Re: Using dimensions

2003-09-30 Thread Tanel Poder
Title: Using dimensions Query rewriting to use materialized views requires dimensions to be defined. Tanel. - Original Message - From: Jamadagni, Rajendra To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 7:14 PM Subject: RE: Using

Re: Using dimensions

2003-09-30 Thread Prem Khanna J
Raj, what does TFM STFW mean ?!! let me also get used to the list's acronyms :) Jp. - Original Message - From: Jamadagni, Rajendra To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks Scott, okay lets forget OLTP .. but I haven't seen any _actual_ uses of dimensions ... where does

RE: Using dimensions

2003-09-30 Thread Gints Plivna
google gave me for example such an address http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/ I'm sure one of hundreds or even thousands -Original Message- From: Prem Khanna J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re:

RE: Off Topic: PC Firewall Recommendation

2003-09-30 Thread Mark Leith
I've used Black Ice in the past as well Peter, and I know what you mean on that count. I now user Sygate Personal Edition, which is a LOT better at this. It won't let anything in, nor *out* without asking me if it's OK. It also holds a log of incoming and outgoing traffic, showing accepted and

Re: (long and boring) SQL AREA and LIBARARY CACHE size?

2003-09-30 Thread Tanel Poder
An expert is the one who fully understands all of the important relationships between different parts of a system, I have a long way to go for getting there. But my sources are Oracle docs, Ixora, Internet, few training materials and of course Oracle server itself with awesome tracing and

Re: RE: Using dimensions

2003-09-30 Thread Prem Khanna J
OwwThank God Raj hasn't replied yet :-) Thanx Gints. Jp. 30-09-2003 18:24:28, Gints Plivna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: google gave me for example such an address http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/ I'm sure one of hundreds or even thousands -Original Message- From: Prem Khanna J

Re: SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO hangs on 9.2.0.4 on Linux

2003-09-30 Thread Tanel Poder
Title: Message You still can have row migration when pctfree is set too low. ASSM doesn't resolve that. But yeah, ASSM removes the pctused and freelist/group issues (and introduces others :) Tanel. - Original Message - From: Mladen Gogala To: Multiple recipients of

Re: x$ constructs and memory

2003-09-30 Thread Tanel Poder
No, X$ tables exist even before a database is created - they are mostly instance related structures, not database or data dictionary ones. Do a startup nomount and select from x$ksuse or even dual for example and you see. You just can't select from these x$ tables which want to read physical

Re: SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO hangs on 9.2.0.4 on Linux

2003-09-30 Thread Tanel Poder
Title: Message Hm, maybe you get something useful out using truss or strace on your server process when creating the tablespace. You should at least see the calls on what you're waiting the most. Tanel. - Original Message - From: Mladen Gogala To: Multiple recipients

Re:Suggestion reg. encryption ??

2003-09-30 Thread Prem Khanna J
With pleasure Ranganath. ..and ur example,sure ,was useful. Kind Regards, Jp. 30-09-2003 17:47:38, Ranganath K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Prem, I am also unable to reach it. The sight might be down. However I hope you would have found the example useful. BTW Can you please send me

Re: Suggestion reg. encryption ??

2003-09-30 Thread Craig Munday
Pete, Which paper of Aarons are you referring to? Is the paper entitled Encryption of data at rest? Regards, Craig Munday. At 05:29 AM 29/09/2003 -0800, you wrote: Hi Jp On the specific issue of encryption your main concern will be hiding the encryption key from any prying eyes. There is a

Re: Experiences setting OPEN_CURSORS for Java applications

2003-09-30 Thread Craig Munday
Hi there, I've supported a number of systems implemented in Java running on Oracle and on nearly all of the projects the developers have asked me to increase the number of open_cursors. In most of the cases I have found that the developers were not using the JDBC API efficiently. The main

Re: Experiences setting OPEN_CURSORS for Java applications

2003-09-30 Thread Tanel Poder
I've encountered this problem so often that I decided to write a tool (called JDBC Expert) that would help us DBAs (and developers) detect Statement and ResultSet leaks in Java applications. I've found this tool so useful and effective at finding resource leaks that I insist any in house

Re: Experiences setting OPEN_CURSORS for Java applications

2003-09-30 Thread Prem Khanna J
Craig, CMI can send you a copy if you are interested - CMyou will have to forward me your JDK version and details about any app CMserver that you are using. I would , sure , be very much interested in having a copy of that tool. developers here use diff. versions of JDK apache/tomcat/jboss

Re: Using dimensions

2003-09-30 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: Re: Using dimensions Query rewrite from materialized views does not require dimensions; they are only used in certain fairly obscure situations. on 9/30/03 1:49 AM, Tanel Poder at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Query rewriting to use materialized views requires dimensions to be defined.

RE: Re: Cary's book -- Out of stock !

2003-09-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
I picked my copy up last night from my local Borders bookstore. They even had a copy for the shelf. I'm assuming everyone else has theirs by now and are busily reading. Please post any comments or observations. Leave it to Cary to put exercises at the end of each chapter. A quick flip through

Re: Suggestion reg. encryption ??

2003-09-30 Thread Pete Finnigan
Hi Jp, No its not the paper you mention from iDefense but the one you got is not too bad. My paper was called Encrypting data in the Oracle database - as i say if you email them you may be able to get it. kind regards Pete In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Prem Khanna J [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi

Re: workarea_size_policy=auto and performance efficiency [was: Re:

2003-09-30 Thread Richard Foote
Hi Tim, I would suggest there are two key advantages to using automatic workspace management. The first and perhaps most important is that yes, unlike the manual method by which sessions cling onto memory, automatic workspace management can deallocate the tuneable portion of the PGAs (those

RE: Re: Cary's book -- Out of stock !

2003-09-30 Thread Stephane Paquette
I've also picked up my copy yesterday but ...I'm assuming everyone else has theirs by now and are busily reading. ... I still not have finished Tom Kite Expert one on one Stephane Paquette Administrateur de bases de donnees Database Administrator Standard Life www.standardlife.ca Tel. (514)

Re: Statspack Report!

2003-09-30 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: Re: Statspack Report! Without looking at other parts of the report, there is no way of telling if this information is important or not. There is not enough timing information displayed to understand whether these issues are a significant part of your databases performance or not. Please

RE: how to generate unique file names on Windows.

2003-09-30 Thread Bob Metelsky
This adds the time in fractions... ## uniquefile.bat## @echo off for /f tokens=2,3,4 delims=/ %%a in ('date /t') do set pre=%%a%%b%%c_ FOR /F TOKENS=5-8 DELIMS=:. %%F IN ('ECHO.^|TIME') DO ( SET Hour=%%F SET Mins=%%G SET Secs=%%H SET Mill=%%I) set

RMAN - Compressing using named piped

2003-09-30 Thread laura pena
I am running Oracle 9i R2 and want my RMAN files gzipped to save disk space. Is is possible to either use this new DBMS_PIPE oracle has or just creates a script that uses a namped piped and compresses as rman is performing a backup? If someone has done this before, can you let me know how ? My

RE: RE: Google's architecture -- was Re: paging and google.com

2003-09-30 Thread Bob Metelsky
Title: Message An brief overview of Googles architecture http://www.computer.org/micro/mi2003/m2022.pdf Google does use Oracle, but afaik only in-house for internal applications. The clustered search engine is entirely custom code and engine. 10,000 servers would be a pretty

RE: x$ constructs and memory

2003-09-30 Thread Orr, Steve
Hi Steve and welcome back, Thanks for that detailed answer BUT... A practical question from the original post remains: What happens when these x$constructs begin to consume large amounts of memory? From your explanation I'm assuming that, beyond monitoring the SGA and PGA, memory consumption of

Data denormalisation seems some attractive

2003-09-30 Thread Stephane Paquette
Hi, A co-worker of mine is working on a tiny project. Let say you have commission info and commission details, there are 7 types of commissions. The 7 types of commission shares common fields (from 100% to 30%) From a conceptual point of view, you have 1 entity that is the commission info and 7

RE: RMAN - Compressing using named piped

2003-09-30 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: Message Can you figure out what to name the pipe in advance? Is there a way to reliably determine what file name RMAN will create? -Original Message-From: laura pena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:45 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list

RE: RE: Using dimensions

2003-09-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: RE: Using dimensions I am out sick today ... glad you found the acronyms ... the F is left to your own imagination. Raj -Original Message- From: Prem Khanna J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 5:45 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: RMAN - Compressing using named piped

2003-09-30 Thread laura pena
I can use mknod and create a named pipe a head of time. I do this when I use the exp or imp utilites (just wondering if I can do same with RMAN): == export EXP_DIR="/oracle/export"export PIPE_DIR="/oracle/export"export

Anyone ever implemented aix 5.2 concurrent io ?

2003-09-30 Thread Hans de Git
Hello everyone, I've come across an IBM whitepaper: improving database performance with aix concurrent io. IBM have tested this with Oracle 9i R2 and claim performance comparable to using raw-volumes. Has anyone in the fatcity community ever tried this? Does Oracle do an open of the database

RE: OFA myths was Re: BAARF

2003-09-30 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Loney didn't write OFA, and methinks he was taking liberties with it. --- Jacques Kilchoer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not commenting on the accuracy of the information, but Kevin Loney, in the Oracle8 DBA Handbook (1998), says the following (Chapter 3 Logical Database Layouts), in a section

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2003-09-30 Thread Frits Hoogland
SET ORACLE-L DIGEST

RE: Top (=10) Issues faced by Oracle DBAs Deploying in a

2003-09-30 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Unfortunately, we are always adding a new database. The new SAN commission in June-July was supposed to hold 6 databases. Then it became 7 databases in August. Now it is 8 this month and the count will go up to 9 databases by December. As the SAN Storage Admin and Unix SA roles are handled by two

RE: Problems creading a Index

2003-09-30 Thread Govind.Arumugam
Run the following sql statement to see whether there are duplicate entries. Chances are that you will find duplicates hence you get the above error. You may choose to remove the duplicates or create a non-unique index otherwise. select COMPANY, INVC_PREFIX, INVC_NUMBER,

Describe privilege on procedures packages

2003-09-30 Thread Gary Jackson
(Reposting from yesterday morning since I had no takers! :) Hello, I wanted to give another user access to view my procedures packages (just DESC capability), but it seems that the only way for him to be able to DESC them is for me to grant execute. Is this correct?? (I guess I have never

RE: Separate Indexes and Data

2003-09-30 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
I'd be very interested to know how many people have their index tablespaces on a different backup schedule from their data tablespaces. If so how different? What happens when a media failure occurs and you must restore from backup? You would need to have on hand and apply more redo logs to

Re: Suggestion reg. encryption ??

2003-09-30 Thread Pete Finnigan
Hi Craig, yes that is the one. cheers Pete In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Craig Munday [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Pete, Which paper of Aarons are you referring to? Is the paper entitled Encryption of data at rest? Regards, Craig Munday. At 05:29 AM 29/09/2003 -0800, you wrote: Hi Jp On the

RE: RMAN - Compressing using named piped

2003-09-30 Thread Avnish.Rastogi
I dont think you can compress rman files while backups are running. RMAN doesnt support external compression while backups are running 'cause RMAN has to validate backups. You can compress all the files once your backup is completed. I tried that in the past but didnt work. Infect thereare

Re: RE: Separate Indexes and Data

2003-09-30 Thread rgaffuri
the defrag paper was written back in 1998 I believe. Uniform extents were a good solution pre-9i. We use them here on our 8i databases. I stick with an uniform 5m extent size even though I have tables that can fit into 128k extents, but feel that the overall time savings by using 1 extent size

RE: RE: Separate Indexes and Data

2003-09-30 Thread Jesse, Rich
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: RE: Separate Indexes and Data the defrag paper was written back in 1998 I believe. Uniform extents were a good

problem with xmlparser and dom objects

2003-09-30 Thread rgaffuri
I didnt write this code and am not particularly familiar with this part of Oracle. We are attempting to migrate some CLOB data. To do this we batch load it into DOM objects, then user XMLPARSER to parse it, then do an insert. We are finding that it sucks up so many resources that you cant even

RE: RE: Separate Indexes and Data

2003-09-30 Thread rgaffuri
From: Jesse, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/09/30 Tue PM 02:09:32 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: RE: Separate Indexes and Data -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30,

Re: RE: Separate Indexes and Data

2003-09-30 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Nuh uh, not me... I have never used or experimented with auto-allocate. I separate indexes and tables so that I can reclaim space by rebuilding the indexes into smaller space. I've just completed writing the scripts for the following: we have a data warehouse, partitioned on the biggest table

COBOL TO ORACLE

2003-09-30 Thread Muqthar Ahmed
Hi, Is there a tool available to move data from COBOL to ORACLE directly? One way to do is get COBOL data on a flat file and then use SQL*Loader to insert into ORACLE tables. The second question is did anyone use DESIGNER to connect to COBOL to create an ERD and then transform into ORACLE

Re: problem with xmlparser and dom objects

2003-09-30 Thread rgaffuri
there is nothing in the alert log,udump, or cdump on this. Im going to have them run the package with a 10046 trace next. would a different trace be more appropriate? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/09/30 Tue PM 02:24:30 EDT To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: x$ constructs and memory

2003-09-30 Thread Jared . Still
I don't generally get too involved in the x$ stuff, just because it normally helps me very little in my DBA work. Nonetheless, I have been following this one somewhat, and if my understanding is correct, x$ tables are not actually responsible for consuming memory, they are merely a mechanism for

Re: COBOL TO ORACLE

2003-09-30 Thread Thomas Day
Er ... No. COBOL is a programming language. Oracle is a relational database manager. The data used in a COBOL program can be stored in a variety of ways. It's even possilbe to have a COBOL program using data from an Oracle database. I'm not aware that Designer can translate COBOL file

RE: COBOL TO ORACLE

2003-09-30 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
You can also Execute SQL directly from Oracle using the precompilers - No need to export the data and use SQL Loader. Thank You Stephen P. Karniotis Technical Alliance Manager Compuware Corporation Direct: (313) 227-4350 Mobile: (248) 408-2918 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:www.compuware.com

Re: Data denormalisation seems some attractive

2003-09-30 Thread Jared . Still
Stephane, From the limited information available, I will take a stab at what seems to be going on here. I don't think there are really 8 entities here first of all, at least not for the details given. No mention is made of the person being paid the commission, who the sale was too, the items

RE: Describe privilege on procedures packages

2003-09-30 Thread Rothouse, Michael
This link to AskTom may help. http://tinyurl.com/p7o1 -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L (Reposting from yesterday morning since I had no takers! :) Hello, I wanted to give another user access to view my procedures

RE: RE: Separate Indexes and Data

2003-09-30 Thread Jesse, Rich
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 1:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: RE: Separate Indexes and Data From: Jesse, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/09/30 Tue PM 02:09:32 EDT

Re: Describe privilege on procedures packages

2003-09-30 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Yes, that's correct. Since the only privilege available on a code object is execute, it doesn't make much sense to allow a user to DESCRIBE the call interface if the user cannot run it. --- Gary Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Reposting from yesterday morning since I had no takers! :)

Re: Separate Indexes and Data

2003-09-30 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! In VLDB environments, it is mostly cheaper to restore and recover the index tablespace datafile in case of block corruption. In my experience, I've been lucky and have been able to get rid of corruptions that way, but I'm sure some people have worse experiences, especially when redologs are

RE: COBOL TO ORACLE

2003-09-30 Thread Stephane Paquette
Like Thomas Day said, Oracle is an rdbms and COBOL a programming language. You can use Sql*Loader to load flat files into Oracle or use COBOL programs with embedded SQL, you'll need to use Oracle Pro*Cobol to precompile the COBOL source before compiling them. The last time I've used Designer it

LOB Storage

2003-09-30 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
All, I'm being given a requirement to store a BLOB column in the database. I'm being told that the average size of the file (it's a PDF) is 12,000 K. I'm assuming that I should store this column in a separate tablespace from the table data. If I use an LMT tablespace, what should I use for the

RE: Data denormalisation seems some attractive

2003-09-30 Thread Stephane Paquette
Hi Jared, Here are more details. One commission detail must be one of the types: manager override (12 fields) first year commission (15 fields), renewal service fee (10 fields), charge back (9 fields), vesting payment (1 field), subsidy (2 fields), supplementary commission

RE: OFA myths was Re: BAARF

2003-09-30 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
-Original Message- Paul Baumgartel Loney didn't write OFA, and methinks he was taking liberties with it. Perhaps. However I notice that DBCA in Oracle 9.2 creates a tablespace called INDX. http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/html/A97297_01/appg_ofa.htm#sthref807 Oracle9i

Which server do u use for 9ias ?

2003-09-30 Thread Louis BROUILLETTE
At our university, we are planning to use 9iasR2 in production in a near future. What type of server do you people use for it? Does it need a lot of memory, more than 1 cpu ? It will mostly be used with modplsql procedure and we hope to deploy Discoverer. We are thinking about a X series

RE: 8i OCP Net8 Exam

2003-09-30 Thread Niall Litchfield
I also don't recall it being mentioned. Think naming,cman,mts,dispatchers etc. Niall -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DENNIS WILLIAMS Sent: 29 September 2003 22:35 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: 8i OCP Net8 Exam

RE: SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO hangs on 9.2.0.4 on Linux

2003-09-30 Thread Stephane Paquette
Title: Message Hi, We're still on 817 but I was wandering about those new automatic features (Automatic Undo Management, Automatic Segment Space management,..) how well they work ? Anybody using in production with 9i2 ? Stéphane -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: RE: Separate Indexes and Data

2003-09-30 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
My criticism of the defrag paper was that it did not address what to do when a segment grew large enough to belong in a tablespace with a larger uniform extent size. Moving the segment creates holes in its original tablespace which may close only in the fullness of time. Physical backups of

Re: shared_Pool

2003-09-30 Thread bulbultyagi
I always get a difference , the first one gives a value greater than the second by 12MB I tried with different values of shared_pool_size . What am I doing wrong here ? - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003

Re: LOB Storage

2003-09-30 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! On which version you are? I would create fairly large extents, 64MB for example. LOBs are stored in chunks anyway, extent size doesn't matter that much. One issue is, if you create very large extent size, you might waste some space in LOB index which is a separate, smaller segment (but is

Re: v$sort_usage

2003-09-30 Thread bulbultyagi
Please , do tell - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 02:34 Yes. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL

Re: COBOL TO ORACLE

2003-09-30 Thread Mladen Gogala
Unfortunately, you have to rewrite it to LISP or Oberon first. On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 15:14, Muqthar Ahmed wrote: Hi, Is there a tool available to move data from COBOL to ORACLE directly? One way to do is get COBOL data on a flat file and then use SQL*Loader to insert into ORACLE tables.

RE: SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO hangs on 9.2.0.4 on Linux

2003-09-30 Thread Goulet, Dick
Title: Message Not in production, but close to (as in two weeks). They seem to work just fine. Dick GouletSenior Oracle DBAOracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message-From: Stephane Paquette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:44 PMTo: Multiple

RE: COBOL TO ORACLE

2003-09-30 Thread Mladen Gogala
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 16:19, Stephane Paquette wrote: Like Thomas Day said, Oracle is an rdbms and COBOL a programming language. COBOL *** WAS *** a programming language. Horse *** WAS *** basis of transport. You should have used past tense, Stephane. I'm not really that partial when it comes

Re: v$sort_usage

2003-09-30 Thread Mladen Gogala
You should go to OTN and not use the local copy. For some reason, the 9.2 manual (Reference) left v$sort_usage out. On OTN you have 8.1.7 docs available as well, and it is the same thing. On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 16:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please , do tell - Original Message - To:

Development environments

2003-09-30 Thread Jared . Still
Here is a very interesting article on IDE's vs. code editors. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/19/37FEcodeedit_1.html

RE: OFA myths was Re: BAARF

2003-09-30 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
and the first thing that I do is to delete the INDX tablespace!!! As well as dropping the ORD* users, SCOTT, Tim, Tammy-Fae, Jim Bob and all the other crappy stuff that auytomatically gets installed. I try and get it back to the original 8.0 install!!! Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified

RE: Separate Indexes and Data

2003-09-30 Thread Jared . Still
Good question Ian. If anyone does have a different backup schedule for index tbs , I would be interested to know how they ensure that the index TBS do not have any data segments in them. Jared MacGregor, Ian A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/30/2003 10:34 AM Please

RE: Data denormalisation seems some attractive

2003-09-30 Thread Jared . Still
So, you're not allowed to actually model this at all, but just port over some VSAM structures and call it a database. See the thread on COBOL. Jared Stephane Paquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/30/2003 01:24 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple

RE: 8i OCP Net8 Exam

2003-09-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Thanks everyone for your input on this topic. Now if I can just get motivated. ;-) Dennis Williams DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 3:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I also don't recall it

RE: LOB Storage

2003-09-30 Thread Kevin Toepke
Tom In this case, I would use a uniform extent size -- you know approximately how large the data is today. Since there is no measureable overhead for having multiple segments, I would go with something much smaller than a 12MB extent size -- 512K to 1MB, depending on what your OS read size is.

A question for the hourlies out there...

2003-09-30 Thread Bellow, Bambi
Friends -- I find it weird that I've been consulting some 25 years and have never run into this situation, and really could use your two cents. Here's the deal. I am supposed to travel for a client. They have me on a plane Sunday, expect me to work M-F onsite *and possibly the weekend*,

Nested tables

2003-09-30 Thread Rick Stephenson
I have developers that would like to use Oracle's nested tables capability. I have not dealt with this before, so I was wondering if I could get information from those that are using them. How stable are nested tables? Are there issues I need to worry about? I will be using this in an

RE: Off Topic: PC Firewall Recommendation

2003-09-30 Thread Suri, Deepak
-- snip If you're feeling frisky, consider replacing the router/firewall with a PC (with 2 nics) running BSD or Linux. You can also find distros tweaked to act as a firewall/router - that's what I've done. -- snip The Linux distro I used was www.smoothwall.com (which

RE: COBOL TO ORACLE

2003-09-30 Thread Jesse, Rich
Crucifixion is a perfectly viable form of punishment, but only for the first offense. Best thing the Romans ever done for us. Oh, yeah. If we didn't have crucifixion, this country would be in a right bloody mess. Rich Jesse, People's Front of Judea -Original Message- From: Mladen

RE: 8i OCP Net8 Exam

2003-09-30 Thread Faan DeSwardt
Dennis, Do you have good practice exams? I have found that the best preparation for the OCP exams are good practice exams. I have reached the point where I just skim through the material in the whatever book you use (probably only possible if you have some miles on the clock as a DBA) and

Re: x$ constructs and memory

2003-09-30 Thread K Gopalakrishnan
Mladen: I am not sure where I am failing to understand you ;). First of all X$ objects are NOT tables, so there is no question of blocks or memory or dictionary cache. They are some C structures and their point in time (I am not finding a better word) values are exposed as table formats. That is

RE: Off Topic: PC Firewall Recommendation

2003-09-30 Thread Faan DeSwardt
Whatever you use go to https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 and http://grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm for testing your firewall product and make sure that the basic stuff is configured correctly. Also want to check out the URL http://grc.com/lt/scoreboard.htm about various PC firewall products leaking

RE: COBOL TO ORACLE

2003-09-30 Thread Stephane Paquette
Mladen, maybe it is the past for you but it is quite the present for me. We just decided between 2 packages (insurance industry): one in cobol using flat files on AS400 and the other one where all jobs are in cobol but the database is Oracle. We have choose the second one. So, in the next week,

RE: A question for the hourlies out there...

2003-09-30 Thread Gary W. Parker
If you have to travel at the client's request / requirement, then you should be able to bill for your travel time, beginning with the time you arrive at the airport and ending with the arrival time. Any weekend work for the client should be billed for the time onsite. (You may want to consider

RE: COBOL TO ORACLE

2003-09-30 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: COBOL TO ORACLE COBOL still lives and breathes, though, in many MANY shops (this one included). Just like the Mainframe, it won't go away easily or soon... I feel your pain, though, I lived through it too... and if I never have to figure out where an alter sends the program based

RE: x$ constructs and memory

2003-09-30 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Steve, The X$ interfaces do not use memory persistently, and the memory usage of the X$ tables is fixed and necessary to an instance. Thus memory growth is not possible. Memory growth is possible for the segmented arrays, which some of the X$ interfaces expose. However, it is very unusual,

Re: x$ constructs and memory

2003-09-30 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Yep, I also think that x$ tables have nothing to do with row cache, instead their behaviour is hardcoded to Oracle executable. I did a simple test just in case (but I'm not sure whether it was sufficient), by parsing a select from x$kturd 10 times didn't see any big increases in

probe database using OEM event or job

2003-09-30 Thread Baylis, John
Title: probe database using OEM event or job Can someone help me with this? Running Oracle 9.2.0.3 under win2000 I have an application server that occasionally looses connectivity with the listener on the database server although other application servers have no problems connecting. I

RE: RE: Separate Indexes and Data

2003-09-30 Thread JayMiller
But those holes of exactly the right size for new objects to fit into. Since you'll presumably move it once it gets about 1,000 extents or so that isn't a huge amount of space that's being wasted. Jay Miller Sr. Oracle DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:45 PM

Re: A question for the hourlies out there...

2003-09-30 Thread Tanel Poder
In States things are probably different, but in few European companies I've worked for, it's that you get paid for the hours you work (naturally), if you work on the weekends you get paid as well - if don't then you don't. If you arrive one day earlier for being able to start in the morning next

Re: A question for the hourlies out there...

2003-09-30 Thread Stephane Faroult
Bellow, Bambi wrote: Friends -- I find it weird that I've been consulting some 25 years and have never run into this situation, and really could use your two cents. Here's the deal. I am supposed to travel for a client. They have me on a plane Sunday, expect me to work M-F onsite *and

Re: probe database using OEM event or job

2003-09-30 Thread Tanel Poder
Title: probe database using OEM event or job On unix you could do: while true; do tnspingALIAS out || mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] out; sleep 300; done; (obviously you have to replace ALIAS and e-mail address there) It will send you the tnsping output ifit happens to fail. (you'll get a

Re: COBOL TO ORACLE

2003-09-30 Thread Govindan K
Is there a tool available to move data from COBOL to ORACLE directly? One way to do is get COBOL data on a flat file and then use SQL*Loader to insert into ORACLE tables. If you are using SQL*Loader make sure to check the log after load. For larger loadsi would suggest direct load. The second

Re: Big table, small table

2003-09-30 Thread Govindan K
Are you using any trunc functions while querying. Do this. SELECT column_name,count(*) from small_table group by column_name; Run this for all the tables. My guess is that atleast 30% of the rows in the small table is for the value that you gave. So the optimizer is forced to read the index

Re: Separate Indexes and Data

2003-09-30 Thread Tanel Poder
You can always schedule a script which drops all table segments from index tablespaces ;) Tanel. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 12:44 AM Subject: RE: Separate Indexes and

locally managed autoallocate (was: Separate Indexes and Data)

2003-09-30 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Ive read the book. PCTINCREASE is basically set to 100% so the extent sizes double. Thats 'basically' how it works. I have seen some posts on dejanews saying it doesnt necessarily work this way and some people are finding large extent sizes with just a few extents and when tables are

Re: Experiences setting OPEN_CURSORS for Java applications

2003-09-30 Thread Craig Munday
Tanel, I've implemented it as a JDBC driver that is installed as a layer between your application and the vendor driver that you are using (eg. Oracle, Postgress, SQL Server, etc.) [Java application] - Layer 1 [JDBC Expert] - Layer 2 [Oracle Thin Driver] - Layer 3 | network | [Oracle

RE: probe database using OEM event or job

2003-09-30 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Hi, Can you just use the built in OEM event Database UpDown - though perhaps this only comes with the Diagnostics Pack for OEM. As for a user defined test - You could just do something like select user from dual and hope it comes back if it can't connect - I haven't tried this. However, I think

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2003-09-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Take Pepcid AC ... that might help in digestion.. Seriously your email should go to listguru @ fatcity.com -Original Message-From: Frits Hoogland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:10 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: SET

Re: Experiences setting OPEN_CURSORS for Java applications

2003-09-30 Thread Tanel Poder
Thanks for the answer. Yep, it seems more like JDBC proxy with analyzing capabilities than a regular traffic analyzer which sits aside sniffs some packets. May I ask, how much time have you spent on writing such thing? I'm planning to write something similar, but on SQL*Net level... Tanel.

RE: Using dimensions

2003-09-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Using dimensions Got a link for this requirement in the manual? Raj -Original Message-From: Tanel Poder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:50 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: Using dimensions Query rewriting to use

Re: Describe privilege on procedures packages

2003-09-30 Thread Govindan K
This was the closest i could get. set pagesize 60;set linesize 180;column position noprint;column sequence noprint;break on object_type skip 1;break on package_name skip 1;break on object_name skip 1;column object_type format A15 wrap;column package_name format A30 wrap;column object_name

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