Re: runInstaller

2002-07-11 Thread Don Granaman
Inline comments... - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:23 AM All this ranting is nice but consider the following: 1) You do not install oracle on a server so much. In fact, in our shop this is done by the

RE: dblink problem ( ORA-02019 )

2002-07-11 Thread Ratnesh Kumar Singh
yes i cross checked , the 2 sqlnet.ora files are exactly the same. i am using 8.1.7.2.0 for all 3 db's. -Original Message- Bruce (CALBBAY) Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 12:33 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Check the sqlnet.ora on both boxes - are they the same? There was a

RE: dblink problem ( ORA-02019 )

2002-07-11 Thread Amjad
CREATE PUBLIC DATABASE LINK dblink CONNECT TO user IDENTIFIED BY password USING connect_string Regards, Amjad. www.medicomsoft.com : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anand Kumar N - SystemsSent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:33 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list

Re: runInstaller - ruinInstaller? RUINstaller?

2002-07-11 Thread Don Granaman
There have been times when I would have paid extra for (1) a character-mode installer and/or (2) a reliable and consistent way to create a listing of EXACTLY what was installed (e.g. the long-defunct instver). I think I've installed Oracle with just about every mechanism they've had since Oracle

RE: High % sys after Installing Solaris 8 on APP Server - SOLVED

2002-07-11 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Oracle 7.3.4 Version -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 8:49 PM To: VIVEK_SHARMA; LazyDBA.com Discussion SOLVED What version was this on? I thought this went away in version 8 of Oracle... Mike --- VIVEK_SHARMA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: process.dat regid.dat Files

FW: Do you know your Server Performance and Availability ?

2002-07-11 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Anyone else get this ??? Yet another mail I did not ask for ...G -Original Message- Sent: 10 July 2002 21:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Lee, I am contacting you to provide you with information about a unique systems management tool which is being received with great interest

RE: runInstaller

2002-07-11 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Amen to that Don. I (or the other DBA) do all of our own Oracle installs. No-one else gets anywhere near it. Lee -Original Message- Sent: 11 July 2002 07:53 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Inline comments... - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Do you know your Server Performance and Availability ?

2002-07-11 Thread Hately Mike
Oh yes. -Original Message- Sent: 11 July 2002 09:53 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Anyone else get this ??? Yet another mail I did not ask for ...G This

Subject: Re: [Fwd: Please Advise--Your Reaction to Ellison Comme

2002-07-11 Thread Sackwitz, Antje
Hi, as you were discussing that the message was sent to recent posters I guess you are right. I am twice assigned to the list, once at home and once with my office mail account. As I did recent postings to the list from my office account I only received the Ellison Comment mail at my office mail

sequential reads/scattered reads

2002-07-11 Thread oraora oraora
Guys, Querying my v$session_wait shows 10 rows each DB FILE SEQUENTIAL READ and DB FILE SCATTERED READ. manuals explain it all b'coz of I/O. there are 33 tables and 110 indexes in the same USERS tablespace with only one datafile USERS01.DAT of size 12GB. it's physically laid out in

Enqueue deadlock

2002-07-11 Thread Shishir Kumar Mishra
Hi ! How to avoid enqueue locks ? regards... Shishir Kumar MishraAgni Software (P) Ltd.www.agnisoft.com--Vidya Dadaati Viniyam--

Unindexed foreign key

2002-07-11 Thread Shishir Kumar Mishra
Hi Gurus! How does the unindexed foreign key affect the performance ? regards Shishir Kumar MishraAgni Software (P) Ltd.www.agnisoft.com--Vidya Dadaati Viniyam--

RE: High %wio on AIX O.S. DB Server after Oracle 8i Migration

2002-07-11 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
We are Considering Upgrading from 8.1.7.2 to 8.1.7.4 on AIX 4.3.3 Any Do's,Cares to be Taken ? Any Advice / Serious Bugs known on this Patch Version ? Thanks -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 8:49 PM To: LazyDBA.com Discussion After migration from Oracle ver 7.3.4 to

RE: Unindexed foreign key

2002-07-11 Thread Ganesh Raja
Whenever You Modify the Parent Table rows the Child Table is Entirely Locked so that no DML Takes Place. Also If there are no Indexes on the FK. Oracle Will have to do a FTS for all the Quries that you are going to Join with the Parent Table. HTH Best Regards, Ganesh R Tel : +971 (4) 397

RE: Unindexed foreign key

2002-07-11 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: Unindexed foreign key Shishir, If there are only a few records in the table, very little. However, if the table is nicely populated, it can make a tremendous difference. You could always do a little testing to find out in your particular case, but I wouldn't bother. I ALWAYS

1 Volume of Software RAID 1+0 versus Multiple Volumes of Software Raid 1 ?

2002-07-11 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
For performance , Which Option is better :- Given 6 Internal FCAL Hard Disks ? 1) Creating 1 Volume with Software RAID 1+0 OR 2) Creating 3 Volumes of Software RAID 1 , Each Volume Containing 2 Disks Manually Spreading the Database across the 3 Volumes ? Solaris 8 Machine V880 model --

RE: Do you know your Server Performance and Availability ?

2002-07-11 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Actually, I did get that email too. I assumed I got the email through all the computer magazines I subscribe too. Another harvester? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 4:53 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Anyone else get this ??? Yet another mail I did not

What you've always wanted to know about Oracle DBAing

2002-07-11 Thread O'Neill, Sean
I'm doing some research into questions Oracle DBAs would like to find answers/solutions to but for some reason, no time, bumped to a lower priority etc. they have not had time to find out. If you have a list of such (Oracle DBA related!) questions, restrict to your top 10 where necessary, I'd

RE: sequential reads/scattered reads

2002-07-11 Thread Cary Millsap
Moving stuff around won't reduce I/O traffic, it'll just spread it around across different devices. Don't focus on how much I/O your system does, focus on how much *time* an important process spends *doing* I/O. It's Amdahl's Law: If you improve I/O latencies by 50%, but your program spends only

Re: sequential reads/scattered reads

2002-07-11 Thread Thomas Day
If you can move the indexes to a separate physical device (and their own tablespace/datafile) then you will reduce I/O contention. If the tablespace/datafile is on the same RAID device then you will be using the same r/w heads and you will not reduce I/O contention.

RE: High %wio on AIX O.S. DB Server after Oracle 8i Migration

2002-07-11 Thread Adrian Roe
The fsync() blocks the process until all the dirty pages are written to the physical disks - maybe this is a problem with async i/o ? How many async i/o servers are configured on the AIX box (use smitty aio to check). As a start point set to the maximum to Number of CPU's * 10 and set the min

Oracle Warehouse Builder

2002-07-11 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
Top of the Morning! I've been tasked by my boss's PHB with performing a pro/con evaluation of Oracle Warehouse Builder without having the benefit of actually installing or using the product. I would greatly appreciate hearing about any real-world experience Warehouse Builder -- both pro con.

RE: [Fwd: Please Advise--Your Reaction to Ellison Comment]

2002-07-11 Thread Abdul Aleem
Jesse is probably right, I am a regular reader to this list but not replying/posting, I didn't get this message. My last post to this list was over a month ago. Aleem -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 10:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

Re:RE: Do you know your Server Performance and Availability

2002-07-11 Thread dgoulet
Make that two. Reply Separator Author: Hately Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/11/2002 1:58 AM Oh yes. -Original Message- Sent: 11 July 2002 09:53 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Anyone else get this ??? Yet another mail I did

AW: Oracle Warehouse Builder

2002-07-11 Thread Stefan Jahnke
I guess your boss is a good candidate for the paper tiger of the month award. How can you REALLY evaluate a product without evaluating it ??? Stefan Jahnke Consultant BOV Aktiengesellschaft Voice: +49 201 - 4513-298 Fax: +49 201 - 4513-149 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Ursprüngliche

AW: Do you know your Server Performance and Availability ?

2002-07-11 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Yes, I do. Thanks to Larry for inventing Perl ;) Stefan Jahnke Consultant BOV Aktiengesellschaft Voice: +49 201 - 4513-298 Fax: +49 201 - 4513-149 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Grabowy, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2002 15:58

RE: CA sues Quest Software for code theft

2002-07-11 Thread Jesse, Rich
True, but I hope the CA/Platinum code wasn't Quest Central for Oracle. Very disappointed in what Quest did with their perf tuning tools. At least TOAD is still standalone. Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International,

RE: runInstaller - ruinInstaller? RUINstaller?

2002-07-11 Thread Jesse, Rich
Ahhh, but have you ever experienced the joy of ruinInstaller on OpenVMS? The X-fonts come out so big that you sometimes have to guess what's in the text box and hope it installed correctly. Same goes for all the other Oracle-written Java tools, like Oracle Directory Manager. Oracle's solution:

RE: Statspack Intervals

2002-07-11 Thread Jesse, Rich
Thanks for the explanation, Ian. Now I know, and knowing is half the battle. -- G.I. Joe :) Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- From: MacGregor, Ian

Re: RE: sequential reads/scattered reads

2002-07-11 Thread oraora oraora
Cary Millsap, i selected the top 25 SQL statements in the system over various periods . all are SELECT statements only waiting for reads. querying v$session_wait also shows more than 10 records each for DB FILE SCATTERED READS and DB FILE SEQUENTIAL READS.does not it mean that it's b'coz of

Re: Re: sequential reads/scattered reads

2002-07-11 Thread oraora oraora
Thanx Thomas . i am pretty new to RAID. will not moving my tables and indexes to seperate tablespace reduce my i/o ? my h/w setup is: there is a logical partition D: of size 80GB with RAID5. is it enough that i move to seperate tablespace ? os should i create another partition like D: and

Where is Oracle 9.2 init.ora?

2002-07-11 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
For Oracle 9.2 (Solaris), can anyone tell me where Oracle is expecting the init.ora file? I created the database using dbca. It created an init.ora in admin/{db_name}/pfile. I moved this to $ORACLE_HOME/dbs and renamed the original init.ora file. Then I discovered that Oracle is not reading the

RE: CA sues Quest Software for code theft

2002-07-11 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Hey! Where are we going to get free data dictionary posters if CA dies? That would be a tragedy. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

Re: Where is Oracle 9.2 init.ora?

2002-07-11 Thread Charlie Mengler
GOTCHA! The dbca also created an SP file for you. I was stumped by it too after doing my initial V9.2 install. I forget the actual name, but this should give you enough of a clue so you can get moving again. HTH YMV! DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote: For Oracle 9.2 (Solaris), can anyone tell me

Re:Where is Oracle 9.2 init.ora?

2002-07-11 Thread dgoulet
Dennis, Oracle created the SPFILE which is not humanly readable. There should be an alter database/system command that does the change for you. According to what I heard at Oratechs 2000 editing the init.ora file is now longer effective. Dick Goulet Reply

RE: Where is Oracle 9.2 init.ora?

2002-07-11 Thread John Weatherman
Dennis, Do you see a spfile? Are you starting the database via a tool like OEM? If the spfile is out there, Oracle gives it preferance. Try recreating it from the pfile and see if your change takes or just get rid of it and start things on the server and see how that does. HtH, John P

RE: Re: sequential reads/scattered reads

2002-07-11 Thread Ganesh Raja
Hi, Moving to different Tablespaces will not do u any good. To learn more there was big List of Disscussion on... Comp.databases.oracle.server [ Google Groups http://groups.google.com ] You can go and seasrch there seperating Tables and Indexes. HTH Best Regards, Ganesh R Tel : +971 (4)

RE: CA sues Quest Software for code theft

2002-07-11 Thread Grabowy, Chris
TUSC. So it would not be a tragedy. :P Chris -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hey! Where are we going to get free data dictionary posters if CA dies? That would be a tragedy. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst

larry want to take over your e-mai

2002-07-11 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, MABG, 088130)
Title: larry want to take over your e-mai Ok, I just used the subject line to get your attention. From today's copy of InformationWeek's daily e-mail. -- ** Oracle Takes On Microsoft's E-Mail Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says he wants to exploit the security vulnerabilities and

Re: Where is Oracle 9.2 init.ora?

2002-07-11 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Dennis, IIRC, the dbca creates an spfile in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs, and startup reads that by default. If you make changes in init.ora, you'd have to create a new spfile for them to be recognized. With 9.x, the preferred way to change parameters is via ALTER SYSTEM...SCOPE..., which makes the change

RE: Where is Oracle 9.2 init.ora?

2002-07-11 Thread Conboy, Jim
Dennis- With 9i you have the option of using init.ora or the spfile. DBs created with the assistant I think use spfile by default. To make the change you want, issue the ALTER SYSTEM blah blah SCOPE BOTH to make the change both immediate and permanent. SCOPE MEMORY changes it immediately

RE: CA sues Quest Software for code theft

2002-07-11 Thread Jesse, Rich
http://www.tusc.com :) Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- From: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:54 AM To:

Re: CA sues Quest Software for code theft

2002-07-11 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
I just checked their web site and the only poster they have is - V$ Views for Oracle9i. Ken Janusz, CPIM - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:09 AM TUSC. So it would not be a tragedy. :P Chris

Re: Where is Oracle 9.2 init.ora?

2002-07-11 Thread Igor Neyman
Not sure about default pfile location, so I'm specifying it explicitly on db startup. As for SPFILE, the default location on Unix is $ORACLE_HOME/dbs (while on NT it is $ORACLE_HOME/database). So, if you create SPFILE in this default directory, than you don't have to specify it on startup. To

Re: Re: sequential reads/scattered reads

2002-07-11 Thread Thomas Day
If your D partition is just a logical device then, 'No'. Only moving to a different physical device will reduce I/O contention. oraora

Re: CA sues Quest Software for code theft

2002-07-11 Thread Igor Neyman
but it's not free from TUSC. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 12:09 PM TUSC. So it would not be a tragedy. :P Chris -Original Message- Sent: Thursday,

Re: Where is Oracle 9.2 init.ora?

2002-07-11 Thread Ron Rogers
Dennis, the info you are looking for can be found in the IOUG Select Nov 2001 magazine. Spfile is a new form of the INIT.ORA file, which is a binary file. the default location is in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/spfileSID.ora. The spfile contains all of the initialization parameters that are currently set

Re: Problem with sequence and row cache lock

2002-07-11 Thread Thomas Day
ORDER or NOORDER? If the sequence is not cached then Oracle has to find the last number generated and generate the next one. If the sequence is ordered (default) then Oracle must satisfy the first request for NEXTVAL before it can go on to the next request. If order is not important try

RE: CA sues Quest Software for code theft

2002-07-11 Thread Grabowy, Chris
So I guess Ken is voting to keep CA around...:) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 12:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I just checked their web site and the only poster they have is - V$ Views for Oracle9i. Ken Janusz, CPIM - Original Message - To:

Re:RE: CA sues Quest Software for code theft

2002-07-11 Thread dgoulet
Only for those sad few who have become CA zombies. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Boivin; Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/11/2002 7:53 AM Hey! Where are we going to get free data dictionary posters if CA dies? That would be a tragedy.

Re: Where is Oracle 9.2 init.ora?

2002-07-11 Thread Jonathan Gennick
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 07:43:27 -0800, you wrote: For Oracle 9.2 (Solaris), can anyone tell me where Oracle is expecting the init.ora file? By default, Oracle reads init parms from the new SPFILE. You need to use new ALTER DATABASE (or is it ALTER SYSTEM?) syntax now in order to change parameter

Re: CA sues Quest Software for code theft

2002-07-11 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
TUSC doesn't advertise a Data Dictionary poster on it's web site, only V$ Views for Oracle9i. And, they are not free. My $0.02 worth, Ken Janusz, CPIM - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:28 AM

Re: Buffer busy waits are 10.96% of non-idle waits

2002-07-11 Thread Bunyamin Karadeniz
Read the below carefuly. Do not forget that any ratio of an event to idle events is not considerable. You must consider it if you see the wait in the top 5 wait event list in statspack report. If the time waited for buffer waits is in a considerable rate acoording to other waits then you must

RE: CA sues Quest Software for code theft

2002-07-11 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Ahhh...yeah...that's a reason to keep CA around...the free posters. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 12:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L but it's not free from TUSC. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple

RE: RE: sequential reads/scattered reads

2002-07-11 Thread Johnson, Michael
Are you sure that these are the ones that are slowing the system down ? Did you try to find out at what time of the day the system is really slow and execute your wait/event queries at that time ? Did you get a slice of 10046 data when the application was actually running slow ?You could

Re: sequential reads/scattered reads

2002-07-11 Thread Tim Gorman
This is the kind of knee-jerk reaction that folks have to think harder about. Having data tablespaces and index tablespaces on the same physical device (is it really a physical device, or is it a logical device?) does not equal I/O contention. Maybe (just maybe) on your laptop or desktop, but

RE: Problem with sequence and row cache lock

2002-07-11 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: Problem with sequence and row cache lock Thanks for the reply, but it seems to be the problem you're describing is exactly what sequences are there for - to prevent serialization and eliminate this type of waiting. The sequences is ORDERED, BTW. -Original Message- From:

Re: Active sql

2002-07-11 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Jamadagni, Tks for the help. After creating the xviews it worked fine for function, packages, procedures. I want to include SQL statements also. Was checking but just return numbers, that explain the decode. select distinct kglobtyp from X_$KGLOB KGLOBTYP -- 0 1

RE: CA sues Quest Software for code theft

2002-07-11 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Great minds think alike... -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 12:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L http://www.tusc.com :) Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI

How to?

2002-07-11 Thread Nguyen, David M
Using LogMiner to read redo log, how do I tell a transaction is modified by which user and where user logins from like what columns in LogMiner should tell me this kind of information? Thanks, David -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Nguyen, David M

RE: larry want to take over your e-mai

2002-07-11 Thread johanna . doran
THAT DOES IT. I am starting training on DB2 right away (Yeah - I can actually AFFORD to no $2000 requirements!!). I want a DB that KNOWS its a DB and not an all-purpose quagmire of inter-related but not really related junk just because Larry has a Bill complex! Oracle and CHEAP cannot

RE: CA sues Quest Software for code theft

2002-07-11 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Well they're doing at least one thing right. : ) Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 2:13 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:RE: CA sues Quest Software for code theft

order by in subquery workaround

2002-07-11 Thread Baker, Barbara
Solaris 2.6 Oracle RDBMS v8.0.5.2.1 List: I'm trying to run a retrofit of statspack on an 8.0.5 database. (ya, I know. upgrading would actually be easier) The statspack stuff came from an 8.1.7 install I have on the same box. The spreport.sql report encounters errors in the order

Oracle 9.2 spfile catch 22

2002-07-11 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Thanks to everyone for the ideas on the init.ora. You were correct that the answer is indeed with spfile. Now I have discovered a catch-22. Oracle 9.2, Solaris 1. If spfile is created with LOG_ARCHIVE_START = true, database will not start. Receive the error ORA-00439 feature not

RE: Active sql

2002-07-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
decode(kglobtyp,0,'CURSOR',7,'PROCEDURE',8,'FUNCTION',9,'PACKAGE', 11,'PACKAGE BODY',12,'TRIGGER',13,'TYPE',14,'TYPE BODY','OTHER') Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion

RE: Where is Oracle 9.2 init.ora?

2002-07-11 Thread Khedr, Waleed
I checked this on my 9.2 Oracle on win2k: 1- Database is up and running 2- There is no initsid.ora 3- show parameters indicate a parameter called spfile 4- checked v$parameter and found spfile is defined by default to spfilesid.ora 5- renamed the file spfile. 6- shutdown the database. 7- try to

RE: 1 Volume of Software RAID 1+0 versus Multiple Volumes of Sof

2002-07-11 Thread BALA,PRAKASH (Non-HP-USA,ex1)
Vivek, Per my understanding from Tuning 101 book, your 2nd option is better. Check out this white paper from Gaja: http://www.quest.com/whitepapers/Raid1.pdf Prakash -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:43 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Software Raid 1 ?

RE: Oracle Warehouse Builder

2002-07-11 Thread BALA,PRAKASH (Non-HP-USA,ex1)
Kevin, In terms of functionality, it's good. But since it is Java based, you need 256MB+ on your desktop/laptop for it to run properly. You also need the Oracle Gateway if you want OWB to access non-Oracle databases. HTH! Prakash -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:34

More on the OCP priceing

2002-07-11 Thread Ron Rogers
List, Received this from the searchdatabase.com site about Oracle defending the OCP pricing. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= LEAD STORY ORACLE U. DEFENDS OCP TITLE | SearchDatabase Defending their new DBA certification requirement against critics who say

OT - Oracle U. defends OCP title

2002-07-11 Thread Jan Pruner
http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid13_gci837964,00.html JP -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jan Pruner INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California

killing sessions

2002-07-11 Thread Joe Armstrong-Champ
We have developers who occassionally want to be able to kill their sessions in a dev instance. We are concerned about giving them alter system priviledge and were wondering what people do about this. Is there any other way they can do this? Do some shops allow certain users to do this with some

Re: Oracle 9.2 spfile catch 22

2002-07-11 Thread Igor Neyman
Dennis, Did you specify scope=both when running alter system ? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 1:48 PM Thanks to everyone for the ideas on the init.ora. You

Re: sequential reads/scattered reads

2002-07-11 Thread Jared . Still
Are you actually experiencing a performance problem? Are users complaining? If not, then don't worry about it, find something else to do. :) If so, ( and this has already been stated to you I think ) check the wait times, don't worry about doing a lot of I/O. If you don't know how to check

RE: killing sessions

2002-07-11 Thread Ji, Richard
You can write a stored procedure that does the kill of a session and grant them execute only privilege to the stored procedure. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 2:51 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We have developers who occassionally want to be able to kill

Re:killing sessions

2002-07-11 Thread dgoulet
NO, they want their session killed, then they can call. I did allow this a few years ago. It turned into a real mess, PERIOD. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Joe Armstrong-Champ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7/11/2002 10:51 AM We have developers

RE: killing sessions

2002-07-11 Thread Jesse, Rich
Nope. Not a chance. Although you could make a small app/procedure that would help prevent them from making a mistake and killing off the wrong process, audit the process, and execute it through another schema that would have the privs. HTH! GL! :) Rich Jesse

Re: Enqueue deadlock

2002-07-11 Thread Jared . Still
You can't really avoid them, unless of course your database is down. If what you really mean is that you're application is frequently waiting on enqueue locks, then you need to find out why that is happening. A common reason is that foreign keys are created without supporting indexes. Another

RE: OT - Oracle U. defends OCP title

2002-07-11 Thread Khedr, Waleed
I will take my OCP from MS! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 2:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid13_gci83796 4,00.html JP -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com --

ORA 4031 Error Occuring With Large shared_pool_size = 200 MB

2002-07-11 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
At a production Site Following Error Occuring many Times Daily Now the init ora parameters are according to what was suggested. the Shared pool is 200M. Still we are getting the following error: Message : 002: DATABASE ERROR - sqlcode = [-] Operation: [S] Message -

Plagiarism?

2002-07-11 Thread Post, Ethan
http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid13_gci832443,00.html http://ixora.com.au/scripts/sql/dd_cluster_sizes.sql Humm...my money is on Steve as the original author. - Ethan -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Post, Ethan INET: [EMAIL

RE: killing sessions

2002-07-11 Thread Rodrigues, Bryan
If your environment is mts be very careful about killing sessions. In some cases the killed session does not die until the instance is stopped and started. Bryan Rodrigues DBA Elcom Inc. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 2:51 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

killing sessions

2002-07-11 Thread JOE TESTA
Not sure of your experience with pl/sql but how about this: a stored procedure, takes 2 parms, serial and sid. validation in the stored proc matches the logged in user against the username in v$session. if the names match, dynamic sql(ddl) to do the alter command to kill the session.

Re:killing sessions

2002-07-11 Thread Jack Silvey
Dick, interesting. tell us why it was such a mess. regards, jack --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NO, they want their session killed, then they can call. I did allow this a few years ago. It turned into a real mess, PERIOD. Dick Goulet Reply

How to sort these values 'correctly?' 1.1..1, 1.1..2, 1.1..13

2002-07-11 Thread Jay Weinshenker
So imagine I have this series of numbers 1.1 1.1..1 1.1..13 1.1..2 1.1..3 and I want them to sort like a human would sort them 1.1 1.1..1 1.1..2 1.1..3 1.1..7 1.1..13 Anyone have sql to accomplish this? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jay Weinshenker

RE: killing sessions

2002-07-11 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Joe, Once you open this door, you will never get it closed. Next they will want to modify the table structures. What are you going to do thie first time they kill an Oracle Background session? I agree with Dick. Don't do it. Make them call you. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional

RE: Plagiarism?

2002-07-11 Thread Cary Millsap
Looks like the searchdatabase copy has disappeared already. Not many things in this life are certain, but I'll guarantee you one thing: if there's a script at Ixora with Steve Adams' name on it, then that script was written by Steve Adams. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd.

RE: Plagiarism?

2002-07-11 Thread Grabowy, Chris
searchdatabase link points to non existent page. Did they pull it?? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:25 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid13_gci832443,00.html

RE: killing sessions

2002-07-11 Thread Khedr, Waleed
It looks like job security :) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 3:47 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Joe, Once you open this door, you will never get it closed. Next they will want to modify the table structures. What are you going to do thie first time

RE: OT - Oracle U. defends OCP title  

2002-07-11 Thread csp2201
From when MS started offering ORACLE Certified Professional exams :-) Khedr, Waleed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will take my OCP from MS! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 2:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

DOS Script for pop up question ?

2002-07-11 Thread Bob Robert
All, I have a DOS batch file. In between this script, I would like to add user interactive question. Ex: Do you want to Continue [Y/N]? Once they hit Y, it will continue rest of the batch file. Could someone able to help me out as per the above requirement? Thanks, Bob

RE: Oracle 9.2 spfile catch 22

2002-07-11 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
I would get the DB to function the way I want first using init.ora. Then switch to SPFILE from init.ora, while preserving a copy of working init.ora file. Also, when a parameter is changed dynamically with SCOPE=both or spfile, I recreate my init.ora file as the backup. SPFILE concept is good

Re[2]:killing sessions

2002-07-11 Thread dgoulet
Well, without getting into specifics. We had an individual who had a problem with others in the department. Now you I know that many times in development we create monsters. That's what the environment is for after all, create what you think the user wanted see how badly it behaves. Well

RE: OT - Oracle U. defends OCP title  

2002-07-11 Thread Khedr, Waleed
I think this will be very competitive! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 4:31 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L From when MS started offering ORACLE Certified Professional exams :-) Khedr, Waleed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will take my OCP from MS!

Re: Active sql

2002-07-11 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
Thanks very much Jamadagni, It works fine. Another question, I issued a huge select, ran the script and it appeared. I cancelled the select and it still showed up in the result script like for more than 3 minutes, exited the session and dissapeared. Is this the normal behavior ?? Tks I am

Replicating a user across DBs

2002-07-11 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey all, In 8.1.7, is there a way to easily replicate a user from one DB (e.g. development) to another (e.g. production)? I can export all the objects in the schema, but export/import won't recreate the schema in the import DB. I've been using OEM to create a script (reverse engineered from

PL/Sql Error Handling Package

2002-07-11 Thread johanna . doran
Amy one have any decent stanard error handling packages or link to advice on creating such a package? Thanks, Hannah -- 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

Re:DOS Script for pop up question ?

2002-07-11 Thread dgoulet
Bob, A little off topic, but whatever. Try WinBatch from WilsonWare (http://www.winbatch.com/). A very nice product that allows you to do the alert boxes and a whole lot more. Not too expensive either. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Bob

Re: connect as internal

2002-07-11 Thread Kavitha Muthukumaren
Hi Mitchell, what is different between those 3 login 1. sqlplus system login, connect as internal Answer: when you are doing this you are user 'sys' because you have changed from system to being 'internal' connect internal - technically is user 'sys', and is the way of

listener configuration on HP serviceguard clusters

2002-07-11 Thread Adams, Matthew (GEA, MABG, 088130)
Title: listener configuration on HP serviceguard clusters If anybody out there is using HP ServiceGuard for non-OPS/RAC, I would be interested to know how you configure the listeners. Do you use the machine IP address or the package address in the listener.ora (or do you not have a

Re:RE: larry want to take over your e-mai

2002-07-11 Thread dgoulet
Hannah, Friday is tomorrow, settle down everything will be all right. It's just his Bill complex showing through, you know that MicroSoft mantra, We will be everything to everyone. I'm still waiting for that piece of Windows software that insures my coffee cup remains full. At least the

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