RE: RE: OCP 9i New Features for DBAs

2003-11-21 Thread Dunscombe, Chris
Jared, I didn't make a detailed list but where I clearly noticed the inaccuracies was in the sample exam questions at the back of the book e.g. In which version of Oracle was hash partitioning introduced? A) 7 B) 8 C) 8i D) 9i Answer D. The real answer as we know is C.

RE: ora-600 / ora-00604 during migrate

2003-11-21 Thread Jeroen van Sluisdam
Problem solved thanks to ots Event 1399 solved it, necessary during migrate Regards, Jeroen -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: Thursday, November 20, 2003 21:46 Aan: 'Jeroen van Sluisdam' Onderwerp: RE: ora-600 / ora-00604 during migrate

RE: pl/sql question and owa_pattern question

2003-11-21 Thread Stephane Faroult
Guang, I agree with your analysis, looping on characters is not the faster you can do, simply because there is a significant overhead (compared to C code for instance) in a language such as PL/SQL - which might be perfectly acceptable in some circumstances, much less so in very repetitive

Data Guard

2003-11-21 Thread VirVit
Hello. I'm trying to setup standby database on w2k, Oracle 9.2.0.4 (win). When I create configuration and press next on step where we set destination of datafile to be copied to an error occures: READY_A 'perlglob' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch

RE: Re: IOT Tuning Question

2003-11-21 Thread Stephane Faroult
Zhu Chao, You are right to say that with a heap organized table you also have the index to encumber the SGA and indeed you are right to say that, as I put it, what I said is not totally correct. I should have been more specific. The reference to _partitioned_ IOTs implicitly associated them

RE: Database Health Template-OT

2003-11-21 Thread Shibu MB
Dennis .. You are right ...but what can we do if someone demands for such a report .. They want to analyze and track every info . Shibu -Original Message- From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 11/20/2003 12:34 AM To:

RE: Database Health Template-OT

2003-11-21 Thread Shibu MB
Hi , I was sending statspack report ..but there is request for more and more .. .. That's how i started searching for a generalised report ... Regards, Shibu -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 11/20/2003 6:59 PM

Need Details Reg: Time_stamp

2003-11-21 Thread Senthil Kumar
Hi Group, Greetings! I have two databases, both has different time zones. Say Database A has EST. Database B has IST Every two hours I'm getting the database statistics from Database A and loading it to B. While loading I'm loading the data with IST. I want to load the statsitics in EST.

RE: Database Health Template-OT

2003-11-21 Thread Shibu MB
Hi , . I was sending him thestatspack report ..but ..u know .. he don't understand that .. and is asking for more reports he wants even the export dump file size ...:).. so i thought i will get a detail template from someone else who is alreading have such a detail report ...

RE: Development vs. Production DBA

2003-11-21 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
LOL -- developers deciding architecture design. Never really involved in implementing anything, all conceptual. I am what you call a production DBA, my personal bias on this is that leaving architecture decisions to developers could be a mistake, if you think long term. The Production DBA

RE: Oracle Magazine Awards

2003-11-21 Thread babette.turnerunderwood
Title: Message The President of our local user group, Peter Smith, won the PL/SQL Developer of the Year award. We had our user group meeting yesterday afternoon. (I had previously arranged to have the Oracle Rep bring about 20 copies of the Oracle Magazine). We had fun publicly

Re: Re: IOT Tuning Question

2003-11-21 Thread Jay
Zhu/SF: Thanks for your insight. I was under the impression that Oracle did not recommend IOT for tables that where not fairly static. Would the reasoning for this not being an issue in this case be due to oracle now having to only maintain the IOT table blocks instead of the table blocks and

RE: Database Health Template-OT

2003-11-21 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
always ... always start with requirement ... have _them_ tell you what _they_ need. This is entirely different than what you can provide. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this

Re: _wait_for_sync , dirty buffer flushing and direct reads in parallel

2003-11-21 Thread Anjo Kolk
Just to clarify: I don't advise any one trying this in production. There is a (small) chance that in case of instance failure you could end up with a corrupt database. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003

RE: Using miss-spelled hint changes explain plan ...

2003-11-21 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Now, wouldn't you think that was intentional ... ?? Thanks 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

Re: RE: Development vs. Production DBA

2003-11-21 Thread ryan_oracle
the arrogance here is troubling. though there seems to be more incompetent developers who do not know the database I have worked with my share of incompetent DBAs. Havent used anything since versoin 5.0 and so on. Dont know anything at all about development. If a production DBA knows

RE: Oracle Magazine Awards

2003-11-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
yeah I saw that he deserves it! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The President of our local user group, Peter Smith, won the PL/SQL Developer of the Year award. We had our user group meeting yesterday afternoon. (I had previously arranged to have the Oracle Rep bring about 20 copies of

RE: Database Health Template-OT

2003-11-21 Thread Robson, Peter
Just FWIW - I set up dozens of alerts on our systems, monitoring conformance to corporate standards. So, naming standards, presence / absence of triggers, responsibility assignements in metadata, access privs consistent with those assignements etc etc. For every alert test, there will be a

RE: RE: Development vs. Production DBA

2003-11-21 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
not arrogance, experience. Granted, there are good developers out there. The tendency is to think only on a project by project basis in development because of the way developers sometimes get funding to sustain themselves. No offense was intended, it was a cautionary note nothing more.

Oracle 10g Migration

2003-11-21 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
Does anybody know whether or not Oracle will support and upgrade of an 8i database to 10? Thanks American Express made the following annotations on 11/21/2003 07:28:27 AM --

RE: RE: Development vs. Production DBA

2003-11-21 Thread Goulet, Dick
I don't normally like to get into these turf battles, but in this case I have to agree with Patrice. Most developers are looking strictly at their current project with no regard for anything they've done in the past or that others around them are doing. Also I find that a significant number

Re: Oracle 10g Migration

2003-11-21 Thread Mladen Gogala
Yes. On 11/21/2003 09:29:31 AM, Tracy Rahmlow wrote: Does anybody know whether or not Oracle will support and upgrade of an 8i database to 10? Thanks American Express made the following annotations on 11/21/2003 07:28:27 AM

RE: Oracle 10g Migration

2003-11-21 Thread Goulet, Dick
Mladen, Direct 8i(as in 8.1.7.4) to 10 or do you HAVE to go through 9.x first? Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 9:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Yes. On 11/21/2003 09:29:31 AM, Tracy

RE: RE: Development vs. Production DBA

2003-11-21 Thread Thomas Day
I'm going to keep this response in my in-box to forward to developers when they complain about their poorly tuned database. Goulet,

RE: RE: Development vs. Production DBA

2003-11-21 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: RE: Development vs. Production DBA But if you make them stored procedures, you might be giving up some vestige of control. CAN'T give up control... April Wells Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA Corporate Systems Amarillo Texas /\ / \ / \ \ / \/ \ \ \ \ Few people really enjoy the

Re: Oracle 10g Migration

2003-11-21 Thread Mladen Gogala
From what I read, and learned from the private sources, it's going to be a direct migration. Of course, I don't have 10g , so I can't tell for sure. This tight lid on the software is, in my humble opinion, ridiculous. My next answer to an oracle sales person will be that I have to keep the tight

RE: Oracle 10g Migration

2003-11-21 Thread Nigel Bishop
Oracle Database 10g provides a fairly easy upgrade path for users of older Oracle versions. The following versions can directly be upgraded to Oracle Database 10 g: Oracle Database 8.0.6 Oracle Database 8.1.7 Oracle Database 9.0.1 Oracle Database 9.2 If your database version is not in the

RE: Oracle 10g Migration

2003-11-21 Thread Scott Canaan
According to the presentation by Dave Foster of Oracle at the last UNYOUG meeting, there will be a direct upgrade from 8.1.7 and 9.2. Also, the new dbassistant has an undo feature, to rollback the upgrade. Scott Canaan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (585) 475-7886 Life is like a sewer, what you get out of

RE: RE: Development vs. Production DBA

2003-11-21 Thread ryan_oracle
i was on a project last year where the lead didnt let us make stored code. she thought it 'cluttered the database'. what can you do? lots of incompetence out there. worst when its the boss. From: April Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/11/21 Fri AM 09:54:33 EST To: Multiple recipients of

RE: RE: Development vs. Production DBA

2003-11-21 Thread Davey, Alan
Title: RE: RE: Development vs. Production DBA Just don't grant execute. ;-) - Alan Davey Senior Analyst/Project Leader Oracle 9i OCA; 3/4 OCP w) 973.267.5990 x458 w) 212.295.3458 -Original Message-From: April Wells [mailto:[EMAIL

Compare the *size* of different schemas

2003-11-21 Thread Seley, Linda
I'm wondering if someone has a better solution than mine (see below) to the following: We have a number of schemas that get cloned from our production schema (more on that later). I need to be able to compare the size of the production schema to the target schema and determine how much the

Re: Compare the *size* of different schemas

2003-11-21 Thread Mladen Gogala
Linda, a stupid question: why are you comparing extents instead of number of records? If my memory serves me right, there used to be things like NUM_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LEN in ALL_TABLES or DBA_TABLES. All you need is to run DBMS_STATS regularly and, voila, you've got yourself an accurate rowcount.

RE: Compare the *size* of different schemas

2003-11-21 Thread Seley, Linda
We aren't running statistics against these schemas. When we were they caused extremely poor performance so they were removed. I haven't been able to get sign-off yet on re-instating them in test. Given that it's an ASP system with relatively few tuned queries I think it's likely that they'd

Oracle and Firewall

2003-11-21 Thread Seema Singh
Hi, We are using Oracle817 on Windows with netscreen firewall.I have been noticing after some times applications start connecting form 1521 to 1034 and so.IS this normal ?I want port 1521 Only in use. How to fix this problem? thx -Seema

RE: NT/WINDOWS 2000 resources for ORACLE

2003-11-21 Thread M Rafiq
Niall and all other colleagues, Thanks very much for your input on this subject. Very nice and productive info so far. I agree that it is more click and select requirement but I needed some more insight which I got it. There are 2 good books for Oracle on Windows 2000 in the market and are

RE: Compare the *size* of different schemas

2003-11-21 Thread Stephane Faroult
Linda, When I saw your reference to 'cloning' below, I first thought you were taking physical copies of your files. Perhaps this is something you might want to consider in the future. For one thing, you just have to add up file sizes to see how much space is required on the target machine.

RE: Oracle and Firewall

2003-11-21 Thread Luc . Demanche
Hi Seema, Take a look on this document #131524.1 on Metalink. You will have to add an entry in the registry to force the connection to only use the port 1521 USE_SHARED_SOCKET=TRUE Luc -Original Message- Sent: November 21, 2003 11:21 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, We

RE: Compare the *size* of different schemas

2003-11-21 Thread Seley, Linda
Thanks for replying. I can't do clones (we do for our apps database) because one schema in the production database becomes 6 (soon to be 12) schemas in a single QA database. In addition we can't refresh them all at the same time (nor do we have the space to have 12 separate databases). I

RE: pl/sql question and owa_pattern question

2003-11-21 Thread Guang Mei
Hi Stephane: Thanks for your good suggestion. I compared the method you suggested and the orginal one and it indeed boosted the performance (in my simple test). However the ONLY problem I am having is that by doing TRANSLATE, I lost the original delimits. The new method (you suggested)

Re: Oracle and Firewall

2003-11-21 Thread Arup Nanda
Seema, This is a typical misconception on the workings of Net8. Port 1521 is only used to contact the listener, after that the listener might: a) create a server process which listens on a port other than 1521 OR b) pass the connection to a prespawned server process, again on a different port.

SQL comparison addition: Resolution...

2003-11-21 Thread Chris Stephens
A few weeks ago I had a problem with the following query not returning rows: Select count(*) . from global.client_dim a where a.reports_login = sys_context('userenv','session_user'); even though the following query indicated a match (thanks to whomever suggested I dump the fields): SQL select

RE: pl/sql question and owa_pattern question

2003-11-21 Thread Guang Mei
Perl is a good tool for text processing. But our program is already written in pl/sql long time ago and there are intensive db calls in this pl/sql program. (text processing is only part of it). So I can not change that. BTW I did a comparison study a while ago for some of our pl/sql packages

Re: Using miss-spelled hint changes explain plan ...

2003-11-21 Thread Daniel Fink
This makes sense. Imagine the problems if the CBO scanned for any valid hint in comment code after SELECT. A developer inserts /*+ Removed the following hint due to poor performance FULL(A) */ to indicate that the hint was causing performance problems. Lo and behold, the problems continue. Daniel

RE: pl/sql question and owa_pattern question

2003-11-21 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Guang, Well you are almost there ... you need fifo structure namely a pl/sql array 1. create a local pl/sql array to store the delimiter (store the ascii value of the delimiter to be safe) my_array (varchar2(5)) 2. as you find a delimiter insert into the first position in the array and

Re: pl/sql question and owa_pattern question

2003-11-21 Thread Mladen Gogala
PL/SQL is the fastest thing of them all when it comes to executing SQL commands, but there are things which simply aren't practical in 9.2 PL/SQL. Regular expression processing is one of those things. Fortunately, you can mix the two. Without DBI, perl scripts simply woudn't be very useful. Of

RE: Oracle and Firewall

2003-11-21 Thread Thater, William
Arup Nanda scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: (1) use firewall around the subnet where both app/web server and db server exist; not a firewall between them. (2) Use TCP Node checking to restrict Net8 traffic to the db server only from the app server. (3) Use Connection Manager. USing

Re: pl/sql question and owa_pattern question

2003-11-21 Thread Daniel Hanks
Would extproc_perl fit well enough, though, until 10g is here? On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Mladen Gogala wrote: PL/SQL is the fastest thing of them all when it comes to executing SQL commands, but there are things which simply aren't practical in 9.2 PL/SQL. Regular expression processing is one of