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2003-11-28 Thread Prem Khanna J
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RE: SQL and PL/SQL tuning template document required urgently

2003-11-28 Thread Dunscombe, Chris
Dennis, Excellent recommendation, Guy Harrison's book (2nd Edition) is excellent the best I've seen on SQL tuning. I've used it for a number of years. I had the 1st edition and then bought the 2nd when it came out. Cheers, Chris -Original Message- Sent: 29 October 2003 15:49 To:

RE: ORA-1000 and pl/sql cursor cache

2003-11-28 Thread Lord David
Jared Thanks for the response. I've had a play and here are the conclusions: - 1) The cache controlled by session_cached_cursors is entirely separate from the pl/sql static cursor cache. You can turn the former off by setting session_cached_cursors to zero, but you can only turn the latter off

Re: an article comparing Oracle to other databases

2003-11-28 Thread Tanel Poder
And since we all know that memory accesses are ~14k times faster than disk, these benchmarks just drive the point home. Of course you talk about raw memory access vs. raw disk access here... When you have several memory protection and disk caching mechanisms these figures will change.. Tanel.

Semi-OT...dbazine

2003-11-28 Thread Connor McDonald
Anyone noticed www.dbazine.com... This domain has temporarily been disabled. To restore the domain, contact your Customer Support. Ooops... = Connor McDonald web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk web: http://www.oaktable.net email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GIVE a man a fish and he will eat for a day.

Re: Semi-OT...dbazine

2003-11-28 Thread Tanel Poder
Yep, and it has been like that for several days already Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 3:34 PM Anyone noticed www.dbazine.com... This domain has temporarily been disabled. To restore the

RE: analyze after truncate

2003-11-28 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: analyze after truncate I once took over an old database which hadn't been analyzed in nearly a year, so I started analyzing it every two weeks. For the most part things stayed the same or got faster; however, one procedure would sometimes, only sometimes, take a lot longer. Come

Re: Semi-OT...dbazine

2003-11-28 Thread ryan_oracle
maybe its running on sql server? From: Connor McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/11/28 Fri AM 08:34:25 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Semi-OT...dbazine Anyone noticed www.dbazine.com... This domain has temporarily been disabled. To restore

RE: How to stop XDB

2003-11-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Tanel - Thanks! That is sort of what I did. I shut down the listener and let them start the other process that wanted port 8080. Then I restarted the listener and it griped because it couldn't have that port, but everything else seemed to come up okay. I don't like rude surprises just as I had my

RE: Cobol redefine in SQL

2003-11-28 Thread Stephane Paquette
And I thought that all old people knew cobol ;-) I'll try to think of a solution that does involve creating many tables per redefine statement. Stephane Paquette Administrateur de bases de donnees Database Administrator Standard Life www.standardlife.ca Tel. (514) 499-7999 poste 7470

Negative impact of SESSION_CACHED_CURSORS parameter

2003-11-28 Thread jaysingh1
Hi List, In our DB we see huge number of softparses during the load test. So I thought of setting SESSION_CACHED_CURSORS parameter to positive number(100) to take advantage of SOFTER SOFT PARSE. But I am getting negative impact. Kindly advice me what is going on here. Version :8.1.7.3 OS: Sun

Re: OS Level Defrag

2003-11-28 Thread Brian_P_MacLean
Sorry can't help with the when did it happened question. But in defense of the SysAdmin, I have seen the benefits of defraging on both Unix and NT. In the NT case the defraging was caused by lots of small fragments caused by the datafile being auto extended in short increments, and that being

Re: Who Wrote ...

2003-11-28 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
Michael: You can find this layout in the book Oracle8i DBA Handbook by Kevin Loney Marlene Theriault. Chapter 4 discusses this scenario in detail. Going from the optimum of 22 disks to the minimum of 7. You can probably find it in other text books. Hope this helps, Ken Janusz, CPIM -

RE: Cobol redefine in SQL

2003-11-28 Thread Carel-Jan Engel
At 06:49 28-11-03 -0800, you wrote: And I thought that all old people knew cobol ;-) I'll try to think of a solution that does involve creating many tables per redefine statement. I thought you needed every redefine in the same table? So you mean 'many into table clauses' ISO 'many

Re: an article comparing Oracle to other databases

2003-11-28 Thread Jared Still
Perhaps you missed the sarcasm in my response. On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 03:14, Tanel Poder wrote: And since we all know that memory accesses are ~14k times faster than disk, these benchmarks just drive the point home. Of course you talk about raw memory access vs. raw disk access here...

Re: RE: Parse Vs Execute

2003-11-28 Thread Jared Still
By using DBMS_SQL you can open a cursor and re-execute as many times as needed. You can't do that with execute immediate. On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 12:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i remember in tom kytes new book there is a 'softer parse' he was referring to using dbms_sql instead of execute

RE: Cobol redefine in SQL

2003-11-28 Thread Stephane Paquette
Sorry, it was a typo, I meant a solution that does not involve creating many tables per redefine statement. Stéphane -Original Message- Carel-Jan Engel Sent: 28 novembre, 2003 11:49 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L At 06:49 28-11-03 -0800, you wrote: And I thought that all

RE: Cobol redefine in SQL

2003-11-28 Thread Carel-Jan Engel
At 10:29 28-11-03 -0800, you wrote: Sorry, it was a typo, I meant a solution that does not involve creating many tables per redefine statement. Stéphane Allright, success! Regards, Carel-Jan -- There will allwasy be another 10 last bugs -- -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

OT - MVS / Java / Oracle 9iAS

2003-11-28 Thread babette.turnerunderwood
Title: OT - MVS / Java / Oracle 9iAS I am a Java-idiot. I am hoping some of the brilliant people on this list can help me A developer came to me with a problem they are having. He is setting up a JVM to run under USS (Unix System Services) on OS/390 v2.10 He has java code that uses

Re: an article comparing Oracle to other databases

2003-11-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
Well, all of those benchmarks could be summarized in a single sentence: Oracle is the best, ite missa est. On 11/28/2003 12:19:25 PM, Jared Still wrote: Perhaps you missed the sarcasm in my response. On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 03:14, Tanel Poder wrote: And since we all know that memory accesses

RE: migration sequence oci problem

2003-11-28 Thread Jeroen van Sluisdam
It's solved. The oci-code must be changed when going from oracle 7 to Oracle 8 or 9. When a sequence.nextval is called using a float_type you get returned Duplicates. Not only the type of column returned must be changed but the buffer etc .. also Thanks, Jeroen

Oracle to MS-SQL Replication

2003-11-28 Thread Nikhil Khimani
LG, Any pointers, white papers, URL, etc.on how to replicate data from Oracle 8i/9i to M$-SQL2K? Many thanks, Nick Khimani

RE: OS Level Defrag

2003-11-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Sujatha - If it helps, we have Tru64 and 8.1.6 here. My sys admin has defragged the disk quite a few times with no apparent ill effects. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 7:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: an article comparing Oracle to other databases

2003-11-28 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Patrice - By technical, do you mean a feature comparison or a performance comparison. You might want to research the eWeek benchmark for the three a couple of years ago. They made extensive efforts to produce an objective performance analysis, but even at that they had another article later about

Test - Please Ignore

2003-11-28 Thread viraj2
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Re: Test - Please Ignore

2003-11-28 Thread Joe Testa
ignore viraj2 wrote: Ignore -- Joseph S Testa Chief Technology Officer Data Management Consulting 614-791-9000 It's all about the CACHE -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Joe Testa INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051