RE: Database is 32 or 64 Bit ?

2002-10-04 Thread John . Hallas
I posted the note below a few weeks ago, hope it helps John Listers, Here is a little summary of commands to identify the bit version of an o/s and 2 methods of identifying whether a database is a 32 bit or 64 bit installation Operating System Compaq Tru 64 - will be 64 bit HP-UX

RE: svrmgrl echo v$database in script

2002-10-04 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
Heh heh, Just popped in for a quicky !!! Regards Lee -Original Message- Sent: 03 October 2002 19:29 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Lee, you're alive. I'll let the OT list know! Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

RE: auto start db???

2002-10-04 Thread Yulduz Akhmedzanova
Leslie, Did you check your oradim.log? What it says? Also, you may check that your ORA_instance name_PFILE parameter in registry points correctly to your pfile. Yulduz. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 3:41 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thank

Re: rman fun :), nightmare and long

2002-10-04 Thread Connor McDonald
What follows might be all hogwash, you could have tried this: DECLARE devtype varchar2(256); doneboolean; BEGIN devtype := dbms_backup_restore.deviceallocate('', params=''); dbms_backup_restore.restoresetdatafile; dbms_backup_restore.restorecontrolfileto('/tmp/foo.bar');

How much memory is an oracle shadow process using

2002-10-04 Thread John . Hallas
I know this has been discussed before and I have monitored the discussions but I am not sure that I have seen a clear summary and set of conclusions. I am trying to identify how much memory is used by the instance and all connections. I can show sga to give a total memory of the base instance

Wait Event queue messages

2002-10-04 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Qs Is Wait Event queue messages any Cause for Concern ? Qs If so What is the Resolution for the Same ? Qs Any Links , Docs for the Same ? Top 5 Wait Events ~ Wait % Total Event Waits

RE: * Sr. Oracle 8i DBA Needed in NYC- Locals Only..

2002-10-04 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Kirti, They won't pay relocation, and they don't want someone who is going to be commuting back home on weekends 'cause they might need that person on a weekend :) Rachel --- Deshpande, Kirti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rachel, I don't mind getting that experience first hand ;) But why

Re: rman fun :), nightmare and long

2002-10-04 Thread Joe Testa
yea the last question was rhetorical, i'd forgotten to back up the control file, a hole in my backup strategy. joe DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote: Joe - You da man. An impressive tour de force in working around RMAN. Was your last statement rhetorical? I think you answered that question - that you

Re: rman fun :), nightmare and long

2002-10-04 Thread Joe Testa
Connor, my problem(fault) was I didnt make a copy of the control file(and in 8.1.7, you don't get it backed up by default like in 9i, right?). I attempted to bring the db in nomount and restore the control file, rman reply no controlfile backup found. joe Connor McDonald wrote: What

RE: Database is 32 or 64 Bit ? - Clarification

2002-10-04 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Hi Qs What do you mean by raw(4) / raw(8) ? Does it mean Length of the Field Data Value ? From my Database :- SQL select saddr from v$session where rownum 2 2 / SADDR 313941C0 CASE - Assuming on receiving a Database from a 3rd party 1) My Existing Installed ORACLE_HOME

Why Multiple Parses in Trace ?

2002-10-04 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
Qs Why is the Followign Query being parsed 3 Times ? SELECT ORDER_ACTION_ID FROM TASK_LOCATION_DETAILS WHERE ORDER_ACTION_ID='7118439A1' AND LOCATION_CD='B' AND LOCATION_ID='LOCALNSTRTT' AND KIND_OF_INFO='A' call count cpuelapsed disk querycurrentrows

RE: Backups

2002-10-04 Thread Gesler, Rich
Isn't the object point in time recovery called LogMiner? :) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 5:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You are lucky to have all your databases in archivelog mode. We have large datawarehouses here, where business is quite

Re: Database is 32 or 64 Bit ?

2002-10-04 Thread Jared Still
Ask the person that sent it to you? On Thursday 03 October 2002 23:53, VIVEK_SHARMA wrote: Given a Database . It is 32 Bit or 64 Bit , how can it be found ? Assuming Cold Backup of Database Sent from Elsewhere -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jared

RE: * Sr. Oracle 8i DBA Needed in NYC- Locals Only..

2002-10-04 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Whoever takes the job, make sure you use spell checker!! ;o) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 3:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L well, if it's what I think it is (although I didn't know it went to Orastaff), it's working with me :) --- [EMAIL

RE: 8.1.7 patch it up?

2002-10-04 Thread McBain, Neil SITI-ITDSEL314
Probably arguments both ways however if you have existing support from Oracle I would be inclined to upgrade to the terminal release of 8i since it will lengthen your support window (8i desupports Dec 2003). We have had to patch up to 8.1.7.3 for a few applications although we are running on

RE: Wait Event queue messages

2002-10-04 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
This is related to the AQ mechanism and can be ignored. Oracle posts this wait while waiting to dequeue a message from AQ queue. To remove it from the 'Top 5' list in statspack report, you can add a row to perfstat.stats$idle_event table. And while at it, you may want to review what other waits

RE: Backups

2002-10-04 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Dennis, I guess you just gotta have faith after a complete test of various types of recovery that the software works. Once it passes all your tests, and you are comfortable that it orks as advertised, it's just a matter of going for it. I am also convinced that Oracle support is able to help

RE: * Sr. Oracle 8i DBA Needed in NYC- Locals Only..

2002-10-04 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
How about aliens, of the extraterrestrial kind. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 4:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L and if it's what I think it is.. the job spec is wrong and while there is no relocation package, we did NOT say locals only and we have

RE: Database is 32 or 64 Bit ? - Clarification

2002-10-04 Thread Naveen Nahata
RAW is a datatype in oracle. Do a describe which gives the details of an object. For a table/view it tells you about the columns.See the TYPE, which tells you about the datatype of the column. If it is RAW(4) it is 32-bit, if RAW(8) 64-bit.SQL desc v$session;Name Null?

Multiple Oracle Homes for Oracle

2002-10-04 Thread Shantanu Datta
Hi All, I am not very clear on how the Multiple Oracle Homes' concept works. Does one need an ORALE_HOME and ORACLE_SID environment veriable with appropriate values ONLY when starting the DB instance, or launching an application that uses these variables? Are these environment variables

Re: rman fun :), nightmare and long

2002-10-04 Thread Connor McDonald
Here is an example from 8.1.7.4 oracle@loki:/orabak rman nocatalog Recovery Manager: Release 8.1.7.4.0 - Production RMAN connect target / RMAN-06005: connected to target database: LIVL (DBID=750735866) RMAN-06009: using target database controlfile instead of recovery catalog RMAN run { 2

RE: Database is 32 or 64 Bit ? - Clarification

2002-10-04 Thread Inka Bezdziecka
you need to 'describe' v$session, not to 'select' from it SQL desc v$session -Original Message- Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 8:08 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Qs What do you mean by raw(4) / raw(8) ? Does it mean Length of the Field Data Value ? From my

Re: Backups

2002-10-04 Thread Ray Stell
One of the local dbas said to me recently that Oracle docs indicate that cold backups are required. I did a search and could not find what he was talking about. Anyone got such a reference? On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:38:20PM -0800, Jared Still wrote: OK, Gene, you asked for it. :)

Re:RE: * Sr. Oracle 8i DBA Needed in NYC- Locals Only..

2002-10-04 Thread dgoulet
Rachel, Well, I for one will not apply. First off I've no use for NYC. Been there once in my life have absolutely no desire to return. I thought people in Boston were rude, was I ever in for a shock! Second, two bull headed people like us could never work together and live. One of us

RE: rman fun :), nightmare and long

2002-10-04 Thread John . Hallas
The controlfile gets backed up automatically when you do a RMAN full backup. I have been having a debate this morning regarding a situation where we do weekly full backups using RMAN and and a daily RMAN archivelog all delete input. I contend we should do a archivelog all delete input INCLUDING

anydata datatype update help

2002-10-04 Thread Rachel Carmichael
the subject line pretty much describes it. 9.2.0.1, Solaris 2.8 We are using the ANYDATA datatype and while we have no problems with insert or select or delete, the process blows up (ora-7445, coredump) when we try to update the ANYDATA column. Within a PL/SQL process, using aliased tablenames

TNS-00510: Internal limit restriction exceeded

2002-10-04 Thread paquette stephane
HI all We had those messages yesterday in the listener.log file TNS-12500: TNS:listener failed to start a dedicated server process TNS-12540: TNS:internal limit restriction exceeded TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error TNS-00510: Internal limit restriction exceeded Also on the unix

Re: Sql query

2002-10-04 Thread Igor Neyman
sql server 7??? and you are trying to find an answer on Oracle board? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Santosh Varma To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 2:23 AM Subject: RE: Sql query

Re: rman fun :), nightmare and long

2002-10-04 Thread Ruth Gramolini
I haven't really been following this thread closely but whenever you do a level 0 rman backup it will include the controlfile. If you need to recover to a point in time you can recover using backup controlfile to that point in time. HTH, Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients

Re: Backups

2002-10-04 Thread Gene Sais
lol, OK my reasons for occasional cold backups. As a prior sysadmin, I prefer single user mode full filesystem backups (i.e. databases shut down) prior to any upgrade whether its an application, database, or operating system. There are benefits of cold over hot backups (of course this

RE: * Sr. Oracle 8i DBA Needed in NYC- Locals Only..

2002-10-04 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Darn! Besides I won't be qualified based on this requirement: Must have 5+ years Oracle 8i DBA (development and production support) experience. :( -Original Message- Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 6:08 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Kirti, They won't pay

RE: Multiple Oracle Homes for Oracle

2002-10-04 Thread April Wells
If you try to run sqlplus or any other sql utility on the database without those environment variables set, it won't know where to look for the utilities or where to look for a database whose name it doesn't know. Your best bet to see exactly what it does is do what you are describing and try to

Re: rman fun :), nightmare and long

2002-10-04 Thread Ruth Gramolini
When you are doing point-in-time recovery you have to use the backup controlfile anyway and start with a level 0 which has the backup controlfile and roll forward using incrementals or just the archivelogs. I don't know if this answers your question but I will be glad to try again with more

RE: Sql query

2002-10-04 Thread Thomas, Kevin
HELP! -Original Message- Sent: 04 October 2002 14:53 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L sql server 7??? and you are trying to find an answer on Oracle board? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple

How to get rid of a column default value ?

2002-10-04 Thread Louis BROUILLETTE
Anyone knows how to get rid of a column default value ? I rtfm and search metalink with no luck. Louis Brouillette Analyste en informatique (DBA) Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres Tel: (819) 376-5011 ext. 2435 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Re: Backups

2002-10-04 Thread Ruth Gramolini
I never heard that, and I never do them, except my recovery catalog database which I can shut down. Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:03 AM One of the local dbas said to me recently that Oracle docs

RE: * Sr. Oracle 8i DBA Needed in NYC- Locals Only..

2002-10-04 Thread Grabowy, Chris
Secretly recorded conversations by FBI between Rachel and her ex-junior DBAs What do you mean you don't have a version of this script for Oracle 5, 6, 7.1.6, 7.3.4, 8.0.5, 8.1.5, 8.1.7, 9.0.1, 9.2??? I have a version of every one one of my 1,831 scripts for Oracle 2.1 through pre-beta

Re: Backups

2002-10-04 Thread Gene Sais
Oracle 6 and prior releases required cold backups. Hot backups became available in version 7. The trend appears RMAN is the new way! Still waiting for Robert Freeman's new book :). Gene [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/04/02 10:03AM One of the local dbas said to me recently that Oracle docs

RE: How to get rid of a column default value ?

2002-10-04 Thread Armstead, Michael A
My guess is to alter it DEFAULT NULL. Michael Armstead Principal Database Administrator, OCP-Certified World Wide Corporate IT Database Administration GlaxoSmithKline -Original Message- From: Louis BROUILLETTE [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:29 AM

RE: Sql query

2002-10-04 Thread Robertson Lee - lerobe
ARE YOU AN IDIOT -Original Message- Sent: 04 October 2002 16:13 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L HELP! -Original Message- Sent: 04 October 2002 14:53 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L sql server 7??? and you are trying to find an answer on Oracle board?

RE: Sql query

2002-10-04 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Obligatory... ARE YOU AN IDIOT? -Original Message- Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:13 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L HELP! -Original Message- Sent: 04 October 2002 14:53 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L sql server 7??? and you are trying to find an

RE: Out of transaction slots

2002-10-04 Thread Kirsh, Gary
Raj, I've seen this problem when dblinks are used extensively. A transaction slot is allocated when a dblink is used, even if only selecting over the dblink. It remains allocated until the session commits or ends. However, if the session doesn't make any changes, it won't commit, and the user

RE: anydata datatype update help

2002-10-04 Thread Stephane Faroult
Rachel, First time I hear about the ANYDATA type but I like to share my ignorance and I guess it must be something akin to a C 'void *' - ie a pointer to 'something'. To bind properly, Oracle needs two things : a) a pointer to the start of the memory area b) something to tell how big this

SqlServer - Oracle transfer issues

2002-10-04 Thread Luc Demanche
Hi gurus, I need to transfer a few tables from SqlServer to Oracle. I've installed Heteroegous Service between the SqlServer and our Oracle database according to the Metalink doc no : 109730.1 I began the transfer between those two databases with this kind of statement : create table TableA as

Re: Sql query

2002-10-04 Thread Igor Neyman
HELP! is this also sql server 7 command? :-) Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:13 AM HELP! -Original Message- Sent: 04 October 2002 14:53 To:

RE: fast tape drive for AIX

2002-10-04 Thread Veronica Levin
Hi Rahul; I tried to send you a file to your email, with diferents choices of tapes for your IBM server... but had no luck. We did kind of a survey to find the tape device that solved our problems of time during backup, and finally picked the IBM 7205 Model 345. Time during backup went down from

RE: Backups

2002-10-04 Thread Inka Bezdziecka
Not mentioning that there is usually hot in Florida, so cold is good. Saying that, I wonder how many people would go into software upgrade or a major change without a full cold backup. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:28 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: How to get rid of a column default value ?

2002-10-04 Thread Dale
Hi Louis Anyone knows how to get rid of a column default value ? I rtfm and search metalink with no luck. Just set the default back to NULL. To apply the default: ALTER TABLE BONUS MODIFY (COMM DEFAULT 10 ); To remove the default: ALTER TABLE BONUS MODIFY (COMM DEFAULT NULL ); Regards

RE: TNS-00510: Internal limit restriction exceeded

2002-10-04 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Get more cutlery! Increase the number of processes available both system-wide and per capita. -Original Message- From: paquette stephane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: TNS-00510: Internal limit

Re: How to get rid of a column default value ?

2002-10-04 Thread Ron Rogers
Louis, I believe it is the ALTER TABLE command. ALTER TABLE name MODIFY ( column datatype); match the column name and the datatype but do not include the DEFAULT clause . Ron ROR mª¿ªm [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/04/02 11:28AM Anyone knows how to get rid of a column default value ? I rtfm

Re: Sql query

2002-10-04 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Are you an idiot? - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:13 AM HELP! -Original Message- Sent: 04 October 2002 14:53 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L sql server 7??? and you are

Re: * Sr. Oracle 8i DBA Needed in NYC- Locals Only..

2002-10-04 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Dick-- People in New York are actually very friendly and helpful. What you may have mistaken for rudeness is just the fact that they're always in a hurry! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rachel, Well, I for one will not apply. First off I've no use for NYC. Been there once in my life

RE: Backups

2002-10-04 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
I agree with you Ruth. Ray, this may be something that your local DBA read in an older manual someplace. Have your DBA start reading about Rman. If he/she needs to see it in a book, it might change his/her mind. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent:

Shell scripting

2002-10-04 Thread Cyril Thankappan
Hi I wanted to select a column from a v$ table struggled with it and finally came with a workaround as follows archived_log='$archived_log' begin_seq=`sqlplus -s /nolog EOF connect / as sysdba set head off set echo off set feedback off set verify off

Help on creating this report (any method)

2002-10-04 Thread Erma Fernando
I have to create a tabular quarterly summary report, based on 4 different queries, but all are grouped by the same columns. Any suggestions on how to accomplish this - sql report etc. Thanks a lot. Type category Col1 Col2 Col3 Col4 Elec Fac 500 100 200 400 ElecRates300 200 50 450 Elec Fran 200

RE: * Sr. Oracle 8i DBA Needed in NYC- Locals Only..

2002-10-04 Thread Rachel Carmichael
that last comment was very very smart, I'd have had to send some of my enforcers to beat on you otherwise my presentations don't compete in number of slides with Mr Niemiec (all my respect to him, I don't know how he manages to get through all that in the alloted time!). In fact, I was

RE: Sql query

2002-10-04 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
ARE YOU AN IDIOT! ;o) -Original Message- Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:13 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L HELP! -Original Message- Sent: 04 October 2002 14:53 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L sql server 7??? and you are trying to find an answer on

RE: How to get rid of a column default value ?

2002-10-04 Thread Inka Bezdziecka
update table set column = null -Original Message- Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Anyone knows how to get rid of a column default value ? I rtfm and search metalink with no luck. Louis Brouillette Analyste en informatique (DBA)

RE: Backups

2002-10-04 Thread Miller, Jay
I believe it shows up in some upgrade documentation. I know our Oracle rep recommended it. And I'll admit that I did a cold backup before my upgrade rather than hot just because it's a little easier to recover from if a problem arises (I just padded the downtime for my upgrade to include the

Password is not case sensity and uncrypted

2002-10-04 Thread Nguyen, David M
Is password case-sensity in oracle database? And how do I encrypt it as it shows unencrypted in password field? Thanks, David -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Nguyen, David M INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051

Oracle HTTP Server with Jserv

2002-10-04 Thread Martin Kendall
Anyone using the subject matter above. I am getting complaints that suddenly the database going wrong. What the developers are saying is that the JSP stuff that they are creating are not being compiled automatically as before. Everything looks fine from my perspective processes

Re: Backups

2002-10-04 Thread Ruth Gramolini
I would do a cold backup of the Oracle executables and application stuff but I would do an rman level 0 for the database(s). Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 12:18 PM Not mentioning that there is usually

Re: TNS-00510: Internal limit restriction exceeded

2002-10-04 Thread Scott Behrens
Funny you should mention... We had the same problem with an 8170 64bit db on AIX 4.3.3 yesterday at about 14:30. Paging space had become exhausted. In brief, I'm guessing the rash of memory leaks in 8170-8172 (or the temporary fix I did until I can patch to 8174) is the cause. Details

Difference between connect internal and connect / as sysdba in sqlplus

2002-10-04 Thread Mikhail Ivanov
What is difference between connect internal and connect / as sysdba in sqlplus ? Michael Ivanov åy«±ç­…ê~'jS‘Ä,P†Ûiÿü0ŠÚ}ªœ¢`.¶+2)!j)H½©è¼ƒDNh¯jz/µ×«j»…jТ·#^· +‘'«¾'³Î|ç9ӝa¶Úÿ +0}«\ŠÜœ¢dšœ8ž‚€š–'è®xš1¨¥Šx%ŠËZÜn,¶)à±êï‰Ç¬N„D0åDʋ«±é_~º¶¬™¨¥Šx%ŠËlzwZœCŠYž²Æ zÚ

RE: SqlServer - Oracle transfer issues

2002-10-04 Thread Jesse, Rich
What's returned in SQL*Plus when you DESC TableA@hsodbc? Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- From: Luc Demanche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday,

A really stupid question

2002-10-04 Thread Miller, Jay
How can I access the Oracle-L archives? There's something I remember reading a few months ago that I want to look up. Embarassedly yours, Jay Miller -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Miller, Jay INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services

RE: anydata datatype update help

2002-10-04 Thread Sherman, Edward
I don't know squat about the ANYDATA type but I wonder if there is a restriction that you can only update an ANYDATA column with a new value of the same type. For example, if you initially put a '101' VARCHAR2 into the ANYDATA column and then attempted to update it to 102, where 102 is a NUMBER

Re: SqlServer - Oracle transfer issues

2002-10-04 Thread Jared . Still
Possibilities: Prebuild the table with the datatype you want. i.e. varchar2, provided the text column from SQL server is = 4000 bytes. ( notice I said 'bytes', not 'characters' . No, it wasn't because most of this mail list is made up of characters. ) Prebuild the table with a LONG datatype,

Re: anydata datatype update help

2002-10-04 Thread Jared . Still
Rachel, The following worked for me: create or replace type person as object ( last_name varchar2(20) ,first_name varchar2(20) ); / create table rc ( id number , person_data sys.anydata ) / insert into rc ( id, person_data ) values (1,

Re: Backups

2002-10-04 Thread Jared . Still
4) Old habits are hard to break :). Ah, there we have it. ;) Jared Gene Sais [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/04/2002 07:28 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re:

RE: anydata datatype update help

2002-10-04 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Stephane, if there is a new function, then it is hidden so deeply in the docs that even I can't find it. And I'm pretty good and coming up with creative search patterns. ANYDATA is an object, a way of storing different types of data in a single column. You store the data type metadata with the

Re: A really stupid question

2002-10-04 Thread Igor Neyman
This was sent by someone recently: - ListGuru GENERAL Command HELP - This help file contains basic information about each command recognized by ListGuru. More detailed

Re: Password is not case sensity and uncrypted

2002-10-04 Thread Rachel Carmichael
the password is not case-sensitive which table shows the password unencrypted? Not DBA_USERS, it's definitely encrypted in there, unless you created the account with quotes around the password, then it shows in plain text and the user won't be able to login in in any case. --- Nguyen, David M

RE: Password is not case sensity and uncrypted

2002-10-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Password is not case sensity and uncrypted AFAIK password is NOT case sensitive unless of course you enclose in double-quotes. Also dba_users shows encrypted password. What table are we taking here that shows plain text passwords? Is it an application table? Raj

Re: Difference between connect internal and connect / as sysdba in sqlplus

2002-10-04 Thread Joe Raube
'connect internal' is no longer supported in 9i+ 'connect / as sysdba' is the replacement. --- Mikhail Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is difference between connect internal and connect / as sysdba in sqlplus ? __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL

Re: anydata datatype update help

2002-10-04 Thread Rachel Carmichael
and in a different environment, it worked for us as well. We've narrowed it down to being due to some environment variable. We thought it might be the privs (the account that worked was created with resource, the one that died had connect only) but that's not it. I'm just glad I don't have to

RE: Password is not case sensity and uncrypted

2002-10-04 Thread Donahue, Adam
There are certain rules Oracle uses for its names, one of which is that names are case insensitive. Password falls under these rules. That said, you can override these rules by enclosing the password in quotation marks (just as you could do the same for a table). So SQL alter user myuser

Goddess Abuse Time

2002-10-04 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Us are very pleased about that. :) Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 9:18 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L and no one but me (and my co-authors of course) write our books --

Re: Help on creating this report (any method)

2002-10-04 Thread Sunny Verghese
Remember having done something similar some time ago...Check this out and see if this satisfies your requirement Query :=select type, category, sum(col1) col1, sum(col2) col2, sum(col3) col3, sum(col4) col4from(select type, category, count(*) col1, 0 col2, 0 col3, 0 col4 from agroup by type,

BACKUP database question

2002-10-04 Thread Ron Rogers
List, With all of the recent discussion and the forth coming books and the upgrade here to 8i I have a question. Where do you build your RMAN repository database? If you build it in the same server as the one you are backing up then you risk the loss of everything in the event of a disk farm

RE: A really stupid question

2002-10-04 Thread Bob Metelsky
Also, I think an actual searchable list is on the orafaq site whickh is in the footer of each message For example http://www.orafaq.com/supsearc.htm I searched Goddess And came back with a ton of hits, so, I figgure it must be hitting archives from the fatcity list ;-) Try it Bob

http://orafaq.com/archive/oracle-l

2002-10-04 Thread Inka Bezdziecka
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Re:RE: Password is not case sensity and uncrypted

2002-10-04 Thread dgoulet
Raj, I recently attended a conference where a very security obsessed individual was giving a presentation. He recommended in very strong terms taking all application usernames, where the tables etc... are housed, and doing an alter user username identified by values 'NOBODY';. Now this

Re: How to get rid of a column default value ?

2002-10-04 Thread Louis BROUILLETTE
Thanks Dale, Michael and Ron. The default null is what I thought about first and it almost does the job. It's just that it appears like there is a default value which is null. If I don't include the DEFAULT clause, it does nothing. I think I'll have to live with the default null. At

RE: anydata datatype update help

2002-10-04 Thread Inka Bezdziecka
Rachel, do you know which system privilege of resource did the trick? inka -Original Message- Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Stephane, if there is a new function, then it is hidden so deeply in the docs that even I can't find it. And

RE: rman fun :), nightmare and long

2002-10-04 Thread James Howerton
On all of my 8.1.7 and below DB's I do a controlfile backup after the level backup and archivelog all delete input is finished. I had problems cloning a database because RMAN back's up the controlfile first and then does the level backup etc. ...JIM... [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/4/02 8:53:27 AM

Re: Database is 32 or 64 Bit ? - Clarification

2002-10-04 Thread Robyn Anderson Sands
Query the v$sql table. If the 'address' field contains 8 hex characters, it's 32 bit. If there are 16 characters, it's 64 bit. select address from v$sql where rownum 2; Robyn Inka Bezdziecka wrote: you need to 'describe' v$session, not to 'select' from it SQL desc v$session

Re: Help on creating this report (any method)

2002-10-04 Thread Erma Fernando
Thank you very much Sunny. It works. MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: Click Here -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Erma Fernando INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051

RE: anydata datatype update help

2002-10-04 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Inka, I'm not even sure that that is the reason it works in the other account.. he's still digging into why and what. As soon as I have a real answer, I'll post it to the list Rachel --- Inka Bezdziecka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rachel, do you know which system privilege of resource did the

Re: BACKUP database question

2002-10-04 Thread Ruth Gramolini
I have a small database on a separate disk which holds my recovery catalog. I would like to have it on a separate server but that won't happen. I have used the same recovery catalog for 4 years and it is onlyu ~88MB. Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: rman fun :), nightmare and long

2002-10-04 Thread Ruth Gramolini
And wouldn't that be the place you wanted to start if you were doing a PITR? Ruth - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 3:21 PM On all of my 8.1.7 and below DB's I do a controlfile backup after the level backup

ora-904 invalid column name

2002-10-04 Thread Rick_Cale
Hi All, Oracle 8.1.6, WinNT I have view TIMEVIEW. I can do select * from timeview with no errors. If I select a individual column I get 904 error. I am doing everything from the schema owner. Any hints SQLWKS desc timeview Column NameNull?Type

RE: ora-904 invalid column name

2002-10-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: ora-904 invalid column name Taking a Deep Breath ... Are any columns in this view user defined functions ?? Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is

RE: ora-904 invalid column name

2002-10-04 Thread Fink, Dan
Rick, What is the underlying view statement? I have found that there is an object resolution difference between selecting individual columns and *. I'm exploring exactly what happens, but the same issue can be found in v$sort_usage, where there is a column USER (which is both a reserved

RE: ora-904 invalid column name

2002-10-04 Thread johanna . doran
Title: RE: ora-904 invalid column name try with quotes -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@SUNGARD On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 4:06 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: ora-904 invalid column name Hi All, Oracle

Re: How to get rid of a column default value ?

2002-10-04 Thread Ron Rogers
Louis, I still have not convinced myself that we have the proper answer. If you query the DBA_TAB_COLUMNS table DATA_DEFAULT column you will see that the original NON default created column has a null or blank as the value for the data_default column. If the default is set to NULL then the word

help!! smon

2002-10-04 Thread Alexander Ordonez
Hi gurus ,,, i need check what do you doing the smon proc!!! this process have 99% of CPU somebody help me!!! @lex Lic. Alexander Ordóñez Arroyo Soporte Tru64Unix BD Oracle Caja Costarricense del Seguro Social

Re: BACKUP database question

2002-10-04 Thread Ron Rogers
Thanks, Tom and Ruth and others yet to reply, We to are a quasi-state agency but the Oracle licensing is under a state controlled agency and must be purchased from them. If I use my Linux/8i test platform for company business then I must purchase a license. Although a 10 named license is not

RE: ora-904 invalid column name

2002-10-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: ora-904 invalid column name Rick, I ask because in 8161 there is an internal bug that sometimes communicates (with users) by displaying ora-904 error. This happens when you have a user defined function and you are selecting from that user defined function AND you have privileges

Re: Backups

2002-10-04 Thread Tim Gorman
gentle correction: oracle6 had hot backup capability... - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 9:48 AM Oracle 6 and prior releases required cold backups. Hot backups became available in version 7. The trend

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