Re: Details

2003-09-06 Thread dgoulet
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Re:RE: pl/sql engine doubt

2003-03-24 Thread dgoulet
c) Procedural part can be parsed either by an application tool or oracle kernel. The thing to watch for is the version of the PL/SQL engine embedded in the application tool. The ideal situation is when these two versions are the same. If they are not, life can get interesting. To put it

Re:Reorganizing tables

2003-03-24 Thread dgoulet
Dennis, We don't re-org tables, but we do rebuild indexes on occassion. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/24/2003 9:38 AM We have a new manager, and at his last employer the DBAs reorganize Oracle

Re:OCI and Visual C++

2003-03-24 Thread dgoulet
Stephane, An invalid SQL statement is an invalid statement no matter what the OS. Smells like something else is fishy. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Stephane Paquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/24/2003 11:48 AM Hi all, I have a

Re:how to config my proc precompile environment

2003-03-21 Thread dgoulet
One question and an answer from a previous message of yours. 1) What OS are you using? There is a pcscfg.cfg file on most operating systems that I know of where you can set that stuff up. Although anything added to the gui or command line will override. 2) errtype is for when your

Re:Bind variable use in C++ SQL Calls

2003-03-21 Thread dgoulet
Karen, I'm far from a pro at C++ also, haven't found a good reason to use it anyway as anything you want to do in C++ is also just as easily (if not more so) in plain old C. I characterize C++ as a language for old Cobol programers who are sorry the verboseness of that language is dying.

Re:Moving an index

2003-03-21 Thread dgoulet
Peter, Other than dropping it. Rebuilding also has the advantage of not requiring down time. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Schauss; Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/21/2003 12:08 PM In 8.1.7, is rebuilding the appropriate way to move an

Re:RE: Bind variable use in C++ SQL Calls

2003-03-21 Thread dgoulet
Well now, It's said you learn something new every day. Thanks Peter!! Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Schauss; Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/21/2003 1:49 PM There is an easier way to handle character strings in PRO*C: EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE

Re:RE: How to run sql*plus and its command in Windows as b

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Thom, If your going to go to all that trouble, why not simply create a .sql file call it on the command line. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Mercadante; Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/20/2003 4:53 AM Chuan, What I do is the

Re:RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Good old Duct Tape, the handyman's secret weapon!! Reply Separator Author: Stephen Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/20/2003 6:34 AM -Original Message- Did you learn anything from the previous crash to prevent it from happening again? Yes.

Re[2]:partitioning

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Peter, I've not had very good luck with hash partitioning either, but range works damn nicely both from a data insertion/update and query point of view. CBO also runs very consistently. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Peter Barnett [EMAIL

Re:RE: Data Capture program

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Santosh, If that's what your after I'd suggest you get into WEB development mode. Using Access means using ODBC which means installing the Oracle client. Take a look at ColdFusion, or 9IAS or some Java based approach. In any case your going to need a WEB server and browser on the client

Re:RE: Proc*C Errors

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Oh Stephane, your such a woos. I absolutely hate the OCI interface, talk about a place to blow your head off! 99.9% of the time that the C compiler tosses a fur ball is something you've done in C that is wrong, although I'll admit is sometimes gets real hairy trying to find it. If the Proc

Re:Metilinx -product!

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Looks like a Platinum plated version of an apps server. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: =?iso-8859-1?q?Joshua=20Becker?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/20/2003 3:38 AM Is anyone using this product, could I please hear your comments and thoughts. Is

Re[2]: RE: New DBA.

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
There are entry level DBA positions, although I will admit they are few and far between. We had one, filled it now have promoted the guy. He did not come from an IT related area (actually was a bean counter before). A couple of years ago I'd probably have said it was a mistake to open up such

Re:RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
I will admit to getting mine simply as part of an ego trip. I figured that after 15 years of being an developer/DBA with Oracle I should have one. Has it made a difference to my salary or employment potential? Not one bit. Dick Goulet Reply Separator

Re:RE: RE: Value of OCP

2003-03-20 Thread dgoulet
Rachel, You didn't glue your fingers together, now did you?? Did that many years ago. We were using super glue, the older slower drying stuff, to hold a gasket on the bottom of a radar beacon case. Well using an open top bottle and flux brush to apply that stuff is messy at best. Got

Re:Data Capture program

2003-03-19 Thread dgoulet
Santosh, As one who has written a pile of these, you've left out a lot of details. The first question I would have is where is the data coming from and how is it being written. If the data is flat ASCII text, and is from a batch process SQL*Loader or an external table (9i V2) would be

Re[2]: Rownum

2003-03-19 Thread dgoulet
Darrell, Pretty damn close. Rowid is the actual absolute address of a row in the database. It use to come in the format of .. up to version 8.0 which was decoded as the file number, block number, and row address within the block. At version 8.0 it took on the format we see

Re:partitioning

2003-03-19 Thread dgoulet
I'm not sure what your trying to accomplish. You get one insert for one record. Which partition is used depends on how you set them up. If your wanting the partitions to be used in a circular fashion I believe that is accomplished with a hash partition and you get to create the hashing method.

Re:HP-UX Installation questions for 8i/9i on a HP-UX 11/11i

2003-03-19 Thread dgoulet
Mandar, I'm going to include my HP-UX GURU on to the reply so that he can comment about the JFS as he feels appriopriate. As for trhe MicroFocus Cobol, NO you don't need it. Ansi C can become another matter. If your going to use any exernal procedures you will need it as well as

Re:RE: HP-UX Installation questions for 8i/9i on a HP-UX 11/

2003-03-19 Thread dgoulet
Jeff, Care to put your 2 cents in? Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Mandar A. Ghosalkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/19/2003 1:24 PM Dick, you are right. i don't need Ansi C or Microfocus cobol if i am not using Pro*C or Pro*Cobol. the

Re:Inband and Outband Net8 question

2003-03-18 Thread dgoulet
Sinardy, Wish my favorite network GURU was in today as he could really explain this, but regrettably he's on the road. Anyway, what their talking about is how you interrupt the server side process that your client is talking to. Here is an example/walk through: You start a SQL*Plus

Re[2]:File Restoration/Recovery

2003-03-14 Thread dgoulet
Gary, I had a similar engineer managed DB around here for a while. The problem was that 'someone' deleted a couple of the datafiles by 'mistake'. (Ever see that CDW commercial concerning the full file server?) Well I got asked the same question to which I had a very good laugh told the

Re:File Restoration/Recovery

2003-03-14 Thread dgoulet
Gary, Only if 1) The database is shutdown prior to the copy of the datafiles, and everything else that compromises the database (online redo, control files, etc...) or 2) the effected tablespaces are put into hot backup mode before the copy, in which case when you restore the files Oracle

Re:RE: why SAN ? why not external storage ?

2003-03-14 Thread dgoulet
Humm, must of missed this one on the rebound. Anyway, here Disk space is an admin nightmare. Each time we want to reassign disks from one server to another here comes EMC to re-program the Symmetrix array otherwise the SA has the possibility of assigning 2 servers to the same disk. OOPS I

Re[2]: why SAN ? why not external storage ?

2003-03-13 Thread dgoulet
Rahul, This is personal opinion, but it looks to me like your concerned about the database your creating for the client and may not have the total or corporate wide view your client has. We're heading down the SAN road not because of any specific database requirements but because disk

Re:why SAN ? why not external storage ?

2003-03-12 Thread dgoulet
Rahul, We're heading out onto the SAN route as well from the external storage world. Right now we use a number of HP-UX servers connected to one of two EMC symmetrix arrays for datafiles and one of two NetApp Filers for archive redo logs. They work well, but the EMC's are expensive and

Re:For Dick Goulet - - RE: why SAN ? why not external stor

2003-03-12 Thread dgoulet
Brian, NetApps work just great for archive redo logs, their just an NFS mount. The problem we have had is getting things configured for Datafiles. If your use to a DAS system where you have the server and external disks, you have SCSI or Fiber cables between the two as dedicated

Re:Localizing keywords from Oracle's SQL engine

2003-03-12 Thread dgoulet
Stephen, I don't know about multi-byte character sets, but I know my French, German, and Italian end users see English. We use the WE8SIO8859P1 character set all over the place. Come to think of it, our Japan office sees keywords in English as well, but then we don't have Kanji loaded for

Re:RE: Running multiple instances on a [large] server

2003-03-11 Thread dgoulet
We also run several instances on just about every server we have. Most, but not all share the same Oracle_home. I only create new ones for newer versions of Oracle, but for each database I prefer to use seperate mount points such as: /test/system /test/rbs /test/temp /prod1/system /prod1/rbs

Re[2]: Running multiple instances on a [large] server

2003-03-11 Thread dgoulet
Thomas, Now that's an interesting comment. I can't remember ever seeing more than one instance on an NT machine either except when we were playing around boy did that crash in a big hurry (NT 4.0 Oracle 8.0). On the other hand I've set up Linux with 4 instances (same piece of hardware) and

Re:POLL: Database to DBA ratio

2003-03-11 Thread dgoulet
Chuck, We've got near as many instances as you (40 at last count) but in three different locations(2 in Mass although there 10 miles apart and one in CA). Consequently there are three DBA's. You also might want to take a head count of what I refer to as screaming mimesis (end users who

Re:RE: Oracle position on hints

2003-03-07 Thread dgoulet
Stephane, I'm going to agree with many on the list in that I don't believe Oracle will drop the concept. But on the other hand I don't like them either, not do I like the idea of stored outlines either. The reason is that with both your trying to ham string the optimizer into doing things

Re:PLSQL stored procedure

2003-03-05 Thread dgoulet
Adrian, Look in USER_SOURCE. The TEXT field will have the source code. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Adrian Ciocildau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/5/2003 5:34 AM Hi. i need some help. i'm trying to get a stored procedure source code from

Re[2]: PL/SQL

2003-03-05 Thread dgoulet
Santosh, Add to that Oracle Builtin Packages from O'Reilly. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Darrell Landrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/5/2003 5:19 AM Aside from docs at technet.oracle.com, a perfect book for you is Beginning Oracle

Re[2]: Oracle Tools

2003-03-05 Thread dgoulet
We had a look at PocketDBA a year ago. Damn nice technology, problem we had was access to the wireless services at the time. They did not extend very far north of Boston Ma. Still don't get out to where we really need it, like the back woods of NH. It's a three tier sort of application. You

Re[2]: Re[2]: Oracle Tools

2003-03-05 Thread dgoulet
Looks like the web site may be down. Reply Separator Author: Chuck Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/5/2003 8:19 AM Also have a look at MobileLynX. Can't figure out for the life of me why the don't advertise this thing. It does most if not all of

Re:RE: How Reliable is Explain Plan in 9.2

2003-03-05 Thread dgoulet
Ethan, Seeing as your friend is running Precise I have heard similar pronouncements from them about the accurracy of explain plan for several versions of Oracle I'm not suprised. True, they make a very nice product, but them again explain plan is something they do themselves. Yup, sounds

Re[2]: Apache and mod_plsql

2003-03-05 Thread dgoulet
Morten, Regrettably my friendly License Management person has apparently left, since e-mail to his account bounces. But, his previous statement was that if the installer does NOT give you an option to install or not install a product, then your free to use it. Given that, I'd say that one

Re[2]: Re[2]: Re[2]: Oracle Tools

2003-03-05 Thread dgoulet
Chuck, Got in. Looks interesting!! Could be a case of hitting three birds with one boulder. Thanks Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Chuck Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/5/2003 11:24 AM Hmm, I'm not having any trouble getting to it.

Re:RE: MS SQL hasn't given up!

2003-03-04 Thread dgoulet
John, A few months ago (my how time flies) if I had seen your post the next stop would be the armory for a fully fueled flame-thrower. But times have changed I won't flame you, even though my opinions about MicroSoft remain. Personally, I think over the next 2 to 3 years we're in for

OraTechs 2003

2003-03-03 Thread dgoulet
Don't know how many, if any, of you are interested. I was at this conference last year. It's small (nice because you get a lot better access to the presenters), but very informative. I'm headed back to it again this year. Dick Goulet

Re:RE: MS SQL hasn't given up!

2003-02-28 Thread dgoulet
Patrice, As a Win2K and Linux user, Linux is cheaper on two fronts, 1) at $900 per site for a Linux Advanced Server license vs. MS$ $1200 plus license (boy I hope memory is working here) and 2) Yes you can use older, lighter hardware get the same or sometimes even better performance than MS.

Re:RE: MTS config

2003-02-28 Thread dgoulet
Thanks to all who replied. It took filing an iTAR to get the answer and then it took OTS 2 days to find the fat finger that caused the problems. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Adrian Roe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/25/2003 7:09 AM Looks fine. We

Re:Hello

2003-02-28 Thread dgoulet
Chuck, HTML makes a mess in my e-mail package, at least right now. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Chuck Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/28/2003 7:44 AM Hello everyone. I have just rejoined this list after a couple of years hiatus. Quick

Re:RE: Dealing with 3rd Party Applications

2003-02-27 Thread dgoulet
Dennis, My heartburn with third party vendors is not that they don't have good Oracle people on their helpdesk, but rather that they don't have good Oracle people period. One of our third party vendors, forever to remain nameless(so I stay out of trouble), has an Oracle DBA who just happen

Re:MS SQL hasn't given up!

2003-02-27 Thread dgoulet
I don't believe MS will ever give up. Isn't that part of American Capitalism? Your competitor does you one better on some test, therefore you've got to better them. Give Oracle a couple of weeks and we'll here that one too. But seriously, how many of us really care about the TP-C

Re:Partitioning

2003-02-26 Thread dgoulet
YES, here's an example: create table ate_headers(module_id varchar2(13), session_number varchar2(16), test_group number(4), test_date date, first_record char(1) default 'F',

Re:Dealing with 3rd Party Applications

2003-02-26 Thread dgoulet
Jeff, Let's see, the sys admin installed all of it right? Therefore it MUST be the sys admin's problem. END OF CONVERSATION. Now I'm sure the boss isn't going to like that very much, mine would not. So we re-install the database MY way. Most of the time the problems disappear easily.

MTS config

2003-02-25 Thread dgoulet
OK, Someone dope slap me! I added the following to my init.ora file (8.1.7.0 on HP-UX 11.0). The dispatchers start up just fine, but won't register with the listener (also 8.1.7.0). I've already done the RTFM and MetaLink RTFM but can't see the problem. mts_servers=5 mts_max_dispatchers=10

Re:RE: MTS config

2003-02-25 Thread dgoulet
Let's see, how about overnight and yes I have reloaded the listener. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Adrian Roe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/25/2003 7:09 AM Looks fine. We only have the following entries on a 9i database.. dispatchers =

For those who may be interested

2003-02-25 Thread dgoulet
I've had contact with the recruiter that sent me this 'opportunity' before. He's above board and honest. If your interested, contact him not me. Dick Goulet Good afternoon, if you are available and interested

Re:RE: How long to hold onto old Oracle CDs?

2003-02-24 Thread dgoulet
I'd say hang on to them as long as you want. I've still got a full set of 5.25 floppies for Oracle 4 at home as well as the docs. Too bad I lost the DOS 6 disks. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Gogala; Mladen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/24/2003

Re:RE: Third Party Application Madness

2003-02-24 Thread dgoulet
Jared, Been there, done that, I'll put a large bottle of aspirin Jim Beam in the mail for you. They help me!! Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Jesse; Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/24/2003 12:12 PM Congratulations! We, the Annointed

From SearchDatabase

2003-02-24 Thread dgoulet
- Got SQL Server? You may owe Timeline some money http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/20/HNtimeline_1.html Looks like good old Microsoft sticks it to it's customer base, again! -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City

Re:RE: RE: Third Party Application Madness

2003-02-24 Thread dgoulet
Jerry, Depends on the third party application/vendor. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Whittle Jerome Contr NCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/24/2003 2:02 PM Dick, Is that aspirin first then the Jim Beam or Jim Beam first and aspirin the next

Re: RE: Programming languages that make DBA's lives easier

2003-02-22 Thread dgoulet
Speak for yourself though I'd prefer to forget it. Dick Goulet Weiss; Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2/21/03 6:49 am: FORTRAN - Only one or two of us left that have even heard of it, much less actually made $$$ using it Rick Weiss -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003

Re: DBA Joke for Friday

2003-02-22 Thread dgoulet
Thank you, I will. Dick Goulet Odland; Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2/21/03 2:09 pm: How long does it take a DBA to screw in a light bulb? 6 or more weeks. 1 week is planning 1 week to set up a new equipment and to install tools that query the socket every two seconds for power

Re: storing credit card numbers in a database

2003-02-21 Thread dgoulet
DBMS_OBFUSCATION Dick Goulet Chris Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2/21/03 11:05 am: I've been asked to find out a way to encrypt credit card numbers and store that encrypted string in the database. ...any oracle functions or functionality to do this? or would we have to encrypt the

Re:Lock table and disallow select

2003-02-14 Thread dgoulet
John, No. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: John Dunn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/14/2003 7:04 AM Query from user. can the following be done in PL/SQL? I need to be able to lock a table in such a way that not only can no other session alter

Re:Database naming conventions

2003-02-14 Thread dgoulet
Melissa, My naming convention is to have the host name and the database instance follow it. I have been using ORACLE_SID's that are numeric for years since v6 which helps therefore the 02 database on the server brahms.vicr.com is named brahms2. Makes life easier identifying where you are.

Re:external library path - case sensitivity

2003-02-14 Thread dgoulet
I'll bet XP. Since Unix Linus are case sensitive, M$ looks like they finally got on the bandwagon. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Igor Neyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/14/2003 1:43 PM Thought, I'll share with the list, what I found on the

Re:External procedures

2003-02-13 Thread dgoulet
As one who has created a number of external procedures on HP, Yes you do have to acquire and install the HP ANSI C compiler. The C compiler that HP ships with HP-UX is only good enough to build a new kernel and link up the Oracle executables. It's most likely giving you that error because in the

Re:RE: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-13 Thread dgoulet
Steve, I'd say IF. Reason is that MySql has a commercial company behind it and it appears that they see looming in the near future. Their licensing costs have risen in the last 3 months. Granted their a pile cheaper than Oracle (correction, make that a mountain), but as always if

Re: RE: Re[2]: [new info] Redhat Advanced Server Dev Edition

2003-02-12 Thread dgoulet
Dennis, We're going from 2 database servers to 1 for production. Therefore it's already licensed as needed to be a standby served, saving us the extra dollars. Dick Goulet DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2/11/03 1:54 pm: Dick How is the standby database cheaper? I understood from

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

2003-02-11 Thread dgoulet
Lyndon, pg_dump equals export in Oracle. Actually pg_dump all = export full=y. It's just a syntax difference. And if you have a full export all you need to to recreate the database is create the system tablespace. And yes it is easy with Oracle, if you keep it simple. Dick Goulet

Re:RE: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread dgoulet
Michael, What version or Rman are you looking at? I really did not appreciate Rman before 8.1.7 and it's predecessor in version 7. Rman for Oracle 9i is damn nice. Instead of those messy scripts and a recovery catalog you now have the ability to store all that stuff in the control file.

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

2003-02-11 Thread dgoulet
Lyndon, True, an export file is peculiar to Oracle. The difference between a commercial database and an open source one. IBM and MicroSludge do the same. The functional purpose though is the same. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Lyndon Tiu

Re:RE: AW: RMAN: I don't trust it

2003-02-11 Thread dgoulet
Richard, In theory, yes it can. Would I want to push a postgresql database that hard, maybe not. But I will agree with Lyndon, it is a very nice open source db. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Richard Ji [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/11/2003

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

2003-02-11 Thread dgoulet
Lyndon, Beacuse it's proprietary. Any dunce can create a flat ascii text file, which probably accounts for the wide audience it gets. But it takes a PHD to read a binary one. BTW: IBM and M$'s dump files are binary as well. Also, Oracle's default installation does scale, although not

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

2003-02-11 Thread dgoulet
Lyndon, I take it from your reply that 1) your not the primary DBA and 2) everyone is using Personal Oracle or Standard edition on their desktop. Sounds like one heck of a mess. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Lyndon Tiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

Re[2]: copyright

2003-02-11 Thread dgoulet
Dave, There are a few folks running around this world, me included, who really don't care if you or anyone else begs, borrows, or steals the scripts/source code we've written so long as they either server a purpose or lead to something better. Assuming I'm Tim, my reply would be Have a

Re[2]: Oracle License for Training

2003-02-11 Thread dgoulet
Most schools up here in New England start you off with Access, then M$ Sql and then Oracle before you graduate. They also teach VB before C before Java. It helps to start small grow into the real world. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Lyndon Tiu

Re[2]: [new info] Redhat Advanced Server Dev Edition - RAC

2003-02-11 Thread dgoulet
Jared, I don't know about the rest of the list members, but the company I work for would like to have the technology but without the additional license expense. Therefore were going to do the standby database thing instead of RAC. Now if your into using Linux with low end PC's then maybe

Re: HISTOGRAMS , CBO and OLTP

2003-02-09 Thread dgoulet
A unique index only says that all of the values therein are unique. There is no need to insert the values in a particular order. That being the case the index can become unbalanced requiring a rebuild. Dick Goulet Murali Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2/9/03 12:43 pm: Uniqueness indicates

Re[2]: RAC on linux?

2003-02-07 Thread dgoulet
Jared, You had better bet it is! We're right in the middle of re-designing the back bone of our web site to use Linux/Apache/Tomcat/Java/PostgreSql. Instead of the usual MS Win 2K/IIS/ASP/Oracle. And seriously, Damn this is FUN!! Dick Goulet PS: Teaching an old dog new tricks isn't

Re[2]: RAC on linux?

2003-02-07 Thread dgoulet
Richard, I agree, Oracle is getting way too expensive. Kinda like EMC, a platinum plated truck bed liner where a nice rubber one would work just as well. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mogens_N=F8rgaard?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

Re:Trolling for ideas

2003-02-06 Thread dgoulet
Dennis, I have been plagued by a similar problem and have a fix if it fits. Check the statements where the 3113 is coming from. Are they going to a remote database? And if so, are the tables on the remote database analyzed while the local tables are not? Then the fix is to delete the

Re:Connecting to Non Oracle databases from Oracle

2003-02-05 Thread dgoulet
NO, you have to do it the otherway around with Heterogenous services. Namely ODBC on the Unix platform. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/5/2003 1:58 AM Hi, I am trying to connect to a Non Oracle database from the Oracle

Re:RE: How to create a new oracle database from SVRMGRL??

2003-02-05 Thread dgoulet
Sony, Don't you mean Database Configuration Assistant? Not only does it create the database, but configures the listener as required and the registry. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Sony kristanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/4/2003 7:08 PM

Re:Oracle License for Training

2003-02-05 Thread dgoulet
Maria, You found the fly in the ointment. Since training is your business then you end up paying for the software just like the rest of us. Now if your doing training in-house, for your own company, then things are different. Dick Goulet Reply

Re[2]: another possibility for running Oracle / UNIX at home

2003-02-05 Thread dgoulet
Damn, nothing like a dead OS that refuses to stay down!! Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/5/2003 12:54 PM Very cool! I was wondering about this the other day. See:

Re:RE: Size of a Long Field

2003-02-05 Thread dgoulet
Dennis, Vsize does not like longs!! Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/5/2003 11:29 AM Ed - Look up the function VSIZE in the documentation. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL

Re:Can logminer be used against 7.3 databases?

2003-02-04 Thread dgoulet
I went to a seminar on Logminer about a year ago. As I remember you can only use it against 8.0 or better database logfiles due to the change in rowid's that occurred. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mogens_N=F8rgaard?= [EMAIL

Re:Initial User Login

2003-02-04 Thread dgoulet
Pre-expire their password. Works every time. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/4/2003 7:39 AM Hello List, We are trying to force a user to change their password when they login to the system for the first time after the

Re:AW: Oracle 101 Performance Tuning comes to the rescue aga

2003-02-04 Thread dgoulet
HEY, watch those BALD jokes!! *-) Dick Goulet Remember: grass don't grow on a busy street. That bald area is an indication of a super highway. Reply Separator Author: Stefan Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/4/2003 8:39 AM Hi Recommended reading

Re:How to create a new oracle database from SVRMGRL??

2003-02-04 Thread dgoulet
Majid, Yes you can have more than one instance on a server. But as recommended to you earlier use the Database Configuration Assistant. On the Windows platform it does more than just create the database instance. Now from a learning perspective having DBCA create a script may be useful so

Re:RE: How to create a new oracle database from SVRMGRL??

2003-02-04 Thread dgoulet
Mladen, Don't lead the person too far astray, he/she is still learning. Give them a chance to bugger up the server so badly that it requires a rebuild. Then we can jump all over them for not having made a backup!! *-) Dick Goulet Reply Separator

Re: RE: Export / Import

2003-02-03 Thread dgoulet
exp help=yes Johnson; Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 1/31/03 3:34 pm: From the O/S prompt $EXP HELP=Y or $IMP HELP=Y or see the Utilities manual, I believe chapters 2 and 3. Also, Kirti wrote up some good principles when using export and import that I keep on file. Im sure he could

Re:HyperRoll Experience (http://www.hyperroll.com)

2003-02-03 Thread dgoulet
Babu, Hadn't ever heard of the tool. Funny that they're listing a visit to IOUG-A, but have never been mentioned in the Oracle or Select mag's. Anyway, I looked the site over and it is interesting at best. We have a similar though not identical product from Cognos called PowerPlay. As I

Re[2]: [Q] does Redhat 8 has problem work with ORACLE 8.1.7?

2003-02-03 Thread dgoulet
Question, Are you running a graphical terminal emulator like Reflections-X? The installer requires one, damned thing. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Lyndon Tiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2/3/2003 7:29 AM try strace ./runInstaller or strace

Re:Listening on specific ports

2003-02-03 Thread dgoulet
Mike, The listener is assigned the port, not the database. When a connection request comes in the listener receives it on the port assigned, 1521 being the default or most popular. Thereafter what happens depends on whether or not your using connection manager, multi threaded server, or

Re: access/oracle

2003-02-02 Thread dgoulet
Bill, I have to live with people who want to usc Access too. I agree wfth you it is a pain in the a--. Our solution, with damagement's agreement, is to only do what is possible. I think that in your situation you'll have to do likewise. The problem being Access's local tables. What may help is

Re: how to create datafile in shared network drive ??

2003-02-02 Thread dgoulet
Steve, Oracle will allow you to create a datafile on a network drive. They just won't support you unless you have it on a supported storage system (like a NetApp Filer) and appriopriately configured (read that as meaning a dedicated TCP/IP cable). Dick Goulet Steve Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re:RE: comparing null values

2003-01-31 Thread dgoulet
Sony and Gary, Null is a special condition of data. A data point cannot equal or not equal null, therefore 'like' and 'not like' also does not work as neither is true. Therefore SQL recognizes 'null' and 'not null' for the purpose of evaluating nulls. Consider the null state as being the

Re:RE: The lightbulb goes on - WAS-Debate on rc commands Sol

2003-01-31 Thread dgoulet
Dave, You, SYSTEM, and SYS should be the only people with the restricted session system privilege. If those third party applications have it, revoke it. If they have DBA which includes restricted session revoke that as well. Then a startup restrict and shutdown normal will run

Re:Oracle on SQL Slammer

2003-01-31 Thread dgoulet
Well sooner or later Oracle, and no doubt IBM as well, had to get their turn banging MicroSoft for that Slammer fiasco. I'll give MicroSoft a little here (out of character I know) as when your the biggest cheese on the block just about everyone is out there trying to knock you over. In

Re:HELP!!! : Can't start database - Rollback Datafiles are m

2003-01-31 Thread dgoulet
Veronica, First things first, calm down. Second, assuming your control file hasn't been totally blasted to hell from when you started, try the following: 0) shutdown the DB 1) make a backup 2) in the init.ora file, find the rollback_segement line comment it out, we don't

Re[2]: HELP!!! : Can't start database - Rollback Datafiles a

2003-01-31 Thread dgoulet
Steve, Not totally true. We did something similar, except that we forgot one of the temp tablespace datafiles. Oracle in it's infinite wisdom created a file 'MISSING00064' in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs. The only way out of that is to offline drop the datafile while mounted, meaning you've read the

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