Re: sqlplus hanging on exit

2001-03-20 Thread jkstill
Louis, Yep, old bug. :) I seem to recall that removing the files is enough; best check on MetaLink though. Do you have access? I can find it for you tomorrow if you don't. ( gotta get to bed now, the eyelids won't stay up :) Jared On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Louis Avrami wrote: > Jared, > > Th

Re: ITL and possible deadlocks

2001-03-20 Thread Shevtsov, Eduard
Michael, thanks for your response. I meant the following situation. Transaction#1 updates a row#1 in block#1 of a table. In order to do it allocates a ITL slot. Transaction#2 updates a row#100 in block#100 of the same table and also allocates transaction slot. If there is no free space to alloc

Re: sqlplus hanging on exit

2001-03-20 Thread Louis Avrami
Jared, Thanks for the reply. I'm embarrassed to say that the cause of the problem was Oracle Trace. The solution was to set EPC_DISABLE=TRUE in the environment and listener.ora, and stop and restart the database. I remember doing this a couple of years ago, when Oracle Trace was first enabled

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2001-03-20 Thread Rongcheng Zhang (ETC)
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2001-03-20 Thread Rongcheng Zhang (ETC)
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Re: Anybody using Network Applicance Storage boxes with Oracle?

2001-03-20 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
I have heard about this Storage box. It can be plugged with any OS and diff OS can use this box as their Storage, by allocating diff LUN's to them. When all the datafiles,redologs,archives are in same place do u expect to get better performance. Think it over. Go for RAID1 and RAID0 co

Re: SUN vs. HP

2001-03-20 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
I have been working with Oracle under HP, I find HP server with high fault toulerence and reliable. If we tune the OS and DB then we can get maximum performance. One word of caution is that, if u use Mc Servicegaurd then u shud go for OPS. Which works for only on RAW partitions. Administration

RE: OT -- A humorous reply to the Canada rulz

2001-03-20 Thread Regina Harter
At 10:07 AM 3/20/01 -0800, you wrote: U, Is this kinda like Mr. Sulu (that was Mr Chekov) on Star Trek who was sure that the Russians invented everything?  I might be wrong (happens all the time), but I thought Baseball and Basketball were distinctly inventions of the USA. You are correct, th

Locking

2001-03-20 Thread Richard Lau
Recently, one of my users nor I could update a table. As I dug around, I couldn't find any of the 'lock' tables such as dba_locks. Eventually, I managed to start data gatherer and get OEM's lock manager to kill the hung session. What do you guys do to find and terminate this deadlock or hung

Anybody using Network Applicance Storage boxes with Oracle?

2001-03-20 Thread Helmut Daiminger
Hi there! Is anybody out there running Oracle on NetApp Storage Networking box? I was told by some NetApp guys that using their boxes we don't have to worry about distributing datafiles, RBS etc. across the disks because the NetApp OS takes care of all that. Any comments? Thanks, Helmut --

No Subject

2001-03-20 Thread Ginger Mejia
IS IT POSSIBLE TO LIST JOB OPPORTUNITIES TO THIS LIST IF ONE BECOMES AVAILABLE? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ginger Mejia INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- P

Re: SUN vs. HP

2001-03-20 Thread jkstill
You will get patches and new versions of software sooner on Solaris than you will on HP. Jared On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Alex Apostolopoulos wrote: > Hi, > > we are currently in the process of evaluating a high availiability cluster > for our production database. The final two solutions are: > > Su

Re:SUN vs. HP

2001-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Alex, We've used HP servers for the last 8-9 years. Right now we have L & N class machines with a few K's still working hard every day. I find the K, L, and N class machines VERY fault tolerant. If a power supply fails the other can hold the entire load & their hot swap able. If a CPU fai

RE: RE: 32bit vs 64bit (was: Just like Christmas)

2001-03-20 Thread Kimberly Smith
Actually, the problem started with the 10.20 32-bit. They do stay up for months at a time as well. We only get 4 downtimes per year (when we are lucky). Its during reboots that we have issues. And the other plants that had issues are also running 32-bit (not Fujitsu plants either). Personall

Re:RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: OT: Rachel in Vietnam

2001-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Sure, why not. The BRICK-BAT method. Reply Separator Author: "Mohan; Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 3/20/2001 5:08 PM Wow. Talk about enforcing "foreign constraints". -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 5:01 PM To: Mohan; Ross

RE: Insert without telling column names

2001-03-20 Thread jkstill
Well of course it's a bad idea, I thought that was obvious. ;) Jared On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Jacques Kilchoer wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > How can I create an insert statement without telling all the > > names of the columns

Re:RE: RE: RE: RE: OT: Rachel in Vietnam

2001-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Ross, When a B-52, otherwise known as a BUFF (Big Ugly Fat F^cker), unloads 150 to 200(B-52D with wing racks) 750LB demolition bombs nothing stands. Even duhvelopers. I've had Marines discribe the area where a BUFF strike landed as "It looked like God reached down, scooped out a three mile

RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: OT: Rachel in Vietnam

2001-03-20 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: OT: Rachel in Vietnam Wow. Talk about enforcing "foreign constraints". -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 5:01 PM To: Mohan; Ross; Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re:RE: RE: RE:

Re: Insert without telling column names

2001-03-20 Thread David A. Barbour
Hi all - I stand (sit?) before you with egg on my face. I KNOW you can insert without naming column names if you're filling the entire row, I just didn't consider that this might be what Roland was attempting to accomplish. As Regina and Jacques both pointed out, if your package, procedure or s

Re: Free Oracle DBA tests on the web

2001-03-20 Thread jkstill
Sorry, I misspelled your name as 'Audrey' in my previous reply. Jared On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, andrey wrote: > Hi DBAs ! > I'm looking for some FREE Oracle DBA / developer resources on the web : > self-tests , OCP preparations materials , articles , books , etc ... > Please share your resources !

Re: Free Oracle DBA tests on the web

2001-03-20 Thread jkstill
Audrey, Try researching and answering at least one post a day on this forum. That will get you further than training tests. :) Jared On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, andrey wrote: > Hi DBAs ! > I'm looking for some FREE Oracle DBA / developer resources on the web : > self-tests , OCP preparations materi

Re: Columns in triggers

2001-03-20 Thread Rachel Carmichael
If there is, I haven't found one ... that's what I've done on other applications I've worked on. Rachel >From: "Witold Iwaniec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Columns in triggers >Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 1

Job Pitch: Anyone out there know the IBM OS390 (US resident)

2001-03-20 Thread dgoulet
To ALL, especially those looking for a new position, I got the attached in the Mail. I've heard from these folks in the past & they have been helpful so I don't think it's a spam (boy I've been wrong on that point before too). Anyway if there is anyone out there who can help Sean, give him a cal

RE: OT -- A humorous reply to the Canada rulz

2001-03-20 Thread Steve Orr
Actually, I think the Aztecs (or some other Central American tribe) invented basketball and the losers were slain literally. Now that's what I call a salary cap. We need something like that in professional sports today. Steve Orr -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:07 AM

How to compare date in WHEN clause of SQL*Loader?

2001-03-20 Thread Muru
Hi, I need to find whether SYSDATE falls between beginning date and ending date while loading data from a flat file. I searched Oracle manuals and Metalink, could not find a clue. Is this possible at all? If so how? example: = LOAD DATA INFILE 'price.dat' INTO TABLE price WHEN TRUNC(SYSD

Re: ITL and possible deadlocks

2001-03-20 Thread Michael Netrusov
Ed, Not sure that I understood it right, but I'll take a try. So there are 2 transactions and each one is trying to update the row which was already updated by the other transaction? IMHO, if you are trying to place an exclusive lock on the locked row ( it remains locked until commit ), you eit

Re: Find special characters in the database

2001-03-20 Thread jkstill
First off, do you have Perl and DBD::Oracle or Java? Those would be the preferred methods to do something like this, in this order. PL/SQL sould be a distant third place as it is not very fast for this kind of wholesale string operation. PL/SQL may be a good choice though, if your requirements

RE: RE: RE: RE: OT: Rachel in Vietnam

2001-03-20 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: RE: RE: RE: OT: Rachel in Vietnam BUFF bomb. That sounds cool. Will it work on developers? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 4:18 PM To: Mohan; Ross; Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re:RE: RE:

Re:RE: 32bit vs 64bit (was: Just like Christmas)

2001-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Kimberley, The problem is that you loaded the 64 bit kernel in the K class. It does not have the buss required for 64 bit, therefore the kernel does a fake it 64 emulation. Rebuild the machine with the 32 bit version of HP 11.0 & you'll be a lot happier. Ours stay up for months without pro

Re:RE: RE: RE: OT: Rachel in Vietnam

2001-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Ross, Makes sense, Nam was BUG heaven, unless they got caught in the path of a BUFF bomb run. Nothing survived that. :-) Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: "Mohan; Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 3/20/2001 8:02 AM Dick , Didn't you know? Ra

Special characters in database

2001-03-20 Thread Shakeel Qureshi
Hi list: I am looking for some guidance as to how I should find special characters used in the database and then replace them with blanks. If someone has a drawn procedure, would appreciate feed back. TIA, Shakeel Qureshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: OFF-TOPIC: RE: OT -- A humorous reply to the Canada rulz

2001-03-20 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Yeah, more money! - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 4:30 PM > And like a lot of Canadian doctors he became an U.S. citizen > > -Original Message- > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 12:57 PM > To: Multiple

Re: Slow database

2001-03-20 Thread Oliver Artelt
Hi, it's difficult to help you because we don't know anything about your nightmare skript. Either you do a business/application tuning about these procedures or you can create a ressource plan and drive this with low processor resources. oli -- Oliver Artelt Oracle Certified DBA cubeoffice

Re: OT -- Canada Rules! / Chocolate ...

2001-03-20 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Yeah, but do you guys have Texas Weiners?? I think not!! Now those are g. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 7:05 PM > The Smarties we are talking about in Canada are much > different. Candy cover

RE: OT -- A humorous reply to the Canada rulz

2001-03-20 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
It was Mr. Checkov who thought the Russians invented everything. Alexander G. Bell maintained at home at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, but he was a Scot, not a Canadian. I'm not sure where the telephone was invented, I seem to remember someplace in New York. Dr. Nasmith of Massachusets is usually c

JVM in Oracle 8.1.6/HP-UX

2001-03-20 Thread Majumdar, Uttam
Hi all, I am executing initjvm.sql to load oracle java classes into oracle 8.1.6 database under HP-UX 32bit environment. Suddenly the process stops with the following error: ORA-04021: time out occurred while waiting to lock object SYS.INITJVMAUX. My SGA is around 400M and Java-pool-size i

Re: avail space??

2001-03-20 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Raghu, To reorg Oracle Financials table is very tricky as some triggers created by apps whereas owner of tables may AR. If you drop any stuf ,you will lose those triggers. As table size is big truncate and reinsert option will create a lot of logs(if ver 7.3.4). The best way to capture back s

Re: 32bit vs 64bit (was: Just like Christmas)

2001-03-20 Thread Christian Bilien
In theory, 32 to 64 bits means a loss of performance due to a lesser number of entries in the Translation Lookaside Buffer (I have seen several times mentionning a loss of 5-10%, but I never ran into actual tests). This of course can be compensated by the larger memory you can address. Christian

RMAN Backup and Recovery

2001-03-20 Thread Donald Bricker
We are in the midst of starting to use RMAN for our Backup and Recovery. The backups I have put into place are Once a week a Level 0 full backup, three times a week Level 1 incremental and three times archive logs only. Can anyone suggest some different recovery scenarios to test? Or if I missed

Re: your mail

2001-03-20 Thread jkstill
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Ginger Mejia wrote: > IS IT POSSIBLE TO LIST JOB OPPORTUNITIES TO THIS LIST IF ONE BECOMES > AVAILABLE? > > -- Yes, but please don't abuse the privilege. Don't post a position more than once a week; if you have several, please send them in a single message. And thanks for

Columns in triggers

2001-03-20 Thread Witold Iwaniec
Hi all I would like to create an audit trial for particular tables within Oracle database and thought about using triggers. I would like to log changes to each column separately. Is it possible to find dynamically name of the columns that were updated? I guess on INSERT I can check value of

Re: OT -- Canada Rules! (fwd)

2001-03-20 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
That's not why they are some of the best, they were already some of the best if they were able to get there. Fact is, that it used to be just Canadians who were the bomb, now good old American boys are actually climbing the ranks. Now don't get me wrong, we ain't bread no Gretzky yet, but who kn

RE: redo log timing

2001-03-20 Thread Jeffery Stevenson
For a heavy transactional system, I'd (like) to try to keep it around 20-30 minutes per switch, but most of the databases I'm dealing with right now are hybrids. Basically, lots of reporting all day long with occassional updates to data (unless they decide to re-calculate the figures during the

RE: redo log timing

2001-03-20 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
The reason I proposed the question is the rule seems to deal with databases which have a constant transaction rate. Ours are highly variable. I've gone with keeping the median within 15 and 30 minutes. Our logs are 200MB and can switch as often as a once per minute to as seldom as once ev

RE: OT -- A humorous reply to the Canada rulz

2001-03-20 Thread Dennis Taylor
At 10:07 AM 3/20/01 -0800, you wrote: >U, Is this kinda like Mr. Sulu on Star Trek who was sure that the >Russians invented everything? I'm sure you're going to take a lot of hits on that one -- it was Mr Chekov. >I thought Baseball and Basketball were distinctly inventions of the USA. Can'

Re: OT: Rachel in Vietnam

2001-03-20 Thread Thater, William
Rachel Carmichael wrote: > > I'm old but not THAT old :) would not have been draftable even at the end > of the war (even if I were male!) i am, and i was, and i don't. [and it doesn't have to do with the bugs.] -- Bill Thater Certifiable ORACLE DBA Telergy, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: OT -- A humorous reply to the Canada rulz

2001-03-20 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Home of baseball... home of baseball... That doesn't mean anything -- it's like billboards that say "Our product was voted the best!" The best what? Voted by whom? Emotion with no context. Advertising at its best! Do you know how many "blueberry capital of the world" towns there are in Canad

RE: OT -- Canada Rules! / Chocolate ...

2001-03-20 Thread Kimberly Smith
The Smarties we are talking about in Canada are much different. Candy covered chocolate. No sour taste at all. Crispy Crunch is a chocolate bar (forget what the inside is, maybe peanut butter). -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 1:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: OFF-TOPIC: RE: OT -- A humorous reply to the Canada rulz

2001-03-20 Thread Shaw, John B
And like a lot of Canadian doctors he became an U.S. citizen -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 12:57 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L First off, I had no idea that a Canadian had invented baseball but a Canadian most definitely invented Basketball. Go look it

RE: OFF-TOPIC: RE: OT -- A humorous reply to the Canada rulz

2001-03-20 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Answered your own question, we have more money!!! It's fun to go to Canada and feel like a "wealthy" american. Jeez, I wished I lived in Buffalo, I would go to Canada and hang out and spend less money! hahaah jk, not trying to pick a fight USA RULES -Original Message- Smith

RE: OFF TOPIC: RE: Lemon Juice in Ants Pooh-Poohed

2001-03-20 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
OH GOD THAT'S IT!!! I can't even look at the thing on my monitor...man I have problems! -Original Message- Travis Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 1:51 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I think what you are referring to is the camel [back] cricket, which is also known as the ca

Re: Free Oracle DBA tests on the web

2001-03-20 Thread Andy Duncan
Hi Andrey, > Hi DBAs ! > I'm looking for some FREE Oracle DBA / developer resources on the web : > self-tests , OCP preparations materials , articles , books , etc ... > Please share your resources ! > Thanks a lot in advance . Check out the links in Table 1-1 on the following page: => http://

RE: OFF-TOPIC: RE: OT -- A humorous reply to the Canada rulz - s

2001-03-20 Thread Dasko, Dan
WoooHooo, this could really get things hot down here. Again, I have no idea of what I'm talking about. Just a bunch of stuff that I "know" which is probably wrong. Additionally, I imagine people in Miami think Philadelphia is the Great White North, so the whole bikini thing was a jab at the ste

Indexes and tablespaces

2001-03-20 Thread Berindei Alex
Hello, I have a partitioned historical table in tablespace TS1 with 8 local indexes. I'm not sure how is better to: - put the eight indexes in separate tablespaces (with small extents) or - create just one big tablespace (with larger extents) for all indexes. Other concerns include: - a form

RE: OT -- A humorous reply to the Canada rulz

2001-03-20 Thread Hand, Michael T
Dan, You've made one of the only mortal sins of the Internet, it's not dis'ing the Canadians. It's making an inaccurate Star Trek reference. The ensign of Russian-descent was Pavel Checkov played by . . . joined the cast in episode # ... entitled ... Your penance should be long and severe.

RE: OT -- Canada Rules! / Chocolate ...

2001-03-20 Thread Hand, Michael T
Kathe, I thought every red-blooded American knew what Smarties where. And since I have become the newest OCP (Other Confection Professional), I will enlighten you. Smarties are a "penny" candy, sour in taste about the size of an M&M vended in plastic wrap of 12-15 in a stack. I think Crispy Cru

Find special characters in the database

2001-03-20 Thread Shakeel Qureshi
Can someone give me a guideline as to how I should draw a script to find special characters in the database and replace them with blanks. TIA Shakeel Qureshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http

Re: SUN vs. HP

2001-03-20 Thread Gene Sais
Check the numbers again, especially the software. Having done the same study 1.5 yrs ago, HP was a little more expensive in the HW but much cheaper in SW. Reason being Sun uses Veritas Trusted Cluster (expensive $100k) for HA and HP uses MCServiceguard. I've worked 5 yrs w/ Sun and 1.5 yrs w

RE: SUN vs. HP

2001-03-20 Thread Kimberly Smith
I have no experience with the Sun cluster but I do have experience with the HP ServiceGuard as its what we run here. We have even had it fail. We do have a Sun server here with a database on it and although I like the server and have no complaints I am much happier with HP. There are just littl

RE: OT -- Canada Rules! (fwd)

2001-03-20 Thread Kimberly Smith
Do you know that all most of the top ranked American/European hockey players actually played in the CHL. They start by getting drafted in the major junior leagues. So ya, you could be just as good as an American, as long as you train in Canada. In Canada if you are playing hockey for your Unive

RE: OT -- Canada Rules!

2001-03-20 Thread Kimberly Smith
Smarties rule. Much better then M&M's. And for those of you who think that Smarties are those sugar candies, its not that man. People here at work had no clues either so I had my mom ship up a whole wack of them. I don't like Crispy Crunch bars but the Coffee Crisp bars are pretty good. Perso

RE: OT: Oracle *Chocolate* Monitoring Tools/Friday Recipe

2001-03-20 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I thought it was that, but figured it was better to ask... you can find rock candy these days in the fancier candy stores masquerading as coffee stir sticks :) >From: "Hand, Michael T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: RE: RE: OT: Rachel in Vietnam

2001-03-20 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I'm old but not THAT old :) would not have been draftable even at the end of the war (even if I were male!) >From: "Mohan, Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: RE: RE: OT: Rachel in Vietnam >Date: Tue

RE: 32bit vs 64bit (was: Just like Christmas)

2001-03-20 Thread Kimberly Smith
We are going 64-bit for HP but keeping Oracle at 32-bit. We really had no choice for the HP side. We just need the memory that 32 bit could not support. We have 9 K-class servers here that have been running 11-64-bit for quite some time (relatively speaking). But we are getting rid of all our

RE: OT -- A humorous reply to the Canada rulz

2001-03-20 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Wow that was good!! You know, I don't really like baseball, but I am pretty sure that when you drive into Hoboken it says on a sign "Home of Baseball and Frank Sinatra". hmm Canada invented hockey, but they also invented curling didn't they. Yeah, isn't that like the Canadian version of sh

OFF-TOPIC: RE: OT -- A humorous reply to the Canada rulz

2001-03-20 Thread Kimberly Smith
First off, I had no idea that a Canadian had invented baseball but a Canadian most definitely invented Basketball. Go look it up. However, he was in the States when he invented it. Once we get rid of Quebec we will have no issues as to what language we are. We are bilingual. Except for Que

Re: Insert without telling column names

2001-03-20 Thread William Beilstein
You are misinformed. If you have a table of the form col1varchar2(1) col2 number col3 date You can insert into it with the insert statement INSERT INTO MYTABLE VALUES('X',23,SYSDATE); As long as ALL the columns are included in the values clause in the order they were created in the tab

OFF TOPIC: RE: Lemon Juice in Ants Pooh-Poohed

2001-03-20 Thread Glenn Travis
I think what you are referring to is the camel [back] cricket, which is also known as the cave cricket. Look here --> http://entweb.clemson.edu/cuentres/cesheets/hhold/ce190.htm and http://www.ent.iastate.edu/ipm/iiin/ccamelcr.html We had alot of them in our basement - and boy, can they jump! >

Function in a view problem

2001-03-20 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Hi all, One of our developer is testing a function as shown below and this function is used in a view. Just to see how many times the function is called, we have a dbms_output statement in the function body. I was surprised to find that the function gets called 3 times for each row. Maybe the g

Re: Free Oracle DBA tests on the web

2001-03-20 Thread Ron Rogers
Andrey ' Electronic books can be found at: RUSSIAN FREE BOOKS HTML FORMAT_+++ http://docs.rinet.ru/ ROR mª¿ªm >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/20/01 12:36PM >>> Hi DBAs ! I'm looking for some FREE Oracle DBA / developer resources on the web : self-tests , OCP preparations materials , articles

Re: redo log timing

2001-03-20 Thread Rodd Holman
Ian, This is one of those where you can get the old "it depends" answer. What type of database is this? What level of transaction activity do you have? How big are your redo logs if you switch every 15 min, 20 min, 30 min? How critical is recovery to the current time to you? If you don't want

RE: OT -- Canada Rules! (fwd)

2001-03-20 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Yeah, but we could kick your XXX!! Not to mention that American Hockey players are just as good if not better than Canadians! -Original Message- Patrice J Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 12:37 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sorry about this, but someone sent me this and I th

SUN vs. HP

2001-03-20 Thread Alex Apostolopoulos
Hi, we are currently in the process of evaluating a high availiability cluster for our production database. The final two solutions are: SunCluster 2x420R 2Gig 2x450Mhz Storage 100Gig Hewlett Packard MC ServiceGuard 2xL-Class 2x440Mhz 2Gig Storage VA 7100 100Gig Based on our criterias (scal

RE: OT -- A humorous reply to the Canada rulz

2001-03-20 Thread Dasko, Dan
U, Is this kinda like Mr. Sulu on Star Trek who was sure that the Russians invented everything? I might be wrong (happens all the time), but I thought Baseball and Basketball were distinctly inventions of the USA. You might be able to tell I'm a rabid fan of neither. Penicillin and the telep

OT -- Canada Rules!

2001-03-20 Thread Kathe Newsome
Well, group- I have completely enjoyed the discussion on Canada, especially since I make my first trip to Toronto this April. But can someone tell me what Smarties are? And Crispy Crunch/Coffee Crisp? Thanks- Kathe -- Kathe C. Newsome Centenary College of Louisiana Sr. Software Manager/Database

RE: How long will 8.0.6 be supported?

2001-03-20 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)
Title: RE: How long will 8.0.6 be supported? According to a spreadsheet I've got normal support ends 30-Sep-2001 Extended Assistance Support ends 30-Sep-2004 Matt Adams - GE Appliances - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doing linear scans over an associative array is like   trying to club someone t

32bit vs 64bit (was: Just like Christmas)

2001-03-20 Thread Jesse, Rich
Interesting. We've got a 4-way K570 w/3GB mem that we'll be moving from HPUX 10.20 to HPUX 11.0 this weekend (8 hours of watching tape spin), which means I can FINALLY get us to 8i! YAY! So, why or why not should one go to 64bit? Here's my perception: Pros ---

RE: Free Oracle DBA tests on the web

2001-03-20 Thread andrey
Hi Gurus ! Just wanted to clarify that i'm interested in ANY FREE Oracle DBA related resources on the web , not only OCP stuff . Thanks a lot for your attention ! Andrey .   -Original Message-From: andrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tue, March 20, 2001 7:49 PMTo: oralis

Re: Insert without telling column names

2001-03-20 Thread Regina Harter
At 08:36 AM 3/20/01 -0800, you wrote: >Roland, > >You can't. There are a number of ways to really cut down on the code >required to do an insert, but if you think about it, how will Oracle >know where the data is supposed to go if you don't give it the column >name(at some point)? Of course you

Re: Free Oracle DBA tests on the web

2001-03-20 Thread Ron Rogers
Andrey, Here is a partial list that I have. I give credit for these site and their content to the original authors. This is a partial list I have gleaned from this list. ROR mª¿ªm http://www.stewartmc.com/oracle http://www.stewartmc.com/oracle/tips.html www.oraes.com/scr/expfull.sh http://w

RE: Lemon Juice in Ants Pooh-Poohed

2001-03-20 Thread Kimberly Smith
Actually, he was very valid in his request. He did not ask that you completely stop but rather add the OFF-TOPIC into the subject so it can be ruled out. It has been a rather long discussion with lots of e-mails (not that I am complaining, just seeing his point). -Original Message- Se

Re: How long will 8.0.6 be supported?

2001-03-20 Thread Bill Gentry
09/30/2001 unless you have Extended Support, then it's 09/30/2004 - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:36 AM > I can't get into Metalink. Can anyone tell me how long 8.0.6 will be > supported? > > Ron Smit

RE: Lemon Juice in Ants Pooh-Poohed

2001-03-20 Thread Hillman, Alex
It was sarcastic. Alex Hillman -Original Message- From: Kimberly Smith [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 12:37 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:RE: Lemon Juice in Ants Pooh-Poohed Act

Re: FK Constraints

2001-03-20 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I don't get new user requests.. I get requests from end-users for data. But I understand. And I know that it's a question of coming in with the baseball bat and assorted heavy weaponry and making a stand (or as my CTO is fond of saying "putting a stake in the ground") Just haven't collected al

RE: NLS_DATE_FORMAT not effective..help!

2001-03-20 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Arul In init.ora have you specified MM/DD/ WITHOUT Quotes , as follows simply :- NLS_DATE_FORMAT=MM/DD/ > -Original Message- > From: Martin Kendall [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 6:36 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE:

RE: Lemon Juice in Ants Pooh-Poohed

2001-03-20 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Everything about them is long except their body's. Oh Man!! If you like'em, come on down to my house this spring and you take all of them out of the pool change room!! They sit in there, on the cieling, on the floor on the walls!! I can't deal, I know they can't hurt me, but they are just so n

RE: DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE

2001-03-20 Thread Diana Duncan
Yup. Like I said, you'd never want to do this in real life. I was just illustrating the idea. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 12:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Won't that continuously print: Inserted 1 rows. Inserted 1 rows. ... (well, as long as you

RE: Insert without telling column names

2001-03-20 Thread Diana Duncan
Roland, Check out the SQL manual, the syntax diagram clearly illustrates that you don't need to explicitly name the column names as long as you are inserting into all of the columns in the order they are defined in the data dictionary. insert into table_A values ('Hi', 'there'); A word of frien

RE: Lemon Juice in Ants Pooh-Poohed/Redo Log Switching

2001-03-20 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
While I've stayed away from the discussions about offended dieties and the like where people espouse their philosophies of life, I could not let an assertion which was clearly mistaken stand. In fairness to Mr. Steven, ants will have some citric acid in their bodies; it is an intermediate step

AUDITING - DEFAULT FOR CONNECT INTERNAL

2001-03-20 Thread Raj Sakthi
Hi Folks , When I was tracing connect internal in sqlplus I came across this quirk and of course I have to investigate Guess what I found...: ) Bookmark Fixed font Go to End Doc ID: Note:107842.1 Audit Trail: Connect Internal Type: BULLETIN Status: PUBLISHED Content Type: TEXT

RE: Someone changed INTERNAL password URGENT

2001-03-20 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
You can use the orapwd utility to recreate password file with new internal password. Rick > -Original Message- > From: Murali Vallath [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 9:17 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Someone changed INTERNAL pas

Just like Christmas

2001-03-20 Thread Kimberly Smith
Two brand spanking new N-Class servers arrived yesterday as I was leaving work. Sure look nicer then the K-Class's we currently run on. Can't wait to get my hands on it. Plus I got a brand new NT server just waiting for me as well (although its awfully hard to get excited about that one let me

RE: OT: Oracle *Chocolate* Monitoring Tools/Friday Recipe

2001-03-20 Thread Hand, Michael T
Sorry Lee, it looks like Rachel is too much of a chocoholic to be up on her hard candy nomenclature. In the US its refered to as Rock candy, basically colored, flavored, crystaline sugar (sucrose, not glucose) available in various shapes and sizes though I haven't seen much of it lately. [It's p

RE: Someone changed INTERNAL password URGENT

2001-03-20 Thread Mark Kirk
Run orapwd. Replace the password file. This is only possible if you have admin rights on the system. The options will come up if you add nothing to the end of the command, and you can go from there. You can change the system and sys passwords using ALTER USER as an authenticated privileged user

RE: Someone changed INTERNAL password URGENT

2001-03-20 Thread Harsh Agrawal
Hi, Pl. check in {ORACLE_HOME}/database directory there is a file PWD.ora. Just move this file some where and try to connect. Bye -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 4:18 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L URGENT, Someone changed the internal password. How do

RE: RE: RE: OT: Rachel in Vietnam

2001-03-20 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: RE: RE: OT: Rachel in Vietnam Dick , Didn't you know? Rachel WAS in Nam. But she never talks about it. I think it had to do with the bugs. Just a thought. Ross -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 8:3

RE: Insert without telling column names

2001-03-20 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Insert without telling column names > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > How can I create an insert statement without telling all the > names of the columns? > Give an example, please. As Jared mentioned, if you are inserting int

Free Oracle DBA tests on the web

2001-03-20 Thread andrey
Hi DBAs ! I'm looking for some FREE Oracle DBA / developer resources on the web : self-tests , OCP preparations materials , articles , books , etc ... Please share your resources ! Thanks a lot in advance . Andrey .

OT -- Canada Rules! (fwd)

2001-03-20 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Sorry about this, but someone sent me this and I thought it might be relevant to the Canada and US discussion that took place last week. With all the recipes going around, I thought it wouldn't do any harm. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle DBA) Bedford Institute of Oceanography F

RE: Someone changed INTERNAL password SOLVED..

2001-03-20 Thread Murali Vallath
We do not have a practice to give password for the internal account. So when it promoted it sounded like someone had assigned a password. Apparently there was a parameter SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES parameter added to the sqlnet.ora file. when I commented this out. It worked. Thanks for yo

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