RE: dbms_stats

2003-12-03 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
Maybe I didn't make my point clear enough. If you use dbms_stats.gather_table_stats with " method_opt=>''for all indexed columns size 2' ", i.e. any other than size 1, dbms_stats in Oracle 8i will issue an "analyze ... " command to gather the statistics. Run a sql_trace if you don't believe me

RE: Odd relink problem on Redhat 3.0

2003-12-03 Thread Rognes, Sten
This is a 9.2.0.4/Linux bug. Check out Metalink Doc ID 474525.996 for the specifics. Sten -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 8:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I recently installed Oracle 9iR2 9.2.0.1 on Redhat Enterprise 3.0, install went fine. After

Re: ORACLE JOINS CERN OPENLAB TO ADVANCE GRID COMPUTING

2003-12-03 Thread Tanel Poder
I think one of the pluses of Objectivity was also the ability to cluster it over lots of small/cheap computers (even without sharing the storage..) Tanel. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 1:39 AM > Ora

RE: Oracle and JMeter configuration

2003-12-03 Thread Richard Ji
What's your CLASSPATH? It seems that the classes12.zip isn't on your CLASSPATH. -Original Message- From: Louis Avrami [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 12/3/2003 7:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Cc: Subject:Oracle and JMeter configuration Hello all

Re: dbms_support on 8i

2003-12-03 Thread vikas arora
test - Original Message - From: Yechiel Adar To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 5:59 PM Subject: Re: dbms_support on 8i I checked for 8.1.6.3.4 and 8.1.7.0 on windows. Not there.   Yechiel AdarMehish --

Odd relink problem on Redhat 3.0

2003-12-03 Thread Mike Bates
I recently installed Oracle 9iR2 9.2.0.1 on Redhat Enterprise 3.0, install went fine. After installing I did a relink of oracle - no problems except standards (OEM and CTX). After applying 9.2.0.4 I am now getting the following error messages from relink: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$ relink all /u

RE: dbms_stats

2003-12-03 Thread Bala, Prakash
The reason why we switched from 'analyze table .. 10 percent' is because when we partitioned some of the huge tables, the query performance against these tables was really bad. 'Gather_table_stats' with size 2 on indexed columns did a much better job. Have you had issues with 'analyze' against p

RE: ORACLE JOINS CERN OPENLAB TO ADVANCE GRID COMPUTING

2003-12-03 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
This is really getting OT, and there have been quite a few mergers, but they were once called something like Northern Telephone and are based some where in Canada. Ian -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 7:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L which telecom c

RE: dbms_stats

2003-12-03 Thread Bala, Prakash
Rich, I went thru the archives. Are you using the option 'cascade=>true' for gather_table_stats? -Original Message- Jesse, Rich Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 4:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Yes -- same platform and version. If you look on the list archives (fatci

Programmatically redefining authid setting on packages

2003-12-03 Thread AdamDonahue
Folks, Is there a way to change the authid setting of a package via a simple procedure, e.g., alter package x authid current_user; I believe this is a compile-time setting, part of the source of the package (user_source, dbms_metadata output), which leads me to believe there's no simp

ETAGON...

2003-12-03 Thread Gunnar Berglund
Hi all,   I would like to hear, if you have any experience concering Etagon...   Short review:   Etagon is an Israeli company and their product is Data Center Automation SW focussing initially on Oracle 9i RAC clustering SW. Etagon claims that their SW can produce fundamental savings in 9i RAC inst

Re: ORACLE JOINS CERN OPENLAB TO ADVANCE GRID COMPUTING

2003-12-03 Thread Ryan
which telecom company? - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 6:39 PM > Oracle was by no means ready to support a database as large as Babar's. When the experiment began, the biggest Oracle databases were aro

Oracle and JMeter configuration

2003-12-03 Thread Louis Avrami
Hello all, I'm trying to set up JMeter version 1.9.1, http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/index.html for some testing on an Oracle 8.1.7.4 database on Solaris 2.8. We're running JDK 1.3, which according to the JMeter website should work with JMeter 1.9. I've unpacked JMeter and copied the Orac

Oracle and JMeter configuration

2003-12-03 Thread Louis Avrami
Hello all, I'm trying to set up JMeter version 1.9.1, http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/index.html for some testing on an Oracle 8.1.7.4 database on Solaris 2.8. We're running JDK 1.3, which according to the JMeter website should work with JMeter 1.9. I've unpacked JMeter and copied the Orac

Re: select via dblink does not use index

2003-12-03 Thread Stephane Faroult
Yechiel Adar wrote: > > I did a select like: > > select name from local_table , remote_table > where local_table.account = remote_table.account. > > Remote table is a view with dblink. > > I select about 100 records out of about 1M records at the remote db. > > I found out that oracle does ful

Collaboration suite Question

2003-12-03 Thread Brian Haas
If anyone is using Oracle collaboration suite, could you tell me what hardware you recommend and/or are using? We expect around 1000 users and will probably use the mail,calendar and files. Specifically, what type of storage/server are you using for the storage infrastructure? Thanks, -Brian

RE: Reporting database

2003-12-03 Thread Carel-Jan Engel
With no APPS experience as a DBA I wonder what archive log mode can do for you with all these nologging objects. This does effectively mean that a recovery operation will fail! I do not know the amount of transactions these objects are involved in, but you might try (and test thouroughly before

RE: ORACLE JOINS CERN OPENLAB TO ADVANCE GRID COMPUTING

2003-12-03 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Oracle was by no means ready to support a database as large as Babar's. When the experiment began, the biggest Oracle databases were around one terabyte. There was also the RD45 project at CERN which weighed heavily on the decision. If we were to do it now, we would probably use Oracle. I

Re: Reporting database

2003-12-03 Thread VICTORIA_PIERCE
We create a Reporting database nightly from the hot backups of  a Production Financials 11.0.3 database.  The Reporting database is on its own server (UNIX).  There is a full Oracle and Applications environment on the Reporting server.  What I do as part of the hot backup script, is copy over the

Re: Oracle websites

2003-12-03 Thread Pete Finnigan
Thanks for that Patrice, i will watch out for it. kind regards Pete In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Boivin, Patrice J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Not sure, but when you patch XP, keep an eye out for this in 2004 -- I heard >a rumour that the next Service Pack for XP may turn the XP firewall back

Re: ORACLE JOINS CERN OPENLAB TO ADVANCE GRID COMPUTING

2003-12-03 Thread Ryan
how many people are using objectivity? seems like object oriented databases are only used in academia? i went to the website and didnt see much documentation. why did you go with that over oracle? - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed

RE: Reporting database

2003-12-03 Thread Faan DeSwardt
Kader, Just a word of caution when considering options. Keep an eye on all the Apps objects that have NOLOGGING set. Last time I checked there were over a thousand of those which were mostly indexes but there are some tables among them. These are a real pain when using redo log refreshing/up

RE: partitioning option licensing

2003-12-03 Thread Grant Allen
-Original Message- Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2003 01:25 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L As of 9iR2, partitioning is still licensed separately as a $10K (retail) extra charge per processor. So, the total retail comes to a painful $50K per processor for 9i + Partitioning. Also

RE: ORACLE JOINS CERN OPENLAB TO ADVANCE GRID COMPUTING

2003-12-03 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
We currently hist the world's largest database. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BFROOT/www/Public/Computing/Databases/index.shtml But LHC will be larger. This experiment preceded the idea of the grid. No doubt, some of the work we have done to share the data among collaborators will be used in g

Re: dbms_stats

2003-12-03 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
In Oracle 8i you may as well stick with analyze since the dbms_stats call you use translates simply into a "analyze table ... ESTIMATE statistics sample 10 percent FOR TABLE FOR ALL INDEXES for all indexed columns size 2" Why did you go from a simple analyze to gathering histograms on all ind

Re: decrease initial extent

2003-12-03 Thread Mladen Gogala
I don't understand. Here is what manual says: deallocate_unused_clause Use the deallocate_unused_clause to explicitly deallocate unused space at the end of the table, partition or subpartition, overflow data segment, LOB data segment, or LOB index and make the space available for other segment

RE: ORACLE JOINS CERN OPENLAB TO ADVANCE GRID COMPUTING

2003-12-03 Thread Bobak, Mark
If you read the full text of the article pointed to by the URL in the original posting, you learn that 'LHC' is 'Large Hadron Collider', whatever that is. ;-) Mark J. Bobak Oracle DBA ProQuest Company Ann Arbor, MI "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of

Re: Unix scripts on Windows 2000 after installing MKS tool kit

2003-12-03 Thread M Rafiq
Carel, Thank you very much for your response and advise. I have started testing with little problem so far... Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 00:59:26 -0800 > Hi > > Has anybody experience with using

dbms_stats

2003-12-03 Thread Bala, Prakash
Title: RE: analyze after truncate Hello,   Oracle 8.1.7.4 on HP-UX 11i   A week ago, we replaced 'analyze table ... estimate statistics sample 10 percent' with dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats('x', estimate_percent=>10, cascade=>true, degree=>4, method_opt=>''for all indexed columns size 2')

Re: ORACLE JOINS CERN OPENLAB TO ADVANCE GRID COMPUTING

2003-12-03 Thread Ryan
what is an LHC? - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 3:44 PM > CERN estimates growth about 5-10 petabytes per year when they start their > LHC in 2007... > Data load rates vary up to 1,5GB per second. > >

Re: decrease initial extent

2003-12-03 Thread Daniel Fink
For tables/indexes, the minimum initial extent size is 2 blocks (8k = 2* 4k). Block 0 contains the segment header, block 1 contains the data/index entries. Daniel Fink   [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  Since I agreed with Mladen that it wouldn't work, I just had to test this.On 8.1.7.3 on OpenVMS the "

Re: View definition oddities

2003-12-03 Thread Jared . Still
The DBA_VIEWS view does not include the column names in the view. If you are really diligent, you could probably tear apart a trace file and learn how oracle is reassembling the view from the DD. A hard parse on a view can produce 250k of trace file. It is easier to recreate by generating the dd

UKOUG get together

2003-12-03 Thread Rachel Carmichael
In the same spirit that the list organizes a gathering at Openworld, we are planning a get together Sunday evening December 7th, at Jurys Inn, meeting around 7 or 7:30PM. Those list members who are attending UKOUG are more than welcome to join us. We are NOT organizing anything other than the gat

Re: Oracle websites

2003-12-03 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Agreed - It's like the case where I had a wonderful (pure SQL) workaround to a deficiency in partitioned tables in 8.0.5; and Oracle decided it was a bug, and fixed it in 8.0.6. How do explain that the database is now running 120 times more slowly because it's working properly ? Regards Jo

Re: Reporting database

2003-12-03 Thread Carel-Jan Engel
At 06:24 3-12-03 -0800, you wrote: Hi Listers, I'm about producing document to my boss about different strategies to build Informational database (reporting database) and ETL. Our production database is 9i supporting Oracle Financials 11i. I'm concerned about the strategies that have a minimum imp

RE: decrease initial extent

2003-12-03 Thread nelson . petersen
Title: RE: decrease initial extent Since I agreed with Mladen that it wouldn't work, I just had to test this.   On 8.1.7.3 on OpenVMS the "deallocate unused keep # " shrinks the initial extent. It shrank a test table from  1m to 8k.  I'm not sure why it chose 8k. (db_block_size=4k, defaul

Re: dbms_stats

2003-12-03 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I think there are various little (hah!) details that change with versions, but unless your analyze command was: analyze table T estimate statistics sample 10 percent for table for indexes for all indexed columns size 2 ; (I may have the sample clause in the wrong place

Re: Oracle websites

2003-12-03 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Yes, 40 MB so far. But it is quite subtle about it, and it only happens in my 'think time' whilst I'm online. Be prepared - the OEM 4.0 demo at IOUG said that OEM would call Oracle for you with an ORA-00600 trace, get the analysis done, download the (probable) patch, and install it for you auto

Re: _index_join_enabled in 9i

2003-12-03 Thread Jonathan Lewis
It disables index hash joins (hashing a scan of two indexes on a single table to generate a result without visiting the table). If you are upgrading, you weren't using that path before, so won't miss it if you switch it off now. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educate

RE: Oracle websites

2003-12-03 Thread Jesse, Rich
Did your wonderful XP box download patches from MS Support for you without telling? Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 3:00 PM To:

Re: Oracle websites

2003-12-03 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
I find almost as bad the situation where you DO find the problem and it turns out that it should never have worked in the first place. At 01:59 PM 12/3/2003, you wrote: Don't you hate it when you don't know why it IS working. Regards Jonathan Lewis Wolfgang Breitling Oracle7, 8, 8i, 9i OCP DBA C

RE: dbms_stats

2003-12-03 Thread Jesse, Rich
Yes -- same platform and version. If you look on the list archives (fatcity.com, for example) for a subject of "Burned by DBMS_STATS **AGAIN**" back in April 2003, you may get some insight. There are also known bugs in GATHER_SCHEMA_STATS in 8i. The recommendation is to iteratively call GATHER_T

Re: Oracle websites

2003-12-03 Thread Carel-Jan Engel
At 12:59 3-12-03 -0800, you wrote: Don't you hate it when you don't know why it IS working. Jonathan, give in, and sleep well tonight. Regards, Carel-Jan Regards, Carel-Jan -- There will allwasy be another 10 last bugs -- -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author:

RE: decrease initial extent

2003-12-03 Thread Alexander . Feinstein
Title: RE: decrease initial extent If you use "keep " it will. Alex. -Original Message- From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: decrease initial extent That will not do any

Re: decrease initial extent

2003-12-03 Thread Mladen Gogala
That will not do anything for the initial extent. You may try with alter table pray intensely for the desired change; On 12/03/2003 03:34:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > alter table deallocate unused keep 1; > > Alex. > > > -Original Message- > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003

Re: Oracle websites

2003-12-03 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Thanks to all for their suggestions - but it all started working for no apparent reason (HONEST - I didn't change a thing, reboot, restart the instance, make a cup of coffee, or sacrifice a black cockerel. At 9:23 pm it wasn't working, and 10:25 pm it was !) Don't you hate it when you don't kno

Re: select via dblink does not use index

2003-12-03 Thread Jonathan Lewis
What are the Oracle versions, settings for optimizer_mode and full execution plans. Can you clarify > Remote table is a view with dblink. Do you mean your query references a local view which is a select from a remote table; or does your query reference a view at a remote site which is a simpl

Re: Add/Drop partition and CBO statistics

2003-12-03 Thread mkline1
I've got a perfect application for partitioning by date. Each "month" is a new batch of data and everything is set for the last date of the month. But they asked me today, if we drop a partition of old data, and then add a new partition for the next month, load it, what needs analyzed? Is it en

_index_join_enabled in 9i

2003-12-03 Thread April Wells
Title: _index_join_enabled in 9i We have discovered an... opportunity... and Oracle's suggestion is to set _index_join_enabled = false Anyone seen any detrimental effects of setting this parameter to false in 9.2.0.#? April Wells Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA Corporate Systems Amarillo Texas

Re: decrease initial extent

2003-12-03 Thread Tanel Poder
Title: RE: decrease initial extent Just for note, 10g has alter table shrink opportunity :)   Tanel.   - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:34 PM Subject: RE: decrease initia

Re: ORACLE JOINS CERN OPENLAB TO ADVANCE GRID COMPUTING

2003-12-03 Thread Tanel Poder
CERN estimates growth about 5-10 petabytes per year when they start their LHC in 2007... Data load rates vary up to 1,5GB per second. I would work there even for free for some time ;) Tanel. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednes

RE: decrease initial extent

2003-12-03 Thread Alexander . Feinstein
Title: RE: decrease initial extent alter table deallocate unused keep 1; Alex. -Original Message- From: Yechiel Adar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: decrease initial extent Is there any w

RE: Oracle websites

2003-12-03 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Not sure, but when you patch XP, keep an eye out for this in 2004 -- I heard a rumour that the next Service Pack for XP may turn the XP firewall back on. Patrice. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 4:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Jonathan, I bough

Re: ORACLE JOINS CERN OPENLAB TO ADVANCE GRID COMPUTING

2003-12-03 Thread ryan_oracle
are you using a grid at stanford? how much data do they have at CERN? > > From: "MacGregor, Ian A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/12/03 Wed PM 02:49:32 EST > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: ORACLE JOINS CERN OPENLAB TO ADVANCE GRID COMPUTING > > http://

Re: decrease initial extent

2003-12-03 Thread Mladen Gogala
Yechiel, I thought that the mantra of oracle sales people was "disks are cheap", which i very correct, especially when they don't pay for the disks from their own pockets. What is measly 130M today? My son stores music in GB, not MB. Surely, you company can afford an iPod sized disk? On 12/03/20

Re: Oracle websites

2003-12-03 Thread Pete Finnigan
Hi Jonathan, I bought a new PC sometime back similar to you, xp norton firewall and virus and i had a problem with norton to start with. I found the solution was the built in windows firewall was also turned on. You can check this in the start->control panel->network connections->right click on is

View definition oddities

2003-12-03 Thread Poras, Henry R.
I found something strange when trying to copy a view from one database to another. I spooled the text from dba_views and ran the CREATE VIEW AS ... statement. There was an error because one of the fields needed an alias (it was SUBSTR(xxx)). I went back to the source database and poked around a bit

select via dblink does not use index

2003-12-03 Thread Yechiel Adar
I did a select like: select name from local_table , remote_table where local_table.account = remote_table.account. Remote table is a view with dblink. I select about 100 records out of about 1M records at the remote db. I found out that oracle does full table scan at the remote site. I will we

ORACLE JOINS CERN OPENLAB TO ADVANCE GRID COMPUTING

2003-12-03 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
http://www.interactions.org/cms/?pid=1008211 Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: MacGregor, Ian A. INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.

Re: decrease initial extent

2003-12-03 Thread Yechiel Adar
Thank you. OK. Another 130MB down the drain. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 8:49 PM > You can move it after you convert the long field to LOB. As it is one > of the system tables w

Re: Oracle 9i on Fedora

2003-12-03 Thread Joe Frohne
Thanks to all who replied. I thought I had installed compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.118, but I missed it and it didn't trigger right away in my brain when the error popped out :) Thanks, Joe -- Joe Frohne Rawson Oaks Consulting, Remote Oracle Admins http://www.rawsonoaks.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EM

Re: Oracle 9i on Fedora

2003-12-03 Thread Joe Frohne
Thanks to all who replied. I thought I had installed compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.118, but I missed it and it didn't trigger right away in my brain when the error popped out :) Thanks, Joe -- Joe Frohne Rawson Oaks Consulting, Remote Oracle Admins http://www.rawsonoaks.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EM

Fwd: RE: raw traces - EXEC: c=10,000 e=40

2003-12-03 Thread Boris Dali
Yes, turning time_statistics off (at the session level) gets rid of all the times() calls. Further turning off timed_os_statistics (from 5 to 0) gets rid of getrusage() as well, leaving only gettimeofday() calls Thanks, Boris Dali. --- Boris Dali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Wed, 03 Dec 20

RE: raw traces - EXEC: c=10,000 e=40

2003-12-03 Thread Cary Millsap
You're on the right trail by experimenting with it. I'm surprised that the number of gettimeofday() calls is so small. The times() call is the SVR4 analog of the BSD getrusage() call. I guess I shouldn't be surprised to see both times() and getrusage() being used. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises

RE: raw traces - EXEC: c=10,000 e=40

2003-12-03 Thread Nelson, Allan
The gettimeofday() function obtains the current time, expressed as seconds and microseconds since 00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), January 1, 1970, and stores it in the timeval structure pointed to by tp. The resolution of the system clock is unspecified. The getrusage

Re: decrease initial extent

2003-12-03 Thread Mladen Gogala
You can move it after you convert the long field to LOB. As it is one of the system tables which appears in noexp$, it's not guaranteed that your database will work afterward. OK, let me restate it: it's guaranteed that it will not work. Other then that, it's only exp/imp of the full database, and

Re: Perl / MySQL

2003-12-03 Thread Jared . Still
This isn't new:  am I missing something here? DENNIS WILLIAMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  12/02/2003 07:59 PM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:                 Subject:        Per

Re: ** can two processes use the same rollback extent

2003-12-03 Thread Rajesh . Rao
And to further refine that statement and IIRC, a transaction will not use an extent E, that already has an active transaction in it, when the transaction has filled up the previous extent S, and is now looking to wrap into a new extent E. However, a fresh transaction can always be allocated space

Re: Oracle 9i on Fedora

2003-12-03 Thread Daniel Hanks
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Joe Frohne wrote: > Hi, > > I am running into a problem installing Oracle 9i on Fedora. I get > the following error when starting the Oracle installer. > > error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or direc

RE: raw traces - EXEC: c=10,000 e=40

2003-12-03 Thread Boris Dali
Is this true? strace-ing on linux shows gettimeofday calls (for e) and getrusage (for c) - just like Cary describes. On HP however tusc-ing a simple "select * from dual" issued from sqlplus I see: calls sys call - 1 gettimeofday() 1 getrusage() 15times() Which sys call is

decrease initial extent

2003-12-03 Thread Yechiel Adar
Is there any way to decrease the initial extent allocated to a table. It is one of the system tables, so I do not want to drop and recreate it. I can not export/import as it appear in noexp$. It has long field so I can not do alter table move. Yechiel Adar Mehish -- Please see the official ORACLE

Re: FW: raw traces - EXEC: c=10,000 e=40

2003-12-03 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
Thanks for the clarification. At 10:29 AM 12/3/2003, you wrote: Wolfgang, The OS has always provided microsecond data to the Oracle kernel (see the 'man gettimeofday' and 'man getrusage'). It's only in release 9 that the Oracle kernel stopped truncating the data at the centisecond digit (by doing

Re: Oracle 9i on Fedora

2003-12-03 Thread Mladen Gogala
I haven't tried with Fedora and I don't intend until core 2 is out, but what you need is standard C++ rel 6.1. On RH-9, the required RPM is compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.118 On 12/03/2003 11:34:24 AM, Joe Frohne wrote: > Hi, > > I am running into a problem installing Oracle 9i on Fedora. I get > t

RE: what is the difference between shared nothing and shared everything?

2003-12-03 Thread Matthew Zito
Shared-everything is even more tightly-coupled than RAC - shared-everything is communal memory bus, shared I/O channel, etc - many people list SMP as a shared-everything cluster, though something like a NUMA cluster is more appropriate. RAC would be defined as a "Shared-something" cluster - there

RE: what happened to baarf.net?

2003-12-03 Thread Bobak, Mark
Try http://www.baarf.com/ -Mark Mark J. Bobak Oracle DBA ProQuest Company Ann Arbor, MI "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is." --Unknown -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003

what happened to baarf.net?

2003-12-03 Thread ryan_oracle
anyone got the articles about why raid 5 is bad for databases? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list

FW: raw traces - EXEC: c=10,000 e=40

2003-12-03 Thread Cary Millsap
Wolfgang, The OS has always provided microsecond data to the Oracle kernel (see the 'man gettimeofday' and 'man getrusage'). It's only in release 9 that the Oracle kernel stopped truncating the data at the centisecond digit (by doing an integer division of 1). Oracle gets elapsed times by com

what is the difference between shared nothing and shared everything?

2003-12-03 Thread ryan_oracle
this has to do with RAC right? oracle uses shared everything and ibm uses shared nothing right? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego,

RE: Which storage solution is good or you will recommend

2003-12-03 Thread Matthew Zito
The high end arrays from EMC and Hitachi, and to a lesser extent NetApp, all have this sort of dial-home functionality. I can't speak for Hitachi (though I've heard good things), but the Symmetrix will dial home for events that seem completely inocuous (a host is rebooted that is attached to the

Re: ** can two processes use the same rollback extent

2003-12-03 Thread Daniel Fink
IIRC, a segment will not wrap into an extent that has an active transaction in it, but rather allocate a new extent. So the answer is...it depends. Daniel Fink A Joshi wrote:   Hi,     One rollback segment can be used by multiple transactions/processes but what about the extents? Is it safe to as

RE: Oracle 9i on Fedora

2003-12-03 Thread Jesse, Rich
Dear fellow Cheesehead, If anyone has figured out 9i on Fedora, Werner Puschitz has: http://www.puschitz.com GL! Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- Sent: Wednesda

RE: Which storage solution is good or you will recommend

2003-12-03 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Bambi ... Day Dreaming again ... are we? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having an opinion is an art ! -

RE: Which storage solution is good or you will recommend

2003-12-03 Thread Bellow, Bambi
> We lost a board on our 9970 and it phoned home and a hitachi tech was here the > next day to replace it and we didn't even know it was broken. They replace > boards and upgrade firmware live. We had the same experience with EMC. Talk about service! Can you imagine getting a phone call...

Oracle 9i on Fedora

2003-12-03 Thread Joe Frohne
Hi, I am running into a problem installing Oracle 9i on Fedora. I get the following error when starting the Oracle installer. error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I figured I would ask if anybody has worked thr

RE: Anyone run into this strange ORA-00904 error ??

2003-12-03 Thread Richard Ji
I have also seen a case where new line or other weird ASCII charater find they way into the name that could cause this behavior. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sometimes the upper case and lower case get mixed up in

ora-01008 oci migration

2003-12-03 Thread Jeroen van Sluisdam
Hi,   We are migrating from oracle 7.3.4.3 to oracle 9.2.0.4 without changing clientcode which is built with oci 7 for oracle 7 db. Code gives this error while printing all bind variables with values such that I can only conclude all variables are bound. Binding doesn't produce an e

Re: Oracle and Active Directory

2003-12-03 Thread Yechiel Adar
1) I also heard that OID is not good before 9.2.0.4. You can however install 9.2.0.4 with OID and use it for authenticating users that are connecting to 8.1.6 (and probably 8.1.7 but I did not tested it). 2) MS has a product called MIIS. It should update the OID with any changes done in AD. Yechie

Re: Anyone run into this strange ORA-00904 error ??

2003-12-03 Thread Peter Barnett
Sometimes the upper case and lower case get mixed up in the data dictionary. I know that Oracle claims case insensitivity but it happens. Take a look at sys.col$ and sys.obj$. --- Krishna Kakatur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you check grants on the table? > > This happens sometimes, with

RE: Copying stats between/amongst schemas

2003-12-03 Thread Orr, Steve
Thanks Wolfgang, That's what I was thinking. I figured a "hack" to one of those less than intuitive c# columns would neatly do the trick so I thought I'd ask if anyone had done it before I started down that road myself. Request for Enhancement to Oracle Corp., add a procedure to the dbms_stats pac

Re: xml formatting problem after upgrade to 9.2.0.3 from 9.2.0.1

2003-12-03 Thread M.Godlewski
Jake,   You may want to check the xml or xmldb form on otn.oracle.com.  I seem to recall seeing a similar question.  I tried to run a search, but the site is 404 at this time for me.Jake Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since I upgraded to 9.2.0.3 my xml is no longer indented. Any ideas?9.2.0.1JD

Oracle Internet Directory and Active Directory Integration

2003-12-03 Thread McBain, Neil SITI-ITDIEEE
Title: Oracle Internet Directory and Active Directory Integration Embarrassed by Google/OTN, after stating I had not had time to verify what version integrates with AD, I spent 10 mins on Google and OTN (Oracle Technology Network) and hey presto :- "With Oracle9i Application Server 9.0.4, O

Re: RE: partitioning option licensing

2003-12-03 Thread ryan_oracle
never pay retail with oracle licensing. who pays the full $10k? If your buying other stuff you should be able to knock off alot. Never pay the full amount. > > From: David Wagoner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/12/03 Wed AM 09:24:38 EST > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: log_archive_dest_2

2003-12-03 Thread Tanel Poder
Try archive log stop; and archive log start; after setting the parameters.. Tanel. > Hi All, > > When I set log_archive_dest_2 to a valid local destination > Dynamically on 8.1.7.0 it is not generating the archive files.. > It is generating the archive files on on log_archive_dest_1 > > I even

RE: partitioning option licensing

2003-12-03 Thread Simpson, Ken
> -Original Message- > > Hi, > We're looking into migrating from SQL server to Oracle. Does > anyone know if > Partitioning option is still licensed separately? > > Thanks. > > pat Having just met with an Oracle rep yesterday. Yes, it is still licensed separately. -- Please see the o

RE: partitioning option licensing

2003-12-03 Thread David Wagoner
Title: RE: partitioning option licensing As of 9iR2, partitioning is still licensed separately as a $10K (retail) extra charge per processor.  So, the total retail comes to a painful $50K per processor for 9i + Partitioning.  Also, remember that support costs X% of the licensing per year, depe

Reporting database

2003-12-03 Thread Kader Ben
Hi Listers, I'm about producing document to my boss about different strategies to build Informational database (reporting database) and ETL. Our production database is 9i supporting Oracle Financials 11i. I'm concerned about the strategies that have a minimum impact on the overload of production

log_archive_dest_2

2003-12-03 Thread bhabani s pradhan
Hi All, When I set log_archive_dest_2 to a valid local destination Dynamically on 8.1.7.0 it is not generating the archive files.. It is generating the archive files on on log_archive_dest_1 I even tried with the following settings .. 1] both log_archive_dest_1 and log_archive_dest_2 made MANDA

partitioning option licensing

2003-12-03 Thread Patricia Zhu
Hi, We're looking into migrating from SQL server to Oracle. Does anyone know if Partitioning option is still licensed separately? Thanks. pat _ Our best dial-up offer is back. Get MSN Dial-up Internet Service for 6 months @ $9.95

Re: Add/Drop partition and CBO statistics

2003-12-03 Thread zhu chao
Reply in lines. Zhu Chao - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 7:29 PM > Agreed that scanning one big index is faster than many partitions. > > Then raises the questions - I thought partitioning is for: >

RE: Anyone run into this strange ORA-00904 error ??

2003-12-03 Thread babette.turnerunderwood
Title: Message Thanks for all the ideas folks we decided to restore the TEST database instead of pursue so we would have less down time (problem was relatively recent). THEN in the middle of cold backup restore, I started seeing the same thing in my development instance . !!!  

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