Re: ORA-00600: [2662]

2003-01-07 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
This response from Oracle is not a good one. Kirti is on the right track regarding the SCN stuff as far as I remember. Other than that, I know that Peter Gram and Bjorn Engsig (among a lot of other guys) might be able to suggest something, so I've CC'ed them. I have my own law on ora-600s: If

Re: ORA-00600: [2662]

2003-01-07 Thread Peter Gram
Mogens I do agree that this ora-600 [2662] is in the code that handle SCN numbers, since SCN handling is used many places in the code the stack trace that show which path throw the code you took is necessary if there is no hits on metalink fits the problem ;-) Mogens Nørgaard wrote: This

RE: No logging question

2003-01-07 Thread GL2Z/ INF DBA BENLATRECHE
As I understand, this hidden parameter is for the whole database. In my case It's just for a few tables (I don't care about recovery of these tables). Thank you ! Best Regards Kamel Benlatreche -Message d'origine- De : mantfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : lundi 6 janvier 2003

Re: Are too many Foreign Keys in one table bad?

2003-01-07 Thread Jonathan Lewis
And apart from the differences in cost on the simple test, you also remove the information about uniqueness and non-nullability if you don't declare the primary key, and this has an impact on the optimizer's decision tree. Bear in mind, also, that Oracle will rarely do a tablescan on the inner

Re: Caching a huge table's data in memory

2003-01-07 Thread Jonathan Lewis
As others have pointed out, the need to cache a large table should always be questioned carefully. Having said that, your best bet is probably to create a KEEP pool (parameter db_buffer_pool_keep in 8.1, db_keep_cache_size in 9), and assign the table to the KEEP pool in its STORAGE declaration.

9iRAC on SAN ?

2003-01-07 Thread Hemant K Chitale
I have a question from my SysAdmin/Storage guys. How can an Oracle 9iRAC database run on a SAN ? A SAN supposedly allows only one node to access a disk. Can multiple nodes in a 9iRAC cluster access database files on a SAN ? We can understand a dual-hosted (or is it dual-ported ?) Storage which

RE: audit user activities

2003-01-07 Thread Andrey Bronfin
Many thanks to all who replied ! -Original Message- Sent: ? 06 ? 2003 22:00 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Audrey, Are these direct connections or coming through JVM or some other middle tier server where the userid cannot be discerned. You can use the audit statement

RE: No logging question

2003-01-07 Thread mantfield
In that case, you are pretty much SOL, sorry. nologging option of tables only applies to direct path operations: create as select direct path Sql*Loader insert /*+ APPEND */ Other than that, all other DML will get logged in the redo log, and as several have pointed out, using the

RE: encrypted user/passwd connection

2003-01-07 Thread Andrey Bronfin
Thanks a lot to all who replied! -Original Message- Sent: ? 07 ? 2003 6:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Andrey Bronfin Andre, Oracle does not send passwords across the network in clear text, they are encrypted by default. Jared On Monday 06 January 2003 05:43, Andrey Bronfin wrote:

RE: True inner peace

2003-01-07 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Wow, the OT list is still running... Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) Systems Admin Operations | Admin. et Exploit. des systèmes Technology Services| Services technologiques Informatics Branch | Direction de l'informatique Maritimes Region, DFO |

MAX Number of Records in Cursor ?

2003-01-07 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
A Relationship manager needs to broadcast mail to all the Customers . There are around 102,847 customer To achieve this functionality in our code we are opening a cursor, fetching each user id from a table and inserting into a mail table for each fetch. Mail is getting Generated for only 7130

How to delete duplicate records with condition

2003-01-07 Thread roland . skoldblom
Hallo, I have this sql, SELECT * FROM varukorgtmp where varukorgid= 120 That makes the result of this testfile.xls (See attached file: start.xls) There are two values in EAN-field, which are the same 23324614 in row 2 and 3 Now I want in an sql script to check out which are the duplicates of

RE: ORA-00600: [2662]

2003-01-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Ferenc, There's this new FREE product on the Metalink site. It's called ORA-600 Lookup (I don't bother to bookmark it, just do a search on that and the first one in the search list is the link to the product). You put in the version number, the first argument on the ora-600 and then, if there is

RE: MAX Number of Records in Cursor ?

2003-01-07 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: MAX Number of Records in Cursor ? Possibly the some exception is being generated and (possibly) ignored? My best guess it the script bombs at some point and no one knows why ... Remove any exception handlers in the script and re-run. Raj

OT: Linux and Oracle Cluster File System

2003-01-07 Thread Jos
List,I am a newbie on Linux and Clustering technology, I need to setup a RAC system and have been reading somedocumentation on how to do it. I am a bit confuse about the difference between setting the disk up with Linux raw partition and Oracle cluster file system, I hope someone on the list can

RE: True inner peace

2003-01-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
oh yeah, we're alive and kicking. All the *interesting* people are there :) (this should give me a run on people to approve for subscription as no one wants to be thought of as uninteresting G) --- Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, the OT list is still running... Patrice

Re: MAX Number of Records in Cursor ?

2003-01-07 Thread tim
There are no limits on the number of rows which can be retrieved. Please check the query and the application code surrounding it more closely. I'd suggest extracting the query into SQL*Plus and running it there. If the behavior is as expected, then the surrounding application code is at fault.

AW: AW: Unix for oracle dba -- Suggest a book ?

2003-01-07 Thread Stefan Jahnke
wow, that was stupid of me !! UNIX System Administration Handbook (3rd Edition) by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, Trent R. Hein Unix for Oracle DBAs Pocket Reference by Donald K. Burleson (I copied the ISBN from Amazon). Regards, Stefan -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

AW: Unix for oracle dba -- Suggest a book ?

2003-01-07 Thread Stefan Jahnke
I read it and love it. The only thing I was wondering about is the fact, that he uses tcl/tk, which I found most people don't use anymore. Nice surprise. I wasn't quite sure wether oraora was looking for books that gives more of a general overview of books that delve into the depth of unix

Testing

2003-01-07 Thread Natalia Laracca

AW: Unix for oracle dba -- Suggest a book ?

2003-01-07 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Yes. This is also a very good book. I own an older version for Oracle 8.0.x, but I remember it to be pretty well written and concise. Another remark on Unix books for Oracle DBAs: My company got a copy of Oracle 9i Unix Adminstration Handbook by Don Burleson. It starts at the very beginnings of

RE: Re: MAX Number of Records in Cursor ?

2003-01-07 Thread Stephane Faroult
Besides, Vivek, have you ever heard about INSERT ... SELECT ? Why, I ask, do you want to loop ? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 05:54:17 There are no limits on the number of rows which can be

Re: MAX Number of Records in Cursor ?

2003-01-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
That I know of, there's no limit to the number of rows fetched by a cursor. I've certainly returned more rows than that. Have you tried the sql statement in SQL*Plus? I know I advocate this a lot, but it does tell you if the problem is the sql itself. Are you SURE there are over 100K customers to

RE: ORA-00600: [2662]

2003-01-07 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Mogens, You meant K. Gopal (aka X$KG) is on the right track... and not Kirti. ;) I do not recall posting in this thread. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 1:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This response from Oracle is not a good one. Kirti

RE: encrypted user/passwd connection

2003-01-07 Thread Rajesh . Rao
All oracle passwords are encrypted is not a true statement. Failed login attempts, are retried by sending the password in an unencrypted format. Atleast, until 8.1.7. To avoid which, ORA_ENCRYPT_LOGIN variable and DBLINK_ENCRYPT_LOGIN parameter (for retried attempts across database link) should

RE: 9iRAC on SAN ?

2003-01-07 Thread Burke, William F (Bill)
The 9iRAC interconnect which comes with the product is specific to the hardware platform and manages the connectivity failover in concert with the cluster software. Regards, Bill Burke The Kinder and Gentler DBA IOUG University Master Class Faculty 2001 2002 iDBA Management, Infrastructure and

RE: ORA-00600: [2662]

2003-01-07 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Here is another product that goes after ORA-600: http://www.ubTools.com/cgi-bin/ib/ikonboard.cgi?act=Pages;page=iorabugfinder The creator, Danisment Unal, used to be on the list. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 7:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

Exam Cram is back

2003-01-07 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
For those of you that enjoyed Exam Cram, I received the following newsletter and thought I would pass it along. Dear Exam Cram member, We're back, and better than ever! The Exam Cram site you used to know and love is now Exam Cram 2 (http://www.examcram2.com), produced by a joint effort between

Re: How to delete duplicate records with condition

2003-01-07 Thread MURAT BALKAS
Hi, following metalink documents may help you. Note:65080.1 Using SQL To Delete Duplicate Rows In A Table PR:1015631.6 HOW TO SELECT DUPLICATE ROWS WITHOUT USING ROWID PR:1004425.6 HOW TO FIND OR DELETE DUPLICATE ROWS IN TABLE Murat

RE: Are too many Foreign Keys in one table bad?

2003-01-07 Thread Burke, William F (Bill)
A couple of other thoughts depending on the size of the table with the large number of foreign keys (I may have missed the exact row counts), you might want to consider bitmaps on the foreign keys in the main table depending on the uniqueness of the data. Also, if the foreign key tables are

AW: True inner peace

2003-01-07 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Are you dead ?! -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: mantfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Januar 2003 02:59 An: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Betreff: True inner peace By following the simple advice I read in an article, I have finally found inner peace... It

RE: AW: Unix for oracle dba -- Suggest a book ?

2003-01-07 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
In addition to all the books already mentioned, I find following reference useful when dealing with multiple flavours of UNIX.. http://bhami.com/rosetta.html - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 7:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L wow, that was

Re: Perl DBI/SQL question - For those who use it...

2003-01-07 Thread Markus Reger
in case this is a windog machine - install kind of unix shell. and the unix style commands work perfectly - just tried it. either use unix tools for windog or cygwin from rh. or dump the w... have fun. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/03/03 18:40 PM Hi everyone, This may be a stupid question. If so

RE: No logging question

2003-01-07 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
If this is a one time DML activity, one may get creative with TTS and this hidden parameter :) - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 4:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L In that case, you are pretty much SOL, sorry. nologging option of tables only

RE: Caching a huge table's data in memory

2003-01-07 Thread Stephen Lee
Pro: It is in memory Con: You must buy the memory. You must be sure you don't cause the box to start paging to swap ... very bad ... VERY bad. When you live in the land of bad applications, sometimes the politics of the situation are such that you just do what you know is the equivalent of

RE: Are too many Foreign Keys in one table bad?

2003-01-07 Thread Gregory Norris
Thanks to all for the advice.. Ps I am an Oz type living in Canada - just flew here at xmas and yes it aint cheap but ooh airline food is great! CIAO -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 10:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I'm flattered you put me in the same

Re: AW: AW: Unix for oracle dba -- Suggest a book ?

2003-01-07 Thread John Sheraton
Don's book is very good. Highly recommend. RF --- Stefan Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wow, that was stupid of me !! UNIX System Administration Handbook (3rd Edition) by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass, Trent R. Hein Unix for Oracle DBAs Pocket Reference by Donald K. Burleson

email out of oracle

2003-01-07 Thread Leonard, George
Hi there Trying to email out from Oracle. Utl_smtp is installed, executing procedure currently as a DBA. This sun Machine does send email notifications out via the crontab to me so I know I can send email via the exchange smtp server. Problem, Email packages execute, if I do a print I see code

RE: Are too many Foreign Keys in one table bad?

2003-01-07 Thread Fink, Dan
Black Adder is an excellent method to get me to shut up and leave! -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 8:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I'm flattered you put me in the same category as Kirti, Dan, Jared, Connor and Jonathan. If I recall the cost of my

FULL TABLE SCAN?

2003-01-07 Thread Seema Singh
Hi How to avoid FULL TABLE SCAN? Thx -seema _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Seema

RE: Database/system Crashing

2003-01-07 Thread Webber Valerie H
Title: RE: Database/system Crashing Well I relocated the background dest files and I got the following error... that was a great idea! ORA-00206: error in writing (block 3, # blocks 1) of controlfileORA-00202: controlfile: '/u04/oradata/ERCS/ora_control2'ORA-27063: Message 27063 not found;

RE: ORA-00600: [2662]

2003-01-07 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Mogens: Yes. You are right. You have to bump the SCNs globally (i.e. across all data files to higher number, say 1 Billion) using the event 10015 and ADJUST_SCN. Then we can safely open the database and rebuild that. KG Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan -Original Message- Norgaard

RE: Are too many Foreign Keys in one table bad?

2003-01-07 Thread Fink, Dan
Gregory, There are several things to consider since you are still at the design phase. This table sounds like a great candidate for denormalization. Is this an OLTP or OLAP system? How static are the values in the reftables? If the reftables are static and contain very few values, consider

Re: email out of oracle

2003-01-07 Thread babu . nagarajan
$ oerr ora 29540 29540, 0, class %s does not exist // *Cause: Java method execution failed to find a class with the indicated name. // *Action: Correct the name or add the missing Java class. Looks like you are missing some Java Class... Do you actually get the email it sends? Also if you

Delete duplicate records with condition

2003-01-07 Thread roland . skoldblom
Hallo, I have this sql, SELECT * FROM varukorgtmp where varukorgid= 120 That makes the result of this testfile.xls (See attached file: start.xls) There are two values in EAN-field, which are the same 23324614 in row 2 and 3 Now I want in an sql script to check out which are the duplicates

RE: Are too many Foreign Keys in one table bad?

2003-01-07 Thread Rachel Carmichael
okay fine, Talisker then :) --- Fink, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Black Adder is an excellent method to get me to shut up and leave! -Original Message- Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 8:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I'm flattered you put me in the same

RE: Linux and Oracle Cluster File System

2003-01-07 Thread Richard Ji
Jos, Yes, you are right that if you use OCFS then you can just have one mount point and create all data files under it, because OCFS is a file system. It makes it a lot easier to manage space and you can use commands like: cp, mv, rm etc which you can't do to a raw partition. Backup on

RE: FULL TABLE SCAN?

2003-01-07 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: FULL TABLE SCAN? _full_table_scan=FALSE -Original Message- From: Seema Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: FULL TABLE SCAN? Hi How to avoid FULL TABLE SCAN? Thx -seema

Re: Database/system Crashing

2003-01-07 Thread Yechiel Adar
Title: RE: Database/system Crashing Got the same error on NT last week. Check if there are system backups that backup the control files. When Veritas backup the control file as a regular file the database can not write to it and you get this message. Yechiel AdarMehish - Original

RE: Database/system Crashing

2003-01-07 Thread Fink, Dan
Title: RE: Database/system Crashing Val, Have you tried copying a known good controlfile in place of the bad one? If not, try it and report the result. If it corrupts as well, it seems to me that there is a much bigger problem. If it does not corrupt, then the question is, why didn't oracle

RE: Caching a huge table's data in memory

2003-01-07 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: RE: Caching a huge table's data in memory I don't think a cache table is actually pinned in memory. It just means that its blocks stick around once they are read and are not recycled as much as normal tables. That having been said, due diligence should be taken to tune the queries and

Long-running PL/SQL function (long)

2003-01-07 Thread Cherie_Machler
Our developers sent me a function which is running quite long to see if I could give them any advice. It is written in PL/SQL for version 9.2.0.1 of Oracle on Sun Solaris. It is going across a database link. It reads tables in one database and loads a new table in a datamart table on another

Re: FULL TABLE SCAN?

2003-01-07 Thread Rajesh . Rao
1. Set optimizer_mode to RULE. 2. Make sure all statements have a WHERE clause. 3. Dont use functions in the equality clauses. 4. Create an index on each and every column you have in the database. Take my advice. I dont use it anyway :))) Raj

RE: FULL TABLE SCAN?

2003-01-07 Thread Fink, Dan
At great personal risk, I will tell you some secrets. There are many options. 1) Don't query data. To really enforce this, remove select, insert, update and delete privileges from all users. 2) If you must query data, use an index and only an index. Create indexes that cover all possible

Re: Exam Cram is back

2003-01-07 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
I also got this e-mal. I could not find anything on 9i just 8i. So, they have some catching up to do. Ken Janusz, CPIM - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:08 AM For those of you that enjoyed Exam Cram, I

RE: FULL TABLE SCAN?

2003-01-07 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: FULL TABLE SCAN? A Where clause in your SQL and indexes that support the Where clause are a good place to start. Jerry Whittle ASIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 618-622-4145 -Original Message- From: Seema Singh [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hi

RE: FULL TABLE SCAN?

2003-01-07 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Create a meaningful index and keep your stats up to date. Dave The OT list rules -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 10:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi How to avoid FULL TABLE SCAN? Thx -seema

Cant install statspack !

2003-01-07 Thread Bob Metelsky
Hello All I seem to be missing something very basic as no matter what I do I cant get statspack to install This is 8.16 on WIN2kpro I downloaded the newest version of stataspack and placed it into %oracle_home%\rdbms\admin C:\Oracle\Ora81\RDBMS\ADMINdir stats* 02/08/2000 07:36p

Re: FULL TABLE SCAN?

2003-01-07 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
Seema: Use an index, obviously. If and index exists, ensure that the query uses it. The select columns order should match the order of the index columns. Or try using a HINT. Sometimes a full scan is not a bad thing. Are there less than 100,000 rows in the table? Sometimes the optimizer will

RE: Caching a huge table's data in memory

2003-01-07 Thread Stephen Lee
I have never delved into just what gets cache and how permanently it gets cached when a table is cached. In the case of a monstrosity of an application, to cache or not to cache (that is the question) a large table, is a case of tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum. But when people are grabbing at any

RE: Caching a huge table's data in memory

2003-01-07 Thread Fink, Dan
Title: RE: Caching a huge table's data in memory Read Cary Millsap's papers on Misunderstandings about Oracle Internals at his site www.hotsos.com. They are excellent! -Original Message-From: Orr, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:54 AMTo:

Re: Long-running PL/SQL function (long)

2003-01-07 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Cherie, If network bandwidth is the bottleneck, the use of Fast Refreshable snapshots will be a great help. Whereby you only pull the rows that have changed since the last refresh across to the primary. Raj

Pinned packages with multiple reloads

2003-01-07 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey all, I have a trigger that pins various packages on the startup of our 8.1.7.2.0 DB on HP/UX 11.0. I check V$DB_OBJECT_CACHE every so often to see that it's working and to make any necessary additions/deletions from the list of pinned packages. However, the SYS.DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO package

RE: Exam Cram is back

2003-01-07 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Looks like they are still starting up the new incarnation, the Oracle books are about the Oracle 8 exams. I don't understand what happened to Coriolis before, why did it close down? Not enough sales? In this area the computer books sections are shrinking in the bookstores, I suspect people are

Re: Cant install statspack !

2003-01-07 Thread Yechiel Adar
I had some problems with stats pack install today. There is: 'on error exit' in the scripts. Remove it so the script can continue. This may solved your problem. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 07,

Re: Cant install statspack !

2003-01-07 Thread tim
Bob, The scripts contain CONNECT statements which likely do not include the @instance TNS connect-string you are using initially. The scripts also contain WHENEVER OSERROR and WHENEVER SQLERROR directives, so they blow out of SQL*Plus on error, most likely... Please consider editing the scripts

Re: Long-running PL/SQL function (long)

2003-01-07 Thread Yechiel Adar
I think that you can try 2 things: 1) Run the function in the source db. Selects across links does funny stuff. 2) Write CSV file on the source system and sql loader on the target using direct. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Re: Cant install statspack !

2003-01-07 Thread Barbara Baker
Bob: I have a slightly different version. My spcreate.sql involkes 3 scripts: @@spcusr,@@spctab,@@spcpkg. The problem that I had was that spcusr was creating some x_ views that already existed in the database(perhaps from Steve Adams' script). When the spcusr script encounters the errors, it quits

Re: Long-running PL/SQL function (long)

2003-01-07 Thread Thomas Day
I believe, with 8.1.7, Oracle changed the behavior of selects over a database link so that it is optimized for snapshot (materialized view) replication. We faced a similar situation and the answer was to copy the source tables over the db_link and then run the PL/SQL against the copied tables

RE: Long-running PL/SQL function (long)

2003-01-07 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Long-running PL/SQL function (long) Cherie, I'd run this function with 2 events separately ... first 10938 this will give you pl/sql profiling or simply use dbms_profiler package. This will tell you where (and at which line) you are spending most of your time. Metalink has some

Re: rbs' maxextents in LMT

2003-01-07 Thread Guang Mei
Hi, Arup: I created lmt rbs this way: CREATE TABLESPACE RBS DATAFILE '/oracle/u02/oradata/YPD/rbs01.dbf' SIZE 2048M EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL UNIFORM SIZE 2M; and then SQL create rollback segment RBSTest1 storage(initial 2048K next 2048K) tablespace rbs; Rollback segment created. SQL create

Re: MAX Number of Records in Cursor ?

2003-01-07 Thread BigP
Are you using a ref cursor (from JDBC ) and sertting some arraysize . Bp - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 5:08 AM A Relationship manager needs to broadcast mail to all the Customers . There are around

Re: Cant install statspack !

2003-01-07 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
Bob: Try running the scripts in the command line version of SQL Plus. In NT use sqlplus instead of sqlplusw. The statscusr.sql prompts for a couple of tablespaces. Start spooling right after logging in and set termout and echo on. You should capture some output this way. RWB Bob Metelsky

Re: Long-running PL/SQL function (long)

2003-01-07 Thread Cherie_Machler
Raj, Thanks for your reply. This is a one-time-only load to set up a new datamart from our existing warehouse.We have a separate process which will be doing periodic refreshes. However, yes, the inserts are going across the network with the current design. Cherie

RE: Long-running PL/SQL function (long)

2003-01-07 Thread Cherie_Machler
Raj, Just got this code this morning so I haven't had a chance to run a trace yet. Will have to schedule that for tonight. Yes, code is being run on the source DB. Yes, ACCT_PAY_TYPE is less than 2000 rows. You are the second person who has recommended a PL/SQL table. I will run a test

RE: FULL TABLE SCAN?

2003-01-07 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Title: RE: FULL TABLE SCAN? It's a bit buggy in 8i! -Original Message-From: Deshpande, Kirti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 1:09 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: FULL TABLE SCAN? Is that backported to 8i and 7.3 ??? :)

Re: Are too many Foreign Keys in one table bad?

2003-01-07 Thread Jared . Still
Thanks, but I don't think I'm in the same class as some of those names. I just keep my head down and keep trying. :) Jared Mark Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/06/2003 06:23 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Cant install statspack !

2003-01-07 Thread Bob Metelsky
HOT DAMM!! Ive taken everyones suggestions and did the following Edited all the stats* file to change whenever sqlerror exit; To whenever sqlerror continue; And connect perfstat/perfstat To connect perfstat/perfstat@instance I also ran the script from a cmd window rather than sqlplusw I

RE: encrypted user/passwd connection

2003-01-07 Thread Jared . Still
Thanks Raj. I would think that the default being set to 'always encrypt' would be more reasonable, In checking the parameters via select a.KSPPINM NAME, a.KSPPDESC DESCRIPTION, b.KSPPSTVL VALUE, b.KSPPSTDF ISDEFAULT from X$KSPPI a, X$KSPPCV b where a.indx = b.indx and a.KSPPINM

Snapshot too old

2003-01-07 Thread Patrick Van der Sande
Dear, Since a few weeks I am tuning a big conversion batch written in PL/SQL (millions of lines of code split over 7 batches) When the job is running, certain batches stop with ORA-1555: Snapshot too old. Other batches run well till the end. Bizarre is that not always the same job

Re: Cant install statspack !

2003-01-07 Thread babu . nagarajan
I remember seing a script on Steve Adam's site that will delete the views created so that STATSPACK can install correctly Babu

RE: email out of oracle

2003-01-07 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
George, Did you resolve this yet? The error code indicates that you are missing a Java class. Did you load the ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/initplsj.sql file? this will load the PL/SQL Java classes needed to send mail. hope this helps PS. Uncomment your exception clause in your procedure so that you

RE: Pinned packages with multiple reloads

2003-01-07 Thread Johnston, Tim
What about invalidations? If something invalidates the packages does it reload? Just guessing... I remember this thread and was hoping you would have an answer by now... Damn... :-) -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 1:18 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

SQL Server/ Oracle DBA Needed in Phildelphia area..

2003-01-07 Thread OraStaff
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RE: Long-running PL/SQL function (long)

2003-01-07 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Long-running PL/SQL function (long) Cherie, Bulk inserts/selects are available since 8i ... Not being sarcastic but sorry to disappoint you, but your developers haven't used anything new that wasn't in 8i ... you can give them the bad news .. (if you want.) I think bulk

RE: Database/system Crashing

2003-01-07 Thread Webber Valerie H
Title: RE: Database/system Crashing Dan, I meant to say that I found out why Oracle crashed. There is a bigger problem with the OS since it crashes when the db is down and it seems to lose parts of itself if that makes sense. After the OS "sorta crashes" or partially crashes, some Unix

RE: Linux and Oracle Cluster File System

2003-01-07 Thread Jos
Thanks for the clarification, a lot more to read. Richard Ji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jos, Yes, you are right that if you use OCFS then you can just have one mount point and create all data files under it, because OCFS is a file system. It makes it a lot easier to manage space and you can use

Re: Cant install statspack !

2003-01-07 Thread Yechiel Adar
I get around the connect problem by setting oracle_sid before invoking sqlplus (no W) from a dos box in NT. Of course, this means that I work on the server itself. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January

clustering Oracle9i db

2003-01-07 Thread Greg Faktor
Hi All! Need advice: We have two Windows 2000 servers with MSCS installed on it. Now I need to install Oracle9i. I read about Real Application cluster for 9i and Oracle fail safe: MSCS will take care about load balancing and failover do I need to instal RAC on top? Thanks. Greg. -- Please see

RE: Database/system Crashing

2003-01-07 Thread Webber Valerie H
Title: RE: Database/system Crashing "PS.. do we all get a virtual "pass" on a future audit for helping? :)" ABSOLUTELY!! ;) -Original Message-From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 3:52 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Cc: '[EMAIL

Re: Long-running PL/SQL function (short)

2003-01-07 Thread Cherie_Machler
Stephane, Thanks for your reply. I don't think it's a possibility to get another resource to rewrite the PL/SQL. Our shop is more java-based and PL/SQL is not our developers language of choice. Do you mean to move as many statements inside of the loop to outside of the loop as possible? If

RE: encrypted user/passwd connection

2003-01-07 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Jared, The ORA_ENCRYPT_LOGIN is not a database parameter, but an environment variable to be set on clients. Maybe Platform specific. Not sure. I have never used this, just remembered reading about them in some security document. Got it. Saved under favourites.

Re:Snapshot too old

2003-01-07 Thread dgoulet
Patrick, Chasing down the culprit of a randomly happening ORA-1555 can be a true pain in the ^%%. First thing to check is if you have a commit happening across a cursor. This little jewel happens when the duhveloper decided that he needed a cursor to retrieve some data from a table

RE: Database/system Crashing

2003-01-07 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: RE: Database/system Crashing Val, if the unix commands are disappearing, then it sounds like you are either losing disk directories, or the paths that point at them. when I first read your post last week, I had a sneaky feeling that this was an OS problem and not an Oracle one. but

Re: rbs' maxextents in LMT

2003-01-07 Thread Arup Nanda
Guang, Which version are you using? I tested this on a 8.1.7.4 system and it works fine. The only difference is, I didn't supply the INITIAL and NEXT; they are unnecessary anyway. create rollback segment arup2 storage(maxextents 4); select max_extents from dba_rollback_segs where segment_name

RE: email out of oracle

2003-01-07 Thread Bob Metelsky
My 2cts at a contribution This is what I did to get email working Your rollback names will vary 1.) Increase the shared_pool_size parameter to at lease 50MB and set the java_pool_sze parameter to 20MB. Bounce the database. # increase from 12MB to 50MB shared_pool_size = 52428800

RE: encrypted user/passwd connection

2003-01-07 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
ORA_ENCRYPT_LOGIN is a sqlnet.ora parameter. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks Raj. I would think that the default being set to 'always

Re: email out of oracle

2003-01-07 Thread John Sheraton
I seem to recall there being a bug in some versions of Oracle (8i??) where you had to manually load a class into the database before the utl_smtp would work. Do a quick search on Metalink and you should be able to find it. Robert --- Leonard, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there Trying

RE: Snapshot too old

2003-01-07 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Patrick - Do any of these jobs update the same tables? Or do any jobs read a table that other jobs are updating? Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 2:15 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: rbs' maxextents in LMT

2003-01-07 Thread Igor Neyman
Guang, It can eat up only the segment it is assigned to, not the whole rbs tablespace, you will still have other segments. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 2:08 PM

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