RE: Background jobs inUnix

2001-10-02 Thread Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane)
Hi Suhen, I guess the flwng is the syntax: $ mknod -p /mydir/pipe_file 200m $ exp user/passwd file=pipe_file tables=abc correct me if I am wrong thanq srinvias -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 3:25 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Srinivas, Try

find out ip

2001-10-02 Thread Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane)
Hi lists How to find out a server (solaris) IP address, that I logged in . Any command ? thanx in advance srinivas -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane) INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858)

RE: How much data can SQL*Server hold?

2001-10-02 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Title: How much data can SQL*Server hold? Lisa, It may be a little late for your needs but I am attending a meeting in London (Oct1 5th) about this very thing. Apparently (and I was blissfully unaware of this) we run a large-ish (about 70Gb) SQL*Server database for a major communications

Re: find out ip

2001-10-02 Thread Christian Trassens
$ who am i root pts/12 obre 2 09:11 (192.168.11.33) Regards. --- Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi lists How to find out a server (solaris) IP address, that I logged in . Any command ? thanx in advance srinivas -- Please see the official

optimizer function based indexes

2001-10-02 Thread Josef Huber
hello i've update my database from 8.1.7 release 3 to 9iand now following statement don't use my optimizer hint in 9i (in 8i itworks)upper_artikel_kurztext_idx is an function based indexselect /*+ index_asc(artikel upper_artikel_kurztext_idx */ * from artikelwhere upper(kurztext) LIKE

Re: find out ip

2001-10-02 Thread Jan Pruner
Your IP address is 127.0.0.1 :-) JP Try ifconfig On Tue 2. October 2001 09:30, you wrote: Hi lists How to find out a server (solaris) IP address, that I logged in . Any command ? thanx in advance srinivas -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author:

RE: find out ip

2001-10-02 Thread Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane)
Thanks a lot -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 5:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L $ who am i root pts/12 obre 2 09:11 (192.168.11.33) Regards. --- Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi lists How to find out a

RE: How much data can SQL*Server hold?

2001-10-02 Thread Guy Hammond
Title: How much data can SQL*Server hold? Hi Lisa, About the biggest MSSQL implementation I am aware of is this: http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/terra_tech.asp 1.5 terabytes on SQL Server 2000, Windows 2000 Datacenter and Compaq ProLiant. There's even a picture of what it looks

RE: Comparing data between two tables in two schema

2001-10-02 Thread Nicoll, Iain (Calanais)
If its the actual data you could look at the minus, intersect operators etc eg select * from schema1.table minus select * from schema2.table give the data in schema1 not in schema 2. Iain Nicoll -Original Message- Sent: 02 October 2001 04:15 To: Multiple recipients of list

Re: please help me to unlock a table

2001-10-02 Thread ASHRAF SALAYMEH
Try this: Alter table table_name disable table lock; --- Ha Duy Thien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Does anyone know how to unlock a locked table? Thanks in advance Ha Duy Thien __ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail

BEGIN BACKUP MODE !!

2001-10-02 Thread Dash, Saroj (CAP,CEF)
Hello All, When you take begin back up of tablespace what exactly oracle does internally. what happen the transcation in that period. Please tell me . Regards, saroj. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Dash, Saroj (CAP,CEF) INET: [EMAIL

Re: ORA-03113 when executing the initjvm script

2001-10-02 Thread Beatriz Martínez Jiménez
Thanks, christoffer, finally I have solved this and it works. The parameters set I have now, is the following: shared_pool_size 68157440 (size in bytes ) shared_pool_reserved_size 3407872 large_pool_size 614400 java_pool_size 5250 java_soft_sessionspace_limit 0

RE: Hot Backup Issue

2001-10-02 Thread Guy Hammond
Hello, Slightly unrelated question... is it better to (in pseudo code) : 1) for each tablespace loop put tablespace in backup mode end loop for each datafile in the database loop copy data file end loop for each tablespace loop put tablespace in normal mode end loop

Problem in setting PCTFREE and PCTUSED

2001-10-02 Thread Quaglio Andrea
Hello ! After having defined all the tables, now I have to parametrize each table. I have some tables that every day must be deleted and reloaded through sql loader. I think to set PCTFREE = 0, but I don't know if I have to specify a particular value for PCTUSED. Anybody can give an advice about

RE: Searching across multiple columns

2001-10-02 Thread Mark Leith
HELL of a reason to learn Perl! Nice.. Mark -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 20:51 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L PerlEvangelism my $dbh = DBI-connect( 'dbi:Oracle:' . $db, $username, $password, { RaiseError = 1, AutoCommit = 0

Re: Searching across multiple columns

2001-10-02 Thread Jan Pruner
Well, but can you put some words about performance of Perl versus PL/SQL (where to use what)? JP -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 20:51 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L PerlEvangelism my $dbh = DBI-connect( 'dbi:Oracle:' . $db,

Log Buffers

2001-10-02 Thread Naveed
Hi list members, I'm new in the field of Oracle DBA. I'm trying to change the size of Redo Buffers by setting the log_buffer parameter in init.ora file. But its value does not mach to redo buffers when I connect to svrmgr and use show sga command to view the SGA parameters. Can anyone help me by

RE: Searching across multiple columns

2001-10-02 Thread Nicoll, Iain (Calanais)
I'm sure Perl would be more efficient especially as you don't have to name the columns, but if you don't have to worry about the combined columns being too large isn't it equivalent to select col1||'|'||col2 etc from table having col1||'|'||col2 etc like '%value%' Iain Nicoll -Original

RE: Hot Backup Issue

2001-10-02 Thread Hallas John
Title: RE: Hot Backup Issue Guy, I would have thought 2) was best as you are reducing the concurrency (I think that is the right word) of redo log activity. As each tablespace is in backup mode it writes the full block to the redo log when any changes are made. On the assumption that all

SANPSHOT TECHNOLGIES ON WINDIWS 2000 CLUSTER SYSTEMS

2001-10-02 Thread Arslan Bahar
hi , We have been studiyng about a project which is include Oracle Real Application Clusters on Windows 2000 Cluster System. And Our hardware vendors present to us snapshot technology on their storage systems .We have orginized two meeting with DELL and HP vendores and they said to us

Re: Problem in setting PCTFREE and PCTUSED

2001-10-02 Thread Connor McDonald
There are no strict rules, but its all about trying to reduce the amount of wasted space under the high water mark for the table. That wasted space is when you have free'd up some space in a block but the block is still deemed sufficiently full for it not be considered for new data. This is

RE: count rows that are being imported

2001-10-02 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
srinivas, Also look at using the COMMIT=Y command line prompt. This will commit the imported records every so often which would allow you to perform your select count(*) command. Be aware that if your import plan requires a complete rollback if something bad happens, then using COMMIT=Y is

RE: Problem in setting PCTFREE and PCTUSED

2001-10-02 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Andrea, If it were me and I had tables that were reloaded every day, I would set the following: PCTFREE=5 : Since you are not doing deletes inserts, keep this small PCTUSED=95 : Since you are not doing updates, pack the data right in tight. PCTINCREASE=0 : I ALWAYS set this to 0. and, make

Re: Comparing data between two tables in two schema

2001-10-02 Thread Jan Pruner
This function comapres two tables. It's easy to write a cycle for tables in two schemas. Enjoy it. Jan Pruner create function compare_tables( tbl1 VARCHAR2, tbl2 VARCHAR2) return NUMBER /* Function compares content of two identical tables || tbl1, tbl2 are names of tables in format

RE: Hot Backup Issue

2001-10-02 Thread Rachel Carmichael
well 1 is simpler to code. :) However, if you put all tablespaces in backup mode at once, you will be generating a LOT of extra redo and archived logs. That's because even if you are not currently backinf up that tablespace (say you already HAVE backed it up), you will still have to write full

RE: Hot Backup Issue

2001-10-02 Thread Ron Rogers
Guy, Some reasons why NOT to put all tablespaces in the backup mode at once (step 1) is that the tranactions against the database could create a lot of redo and archive logs that could fill the space, tranaction time could be longer as it now reads the redo not the tables, Snapshot to old

Re: Hot Backup Issue

2001-10-02 Thread Don Granaman
The main disadvantage of #1 is that lgwr will write full blocks to the redo logs for the entire database until the entire backup is finished. If that takes a while and there is significant activity, it can generate tremendous amounts of redo - and archive. Lgwr and the I/O subsystem are doing

Re: Background jobs inUnix

2001-10-02 Thread Rachel Carmichael
that will kill the job... if you want it to continue after you log out, you should run: nohup compress /u01/dmps/zvr_dd.dmp this will allow it to run disconnected from a terminal and will continue after you log out. You will get the message you have running jobs when you type exit, just type

RE: Log Buffers

2001-10-02 Thread Arslan Bahar
it can be because of log_buffer is enforced to 4 times of OS block size. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 3:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi list members, I'm new in the field of Oracle DBA. I'm trying to change the size of Redo Buffers by setting

RE: BEGIN BACKUP MODE !!

2001-10-02 Thread Christopher Spence
It freezes increasing the SCN of the data files associated with the tablespace. Then it writes full block data to the redo logs instead of the standard old, new, operation data. If the block has already been written out, it will use an algorithm to avoid constantly writing out the same blocks.

Re[2]: For i (Select..)

2001-10-02 Thread dgoulet
You can do all three, but if you do not declare it you can't use the 'for update of' clause. Of course the 'for i in ()loop' does replace a lot of lines of code. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Steve Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 10/1/2001 7:50

Re:BEGIN BACKUP MODE !!

2001-10-02 Thread dgoulet
Saroj, Oracle does two things when you issue the start backup command. 1) It freezes the SCN in the header block of all datafiles in that tablespace and 2) it begins writing full block redo, from my experience for all tablespaces in the database. Some folks, including Oracle themselves, do

RE: Extents size.

2001-10-02 Thread Ramon Estevez
I did the same reorganization two weeks ago, not the same amount of data, but I used 128k for index tablespaces, 4m for the most activity TS (Sales) and 5160k for the others. I am very, very, very happy with the performance. I read two articles that some folks from the list sent me. Good

RE: Database Hangs -- System shows latch contentions

2001-10-02 Thread Gupta, Brijesh
Title: RE: Database Hangs -- System shows latch contentions Thanks. Yes its shared pool and Library cache. Shared pool was 4 GB initially I reduced it to 1.5 GB then we had problem and we increased it to 1.9 GB. We can't go to 8.1.6 new as it requires lot of testing and users are not ready

RE: Hot Backup Issue

2001-10-02 Thread Guy Hammond
Title: RE: Hot Backup Issue That makes sense, I just wanted to check :0) And of course, transactions in other tablespaces would be writing redo as normal. The overall level of redo generated would surely be less, tho'? Because say you had 5 tablespaces and put them all into hotbackup mode.

control file contents

2001-10-02 Thread Guy Hammond
Hello, Out of curiosity just now, I ran strings on a backup of my control file. In it, there are lots of repeated references to archive log files - there are groups log file names, and the same name might appear in multiple groups. Is this a list of the redo logs that you would need to recover

RE: Meaning of V$WAITSTAT statistics

2001-10-02 Thread Mohan, Ross
right...okwell. save=write ?? that's what I have always ASSumed...? hth - Ross -Original Message- Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 11:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L ok, I know the meaning of the undo block and undo header statistics, but I don't know

RE: Log Buffers

2001-10-02 Thread Mark Leith
Did you bounce (shutdown startup) your instance? If you set an initialisation parameter, you will need to cycle your instance for these parameters to be reinforced. HTH Mark -Original Message- Bahar Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 14:45 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L it

RE: Comparing data between two tables in two schema

2001-10-02 Thread Gogala, Mladen
The freware tora tool also has some compare capabilities. I've tested if with whe users scott and scott1 (both populated throuh the demobld script and, therefore containing vast masses of data) and it worked well. I haven't tested it on a real life database, mostly because the word freeware is

RE: BEGIN BACKUP MODE !!

2001-10-02 Thread Gogala, Mladen
What happens? What happens is exactly what is described in the DBA guide and concepts manual. You can find bth of those on http://technet.oracle.com. Read the fine manual. -Original Message- From: Dash, Saroj (CAP,CEF) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 6:30 AM

New disks on AIX, things to monitor/checks??

2001-10-02 Thread Raghu Kota
Hi Friends, We are going to add new disks other than existing disks!! My front end is baan, my system is AIX 4.1.5 with 200Gb data( I think its before AIX 4.3 version). My task is to test new disks performance like is it viable or not!! So what are the things I need to monitor?? or any

Problems Installing a patch on Solaris for Intel

2001-10-02 Thread Dave Leach
Apologies for asking another question on this (posted one yesterday) but I'm stuck, I am using patchadd to install 2 patches (107545-03 and 106542-17) to Solaris for Intel, these patches are required for Oracle 8.1.6. I keep getting the following message: Checking installed patches... One or

Migration v. Upgrade

2001-10-02 Thread Erik Williams
I cannot find a definitive definition of these two terms on metalink. Can these terms be used interchangeably or is there a difference? Thanks Erik -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Erik Williams INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services

Re:RE: Comparing data between two tables in two schema

2001-10-02 Thread dgoulet
Why not try the time tested brute force method? Select * from owner1.table1 intersect select * from owner2.table2; If you get the same number of rows as there are in the tables individually then they are equal. BTW: it's cheap too. Dick Goulet Reply

RE: Meaning of V$WAITSTAT statistics

2001-10-02 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Save undo headers are made for the Billy Graham's database only. Just kidding. The save undo headers refer to the deferred rollback segment, which are created if a tablespace goes offline with uncommitted transactions. Those deferred rollback segments are created in the tablespace SYSTEM and

Re: Oracle Open World

2001-10-02 Thread Jared Still
On Monday 01 October 2001 19:55, satar naghshineh wrote: Regards, Satar Groping Hands Grandma Fetish Naghshineh OK, it's already been on the list once, that's enough. Don't prolong it. Jared --- Smith, Ron L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just thought I would ask. How does everyone feel

Re: Extents size.

2001-10-02 Thread Jared Still
Ramon, Why use an extent size of 5.16 meg when you are already using 4 meg? Jared On Tuesday 02 October 2001 07:40, Ramon Estevez wrote: I did the same reorganization two weeks ago, not the same amount of data, but I used 128k for index tablespaces, 4m for the most activity TS (Sales)

Slightly OT

2001-10-02 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
By any chance are any on this list members of TCOUG(Twin Cities Oracle Users Group)? If so are you planning on attending tomorrows conference in Bloomington on Oracle System Performance given by Cary Millsap? Dave -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author:

RE: Extents size.

2001-10-02 Thread Christopher Spence
That is completely a myth. There is no notable performance different with a table with 10,000 extents and one with 1. The only problem is when it comes to the bitmaps when dealing with LMT and cluster when dealing with dictionary managed. When you query the extent views, or do space

oem job fails..

2001-10-02 Thread Sunil_Nookala
Hi Guys, While running a job(with lot of updates)in oem i get this error: ORA-00054: resource busy and acquire with NOWAIT specified. data base is 8.1.7 on NT. please help me how to fix it. Sunil Nookala Dell Corp. Austin, TX -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com --

RE: Problem in setting PCTFREE and PCTUSED

2001-10-02 Thread Christopher Spence
You can not make an intelligent guess at what these values should be without knowing: 1. Average Row Length 2. Blocks Size 3. Average Rows/Block 4. How active the table is for insert, deletes, updates. 5. Average size of updates (1,2,3 columns, 1 byte, 10 bytes) Without these pieces of

RE: Extents size.

2001-10-02 Thread Rachel Carmichael
well, only when you are deleting massive amounts of data or truncating with drop storage.. then there is an impact because of the hits on the dictionary tables. but basically yes... I've been told by various Oracle employees that up to 4096 extents cause no problem whatsoever. --- Christopher

Re: Searching across multiple columns

2001-10-02 Thread Jared Still
On a logical level perhaps. Try coding it. It will also be slow. Perl is *much* faster for something like this. Jared On Tuesday 02 October 2001 06:00, Nicoll, Iain (Calanais) wrote: I'm sure Perl would be more efficient especially as you don't have to name the columns, but if you don't

RE: Meaning of V$WAITSTAT statistics

2001-10-02 Thread Christopher Spence
Save undo is when a tablespace has undo information, but is currently offline. 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: RE: Comparing data between two tables in two schema

2001-10-02 Thread Gogala, Mladen
That is not elegant and doesn't have a GOOEY interface. It also requires the knowledge of SQL, which is a lot to ask from a poor little DBA like me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 12:21 PM To: Multiple

Re: oem job fails..

2001-10-02 Thread JOE TESTA
read the oracle docs om error 54. joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/02/01 12:40PM Hi Guys,While running a job(with lot of updates)in oem i get this error:ORA-00054: resource busy and acquire with NOWAIT specified.data base is 8.1.7 on NT.please help me how to fix it.Sunil NookalaDell Corp.Austin,

pl/sql question

2001-10-02 Thread Eric . Chesebro
Can I somehow use a variable for the table name in a cursor select? Here is the example: --Declaration Section sSrcTableName VARCHAR2(50) := iFeedNm||'_1_1_' ||TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'YYMMDD')||'_SRC'; --cursor for tmo daily source records CURSOR cTMODaily IS SELECT*

Re:oem job fails..

2001-10-02 Thread dgoulet
Sunil, Depends on what your job is doing. From the error message I would expect that it needs an exclusive lock on a database object that someone else is using. Please post the code. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

Re: optimizer function based indexes

2001-10-02 Thread Oliver Artelt
Hi, Have you checked OPTIMIZER_FEATURES_ENABLE? oli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello i've update my database from 8.1.7 release 3 to 9i and now following statement don't use my optimizer hint in 9i (in 8i it works) upper_artikel_kurztext_idx is an function based index select /*+

Re:RE: Extents size.

2001-10-02 Thread dgoulet
Back in the V6 days it was a desired characteristic to have every thing in the first extent of an object for performance reasons. Thankfully those days are gone and it really does not matter how many extents there are. Rachel has a presentation on Oracle Myths where she actually portrays having

RE: pl/sql question

2001-10-02 Thread Christopher Spence
Use DBMS_SQL or EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 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,

RE: Migration v. Upgrade

2001-10-02 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Erik - I believe the upgrade / recovery manual will have the more concise definition you seek. Look for the Oracle version you are on and the one you want to move to and it will tell you whether you need to upgrade or migrate. With an upgrade you usually just bring up the new version and run some

Re: RE: Meaning of V$WAITSTAT statistics

2001-10-02 Thread Cyril Thankappan
Hello Can you please clarify the relation between 'save undo headers' and Billy Graham. If making a joke out of what is 'unplatable' or 'inconvenient' to believe is comforting you by all means go ahead. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com --

Snapshots and DBlink on different version of database

2001-10-02 Thread Kishore
Hello Everybody I am here with a question, please help. I am running 7.3.4.4 on our two different departments and sales deaprtment runs dblink and snapshots to refresh from the central department. Both department running 7.3.4.4 Core Central department upgrading the database to 8.1.7. Now,

Re: Extents size.

2001-10-02 Thread Steve Smith
Yea - I keep hearing and seeing tests that show that the number of extents had no bearing on performance (up to a point). It just 'bothers' me to see a 500 or 1200 or 2000 extents on a table.. grin Here is a question - is there any situation that having only 1 big extent would reduce

Re: oem job fails..

2001-10-02 Thread Rachel Carmichael
that's not an oem problem per se... but is related to the fact that you are trying to update a row or table that is already in use review the updates and order of updates you are making. Is anything else running at that time? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, While running a job(with lot

Re: HOTBACKUP issue !!

2001-10-02 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Dash, Saroj (CAP,CEF) wrote: When you take begin back up of tablespace what exactly oracle does internally. what happen the transcation in that period. Check out my hot backup article. http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton/hot-backup.html -- Jeremiah Wilton

RE: Repost: Nested loop in PL/SQL

2001-10-02 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Jun, What exactly do you mean that it doesn't work after the first inner loop? One thing you should do is close and open the inner cursor after the inner loop completes. Are you sure the outer loop returns more than one row? Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original

Loadjava utility

2001-10-02 Thread Beatriz Martínez Jiménez
Hello all, I want to load in ther server two jar files, through the loadjava utility. But, where should be this files physically stored? Should they be in any folder under ORACLE_HOME directory? A lot of thanks in advance begin:vcard n:Jimenez;Beatriz Martinez x-mozilla-html:FALSE

Re: Extents size.

2001-10-02 Thread Jared . Still
Yes. If you need to do parallel query, multiple extents may help you out a bit. Jared Steve Smith

RE: Hot Backup Issue

2001-10-02 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Ron Rogers wrote: Some reasons why NOT to put all tablespaces in the backup mode at once (step 1) is that the tranactions against the database could create a lot of redo and archive logs that could fill the space, tranaction time could be longer as it now reads the redo

SID Environment Variable

2001-10-02 Thread Post, Ethan
I am trying to find an environment variable that returns the current session's SID. I see things like ora_login_user but can't find anything SID related. Basically I want to take a statspack snapshot using the SID of the current session. - E

Re: pl/sql question

2001-10-02 Thread DBarbour
Yep - here's an example. There is really a whole lot more that goes with this, but I've included the pertinent portions so you can get an idea. Hope this helps. SET DEFINE OFF; CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE Student_Course_Report( fromSchool varchar2, toSchool

Re[2]: For i (Select..)

2001-10-02 Thread Csillag Zsolt
Thank you very much. Your answers explained everything about explicit and implicit cursors. At 07:00 2001.10.02. -0800, you wrote: You can do all three, but if you do not declare it you can't use the 'for update of' clause. Of course the 'for i in ()loop' does replace a lot of lines of code.

Slightly OT : IFS Search is Slow.

2001-10-02 Thread Raj Gopalan
Hi We are using IFS 1.1 version on HP UX. Large number of XMl documents are loaded into IFS ( around 5.5 gb of table space occupied). Our req. is , given a file name , we need to lookup for the same in IFS repository and load it if exists. Search is based on file name ( attribute search) not

Re:RE: Extents size.

2001-10-02 Thread Rachel Carmichael
something along those lines... as with everything there is no real black or white on this... but transactional systems that do a lot of small (non-sequential) reads you are better off with lots of extents while data warehouses are often better off with fewer extents as the reads tend to be

Re: SANPSHOT TECHNOLGIES ON WINDIWS 2000 CLUSTER SYSTEMS

2001-10-02 Thread Don Granaman
I have designed systems on Sun Solaris Cluster (1.2 and 2.2) with OPS (7.3.x and 8.1.x) that used EMC snapshots (BCVs and SRDF), but not Windows 2000 clusters, DELL, or HP. Those used BCVs for backups of OPS databases and worked well. Since the EMC snapshot was performed at a layer common to all

Re: find out ip

2001-10-02 Thread satar naghshineh
netstat -in Will also tell you if there are any other assigned ip addresses to that server, for example in a cluster configuiration. Regards, Satar --- Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi lists How to find out a server (solaris) IP address, that I logged in .

RE: Loadjava utility

2001-10-02 Thread Christopher Spence
Doesn't matter, they get loaded into the java tables as lobs. As long as the loadjava command has access to the file when you run it. You can then delete the files if you so choice. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a

RE: Migration v. Upgrade

2001-10-02 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
Migrating is the process of transforming one database version to a later database version. Oracle 7 to Oracle 8 is migration. Upgrading is the process of transforming one database release to another database release of the same database version. Oracle 8.0.1 to 8.0.5 is upgrading database. HTH

Problems with patchsets to 8.1.7.0.0 on Windows 2000

2001-10-02 Thread Don Granaman
I have Oracle 8.1.7.0.0 running on a Windows 2000 Pro (sp2). I tried to install the 8.1.7.2.1 patchset according to the readme directions (shutdown all Oracle* services first, etc.), but when I try to run setup.exe, nothing happens. The icon flashes momentarily after being double-clicked, but

RE: Repost: Nested loop in PL/SQL

2001-10-02 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Jun the corrected code should be ... assuming you want to process channel_id for each row of pla_id. declare v_plan_id number; v_channel_id pricing_plan.channel_id%TYPE; v_row pricing_plan%ROWTYPE; cursor plan_id is select distinct pricing_Plan_id from pricing_plan where

Re: Repost: Nested loop in PL/SQL

2001-10-02 Thread DBarbour
The reasons this doesn't work are fairly numerous. What is it you're trying to accomplish here? Perhaps if you could explain your requirement, somebody could help you out. I'm quite surprised you were able to get a version of this to compile and run even if you did use a 'FOR' loop. Is it

Oracle - SQL Server

2001-10-02 Thread Christopher Spence
Title: Oracle - SQL Server I know there is a way in SQL server to query oracle tables, is there a way to do the reverse? I am looking at trying to create access from an Oracle DB to SQL Server data until we convert the SQL server database. Anyone have any ideas on this, I searched technet

[no subject]

2001-10-02 Thread Grabowy, Chris
SELECT s.study_id, s.status, sp.status FROM s, sp WHERE s.study_id = 5014 AND s.study_id = sp.study_id(+) AND s.status = 'A' AND sp.status = 'A' I'm stuck trying to figure out how to make this SQL work, and am starting to wonder if it's even possible. I'm trying to get this SQL to

Re: Background jobs inUnix

2001-10-02 Thread satar naghshineh
That's fine, but I would look into using the nohup command to solve error issues and to report any errors. Regards, Satar --- Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lists, Shall I close the unix session after submitting my job (compressing the dmp file after

Re: Meaning of V$WAITSTAT statistics

2001-10-02 Thread Greg Moore
From the performance perspective, you can safely ignore the save undo statistics. Anyone know where I can find a list of the v$sysstat, v$system_event and v$session_wait items I can safely ignore? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Greg Moore INET:

RE: RE: Meaning of V$WAITSTAT statistics

2001-10-02 Thread Gogala, Mladen
I didn't mean to offend anyone and I apologize if I did so. By the way, it's spelled unpalatable and not unplatable. -Original Message- From: Cyril Thankappan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 1:25 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: RE:

RE: control file contents

2001-10-02 Thread John Kanagaraj
Guy, I assume the database involved in 8.0 or higher :) Starting 8.0, the control files retain the list of archive logs in addition to recording both the list of database and redolog files. In fact, I found that it retains a list of backup controlfiles too... The list size for archive logs

RE: pl/sql question

2001-10-02 Thread Jared . Still
Or use a cursor variable. Jared Christopher

RE: Oracle - SQL Server

2001-10-02 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
Title: Oracle -> SQL Server I have not used it but Oracle Transparent Gateway can query against a SQL Server database. This is a very expensive product. Rick -Original Message-From: Christopher Spence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 2:41 PMTo:

RE: Problems with patchsets to 8.1.7.0.0 on Windows 2000

2001-10-02 Thread Yexley Robert D SSgt AFIT/SCA
I had that same problem with it. I ended up getting it to work OK when I navigated into the directory structure that the zip file creates (or on CD, whichever you're running it from) into patch_base\install\win32\setup.exe and ran it from there. This actually runs the OUI instead of the

Never mind - please ignore

2001-10-02 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Never mind - please ignore. Sorry for bothering. Brain fart. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 2:01 PM To: Fatcity's Oracle ListServ SELECT s.study_id, s.status, sp.status FROM s, sp WHERE s.study_id = 5014 AND s.study_id = sp.study_id(+) AND s.status = 'A'

RE: Repost: Nested loop in PL/SQL

2001-10-02 Thread Cale, Rick T (Richard)
Part of the code must be missing because plan_id cursor is being open/fetched but NOTHING done with it. Rick -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 2:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The reasons this doesn't work are fairly

interesting problem with jdbc

2001-10-02 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Okay, I'll preface this by saying we did find a work around but this was strange and I wondered if any of you had run into this. Background: two 8.1.6.0 databases, one is Solaris 2.8 32 bit and the other is Solaris 2.6 the local database is on the 2.8 machine, call it users the remote database

Migration Workbench

2001-10-02 Thread Brian King
When using the Oracle Migration Workbench in Oracle 8.1.7, the SQL Server 7 Source Model generates 6 errors. I then fix those errors and generate the model again. The problem I have is when I actually Migrate to Oracle. This procedure generates 69 errors. How can these errors be fixed? Am I doing

Slightly OT: Perl and PL/SQL Cursor Question

2001-10-02 Thread mohammed bhatti
In PL/SQL, if I need to know if I've fetched the last row, I can do this: IF recCursor%NOTFOUND THEN ... ... END IF; How would I do this in Perl? Looking at the DBI docs, there does not seem to be a similar method. It suggests doing a COUNT(*) or possibly use the following: $hash_ref =

RE:

2001-10-02 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Ron, An outer join on sp.status will only return records from s if no records exist in the sp table. If a record exists in the sp table, it HAS to be a value of 'A'. I suggest he drop the 'and' clause altogether. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent:

RE: oem job fails..solved

2001-10-02 Thread Sunil_Nookala
I found out the session which kept the table locked. killed it, jobs run fine now. thanks for help. Sunil Nookala -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 12:37 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L that's not an oem problem per se... but is related to the fact that you

RE: Problems with patchsets to 8.1.7.0.0 on Windows 2000

2001-10-02 Thread Christopher Spence
Same problem, go into the install directory and Win32 I think it was, the install works fine from there. Just shear luck I just setup two Win2000 boxes in my lab for Replication, heh. Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you are a

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