Re: Re: log_archive_dest_2

2003-12-04 Thread bhabani s pradhan
Yes. It worked.. Thanks a lot regards b s pradhan --- On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 Tanel Poder wrote : 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

Re: decrease initial extent

2003-12-04 Thread Yechiel Adar
Thanks to all who replied. Alter table/index deallocate keep 64k worked like a charm. I did not checked it in depth but I think that it keep 64k from the actual end of the data, not the high water mark. When I read the manual about keep nk I was sure that it means above the high water mark.

Re: ETAGON...

2003-12-04 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Etagon invited me to come and visit them at their stand at the UKOUG conference in Birmingham next week. Don't know if I'll have time or not, but in general I'm still looking for hard evidence of financial savings using RAC, ie a real comparison where switching to RAC (on whatever platform)

RE: Programmatically redefining authid setting on packages

2003-12-04 Thread Stephane Faroult
Adam, No, I don't think you can do it through DDL. For for regenerating and modifying the code, the simplest to use is DBA_SOURCE. HTH, SF - --- Original Message --- - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 03 Dec 2003

Problem with Null Valuies (grin!)

2003-12-04 Thread Robson, Peter
It is not only database designers who have these problems - check out this extraordinary verbatim quote from a certain well known international politician... Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are

Re: _index_join_enabled in 9i

2003-12-04 Thread Connor McDonald
My understanding is that the parm simply reverts you to pre-9 behaviour where index joins were not there, so there should be no major problems. hth connor --- April Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have discovered an... opportunity... and Oracle's suggestion is to set _index_join_enabled

Varray Problem

2003-12-04 Thread B3D70
Hi there ... I have a table with a Varray Columns. When I used a select operation without access the varray columns the explain plan show fine.. cost = 4 but when I access the Varray columns then I got the cost = 1310 Why ? What happend ? and why oracle did it ? Someone can explain it to me ?

RE: Problem with Null Valuies (grin!)

2003-12-04 Thread nelson flores
He won a British award for that one ;) It beat the Schwarzenegger quote I think that gay marriages should be between Men and Women ... interesting point of view. (I live in California by the way :S) -Original Message- Robson, Peter Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:39 AM To:

RE: dbms_support on 8i

2003-12-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Failed. 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 ! -Original

How windows manage memory: oracle

2003-12-04 Thread zhu chao
Hi, friends: Several months ago there is a thread talking about choosing the proper memory size for windows server running oracle. And today I logon to one of my small oracle on NT and found something I cannot understand. It is a small application running Oracle 817/win2k. SGA is

Re: select via dblink does not use index

2003-12-04 Thread Yechiel Adar
Here are all the details: Source database 9.2.0.4 (upgrade from 8.1.6.3.4). Target database 8.1.6.3.4. View definition: create view my_view as select * from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sql: select * from local_table , my_view where local_table.branch = 1 and my_view.customer = 200 +

RE: Oracle websites

2003-12-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Jonathan ... it is Microsoft product after all, you don't question why something happens. There is only one Golden Rule ... When in doubt, reboot ... and again Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All

java package to run OS command

2003-12-04 Thread John Dunn
I need a java package that will allow me to run OS commands(Unix) from a stored procedure. Anyone got one? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: John Dunn INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San

RE: java package to run OS command

2003-12-04 Thread Guerra, Abraham J
John, Try this: Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(/usr/bin/df -Pk); Abraham -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I need a java package that will allow me to run OS commands(Unix) from a stored procedure. Anyone got

Re: RE: java package to run OS command

2003-12-04 Thread ryan_oracle
expert one on one. check asktom.oracle.com might be on there also. From: John Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/04 Thu AM 09:44:29 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: java package to run OS command Which book is that? -Original

Change Manager

2003-12-04 Thread jaysingh1
Hi List, Does anyone use Change Manager software to keep track of the changes that went into the database. We have 25 environments and having difficult time to keep track of the changes between different release(version) within the same database and same release across different database. For

Re: How windows manage memory: oracle

2003-12-04 Thread zhu chao
Hi, But PGA is only 40M(This is the sum of all process's v$sesstat). So there is more memory utilization then oracle actually should use. From task manager, it is 2018(Physical+Virtual), But from oracle v$(sga + pga) it is only 1020M.This is the problem. Zhu Chao. - Original

RE: _index_join_enabled in 9i

2003-12-04 Thread Larry Elkins
The parameter makes available an access method as Jonathan described, and it *is* available in 8i, just defaults to false. And of course it isn't to be confused with join indexes, the type of index spanning multiple tables, introduced in 9i. Here's an 8i example, note the VIEW OF

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

2003-12-04 Thread Boris Dali
Cary, thanks a lot for the explanation (and the other one [and especially the other one :-) ]). Much appreciated. --- Cary Millsap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

RE: Odd relink problem on Redhat 3.0

2003-12-04 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hm...since I didn't run into this or any other problem installing 9.2.0.4 on Gentoo Linux plug plug, perhaps it's RHAS3-specific??? Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA -Original

Re: select via dblink does not use index

2003-12-04 Thread Yechiel Adar
Solved. It was a hash join with the smaller table first but it pulled the whole 1M records for this. There was a: where local_table.branch = 1 in the query. I changed it into: where remote_table.branch = 1 (there is an index on remote_table.branch) and it came down to 2 seconds. Thanks all.

RE: Odd relink problem on Redhat 3.0

2003-12-04 Thread Rognes, Sten
It's not the relink done during installation that's the problem, but running a relink manually using the relink script in $OH/bin. I've seen this problem on RHAS 2.1 and 3.0. Sten -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: dbms_stats

2003-12-04 Thread Jesse, Rich
Yes. At least I was before reverting back to ANALYZE. For our little 30GB DB, there's little penalty for non-parallel stats gathering on Saturdays. Then again, one could ANALYZE multiple tables at once to regain some parallelism in stats gathering... Rich Rich Jesse

RE: RMAN questions

2003-12-04 Thread Stephen.Lee
I suppose just how much redundancy makes you sleep well is up to you. But, one additional bit of info to keep in mind is that the backup info also gets stored in the control files, and rman can use those too if no catalog database is available. Making a copy of a control file after the backup

RE: decrease initial extent

2003-12-04 Thread Adams, Matthew (GECP, MABG, 088130)
Title: RE: decrease initial extent Mladen, Keep reading, it's further down. From the 8.1.7 SQL Reference Manual, under the ALTER TABLE entry (top of page 8-36): If you specify KEEP, then the specified amount of space is kept and the remaining space is freed. When the remaining number

RE: java package to run OS command

2003-12-04 Thread John Flack
Here's another link to a good Java Stored Procedure for this: http://www.oracle-base.com/Articles/8i/ShellCommandsFromPLSQL.asp But the same caveats apply. We're using an external procedure written in C for this instead of Java, and I use a shell that checks PRODUCT_PROFILE for authority to run

Re: Varray Problem

2003-12-04 Thread ryan_oracle
cost is irrelevant. ignore it. it doesnt matter. its internal for oracle. what docs are you using that say to use cost? none from oracle. they dont exist. have your Logical I/Os gone up? Has your response time gone up? I can guess as to why its more 'costly'? By accessing the varray do you do

RE: View definition oddities

2003-12-04 Thread Poras, Henry R.
Jared, Thanks, but what I was wondering is how the views got created in the first place. If the field name needs an alias (i.e. substr(x,i,j)) and you include this alias in the CREATE VIEW ddl, it will also appear in dba_views.text. If you don't include the alias in the DDL, the view won't

RE: java package to run OS command

2003-12-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
John, it is available on asktom as well, but read the caution Tom explains. Restrict it to only executables you want. Asktom has example. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this

oradebug suspend question

2003-12-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: oradebug suspend question Well, we are running into a situation We apply code release to production environment once a month. During that timeframe, we still have db open and everyone connected and working. Sometimes what happens is sometimes code causes invalids and it takes

RE: java package to run OS command

2003-12-04 Thread John Dunn
Which book is that? -Original Message- Sent: 04 December 2003 14:35 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L its in tom kytes first book. might be on his webpage. From: John Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/04 Thu AM 08:49:25 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RMAN questions

2003-12-04 Thread ryan_oracle
We have both 8i and 9i instances, but 'eventually' plan to migrate everything to 9i. I'm looking at using RMAN for our backup and recovery. We have many instances but essentially 2 types. 1. Production instances that have both OLAP and OLTP. These must be in archive log mode. 2. We have

RE: java package to run OS command

2003-12-04 Thread Hately, Mike (LogicaCMG)
One I've used in the past was supplied by Tom Kyte : http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:4723489521562622951::NO::F4950_P 8_DISPLAYID,F4950_P8_CRITERIA:952229840241, Cheers, Mike Hately -Original Message- Sent: 04 December 2003 13:49 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I

Re: RMAN questions

2003-12-04 Thread Yechiel Adar
I do not think you need 2 Rman catalogs. Build a small database just for Rman. After the daily backup finished bring it down and do os level backup of all the environment for this small backup. You can then easily restore it in case of disk problems. Remember: A backup is good only when you can

Re: RE: RMAN questions

2003-12-04 Thread ryan_oracle
i must have misread the docs. i thought it was either catalog or control file. didnt know you could do both thanks. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/04 Thu AM 11:04:26 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: RMAN questions I suppose just how

RE: View definition oddities

2003-12-04 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Henry-- Unless I misunderstand your question, the answer is that the aliases are supplied in the CREATE VIEW statement _before_ the view's query, e.g. create view foobar (col1, col2) as select sum(bytes), sum(blocks) from user_segments; --- Poras, Henry R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jared,

Re: RMAN questions

2003-12-04 Thread Yechiel Adar
backup of all the environment for this small backup. It should have been: for this small database. Sorry about the mistake. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 6:44 PM I do not think you

RE: java package to run OS command

2003-12-04 Thread John Dunn
yeah, I'm trying to get away from C external procedures ...but java is beginning to look just as much a hassle. Why is running a OS command such hassle? -Original Message- Sent: 04 December 2003 15:40 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Here's another link to a good Java Stored

Re: oradebug suspend question

2003-12-04 Thread Mladen Gogala
Raj, you are not suspending user sessions, you are suspending server processes (ora_s000n_sid). That is not always safe, because other processes can also send wake up signal to the shared servers. Unfortunately, oracle doesn't have anything like suspend session, because it would be extremely

RE: java package to run OS command

2003-12-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Here is a adoption for running the ls command ... be very careful with suspriv command, it is very powerful privilege. One could replace ls with rm and then you are doomed if oracle is running as root. grant javasyspriv to system / create or replace type fileList as table of varchar2(255) /

RE: java package to run OS command

2003-12-04 Thread Goulet, Dick
John, I agree and am encouraging the external C procedures since their simpler, and can create log files as well. BTW: Whoever authored the Java procedure on that web page should be shot. I can just see someone passing 'rm -fr $ORACLE_HOME' to it. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle

RE: oradebug suspend question

2003-12-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
MG, I am not talking about alter system suspend I am talking about suspending USER sessions oradebug setmypid pid oradebug suspend ... oradebug resume Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot

Re: How windows manage memory: oracle

2003-12-04 Thread Paul Drake
Hi. The 2 GB process limit kicks in well under 2 * 1024 *1024 * 1024. its between 1.7 and 1.8 GB. I'm quite familiar with hitting it in win32, as large memory support was not enabled in every 8.1.7.x patchset. Large memory support sure works great in 9.2.0.4. W2K3 Server (not Advanced) ships

RE: select via dblink does not use index

2003-12-04 Thread Poras, Henry R.
Yechial, It's been a couple of years since I worked on tuning queries with db links, but a couple of issues come to mind:is the correct table being used for the inner table of the join, is too much data being sent over the network. -is the correct table being used for the inner table: I remember

RE: ETAGON...

2003-12-04 Thread Matthew Zito
Well, I'm going to get involved here saying upfront that my company is a competitor of Etagon's, so I'm certainly biased, both about us vs. Etagon and RAC in general. However, the financial savings of RAC can be significant - we do cost analyses all the time of RAC for potential customers, and

RE: java package to run OS command

2003-12-04 Thread Jesse, Rich
It really isn't that much of a hassle once you have Java itself setup. I have a problem with the lack of security placed on the Java code from the oracle-base.com article though. What we did (are in the process of doing) is to restrict execute access to a single directory that we create and

RE: java package to run OS command

2003-12-04 Thread John Flack
Dick, harsh words, hmmm? Powerful tools can also be powerful weapons in the wrong hands. But don't blame the toolmaker. John, the reason that running an OS command is such a hassle is that it can be horribly destructive to your server. An OS command that runs from a Java Stored Procedure

RE: java package to run OS command

2003-12-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
will it catch following command apart from rm -rf ??? find /var/opt/oracle/logs -mtime +1 -type f -name *.trc|perl -nle unlink Probably not ... and that's why it is dangerous ... basically you should have a set of fixed programs that can be called and accept only arguments from calling

RE: java package to run OS command

2003-12-04 Thread Jesse, Rich
By default, no user accounts in the Oracle DB have any privs to do anything to the OS. Privs -- including privs to execute, read, and write OS files -- must explicitly be granted (and rightly so!). Do not grant the JAVASYSPRIV or JAVAUSERPRIV to the schema that will own the ExecOS Java code, as

Re: How windows manage memory: oracle

2003-12-04 Thread Tanel Poder
SGA is 970M and PGA(maxsize) is 40M. Connection is 20.But from task manager, Oracle is using 1005M physical Memory and 1013M virtual memory(you can view the data from here: http://www.cnoug.org/html/ut/attach/2003/12/04/12516-oramem2-embed.gif). Physical memory and virtual memory overlap in

Re: oradebug suspend question

2003-12-04 Thread Tanel Poder
In my opinion you're approaching the problem from wrong end. Something like standby database, temporary BCV copy or similar sounds safe solution for me. Or use mechanisms like deferring user reports during upgrades (or check for some bit's value before running a report etc..) Tanel. MG, I am

test

2003-12-04 Thread Jeffrey Beckstrom
test

RE: java package to run OS command

2003-12-04 Thread Thater, William
Mladen Gogala scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: That wouldn't do much harm since it's relatively static and probably frequently backed up. Restoring $ORACLE_HOME would be an easy excercise. Now passing datafiles or copying /etc/motd onto /oradata/SID/system01.dbf would cause much more

RE: test

2003-12-04 Thread Stefick Ronald S Contr ESC/HRIDA
Title: Message Test failed -Original Message-From: Jeffrey Beckstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 1:55 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: testtest

RE: java package to run OS command

2003-12-04 Thread John Flack
No, but it disallows command chains - only single commands are permitted. If you want to run more than one command you have to write it as a shell script, and the full path to that shell script must be approved for the current user in the PRODUCT_PROFILE table. Normally, we will only allow

RE: Plan stability

2003-12-04 Thread Niall Litchfield
Hi Justin Didn't know you were on the list A properly formed hint will cause the CBO to consider the hinted path to be less costly than it would otherwise consider it, but hints do not force a query to use that particular plan. For a moderately complicated query, you'd potentially

Re: How windows manage memory: oracle

2003-12-04 Thread Mladen Gogala
That is utterly disgusting memory management. When I come to think of it, there was a guy named David Cutler who was promising that Windows will have the same virtual memory system as VMS, with FREELIM,FREEGOAL, BORROWLIM, GROWLIM and MPW_ parameters. Working sets are also gone as well as the most

RE: partitioning option licensing

2003-12-04 Thread Niall Litchfield
Title: Message as I understand it Oracle no longer uses (officially) processor speed to determine license costs, though it appears that *actually* it uses revenue targets to determine license costs Niall -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: oradebug suspend question

2003-12-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Can't do ... this is a 2 node RAC, users are connected all the time (basically this app runs ESPN daily business). There is constant DML and reporting activity on the database. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at

wait events that indicate lack of bind variables

2003-12-04 Thread ryan_oracle
Which wait events are indications that your missing bind variables? btw, if you want to implement bind variables through a c/c++ middle tier its best to use 'prepared statements'. correct? bind arrays can be issued as prepared statements right? This is when you need to do alot of inserts

rebuilding indexes - sure to cause a ruckus

2003-12-04 Thread Jared . Still
http://www.dbazine.com/burleson18.shtml

RE: rebuilding indexes - sure to cause a ruckus

2003-12-04 Thread Jesse, Rich
Wow. We've got a lot of indexes to rebuild... :) Seems like those criteria have been beaten up on this list before. Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- Sent:

Re: wait events that indicate lack of bind variables

2003-12-04 Thread Tanel Poder
latch free waits on library cache shared pool latches. But I'd check parse to execute ratio from v$librarycache instead. If most of your statements close parse count and execution count, you might have a problem. Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: How windows manage memory: oracle

2003-12-04 Thread Tanel Poder
Even though I have never touched VMS myself, I completely agree that it is (was) a great operating system, I've just heard so many good words from respectable sources about it :) About Windows, probably the initial idea was great but since MS is a marketing driven company, they just left off most

Re: oradebug suspend question

2003-12-04 Thread Mladen Gogala
We're in complete agreement here. That, I believe was my suggestion, too. On 12/04/2003 02:59:25 PM, Tanel Poder wrote: In my opinion you're approaching the problem from wrong end. Something like standby database, temporary BCV copy or similar sounds safe solution for me. Or use mechanisms

Re: rebuilding indexes - sure to cause a ruckus

2003-12-04 Thread Tanel Poder
There's no point of arguing about whether a query ran faster right after you rebuilt your index. Nor there is no point in finding some ultimate algorithm for finding the point of index rebuilding, we all know the answer - it's 42. Instead, a long stress test has to be done, e.g. running 10

No links on search results for PDFs in UltraSearch

2003-12-04 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey all, I'm testing out UltraSearch with 9.2.0.4 (non-9iAS) and the default Apache that comes with it on Gentoo Linux 1.4 with a do_brk-patchless 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 kernel. So far, it ain't bad at all. However, I do have some Adobe PDFs that come across without links when they're listed as a

Re: Plan stability

2003-12-04 Thread Tanel Poder
Btw, the one good use for plan stability stored outlines are poorly written 3rd party applications, where you can't even add a hint to code. I these cases you can compose a good execution plan yourself and set your statement to use it. Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple

Re: oradebug suspend question

2003-12-04 Thread Tanel Poder
Then have two sets of packages for reports, when releasing new versions, do them on set 2 whilst normal users are running on set 1. This gives you time to test new versions in production as well. When tests are successful, switch to set 2. Oh yes, this requires your application/reports to be

Re: No links on search results for PDFs in UltraSearch

2003-12-04 Thread Mladen Gogala
Speaking of Apache, does anyone have a good makefile to link MOD_PLSQL into Apache? Does anybody know how to get mod_plsql into Apache2? On 12/04/2003 04:09:28 PM, Jesse, Rich wrote: Hey all, I'm testing out UltraSearch with 9.2.0.4 (non-9iAS) and the default Apache that comes with it on

RE: rebuilding indexes - sure to cause a ruckus

2003-12-04 Thread Rognes, Sten
Thanks, Added this one to my bookmarks along with http://www.oracle.com/oramag/webcolumns/2001/index.html?auto_index.html and http://www.dba-oracle.com/art_index1.htm Sten ;) -Original Message- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 11:55 AM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: How windows manage memory: oracle

2003-12-04 Thread Bellow, Bambi
I know I've posted this before, but it's been many years, so here we go again. NT was supposed to be Windows' answer to VMS. WNT, doesn't stand for anything, so how did they come up with the name? V+1=W M+1=N S+1=T Just like I-1=H B-1=A M-1=L Coincidence? Bambi. -Original Message-

OEM: How to add Tunneling DB?

2003-12-04 Thread jaysingh1
Hi List, I have OEM which is running on my local NT box. OEM repository is located in my local database/NT box. I am connecting to all the databases which is running on Solaris thru tunneling for all DML and DDl activity. Now I would like to add the databases which are running on Solaris to my

Re: rebuilding indexes - sure to cause a ruckus

2003-12-04 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Comments in-line Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr One-day tutorials: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html Three-day seminar:

[Q] how to implement ORACLE 9ir2 data guard?

2003-12-04 Thread dba1 mcc
we plan to implement ORACLE data guard under 9iR2. We have experience on 8i standby database, but never touch 9i data guard. Does anyone have document how to implement 9ir2 standby databse under Data Guard? Thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it

RE: [Q] how to implement ORACLE 9ir2 data guard?

2003-12-04 Thread Bobak, Mark
This: http://otn.oracle.com/pls/db92/db92.show_toc?partno=a96653remark=drilld ownword=dataguard Is probably a good place to start. 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

Re: [Q] how to implement ORACLE 9ir2 data guard?

2003-12-04 Thread Carel-Jan Engel
Hi ?? who's asking? dba1 mcc is rather anonymous :-( I've implemented over 20 DG installations as far, based on AIX/Solaris/Linux/W2K. The first Business Critical Zero Dataloss installation went live in November 2001. I haven't used the Oracle GUI for dataguard, simply because that didn't

Expense of 'over ... partition by'

2003-12-04 Thread Jared . Still
While working on some scripts to monitor PGA usage on 9i, I came across something interesting while experimenting with different forms of SQL. I have recently been forcing myself to make use of 'OVER..PARTITION BY' in SQL so as to be more comfortable in using it. Can't add new tools to the box

Analytic bug in 9.2.0.4

2003-12-04 Thread Jared . Still
While playing around with SQL for some PGA scripts, I managed to create some SQL that will consistently cause ORA-600 [kkqwrm_noref: COLFDNF set] This appears to be Bug # 2507421, which was supposedly fixed in 9.2.0.3. Here's the SQL: select pga_target_for_estimate ,

RE: Analytic bug in 9.2.0.4

2003-12-04 Thread Prem Khanna J
You are right Jared. ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [kkqwrm_noref: COLFDNF set], [], [], [], [], [],[], [] this is on oracle 9.2.0.3 Win2k+SP3. Regards, Jp. -Original Message- While playing around with SQL for some PGA scripts, I managed to create some SQL that will

RE: Export table to determine extent of block corruption

2003-12-04 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Rhojel - I'm not sure if export gives you enough information. Usually the reason to export is that if you can export, you have a good copy of the data and you can breathe a little easier. But usually export will fail on the first corrupt block. Your corrupt block may be an index block, so export

RE: wait events that indicate lack of bind variables

2003-12-04 Thread Cary Millsap
1. latch free for the shared pool latch (a shared pool latch in 9i). 2. Indirectly, SQL*Net message from client and CPU service time consumption too, because not using bind variables probably means that an application parses more often than it needs to. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd.

Re: background process LGWR did not start

2003-12-04 Thread rahul sharma
alert/trace files ? - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 9:34 PM Anyone know what might be causing this error? Oracle 8.1.7 on Solaris. background process LGWR did not start -- Please see the

DB Slow, v$session_wait shoeing SQL*Net message from client

2003-12-04 Thread waibals
Hi Gurus- Peformence of my DB(8174, Tru64 Unix) has terribly slowed down! Checked Indexes, Stats, etc but all look fine to me. Only one strange thing: I have more than 100 sessions in the v$session wait with same EVENT,P1TEXT, P1,STATE (SQL*Net message from client ,driver id,1413697536,WAITING).

RE: Export table to determine extent of block corruption

2003-12-04 Thread Rhojel_Echano
Thanks Dennis! I've read a couple of docs on getting enough information on the corruption. I'd like to use DBMS_REPAIR.CHECK_OBJECT, but I'd like to know first if this would be safe to run on an online production database. Could anyone comment on this? Oh Dennis, sorry for the nightmares ;-)

RE: DB Slow, v$session_wait showing SQL*Net message from client

2003-12-04 Thread waibals
Hi Ganesh- Thanks for your highlight. From thei query, select s.sid SID,s.serial# Serial, s.osuser O/S-User, s.username Ora-User, s.process Process-ID, s.status Status,sw.state,sw.seconds_in_wait,sw.event,s.program,s.machine,s.terminal from v$session s,v$session_wait sw where sw.sid=s.sid order by