Number of Transaction Slots

2002-03-14 Thread Rajesh . Rao
I believe someone else had asked this question before, but I did not see a reply. Does anyone know the number of transaction slots in the rollback segment header for block sizes of 4k, 8k, et all? >From what I have read, for a block size of 2K, its 21 transaction slots. (Steve Adams at www.ixora.

Audit Drop Table

2002-03-19 Thread Rajesh . Rao
One of the application users has been complaining that someone keeps dropping one of his tables. He imports it back, and after a few hours, its gone again. I tried to turn on auditing for this table when its dropped. I thought this was possible but looks like its not. I turned on full auditing fo

Re: Large record count in fet$ for TEMP tablespace

2002-03-19 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Been there... Done that. After we estimated coalescing free space would take 10 hours. drop all the objects in the tablespace delete from fet$ for that tablespace add a single row in fet$ for the entire tablespace drop the tablespace (reduced from 10 hours to couple of seconds). recreate the tab

Monitoring database thru cluster

2002-03-19 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Forwading an email from a fellow DBA, for your assistance. hi, I have a situation over here. Here the environment: We have a database on hp cluster and the cluster package is not monitoring the database. Their contention is that if the database goes down due to any reason the dba should take a l

Re:Audit Drop Table

2002-03-19 Thread Rajesh . Rao
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Windows NT and Virtual Memory

2002-03-22 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Operating System: Windows NT 4.0 with SP 6a Oracle Version : 8.1.7 We recently migrated an Oracle database from one Windoze NT box to another. The NT administrators claim that the NT boxes are indentical in all respects, except that the old one had Service Pack 4. We have recreated the databa

RE: Windows NT and Virtual Memory

2002-03-22 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Thanks Jack. I am aware of this limitation under NT. But what I dont have an answer for, is why it never happened on the old server. As per business, there's no drastic increase in the number of connections. Previously, there used to be about 300-350 connections, but on the new server, it wont go

Difference - SCN

2002-03-25 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Hi Gurus, What's the difference between System Commit Number, and System Change Number? I know they are not the same. I am looking to read more about them and how they are incremented viz. Commits, updates to rows, checkpoints, et all.. Any Good books, sites And not Oracle Docs please... Tha

Re: Remote or Not? Was: Production Oracle DBA Needed in Rocheste

2002-03-26 Thread Rajesh . Rao
"The fact that the industry is trending to a managed service model for database administration is NOT A BAD thing for salaried DBAs out there. I think the opposite is true." So, let us all second the Oracle sales pitch about them managing our databases for us, and hope to sneak into Oracle ;-)

RE: EXPORT FAST?

2002-03-26 Thread Rajesh . Rao
And how much time will my database take? The database size is 118Gb, the disk transfer rate is 1 Mbps, the physical memory is 64Mb and two 486's ;-) Anne

Re: archive log curr v. switch logfile

2002-03-29 Thread Rajesh . Rao
The 'ALTER SYSTEM ARCHIVELOG CURRENT' is the preferred one that should be used for backup scripts. The reason being, if you have noticed when you do an 'ALTER SYSTEM SWITCH LOGFILE', you get the prompt back immediately. This command performs a database checkpoint, switches to the next log, signa

Re: SQL Server vs. Oracle 9i

2002-04-03 Thread Rajesh . Rao
And I charge less than Steve Adams or Jonathan Lewis (3.5 times lesser), for 'comparable' features (could be physical). So, hire me, and Save a million in 5 years. Who buys that? ;-) Raj

Archival Freeze

2002-04-12 Thread Rajesh . Rao
Hi Fellow DBAs, I and a fellow DBA are currently debating about how insufficient space in the archive destination freezes up the DB. He claims that as soon as the ARCH process is unable to write to the disk, the db freezes. I am of the opinion that it does not. It will only report an error (Any

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