RE: Suggestions Needed: Latch free - library cache

2004-01-09 Thread Steve Adams
not notice all of this unless you start doing library cache dumps. That is, the use of public synonyms is a major scalability threat, but does not normally cause performance problems. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au

RE: what is in the UGA?

2003-11-11 Thread Steve Adams
. So yes, package variables and bind variable are there (although the bind meta-data is in the SGA) but sort areas, row source buffers, and runtime state data are also major space consumers. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http

RE: what is in the CGA?

2003-11-11 Thread Steve Adams
was under way when the PGA heap dump was taken. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Satav, Pawan Sent: Tuesday, 11 November 2003 8:55 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Good

RE: x$ constructs and memory

2003-09-30 Thread Steve Adams
, but there is no corresponding metadata in the dictionary cache. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Steve Sent: Wednesday, 1 October 2003 12:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi

RE: x$ constructs and memory

2003-09-29 Thread Steve Adams
is that the ADDR column of the X$ output now returns addresses which map into your PGA rather than the SGA. In fact, that is in general a good way to work out whether you are looking at an X$ table or an X$ interface. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs

RE: x$ constructs and memory

2003-09-29 Thread Steve Adams
; others like these ones you've mentioned do not need to, but some of them do so anyway. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Steve Adams

RE: SQL AREA and LIBARARY CACHE size?

2003-09-25 Thread Steve Adams
of chunks and thus the relative size of these and other shared pool areas depends entirely how recently objects have been used, because they all share the same LRU mechanisms (although there is an additional subordinate LRU mechanism for the dictionary cache). @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http

RE: SQL AREA and LIBARARY CACHE size?

2003-09-25 Thread Steve Adams
can see chunks moving from the transient to recurrent list. My best guess at the moment is that when new recreatable chunks are first unpinned, they go onto the transient list, and then when they have been reused, they go back onto the recurrent list. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http

RE: Tuning help required

2003-09-24 Thread Steve Adams
to be returned from the first row piece. Although it is possible for that to be the case with row chaining, it's more likely a symptom of migration. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all accept OwnerName prompt Owner

RE: Virtual Circuit Status

2003-08-28 Thread Steve Adams
, although it is in the V$ views, nor is it visible in the trace files because the waiting session does not have a corresponding process that is waiting). @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message

RE: RE: Raw partition Vs File System

2001-11-20 Thread Steve Adams
doubled db_block_buffers, but unless going from about 600M to about 1.2G, then it was not a level playing field. Unfortunately, he does not give those numbers. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all

RE: frequent commit, example ??? HELP

2001-11-18 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Andrea, Don't do it! Adding commits makes the code more complex, much less efficient and risks violating transactional integrity. See http://www.ixora.com.au/newsletter/2001_09.htm#commits for a detailed explanation of the problems. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au

RE: Raw partition Vs File System

2001-11-12 Thread Steve Adams
Hi All, Does anyone have an email address for Bert? I looked for his email address when I first read that article a week ago, but did not find one. I think I know what was wrong with his test, but it is hard to be sure because he left out a lot of the details. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams

RE: TTI Layer Function codes

2001-11-01 Thread Steve Adams
hardware diagnostic logs for evidence of either memory or network errors, and make sure that you don't have someone trying to use some old client software that is not compatible with the RDBMS version. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http

RE: Arch configuration -- I/O stuck

2001-11-01 Thread Steve Adams
that you scanned already had a large number of block in the cache. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 2 November 2001 6:39 To: Steve Adams; Multiple recipients

RE: Arch configuration -- I/O stuck

2001-10-31 Thread Steve Adams
of cache available for the archival writes. You would also do well to avoid RAID-S of course! @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2001 5:45

RE: Synonyms can be VERY bad for performance

2001-10-31 Thread Steve Adams
. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2001 10:10 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Greg, I may be way off here but FIRST_ROWS

RE: How can I tell if a procedure/package is running?

2001-10-30 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Rahul, Ah, I see. You're looking at KGLHDLMD instead of KGLHDPMD. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Sent

RE: How can I tell if a procedure/package is running?

2001-10-30 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Nirmal, There is some information about the X$ tables available on the Ixora web site. However, knowledge of the X$ tables is not really important for most DBAs. They are only useful in rare, advanced tuning and diagnostic situations. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au

RE: Identifying user and locked table row in Oracle 8i

2001-10-30 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Tamas, When a session is waiting for a row-level lock you can see the row required in the V$SESSION columns ROW_WAIT_OBJ#, ROW_WAIT_FILE#, ROW_WAIT_BLOCK# and ROW_WAIT_ROW#. A script like Oracle's utllockt.sql can be used to identify the blocker. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http

RE: extent deallocation question

2001-10-29 Thread Steve Adams
to another object. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Sent: Monday, 29 October 2001 13:55 To: Multiple recipients

RE: extent deallocation question

2001-10-29 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Riyaj, The checkpoint object call is used prior to a direct read of an object. DBW0 scans the cache once based on the obj#. This was introduced in 8.0 as an optimization for parallel query. Previously each extent was checkpointed separately. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http

RE: How can I tell if a procedure/package is running?

2001-10-29 Thread Steve Adams
the sessions holding the pins. See executing_packages.sql at http://www.ixora.com.au/scripts/misc.htm#executing_packages for an example. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims @ http

RE: How can I tell if a procedure/package is running?

2001-10-29 Thread Steve Adams
the sessions holding the pins. See executing_packages.sql at http://www.ixora.com.au/scripts/misc.htm#executing_packages for an example. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims @ http

RE: How can I tell if a procedure/package is running?

2001-10-29 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Rahul, 0 means not pinned; 3 means pinned in exclusive mode. I don't know what 1 means. I'm not accustomed to seeing it. Do you have any examples? @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims

RE: DB FILE PARALLEL WRITE

2001-10-25 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Jack, It is a background wait, so unless user processes are waiting for DBWn in 'free buffer waits' or 'write complete waits' then you don't have a problem, no matter how big the 'db file parallel wait' numbers are. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au

RE: os block size versus oracle bock size

2001-10-23 Thread Steve Adams
Hi All, Oracle uses direct I/O on W2K so the O/S block size is an irrelevance. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message

RE: Bind variables v. cursor_sharing = FORCE

2001-10-20 Thread Steve Adams
10% more expensive. My results were between 10% and 30%. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Sent: Saturday, 20

RE: event= to capture deadlock debug info

2001-10-20 Thread Steve Adams
also be used, and is somewhat more useful. Be warned, however, that I've seen it crash an instance once. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all

RE: Problem - V$BUFFER_POOL_STATISTICS

2001-10-20 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Saurabh, Try running $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/catperf.sql first. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Sent

RE: ORA 235

2001-10-19 Thread Steve Adams
robust code that handles the error. A good example of such code can be seen in '$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/recover.bsq'. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims @ http://www.christianity.net.au

RE: distribution of the sleeps on the library cache latches

2001-10-19 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Ed, I would agree with the _kgl_latch_count change, but the _kgl_bucket_count change seems unwarranted and extreme. Rather I suspect that the size of your library cache hash table rather reflects an oversized shared pool, probably with some use of literal SQL. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams

RE: ORA 235

2001-10-19 Thread Steve Adams
* ERROR at line 1: ORA-00235: controlfile fixed table inconsistent due to concurrent update SQL @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims @ http

RE: distribution of the sleeps on the library cache latches

2001-10-19 Thread Steve Adams
a week would be good too if you can manage that. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ - For DBAs @ http://www.secularislam.org/call.htm - For Muslims @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ - For all -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 19 October 2001 19

RE: ORA 235

2001-10-19 Thread Steve Adams
SQL / select count(*) from v$loghist * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00235: controlfile fixed table inconsistent due to concurrent update SQL / COUNT(*) -- 823 SQL @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http

RE: Question About Deferred Rollback Segments

2001-10-18 Thread Steve Adams
Hi there, You can see deferred rollback segments in X$KTTVS or in DBA_SEGMENTS. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, 18 October 2001 16:55 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, DBAs

RE: WHERE CURRENT OF Question

2001-10-05 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Bill, The FOR UPDATE clause syntax allows for the possibility of column-level locking, but Oracle only implements row-level locking. So the OF column_name phrase is just ignored. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original

RE: session_cached_cursors parameter

2001-10-05 Thread Steve Adams
are right that it is searched linearly, my experience suggests that the CPU saving of session cursor cache hits can exceed the CPU cost of unlatched linear searches with values much larger than 100. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au

RE: cached_blocks.sql

2001-09-07 Thread Steve Adams
that the file numbers in X$BH were offset thus, as those in X$KCBFWAIT are. But when I started using the corrected script I got even more strange results and backed out the fix, but it seems that I overlooked the 8.0 version. Sorry. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http

RE: LOT (Little OT): Interesting Oracle related URL's.

2001-06-07 Thread Steve Adams
to international copyright law, but individuals are seldom immune to community disapprobation. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 8 June 2001 3:01 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I hate

RE: LOT (Little OT): Interesting Oracle related URL's.

2001-06-07 Thread Steve Adams
, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 8 June 2001 7:59 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Google also stores the text of a lot of these .pdfs in cache. - E -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, June 07

RE: TUSC and Kevin Loney

2001-06-05 Thread Steve Adams
Hi All, No, I'm waiting for Henry to announce the details of the commercial DBA union! The pre-announcement is at http://www.lazydba.com/xcomment.pl?discussions:6 @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ PS. This is a joke for the benefit

RE: How many times has an index been used?

2001-05-29 Thread Steve Adams
Hi All, A cheaper solution to this is to use an AFTER LOGON trigger to set CREATE_STORED_OUTLINES to true. If the users have the CREATE ANY OUTLINE system privilege, you'll be able to see which indexes are being used in the DBA_OUTLINE_HINTS view. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http

RE: Sessions are waiting on buffer busy wait with P3 value 130 in v$s

2001-05-25 Thread Steve Adams
_db_percent_hot_default to something like 80. That would allow up to 80% of the DEFAULT buffer pool to be used for hot buffers thereby improving the caching of the buffers that are causing you to wait. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message

RE: Binding a process to a CPU .

2001-05-22 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Shreepad, Please see http://www.ixora.com.au/q+a/cpu.htm#15_10_1999. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2001 22:16 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I wish to test

Ixora News - May 2001

2001-05-21 Thread Steve Adams
Hi All, The May 2001 issue of Ixora News is now available online at http://www.ixora.com.au/newsletter/2001_05.htm. In this issue ... Sin-onyms - Are synonyms really bad? Not so fast - Incremental checkpointing can defeat commit cleanouts @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http

RE: Temporary tablespaces

2001-05-21 Thread Steve Adams
not participate in recovery in anyway and thus do not need to be backed up. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Monday, 21 May 2001 11:15 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am interested to know what

RE: Temporary files and Quick i/o

2001-05-18 Thread Steve Adams
of the discussion? Johnson --- Steve Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, OK, you're all correct. Tempfiles can be sparse (it seems to be platform specific). Nevertheless, I'm unclear why Veritas think that is it any more of a problem for Oracle to get ENOSPC from a sparse tempfile

RE: Temporary files and Quick i/o

2001-05-18 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Johnson, No, that's a datafile tablespace with temporary contents. A tempfile tablespace is inherently temporary. Check the documentation for the difference between ... CREATE TABLESPACE ... TEMPORARY and CREATE TEMPORARY TABLESPACE ... @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http

RE: job offer from SAUDI ARABIA

2001-05-18 Thread Steve Adams
to anyone else, thus the bogus reply just to the sender. What a clever way to kill a thread! Maybe Jared should apply this technique to messages headed job offer from SAUDI ARABIA. :-) @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original

RE: enqueue waits -- CI

2001-05-17 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Diego, I don't know of any way in which using DBMS_PIPE might be related to CI enqueue waits. However, even if there is something to their suggestion, if your ID values are 0 and 5 then the CI call you are waiting for is one of the reuse block range calls. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams

RE: Temporary files and Quick i/o

2001-05-17 Thread Steve Adams
to the tip you mentioned. While it is the sort of thing I might say, I don't remember actually having said so. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 18 May 2001 0:05 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Temporary files and Quick i/o

2001-05-17 Thread Steve Adams
have pushed you toward QIO in the first place. Johnson, Could you please post the URL to the tip you mentioned so that I can fix it. @ Thanks, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 18 May 2001 10:06 To: Multiple

RE: Temporary files and Quick i/o

2001-05-17 Thread Steve Adams
Hi All, Another correction. That error number has been changed to 7248 since Oracle8. I think I need a coffee! @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 18 May 2001 10:01 To: Multiple recipients

RE: Would you increase the shared pool? --URGENT

2001-05-17 Thread Steve Adams
about the major issues first. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 18 May 2001 2:01 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello Gurus, I need help in this performance issue. Oracle 7.3.4 HPUX

RE: File open event

2001-05-16 Thread Steve Adams
hypothesis however. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, 16 May 2001 22:31 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks for the reply Steve, this event was not proping up before until we enabled

RE: enqueue waits -- CI

2001-05-16 Thread Steve Adams
, and the DBWn processes in all instance need to flush the cache in their own instances. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, 17 May 2001 4:11 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Thanks

RE: File open event

2001-05-15 Thread Steve Adams
on that. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Saturday, 12 May 2001 0:26 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Can somebody please explain to me what this event is, I am not able to find good documentation on this issue

RE: Pl/sql loop assistance

2001-05-11 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Jacques, It is not reliable if there is row migration. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 11 May 2001 3:07 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L -Original Message- From: Jared

RE: COLLECTION ITERATOR PICKLER FETCH

2001-05-11 Thread Steve Adams
the web for information on Python's pickle module. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 11 May 2001 3:11 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sometimes I really love the developers at Oracle

RE: Optimizer and block size changes = trouble...

2001-05-09 Thread Steve Adams
; COUNT(*) -- 1 SQL select parse_calls, version_count from v$sqlarea where sql_text = 'select count(*) from t '; PARSE_CALLS VERSION_COUNT --- - 3 3 SQL @ Regards, @ Steve Adams

RE: Optimizer and block size changes = trouble...

2001-05-09 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Waleed, I ran the test below under 8.1.6.0 on NT using SQL*Plus and I would have expected the same results under 8.1.6.3 on Solaris. Do you possibly have a small shared pool with very quick reuse? @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au

RE: V$RECENT_BUCKET and V$CURRENT_VIEWS

2001-05-07 Thread Steve Adams
Hi there, Have a look at http://www.ixora.com.au/newsletter/2001_03.htm#ideal for an 8i alternative. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Monday, 7 May 2001 11:30 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: _ROW_CACHE_BUFFER_SIZE

2001-05-02 Thread Steve Adams
in there, the best thing for you to do would be to create private synonyms. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, 3 May 2001 7:26 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ross, Is this OPS? According

RE: FILE SYSTEM BUFFER IN JFS : ON OR OFF

2001-04-30 Thread Steve Adams
the 'sort_area_size' and thus avoid those writes entirely. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Saturday, 28 April 2001 1:15 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi List , I am in the middle of Major

RE: not able to dump buffers

2001-04-28 Thread Steve Adams
in buffer header order. For levels higher than 3, the buffers and blocks are dumped in hash chain order. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 27 April 2001 8:07 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: multiple archive destinations

2001-04-27 Thread Steve Adams
that be probably help somewhat. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 27 April 2001 1:51 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L RDBMS: 8.1.6.2 OS: AIX 4.3.3 Our large (600G) insert-intensive (17Meg / min

RE: sort_area_size + temp tablespace extent sizing

2001-04-25 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Ade and list, This is folk lore. Please see http://www.ixora.com.au/q+a/0103/27075321.htm for the explanation. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, 25 April 2001 1:01 To: Multiple

RE: Kdb database engine

2001-04-23 Thread Steve Adams
not hear of KDE-DB (KDB) in that environment, but it does not surprise me that they are using it. Telstra employs about 10% of Australia's IT workforce and when lamenting the lack of standards there we often used to say Telstra has at least one of everything! @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http

RE: Enqueue timeouts

2001-04-20 Thread Steve Adams
er, a more helpful course of action is to look at X$KSQST to investigate what type of enqueues those waits are coming from. There is a script called "enqueue_stats.sql" at http://www.ixora.com.au/scripts/locks.htm on the Ixora web site that might help. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ htt

RE: Never split index and data files ...

2001-04-20 Thread Steve Adams
ful, but using it for a first-order layout rule is a mistake." This is consistent with what I recommend in the series of tips on disk configuration on the Ixora web site. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Messag

RE: RE: Never split index and data files ...

2001-04-20 Thread Steve Adams
of dollars on a whole new bunch of hardware. Of course we did the configuration properly the next time so that there would be no disk or controller level contention between the backup threads. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original

RE: Problem with DBMS_SQL

2001-04-18 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Bhat, The CREATE TABLE privilege probably needs to be granted directly. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ PS. Please don't copy "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" on questions to the list. -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday

RE: Problem with DBMS_SQL

2001-04-18 Thread Steve Adams
obtained via roles. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, 18 April 2001 21:16 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Steve, The account has DBA privilege and by using a direct DDL I am

RE: Bitmap Indexes sizes

2001-04-18 Thread Steve Adams
. Otherwise, a simple (aka B*-tree) index should be considered. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, 19 April 2001 8:15 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I have (had) an index

RE: Ability for non DBA user to kill session.

2001-04-17 Thread Steve Adams
Hi All, Further to that, it is necessary to use DBMS_SQL or native dynamic SQL for this as PL/SQL does not support ALTER SYSTEM directly. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, 18 April 2001 3

RE: Background Process

2001-04-12 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Raj, These are I/O slaves. You get them by setting 'dbwr_io_slaves' and possibly other similar parameters. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, 12 April 2001 21:52 To: Multiple recipients

RE: Optimizer theory: Question on access paths for outer joins

2001-04-11 Thread Steve Adams
. Hope this help, @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Hi all, I was just trying to figure out why in an outer join Oracle prefers to access the table with the (+) first. I would have thought that the table from

RE: Optimizer theory: Question on access paths for outer joins

2001-04-11 Thread Steve Adams
. Hope this help, @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Hi all, I was just trying to figure out why in an outer join Oracle prefers to access the table with the (+) first. I would have thought that the table from

RE: Parallel Query Question

2001-04-11 Thread Steve Adams
s.kxfpdpnum != 999 and p.addr = s.kxfpdpcpr and p.inst_id = s.kxfpdpcin order by 1, 2, 3, 4 / @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, 11 April 2001 7:16

RE: DONE script enclosed: shell script to compare nos.

2001-04-11 Thread Steve Adams
fi elif [ "0$v1b" -lt "0$v2b" ] ; then echo "$v1 is less than $v2" else echo "$v1 is greater than $v2" fi elif [ "0$v1a" -lt "0$v2a" ] ; then echo "$v

RE: DONE script enclosed: shell script to compare nos.

2001-04-11 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Raja, Yes, IFS stand for the "Internal Field Separator". It is a special shell variable in Bourne based shells. See the sh(1) man page for more information about it. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Origin

RE: Histogram Helper

2001-04-06 Thread Steve Adams
. The fact that it has to do a full scan each time you run it will probably make you use it selectively on columns that are subject to literal predicates in expensive queries. In my opinion, that's probably a good thing. Enjoy! @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au

RE: What does _allow_read_only_corruption do?

2001-04-06 Thread Steve Adams
to a consistent state. Also, the read only open allows you to assess better which recovery option you want to take without committing you to either. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 6 April 2001 8:32

RE: tkprof for 10046 event

2001-04-05 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Steve, I've not checked recently, but Guy Harrison used to have one on his web site. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 6 April 2001 1:52 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, When

RE: Enqueue waits

2001-04-04 Thread Steve Adams
with these but I would focus on the others first. In general, the Anjo Kolk paper on "Oracle7 Wait Events and Enqueues" is the best starting point for information about different enqueue types. You can find it at http://www.evdbt.com/event.pdf @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ix

RE: WAIT info in event10046 raw traces

2001-04-03 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Danisment, It is after each wait. Whether each wait corresponds to a single system call depends on whether the file is multiplexed, and whether Oracle passes large multiblock reads to the operating system in a single call on that platform. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http

RE: Qualifying columns to improve performance?

2001-04-03 Thread Steve Adams
difference in CPU usage. I too remember being taught this back in version 6 days, and it is in the Gurry and Corrigan "Oracle Performance Tuning" book (2nd edition, page 138) so there may have been some validity to it in the past. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au

RE: Metalink Response ....FYI

2001-04-03 Thread Steve Adams
Hi All, I'd say that there must be something badly wrong with the application if it cannot cope with 1,500 concurrent users. I know of sites supporting more than 20 times that number of active users on a single server with consistent sub-second response times. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams

RE: Metalink Response ....FYI

2001-04-03 Thread Steve Adams
to be able to make their Oracle stuff scale much better than MetaLink does. Maybe its because of the performance consultant they use. I understand that Oracle management politely declined an offer of help from the same consultant. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au

RE: Viewing current enabled roles

2001-04-01 Thread Steve Adams
. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 30 March 2001 19:20 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi, I want to find out what roles are currently enabled for users logged on. The users are logging

RE: Redo Log size used

2001-03-26 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Glenn, Try 'log_file_usage.sql' at http://www.ixora.com.au/scripts/redo_log.htm#log_file_usage. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, 27 March 2001 5:51 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE

RE: Redo Log size used

2001-03-26 Thread Steve Adams
, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, 27 March 2001 7:27 To: Steve Adams Cc: Oracledba As always your script was exactly what I was looking for. I am assuming the column sys.x_$kccle.lesiz is number of blocks

RE: APPEND hint (Was: Which is faster??)

2001-03-25 Thread Steve Adams
as NOLOGGING. The undo is correspondingly trivial. However, if there are indexes then you get lots of index redo (layer 10) and corresponding undo. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Sunday, 25 March 2001

RE: Max phy I/O size on Hp-UX

2001-03-22 Thread Steve Adams
that it is effectively unchanged for disk I/O because of the LVM logical track group size restriction. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 23 March 2001 7:17 To: Multiple recipients

RE: Tuning Matter == Parameter PCT_USED in a Table

2001-03-22 Thread Steve Adams
that do this sort of stuff. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 23 March 2001 11:46 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dear Listers, I've download a presentation talking about Calculating

RE: DBA Job at a Chocolate Factory

2001-03-21 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Steve, I once got to work on an oil rig in the middle of Bass Strait. The pay was based on how dangerous your work was, rather than the skill required. It is not often that being a DBA puts you at the bottom of the pay scale! @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http

RE: instance resource allocation

2001-03-01 Thread Steve Adams
anonymous and executable pages from the other. @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 1 March 2001 12:06 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Group, being fairly new

RE: delayed block cleanout

2001-02-27 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Russ, Yes, a bounce will not achieve anything, and neither will a full table scan if it is done in parallel or if 'delayed_logging_block_cleanouts' is TRUE (which is the default at 7.3 and 8.0). @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au

RE: Rolling Upgrade of Oracle on a 24*7 implementation

2001-02-25 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Murali, There was a thread on this on Ixora Answers in January ... http://www.ixora.com.au/q+a/0101/06105002.htm @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/ -Original Message- Sent: Friday, 23 February 2001 4:41 To: Multiple

  1   2   >