need to compare long data against varchar2

2003-02-21 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: need to compare long data against varchar2 I need to devise a method of comparing the TEXT column of dba_views against varchar2. End result I want to find the views that reference a particular table within its text. example (which ~obviously~ will not work): select view_name from

FW: need to compare long data against varchar2

2003-02-21 Thread Markham, Richard
) then dbms_sql.column_value_long(l_cursor, 1, l_buflen, l_curpos , l_long_val, l_long_len ); end if; dbms_sql.close_cursor(l_cursor); return l_long_val; end getlong; -Original Message- From: Markham, Richard Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 10:20 AM To: oracle-l ([EMAIL PROTECTED

alert log suppression

2002-12-16 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: alert log suppression Is it possible to suppress successful DDL within the alter log? For example, I have a cron job that coalesces 300+ tablespaces which creates a couple line entry for each. I would like to get feedback only if the DDL has actually failed. TIA

RE: Sun Solaris

2002-12-16 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: Sun Solaris sunhelp.org for general. sunmanagers.org for critical. requires summary post and is more restrictive. -Original Message- From: Ehresmann, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 10:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: alert log suppression

2002-12-16 Thread Markham, Richard
PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 12:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: alert log suppression The obvious question being why you are coalescing tablespaces --- Markham, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to suppress successful DDL within

RE: alert log suppression

2002-12-16 Thread Markham, Richard
] - Original Message - From: Markham, Richard To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 1:00 PM Subject: RE: alert log suppression ok. They are LMT's with PCTINCREASE 0. I'm running 8.1.7.4 and I believe

RE: alert log suppression

2002-12-16 Thread Markham, Richard
and allocation type "USER" for dictionary managed tablespaces. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Markham, Richard To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 2:09

sqlplus ~no~output

2002-11-11 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: sqlplus ~no~output for the sake of select * against a pinned table I want row output totally turned off. in the past I thought set serveroutput off, set termout off, set pagesize 0 was sufficient, but its still dumping row data on me. What have I forgotten ? TIA

RE: full exp/imp of user to new tablespace; same user

2002-11-08 Thread Markham, Richard
the top that says "connect username" - you should connect first b4 running the script 7) save the file! 8) run the script to create all the indexes HTH bill -----Original Message-From: Markham, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL P

full exp/imp of user to new tablespace; same user

2002-11-07 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: full exp/imp of user to new tablespace; same user I have a full export of user to where I need to import all his objects/grants but into a NEW tablespace. What's the easiest way I can assure that ~everything~ is imported. Will I need to use a combination of INDEXFILE and other

RE: Out of procee memory problem ..

2002-11-07 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: Out of procee memory problem .. what is 4,50,000 ? -Original Message- From: Satyendra K Khare [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 8:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Out of procee memory problem .. This is the error

RE: SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now?

2002-11-07 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: SPIN_COUNT - 8i obsolete? What now? additional factors: log_checkpoint_timeoutlog_checkpoint_intervalfast_start_io_target90% size of smallest redo log alter system checkpoint -Original Message-From: Jack van Zanen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, November

RE: full exp/imp of user to new tablespace; same user

2002-11-07 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: full exp/imp of user to new tablespace; same user well now I can say I'm spoiled. I was given more than enough information to to accomplish the task (done) and a new tool to boot! =) Thanks alot everyone. -Original Message- From: Mark Leith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: System Tablespace and Autoextend

2002-11-07 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: System Tablespace and Autoextend I have read complaints about SYS.IDL% objects having PCTINCREASE 50 and space problems when they extend, in the forums. I went to check and mine are already set to 0 along with 2147483645 MAXEXTENTS. I created a TAR and verified with Oracle that

RE: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed

2002-11-06 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: Oracle DBA with SAP Needed What does Base Salary is 55K-to maybe high 60s Firm. mean? You can throw the possibility of a raise out the window? =) -Original Message- From: OraStaff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 9:49 AM To: Multiple

RE: Re Raid 5+

2002-11-04 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: Re Raid 5+ Jared raid 5 is good over a single disk for the read speed and the fact you can rebuild if a disk is lost. A raid 5 write includes the additional overhead of calculating parity, no question about it. My raid 1+0 spindles are faster than my raid 5 when it comes to

RE: LOCALLY MANAGED TABLESPACE

2002-10-24 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: LOCALLY MANAGED TABLESPACE Metalink Note: 93771.1 -Original Message- From: Seema Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: LOCALLY MANAGED TABLESPACE Hi I am thinking to change our few

RE: RMAN - It's Here

2002-10-24 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: RMAN - It's Here do list members get a I post where you post discount? =) -Original Message- From: Freeman, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 10:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RMAN - It's Here Just a note that

RE: Deploying a 6i Form to the web

2002-10-23 Thread Markham, Richard
is Forms 6i Server not an option? -Original Message-From: Fink, Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 6:14 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Deploying a 6i Form to the web One of our developers (not a duhveloper) has asked if

RE: oraperf comment

2002-10-22 Thread Markham, Richard
I'm a little confused when one is talking about putting indexes and tables into seperate TABLESPACES and the other is talking about seperate DISKS. To any extent, I cant imagine how seperating IO typesacrossphysical controllers could be anything but rewarding. Yet, splitting across "DISKS"

RE: oraperf comment

2002-10-22 Thread Markham, Richard
Tim, point well said. Thank you. -Original Message-From: Tim Gorman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 11:15 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Fw: oraperf comment ...resending, as the original send encountered some kind of

RE: Archive files and their Management

2002-10-18 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: Archive files and their Management I'm up for my backup and recovery class here soon, butthis conversation has brought up questions that I think some of you wouldn't mind discussing anyway. I see whereimplementing archive logs requires that youmodify the database startup procedure

RE: Archive files and their Management

2002-10-18 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: Archive files and their Management ok thanks for the info. The following was MISLEADING: http://www.orafaq.com/faqdbabr.htm Section: How does one put a database into ARCHIVELOG mode? To enable ARCHIVELOG mode, simple change your database startup command script, and bounce the

RE: How to zip a file on From Unix shell script

2002-10-17 Thread Markham, Richard
I'm curious how you get sendmail/mailx to send a file as an attachment? I suppose it can be done. -Original Message-From: Tim Gorman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 11:59 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: How to zip a file on

SNP acronym?

2002-10-17 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: SNP acronym? What does the background job queue acronym SNP stand for ?

RE: OEM can't seem to discover 1 instance

2002-10-17 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: OEM can't seem to discover 1 instance John I had the same issue recently where before the same instance had been discovered. I had deleted the node after having removed one instance from the server. Before it discovered all three and now it discovers only one of two. Go figure. I

RE: stupid RMAN question

2002-10-14 Thread Markham, Richard
Joe are you on UNIX? you could pipe the stdout to a program called tee -Original Message-From: JOE TESTA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 11:14 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: stupid RMAN question Ok i've been thru all of the 817

RE: Phew ... Finally Migrated

2002-10-14 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: Phew ... Finally Migrated I appreciate the feedback Raj. -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 11:24 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Phew ... Finally Migrated Over the weekend we

RE: 8.1.7.2 or 8.1.7.4

2002-10-11 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: 8.1.7.2 or 8.1.7.4 Vaidya I'm running 8.1.7.2 on all instances when I go to upgrade it will probably be 9iR2 starting with a test db, then from there, onto the least important db upwards. Of course I'm stalling to let all the venturous customers test thease new realeases (and

RE: Advice needed on move to Sun 15K (losing spindles)

2002-10-11 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: Advice needed on move to Sun 15K (losing spindles) Lets say a guy only has one finger on each hand to tie his shoe (mirroring). If he had five fingers (striping) he can accomplish the job quite a bit faster. Now give him 1000 shoes to tie and listen to him bitch about how he could

RE: Is it possible to copy one db to another if the SID is differ

2002-10-09 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: Is it possible to copy one db to another if the SID is differ or consider note: 174625.1 -Original Message- From: Stephen Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Is it possible to copy

RE: DBA place in the business (was RE: DBA work load)

2002-10-07 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: DBA place in the business (was RE: DBA work load) you can write down the known heiarchy, then encompass that within a circle. add a picture of the DBA holding the sphere in his hand or better yet if you really want to get creative, place it on his back and have him poised like

RE: Backups

2002-10-03 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: Backups It would be interesting to see how you would explain how either cp or dd (which know nothing of archive log mode, or the concept of hot backup, itself, none the less) is going to keep things consistent, when these utilities themselves are for point in time operations.

RE: RE: Backups

2002-10-03 Thread Markham, Richard
am spoiled knocking on wood. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 1:38 PM To: Markham; Richard; Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re:RE: Backups I've used cpio, dd, and fbackup to do hot and cold backups

RE: how to find out the patch applied on different env.

2002-10-02 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: how to find out the patch applied on different env. FILENAME adphrept.sql DESCRIPTION SQL script that creates a report file showing the patching history of all patches also can be used in conjuction with the following SQL, this tends to be more granular: SELECT * FROM

RE: Oracle D.B.A. required in M.A.

2002-10-02 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: Oracle D.B.A. required in M.A. Is it that or is it a new goal to get a developer than can play part time DBA or vice versa and reap all the benefits for the price of one? -Original Message- From: ltiu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:15 PM

RE: Degrade a database??

2002-09-26 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: Degrade a database?? I can't think of any better way to back out of anything other than a restore from disk or tape. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 2:48 PM To: Multiple recipients of list

migrating 8.x-9i and charsets

2002-09-25 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: migrating 8.x-9i and charsets Ron I was reading your response about converting to UTF8 and it has risen some curiosity with my situation and recent upgrade of a DB from 8.1.7.2 to 9.1.0.3. A snippet from the migration manual states:If the old National Character Set is UTF8, then the

RE: migrating 8.x-9i and charsets

2002-09-25 Thread Markham, Richard
has any input. -Original Message- From: Markham, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 9:28 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: migrating 8.x-9i and charsets Ron I was reading your response about converting to UTF8 and it has risen some

RE: DBA work load

2002-09-24 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: DBA work load yea I was going to add that as much as the hardware trend has demanded redundancy for failover so it would make sense that a production shop would apply that to its personnel as well. -Original Message- From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: rebuilding an instance from a cpio file?

2002-09-24 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: rebuilding an instance from a cpio file? here's an excellent link that will give you more than you asked for. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/11/FreeBSD_Basics.html -Original Message- From: Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 2:54 PM

moving non system segments

2002-09-23 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: moving non system segments I was playing around with Tim Gorman's hc.sql (health check) and would like to move these objects into the USER tablespace. I would like assistance in additional things to consider. I haven't actualy used the command but believe I would use: ALTER

RE: migrated from 8.1.5 to 8.1.7 and Migration Assistant moved my

2002-09-20 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: migrated from 8.1.5 to 8.1.7 and Migration Assistant moved my i had the same issue where all my data files were moved to the same slice which fortunately i had a large slice. i ended up doing the manual upgrade steps through the Migration manual. -Original Message- From:

RE: Listener load balance

2002-09-18 Thread Markham, Richard
are either of you or any one on this list working with 11i applications? I am curious as to how the load balancing works against the hard coding of web service infomation in the FND profile options which seems to only provide configurationfor one application tier.Does the second tier only

RE: Estat Bstat

2002-09-18 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: Estat Bstat you could always have the utl*stat report output interpreted by oraperf.com for free. -Original Message- From: Ora NT DBA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 2:14 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Estat Bstat

RE: log_file_sync io wait question

2002-09-18 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: log_file_sync io wait question well if you have mirrored members that exist on the same disk thats an issue, if this same disk houses the currently used datafiles that would add to the situation. I placed my redo on a seperate raid-1 and dropped the member mirrors and see better

RE: backup controlfile to trace

2002-09-17 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: backup controlfile to trace a non-full proof method that I use is T_FILE=$(ls -1rt /$ORACLE_HOME/admin/udump | tail -1) this will assign $T_FILE to the newest file existing in UDUMP. -Original Message- From: Ray Stell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: Oracle Version on Unix

2002-09-11 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: Oracle Version on Unix Chapter 7 Section Changing the Word-Size of your Current Release within the Oracle 9i Database Migration Manual. I dont see why you couldn't do: file ${ORACLE_HOME}/bin/oracle to determine the word size. -Original Message- From: Mercadante,

RE: Decode

2002-09-11 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: Decode an example straight from 9i SQL Reference should do SELECT product_id, DECODE (warehouse_id, 1, 'Southlake', 2, 'San Francisco', 3, 'New Jersey', 4, 'Seattle', 'Non-domestic') quantity_on_hand FROM inventories; -Original Message- From: Ruth Gramolini

RE: methodology to keep only certain programs to connect to

2002-09-10 Thread Markham, Richard
what are the drawbacks with such a trigger, what if the code went invalid and would not compile is it possible that you could lock yourself out, or would the base login functionality still work regardless or the status of this trigger? -Original Message-From: Mercadante, Thomas F

RE: ALTER TABLE MOVE command causes table to grow

2002-09-05 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: ALTER TABLE MOVE command causes table to grow you didn't mention the PCT_INCREASE of this segment. -Original Message- From: Miller, Jay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 12:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: ALTER TABLE

RE: ALTER TABLE MOVE command causes table to grow

2002-09-05 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: ALTER TABLE MOVE command causes table to grow just to be certain we are on the same page, you mention uniform sizing which is on the tablespace level, so I want to make sure the PCT_INCREASE you provided was pulled from dba_segments. if so then i'd say a bit more info would need

connection output on clone instance

2002-09-05 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: connection output on clone instance can anyone guide me in changing the connect output: Connected to: Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production With the Partitioning option JServer Release 8.1.7.2.0 - Production Where Production will be replaced with TEST

RE: arg list too long in unix

2002-08-29 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: arg list too long in unix go into the top dir and run find . -name cz-session-* | xargs rm -f or find . -name cz-session-* -exec rm -f {} \; the first runs faster but keep in mind that in other scenarios xargs splits stdin into file names on space and newline.

RE: ROWNUM strangeness?

2002-08-29 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: RE: ROWNUM strangeness? show the full sql please, perhaps its how you are grouping your conditions Paul Baumgartel wrote: I've been given a query to investigate. The performance varies extremely depending on whether the entire result set is fetched or a ROWNUM n clause is

os date, sysdate time synchronization

2002-08-27 Thread Markham, Richard
Title: os date, sysdate time synchronization I am considering ntpd to synchronize my server times but I wanted to check if there are any issues with actively synchronizing the system time when there is an oracle database involved. Does the db maintain its own time clock after its started so