RE: Imedia query optimization

2001-05-14 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Imedia query optimization Ranganath, I have found that intermedia queries really bite the biggie without a hint. Read up on the hints /*+ FIRST_ROWS DOMAIN_INDEX_NO_SORT */ There is a chapter in the doco on tuning intermedia queries that discusses the reasons why these hints

RE: PostGres WAS: RE: Oracle 9i Articles - self tuning, launch

2001-05-14 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: PostGres WAS: RE: Oracle 9i Articles - self tuning, launch OMG is that FUNNY I just woke everyone with my 'quiet' laugh ! -Original Message- From: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 11:51 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Taking your time when a crisis occurs

2001-05-07 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Taking your time when a crisis occurs These are good points, but beware of the boss that thinks looking over your shoulder and asking questions helps. Either your supervisor trusts you or he/she doesn't. For me, having someone right behind me breaks my concentration and can make

RE: Taking your time when a crisis occurs

2001-05-07 Thread Koivu, Lisa
more. I've had my gut full of it. :-) Rodd Holman Oracle DBA (605) 988-1373 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments made are my own opinions and views. They do not represent views, policies, or procedures of LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation Original Message dated 5/7/01, 9:45:47 AM Author: Koivu, Lisa

RE: V$session

2001-05-02 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: V$session It's in v$process. Here's a script that displays it that I got off this list a while ago set linesize 2000 column logon_time format a17 column username format a16 column unix_pid format a8 column machine format a20 column client_Program format a20 set pagesize 200

RE: OFA and SAN - Why not group all db files on its own mount poi

2001-05-01 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: OFA and SAN - Why not group all db files on its own mount point? Hi Mike, If you are running EMC hardware, there are several utilities you can use to determine if EMC's cache is performing up to par. There are also utilities to alleviate any i/o contention that may appear if the

Uniquely Weird - duplicate rows

2001-05-01 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Hello all, 8.1.6.2 on HP/UX 11.0 Has anyone seen something like this before? I can't rebuild the primary key - the error is duplicate rows found. So I check the data (first listing) and see duplicate rows via fts. When I give it a hint to use the primary key it shows nothing. When I

MetaBlink

2001-04-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Anyone else having problems with Meta Stink today? I don't know how they expect us to get any work done and use this piece of junk if it won't let me create and update TARs, or, even yet, display the index page. LOVELY Lisa Rutland KoivuOracle

RE: MetaBlink

2001-04-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
OK. Well I meant that, I read it now and it sounds sarcastic. Kimberly, really. Networking is so far over my head. I didn't write the signature. I just have to use it. Sorry... -Original Message-From: Kevin Kostyszyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001

RE: MetaBlink

2001-04-26 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Well, my sysadmin wants to know what's so cool about it? Kimberly I must apologize if my email makes your life difficult. -Original Message-From: Kimberly Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 1:41 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list

RE: ORA-04030

2001-04-23 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: ORA-04030 Hi Anton - The error is exactly what it says it is. The OS is out of memory to allocate to this once process. Are you using PL/SQL tables or anything that could go wild with memory in your PL/SQL scripts? I've had this happen before when I first started messing with

RE: SQLTrace

2001-04-23 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: SQLTrace Dave, you can also set a command in the cron to chmod the trace files frequently so everyone can access them. Lisa Rutland Koivu Oracle Database Administrator Certified Self-Important Database Deity Slayer of Unix Administrators Wanton Kickboxing Goddess [EMAIL

RE: ORA-04030

2001-04-23 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: ORA-04030 Hi Riyaj, I think you are referring to the ORA-4031 error? 4031 refers to a fragmented SGA. 4030 is the OS. Correct me if I am wrong. qodd bar:/oracle/localoerr ora 4030 04030, 0, out of process memory when trying to allocate %s bytes (%s,%s) // *Cause:

RE: SQLTrace

2001-04-23 Thread Koivu, Lisa
at your risk Koivu, Lisa lkoivu@qode. To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] com cc: Sent by: Subject: RE: SQLTrace root@fatcity. com 04/23/01 09:10 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L Dave, you can also set a command in the cron to chmod

RE: PL/SQL-if-statement

2001-04-19 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: PL/SQL-if-statement Have you tried rpad() or lpad()? Lisa Rutland Koivu Oracle Database Administrator Certified Self-Important Database Deity Slayer of Unix Administrators Wanton Kickboxing Goddess [EMAIL PROTECTED] NeoMedia 2201 Second St., Suite 600 Fort Myers, FL 33901,

RE: More Metalink Venting - Cannot catch error 22

2001-04-19 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: More Metalink Venting - Cannot catch error 22 Yes, I have that problem too (no CSI). So much for the 'helpful' website. It took me five days to get through to the sales rep to figure out why our support agreement had lapsed. That was support's story when I called them. Still no

RE: PL/SQL-if-statement

2001-04-19 Thread Koivu, Lisa
- is that Self Certified Self Important datavbase Deity or did you pass a special OCP exam for that ? ;-) Q Koivu, Lisa [EMAIL PROTECTED]@fatcity.com on 04/19/2001 11:40:54 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Temporary Tablespace Design

2001-04-12 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Temporary Tablespace Design Hi Chris, Yes there may be 'rules' like this, but realistically who has 64GB to spend on disk space? I have one huge table similar to what you describe. My temp tablespace is 20GB only because I have the disk. Maybe you can take the route of

XML SQL (XSU) Errors

2001-04-11 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Good morning everyone - Has anyone successfully installed and used the XML SQL (XSU) utility? I'm getting this error and 1. there's nothing on Metalink that tells me exactly why I am missing this resource/class or where to get it and 2. I'm pretty sure I installed everything correctly -

RE: Parallel index builds can crash

2001-04-09 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Parallel index builds can crash Hello Dick, YOU ARE KIDDING. I've done this many times in the past and never encountered that type of behavior... I don't see what version/OS you are running? Was the table partitioned? And, back by popular demand, is my highly overrated

RE: Parallel index builds can crash

2001-04-09 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Parallel index builds can crash On a partitioned table? If you have a slave for each partition, how would this be wrong? Or, less slaves than partitions? It was pounded into my head not to use parallel with non-partitioned tables because without partitions the slaves would not

RE: killing a thread

2001-04-05 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: killing a thread I didn't see this in my $ORACLE_HOME/bin. Is this platform specific? -Original Message- From: C.S.Venkata Subramanian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: killing a thread

RE: Select won't work for view create

2001-04-05 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Hi Dan, are you referencing public synonyms in your statement? Lisa Rutland KoivuOracle Database Administrator[EMAIL PROTECTED]4850 N. State Rd. 7, #G104 Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33319 Phone: 954.484.3191

RE: OT RE: Select won't work for view create

2001-04-05 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Yea right! Someone in the office of our new parent company had too much time on his hands... -Original Message-From: Mohan, Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:47 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: OT RE: Select won't work for

NOT OT! - identify which logs are need to start recovery

2001-03-29 Thread Koivu, Lisa
associated with each log file are stored in the control file also, I believe. List, please correct me if I am wrong. Lisa -Original Message- From: Rahul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:06 AM To: 'Koivu, Lisa'; 'Oracle List I' Subject: RE: identify which logs are need

RE: INVALID Packages

2001-03-29 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: INVALID Packages Hi Paul, If the person logs out logs back in, is the problem solved? Or if they try to execute a second time, does the problem go away? Lisa Rutland Koivu Oracle Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] NeoMedia 2201 Second St., Suite 600 Fort Myers, FL

RE: OT -- # tables in your db (was: Slow database)

2001-03-29 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: OT -- # tables in your db (was: Slow database) Nope, Cherie wins. Before I left, I realized I had a database that had 19,000+ tables in it. There were a ridiculous number of schemas. Cherie, did you guys ever bust that database up into two? -Original Message- From: Alex

RE: identify which logs are need to start recovery

2001-03-28 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: identify which logs are need to start recovery Hi Rahul, I'm not sure if there's a v$ view that will tell you, I remember looking for this myself. However if you initiate recovery it will ask for the appropriate arclog, and you can always cancel out. During testing, I found

CLOB code question

2001-03-27 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Hello everyone - I'm fiddling with CLOB code for the first time. I have to write a function that will accept a long string of characters from an external application and store it ina CLOB field. Seems to me that since the character data is coming from an outside application, the only

RE: EMC TimeFinder, and EMC TimeFinder vs Hot Standby

2001-03-22 Thread Koivu, Lisa
, March 21, 2001 11:20 PM To: Koivu, Lisa Cc: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: EMC TimeFinder, and EMC TimeFinder vs Hot Standby Ok, does someone one to define SRDF and BCV for those of us that don't have any idea what you're talking about? Jared On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Koivu

RE: EMC TimeFinder, and EMC TimeFinder vs Hot Standby

2001-03-22 Thread Koivu, Lisa
automagically. Right Lisa? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/21/01 11:17PM Ok, does someone one to define SRDF and BCV for those of us that don't have any idea what you're talking about? Jared On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Koivu, Lisa wrote: Hi Yosi, how are you? I can't exactly clarify your fish vs. potatoes, er

RE: Re[2]: Couple of questions

2001-03-22 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Re[2]: Couple of questions Gosh I keep mine hush-hush. It is at the very bottom of my resume... Yes I have it but so what? I didn't claim to know a whole lot about backup and recovery until a couple of months ago when I actually had resources and time to PRACTICE. Yes, Gene, you

RE: EMC TimeFinder, and EMC TimeFinder vs Hot Standby

2001-03-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: EMC TimeFinder, and EMC TimeFinder vs Hot Standby Hi Yosi, how are you? I can't exactly clarify your fish vs. potatoes, er, timefinder vs. SRDF question but I can tell you that we have BCV's implemented here. We use them for backup and recovery (and it's extremely slick and fast,

Device busy - HELP

2001-03-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: Device busy - HELP Hello all, HP/UX 11.0 w/EMC hardware Well my trusty BCV's are BUSY. The script that runs every night executes fuser and kills any processes that may be attached to them. It failed last night due to something I did... well I cleaned it up this morning and I can't

RE: 1/2 control file failure - will database halt?

2001-03-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: 1/2 control file failure - will database halt? Yea, it worked for me... it was a small database -Original Message-From: Kevin Kostyszyn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 4:30 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: 1/2

RE: HINTS , how to add correctly

2001-03-16 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: HINTS , how to add correctly Also, as our esteemed colleagues on this list have pointed out in the past, deleting statistics and then analyzing can make a difference as well. Don't ask why. Lisa Rutland Koivu Oracle Database Administrator Qode.com 4850 North State Road 7 Suite

RE: Intermedia Domain index and tablespace

2001-03-15 Thread Koivu, Lisa
You need to create preferences and specify them in your create index statement. This is all in the documentation, by the way. Also, this does not affect your IOT storage parms. You will have to modify those separately or you will blow maxextents as your index grows. Here's what mine look

RE: number of Mb to add?

2001-03-12 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: number of Mb to add? Joseph, Well, do you really want to deal with a datafile that small, whether that's KB or bytes? What about when it extends beyond that extent? Usually datafiles less than 100MB are not worth the hassle, and the size should be much larger in a production

rename database

2001-03-06 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: rename database Hello everyone - Is it possible to rename a database without recreating the controlfile? I have a feeling it isn't, but can someone verify? Thanks Lisa Rutland Koivu Oracle Database Administrator Qode.com 4850 North State Road 7 Suite G104 Fort Lauderdale, FL

RE: reset control, redo, logs etc

2001-03-01 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: reset control, redo, logs etc If your database was not shut down, it was not a cold backup. If your tablespaces were not in backup mode, good luck. Everything will be out of sync. I suggest taking a true cold backup before doing anything else if you want to save this database.

RE: memory usage

2001-02-20 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Am I the only one who gets garbage out of this query? There's a mismatch on v$statname. Which statistic are you suggesting to display, uga or pga memory? -Original Message-From: Bjorn Naessens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 5:15 AMTo: Multiple

RE: Redo logging with version 8.1.6.x - Cherie?

2001-02-19 Thread Koivu, Lisa
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Redo logging with version 8.1.6.x Hi. Sorry for the lack of information. Solaris 2.6 From v7.3.4 to v8.1.6 Thanks. CN=Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/19/2001 09:37:06 AM Sent by: Koivu, Lisa

RE: Degree of Parallelism: 0?

2001-02-14 Thread Koivu, Lisa
they will just remain idle. I'm not sure about the degree 0, I was thinking it was the same as 1 (no parallelism) but I tried setting it in 8.1.7 and 8.0.5.2.1 to 0 and I received an error message. - Brian --- Koivu, Lisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I've purposely got PQO off. But I

RE: SELECT SKIP (Was: RE: Off Topic: Row Locking - Row Id)

2001-02-14 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: SELECT SKIP (Was: RE: Off Topic: Row Locking - Row Id) Isn't this what you are referring to? If you are not going to update the records, why lock them? SQL select * from testcat for update nowait; CATEGORY_ID PRODUCT_ID LAST_MOD_ DATA_SOURCE_ID --- --

Degree of Parallelism: 0?

2001-02-13 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: Degree of Parallelism: 0? Hello all, I've purposely got PQO off. But I was shocked to see I've got some parallel query slaves out there. I checked to see which objects they are, listed below. I'm not concerned about the sys/system stuff, Im worried about CTX (my intermedia text

RE: Sql Tuning help

2001-02-07 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Matt, have you tried replacing the IN statement with an EXISTS statement? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 8:31 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Sql Tuning help I have been having

RE: v$waitstat

2001-02-06 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: v$waitstat Mitchell, in order to clear your waits you must bounce your database. Lisa Rutland Koivu Oracle Database Administrator Qode.com 4850 North State Road 7 Suite G104 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33319 V: 954.484.3191, x174 F: 954.484.2933 C: 954.658.5849 http://www.qode.com

RE: Pondering Question of the Day-RESPECT

2001-02-02 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Pondering Question of the Day-RESPECT Gabriel, I agree. In the past it hasn't been us vs. them. It just has gotten worse in the last few months. Why can't we just all get along? Sure, it's quiet when I don't insist upon proper procedures. I DID change the passwords, this morning,

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