Re: can't create database

2003-03-11 Thread Alan Davey
was installing Standard Edition. Both problems resulted in the message of 'not connected to oracle'. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever had a version of the DB Creation wizard work without getting some error. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 718-482-4200 x106 On 3/11/2003 12:44 PM, Stahlke

Re: Sequence as column default

2003-03-10 Thread Alan Davey
You could also do it as part of your insert statement if you didn't want to use a trigger. INSERT INTO employees VALUES (employees_seq.nextval, 'John', 'Doe', 'jdoe', '555-1212', TO_DATE(SYSDATE), 'PU_CLERK', 2500, null, null, 30); Same thing goes with currval also. -- Alan Davey

Re: Sequence as column default

2003-03-10 Thread Alan Davey
VALUES (employees_seq.nextval, 'John', 'Doe', 'jdoe', '555-1212', TO_DATE(SYSDATE), 'PU_CLERK', 2500, null, null, 30); Same thing goes with currval also. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 718-482-4200 x106 On 3/10/2003 3:49 PM, DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone defined

Re: Oracle Performance Tuning Exam

2003-02-27 Thread Alan Davey
If you are taking the 9i certification, there are only 4 exams that you have to take. Unfortunately, unless you took at least one exam last year and got grand-fathered, you will have to enroll at Oracle U. for one of the four courses covering the certification exams. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL

Re: SQL question

2003-02-24 Thread Alan Davey
Why not just have Connection B trap the Unique Constrait Error and branch to some different code? What would Connection B have done if it had found the record where id=1? -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 718-482-4200 x106 On 2/24/2003 2:49 PM, Rick Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OS

Re: Borderline OT - Unix for Oracle at home

2003-01-30 Thread Alan Davey
For $500 you can build your own Intel/AMD machine with 1GB of RAM that will blow the doors off the Sun Ultras. You may need to spend a little more if you need some hard drives and a cheap video card. Install Linux, Oracle and enjoy. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 1

Re: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-30 Thread Alan Davey
Beer Pong is a lot of fun too. ;^) -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 1/30/2003 10:09 AM, Gogala, Mladen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We would not be able to feed our families on our physical abilities but I definitely would try beating Lisa in the game of Ping Pong

Re: Need help and documentation on moving database from Unix to W2K

2003-01-29 Thread Alan Davey
Why do they want to move to W2k? Was it running too quickly for them under Unix? ;^) You can use export/import to move the database. Hopefully the database isn't very big. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 1/29/2003 12:59 PM, Baswannappa, Shiva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Are Oracle courses required for Oracle Certification now?

2002-12-04 Thread Alan Davey
Hi Lyndon, Well I don't know about your setup, but I can connect just fine with the connect string you listed below on Win2K, Oracle 9.2. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 12/4/2002 2:09 PM, Lyndon Tiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is unfortunate or maybe just it's just

Re: Oracle you have just received a card from .

2002-11-25 Thread Alan Davey
User Agreement, it says that they have the right to send an email greeting to everyone in your Outlook Address Book if you use their software. I didn't bother to install beyond that point. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 11/25/2002 1:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What

Re: Oracle is a time machine!!

2002-11-22 Thread Alan Davey
I get the same date for Oct 5 - 15 (10/15/02). Good thing I don't deal with dates that far back. ;^) -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 11/22/2002 12:55 PM, Freeman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't believe me?? Try this: create table test(the_date date); insert

Re: Oracle is a time machine!!

2002-11-22 Thread Alan Davey
Very tricky Robert. ;^) Spoiler Alert below!!! After some time to think about this, I did a quick search on Google and realized that this is when the calendar changed from Julian to Gregorian. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 11

Re: replace lines feeds in a string

2002-11-18 Thread Alan Davey
Hi, Why not just use the replace function? select replace('Line1'||chr(10)||'Line2',chr(10),' ') from dual select replace(my_string,chr(13)||chr(10),' ') from my_table; HTH, -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 11/18/2002 7:18 AM, John Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want

Re: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed

2002-11-06 Thread Alan Davey
Well with the ridiculous salary they are offering, they could at least train you in the use of SAP. This is a Fortune 500 company after all. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 11/6/2002 10:56 AM, Paulo Gomes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unfortunatly i don't work with SAP or i

Re: Sql question : use of SUBSTR/INSTR functions

2002-10-16 Thread Alan Davey
('127.0.0.1',INSTR('127.0.0.1','.',1,3)+1,LENGTH('127.0.0.1')-INSTR('127.0.0.1','.',1,3)+1) FROM DUAL There may be a more elegant solution, but this was the quickest I could come up with. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 10/16/2002 4:32 PM, Johan Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Is the effect of modifying PCTFREE/PCTUSED immediate ?

2002-09-26 Thread Alan Davey
far everything is working great. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 9/26/2002 12:33 PM, Hemant K Chitale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, yes, that is one option. Can I issue an ALTER TABLE table MOVE to the same tablespace, I wonder. Thanks Hemant At 08:23 AM 25-09-02

Re: Is the effect of modifying PCTFREE/PCTUSED immediate ?

2002-09-25 Thread Alan Davey
Hemant, If I understand your question correctly, trying using the alter table move command and specify new values for pctfree and pctused. This should affect existing blocks. Make sure to rebuild any indicies. HTH, -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 9/25/2002 11:38 AM, Hemant K Chitale

Stupid Bind Variable question

2002-09-20 Thread Alan Davey
(not in the where clause) I've seen it mentioned to use bind variables when comparing a column to a literal in the where clause, but nothing specific about the above scenarios. Basically what I am asking is, do all literals need to be made bind variables? Thanks. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Moving data between tablespaces[Scanned]

2002-09-17 Thread Alan Davey
Karthik, You need to rebuild your indexes after moving your table as they are invalidated with the move. HTH, -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 9/17/2002 10:03 AM, Karthikeyan S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas / Amar, I moved the tables from SYSTEM to the DATA

Re: Table Locks

2002-08-30 Thread Alan Davey
which table was locked. I was hoping to find the offending SQL statement. Have a great weekend everyone. Regards, -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 8/29/2002 10:43 PM, Rachel Carmichael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure it's possible to find the locking SQL and SID once

Re: Table Locks

2002-08-30 Thread Alan Davey
Thanks Raj. I'll give these a try. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 8/30/2002 10:08 AM, Jamadagni, Rajendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I created following two views for developer's use and so far there have been no complaints .. CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW SYSTEM.DB

Table Locks

2002-08-29 Thread Alan Davey
if there had been multiple DML statements by this user, how would I know which was the first/last one executed? I'm RTFMing, but so far no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http

Re: Free ware databases: which are worth the money?

2002-08-02 Thread Alan Davey
Hi, I've been hearing some good things about FrontBase: http://www.frontbase.com However, I haven't had time to experiment with it myself. It is runs on Windoze, *nix and Mac OS X. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 8/2/2002 8:58 AM, Daniel Wisser [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Rant

2002-07-22 Thread Alan Davey
So no one responded with, We use raid xx. We don't have to worry about backup/recovery. ;^) -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 7/22/02, mkb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I need to vent a little. Last week, I was asked to do some tech interviews over the phones for a mid

Re: Weird Windoze 'AT' Behavior

2002-07-17 Thread Alan Davey
, which I've found to be pretty reliable. If you open My Computer (or explorer) you should see a folder called Scheduled Tasks. Double-click and then use the wizard to set up a call to your batch file. HTH, -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 7/17/02, Farnsworth, Dave [EMAIL

Alter table move command

2002-07-09 Thread Alan Davey
, but I don't see any caveats about indicies when using the move option. So, am I safe in assuming that I don't need to worry about them? Thanks, -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Alan Davey INET: [EMAIL

Re: Alter table move command (THANKS)

2002-07-09 Thread Alan Davey
Thanks to all who replied. Fortunately, the tables are relatively small, so the rebuild of the indicies shouldn't take very long. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 7/9/02, Jack Silvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan, The alter table move command will invalidate all

Re: So, What is a 'Production DBA'?

2002-05-30 Thread Alan Davey
Beware of developers that carry screwdrivers. Its a hardware problem, not software. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 5/30/02, Thomas Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it's that old Russian proverb To a hammer, all the world looks like a nail. Developers have

Re: Fav. Urban Legend...Mem vs Disk

2002-03-20 Thread Alan Davey
On 3/20/02, Mark Leith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahh, but how can you be sure that 42 does not also *cause* all of life's problems? ;) Because, as Homer Simpson said, Ahhh booze. The cause of and the solution to all of life's problems. ;^) -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3/20/02, Mark