RE: Diagnose Slow System

2002-06-14 Thread Johnson, Michael
Title: RE: Diagnose Slow System You need to take a slice of the database when the performance degrades.   Capturing statistics at the end of the day before the database goes down is meaningless. Consider setting up a 10046 event trace and find out what session and what wait event is boggin

Re: Any Good Tool for Entity Relationship Diagram

2002-06-14 Thread prem
You may use Designer Muqthar Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/15/02 03:43 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:                 Subject:        Any Good Tool for Entity Relationsh

Re: Message logging in stored procedures

2002-06-14 Thread Jared Still
You may want to investigage Advanced Queuing. It is an async messaging service in the database. There are examples at otn.oracle.com Jared On Friday 14 June 2002 18:58, Robert Monical wrote: > Hello, > > Finally moving from Oracle 7 to 8 or 9 (probably 9). > > We currently use DBMS_PIPE and a

RE: Extremely slow query

2002-06-14 Thread Johnson, Michael
Have you looked at System Waits, Session Waits and or event 10046 trace data ? They hold the keys to the kingdom on where you should proceed to diagnose your performance issue. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 5:03 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > * So

Re: Extremely slow query

2002-06-14 Thread Jared . Still
You can run this in another window to see if the session is waiting on particular resource: select s.username username, e.event event, s.sid, e.p1text, e.p1, e.p2text, e.p2, e.wait_time, e.seconds_in_wait, e.state from v$session s, v$session_wait e where s.username i

RE: Capacity Planning

2002-06-14 Thread Ferenc Mantfeld
Mike You have not specified how much memory is on the machine, neither have you specified which application you will be running against the box. also, are you going to be using an intelligent RAID controller device (EMC, Shark, similar) with this ? Are you running this across a LAN / WAN ? Are a

Re: VB and Oracle...memory limiting the amount of records returned?

2002-06-14 Thread DBarbour
We have a similar problem with a vendor supplied application. We solved it (at least we masked the symptom) by increasing the ODBC timeout in the user's W2K registry. The vendor app uses an ODBC connect to a CORBA broker (OpenLink) on the server. It's a bank rec that was only returning a porti

Message logging in stored procedures

2002-06-14 Thread Robert Monical
Hello, Finally moving from Oracle 7 to 8 or 9 (probably 9). We currently use DBMS_PIPE and a scheduled job to empty the pipe and store the messages. Works fine in our application but I need to eventually make some improvements. Are there any new features in the newer Oracles to support this r

Extremely slow query

2002-06-14 Thread Baker, Barbara
> * Solaris 2.6 > * Oracle RDBMS v8.0.5.2.1 > List: We are (still) having difficult with a production database. (Users experiencing severe slowness at times.) I'm constructing a series of queries to run at intervals to check the health/status of the system. I'm attempting to run the q

Re: Oracle DB2 DBA Needed in Nebraska (near Colorado border)

2002-06-14 Thread Don Granaman
This has been open for a while - I first saw a posting for this opening in January or so. It is Cabela's. From what I hear, it is an outstanding place to work. Sidney is a long ways from anything though. As for "2 hours from Denver" ..., well -- MapQuest says "168.51 miles" with 3 hours, 20 mi

RE: Replication question

2002-06-14 Thread Khedr, Waleed
I can say that replication is an application solution level which means you can not turn on the switch to get all the applications/tables replicated while on the other hand Standby database is a database level solution that does not have to know anything about the applications/tables hosted by the

RE: Custom Reports from Aspect System

2002-06-14 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Custom Reports from Aspect System Could you try to connect internal on the server and create another user with DBA privileges? > -Original Message- > From: Rodd Holman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Are any of you using an Aspect phone system.  This system > maintains a

RE: Any Good Tool for Entity Relationship Diagram

2002-06-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Muqthar - ErWin is always a safe choice. Does the schema have relationships defined? If not, you're just going to end up with a bunch of disconnected boxes. Dennis Williams DBA, 20% OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 5:13 PM To: Multipl

RE: Free Buffer Waits/CNTD......

2002-06-14 Thread Cary Millsap
Pretty interesting. Maybe it's possible, but a simpler explanation is that something about your workload either during or maybe immediately before your batch job was different. The most common case in which I've seen 'free buffer waits' waits is when all the forces of nature combine to make DBWR'

RE: Any Good Tool for Entity Relationship Diagram

2002-06-14 Thread Wong, Bing
How about ERwin by CA? We use a lot. -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 6/14/02 3:13 PM Hi, One of our databases is custom based application. Is there any good tool I can use for ER Diagram. Thank your! Muqthar Ahmed DBA -- Please see the official ORA

RE: Wait Event Calculation

2002-06-14 Thread Cary Millsap
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, IMHO, singling out events to ignore in a system-wide or even session-wide data collection is the wrong thing to do. But you must ignore some events if you first make what I consider to be errors in how you collect your data. If you collect data for only the problem

Any Good Tool for Entity Relationship Diagram

2002-06-14 Thread Muqthar Ahmed
Hi, One of our databases is custom based application. Is there any good tool I can use for ER Diagram. Thank your! Muqthar Ahmed DBA -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Muqthar Ahmed INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5

Custom Reports from Aspect System

2002-06-14 Thread Rodd Holman
Are any of you using an Aspect phone system. This system maintains a small Oracle database on the switching equipment. Our telcom techs want to generate some custom reports out of this system, but I'm having problems getting in. They use some standard userids, but the passwords are encrypted in

Re: SAN - Oracle - Pitfalls - Adv/Disadvantages??

2002-06-14 Thread Bill Pass
I like SAN's for alot of reasons and if you are using them in a traditional non-replicated environment, they work well. Just don't buy into the sales hype that you don't need to do phsycial database design because we have should big caches etc... Those big caches are great for improving write perf

RE: VB and Oracle...memory limiting the amount of records returned?

2002-06-14 Thread Seefelt, Beth
Hi Chris, I'm not sure I understand the problem, but we have VB apps that routinely retrieve tens of thousands of records at a time, and occaissionally more, if that helps. We have not run into any limitation. If you want to send me more details on the problem I'd be happy to try to help.

RE: VB and Oracle...memory limiting the amount of records returne

2002-06-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Chris - How is VB connecting to Oracle? ADO? I don't know much about your problem, but I do know that there are a half-dozen Microsoft choices, and I believe there are a few Oracle choices also, like OO4O. But I do believe that the first step to solving your problem will be establishing precisely

VB and Oracle...memory limiting the amount of records returned?

2002-06-14 Thread Grabowy, Chris
We have a VB app that uses Oracle as the database. The users noticed a limitation in the amount of records being returned from the database. So they decided to increase the memory of the PC and some additional volume of records were returned. ?? Has anyone using VB/Oracle noticed this?? Is th

SAN - Oracle - Pitfalls - Adv/Disadvantages??

2002-06-14 Thread Mandar A. Ghosalkar
Hello Guys, any guys here who have SAN. We are inviting a SAN vendor for possible solutions for our enterprise. i am unaware about how SAN would affect me as DBA. Also we are thinking about how we can use OS level block replication between two database servers located in different cities(SF

RE: Locally Managed Tablespaces

2002-06-14 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
But she is missing from this list for a while...Hope to see her again Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:51:37 -0800 I concur. Anita's one of the most knowledgeable replication people to ever grace t

RE: Locally Managed Tablespaces

2002-06-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Yeah Anita is my favorite support engineer too... except that she's not on the "front lines" of support anymore :( But I think she's going to be able to come to NY to present for the user group in December. We're looking into it now :) You are right, knowing the members of this list I should hav

RE: Replication question

2002-06-14 Thread John Weatherman
Thanks! John P Weatherman Database Administrator Replacements Ltd. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 4:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Cross-platform is the whole reason for logical standby -- it's SQL statements that get applied to the secondary database

RE: Replication question

2002-06-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Cross-platform is the whole reason for logical standby -- it's SQL statements that get applied to the secondary database --- John Weatherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All very true. Of course the doc in question was written for 8i, so > that > explains some of it. :) Question: Does logical

RE: Wait event problems

2002-06-14 Thread Jesse, Rich
Unfortunately, the original paper in DOC format is required to get any value out of the tests, and the doc isn't available at fors.com anymore (404 from the link). Does anyone have this (Doc 285 from EOUG '97)? TIA! Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTE

RE: Locally Managed Tablespaces

2002-06-14 Thread Jared . Still
I concur. Anita's one of the most knowledgeable replication people to ever grace this list. Jared "Gogala, Mladen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/14/2002 12:28 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: how to identify what sql statements are generating archived logs

2002-06-14 Thread Charlie Mengler
I'd start with using the data out of V$SESS_IO. [EMAIL PROTECTED]> desc v$sess_io NameNull?Type --- SID NUMBER BLOCK_GETS NUMBER CONSISTENT_GETS

Re: sequence question

2002-06-14 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Acording to the manuals SEQUENCE_CACHE_ENTRIES is an obsolete parameter for 8.1.7   Ramon - Original Message - From: BigP To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 12:49 PM Subject: Re: sequence question while going throgh oracle manu

RE: how to identify what sql statements are generating archived l

2002-06-14 Thread Fink, Dan
Use v$sess_io.block_changes to find out who is generating changes, since each block change generates redo. Join back to v$session and v$sqlarea if need be and you have your culprits. Daniel W. Fink Sr. Oracle DBA MICROMEDEX 303.486.6456 -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 1:2

how to identify what sql statements are generating archived logs

2002-06-14 Thread David Jones
Dear Listers: Any way (other than LogMiner) to easily identify what sql statements running now are generaing archived logs ? I have suddenly a lots of archived logs generated and almost fillup my file system. TIA --David Jones _

RE: Locally Managed Tablespaces

2002-06-14 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Well, not really. I did that by slightly modifying sql.bsq in 8.1.7.2, but I'm not quite sure that modifying sql.bsq is something that Oracle Support likes to hear about... You can do it in a supported way as of 9.2. The same goes for renaming a user. One or two quick updates of the sys.user$ tab

RE: Replication question

2002-06-14 Thread John Weatherman
All very true. Of course the doc in question was written for 8i, so that explains some of it. :) Question: Does logical standby in 9.2 work across platforms? Haven't had too much time to look at new 9.2 features I'm afraid. John P Weatherman Database Administrator Replacements Ltd. -Ori

RE: Wait event problems

2002-06-14 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Here is an old paper from an Oracle analyst discussing SDU/TDU settings... http://www.fors.com/eoug97/papers/0285.htm. I never came across any upgraded version of the same. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:01 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello,

RE: Strange Bug

2002-06-14 Thread Hamid Alavi
Not actualy, The data already exists but not retreived till i recreate the table with same data. When I rebuild table the correct data will be retreived. Few tables always corrupted for no reason!!! -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 10:41 AM To: Multiple recipients of list OR

RE: Replication question

2002-06-14 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: Replication question Another potential HA use of AR is that you can use different platforms in an HA configuration.  You can fail over to another platform with some idle capacity or a workload that can be shifted around until the failed services are restored. Yet another is during

Re: Wait event problems

2002-06-14 Thread Danisment Gazi Unal (ubTools)
Hello, There are many theoretical things about tuning SDU/TDU. But, I don't think tuning SDU/TDU makes benefit in practice. Kathy Duret wrote: > FWIW > > I tried "mucking" around with the SDU/TDU parameters on both the client and the >server and never got much success. Tried to up the 2K to

RE: Replication question

2002-06-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
or you can use the logical standby feature of 9.2 and then have both databases open. Replication bothers me when I start to think about synchronous vs asynchronous. Async doesn't "hold up" the primary site from continuing on, but the databases are not true copies of one another. Sync are true cop

RE: Locally Managed Tablespaces

2002-06-14 Thread Rachel Carmichael
only in 9.2 can system be an lmt --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using 9.0.1 - can the system tablespace be setup as lmt? Or is > that new in 9.2? > > Michele > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Netwo

Re: Locally Managed Tablespaces

2002-06-14 Thread Joe Testa
9.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I am using 9.0.1 - can the system tablespace be setup as lmt? Or is that new in 9.2? > >Michele > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Joe Testa INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX:

RE: Locally Managed Tablespaces

2002-06-14 Thread Gogala, Mladen
That is new in 9.2. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:04 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: Locally Managed Tablespaces > > > I am using 9.0.1 - can the system tablespace be setup as lmt?

RE: Wait event problems

2002-06-14 Thread Kathy Duret
FWIW I tried "mucking" around with the SDU/TDU parameters on both the client and the server and never got much success. Tried to up the 2K to 8K but it still was sending alot of 2k packets. I had more results upping the array size to 90-100 in glogin (default is 15). Kathy -Original Me

RE: Locally Managed Tablespaces

2002-06-14 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
only in 9.2 ... that's the default. 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 hav

RE: Port access cancelling

2002-06-14 Thread Seefelt, Beth
Try it without the pipe to grep and see if the netstat -a is returning anything at all. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 1:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L When I gave this command on my db server nothing responded for 10 mnts. then I cancelled the comma

RE: Replication question

2002-06-14 Thread John Weatherman
Jarad, A standby is simpler, however it has limited use for offloading some system load (opening for read access suspends roll forward, so the data is somewhat stale). By using Master-Master synchronous replication with good deadlock handlers, you can use BOTH instances so you get the benefit

RE: Locally Managed Tablespaces

2002-06-14 Thread Marmdba
I am using 9.0.1 - can the system tablespace be setup as lmt? Or is that new in 9.2? Michele -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California--

RE: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-14 Thread Jared . Still
That's it, I *must* read that copy of "The Magic Garden Explained" that is at home langushing on the shelf. Jared "Gogala, Mladen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/14/2002 10:03 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PR

Re: Port access cancelling

2002-06-14 Thread Bill Pass
Stalled trying to do nslookups on all those IP address probably. Try the following: netstat -an | grep It gives you IP address and ports numbers without doing lookups. Bill --- Steve Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I gave this command on my db server nothing > responded for 10 mnts.

Re: sequence question

2002-06-14 Thread BigP
while going throgh oracle manuals I found saying number of sequence  cached is governed by init parameter SEQUENCE_CACHE_ENTRIES . Does it mean that this value should be set = 'number of sequence I want to cache'  ...and what happens if a sequence gets aged out from sequence pool . Am I going

RE: Replication question

2002-06-14 Thread Jared . Still
Curious, that note suggests Advanced Replication as a failover methodology. Seems that a standby database would be _much_ simpler. Any thoughts ( from anyone ) on why one would use AR for failover, rather than using a standby database? Jared John Weatherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by:

RE: set sort_area_size, sort_retained_size,hash_area_size but sti

2002-06-14 Thread Jared . Still
16 Gig of RAM on Windoze? Bruce, have you had your coffee yet? Jared "Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/13/2002 06:03 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subj

RE: Oracle 9.0.1.3 or 9.2.0?

2002-06-14 Thread Scott . Shafer
Yep. We just upgraded to 8.1.7.x. v9.x isn't even on the radar screen, yet... Scott Shafer San Antonio, TX 210-581-6217 > -Original Message- > From: Freeman, Robert [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:48 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject:

Re: Strange Bug

2002-06-14 Thread BigP
Are you executing two sql's from two different sessinons . Because it may happen that you might not have commited the records you inserted in tableA , as soon as you create a temp table oracle does commit by itself and you start finding records . Can you try issuing a commit and then doing select

RE: I/O contention with external process reading the oracle logs (online redo logs)

2002-06-14 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: I/O contention with external process reading the oracle logs (online redo logs) Actually, for us the percentage is lower since the OLTP application we're using it for is heavily indexed ( with the exception of single SQL that updates many rows.)  It's one of those claims that is us

RE: oracle error logging

2002-06-14 Thread Aponte, Tony
One more link with a complete package.  http://www.quest-pipelines.com/Pipelines/PLSQL/archives.htm#code35   Tony -Original Message-From: Aponte, Tony Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 12:29 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: oracle error logging

RE: Management Reports

2002-06-14 Thread Aponte, Tony
Title: RE: Management Reports I'm currently working on producing statistics for mid-managers.  We have a lot of tools that collect statistics for our 30 production databases so my challenge it to map their individual repositories with the categories I want to report.  But these are the categ

RE: 9i R2 not automatically starting up after upgrade

2002-06-14 Thread Yexley Robert D Contr Det 1 AFRL/WSI
That was the problem. I checked out that registry entry, and then looked in the directory that it was pointing to, and there was no init.ora file in that directory. I looked at the one that was in my previous ORACLE_HOME, copied and pasted it into the directory in the new ORACLE_HOME (the one

Re: Port access cancelling

2002-06-14 Thread Steve Johnson
When I gave this command on my db server nothing responded for 10 mnts. then I cancelled the command ; please advice. --- Hemant K Chitale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Unix, use "netstat -a | grep " > to see if there is any service listening on the > port. > > At 11:58 PM 13-06-02 -0800,

RE: I/O contention with external process reading the oracle logs

2002-06-14 Thread johanna . doran
Dennis, I was not referring to any one on this list. I was responding to the statement that Quest should run a benchmark on someone actual redo logs... I say, they might for a cost only I run Shareplex and haven't written full response to this thread yet because at thi

Re: sequence question

2002-06-14 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Bill,   When you do an export you have sequence numbers in cache.   Ramon - Original Message - From: Magaliff, Bill To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 10:53 AM Subject: RE: sequence question what do you mean about losing num

RE: Replication question

2002-06-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Mitchell - My knowledge is mostly from reading at this point, but here are some thoughts that a colleague provided from his experience: - backup and recovery is much more complicated in a replicated environment so it needs to be planned - replicated databases inevitably get out of sync so some pr

RE: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-14 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Tim, I don't believe that you can see that by strace. The whole thing is happening entirely in the kernel. The problem is that each device has a fixed size buffer allocated in the kernel address space. When you allocate user buffer, it's contents it being copied to either the buffer cache (file s

RE: Replication question

2002-06-14 Thread John Weatherman
Mitchell, There are a LOT of good papers in Metalink. I've been getting my own education over the last few months. Replication is a really great swiss army knife though, you need to do a little looking for what you specifically need to do, then test, test, test. Oh, and did I mention test? :)

Re: Oracle 9.0.1.3 or 9.2.0? -- planned 9.0.1 and 9.2.0

2002-06-14 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Check Note 190435.1 on MetaLink. [It is under "Upcoming Oracle Product Desupports]. At 09:41 AM 13-06-02 -0700, Charlie Mengler wrote: >I just went to Metalink & viewed the "desupport notices". >I did not see where any 9i version is listed. >Where did you find the notice for 9iR1? > >Hemant K Ch

RE: partial restore of a database

2002-06-14 Thread John . Dailey
Sorry for the late response, you probably are long done with your partial restore - but I'll add my $0.2 cents to the discussion: When I have done these partial restores I have limited my create controlfile script to only system, rollback, and the tablespaces I wanted. I have ONLY had succes

RE: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-14 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, MABG, 088130)
Title: RE: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size? Yeah, I've been using this device for backups for years.  Always get very good performance. (This is a joke folks!) Matt Adams - GE Appliances - [EMAIL PROTECTED] When someone says "I want a programming language in which I only need say what I

Wait Event Calculation

2002-06-14 Thread Erik Williams
I am trying to break the response time of my system into the wait and service times. I am able to determine the service time by the "CPU used by this session" line in the statspack report. The wait time I am having trouble with. I am working from the 'Yet Another Performance Profiling Method' docu

Re: 9i R2 not automatically starting up after upgrade

2002-06-14 Thread Igor Neyman
Robert, Check _AUTORTART key in Windows registry (regedit.exe) under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Oracle\Home. Set this key to TRUE, thus telling Oracle to automatically startup/open the db, when Oracle service is starting. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To

RE: 9i R2 not automatically starting up after upgrade

2002-06-14 Thread Theodoros Demosthenous
Check whether the service finds your init.ora file. The parameter in the registry might point to a different location for the service. You can find the parameter file and copy paste it to the location that the service is looking for it. I hope that this will help. Regards Theodoros -Orig

Re: Port access cancelling

2002-06-14 Thread Hemant K Chitale
On Unix, use "netstat -a | grep " to see if there is any service listening on the port. At 11:58 PM 13-06-02 -0800, you wrote: >Hello Unix Guru's! > >One of the port supposed to be used by db server has >been occupied by application servers. When I want >start a particular interface programs on

RE: 9i R2 not automatically starting up after upgrade

2002-06-14 Thread Seefelt, Beth
The database should start when you start the service if the registry entry ORA__AUTOSTART is set to TRUE. When you upgraded the database, did the ORA__* registry keys get moved into the new HKLM\Software\Oracle\HOMEx key, and removed from the old one? ORA-27101 can indicate its trying to start

Re: Replication question

2002-06-14 Thread mitchell
Hi all I will work on replication soon. any advice for reference I can get. Thanks in advance. Mitchell - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 10:58 AM > We are just starting to look at replication so each manu

RE: 9i R2 not automatically starting up after upgrade

2002-06-14 Thread Theodoros Demosthenous
The parameter to look in the registry is ORA_ORA9I_PFILE and points to the parameter file. Make sure that it is located there. Regards -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 6:16 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Check whether the service finds your init.ora file. The parameter in

RE: I/O contention with external process reading the oracle logs

2002-06-14 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
I'd say any company ... but there is an exception ... you pay exorbitant licensing fees for MS and Oracle software, but you get software for the money and bugs for free -- (on the lines of "Money for nothing and the ... ") Raj __ Rajendr

RE: sys corrupted in warehouse, sev1 tar open - resolved

2002-06-14 Thread Jack Silvey
Bruce, Thanks for the info, it is a useful thing to remember. Now for the post-game analysis: the way we found this was that RMAN stopped functioning with a "dbms_backup_restore.somethingorother must be declared" because the one in the wrong schema was invalid. RMAN logs in as sys. When the onc

RE: Wait event problems

2002-06-14 Thread Seefelt, Beth
Excellent information! Thanks for taking the time to write it all down. Beth -Original Message- Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 10:42 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: Seefelt, Beth Well, with all the caveats that's a long and boring story, so I'll shorten it up. ;) 1) SDU/TDU values of

RE: Wait event problems

2002-06-14 Thread Jesse, Rich
Well, with all the caveats that's a long and boring story, so I'll shorten it up. ;) 1) SDU/TDU values of 32768, as were specified by our 3rd-party vendor in their extremely non-OFA f'd-up install, are not valid. 2) Specifying SDU/TDU in TNSNAMES.ORA (or ONAMES) is useless unless it's corresp

Re: Stop Store proc from running

2002-06-14 Thread Scott Canaan
In Oracle, find the sid and serial# of the session and do an "alter system kill session" command. That will kill it. It might take awhile to kill, depending on how much rollback it has to do. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I want to immediately stop a running stored proc.I tried kill -9

Re: Memory utilization

2002-06-14 Thread Madhavan Amruthur
Hi Tim, > FF21 8K read/write/exec [ anon ] > FF34 8K read/write/exec/shared [ anon ] > FF3A 8K read/write/exec [ anon ] > I don't know what "anon" means, but let's > assume that it is also private to this specific process, The anon refers to anonymous pages t

RE: sequence question

2002-06-14 Thread Magaliff, Bill
what do you mean about losing numbers after an import/export?  -Original Message-From: Ramon E. Estevez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 10:44 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: sequence question Bigp   Remember that when you

RE: I/O contention with external process reading the oracle logs

2002-06-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
I feel compelled to respond. There are many fine consultants that take time to respond on this list with free advice. I could name a few names, but I'd slight someone, so I'll just say that you know who you are and your efforts are GREATLY appreciated. Say Tim, wouldn't you fall within that catego

Re: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-14 Thread Jared Still
Hey Tim! That /dev/null device is really fast! Solaris wrote 10 megabytes to it in 0.5 seconds. Where can I get one of those? Jared ;) On Thursday 13 June 2002 19:13, Tim Gorman wrote: > Carmen et al, > > Did some testing on this. On solaris 2.8 there doesn't seem to be any > upper-l

RE: I/O contention with external process reading the oracle logs (online redo logs)

2002-06-14 Thread johanna . doran
Title: RE: I/O contention with external process reading the oracle logs (online redo logs) Quest.   -Original Message- From:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]@SUNGARD   On Behalf Of "Tim Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:   Friday, June 14, 2002 10:38 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORAC

RE: 9i R2 not automatically starting up after upgrade

2002-06-14 Thread Yexley Robert D Contr Det 1 AFRL/WSI
I tried that...didn't fix the problem. The service actually starts without any problems, but for some reason, starting the service doesn't actually start the database. I have to actually login to SQL*Plus in /nolog mode, connect / as sysdba and then do a startup manually to get the database r

Re: sequence question

2002-06-14 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Bigp   Remember that when you issue  sequence.nextval you are incrementing one value and either your process function correct or not that number is used.   But, the more important is that if your system crash or you issue an SHUTDOWN ABORT you will loose the sequence numbers cached.  Also yo

Re: Cannot connect to DB error

2002-06-14 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
Joe: Good question. I checked services and it was not running. So I started it. But I still get these errors. PARTS database - ORA-12541: TNS: no listener KEN database - ORA-12154: TNS: could not resolve service name. Any idea what the problem is? Thanks, Ken - Original Message - T

two different 9i install problems!

2002-06-14 Thread Magaliff, Bill
Installing 9i (9.2.0.1.0) for the first time on a Win2K server and on my Win2K pro client SERVER ISSUE: standard install- enterprise edition - standard starter datababse - software appears to install and then config tools launch net config assistant complets dbca has now been running for about 18

Replication question

2002-06-14 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
We are just starting to look at replication so each manufacturing plant can have their own server. The applications are being developed in-house. I feel the first issue is to analyze each table and decide how it will be replicated and what schema changes need to me made to accommodate replication.

Re: change Language on server after Oracle install

2002-06-14 Thread Tim Gorman
John, I think you're confusing "characterset" with "language"; you can pack a lot of languages into the WE8ISO8859P1 or P15 charactersets! I think the P15 is new for including the euro character, by the way...? Look in the view NLS_INSTANCE_PARAMETERS for a list of the configurable NLS initial

Re: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-14 Thread Tim Gorman
Live and learn! I'd never heard of SSTIOMAX, but there's a decent MetaLink article on it (#131530.1)... I tried using "nm" and "strings" on the "oracle" executable and many of the ".a" and ".so" objects and couldn't find it mentioned, so it must be a "#define" compiler directive in the source co

Re: I/O contention with external process reading the oracle logs (online redo logs)

2002-06-14 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: RE: I/O contention with external process reading the oracle logs (online redo logs) who does?  :-) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 6:28 AM Subject: RE: I/O contention with externa

Stop Store proc from running

2002-06-14 Thread cosltemp-g . manoj
BDY.RTF Description: RTF file

RE: Locally Managed Tablespaces

2002-06-14 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
One can 'plug' in a DMT via TTS. but can not make it writable... ;) - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 12:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I would treat dmt's as obsolete. (In 9.2, all tablespaces default to locally managed, and furthermore, i

RE: set sort_area_size, sort_retained_size,hash_area_size but sti

2002-06-14 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: set sort_area_size, sort_retained_size,hash_area_size but sti Sorry the OS is Solaris 2.8 the database version 8.1.7.2 -Original Message- From: Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:03 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACL

Capacity Planning

2002-06-14 Thread Bond Mike A Contr OC-ALC/TILC
Good morning, I am trying determine whether a proposed 8-way Intel (Unisys ES7000) system running Windows 2000 will support our anticipated work load. I know this question has a LOT of variables but I don't even have a feel for some of the numbers. Two things: One - just to get an idea of th

RE: Case stmt not compiling

2002-06-14 Thread Connor McDonald
or wrap it within execute immediate hth connor --- Ganesh Raja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is due to the difference betweeen the PL/SQL > Compiler and SQL > Compiler. This has been rectified from 9i onwards > > One way to achive this is to Create a view and > access this View in > Pl/sql

Re: Installing Oracle 9i Developper suite

2002-06-14 Thread JRicard982
Stephane, This deals with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. The following link gives additional info, should anyone have an interest http://www.access-board.gov/508.htm Hope this helps Rick -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROT

Re: SunOS 5.8 I/O buffer size?

2002-06-14 Thread Connor McDonald
On 2.7 0.8128 read(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\002\0\0\0F0\0".., 10485760) = 10485760 0.1003 write(4, "\0\0\0\0\0\002\0\0\0F0\0".., 10485760) = 10485760 0.7603 read(3, "\0\00386\0\0 P\01BAFD0FA".., 10485760) = 10485760 0.1039 write(4, "\0\00386\0\0 P\01BAFD0FA".., 10485760) = 10485760 1.0187 read(3, "\0\

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