trace (get) sql script

2003-02-26 Thread Ukrit . K
Dear All, Here we have about 14 Oracle devlopers and some times they run a sript which down grade the database performance. I nicely asked for a script that a developer has run for testing but sometimes they won't give away it so easily. So I would like to know that is it possible to get

RE: RE: RE: Top 10 DBA Do's and Don'ts anyone - Here is my list, comm

2003-02-26 Thread Stephane Faroult
With the advent of quantum microbiology and the like, most informed people agree that 21st medicine is a science. However, medicine as practiced in the 17th century was definitely an art, not a science. The argument that tuning is an art--that it is subjective like a symphony or like cooking--is

RE: Performance issue

2003-02-26 Thread Grant Allen
Hi Lisetrs, I have enough free memory from shared_pool_size and I run stats every week but the BD still shows up the low hit ratio and some times the later full down to 15%! Here is some informations: Are any of the users complaining that their business functions are performing poorly?

Re: Perl Modules

2003-02-26 Thread Markus Reger
I'd say start with DBI and the DBD for ORACLE. to be found at CPAN.Thread trough, but its easy. Look out for matching versions. Some have prerequisites.Then check the manpages coming with these things. man DBD, man DBI,... hope it as useful - used to get them this way before I started using the

U2 Databases

2003-02-26 Thread Mark Leith
Does anybody out there use U2 databases? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/29457.html Mark === Mark Leith | T: +44 (0)1905 330 281 Sales Marketing | F: +44 (0)870 127 5283 Cool Tools UK Ltd | E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Query failing in CBO mode

2003-02-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
All other things being equal (and there are a couple of pages in the performance tuning guide outlining some things that are not equal - like joins conditions, indexed columns, subqueries, user-defined functions etc.) the 'final' predicates against a single table are evaluated from the bottom up

Re: 9iR2 Oracle SGA Memory

2003-02-26 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Robert: There is no single LRU (if you want to call LRU lists) in Oracle9i. There are 7-8 replacement lists in 9i and they are like LRU, LRUW, CKPT Q lists (like thread checkpoint, file checkpoint and recovery checkpoint lists), LRU list for OPS/RAC ping blocks, and some other lists. And also

RE: U2 Databases

2003-02-26 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I had Unidata at my last job. Dave -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Does anybody out there use U2 databases? http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/29457.html Mark

RE: How long to hold onto old Oracle CDs?

2003-02-26 Thread Robson, Peter
Yeah, fond memories of a totally reliable system. Anyone heard of a means of making emacs emulate this editor? I believe ithas beendone. peter -Original Message-From: Mogens Nørgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 26 February 2003 04:19To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: RE: Top 10 DBA Do's and Don'ts anyone

2003-02-26 Thread Robson, Peter
A lot of traffic on this one. Sorry if I missed this point, but it seems important to me, and appears not to have been mentioned. Ensure that the work you do on the db is focussed on meeting your company's business objectives. Then start reading the list of predominantly technical do's and

RE: Testing database links

2003-02-26 Thread Charu Joshi
Sorry for the delay in replying; something more urgent popped up. Nope, the x$uganco doesn't show the db_links opened by other sessions. The inst_id field looks like it would be useful only in Parallel Server environments. Any other ideas? I can't believe Oracle doesn't keep track of open

RE: SQL struggle - UPDATE too?

2003-02-26 Thread Saira Somani
I'd prefer a procedure as it is likely that this will have to be run every week. FYI: I'm not looking for you to write the code for me, just give me some general direction as I am new to PL/SQL and now I've been asked by management to script this. This is what happens when your IT department is

RE: performance issues on sun

2003-02-26 Thread babu . nagarajan
My bad. I should also have posted the 10046 trace. I did a 10046 trace and also a STATSPACK report. Of the total time, more than 50% of the time is spent waiting on DIRECT PATH WRITE and around 40% of the time it waits on DIRECT PATH READ. This is what prompted me to do a truss and see what it

Re: U2 Databases

2003-02-26 Thread Glenn Stauffer
The U2 databases were alsways known to me as PICK databases since that is their origin. I worked with a higher ed administrative system called AIMS that was ported from a PICK system to Universe. AIMS is no longer being sold, but a company called Datatel sells software for higher ed institutions

RE: RE: Top 10 DBA Do's and Don'ts anyone

2003-02-26 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
I think the thing that is clear throughout this thread is that this DBA business is a complex one, and very very hard to categorize in a list of 10 simple do's and don'ts :-) Cheers! Robert -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 2/26/2003 5:59 AM A

Re: alertlog naming

2003-02-26 Thread Yechiel Adar
Are you working with archive log? I saw this behavior when there was a problem in writing to an archive log and the arch process stopped. I think that instead of renaming you should copy the file and then deleting all lines from it. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple

RE: trace (get) sql script

2003-02-26 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: trace (get) sql script Hi, If you've asked nicely; tried reasoning with the developer; and talked to management without success, use this: REVOKE CONNECT from developer_user_name; Works for me! Jerry Whittle ASIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: trace (get) sql script

2003-02-26 Thread babu . nagarajan
Run STATSPACK at Level 5 (default). It will capture most of the offending SQL Statements Babu [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: update 30mil rows - thanks

2003-02-26 Thread Gurelei
Chao, Connor, Sanjay, cary, mark, richard: Thanks for your input. I didn't think of creating a new table and then renaming it as many of you suggested this may take les time. thank you all very much Gene --- chao_ping [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gurelei, I suggest your create your

RE: DBMS_STATS

2003-02-26 Thread Jay Hostetter
When is the best time to gather Global Stats? Using the old ANALYZE command, I would analyze each partition as it accumulated data. Now that we have global stats, should I be gather global stats each time I analyze a partition? That would naturally increase the length of time to gather

RE: SQL struggle - UPDATE too?

2003-02-26 Thread Odland, Brad
CHeck your yahoo mail I sent you some psuedo code you can flesh out. BRad -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 6:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I'd prefer a procedure as it is likely that this will have to be run every week. FYI: I'm not looking

Re: OEM - Automation of Start of Collection for Performance Reports

2003-02-26 Thread babu . nagarajan
I have seen some folks record the performance data and then play it back in OEM. I think it is there in the performance manager add in. Is that what you want? How different you expect this to be from STATSPACK? Babu

Re: RE: Top 10 DBA Do's and Don'ts anyone

2003-02-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
So - My shortlist of Don'ts 1)Don't try to do things by lists. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming soon one-day tutorials: Cost Based Optimisation Trouble-shooting and Tuning Indexing Strategies (see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html )

RE: Query failing in CBO mode

2003-02-26 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Query failing in CBO mode Okay ... Rule Number 1. Always convert the data type of the *variable value* to that of table column you are comparing with, and not the other way. The later part causes the problem. Raj -

Partitioning Storage Parameters

2003-02-26 Thread Conrad Meertins
Team, Our tables are partitioned by 52 weeks. We would like to know the name of the partitions that are growing/increasing. Are there storage parameters for Partitions in Oracle 7, 8i, 9i ? Where can I find supporting documentation? Or. Where can I find excellent documentation about partition ?

Basic RMAN question

2003-02-26 Thread Ceri Townsend
Hi All, I am starting to play with rman in a test environment, however I seem to be hitting a really basic problem starting rman. I have oracle 9.2.0.1.0 installed on Redhat AS 2.1 When i issue the command: rman target='backup_admin/backup as [EMAIL PROTECTED]' nocatalog log=test.log rman:

Re: corrupted block

2003-02-26 Thread Yechiel Adar
We had a session with an expert on Monday and he recommended export to \dev\nul to detect errors in the database. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 10:41 PM I had the same belief that RMAN

RE: SQL struggle - UPDATE too?

2003-02-26 Thread Saira Somani
Thanks. But neither statements work. hl1_cost is never populated for any of the -OR items. whse_code and item_num are the primary keys. Thanks again for your help. Saira -Original Message- Sent: February 26, 2003 12:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Do these SQL

RE: update 30mil rows

2003-02-26 Thread Chris Stephens
Title: RE: update 30mil rows You did enable parallel dml right? =alter session enable parallel dml; -Original Message- From: Gurelei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 3:27 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: update 30mil rows Hi all:

History

2003-02-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Does anyone happen to remember when Juan Loaiza and Bhaskar Himatsingka first published their paper called: How to stop defragmenting and start living: the definitive word on fragmentation. Thanks Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming soon one-day tutorials: Cost Based

RE: Basic RMAN question

2003-02-26 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi I don't think you need to have 'as sysdba' in your connect string. (But it's been a while) Jack -Original Message- Sent: woensdag 26 februari 2003 14:29 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi All, I am starting to play with rman in a test environment, however I seem to be

Re: History

2003-02-26 Thread Suzy Vordos
The current copy I have says copyright 1998. But thinks it's an updated version and the original was around 1996-97. Jonathan Lewis wrote: Does anyone happen to remember when Juan Loaiza and Bhaskar Himatsingka first published their paper called: How to stop defragmenting and start

Re: corrupted block

2003-02-26 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Yechiel Adar wrote: We had a session with an expert on Monday and he recommended export to \dev\nul to detect errors in the database. Well the expert isn't going to find any corruptions in indexes that way. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please

RE: Basic RMAN question

2003-02-26 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
This is odd. If you goto $ORACLE_HOME/bin and run ./rman nocatalog, does it work? RF -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 2/26/2003 7:28 AM Hi All, I am starting to play with rman in a test environment, however I seem to be hitting a really basic problem

Re[2]: Basic RMAN question

2003-02-26 Thread Ceri Townsend
Hi Freeman, Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 2:39:20 PM, you wrote: FRI This is odd. If you goto $ORACLE_HOME/bin and run ./rman nocatalog, does it FRI work? FRI RF FRI -Original Message- FRI From: Ceri Townsend FRI To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L FRI Sent: 2/26/2003 7:28 AM FRI

Re: DBMS_STATS

2003-02-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
There is no generic answer to that question. Global Stats on partitioned tables do take a long time to collect - and you do need them to be reasonable because any query that the optimizer cannot pin down to exactly one partition at parse time is optimised according to the global stats. The best

Re: Basic RMAN question

2003-02-26 Thread Joseph S Testa
Ceri, I know the problem, on RH, do a which rman, you're probably hitting the binary that does Reverse MANpage. do a $ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman instead and all should be well. joe Hi All, I am starting to play with rman in a test environment, however I seem to be hitting a really basic

Re: Perl Modules

2003-02-26 Thread Alex
search.cpan.org look for database or oracle or dbi On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, sstefick wrote: I've done some basic Perl programming for UNIX Sys admin kinda tasks, but now I'm looking to get more into the DB functionality of it. I was wondering if anyone could give me a list of Perl Modules I

Re: corrupted block

2003-02-26 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I'm dealying with the same RMAN not checking corruption -- on 9.2.0.1 and Solaris. and it's a data warehouse. So far I've got 9 corrupted datafiles and over 40 corrupted objects. fortunately most are indexes. it's going to be a good day. NOT --- Yechiel Adar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We had

Re: Basic RMAN question

2003-02-26 Thread Chip
The connect string looks invalid. Please try: rman target='backup_admin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] as sysdba' nocatalog log="test.log" Have Fun :) Ceri Townsend wrote: Hi All, I am starting to play with rman in a test environment, however I seem to be hitting a really basic problem starting rman.

Re: corrupted block

2003-02-26 Thread Daniel W. Fink
An export is a great method for catching corruptions in tables. However, it does not read indexes, so it misses those corruptions. Analyze and dbv will. Yechiel Adar wrote: We had a session with an expert on Monday and he recommended export to \dev\nul to detect errors in the database.

Re: History

2003-02-26 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Seems like 1999 around OOW. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Jonathan Lewis wrote: Does anyone happen to remember when Juan Loaiza and Bhaskar Himatsingka first published their paper called: How to stop defragmenting and start living: the

RE: Testing database links

2003-02-26 Thread Nelson, Allan
Sorry, no more ideas. Allan -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 6:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sorry for the delay in replying; something more urgent popped up. Nope, the x$uganco doesn't show the db_links opened by other sessions. The inst_id field

Re: update 30mil rows - thanks

2003-02-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
One thought to add to the Create as select nologging suggestion that you've had. It is likely to be quick - and if you have enough spindles in play it may be even quicker it you make it execute as a parallel create. If you do, be careful of your choice of extent size, as each separate PX slave

RE: Basic RMAN question

2003-02-26 Thread Stephen Lee
-Original Message- rman target='backup_admin/backup as [EMAIL PROTECTED]' nocatalog log=test.log rman: can't open target=backup_manager/backup as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get rid of the as sysdba. rman will automatically connect however it needs to connect. Be sure you have granted

RE: SQL struggle - UPDATE too?

2003-02-26 Thread Saira Somani
This worked: SELECT A.WHSE_CODE,A.ITEM_NUM,B.LAST_COST FROM ITEM_W A,(SELECT DISTINCT (LAST_COST),SUBSTR(ITEM_NUM,1,6) ITEM_NUM FROM ITEM_W WHERE LAST_COST0) B WHERE SUBSTR(A.ITEM_NUM,1,6) = B.ITEM_NUM AND RTRIM(A.WHSE_CODE) NOT LIKE ('CD%'); A suggestion from someone on the COGNOS mailing

Re: History

2003-02-26 Thread Rachel Carmichael
According to a quick search on google, it came out in '97 do you need finer detail on the date? --- Jonathan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone happen to remember when Juan Loaiza and Bhaskar Himatsingka first published their paper called: How to stop defragmenting and start

RE: RE: Top 10 DBA Do's and Don'ts anyone

2003-02-26 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
LOL... well you have not effectively put me in my place! :-D RF -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 2/26/2003 8:18 AM So - My shortlist of Don'ts 1)Don't try to do things by lists. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming soon

PL/SQL - Exception Handling for utl_file

2003-02-26 Thread david davis
Perhaps someone on the list will know the answer as I have not found anything in the manual (though I might have missed it). If a procedure is performing file i/o to more than one file and an exception is raised related to the utl_file package how can I determine which file had the exception?

RE: Basic RMAN question

2003-02-26 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Don't need the as sysdba bit RF -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 2/26/2003 9:54 AM The connect string looks invalid. Please try: rman target='backup_admin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] as sysdba' nocatalog log=test.log Have Fun :) Ceri Townsend wrote: Hi

Re: trace (get) sql script

2003-02-26 Thread Peter Barnett
Try v$sql, v$sqlarea, and v$sqltext. They should get you everything you need. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, Here we have about 14 Oracle devlopers and some times they run a sript which down grade the database performance. I nicely asked for a script that a developer has run

RE: Re[2]: Basic RMAN question

2003-02-26 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Glad to help! Robert Author Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 2/26/2003 8:49 AM Hi Freeman, Wednesday, February 26, 2003, 2:39:20 PM, you wrote: FRI This is odd. If you goto $ORACLE_HOME/bin and run ./rman nocatalog,

RE: History

2003-02-26 Thread Cary Millsap
November 1998. And don't forget Rosanne: it was Juan Loaiza, Rosanne Toohey, and Bhaskar Himatsingka. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - RMOUG Training Days 2003, Mar 5-6 Denver - Hotsos Clinic 101, Mar 25-27 London -Original Message- Lewis

Re: History

2003-02-26 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Jonathan, I have a copy of the paper in Word.Doc format but it isn't dated. However, to quote from it Most of this material was written before Oracle7 release 7.3 became available and commonly used. New functionality in Oracle7 release 7.3 reduces fragmentation issues and allows different

Re: Perl Modules

2003-02-26 Thread Jared . Still
Required: DBI DBD::Oracle After that, check out http://search.cpan.org/modlist/Database_Interfaces and see what strikes your fancy. I've recently installed DBI::Chart along with GD and other supporting modules to create charts from YappPack data derived from statspack data. Very nice to have

RE: corrupted block

2003-02-26 Thread Stephen Lee
-Original Message- I'm dealying with the same RMAN not checking corruption -- on 9.2.0.1 and Solaris. and it's a data warehouse. I've seen it detect corruption, and not detect it. I think it detects some kinds, but not all kinds. It seems to do better with finding it in

RE: History

2003-02-26 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Their presentation slides are dated Nov 1998. One of slides refers to the paper as 'accompanying paper'. It could be 1998 OOW Conf. - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 10:05 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Seems like 1999 around OOW. -- Jeremiah

Re: Top 10 DBA Do's and Don'ts anyone - Here is my list, comm

2003-02-26 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
I have to agree that it was the most entertaining Oracle presentation I have ever seen - and yet with lots of good stuff to take with you home from a guy who knows a lot about Oracle. Please re-consider your decision to move to Australia, Connor. Come back. Connor McDonald wrote: "Connor

Re: History

2003-02-26 Thread Mogens Nrgaard
I've asked Juan. Jonathan Lewis wrote: Does anyone happen to remember when Juan Loaiza and Bhaskar Himatsingka first published their paper called: How to stop defragmenting and start living: the definitive word on fragmentation. Thanks Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming soon

RE: SQL struggle - UPDATE too?

2003-02-26 Thread Gorden-Ozgul, Patricia E
Always take what you need and leave the rest. ...and don't take any list comments personally. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 11:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This worked: SELECT A.WHSE_CODE,A.ITEM_NUM,B.LAST_COST FROM ITEM_W A,(SELECT DISTINCT

Re: History

2003-02-26 Thread Ruth Gramolini
I have that paper, Jonathan, and the second one too. Would you like a copy? Ruth - Original Message - From: Jonathan Lewis To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 9:53 AM Subject: History Does anyone happen to remember

Re: corrupted block

2003-02-26 Thread Suzy Vordos
Welcome to my week :) Rachel Carmichael wrote: I'm dealying with the same RMAN not checking corruption -- on 9.2.0.1 and Solaris. and it's a data warehouse. So far I've got 9 corrupted datafiles and over 40 corrupted objects. fortunately most are indexes. it's going to be a good

RE: LIBRARY CACHE LOCK !!!! ( SQL Tuning )

2003-02-26 Thread Jared . Still
Some to the graph does not appear properly for some reason. In any case, this may be a bug. Please read MetaLink Document 166924.1 In part it says: 1. Self Deadlocks It occur when one session tries to get a lock on a resource that he already has in some way. Normally, the Oracle

RE: corrupted block

2003-02-26 Thread Rachel Carmichael
here's the fun part in this: this is being handled by the hosting company who manages our production data center. apparently rman detects corruption on the restore and writes error messages to the alert log, not the rman log. Except the monitoring software didn't look for the word corrupt ---

RE: performance issues on sun

2003-02-26 Thread Jared . Still
The failed KAIO calls normally happen very quickly and have little impact on your system. I did run into some buggy Hitachi/Solaris/Vxfs configuration once that took a very long time to fail the KAIO calls. You could always just set disk_asynch_io=false in init.ora. Jared [EMAIL

RE: SQL struggle - UPDATE too?

2003-02-26 Thread Saira Somani
Quote from one of the listers: With free advice, you get what you paid for it. If you bite the hand that feeds you, you may just go hungry the next time you ask for a handout. NOBODY owes you an answer; regardless of how dire a situation you find yourself. HAND! I will end this message thread

RE: corrupted block

2003-02-26 Thread Brian McGraw
Rachel - Do you actually have the error text from the alert log? Looks like I have something to add to my Perl script... :) Brian -- | Brian McGraw /* DBA */ Infinity Insurance | | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |

RE: Perl Modules

2003-02-26 Thread Stephen Murphy
In addition to DBI and DBD::Oracle, which allows you to access Oracle databases directly, we have found MIME::Lite very useful. It allows us to create and send e-mail messages with attachments and make use of HTML in the message formatting. With MIME::Lite, your monitoring processes can send you

RE: History

2003-02-26 Thread Stephane Paquette
I confirm, end of 1999. -Original Message- Wilton Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 11:05 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Seems like 1999 around OOW. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Jonathan Lewis wrote: Does anyone happen to

RE: performance issues on sun

2003-02-26 Thread Cary Millsap
Babu, Most people assume that the only way to fix something like this is to improve the per-call latency time. But response time equals number of calls (N) times the average latency per call (C): R = N x C. Your goal is to reduce R. Reducing N often provides far superior leverage in meeting this

RE: corrupted block

2003-02-26 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Brian, Can I get a copy of that Perl script once you've added that check? Rachel --- Brian McGraw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rachel - Do you actually have the error text from the alert log? Looks like I have something to add to my Perl script... :) Brian

Re: performance issues on sun

2003-02-26 Thread Ferenc Mantfeld
Agree with Jared. However, if you have determined that the synchronous IO and all that is slowing you down, and you want to proceed to direct IO, and Qio is what you want, I would suggest that you get Veritas to help you. It will take about 1 - 2 hours to set up for a 100 GB DB. I have a document

RE: corrupted block

2003-02-26 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Here you go: *** Corrupt block relative dba: 0x024a (file 9, block 10) Bad header found during buffer read Data in bad block - type: 32 format: 0 rdba: 0x20202020 last change scn: 0x2020.20202020 seq: 0x20 flg: 0x20 consistency value in tail: 0x20202020 check value in block header:

Re: History

2003-02-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Ruth, Thanks for the offer but I have access to the paper (from OTN) - I was just interested to get a fairly accurate idea of when it went public as there was no date on the paper itself. Cary, The paper on OTN carries only the two names - perhaps you should suggest a correction. Everyone

RE: LIBRARY CACHE LOCK !!!! ( SQL Tuning )

2003-02-26 Thread Reddy, Madhusudana
Thanks Jared !! My DB is running on Version 8.1.6.2.0 ( 64 Bit ) I have browsed through the code, I did not find anything specific which can cause the deadlock , may be a BUG as you mentioned .. Thanks Madhu -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 12:21 PM To: Multiple

DBV

2003-02-26 Thread Breno A. K. Magnago
Hi, Can I use the program DBV on a production datafile (read and write), without take offline the tablespace ? -- Breno A. K. Magnago mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mercantil de Alimentos Soares -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Breno A. K.

DBV - New Info

2003-02-26 Thread Breno A. K. Magnago
Hi, Can I use the program DBV on a production datafile (read and write), without take offline the tablespace ? New Info : Windows 2000 Oracle 9.0.1.1.1 -- Breno A. K. Magnago mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mercantil de Alimentos Soares -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Re: DBV

2003-02-26 Thread Daniel W. Fink
Yes, you can. It may report that a block is influx if the block is being written while dbv is looking at it. If you encounter this error, run it again. If it does not report the same block, you are in the clear. As with any i/o intensive process, run it off-hours. Dan Fink Breno A. K. Magnago

Oracle and SUN config question...

2003-02-26 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
I have a quick question.. In a SUN environment, how would one place the oratab and oraInst.loc files within a directory that would be self-contained within the $ORACLE_BASE directory tree instead of /var/opt/oracle I seem to remember a method on making that happen...But I have either

RE: Oracle and SUN config question...

2003-02-26 Thread Stephen Lee
The quick and dirty way would be to use soft links. Or you can change the oracle startup scripts (I think). Might there be a line like: ORATAB=/your/favorite/spot in the startup/shutdown scripts?? -Original Message- I have a quick question.. In a SUN environment, how would one

RE: corrupted block

2003-02-26 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Understand that this is all secondhand reporting: I don't believe maxcorrupt was set. It appears that the backup itself is fine, that the problem is hardware corruption. The hosting company DBAs are telling me that 'no errors were written into the RMAN logs' (this is a direct quote). However

Re: performance issues on sun

2003-02-26 Thread babu . nagarajan
Ferenc Thanks for the document. I am working with the SAs to try to implement it. Will update the results once complete.. Thanks a lot... Babu

RE: corrupted block

2003-02-26 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
What do you mean by the Rman log rachel? Are you talking about the v$backup_corruption view? From the Oracle RMAN Reference: If the server session encounters a datafile block during a backup that has already been identified as corrupt by the database, then the server session copies the corrupt

Re: corrupted block

2003-02-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
That's the cutest corruption I've ever seen - it looks like someone has been practising there C programming with How to write direct to an Oracle data file without using Oracle Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming soon one-day tutorials: Cost Based Optimisation

Dealing with 3rd Party Applications

2003-02-26 Thread Eberhard, Jeff
Hi, So my boss comes over this morning and tells me that the users are having a performance problem with a 3rd party application that have recently began using. This is an oracle database where they bought the software and had the system admin install the software which included the vendors

Re: Oracle and SUN config question...

2003-02-26 Thread Ferenc Mantfeld
- Original Message - From: Loughmiller, Greg To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 7:00 AM Subject: Oracle and SUN config question... I have a quick question.. In a SUN environment, how would one place the

Re: DBV

2003-02-26 Thread JApplewhite
Dan, That must be new for 9i, since my 8.1.7 docs say it is an offline utility. I remember hosing an entire 7.3 test database years ago when I first ran DBV on it while it was up and open - can't remember the errors, but the DB was unusable. One of the (too) many times I learned to read the

Partitioning

2003-02-26 Thread Conrad Meertins
If you have a table partitioned, can you specify the storage size of each partition in that tables I looked at dba_tab_partitions and dba_segments views. Although the show me storage information, I am unable to create a table where I can specify the storage size for each partition. Am I doing

Re: Newspaper story about conferences, Hotsos Symposium

2003-02-26 Thread John Sheraton
Congrats to all of you at Hotsos Cary Robert --- Cary Millsap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many of you attended our Hotsos Symposium in Dallas earlier this month. You might be interested in an article (below) that was published in the Dallas Morning News about a week ago. Thanks,

ODBC and password expire messages

2003-02-26 Thread Martin, Alan (Contractor) (DLIS)
Title: ODBC and password expire messages Hi listers: In another moment you'll be able to tell I'm not ODBC literate. I can query a UNIX 9i DB using SQL*Plus from my PC using a Oracle9i client, and get ORA-28002: the password will expire within 10 days. The 8i client (to a 9i DB) does not

Re: update 30mil rows - thanks

2003-02-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Sorry, folks - I have to recant. I was right the first time, oracle can be expected to waste space across N-1 extents - although it gets put on to the free list, of course. Forget all the fancy traces, and the problems they give - if you have a 16 block extent size, and after the create table

RE: History

2003-02-26 Thread Spears, Brian
I keep a copy close by my side to bring out when a developer is telling everyone that compressing extents will solve ALL the performance issues associated with their code...don't laugh..Its happened several times...some guy going off afterlooking up old information or the web or a book.

Re: update 30mil rows - thanks

2003-02-26 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Larry, You're right - I'm out of date. Oracle 8.1.7.4 (which is what I've been fiddling with for the last couple of hours) seems to be doing something a lot smarter than earlier versions. I'm still trying to figure out what happens when - but I'm having a lot of trouble because the 10046 level

RE: Dealing with 3rd Party Applications

2003-02-26 Thread Stephen Lee
-Original Message- My tuning skills are still pretty basic. Since I have no control over the application is there anything I can do to increase the performance of running the query thousands of times? More hardware. GET MORE HARDWARE!! -- Please see the

Re: Partitioning

2003-02-26 Thread babu . nagarajan
what do you mean by storage size? if you mean the initial, next and so on - yes you can. if you are talking about how big it should be - i dont think you can do it... Babu

Re: Set Email alert at NT

2003-02-26 Thread Brian_P_MacLean
H grep http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/wolman/nt-tools/gnugrep.zip wchttp://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/wolman/nt-tools/wc.exe cat http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/wolman/nt-tools/cat.exe mailx (use Blat)http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/blat.html You may also

RE: DBV

2003-02-26 Thread Mandar A. Ghosalkar
dbv is not crashing my 7.3.4.3.1 instance on hp-ux 10.2 :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 1:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: DBV Dan, That must be new for 9i, since my 8.1.7

Re: DBV

2003-02-26 Thread Daniel W. Fink
I had a scheduled job that ran dbv on Solaris 8.0.4 databases once a week. Never a problem. It has been awhile since I used it on Windows, and I don't recall using it on 7.3 (not that I did not, but my memory is starting to go...). I have never had a problem with it, either with the db up or

Re:Partitioning

2003-02-26 Thread dgoulet
YES, here's an example: create table ate_headers(module_id varchar2(13), session_number varchar2(16), test_group number(4), test_date date, first_record char(1) default 'F',

RE: Partitioning

2003-02-26 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Yes you can. Check the storage option of the partition clause. Something like: create table (sales_yr varchar2(4),) partition by range (sales_yr) (partition p1 values less than ('1996') tablespace blah_p1 storage (initial 100M next 100M pctincrease 0), partition p2 values

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