RE: Backup Strategy

2001-10-04 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Backup Strategy Gene is a sysadmin at heart. He hasn't been fully groomed and trained in the Data Base Arts. I think that's the main reason for his (unjustified) reluctance to TRUST something that works. It's like physics. You see it every day, the math doesn't make 100% sense to

RE: running catlog,catproc

2001-10-03 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: running catlog,catproc You don't want anyone in the database when you are recreating the data dictionary. Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Administrator Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 954-935-4117 -Original Message- From: Tatireddy, Shrinivas (MED, Keane) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: Localy managed TBS

2001-10-03 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Localy managed TBS in dba_tablespaces, column extent_management below is a script I use that has this bit of info included -- snip column ts_name format a15 select a.tablespace_name ts_name,extent_management lmt, mb_free, mb_total, pct_used from ( select tablespace_name,

RE:

2001-10-02 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Hi Chris, Have you tried an inline view yet? SELECT s.study_id, s.status, sp.status from (SELECT study_id, status FROM s WHERE study_id = 5014 ) s, sp where s.study_id = sp.study_id(+) Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Administrator Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 954-935-4117

RE: Sqloader

2001-10-01 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Sqloader Also, depending on what version you are on, you can have multiple INTO TABLE statements. See below from the 8.1.7 doco. Using Multiple INTO TABLE Statements Multiple INTO TABLE statements allow you to: Load data into different tables Extract multiple logical records

How much data can SQL*Server hold?

2001-10-01 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: How much data can SQL*Server hold? Hello everyone, Any of you using SQL*Server on fairly large databases? If so please email me directly. I have a consulting company telling me they can run a 500GB+ database on SQL*Server with no problems and I'm pretty skeptical. What's the

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Phone: (978) 322-5744 Fax:    (707) 885-2275 Fuelspot 73 Princeton Street North, Chelmsford 01863   -Original Message- From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
-windows package for your PC (Exceed, ChameleonX, Reflection X?, etc).   I've been here 3 years, installed at least 30 new systems and have never been in any of our computer rooms. -Original Message- From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 9:05 AM

RE: Preventing user access

2001-09-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Preventing user access Hi Sean, someone on the list, his or her name escapes me, suggested two listeners. One for the general users and one for dba's only. You want to kick your users out, bring down the general use listener. Clever and slick! Lisa Koivu Oracle Database

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
will run fine as it will be running locally to the server.   HTH   Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Koivu, Lisa Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 15:55 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Physical access to servers

RE: Datatype

2001-09-25 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Datatype Hi Ken, Date is the name of the datatype. It can be formatted in many different ways. Like this, formatted into date and time. (VIKING-SYSTEM)select to_char(sysdate,'dd-mon- hh24:Mi:ss') from dual; TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'DD- 25-sep-2001

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-25 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance What's wrong with telnetting in? -Original Message- From: Steven Lembark [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:20 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Physical access to servers for

RE: interesting floating point problem with oracle

2001-09-25 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: interesting floating point problem with oracle Well... not on 8.1.7. It's fine here. (VIKING-SYSTEM)select 62.323/62.323 from dual; 62.323/62.323 - 1 Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Administrator Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 954-935-4117 -Original Message-

RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance

2001-09-25 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Physical access to servers for maintenance Honestly Ron, installs are the only thing I can think of. We had our prod servers at a different location and believe me I avoided going up there whenever possible. Install was the only thing I had to go up there for. I've been able to

RE: TEMP Tablespace

2001-09-25 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: TEMP Tablespace Hi Connie, Because there isn't anything stored in there (a segment) permanently. But when I look at my db (well, my horsing-around-and-breaking-stuff db) I see this. My temp tablespace is not permanent. 1 select segment_name from dba_segments 2* where

RE: QUESTION ON RESTRICTING BULK COLLECT

2001-09-24 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: QUESTION ON RESTRICTING BULK COLLECT Rajan, For what it's worth I have never been able to get bulk collect to work on a large number of records restricting with recno. It was so painfully slow. I use it to bring small lookup tables into memory but I don't use it for

RE: DBMS_SQL to Create views

2001-09-24 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: DBMS_SQL to Create views Hi Kevin, this is kind of changing the topic... but why are you creating procedures as SYS?? Seems to me upgrades, patches, etc. would possibly endanger your procedure. I always thought of it as sys owning all the code that runs the database, data

RE: EMC BCV Splits and Hot Backup mode.

2001-09-24 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: EMC BCV Splits and Hot Backup mode. Hi Glenn, Are your arclogs redologs on the bcv? Think of it in the same manner as a hot backup - what if there was a large data load going at the time of the split. There's no guarantee as to what data changes will make it on what mirror

RE: Design Issue - Quick response appreciated

2001-09-24 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Design Issue - Quick response appreciated Rao, The only way to tell is to autotrace or tkprof. I would strongly advise doing so because connect by is a performance killer. If you have to use it, be sure the query isn't doing anything unacceptable. Lisa Koivu Oracle Database

RE: How TSPITR?

2001-09-24 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: How TSPITR? Seema this is a very involved topic and your question is very broad. Have you read the documentation? -Original Message- From: Seema Singh [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 5:18 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

RE: coalesce tablespace

2001-09-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: coalesce tablespace Hi Dave, No. temporary tablespaces provide a performance gain by not de-allocating extents. The next transaction that needs the temp tablespace can utilize extents that are already allocated, thus bypassing the overhead of allocating the extents. That's the

RE: 2nd DBA or ?

2001-09-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: 2nd DBA or ? Another angle: when I left my last job, I was the only dba. They panicked and did everything they could to try to keep me. The result was they were left without a skilled dedicated dba, assigning my job responsibilities to a bda (big dumb a$$) who tried to learn it in

RE: sizeiof table!!!

2001-09-19 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: sizeiof table!!! Here's a modification of one that I use 1 select 2 tablespace_name, MB_FREE, MB_TOTAL,mb_total-mb_free mb_used, 3 round((MB_TOTAL-MB_FREE)/MB_TOTAL*1000)/10 pct_used 4 from 5 (select tablespace_name, trunc(sum(free_bytes/1024)) MB_FREE , sum(total_bytes/1024)

RE: Subtract 1 month from current date

2001-09-17 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Subtract 1 month from current date Hi Ron, Here it is (INV.WORLD-SYSTEM)select add_months(sysdate,-1) from dual; ADD_MONTH - 17-AUG-01 For conversions, etc. it's best to study the sql*plus doco. In fact I had to visit this exact chapter this morning to refresh my

RE: EBU Question

2001-09-13 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: EBU Question Hi Jack, I had to use it before. It's a MESS. Even the documentation and the notes on Metalink are wrong. Support gave me some internal documents that showed exactly how to create/update a repository. That was the only way I got it to work. I think your best option

RE: What happens if you lose the alert log?

2001-09-13 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: What happens if you lose the alert log? Bill, IF the alert log suddenly disappears (you delete it), Oracle will create a new one without skipping a beat. Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Administrator Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 954-935-4117 -Original Message- From: Carle,

RE: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix

2001-09-13 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: I/O Performance/bottlenecks on EMC Symmetrix John, I have to say that's a very interesting post. Two shops I've worked in utilizing an EMC Symmetrix claimed that there's no way you could ever end up with i/o problems and you shouldn't even consider it when creating a database on

RE: USE_NL with or without ORDERED

2001-09-13 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: USE_NL with or without ORDERED Hi Ed, how many records are in the tables? Hash join is favored when there aren't so many records and there's enough memory to slam together the result set. I think you aren't seeing typical behavior. Try this on much larger tables and see

RE: Life: is that really OT?

2001-09-12 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Life: is that really OT? Greg, you have a point. I don't fully agree with killing to retaliate. However, if the US doesn't do anything about this, there's no guarantee this won't happen again. I went home yesterday because I was scared out of my pants, and I'm in Florida. No one

RE: dbms_utility.compile_schema

2001-09-12 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: dbms_utility.compile_schema What version are you on? It was hosed in 8.1.5. Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Administrator Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 954-935-4117 -Original Message- From: Big Planet [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 1:11 PM To:

OT: Terrorist Acts and the media

2001-09-12 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: OT: Terrorist Acts and the media Babette, When I finally got a website (cnnfn) to come up yesterday morning, it did say initially that two planes hit each WTC tower. Maybe the media is hiding something. Here's something scary: One of the suspects was suppossedly living in an

RE: Any shareware/gnu ER diagramers out there?

2001-09-12 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Any shareware/gnu ER diagramers out there? Toad. www.toadsoft.com Does everything you're asking for. Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Administrator Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 954-935-4117 -Original Message- From: John Lewis [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September

RE: Hanging processes on NT

2001-09-12 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Hanging processes on NT That's the problem. Should... It never worked for me (8.1.5, 8.1.6) and I had to write a script to take care of these types of connections. Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Administrator Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 954-935-4117 -Original Message- From:

FW: nvl not using index

2001-09-11 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: FW: nvl not using index BigPee, Have you tried a function-based index yet? (8i) You'll need to grant query rewrite privilege to the user creating the index. Lisa Koivu Glorified Typist and DBA Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA -Original Message- From: Farnsworth, Dave [SMTP:[EMAIL

OT

2001-09-11 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: OT I hope everyone on this list in the New York area is safe I am so scared. Lisa Koivu Oracle Database Administrator Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 954-935-4117

RE: collections / records / index-by, etc - long, sorry

2001-09-10 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: collections / records / index-by, etc - long, sorry Thanks Prakash, but can I use FORALL with this object? I don't think so. Correct me if I'm wrong. Thank you Lisa Koivu Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA -Original Message- From: Bala, Prakash [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: v_$session HELP...

2001-09-10 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: v_$session HELP... The background processes. I exclude these sessions when viewing activity in the database with my sessions script. Lisa Koivu Oracle Databug Administrator Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 954-935-4117 -Original Message- From: Sinardy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: What's wrong with this query

2001-09-10 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: What's wrong with this query Your hint is wrong. You have to tell it what index to use. example /*+ index (table_alias index_name) */ Remember hints, if they are wrong, will just be ignored. Your execution plan seems OK. It's returning an awful lot of rows ... Lisa Koivu

RE: What's wrong with this query

2001-09-10 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: What's wrong with this query Hi Anne, Expected rows - my impression is the number of rows it will return. However, if you are using set autotrace traceonly explain, I don't know how it could know that. So take that number with a grain of salt. Cardinality - number of distinct

collections / records / index-by, etc - long, sorry

2001-09-06 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: collections / records / index-by, etc - long, sorry Good morning everyone, well I finally have something to work on. Not being one to whip out shoddy code, I want to write my load scripts utilizing pl/sql tables and caching as much as I can, along with utilizing FORALL and BULK

RE: outer join problem

2001-09-06 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: outer join problem Try inline views. They will solve your problem. Lisa Koivu I can't believe I work here. Fairfield Resorts, Inc. 954-935-4117 -Original Message- From: Harvinder Singh [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 1:27 PM To: Multiple

RE: collections/PLSQL tables

2001-09-06 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: collections/PLSQL tables Raj, Well, you can limit the number of rows BULK COLLECT will return with the LIMIT keyword. Wouldn't that take care of the performance problem you refer to? And isn't it affected by the amount of free memory on the host? For insteance, there's very

RE: collections/PLSQL tables

2001-09-06 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: collections/PLSQL tables Really? The documentation says that when you use limit, you won't have to keep track of records you have already used and haven't already seen. But then again the documentation has been wrong before. I'll have to give it a try. Thanks for your comments

RE: sql*loader datatype question

2001-08-31 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Koivu, Lisa lisa.koivu@efair To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] field.com cc: Sent by: Subject: sql*loader datatype question [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/30/2001 12:33 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L I'm hitting a wall here. I'm trying to load data

RE: Stored Procedure Performance Problem --- Please Help

2001-08-31 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Stored Procedure Performance Problem --- Please Help Where's your tkprof output? First step always is to trace. -Original Message- From: Viral Amin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 10:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Stored

sql*loader problems SOLVED

2001-08-31 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: sql*loader problems SOLVED In case you are interested... I found out what the problem was.. my numbers were padded with SPACES. Freaking mainframe... So here's how I solved it, after I dumped the whole thing in a VARCHAR2(4000) and substring'd it: FPS_ACC_HK_POINTS1

RE: OPS$users

2001-08-31 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: OPS$users remote_login_passwordfile = exclusive os_authent_prefix = OPS$ and create the user identified externally. Lisa Koivu -Original Message- From: Bartolo, David [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 1:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: OT RE: database consistency tools ?

2001-08-31 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: OT RE: database consistency tools ? If the DBA screams bloody murder and loses his or her mind, does anybody hear? -Original Message- From: Mohan, Ross [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 3:07 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT

RE: OT: football fan-hood

2001-08-30 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: OT: football fan-hood BLASPHEMY! -Original Message- From: Scott Shafer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 6:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: OT: football fan-hood Lisa's really a Dolphins phan in purple viking drag...

RE: OT: football fan-hood

2001-08-30 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: OT: football fan-hood BLECH! My second favorite team is Tampa (they are half ex-vikings) I dare say they will be better than the Vikings this year. Charge that $5 to my account. Sorry. The short story is: Grew up in MN... my whole family watched the Vikings... my grandfather

RE: DB Monitoring

2001-08-30 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: DB Monitoring HI Vivek, off the top of my head: Number of extents - any reaching huge numbers? Tablespaces running out of room? Drives on the host filling up? Any jobs that have been running over 24 hours? Possible zombie processes? Top 10 most resource-intensive queries. Can

RE: financial problems with fatcity.com

2001-08-30 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: financial problems with fatcity.com THAT IS A FANTASTIC IDEA Oweson. If he places one person from this list he can sure afford it. -Original Message- From: Oweson Flynn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 9:22 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: !! Keeping the list alive

2001-08-30 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: !! Keeping the list alive AMEN! -Original Message- From: Rachel Carmichael [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 10:46 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: !! Keeping the list alive no, those posts keep us underworked DBAs from

RE: RE: financial problems with fatcity.com

2001-08-30 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: RE: financial problems with fatcity.com Ross is that all you are contributing? Two cents? -Original Message- From: Mohan, Ross [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:22 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: RE: financial problems

RE: Tkprof output

2001-08-30 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Tkprof output Lee, This query seems suspect UPDATE VM_LIVE.SINGLE_CUSTOMER_HISTORY SCH SET VISIBLE=1 WHERE ACXIOM_CUSTOMER_KEY = :b1 AND VERSION_NO = :b2 because of this call count cpu elapsed disk query current rows --- -- -- -- --

sql*loader datatype question

2001-08-30 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: sql*loader datatype question I'm hitting a wall here. I'm trying to load data into a large table. Two of the fields are phone numbers (10 digits). The database field is defined as number(10). When I try to load these records, they err out with an error similar to below. Record

RE: 8.1.7 on W2K

2001-08-30 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: 8.1.7 on W2K Well, this may not be the absolutely correct way to do it... but this is what I did write a batch script that does the oradim call to start services and instance Put it in the batch scheduler and choose runtime as 'on system startup' Hasn't failed me yet. Lisa

RE: sql*loader datatype question

2001-08-30 Thread Koivu, Lisa
]   - Original Message - From: Koivu, Lisa mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:33 PM Subject: sql*loader datatype question I'm hitting a wall here.  I'm trying to load data into a large table.  Two

RE: sql*loader datatype question

2001-08-30 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: sql*loader datatype question Well noo it's fixed-length and I think I'd end up with a big jumble, wouldn't I? No delims in the file. -Original Message- From: Bala, Prakash [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 2:48 PM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: sql*loader datatype question

2001-08-30 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: sql*loader datatype question Good explanation but no it's not -Original Message- From: Ron Rogers [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 2:48 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: sql*loader datatype question Lisa, Is the field

RE: results of analyze

2001-08-29 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: results of analyze Ruth, do you mean tables other than dba_indexes, dba_tables, dba_ind_partitions, dba_tab_partitions, etc., etc?? Here's a good one. The dba I worked with (certified, no experience) tried to tell me that when you analyze it adds columns to the table. Yea,

RE: 817 Intermedia on AIX

2001-08-29 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: 817 Intermedia on AIX Also - I ran into this problem on hp/ux: you may have to create the library hard coded with the oracle home path. REferencing $ORACLE_HOME (in user_libraries) did not work. Lisa Koivu The Bootylicious DBA Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA -Original Message-

awk, sed, windoze, sql*loader, other fun stuff

2001-08-29 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: awk, sed, windoze, sql*loader, other fun stuff Hello all, I'm working on sql*loader scripts and I realize that I'd probably be DONE by now if I had awk and sed to use. Of course, as unix-deficient as I am, I don't have it. Does anyone know of a windows version of these utilities?

OT: Lisa

2001-08-29 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: OT: Lisa Nothing wrong with combining a technical discussion with a bit of humor :) Tell me if I'm wrong ! -Original Message- From: Kevin Kostyszyn [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 4:12 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Lisa I

RE: How to loop call to SQL script in PL/SQL...

2001-08-29 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: How to loop call to SQL script in PL/SQL... Denmark, Every 5 seconds?? That's going to put an awful load on your database, dont'cha think? That's also going to be a very large file. We tried this a few months ago when jrun was acting suspect and we were getting a bunch of

RE: Change parameter without restart db

2001-08-28 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Change parameter without restart db Sinardy, Look at v$parameter, at ISSYS_MODIFIABLE. If it is FALSE, you have to restart the db for the change to take effect. Lisa Koivu Gimme a PC and I'll Break It, Guaranteed and DBA Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA -Original Message-

RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU

2001-08-28 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: OT : kernel using 75% of CPU OOOH yea. Looks like your machinie is awful darn busy ! Lisa Koivu Certified MOnkey and DBA Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA -Original Message- From: Jerry C [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 4:01 PM To: Multiple

RE: Oracle Learning Network

2001-08-28 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Oracle Learning Network Hey Yuval, You shouldn't have to pay them to give them your opinion! Sound OFF! Lisa Koivu Certified MOnkey and DBA Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA -Original Message- From: Yuval Arnon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 3:41 PM

RE: Tablespace layout

2001-08-28 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Tablespace layout Well Satar you didn't even read Cherie's email. Way back before I took that db to the tablespace layout you refer to (straight out of HOw to Stop Defragmenting and Start Living white paper) I had created a separate tablespace for each partition. It was an awful

RE: OT RE: RE: How do you audit a DBA?

2001-08-27 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: OT RE: RE: How do you audit a DBA? C'mon. I'd vote for The Rock instead, along with all The Rock's witty comments. That would be awfully darn distracting, and you could be sure your DBA would get NOTHING done :) Honestly, if there's a need to audit the dba, maybe he or she should

OT: system trivia (groove/programming): DOS prompt/etc and choppy

2001-08-27 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: OT: system trivia (groove/programming): DOS prompt/etc and choppy sound Really? I thought it was only because my personal pc has so little memory. I run into that behavior with explorer and playing mp3's at the same time. This also becomes a problem when burning a cd or changing

OT: Cobol Copybook format

2001-08-27 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: OT: Cobol Copybook format Good morning everyone, I have this messy document that is known as a copybook. I've been searching the web to help me understand what the appropriate way to translate this into a table is. If anyone has a link they are willing to share, or is willing to

RE: ORA-10027 in ps/sql block

2001-08-27 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: ORA-10027 in ps/sql block Rodd, can you post the code? -Original Message- From: Holman, Rodney [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 1:56 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: ORA-10027 in ps/sql block I have a developer here who is

ach_tran query

2001-08-27 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: ach_tran query Hi Cherie, Looks like parallel query kicked in. It usually throws some odd looking stuff in the explain plan. HTH Lisa -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 3:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Data Center monitoring

2001-08-27 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Data Center monitoring HELP And get LOTS OF IT Look at MC Service Guard to enhance availability. In addition, see if you can use some sort of storage solution that will minimize the occurrence of losing a disk. Look at running backups in parallel, and practice recoveries in

RE: Data Center monitoring

2001-08-27 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Data Center monitoring I agree. I have never seen a monitoring tool that worked better than your own tried-and-true trusty scripts. -Original Message- From: Stephen Andert [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 5:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: database upgrade policy?

2001-08-22 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: database upgrade policy? Don't upgrade unless there is a very good reason. All of these are candidates 1. current oracle version is unstable 2. specific bug addressed by an upgrade/patch, as identified by support 3. need to utilize new feature 4. desupport date coming up. If

RE: linux Oracle -- best combination

2001-08-22 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: linux Oracle -- best combination Have you tried an index hint on the first query yet? Have you tried NVL(cmm_id,101) = 101, NVL(cust_id,101) = 101 NVL(Friendly_session_id,100) = 100 loc_to_utc(NVL(creation_date,21-jun-2001')) between your dates? -Original Message-

Apologies... linux Oracle

2001-08-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: Apologies... linux Oracle Sorry everyone, I know you were just discussing this recently. What is the most stable combination of Oracle Linux? What would you recommend? I want to say the consensus was SCO Linux but I don't quite remember. Thank you Lara Croft Oracle Database

RE: Freelist Contention - PQ slaves

2001-08-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Freelist Contention - PQ slaves I thought that parallel query slaves were smart enough to divide up the work between them so there was no overlap? What am I missing? Can you elaborate? -Original Message- From: Johnson Poovathummoottil [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

RE: How do they get the answer?

2001-08-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: How do they get the answer? Ken, after reading through the quesiton and thinking it through I arrived at the answer they give. They are trying to trick you into choosing syntax error. You'll find questions similar to this on the exams. Lara Croft. Certified Tomb Raider and DBA.

RE: Apologies... linux Oracle

2001-08-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
... linux Oracle SCO makes a version of Linux now?    Ed -Original Message- From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 11:51 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Apologies... linux Oracle Sorry everyone, I know you were just

RE: Index question ???

2001-08-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Index question ??? Andrea, It is recommended, not required. Anytime the db needs to verify the fk constraint, if there isn't an index there to support it, a full table scan will happen. Performance killer. What do you mean your indices disappeared? Can you elaborate?

w2k db connections... shudder

2001-08-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: w2k db connections... shudder OK. This question is posed to those who maintain applications Oracle on Windows 2000 servers. What's the maximum number of connections you can feasibly support? Has anyone implemented a windows 2000 cluster and had it reliably work? I feel

OT: DBA tasks

2001-08-20 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: OT: DBA tasks Ahem... the female DBA's save the database, save the world, flatten the evil people with her well-tuned martial arts skills, swims in icy cold water without showing one goose pimple on her Barbie-proportioned body, impresses the Diet Coke guy, and then tells him thanks

RE: OT: DBA tasks

2001-08-20 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: OT: DBA tasks Nope, not yet. When (and if) that happens, the advertising companies and networks are going to scream bloody murder. However, you can turn on a program, wait 10 minutes, and then watch the entire thing fast-forwarding thru all commercials. Super slick. by far the

RE: OT: DBA tasks

2001-08-20 Thread Koivu, Lisa
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RE: OT: DBA tasks..turning into Tivo.

2001-08-20 Thread Koivu, Lisa
and adapter??? -Original Message- From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:22 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT: DBA tasks Nope, not yet.  When (and if) that happens, the advertising companies and networks are going to scream

RE: OT: DBA tasks..turning into Tivo.

2001-08-20 Thread Koivu, Lisa
be in every TV.  But most people just dont get it.    BTW, what is the stripped card and adapter??? -Original Message- From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:22 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT: DBA tasks Nope, not yet.  When

RE: UTLB/E stat

2001-08-20 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: UTLB/E stat Joe, these are values to always be ignored, along with rdbms ipc message, sql*net message from client. Check out note 62161.1 on Metalink. could you ask for a better answer ?! Lisa Koivu aka Lara Croft, DBA Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Also, From the Fine Manual

RE: Recovery Question

2001-08-20 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Recovery Question But don't you end up with an incomplete recovery then? AJ -Original Message- From: Peter Gram [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:56 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Recovery Question Hi Kamel You have

RE: OT - Vaccines

2001-08-17 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: OT - Vaccines YOU GUYS ARE SCARING ME OUT OF HAVING CHILDREN! How on earth can a parent make the right decisions?? All the information flying around on the list is pretty unnerving. Sure the numbers may be very low but the #1 thing I worry about (and most other expectant parents)

ops$/w2k/secure connections question

2001-08-17 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: ops$/w2k/secure connections question After much fiddling, I got ops$ (os authenticated) logons to work in my w2k db. However, I'm confused. I had to set REMOTE_OS_AUTHENT = TRUE in order for this to work. See snippet from doco below. I'm doing this all locally. When I set

RE: ops$/w2k/secure connections question

2001-08-17 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: ops$/w2k/secure connections question Thanks to Patrice, Paul and Eric for your responses. I guess I'm not all that concerned about it. It just seemed like it didn't quite make sense. I remember reading that excerpt about Oracle Password Protocol in the 8.1.6 doco as well. If

RE: Speed up Truncate tables - rebuild index

2001-08-16 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Speed up Truncate tables - rebuild index Actually Chris if you truncate a table, the indexes on the table are truncated right along with it. You don't end up with a sparse index, like when you delete many rows. Try it. I did (8.1.6) and was very happy to see this behavior. Lisa

RE: Speed up Truncate tables - rebuild index

2001-08-16 Thread Koivu, Lisa
- rebuild index Lisa,   I think Chris referred to 'alter table ... move', in which case you need to rebuild indexes (ROWIDs changed).   Igor Neyman, OCP DBA Perceptron, Inc. (734)414-4627 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]   - Original Message - From: Koivu, Lisa mailto:[EMAIL

RE: No TNSListner service after intall 8.1.7 on Win 2k

2001-08-16 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: No TNSListner service after intall 8.1.7 on Win 2k Hi Rick, I ran into this as well. I figured I didn't need a listener on my w2k box because everything was going to be local. However I couldn't connect via sqlplus gui without a listener (no listener error - maybe because I am

RE: No TNSListner service after intall 8.1.7 on Win 2k

2001-08-16 Thread Koivu, Lisa
)414-4627 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]   - Original Message - From: Koivu, Lisa mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 1:28 PM Subject: RE: No TNSListner service after intall 8.1.7 on Win 2k

RE: I admit this is dumb. NT/W2K Services?

2001-08-15 Thread Koivu, Lisa
the platform-independent parts of Oracle's code, compiled for VOS on Intel.   Cheers,   g   -Original Message- From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 6:22 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: I admit this is dumb. NT/W2K Services? I'm

RE: Speed up Truncate tables

2001-08-15 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Speed up Truncate tables Chuan, You can use the 'REUSE STORAGE' clause of truncate table. That's a heck of a lot faster if you have a whole load of extents allocated to the table. What it does is mark the table as empty and keep all extents. However, I have a feeling that if

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