Re: Re: Little competition

2003-12-12 Thread Richard Foote
Hi Jonathan, SQL create tablespace bowie_test 2 datafile 'c:/bowie/bowie_test01.dbf' size 100m 3 extent management local uniform size 1m 4 segment space management auto; Tablespace created. SQL create table bowie_assm (ziggy number) 2 tablespace bowie_test 3 storage (initial 1m

Re: Re: Little competition

2003-12-12 Thread Scott Behrens
Hey Richard, One of my desktop treasures is an autographed copy of Jonathan Lewis' book, Practical Oracle8i. The humorous, self-deprecating caption in the author's own hand: 'Never believe all you read.' Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/12/03 7:24:24 AM Hi Jonathan,SQL create tablespace

Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Richard Foote
Little competition for you all :) It's a two part question: What's wrong with the followingpiece of expert analysis? Which well know "Oracle Guru" published this (and continues to display it on his web-page) ? "Sadly, Oracle9i doesn’t allow you to specify the va

RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Naveen, Nahata (IE10)
Well, Googling this statement, one can easily find the source of this statement :-) Naveen -Original Message-From: Richard Foote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:09 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Little competition Little

RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Suhen Pather (S)
-LSubject: Little competition Little competition for you all :) It's a two part question: What's wrong with the followingpiece of expert analysis? Which well know "Oracle Guru" published this (and continues to display it on his web-page) ? "

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Nuno Souto
Well, I guess it's all about self-tuning, all this parameter stuff is out of date... :) Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - Little competition for you all :) It's a two part question: a.. What's wrong with the following piece of expert analysis ? b

RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Wartiak Rastislav
Life would be worse w/o PCT_FREE. create table test_table (c1 varchar2(1000)) pctfree 20 ; select pct_free from user_tables where table_name='TEST_TABLE' PCT_FREE -- 20 rw Little competition for you all :) It's a two part question: What's wrong

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
i meant automatic segment management has fragmentation issues. From: Richard Foote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/11 Thu AM 06:39:26 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Little competition Little competition for you all :) It's a two part question

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
competition Little competition for you all :) It's a two part question: a.. What's wrong with the following piece of expert analysis ? b.. Which well know Oracle Guru published this (and continues to display it on his web-page) ? Sadly, Oracle9i doesn't allow you to specify

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
: Little competition Little competition for you all :) It's a two part question: a.. What's wrong with the following piece of expert analysis ? b.. Which well know Oracle Guru published this (and continues to display it on his web-page) ? Sadly, Oracle9i doesn't allow you

RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
onal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having an opinion is an art ! -Original Message-From: Richard Foote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 6:39 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Little competition Little competition f

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: Re: Little competition I can cut 45 minutes off my load times by shrinking the data file? And how much overhead gets added to DML statements as blocks madly shift on and off the freelists with each operation? Priorities, priorities, priorities... If youre using 9i or above, the table

Antw: RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Guido Konsolke
, December 11, 2003 6:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Little competition for you all :) ** This e-mail message is confidential, intended only for the named recipient(s) above and may contain

RE: Antw: RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
No, you are not but I think Richard from down under is a big David Bowie fan !! Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts,

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, December 11, 2003, 6:39:26 AM, Richard Foote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: RF a.. What's wrong with the following piece of expert analysis ? I don't know what's wrong with this analysis. There's not much really there. The claim is that it's bad not to be able to specify PCTFREE, but

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Tim Gorman
Title: Re: Little competition Neither the PCTFREE and PCTUSED clauses go inside the STORAGE clause. They are independent of it. That is why the error was thrown, not because PCTFREE is invalid with ASSM... Essentially, an erroneous interpretation of the error message. If it was really going

RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Jonathan, I've been coming to the same conclusion as you have. In all of my databases that I have ever worked on, there are only a select set of Oracle params that are really required. And with space management the way it is, a lot of the 'create table' params are really not needed for the

Re: Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Little competition Thursday, December 11, 2003, 6:39:26 AM, Richard Foote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: RF a.. What's wrong with the following piece of expert analysis ? I don't know what's wrong with this analysis. There's not much

Re: Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
: Re: Little competition Neither the PCTFREE and PCTUSED clauses go inside the STORAGE clause. They are independent of it. That is why the error was thrown, not because PCTFREE is invalid with ASSM... Essentially, an erroneous interpretation of the error message. If it was really going

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Mladen Gogala
have no idea who the guru is, but he or she hasn't been following this list. There was quite an extensive debate about ASSM not so long ago, resolved by Tanel Poder's detailed presentation of the new bitmap mechanism. On 12/11/2003 06:39:26 AM, Richard Foote wrote: Little competition for you

Re: Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
: 2003/12/11 Thu AM 07:59:25 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Little competition I can cut 45 minutes off my load times by shrinking the data file? And how much overhead gets added to DML statements as blocks madly shift on and off the freelists

Re[3]: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, December 11, 2003, 8:44:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: rcn The biggest thing about working on database in the rcn multi-TB range is that its a nice buzzword for your rcn resume. Its not necessarily harder. This brings back some memories. I remember back when I moved

Re[2]: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, December 11, 2003, 8:34:32 AM, Tim Gorman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: TG Neither the PCTFREE and PCTUSED clauses go inside the STORAGE clause. They TG are independent of it. That is why the error was thrown, not because TG PCTFREE is invalid with ASSM... Oh my. I'm so blind! I

RE: Antw: RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Guido Konsolke
Yes, I know. That David Bowie stuff comes up every few weeks / months in several c.d.o. groups. But what are 'fans'? In my opintion they make wind ;-) Anyway, I like this competition thread - mostly because there's nothing but bulls**t coming from me. Greetings to the list, Guido [EMAIL

Re: Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Lewis
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Little competition Little competition for you all :) It's a two part question: a.. What's wrong with the following piece of expert analysis ? b.. Which well know Oracle Guru published this (and continues

RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Hately, Mike (LogicaCMG)
Good points Jonathan, The 'box' as far as I'm concerned was accomodated by v7.3.4. That had 95% of the features anyone could want for most environments. After that we've had a succession of 'nice to have' features. Don't get me wrong, some environments absolutely demand these new features and

Re[2]: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, December 11, 2003, 8:44:32 AM, Hately, Mike (LogicaCMG) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: HML PS Yes, I'm aware that there will follow a list of post-7.3.4 features that HML people consider absolutely vital. =) And therein lies part of the challenge. I'm sure too, that every product manager

RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread nelson . petersen
! Nelson -Original Message-From: Richard Foote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 6:39 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Little competition Little competition for you all :) It's a two part question: What's wrong

Re[2]: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Thursday, December 11, 2003, 8:44:25 AM, Mercadante, Thomas F ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: MTF And I think a condensed documentation set is a great MTF idea. I wonder if there is a market for it? If I just wrote the book? No, I doubt it would sell in high-enough numbers. The Oracle book market is

Re: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Jared . Still
] cc: Subject:Little competition Little competition for you all :) It's a two part question: What's wrong with the following piece of expert analysis ? Which well know Oracle Guru published this (and continues to display it on his web-page) ? Sadly, Oracle9i doesn't allow

Re: RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread ryan_oracle
PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/11 Thu AM 08:44:32 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Little competition Good points Jonathan, The 'box' as far as I'm concerned was accomodated by v7.3.4. That had 95% of the features anyone could want for most

Re: RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Daniel Hanks
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oracle literature is really lacking in entry level docs anyway. The concepts document is way too large to be digestable by someone new to the topic. What we really need is: simple SQL book for newbies - O'Reilly's Mastering Oracle SQL?

Re: RE: Little competition

2003-12-11 Thread Tanel Poder
PCTFREE and PCTUSED are not part of the storage clause. SQL create table t1 (c1 number) tablespace lmt1 pctfree 20 pctused 30; Table created. Lot's of potential to go down the wrong path on this one. Assumptions! Maybe it has been already mentioned here, but with ASSM, pctused