Re: OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-14 Thread Don Granaman
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Actually, failover (TAF - for connection, session, and select) works fine without MTS. I've built six 8i OPS systems in the last year or so using TAF without MTS. (None had direct Java clients though.) MTS is not required for the older multiple

Re: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-14 Thread nlzanen1
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi Jonathan, Thx for your input. If I look at v$filestat I see many columns. Searching the documents don't give me the explanation for them. Where do I get this info or maybe you can explain. AVGIOTM seems to be the column I need (units

Re: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-14 Thread Don Granaman
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! The other workload I would say was about the same (Relatively speaking) Both machines did have idle time on the CPU (I/O intensive job). What are the dominant wait events - in Oracle? It sounds like its probably I/O, but you might want to

RE: Automanagement of extent sizing

2001-09-14 Thread Christian Trassens
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! ...or copy command of sqlplus. Regards. --- Suhen Pather [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: !! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! You cannot use the alter table move on a table with LONG columns. * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00997: illegal

Re: RE: OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-14 Thread Cyril Thankappan
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi SOrry about this.. But I have actually seen the Net8 (shipped with Oracle 8.1.7 client CD) using Oracle 8.1.6 Enterprise Edition Database Server, where the failover works WITHOUT mts. However, Gopal, can you please clarify whether

Re: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-14 Thread nlzanen1
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi Don, wait_events that are dominant. db_file_scattered_reads, db_file_sequential_reads, db_file_parallel_write,sort_segment_request are the dominant wait (right under SQL*Net message from client rdbms ipc message) So yes I know I have an I/O

which patch number?

2001-09-14 Thread Seema Singh
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi Which oracle patch number is required to upgrade from 8.1.7.0 to 8.1.7.2? Thanks in advance -Seema _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp --

Re: Automanagement of extent sizing

2001-09-14 Thread Don Granaman
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I've been using LMTs in production systems since 1999 with no problems. I've been doing uniform extents for (almost) everything (enforced through controlling the DDL) since 1990 - and wouldn't have it any other way. My strategy is simple - assign

RE: explain plan is changing ...

2001-09-14 Thread Nicoll, Iain (Calanais)
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Does estimate without samples size or percentage not just use 1024 as the sample size?. If you look at dba_tab_columns the samples size will be in there. If the table is not too big could you try it with compute statistics or estimate statistics

Re: USE_NL with or without ORDERED

2001-09-14 Thread Shevtsov, Eduard
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I think this is the best description I have seen so far of the way in which the optimiser has evolved. Currently I believe that the optimizer HAS to obey hints if the hints can be applied to the paths it has been constrained to check. If

Re: which patch number?

2001-09-14 Thread nlzanen1
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi Patchset : 1882450 Jack Seema Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fatcity.com on 14-09-2001 11:15:17 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Jack

CBO - default num_rows in a table

2001-09-14 Thread Hallas John
Title: CBO - default num_rows in a table My question of the day is :- What value does the CBO use as a default number of rows for a table. Background: - We all know that if any tables in a query have been analyzed then CBO is used for the query not RBO (couple of caveats I know but let's

Re: OPS instalation - pretty urgent

2001-09-14 Thread Stefan Jahnke
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi, on AIX platforms, Oracle actually uses it's post wait driver architecture. It's a substitute for the operating system's semaphores. The background is that due to an exhaustive overhead dealing with OS semaphores (context switch), Oracle

CBO - default no of rows

2001-09-14 Thread Hallas John
Title: CBO - default no of rows My question of the day is :- What value does the CBO use as a default number of rows for a table. Background: - We all know that if any tables in a query have been analyzed then CBO is used for the query not RBO (couple of caveats I know but let's

Re: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-14 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi Don, I think I can get your don't believe everything you hear list to 10no make that 14. This is not specific to any storage vendor : 8) I/O access patterns on datafiles and redo logfiles are the same, hence can co-exist without any I/O

recovery of rman

2001-09-14 Thread Malik, Fawzia
Hi, Please can someone advise me on how to recreate the recovery catalog from the control file. I have found a command: resync catalog from backup controlfile; I am connecting to rman using nocatalog and then issuing the above, but am getting a syntax errorI have looked on metalink but

RE: CBO - default no of rows

2001-09-14 Thread Thomas, Kevin
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Ooooh, correct me if I'm wrong on this one, but doesn't the CBO just use the stats that are on the table. Hence if you actually delete the stats for the tables that don't have upto date stat values, you can actually get a performance increase, my

RE: Quest bought EZSQL

2001-09-14 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Don't laugh, that is what a lot of Windows programming firms aimed for: Start a small software firm. Give your employees stock options. Make a very useful utility. Become popular. Your stock value climbs. Microsoft buys out your company at your

Re: Automanagement of extent sizing

2001-09-14 Thread Cherie_Machler
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Don, Just to confirm a point that I think that you are making: Each tablespace should only have one extent size in it? Once you get too many extents, you move the object up to the next-size tablespace? Thanks, Cherie

Re: Automanagement of extent sizing

2001-09-14 Thread Cherie_Machler
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Don, Thanks for your comprehensive reply. Could you elaborate on how you enforce uniform extents through controlling the DDL? What do you mean by that? Thanks, Cherie

OT: be happy is Friday... PC GAMES time

2001-09-14 Thread Sinardy
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi, Anyone play red alert 2 ? do you have cheat codes ? Sinardy -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Sinardy INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051

Re: recovery of rman

2001-09-14 Thread Ruth Gramolini
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! If you have had a catalog in the past and it is backed up somewhere you can get restore in from backup. If you don't have a backup I would just create a new recovery catalog. Then backup all of you databases using rman in order to have current

Lots and lots of redo logs

2001-09-14 Thread Bill Buchan
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I am planning setting up a new database with the redo logs on RAID 1 array (mirror). The amount of space available on the array is 16Gb and only the redo logs will be on there. The application will generate 2Gb of redo per day and will be

RE: CBO - default no of rows

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! If you delete the stats it will use rule based, unless a table being join does have stats, then the other objects will be estimated (which I believe is simply based on the number of blocks). Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in

RE: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
Title: RE: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix Rules of tuning databases. There is always a bottleneck. Once you solve the bottle neck, refer to rule number 1. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a

Re: Lots and lots of redo logs

2001-09-14 Thread nlzanen1
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi Yes you can untill the day that you have this runaway process that creates 20Gb of redo and than crashes your database 5 minutes before the daily offline backup should kick in. But you are only mirroring, why not put your database in

RE: Lots and lots of redo logs

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! You can only have a max of 8 log groups if I remember correctly. Yesterday's backup may have failed, and you may have to recover from the day prior or prior's prior. Keep this in mind as well. With archive log, you can use 6 month old backup,

RE: Dump Oracle Tables To ASCII/Comma Delimited File

2001-09-14 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Instead, get Jared's dump.sql (Dump Tables to Flat File) from http://www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/util/. Review it and change it to get what you need. Regards, - Kirti Deshpande Verizon Information Services http://www.superpages.com

RE: When optimizer reevaluate SQL statement

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! If the statement is not exactly the same, the new statement will be reparsed. If you are executing it under a different user the statement will be reparsed. If you drop/create an index, it will invalidate the explain plan if that was part of the

RE: Locally managed tablespace

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Making Oracle simpler to work with I don't fear would put dba's out of work. A dba's role is far more involved than just the daily janitor work. Planning is also a large part of our job as well. But let's think about this, look at Windows, a

RE: Tablespace (datafile reducing)

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Having too many datafiles is not good for performance, updating datafile headers during checkpointing. I disagree, unless you have an unreasonable amount, there is minor almost not noticeable difference. Tests have been done on many databases

RE: Locally managed tablespace

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I use LMT's a lot. Advantages 1. Avoids honeycomb fragmentation 2. Simple administration 3. Avoid the need for rebuilding due to fragmented extents 4. Faster when dealing with local extents 5. No need to coalesce (hense eliminate problems

RE: Oracle8i Statspack

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Not at all, it is just a great replacement of utlbstat/estat. I find it simply an outstanding resource. The ability to take snap shots every hour, then at any point in time do a report between any two points in time. They are much more detailed

RE: Tablespace (datafile reducing)

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Generally more smaller data files is better than fewer larger ones. There is no performance problem with having 10 200Mb data files rather than 1 2gb data file. In fact, using 10 200mb data files will help a little when it comes to file locking.

Re: Lots and lots of redo logs

2001-09-14 Thread Bill Buchan
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi Thanks. That's a very good point. I agree that ARCHIVELOG mode will be needed. However, I still have this big disk just for redo logs, so I'm tempted to fill it anyway. This will be a sort of supplementary backup in case the archive disk

RE: Tablespace (datafile reducing)

2001-09-14 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Tests have been done on many databases with 3500+ data files and shown the difference to be insignificant. Chris, Can you pl point me to the doc/web site etc. where this is reported. I am having to deal with such an issue with one of my

database disaster recovery

2001-09-14 Thread Jonathan Gennick
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I'm curious. With all that's going on in New York, were any Oracle databases lost? Has anyone had to activate a disaster recovery plan and bring up their database at a new location? If so, how did that go? It would be interesting, and possibly

RE: Tablespace (datafile reducing)

2001-09-14 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Chris, Are these tests results published someplace? Tests have been done on many databases with 3500+ data files and shown the difference to be insignificant. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent:

RE: Tablespace (datafile reducing)

2001-09-14 Thread Mark Leith
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! There is no performance problem with having 10 200Mb data files rather than 1 2gb data file. In fact, using 10 200mb data files will help a little when it comes to file locking. and recovery.. -Original Message- Spence Sent: Friday,

RE: Lots and lots of redo logs

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! It is very common for people to see all that free space and want to fill it. Avoid the desire, fill it with a blank file. Disks are cheap and if you store things on the outer platters performance will suffer. Redo logs and other things in oracle

RE: Tablespace (datafile reducing)

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Someone posted a test they did from this list, some reason I believe it was John, but I can't remember 100%. If the person who did this test on the list please come forward, I remember this discussion, but I may even do it on one of my test boxes

Spatial included w/9i ????

2001-09-14 Thread Walter K
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Can anyone tell me if they know whether Oracle Spatial is included with 9i EE? The on-line documentation for Options is linked to Oracle8 (why I don't know) and is vague. Thanks! -w __ Terrorist

RE: When optimizer reevaluate SQL statement

2001-09-14 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Chris list, The last time I checked, an ANALYZE also invalidates the SQL in the shared pool, to force a parse and rebuild of the execution plan, on the next execution of the SQL statement. Regards, Gaja --- Christopher Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Tablespace (datafile reducing)

2001-09-14 Thread Gene Sais
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Datafile sizing is also dependent on the size of your db. I use 10gb datafile size's for a 1tb database. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/14/01 09:50AM !! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Generally more smaller data files is better than fewer

RE: Tablespace (datafile reducing)

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I know a few people (actually on the LazyDBA list) have done tests and each time they have said the checkpoint time has been insignificantly altered. I cannot say I have done these tests, and go by the theory of using smaller data files rather

Re: ora-14098: what am I missing (long) - solved

2001-09-14 Thread Gene Gurevich
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Please ignore the previous post. It turned out that one of the indices on the partitioned table was not partitioned locally. That's what I was missing --- Gene Gurevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm getting ora-14098 error when executing

Re: ora-14098: what am I missing (long) - solved

2001-09-14 Thread Gene Gurevich
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Please ignore the previous post. It turned out that one of the indices on the partitioned table was not partitioned locally. That's what I was missing --- Gene Gurevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm getting ora-14098 error when executing

Re: database disaster recovery

2001-09-14 Thread Connor McDonald
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I agree - but it would possibly be good etiquette to wait some weeks before we asked such questions (and this is not to criticise in any way your post) Just my 2c worth. Cheers Connor --- Jonathan Gennick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: !! Please do

Decimal Datatype

2001-09-14 Thread Ken Janusz
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! What are the rules for using the Decimal datatype? I can't find anything in my references. TIA, Ken Janusz, CPIM Database Conversion Lead Sufficient Systems, Inc. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ken

Re: lots and lots of redo logs

2001-09-14 Thread Paul Drake
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Christopher R. Spence said: You can only have a max of 8 log groups if I remember correctly. Gee, I thought that the DBA controlled the maximum number of redo logs allowed for a database. There's this thing called a database create statement:

Re: recovery of rman

2001-09-14 Thread Anjan Thakuria
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I missed a step... you have to register the database using the command register database; in rman once you are connected... Anjan Malik, Fawzia wrote: Hi, Please can someone advise me on how to recreate the recovery catalog from the

CBO changed path - why??

2001-09-14 Thread Baker, Barbara
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! We have had 2 querys go wacko on us. Both are cursors in a large (5000 line) pl/sql package. This interface package runs daily. The cursor execution below ran in less than 30 seconds on Tues; ran 2 hrs 15 minutes Wed. (yikes!) We had the same

Re: OT: be happy is Friday... PC GAMES time

2001-09-14 Thread Jared Still
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Umm... see that message at the top of each post? Please read and heed. Jared ( stressed out list owner ) On Friday 14 September 2001 06:00, Sinardy wrote: !! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi, Anyone play red alert 2 ? do

Re: CBO - default num_rows in a table

2001-09-14 Thread Jared Still
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Can't recall at the moment, but if you take a look at the tuning manual, it will tell you what the defaults are. Jared On Friday 14 September 2001 03:20, Hallas John wrote: My question of the day is :- What value does the CBO use as a

RE: When optimizer reevaluate SQL statement

2001-09-14 Thread Walthour, Jon (GEAE, Compaq)
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Chris: If you are executing it under a different user the statement will be reparsed. I'm puzzled. I always thought that different users submitting the identical SQL statement would use the same plan and not need to be reparsed. I understood

RE: database disaster recovery

2001-09-14 Thread Miller, Jay
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Well, all our servers were fine as of the time our building was evacuated on Tuesday but I got paged on Wednesday that our 100 Wall St. office had lost power and was running on generator. Fortunately the only machines I had there were our standby

RE: Lots and lots of redo logs

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Generally IDE shows this problem much more than scsi, but on IDE you can see as much as 50% performance degrading, I haven't really tested the difference. If you put the logs on, then fill the rests of the disks with a empty file of that size, you

RMAN catalog Recreation Problems/Questions ....

2001-09-14 Thread Janardhana Babu
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Dear List Members, I have Production DB in 8.1.6.2.0(64bit) on one box, and RMAN catalog database (8.1.6.2.0) on another box. I need to upgrade both the DBs to 8.1.7.1.0. I have no problem upgrading the production DB to 8.1.7.0.0 and then

RE: Lots and lots of redo logs

2001-09-14 Thread Scott Crabtree
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Christopher R. Spence said: Disks are cheap and if you store things on the outer platters performance will suffer? Chris, I'm not sure what you mean here. The concept of Variable Transfer Rate covers this. Stealing a quote from: Optimal Storage

Re: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-14 Thread Don Granaman
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! It seems that the I/O wait statistics, along with the increased time it takes for the job to run, is pretty good circumstantial evidence (enough for the grand jury hearing). That should be sufficient motivation to start the ball rolling to collect

Is Virus protection software safe on an NT / Oracle server?

2001-09-14 Thread Smith, Ron L.
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Our NT Server admins have been told by the Security department that they need to install virus protection software on the NT / Oracle servers. Does anyone know of any problems between Oracle and any virus software? Ron Smith Database

Average response time

2001-09-14 Thread Paul . Parker
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi List, I am trying to calculate the average database response time for a data center audit currently underway. Without expensive monitoring tools, is it possible to determine this from database statistics. So far, I'm using (Service Time +

Re: recovery of rman

2001-09-14 Thread Anjan Thakuria
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Couple of things here.. Do u have a backup u can restore from.. If yes restore... If never had a catalog.. Create the schema in the database u want to create the catalog and follow these steps... (pl check the syntax of the commands) 1. connect to

RE: Lots and lots of redo logs

2001-09-14 Thread Bill Buchan
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! How big a performance issue is the location of the log file on disk? Even if I create the minimum of 2 archive log groups, how can I be sure the controller hasn't put these on the outer platters anyway? Since these are log files then the

RE: lots and lots of redo logs

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I forgot the word default; I know 8 used to be the default. I tend to be doing many different things when I respond to emails. I guess it would be much easier if I didn't post at all. Not like I ever ask questions on the list. But thanks for

Re: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Gaja, I REALLY like #14 :) Rachel From: Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix Date: Fri, 14

RE: find out the rollback

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! What is 2lakh rows? Never heard of that number metric. 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)

Re: Is Virus protection software safe on an NT / Oracle server?

2001-09-14 Thread Jan Pruner
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Ehh ... users??? :-))) On Fri 14. September 2001 18:40, you wrote: !! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Our NT Server admins have been told by the Security department that they need to install virus protection software on the NT /

RE: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! corollary to rule 2 after a certain point, just stop. It ain't worth it anymore. From: Christopher Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: I/O

RE: When optimizer reevaluate SQL statement

2001-09-14 Thread Hillman, Alex
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! You mean it invalidates SQL which has references to the newly analyzed objects, not all SQL in cache - right? Also are you sure that creating index on table will invalidate SQL which references this table or view based on this table? Alex Hillman

Re: Tablespace (datafile reducing)

2001-09-14 Thread Anjan Thakuria
Chris, "Generally more smaller data files is better than fewer larger ones." Can you pl let me know if there is any paper or something throwing light on this. Thanks Anjan Gene Sais wrote: !! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Datafile sizing is also dependent on the size of your db. I

RE: Average response time

2001-09-14 Thread Stephane Faroult
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi List, I am trying to calculate the average database response time for a data center audit currently underway. Without expensive monitoring tools, is it possible to determine this from database statistics. So far, I'm using (Service Time

RE: CBO - default num_rows in a table

2001-09-14 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: CBO - default num_rows in a table Jared,Christopher The tuning manual states the following If the optimizer uses the cost-based approach for a SQL statement, and if some tables accessed by the statement have no statistics, then the optimizer uses internal information (such as the

Higher Consistent Gets...

2001-09-14 Thread Raj Gopalan
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi I am having problem with a query. This query fetches rows from a table which has 15 million rows. The problem is, when I execute this query with subquery, the consistent gets are 4700. Where us without the subquery the consistent gets are

RMAN catalog Recreation Problems/Questions ....

2001-09-14 Thread Janardhana Babu
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Dear List, I have Production DB in 8.1.6.2.0(64bit) on one box, and RMAN catalog database (8.1.6.2.0) on another box. I need to upgrade both the DBs to 8.1.7.1.0. I have no problem upgrading the production DB to 8.1.7.0.0 and the to 8.1.7.1.0

RE: CBO changed path - why??

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! What I would do is use DBMS_STATS to move the production stats to the staging db and see if the tests lead the same results. Are ya stats up to date? You using analyze or dbms_stats? Do you have comparing explain plans, trace files? I would

Re: Automanagement of extent sizing

2001-09-14 Thread Don Granaman
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Inline answers... - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 7:45 AM !! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Don, Just to confirm a point that I think

Re: database disaster recovery

2001-09-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Jonathan, Don't know -- the NYOUG is trying to check on members, but we've been looking more towards making sure everyone is alive (so far, I have not heard that we lost members) and finding ways to help them than towards disaster recovery

FW:Using Oracle tools to automate hot backups...

2001-09-14 Thread Denmark Weatherburne
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi DBA's First, as a Belizean/American, I'd like to share my sympathy for those touched by the terrorist attack on the US and anger towards the cowards who would go to such extremes to achieve their goals. Life is real. Life is a journey, we

Re: database disaster recovery

2001-09-14 Thread Don Granaman
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I second that! Market open on Monday might be somewhat revealing... (setq minor-rant-mode ON) I worked as a DBA in the financial/brokerage sector for years and was frequently appalled at what were often loudly touted as high availability and

RE: When optimizer reevaluate SQL statement

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! If the Oracle executing user is different, the execution plan will be different due to possibility of different objects and security. Different sessions under the same user can share using bind variables. Do not criticize someone until you walked

Re: Average response time

2001-09-14 Thread Jared . Still
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Paul, Try this: select ( s.service_seconds + w.wait_seconds) / user_calls service_time from ( select (sum(value)/100) / ( 3600 * 24 ) service_seconds from v$sysstat where upper(name) like '%CPU%' and class in (1,64) -- User and

Re: FW:Using Oracle tools to automate hot backups...

2001-09-14 Thread Ruth Gramolini
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! We use rman here. I have used it using the OEM Backup Manager but I find it more convenient to run it from the OS. I schedule jobs on OEM to run the server commands and let the agent take care of it. HTH, Ruth - Original Message - To:

RE: Is Virus protection software safe on an NT / Oracle server?

2001-09-14 Thread Kimberly Smith
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! We run a Virus Scanner on our NT Server that houses an Oracle database with no issues. The only problem I have every seen is where a bug was in one of the downloads to update the virus information and it messed up everything from PCs to the

RE: Lots and lots of redo logs

2001-09-14 Thread John Lewis
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! AIX has a unique concept of this. Given data spread on a disk. The head will spend more time over the middle tracks as it seeks data that is distributed across the disk. Thus for faster access, place your tablespace on the middle tracks of a

RE: When optimizer reevaluate SQL statement

2001-09-14 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Hi Alex, Yes, I mean invalidate the SQL that is referencing the object(s) that was analyzed. The creation of the index has the same effect. Which means after the index is created, the next execution of the query to that table, will be re-parsed,

RE: Is Virus protection software safe on an NT / Oracle server?

2001-09-14 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! It will slow down your server. With McAfee, you can exclude the directories that contain oracle datafiles, that minimizes the impact. Virus checking software is a good idea, in my opinion. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle

RE: find out the rollback

2001-09-14 Thread Deepak Thapliyal
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! 200, (two hundred thousand:) English is indeed an great language as it changes in its nuances as geographic locations change ..its friday finally! srinivas for estimating rollback, consider taking snapshots of v$rollstat.waits (specified in

RE: Locally managed tablespace

2001-09-14 Thread Kathy Duret
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! How are you to create the rollback segments? Is this the same or different from the other LMT tablespaces. I see where the Temporary Tablespaces are different. Any other good LMT articles besides the one below? I want to change our database

Oracle on OS390/MVS

2001-09-14 Thread Kim_Thompson
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! We're looking at possibly running Oracle on our mainframe, but the perception exists that a more optimum solution would be DB2. I would appreciate hearing from anyone that is running Oracle on OS390, and/or made a decision

Re: Automanagement of extent sizing

2001-09-14 Thread Don Granaman
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Prior to the advent of 8i, uniform extents had to be enforced through making sure that every extent in a given tablespace was the same size by using appropriate values in the storage clause in effect at the time of object creation. The easiest

Re: RMAN catalog Recreation Problems/Questions ....

2001-09-14 Thread Ruth Gramolini
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I think this is what you want to know: you should upgrade your rman database to the highest version of the databases being backed up with rman. Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: Lots and lots of redo logs

2001-09-14 Thread Bill Buchan
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Excellent. Thanks for the information; maybe I won't fill my whole disk with redo now! - Bill. At 08:40 14/09/01 -0800, you wrote: !! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Generally IDE shows this problem much more than scsi, but on

Re: Tablespace (datafile reducing)

2001-09-14 Thread Don Granaman
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! And I have built TB+ sized databases using no datafiles larger than 2 GB. At this level, larger files are worthy of consideration, but they are certainly not required - or even critical. It depends... -Don Granaman [OraSaurus - Honk if you

RE: Is Virus protection software safe on an NT / Oracle server?

2001-09-14 Thread Rodd Holman
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! With the advent of worms like Code Red, I would recommend it. You don't need users on the server anymore to get a virus. All you need is an OS full of holes and the system open to the internet. Rodd Holman Original Message On 9/14/01,

RE: RMAN catalog Recreation Problems/Questions ....

2001-09-14 Thread Janardhana Babu
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Ruth, Iam facing the follwing problems/doubts how to upgrade the catalog now. Please try to help me if you can: I have Production DB in 8.1.6.2.0(64bit) on one box, and RMAN catalog database (8.1.6.2.0) on another box. I need to upgrade both

DAP and Oracle Applications Maintenance pack

2001-09-14 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Fyi, This is the server that doesn't allow parallel downloading with Download Accelerator Plus: ap103aru.us.oracle.com What's different about that one, I wonder? Anyway, attempt #1 at downloading patch 11.5.5, 11.5.4. failed three times so

RE: find out the rollback

2001-09-14 Thread Christopher Spence
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! 200,000 @ 50 bytes, I would say just over 40Mb of rollback. Not sure how you came up with 21akh to 200,000 :) 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

Re: lots and lots of redo logs

2001-09-14 Thread Don Granaman
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I think that Chris was referring to the maximum number of redo log group one COULD create - an Oracle hard limit. I don't know what it is, but I know its not 8 since I have created OPS databases with 12 redo groups for each instance and multiple

Strange performance problem

2001-09-14 Thread Cherie_Machler
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I have a nightly load job that was being tracked by our developers. According to their nightly logs (going back months), a query was running as far back as they can record with a sub-second response time. Then on a particular date (Aug. 23rd),

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