RE: last column in a table is added with a DEFAULT

2003-08-08 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Title: RE: last column in a table is added with a DEFAULT David, The best way to see if this works is to create a test table. populate it with some data. Add a column with a default value. and observer what happens. best way to learn. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional

Re: Implementing different document types with different attributes

2003-08-08 Thread Thomas Day
What do you have as an example of an attribute? Vernaillen Tim

Re: 100 instances on same server !!!

2003-08-08 Thread Dilip Patel
Thanks for the replies so far. Considering the fact that my database is tiny ( just around 3 GB ), How many of them can work on same server? I can just test with 5 instances, with limited hardware. Will the CPUs be able to take load of 100 instances? Is it worth experimenting this? I am

Re: More On 10G

2003-08-08 Thread Peter Barnett
Heard an Oracle rep last week say that 10G was mostly hype. If you want to watch what's for real at Oracle it's Linux. Only time will tell if he is right, but he has a better inside track to the Oracle gossip that I do. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone reach over and turn the Grid

How do I create a temp table with no logging?

2003-08-08 Thread Jake Johnson
Hello, I am trying to make a temp table with no logging as select * from table. Does anyone have a good example? THanks a ton! Jake __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on Rims, Car Audio, and

RE: last column in a table is added with a DEFAULT

2003-08-08 Thread Rajesh . Rao
I know, with earlier version of Oracle, columns likely to have null values were placed at the end of the table, to save on some minuscle bytes of space. If the null columns fall between columns with data values, then one byte is used for their storage. Else, they require no storage. But no,

Re: Oracle Security Best Practices

2003-08-08 Thread Rachel Carmichael
if this is 9i, anyone with DBA privs can grant access... grant select, update, delete, insert on table_owner.table_name to grantee; we have a hosting company that manages the staging and production databases. I do not hard-code passwords into scripts when I pass them to the hosting company. They

tivoli/oracle monitoring

2003-08-08 Thread Joe Testa
is anyone using tivoli to do oracle monitoring, good/bad, etc. thanks, joe -- Joseph S Testa Chief Technology Officer Data Management Consulting p: 614-791-9000 f: 614-791-9001 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Joe Testa INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City

RAC interconnects

2003-08-08 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RAC interconnects Hi all, Is it possible to somehow tell Oracle to use all available interconnects (between nodes) for the GC traffic? We have 2 private interconnects but we see all the traffic only on one of them. The other is used only if the first one is not available. If Oracle

Re: Multiple Datafiles and performance?

2003-08-08 Thread Tanel Poder
As for the datafiles and indexfiles being distributed over different physical disks, well I can not confirm you are wrong, in our site id DID boost the performance, and specially if you locate in separate physical drives your redologs and datafiles (both indexes or data). Of course it depends on

RE: possible Bug in Oracle 9.2.0.2

2003-08-08 Thread Browett, Darren
Title: Message I already have :) -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:04 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: possible Bug in Oracle 9.2.0.2 Tell them ... Raj

RE: RMAN Backup piece being placed in wrong directory

2003-08-08 Thread Stefick Ronald S Contr ESC/HRIDD
Title: Message Doh! Thanks for pointing out the obvious to me. I'm sure that will work. I'll go crawl back in my cave now :ol Thanks Tom! -Scott Stefick -Original Message-From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 1:29 PMTo:

RE: Multiple Datafiles and performance?

2003-08-08 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
The benefits of spreading the data over as many physical access paths ( ~ disks ) using multiple datafiles notwithstanding, there is always the case of too much. Keep in mind that at checkpoint time the DBWR need to visit the header of every ( non read-only ) datafile. That's unlikely to be an

Re: Corrupt Inactive RedoLog Goup.

2003-08-08 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Sorry, I skipped mentioning that, but we did try it, for the members. Got an ORA-01514: error in log specification. No such log. ORA-01517: log member: 'F:\ORACLE\ORADATA\TCP1\LOG3TCP1.ORA' When we used the group number, we got an:

Re: Implementing different document types with different attributes

2003-08-08 Thread Tanel Poder
Title: Implementing different document types with different attributes Hi! FlexFields are used in Oracle E-Business Suite, they aren't nothing else than varchar2 fields where you can configure Apps to write your custom data (either one logical field by database column, or several fields

Re: Oracle and Windows 2000 SP4 - any experiences to share

2003-08-08 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Just stop and disable the service Automatic Updates under Control Panel - Adiministrative Tools - Services. Also, a service called Background Intelligent Transfer Service appeared, which is able to transfer files in *background* i.e. without you knowing about it, for automatic update and some

RE: Multiple Datafiles and performance?

2003-08-08 Thread Dave Phillips
Gee, that question sounded a whole lot better when I wrote it yesterday than it did this morning when I saw it. :) Maybe I should be a little more vague.:) The problem is there are a couple of things I am trying to accomplish. We have clients that use our application that have specific

Re: Multiple Datafiles and performance?

2003-08-08 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
At 09:59 AM 8/7/2003 -0800, you wrote: Hi! The benefits of spreading the data over as many physical access paths ( ~ disks ) using multiple datafiles notwithstanding, there is always the case of too much. Keep in mind that at checkpoint time the DBWR need to visit the header of every ( non

RE: tables and views

2003-08-08 Thread Mladen Gogala
Title: Message Join TAB$ and COL$ directly (on OBJ#) and your problem is gone. You'll get only columns that belong to tables. You should also set _disable_suboptimal_app_design to TRUE --Mladen GogalaOracle DBA -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Downloading patchests from Metalink

2003-08-08 Thread Jesse, Rich
Over 600KBytes/s from: http://oracle-updates-west.conxion.com:8000/ARUConnect/dGREMDJJdVRxZGtxQjdNT Ud1UHFxUTo0MDE5OTI4OnAyNzYxMzMyXzkyMDNfSFA2NC56aXA6UVRJREJBOjE2MS40OS4yMS40M joxMDYwMDk4OTczOk5PX1BBU1M@/p2761332_9203_HP64.zip Get yerself a new pipe. :) Rich Rich Jesse

RE: It's an Oracle Fun Friday!

2003-08-08 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
Interesting web site that bigip... Picture of Larry with the annotation -- Coming Soon. Does this mean that Larry truly does not exist yet??? Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Technical Alliance Manager Compuware Corporation Direct: (313) 227-4350 Mobile: (248) 408-2918 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Record breaking query

2003-08-08 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Record breaking query Thanks Wolfgang, our retention time is 21600 seconds ... and this one bailed out in half the time ... Oh well ... we need to fix few more things .. Raj Rajendra dot

RE: IMP-00020: long column too large for column buffer size (22)

2003-08-08 Thread Prasada . Gunda
Thanks for all those who responded my mail. When there was buffer parameter or record length parameter, It did not work. Instead of importing the full dmp file, If I try to import one table, it is working okay. I still have to try couple of alternatives and let the List Group know the outcome.

RE: SharePlex

2003-08-08 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: SharePlex it is _supposed_ to work that way ... close to production. But last time we looked at it, there were too many limitations relates to IOT, VARRAYS etc and it wasn't ready for our platform and version . but it is supposed to be good ... I have heard similar things about

RE: Record breaking query

2003-08-08 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Record breaking query 12GB only Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having an opinion is an art !

Re: Oracle and Windows 2000 SP4 - any experiences to share

2003-08-08 Thread Prem Khanna J
after installing SP4,even MS-Office troubled me a lot. .came back to SP3 again. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Prem Khanna J INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California

Implementing different document types with different attributes

2003-08-08 Thread Vernaillen Tim
Title: Implementing different document types with different attributes Hello I've an installation/implementation question! We've to analyse 50 document types, in total those 50 has 70 different attributes. We don't want to put all those document types into one table, because more than

RE: RE: V$SESSSTAT stat 3 vs V$OPEN_CURSOR

2003-08-08 Thread Jesse, Rich
Yes, V$OPEN_CURSOR is instance-wide, but each row in the view sure looks like it can be attributed to a specific session via SADDR/ID/USERNAME. And the count of those rows for each session doesn't match the corresponding row/attribute in V$SESSSTAT. Erm, I'll leave off the product name here

RE: URGENT: Trying to duplicate database from cold backup - auxi

2003-08-08 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Paula - How is your duplication going? Well I hope. Are you basically trying to perform a disaster recovery? That was basically what I was requested to do. The statement was imagine the computer room was taken out by terrorists, and all you have are the tapes from the off-site storage. You are

Corrupt Inactive RedoLog Goup.

2003-08-08 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Members, Production 8.1.6.3 database on Windows NT 4.0. We noticed an entry in the alert log, citing that a log group could not be archived since the 25th of July.. We have 3 log groups with 2 members each. I notice that the 3rd redolog group has a status of Inactive with Archived=No. This group