Re: Export Tablespace

2003-12-10 Thread Kean Jacinta
Dear :All Oh thank now i know where to dig the information, i will try to read this manual, ... i bet it should have take me some time :) thank Jkean --- Mladen Gogala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Read about transportable tablespaces. It works like > this: > you export metadata, make a copy o

Re: Export Tablespace

2003-12-10 Thread Mladen Gogala
Read about transportable tablespaces. It works like this: you export metadata, make a copy of the files in the place where the new database can access them and import the metadata. There are many limitations and stipulations. You really need to read the manual for this one. If you don't want to re

Re: 10g new features (was: dc_used_extents ,dc_free_extents and d

2003-12-10 Thread Tanel Poder
Yep, sqlplus.exe will still be there. Otherwise one wouln't be able to run any automated sql scripts, because isqlplus can't do it as far as I understand. Tanel. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:04 AM

Export Tablespace

2003-12-10 Thread Kean Jacinta
Dear : All I have 2 database which is DB_A and DB_B. DB_A contain schema A with the tablepace name as locus_tblspc. Now DB_B is a newly create database. I would like to populate what ever is in schema A to DB_A . This included all the table,procedure,trigger,synonym,grant and most of all tablespa

Re: Hide schema from other user.

2003-12-10 Thread Tim Gorman
Sure! Create the following views while connected as schema A: create view dba_users as select * from sys.dba_users where username not in ('C','D'); create view all_users as select * from sys.all_users where username not in ('C','D'); You might need to have SYS grant you

Re: Documenting databases

2003-12-10 Thread Tim Gorman
I apologize if someone already mentioned this (I've been busy so mostly deleting traffic in order to keep from being overwhelmed!), but did anyone mention the DBMS_METADATA package for this? Looks pretty cool, mostly intended for generated XML output but also generates DDL commands... on 12/10/

Re: SQL Area Reloads

2003-12-10 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: Re: SQL Area Reloads Sure, it’s free now.  But has that always been the case? on 12/10/03 3:14 PM, Ashish Sahasrabudhe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The statspack report is showing 10,684 reload for SQL AREA with 2.2% misses.

Re: 24 x 7 x 365

2003-12-10 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: Re: 24 x 7 x 365 As I mentioned a few minutes ago in another thread, there is an application using Oracle Rdb on an HP OpenVMS cluster located at HP in Colorado Springs that has been up and available continuously for the past 11-12 years. on 12/10/03 2:49 PM, Goulet, Dick at [EMAIL PROT

Re: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread Tim Gorman
VARCHAR2 started with Oracle7 v7.0.x (circa 1992-ish). Prior to that, Oracle6 had just VARCHAR with the exact same semantics/definition/behavior as current VARCHAR2. At the time, the explanation was that the ANSI SQL definition of "VARCHAR" was slightly different from Oracle's existing implementa

Re: Windows clustering???

2003-12-10 Thread Tim Gorman
This is a small, static, but fiercely loyal group of VMS users for HP to milk. OpenVMS is money in the bank for HP, as it was for Compaq and DEC. Even the bean-counters understand the insanity of shutting off a guaranteed, endless, and highly-profitable revenue stream upon which they do not have t

10g stuff on otn

2003-12-10 Thread Ryan
they list the new application server and the new developer suite as '10g', but then say 9.0.4 next to it?   so are they really new versions or just minor upgrades to the 9i version?

RE: 10g new features (was: dc_used_extents ,dc_free_extents and d

2003-12-10 Thread Pete Sharman
Robert, Robert, Robert, when will you ever learn? You've been listening to the marketing people again. :) The whole goal behind this part of the release is not to make the database look easy to manage (which is good because I've never thought it WAS difficult to manage!) It's for those lower en

Hide schema from other user.

2003-12-10 Thread Kean Jacinta
Hello : All I have a scenario here. I have a database name : CYBER. I am using oem to manage this dbase.In this database , i have created 4 schema . which is schema A, schema B, schema C and schema D. When i login into the dbase using schema A user id throught oem , i can see all other 3 schema

utl_smtp and japanese characters ?

2003-12-10 Thread Prem Khanna J
Hi all, (B (Bi have written a small procedure to send e-mail from (Bmy oracle database [oracle 9.2.0.3/win2k]. (B (Bmessage := 'Date: ' || TO_CHAR( SYSDATE, 'DD-Mon- HH24:MI:SS' ) || (Butl_tcp.CRLF; (Bmessage := message || 'From: ' || sender || utl_tcp.CRLF; (Bmessage := message || 'Sub

how to setup a linux client computer to connect ias using browser

2003-12-10 Thread mglim2
Hi guru, Can anyone tell me how to setup a client computer w/ linux as is os to connect to forms cgi in an ias server using browser ? In win2k ,jiniator is used to connect to forms in an ias server using browser only. Best Regards, Grace Lim Suy Sing Comm'l Corp -- Please see the official

Re: rebuilding indexes - sure to cause a ruckus

2003-12-10 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
How about: Keep re-analyzing your tables and indexes. Run gather_statistics (or whatever) all the time. Bobak, Mark wrote: I think this subject has been done to death. We should talk about less contentious issues such as: - The buffer cache hit ratio, your friend in expert Oracle tuning! - Reb

Re: OT: Web hosting

2003-12-10 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Wednesday, December 10, 2003, 6:39:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: JSrc> Can anyone recommend a good, inexpensive web hosting company JSrc> that runs on open source: Linux, Perl, MySQL, PHP, etc.? I'm a big fan of Pair Networks, which you can find at pair.com. Best regards,

RE: Pipelined functions

2003-12-10 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Pipelined functions Doh !!   I just figured it out .. "set arraysize 1" was the missing link ... one guy replied to my posting on forum://Metalink:oracle_plsql that it might be client side caching and that prompted me to experiment with arraysize.   So, it  was an issue with sqlplus se

RE: 10g new features (was: dc_used_extents ,dc_free_extents and d

2003-12-10 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
>> Doesn't matter if there's 30 or 300, you don't usually mess with >> them other than at database create time. Shh Oracle thinks this is a marketing coup They want to make the database look easy to manage... "Parameters? Ha, you only need configure a few basic parameters and the d

OT: Web hosting

2003-12-10 Thread Jared . Still
Sorry for the off topic, but I don't have any one locally to ask this of. My co-workers that are developers tend to be somewhat MScentric. Can anyone recommend a good, inexpensive web hosting company that runs on open source:  Linux, Perl, MySQL, PHP, etc.? This is to be for my personal use, an

RE: Re: Documenting databases

2003-12-10 Thread alan . aschenbrenner
Thanks for all the responses. As I figured, everyone has a different method, but the common thread seems to be automation. I'm not sure exactly what approach I'm going to take yet, but I'll definitely try to automate it as much as possible... I'll add one of my own documentation tricks that

Re: 10g new features (was: dc_used_extents ,dc_free_extents and dc_histogram_defs)

2003-12-10 Thread Jared . Still
Much seems to be made of this 'less than 30 init parameter to tune'. Who really spends much time doing that anyway? If you do, you're probably going after the wrong end of a problem. Doesn't matter if there's 30 or 300, you don't usually mess with them other than at database create time. Jare

CPU Time Exceeds Elapsed?

2003-12-10 Thread Bellow, Bambi
Friends -- Perhaps you can help me out with this... I don't understand why the CPU time should exceed the elapsed time here... Do you? 1 select a.username, 2 a.osuser, 3 round(elapsed_time/100,2) elapsed_seconds, 4 round(cpu_time/100,2) cpu_seconds, 5

Re: SQL Area Reloads

2003-12-10 Thread Tanel Poder
Title: SQL Area Reloads You'll have reloads if your SQL is invalidated because of DDL or analyzing on tables. - Original Message - From: Ashish Sahasrabudhe To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:14 AM Subject: SQL Area Reloa

Re: Veritas disk groups

2003-12-10 Thread Brian Haas
Vordos, Suzy wrote: A very long time ago, there was a whitepaper on implementing Veritas for Oracle systems. I think it was published by Veritas. I've googled and searched veritas.com and can't find it anywhere. IIRC, one of the recommendations in the whitepaper was to not use rootdg for datab

Re: 10g new features (was: dc_used_extents ,dc_free_extents and dc_histogram_defs)

2003-12-10 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 12/10/2003 04:34:25 PM, Tanel Poder wrote: > > Pete, I'd like to clarify my position first: I don't have any burning > problem > > that would compel me to start testing 10g. I want only to learn the new > > features. > > Btw, if you want to learn some of the 10g database engine new features (n

Re: analyze problems

2003-12-10 Thread Tanel Poder
Has you db_file_multiblock_read_count changed due upgrade? What are your optimizer_index_cost_adj and optimizer_index_caching parameter values? If they're default you should perhaps change them according to Tim Gorman's CBO article (or in 9i, gather system stats instead)   Tanel.   -

RE: rebuilding indexes - sure to cause a ruckus

2003-12-10 Thread Bobak, Mark
I think this subject has been done to death. We should talk about less contentious issues such as: - The buffer cache hit ratio, your friend in expert Oracle tuning! - Rebuild your tables regularly to reduce the number of extents and improve performance! - Disk access is at least 10,000x slo

Re: leaf node 90-10 splits

2003-12-10 Thread Jonathan Lewis
The failure to do the 90/10 split is a bug (it worked properly in 8.1) which is currently being investigated. I can't remember the number, but I passed it to Oracle some time ago. As to the original question - no idea, 100/0 seems to be the correct strategy; however, there was an earlier version

RE: rebuilding indexes - sure to cause a ruckus

2003-12-10 Thread Davey, Alan
LOL, This made me think of the Simpson's Halloween episode where Monty Burns says, 'Smithers, this isn't rocket science, its brain surgery'. - Alan Davey Senior Analyst/Project Leader Oracle 9i OCA; 3/4 OCP w) 973.267.5990 x458 w) 212.295.3458 -Origi

RE: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread Jesse, Rich
ROTFL! Completely blocked the fact out of my mind that this app started out using InterBase (aka "StarBase"). It didn't change to Oracle until we lost a day's worth of ERP because a Windohs PC crashed that was running a telnet session to the server and didn't disconnect from the app/DB properly.

RE: rebuilding indexes - sure to cause a ruckus

2003-12-10 Thread Grant Allen
> BTW, does anyone know what a rocket scientist refers to when > they say "Hey, > this is all quite easy, it sure ain't ?" ? > > Cheers ;) > > Richard Surely the Rocket Scientist version must be "Hey, this is all quite easy, it sure ain't index rebuilding" Ciao Fuzzy :-) -- Please see

Re: 24 x 7 x 365

2003-12-10 Thread Tanel Poder
When you want true 24x7 without compromises, then you have to step closer to the client anyway. This means, you have two databases for example and your app server multiplexes all transactions to both ones. This should be faster than sync standby or sync replication, because app server can send req

Re: 11.5.8 installation Problem

2003-12-10 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi!   Try if you find the alert.log of your database and see what are the last messages there. Maybe Oracle failed to mount or open the seed database, thus leaving instance in "initialization or shutdown" mode...   Tanel.   - Original Message - From: Natalia Laracca To:

SQL Area Reloads

2003-12-10 Thread Ashish Sahasrabudhe
Title: SQL Area Reloads The statspack report is showing 10,684 reload for SQL AREA with 2.2% misses. == Library Cache Activity for DB: MAIN  Instance: MAIN  Snaps: 18089 -18090 ->"Pct Misses"  should be very low

Re: Re[4]: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread Murali_Pavuloori/Claritas
Unless Oracle has plans of buying IBM and decommissioning DB2 ;-) Murali. |-+> | | Jonathan Gennick | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | .com>| | | Sent by: | | |

Re: Pipelined functions

2003-12-10 Thread Tanel Poder
Title: Pipelined functions Hi!   How did you test it? From sqlplus or external app? Then check whether you have array processing turned on (it should be off if you want to get rows one-by-one). Or if in PL/SQL, are you using bulk collections?   Tanel.   - Original Message - From

RE: 10g new features (was: dc_used_extents ,dc_free_extents and d

2003-12-10 Thread Goulet, Dick
Tanel, Whthough they may not have the sqlplusw.exe for windoes is the sqlplus.exe still there? Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 4:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L d Excellent slide show Ta

Re[2]: Parentheses and joins

2003-12-10 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Wednesday, December 10, 2003, 3:19:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: JSrc> I didn't realize that parentheses would affect to optimizer to change the JSrc> join order. But is it just a performance thing? Given a situation with all inner joins, I can't conceive of the order makin

RE: 24 x 7 x 365

2003-12-10 Thread Goulet, Dick
True 24x365 is just about impossible.  No if, ands. or buts about it.  Why is because of the number of factors outside your control that affect system availability.  Sure your web sever and database are up 24x365, but your ISP has 1 hour down time each month for maintenance.  OOPS!!  from a

RE: Re[4]: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread Kevin Toepke
I read that section of the manual not that VARCHAR may go away, but that that the "functionality" of the VARCHAR datatype may one day differ from that of the VARCHAR2 datatype. I forsee something like what happened with the CHAR type between v6 and v7. Just my 0.02eur Kevin -Original Messag

RE: 10g new features (was: dc_used_extents ,dc_free_extents and d

2003-12-10 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Excellent slide show Tanel! Robert -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 12/10/2003 3:34 PM dc_histogram_defs) > Pete, I'd like to clarify my position first: I don't have any burning problem > that would compel me to start testing 10g. I want only to learn the

Veritas disk groups

2003-12-10 Thread Vordos, Suzy
A very long time ago, there was a whitepaper on implementing Veritas for Oracle systems. I think it was published by Veritas. I've googled and searched veritas.com and can't find it anywhere. IIRC, one of the recommendations in the whitepaper was to not use rootdg for database files, inste

Re: Configuring Veritas Netbackup Question

2003-12-10 Thread Andy Rivenes
I don't have any experience with Netbackup, just Legato, but there is a utility called "sbttest" that may help in troubleshooting the problem. Here's an example from something I wrote up a while back: /ora01/V901$ sbttest osmtab01.dbf -dbname V901 -trace /oracle/sbtio.log The sbt function pointers

Re[4]: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Wednesday, December 10, 2003, 3:39:26 PM, DENNIS WILLIAMS ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: DW> 2. I have been curious about Oracle's statement that you should use DW> VARCHAR2. I am too, now. That statement in the docs about the meaning of VARCHAR maybe changing someday has been there as far back as my

Re: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread Tanel Poder
> I remember Oracle saying that char was going away - about 6 years ago. > That's when they created varchar and varchar2. > > Is this a new rumor? VARCHAR3 type coming? Tanel. > > Tom Mercadante > Oracle Certified Professional > > > -Original Message- > Sent: Wednesday, December 10,

Re: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread Tanel Poder
> What good reasons might an application have to use and > depend on CHAR variables? There was a recommendation in Oracle's intro to SQL training materials several years ago, that you can use fixed-len char columns to make sure that your rows never grow once inserted, thus reducing row migration p

Re: 10g new features (was: dc_used_extents ,dc_free_extents and dc_histogram_defs)

2003-12-10 Thread Tanel Poder
> Pete, I'd like to clarify my position first: I don't have any burning problem > that would compel me to start testing 10g. I want only to learn the new > features. Btw, if you want to learn some of the 10g database engine new features (not the marketing buzzwords), then check out one of my prese

analyze problems

2003-12-10 Thread Jeroen van Sluisdam
Hi,   I'm in the middle of migrating oracle 7.3.4 to oracle 9.2.0.4 In process of testing we encounter a big query that is now taking full table scans Where it used to take indexes. When we compare plans this is evidently so, Optimizer_mode is on both choose, tables and indexes are ana

Re: leaf node 90-10 splits

2003-12-10 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! SQL> select * From v$sysstat where name like '%split%'; STATISTIC# NAME CLASS VALUE -- -- -- 195 leaf node splits 128612 196 leaf node 90-10 splits 128209 197 br

Re: 24 x 7 x 365

2003-12-10 Thread Mark Richard
Hi, Unfortunately I'm gonig to add the negative view, like several others have... True 24x7x365 (good pick-up Pete on the 7 year thing) will be limited by much more than database and operating system availability. We just did a major software upgrade last weekend and part of the upgrade invo

Re: Windows clustering???

2003-12-10 Thread Tanel Poder
Maybe you all already know that, but HP is planning to support OpenVMS on their Itanium servers :) Tanel. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 10:14 PM > I'm guessing they're not running Oracle on this VMS

RE: Re[2]: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread Michael Milligan
Yes, they keep saying that varchar may change in future releases, so use varchar2. Maybe they'll finally use it. But for what I don't know. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 1:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Raj, Jonathan 1. I have heard rumors that in

RE: rogue SYS connections

2003-12-10 Thread Vordos, Suzy
Thanks Ron. No, we use SQL-Backtrack instead of RMAN. However SQL-Backtrack does show a diff flavor of rogue connections of ###NOBODY. The remote database systems that are connecting to our database as SYS are not ones we support. What is common about these databases is they do have logi

RE: Configuring Veritas Netbackup Question

2003-12-10 Thread Spears, Brian
Dwayne Cox, Don't know if this is the same problem, but I did run into this and the there had to be a re-linking and a softlink set for a library if I remember correctly. Just an idea to check. I know this stuff is a bugger till you get it working. Brian -Original Message- Dwayne Cox

RE: Re[2]: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Raj, Jonathan 1. I have heard rumors that in other databases the VARCHAR performance isn't good. In fact, some people that are converting from other databases to Oracle are pleasantly surprised that Oracle handles VARCHAR well. 2. I have been curious about Oracle's statement that you should use VA

Re: Configuring Veritas Netbackup Question

2003-12-10 Thread Dwayne Cox
Brian, Netbackup does indeed have to be linked to Oracle. I performed this and it seemed to go well (no obvious error messages). -DC- Spears, Brian wrote: Dwayne Cox, Don't know if this is the same problem, but I did run into this and the there had to be a re-linking and a softlink set for

Re: 24 x 7 x 365

2003-12-10 Thread Mladen Gogala
Tracy, both OPS (8i) and RAC (9i)support independent node shutdown. Both support listener based load balancing so that incoming connections will be evenly spread on all nodes. That still doesn't give you the true 24 x 7 x 365 availability. For that, you need two replicated copies of the database,

Re: rogue SYS connections

2003-12-10 Thread Ron Rogers
Suzy, Do you use RMAN to perform backups? Do you use a catalog with RMAN? Rman uses sys to perform the connections to the target database. Just a thought, Ron >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/10/2003 3:09:33 PM >>> Solaris 2.8 Oracle 8.1.7.0. We have session auditing enabled, and see rogue connections

Re: Configuring Veritas Netbackup Question

2003-12-10 Thread Jared . Still
You can get some better diagnostic information by doing the following on the client box: cd /usr/openv/netbackup/logs ./mkdirs.sh if the following directories were not created by the script, create them: /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/user_ops/dbext/oracle /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/user_ops/dbext/

Re: Parentheses and joins

2003-12-10 Thread Jared . Still
Jonathan, I didn't realize that parentheses would affect to optimizer to change the join order. A little experimentation shows that it can indeed be done. For anyone that wants to see it, the joins are below. I learn something every day around here. Jared select    e.ename    , e.empno    ,

Re: Configuring Veritas Netbackup Question

2003-12-10 Thread Ron Rogers
Dwayne, Doesn't the Veritas backup exec Oracle client perform a "HOT" backup of the database? If that is the case then the RMAN backup is performed differently that the hot backup. Read the script that the Oracle client uses to see what is happening. I may be off base with this version of backup

Re: 24 x 7 x 365

2003-12-10 Thread ryan_oracle
i was at an oracle group meeting and one of the RAC specialists at oracle was talking. he said that that kind of thing 'can' be done, but is incredibly expensive. you need redundancy and fail safes like crazy. any time you do an upgrade, bad things may happen. > > From: "Tracy Rahmlow" <[EMAIL

RE: Could not run export utility from cron job

2003-12-10 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
have you _sourced_ your .profile? cron won't do it automatically for you. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having

rogue SYS connections

2003-12-10 Thread Vordos, Suzy
Solaris 2.8 Oracle 8.1.7.0. We have session auditing enabled, and see rogue connections as SYS from several remote databases. The os_user of the remote system is always oracle and there are several different remote hosts involved. I can't figure out how they are gaining access this way. Our

RE: long raw risk

2003-12-10 Thread John Flack
The reason that vendors often use LONG RAW is that that datatype meets the ANSI SQL standard, while BLOB doesn't. That way, they can use the same DDL against most SQL databases. Sometimes you can modify the vendor's DDL before or during installation. Sometimes you can re-create a table right

Re: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
Probably by Howard Dean and Bertie Gore. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:34 AM > Not as long as DB2 has it. Oracle needs to be compatible, in order > for the people to convert. In addition to that,

RE: Could not run export utility from cron job

2003-12-10 Thread Gary W. Parker
Title: Could not run export utility from cron job Make sure that you source your environment variables in the script.  At the least, set the $PATH variable to include the Oracle bin directory.   Jobs executing from CRON do not automatically source the .profile when they kick off. -Or

RE: Could not run export utility from cron job

2003-12-10 Thread Guang Mei
Title: Could not run export utility from cron job You need to load user's .profile in your cronjob (to set ENVs), becuase the unix user who executes cronjob does not have it's profile loaded.   HTH.   Guang -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Beh

Re: 24 x 7 x 365

2003-12-10 Thread Mladen Gogala
You mean 2004/02/31, the 31st of February? On 12/10/2003 02:19:34 PM, Whittle Jerome Contr NCI wrote: > As 2004 is a Leap Year, in February you have a one day window of opportunity to do > upgrades. ;-) > > Jerry Whittle > ASIFICS DBA > NCI Information Systems Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 618-622-

RE: dc_used_extents ,dc_free_extents and dc_histogram_defs

2003-12-10 Thread Pete Sharman
I think he's skipping that one to go direct to "Do you really need Oracle?" :) 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 -Original Message- Denny Koovakat

Re: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 12/10/2003 11:34:36 AM, "Jamadagni, Rajendra" wrote: > Another myth ... maybe. I also heard that in 9i DBA will be no longer needed. > > Raj And it became reality. DBA jobs were outsourced. The only necessary people belong to the damagement. Oracle 10g will create the need for fewer IS profes

Configuring Veritas Netbackup Question

2003-12-10 Thread Dwayne Cox
I apologize for this *basic* question but I have searched the manuals, Robert Freeman's RMAN book and MetaLink as well as Googled and cannot find the answer. I know its something simple. We have Veritas Netbackup 4.5 running on Red Hat Linux 7.2. It has been backing up our netowrk for a coupl

Re:Re: two oracle pl/sql programmers needed (50k/yr)

2003-12-10 Thread system manager
In Austin, Texas -- Original Message Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 06:14:30 -0800 >System Manager: > >Where are these positions located geographically? > >Me > > >- Original Message - >To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >S

Could not run export utility from cron job

2003-12-10 Thread Nguyen, David M
Title: Could not run export utility from cron job I am able to run export utility from CLI manually but when I schedule it to run from cron job on SUN Solaris8 it fails to run as it does not recognize exp command.  Does someone have any idea?  Below is the command I run export manually. $exp

RE: 24 x 7 x 365

2003-12-10 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: 24 x 7 x 365 As 2004 is a Leap Year, in February you have a one day window of opportunity to do upgrades.  ;-) Jerry Whittle ASIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 618-622-4145 -Original Message- From:   Tracy Rahmlow [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Se

Re: Could not run export utility from cron job

2003-12-10 Thread Mladen Gogala
How about setting it up to execute in 10 minutes? Testing things this minute isn't exactly the point with cron. On 12/10/2003 02:09:24 PM, Bricklen Anderson wrote: > Simpson, Ken wrote: > > > > I'm pretty sure that jobs running out of cron do not source in .profile > > so you probably don't > > ha

Re: Could not run export utility from cron job

2003-12-10 Thread Bricklen Anderson
Simpson, Ken wrote: I'm pretty sure that jobs running out of cron do not source in .profile so you probably don't have the Oracle environment set and therefor exp is not in your PATH. Ken How about adding the line: source /.(bash_)profile to the shell script that runs exp? Unfortunately, I'm not in

RE: Re[2]: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Oracle has varchar and varchar2 both ... The VARCHAR2 subtypes below have the same range of values as their base type. For example, VARCHAR is just another name for VARCHAR2. STRING VARCHAR You can use these subtypes for compatibility with ANSI/ISO and IBM types. Note: Currently, VAR

RE: Could not run export utility from cron job

2003-12-10 Thread Ron Cetnar
Ken: When running from cron the user's .profile does not get executed. So your ORACLE_BASE, ORACLE_HOME etc does not get created in your os environment. So on the line that you want to execute the export. Before the exp command add ". ~/.profile &&" (without the double quotes) exp user/password

Re[2]: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread Jonathan Gennick
DW> If your application is COBOL-based, using CHAR DW> simplifies things quite a bit. True enough. I'd forgotten about COBOL. The semantics of COBOL's PIC X fields match up pretty closely (exactly?) to SQL CHAR fields. DW>My understanding is that VARCHAR2 is not even a SQL standard The keywo

Parentheses and joins

2003-12-10 Thread Jonathan Gennick
I looking for a good, simple example of when parentheses matter when writing a join query using the new, SQL92 join syntax. For example, I could write: SELECT * FROM county y JOIN city c ON y.county_id = c.county_id JOIN attraction a ON c.city_id = a.city_id; and I could use parens

RE: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread Jesse, Rich
How's about applications written in ancient awful 4GLs like PowerHouse that do not handle variable length fields (aka "columns") in their own files, and therefore do not directly support them in relational DBs either? Did I mention that this application also RELIES on the OCI bug that allows a dat

RE: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Dennis, According to my copy of 'A Guide To SQL Standard (Author: C. J. Date), 4th ed, pp292, section 19.4" CHARACTER(n) - fixed length string of exactly n characters (n > 0) VARYING(n) - varying length string of up to n characters (n > 0) So, I guess it is. Raj --

long raw risk

2003-12-10 Thread Piet de Visser
Group, I have just been given a project / database where a vendor will implement a table with a LONG RAW field in it. Oracle manuals state clearly that this datatype is outdated and should be replaced by BLOB, I quoted the manuals to vendor-support, but they will not move on this. >From the

Re: dc_used_extents ,dc_free_extents and dc_histogram_defs

2003-12-10 Thread Denny Koovakattu
They will think differently after Mogens comes out with the "Do you really need 10g" presentation ;) -- Denny Koovakattu Quoting Nuno Souto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The interesting fact of course is that the beta program > of 10g was "announced" in newsgroups AFTER it had closed > for all in

Pipelined functions

2003-12-10 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: Pipelined functions I have a question related to pipelined functions ... I have a function which performs a task in a loop. I have piped messages at the beginning and end of the loop and expect them to appear as soon as they are piped. But there seems to be a difference of opinion be

Re: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 12/10/2003 12:44:26 PM, "Jesse, Rich" wrote: > Did I mention that this application also RELIES on the OCI bug that allows a > date column to contain a zero (as opposed to the zero-date) that can't be > done thru normal SQL? That is, probably, because your application supports conversion to sta

Re: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-10 Thread Paul Drake
Mark,   My guess is, that the new OS re-instated the file system caching. By default, 41% (yes, it should have been 42%) of physical memory will be allocated to filesystem caching, as W2K thinks it a fileserver (and domain controller, web server, print server, etc) until you tell it otherwise.   Th

Re: Documenting databases

2003-12-10 Thread Jared . Still
Indeed, my todo list includes an item for automating RDA on several servers. The problem is, that RDA is rather difficult to automate, at least on Windoze. Jared [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  12/09/2003 05:24 PM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Mul

Re: leaf node 90-10 splits

2003-12-10 Thread Jared . Still
On 9i: select * from v$statname where name like '%leaf%'; Yong Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  12/10/2003 07:39 AM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:                 Subject:  

RE: Could not run export utility from cron job

2003-12-10 Thread Simpson, Ken
-Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nguyen, David M > Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 12:24 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: Could not run export utility from cron job > I am able to run export utility from CLI man

RE: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread Pete Sharman
You mean you still need a DBA in 9i?!!? :) 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 -Original Message- Jamadagni, Rajendra Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2

RE: 24 x 7 x 365

2003-12-10 Thread Pete Sharman
Well, first thing that needs to be noted is that “24 x 7 x 365” indicates uptime for 7 years, which always gives me a chuckle when people say it.  Mind you, I’ve been guilty of saying it too!  J   And probably the second thing that needs to be said is that no single product addresses true

RE: accounting software

2003-12-10 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Grace Take a look at Lawson Software -- http://www.lawson.com Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 9:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L can anyone recommend accounting software for mid-range distributio

RE: Documenting databases

2003-12-10 Thread Michael Milligan
Alan, That sounds like a good candidate for a simple database application written in PL/SQL. Create a schema and model your app. It shouldn't require too many tables. Since you have Oracle and non-oracle information to store, most of the Oracle information could be extracted from the data dictiona

RE: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Jonathan My understanding is that VARCHAR2 is not even a SQL standard, and some databases don't handle VARCHAR very efficiently, so if you are trying to sell a product that can adapt to several databases besides Oracle, you might stick to CHAR. If your application is COBOL-based, using CHAR s

RE: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
-Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Wednesday, December 10, 2003, 11:09:27 AM, Gene Gurevich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: GG> Someone told me that Oracle is planning to retire char GG> variable and therefore they need to

24 x 7 x 365

2003-12-10 Thread Tracy Rahmlow
Hello, Our company would like to know whether or not Oracle supports true 24x7x365 availability for an oltp database.  We currently are using the 8.1.7 enterprise edition.  Does an architecture exist whereby we can upgrade the database and/or operating system and not cause an outage?  Will RAC sol

Re: char is going away?

2003-12-10 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Wednesday, December 10, 2003, 11:09:27 AM, Gene Gurevich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: GG> Someone told me that Oracle is planning to retire char GG> variable and therefore they need to be replaced by GG> varchar2. Has anyone heard anything about it? I've not heard anything like this. I'm skeptical t

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