Re: Initalization files, etc

2003-11-24 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 2003.11.24 01:34, VirVit wrote: Hello. I'am a newbie in Oracle, so I have some questions to experts :) 1) What difference between SPFILE and PFILE? Big one. It's best described in the concepts manual as well as in the DBA guide. To make long story short, you can modify SPFILE from

Re: Initalization files, etc

2003-11-24 Thread VirVit
1) What difference between SPFILE and PFILE? Big one. It's best described in the concepts manual as well as in the DBA guide. To make long story short, you can modify SPFILE from sqlplus which is not possible with PFILe. SPFILE is binary (quotes are here because it's not very binary, just a

AW: Any articles/books that take relational theory and make it

2003-11-24 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi Dennis Just curious: How can you get a degree in Computer Science without taking much Computer Science ? Are you relating to courses in purely theoretical CS like computability or formal languages, or do you also refer to things like relational algebra or CS specific math classes in general ?

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2003-11-24 Thread VirVit
Hello! It's me else one :) When I setup Email Notifications to sysman (sender's email, smtp server, etc) it cannon send report to me cause of VD-4280 error: The SMTP Server could not be connected to. Email server is working properly, configured too. Mail client from the same machine works fine.

Re: Oracle 8i installation

2003-11-24 Thread Yechiel Adar
OOPs - It is JIT file. Yechiel AdarMehish - Original Message - From: Yechiel Adar To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 5:49 PM Subject: Re: Oracle 8i installation First I second Mladen recommendation to install 9.2.

Re: Oracle 8i installation

2003-11-24 Thread Mohamed Kamal
what do you mean by JIT file?? how can i solve my problem? - Original Message - From: Yechiel Adar To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 12:14 PM Subject: Re: Oracle 8i installation OOPs - It is JIT file. Yechiel

RMAN restore to different machine

2003-11-24 Thread Steiner, Randy
I have an online backup of my 9i production database on CD. I want to restore it to my home PC, which has a completely different file structure and an empty database. I did the backup with rman. I spent most of Saturday trying this and can not even get rman to look at the backup set on the CD.

Re:

2003-11-24 Thread Yechiel Adar
You need SMTP server and it is a different kind of server from the e-mail server. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 11:24 AM Hello! It's me else one :) When I setup Email Notifications

Re: Oracle 8i installation

2003-11-24 Thread Yechiel Adar
There is a problem installing oracle 8i on P4 machines. Copy the installation CD to the hard disk. Search for file named symcjit.DLL and rename to symcjit.old. Run the installation from the hard disk. Yechiel AdarMehish - Original Message - From: Mohamed Kamal To:

Re:

2003-11-24 Thread Mladen Gogala
Actually, it is not. SMTP server is an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent). Outlook is an MUA (Mail User Agent). The layer that frequently sits between MUA and MTA is called UTA or User Transfer Agent. That is usually a pop3 server, IMAP server, or monstrocity called simply exchange. Both MTA and UTA are

RE: Oracle 8i installation

2003-11-24 Thread nelson flores
Or in scripts wherever you see a jre.exe, you add a nojit to the command. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yechiel Adar Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 7:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Oracle 8i

Re: Oracle 8i installation

2003-11-24 Thread Seema Singh
Still you have installation problem? If this is the case delete entry from registry/uninstalled/delete files from program file directory and installed. After that if you still run into the same problem you may try Go to http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/jre/download-jre-windows.html and

Stats on partitioned table

2003-11-24 Thread Bala, Prakash
Hello, Data-warehouse application using Oracle 8.1.7.4 on HP-UX 11i Since our ETL process is running for a long time, have been given the task of partitioning some of huge tables and check the results. So picked the top 5 sessions (in terms of running time) and got the sql used by

ORA-28595 when calling external proc

2003-11-24 Thread Igor Neyman
Oracle 9.2.0.1 on Windows XP Im getting ORA-28595: Extproc agent: Invalid DLL Path when calling external procedure. I know, I specified the correct path to my dll, when issuing CREATE LIBRARY statement. I noticed (when switched from 8.1.5 on NT to 9.2 on Win2000) that dll path

Re: Stats on partitioned table

2003-11-24 Thread rpr
Hi, 1) Did you look at the explain plans in both places? 2) What the difference in size of data? 3) How many times did you run the test? 4) Did you try giving the *RULE* hint and see the timing?"Bala, Prakash" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Data-warehouse application using Oracle

RE: ORA-28595 when calling external proc

2003-11-24 Thread Goulet, Dick
Igor, I can't remember exactly where I read it, but under Oracle 9i the DLL or SO file(unix) needs to be in either $ORACLE_HOME/bin or $ORACLE_HOME/lib only. Dick GouletSenior Oracle DBAOracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message-From: Igor Neyman [mailto:[EMAIL

xref table - design consideration

2003-11-24 Thread Barbara Baker
List: We're trying to design a CRM app. We believe we need 3 tables (Prospect/Customer, Private Party, and Agency) because those 3 kinds of (potential) customers have different attributes. The sales rep should know whether they're looking up cust, private party, or agency. But what if they

Re: Initalization files, etc

2003-11-24 Thread Jared Still
On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 23:54, VirVit wrote: Well. But, I have Oracle installed by default to d:\oracle It's structure is: d:\oracle\ admin oradata ora92 (it's my home dir) Since you're on Windoze, the default for both is %ORACLE_HOME%/database Jared -- Please see the official ORACLE-L

Re: Initalization files, etc

2003-11-24 Thread Jared Still
Mladen, I'm surprised at you. You didn't mention that using SPFILE makes it possible to put your database in a state that will prevent it from being started. ie. alter system set shared_pool=1024m scope spfile; I doubt many systems could handle that. Kirti and others convinced me to

Re: ORA-28595 when calling external proc

2003-11-24 Thread Mladen Gogala
Actually, it doesn't. The lib needs to be in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH with which oracle was started. So, you could do a thing like this: mkdir /home/mgogala/lib; cp usrslib.so /home/mgogala/lib chmod -R 755 /home/mgogala/lib

RE: xref table - design consideration

2003-11-24 Thread Igor Neyman
Could you use partitioned table with partitioning key type: Prospect/Customer, or Private Party, or Agency? In this case, if end-user knows type he is searching for, the query will go to specific partition, if not - it'll deal with the whole table. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: ORA-28595 when calling external proc

2003-11-24 Thread Alexander . Feinstein
Title: Message This is new features of 9.2. The same on LINUX. oerr ORA 2859528595, 0, "Extproc agent : Invalid DLL Path"// *Cause: The path of DLL supplied for the extproc execution is invalid.// *Action: Check if the DLL path is set properly using the EXTPROC_DLLS// environment

RE: Initalization files, etc

2003-11-24 Thread Alexander . Feinstein
Title: RE: Initalization files, etc Jared, You can do this with PFILE as well. And to resolve a problem there is (not complicated) solution. Alex. -Original Message- From: Jared Still [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 10:05 AM To: Multiple recipients

RE: Initalization files, etc

2003-11-24 Thread Igor Neyman
But, in this case you can always start it specifying explicitly PFILE=... (instead of using SPFILE). Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Jared Still Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 1:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Mladen, I'm surprised at you.

Re: Initalization files, etc

2003-11-24 Thread Mladen Gogala
Oh, there are several ways for that. One of better would be (the guy is on NT) something like this: alter system set spfile='c:\winnt\system32\ntoskrnl.exe' scope=both; REM Make sure that the user oracle is a local administrator on the REM machine. That is crucial if we want the next step to

RE: xref table - design consideration

2003-11-24 Thread Barbara Baker
Thanks, Igor. The problem there is that we did not purchase the partitioning option. Guess I'll look into the cost for that. Thanks! Barb --- Igor Neyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you use partitioned table with partitioning key type: Prospect/Customer, or Private Party, or Agency? In

Legato

2003-11-24 Thread April Wells
Title: Legato It appears that we have one instance of the Legato Media Manager (whatever it is that ships with 9.2) installed and I can't find documentation on the Legato site or the Oracle site on how to get RID of this version. Can happily get rid of 5.5 or earlier, but can't find how to

RE: Initalization files, etc

2003-11-24 Thread Thater, William
Jared Still scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: Mladen, I'm surprised at you. You didn't mention that using SPFILE makes it possible to put your database in a state that will prevent it from being started. i do believe he left that as an exercise for the reader.;-) yet another way

RE: ORA-28595 when calling external proc

2003-11-24 Thread Igor Neyman
$ORACLE_HOME/bin is where I put my dll. Whats puzzling is that it works under 8.1.5/NT or 9.2/Win2000, but not under 9.2/XP. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Goulet, Dick Sent:

RE: RMAN restore to different machine

2003-11-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Randy First, you may want to investigate your company's attitude toward recovering their proprietary data on your personal machine. I can give you some ideas on your task, but my experience is on 1)Unix, and 2) Oracle 8i. I would recommend you purchase Robert Freeman's book Oracle9i RMAN

Re: xref table - design consideration

2003-11-24 Thread Jared Still
Barbara, If you are really modeling the data, you should not be thinking about, or even discussing, tables, SQL, foreign keys, indexes, partitioning or any other physical manifestation. The point of modeling is to determine if you have accounted for all the data that is needed. What do

Re: xref table - design consideration

2003-11-24 Thread Mladen Gogala
You can keep them in sync with 3 triggers, instead of one. Actually, I don't even know how would you keep 4 tables in sync with only a single trigger. On 11/24/2003 12:44:25 PM, Barbara Baker wrote: List: We're trying to design a CRM app. We believe we need 3 tables (Prospect/Customer,

Re: Initalization files, etc

2003-11-24 Thread Jared Still
Yeah, I like that. Think I'll go run that on my SAP systems right now. The next reboot should be entertaining. Jared On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 10:19, Mladen Gogala wrote: Oh, there are several ways for that. One of better would be (the guy is on NT) something like this: alter system set

RE: Initalization files, etc

2003-11-24 Thread Jared Still
A couple of folks have mentioned SCOPE=both. Sorry, there are a number of parameters that are limited to SCOPE=spfile, so you can still screw your database up pretty badly. The only possible solution is to remember to dump your spfile to pfile after changes, but there's always the good

RE: ORA-28595 when calling external proc

2003-11-24 Thread Igor Neyman
Title: Message Thanks a lot! Adding EXTPROC_DLLS= in listener.ora made it working. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 1:15 PM To:

Re: xref table - design consideration

2003-11-24 Thread Stephane Faroult
Barbara, I totally agree with what Jared said. You should, if your customers have attributes in common (I guess that the address where you send the invoice is a good common attribute to start with :-)), have a common, basic 'customers' table (as seen in the sales rep's eye, somebody you can

Re: xref table - design consideration

2003-11-24 Thread Jared Still
With a view and an instead-of trigger. Works, not recommended, as it gets complex fast. Jared On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 10:54, Mladen Gogala wrote: You can keep them in sync with 3 triggers, instead of one. Actually, I don't even know how would you keep 4 tables in sync with only a single

RE: ORA-28595 when calling external proc

2003-11-24 Thread Goulet, Dick
Well!! You didn't say itthat eXtreme Perversion was the OS. Dick GouletSenior Oracle DBAOracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message-From: Igor Neyman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 1:20 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE:

RE: ORA-28595 when calling external proc

2003-11-24 Thread Igor Neyman
My bad. Thanks to everyone who replied. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Goulet, Dick Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE:

RE: ORA-28595 when calling external proc

2003-11-24 Thread Goulet, Dick
Actually, since I use HP-UX, I was of the practice to keep a soft link to all of the SO files that we had in use in a specific directory off of $ORACLE_BASE. It just saved a ton of other problems. Now since Oracle in enforcing that my job becomes a touch easier. Dick GouletSenior Oracle

Re: xref table - design consideration

2003-11-24 Thread Barbara Baker
Thanks, Stephane. Fortunately for us all, I'm not trying to design this thing. I'm just trying not to sound too dumb when the designer asks me questions. The 3 entities have some things in common, but are different in scope. (An agency never places an ad, never has a contract, never gets

what is oracle rdb?

2003-11-24 Thread ryan_oracle
I see it referred to on metalink alot. I know its seperate from the rdbms. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California--

RE: what is oracle rdb?

2003-11-24 Thread Tony Johnson
RDB was bought from Digital Corporation many years ago. Supposedly a lot of the CBO was lifted from it. -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 1:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I see it referred to on metalink alot. I know its seperate from

RE: xref table - design consideration

2003-11-24 Thread Aponte, Tony
I would recommend The Data Model Resource Book, Vol. 1. A library of Universal Data Models for All Enterprises. It has a good started model for this kind of requirement but doesn't resort to multiple tables for each relationship. The book alone without the CDROM is under $100 US and might save

RE: what is oracle rdb?

2003-11-24 Thread Fowler, Kenneth R
It's another RDBMS... only runs on OpenVMS VAX and Aplha. Used to be owned by DEC and sold to Oracle a few years back (quite a few years now). Has many features in common with Oracle Server some of which originally came from Oracle Rdb and were implemented later on in Oracle Server. Ken.

RE: Stats on partitioned table

2003-11-24 Thread Bala, Prakash
The 'explain plan' was obviously different because of the presence of statistics. The amount of data in both tables were the same. After doing a lot of tests and reading, found a better way to get the results faster. Instead of 'analyze' , am currently using'dbms_stats.gather_table_stats'

RE: RMAN restore to different machine

2003-11-24 Thread Stephen Andert
More food for thought: There is a good chance that the hardware platform is different. I think that RMAN is not a valid way of changing to a new platform and you would need to export/import. I'm certain the experts on the list will correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: what is oracle rdb?

2003-11-24 Thread Bellow, Bambi
Rdb was Digital's database that was coupled with the VMS operating system in v5 and beyond. It was bought by Oracle in the late nineties because they wanted a foray into the secure database environment, and Rdb had it all sewn up, so rather than develop it, they bought it outright. They have

RE: RMAN restore to different machine

2003-11-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Good catch Stephen. My understanding is that you -Original Message- Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L More food for thought: There is a good chance that the hardware platform is different. I think that RMAN is not a valid way of changing

RE: RMAN restore to different machine

2003-11-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
My apologies, I bumped the send button. Stephen - my understanding is that you are correct, the platforms have to be the same at the binary level - i.e.., both Solaris, both Windows, etc. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Monday, November 24,

Re: what is oracle rdb?

2003-11-24 Thread Ryan
does oracle still sell it? why would you buy it over the rdbms? - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:59 PM RDB was bought from Digital Corporation many years ago. Supposedly a lot of the CBO was lifted from it.

Off-topic and off-color

2003-11-24 Thread Bellow, Bambi
Friends -- I just had to share this with you! I just got an email recruiting for the following position: Oracle 11i Conslutant There's a list forming in my mind now of things the Account Rep tells the conslutant on the first day, what the req says, what the response to the RFP was,

RE: what is oracle rdb?

2003-11-24 Thread Igor Neyman
RDB is rdbms (just another rdbms supported by Oracle corp.) Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Ryan Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 4:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L does oracle still sell it? why would you buy it over the rdbms? - Original

RE: Initalization files, etc

2003-11-24 Thread Niall Litchfield
Hi VirVit -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of VirVit Sent: 24 November 2003 07:54 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Initalization files, etc 1) What difference between SPFILE and PFILE? Big one. It's best

RE: what is oracle rdb?

2003-11-24 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Yes Oracle still sells it. Yes they still develop it - new versions released regularly with new features. It's integrated with VMS, had clustering for many years, support for Galaxy, existing applications etc See http://www.oracle.com/rdb/ http://www.jcc.com/ and more Bruce NOTICE: This

RE: what is oracle rdb?

2003-11-24 Thread Bellow, Bambi
I believe it *is* still sold; it is certainly still supported. As to why you would buy it, I don't know why anyone would have bought it when Digital was at its prime. I've never liked it. But, it is secure. As of 1993, it was rated B1, when no other database was higher than C2 (they were bound

RE: xref table - design consideration

2003-11-24 Thread David . Schmoldt
www.bookpool.com sells the book for $50. ISBN 0471380237 There is also a Vol. 2 book available. Dave -Original Message- From: Aponte, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: xref table - design

Re: what is oracle rdb?

2003-11-24 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
It's still on the price list. Download the latest price list from Oracle and search for rdb - it's on page 4 out of 9. $40K per cpu - just like Oracle EE. Trusted Oracle, to my knowledge, had nothing to do with Rdb. Lots of useful stuff came into the Oracle code from the Digital guys. Bellow,

sql trace - XCTEND rlbk=1, rd_only=1

2003-11-24 Thread Boris Dali
I've got a third party package that connects to Oracle via OCI and works in HTTP-like (stateless) fashion. Reviewing raw SQL trace output I don't see a single commit or rollback there, but there are plenty of XCTEND tx markers with rlbk=1 (after about every SELECT statement). Is this normal? Does

Re: what is oracle rdb?

2003-11-24 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Monday, November 24, 2003, 3:49:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: rcn I see it referred to on metalink alot. I know its seperate from the rdbms. Rdb was the database I cut my teeth on. So easy to use. As I recall, you could create a database with just the following: CREATE

sql trace - recursive relationships

2003-11-24 Thread Boris Dali
Reading Cary's Optimizing Oracle Performance, page 91 it says: A database call with dep=n+1 is the recursive child of the first SUBSEQUENT (empasis mine) dep=n database call listed in the SQL trace data stream Does this apply to the SQL issued from PL/SQL? I am looking at the simple packaged

Re: sql trace - XCTEND rlbk=1, rd_only=1

2003-11-24 Thread Peter Gram
Boris It look like the app's is doing rollback :-( Have a look in Note 39817.1 Interpreting Raw SQL_TRACE ... for more info. XCTEND rlbk=(0 or 1) rd_only= (0 or 1) rlbk : 1 = rollback 0 = commit rd_only : 1 = read only transaction 0 = none read only /peter Boris Dali wrote: I've got a third

Re: RMAN restore to different machine

2003-11-24 Thread Tanel Poder
Wait till 10g. Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 11:29 PM My apologies, I bumped the send button. Stephen - my understanding is that you are correct, the platforms have to be the same at the binary

Re: what is oracle rdb?

2003-11-24 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Rdb was the database I cut my teeth on. So easy to use. As I recall, you could create a database with just the following: CREATE DATABASE; Everything, including the database name, would default. It was great, especially for learning on. BTW, you can do this in 9i as well... Tanel.

Re: what is oracle rdb?

2003-11-24 Thread Tanel Poder
up, so rather than develop it, they bought it outright. They have been telling Digital/Compaq/HP's clients that they were not going to desupport it for years, and lots of folks didn't believe them, but, they've lived up to their words, and even did some development on Rdb (taking it from v5

RMAN Script

2003-11-24 Thread Ramón Estevez
Hi list, Need a little help with this, have seen in metalink both ways with and without the equal (=) sign. What is wrong with this script, am getting an error in SETSIZE; I removed and the same error. run { allocate channel c1 type disk format '/u08/backups/rman/BD_%d_%U';

Re[2]: what is oracle rdb?

2003-11-24 Thread Jonathan Gennick
I wrote: Rdb was the database I cut my teeth on. So easy to use. As I recall, you could create a database with just the following: CREATE DATABASE; Everything, including the database name, would default. It was great, especially for learning on. And then Tanel wrote: TP BTW, you can do

Re: sql trace - XCTEND rlbk=1, rd_only=1

2003-11-24 Thread Jared Still
OCI defaults to rollback on transactions on disconnect if OCITransRollback() has not been called. Don't ask me for too much detail, as I'm not an OCI programmer, I just pulled this straight from The Fine Manual. Jared On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 16:54, Boris Dali wrote: I've got a third party

Re: Email Notification

2003-11-24 Thread VirVit
I've forgot to say that it is fully qualified production server with pop3, smtp, imap protocol support. But there are no events in smtp server logs from Oracle connection. Oracle cannot connect to it when the network is okay. You need SMTP server and it is a different kind of server from the

RE: Email Notification

2003-11-24 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Have a look at Metalink note 74269.1 How to Test an SMTP Mail Gateway From a Command Line Interface This should help determine if the mail connection works outside of OEM - though this is pretty much covered by the email client working - unless it is doing something fancy. Then to obtain

Re: Email Notification

2003-11-24 Thread VirVit
I'am sorry, but right now I don't have access to Metalink cause I'am working on trial version. If it is not so hard to you, can you post the basics? Have a look at Metalink note 74269.1 How to Test an SMTP Mail Gateway From a Command Line Interface This should help determine if the mail

RE: Email Notification

2003-11-24 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
You might like to give the version of OEM as well - though if you reply to this message cut the Metalink extracts out to reduce message size Doc ID: Note:74269.1 Type: BULLETIN Status: PUBLISHED Content Type: TEXT/PLAIN Creation Date: 22-SEP-1999 Last Revision Date: 23-APR-2002

UNIX OT: exclude files in tar

2003-11-24 Thread Ross Collado
Hello, On Solaris 8 I can't seem to get the tar command right. I wanted to tar a directory but EXCLUDE one of the subdirectory in it. Example: /home/user01 /home/user01/mark01 /home/user01/mark01/ask.txt /home/user01/mark01/ghost.txt /home/user01/mark02 /home/user01/mark02/ask.txt

Experiences with Oracle and MS .Net data providers

2003-11-24 Thread Grant Allen
Hi all, Would really like to hear any feedback regarding anyone comparing these two .Net data providers (or even some of the others out there - Datadirect, etc.). We're at decision making time, and things like the differences in calling stored procs, returning Ref Cursors, are starting to mean

Re: UNIX OT: exclude files in tar

2003-11-24 Thread Brian_P_MacLean
Just another excuse to read the tar man page. This series of commands seamed to work in testing. Note the excluded and OK on the tar command output. As the tar man page states, be careful on the leading and trailing spaces in the exclude file. As with most Unix commands, DON'T use a - in the