Re: Global names

2003-01-22 Thread Justin Cave
At 12:07 PM 1/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It recently came to my attention that the DBA's where I work have adopted a > convention where the global_name of a database is the same for the > production, test, and development instance of that database (obviously, > they've turned off global n

RE: Global names

2003-01-22 Thread Justin Cave
At 03:48 PM 1/22/2003, Jesse, Rich wrote: Can you still create DB links between two DBs with the same global name? While we don't normally use DB links (too many links from development to production or vice versa), I seem to remember that being an issue. Then again, my memory isn't the best...

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Dan addressed this very well in his earlier post... Here is what Tom Kyte says in his book (Expert one-on-one Oracle): "DDL locks are automatically placed against objects during a DDL operation to protect them from changes by other sessions". "DDL locks are held for the duration of the DDL

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Arup Nanda
Dan, If I may, essentially you are saying that changes to data dictionary tables have to be committed immediately regardless of the outcome of the transaction. For instance in the following code, starting with an empty table t1 step 1: insert into table t1 values row1 step 2: create table t2 s

Re: Sequences in 8.1.7 vs 9i

2003-01-22 Thread BigP
I have never seen () after nextval in 7.3 or 8i or 9i . -Bp - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:48 PM > Hello everyone. > > This one stumps me and I'm wondering if it is a bug that was resolved in > 9i.

Re: Replication question

2003-01-22 Thread BigP
it depends on how you are updating slave databases . -bp - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 3:39 PM > We have four machines setup as slave databases which get updated data from > one Master database every

Re:RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jared . Still
Oracle does not guarantee that the job will start at the time specified; it seems that it usually starts about 1 minute later, at least that's what I see. This would account for the creep, as when the interval is evaluated, it is later than you might expect. Jared [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent b

RE: Slow SQL*Plus connect.

2003-01-22 Thread Johnston, Tim
Is otrace enabled? Note: 1020763.6 Note: 45482.1 Tim -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 5:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi All, We have experienced a *very* slow connect time to a 9.0.1 database via SQL*Plus (and other apps as well) on a Win2K mach

Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jared . Still
Vladamir, This job runs pretty fast, so I don't worry about jobs running into each other. It's a level 0 statspack.snapshot, it has run 407 seconds in ~ 700 executions. Jared Vladimir Begun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/22/2003 11:34 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L

Replication question

2003-01-22 Thread Nguyen, David M
We have four machines setup as slave databases which get updated data from one Master database every 5 minutes. The question is how do I know all slave machines get updated data completely from the master database, another word is how do I know there is no missing data when slave machines replicat

Re: IMPORT QUESTION

2003-01-22 Thread Stephane Faroult
Hamid Alavi wrote: > > DEAR LIST, > How can I import from a dump file which has some partionioned table into > another user with no partitioning. > Thanks in Advance > > Hamid Alavi > > Office : 818-737-0526 > Cell phone : 818-416-5095 Create the tables first and IGNORE=Y -- Regard

RE: shared_pool_area size question

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
And I believe Gaja would be right at the front of the line to agree with you on that. RF Robert G. Freeman Technical Management Consultant TUSC - The Oracle Experts www.tusc.com 904.708.5076 Cell (it's everywhere that I am!) Author of several books you can find on Amazon.com! -Original Me

RE: Global names

2003-01-22 Thread Jesse, Rich
Can you still create DB links between two DBs with the same global name? While we don't normally use DB links (too many links from development to production or vice versa), I seem to remember that being an issue. Then again, my memory isn't the best... Rich Rich Jesse

RE: Global names

2003-01-22 Thread Bob Metelsky
The way I understood Gloal names is a global name will have a .someserver.com AFAIK... Global names is set/required IF you have your sqlnet.ora with a line for GLOBAL_NAMES =.someserver.com Then you can seperatly identify your instances from the different servers they are running on Sqlplus [EM

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Fink, Dan
Don't forget that extent allocation also affects the extent map for the segment and possibly the high water mark. The hwm can be set without allocating another extent and allocation of an extent may not alter the hwm (if you manually allocate an extent). If I deallocate space from an object, I will

Re: shared_pool_area size question

2003-01-22 Thread Stephane Faroult
Guang Mei wrote: > > Hi, > > According to book "Oracle Performance Tuning 101" (By Gaja K. Vaidyanatha), > page 316: > > Oracle SGA Component Percent Memory Allocation > > Database buffer cache ~ 80 > Shared Pool area ~ 12 > ... > > This means 80% of SGA should be

Sequences in 8.1.7 vs 9i

2003-01-22 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
Hello everyone. This one stumps me and I'm wondering if it is a bug that was resolved in 9i. Here is sample code. Create sequence a; Create table xxx(numtest number, testvalue varchar2(100)); Inside PL/SQL block and from SQL*Plus Prompt; Insert into xxx(numbest, testvalue) values (a.nex

Too good to pass up - Microsoft says "Don't trust Microsoft"

2003-01-22 Thread Jared . Still
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/12/09/021209opwinman.xml -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hos

RE: IMPORT QUESTION

2003-01-22 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Hamid - In the target schema, is the table already created? If it isn't, I would recommend that you create it before you import the data. Normally partitioned tables are quite large. Are you sure this import will complete in a reasonable time frame? Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc.

Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Vladimir Begun
Stephane Faroult wrote: Vladimir (whose formula I am still trying to understand :-))... TRUNC(SYSDATE) + (CEIL(TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'S') / 60 / :interval) / (24 * 60 / :interval)); P.S.: could you please answer my question ('100% CPU utilization, urgent') thread? -- Vladimir Begun The statemen

Re: shared_pool_area size question

2003-01-22 Thread Thomas Day
Try: compute sum of bytes on report break on report column name format a30 heading 'Memory Structure' column bytes format 999,999,999,999 heading 'Bytes' select * from v$sgastat /

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Thanks Dan. The gist of your response was that all changes to the data dictionary are immediately commited. Seems to make sense to me. Maybe, thats one reason why one cannot free space below the high water mark. Coz changes to UET$ has been committed, even though the data was rolled back. I sent

IMPORT QUESTION

2003-01-22 Thread Hamid Alavi
DEAR LIST, How can I import from a dump file which has some partionioned table into another user with no partitioning. Thanks in Advance Hamid Alavi Office : 818-737-0526 Cell phone : 818-416-5095 === Confidentiality Statement === The inf

Re: tuxedo connect to oracle: v$session.program =?

2003-01-22 Thread Stephane Faroult
chao_ping wrote: > > hi, dba friends: > Is there someone else who is also using tuxedo as middleware? In my system >we use tuxedo 7.1 on linux to connect to db server, but when I look at >v$session.program, it always show something like: > >? @app9 (TNS V1-V3) >? @app9 (TNS V1

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Ron Rogers
1980's??? Yes, but it works, ain't broke, reliable, KISS, and is easy to implement. I use cron from my Linux box to connect to the production Oracle database (OpenVMS) and do a RMAN backup with the catalog on a second Oracle database (OpenVMS) server. Beats the heck out of trying to get the backu

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
I like this solution.. Looking at the second one I proposed, I think that it actually would end up just running once an hour at 15 after It's amazing how things look a lot different at midnight and 2pm in the afternoon. Cheers! Robert G. Freeman Technical Management Consultant TUSC - The

shared_pool_area size question

2003-01-22 Thread Guang Mei
Hi, According to book "Oracle Performance Tuning 101" (By Gaja K. Vaidyanatha), page 316: Oracle SGA Component Percent Memory Allocation Database buffer cache ~ 80 Shared Pool area ~ 12 ... This means 80% of SGA should be allocated to "Database buffer cache". Now I

Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Gene Sais
If a job takes longer than the next scheduled time to execute then I see a problem.  Suppose a job runs every 15 mins but runtime is 30 mins, the number of jobs will increase and compete for the same resources.  I always use cron (80's kinda of control), and the 1st thing I do is check if th

Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Igor Neyman
Very good case described. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:16 PM > Take the case of an insert (we'll call tx1), where space allocation is > required. As you in

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jesse, Rich
The problem with that formula is that you'll get "creep" and eventually your 15-minute jobs are running 8 minutes late. Try this one instead: trunc(sysdate) + (trunc(to_number(sysdate - trunc(sysdate)) * (60/15*24)) / (60/15*24)) + 1/(60/15*24) Guaranteed to run every 15 on the 15. At least I t

Re:RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread JApplewhite
Actually, Interval is evaluated at the beginning of the job according to the docs. I've not seen anyone mention the real cause behind DBMS_Job "creep". That is the setting of Job_Queue_Interval which, by default, is 60 seconds. So your jobs will run 1 minute later each time unless you set Inter

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jesse, Rich
As an aside, if you want something to run twice a day at the same time (in my case 11:50 AM/PM), this seems to work well for an interval: trunc(sysdate) + (decode(to_char(sysdate,'AM'),'AM',1,2)*12+(11+(50/60)))/24 Enjoy! :) Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administra

Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Vladimir Begun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now as discussed, if the job is scheduled to start at 9:00 AM and runbs for 5 minutes it's next_date for run #2 will be 9:20, not 9:15, and it will creep 5 minutes every time. No, as written, my jobs start on every quarter hour, regardless of runtime. e.g. 09:00,

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Thanks! Works better than the first suggestion. RF Robert G. Freeman Technical Management Consultant TUSC - The Oracle Experts www.tusc.com 904.708.5076 Cell (It's everywhere that I am!) Author of several books you can find on Amazon.com! -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 22,

Parallel sessions

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Ok, back on this topic again I would *like* to write a query that jaunts through v$sql and collects and condenses related parallel queries with the slave processes for all the SQL stored in that view. I'm not seeing any way to do this for inactive queries... It's fairly easy to identify slave p

Re: AW: Oracle Financials lists

2003-01-22 Thread M Rafiq
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:01:20 -0800 Yes Ron, there is. For ORACLE FINANCIALS go to http://www.rchath.com/mail_list.htm or http://www.oaug.org/public/oaugnet/oaugnet.html and follow the instructions. For other Oracle Products: http://www.odtug.com/subscrib.htm http://www.doug.org/list.server.h

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Fink, Dan
Take the case of an insert (we'll call tx1), where space allocation is required. As you insert records, the table allocated additional extents (updating fet$ (free extent table) and uet$ (used extent table) in the data dictionary). These updates to the data dictionary are implicitly committed, even

Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Arup Nanda
Very good point, Raj. I didn't wonder just for the sake it; there was meat to it ;) Now that this has been raised, any ideas, anybody? - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 12:01 PM > > That raises another d

RE: senior oracle dba

2003-01-22 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Bp, Often where the term "Senior DBA" comes up is with company HR departments. It isn't usual for we DBAs to greet each other with "Hi, I'm a senior DBA". I agree with Mark's comments, but just wanted to point out this other aspect to the issue. Sometimes HR people use this as a method for cate

Re: Global names

2003-01-22 Thread Jared . Still
> It recently came to my attention that the DBA's where I work have adopted a > convention where the global_name of a database is the same for the > production, test, and development instance of that database (obviously, > they've turned off global naming in the init.ora). They've also set up

Re: quest SharePlex

2003-01-22 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Nick, Thanks for the notes. I've often wondered how Shareplex did its thing. Just for kicks - have you tried writing a collision handler for streams ? Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming soon a new one-day tutorial: Cost Based Optimisation (see http://www.jlcomp.demon

Re:RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jared . Still
> Now as discussed, if the job is scheduled to start at 9:00 AM and > runbs for 5 minutes it's next_date for run #2 will be 9:20, not 9:15, and it > will creep 5 minutes every time. No, as written, my jobs start on every quarter hour, regardless of runtime. e.g. 09:00, 09:15, 09:30, 09:45 ...

RE: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jared . Still
Hmm... I had only given the code a cursory examination. Good thing I didn't use it. :) Jared Freeman Robert - IL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/22/2003 10:19 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jared . Still
Thanks Robert, I like this. Simplified and still easy to read. Jared "Robert Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/21/2003 08:39 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:

Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jared . Still
Well, I did consider that using 4 jobs , but my overdeveloped sense of aesthetics and professional hubris (that one mostly) required that it be done with a single job. ;) Lots of good suggestions here. Seems like everyone is always up for a puzzle. :) Jared "Arup Nanda" <[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Yea... I realized that after I sent the email, so I submitted my second suggestion... Thanks though for your thoughts!! Robert G. Freeman Technical Management Consultant TUSC - The Oracle Experts www.tusc.com 904.708.5076 Cell (It's everywhere that I am!) Author of several books you can find on Am

Re[2]: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread dgoulet
Vladimir, I beg to disagree. The reason is that we used a number of jobs where the interval was defined as "sysdate+1" and the job routinely ran for ~30 minutes every day. The result was that the job migrated over the course of a week by 3.5 hours so that instead of running at 6AM as schedul

tuxedo connect to oracle: v$session.program =?

2003-01-22 Thread chao_ping
hi, dba friends: Is there someone else who is also using tuxedo as middleware? In my system we use tuxedo 7.1 on linux to connect to db server, but when I look at v$session.program, it always show something like: ? @app9 (TNS V1-V3) ? @app9 (TNS V1-V3) ? @app9 (TNS V1-V3)

RE: Anyone storing their documents in the database with

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
To answer Arn's question, no, I'm not currently using it. However I can see some potential in the product. Rich, Workspace management allows you to "version" a table. You can create multiple "versions" of the same table (workspaces), and different people can work in different workspaces and multip

Re: senior oracle dba

2003-01-22 Thread BigP
Mark , Thanks for the reply . I think learning is a never ending process , specially in IT industry where new version of software is out before 30% adapts the previous version .But is there a line which can be drawn ? No one knows everything . But experience tells where to look for proper things an

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Consistency is the key too imagine what would happen if I dropped a column or changed it's definition, while a SQL statement or PL/SQL package was executing. The data that was updated before the change may well be very different in nature than the data after the change Borrowing from Ghost

RE: filemon

2003-01-22 Thread Jesse, Rich
Don't forget the other great tools from SysInternals either, like "Regmon" and "procexpnt". Great tools that helped me find that my Opera problem ("File not found" errors causing program to crash) is actually MS's really really cool proxy software. Crap. All MS is crap. Crap, crap, crap. Ric

Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Vladimir Begun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One potential problem with DBMS_JOBS as is being discussed here is that Oracle computes the next_date at the end of the job. They do that so that if a job -- INTERVAL is a date function, evaluated immediately before the job starts -- executing... runs longer than it's

RE: quest SharePlex

2003-01-22 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: quest SharePlex Would the same thing work if you shut down the Shareplex processes after the row had chained, and restarted them before you updated the chained piece ? -- Yes And does Shareplex guarantee that it will never report a 1555 error regardless of how long it is shut dow

AW: Oracle Financials - Help!

2003-01-22 Thread Kulev, Milen
Yes Ron, there is. For ORACLE FINANCIALS go to http://www.rchath.com/mail_list.htm or http://www.oaug.org/public/oaugnet/oaugnet.html and follow the instructions. For other Oracle Products: http://www.odtug.com/subscrib.htm http://www.doug.org/list.server.html HTH. Milen -Ursprüngliche

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Title: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes LOL. You are right about the job_scheduler in early 9i. Had all sorts of problems when I first started moving stuff to 9.0.1 and 9.0.2 and Oracle was no help figuring out what the problem was.   I use cron all the time, but I love t

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
One thing I've learned Arup, there are 15,000 ways of doing the same thing, and a good many of those are as good as the other. Cron, dbms_job, at, whatever works for you!! Rf Robert G. Freeman Technical Management Consultant TUSC - The Oracle Experts www.tusc.com 904.708.5076 Cell (it's everywhe

RE: create tablespace problem

2003-01-22 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
Where's the challenge when you have the facts? =) Mike -Original Message- Sent: 22 January 2003 15:05 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Well while we are ranting how about always including the version of the database, and the platform you are running on too! RF Robert G. Fr

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Title: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes LOL.   Ok, I confess, my name's Robert and I'm a CRON user   Rf   Robert G. FreemanTechnical Management ConsultantTUSC - The Oracle Experts www.tusc.com904.708.5076 Cell (it's everywhere that I am!)Author of several books you can fin

Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Rajesh . Rao
That raises another doubt. For an simple insert statement, could also update the UET$ or FET$ tables? So, if the purpose was to preserve all changes to the data dictionary, What's different between OBJ$, COL$ and these space management tables? Thanks Raj

RE: Anyone storing their documents in the database with

2003-01-22 Thread Jesse, Rich
Better yet -- WHAT is Workspace Management? "Additional training for Oracle 9i" -- Goals for 2003 :) > -Original Message- > From: Arn Klammer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:54 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: Anyone storing th

RE: Slow SQL*Plus connect.

2003-01-22 Thread Sunil_Nookala
How big is the listener log file?? do you truncate/rename it on regular basis?? just a thought. Sunil Nookala Dell Corp. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi All, We have experienced a *very* slow connect time to a 9

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes Cron?  How RELIABLE !! -Original Message-From: Freeman Robert - IL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:10 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 min

Re:simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread dgoulet
Well look at it this way, besides creating/modifying/dropping the object that you want your also performing a number of updated/inserts/deletes from the data dictionary. Those data dictionary tables are just that, tables. Now imagine what a mess would be created if you performed a DDL stateme

Re: Re: same sql: different db block gets in different oracle version

2003-01-22 Thread Jonathan Lewis
One reason for seeing more db_block_gets than you expect on a full segment scan is that every extent map block (of which the segment header block is just one) is accessed differently. If you have small extents and large objects, you may have overshoot the maximum extents allowed in the segment he

Re:RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread dgoulet
One potential problem with DBMS_JOBS as is being discussed here is that Oracle computes the next_date at the end of the job. They do that so that if a job runs longer than it's schedule interval the two invocations will not run into each other. Now as discussed, if the job is scheduled to start a

RE: off topic: iostat -x in linux

2003-01-22 Thread Gogala, Mladen
The best you can get on linux is sar -d. > -Original Message- > From: chao_ping [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:39 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: off topic: iostat -x in linux > > > oracledba?? > dba friends, do you know ho

Shared Pool - How much free memory?

2003-01-22 Thread Rajesh . Rao
I have this application which issues a lot of dynamic SQL's with literals, for each customer who logs in. And on querying v$sgastat, I see 21Mb of free memory. Does shared_pool_reserved_size show up as "free memory" in v$sgastat? If not, I might have some further questions? Thanks Raj -- Please

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes Robert,   I have solid reasons not to trust dbms_job ... it didn't work reliably in 901x. Call me retro ... but "cron" rocks ...   8:) Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni      MIS, ESPN Inc.

Re: create tablespace problem

2003-01-22 Thread Arup Nanda
And when your problem is finally resolved, even if it's as magical as the passage of time, please... please... let the us know that. This is a educational excercise for all concerned and everyone is interested in the analysis and the final outcome. Don't you think you owe that much to the people w

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Title: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes Cron? How 1980's :-))   RF   Robert G. FreemanTechnical Management ConsultantTUSC - The Oracle Experts www.tusc.com904.708.5076 Cell (it's everywhere that I am!)Author of several books you can find on Amazon.com! -Original Messa

Re: create tablespace problem

2003-01-22 Thread Arup Nanda
Pomi, This file alrerady exists; and so is the error. You have two options. (1) Just add a clause REUSE after the datafile name. Oracle will reuse the existing file. Not recomended. You might accidentally overwrite a good file. (2) Find out the datafile does not belong to the database select name

RE: create tablespace problem

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Well while we are ranting how about always including the version of the database, and the platform you are running on too! RF Robert G. Freeman Technical Management Consultant TUSC - The Oracle Experts www.tusc.com 904.708.5076 Cell (it's everywhere that I am!) Author of several books you can

Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Arup Nanda
My guess will be to preserve the changes to the data dictionary, which are just Oracle tables anyway. When you create a table, a record goes to TAB$, SEG$ and so on and so forth. Unless there is a commit these information is not visible. But now that you asked, I wnder why the same objective could

Re: Oracle 9.2.0.2 performance problem

2003-01-22 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Presuming that PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET of 500MB is sufficient for your environment ... it does look as if your PA-RISC processors are slower than the Intel ones but ... I still wonder.. your statistics show that the number of block-gets for the FTS isn't very high and cpu time is high. If you c

Re: same sql: different db block gets in different oracle version

2003-01-22 Thread Arup Nanda
Cho, This is not unusual. I suspect your db_cache_size (or db_block_buffers) in 9.2 is more than db_block_buffers in 8.1. When you do a FTS, all the blocks are loaded into the buffers first time so 'db block gets' is a non zero value (it's the physical IO). The next time you do this, the blocks ar

Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Arup Nanda
That's exactly what I do. Phew! I thought I was the only one ;) - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:03 AM > Personally, I tend to just submit four jobs: one at the top of hour, one at > 15 past, one at 3

Re: question about rman

2003-01-22 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Title: question about rman I am jumping in late on this thread and may be way off the mark but I do all my backups to disk and put them on tape using the OS backup facility.  When recovery is needed I just put the backupsets back on the original disk.  Then rman isn't confused at all.  If omn

RE: Slow SQL*Plus connect.

2003-01-22 Thread Stephen Lee
If the box is swapping memory, connections can be slow since memory has to allocated for the connection. Just one possibility. > -Original Message- > > We have experienced a *very* slow connect time to a 9.0.1 database via > SQL*Plus (and other apps as well) on a Win2K machine, -- Plea

Re: Re: same sql: different db block gets in different oracle version

2003-01-22 Thread chao_ping
Jonathan Lewis, Thanks very much for your reply. Yes, in oracle 8i on sun solaris, the db block gets of fulltable scan is always 4block, no matter what the size of the table is. But in my tests in linux/817, it always show 12(8170 and 8172).I run the full scan again and again, bu

RE: Insufficient quota problem

2003-01-22 Thread Mark Leith
Hi Sean The following site has *some* info about your problem, though the "fix" isn't too great an explanation, and you also mentioned that you had no errors in your alert log: http://www.orafaq.net/archive/comp.databases.oracle.server/2002/03/03/137294 .htm M. -Original Message- Sean S

Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Markus Reger
hi what's your exact question? you mean autocommit like in database applications? what tool are you using to observe or redard to this phenomenon? the erd-demon has to send some info via rs232 to make the amplifier -called booster - work. no info implies no current on the tracks. kind of answwer

Oracle Financials - Help!

2003-01-22 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Is there a forum for Oracle Financials questions? I am doing backup support on Oracle Financials and I don't know anything about the product. The /tmp file on Unix has filled with a couple of very large temp files. I need a way to tie the files back to a process and hopefully a client. Can anyo

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes I simplified it by using cron instead ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni      MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't r

Database Load & Server Specs

2003-01-22 Thread Hussain Ahmed Qadri
Title: Database Load & Server Specs Hi all, I have three questions, would appreciate if any of you can help me on that, its important because I need these answers to support my claim of our server being over loaded. First is; is there query to find out the number of transactions at any time?

Re: Online recompilation of SP

2003-01-22 Thread Tim Gorman
Short answer is no.  Can't think of an environment where compiled objects can be recreated without quiescence, so its not just Oracle.   You should use PL/SQL packages instead of stored procedures or functions so that the "body" of the package (containing code) can be disassociated and recom

RE: There is a problem with your message - O_S - To Kirti

2003-01-22 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Remove *all* footers (telling you how to subscribe/unsubscribe) added by Oracle-l list server. Sorry about that. - Kirti -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 6:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Deshpan Hi Kirti, I am u

Re: Oracle 9.2.0.2 performance problem

2003-01-22 Thread Tim Gorman
Just curious: why are you using PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET? Are there any limits on memory capacity that you are in danger of exceeding? You have two CPUs with 4Gb of RAM; I imagine that you're not in any danger, but it pays to be sure. I can't think of the HP-UX equivalent to the Solaris "swap" comm

Re: create tablespace problem

2003-01-22 Thread Tim Gorman
I have a problem understanding why anyone would ask a question and then not display the exact error number and error message text they are seeing. There are thousands of error messages in Oracle and the platforms it runs upon and the APIs it supports, and the text associated with the number is pra

FW: There is a problem with your message - O_S - To Kirti Deshpan

2003-01-22 Thread Krishnaswamy, Ranganath
Hi Kirti, I am unable to send a message to you privately. Whenever I try to send a message to you it bounces back with the below forwarded message. How do I send a message to you privately? Please help. Thanks and Regards, Ranganath > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: Online recompilation of SP

2003-01-22 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Your only choice (limited) is do not create standalone procedures ... package them. But Wait there is more   no matter what you create ... procedure/function/package if it is being executed, you can't compile it. Who makes changes in live production environment (other than us) anyways ..

Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Tim Gorman
Personally, I tend to just submit four jobs: one at the top of hour, one at 15 past, one at 30 past, and the fourth at 45 past. To alter the frequency, just "break" or remove one or more of the jobs. Falls into the category of "not elegant, but it works"... - Original Message - To: "Mul

RE: RE: create tablespace problem

2003-01-22 Thread Rachel Carmichael
in 9i, you can remove the datafiles as well by using the clause "and datafiles" on the drop tablespace command. Saves having to remember to go back and clean up after yourself. Without that clause, the drop tablespace command works as it did in 8i Rachel --- Stephane Faroult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Insufficient quota problem

2003-01-22 Thread O'Neill, Sean
Recently we've had three of our 8.1.7 databases on W2K servers crash with messages similar to below in relevant alert logs: ORA-00202: controlfile: '' ORA-27091: skgfqio: unable to queue I/O OSD-04006: ReadFile() failure, unable to read from file O/S-Error: (OS 1453) Insufficient quota to complete

Uncle Larry's new pricing scheme.

2003-01-22 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
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simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread BanarasiBabu Tippa
Hi friends Why DDL statements performs auto commit ? What is the exact reason behind that one? Anyone can share his/her opinions!! Thanks & regards BanarasiBabu -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: BanarasiBabu Tippa INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Netwo

RE: RE: create tablespace problem

2003-01-22 Thread Stephane Faroult
>Pomin, > >Pls check this tablespace whether it's already >exist in your database. >Try this script (connect as sys): > >SQL > select * from dba_tablespaces where >tablespace_name = 'TSelCZ_Data'; Would be better in UPPERCASE. Besides, this is far from being enough. When you drop a tablespace, t

Re: Oracle 9.2.0.2 performance problem

2003-01-22 Thread jmiranda
Hello 650 Mhz processors are HP pa RISC processors. We use automatic PGA management. There are 500MB PGA. sort_area_size have the dafault value because under automatic PGA there is not used (or not?). - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sen

RE: senior oracle dba

2003-01-22 Thread Rachel Carmichael
oh goodie, then I'm a senior DBA :) I never did partitioning before this current job. Based on a prior answer to this question, that would have disqualified me It's not so much what you have done, as how you think about things. I've worked with junior DBAs who have a tendency to jump in without

RE: same sql: different db block gets in different oracle version

2003-01-22 Thread Sony kristanto
Check your setting parameter for db_block_gets and compare between oracle9.2 and oracle817. Is it equivalent setting parameter ? > -Original Message- > From: chao_ping [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:54 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subjec

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