RE: Code Conversion from MSSQL into Oracle

2003-12-11 Thread VIVEK_SHARMA
  Are there any TOOLs for converting Sample Code (like the following) from MSSQL into Oracle?   SAMPLE :- DECLARE @entity_id char(32), @branch_id char(9)   DECLARE  cur_temp_GEMT CURSOR FOR select branch_id,entity_id from GEMT where other_party_name='' and entity_t

Re: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Jared Still
The wholesale system wide collection of timing data is not generally a good way to go about trouble shooting performance issues. You need to pick a process, collect the timing data for that process, and *only* that process, diagnose where the most time is being spent, and determine what can be don

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2003-12-11 Thread Kirtish P Gaonkar
Any body having Oracle Dev/2000 6i CBT's . If any Can you please send ? Thanks in Advance ... Kirtish P. Gaonkar -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Kirtish P Gaonkar INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.f

Re: 3rd Party Oracle Licenses

2003-12-11 Thread Jared Still
Jay, Keep in mind that these are usually runtime licenses. The license agreement probably stipulates that you can do no development on databases with a runtime license. This week I have a consultant in installing an app that runs on Oracle with a 3rd party license. Our finance dept bought the

Re: Hide schema from other user.

2003-12-11 Thread Kean Jacinta
Dear : All Can you tell me what other views i need to create to ensure not other user can see my schema. regards JKean --- Tim Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure! Create the following views while connected as > schema A: > >create view dba_users >as >select * from sys.dba_use

Re: Re[4]: http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp

2003-12-11 Thread dhill
Jonathan - >From : http://www.pcsndreams.com/Pages/Articles/Megabytes.htm · 1 Bit = Binary Digit · 8 Bits = 1 Byte · 1000 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte · 1000 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte · 1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte · 1000 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte · 1000 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte · 1000 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte - · 100

RE: Re[4]: http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp

2003-12-11 Thread Bobak, Mark
Actually, Tanel was right on the money with zetta and yotta. Here's a small table: Prefix Abbr. Base 10 Base 2 -- - --- -- kilo- k 10^3 2^10 mega- M 10^6 2^20 giga- G 10^9 2^30 tera- T 10^12 2^40 peta- P 10^15

Re[4]: http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, December 11, 2003, 6:14:25 PM, Tanel Poder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: TP> Hurry up, zettabyte and yottabyte might still be free ;) Actually, now I wonder, how far do the names go? We have kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, and then what? Best regards, Jonathan Gennick --

RE: Windows clustering???

2003-12-11 Thread Paul Drake
I'm guessing that you removed the monitor, keyboard and mouse, disabled terminal services, removed it from the domain, unbound NetBIOS from TCP/IP and shut down all of the non-required services (especially "Server") - and - put a penguin sticker on the front of it, so that people thought it was a s

Re: better delete statement to remove duplicate rows from exception

2003-12-11 Thread Dias Costa
Hi, You can do this: delete from orders o1 where rowid < (select max(rowid) from orders o2 where o1.order_id = o2.order_id group by order_id having count(order_id) > 1); O

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread John Kanagaraj
Reminds me of the day when a third-party developed app (main batch program) ran *very* slowly - the user department went out and bought this app and server on their own without IT's blessing or support (a different story). Dialogue below: Third-party Developer (TPD): This same batch program which

Re: Re[2]: http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp

2003-12-11 Thread Eric King
But as you all know those are really crap, only companies such as EMC benefit from it. Eric - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 18:14 http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp >

Re: Re[2]: http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp

2003-12-11 Thread Ryan
so what features does teradata have that oracle doesnt for VLDBs? - Original Message - From: Paul Drake To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 6:59 PM Subject: Re: Re[2]: http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/Top

RE: for security patches - going to 9.2.0.4

2003-12-11 Thread Paul Drake
Paula,   I hope that you are just confused. AFAIK, if you have created a database with a locally managed system tablespace, that you cannot set compatible to anything lower than 9.0.1. Ok, you can set it, but oracle will complain during instance startup and you won't have a database instance to att

wintercorp survey

2003-12-11 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Can this be right? When I look for Category: Peak Workload Platform: All Usage: OLTP I see 6 SQL server databases and no Oracle databases. > -Original Message- > MacGregor, Ian A. > Subject: > http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.asp > -- Please see the offici

Re: Re[2]: http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp

2003-12-11 Thread Paul Drake
> Maybe they should rename the product Petadata. If they did, then its a good thing that they didn't name it "TeraFile".   PdJonathan Gennick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thursday, December 11, 2003, 5:14:26 PM, Ryan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:R> very nice. what is teradata? I never hear that dbms men

better delete statement to remove duplicate rows from exception table?

2003-12-11 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
In the situation below, is there a better way to write the delete statement that eliminates duplicates? (assuming duplicate rows form at most 5 % of the table rows) Notice that the exceptions table is not analyzed. If I analyze the exceptions table, is there then another better way to write it?

Re: Who are certified Oracle Masters?

2003-12-11 Thread Stephane Faroult
Ryan wrote: > > you mean niemic didnt actually have to take the test? Scary, eh ? (couldn't resist) -- Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriole Software -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephane Faroult INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services

Re: Re[2]: http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp

2003-12-11 Thread Tanel Poder
Hurry up, zettabyte and yottabyte might still be free ;) Tanel. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 12:44 AM http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp > Yeah, clearly, the guys at

RE: Who are certified Oracle Masters?

2003-12-11 Thread Cary Millsap
I owe an apology whether I'm correct or not, because (1) I didn't really *know* the answer (only what I've heard), and (2) it's really none of my business anyway. So... even if my speculation were correct, all I've done here is to propagate a rumor, which is what I'm trying to live my professional

RE: http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp

2003-12-11 Thread Grant Allen
They hire a DBA to run sp_lock a lot! Ciao Fuzzy :-) -- The contents of this post are my opinions only If swallowed seek medical advice > -Original Message- > From: Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 12 December 2003 09:30

RE: Re[2]: http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp

2003-12-11 Thread Bobak, Mark
Yeah, clearly, the guys at Exabyte were thinking ahead when they came up with their name. ;-) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp Thursday, December 11,

Re: Re[2]: http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp

2003-12-11 Thread Ryan
anyone know how it compares to oracle? - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:34 PM http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp > Thursday, December 11, 2003, 5:14:26 PM, Ryan ([EMAIL

Re[2]: http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, December 11, 2003, 5:14:26 PM, Ryan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: R> very nice. what is teradata? I never hear that dbms mentioned. Isn't Teradata what Walmart uses? From what I know, it's always been aimed at the market for really, really big databases. Hence the prefix "tera", which isn't

Re: http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp

2003-12-11 Thread Tanel Poder
Teradata is NCRs database engine mostly used for DSS & OLAP. Tanel. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 12:14 AM http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp > very nice. what is ter

Re: http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp

2003-12-11 Thread Ryan
also, how do people scale sql server to that many concurrent users if reads block writes? - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:14 PM http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp > v

RE: Who are certified Oracle Masters?

2003-12-11 Thread Pete Sharman
Well, I could say "Haven't you heard the song? Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was a good friend of mine ...", but that would really date me. :) Last I heard, Jeremiah was at Amazon. He occasionally posts answers on oracle-l, so no doubt he'll correct me if: a) I have his name wrong b) I has his empl

RE: Who are certified Oracle Masters?

2003-12-11 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
As I recall Rich talking about it, he did indeed take the exam. It was not just "handed" to him. Robert -Original Message- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: 12/11/2003 3:59 PM you mean niemic didnt actually have to take the test? It was just handed to him? who is jeremiah w

RE: Who are certified Oracle Masters?

2003-12-11 Thread Pete Sharman
Oh, and I forgot. No, the honorary OCM's didn't have to take the test. They were given the OCM in recognition of their contributions to the Oracle world as a whole. Actually, some of them I'd never heard of before either, so that probably explains why I can't recall who they are now. Pete "Cont

RE: Who are certified Oracle Masters?

2003-12-11 Thread Cary Millsap
The answer to your first question is "Correct." Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Performance Diagnosis 101: 12/16 Detroit, 1/27 Atlanta - SQL Optimization 101: 12/8 Dallas, 2/16 Dallas - Hotsos Symposium 2004: March 7-10 Dallas - Visit www.hotsos.com

RE: Who are certified Oracle Masters?

2003-12-11 Thread TOMPKINS, MARGARET
Pete, Scott Nelson, Paul Dorsey, Peter Koletzke, and David Ensor were also part of the original 6-pack I believe, and it was announced in the fall of 2001. Maggie Respectfully, > Maggie Tompkins - CAD SQA > Corporate Applications Division > Technology Services Organization - Kansas City > Def

Re: http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp

2003-12-11 Thread Ryan
very nice. what is teradata? I never hear that dbms mentioned. - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:04 PM sp > These are their numbers for online databases. Most of SLAC'S Babar Objectivity. database is on

RE: Who are certified Oracle Masters?

2003-12-11 Thread Cary Millsap
No, no, no! Definitely not me. I'm 99.999% certain not Mogens or Anjo either. I don't think Steve either (80% sure). Not sure about the others. Thank you for the sentiment, though! Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Performance Diagnosis 101: 12/16 De

http://www.wintercorp.com/vldb/2003_TopTen_Survey/TopTenWinners.a sp

2003-12-11 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
These are their numbers for online databases. Most of SLAC'S Babar Objectivity. database is on tape managed in a hierarchical file system, HPSS. Last I heard we had about 50 TB online. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FA

Re: Who are certified Oracle Masters?

2003-12-11 Thread Ryan
you mean niemic didnt actually have to take the test? It was just handed to him? who is jeremiah wilton? - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 4:09 PM > IIRC, Tanel did the OCM as well, but I suspect most of t

Re: Log actively being archived by another process

2003-12-11 Thread Jose Luis Delgado
Hi... check note: 119547.1 on Metalink HTH JL --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi List, > > Just changed my database from No archive Log mode to > Archive Log mode and I am keep getting the following > error in Alert Log. What could be wrong? > > > Thu Dec 11 16:06:20 2003 > ARC1: Evaluating ar

diff between FGRD and ARCH in v$archived_log.creator column

2003-12-11 Thread jaysingh1
Gurus, What is FGRD and ARCH in v$archived_log.creator column. I see something like below in my db. select recid,creator from v$archived_log RECID CREATOR - --- 1 FGRD 2 ARCH 3 ARCH 4 ARCH 5 ARCH 6 ARCH 7 ARCH 8 FGRD 8 rows selected

Re: Who are certified Oracle Masters?

2003-12-11 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
Thanks for the vote of confidence, but I'm not an OCM. In order to pass, I am lacking a few vital pieces (in increasing severity) a) $$ b) time c) knowledge My knowledge and interest is rather limited to tuning and the CBO. I believe Tanel is, according to credentials listed on the slides of his

Re: RE: Who are certified Oracle Masters?

2003-12-11 Thread Tanel Poder
Yup, I managed to pass it in december 2002 and I'd say it has been quite useful for an unknown consultant from nowhere like me. But I agree with you, other guys mentioned here don't need any certificate to prove their mastership. They are way over any current or future certification anyway... T

RE: Who are certified Oracle Masters?

2003-12-11 Thread Pete Sharman
IIRC, Tanel did the OCM as well, but I suspect most of the others on your list aren't prepared to waste their time attending OCP exams and courses just so they can get the OCM. :) There were some honorary OCM's announced when the program first started (OOW2002?). From memory, Rich Niemic and Jer

Log actively being archived by another process

2003-12-11 Thread jaysingh1
Hi List, Just changed my database from No archive Log mode to Archive Log mode and I am keep getting the following error in Alert Log. What could be wrong? Thu Dec 11 16:06:20 2003 ARC1: Evaluating archive log 6 thread 1 sequence 403 ARC1: Unable to archive log 6 thread 1 sequence 403 L

RE: Who are certified Oracle Masters?

2003-12-11 Thread Odland, Brad
Woo Hooo!! NOT ME!! I'm a certified oracle bastard! lol Brad O. okay...I'm done... (back into my cage) -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I know only of Pete Sharman. Who are other Oracle Certified Masters on this

Re: RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Tanel Poder
> PCTFREE and PCTUSED are not part of the storage > clause. > > SQL> create table t1 (c1 number) > tablespace lmt1 pctfree 20 pctused 30; > > Table created. > > Lot's > of potential to go down the wrong path on this one. > Assumptions! Maybe it has been already mentioned here, but with ASSM,

Who are certified Oracle Masters?

2003-12-11 Thread Mladen Gogala
I know only of Pete Sharman. Who are other Oracle Certified Masters on this group? I suspect Tanel to be one, as well as Steve Adams, Cary Millsap, Mogens Norgaard, Anjo Kolk, Wolfgang Breitling, Gaja V. and Kirti Deshpande. Am I correct? Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -- Please see the official ORACL

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Avnish - Since nobody has mentioned it yet (my posts arrive late, so probably will by the time this appears), get Cary Millsap's book Optimizing Oracle Performance http://search.barnesandnoble.com/textbooks/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid =6WIANMIL0H&isbn=059600527X&TXT=Y&itm=1 His methods soun

Re: Oracle Data Guard

2003-12-11 Thread Yong Huang
Hi, Jonathan, I think your question is why I mentioned TDU, not just SDU, in my response to Guang's message. I admit I didn't give much thought and threw that in. Note:44694.1 says it's set to 32k by default and its adjustable range is 0 to 32k. Then the question is why Oracle chose the magical 32

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Karniotis, Stephen
OK. Before we go blaming Oracle DB, you need to look at the entire picture. 1. Are other applications within the environment affected by slow performance? 2. What other apps are running on the network? 3. Have any network-related diagnostics been performed to ensure that Network bottlenecks are n

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

2003-12-11 Thread GovindanK
Yes .. that is good. GovindanK On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:44:34 -0800, "Freeman Robert - IL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Odland, Brad
Oh I've run into THIS beforeyou are in a sticky technical AND political situation I am sure. It is really not that complex. I'll bet they (your DBAs) have already been told you that the app is horribly designed and it was a mistake and that the hardware is under powered canned "dataserver ins

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Thanks I asked because we also use Citrix and so far we never had a problem related to Citrix, only problems we had were inefficient coding and oracle bugs, nothing related to HW/disk/WTS etc. The only problem initially with Citrix was configuring client printers, but our guys figured it out a

RE: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-11 Thread Paul Drake
Mark,   MS w2k3 server supports large memory in the standard product, advanced edition not required. For me, those (client) systems are still in acceptance testing, and I have not yet actually run them with a process memory > 2 GB. I'll let you know after I do, sounds like a good test for a rainy e

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Avnish.Rastogi
Not really sure what happened and why we decided to that. I was involved in the beginning of project and remembered that PM was mentioning about talking to another Logician client who were facing same issues. -Original Message- Jamadagni, Rajendra Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 10:55

Re: Windows clustering???

2003-12-11 Thread Mladen Gogala
Let me guess your secret: "Windows box" is running X-windows X11R6 and an OS ending in "x"? Your version of windows has a bug in BSOD? On 12/11/2003 01:59:37 PM, "Cunningham, Gerald" wrote: > Oh yeah? Just this week we had a Windows box that had been up for 29 > days straight!!! > > Yep. You rea

Re: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
DBAs should never 'guess' about performance. If they are guessing you need new DBAs. They should be running statspacks, sql trace, and looking at timing data. Its too much to explain in an email. Fire your DBAs and find people who dont 'guess'. How much are you paying these guys? > > From: <

RE: Windows clustering???

2003-12-11 Thread Cunningham, Gerald
Oh yeah? Just this week we had a Windows box that had been up for 29 days straight!!! Yep. You read it right. I'm not giving out our secrets though. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This is a small, static, but fierc

Oracle Java stored procedure question

2003-12-11 Thread AdamDonahue
Folks, Anyone know if it's possible to pass a package record type as a parameter to a Java stored procedure? e.g., create or replace package el_zip_pkg is type file_rec_type is record ( namevarchar2(255) , datablob ); type file_rec_

RE: Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Ummm ... what was the problem that prompted you guys to replace citrix servers? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts,

Performance tuning in complex environment

2003-12-11 Thread Avnish.Rastogi
Hello Everyone, I am trying to get some help/suggestions reg. how to troubleshoot performance issues. Little back ground about our environment. Its third party application (Logician) from GE. There are total 11 databases, all on oracle 8174 H-UX 11i in cluster environment. All the databases are

RE: SQL Area Reloads

2003-12-11 Thread Alexander . Feinstein
Title: RE: SQL Area Reloads No, "reload" does not include initial load. "reload" - Any PIN of an object that is not the first PIN performed since the object handle was created, and which requires loading the object from disk. "First_loads" = pins - pinhits - reloads Alex. -Original M

RE: for security patches - going to 9.2.0.4

2003-12-11 Thread Paula_Stankus
Guys, I saved all of your writing including Todd Boxx, Richard Foote, Wolfgang... about issues with 9.2.0.4. We are currently on 9.2.0.3 and I understand (although have not hit it yet) that in this version we could get locks when building indexes. Also, that basically you need to set your com

Re: RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Daniel Hanks
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > oracle literature is really lacking in entry level docs anyway. The concepts > document is way too large to be digestable by someone new to the topic. > > What we really need is: > > simple SQL book for newbies - O'Reilly's Mastering Oracle SQL?

RE: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-11 Thread Mark Leith
Hi all, Thanks for the pointers that you have all supplied. Sage advice that they shouldn't have changed Oracle whilst changing their OS at the same time. I also did some checking up on the /3GB switch before it was mentioned (having seen it on here in the past) - Windows 2000 does in fact suppor

char is going away? - Thanks

2003-12-11 Thread Gene Gurevich
Just to thank all who replied ( sure did not expect that much replied): Taner, Tim, Kevin, Murali, Jonnathan, Jesse, Michael, DEnnis, Jamadagni, Mladen, Pete, Thomas, Kenneth. Sorry if I forgot anyone. Gene __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http

Re: 3rd Party Oracle Licenses

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
you need to contact oracle sales to make certain. The obligation is on your company double check. i doubt what they are saying is true. please post what you find out. > > From: "Jay Hostetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/12/11 Thu AM 09:14:26 EST > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: NT -> Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-11 Thread Yechiel Adar
The /3GB does not work for the simple reason that in W2K you have 3GB as max address space. At least that what my sysadmin tells me (after checking with MS).   Yechiel AdarMehish - Original Message - From: Paul Drake To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: W

Re: Dblink fails between 8.1.7 (Unix) and 9i (Zos 390) due to inv

2003-12-11 Thread Yechiel Adar
My bad. IGNORE PREVIOUS. It should be the same as: select * from global_name. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:34 PM > Yes. The name must be equal to select name from v$database. >

RE: Strange behavior with dbms_stats...

2003-12-11 Thread Jose Luis Delgado
Oooppp... Sorry... I sent the testing proc... this is the original... procedure get_statistics as cursor get_users_list is select username from dba_users where username != 'SYS' and username != 'SYSTEM'; begin for i in get_users_list loop dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats(ownname=> c

Re: RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
oracle literature is really lacking in entry level docs anyway. The concepts document is way too large to be digestable by someone new to the topic. What we really need is: simple SQL book for newbies simple PL/SQL book for newbies Architecture book automatic features Beginning Oracle Programm

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jared . Still
create table test_table (c1 number) tablespace users pctfree 20 pctused 30 / Works for me.   ;) ( USERS is ASSM) "Richard Foote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  12/11/2003 03:39 AM  Please respond to ORACLE-L                 To:        Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-

Re: Re: Strange behavior with dbms_stats...

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
put it into a a dbms_output to see what is passed as variables then wrap it in execute immediate. your doing dynamic pl/sql. i think that will work. > > From: anu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/12/11 Thu AM 11:54:35 EST > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject:

RE: 3rd Party Oracle Licenses

2003-12-11 Thread Goulet, Dick
Rule of thumb, NEVER trust the third party vendor to have it right. Call YOUR Oracle sales rep & get his/her advice. We've had an application sold to us "with Oracle licenses" when the third party vendor was not licensed by Oracle to do so. Mind you as long as the contract between you and the

Re: Strange behavior with dbms_stats...

2003-12-11 Thread anu
The proc generates the 'exec dbms_stats ' statements for all the users. Are you saving the output and running it manually or not. IT would have the same statements that you run one by one. Jose Luis Delgado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: List...SunOS 5.8, Oracle 8.1.6 (and 8.1.7 too).I use the proc at

RE: 3rd Party Oracle Licenses

2003-12-11 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Jay, I would call your local Oracle Sales office and run it by them. As my old boss used to say - "ALWAYS cut the cards". Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 9:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We are purchasi

Re[2]: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, December 11, 2003, 8:44:25 AM, Mercadante, Thomas F ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: MTF> And I think a condensed documentation set is a great MTF> idea. I wonder if there is a market for it? If I just wrote the book? No, I doubt it would sell in high-enough numbers. The Oracle book market is

Re: 3rd Party Oracle Licenses

2003-12-11 Thread Yechiel Adar
Take their word - in a contract that specify that they are responsible in case Oracle ask for more money, and then check with Oracle. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 4:14 PM > We are

RE: Code Conversion from MSSQL into Oracle

2003-12-11 Thread Hallas, John, Tech Dev
Steve Perry from this list produced a perl script to read a import file (rows=n) and produce formatted DDL. Whilst it is not perfect (as Steve agrees) it does give a good basis of where to start with processing and transforming a text input stream into a text output stream whilst making a small

RE: SQL Area Reloads

2003-12-11 Thread Tim Gorman
OK, fair enough. Something to consider: the concept of "reload" probably also includes the concept of "initial/first load". I don't know whether this is the case for certain, but one way to check might be to query the number of items in the V$SQLAREA (i.e. "select count(*) from v$sqlarea"). Aft

RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread nelson . petersen
What's wrong with the analysis?   Wrong syntax in the 'CREATE TABLE'   PCTFREE and PCTUSED are not part of the storage clause.   SQL> create table t1 (c1 number) tablespace lmt1 pctfree 20 pctused 30;   Table created.   Lot's of potential to go down the wrong path on this one. Assumptions!

RE: 3rd Party Oracle Licenses

2003-12-11 Thread Jesse, Rich
Our apps that use Oracle come with an "Application license". By the terms of this license, we get to use that Oracle DB for that app and that app alone. The DB support comes from the app vendor and not Oracle. Not feeling particularly comfortable with this arrangement, we purchased separate Orac

RE: Strange behavior with dbms_stats...

2003-12-11 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Um...the PL/SQL script at the bottom of your e-mail doesn't DO anything other than output a line. Do you use this in a subsequent command file? Cheers, Mike -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 8:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L List... SunOS 5.8, Oracle

RE: Strange behavior with dbms_stats...

2003-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
after running the block, do you actually spool the output and run that?? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having

Re[2]: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, December 11, 2003, 8:44:32 AM, Hately, Mike (LogicaCMG) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: HML> PS Yes, I'm aware that there will follow a list of post-7.3.4 features that HML> people consider absolutely vital. =) And therein lies part of the challenge. I'm sure too, that every product manager

Strange behavior with dbms_stats...

2003-12-11 Thread Jose Luis Delgado
List... SunOS 5.8, Oracle 8.1.6 (and 8.1.7 too). I use the proc at the bottom to generate statistics. It seems to work, but if I check statistics with: select owner, table_name, num_rows, blocks, av_row_len, to_char(last_analyzed, 'MM/DD/ HH24:MI:SS') from dba_tables; the tables have the O

RE: SQL Area Reloads

2003-12-11 Thread Ashish Sahasrabudhe
Title: Re: SQL Area Reloads Shared pool is free all the time. There are no DDLs executed, no analyze or no package compiles still there are SQL AREA reloads. The database is on 9i RAC. The reloads are appearing on RAC instances. -Original Message-From: Tim Gorman [mailto:[EMAI

Strange behavior with dbms_stats...

2003-12-11 Thread Jose Luis Delgado
List... SunOS 5.8, Oracle 8.1.6 (and 8.1.7 too). I use this proc to generate statistics: create or replace procedure get_statistics as cursor get_users_list is select username from dba_users where username != 'SYS' and username != 'SYSTEM'; begin for i in get_user

RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Hately, Mike (LogicaCMG)
Good points Jonathan, The 'box' as far as I'm concerned was accomodated by v7.3.4. That had 95% of the features anyone could want for most environments. After that we've had a succession of 'nice to have' features. Don't get me wrong, some environments absolutely demand these new features and ther

RE: Web hosting

2003-12-11 Thread Kevin Toepke
Title: Message I use PHP Webhosting for all of the sites I manage. http://phpwebhosting.com/   Kevin -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 6:40 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: OT: Web hos

Re: Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I managed to emulate Don Burleson's problem: SQL> create table test_table 2 (c1 number) 3 storage (pctfree 20 pctused 30); storage (pctfree 20 pctused 30) * ERROR at line 3: ORA-02143: invalid STORAGE option But when I read the error message, and corrected the error that was repo

Re: Dblink fails between 8.1.7 (Unix) and 9i (Zos 390) due to inv

2003-12-11 Thread Yechiel Adar
Yes. The name must be equal to select name from v$database. Yechiel Adar Mehish - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 4:54 PM > Clive, > > If the GLOBAL_NAMES parameter is set to true, then you must create th

Re: sequences and cursors

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Run your test case, and check the contents of v$open_cursor. Unless my memory has got it backwards, the pl/sql cursor cache is counted towards max_open_cursors, but the cursors that have been held open by the 'dirty tricks department' are closed as required if the limit is reache

RE: Downloading patches

2003-12-11 Thread Jerry Hess
Try using updates.oracle.com. -Original Message- Mladen Gogala Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 8:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Nope. Not since oracle killed the ftp server they used (ftp://oracle-ftp.oracle.com). You could have used wget when the ftp server was there.

RE: Antw: RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Guido Konsolke
Yes, I know. That David Bowie stuff comes up every few weeks / months in several c.d.o. groups. But what are 'fans'? In my opintion they make wind ;-) Anyway, I like this competition thread - mostly because there's nothing but bulls**t coming from me. Greetings to the list, Guido >>> [EMAIL PR

RE: Dblink fails between 8.1.7 (Unix) and 9i (Zos 390) due to inv

2003-12-11 Thread Mark Leith
Clive, If the GLOBAL_NAMES parameter is set to true, then you must create the database link with the same name as the database to which it connects.. Is that the case? Mark -Original Message- Hybart, Clive Sent: 11 December 2003 12:24 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L inv On U

Re: Downloading patches

2003-12-11 Thread Mladen Gogala
Nope. Not since oracle killed the ftp server they used (ftp://oracle-ftp.oracle.com). You could have used wget when the ftp server was there. That is the primary reason I had to purchase a cable modem connection. On 12/11/2003 03:54:24 AM, "Naveen, Nahata (IE10)" wrote: > Hi, > > This might be a

Re: OT: Web hosting

2003-12-11 Thread Robert Pegram
I have been thinking of using ipowerweb. http://www.ipowerweb.com/ Rob Pegram --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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, inexp

RE: analyze problems

2003-12-11 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
Not that he needs it, but I can confirm Jonathan's claim that the method_opt clause you are using does not collect column statistics: SQL> @delete_table_stats tp1 PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. SQL> @tblstats tp1

Re[2]: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, December 11, 2003, 8:34:32 AM, Tim Gorman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: TG> Neither the PCTFREE and PCTUSED clauses go inside the STORAGE clause. They TG> are independent of it. That is why the error was thrown, not because TG> PCTFREE is invalid with ASSM... Oh my. I'm so blind! I comple

Re[3]: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, December 11, 2003, 8:44:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: rcn> The biggest thing about working on database in the rcn> multi-TB range is that its a nice buzzword for your rcn> resume. Its not necessarily harder. This brings back some memories. I remember back when I mov

Re: Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
#1. these instances are still on 8i. We are supposed to go to 9i, but its not my call #2. its read only for the users. We do batch loads at night and I did not notice any slow down in the loads. I run statspack regularly. no problem. Just gotta do an alter table move periodically when we get too

Re: long raw risk

2003-12-11 Thread Yechiel Adar
I have a wild idea but maybe you can check with the vendor if it can be done. 1) Create a table that will hold only the other fields. 2) Create a second table that will have the same PK and long raw field. 3) Create a view that will combine them by the PK. 4) Since I am not sure in a view with joi

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