Running sql script from stored procedure

2001-08-16 Thread Ranganath K
Dear DBA Gurus, I have a .sql file which contains a series of insert statements. I want to call this .sql file and run it from a stored procedure. Is it possible? If so, how? Please post your answers to me directly as I am not receiving messages directly from the list rather

RE: is C compiler a must for oracle UNIX installations ?

2001-08-16 Thread Rahul
but doesnt make utility uses C compiler ? (or it's a bare bones installation of a C compiler?) i guess i;m wrong on this one... -- From: Rao, UmaSankara S (CAP)[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:25 PM To:

RE: An SQL question , not easy ;-)

2001-08-16 Thread Paul Vincent
No - if you draw a diagram showing the 4 calls given in the original test data, you can see clearly that at no time are there more than 3 calls in progress simultaneously. Unless you're using some strange definition of the word simultaneous of which I'd previously been unaware...

Q about Oracle Optimizer

2001-08-16 Thread Schoen Volker
Hi list, a quick question about oracle optimizer. a customer has database migrated from 7.3.4 to 8.1.6 on AIX. Data was transfered via full exp/imp. After migration the performance of the new database is very poor. I looked at the parameters and saw that no object is analyzed. So now me

RE: An SQL question , not easy ;-)

2001-08-16 Thread Thomas, Kevin
I agree with you on that one, but what I was saying, (and I posted this in an earlier message) was that I interpreted the intial email wrongly. I was looking at: - over all the time periods how many simultaneous calls were there (not at any particular moment in time) therefore I was getting

RE: An SQL question , not easy ;-)

2001-08-16 Thread Lord, David - CS
Sorry to resurrect this thread and pick holes, but I was thinking about this query on the way home last night (sad, I know) and came across a problem with it. It works fine with the example we have been using, but only because none of the calls has more than one *non-overlapping* call start

RE: An SQL question , not easy ;-)

2001-08-16 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Damn this lag!! I see Andrey has already posted a note saying thanks and yet my emails are just filtering through to the list now...my apologies for taking up the bandwidth!!! Kev (off to prime the Carrier Pidgeon which seems quicker than email!) -Original Message- Sent: 15 August

RE: An SQL question , not easy ;-)

2001-08-16 Thread Guy Hammond
Yes, and this morning my manager just asked me for something similar too. How fortunate :0) g -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 7:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi All: There's one really neat thing about this thread...it's helped me solve an

AW: Slow sql

2001-08-16 Thread Schoen Volker
Hi Roland, look at the execution plan of your subselect. Start sqlplus then set autotrace on; SELECT PBK.VARUKORGEANREL.varukorgid, rik2.vare.ean_nr, 'rsm' , PBK.VARUKORGEANREL.lagstapris, 0, rik2.vare.varenavn, rik2.vare.str, rik2.lev.navn, rik2.vare.hylletxt2,

RE: Slow sql

2001-08-16 Thread Thomas, Kevin
Hi Roland, I would suggest that it pretty much depends on the number of rows that are being returned from your select statement as well as the way the select statement has been put together. Try cutting the select statement from the insert and running it against an explain plan to determine

RE: An SQL question , not easy ;-)

2001-08-16 Thread Andrey Bronfin
Hi David ! It's perfectly fine : four calls started during the period of the first call , but the maximum of 2 were carried out simultaneously . Your PL/SQL block addresses this , since U subtract 1 from the current number of concurrent calls each time the second person hangs up. So , the

A modification time question

2001-08-16 Thread Andrey Bronfin
Dear gurus ! Is there a way to know the time of insert/update for each row in a table ? Or , which rows in a table were inserted/updated since a certain time. ( Sort of find ... -mtime ... for UNIX files) . I CAN NOT modify the structure of the table , i.e. i CAN NOT add a timestamp or other

Re: Slow sql

2001-08-16 Thread Rukmini Devi
Hi, it must be doing full table scan.check your column positions of the indexes in table user_ind_columns and change your where condition according to the column positions. rukmini - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August

RE: is C compiler a must for oracle UNIX installations ?

2001-08-16 Thread Guy Hammond
All make does is track dependencies on things. The general format of an entry in a makefile is: label: dependent on actions to execute So if you wanted to make label, then you would first have to have made dependent on. Once you gave it, you can then execute actions to execute.

Re: A modification time question

2001-08-16 Thread Joe Testa
the answer is it depends. since you can't modify the table, why not put a trigger to put a last updated, etc time into another table. joe Andrey Bronfin wrote: Dear gurus ! Is there a way to know the time of insert/update for each row in a table ? Or , which rows in a table were

RE: A modification time question

2001-08-16 Thread Andrey Bronfin
Hi Aviv ! Thanks for your reply ! Yes , i thought of this snapshot log option . 2 problems : 1) performance overhead - for each DML on my table , i have a DML on the MLOG$_ (snapshot log) table , carried out by a trigger. 2) For each access to the rows in my original table , i need to join with

RE: A modification time question

2001-08-16 Thread Jon Walthour
If you can't modify the structure to add a timestamp column or add a trigger to insert a timestamp into another table, there's no way I know of to track it. Oracle doesn't track this sort of thing on its own; you need some sort of timestamp field. Jon Walthour -Original Message- Bronfin

RE: Q about Oracle Optimizer

2001-08-16 Thread Guy Hammond
It simply uses RBO instead. g -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:46 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi list, a quick question about oracle optimizer. a customer has database migrated from 7.3.4 to 8.1.6 on AIX. Data was transfered via full exp/imp.

Re: A modification time question

2001-08-16 Thread Jan Pruner
Create a trigger on insert/update of zour table and let the trigger write tuple in other table with datetime of modification of ROWID of your table. Jan Pruner Dne èt 16. srpen 2001 13:15 jste napsal(a): Dear gurus ! Is there a way to know the time of insert/update for each row in a table ?

RE: Q about Oracle Optimizer

2001-08-16 Thread Jon Walthour
Volker: If optimizer_mode = 'choose', then the optimizer chooses between cost-based optimization and rule-based optimization based on whether or not statistics are present. In your case, since they aren't it's using rule-based. -Original Message- Volker Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001

RE: computer history stories - Now: IQ, etc.

2001-08-16 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
My perception of intelligent people is that they know a lot of trivia, can repeat many theories, and can talk a lot when you ask them regarding something on which they collected many associations. Intelligent people don't make fortunes all that often, because theories and knowledge do not

Re: is C compiler a must for oracle UNIX installations ?

2001-08-16 Thread Charles Wolfe
Relinking only requires 'make' and 'ld'. The components which make up the Oracle binaries are provided as compiled object code, so no C compiler is necessary for relinking. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001

RE: OT -- training

2001-08-16 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Sounds like in the U.S. you have the same tax-shelter... Find yourself a horse-breeding farm that makes profit only 2 years out of 7, hopefully it will make multi-million losses 5 years out of 7. ; ) I wish they would get rid of all these loopholes. Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle

Deferred constraints (?)

2001-08-16 Thread Kumanan Balasundaram
Do we have the concept of deferred CHECK constraints? For a constraint of this nature, I don't Oracle to check the whole table as I have done the fixes to ensure there is no occurrence of invalid condition. I only want the future ones to be checked. ALTER TABLE KB.table ADD CONSTRAINT

RE: Q about Oracle Optimizer

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Spence
If the objects in a query have not been analyze, then rule mode is defaulted. If there are objects in the database which are analyze, yet the tables you are using are not analyzed, rule mode will still be used. If one table is analyzed, and it is joined with 5 others which are not analyzed,

RE: is C compiler a must for oracle UNIX installations ?

2001-08-16 Thread Rao, Maheswara
Rahul, I installed different versions of Oracle (804,816,817) on Sun boxes without c compiler. Oracle installation went through. By this, I could say that on Sun Solaris machines we do not require c compiler for Oracle installation. Perhaps, on HP boxes the story might be the same or

RE: Rollback after truncate?? + 2 more questions :-)

2001-08-16 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Zsolt, The correct call for the function if the function exists within the package would be: Insert into A ( Select Col1 ,PackageName.MyFunction(Col1) from B ); Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 6:44 PM

RE: VB vs. JAVA

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Spence
Well whoever you are talking to probably is vaugely familiar with java. Java's execution speed is fairly close but not quite to C++. Although there is a large delay in the initial interperation as well as graphical interfaces. Java also uses more resources. So basically, on a client

RE: Re[2]: Datafile Migration Tool

2001-08-16 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Alex, It's tough to guess how long an import will take. It all depends on how many indexes and constraints you have - these are what take the most time at import time. The data gets sucked in real fast. Using Direct Load really speeds the import up but, again, rebuilding the indexes takes

Question about Oracle Portal Reports

2001-08-16 Thread Madis Priilinn
Hello! I'm using Oracle Portal (3.0.6) and there (creating reports) you can select max. 3 break columns, but I need 5 or so. So far I've found that SQL*Plus have similarly acting command break on column_name. So I tried to find where or/and how Portal calls those commands but haven't found

RE: VB vs. JAVA

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Spence
One interesting note to this. When I was benchmarking my quicksite application, which is completely java jdbc. Using this query: select 100 - (sum(getmisses) / sum(gets) * 100) from sys.v_$rowcache; I was able to get 786.3 queries in per second against the database. 10,000 in 12.8

Re: OT: cryptography speech

2001-08-16 Thread Ron Rogers
I am NOT the guy who beats up calculators. I might slip stick them a bit. Interesting concept. Almost like the NorthStar from american car monitoring and trying to control what you do. ROR mô¿ôm [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/15/01 06:43PM Well, if the subject didn't cause you to delete this message

RE: VB vs. JAVA

2001-08-16 Thread
There is no application, just wondering. I'm a ASP/ColdFusion developer atm, and have been wondering for some time if Java was worth learning, and it appears now, based on your answers, it might just be worth it. Thanks Guy. anybody else have any input on this topic ? cheers, michael

RE: VB vs. JAVA

2001-08-16 Thread
someones gloating :) thanks again chris. -Original Message- [mailto:X] Sent: Thursday, 16 August 2001 11:23 PM To: X One interesting note to this. When I was benchmarking my quicksite application, which is completely java jdbc. Using this

RE: Re[2]: Datafile Migration Tool

2001-08-16 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
DOH! mixing up my tools again! thanks Joe! "Last i checked there was no direct=y on imp only on exp (ok and sqlldr) :)" Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message-From: JOE TESTA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 8:48 AMTo:

Re: Running sql script from stored procedure

2001-08-16 Thread Igor Neyman
Use UTL_FILE to read your .sql file, and then execute your sql-statements using dynamic sql (DBMS_SQL or 'EXECUTE IMMEDIATE'). Igor Neyman, OCP DBA Perceptron, Inc. (734)414-4627 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: CLOB field question

2001-08-16 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 02:15:55AM -0800, Guy Hammond wrote: I have another CLOB question, what is the best way to do a search-and-replace? Something like a c/oldvalue/newvvalue/ on the SQL*Plus command line, or $variable =~ s/oldvalue/newvalue/; in Perl. The only thing I can think of

RE: VB vs. JAVA

2001-08-16 Thread
Thanks Chris, your input is appreciated. Can anybody recommend any good java programming books, specficially something designed at working with Oracle 8i ? Thanks, Michael. -Original Message- [mailto:X] Sent: Thursday, 16 August 2001 11:18 PM To:

Migrating IMS to Oracle

2001-08-16 Thread kjanusz
I may be starting a project in the near future to migrate an IMS database to 8.1.? on Windows 2000. I would like to know if Oracle provides a tool to do this? Data profiling, mapping, etc.? I could not find anything for IMS on OTN or the Oracle site. I know there are some non-Oracle

Re: A modification time question

2001-08-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Okay, can you add a trigger? At a prior job, management wanted us not only to track last update/insert but WHAT was done. so I created a second table, duplicate of the first with addition fields of trans_date,user and action then I added a trigger (insert/update/delete) on the original

RE: VB vs. JAVA

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Spence
Not at all, Just showing that java is not in fact slow, especially when it comes to database drives. JDBC drivers are quite fast. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes. Christopher R.

RE: Re[2]: Datafile Migration Tool

2001-08-16 Thread JOE TESTA
Last i checked there was no direct=y on imp only on exp (ok and sqlldr) :) joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/16/01 09:18AM Alex,It's tough to guess how long an import will take. It all depends on howmany indexes and constraints you have - these are what take the most time atimport time. The data

RE: OT: cryptography speech

2001-08-16 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Jared, I would have liked to have been the room when the speech was given, to hear the reactions to the inside references. Pretty clever! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: VB vs. JAVA

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Spence
Hint: There may be a good java book coming out in december. Just a guess. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978) 322-5744 Fax:(707)

RE: VB vs. JAVA

2001-08-16 Thread Guy Hammond
Well, I'd have to recommend Professional Oracle 8i Application Programming 'cos I wrote some of it :0) If you're completely new to Java, there are tutorials available for free on http://java.sun.com/ - learn the language first, then maybe start on JDBC (which is very simple) and then advanced

Oracle/SAP DBA Needed in Clifton, New Jersey..

2001-08-16 Thread OraStaff
If you're interested in a great opportunity, then consider this position in Clifton, New Jersey that needs an Oracle/SAP DBA to join its' I.T. staff. This is a full time staff position so no sub-contractors or third parties please. Please do not call or send a resume if you are not in the U.S.

Re:is C compiler a must for oracle UNIX installations ?

2001-08-16 Thread dgoulet
Rahul, All UNIX OS's come with a rudimentary C compiler and linker, mainly for the purpose of rebuilding the kernel. What Oracle needs is the make utility and the linker. The compiler is only needed if your building a program from source code and since Oracle ships object code it needs to

An icon of the Geek world retires

2001-08-16 Thread dgoulet
** Egghead Files For Chapter 11 Egghead.com Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and laid off 200 employees. The online computer and electronics retailer was felled by weak consumer computer sales and wary Wall Street investors. The Menlo Park, Calif., retailer will sell its

8.1.6 support cut off?

2001-08-16 Thread Mark Leith
Hi list, Does anyone have the word on when Oracle plans to discontinue support for Oracle 8.1.6? Cheers Mark === Mark Leith | T: +44 (0)1905 330 281 Sales Marketing | F: +44 (0)870 127 5283 Cool Tools UK Ltd | E: [EMAIL

Oracle DBA Needed in Greensboro, North Carolina..

2001-08-16 Thread OraStaff
This Textiles Client in Greensboro, North Carolina needs an Oracle DBA to join its' I.T. staff. This is a Jr/Mid level position. * Candidates local to the Greensboro-Burlington area only will be considered. This is a full time staff position so no sub-contractors or third parties please.

Re: OT: cryptography speech

2001-08-16 Thread Thater, William
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what's missing!! Is it doing this to embarrass and annoy me or am I just being paranoid (and if I'm going to be nuts I'd rather be paranoid than a single-noid). just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.;-) -- Bill Shrek Thater

RE: Slow sql

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Spence
Statistics can in fact hurt. If your queries are tuned for rule based optimizer, it is very possible that cost base will perform suboptimal, perhaps a little, perhaps a lot. You may need to tune the database to be more efficient for CBO by changing parameters. Although adding statistics and

RE: Lost of all Control Files

2001-08-16 Thread Ramon Estevez
-Mensaje original-De: Ramon Estevez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Enviado el: Thursday, 16 August, 2001 9:23 AMPara: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Asunto: RE: Lost of all Control Files Friends Thanks to all of you helped me with the problem. The create controlfile worked fine,

OT Slam for the day: Re: Oracle DBA Needed in Greensboro,

2001-08-16 Thread JOE TESTA
why bother sending these things to the list, when there are SO MANY RESTRICTIONS, its a waste of bandwidth more than anything else. NO aliens(foreigners or the outer space kind), NO one unless you live there, NO subcontractors, NO one with green eyes, NO one who has ever known anyone who

RE: 8.1.6 support cut off?

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Spence
They did already, they just still take phone calls. Oracle drops support the day the release the product. ;) Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone:

RE: Re[2]: Datafile Migration Tool

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Spence
Imports/exports only use about 1/10 of your available sustained io generally. Although direct exports are noticably faster and less stress on the database. Locking, rollback generation, constraints, triggers can affect the performance of the import/export process as well. Also network io if it

RE: OT: cryptography speech

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Spence
One good reason for this is: What happens if it did put from there? Now your going to write scripts, make that same mistake, the database is going to fix it for you. Your going to port/share your scripts, and someone else's database won't be so helpful, they are not going to want to dig

changing long col to varchar and vice versa

2001-08-16 Thread Schoen Volker
Hi list, I want to change col-types in one table. I have table T1 with two columns COL1 LONG and COL2 VARCHAR2(2000). Now I want to change the col-types vice versa, that means COL1 should be VARCHAR2(2000) and COL2 should be LONG. I have a lot of data in that cols, but all data is smaller than

RE: OT: cryptography speech

2001-08-16 Thread Guy Hammond
Very dangerous. Like, Captain Kirk might say, Mr. Spock, cancel the self destruct sequence so Mr. Spock goes to his SQL*Plus terminal and types: SQL ALTER STARSHIP SET AUTODESTRUCT But at that moment, Dr McCoy walks in, slips in a puddle of Romulan Ale and grabs Mr. Spock for support, whose

Re: 8.1.6 support cut off?

2001-08-16 Thread JOE TESTA
Oracle Support ServicesProduct Obsolescence andDesupport NoticeOctober 2000Product / Platform: Oracle8i, Release 2 (8.1.6) Error Correction Support ends on: 31 October 2001Extended Assistance Support ends on: 31 October 2004 Product Obsolescence / Desupport Summary:Oracle Corporation

RE: OT Slam for the day: Re: Oracle DBA Needed in Greensboro,

2001-08-16 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
-This Textiles Client in Greensboro, North Carolina needs an Oracle DBA Working for a textiles client in the US sounds like good job security!! Maybe the next job they have will be for a steel mill client in Bethlehem PA. ;-) Dave -Original Message-From: JOE TESTA

RE: OT Slam for the day: Re: Oracle DBA Needed in Greensboro,

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Spence
Title: Message Why, I think that is good being up front so you know not to waste time if it doesn't fit you. Too many jobs don't say anything, you apply and go through an interview and then they tell you, well we are looking for this or that. "Do not criticize someone until you walked a

RE: 8.1.6 support cut off?

2001-08-16 Thread Page, Bruce
Doc id: Note:123178.1 Subject: Oracle8i, Release 2 (8.1.6.) Desupport Notice Type: DESUPPORT Status: PUBLISHED Content Type: TEXT/PLAIN

RE: OT: cryptography speech

2001-08-16 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)
Title: RE: OT: cryptography speech Even paranoids have enemies Matt Adams - GE Appliances - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. - Larry Wall (creator of Perl) -Original Message- From:

RE: 8.1.6 support cut off?

2001-08-16 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130)
Title: RE: 8.1.6 support cut off? According to docs I saw on metalink about 6 months ago Error Correction support ends Oct 31, 2001, Extended support ends Oct 31, 2004 Matt Adams - GE Appliances - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club

RE: Lost of all Control Files

2001-08-16 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
"I just paid my price." We all feel your pain. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message-From: Ramon Estevez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 11:23 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Lost of all Control

RE: Re[2]: Datafile Migration Tool

2001-08-16 Thread Hillman, Alex
Imports/exports only use about 1/10 of your available sustained io generally. Although direct exports are noticably faster and less stress on the database. And why do we need to read this? Locking, rollback generation, constraints, triggers can affect the performance of the import/export

Re: Migrating IMS to Oracle

2001-08-16 Thread Marc Perkowitz
IMS is a hierarchical database, not relational. It is also quite old technology. I doubt Oracle will have any conversion tools for that. I started my career working with IMS DB/DC in the late 70's. You will really need to design a new database from scratch and then convert and import data. I

Re: 8.1.6 support cut off?

2001-08-16 Thread Scott Canaan
The desupport notice states 10/31/2001, with extended support until 10/31/2004. It's on metallink. If you are an Oracle Applications customer, then support is extended until 3/1/2002. Mark Leith wrote: Hi list, Does anyone have the word on when Oracle plans to discontinue support for

RE: 8.1.6 support cut off?

2001-08-16 Thread Mark Leith
Cheers Joe! Mark -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of JOE TESTASent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 16:16To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: 8.1.6 support cut off?Oracle Support ServicesProduct Obsolescence

RE: OT: cryptography speech

2001-08-16 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Title: RE: OT: cryptography speech Think yourselves lucky, we're paranoid schizophrenics. They are all out to get us !! -Original Message-From: Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 16 August 2001 16:36To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject:

RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-16 Thread Gogala, Mladen
-Original Message- From: Christopher Spence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:16 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i' Well, I just got this book, and just started reading through it. Looks good so

RE: OT Slam for the day: Re: Oracle DBA Needed in Greensboro,

2001-08-16 Thread Mohan, Ross
I agree with Joe. -Original Message-From: JOE TESTA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 11:23 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: OT Slam for the day: Re: Oracle DBA Needed in Greensboro, why bother sending these things to the list,

A high-availability question (standby , replication or ....)

2001-08-16 Thread Andrey Bronfin
Dear gurus ! A customer wants to have a backup database on a remote in case of disaster site. That database needs to be as much in sync with the primary DB as possible, and a sort of failover must be implemented , i.e. if the primary site fails , the users will be AUTOMATICALLY routed to the

Re:Slow sql

2001-08-16 Thread dgoulet
analyze the select statement that extracts the rows to be inserted. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 8/16/2001 1:45 AM Hallo you DBA's Can anyonetell me why this insert statement takes 30-40 minutes to run? What can I

RE: OT Slam for the day: Re: Oracle DBA Needed in Greensboro,

2001-08-16 Thread Guy Hammond
But there's an opportunity to become a key member of the team! Surely you wouldn't pass that up? *snicker* g -Original Message-From: JOE TESTA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 4:23 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: OT Slam for

RE: Migrating IMS to Oracle

2001-08-16 Thread Page, Bruce
I do not think that the Oracle Migration Workbench does, but here is something that might be useful. http://otn.oracle.com/tech/migration/mti/listing.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:48 AM To: Multiple

RE: OT: cryptography speech

2001-08-16 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: OT: cryptography speech paranoid schizophrenics with multiple personalities think they are out to get themselves. :-) -Original Message-From: Robertson Lee - lerobe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:11 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list

RE: OT: RE: UNCUT ORACLE-L The Motion Picture

2001-08-16 Thread Mohan, Ross
Neither! It simply does not exist. There IS no number right next to zero. Amazing stuff. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 10:26 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L So, would that be irrational or imaginary? BTW - I once made a mistake on a

RE: Speed up Truncate tables - rebuild index

2001-08-16 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Speed up Truncate tables - rebuild index Actually Chris if you truncate a table, the indexes on the table are truncated right along with it. You don't end up with a sparse index, like when you delete many rows. Try it. I did (8.1.6) and was very happy to see this behavior. Lisa

Re: JRE link question

2001-08-16 Thread Joan Hsieh
Hi Listers, I repost here again. Here is our install log. Calling query areasQueries1.7.1.6.0 getProductHome name = oracle.swd.jre startVersion = 1.0 endVersion = 1.2 acceptCompatible = null Query returned : /u01/app/oracle/jre/1.1.8 Does anyone know how the jre home set to this

RE: Re[2]: Datafile Migration Tool

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Spence
Imports/exports only use about 1/10 of your available sustained io generally. Although direct exports are noticably faster and less stress on the database. And why do we need to read this? Use the delete key, personally you can read what you like, judging by some of the posts, it is

No TNSListner service after intall 8.1.7 on Win 2k

2001-08-16 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
Hi All, I did a typical installation of Oracle 8.1.7 on Win 2k. It appears to have installed Ok. I can use srvmgrl - create database - etc. However when I try to use worksheet I get no listner. I should not need one from the server. Anyway the install did not create service to start the

Can a SYSTEM tablespace be locally managed.

2001-08-16 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
Hi DBAs, I have ready many conflicting notes on MetaLink whether or not a SYSTEM tablespace can be locally managed. Most of the article state definitely not in 8.1.6 and less. While others say Yes and No in 8.1.7 Anyone know for sure thru actual use. Thanks Rick -- Please see the official

Re: Speed up Truncate tables - rebuild index

2001-08-16 Thread Igor Neyman
Title: RE: Speed up Truncate tables - rebuild index Lisa, I think Chris referred to 'alter table ... move', in which case you need to rebuild indexes (ROWIDs changed). Igor Neyman, OCP DBAPerceptron, Inc.(734)414-4627[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Koivu, Lisa

RE: rman/standby

2001-08-16 Thread Jyoti N
Hi Ravindra, I guess you can set"log_archive_dest_n" parameter dynamically by using "alter system" ,at least in 8.1.6. Also, you need to add it also in the init.ora not to loose the parameter value in case of a restart. HTH, Jyoti From: "Ravindra Basavaraja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To:

What file(s) does Oracle read in deciding what has been installed.

2001-08-16 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
Hi All, I am having great difficulty in getting Oracle 8.1.7 installed on Win 2k. I have completely removed Oracle, i.e., directory,registry entries, program groups and services. When I try to re-install it again Installer says 167 products installed when in fact there are none. Where is

Re: A high-availability question (standby , replication or ....)

2001-08-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Standby... even if I have to be paged in the middle of the night to bring it up and live. replication is a nightmare to implement unless you plan for it. Standby is a breeze to implement and maintain. From: Andrey Bronfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients

Re: Can a SYSTEM tablespace be locally managed.

2001-08-16 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Since you are likely to get conflicting answers from the list, how are you going to decide ? At present there is no syntax line in CREATE DATABASE for making the system tablespace locally managed, which is a hint. The other hint is that the Oracle 9 Concepts manual (Ch 4 page 10) states

Re: Can a SYSTEM tablespace be locally managed.

2001-08-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
it can't From: Cale, Rick T (Richard) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can a SYSTEM tablespace be locally managed. Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:28:22 -0800 Hi DBAs, I have ready many conflicting notes on MetaLink

characterset problem

2001-08-16 Thread Big Planet
Hi there , We have UTF-8 database. We are using OAS with UTF-8 setting and java at front end connects to OAS socket to send data to be inserted into oracle .Is it required to convert data send by Java to be converted to UTF8 ? OAS (OAS NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8)When we send some

Re: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-16 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I don't know how bookpool does it - it's been at deep discounts since publication, whereas Amazon managed to cut it by 10% for about two weeks in 9 months. A comment like yours came up on the comp.databases.oracle.server newsgroup very soon after the book came out. The convenient weasel word is

RE: Index space not freed when rows deleted?

2001-08-16 Thread Miller, Jay
Thanks to you and Kevin! You'd think I'd have noticed this behavior sometime before, but obviously not. Hmm, I'm also thinking now about my partioned tables in the datawarehouse, some of which have a global index on them. After exporting and dropping an older partition, I assume all that space

RE: Re[2]: Datafile Migration Tool

2001-08-16 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Oh my, we were right, they are picking on us, I told you didn't I. No, I told you No you didn't. Use the delete key, personally you can read what you like, judging by some of the posts, it is better read than some other posts on paranoid schizophrenics. The information

RE: 8.1.6 support cut off?

2001-08-16 Thread Mark Leith
I can't actually get to metastink - so I thought I would ask you guys that can :) oO(Don't know whether not being able to get at it really hurts me anyway :) ) Cheers anyway Mark -Original Message- Canaan Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 16:43 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Speed up Truncate tables - rebuild index

2001-08-16 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Speed up Truncate tables - rebuild index Ahhh... Thank you. Pre-coffee over here. LK -Original Message- From: Igor Neyman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:58 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Speed up Truncate tables -

RE: No TNSListner service after intall 8.1.7 on Win 2k

2001-08-16 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: No TNSListner service after intall 8.1.7 on Win 2k Hi Rick, I ran into this as well. I figured I didn't need a listener on my w2k box because everything was going to be local. However I couldn't connect via sqlplus gui without a listener (no listener error - maybe because I am

RE: Re[2]: Datafile Migration Tool

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Spence
Exactly ;) Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978) 322-5744 Fax:(707) 885-2275 Fuelspot 73 Princeton Street North, Chelmsford 01863

RE: Comment on 'Practical Oracle 8i'

2001-08-16 Thread Christopher Spence
Before I reply, so far at page 100 I think the book is great. I plan on finishing it this weekend. Anyway, I agree entirely. I think it really depends. But there are strong reasons in both directions. One thing that would make that test very difficult is MHz to MHz isn't the same. For

RE: What file(s) does Oracle read in deciding what has been insta

2001-08-16 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Didja look in 'Program Files'? On my system (8.1.6) there's an Oracle directory with 'Inventory' underneath that. HTH, Mike --- === Michael P. Vergara Oracle DBA Guidant Corporation (909) 914-2304 -Original

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