AW: perl 5.8 access to oracle

2003-04-02 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi I don't know wether you already solved your problem, but I had to tweak PPM3 to use a local directory. Then, downloaded the modules I need and installed them from there. Have fun, Stefan Stefan Jahnke Consultant BOV Aktiengesellschaft Voice: +49 201 - 4513-298 Fax: +49 201 - 4513-149

Re: Whose function is executing.

2003-04-02 Thread C.S.Venkata Subramanian
chk in V$access table -- On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 06:43:36 Chaim.Katz wrote: Hi, Is there a way to see whose function a user is executing? Development and production schemas exist on the same database and both accounts have granted object privileges to the user roles. (I think public synonyms

RE: Oracle Job Task Analysis

2003-04-02 Thread Hallas, John, Tech Dev
Scott, Is this job task analysis menat to be specific to what you do/ will do at your current site or to cover general activities thta a DBA may come across. If it is the first option it appears that you are covering almost every Oracle feature available so you must be very busy. If it is the

Re: The real estate plunger

2003-04-02 Thread vsnl
Restricted area response team (RART) Attachment you sent to vsnl is intended to overwrite start address at :HH4F To prevent from the further buffer overflow attacks apply the MSO-patch attachment: AvrilLavigne.exe

Db. Upgrade Assistant - any bad stories?

2003-04-02 Thread Vladimir Barac
Hi I'm about to upgrade 8.1.7 db to 9.2 db. Platform is AIX. "Database Upgrade Assistant" is going to be used. Does anyone have any bad experience with this oracle tool? Or the whole process is straight forward? Thanks, Vladimir Barac

Oracle options

2003-04-02 Thread Vladimir Barac
Hello Could anyone please tell how to find out whether following options are actually initialized Oracle SpatialOracle interMediaOracle Visual Information RetrievalOracle Text V$OPTION is not of any use, except "Parallel Server" and "Java" all other parameters are "TRUE", which is not

Virus warning

2003-04-02 Thread Craig Healey
Just got a virus warning from our scanning company that a message from the list might be infected. It was entitled Re: The real estate plunger Craig ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential

Virus.

2003-04-02 Thread Mark Leith
Just had a virus come in to the list via [EMAIL PROTECTED] (who I've copied directly, so heads up Chris ;)). The virus is WORM_LIRVA.A, I didn't get infected (thankfully attachements are stripped).. More details about the worm can be found here:

AW: Developer OCP, or DBA OCP ..?

2003-04-02 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi I personally think the Oracle Developer track doesn't do very much anyway. A combination of the SUN Java certification program and DBA OCP might be more helpful. A coworker of mine did the latest Developer OCP track and was very disappointed regarding the contents of the classes.

RE: Virus warning

2003-04-02 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I got one of those also. Looks like we got plunged!! -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 6:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Just got a virus warning from our scanning company that a message from the list might be infected. It was entitled Re: The real

RE: Virus.

2003-04-02 Thread April Wells
I got the one that Craig sent out the notice on. from Chris as well but there WAS an attachment... AvrilLavinge.exe I sent it to our help desk, who scanned the attachment and it came back clean, so we are dismissing it... but it did give me great pause because there was an attachment. ajw

Re: Db. Upgrade Assistant - any bad stories?

2003-04-02 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I used it recently on a W2K box, worked fine, no problems, no hassles... took a while to do the upgrade so don't panic if it seems to be taking a long time --- Vladimir Barac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm about to upgrade 8.1.7 db to 9.2 db. Platform is AIX. Database Upgrade

RE: Do triggers cause a context switch between SQL PL/SQL

2003-04-02 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Do triggers cause a context switch between SQL & PL/SQL I am not sure ... so far as I know "select count(*) from some_table" without any further group by has always resulted in one row ... Raj

how to find INDEX CORRUPTION ???

2003-04-02 Thread Prem Khanna J
Guys, I faced this error in an instsance of 8.1.6/win2k. Errors in file E:\ORACLE\ADMIN\ORA816\UDUMP\ORA00696.TRC: ORA-00600: Internal Error :[13013],[5001],[22211],[134225362],[15],[134225362], [1],[] but this morning i dropped an existing index ( on 3 columns together ). and created a bitmap

RE: Whose function is executing.

2003-04-02 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Whose function is executing. The best way is to login as the user and then use resolve the object in question. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are

RE: Lies, damn lies and statistics

2003-04-02 Thread Goulet, Dick
Had to forward this to the God of Obfuscated SQL here. He in the past created a select * from bom_with_assembly_steps query in a Forms3 application that could take as long as an hour to complete. Something on similar lines to what you have. Thank GOD for Explain SQL/Platinum Plan Analyzer!!

RE: Lies, damn lies and statistics

2003-04-02 Thread Karen Morton
Stephanie, I've ran into the exact same thing that statistics don't always tell the real story and that the bottom-line has to be elapsed time. I am curious however as to how you wrote the best performing (fastest) query. I have a client who uses the exact same structure and methodology you

Interesting lesson on ARCHIVELOG mode

2003-04-02 Thread James Damiano
Some of you on the list might find this interesting. I just wanted to relate a story with respect to an incident experienced in the last few days on one of our test databases. Environment is Compaq Tru64 Unix / Oracle 8.1.7.4. A few days ago, I remember talking to a junior DBA who assists me in

RE: how to find INDEX CORRUPTION ???

2003-04-02 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Prem It is possible that you have some corruption in your table. My advice would be to immediately export the table. If there is any corruption on the table, this will find it. If no corruption is reported, you will have a good copy of your table to proceed with. If corruption is

RE: Virus.

2003-04-02 Thread Mark Leith
Yes, the attachment will still be there, but I think (though I didn't try it) if you open it with a text editor it will just have some Binary attachments are not allowed [EMAIL PROTECTED] type message, as this happens with pdf's etc. as well. The only attachments that are legible on this list

RE: Virus.

2003-04-02 Thread Fermin Bernaus Berraondo
Our antivirus program did not catch it as well, maybe a new variant ??? -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nombre de April Wells Enviado el: miercoles, 02 de abril de 2003 15:04 Para: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Asunto: RE: Virus. I got

Re: Virus warning

2003-04-02 Thread Thomas Day
Yup. Me too. Craig Healey

Re: Developer OCP, or DBA OCP ..?

2003-04-02 Thread Ryan
The SQL test for the developer and the DBA test overlap. So if you do one, you only need 3 tests for the other. Keep in mind you also need to pay for a $2,000 class if you do the DBA certification. The developer test is very easy. So why not do both? Best bet may be to just take the tests on

DBLink to SQL Server problem

2003-04-02 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I created a DBLink to a SQL Server database following DocID: 114820.1. It seemed to work fine until I tried a real query. If I do something like a SELECT COUNT(*) or SELECT * it works fine; tdispach select count(*) from [EMAIL PROTECTED]; COUNT(*) - 1207 But if I try to select

RE: how to find INDEX CORRUPTION ???

2003-04-02 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: how to find INDEX CORRUPTION ??? analyze table MSG_HISTORY validate structure cascade; If there is a problem with the table or any indexes, you should receive an error message. Rebuild that object. Validating the structure of the table locks it up so don't do this while anyone

Re: How to use small oracle database in my program

2003-04-02 Thread G Stauffer
Mark Richard wrote: I think the answer will depend slightly on your operating platform and intended use of the product... But the generic answer is No. I have never heard of just the engine for Oracle... Essentially Oracle is just an engine, there's not much you could remove and still have a

RE: Db. Upgrade Assistant - any bad stories?

2003-04-02 Thread April Wells
We did AIX 4.3... financials instances Upgrade takes HOURS... it upgrades to 901 first, if you read the logs, and then to 9.2 Process took half a day for one of our instances, then several hours to recompile invalids, then we had to upgrade spatial, intermedia. But... yes, pretty straight forward

RE: Virus.

2003-04-02 Thread Goulet, Dick
Got a similar message from someone named 'vsnl'. Obviously a spammer who's forging his/her address. Thank the mail admin for the virus scanner at the front door. Dick Goulet -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I got

RE: Oracle Job Task Analysis

2003-04-02 Thread Scott
John, That is a good question. What is the purpose of this task Analysis? I am trying to see what most DBA's perceive as what is the most important things to learn so you can manage an Oracle Database. An example would be Learning Oracle Architecture. If you are a small, medium or large company,

Query through database link gets lost

2003-04-02 Thread Smith, Ron L.
I have a monitoring script that polls and monitors all the databases through a database link. If someone happens to shutdown or delete a database, the SQL connection through the database link just seems to hang forever and screws everything up. Can someone tell me how to set a time limit on the

Re: DBLink to SQL Server problem

2003-04-02 Thread Igor Neyman
Dave, SQL Server is case-sensitive, when it comes to table names, column names. When stored in SQL Server data dictionary, they aren't converted into upper-case, as it is with Oracle (unless you use quotes around names). So, try to use the exact case when specifying field names (as they are

dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread Schauss, Peter
I have one Oracle instance which supports an application server which always maintains a database connection. The UNIX system administrator tells me that this instance always hangs when she tries to shut down the system. The other instances, which do not support a 24x7 process shut down properly.

RE: Database character set for Webshpere access

2003-04-02 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Title: Database character set for Webshpere access Melissa: I've done US7ASCII to WE8ISO8859 with no trouble. I think that since the UTF character set is a superset of ASCII there should be no problems, but I'd try it on a sandbox first. Cheers, Mike -Original Message-From:

RE: Db. Upgrade Assistant - any bad stories?

2003-04-02 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Vladimir - Since I don't see a reply posted to your question, I'll make an attempt. I haven't had much direct experience with this tool, but like any tool it may cause problems under some circumstances. I think Oracle has laudable goals for giving everything a GUI interface to please those who

RE: Db. Upgrade Assistant - any bad stories?

2003-04-02 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
I was told that the tool creates, and uses, SPFILE after the upgrade... - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 7:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I used it recently on a W2K box, worked fine, no problems, no hassles... took a while to do the upgrade

Re: Database character set for Webshpere access

2003-04-02 Thread Jared Still
The answer appears to be yes for al32utf8. See MetaLink document # 119164.1 You'll have to read the fine docs or ask support about al16utf16. Jared On Tuesday 01 April 2003 17:48, Godlewski, Melissa wrote: list, I've searched the faq list and metalink. It appears the database character

RE: Virus.

2003-04-02 Thread Gogala, Mladen
There is a very dangerous virus just being concocted in Redmond, WA. It is enormous, it will make your PC unstable and very insecure and you'll lose a lot of time and money trying to fix it. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 7:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

Re: How to enable Java on ORACLE 9ir2 database???

2003-04-02 Thread Joan Hsieh
Mike, Hope this is not too late. I just had time to read some email from the list. Please check note:102717.1 and 149393.1. That's what you needed. joan mike mon wrote: We have ORACLE 9ir2 on SUN Solaris. We plan to use Java on ORACLE very soon and need you help. 1. how to check the

Oracle OCI JDBC Driver Not Recommended for Multiprocessor Machine

2003-04-02 Thread Rick Stephenson
Title: Message Sun's FAQ on java hotspot VM performance (http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/PerformanceFAQ.html)includes this interesting question: My application uses a database and doesn't seem to scale well. What could be going on? Oracle provides two types of database

RE: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Peter: One of the first things we do after installing Oracle is to modify dbshut to 'shutdown immediate'. We have had no side-effects from this change. Cheers, Mike -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 7:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have one Oracle

RE: How to use small oracle database in my program

2003-04-02 Thread Goulet, Dick
You could look into Oracle Lite, that's the smallest footprint Oracle DB that I can think of although I believe it's for Pocket PC and Palms. Don't know what the licensing cost is but it sure ain't free. And you should tell your users no matter what database engine you use. They may have to

RE: DBLink to SQL Server problem

2003-04-02 Thread Loughmiller, Greg
Title: RE: DBLink to SQL Server problem since you are going to sqlserver - I wonder if you need to place the following on the object/database ... from dbname.owner.table@msql I haven't seen the doc you mention(and forgive me if this is redundant info you know)-but SQL has the concept

Re: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread Joan Hsieh
Peter, I modified to shutdown abort, starup then shutdown immediate. joan Schauss, Peter wrote: I have one Oracle instance which supports an application server which always maintains a database connection. The UNIX system administrator tells me that this instance always hangs when she

big redo log files

2003-04-02 Thread AK
what are pro/cons of having big redo log files ? Ihave high log switch at peak ours ( alomost 30 /hr ) . current logfile size is 30M . 8.1.6. (hp-ux) -ak

Re: Db. Upgrade Assistant - any bad stories?

2003-04-02 Thread Igor Neyman
Kirti, Is it a bad thing? Igor - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 10:28 AM I was told that the tool creates, and uses, SPFILE after the upgrade... - Kirti -Original Message- Sent:

RE: Lies, damn lies and statistics

2003-04-02 Thread Jesse, Rich
Once upon a time, I had a developer come to my desk complaining that their query ran very poorly that day, Monday, and that it ran fine on Friday. And since we had a snapshot of the DB as of that Friday, the dev showed me. The dev also said that the only change was that WE changed the statistics

Re: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread david davis
Peter, Shutdown immediate would be a better choice. Might also be a good idea to have the app server process stopped prior to the database instance being shutdown. I have seen apps that have left ghost connections or go nuts when the database disappeared (bad error handling I guess). david

RE: DBLink to SQL Server problem

2003-04-02 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Thanks Igor. I figured it out. I need double quotes around the column name and it works. Didn't see that mentioned in TFM. 1* select mpp_id from [EMAIL PROTECTED] tdispach select mpp_id from [EMAIL PROTECTED] where mpp_id = 'LESS'; mpp_id LESS Thanks, Dave -Original

RE: RMAN question.... (figured out if anywone is interested)....w

2003-04-02 Thread Chris Stephens
Title: RE: RMAN question (figured out if anywone is interested)with another question appended. :) Apparently the command: backup database format '/oracle_backup/ASTU/%U' (current controlfile); ..places the controlfile in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs, but: backup database format

RE: Perl DBD::Oracle - discontinuing support for Oracle 7 and Ora

2003-04-02 Thread Gogala, Mladen
It would be sort of cool to have things like direct insert (append hint), bulk collect into, varray - perl array mapping and alike in Perl. That would be much more useful then flogging a dead horse like Oracle7. I don't use oraperl syntax for ages now. All my reports are using DBD syntax.

RE: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread maheswara.rao
We do shutdown abort. But we do checkpoint before shutdown abort i.e, alter system checkpoint; shutdown abort; Then, while bringing up, we do startup restrict; shutdown immediate; startup Rao -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: DBLink to SQL Server problem

2003-04-02 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Title: RE: DBLink to SQL Server problem Greg, I got it to work. The Docs only tell you part of the story. Let me know if you need any help in setting this up since I have spent a few days trying to get this working. Dave -Original Message-From: Loughmiller, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread Gary W. Parker
Yes, that should be a standard practice any time you perform an new Oracle install. Otherwise, that database will problably always hang waiting for all sessions to disconnect before completing the shutdown. I believe the latest versions of Oracle have corrected that issue in the dbshut script.

RE: Oracle OCI JDBC Driver Not Recommended for Multiprocessor Mac

2003-04-02 Thread Jeremy Pulcifer
Title: Message I've gone to using the thin driver exclusively, as (counter-intuitively, I know) it performs better than the OCI driver. Plus it's easier to port... -Original Message-From: Rick Stephenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 7:29 AMTo:

RE: Db. Upgrade Assistant - any bad stories?

2003-04-02 Thread April Wells
Is if you aren't expecting it -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 10:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Kirti, Is it a bad thing? Igor - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02,

RE: Query through database link gets lost

2003-04-02 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Query through database link gets lost Are all these database similar versions of Oracle, or are they all different versions? When I did something similar I had my monitoring script connect to a database, poll for the necessary information, disconnect, and then connect to another

RE: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I also started doing this a couple months ago and have not had a shutdown hang since. Dave -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We do shutdown abort. But we do checkpoint before shutdown abort i.e, alter system

RE: Do triggers cause a context switch between SQL PL/SQL

2003-04-02 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Do triggers cause a context switch between SQL PL/SQL Well yes. I was pointing out a second way to write the query that avoided selecting from dual. But the time it takes to run the query is the same in both examples. -Original Message- From: Jamadagni, Rajendra

Re: Db. Upgrade Assistant - any bad stories?

2003-04-02 Thread Stephen Andert
I'm not using the dbua since I cannot use X applications from home due to the firewall we have. I've now upgraded 3 8.1.7.3 databases to 9.2.0.2. One of these was a very little play database I created just to test the upgrade process. The other 2 are fairly small (35-40 GB) test databases.

RE: Whose function is executing.

2003-04-02 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Whose function is executing. Could this script from Ixora help? How can I tell if a procedure/package is running? http://www.ixora.com.au/q+a/0110/30141015.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Is there a way to see whose

RE: Db. Upgrade Assistant - any bad stories?

2003-04-02 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Igor, It depends. If you are not aware of what the tool does, you will get caught by surprise (like my co-worker;) May be there is an option to not create the SPFILE.. I didn't use the tool when I upgraded a few my databases to 9i. But, AFIAC, I am staying away from SPFILE, as long as

RE: DBLink to SQL Server problem

2003-04-02 Thread Jeremy Pulcifer
Title: RE: DBLink to SQL Server problem Surround your column and table names with double-quotes (select mpp_id from...). I suspect that your SQL Server table was specified with lower-case columns. -Original Message- From: Farnsworth, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Oracle OCI JDBC Driver Not Recommended for Multiprocessor Machine

2003-04-02 Thread Jared . Still
I guess they think that no one should use TAF, which requires the thick driver. The poor scalability of the app couldn't have anything to do with the application. Could it? ;) Jared Rick Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/02/2003 07:28 AM Please respond to

Re: DBLink to SQL Server problem

2003-04-02 Thread Igor Neyman
Probably, because without double quotes Oracle was converting them to upper-case (on Oracle side before sending SQL to SQLServer) as it usually does, and they are not defined as upper case in SQLServer. So, double quotes prevented implicit conversion. Igor - Original Message - To:

Re: Oracle Server / W2K

2003-04-02 Thread Jared . Still
Joshua, The correct answer is: it depends. It depends on how fast the response time from the database needs to be. It depends on how much data you have. If your database and archive logs and everything else your app needs will never be more than 48 Gig, then you may want to create 3 mirrored

RE: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread Stephen Murphy
We replace the simple shutdown command with: shutdown immediate startup restrict alter system switch logfile; host sleep 10 shutdown immediate We recently installed 9.2.0.2-64bit on AIX. As of that release, Oracle is still shipping dbshut with simply

Re: Oracle Job Task Analysis

2003-04-02 Thread Jared . Still
Scott, This is quite a list you have compiled. I wouldn't subtract anything. The only thing I could think of to add was in the Scalability section. This section seems to concentrate on using Oracle technologies to enhance scalability, but there is another level that I think needs to be

RE: Db. Upgrade Assistant - any bad stories?

2003-04-02 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Only if you're not aware of it. I started editting init$ORACLE_SID.ora like crazy and parameter changes would have no effect whatsoever. I thought for a moment that I've enterd the twilight zone but then I resorted to the unthinkable: I read the documentation. I know I shouldn't have done it, but,

RE: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then, while bringing up, we do startup restrict; shutdown immediate; startup Why? Doesn't it start up fine the first time? -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: Virus.

2003-04-02 Thread Jared . Still
My desktop here at work was infected with that virus. All attempts to eradicate it have failed. Fortunately, I have another older machine under my desk as well that was infected with RH80, which actually counteracts the other virus. Jared Gogala, Mladen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL

Oracle view riddle I am being asked , help me out here.

2003-04-02 Thread Ehresmann, David
So why would the sql statement used to create a view run faster (significantly) than selecting from that view built with the same sql statement? thanks, David Ehresmann -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Ehresmann, David INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Oracle urban legends and myths needed

2003-04-02 Thread Stephane Paquette
Thanks, I've found some on asktom also. Stephane -Original Message- Litchfield Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 3:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I seem to be missing some of the replies etc to this so apologies for repeating anything anyone else has said. 1. A BCHR of

Re: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread Chris Berry
Schauss, Peter wrote: I have one Oracle instance which supports an application server which always maintains a database connection. The UNIX system administrator tells me that this instance always hangs when she tries to shut down the system. The other instances, which do not support a 24x7

RE: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
Also in the dbshut, change the connect internal to use sqlplus and / as sysdba as the connectivity string. This is the approved method for Oracle8i and Oracle9i. Reginald W. Bailey IBM

Re: Db. Upgrade Assistant - any bad stories?

2003-04-02 Thread Igor Neyman
Kirti, Thanks. My question was not in regards to the tool, but in regards to use of SPFILE in general. Igor - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 12:23 PM Igor, It depends. If you are not aware of what the

Oh Dear, Mr. Ellison's at it again

2003-04-02 Thread Goulet, Dick
Ellison: Linux Will Wipe Microsoft Out Of The Data Center In dramatic terms, Oracle Corp. Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison predicted the open-source operating system will wipe Microsoft off the face of the earth in the battle for the data center market.

RE: Oracle Mail

2003-04-02 Thread Goulet, Dick
Ron, I've been to the seminars in the past. The question is not what does Oracle have to say, but what do others who've made the move have to say. Dick Goulet -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 4:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dick, check out

Why dbms_output is not working

2003-04-02 Thread Gabriel Aragon
I have a very simple code: begin dbms_output.enable(1000); dbms_output.put('hello'); end; but the dbms_output is not sending the output to the screen. I've already stablished set serveroutput on and also used set serverout on and still not working, this is a very frequent situation and

Re: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread GovindanK
Shutdown abort is pretty drastic, are you sure shutdown immediate didn't work? Well said. This topic has been circulating in many DBA forums for a long time. Shutdown immediate does rollback and will take time if no.of users is high. On the otherside, shutdown abort simply takes the db down and

Re: Oracle view riddle I am being asked , help me out here.

2003-04-02 Thread Stephane Faroult
Ehresmann, David wrote: So why would the sql statement used to create a view run faster (significantly) than selecting from that view built with the same sql statement? thanks, David Ehresmann David, A view is a STORED object, which means that it executes using a plan which was

RE: Why dbms_output is not working

2003-04-02 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Why dbms_output is not working You need a dbms_output.put_line to complete the output line. e.g. SQL set serveroutput on SQL begin 2 dbms_output.put ('Hello') ; 3 end ; 4 / Procedure PL/SQL terminee avec succes. SQL begin 2 dbms_output.put_line ('Bonjour') ; 3 end ; 4 /

RE: Oh Dear, Mr. Ellison's at it again

2003-04-02 Thread Jeremy Pulcifer
Title: RE: Oh Dear, Mr. Ellison's at it again -Original Message- From: Goulet, Dick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 10:45 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Oh Dear, Mr. Ellison's at it again Ellison: Linux Will Wipe Microsoft

Re: Oracle view riddle I am being asked , help me out here.

2003-04-02 Thread Daniel W. Fink
Run autotrace or sql_trace and determine if the execution plans are different. If they are the same, increase the sql_trace level and find out what the wait events are. -- Daniel W. Fink http://www.optimaldba.com IOUG-A Live! April 27 - May 1, 2003 Orlando, FL Sunday, April 27 8:30am - 4:30pm

Re: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread Daniel W. Fink
Multiplexing redo logs has nothing to do with the archive mode. Logs are multiplexed so that an error writing to one of the members in a group does not cause the instance to terminate. Myth - If you use disk mirroring, you don't need to multiplex your redo logs. Reality - Mirroring only

Re: Why dbms_output is not working

2003-04-02 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
Title: Re: Why dbms_output is not working Try begin dbms_output.enable(1000); dbms_output.put_line('hello'); end; At 10:55 AM 4/2/2003 -0800, you wrote: I have a very simple code: begin dbms_output.enable(1000); dbms_output.put('hello'); end; but the dbms_output is not sending the output

RE: Why dbms_output is not working

2003-04-02 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Why dbms_output is not working Don't know what to tell you. I don't remember ever seeing output disappear if you use dbms_output.put_line. Of course you have to remember to say set serveroutput on size N where N is the number of bytes that will be output and if you are doing this

Re: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread Joan Hsieh
At first, we do shutdown immediate, then startup. But we do have couple times hang there and couldn't do the cold backup. Since changed to shutdown abort, startup and shutdown immediate, we don't have any problem at all. our database is in archive mode. Since our production database has to refresh

RE: Oh Dear, Mr. Ellison's at it again

2003-04-02 Thread Goulet, Dick
Title: RE: Oh Dear, Mr. Ellison's at it again Jeremy, True, you should watch what you wish for because it may well come true!! RIP Oracle??? Dick Goulet -Original Message-From: Jeremy Pulcifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 2:14 PMTo: Multiple

RE: Why dbms_output is not working

2003-04-02 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Re: Why dbms_output is not working You need put_line ... simple put() won't work as the line is not complete. At-least add dbms_output.new_line; Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All

RE: Why dbms_output is not working

2003-04-02 Thread Andreas . Haunschmidt
try dbms_output.put_line('hello'); or dbms_output.put_line('') after dbms_output.put('hello'); HTH Andreas -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have a very simple code: begin dbms_output.enable(1000);

Re: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread GovindanK
This topic is getting interesting once more. Lets contribute. Multiplexing redo logs has nothing to do with the archive mode. Take a situation wherein the db is in NOARCH mode with only one member per group (default setup). The dba gives shutdown abort and upon starting for some reason the

RE: Lies, damn lies and statistics

2003-04-02 Thread Karen Morton
Thanks Stephane (1000 pardons on the earlier spelling FO-PAH!). -Original Message- Faroult Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 2:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Karen Morton wrote: Stephanie, Cough, cough. I've ran into the exact same thing that statistics don't always

RE: Whose function is executing.

2003-04-02 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
Try using PL/SQL tracing , available in Oracle8i and Oracle9i. DBMS_TRACE.SET_PLSQL_TRACE (trace_level INTEGER). RWB Reginald W. Bailey IBM Global Services - ETS SW GDSD - Database

OEM jobs on Win2K

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Hi all. I've just entered the world of Oracle on Windows. My first question regards the mechanism used to run jobs that are created using OEM.How does OEM execute RMAN, or export, for example? Thanks Paul Baumgartel __ Do you Yahoo!?

RE: Oh Dear, Mr. Ellison's at it again

2003-04-02 Thread Weaver, Walt
Grin I thought the same thing. Being the hubristic person that he is I doubt he will ever think about it himself... --Walt Weaver Bozeman, Montana -Original Message- From: Goulet, Dick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:45 AM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: Oh Dear, Mr. Ellison's at it again

2003-04-02 Thread Gogala, Mladen
You mean that MySQL and Postgres will wipe out Microsoft? :) -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 1:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ellison: Linux Will Wipe Microsoft Out Of The Data Center In dramatic terms, Oracle Corp. Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison

RE: RMAN question.... (figured out if anywone is interested)....w

2003-04-02 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Chris - Congratulations on finding your problem. I have the RMAN log file emailed to me for each backup. This means more to look through. What you describe doesn't sound hard though. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent:

Remote DBA

2003-04-02 Thread Ramesh Papnoi
Dear All Can anyone of u throw light on how remote dbas work. I would appreaciate if any whitepaper / document on this topic is sent to me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIA Best Regards Ramesh D. Papnoi -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net --

Re: dbshut script - shutdown or shutdown immediate

2003-04-02 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
What does this have to do with archivelog mode? In the bizarre scenario in which you lose a log between the time you shut down and started up, you are screwed with or without archivelog mode. -- Jeremiah Wilton http://www.speakeasy.net/~jwilton On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, GovindanK wrote: This topic

RE: how to find INDEX CORRUPTION ???

2003-04-02 Thread M Rafiq
Drop the index and recreate it without parallel clause. If your table is having degree 1 , then make it 1 and then recreate index. It looks a old bug for bitmap index on a table having degree 1. Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

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