Re: converting to the cost based optimizer

2002-11-19 Thread paquette stephane
We will be in the same process soon. We'll have to consolidate over 100 instances to something between 40-60 instances and switch from RBO to CBO. Any tips are welcome. --- Steve McClure [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I am just starting to look at converting to the cost based optimizer, and am

Re: OT: Informix Training for Oracle DBAs

2002-11-18 Thread paquette stephane
I just went to the DB2 UDB fast track for experienced DBA at IBM. If it's 4 days then it should be fine. Our course was only 2 days and we asked so much questions that we only saw two third of the topics (and we had done overtime). As usual, it depends a lot on who is giving the course. ---

Re: Cognos Reporting Tool

2002-11-18 Thread paquette stephane
On DW project, we have used Cognos Impromptu and Powerplay tool in 1998-1999. We used the client-server version as Powerplay for the web was a tool bought from another company and was not quite integrated with the other Cognos products. The main drawback were that the Powerplay part to build the

Re: OT: Getting data out of DB2...any DB2 DBAs out there?

2002-11-13 Thread paquette stephane
Beside Oracle, we have db2 mainframe and db2 udb on aix. I've asked asomeone working with DB2 mainframe and there is spufi which is like sqlplus and DB2 Interactive wich is more like the command center on db2 udb. I'll more details tomorrow. --- Thomas Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I

Re: ORA-04030 Out of Process memory

2002-11-10 Thread paquette stephane
How big was the OS process ? Monitor what the process is doing, any memory allocation in a loop ? I had this error once and it was an Oracle bug (804 on hpux 10.20), Oracle was having a problem releasing memory so after 100 000 calls of a function the process was crashing (ora-4030) because it

RE: Data Purging Strategy

2002-11-06 Thread paquette stephane
Burnt mud ??? You're supposed to say peaty ! Or you could have said : Classic Glenmorangie, matured for 10 years in American white oak then finished in Sherry Butts. Light gold in colour, this product has a complex aroma — full bodied, sherry wine notes with traces of honey. Sherry and nuts are

Re: question on data warehouse tools by oracle

2002-10-30 Thread paquette stephane
It's nice to recommend but since you do not seems to really know the Oracle product how will you convince the managers to spend at least in the six figures (US money) ? Do you have any criterias ? Just to choose a reporting tool we had over 40 criterias that each companies had to to answer and

Re: Queues - does anyone use them

2002-10-30 Thread paquette stephane
Last year I was in a biotech company and all the systems (around 8) were communicating with Advanced Queuing. All systems werre on 817 and one in 901. The systems were in fact a pipeline producing data at the beginning , refining it along the way and putting it in a warehouse at the end. I do

Re: Limitations of table partitioning.

2002-10-30 Thread paquette stephane
Can you be more precise. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello What are the limitations of partitioning a table in Oracle. Regards, Deepa -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services

Re: Adhoc queries and limiting the amount of records queried...

2002-10-30 Thread paquette stephane
Oracle, DB2 UDB and Sql Server --- Igor Neyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Ruth, Are you in the same boat, dealing with both: Oracle and SQL Server? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Table Design

2002-10-30 Thread paquette stephane
Have you done a conceptual data model ? Do all transactions have the same properties ? Do you have established any performance requirements ? Do you favor insert or read ? If the 10 transaction type have the same properties I would definitively put them in one table. If your tests show that

Re: Table Size

2002-10-29 Thread paquette stephane
The best way to calculate the size of a table is to load it with 1000 production data rows. Then calculate the size of the predicted volume. You should be able to handle the first year of data at day 1. Do not loose time to calculate the table size at the byte level with formulas. For the temp

Re: [Q] what kind of documents shoud contractor provide to me before project end?

2002-10-28 Thread paquette stephane
The list of documents should have been established before the contract was signed. A professionnal contractor would have told you that. The contractor must follow your methodology and give you the same documents as your internal IT teams. On the DBA side, you should expect : database

Re: will the Return Order of rows change with time ?

2002-10-22 Thread paquette stephane
When doing many select you should have the same order but this is not guaranteed by Oracle. The only official guaranty is to use an order by. After an export/import or a move, you have the risk that the rows will not be in the same order. How big is the table ? There is no unique id for the

OT : Anybody using Silverrun data modelisation tool ?

2002-10-22 Thread paquette stephane
Hi, We're using Silverrun RDM 2.7.2 There is a conceptual/logical data model for all the entities of the project. I must create the physical data model for the first phase and I will have to create the physical data models for the next phases also. Should I create a brand new model in a separate

Re: services on windows?????

2002-10-21 Thread paquette stephane
It seems I was completely wrong, is it the same as for Oracle 8 and 8i? Last time I've worked with Windows it was on Oracle 8 and I thought that you had to stop the services because Windows was not letting you copy the database files. --- Igor Neyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Joe, You can

ETL architecture

2002-10-16 Thread paquette stephane
Hi, On all DW project I've been, the ETL tool was on the database server containing the DW database. On the current project, the architecture team has decided that the ETL tool (Data Junction) will be on its own server (Windows) to service all projects needing ETL processing. We are the first

RE: ETL architecture

2002-10-16 Thread paquette stephane
? are they using odbc? millions of inserts using odbc over the network? -Original Message- From: paquette stephane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 11:26 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: ETL architecture Hi, On all DW project

RE: ETL architecture

2002-10-16 Thread paquette stephane
Thanks. According to the proof of concept team, it seems to still be a problem. The product do not seem to handle any return code from the database processes. Still investigating. --- Frank Pettinato [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Stephane, We used this approach (albiet on Windows) back in

Re: ETL architecture

2002-10-16 Thread paquette stephane
between the servers I think it's 100 megabits. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : This is a common approach. Should be ok if: * transporting the ftp files is part of the ETL process * big fat pipe to the servers. Jared paquette stephane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL

Re: SQL Joins vs Sub Queries vs Cursors

2002-10-15 Thread paquette stephane
Usually sub-queries are not the fastest way to do things. When a developper is talking about doing things using cursors the big red light flashes : ho ho 3gl thinking ahead ! The only way to know for sure is to test them. Do not just check the elapsed time. I've tested 2 scenarios once and they

Re: ## Keeping Skills Current

2002-10-15 Thread paquette stephane
This is quite a challenge. This mailing list is one way to keep up with the pace of technology. Sometimes I'm asking myself how come people have time to post so many messages on the list. Dan Fink has very good answers. Check on the guru's web site. Buy and read a book from times to times.

RE: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schemas

2002-10-08 Thread paquette stephane
Snowflake is often used because people still want to normalize (and save some disk space !) which is not the way to go to ease query. If you do an hybrid data model, your loading will be easier as you will have less problems to solve. I agrre with you, the complexity comes from the number of

Re: Warehouse design: snowflake vs star schemas

2002-10-07 Thread paquette stephane
Data modeling in a datawarehouse is there to ease and make querying faster. I have always discplined myself to use star schema and never snowflake. The Which one is easier to implement and easier ETL ? is not a good question as your data model should not be design for the ETL procecess but

Re: Cost of joins

2002-10-07 Thread paquette stephane
It depends on what you're doing. The use of a join technique over another depend on how much data you need to access. If you read very few information from both tables then a nested loop is the fastest way to get data. To use a nested join at a cheap cost you need a good index on the outer

TNS-00510: Internal limit restriction exceeded

2002-10-04 Thread paquette stephane
HI all We had those messages yesterday in the listener.log file TNS-12500: TNS:listener failed to start a dedicated server process TNS-12540: TNS:internal limit restriction exceeded TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error TNS-00510: Internal limit restriction exceeded Also on the unix

Re: Restrict certain database access using 3rd party tools.

2002-10-03 Thread paquette stephane
In homemade applications, by default users have a role with read only, in the applications we change the default role that allows insert, update, delete. I've not tested this scenario but how about if, in a database logon trigger, you check the v$process.program field then depending of that

RE: Restrict certain database access using 3rd party tools.

2002-10-03 Thread paquette stephane
Oups ! you're right. --- Kevin Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Except for the fact that they could always change the program name that they are running to match what you need. Then that security is bypassed. -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 11:08 AM

RE: Dark side of the force

2002-10-02 Thread paquette stephane
Thanks. I do not think so as DB2 was chosen because we'll be implementing Siebel (and Siebel is recommanding DB2). They're should be 2 DB2 databases, one for Siebel and one for the staging area as 8 different data sources will be loaded in Siebel. So I hope RPG won't fit in ;-) ---

Re: logon trigger

2002-10-02 Thread paquette stephane
Hi, Use dynamic SQL (execute imediate). Also, consider placing your code into a stored proc called by the trigger. --- George Leonard (ZA) [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi guys I am trying to create the following trigger. The user in question is logging in using siebel application and

Data modeling question about reference table

2002-10-02 Thread paquette stephane
Hi, We're discussing on reference table. One containing everything (using a type) or one per entity. We'll have a lot of entities. This is for a staging area where data will be validate before going in Siebel. In theory, this staging will become a very big staging for a datarehouse and still in

Dark side of the force

2002-10-01 Thread paquette stephane
Hi all, I'll be seeing the dark side of the force as I'll be the DBA on a DB2 UDB project. Is there a list like this one for DB2 ? Any links to DB2 stuff ? I'd be interested in documents showing the differences/similarities between Oracle and DB2 UDB. Let's see our bargaining power with our

Re: Can I do this in Oracle 8i?

2002-09-27 Thread paquette stephane
Your update is updating all rows in table1. Is that what you want ? nologging only works with direct path insert, not with update. --- Gurelei [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi. I want to update a table based on data in another table. Something like: update table1 a set f1 = (select f2

Re: Best Practice - Partitioned object, one partition per tablespace,

2002-09-25 Thread paquette stephane
That's the way I've done it. It let's you drop a partition and drop the tablespace so nothing is left. --- Freeman, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : We currently are creating partitions of a given table in individual tablespaces (1 partition = one tablespace). To me, this seems like a

RE: Another datafile sizing question

2002-09-25 Thread paquette stephane
It's late at night maybe that's why I do not understand your answer but I do not see the link between LMT and the number/size of datafiles. One reason of multiple datafiles id to spread IO but since nowadays a majority of sites goes on huge disk box using raid 5 (that's what we have, the unix

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

2002-09-24 Thread paquette stephane
I'm not sure either as I am rereading a document by Craig Shallamaher where he is saying to change pctused and pctfree in order to reduce data block fragmentation. I have to test that. At my new job, the DBAs are doing massive export/import to reduce fragmentation... (with their dictionnary

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

2002-09-24 Thread paquette stephane
Jared, So, that means that to remedy a case of data block fragmentation we just need to increase the pctused for the fragmented tables. Of course, things won't change as fast as an export/import but it's certainly less work to do. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : John, Someone asked a

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

2002-09-24 Thread paquette stephane
John, You are right, I just find out note 1029850.6 on metalink : A block is relinked to a free list if after DELETE or UPDATE operations, the percentage of the used space falls below PCTUSED. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Well I was sure about it until you had the temerity to

Using Log Miner across all DB

2002-09-23 Thread paquette stephane
Hi all, First post since I begin a new job. All my DBA contacts have played with Log Miner but none of them have deployed it in a production environment. We want to set up LogMiner to be used across all production DB (25+ db on Oracle 817). The way I'm seeing this is the following : - All

Using Log Miner across all DB : problem with using parameters default

2002-09-23 Thread paquette stephane
Hi, In a test procedure I'm using successfully the default feature for a parameter : create or replace procedure testp1 (p1 in varchar2 := null) is begin if (p1 is null) then dbms_output.put_line('il est null'); else dbms_output.put_line('il est pas null'); end if; end; /

RE: ALLOCATION_TYPE USER or SYSTEM for a Locally Managed Tablespace ?

2002-09-23 Thread paquette stephane
I'm not sure I understand what you exactly want but here is what I do/believe. Since 815 and up to 817, I use LMT with uniform extent size. I kept the number of extents by objects below 100. On a 8K block size, you should not have more than 505 extents for an object because that's the number of

RE: drop tablespace including contents

2002-08-21 Thread paquette stephane
paquette stephane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/20/2002 09:48 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re:drop tablespace including contents At one client

Re:drop tablespace including contents

2002-08-20 Thread paquette stephane
At one client, one team was using SAP without a DBA, only the SAP administrator using SAPDBA. They were having poor performance. After 2-3 days they came to see me, after 5 minutes I told them that 4000 tables out of 16 000 were having no statistics at all. They analyzed during the weekend and

Re: WG: Re: Data Warehouse on Windows

2002-08-19 Thread paquette stephane
Hi, Sure that Sybase has not all the nice features Oracle has but I'm a bit surprised that you find it way too slow, do you have Sybase 12.5 ? 12.5 has interesting new features compare to 11.9 version. 20 users doing ad hoc queries ... I supposed you have a tool like Business Objects or Cognos

Re: Cognos-unix???

2002-08-16 Thread paquette stephane
I've install Cognos tools on hp-ux 10.20 a while ago. The tool was Cognos Tranformer. We decided to build the cubes on the unix box (instead Win NT) then ftp the cubes on a Winframe server. Which tool do you want to install ? --- karthikeyan S [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi, Is it

RE: Cognos-unix???

2002-08-16 Thread paquette stephane
At the time, we didn't get a better performance on unix than on windows because the tool was not able to use more than one cpu. I hope that the current version can take advantage of multiple cpu. --- Vergara, Michael (TEM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : We moved away from the Cognos-on-UNIX

Re: OT: Looking for Contacts in GTA

2002-08-15 Thread paquette stephane
Why leave beautiful Montreal for a place where everything close at 1 o'clock ? ;-) --- David Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi Guys I was just wondering if anybody could help me and send me some contacts or head hunter's in GTA. I'm currently Working in Montreal and am looking to

Re: Data Warehouse on Windows

2002-08-15 Thread paquette stephane
In a datawarehouse you want to exploit parallelism as much as possible. So you'd better with many processors and independant mount points. As raid 5 is very popular because it's cheaper, you will probably put your data on raid5 but fight to put your redo on non raid 5 disk. Do you have a good

Re: Rolling sums (?)

2002-08-15 Thread paquette stephane
He's on 8.0.5, Analytic functions are only available in 8.1.x. --- Connor McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Take a look at the windowing functions under 'ana;ytic functions' in the data warehouse guide...They are very very cool.. hth connor --- Jack van Zanen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Data Warehouse on Windows

2002-08-15 Thread paquette stephane
DW are memory hungry... It really depends on the application needs, there will be less than 20 users, if the design is good they won't be hitting raw ultra-detailed data with query using only one dimension ... Depending on the kind of data loads, 4G of ram can be quite enough for a small DW.

RE: Transferring data from one table to another

2002-08-12 Thread paquette stephane
Do you want to copy or move ? If move then partition the target table and do an exchange partition, is the faster way to move data. --- Ji, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : How about turn off logging and drop indexes on the target table. Do insert with the APPEND hint. Re-create

Re: set sql*trace VB/Crystal

2002-08-12 Thread paquette stephane
You can see the sql generated by the report in Crystal, so take that sql and run it in sqlplus to see the access plan. You can also check in v$sqltext the select run by the report. --- Baker, Barbara [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : List: We have a crystal report performing badly. (No! ,you

Re: Oracle vs. DB2

2002-08-12 Thread paquette stephane
For what I've read, globally the 2 databases are equal in performance, reliability and functionnalities. Larryh E as many times said that it's only competition in the database market is DB2. I guess it really depends on your environment. Of course Oracle works on more OS (used to be anyway),

Re: Rolling partitions

2002-08-08 Thread paquette stephane
... what was the partition key? Phylum? Genus? --- paquette stephane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We used the date as the key of the time dimension but we were using a time dimension to drive the queries. At my last client, I was surprised to see no time dimension

Re: Shark Tank: Works, shmerks -- how much did it cost?

2002-08-08 Thread paquette stephane
It's like a cartoon I've seen in a french IT magazine. On the first slide there is the IT director bragging about it's huge mainframe to track the lost luggages across all airlines. In the next slide, you see the fresh new employee just hired from school who says I just develop on my laptop a

Re: Replication

2002-08-02 Thread paquette stephane
getting most of the attention so far, though, as we try to get the programs deployed properly without by-hand intervention. paquette stephane wrote: Hi, We will develop a new system that has a central database (817/win2000). From times to times, some users will worked

Re: Replication

2002-08-02 Thread paquette stephane
. We're instituting a couple of applications with this now, and data sync seems to be working fine. Application sync has been getting most of the attention so far, though, as we try to get the programs deployed properly without by-hand intervention. paquette stephane wrote: Hi, We

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

2002-08-02 Thread paquette stephane
We have used MySQL in a small in-house project. It works OK for what we want it to do, but it's far from having Oracle's functionnality. --- DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Mark Eweek recently did a head-to-head performance test of major databases and included MySQL. You

Re: Replication

2002-08-02 Thread paquette stephane
PROTECTED] a écrit : Yes that's how it works, although the volume for 2-3 months might be excessive, if the deltas get large. Light uses Advanced Replication to manage the deltas so the resolution process might take a while. paquette stephane wrote: Hi, Oracle Lite would not be good

Replication

2002-08-01 Thread paquette stephane
Hi, We will develop a new system that has a central database (817/win2000). From times to times, some users will worked with a deployable version of the application in a region without network connection. When the users are back, there should be able to synchronize with the centralized

Replication

2002-08-01 Thread paquette stephane
Hi, I've never had experiences in replication environments. We will develop a new system that has a central database (817/win2000). From times to times, some users will worked with a deployable version of the application in a region without network connection. When the users are back, they're

Re: table size.

2002-07-08 Thread paquette stephane
When using delete , the highwater mark does not change, so the table still use what was allocated. export/import also does noty resize the table. One way to do it, would be to precreate the table with a smaller size then import the data. --- mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Sorry :

Re: Exporting stats for a production server to a dev/test server

2002-07-07 Thread paquette stephane
I've used 1 month ago on Oracle817 without any problem. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi Can anyone give feedback good or bad on the dbms_stats feature of exporting statistics. Is there any gotcha's or does it work well Cheers --

Re: Restore on another machine with RMAN

2002-07-04 Thread paquette stephane
Luc, I strongly recommend to use a catalog. Without catalog, some recovery scenarios are not available. There are some parameters you have to put in the init.ora file to indicate the new files location. Stéphane --- Luc Demanche [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi gurus, I'm in process of

Installing Oracle 9i Developper suite

2002-06-13 Thread paquette stephane
I'm installing Oracle 9i Developper suite on winXP and the doc says : If you use assistive technologies such as screen readers to work with Java-based applications and applets, run access_setup.bat before starting your screen reader. What the hell is assistive technologies such as screen

Re: Need improvement on Oracle Loader

2002-06-12 Thread paquette stephane
Go at http://www.evdbt.com/papers.htm You'll find a white paper on sql*loader for DW. --- Smith, Ron L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : We have an application that calls SQL*Loader to load data warehouse tables every night. We would like to speed up the loads if possible. Does anyone have

Re: Data Warehouse design

2002-06-12 Thread paquette stephane
Yes it is ok to have sequences as the primary keys. The dimension should not use keys from the source systems as their own keys. They must be independant. Also, since the PK of the dimensions are foreign keys in the fact tables, if using a non-generated key you will increase the size of the fact

Re: Analyze running twice as long after upgrade to 8.1.7.2

2002-06-11 Thread paquette stephane
As John says, you can check on what Oracle is waiting on . It may not solve your problem, but can make the analyze faster. Since your fact tables are partitioned and since you're migrating from 8.0.4 that means range partitioning. If the tables are partioned by date and you do you allow

Re: Any tool available for identifying junk code?

2002-06-10 Thread paquette stephane
I like the then use coffee-machine information part. --- Stephane Faroult [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Sandeep Kurliye wrote: Hi Guys, Sorry, if this sounds bit awkward or unrelated to this mailing list. Can any one of you please let me know whether there is any tool

Re: INDEX move

2002-06-05 Thread paquette stephane
If your index tablespace is on the same physical device than your table tablespace , you will have no gain. Is your bottleneck an IO one ? --- Seema Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi I have few of primary key and unique indexes on main data tablespace.I am thinking that if I moved

Re: DataWarehouse Design Training

2002-06-04 Thread paquette stephane
Check the Datawarehouse Institute : http://www.dw-institute.com --- Toepke, Kevin M [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello! Can anyone recommend a good training class on DataWarehouse design/implementation? I have a basic understanding of the concepts,etc from reading books, but would like

Re: partition tables

2002-05-31 Thread paquette stephane
You can use insert select , export/import, create as select to move data from a non-partitionned to a partitionned table. Partitionning helps in the management of large tables more than in speeding the queries. Will you delete data from that table one day ? Choose the partition key carefully.

RE: what is dual?

2002-05-29 Thread paquette stephane
I remember that a long time ago, with Oracle 6 and Forms 2.3 , the dba, accidentely, add a row in dual. Since, at that time, almost all Forms trigger were relying on dual, absolutely nothing was working in the production environment. I do not have to tell you that the dba spent many hours before

Re: Limited SORT_AREA_SIZE

2002-05-28 Thread paquette stephane
Hi, Asked you sys admin to boost the maximum memory allowable for a process. I had that error on a hp box. I do not remember the name of the parameters. Once the sys admin had changed the memory process parameters, processes were able to use way more than 150M of ram. You can increase the

Re: Multiple ennvironments with Portal and 9iAS

2002-05-27 Thread paquette stephane
with the environment you describe, but it would seem good practice to separate the dev, test and maintenance logically, even if they do have to share hardware. Jared On Friday 24 May 2002 13:33, paquette stephane wrote: Hi all, The client has a dev, test, maintenance, QA and prod environments

Multiple ennvironments with Portal and 9iAS

2002-05-24 Thread paquette stephane
Hi all, The client has a dev, test, maintenance, QA and prod environments. Each environment consist of a pipeline of several applications. QA and prod have their own independant pipelines with their own servers with Oracle 9i, Oracle 8i, Workflow, Portal and 9iAS Dev, test and maintenance

Re: How to enable Java

2002-05-21 Thread paquette stephane
You can installed java with scripts. Check metalink note 156477.1 Use more space (10-20M more )than specified on the note for java_pool_size and shared_pool --- Joe LaCascio [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi folks: I'm installing IAS on our web server which is a DEC Alpha 800, one of the

Re: oratab file

2002-05-21 Thread paquette stephane
The oratab is provided by Oracle Corp. We created our own oratab file to handle more parameters. --- Babu Nagarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : All On one of the database servers we have, the oratab file has been changed to include a :parameter after each entry and that parameter is

Re: Partition Exchange

2002-05-21 Thread paquette stephane
The alter table exchange partition lets you transfer data from the partition of a partitioned table to a non partitioned table. It changes the adress in the data dictionnary, no data is moved, that's why it is fast. For example, I'm using it in a system to exchange old data with new data. The

Re: Storing phone info...

2002-05-17 Thread paquette stephane
As for the adress, you have more flexibility when storing each parts separately. Stephane --- Suzy Vordos [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Curious how people are storing phone info in their database, eg., separate columns for country code, city code, area code, etc. Any references about

Re:RE: SQLPlus was Oracle - can you imagine ;-)

2002-05-17 Thread paquette stephane
It was ODL : Oracle Data Loader . --- paquette stephane [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Since we're in old stuff. Anybody remember the ancestor of Sql*loader ? Answers in 10 minutes ! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Stephane, I remember using Pro*C with Lattice C and/or Vax

Re: data warehousing desing - to denormalize or not to denormalize -

2002-05-10 Thread paquette stephane
A DW stores data in a denormalised fashion, that's one point that every body knows but it is also subject oriented. It is also developped one subject at a time. A DW is multi-subjects as a datamart is on one subject. From Bill Inmon From the data warehouse data flows to various departments

Re: How to backup a data warehouse?

2002-05-09 Thread paquette stephane
paquette stephane stephane_paquette@ To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: Working with Oracle Designer

2002-05-09 Thread paquette stephane
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Re: Working with Oracle Designer

2002-05-09 Thread paquette stephane
I've found out how to generate without the storage clause. --- paquette stephane [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I've been looking for that in Designer , where it is ? I've used a lot Power*AMC in the past and it has that feature . We're using Oracle Designer 6.5.52.1.0 TIA --- [EMAIL

RE: Datawarehousing help

2002-05-06 Thread paquette stephane
Rachel, If a DW is built and that users do not have access to a part of it in an ad hoc fashion, you gonna have a lot of political meetings They should have some data marts for their usage and keep most of them off the raw data. Regarding SAS tools, I've used SAS more than 10 years ago in

Re: DB Config. Assistant

2002-04-30 Thread paquette stephane
I assume you're talking about the dbassist tool. If it's working as on unix, you should find the log files in $ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_SID/create. I prefer the old way, using scripts, this way I can rerun the scripts for all the different environnements. HTH --- KENNETH JANUSZ [EMAIL

good value for optimizer_index_cost_adj

2002-04-24 Thread paquette stephane
Hi, Oracle 817/Solaris 8. Users are doing select joining using the PKs of 2 partitionned tables. Partitionned key and the primary key are the same. The access plan is a nested loop with a full table scan on the first table which hold 700 000 rows. The block size is 16K, I assume that's why

Re: Clob indexes

2002-04-24 Thread paquette stephane
I also think that since those indexes are created by Oracle, Oracle knows them. I'll trace the dbms_stats and I'll look for the 'bitand(flag,)' --- Jonathan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : It would make sense, I would expect Oracle to take a shortcut with LOB Indexes, simply

Clob indexes

2002-04-23 Thread paquette stephane
I've hit bug 1499329 As a workaround, I'm analysing the tables in the staging environment then I'm doing an exchange partition. I can analyse the tables/indexes without problem in the staging environment. My question is when creating a clob, Oracle creates a sys_...$$ indexes. When analysing

Re: Exchanging partition takes a lot of times

2002-04-12 Thread paquette stephane
Thanks for replying. I've seen your post on a similar question on metalink. I've already tested with the constraints enabled novalidate using the default exchange mode (with validation). The exchange is taking 3 seconds. We'll go this way since we're replacing completely the target tables with

RE: disk subsystem performance question

2002-04-11 Thread paquette stephane
I just started a couple days ago at this client. They're using Hitachi technology in the QA and prod environment with 181G disk. I asked the SA twice and he confirmed the 181 G disk. I'll ask more details to the SA as soon as I know him better. --- Deshpande, Kirti [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit 

Exchanging partition takes a lot of times

2002-04-11 Thread paquette stephane
I'm testing the exchange partition and it's taking 90 seconds to exchange a table containing 700 000 rows with a partition containing also 700 000 rows. I've noticed that SYS is doing a crazy select to check on the PK of the tables even if I used whitout validation in the exchange statement. I

Re: MetaLink problems

2002-04-10 Thread paquette stephane
I'm on metallink since 7:30 this morning (3 hours) Stéphane --- Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : FYI, I just went to MetaLink and clicked on the Login to MetaLink link, and got this: Authorization Required This server could not verify that you are authorized to access

Insert append generating redo

2002-04-08 Thread paquette stephane
Hi, I'm trying the following insert /*+ append */ into t1 as select * from t2; t1 is created with nologging attribute. The insert is not using the hint at all. I can select on t1 (before any commit) which I should not be able to do if the append hint was used. Any ways to get the hing used ?

moving data

2002-04-04 Thread paquette stephane
Hi all, Back on the list after being away for a while. I'm currently at a new client where things are to done yesterday (as usual). We must move data (1Gig) from a staging area to the final area, tables have integrity constraints and tables contain CLOB datatypes. The 2 areas are in 2 different

moving data

2002-04-04 Thread paquette stephane
Hi all, Back on the list after being away for a while. I'm currently at a new client where things are to done yesterday (as usual). We must move data (1Gig) from a staging area to the final area, tables have integrity constraints and tables contain CLOB datatypes. The 2 areas are in 2 different

HS between Oracle and Sqlserver

2001-11-16 Thread paquette stephane
Hi, I'm trying to transfer data from Sql Server 2000 into Oracle 9.0.1/Win2000 . I've set up heterogeneous services on Oracle - run caths.sql - create an ODBC connexion - modify the tnsnames.ora - modify the listener.ora abd restart it - create an ORACLE_HOME\hs\admin\initXXX.ora -

RE: Data Warehouse Raid-5 Shark Environment

2001-11-12 Thread paquette stephane
I've not worked with an IBM P660 but do have worked in datawarehouse environments with raid5. Raid5 will slow down your loads. The impact may be not too bad if you're in noarchivelog, using direct path inserts with nologging and loading on a monthly basis. -Original Message- Behalf Of

Multiple languages Datawarehouse

2001-10-31 Thread paquette stephane
Hi, Anybody has built a multi-languages datawarehouse ? The star schema is quite pure so only the data in the dimensions needs to be in french and in english. Up to now the query tool is Oracle Discoverer. Anybody has done this ? = Stéphane Paquette DBA Oracle, consultant entrepôt de

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