blob deletion

2002-12-03 Thread Daniel Wisser
hi gurus! can anyone answer this (maybe newb question:) i have a table with a BLOB column. this table is stored in a seperate tablespace, in which there are no other data than that of this very table. suppose now i have one row in this table. if i delete this row, the blob is also deleted

UKOUG Meet.

2002-12-03 Thread Mark Leith
Hi All, I remember that a number of people were all for getting together on the Monday night at the UKOUG. I *don't* remember us actually arranging a place/time.. ;) Is there any chance of another show of hands so that we can see if we'll need to book a table or not. And has *anybody* had any

RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-03 Thread Mark Leith
Yup, got that covered :) If I may add another point. When dealing with SLA's, you not only have to show that the database has been servicing users that are connected (showing database uptime), but also that users can also *connect* to the database as well (the listener is servicing requests). If

RE: move some records of some tables

2002-12-03 Thread Robson, Peter
There are issues here. Will the table being copied to have the same constraints in place as those tables from which the data is being extracted? If so, resolves those, and get these reference tables in place first. Then simply use a database link to 'pull' the data from your source tables, eg

RE: UKOUG Meet.

2002-12-03 Thread Stephane Faroult
Hi All, I remember that a number of people were all for getting together on the Monday night at the UKOUG. I *don't* remember us actually arranging a place/time.. ;) Is there any chance of another show of hands so that we can see if we'll need to book a table or not. And has *anybody* had any

oracle precompiler in O 9.2

2002-12-03 Thread Markus Reger
hello to everybody I'm desperately looking for precompiler e.g. proc in the installation of O 9.2. can't find libproc2.a is the message when I try do creat. doesn't seem to be an installation issue, because no kind of installation offers the(se) file(s). precompilers did exist in 9.0.1 - but

Re: 9i database create script - My, how things have changed

2002-12-03 Thread Connor McDonald
Some simple options: 1) The 9.x installer still gives the option of creating scripts in the old fashioned way. The key is not to choose a template database. A little scrubbing and they work fine...but man do they take a while to create a db nowadays. 2) My preferred option is to create a

image storage confusion ??

2002-12-03 Thread oraora oraora
Guys , i posted this already and this time my question is a bit different . I have to store 20,000,000 images of 5k each either in DB ( on win2k) or linux o/s file system. the images are to be displayed over mobile phones.so the time to retrieve the images should be minimum. for this to

RE: UKOUG Meet.

2002-12-03 Thread Robson, Peter
Count me in on this, Mark - As for a 'table' - presupposes a venue in which to find said article of furniture...(!) no idea on that, but there are places out the back of the ICC as I recall which might be suitable. peter edinburgh -Original Message- From: Mark Leith [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: process memory utilization

2002-12-03 Thread chao_ping
chao_ping, It seems i am posting a too long question, so nobody is interested. I post the answer to my second question, to check the memory utilization in linux operation system. It is in /proc/spid/status file. Regards zhu chao Eachnet DBA

OMF question

2002-12-03 Thread Tinu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi ! I 've a question regarding OMF realted parameter CREATE_DB_ONLINE_LOG_N. Now y is'nt this parameter mentioned in the list of parameters in the Oracle Documenttion cd of 9i. Is it obsolete or oracle does not recommend it's use. regards Tc

RE: error 472

2002-12-03 Thread cjgait
Ora-472 is a very non-specific PMON error. You've probably already worked through this with support using a TAR, but if you still are having problems and wanted to post the following it would help: The stack trace from your pmon traces (they'll either be in bdump or udump, and by stack

RE: UKOUG Meet.

2002-12-03 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
Mark, yes, I'll be there and Monday night is fine. I don't know the area at all so can't suggest venues but I'm not choosy regarding food so anywhere should do for me. Cheers, Mike -Original Message- Sent: 03 December 2002 09:59 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi All, I

RE:

2002-12-03 Thread Naveen Nahata
I don't know whether people do it on purpose or they are still unaware after so many similar postings of the same nature and replies of 'ARE YOU AN IDIOT', but it does result in a plethora of responses which create unnecessary hassles. Jared, why not parse messages for these commands and

RE:

2002-12-03 Thread Mark Leith
Must.. resist urge... -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tinu !@#!^%Sent: 03 December 2002 11:29To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: HELP

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2002-12-03 Thread Tinu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HELP

RE: process memory utilization

2002-12-03 Thread John.Hallas
I posted a similar question recently and whilst I received some answers I never did discover an exact way of matching oracle use of memory with unix use of memory. One issue is that when oracle releases memory the unix process does not automatically do the same until the memory is required.

RE: OMF question

2002-12-03 Thread John.Hallas
There is a OMF related parameter called db_create_online_log_dest_n. This defines where the online redo logs are created. The value n can vary from 1 to 5 and it allows for upto 5 multiplexed copies opf each redo log group member. HTH John -Original Message- Sent: 03 December 2002

Re: image storage confusion ??

2002-12-03 Thread Connor McDonald
Managing 20mil of anything (images/text/etc) in a file system isn't a nice proposition. Go with the database hth connor --- oraora oraora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys , i posted this already and this time my question is a bit different . I have to store 20,000,000 images of 5k each

Re: OMF question

2002-12-03 Thread Connor McDonald
Its in the 9.2 doco hth connor --- Tinu !@#!^% [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! I 've a question regarding OMF realted parameter CREATE_DB_ONLINE_LOG_N. Now y is'nt this parameter mentioned in the list of parameters in the Oracle Documenttion cd of 9i. Is it obsolete or oracle does not

RE: OMF question

2002-12-03 Thread brain_damage
John , I meant the same param.apologies ,i misplaced db and create. Is this parameter obsolete (with 9i) coz its not mentioned in the Documentation (9i) list of initialization parameters. Only db_create_file_dest is present in the doc. Thanx ! best regards Tc On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 [EMAIL

Re: Apps 11i on Red Hat 8.0

2002-12-03 Thread Markus Reger
installed O92010 on rh 8.0. went fine so far until I tried to connect via oemapp console - whatever connectdescripter I chose in resulted in the error string not properly terminated. same connect descriptors in the CLI worked fine - made them available in the oemapp console and got the error

which bind variable value causes ora-1722

2002-12-03 Thread mike ding
Hi, all, My developer continually got ora-1722 when he was installing a new billing system. I used 10046 event to get trace file, but i could not figure out which bind variable value causes the error, here is the part of trace: PARSING IN CURSOR #1 len=229 dep=0 uid=62 oct=2 lid=62 tim=807252370

RE: ORA-1653: unable to extend table - Why?

2002-12-03 Thread Miller, Jay
Ron, Good idea, but DEGREE=1 There are two indexes, but they are in a different tablespace (which has plenty of free space available and did not give an error). Next extent size is 25M but, as mentioned, it shouldn't have needed a new extent. I'm still at a loss... Jay -Original

Re: image storage confusion ??

2002-12-03 Thread Arup Nanda
Connor, I seem to think otherwise. Storing 100 GB of image is not necessarily a pretty proposition either when you consider hot backups and archived log generation, etc. I presume you are concerned about the management of the image files considering the sheer volume of it. But that's precisely

RE: oracle precompiler in O 9.2

2002-12-03 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
If PreCompilers were installed, check in $ORACLE_HOME/precomp/lib* directories. Also, check your path, ld library path. Here's what I get (9iR2 on HP-UX). /u01/home/oracle/product/9.2.0 hp102 [KED9]: find . -name libproc2.a -print ./precomp/lib32/libproc2.a ./precomp/lib/libproc2.a - Kirti

RE: oracle precompiler in O 9.2

2002-12-03 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: oracle precompiler in O 9.2 SQL exit Disconnected from Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options JServer Release 9.2.0.2.0 - Production oraclei@elara-ABC1

RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-03 Thread Post, Ethan
For reasons too long to go in to, go buy a tool is not a good option for my purposes. Besides, why buy what I can build? These are exactly the sort of challenges that make my job worth coming to. Thanks, Ethan -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 4:14 AM To: Multiple

RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-03 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure Go buy a tool? Here is an idea instead ... Write a small Perl (pick your favorite language here) script that looks at /etc/oratab followed by a check to see if each of the instances listed in /etc/oratab is up on the side where it is checking. It then log in

RE: 9i database create script - My, how things have changed

2002-12-03 Thread Cornio, Georgette Ms USACFSC
Title: 9i database create script - My, how things have changed I followed the same procedure as 8.1.7 to make the scripts and modified them What part does not work, no mo ? -Original Message-From: Jeremy Pulcifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002

RE: oracle precompiler in O 9.2

2002-12-03 Thread Hemant K Chitale
The ORACLE_HOME is /usr/opt/oracle/current ? I have read of /usr/opt being used, [although I generally use /u0x/app or /oracle/app or /orasys/app depending on the standard' at the site] but not current -- I generally still use [the OFA standard] ./product/Version.Release.MaintenanceRelease Hemant

FW: UKOUG Meet.

2002-12-03 Thread Mark Leith
Hi all, After with some deliberation with Peter Robson, we've come to a decision (I think!) ;) Please see below (a cba to type it all again ;P). Basics, meet up at around 7 (which is when the reception *starts* to see if we can all get together for the party as well. If we can't all get in, the

RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
and that select 'PING' from dual is very costly. I believe Gaja, Cary, Anjo, and a few others (who were nice enough to include me on the thread) determined that before 9i Oracle takes about 5 LIOs to do a select anything from dual. I think it went down to either 3 or 4 in 9i but that's still VERY

RE: UKOUG Meet.

2002-12-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
a table presumes there will be only a few of you there by my count, which is admittedly low, you folk are already at 8 --- Robson, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Count me in on this, Mark - As for a 'table' - presupposes a venue in which to find said article of furniture...(!) no idea

install of 64 and 32 bit

2002-12-03 Thread Ehresmann, David
I am going to install 64 bit Oracle 8.1.7 on AIX 5L (5.1). There is already 32 bit Oracle on the box. Any suggestions or advice I would appreciate. thanks, David Ehresmann -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ehresmann, David INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-03 Thread Mark Leith
Title: RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure Dang, I just new that would cause a stir! ;P Mark Running away now Leith -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jamadagni, RajendraSent: 03 December 2002 14:32To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: image storage confusion ??

2002-12-03 Thread Fink, Dan
Excellent points all around. I am dealing with these issues currently. The original design was to use BFILE and external files. Now, they are leaning towards BLOBs. Here are some points to consider. If the system design calls for a standby or other backup site, you have to remember to replicate

Re: image storage confusion ??

2002-12-03 Thread Stephane Paquette
You should/must do a benchmark. If not, how can you justify your decision ? If your management do not ask for a benchmack then you have bad management (and that's no good for you either...) Anyway, in a previous life, we did a benchmarck with files of similar size and it was faster on the OS. The

RE: image storage confusion ??

2002-12-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
oraora I've provided a couple of thoughts before in response to this issue, but I think that the only way you will get a satisfactory answer is to code a simple test. I hope someone else has extensive experience with 5k images and will reply to you. However, I think the answer to your question

hopefully this is not too old news

2002-12-03 Thread JOE TESTA
but i just logged in metalstink after a few weeks and noticed: Oracle announces the extension of Error Correction and Extended Maintenance Support for Oracle Database 9i Release 1 (9.0.1). Support Original Date Extended Date Error Correction Support (ECS) June

RE:

2002-12-03 Thread Jared . Still
I don't manage the mail list software, Bruce Bergman does. Though these are a minor annoyance, I personally wouldn't bother writing code/rules to eliminate these. Just hit DELETE Jared Naveen Nahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/03/2002 03:58 AM Please respond to

Re: image storage confusion ??

2002-12-03 Thread Jared . Still
Arup, What Connor may have been referring to is the inefficiency of managing 20 million files in a filesystem. That's a lot of inodes ( assuming unix ). It's a bit much for a filesystem to deal with. Jared Arup Nanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/03/2002 07:14 AM

Re: OMF question

2002-12-03 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
And each of the threads can be defined as either mandatory (the archiving/copy has to succeed for the database to continue running) or not. Mogens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a OMF related parameter called db_create_online_log_dest_n. This defines where the online redo logs are created.

RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-03 Thread Jared . Still
Ahem... OK, I can not resist any longer. The tools exist: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596002106 The 'dbup' script logs all connections attempts. Use sed, perl, or whatever to parse the logfile, or modify to create logs more to your liking. Jared Jamadagni, Rajendra

Re: UKOUG Meet.

2002-12-03 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Hear-hear. The OakTable Network has a couple of round tables near the bar area in the Exhibition Hall where we could meet, perhaps? Mogens Connor McDonald wrote: I'm up for a drink - I think we all deferred to your local knowledge. I say choose a pub and anyone thats want to be there

RE: ORA-1653: unable to extend table - Why?

2002-12-03 Thread Miller, Jay
I had one thought. The Freelist parameter for this table is only set to 1. Is it possible that if it gets tied up with contention for the freelist that it grabs a new extent? I see that some of these blocks are being written to, the num_freelist_blocks is now down to 2095705. But the new data

oracle temp files

2002-12-03 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi If I create a temporary tablespace using temp files, how is it possible to check the space usage of that tablespace. They do not show up in dba_free_space nor dba_data_files. DBA_TEMP_FILES gives me user_bytes and blocks. is this the opposite of the info in dba_free_space?? TIA Jack --

RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-03 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Tool? I have a tool. Want to buy? ;) It's a simple script that connects (actually attempts to connect with a fake id/pw) to the target DB (on Windows, HP-Alpha/VMS, UNIX) over Oracle Net. Scans for the ORA- errors and we know if the DB is accessible or not, as well as if Listener is

RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-03 Thread Fink, Dan
To be fair, there is some disagreement about adding an index on DUAL. I have not duplicated the scenario that Cary presents and I have been too distracted (writing a paper/presentation for Rachel) to get back to my testing. So take with a small grain of salt. Dan -Original Message- Sent:

RE: UKOUG Meet.

2002-12-03 Thread Robson, Peter
a table presumes there will be only a few of you there by my count, which is admittedly low, you folk are already at 8 You haven't seen the SIZE of these tables - they are bl massive! We take our communal beering seriously over here! peter --- Robson, Peter [EMAIL

Re:

2002-12-03 Thread Jared . Still
ELIZA And how may we help you? \ELIZA Tinu !@#!^% brain_damage Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/03/2002 03:28 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: HELP -- Please see the official ORACLE-L

Help with Java

2002-12-03 Thread John Weatherman
All, I am beginning the journey into JAVA and have hit an odd behavior (well, probably not, but I can't see any reason for it). I am building a list of tablespaces and the datafiles that belong to them. The open to the database is working fine. When I use: ResultSet myTablespaces =

RE: UKOUG Meet.

2002-12-03 Thread Fink, Dan
I'll be there, with a special gift and greetings from the DBA Goddess... Dan Fink -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 2:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi All, I remember that a number of people were all for getting together on the Monday night at the

RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-03 Thread Ron Thomas
Yes, but can I get it signed... Ron Thomas Hypercom, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. -- Kernighan

VXFS Parameter ?

2002-12-03 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
As part of a Batch Processing Job Benchmark , the Veritas parameter vxdmp:dmp_patchswitch_blks_shift =15 set by the Sysadmin gave Good Performance / Elapsed Time benefits . Has any used this parameter ? Any recommendations ? Any cautions about the Same ? Anyplace i can get some info on this

RE:

2002-12-03 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
and besides, it gives some of us a source of amusement - waiting for the first Are you and idiot? response. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 12:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I don't manage the mail list software, Bruce Bergman does. Though these are

Best practice for backing out of Application Patches

2002-12-03 Thread Scott Stefick
Sorry, I forgot a Subject title! Gurus, I was just given a project to maintain a Computerized Maintenance Management System. When I asked the companies support staff how to roll back patches in the backend Oracle Database (Ver. 8174), they said that there was no way to do this. I'm

Re: oracle temp files

2002-12-03 Thread Jared . Still
v$sort_usage perhaps? not sure what you're trying to determine. 'TEMPORARY' temp tablespaces provide space for sorting, and the kernel ( forget which process at the moment ) tends to hang on to them once allocated, and supply them to sessions as needed. This avoids contention on the ST enqueue.

RE: hopefully this is not too old news

2002-12-03 Thread Jesse, Rich
And, if I'm not mistaken, 8.1.7's ECS date got pushed out as well, to 12/31/2003 (MetaLink doc ID 148054.1). I seem to remember being in a feverish panic because 95% of my databases would be out of ECS this year. Of course, those brain cells may have been long gone now... :) Rich Rich Jesse

RE: Apps 11i on Red Hat 8.0

2002-12-03 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
Dale, I installed 11.5.5 on Suse 7.0 and it went absolutely fine. I went with that O/S because I'd heard it was the most trouble free combination. I believe that the 11.5.7 release is 11.5.5 plus extra CDs containg the 11.5.6 and 11.5.7 maintenance packs. I ran it as a single tier install and

RE: install of 64 and 32 bit

2002-12-03 Thread Thomas Jeff
Title: RE: install of 64 and 32 bit According to Metalink, 8.1.7 64-bit is not certified for AIX 5.1. -Original Message- From: Ehresmann, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: install of 64 and

RE: Help with Java

2002-12-03 Thread STEVE OLLIG
John - your problem is that you are reusing the Statement named myStatement within your while (myTablespaces.next()) loop. just declare and use a second Statement and i suspect all will be well once again. from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/index.html : java.sql Interface Statement All

ORA-2083 DATABASE name has illegal character '-'

2002-12-03 Thread Rick_Cale
Hi, Oracle 8.1.6.0.0 NT 4.0 I have the following logon trigger. It works fine as long I insert into local table. If I try to insert into a table across a database link the record get inserted but upon exiting the app whether it is sqlplus,forms,etc I get ora-2083. I think it is probably a bug

RE: OMF question

2002-12-03 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
It is documented in Oracle9i Database Reference Release 1 (9.0.1) Part Number A90190-02. Check it out at http://tahiti.oracle.com - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 8:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L John , I meant the same param.apologies ,i

Re: image storage confusion ??

2002-12-03 Thread Connor McDonald
Exactly. We had a system that used to drag emails (from qmail so each mail was a file) into clobs in the database. After a year or so we had about 15 million emails in the database - no problems at all. Then one day the some idiot (aka me) put a new version of the program in which

Extent sizes when using LMT with autoallocate clause

2002-12-03 Thread Daiminger, Helmut
Title: Extent sizes when using LMT with autoallocate clause Hi! I was wondering what the allocated extent sizes for locally managed tablespaces with the autoallocate clause are? The first extents are 64k in size. How many 64k chunks are allocated? What are the next sizes? CREATE

Re: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-03 Thread Stephane Faroult
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ethan, That records the startup times, but does not record the time that the database was unavailable. What's needed is a 3rd party monitor that is not dependent on the database being up to record metrics. Jared Jared, I am far from having given much

RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-03 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure you still have to *buy* the tool right? 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:

Re: image storage confusion ??

2002-12-03 Thread JApplewhite
FWIW ... in my last job we stored 13 million CLOB documents (max size of 5KB, stored out-of-line in their own CLOB segments) in an 8.1.7.3 DB under Win2k (2 CPU HP NetServer with 4GB RAM and twenty-three 36GB drives; JBOD). The CLOB documents were all interMedia Text indexed. Contains queries

RE: oracle precompiler in O 9.2

2002-12-03 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
actually we also have /usr/opt/oracle/92 which is linked to /usr/opt/oracle/current 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: which bind variable value causes ora-1722

2002-12-03 Thread tim
Mike, It is the value in the :gl_id string, which is 6.55802. The column GL_ID is defined as an integer of 38 digits (i.e. NUMBER(38) instead of NUMBER), so there is no room for digits to the right of the decimal... Hope this helps... -Tim Hi, all, My developer continually got ora-1722

RE: ORA-2083 DATABASE name has illegal character '-'

2002-12-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Rick - Have you tested the link itself? Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 1:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, Oracle 8.1.6.0.0 NT 4.0 I have the following logon trigger. It works fine

RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Mark - Well, speaking for myself, I appreciate your openness in pointing out the major issues one would have to deal with if they were going to write their own. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 10:34

RE: ORA-1653: unable to extend table - Why?

2002-12-03 Thread Ron Thomas
Hum. My last thought would are there triggers or snapshots defined on the table? Ron Thomas Hypercom, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. -- Kernighan

Re: Extent sizes when using LMT with autoallocate clause

2002-12-03 Thread Connor McDonald
case when initial_extent 1m then case when extents 16 then next = 64k, when extents 80 then next = 1m, when extents 200 then next = 8m, else next = 64m when initial_extent = 1m then case when extents 64 then next = 1m,

RE: Help with Java

2002-12-03 Thread John Weatherman
Steve, This was it exactly. Thanks! John P Weatherman Database Administrator Replacements Ltd. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 2:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L John - your problem is that you are reusing the Statement named myStatement within

RE: Best practice for backing out of Application Patches

2002-12-03 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Scott, Of course, the answer is It depends. It all depends on the kind of software patches that are being applied. Are you talking about adding a column to a table that allows nulls? There might not be a need to back this patch out - the column might be able to stay depending on how it is used

[no subject]

2002-12-03 Thread Scott Stefick
Gurus, I was just given a project to maintain a Computerized Maintenance Management System. When I asked the companies support staff how to roll back patches in the backend Oracle Database (Ver. 8174), they said that there was no way to do this. I'm guessing I could use logminer just incase

Re: Help with Java

2002-12-03 Thread Alex
comment out myDataFiles.close(); and see what happens. On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, John Weatherman wrote: All, I am beginning the journey into JAVA and have hit an odd behavior (well, probably not, but I can't see any reason for it). I am building a list of tablespaces and the datafiles that

Re: which bind variable value causes ora-1722

2002-12-03 Thread Rick_Cale
It looks like that is bind value 4(gl_id) = 0. How did you determine it is 6.55802? I certainly do not how to read this trace but looks like it is define correctly :element_id, bind 0 :fixed_operand,bind 1 :flags,bind 2 :free_quantity,bind 3 :gl_id,

RE: oracle temp files

2002-12-03 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Check view V$TEMP_SPACE_HEADER. I suggest referring to Metalink Notes: 160426.1 and 188610.1 - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 8:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi If I create a temporary tablespace using temp files, how is it possible to

RE: ORA-1653: unable to extend table - Why?

2002-12-03 Thread Richard Ji
Jay, Don't think it will bypass the freelist there. I don't think the freelist is the cause of the problem here. Richard -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I had one thought. The Freelist parameter for this table is

RE: ORA-1653: unable to extend table - Why?

2002-12-03 Thread Miller, Jay
Just for grins, here's the level of support I'm getting on my Oracle TAR: -- You had stated earlier: 1/ After reanalyzing the table I saw the following stats in DBA_TABLES: num_freelist_blocks: 2266966 avg_space_freelist_blocks: 3895 Unless I'm misreading this I

Semi-OT: Pics from OracleWorld

2002-12-03 Thread Connor McDonald
Apologies for the delay (the digital camera died on the trip over) so apologies as well for the picture quality (all taken with a throwaway disposable camera). But, here they are... the rough bunch that is the Oracle Fatcity-L crew in San Francisco. http://www.oracledba.co.uk/sanfran.htm Cheers

RE: Extent sizes when using LMT with autoallocate clause

2002-12-03 Thread Fink, Dan
Title: Extent sizes when using LMT with autoallocate clause From memory... 16 extents of 64K = 1 meg 63 extents of 1m = 63 meg (64 total) 120 extents of 8m = 960 meg (1024 meg or 1 gig total) Additional extents are 64m (I never found an upward bound in testing...) *This is undocumented by

RE: Help with Java

2002-12-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
John - I forwarded your message to one of our newly-trained Java programmers. He replied with: The code is incomplete, how are they handling the connection. Obviously the while loops are messing each other up. There are multiple ways of handling this. If I see the complete code I can

RE: install of 64 and 32 bit

2002-12-03 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: install of 64 and 32 bit AIX 5.1 you can install only 9201 64 bit. 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.

Re: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-03 Thread Igor Neyman
Stephan, There will be no relevant info in the alert.log about the time when database was unavailable, if database was not shut down properly (let say, the plug was pulled). Or, may be I misunderstood you? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple

RE:

2002-12-03 Thread Stephen Lee
On Unix, you can back up the installation directory. If you need to go back to the old version, put the old directory back. You can use tape, tar, cpio, cp, etc. to do this. Example 1 cd /path/here/product tar cvf /path/elsewhere/old817.tar 8.1.7 (assuming 8.1.7 is the directory to back up) If

RE: ORA-2083 DATABASE name has illegal character '-'

2002-12-03 Thread Rick_Cale
Yes I have taken the insert statement out of the logon trigger and it works fine. I think there may be a possible bug with logon trigger using database links.

RE: image storage confusion ??

2002-12-03 Thread Wong, Bing
I would test it on raw disk device because it avoids double buffering. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 2:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Guys , i posted this already and this time my question is a bit different . I have to store 20,000,000 images of

RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-03 Thread Mark Richard
Kirti, Nice script for checking availability. May I remind everyone that you get an additional free check by running this on a different physical host - you are then checking physical host availability and at least some degree of network connectivity as well. I still think my original

[Q] ORACLE 9.2 SGA_MAX_size cause SUN server crash ????

2002-12-03 Thread dist cash
We are doing ORACLE 9.2.0.2 Enterprise Edition testing on SUN server (Solaris 8). Currently one problem happen. If I put SGA_MAX_size entry on init.ora file and restart database, the SUN server will crash and following messages on /var/adm/message file: Dec 3 13:34:59 ISS unix: [ID 253085

Re:

2002-12-03 Thread Rick_Cale
I would recommend a restore because you are going to backup for applying a patch anyway RIGHT? Logminer would do nothing as far as the OS files getting overwritten by applying the patch. Rick

Re: which bind variable value causes ora-1722

2002-12-03 Thread Arup Nanda
Mike, If there a trigger on the table that does some DML with another table? You already got the sql statement. Why not run that in sql*plus the exact same way, after declaring the bind variables and assigning them the same values you found in the trace file and see what happens? From sql

the issue solved Re: which bind variable value causes ora-1722

2002-12-03 Thread mike ding
After spending hours debugging, we finally found the solution: NLS_LANG. There is no problem if nls_lang is american_america.utf8; while ora-1722 occurs when nls_lang is set to american_canada.utf8. The culprit is 6.55802. And when nls_lang is set to american_canada.utf8, the default decimal

RE: SLA Trigger/Procedure

2002-12-03 Thread Post, Ethan
I agree what is needed is something very generic that could monitor the uptime of pretty much any process. After giving this more thought and always liking to keep things simple here is the direction I might eventually head. The logic below would result in a log file that shows all unscheduled

RE: Semi-OT: Pics from OracleWorld

2002-12-03 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
Connor: Perfect pictures. Office looks cool. Perhaps Larry could sell Oracle in Linux there. Small platform, low cost. Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Product Architect Compuware Corporation Direct: (248) 865-4350 Mobile: (248) 408-2918 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.compuware.com

RE: ORA-2083 DATABASE name has illegal character '-'

2002-12-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Rick - Can you do that insert in SQL*Plus (outside the trigger)? I'm sure you have, just my logical completeness tendency. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 3:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: [Q] ORACLE 9.2 SGA_MAX_size cause SUN server crash ????

2002-12-03 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Dist - It sounds like you are setting SGA_MAX_SIZE too large for the server kernel. Try setting it smaller and see if the server is okay with that. If this is true, then you may need to adjust some Solaris kernel parameters. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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