RE: LMT's Question

2001-02-07 Thread Chuck Hamilton
"Kirsh, Gary" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terry,I've seem LMT's used in standby db's without a problem. As a matter offact, if you ever want to use the standby in read-only mode, the temptablespace needs to be a LMT, otherwise any query resulting in a sort todisk will fail.Gary KirshNext Extent,

Re: Crontab ,HELP!!!

2001-02-07 Thread Chuck Hamilton
The script probably needs to set up the oracle environment variables before it will work. Try this. 1) In the oraenv script that's either in /opt/bin or /usr/local/bin depending on your platform, look for the comment that says "Install any custom code here" and insert right after itthefollowing

Re: Breaking a Table Data into Partitions

2001-02-16 Thread Chuck Hamilton
If you're going to split a table into multiple tables, then exchange them for partitions, why not just create the partitioned table and copy the original table right into that? I'd only use the "exchange" route when converting partitioned views into a partitioned table. "Joseph S. Testa" [EMAIL

Re: Indexes calculation??

2001-02-16 Thread Chuck Hamilton
the entire index to be rebuilt. Local indexes still need to be rebuilt, but they reduce the impact of such operations to one partition. HTH Chuck Hamilton Raghu Kota [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi GurusI have a big fat Indexes, I need to recalculate their storage clauses, What is best approach to calc

Re: (F) Any way to tell if a DB is OPS?

2001-02-21 Thread Chuck Hamilton
select parallelfrom v$instance; The Oracle DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a query that will say if a DB is an Oracle Parallel Server instance?I have never, but if you install OPS during install, does that make a 'mark' for DBs re: OPS?Thanks.Get your small business started at Lycos Small

RE: metalink

2001-02-21 Thread Chuck Hamilton
Actually a 12 year old could probably have done it better. Kevin Kostyszyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would agree with that as well. For such a large company I would have to say that they have one of the worst web pages in the history of web pages. I have seen second year students at The New

No Subject

2001-02-27 Thread Chuck Hamilton
I'm considering the switch from Oracle Names to Oracle Internet Directory. One feature I liked about names was the dynamic discovery. Does dynamic discovery also work with OID? For example if one of my databases fails over to another machine in it's cluster, the names server is automatically

RE: OID questions

2001-03-01 Thread Chuck Hamilton
Thanks for all the information Greg. One more question. What's an oracle names proxy? I thought names was going away entirely in 9i. Chuck Hamilton "Nelson, Greg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Failover information in Oracle Internet Directory (OID) is entered like Net8configuration inform

Re: Sr. level Oracle DBA -Peoria, IL..

2001-03-13 Thread Chuck Hamilton
Peroria? How's the skiing in Peoria? OraStaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Description:Peoria, IL company needs a Sr. level Oracle DBA with Unix experience to join its' I.T. team.This position will have typical DBA responsibilities i.e.: physicaldatabase design, installations,performance analysis,

identifying shared memory segments

2001-03-21 Thread Chuck Hamilton
A while back someone posted a method for determining which shared memory segments belonged to an instance. Can someone repost that and CC me? Thanks.Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Personal Address - Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.

RE: identifying shared memory segments

2001-03-23 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Re: DNS vs. Oracle Names vs. tnsnames.ora

2001-03-23 Thread Chuck Hamilton
AKAIK tnsnames.ora will always be supported. Oracle Names is being dropped in 9i in favor of LDAP, and since 8i Oracle ships a new LDAP compliant directory server called Oracle Internet Directory with the database. You can also use any other LDAP directory server such as Microsoft Active

RE: Oracle_In_NT !!!

2001-03-23 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Failed DB link

2001-03-23 Thread Chuck Hamilton
I ran into a situation this week where a session was waiting for results from a failed db link and holding a lock (library cache pin) on the sql it was executing. It never detected the failure and hung waiting for a reply on the link. This caused the pin to be help indefinitely too, which caused

RE: Unix question

2001-03-26 Thread Chuck Hamilton
For single character replacement (or removal) use "tr". For string to string replacement use sed. echo $var | tr "e" "o" -or- echo $var | sed "s/e/o/g"# (the '/g' means globally) Mandar Ghosalkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: check this question from korn faq at

Re: changing internal password

2001-03-26 Thread Chuck Hamilton
You use the orapwd utility to change the remote internal password on unix. The default file name is $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/orapw$ORACLE_SID. Also, when you log in as internal locally, you don't need a password as long as the id you log in with is part of the dba unix group. Nihar [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Which is faster, Metalink or...

2001-03-27 Thread Chuck Hamilton
A snail going uphill through jungle vegetation? Molasses in thenorthernmost region of the Siberian tundra?Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Personal Address - Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.

SGI to AIX conversion

2001-03-29 Thread Chuck Hamilton
We need to move a 700g Oracle DW from SGI IRIX64 (SGI's 64 bit unix) to AIX and upgrade it from 7.3.3 to 8.1.7 at the same time. Anyone got any suggestions on how to do this quickly? I'd rather only use exp/imp as a last resort because it'll be so slow. One idea we've thought about is to:1. Backup

hash_area_size

2001-03-29 Thread Chuck Hamilton
Is the hash area memory released back to the o/s when the hash join operation is finished or does it remain allocated as long as the session is still connected?Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Personal Address - Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.

Re: SGI to AIX conversion

2001-03-30 Thread Chuck Hamilton
between unix systems, shouldn't I be able to open copies of 7.3.3 IRIX files on an 8.1.7 AIX instance? "Thater, William" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuck Hamilton wrote: We need to move a 700g Oracle DW from SGI IRIX64 (SGI's 64 bit unix) to AIX and upgrade it from 7.3.3 to 8.1.7 at the

Parallel Query question

2001-04-10 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Parallel Query Question

2001-04-10 Thread Chuck Hamilton
Looks like my first email got truncated so I'll try again. Is there a way to associate parallel query processes with the session that's running the query? Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Personal Address - Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail.

Re: Weird link problem

2001-04-18 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Re: Prompt and accept a value inside a procedure

2001-04-18 Thread Chuck Hamilton
nd for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Chuck Hamilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California-- Public I

Hello

2003-02-28 Thread Chuck Hamilton
Hello everyone. I have just rejoined this list after a couple of years hiatus. Quick question. Are HTML posts acceptable on this list or is everything supposed to be done in plain text? Thanks, Chuck Hamilton -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Chuck

Statistics on SYS?

2003-02-28 Thread Chuck Hamilton
What's the current recommendation for gathering statistics on system schema objects like SYS, and OUTLN? Are they still saying not to do it? I am on 8.1.7. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Chuck Hamilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

Re: Purely for your amusement

2003-02-28 Thread Chuck Hamilton
Title: RE: Purely for your amusement Do not fear. Australia is catching up quickly. I've gotten two "MS security patches" emailed to me in the last two days from a ISP in AU. I wonder if anyone actually falls for this stuff. - Original Message - From: Nick Wagner To:

Re: Purely for your amusement

2003-02-28 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Re: 32 bit and 64 bit memory

2003-02-28 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Re: Statistics on SYS?

2003-02-28 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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[no subject]

2003-02-28 Thread Chuck Hamilton
('1H92 Y M,=S+B -@T*3W1H97(@26YT97)EW1S#0H]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T]/3T-D-H MFES=EA;FET0T*0FEB;4@W1U9'D-G-K:6EN9PT*8V%N;V5I;F-FMA ;6%K:6YG#0IH:6MI;F-F)O=VQI;F-@T* ` end -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Chuck Hamilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services

Re: Invalid column in table - how to access it?

2003-02-28 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Re:

2003-02-28 Thread Chuck Hamilton
Oops, Posted to the wrong address. Sorry folks. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:53 PM bio oracle-l -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Chuck Hamilton INET

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit memory

2003-02-28 Thread Chuck Hamilton
on Linux runs as multiple processes , unlike Oracle on Windows which runs as one big process. Does this mean each Oracle process on Linux can access 3GB of memory? So that in the end the whole of Oracle can actually use greater than 3GB of memory? -- Lyndon Tiu Quoting Chuck Hamilton [EMAIL

Re: shared tnsnames.ora

2003-03-03 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Sharing data between sessions

2003-03-03 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Re: Duplicate online Database

2003-03-04 Thread Chuck Hamilton
+ archivelogs = duplicate database?? Thanks Edouard Dormidontov -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Chuck Hamilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list

Re: Duplicate online Database

2003-03-04 Thread Chuck Hamilton
recommend backing up an open database and, if that were to happen, I would consider that backup to be a 'scratch' tape. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Chuck Hamilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http

Re: Snapshot refreshes are failing

2003-03-04 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Re: Listener Hangs

2003-03-04 Thread Chuck Hamilton
It's possible. I've heard of this happening before and the recommendation was to clear out the listener.log file. There are a couple of ways to clear out that file. One is to stop the listener and delete it. The other is to cat /dev/null to it (i.e. cat /dev/null listener.log). The latter

Re: Re[2]: Oracle Tools

2003-03-05 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Re: Re[2]: Oracle Tools

2003-03-05 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Re: Oracle Tools

2003-03-05 Thread Chuck Hamilton
BTW is 9i lite just a database engine for PDAs, or does it allow you to administer databases over a network from a PDA? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Chuck Hamilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http

Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: Oracle Tools

2003-03-05 Thread Chuck Hamilton
Hmm, I'm not having any trouble getting to it. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 1:14 PM Looks like the web site may be down. Reply Separator Author: Chuck Hamilton

OEM and monitoring clustered databases

2003-03-05 Thread Chuck Hamilton
be monitored from OEM anymore. I'm sure others on this list are using this type of failover for high availability. How did you get around it? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Chuck Hamilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http

Re: Oracle Tools

2003-03-06 Thread Chuck Hamilton
then. But of course you can wait for EM in 10i which is browser based, so that should be able to run in the pocket version of internet explorer Regards, Morten Egan Chuck Hamilton wrote: BTW is 9i lite just a database engine for PDAs, or does it allow you to administer databases over a network

Re: How Reliable is Explain Plan in 9.2

2003-03-06 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Re: How Reliable is Explain Plan in 9.2

2003-03-06 Thread Chuck Hamilton
view. Kevin -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Chuck Hamilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web hosting services

Fudging outlines

2003-03-06 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Re: Fudging outlines

2003-03-06 Thread Chuck Hamilton
at espn dot com Any views expressed here are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having an opinion is an art !! -Original Message- From: Chuck Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject

Re: Fudging outlines

2003-03-07 Thread Chuck Hamilton
are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having an opinion is an art !! -Original Message-From: Chuck Hamilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:24 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: Fudging outlines

Re: System tablespace Oracle 9202

2003-03-07 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Re: Oracle on a SAN.... Good, Bad or Proceed with caution?

2003-03-07 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Re: Oracle on a SAN.... Good, Bad or Proceed with caution?

2003-03-10 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Analyzing indexes

2003-03-11 Thread Chuck Hamilton
to be rebuilt or not without setting a lock on the table? We are on Oracle 8.1.7. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Chuck Hamilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing

POLL: Database to DBA ratio

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Re: Analyzing indexes

2003-03-11 Thread Chuck Hamilton
the information needed to determine if an index needs to be rebuilt or not without setting a lock on the table? We are on Oracle 8.1.7. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Chuck Hamilton INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051

Re: Running multiple instances on a [large] server

2003-03-11 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Re: Running multiple instances on a [large] server

2003-03-11 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Re: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-11 Thread Chuck Hamilton
to a few in private. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 1:31 PM Consider yourself lucky. We've got a 71:1 ratio here. Chuck Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED]T

Re: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-12 Thread Chuck Hamilton
Title: Message Damn. Beat me to the punch. I was going to mention being a "snow quality" inspector or Blue Mountain (PA). :-) - Original Message - From: Weiss, Rick To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:19 PM Subject: RE:

Re: POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-12 Thread Chuck Hamilton
Title: RE: POLL: Database to DBA ratio With such a large # of databases to support, how do you divide up the work? Does everyone administer all of the databases, or are databases assigned to a DBA? How do you handle on-call? - Original Message - From: Adams, Matthew (GECP,

Re: TAR and Linux info

2003-03-12 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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Re: Backup Strategy

2003-03-14 Thread Chuck Hamilton
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