reboot runlevel, the typical way to reboot a Solaris system is: # /etc/shutdown -i 6 -g 0

Re: Data Modelling Tools for a DBAs Job

2003-10-13 Thread Mark Richard
I guess how important depends on what type of DBA role you are filling. If it's a system type DBA role where your only real task is to keep the database running and perform some basic backup / recovery type work then understanding the intricacies of table relationships isn't very important. If

Re: Data Modelling Tools for a DBAs Job

2003-10-13 Thread Todd Boss
I'd say having some sort of data modelling tool at your disposal is pretty much essential to understanding the table layouts and relationships for anything but the most trivial model. If you do any sort of data modeling or database design, or if you interface with developers, having a nice ERD

Perl DBI and Activestate 5.8.0

2003-10-13 Thread Grant Allen
I seem to remember there were issues with DBI, DBD::Oracle and activestate 5.8.x distros. Can anyone (Jared?) remind me of any gotchas? (I've tried the list archive, but can't get through at the moment). Platform is win2003, 9iR2. Ciao Fuzzy :-) --

OEM Problem?

2003-10-13 Thread Ryan
for some reason when i created the OEM repositiory the OEM assistant created the following username. OEM_RYAN-2LE36OFJCE_OEMREP I cant connect to this user, drop it or alter it because of '-' in the name. how do i get rid of the repository and start over?

Re: Data Modelling Tools for a DBAs Job

2003-10-13 Thread Stephane Faroult
quriyat wrote: How essential the following tools to a DBAs job? (viz) Rational Rose, Clear case for Versioning etc. What are Data Modelling tools avbl. in the market and which are widely used (other than Oracle Designer)?. TIA The only essential DBA tool is sqlplus. Modelling tools can

Re: SUPPRESS SQL STATEMENTS

2003-10-13 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Start the script from another script? Johan Muller wrote: A script dumps out table info. (sqlplus on aix 4.3.3 and oracle 8.1.7). I cannot suppress the PROMPT@path/scriptname and PROMPT spool off statements from the report output. The script contains both set heading off and set feedback

Re:CBO and cartesian product

2003-10-13 Thread Dilip
Hi Tim/John, Thanks a lot for such detailed reply. Tim, As you said, I verified the relationship between the tables. Its two parent and one child table relationship. John, thanks for referring that metalink note. For time being, I can use RULE hint and make it work. PS: Tim, 'CUT TO THE

Re: pct increase

2003-10-13 Thread Sultan Syed
It is not precalculated ,it will calculate(allocate) extent when there is not enough space for your data. You can consider locally managed tablespace if u are in 8i and above. - Original Message - From: AK To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Monday,