fast_start_mttr_target in Oracle 9i

2002-09-25 Thread Nick Wagner
Is anyone using this new init.ora parameter? Does it really seam to help recovery times? Does anyone have any good or bad stories about this? Thanks!! Nick

RE: select sequence.nextval from dual contributes to poor perfo

2002-10-02 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: select sequence.nextval from dual contributes to poor performan you might want to try increasing the 'cache' size of the sequence. If order is not important, and it is being used so often that it's having locking issues, you may want to create a couple different sequences, and

RE: RE: RE: Double Take and Oracle

2002-10-15 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: RE: RE: Double Take and Oracle A little clarification ---cut--- The reasons for this are wrapped around Oracle's write as little as needed and do so as seldomly as possible idea. ---end cut--- is not really true. When a tablespace is placed into hot backup mode, Oracle

RE: ROWID question?

2002-10-22 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: ROWID question? Yes, Oracle can re-use a rowid. -Original Message- From: Mark Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 4:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: ROWID question? Denham, At the risk of going slightly

RE: Streams

2002-10-24 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Streams The supplemental logging information adds quite a bit of into to each record. 1) it writes the actual column offset, rather than the logical offset (which it needs to query to find) 2) it writes the original head rowid for the row in addition/or instead of the rowid for

RE: Oracle Internals course

2002-10-28 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Oracle Internals course rumor has it that this course is not going to be offered/modified for the 9.2 release of Oracle. Can anyone confirm or deny it? Nick p.s. Had a close friend take this class, and they also came back extremely pleased with it. -Original Message-

RE: analyze table takes forever

2002-10-29 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: analyze table takes forever what's the structure of the table? And try taking an export of this partition and import it into it's own table in a development box... see if you can analyze it there. Nick -Original Message- From: Andrey Bronfin [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: SharePlex core dumps - help

2002-11-07 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: SharePlex core dumps - help Call Quest Software technical support. They will be more than happy to help you. I think there is already a patch out to fix this. Just call 1-800-306-9329 and once you speak with an operator, ask to place a support call for SharePlex. Nick

RE: Is there a way to create NOLOG Sequences?

2002-08-13 Thread Nick Wagner
Hannah, Increase the cache value. The only time a sequence change get's recorded in the redo logs is when it goes to grab another set of values. If you look at the sys.seq$ table, that's only updated when you run out of cache values, and oracle needs to grab another one. Nick

RE: Oracle OPS and IBM VSD

2002-08-20 Thread Nick Wagner
quot; who specialize on OPS/RAC andtend to know IBM HACMP and SP issuesfar better than IBM... Yes, you can reuse the space within a VSD same as you reuse the space within an LV. From the Oracle perspective, just treat VSDs like LVs (a.k.a. "raw" devices)... - Original Message --

character set information

2002-09-11 Thread Nick Wagner
Is the JA16EUCcharacter set, a subset of the WE8ISO8859P1 character set? That is, will all the JA16EUC characters exist in the WE8ISO8859P1 character set? Nick Wagner

RE: Why does my insert creates so many logs?

2002-09-19 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Why does my insert creates so many logs? is the tablespace in hotbackup mode? -Original Message- From: Gurelei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Why does my insert creates so many

RE: How to locate who dropped a view using log miner?

2001-08-07 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: How to locate who dropped a view using log miner? take a look at the sys.ind$ table for indexes sys.view$ for views sys.source$ for stored procedures HTH Nick Wagner Quest Software www.quest.com -Original Message- From: Mario Alberto Ramos Arellano [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: HELP - How can I limit what program users use to connect?

2001-08-22 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: HELP - How can I limit what program users use to connect? One thing you can try TOAD includes a module name... so select from v$session where module = 'T.O.A.D.' It will give you a list of users... and you could probably create a DBMS_JOB to go around and kill any user

RE: Disaster Recovery Fallback Sites

2001-09-04 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Disaster Recovery Fallback Sites Qs. IF THE DATABASE CRASHES IN THE PRIMARY STORAGE ARRAY BOX , WILL IT BE COPIED TO THE 2nd REPLICATION ARRAY THEREBY CAUSING IT TOO HOLD A CRASHED COPY OF THE DATABASE TOO ? Yes, if the filesystem replication is synchronous then the target

RE: Standby Database

2001-11-29 Thread Nick Wagner
' but this list is for helping people, and trying to solve their problems... I see this as a solution. Nick Wagner Technical PM Quest Software -Original Message- From: Ed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 3:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject

RE: Has anyone heard of Mirror Accessible?

2001-12-04 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Has anyone heard of Mirror Accessible? Just got back from OOW and that 'might' be available in Release 2 of 9i. Which is due out in Spring 2002. Nick. -Original Message- From: Miller, Jay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 1:45 PM To: Multiple

RE: virus alert (OT)

2001-12-04 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: virus alert (OT) You can read more about this virus at: http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_GONE.A=T Nick -Original Message- From: Anne Yu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 12:36 PM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: truncate or drop

2001-12-10 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: truncate or drop If they have thousands of extents... it might be better to truncate first, then drop. I've seen it take up to 4-5 hours to drop a table with thousands of extents (not my database... but a clients.) :) If you are going to rebuild entire datafiles/tablespaces... it

Does anyone know how to access a lob remotely?

2001-12-10 Thread Nick Wagner
Using the following procedure, I'm getting a ora-22992 error. declarelocator_var clob;amount_var number;offset_var number;output_var varchar2(20);beginamount_var:=16;offset_var:=1;buffer_var:='This is not text';select b into locator_var from lob_test@to_features where a =

RE: Converting from ASCII7 to UTF8

2001-12-19 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Converting from ASCII7 to UTF8 This can be done pretty easily using SharePlex for Oracle. It's able to replicate between different character sets, platforms, DB versions.. It can also handle your long columns as well. As for the concern of database space... you'll probably gain

RE: What's Oracle Trying to Hide ???

2001-12-26 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: What's Oracle Trying to Hide ??? because the list is so slow today, I'll add my response to it... I agree with Jared... but have one other thing to mention. Working for a company that continually delves into the internal structures and workings of Oracle I learned to respect

RE: VLDB backup policy

2002-01-02 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: VLDB backup policy check out SharePlex for Oracle. The target system is completely open and available while it is applying the changes from the source. If you are expecting 25 GB of redo generation per day, it will usually be under 15 seconds latency. And it's a LOT cheaper than

RE: upgrade strategy

2002-01-03 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: upgrade strategy Use SharePlex for Oracle. Users can continue to do their activity on the primary machine, while you upgrade and test the secondary. Once the upgrade is complete, shareplex then applies the waiting transactions to the target. It's nice, because it can replicate

RE: Crystal Report as an ad-hoc tool

2002-01-04 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Crystal Report as an ad-hoc tool if you are dead-set using crystal... I feel your pain. In a previous life (job) I was a report writer/integrator... we used a Delphi front end, and Crystal provided us a couple of nice utilities to get into the structure of the application and

RE: cannot update or edit in a view -- question

2002-01-07 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: cannot update or edit in a view -- question What is the front end? I've seen cases in Delphi and VB where the user tries to modify a field in a grid, but the underlying query is a view... Oracle interprets it as someone trying to modify a field and reports the error. It may be

RE: Oracle Future???

2002-01-08 Thread Nick Wagner
bleak... or blank? or perhaps it's a bigger statement, that 'we'don't know as a whole... hmmm.. -Original Message-From: Johnston, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 2:32 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Oracle Future??? So you're

RE: replication

2002-01-10 Thread Nick Wagner
. Nick -Original Message- From: John Kanagaraj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 1:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: replication Bill, If you have the $$, then you should look at Quest's Shareplex. Nick Wagner from this list

RE: RPAD problem

2002-01-15 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: RPAD problem try this... RPAD(nvl(A.SSN,' '),9) Nick -Original Message- From: Rod Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 9:17 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RPAD problem I am trying to create fixed length records

RE: SAME, WAFL and RAID

2002-01-15 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: SAME, WAFL and RAID good question... RAID and WALF -- see below. SAME... no idea... RAID - (from http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/scsi/what_is_raid.html ) What does RAID stand for ? In 1987, Patterson, Gibson and Katz at the University of California Berkeley, published a paper

RE: How to set DBWR_WRITE_PROCESSES in Oracle8i?

2002-01-16 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: How to set DBWR_WRITE_PROCESSES in Oracle8i? Since I didn't see this yet, I thought I might add it in. Try increasing the PCTFREE, perhaps there are two many transactions happening in the same block, and oracle is locking the entire block until the other transaction if

RE: SPACE FREE HOW?

2002-01-18 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: SPACE FREE HOW? 24x7... that does make it tough.. you might want to try LiveReorg from Quest Software... it allows you to reorganize those tables while users are still accessing them. It will even tell you which tables to reorg to free up the most space... without even deleting

RE: Re: Backup Strategy

2002-01-24 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Re: Backup Strategy here is a pretty good one as well... The paper is on building a 24x7 database. http://www.quest.com/whitepapers/Building_WP.pdf -Original Message- From: Jan Pruner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 6:10 AM To: Multiple

RE: Mirroring REDO logs to an nfs drive

2002-01-24 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Mirroring REDO logs to an nfs drive Also, I'd like to know the performance impact of this. Some of our customers have expressed interest in this, and I'd like to know if the number of redo latches increase. Or if the redo log buffer has any problems flushing out. Nick

RE: ORA-01555 Mystery (Help)

2002-01-25 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: ORA-01555 Mystery (Help) would Set transaction read only help here? -Original Message- From: Baker, Barbara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 2:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: ORA-01555 Mystery (Help) I think you

RE: Your views on Quest - Shareplex - Thank you all

2001-05-30 Thread Nick Wagner
:00am PST TO PARTICIPATE CALL: 800.967.7150 (Domestic); 719.457.2712 (International) CALL LEADER: Nick Wagner POWERPOINT SLIDES REQUIRED: http://www.quest.com/shareplex/docs/shareplexconfcall.ppt For additional information visit our web page at: www.quest.com/shareplex I look forward

RE: On the question of What is a Large Database Anyway ?

2001-06-01 Thread Nick Wagner
/shareplex/ On the left hand side, click on the 'white papers' link. There are a couple by Gaja, and Steven Feuerstein (PL/SQL guru), Eyal Aronoff, and even Kevin Loney. Some even talk about maintaining and working in a 'large' environment. pretty interesting reading... Nick Wagner

RE: Database writer

2001-06-04 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Database writer you can download a free fully functional trial version of Spotlight on Oracle from the Quest Website at http://www.quest.com/spotlight_oracle/ there is a link to 'download trial' on the left hand side. You can click on the screenshot to get a full size image... but

RE: Veritas Quick I/0 and Oracle/ Asycnchronous I/O

2001-06-08 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Veritas Quick I/0 and Oracle/ Asycnchronous I/O It works just fine, but I think you will actually get more performance out of a solid state device. Take a look at platypus.com, they have a SSD device that plugs into the PCI board in your computer... They claim over 60 MB per second

RE: logminer in the 9i world, etc

2001-06-12 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: logminer in the 9i world, etc Either way... I tried it with 9.0.0.0.0 beta 3 and I got the normal DML to work just fine. However I could not get the DDL to work.. I set the parameters just like the doc says, but all my DDL queries just seamed to go out to lunch on me... My log

RE: another security issue with Oracle 9.x

2002-02-15 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: another security issue with Oracle 9.x There is also the sqlplus "/ as sysdba" breach as well... make sure you have your password files set up. -Original Message-From: Jacques Kilchoer Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 3:58 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Oracle Advanced Replication

2002-02-15 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Oracle Advanced Replication All this talk of replication is really nice. SharePlex for Oracle, can handle master to master replication. Conflicts are handled via pl/sql procedures inside the database, where you can determine exactly what happens when there is a conflict.

RE: Oracle Advanced Replication

2002-02-18 Thread Nick Wagner
Replication Nick, DoesSharePlex supportuser definedobject types? Richard -Original Message-From: Nick Wagner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 2:09 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Oracle Advanced Replication All this talk

RE: Need some white papers on replication

2002-02-26 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Need some white papers on replication Here are a couple http://www.quest.com/whitepapers/shareplex/ Not OAR... but a better solution. Nick -Original Message- From: Khedr, Waleed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:55 PM To: Multiple

RE: EXTENTS?

2002-03-04 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: EXTENTS? I'm going to say 1. I don't think you can have multiple tables in the same DB block. -Original Message- From: Seema Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 10:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: EXTENTS? Hi If DB

Sun Cluster and VCS failover

2002-03-04 Thread Nick Wagner
Situation: Sun Cluster, or VERITAS Cluster. Oracle 8, 8i, or 9i 2 node Sun E6500s w/ 8 CPUs If the primary node fails, how long does it take before a user is able to connect to the secondary node, and continue their activity? I'm sure reality, and marketing times are different... I'm

RE: Sun Cluster and VCS failover

2002-03-04 Thread Nick Wagner
Nick: On our SunCluster 2-node E4500's with 8 CPU's (Oracle 8.0.5) it takes us around 12 to 15 minutes. HTH. Barb -- From: Nick Wagner[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject

RE: Restrictions returning a Long field

2001-07-03 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Restrictions returning a Long field There is a pl/sql limit of 32k for long columns, you must parse it into a piece-wise transaction to pull all the information out of it. It's one of the reasons Oracle switched to LOB's... Long's are just so difficult to work with. How to make

RE: TOAD = NOTEPAD

2001-07-06 Thread Nick Wagner
in Unix Format' is unchecked. If this doesn't work, let me know. Nick Wagner www.quest.com -Original Message- From: Post, Ethan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 2:42 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: TOAD = NOTEPAD Anyone know how to a .sql file

RE: transportable tablespaces

2001-08-01 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: transportable tablespaces Only if the datafiles are the same between the two systems. As far as I have been able to test, this only works with Sun and HP.The datafiles in both cases are thesame, and Oracle will not complain about them.There are probably some caveats.. suchas 32 vs.

RE: ORA-12705 - REALLY URGENT

2001-09-11 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: ORA-12705 - REALLY URGENT you can also try using the 'N' inside the statement If you are modifying data in an NVARCHAR2 or NCHAR... or something similar using the following notation insert into table_name (col1,col2) values ('col1 is regular varchar2',N'col2 is an

RE: Determining Oracle status

2001-09-18 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Determining Oracle status tnsping $ORACLE_SID works pretty well... Nick -Original Message- From: Barry Deevey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 8:46 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Determining Oracle status Hi all,

RE: List of changed objects in the DB

2001-09-18 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: List of changed objects in the DB you might want to take a look at Schema Manager from Quest Software (www.quest.com)... it will not only show you what has changed since the last time you used it... but also build you the code to apply and rollback those changes to different

RE: Please help! Recover a database on another server

2001-10-24 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Please help! Recover a database on another server sometimes the error message is a little strange... when it comes back 'media recovery complete' you can usually just do a 'alter database open;' command and not worry about resetting the logs. If you backed up the controlfiles,

RE: Sr. Oracle DBA Position- Must be 8i and 9i Certified-

2002-12-03 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Sr. Oracle DBA Position- Must be 8i and 9i Certified- Does a 24x7 DB demand a higher salary than a 9am-5pm DB? -Original Message- From: OraStaff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 3:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Sr.

RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now? if the DOS command prompt doesn't work, try starting it at the services level. -Original Message- From: Cornio, Georgette Ms USACFSC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:27 PM To:

DB corruption question

2002-12-04 Thread Nick Wagner
With Oracle 8.1.7, Solaris 8 OS. I have a shared storage device for storing all my datafiles, control files, redo logs, archive logs, etc.. everything except for the ORACLE_HOME and Oracle binaries. If I have the file system and database mounted to one machine, and have a fully open,

RE: DB corruption question

2002-12-06 Thread Nick Wagner
is running without errors then do not worry. To make sure try to restart the database. Regards, Waleed Try, recreate the controlfile - Original Message - From: Nick Wagner To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:09 PM Subject: DB

RE: Increase size of data files and rollback segments

2002-12-10 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Increase size of data files and rollback segments ORACLE ORACLE ORACLE ORACLE SQL*NET Just bringing it back on topic :) Nick -Original Message- From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:21 AM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in

2002-12-13 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: SQL question avoiding 2 views and not in OLS -- Oracle Label Security... I think that's the key you are looking for. -Original Message- From: Stephane Paquette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: password

2002-12-17 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: Message SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.2.0 - Production on Tue Dec 17 17:19:55 2002 Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.2.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options JServer

RE: password

2002-12-20 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: password why isn't there a program available that can reverse engineer the code used to encrypt passwords... if username XYZ always has password (encrypted) CBA, you think that it would be easy to figure out the pattern... once you have the pattern it's easy to go back and forth

RE: Row Migration

2002-12-27 Thread Nick Wagner
We've done a few tests here with chained vs. unchained rows, and the impact is anywhere from 50-200% overhead. So if it took about 10 seconds to do a query it will now take 15 to 30 seconds. It seamed to depend most on which rows we were returning... not hitting the chained rows as much

RE: Row Migration

2002-12-27 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Row Migration also, what version of Oracle and how many columns on the table? -Original Message- From: Nick Wagner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 9:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Row Migration We've done a few

RE: test this email ad

2003-01-08 Thread Nick Wagner
If I get a 'sales critter' type email, and it takes me 4 or 5 tries before I can decipher their version of English, then you can guarantee I won't buy their product.There is also a very good chance that I will actually recommend people NOT to use it. -Original Message-From: Fink,

RE: strange SQL with TOAD

2003-01-14 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: strange SQL with TOAD Also, you might try turning off the 'editable queries' in the options. That causes it to do a select rowid, * from table, so that once you edit the grid, it will use the rowid to go back and actually make the update to the data. -Original Message-

RE: quest shareplex

2003-01-17 Thread Nick Wagner
shareplex Quest Shareplex is a replication software. Nick Wagner from Quest is on this list and he is been very helpful and I am sure he will be glad to provide you info on it. Right Nick? :) -Original Message- Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: quest SharePlex

2003-01-17 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: quest SharePlex You provide a 'configuration file' which is just a flat file of table names on the source machine and table names on the target machine. Then we go through an activation process that takes the table name on the source and grabs the object id from Oracle and the

RE: quest SharePlex

2003-01-21 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: quest SharePlex This is actually part of the 'magic' of SharePlex. The way we obtain the PK information from the database if the PK was not modified is very tricky. I can tell you some of the 'magic' but not all of it. (NDA type stuff) In all updates the redo logs contain the

RE: quest SharePlex

2003-01-22 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: quest SharePlex Would the same thing work if you shut down the Shareplex processes after the row had chained, and restarted them before you updated the chained piece ? -- Yes And does Shareplex guarantee that it will never report a 1555 error regardless of how long it is shut

RE: investigating database lockup

2003-01-30 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle Do you have Oracle 9i Supplemental logging turned on? Also information about high water mark, and extent information, data dictionary upkeep... what are the stats of the table storage clause? -Original Message-From: Steve

RE: Which rollback segment is currently active?

2003-02-04 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: Which rollback segment is currently active? select rs.usn, xacts active_transactions, gets, waits, writes, name from v$rollstat rs, v$rollname rnwhere rs.usn = rn.usn This may help... -Original Message-From: Nguyen, David M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, February

RE: RAC on linux?

2003-02-07 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: RAC on linux? Anyone have ideas on this? http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story=/cmp/20030206/tc_cmp/iwk20030206s0012 Sun is now going after the intel market too. Is this just a new version of their Solaris x86, or a completely new build? -Original Message- From:

RE: SETGID

2003-02-07 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: SETGID what are the permissions on the oracle binary in $ORACLE_HOME/bin... make sure it reads -rwsr-s--x -Original Message- From: Ehresmann, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 8:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

RE: Re[2]: Re[2]: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Re[2]: Re[2]: RMAN: I don't trust it Two words - Speed and Performance. -Original Message- From: Lyndon Tiu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: RMAN: I don't trust it

RE: View HELP Please!

2003-02-12 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: View HELP Please! I remember some parameter about Query re-writes... it may be only for Materialized Views... but could be the culprit here. Also, do you have Oracle Label Security set on this table, or Fine-Grain Auditing? -Original Message- From: Freeman Robert - IL

RE: Database naming conventions

2003-02-14 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Database naming conventions how about just an 'o' od24x7 op24x7 you could then use 'u' for udb and 'm' for MySQL, and 's' for SQL Server. -Original Message- From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 10:44 AM To: Multiple

RE: Programming languages that make DBA's lives easier

2003-02-18 Thread Nick Wagner
you can take the (more unix friendly) ksh c c++ Java path, all those languages are very similar, or the (more windows friendly) pl/sql Delphi path... if you know pl/sql... delphi should come pretty easily. If you know ksh, or c, then c++ and Java will come pretty easily...

RE: Programming languages that make DBA's lives easier

2003-02-18 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Programming languages that make DBA's lives easier If you are just learning Korn Shell programming, I'd recommend The Korn Shell (3rd edition) by Anatole Olczak it's better than others I have seen, but basic... you won't get deep enough to make any huge programs, but it

RE: Lgwr , CKPT - Some Misc. Puzzlers ?

2003-02-19 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Lgwr , CKPT - Some Misc. Puzzlers ? This piece is also the same in the older versions... for sure 8 and 8i too... - 5. New in 9i, when 1M is reached, which means if the buffer is large, the 1/3 mark will never be reached. - Nick -Original Message- From: DENNIS

RE:

2003-02-19 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: ever thought of NAS or SAN devices? -Original Message- From: Wayne Straughn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 6:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: I'm curious as to how others with smaller databases deal with it

RE: Oh Where Oh Where Is My Redo Coming From

2003-02-21 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Oh Where Oh Where Is My Redo Coming From Since SharePlex for Oracle and LiveReorg are dependant on redo log volumes, transaction sizes, and things like that we have developed a free utility that parses through the redo logs for some pre-defined amount of time, and let's you know

RE: storing credit card numbers in a database

2003-02-21 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: storing credit card numbers in a database it would be safer to encrypt the credit card number at the application level, and insert that string into the database, because anyone with a decent sniffer would be able to pick it out of the SQL*Net code.Whether or not they even have access

password scripting question

2003-02-25 Thread Nick Wagner
This is somewhat related tothe question earlier about how to encrypt a password in a script... however, what I want to do is also be able to start that database through a script. (Oracle 9.2.0.) Essentially I have a database that I want to shut down at 5pm every night, and start it

RE: Purely for your amusement

2003-02-27 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Purely for your amusement Misery loves company. Thank you! By the way... how long does this take to finish? -Original Message- From: Barbara Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 10:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

RE: MS SQL hasn't given up!

2003-02-27 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: MS SQL hasn't given up! He's got a good point, performance at that point doesn't matter if your system must be rebooted weekly, and crashes every couple of days. The tests should be run 24x7 for 350 days... to get a real idea on what kind of reliability and performance you can

RE: Purely for your amusement

2003-02-28 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Purely for your amusement hmmm... ok, let's give one of the largest known hacking/cracking/virii producing countries in the world, the source code to the most common desktop in the world for 'security' purposes? Bill has got be to smokin' something... Any bets on how long it

RE: PLSQL stored procedure

2003-03-05 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: PLSQL stored procedure our go get TOAD freeware... even has a line by line debugger with watches. -Original Message- From: Darrell Landrum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 7:06 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: PLSQL

RE: Tablespaces - datafiles

2003-03-11 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Tablespaces - datafiles are you using VxFS? -Original Message- From: Johnston, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 12:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Tablespaces - datafiles Create the tablespace and look at it with

RE: Tablespaces - datafiles

2003-03-11 Thread Nick Wagner
and these can "bite you" if you are not careful... Out of curiosity, why did you ask? Tim -Original Message-From: Nick Wagner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 3:57 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Tablespaces - datafiles

Quick Question -- 8.1.7 logs applied to 9.2.0 database instance?

2003-03-24 Thread Nick Wagner
Can I take a hot backup of an 8.1.7 instance... and then upgrade the backup to 9.2.0 (upgrading data dictionary tables and everything) and then apply logs created by the 8.1.7 instance to this 9.2.0 backup? Please answer as soon as possible... Thanks! Nick Wagner

RE: Quick Question -- 8.1.7 logs applied to 9.2.0 database instan

2003-03-24 Thread Nick Wagner
nevermind... I found the answer... 'No'. :) Thanks! -Original Message-From: Nick Wagner Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 12:24 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Quick Question -- 8.1.7 logs applied to 9.2.0 database instance? Can I take a hot backup of an 8.1.7

RE: Veritas Quick I/O for Oracle

2003-03-26 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: Veritas Quick I/O for Oracle Just be careful using the convosync=delay and convosync=closesync options.We have seen this corrupt redo log records. Nick -Original Message-From: Aponte, Tony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:09 PMTo: Multiple

RE: What are the restrictions in naming an Oracle SID/Database?

2003-06-30 Thread Nick Wagner
(or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Nick Wagner INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http

RE: Microsoft VS Oracle (again)

2003-07-02 Thread Nick Wagner
BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Nick Wagner INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Sybase to Oracle

2003-07-08 Thread Nick Wagner
check out www.goldengate.com, the product can replicate from Sybase to Oracle, and do any kind of mapping or transformation that is needed. Nick -Original Message-From: Jay Krishnan R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:39 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list

RAC time clocks (sysdate)

2003-07-10 Thread Nick Wagner
In a RAC environment, what is the best way to synchronize the time clocks on the nodes? It seams I came across a case where select sysdate from dual; produced two different values. Thanks! Nick -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Nick Wagner INET

RE: RAC time clocks (sysdate)

2003-07-10 Thread Nick Wagner
Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having an opinion is an art ! -Original Message- From: Nick Wagner

Oracle SCN Question

2003-07-31 Thread Nick Wagner
that evaluate to as a single number? Thanks, Nick Wagner -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Nick Wagner INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and web

RE: Oracle SCN Question

2003-07-31 Thread Nick Wagner
Thanks... I think... except I'm not sure how to calculate that? Nick -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 2:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, It is just combination of Base and Wrap. So your number will be 8589934593 KG --- Nick Wagner [EMAIL

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