Safe Database Environment

2002-11-21 Thread Hussain Ahmed Qadri
Title: Safe Database Environment Hi all, Can any of you suggest the configuration for a safe, fault proof, and minimum downtime Database environment? (In terms of how many servers, RAID or disk ARRAY or any combination. A minimum configuration is what I am looking for). Right now we have

RE: converting to the cost based optimizer

2002-11-21 Thread Connor McDonald
I never said CBO came up with smarter plans...what I said was that you get a optimizer decision that is very similar to rule-based (which is where the original posted is migrating from) and as a bonus, rather than just choosing any old index as the rule based optimizer does, the cbo will hopefully

Re: dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats make not be computing stats

2002-11-21 Thread Connor McDonald
No - it means you have monitoring set on (at least) 207 tables, and the 207 of them have had a modification (ins/upd/del) since the monitoring was enabled. This data is used to determine whether the stats are stale or not. Its documented somewhere, but I think its around the 10% mark before

RE: Safe Database Environment

2002-11-21 Thread Naveen Nahata
Title: Safe Database Environment Real Application Clusters? -Original Message-From: Hussain Ahmed Qadri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:43 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Safe Database Environment Hi all, Can any of you

Re: opinions on SAN devices for Oracle

2002-11-21 Thread Yechiel Adar
The configuration will be: Regular servers - NAS Database servers - SAN I looked inside and they have connectors for fiber channel. The nice thing about it is that I can as many mount point as I like. No more one big raid-5 logical drive. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To:

Re: Safe Database Environment

2002-11-21 Thread Yechiel Adar
Title: Safe Database Environment Hello Hussain We are working with oracle 8.1.6 on wintel machines. We had the same problem and we solved it using advance replication - synchronous. We have scripts ready that drop the replication on each computer if one become unavailable. The databases

Re: Oracle on MVS able to submit JCL ??

2002-11-21 Thread Yechiel Adar
Have you tried to put a DD card for internal reader and write to this DD with utl_file? Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:49 AM Thanks but EVERYTHING is on the mainframe (including

RE: RMAN compatibility issues

2002-11-21 Thread John . Hallas
You can upgrade the 816 catalog to be 817 compliant with the command RMAN upgrade catalog You need to be connected to an 8.1.7 target first to do this. It effectively recreates two packages DBMS_RCVMAN and DBMS_RCVCAT John -Original Message- Sent: 20 November 2002 16:39 To: Multiple

Re: TEMP segments

2002-11-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Okay, it's early here, I'm fuzzy. I think I meant the same thing (I'd had one of those user calls in the middle of the night) what I think I meant to say was that any operation that would end up adding blocks above the HWM if it COMPLETED would do it by creating TEMP segments that are converted

RE: Oracle-L at UKOUG

2002-11-21 Thread Jenner Mike
Sounds Like a perfect time Mark. I UKOUG'd the year before last and stayed in Broad street. The conference was well worth it. For my two nights I had food at an Indian and a TGI's both in Broad street. I'll be flying into Heathrow from Washington early Monday morning and getting the train to

Re: Dynamic views

2002-11-21 Thread Ron Rogers
David, For ease of tablespace management and backups we created tables based on the year. ex: tab_curr, hist99,hist01,etc and then created a view that selected from each table with a union. Then the developers could select from the view and not be concerned with the actual table name. As each

Slow down when working with msdaora

2002-11-21 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello all We have a VB application that works with oledb supplied by Microsoft, msdaora. We noticed that a batch program is working very slowly. We changed the program to work with Oracle oledb and it run much faster. However we can not use Oracle oledb due to problems with Hebrew. Anyone can

Testing

2002-11-21 Thread Natalia Lorena Laracca

RE: converting to the cost based optimizer

2002-11-21 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: converting to the cost based optimizer Me thinks (based on my conversion from RBO-CBO) over last two months ... ) one major factor is achieving success is as follows 1. Train your developers/designers 2. See point one 3. Lather - rinse - Repeat Some people just don't get it ...

RE: Oracle on MVS able to submit JCL ??

2002-11-21 Thread Mirsky, Greg
You could FTP to 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 is the universal IP address of the system you are on. That is you would FTP to yourself and then send the FTP file, the JCL, to the JES reader. Give it a try it seems to work on our installation. Greg -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November

Urgent: ORA-02067 transaction or savepoint rollback required (Distributed transaction)

2002-11-21 Thread Charu Joshi
Gurus, Desperately need some ideas to solve this one. Following is the sequence of events as it happens: 1. Front-end application (VC++) queries from a view V. V fetches data from a remote database RD via a database link. 2. Front-end inserts a row in a local table LT. 3. The Insert trigger on

RE: export in full mode but exclude particular user?

2002-11-21 Thread Chris Stephens
Title: RE: export in full mode but exclude particular user? anybody know the views for 9.2? -Original Message- From: Deshpande, Kirti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 10:58 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: export in full mode but

RE: Testing

2002-11-21 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Testing We regret to inform you that your test has failed, please try again. 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

Re: 1M STRIPE SIZE BEST?

2002-11-21 Thread Thomas Day
We had a discussion about a year ago here and if I remember correctly the best stripe size is a function of number of concurrent users. With a small number of users you want a small stripe size so that each read i/o will utilize the maximum number of heads. It will also tie up the RAID device

RE: Urgent: ORA-02067 transaction or savepoint rollback required (Distributed transaction)

2002-11-21 Thread Charu Joshi
Gurus, Sorry, forgot to mention one very important fact - this error doesn't occur always - sometimes (but rarely) it's succeeds as well. Thanks, Charu -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:22 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Distributed transaction) Gurus, Desperately

RE: converting to the cost based optimizer

2002-11-21 Thread Cherie_Machler
Raj, Can you elaborate on the process that you used to determine the optimal value for db_file_multiblock_read_count? We are doing some performance testing on a new generation of our product with some new databases. We increased our database block size from 8k to 16k (on Sun Solaris 2.6).

Re: Urgent: ORA-02067 transaction or savepoint rollback required (Distributed transaction)

2002-11-21 Thread Arup Nanda
Charu, I guess the error you are getting is Table or Trigger is mutating. and perhaps you are using an after insert row trigger. This is a common and expected problem. There are ways to get around it. You have not mentioned the version of Oracle; I would assume 8.1.7 or later. Inside an after

Re: export in full mode but exclude particular user?

2002-11-21 Thread Arup Nanda
Title: RE: export in full mode but exclude particular user? It's the same - exu81obj and exu8usr. HTH Arup Nanda www.proligence.com - Original Message - From: Chris Stephens To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 9:18 AM

RE: Oracle-L at UKOUG

2002-11-21 Thread Fink, Dan
Monday night sounds great. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 10:08 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The best time is most probably Monday evening. There is always a gala evening on the Tuesday night that a lot of people attend (and speakers always get

RE: converting to the cost based optimizer

2002-11-21 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: converting to the cost based optimizer Cherie, We are actually stuck at a value of 32 ... don't know how it got in there, but it was probably us who made the mistake. That's how we tested it and that's how we are staying put. We have initiated a test process to bring it down to a

RE: Oracle-L at UKOUG

2002-11-21 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
That suits me. Mark, I'd like to say how much I enjoyed reading the phrase plenty of booze to go around. Mike -Original Message- Sent: 21 November 2002 15:34 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Monday night sounds great. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, November 20,

RE: converting to the cost based optimizer

2002-11-21 Thread Cherie_Machler
Raj, I'm just curious whether you also have reset your optimizer_index_ parameters in these databases where you have changed and/or are considering changing the db_file_multiblock_read_count? In particular, has it been set on the production database where you set db_file_multiblock_read_count

OT: Password Generator...

2002-11-21 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
Title: OT: Password Generator... Hey folks- I have a question that was presented to me by a web development team.. Does anyone know of products,procedures,etc that would generate a random password for a user? For example-similar to that at MetaLink when you forget your password-and they

Help me read my 10053 trace file

2002-11-21 Thread Shao, Chunning
I have a query in which the predictate is like this: WHERE ln.metro_id = i_metro_id AND l.metro_id = :b1 ANd eld.metro_id(+) = :b1 AND ln.status_desc = 'ACTIVE' AND ln.daset_id = ld.daset_id (+) AND

Performace across a dblink

2002-11-21 Thread Kirsch, Walter J (Northrop Grumman)
Oracle 8i and HP-UX, 9i and SCO Unix I have a customer who wants to MERGE into his 9i database from my 8i database across a dblink. On his side, the merge takes nearly an hour ( one SQL merge statement across 10Mbit Etherlink processing 2,600,000 records). I'd like to know how to test and

RE: converting to the cost based optimizer

2002-11-21 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: converting to the cost based optimizer No I should have clarified ... so far we have made changes to o_i_c_a parameter at session level only ... we haven't dared it change at system level. I read through Tim's paper ('Searching for ...') and try to came up with an appropriate

Re: OT: Password Generator...

2002-11-21 Thread Connor McDonald
From Tom Kyte's site... ops$tkyte@8i declare 2 function digest( p_username in varchar2, p_password in varchar2 ) return varchar2 3 is 4 begin 5 return ltrim( to_char( dbms_utility.get_hash_value( upper(p_username)||'/'||upper(p_password), 6

RE: Password Generator...

2002-11-21 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Password Generator... We use this ... PROCEDURE Generate ( USERID VARCHAR2 ) IS newpass VARCHAR2(20); dbname VARCHAR2(10); /* connect system grant execute on admin_passwd to sys; create synonym sys.admin_passwd for system.admin_passwd; */ BEGIN DBMS_OUTPUT.ENABLE(10); newpass

Sr. Oracle DBA Position- Must be 8i and 9i Certified-

2002-11-21 Thread OraStaff
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RE: converting to the cost based optimizer

2002-11-21 Thread Cary Millsap
Title: RE: converting to the cost based optimizer Are you sure TIMED_STATISTICS = TRUE? I dont have time right now to check V$FIXED_VIEW_DEFINITION, but check how the AVERAGE_WAIT column is calculated. Just from querying V$SYSTEM_EVENT (I have 9iR1, by the way, not R2), it looks like

RE: Urgent: ORA-02067 transaction or savepoint rollback required (Distributed transaction)

2002-11-21 Thread Charu Joshi
Hi Arup, Thanks for the reply. I have checked the trigger code thoroughly and surely it's not a mutating trigger. Nor is there any cascade effect or the trace files would have shown the statements within that trigger. There is some other error occurring, but we are not able to trap it because

RE: Password Generator...

2002-11-21 Thread Stephen Lee
-Original Message- Does anyone know of products,procedures,etc that would generate a random password for a user? -- Bang on the computer keyboard with the palms of both hands and see what comes out. This random password generator has been around for a long

Re: OT: Password Generator...

2002-11-21 Thread Alex
what language? random() or rand() is usually a part of every language. On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Loughmiller, Greg wrote: Hey folks- I have a question that was presented to me by a web development team.. Does anyone know of products,procedures,etc that would generate a random password for a

Oracle client for Mac OS X?

2002-11-21 Thread Viktor
Folks, Can someone direct me to a source of good information on this topic. Is there wor will there be Oracle client for OS X? Any leads are very much apreciated! Thanks!Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now