RE: Quest....

2004-01-08 Thread Stephen.Lee
I like Spotlight. It's about the only GUI type thing I use. It provides a lot of info in a handy format. You still have to use your brain to interpret the info, but you at least have a convenient way of collecting the info. -Original Message- Hey Any thoughts on that quest

RE: Quest....

2004-01-08 Thread Jesse, Rich
I'm TOADing and Spotlighting right now... :) Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:54 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Quest....

2004-01-08 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Has anyone tried to run spotlight on linux with windows crossover software? Just curious ... Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod

Re: Quest....

2004-01-08 Thread Jonathan Lewis
The number of sites I go to that use spotlight to keep a check on the top 10 SQL statements - it's weird, but it always seems to be this query against v$sqlarea. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but

RE: Quest....

2004-01-08 Thread Paula_Stankus
I agree. Spotlight and SQL Navigator interfaces are very straightforward. While you still have to do the analysis and understand the database architecture it makes it much easier to gather all the necessary information so that you can concentrate on resolving the issue and not on gathering

RE: Quest....

2004-01-08 Thread Stephen.Lee
As far as I know (which isn't real far), spotlight just uses the Oracle client. -Original Message- Has anyone tried to run spotlight on linux with windows crossover software? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL

RE: Quest....

2004-01-08 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
but it needs windows os to run ... Right? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having an opinion is an art !

RE: Quest....

2004-01-08 Thread Stephen.Lee
Now I get the question. Sorry about that. -Original Message- but it needs windows os to run ... Right? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051

Re: Quest....

2004-01-08 Thread AdamDonahue
Subject Re: Quest The number of sites I go to that use spotlight to keep a check on the top 10 SQL statements - it's weird, but it always seems to be this query against v$sqlarea. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can

RE: Quest....

2004-01-07 Thread Pete Sharman
Um yes, my thought is you sent this to the wrong email list? :) Pete Controlling developers is like herding cats. Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that! Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, 8 January 2004

Re: Quest People

2003-06-12 Thread Maria Aurora de la Vega
=) Thanks. If you happen to read about me in FORTUNE or FORBES in the future, you'll know you helped make it possible! =) Jacques Kilchoer wrote: I forwarded this to someone in our company. I hope that soon untold riches will be yours! -Original Message- From: Maria Aurora de la

RE: Quest People

2003-06-10 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
I forwarded this to someone in our company. I hope that soon untold riches will be yours! -Original Message- From: Maria Aurora de la Vega [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm looking for listers who happen to work for Quest. I would like to get information as to who/how to contact the

Re: quest SharePlex

2003-01-22 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Very cute - this tends to suggest that Shareplex is spotting the appearance of chains in the log and storing the list of rowids. Would the same thing work if you shut down the Shareplex processes after the row had chained, and restarted them before you updated the chained piece ? And does

RE: quest SharePlex

2003-01-22 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: quest SharePlex Would the same thing work if you shut down the Shareplex processes after the row had chained, and restarted them before you updated the chained piece ? -- Yes And does Shareplex guarantee that it will never report a 1555 error regardless of how long it is shut

Re: quest SharePlex

2003-01-22 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Nick, Thanks for the notes. I've often wondered how Shareplex did its thing. Just for kicks - have you tried writing a collision handler for streams ? Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming soon a new one-day tutorial: Cost Based Optimisation (see

RE: quest SharePlex

2003-01-21 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: quest SharePlex This is actually part of the 'magic' of SharePlex. The way we obtain the PK information from the database if the PK was not modified is very tricky. I can tell you some of the 'magic' but not all of it. (NDA type stuff) In all updates the redo logs contain

RE: quest shareplex

2003-01-20 Thread Martin, Alan
Title: RE: quest shareplex Has anyone used Oracle Streams for simple A to B replication? Likes/dislikes? Can it be used in 8.1.7? Thanx, Alan Martin Defense Logistics Information Service [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Khedr, Waleed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

Re: quest SharePlex

2003-01-19 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Thanks for the reply. That covers the object/data_object id problem, and gives the ability to identify which columns in the dump are the primary key columns. But when you update a row, the redo will only contain the primary key if the primary key has been modified, so you should hardly ever find

RE: quest shareplex

2003-01-17 Thread Richard Ji
Quest Shareplex is a replication software. Nick Wagner from Quest is on this list and he is been very helpful and I am sure he will be glad to provide you info on it. Right Nick? :) -Original Message- Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I'm

RE: quest shareplex

2003-01-17 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: quest shareplex It allows for master to master replication. My understanding is that Oracle's Data Guard now does the same thing. Shareplex was faster then replication with less latency because it would read from the online redo files from Oracle. I understand that Data Guard now

RE: quest shareplex

2003-01-17 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: quest shareplex I was going to keep quite... but here goes. :) - Yes, of course I'll be glad to help. Basically... Log Based replication for Oracle. A capture process continually reads the online redo logs and parses out

Re: quest shareplex

2003-01-17 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Since the redo log contains only details about object id, row location, and changed values , how do you derive a table-name and key value for the SQL to be applied ? Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Coming soon a new one-day tutorial: Cost Based Optimisation (see

RE: quest shareplex

2003-01-17 Thread Khedr, Waleed
I'm sure you know Oracle has a new product Oracle Streams that does the same: http://technet.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle9i/doc_library/release2/server .920/a96571/strmover.htm#43906 Waleed -Original Message- Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:14 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: quest SharePlex

2003-01-17 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: quest SharePlex You provide a 'configuration file' which is just a flat file of table names on the source machine and table names on the target machine. Then we go through an activation process that takes the table name on the source and grabs the object id from Oracle

RE: Quest bought EZSQL

2001-09-14 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:Re: Quest bought EZSQL !! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! apparently EZSQL was bought to suppress competition for TOAD and SQL Navigator. There may be a cottage industry here. Code

RE: Quest bought EZSQL

2001-09-13 Thread John Lewis
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! I had an email discussion with John Dorn (sp.?), the author, about this. I'll send you the text if you wish? I was really upset about it -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 5:05 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Re: Quest bought EZSQL

2001-09-13 Thread Greg Moore
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! Quest also recently became associated with RevealNet. Looked to me like they bought RevealNet, but could possibly be just a close partership. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Greg Moore INET: [EMAIL

Re: Quest bought EZSQL

2001-09-13 Thread Greg Moore
!! Please do not post Off Topic to this List !! apparently EZSQL was bought to suppress competition for TOAD and SQL Navigator. There may be a cottage industry here. Code up a front end, enhance it in your spare time over a year or two so it has most of the useful features. Then start

RE: Quest s/w

2001-07-20 Thread Lord, David - CS
Well, we use Toad - great - and SQLab Vision - not so great - the version we got on CD didn't cover 8.1.7 so we had to download the latest version; it still doesn't really understand 'new' features like function-based indexes; it has a tendency to fall over on really serious SQL; and the 'advice'

RE: Quest s/w

2001-07-20 Thread Rachel Carmichael
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Quest s/w Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 04:15:45 -0800 Well, we use Toad - great - and SQLab Vision - not so great - the version we got on CD didn't cover 8.1.7 so we had to download the latest version; it still doesn't really understand 'new' features like function-based

RE: Quest s/w

2001-07-20 Thread Christopher Spence
I am not a big fan of Toad, it is expensive and has a bunch of pretty things, but not much pratical. PL/SQL Developer is a great product, much more pratical and a lot cheaper. As low as $50/user compared to $750. The company is great, I have dealt with their support very closely over the last

RE: Quest Software Product Query

2001-07-19 Thread Christopher Spence
This traffic is perfectly on topic of the list and I am sure a lot of us would love to hear other people's stories. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. Christopher R. Spence Oracle DBA Fuelspot -Original Message- Sent:

Re: Quest s/w

2001-07-19 Thread Thater, William
Vergara, Michael (TEM) wrote: Wow. Doesn't ANYBODY out there use Quest's Live Reorg? I haven't heard from anyone except folks asking me to share what I hear. If nobody uses this software, that sounds like a ringing anti-endorsement! Comments? And no I'm not flame-baiting. I wanna