RE: How to drop a datafile ?

2003-10-28 Thread Prem Khanna J
doc 111316.1 doesn't mention about using OEM for the same. so i hope it cannot be done with OEM. am i right LIST ? so how do i do it from sqlplus ? TIA. Jp. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Prem Khanna J INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Se

RE: How to drop a datafile ?

2003-10-28 Thread Prem Khanna J
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RE: How to drop a datafile ?

2003-10-28 Thread Mudhalvan, Moovarkku
Title: Message Prem       Please check this Screen.. If you still have doubt please let me know     -Original Message-From: Prem Khanna J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 9:33 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: Mudhalvan, MoovarkkuSubject: RE: How to dro

RE: How to drop a datafile ?

2003-10-28 Thread Prem Khanna J
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RE: MSSQL Link Server connection failure to Oracle 817

2003-10-28 Thread Denham Eva
Thank you so much, I'll get our SQL Server admin to look into your suggestions. Regards Denham > -Original Message- > From: Grant Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 12:14 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: MSSQL Link Server connec

RE: How to drop a datafile ?

2003-10-28 Thread Mudhalvan, Moovarkku
Prem.. Why don't you install Enterprise manager in any one of your client .. Login as Stand Alone.. And you can delete the same -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 8:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Guys, it's oracle 9.2.0.3/Win2K. say for some re

How to drop a datafile ?

2003-10-28 Thread Prem Khanna J
Guys, it's oracle 9.2.0.3/Win2K. say for some reason (NOT recovery): i want to drop a datafile from a tablespace which has more than 1 datafile.how to do it ? Doc 111316.1 says u need to drop the tablespace or exp/imp the objects in the tablespace. your ideas please. Jp. -- Please see the

Re: Installing pro*cobol

2003-10-28 Thread Binley Lim
Check that you have the Cobol environment variable set, $COBDIR I think, set before starting the installer. Otherwise, the installer will silently not do anything. At least, that's how it is on Solaris. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sen

RE: 9I RAC corporate standard.

2003-10-28 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
We don't have a corporate policy per se, but everything we have ('cept couple of dbs in the dmz) is RAC. PROD/DEVL/TEST/QA/DEMO etc etc everything same size same config (except maybe for scaled down SGA etc). Raj *

Re: Re: performance issue on select count(*)

2003-10-28 Thread Binley Lim
"Exactly" my point! ;-) You cannot use it for anymore than that, and neither should you ignore it completely. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 6:39 AM > yes bchr is only useful at extremes, but its base

RE: ** database configuration assistant scripts

2003-10-28 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
If you're interested I can send you the sample batch files and scripts I use to create databases on Windows. I have sample scripts for 8.1.7 and 9.2 -Original Message- A Joshi I am using database configuration assistant to create a NT database. Is there a way I can get the scripts use

RE: Perm job opening in MA

2003-10-28 Thread Khedr, Waleed
LOL :) -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 8:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Don't get me wrong, I've recently changed positions and am not interested, but what are "phone skills"? I know how to use a phone, and I can do it in yoga position with one hand

Re: Perm job opening in MA

2003-10-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
Don't get me wrong, I've recently changed positions and am not interested, but what are "phone skills"? I know how to use a phone, and I can do it in yoga position with one hand tied behind my back. I've never used a phone under water or in space. I use it on a regular basis while commuting or

Perm job opening in MA

2003-10-28 Thread John Spencer
I hope I am not breaching any rules, but I would like to make it public that I am currently trying to fill a temp to perm position for a Sr level Oracle/customer support person in Massachusetts. This person must have strong Oracle and Sun Solaris skills and some Java (J2EE and Java beans) e

** database configuration assistant scripts

2003-10-28 Thread A Joshi
Hi,   I am using database configuration assistant to create a NT database. Is there a way I can get the scripts used in the creation? I clicked on the template but do not know where the template goes. Thank you Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears

RE: starting/stopping DB2

2003-10-28 Thread Grant Allen
> -Original Message- > From: Jonathan Gennick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2003 10:49 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: starting/stopping DB2 > > > Does anyone here use DB2? I need a bit of an education on > how to start and stop DB2 under Wi

RE: 9I RAC corporate standard.

2003-10-28 Thread Khedr, Waleed
I'm glad you had some energy left to describe your pain getting RAC to work on Linux (specially RHAS developer). I regret every minute of pain I spent trying to do the same! Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Well,

Re: Noarchivelog ==> archivelog

2003-10-28 Thread Zhai Jingmin
Hi, If it's one instance of OPS or RAC ,you should set parallel_server=no or cluster_database=false,then 'startup mount' ,'alter database archivelog;',and you can change them back once archive log working. Zhai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, Could someone help me to figure out what i

starting/stopping DB2

2003-10-28 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Does anyone here use DB2? I need a bit of an education on how to start and stop DB2 under Windows XP. If you can help, please contact me offlist. Thanks. Best regards, Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the Ora

RE: Execution Plan is good but HIGH CPU

2003-10-28 Thread Jared . Still
Well, yeah, I thought it was. The detail info in the trace file will help you pinpoint th CPU usage. Jared Muqthar Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  10/28/2003 08:04 AM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAI

RE: dba interview questions

2003-10-28 Thread Schilling, Ben
Another bumper sticker seen today: That was Zen, this is Tao. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 4:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Bumper sticker sighted just the other day: "My karma ran over your dogma" > How about "Dogma"? That's a new movie and it

RE: 9I RAC corporate standard.

2003-10-28 Thread Jesse, Rich
Well, we evaluated 9iRAC on some cheap-o Linux boxes as a proof-of-concept, with the hardware idea based on http://www.bradmark.com/site2/products/pdfs/9irac_config.pdf As far as I'm concerned, RAC's a major pain, unstable and not yet worth the risk -- for us. The idea for us being that we could

Re: Re: ora-600 question

2003-10-28 Thread Tanel Poder
Depending on the query, in dba_extents example there are hints only in one part of multi-part union all SQL, but nevertheless, good point :) Tanel. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:04 AM > If there'r

RE: dba interview questions

2003-10-28 Thread Jared . Still
Please kill this thread, as it no longer has anything to do with DBA interview questions. "Schilling, Ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  10/28/2003 02:29 PM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  

Re: performance issue on select count(*)

2003-10-28 Thread Jared . Still
An unusually high BCHR could be an indicator that your database is running Connor McDonald's choose_a_hit_ratio procedure. http://www.oracledba.co.uk/tips/choose.htm Jared Mladen Gogala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  10/28/2003 09:09 AM  Please respond to ORACLE-L    

Re: Re: ora-600 question

2003-10-28 Thread Yong Huang
If there're already hints like ordered and use_nl that tell Oracle how to join, lack of statistics is less of a problem. In fact, you may need to use those two hints in some queries against data dictionary even in pre-9i Oracle. Yong Huang --- Tanel Poder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Jus

Re: Solved - RE: UTL_RAW and slowness

2003-10-28 Thread Vladimir Begun
Raj Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote: Why do you think the profsum output is not right? I did not say that profsum output is not right/correct. I said that it does not show what's needed to be seen. Just imagine to run SUBSTR() you call 1 internal function, to run utl_raw PL/SQL engine has to do a lot m

RE: dba interview questions

2003-10-28 Thread Bellow, Bambi
Kirti --   I've had that experience too.  I generally start a telephone interview hopping around the person's resume and asking questions about individual jobs... what did they do here... what do they mean by that there what was the environment over there... was management supportive in

Re: Re: ora-600 question

2003-10-28 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Just for the record, in 9.2 some views such dba_extents use "ordered" and "use_nl" hints, which force usage of CBO. If you don't have statistics calculated nor optimizer_dynamic_sampling set to at least 2, then you'll be using CBO with default statistics, which usually are quite misleading. T

Re: dba interview questions

2003-10-28 Thread Govindan K
Better still, sometimes 'X' takes the questions while 'Y' the candidate just stands next to him because 'X' can answer but Y does not. Tel.int means you (most probably) have not seen the guys face..correct?? By the time Visa gets approved (if overseas candidate), 'Y' ensures that he 'gains'

RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'?

2003-10-28 Thread Grant Allen
Title: RE: anyone have opinions on the future of the 'grid'? Oracle confirmed at the road show event I went to yesterday that "pricing will not change".  Let's see how many people are happy to buy 100's of EE CPU licences :-)   And my favourite bit?  The new OEM is all singing, all dancing .

RE: dba interview questions

2003-10-28 Thread Grant Allen
> -Original Message- > From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2003 05:44 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Re: dba interview questions > > > How about "Life of Brian"? That's even better then the "Holy Grail". You're right, Mladen

9I RAC corporate standard.

2003-10-28 Thread Spears, Brian
Hi, Has anyone started to implement 9I Rac as a corporate standard... IE. many or all the apps being deployed on 9I RAC clusters? We are looking at doing it and wanted to know what other people had as experience in doing it or on the way to attempting it. If so, what hardware platform are

RE: MSSQL Link Server connection failure to Oracle 817

2003-10-28 Thread Grant Allen
> -Original Message- > From: Denham Eva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 28 October 2003 22:09 > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: MSSQL Link Server connection failure to Oracle 817 > > > Hello, > > To my surprise I see there alot of us on this list, use MSSQL

Re: dba interview questions

2003-10-28 Thread Tim Gorman
Bumper sticker sighted just the other day: "My karma ran over your dogma" > How about "Dogma"? That's a new movie and it is > hillarious. Salma Hayek character was very impresive. > > > On 10/28/2003 02:49:32 PM, "Jesse, Rich" wrote: > > Ghostbusters? > > "When someone asks if you're a g

Re: Re: wither Designer documentation?

2003-10-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
Documentation writing will likely be outsourced to Elbonia. So, wait until the little bearded men who live in the swamp write your documentation and everything will be OK. I bet you will not be satisfied even then. You'll make unreasonable requests and demand that documentation is actually meanin

RE: Solved - RE: UTL_RAW and slowness

2003-10-28 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Why do you think the profsum output is not right? at least it tells me that 83% of my time is spent on the line that does substr() ... right? msg_text is a clob, l_n is number you are right substr() was used because we transfer only US ASCII data. The point of pipelining was because in my

Re: Refresh option for Materialized view , want to use it during refresh - for

2003-10-28 Thread Arup Nanda
David, Glad to be of help. Looking at your list of steps, I see that your questions is whether building an MV on the table T is beneficial. Tables and MVs, on prebuilt table or not, are stored as segments in the database; so space-sise there is no difference, nor there is any change in the way th

RE: Re: wither Designer documentation?

2003-10-28 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Well then eventually no one will know how to use their products and move to other products that come with documentation sets. : ) Patrice -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 3:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L none of the apps have documentation. not forsm,

Foreign Key and Unique key on same columns

2003-10-28 Thread Muqthar Ahmed
Hi, Is there any performance problem if two columns have FOREIGN KEY from different tables and both columns also have UNIQUE CONSTRAINT? CREATE TABLE table1 ( COL1NUMBER constraint table1_fk1 references table2(col1), COL2NUMBER constraint table1_fk

Re: Re: ora-600 question

2003-10-28 Thread ryan_oracle
does the data dictionary still use rule by support? any idea why toad would bother slipping it in? > > From: "John Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/10/28 Tue PM 02:59:25 EST > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: ora-600 question > > TOAD puts a hint

Re: Solved - RE: UTL_RAW and slowness

2003-10-28 Thread Vladimir Begun
Raj I'm "in" :), so let's check what was the real issue, some more items here... Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote: Thanks Vladimir ... your input has made me look at my code again ... Here is relevant portion of profsum.sql output ... Lines taking more than 1% of the total time, e

Re: Re: ora-600 question

2003-10-28 Thread John Shaw
By default it's set to 'choose' - but if try to use it for looking at locks (or most any ddl) it will take forever to come back - you have to go to the options menu and pick 'rule' for optimzer mode on ddl queries.>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/28/2003 2:49:29 PM >>> does the data dictionary still

RE: Re: ora-600 question

2003-10-28 Thread Odland, Brad
The data dictionary should not have any statistics on them and thus will use rule as a "rule" so to speak. If you have run stats on the data dictionary you coul dbe running into some odd bugs. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORAC

Re: 8i Support

2003-10-28 Thread Gene Sais
General support ends Dec 31, 2004, was Dec 31, 2003.>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/28/03 03:44PM >>>List,Is any body know when Oracle stop supporting for 8i?Thanks,Hamid AlaviOffice   :  818-737-0526Cell phone  :  818-416-5095-- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net-

Re: ** materialized view fast not working

2003-10-28 Thread A Joshi
Mike : Yes the user has select access and is able to do a select on the MLOG table and the original table. Thanks for your help.Mike Spalinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does the user have select access on the mlog?A Joshi wrote:> Hi,> I have a table tableA owned by userA.> If I create a materializ

Re: dba interview questions

2003-10-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
How about "Dogma"? That's a new movie and it is hillarious. Salma Hayek character was very impresive. On 10/28/2003 02:49:32 PM, "Jesse, Rich" wrote: > Ghostbusters? > "When someone asks if you're a god, you say 'YES'!" > "...and the flowers are still standing." > "Tell him abou

8i Support

2003-10-28 Thread Hamid Alavi
List, Is any body know when Oracle stop supporting for 8i? Thanks, Hamid Alavi Office : 818-737-0526 Cell phone : 818-416-5095 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Hamid Alavi INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538

RE: ora-600 question

2003-10-28 Thread Jesse, Rich
What version of TOAD, Oracle server and Oracle client? See Metalink article 34779.1 for details on your bug, which may be fixed in releases 8.1.7.3, 9.0.1.2 and 9.2.0.1. BTW, TOAD can put in hints, but more importantly, it can do some conversion/translation of your SQL before sending it. You may

RE: dba interview questions

2003-10-28 Thread Niall Litchfield
Ah. Some time ago when running a Youth Group, I discovered that there is only one infallible answer when faced with a 'popular beat music combo, m'lud' that one has never heard of. This consist of nodding ones head sagely and saying ' ah yes, but don't you think that they've gone a bit commercial'.

RE: Noarchivelog ==> archivelog

2003-10-28 Thread Goulet, Dick
Well you got a number of responses, but the following have always worked for me: shutdown immediate; Startup mount; alter database archivelog; alter database open; Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 28

Re: ** materialized view fast not working

2003-10-28 Thread Mike Spalinger
Does the user have select access on the mlog? A Joshi wrote: Hi, I have a table tableA owned by userA. If I create a materialized view in another schema/user fast and complete refresh set to refresh every 10 minutes then only complete refresh works and refreshes automatically every 10 minutes.

RE: Clone db 9.2 on AIX 5L

2003-10-28 Thread Durinda.Jones
John, I'm not running AIX 5.1 or Oracle 9.2 (we're 8.1.6 on AIX 4.3.3). However, I have had some strange 3113 errors when trying to start a database. Did you have a false start and then ran the script again? The reason being we've seen problems due to memory segments hanging around after a cras

RE: Clone db 9.2 on AIX 5L

2003-10-28 Thread Rich Gesler
what is your remote_login_passwordfile init.ora param set to? Change it to remote_login_passwordfile = none and see what happens. -Original Message- John Blake Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 3:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L The alert log statest that the instance is st

RE: Clone db 9.2 on AIX 5L

2003-10-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
John Check your undo tablespace name in your CREATE CONTROLFILE statement and your init.ora file. I've received this error because the names are different. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:00 PM To: Multiple r

** materialized view fast not working

2003-10-28 Thread A Joshi
Hi,   I have a table tableA owned by userA. If I create a materialized view in another schema/user fast and complete refresh set to refresh every 10 minutes then only complete refresh works and refreshes automatically every 10 minutes. However the fast refresh mv does not refresh automatically. It

RE: Clone db 9.2 on AIX 5L

2003-10-28 Thread John Blake
The alert log statest that the instance is starting NORMAL and that is all she wrote No trace files all my directories exist all owned by oracle UID The cr_spap script contains all create controlfile commands and yes since the "STARTUP NOMOUNT" is failing the balance is just from the echoed ou

tuning a co-related query howto

2003-10-28 Thread hrishy
Hi All Can somebody explain me how to tune this corealted subquery.how do we convert the co-related subquery into a inline if that helps Select distinct PA.PersonAddress_IDX, AT.Name AddressType, A.Line1 Address1, A.Line2 Address2, A.City, A.State, A.County, A.Country, A.PostalCo

Re: ora-600 question

2003-10-28 Thread John Shaw
TOAD puts a hint in. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/28/2003 1:29:25 PM >>> does toad or the oracle instance itself slip in rule hints? We got an ora-600 error off of a data dictionary read. i think it has to do with explain plan. ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [17182], [2325084336], [],

RE: rman backup

2003-10-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
AK When you have RMAN back up archived logs, IIRC, in a recovery RMAN first restores those archived logs to the location that Oracle will expect them to be, and I believe that is done as part of the RESTORE DATABASE command. In my situation, I found no advantage from having RMAN store the archiv

Re: Noarchivelog ==> archivelog

2003-10-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 10/28/2003 02:34:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi List, > > Could someone help me to figure out what is going on here? > I am trying to change db from NOARCHIVELOG --> ARCHIVELOG. Let me quote the mighty Oracle: Database must be mounted EXCLUSIVE and not open for this operation. Idis red

RE: Noarchivelog ==> archivelog

2003-10-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Sami Any possibility you are using RAC or Parallel Server? Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi List, Could someone help me to figure out what is going on here? I

RE: Noarchivelog ==> archivelog

2003-10-28 Thread Ben
Hi The database must be mounted and in exclusive mode in order to turn archiving on. You need to do a: startup mount exclusive then: alter database archivelog then: alter database open Ben -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 28, 2003 2:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: Noarchivelog ==> archivelog

2003-10-28 Thread Nelson, Allan
Startup nomount Alter system enable restricted session; Alter database mount exclusive; -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi List, Could someone help me to figure out what is going on here? I am trying to change db from N

RE: dba interview questions

2003-10-28 Thread Jesse, Rich
Ghostbusters? "When someone asks if you're a god, you say 'YES'!" "...and the flowers are still standing." "Tell him about the Twinkie, Egon." Joe vs. The Volcano? "Not a nice place you have here, Joe." "I know he can get the job, but can he do the job?" Th

RE: Clone db 9.2 on AIX 5L

2003-10-28 Thread Bellow, Bambi
Are you sure that init.ora has the same database name as the controlfile? Bambi. -Original Message- Blake Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 3:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L SQL> @cr_spap SQL> STARTUP NOMOUNT pfile=/iu33/u01/app/oracle/admin/spap/pfile/initspap.ora ORA-0

RE: dba interview questions

2003-10-28 Thread Odland, Brad
Proud? landing a rock to fakie followed by a fakie 360 in near vertnot bad for a 41 yo Nightmare? Playing a particularly embarrasing gig with a manic dreppressive folk music ogre, 120 minutes of pure hell in front of an audience. I refused to play anymore gigs with him. Do I get the job...?

Re: Re: wither Designer documentation?

2003-10-28 Thread ryan_oracle
none of the apps have documentation. not forsm, reports, or discoverer and noone is writing updated books on them since they dont sell enough copees. i dont understand oracle on this one. atleast they can write one and sell the damn thing... > > From: "Tracy Rahmlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date

Noarchivelog ==> archivelog

2003-10-28 Thread tamizh
Hi List, Could someone help me to figure out what is going on here? I am trying to change db from NOARCHIVELOG --> ARCHIVELOG. SQL> archive log list Database log mode No Archive Mode Automatic archival Enabled Archive destination/u02/arch Oldest online log se

ora-600 question

2003-10-28 Thread ryan_oracle
does toad or the oracle instance itself slip in rule hints? We got an ora-600 error off of a data dictionary read. i think it has to do with explain plan. ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [17182], [2325084336], [], [], [], [], [], [] Current SQL statement for this session: select /*+

RE: rman backup

2003-10-28 Thread Ruth Gramolini
As long as you have the database in archivelog mode and have a level 0 backup as your starting point then you can recover.  Make sure that your level 0 includes the controlfiles.   HTH, Ruth -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of AKSent:

Re: Re: Refresh option for Materialized view , want to use it during refresh - for

2003-10-28 Thread ryan_oracle
materialized views have the create statements in the database. you just have to refresh them. can you refersh a materialized view in parallel? if not than create can be faster... > > From: "David Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/10/28 Tue PM 12:04:25 EST > To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Refresh option for Materialized view , want to use it during

2003-10-28 Thread Stephen.Lee
This was my original suggestion. The only snag I can think of is if you have a bunch of dependencies like stored procedures and triggers. Even if somebody was selecting from the old table when you renamed it, the select would continue OK ... as long as you don't truncate it. You could even dele

Re: rman backup

2003-10-28 Thread AK
Thanks Dennis for Reply, My confusion is , does RMAN sees only those archived logs which are backup using rman or it can use current archived log as well stored in original format at other disk ? -ak - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Se

RE: Clone db 9.2 on AIX 5L

2003-10-28 Thread Pete Sharman
Usually when I've seen that it's because of an invalid or missing password file. Anything in the alert log to tell you more? Pete "Controlling developers is like herding cats." Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook "Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!" Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA

Re: rman backup

2003-10-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
You can restore database and open it to the mount phase using RMAN. Then you can get into sqlplus and type something like: alter system set log_archive_dest_1=/directory/where/log/archives/reside set autorecovery on recover database auto until cancel On 10/28/2003 12:44:24 PM, AK wrote: > We tak

RE: rman backup

2003-10-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
AK - Unless you specify otherwise, RMAN will automatically apply archive logs to bring the database up to the time of failure (your recover database statement). This is why it is good to run disaster recovery tests on a regular basis, to ensure everything is ready, and you can try different recover

Re: dba interview questions

2003-10-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
How about "Life of Brian"? That's even better then the "Holy Grail". On 10/28/2003 01:19:25 PM, "Thater, William" wrote: > Bellow, Bambi scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: > > > Oddly, I was thinking the same thing about Monty Python and the Holy > > Grail. And then I thought... NAAH. "Gr

RE: Clone db 9.2 on AIX 5L

2003-10-28 Thread Jose Luis Delgado
Hi John... Actually I do not use AIX, but I used to work with 3x and first 4x version. I do not know if your AIX version still manages AIX modules, but if it does, then you need to load the modules pointed in your root.sh (or rootpre.sh) file, I do not remember very well. Of course, you can run

Re: wither Designer documentation?

2003-10-28 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
I have had the same problem. I have contacted Oracle for a "user guide" with no response as of yet. I am literally printing off the help pages within Designer to address the need. It sucks 10/28/2003 10:14 AM PST Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] T

RE: dba interview questions

2003-10-28 Thread Thater, William
Bellow, Bambi scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: > Oddly, I was thinking the same thing about Monty Python and the Holy > Grail. And then I thought... NAAH. "Grail" is the only common > denominator that I know of that all technical geeks have in common... > but now that its years old, I'v

wither Designer documentation?

2003-10-28 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Where is the Designer 9i documentation? Not on OTN (http://otn.oracle.com/documentation/designer.html), not in download-east (http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/A91773_01/ids902dl/index.htm ), not in tahiti... (http://tahiti.oracle.com ) Oracle Designer Generation seems to be the only book

was: AIX 9.2 refresh

2003-10-28 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: was: AIX 9.2 refresh Please ignore my last replay about control file ... Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can h

RE: Clone db 9.2 on AIX 5L

2003-10-28 Thread Muqthar Ahmed
Hi, You DO NOT have to CLONE the databases if you are upgrading the OS from 4.3.3 to 5L. You mentioned that the instances are already running. IBM has break the technology at AIX 5.1.0.0, meaning the AIX 4.3.3 and AIX 5.1.0.0 have different architecture. So if you are upgrading IBM AIX 4.3.3

RE: dba interview questions

2003-10-28 Thread Bellow, Bambi
Oddly, I was thinking the same thing about Monty Python and the Holy Grail. And then I thought... NAAH. "Grail" is the only common denominator that I know of that all technical geeks have in common... but now that its years old, I've been on a quest to find another one... a non-Star Trek one, as

rman backup

2003-10-28 Thread AK
We take daily rman backup each nite at 10pm . Which means in worst case we risk one day of work.  Now suppose something wrong goes before 10 pm . Then Can I recover my database till time using previous day rman backup and currently available archived logs.   Or in nutshell is it possible to r

RE: Execution Plan is good but HIGH CPU

2003-10-28 Thread Muqthar Ahmed
Hi, The developer was executing the SQL statement in the loop in procedure. After re-writing the code, now the performance is good. Thanks Muqthar Ahmed -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 8:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L It's 800 sec for 5617 exec/fetc

Re: Re: performance issue on select count(*)

2003-10-28 Thread ryan_oracle
yes bchr is only useful at extremes, but its based on interpretation. if you have a very high BCHR, you probably have alot of very bad sql. if you have a very low one AND are in a type of application where you should(namely OLTP) you may want to consider increasing your buffer cache. mladen is

Installing pro*cobol

2003-10-28 Thread Stephane Paquette
Hi, We always copy the Oracle binaries rather than installing Oracle. Our standard Oracle copy does not contain Pro*cobol. After reading the doc I can summarize the installation of pro-cobol this way. (Cobol is already installed.) - Install pro*cobol 817 - Apply path 8172 for pro*cobol only. It

Re: Clone db 9.2 on AIX 5L

2003-10-28 Thread Tanel Poder
Check to your alert log for error messages. Maybe you haven't set your kernel parameters accordingly & your new instance can't allocate enough resources it needs. Tanel. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:

RE: Clone db 9.2 on AIX 5L

2003-10-28 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
John, Did you see any messages in the alert log? And what is in the cr_spap script? the startup nomount is failing immediately, so everything else is worthless. Review the initspap.ora file and make sure that all of the directories exist. Also, is the ORACLE_SID evironmental set prior to runni

RE: Clone db 9.2 on AIX 5L

2003-10-28 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
This is how ours look like ... STARTUP NOMOUNT CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE DATABASE "XXX" NORESETLOGS ARCHIVELOG -- SET STANDBY TO MAXIMIZE PERFORMANCE MAXLOGFILES 192 MAXLOGMEMBERS 3 MAXDATAFILES 1024 MAXINSTANCES 32 MAXLOGHISTORY 3403 LOGFILE .. maybe it is that pfile line ca

Using an index defined on members of a user defined type

2003-10-28 Thread Hitchman, Peter
Hi, I am looking at Oracle schema for IBM's MQ Workflow and I have a table that has an index on members of a user defined type. This index is not getting used when it could help a delete statement. Using the 10053 trace I got this snippet in the trace: SINGLE TABLE ACCESS PATH No statistics type

Re: performance issue on select count(*)

2003-10-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
So, what exactly is indicated by a high or low hit rate? What, exactly, is "high" and what do you consider "low"? What "HR" are you talking about? This would be the infamous BCHR: select 'bc_hit_ratio' ratio,( sum(decode(name, 'consistent gets',value,0)) + sum(decode(name,'db block gets', value

Re: Refresh option for Materialized view , want to use it during refresh - for

2003-10-28 Thread David Boyd
Arup, I really appreciate your answer in great details. I got "on prebuilt table" work. Thanks a lot for your help. Here is another question: Do you see any advantage to use materialized view on prebuilt table for my data loading over just simple renaming tables as steps below: 1. create ta

Unaccounted-for elapsed time

2003-10-28 Thread Paul Baumgartel
I've been a believer in response-time-based performance optimization for some time now, and reading Cary Millsap's book has reinforced my belief. That said, I'm looking for some help in identifying what I _think_ is unaccounted-for elapsed time. Both tkprof and trcanlzr show (sorry for the wrappe

RE: Clone db 9.2 on AIX 5L

2003-10-28 Thread John Blake
SQL> @cr_spap SQL> STARTUP NOMOUNT pfile=/iu33/u01/app/oracle/admin/spap/pfile/initspap.ora ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel SQL> CREATE CONTROLFILE REUSE DATABASE "SPAP" RESETLOGS NOARCHIVELOG 2 MAXLOGFILES 50 3 MAXLOGMEMBERS 5 4 MAXDATAFILES 100 5 MAXINSTANCES 1 6 MAXLOGHISTORY 226

Re: RE: Execution Plan is good but HIGH CPU

2003-10-28 Thread ryan_oracle
check out asktom. its up for today. if you use an 8i tkprof on a 9i trace file, you get bad cpu results. are you doing that? > > From: Muqthar Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/10/28 Tue AM 11:04:24 EST > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Execution

RE: Execution Plan is good but HIGH CPU

2003-10-28 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
just in case, if you have specified explain= on the command line to generate tkprof summary, remove it and just do tkprof filename ... which version of oracle? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All

RE: Execution Plan is good but HIGH CPU

2003-10-28 Thread Muqthar Ahmed
Jared, The output is from TKPROF. Muqthar -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 9:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Have you run SQLTRACE on this query? The detail in the trace file will show where the cpu is being consumed. There is insufficient data in the

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