Re: How do YOU use Java in the DB?

2002-06-07 Thread Bunyamin Karadeniz
I use it for emails with attachments and running OS commands within database; Look at akadia.com for javamail and here it explains how it is used. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 5:03 AM I use it for email.

RE: Can we find SQL user

2002-06-07 Thread sam d
We can definitely find the user , but considering my scenario 'all the people are logged in with the same oracle user' , I want to know:From what machine the SQL statement was fired. thx Sam name--- Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a look at v$session In particular the

9iAS - Error WTE-03503

2002-06-07 Thread Hussain Ahmed Qadri
Title: 9iAS - Error WTE-03503 During the installation of 9iAS on my system, with Origin DB residing on the same machine as the APP Server (as this is a trial installation, will shift to the appropriate arrangement once its all oktested), I am facing a problem in installing the Database

RE: Oracle 32 Bit running on Solaris 64 Bit

2002-06-07 Thread Lord, David - CSG
Helmut We run both on the same box, but only in dev. If my memory serves me correctly, there's a metalink note about it which recommends NOT using 64-bit oracle unless you need the increased memory addressing. We needed to increase the size of the shared pool above what we would use in 32-bit

[no subject]

2002-06-07 Thread sam d
no application server involved. thx Sameer -- We can definitely find the user , but considering my scenario 'all the people are logged in with the same oracle user' , I want to know:From what machine the SQL statement was fired. thx Sam name--- Reardon, Bruce

RE: RE: Can we find SQL user

2002-06-07 Thread Stephane Faroult
Sam, It looks like you have read Bruce's answer a little too fast. You might also like to RTFM the SQL Reference book, section 'functions', entry SYS_CONTEXT - although if you also want the SQL text, as Mladen said you must any way join V$SESSION and V$SQLAREA - or V$SQLTEXT if your

RE: Textfile into oracle

2002-06-07 Thread Sinardy Xing
Title: RE: Textfile into oracle save as txt first -Original Message-From: Clinton Naude [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 06 June 2002 22:28To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Textfile into oracle Yes, use Sqlloader... -Original Message- From:

Oracle DBA with 8i through 11i Experience Needed in Columbus,

2002-06-07 Thread OraStaff
Position: Oracle Applications Side DBA Location: Columbus, Ohio area (Lancaster) Industry: Manufacturing Salary Range: Mid 70s Base Salary -depends on experience A relocation package is available. This company is an industry leader in its field of products. Growing,profitable, well

Re: Mysterious Deadlock

2002-06-07 Thread Anjo Kolk
Walter, It may help to see where and why the problem occurs: set the following event in the init.ora 60 trace name errorstack level 10 This will show where in the code oracle gets the deadlock and may help to diagnose your problem. Anjo. Walter K wrote: We have an application that is

Tool for migrating from forms 3 to forms 6

2002-06-07 Thread ayyappan . subramaniyan
Hi Gurus any one have idea of any tool which can be used for migrating from forms 3 to forms 6. Help needed in this is very much appreciated Ayap This communication contains information, which is confidential and may

TAF

2002-06-07 Thread Malik, Fawzia
Hi , I am configuring TAF on oracle 8.1.7 (solaris). I was just wondering if anyone on the list has had experience on this and can give me any advice- more specifically on the the method- preconnect and basic. Are there any significant benefits of having the preconnect setting set? Any input

Re: Oracle DBA with 8i through 11i Experience Needed in Columbus,

2002-06-07 Thread Nuno Souto
If you were advertising this in a decent country, you'd now be sued for discrimination. Unfortunately, here you can get away with this sort of rubbish... Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - DO NOT send your resume unless you have a stable work history.

Re: Tool for migrating from forms 3 to forms 6

2002-06-07 Thread RT
Hi, you could try migrator. See www.logis.cz Robert ---Original Message-- Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 03:13:37 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL

Re: Tool for migrating from forms 3 to forms 6

2002-06-07 Thread RT
Hi, you could try migrator. See www.logis.cz Robert ---Original Message-- Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 03:13:37 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL

Re: Oracle DBA with 8i through 11i Experience Needed in Columbus,

2002-06-07 Thread Joe Testa
Anyone who wants to know WHO this is, feel free to email me. Also, mid 70's for oracle apps DBA, what a joke. joe OraStaff wrote: Position: Oracle Applications Side DBA Location: Columbus, Ohio area (Lancaster) Industry: Manufacturing Salary Range: Mid 70s Base Salary -depends on

Oracle Manufacturing -Dba activities

2002-06-07 Thread rpapnoi
Dear list Can someone give me info about Oracle manufacturing and dba responsibilities for the same. I will appreaciate the detailed feedback or any attachment to me directely. TIA Best Regards, Ramesh D Papnoi Oracle DBA @ Chemtex Global Engineers Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India (BrainBench

RE: runaway oracle.exe thread on NT / W2K

2002-06-07 Thread Jeffrey Beckstrom
Tried it, but after 5 minutes - still there. Interestingly, is that if do shutdown immediate, the thread is still there!!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/6/02 7:21:57 PM Jeffrey,As an idea - does orakill let you kill the thread off?This may let you "workaround" the issue without restarting the

Re: Oracle DBA with 8i through 11i Experience Needed in Columbus,

2002-06-07 Thread Tim Gorman
Depends on what you mean by decent; quite a few silly laws have been enacted in many countries because of someone's idea of decency. In the US, the forms of discrimination that are legally prohibited involve race, gender, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national-origin, and a couple other

RE: runaway oracle.exe thread on NT / W2K

2002-06-07 Thread Jeffrey Beckstrom
Problem is that can not reproduce on demand. Yesterday, we were doing the wrap up for PO G patches, i.e. generate messagess, flexfields, etc. Experienced the problem, tried redoing the same tasks and worked. Then after bringin up concurrent manager, lots of compile flexfield requests

Re: TAF

2002-06-07 Thread Tim Gorman
Fawzia, PRECONNECT establishes the second/failover database connection along with the first/primary, so your client-server database connection is really client-server1/server2. Should the first/primary connection fail, then you failover to the second. BASIC establishes only the first/primary

Re: Case tool

2002-06-07 Thread Jan Pruner
Yes. Cool tool for diagram of db architecture. (but I never used tools like Rational Rose) I don't use auto generated scripts (Vim is the winner :-) etc. But for the thing like to create schema picture is it great. JP On Thursday 06 June 2002 23:07, you wrote: Anyone used CaseStudio from:

EVENT=10235 trace name context forever, level 2

2002-06-07 Thread John Weatherman
Something for the internals folks. Last week we had a situation where the production system froze and we had to reboot to get everything working again. Working with Oracle Support, we determained that we had encountered bug 2230693. The workaround was to set the event listed above.

Slow disk-to-disk - [W2K OT]

2002-06-07 Thread O'Neill, Sean
I've a script that until last Friday had been taking approximately 1 hour to take an Offline disk-to-disk backup of one of our databases. Now it's taking 2.5 hours. We've ruled our virus scanning software as a potential culprit. Basic Config is is a Compaq server W2K SP1 connected to a Compaq

Re: How do YOU use Java in the DB?

2002-06-07 Thread Jan Pruner
I use it to keep me up. :-) On Friday 07 June 2002 04:03, you wrote: I use it for email. Jared On Thursday 06 June 2002 14:07, Jesse, Rich wrote: So, we've finally taken the jump and are using JSPs (erm...Java Stored Procedures, not Java Server Pages) on 8.1.7.2.0. Informal Poll:

ORAPERF

2002-06-07 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi Anjo, Tried uploading a statspack report to ORAPERF and the reply I get only goes down to BREAK DOWN OF CPU TIME and than finishes. Should I not be uploading level 10 statspack reportt? Sorry for sending this through this list but figured this was the quickest way TIA Jack

Who should I buy Oracle software from?

2002-06-07 Thread Don
I have a client that is purchasing additional Oracle db product. The company that the client has worked with for several years turns out to be a not authorized reseller. This is the first that I have heard of not authorized Oracle software resellers. Are there any reasons why one would

Recreating TEMP

2002-06-07 Thread Simon Waibale
Hi all , I have 2 TEMPORARY tablespaces which I want to drop and recreate with better storage options. My worries: 1)If I connect as sysdba, what TEMP talespace will sysdba's session be using given that a select from dba_users shows SYS SYSTEM users having TEMP as their TEMPORARY tablespace.

Re: Archiving in OPS

2002-06-07 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Thanks to all for your answers, I think that the NFS solution is the one. Tks. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 1:18 PM Metalink has a note on best practices on this. The best method of these in my

Re:Tool for migrating from forms 3 to forms 6

2002-06-07 Thread dgoulet
Go to www.kumaran.com. Good people, know what their doing. We had a VERY good experience with them when we left forms 3 behind. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 6/7/2002 3:13 AM Hi Gurus any one have idea of any tool

RE: Recreating TEMP

2002-06-07 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Simon, You only use the TEMP tablespace when performing a GROUP BY or a sort. In your case, this will not be happening to the SYS account during the drop and recreate of the tablespace. PS - change your drop tablespace command to: SQLDROP tablespace TEMP 3and DATAFILES; There are no

Correct way to determine freelists and freelists groups

2002-06-07 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Hi all, We have a bunch of TEMP tables in our 8161 databases. They are actually permenant tables but have temporary data in them. Some of these are small (less than a meg) to few large ones (100M or more). I truncate these tables once a week. Until now these used to reside with other regular

RE: using a lot of temporary tablespace with large sort area size

2002-06-07 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: using a lot of temporary tablespace with large sort area size Guys, Have 20Gb and 16CPUS available on host. Need to do large full-table scans/joins to create materialized view. Since I have to do the full-table scans of large tables - decided to use parallel query option.

RE: Who should I buy Oracle software from?

2002-06-07 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Don, If I were you, I'd either stay out if this, or recomend that they speak with Oracle about this. If your client gets screwed later, you don't want to be on the blame end of things. They could literally come after YOU for a bad recommendation. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional

Re: Case tool

2002-06-07 Thread Igor Neyman
Jan, Did you try it's 'versioning' feature (comparing versions)? That's what caught my attention. I downloaded demo, and it crashes with Access violation..., when I'm trying to create new model (NT4, SP6). Did you have similar problems? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original

RE: using a lot of temporary tablespace with large sort area size

2002-06-07 Thread Jack Silvey
Paula, With so much data, Oralce (or Oracle, if you prefer) might be hash joining your tables and writing temp hash segments. What is your hash_area_size? jack silvey --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, Have 20Gb and 16CPUS available on host. Need to do large full-table scans/joins to

Re: Who should I buy Oracle software from?

2002-06-07 Thread Tim Gorman
Resellers can lose their authorization because of some irregularity, such as failure to comply with the terms of the reseller agreement, poor recordkeeping, accounting foulups, or even outright embezzlement or criminal behavior. Oracle can refuse to do business with anyone it chooses, pretty

RE: using a lot of temporary tablespace with large sort area size

2002-06-07 Thread Paul . Parker
Title: RE: using a lot of temporary tablespace with large sort area size What about hash_area_size? Paul x3704 -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 10:58 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE:

Re: Case tool

2002-06-07 Thread Jan Pruner
No, I didn't. I never had a problem like Access ... used NT4 too. JP On Friday 07 June 2002 17:29, you wrote: Jan, Did you try it's 'versioning' feature (comparing versions)? That's what caught my attention. I downloaded demo, and it crashes with Access violation..., when I'm trying to

Newline char in oracle files

2002-06-07 Thread Seefelt, Beth
Title: Newline char in oracle files Hi everybody, I have a very odd problem I hope someone can help me with. I've installed Oracle, OEM and OWB on a couple of NT 4.0 servers in the UK. The text files that Oracle generates during the install - the .config, .ora and the .ctl files from OWB

Re: Can we find SQL user

2002-06-07 Thread Jared Still
Bruce already mentioned using v$session. Have you tried it? If you try it, you will find it. Jared On Friday 07 June 2002 00:13, sam d wrote: We can definitely find the user , but considering my scenario 'all the people are logged in with the same oracle user' , I want to know:From what

Re: Oracle DBA with 8i through 11i Experience Needed in Columbus,

2002-06-07 Thread Jared Still
Interesting. I know Bill is only passing on salary information that his clients provide, but 70k is really lowball for someone that has this kind of experience. When the market picks up, people that take these positions are going to bolt at the first chance. Jared On Friday 07 June 2002

RE: Is this a good upgrade path from 8.0.4 to 8.1.7.2?

2002-06-07 Thread Miller, Jay
I did an 8.0.4.3 to 8.1.7.2 upgrade back in January. My main nightmare with that particular upgrade is not likely to affect you (we had a disk failure while backing up the database prior to upgrade and the server didn't switch to the mirrored disk until after we rebooted - ended up delaying the

Re: Newline char in oracle files

2002-06-07 Thread Jan Pruner
I think it is not a problem of regional setting. It's the difference between UN*X versus MS platform. You can convert it to DOS format or use some better editor which can handle UN*X text files. JP On Friday 07 June 2002 17:38, you wrote: Hi everybody, I have a very odd problem I hope

RE: Newline char in oracle files

2002-06-07 Thread Seefelt, Beth
Title: Message Tom, Consider it done! Thanks for the advice. I hadn't tried wordpad and prefer notepad, but its definitely a step up from Word which was what I have been using. Beth -Original Message-From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June

RE: Can we find SQL user

2002-06-07 Thread Bernard, Gilbert
set lines 250 set pages 30 set pause off set feed off clear break clear col col osuser format a12 col usernameformat a10 this is it! col program format a60 col sid format 9 col sql_testformat a100 break on osuser- on sid dupl -

RE: Newline char in oracle files

2002-06-07 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: Newline char in oracle files Beth, Use WordPad - it interprets and opens the files just fine. Most of newer Oracle *.sql files have the same issue - if you use WordPad, they open fine. This bit of advice just cost you a virtual glassof Tetley Tea. Please submit ASAP! thank you!

RE: using a lot of temporary tablespace with large sort area size

2002-06-07 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: using a lot of temporary tablespace with large sort area size I would think that this is the most efficient way to join the data. BTW, Version is 8.1.7.2 of Oracle. The hash_area_size is hash_area_size integer 8388608 Also, never see from top session more than 4 GB memory

RE: using a lot of temporary tablespace with large sort area size

2002-06-07 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: using a lot of temporary tablespace with large sort area size Guys, Note: Oracle does not recommend using the HASH_AREA_SIZE parameter unless the instance is configured with the shared server option. Oracle recommends that you enable automatic sizing of SQL working areas by

RE: using a lot of temporary tablespace with large sort area size

2002-06-07 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
This query will help to see type of sortfor 8i above select user,segtype,extents from v$sort_usage; Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 07:38:26 -0800 Paula, With so much data, Oralce (or Oracle, if

Re: ORAPERF

2002-06-07 Thread Anjo Kolk
Jack, It should work, please send me the file to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will have a look why it fails. Anjo. Jack van Zanen wrote: Hi Anjo, Tried uploading a statspack report to ORAPERF and the reply I get only goes down to BREAK DOWN OF CPU TIME and than finishes. Should I not be

Re: Oracle DBA with 8i through 11i Experience Needed in Columbus,

2002-06-07 Thread Cherie_Machler
Columbus, Ohio is not a real big market.I'm not sure what market rates are there but I would assume that they are not top of the line. Cherie Machler With in-laws that live in Columbus

Re: Oracle DBA with 8i through 11i Experience Needed in Columbus,

2002-06-07 Thread Joe Testa
Jared, i agree totally and have further info on that position/company, etc. joe Jared Still wrote: Interesting. I know Bill is only passing on salary information that his clients provide, but 70k is really lowball for someone that has this kind of experience. When the market picks up,

Index Constraint

2002-06-07 Thread Hamid Alavi
Hi List, What's the diffrent between unique constrint unique index, when we have to use which, I think both are the same. Any Idea? And what about normal index reverse index? when we have to use normal and when reverse index, I think Reverse index normaly using for FK index, Is it right or not?

RE: EXPORT BUG: oncorrect storage parameters being produced RESOLVED new bug

2002-06-07 Thread johanna . doran
Hi, Check out Bug 1575222 in metalink (someone sent it to me). Exact bug. Suppossedly fixed in 8.1.7.2 Will test with my 8.1.7.3 version. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services--

RE: EXPORT BUG: oncorrect storage parameters being produced RESOLVED new bug

2002-06-07 Thread johanna . doran
Title: RE: EXPORT BUG: oncorrect storage parameters being produced RESOLVED new bug Hi, Check out Bug 1575222 in metalink (someone sent it to me). Exact bug. Suppoesedly fised in 8.1.7.2 -Original Message- From: Patricia Karla Cordeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]@SUNGARD Sent:

Re: Correct way to determine freelists and freelists groups

2002-06-07 Thread Greg Moore
Are there any scripts table_access_paths.sql from www.ixora.com.au will suggest number of freelists for a table -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Greg Moore INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858)

Oracle one-off Patch Install util

2002-06-07 Thread Jesse, Rich
Anyone used this yet? Does it run better than Oracle's RDA (haven't had a successful run of that yet!)? http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/showdoc?db=NOTid=189489.1blackfr ame=0 And, Jared, you'll be happy that it appears to be written in Perl. :) Rich Jesse

RE: using a lot of temporary tablespace with large sort area size

2002-06-07 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: using a lot of temporary tablespace with large sort area size Man significantly improved perf. by setting hash_area_size for session. Okay so guyshave read in metalink says hash_area_size is 2* sort_area_size by default - is this not true? Most be the case that it isn't true.

connect as SYSDBA using ADO

2002-06-07 Thread Alex Hillman
I am trying to find out how to connect as SYSDBA using ADO in Visual Basic. Did not see any mention of sysdba in the doc. Alex Hillman -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Alex Hillman INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858)

RE: Index Constraint

2002-06-07 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
No, don't use reverse index for FKs, on certain versions they caused havoc by allowing parent key to be deleted (Metastink has an alert on this one). Reverse indexes are preferred in OPS environment AFAIK. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni

RE: Correct way to determine freelists and freelists groups

2002-06-07 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Thanks Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, but having an opinion is an art!

Re: Index Constraint

2002-06-07 Thread Igor Neyman
rtfm Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 3:46 PM Hi List, What's the diffrent between unique constrint unique index, when we have to use which, I think both are the

RE: Index Constraint

2002-06-07 Thread Hamid Alavi
What about PK, which one should be, normal or Reverse, I can see in one of my database, Erwin generate all PK as normal/reverse ? -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 1:33 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L No, don't use reverse index for FKs, on certain versions

RE: Index Constraint

2002-06-07 Thread Hamid Alavi
Igore, rtfm is a very complex answer, please reply clearly!! -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 1:18 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L rtfm Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

RE: Correct way to determine freelists and freelists groups

2002-06-07 Thread Hamid Alavi
I try to use table_access_path.sql but got stoped at @save_sqlplus_setting and couldn't find it, do I have to save my sqlplus setting manualy or some thing else, If any body run this script can you give me a hint for running it. Thanks -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 1:33

RE: Index Constraint

2002-06-07 Thread Rajesh . Rao
An example on my understanding of Reverse Key Indices: Say you have a table EMP with a column EMPNO, and an index on this field.This number is incremented sequentially for every new employee that joins in. And as employees retire, say, the records are deleted. This would generally mean

RE: Oracle one-off Patch Install util

2002-06-07 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Here is an excerpt from the actual document: OPatch can be invoked directly as: perl opatch command [command_options] [ -h[elp] ] [ -n[o_op] ] or you can use the wrapper script that will use the version of perl installed in $ORACLE_HOME and invoke it as: opatch command

Re: Correct way to determine freelists and freelists groups

2002-06-07 Thread Suzy Vordos
Either comment out the save_sqlplus_setting script or download it from from www.ixora.com.au. Do the same for script restore_sqlplus_settings. Both scripts just save/restore your current SQL*Plus settings should another script modify them. Hamid Alavi wrote: I try to use

Horrendous Execution Plan from CBO

2002-06-07 Thread Stahlke, Mark
Greetings, One of our developers came to me with a fairly simple query that runs much faster when she uses the RBO. I looked at the execution plans generated by both the RBO and CBO and the CBO's plan is horrible. I was able to get a reasonable plan from the CBO using a USE_NL hint. Do any of

Re: Index Constraint

2002-06-07 Thread Igor Neyman
Hamid, Which part of RTFM you didn't understand? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 5:28 PM Igore, rtfm is a very complex answer, please reply clearly!! -Original

RE: Index Constraint

2002-06-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
read the fine manual you might, by doing a bit of research, get the answers on your own. It's definitely a way to learn more --- Hamid Alavi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Igore, rtfm is a very complex answer, please reply clearly!! -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 1:18

RE: Index Constraint

2002-06-07 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Read The Frigging Manual -Original Message- From: Hamid Alavi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 5:28 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Index Constraint Igore, rtfm is a very complex answer, please reply clearly!! -Original

RE: Oracle one-off Patch Install util

2002-06-07 Thread Jared . Still
has anyone actually found these utilities? Oracle claims they are with 9iR2, but I can't find them. Jared Gogala, Mladen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/07/2002 02:43 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Index Constraint

2002-06-07 Thread JoJo Al-Zawawi
Running To Find Mama. Just kidding around, JoJo -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 2:28 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Igore, rtfm is a very complex answer, please reply clearly!! -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 1:18 PM To: Multiple

Simple Oracle database question.

2002-06-07 Thread Meomeo Nguyen
Hi, Currently I have only one database running on a single host. Supposedly, I need to create multiple databases on the same host. My question is can I open two databases at the same time? I have not done it before, so just wanted to make sure that I can work on two databases all at once. Thanks

RE: Index Constraint

2002-06-07 Thread Hamid Alavi
Igore, The RTFM part ! -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 3:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hamid, Which part of RTFM you didn't understand? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: Horrendous Execution Plan from CBO

2002-06-07 Thread Jared . Still
When were statistics last generated? Any significant DML since then? Jared Stahlke, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/07/2002 02:51 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:

RE: Horrendous Execution Plan from CBO

2002-06-07 Thread Stahlke, Mark
Thanks for the quick responses. I analyzed both tables immediately before I started testing. The USE_MERGE hint gives me the same execution plan I get without hints. Mark Stahlke Oracle DuhBA Denver Newspaper Agency -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Horrendous Execution Plan from CBO

2002-06-07 Thread John Kanagaraj
Mark, Do any of you SQL tuning gurus have any suggestions? I've listed all the gory details below. I am not a SQL tuning guru, but it looks like this is an ideal example where Hash joins would be of immense help. You could set a largish value for HASH_AREA_SIZE (defaults to twice

Re: Simple Oracle database question.

2002-06-07 Thread Suzy Vordos
Yes, just make sure your ORACLE_SID is set correctly when creating or starting the new database. You can even have multiple databases each using a diff version of Oracle. Meomeo Nguyen wrote: Hi, Currently I have only one database running on a single host. Supposedly, I need to create

RE: Simple Oracle database question.

2002-06-07 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
On my dev box I have following databases running oraclei@orion ps -ef | grep pmonoraclei 13487 1 1 21:23:53 ? 2:27 ora_pmon_INTDEV oraclei 13529 1 1 21:23:57 ? 2:18 ora_pmon_INTSTAGE oraclef 1846 1 1 00:26:03 ? 0:14 ora_pmon_FINTEST oraclei 25861 1 1 07:41:40 ? 1:18

RE: Oracle one-off Patch Install util

2002-06-07 Thread Molina, Gerardo
I've used RDA for Solaris just recently. It's pretty slick. Somebody put a lot of thought into this tool. The html pages it generates are a pretty good snapshot of your environment. It makes use of frames which makes it easy to navigate through the information. Gerardo -Original

RE: Oracle one-off Patch Install util

2002-06-07 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Jared, Now that you mention it ... couldn't find it on Windoz NT and AIX 5 installations ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't

RE: Index Constraint

2002-06-07 Thread Hamid Alavi
Thanks ALL, Specialy Igore. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 3:28 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Read The Frigging Manual -Original Message- From: Hamid Alavi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 5:28 PM To: Multiple

RE: Simple Oracle database question.

2002-06-07 Thread Johnson, Michael
If you are on Unix make sure your ORACLE_SID environment variable is set to the database you want to use. -Original Message-From: Meomeo Nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 3:28 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Simple Oracle

RE: Index Constraint

2002-06-07 Thread Hamid Alavi
Igore, I didn't expect even in this group you can find such low class people If you want to use these sort of words please keep it for yourself. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 1:18 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L rtfm Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL

RE: Horrendous Execution Plan from CBO

2002-06-07 Thread Jared . Still
I'm going along with John. Try the hash join. CBO was less mature in v7, so it may need a little 'help' to get the plan you want. Such as a 'hash' hint, or the use_nl hint if you don't use the hash. Jared Stahlke, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/07/2002 03:43 PM

RE: Horrendous Execution Plan from CBO

2002-06-07 Thread Stahlke, Mark
Thanks for the tips. The hash join looks like the best bet. Someday we'll upgrade to 8.1.7. Someday... Here is the plan and stats using /*+ USE_HASH(c p) */ Execution Plan -- 0 SELECT STATEMENT Optimizer=CHOOSE (Cost=104706

Re: TAF

2002-06-07 Thread Murali Vallath
Exactly that is what my benchmarks have also noticed. Couple of other points... 1. Since the PRECONNECT always maintains a connection with the secondary instance, there is a 2% overhead compared to the BASIC option. 2. I don't and did not see the need for a PRECONNECT option. Off course like

Re: Horrendous Execution Plan from CBO

2002-06-07 Thread Nuno Souto
7.3.4? You're brave... Try to analyze with the following syntax: ANALYZE TABLE tname COMPUTE STATISTICS FOR ALL INDEXED COLUMNS; There was a funny with CBO that it ignored index stats completely even in some very simple joins. With 7.3.4. Usually this fixed the problem. Can't remember which

Re: Simple Oracle database question.

2002-06-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I currently have 4 databases running and am in the process of creating a 5th one. thisis on a solaris box. It is possible to run as many instances as disk space and memory will allow. It might not be good for performance but you can run more than one on the box. --- Meomeo Nguyen [EMAIL

RE: Index Constraint

2002-06-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
rtfm can be read as read the fine manual exactly what sort of language are you accusing Igor (and it would be nice if you managed to spell his name correctly) of using? you have spent a good deal of time asking people on this list for help for things that you could easily find in the manuals, if

RE: Oracle one-off Patch Install util

2002-06-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
RDA was written (or at least managed) by Anita Bardeen who used to spend a good deal of time on this list...she'll be happy to know you like it! Rachel --- Molina, Gerardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've used RDA for Solaris just recently. It's pretty slick. Somebody put a lot of thought

RE: Oracle DBA with 8i through 11i Experience Needed in

2002-06-07 Thread Ferenc Mantfeld
I'm sure Winston Churchill or someone equally clever had something relevant to say on the topic. At the moment, the only quote I can remember is Churchill's democracy is the absolute worst form of government, except of course for all the others... Ferenc Mantfeld : Churchill, amongst all his

SQL Question

2002-06-07 Thread Viktor
Hello All, It looks as if I've hit a brick wall and I'd very much appreciate if you can help. I've got a query that has to get some names and tie them to members. Name table is the main table with and member table is child table. desc Names FIRST_INIT NOT NULL CHAR(4) SECOND_INIT NOT

SQL Question (DISREGARD 1ST MESSAGE, SORRY)

2002-06-07 Thread Viktor
Hello All, It looks as if I've hit a brick wall and I'd very much appreciate if you can help. desc Names FIRST_INIT NOT NULL CHAR(4) SECOND_INIT NOT NULL CHAR(1) INIT_SEQUENCE NOT NULL NUMBER LAST_NAMEVARCHAR2(30) FIRST_NAME VARCHAR2(20) FLAG

Re: Correct way to determine freelists and freelists groups

2002-06-07 Thread Greg Moore
I try to use table_access_path.sql but got stoped at @save_sqlplus_setting On the page where you downloaded the script, click on and read Prerequisites. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Greg Moore INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

RE: Remove Duplicates

2002-06-07 Thread S B
If your Duplicates are large in number then the following method works fine.. 1. create table TMP as select distinct ( set of columns ) from ORIGINAL_TABLE 2. truncate table ORIGINAL_TABLE 3. insert into ORIGINAL_TABLE select * from TMP/use SQL Loader after taking a dump from TMP. Bhulu

Re: SQL Question

2002-06-07 Thread Mladen Gogala
Are you looking for something trivial like: select n.first_name, 'E.' middle_initial,n.last_name,m.mem_init_sequence from names n, member m where n.first_init=m.mem_first_init and n.second_init=m.mem_second_init order by 1 desc, 2 asc; On 2002.06.08 01:33 Viktor wrote: Hello All,