RE: Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread Stephane Faroult
[snip] 120 col. punch cards? You had a high-density model. Mine only had 80 cols, of which 72 were usable for my goto-happy Fortran statements. SF No hard drives? My $0.02 worth, Ken Janusz, CPIM - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

2004-01-20 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
The old IBM System3 machines used 120 col. punch cards. And initially they had no HD's. Everything was done with cards and a reader/sorter. To compile a program you took the code you wrote, punched it into cards and then put it behind a stack of cards that was the compiler. The machine read

Re: Re: Re: Index usage

2003-12-26 Thread bhabani s pradhan
Thanks. Regards, B S Pradhan - On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 zhu chao wrote : Hi, To see why oracle choose FTS, alter session set events '10053 trace name context forever,level 2'; You can do alter session to change index_adj and optimizer_index_caching to change only

Re: Re: Re: _wait_for_sync , dirty buffer flushing and direct reads in parallel

2003-11-20 Thread Tanel Poder
:) I admit, that I don't know either, which processes are affected by this parameter. If foreground ones are, that should mean that after posting lgwr, they won't wait on semaphore and continue their work. If it affects lgwr, it means that lgwr posts the waiting processes immediately back

Re: Re: Re: _wait_for_sync , dirty buffer flushing and direct reads in parallel

2003-11-20 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Yup, I was bold enough to use this parameter during production upgrade only because it worked well in several tests and simulations. Cheers, Tanel. Well, some disk writes need to wait for the LGWR to flush the corresponding redo to disk. So now you can have a situation that the

Re: Re: Re: _wait_for_sync , dirty buffer flushing and direct reads in parallel

2003-11-20 Thread Tanel Poder
Tanel, Did you observe better performance? By how much? Do please let us know! Oracle Apps upgrade between major releases involves running hundreds of thousands scripts in bigger cases. Some of there scripts execute bigger transactions, but majority execute lots of small transactions and

Re: Re: Re: _wait_for_sync , dirty buffer flushing and direct reads in parallel

2003-11-20 Thread Anjo Kolk
The foreground process is affected. Instead of waiting for the LGWR, it will return right away. Anjo. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 4:24 PM in parallel :) I admit, that I don't know either, which

Re: RE: RE: orbitz fiasco

2003-11-20 Thread Tanel Poder
Nope, TRU64 Tanel. Was this on AIX by any chance ?? 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

Re: Re: RE: Re: Stop using SYS, SYSTEM?

2003-11-15 Thread Nuno Souto
Facetious, but correct. What you need is auditing. Not clipping userids. Achieves nothing. Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - What I was saying is that having a different username for each DBA helps you identify the WHOM. Of course a hacker could always cut

RE: Re: RE: Re: Stop using SYS, SYSTEM?

2003-11-14 Thread Cupp Michael E Contr Det 1 AFRL/WSI
-Original Message- Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L SNIP Stopping someone from using a given set of accounts achieves preciously nothing in terms of security (or auditing) IF the functionality of those accounts is then replicated to

RE: Re: RE: Re: Stop using SYS, SYSTEM?

2003-11-14 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
-Original Message- Nuno Pinto do Souto I don't want to know that SYSTEM or SOUTON with a subset of its rights stuffed up my database or exported my main accounts and clients tables. What I want to know is WHY, WHEN, HOW and by WHOM. What I was saying is that having a different

RE: RE: Re: Logical StandBy question

2003-11-13 Thread Stephane Faroult
I tried it on 9.2.0.3.0 running on two Linux machines. I doubt all bugs were fixed in 9.2.0.4. I currently consider LSB to be a prototype, an interesting foretaste of things to come, but hardly more. It of course depends on the size of the database, but couldn't you consider doing reporting on

Re: RE: Re: Stop using SYS, SYSTEM?

2003-11-13 Thread Arup Nanda
Nuno Pinto do Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And that's why I feel disabling SYS or SYSTEM purely on security grounds makes no sense whatsoever I'm not sure that's what the OP wanted. He wanted to know if stopping use of SYS and SYSTEM on a regular basis will be acceptable, not disable them. It

Re: Re: RE: Re: Stop using SYS, SYSTEM?

2003-11-13 Thread Nuno Pinto do Souto
Arup Nanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure that's what the OP wanted. He wanted to know if stopping use of SYS and SYSTEM on a regular basis will be acceptable, not disable them. It sure is. Besides, how does one disable the account? Lock it? SYSTEM can be locked but SYS can't be;

Re: RE: Re: Stop using SYS, SYSTEM?

2003-11-12 Thread Nuno Pinto do Souto
Jacques Kilchoer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my case I also enforce the don't sign on as SYS/SYSTEM rule. The reasons I do that: - The default tablespace for SYS is SYSTEM, and I don't like to change that. There are probably reasons why you wouldn't want to change that. But when I sign on to

RE: Re: Re: Migration

2003-11-10 Thread Stephane Faroult
Tanel, Any idea about speed and temporary storage requirements? Especially for 32G+ datafiles ;-) ? Wondering if it will really be useful in practice, compared to what is available today. Well, it may do for simpler operations, but not necessarily faster. SF - --- Original Message

Re: Re: Re: Migration

2003-11-10 Thread Tanel Poder
Well, I don't know about it's performance, but I think this conversion doesn't require any temporary space, because the byte values of some structures in blocks have to be swapped, and this a trivial operation. I think it may still be faster, especially if we are dealing with huge amounts of

Re: Re: RE: Index behavior

2003-11-06 Thread Saminathan
Hi Wolfgang Thanks for your valuable information. But still I could not understand how the cardinality will be calculated in EXPLAIN PLAN? In my query (1)AB% returns (220 rows selected) but (card=2) (2)ABC% returns (207 rows selected) but (card=12607 ) Could someone please explain to me?

Re: RE: RE: Data Modeling

2003-10-22 Thread bhabani s pradhan
Thanks for the information. The thumb rule and all will definitely help me in modelling. Thanks a Lot Best Regards B S Pradhan On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 Michael Milligan wrote : Hi Again, What I do when a model is going to change is try to make it

RE: RE: RE: Find an unprintable character inside a column....

2003-10-10 Thread Stephane Faroult
Some people have requested this code, so I thought you might as well all have the chance to pick it to bits... Its a function called BAD_ASCII, and it hunts out for any ascii characters with an ascii value of less than 32 in a specified field. (Acknowledgments to my colleague Keith Holmes for help

RE: RE: RE: Find an unprintable character inside a column....

2003-10-10 Thread Jared . Still
in the WHERE clause in 10g will be nice. Jared Stephane Faroult [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/10/2003 07:09 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: RE: RE: Find an unprintable

RE: RE: RE: Find an unprintable character inside a column....

2003-10-10 Thread Mladen Gogala
Stephane Faroult [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/10/2003 07:09 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: RE: RE: RE: Find an unprintable

RE: RE: RE: Find an unprintable character inside a column....

2003-10-10 Thread Jared . Still
PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: RE: RE: Find an unprintable character inside a column Actually, I was toying with the idea of writing an external procedure that would allow me to call pcre library (PCRE=Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) which would be nice, but then again

RE: RE: Re[2]: Cary's book -- Out of stock !

2003-09-26 Thread JayMiller
I just ordered from Bookpool. It's in stock according to their website. Glad I took a few minutes to start cleaning up the listserv email, didn't realize it was out yet. Really looking forward to this one... Jay Miller Sr. Oracle DBA -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, September 24,

Re: RE: Re[2]: Cary's book -- Out of stock !

2003-09-23 Thread Prem Khanna J
24-09-2003 00:19:47, Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just read the first chapter on-line. Now I gotta order the book. Where Tom ? is it on Amazon or bookpool or BN ... ? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Prem Khanna J INET: [EMAIL

Re: RE: Re[2]: Cary's book -- Out of stock !

2003-09-23 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/optoraclep/chapter/index.html At 07:34 PM 9/23/2003 -0800, you wrote: 24-09-2003 00:19:47, Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just read the first chapter on-line. Now I gotta order the book. Where Tom ? is it on Amazon or bookpool or BN ... ? --

Re: RE: Re[2]: Cary's book -- Out of stock !

2003-09-23 Thread Mladen Gogala
I believe this should answer your question: Barnes Noble.com Your Order Has Been Shipped Dear MLADEN GOGALA: Your order has been shipped, and the details appear below. Within 24 hours of receiving this email, you may track the delivery status of your order at

Re: RE: Re[2]: Cary's book -- Out of stock !

2003-09-22 Thread Prem Khanna J
Robert, are u the author of 9i RMAN Book by Oracle Press ? sorry for my ignorance. If YES: I have got a doubt in your book. can i mail it to u ? Jp. 23-9-2003 11:44:41, Freeman Robert - IL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got my book... I got my book! From Amazon, delivered today! Woo Hoo looks

CORRECTION RE: RE: Re: SQL help needed

2003-09-17 Thread Stephane Faroult
create viex xdual as select rownum ID from sys.col$; Cannot have a column named rownum ... Going to be a difficult day. And we are only half-week. Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriole -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Stephane Faroult INET: [EMAIL

Re: CORRECTION RE: RE: Re: SQL help needed

2003-09-17 Thread Guido Konsolke
Hi Stephane, I commiserate with you 8-) Regards, Guido [EMAIL PROTECTED] 17.09.2003 10.44 Uhr create viex xdual as select rownum ID from sys.col$; Cannot have a column named rownum ... Going to be a difficult day. And we are only half-week. Regards, Stephane Faroult Oriole -- Please

Re: RE: RE: Oracle Press OCP exam guide frustrations

2003-09-17 Thread M Rafiq
Jp, No idea as never used. Pretty much happy with STS so far. Regards Rafiq Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:09:44 -0800 Rafiq, How about Boson Practice tests compared to STS ? has anyone on this list found Boson

RE: Re: RE: tuning a massive delete

2003-09-17 Thread Stephane Faroult
Roy, NOT EXISTS is to be avoided when it is the only criterion - the subquery is executed for each row in the outer query. The way the CBO behaves varies wildly between 8.1.7 and 9.x. Richard's suggestion is quite correct and a fairly safe way to get a 'right' behaviour with most versions

Re: RE: RE: Oracle Press OCP exam guide frustrations

2003-09-16 Thread Prem Khanna J
Rafiq, How about Boson Practice tests compared to STS ? has anyone on this list found Boson useful ? Jp. 17-09-2003 13:34:36, Caffrey, Melanie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is most likely the reason Oracle has now made it a requirement. Otherwise, who would ever take a course?

RE: RE: RE: RE: Bus Error (Urgent)

2003-09-12 Thread Mladen Gogala
Subject: Re: RE: RE: RE: Bus Error (Urgent) its a 2gig memory shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295 shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1 parameter processes = 150 and v$process returns 25 --- On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 Mladen Gogala wrote : You don't have enough

Re: RE: RE: RE: RE: Bus Error (Urgent)

2003-09-12 Thread bhabani s pradhan
. The investigation should continue on the server. -- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: bhabani s pradhan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 5:46 PM To: Mladen Gogala Subject: Re: RE: RE: RE: Bus Error (Urgent) its a 2gig memory

Re: RE: RE: RE: RE: Bus Error (Urgent)

2003-09-12 Thread Mladen Gogala
:46 PM To: Mladen Gogala Subject: Re: RE: RE: RE: Bus Error (Urgent) its a 2gig memory shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295 shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1 parameter processes = 150 and v$process returns 25 --- On Sat, 13 Sep 2003

RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nuno Pinto do Souto Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL

RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Goulet, Dick
Pinto do Souto Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:45 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something like that at the bottom of this article: http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003

RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Mladen Gogala
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Goulet, Dick Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door I believe Mr. Ellison is responding to a lot of market

RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Stephane Paquette
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Goulet, Dick Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door I believe Mr. Ellison is responding to a lot of market pressure, and failing

Re: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Abey Joseph
That same mentality applies to organizations with 100-200 users! After the latest meeting with the Oracle rep, damagement is seriously considering alternate database systems. Abey. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September

RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door I believe Mr. Ellison is responding to a lot of market pressure, and failing DB sales. I know it would be a relief here to see this inplace soon, but as always the DEVIL is in the details. Dick Goulet

RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Mladen Gogala
: RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door I used to work for a large but non profit organisation (.org) and we were using Oracle, the sales rep never send us Christmas card for sure Stephane -Original Message- Mladen Gogala Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:30 AM

RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Stephane Paquette
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Goulet, Dick Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door I believe Mr. Ellison is responding to a lot of market pressure, and failing

RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Stephane Paquette
Gogala Oracle DBA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephane Paquette Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door I used to work for a large

RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-11 Thread Nelson Flores
: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: jueves, 11 de septiembre de 2003 12:54 Para: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Asunto: RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door Speaking of non-profit organisations, what is Oracle's policy on that? Do they sell Oracle software to non

Re: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-10 Thread Nuno Pinto do Souto
Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something like that at the bottom of this article: http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003/story/0,11280,84773,00.html Counting processors is very hard. It's very hard to count users I thought that's what count(*) was invented for? Larry can

RE: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door

2003-09-10 Thread Mladen Gogala
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: RE: RE: DB2 has a foot in the door Boivin, Patrice J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something like that at the bottom of this article: http://www.computerworld.com/news/2003/story/0,11280,84773,00.html Counting processors is very

Re: Re: Re: should you seperate indexes from tables in seperate

2003-07-15 Thread Nuno Pinto do Souto
why is it useful to seperate different i/o pattersn? such as multi-block reads and single block reads? Because (assuming adaptive I/O subsystems like EMC's and such) each gets optimized into different priority scales and device queues. And of course if they are to the same device, they

Re: Re: RE: SHMMAX setting on Sun 4800 box

2003-06-26 Thread Zhai Jingmin
Thanks all ,this is a great list! === At 2003-06-26, 10:17:00 you wrote: === Richard Ji,ÄúºÃ£¡ Hi £¬ how do you know that ISM is used even if multiple shared memory segment are used in solaris 8? Matt, Your SGA can still be larger than 4G even if

RE: RE: RE: Top 10 DBA Do's and Don'ts anyone - Here is my list, comm

2003-02-26 Thread Stephane Faroult
With the advent of quantum microbiology and the like, most informed people agree that 21st medicine is a science. However, medicine as practiced in the 17th century was definitely an art, not a science. The argument that tuning is an art--that it is subjective like a symphony or like cooking--is

Re: RE: Re: parallel index creation again:in which case, can we use p

2003-02-13 Thread chao_ping
Stephen Evans£¬ÄúºÃ£¡ It seems your words are right, after i balanced my disk io and retest the index build, wait time during index parallel creation increases. I will retest my creation next morning. Thanks. 2003-02-13 06:38:00 ÄúÔÚÀ´ÐÅÖÐдµÀ£º

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: RE: RE: Oracle TEMPORARY SEGMENT

2003-02-11 Thread chao_ping
Whittle Jerome Contr NCI, 1.Temporary tablespace in oracle8i+ does not need coalesce, and Oracle do not deallocate used sort extents. This is a feature. 2.There is no pctincrease parameter in TEMPORARY tablespace. SQL / create temporary tablespace test_tmp tempfile

RE: Re: Re: to much time to execute query

2003-01-29 Thread Stephane Faroult
Thanx Jared. That query waz pretty fast (0.78 secs). Next time i wuld avoid using nested queries where joins can do the job. regards Tc Wrong conclusion. Jared gave you the best and simplest solution, but Sony implicitly pointed to your error. Missing join condition. Regards, Stephane

Re: RE: RE: Upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.0.6

2003-01-24 Thread Cyril Thankappan
Thanks for your reply. Now I know whom to contact..for upgrades :) Cyril On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 Bowes, Chris wrote : A valid question. With a pseudo-valid answer, which is: Because there is no 8i for hp-ux 10.20. We have been asking for upgrades and all for the last 4+ years and the

Re: Re: RE: help me find out why rac instance died

2002-12-22 Thread chao_ping
Thanks for friends, I found the reason of my rac down.There is a cron that runs daily to sync the time with the time server. My sa added it without telling me. And if i set the time back in one node, the instance on another node went down, with the same trace information. I

Re: Re: Re: RE: image storage confusion ?? -- UUDECODE

2002-12-10 Thread Yechiel Adar
On NTFS there is an allocation unit and the Os gives space in multiple of allocations units which is 4k or 8k. So if you use bfile you will waste 3k for each file, increasing your disk space by 60%. I am not sure about the size of the allocation unit. Please verify this with your sysadmin.

Re: Re: RE: image storage confusion ?? -- UUDECODE

2002-12-09 Thread chao_ping
oraora oraora, For blob, it is ok, since it is all in the database, while for bfile, you actually store them in filesystem, so you have to backup those files indivudually. Regards zhu chao [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.happyit.net www.cnoug.org(Chinese Oracle User Group) ===

Re: Re: Re: RE: image storage confusion ?? -- UUDECODE

2002-12-09 Thread oraora oraora
Thanx Chao. Still under confusion , whether to store 20,000,000 images of 5k each either in -oracle 8.1.6 on win2k ( BLOB or BFILE ) OR - just on plain linux file system - OR - any file server like

RE: RE: RE: CONSISTANT GETS

2002-11-16 Thread Connor McDonald
In some cases, NOT IN is better than NOT EXISTS. In other cases, the opposite is true. Moral: It never pays to discount an option out of hand - eg, NOT IN often works very very nicely for uncorrelated subqueries hth connor --- Post, Ethan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hold the press. NOT IN

RE: RE: RE: CONSISTANT GETS

2002-11-15 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Dick, it's a beauty thing... Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 10:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Raj, I needed a 12 pack adter this one, it's from PeopleSlop: SELECT

RE: RE: RE: CONSISTANT GETS

2002-11-15 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: RE: RE: CONSISTANT GETS I've seen worse. My programmers don't know how to use NOT EXISTS even though I've explained it many times. And that's the least of my problems. Look at this mess: SELECT * FROM sar.pax_header_suspense_err_temp WHERE manifest_type

Re: RE: RE: dumping microsoft desktop?

2002-11-15 Thread Ray Stell
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:59:06AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OH, talk about cruel and unusual punishment!! For the fish that is. It is interesting that so many people feel this way and yet the topic is reduced to joking, as if it is not possible (or really desirable) to replace

RE: RE: RE: CONSISTANT GETS

2002-11-15 Thread Jared . Still
. Jared Whittle Jerome Contr NCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/15/2002 08:21 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: RE: RE: CONSISTANT GETS I've seen worse. My programmers

RE: RE: RE: CONSISTANT GETS

2002-11-15 Thread Post, Ethan
Hold the press. NOT IN better than NOT EXISTS? Is this theory or fact? If so is there any supporting evidence out there? This is the first I have heard of this. Thanks! -Original Message- Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 11:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Jerry, I

Re: RE: RE: CONSISTANT GETS

2002-11-15 Thread Greg Moore
Hold the press. NOT IN better than NOT EXISTS? If so is there any supporting evidence out there? I think you're joking, but if not there's a nice comparison chart of several tests in Harrison, p. 268. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Greg Moore

RE: RE: RE: CONSISTANT GETS

2002-11-15 Thread Jared . Still
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: RE: RE: CONSISTANT GETS Hold the press. NOT IN better than NOT EXISTS? Is this theory or fact? If so is there any supporting evidence out there? This is the first I have heard

RE: RE: Re[2]: No Nulls? (was: Warehouse design: snowflake vs

2002-10-15 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
I was once a consultant on a large Payroll project and ran into a case where someone had entered a date of death 1 year in advance (something like 8/17/1999 instead of 8/17/1998). I found it in the middle of November. Because of this, the person was still getting paid. I sent email to payroll, HR

RE: RE: RE: Double Take and Oracle

2002-10-15 Thread Denham Eva
Title: RE: RE: RE: Double Take and Oracle Dick, Thank you, atleast you have given me something to work with. I had already began making plans of approaching management for some serious downtime. I have been holding back as I am awaiting response from Double-Take's Source - Sunbelt Software

RE: RE: RE: Double Take and Oracle

2002-10-15 Thread Nick Wagner
Title: RE: RE: RE: Double Take and Oracle A little clarification ---cut--- The reasons for this are wrapped around Oracle's write as little as needed and do so as seldomly as possible idea. ---end cut--- is not really true. When a tablespace is placed into hot backup mode, Oracle

RE: RE: Re[2]: sequence numbers

2002-10-11 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
I wanted to take a picture with him. .. and take him out to lunch to learn from his experience ... ;-) but it turned out he lasted only for less than a week... ;) (Some developers he was working with knew a bit more Oracle than him) - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Friday,

RE: RE: RE: Backups

2002-10-03 Thread Smith, Ron L.
SQL Backtrack and Netbackup! No manual tracking. Restores couldn't be simpler. R. Smith -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 3:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Richard, Distateful is being nice. Try down right horrifying is a more appriopriate

RE: RE: RE: Backups

2002-10-03 Thread Jared . Still
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: RE: RE: Backups SQL Backtrack and Netbackup! No manual tracking. Restores couldn't be simpler. R. Smith -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 3:04 PM To: Multiple

RE: RE: RE: Backups

2002-10-03 Thread Smith, Ron L.
:RE: RE: RE: Backups SQL Backtrack and Netbackup! No manual tracking. Restores couldn't be simpler. R. Smith -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 3:04 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Richard, Distateful is being nice. Try down right horrifying

RE: RE: RE: Backups

2002-10-03 Thread Jared . Still
/03/2002 02:38 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: RE: RE: Backups You must be using an old version. Been there done that. Works! Ron PS: Also works on NT! -Original Message

RE: RE: RE: Rant

2002-07-22 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Do you believe them? Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone: (203) 459-6855 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ltiu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 6:02 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re:RE: RE: Rant IBM's latest DB2

RE: RE: RE: Rant

2002-07-22 Thread Sunil_Nookala
what about self destruction?? Sunil -Original Message- From: ltiu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 6:02 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re:RE: RE: Rant IBM's latest DB2 claims to do this. Self monitoring, self healing. ltiu

RE: RE: RE: Rant

2002-07-22 Thread Orr, Steve
Sounds like a movie I watched this weekend... Species. It's all science fiction to me. -Original Message- Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 4:02 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L IBM's latest DB2 claims to do this. Self monitoring, self healing. ltiu Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

RE: RE: RE: Rant

2002-07-22 Thread ltiu
Yes. I do. Because they're IBM. Quoting Gogala, Mladen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do you believe them? Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone: (203) 459-6855 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ltiu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 6:02 PM To:

RE: RE: RE: Rant

2002-07-22 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Self-healing... did it have gaping wounds before? Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original Message- Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 8:02 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:RE: RE: RE: Rant Yes. I do. Because they're IBM

Re: RE: RE: Rant

2002-07-22 Thread ltiu
of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: RE: RE: Rant Yes. I do. Because they're IBM. Quoting Gogala, Mladen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do you believe them? Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Phone: (203) 459-6855 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ltiu [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Re: Re: Buffer busy waits are 10.96% of non-idle waits

2002-07-11 Thread chaos
oraora oraora£¬ hi, i think use bind variable will give better performance, but it has nothing to do with the buffer busy wait.Using bind variable will solve the repeated parse and thus reduce library latch free wait. And seperate table and index won't help either. There is a

RE: RE: RE: Online vs offline backups

2002-06-23 Thread Shine_DBA
Hi, guys, We have discussed this topic many times on this list. Actually a good DBA should design a good backup and restore strategy instead of online or offline according to business situation. From my opinion, both online and offline are necessary, for example, I do monthly offline line cold

RE: RE: Re: Is sqlplus too slow to unload data?]

2002-04-30 Thread Stephane Faroult
Stephane, pdqout does give me a real good impression, not only the speed but also the interface. I can see it uses parallel query. However, I, as a production DBA, intend to change the application which come from a third party as a package as small as possible. It takes 4hours to extract data

RE: RE: RE: World's largest database...

2002-04-18 Thread Jim Hawkins
Ian, Thanks for the info. Very interesting. Jim MacGregor, Ian A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The  0.5 petabyte database at SLAC does not use Oracle;  it uses Objectivity.   Objectivity is a small company which makes an OODB.  When the project started there was no way that Oracle could

RE: RE: RE: Stand-by (Oracle9i Data Guard) vs. Replication

2002-03-26 Thread Sakthi , Raj
Robert, If I understand your requirements correctly, You have multiple sites separated geographically ( 200 Miles perhaps..?? ) and you are looking for a highly available , 'Multimaster' kinda environment. This kind of setup is common in oh-don't-say-the-name-companies i.e. 'dot bombs' and

RE: RE: RE: Stand-by (Oracle9i Data Guard) vs. Replication

2002-03-26 Thread Freeman, Robert
1. Is the critical data would be updated in the sites..? Yes... 2. If yes , are you expecting the other sites to 'see' this update...? Yes... 3. If one site is down, then are you expecting the other sites to share the load or you have the closest site in take in all the load...? Yes but add

RE: RE: RE: Stand-by (Oracle9i Data Guard) vs. Replication

2002-03-26 Thread Sakthi , Raj
Well, being in health care industry myself I know too well what do you mean. Apart from 100s of tousands of $ lost every hour we are down, we have to take some safety also into account. As to the question of advanced replication, having implemented multi-master replication myself I know what a

RE: RE: RE: Stand-by (Oracle9i Data Guard) vs. Replication

2002-03-25 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Dick - In the Oracle Backup and Recovery Class I took recently, I recall the instructor saying that restriction had been lifted in Oracle9i. I can't find my note on this, so don't take it as gospel, but it might be worth looking into if that would make a difference in the decisions. Dennis

RE: RE: RE: Stand-by (Oracle9i Data Guard) vs. Replication

2002-03-25 Thread Freeman, Robert
Log application services can run in foreground or background now, but I don't think the database can be open read-only at the same time while doing managed recovery, even in 9i. Really, there is no read-only requirement in the architecture I'm looking at. RF Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i

RE: RE: RE: Time for a reorg?

2002-03-14 Thread Mark Leith
I agree with this! One of our biggest challenges is trying to stay ahead of the game! Luckily we don't actually develop any of this software, so the challenge is not ours to partake in ;P What we do have to try and do is pick and choose those products that are ahead of the game, and we feel our

RE: RE: Re: NYOUG

2002-03-13 Thread Jim Hawkins
Rachel, SLOUG would definitely pay your travel expenses, and since our meetings run from 1PM to 5PM, it could really amount to just a day trip for you if you want. You could fly in that morning, have some lunch, deliver your topic, then take off (unless you wanted to see the city of St.

RE: RE: RE: Manager decrees his data warehouse design. Hel

2002-02-28 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I guess the reverse of SAME is EMAS, where Everything Makes Absolute Sense. : ) NAS, is that the same thing as a SAN? Network - Attached Storage Storage Area Network Here we have a couple of SANs, but I think they also fit the description you gave of an NAS. Regards, Patrice Boivin Systems

RE: RE: RE: Manager decrees his data warehouse design. Hel

2002-02-28 Thread April Wells
details... details... statistics NEVER lie! -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 4:37 PM To: April Wells; Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Any query against an empty table always FLIES!! Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author:

RE: RE: RE: Manager decrees his data warehouse design. Hel

2002-02-28 Thread
Subject: RE: RE: RE: Manager decrees his data warehouse design. Hel I guess the reverse of SAME is EMAS, where Everything Makes Absolute Sense. : ) NAS, is that the same thing as a SAN? Network - Attached Storage Storage Area Network Here we have a couple of SANs, but I think

RE: RE: RE: RE: Manager decrees his data warehouse design.

2002-02-28 Thread Cunningham, Gerald
Actually, they're different. SAN = faster, more $$$ (e.g. EMC) NAS = slower, less $$$ (e.g. Network Appliance) -JC -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:38 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Patrice, They are synonyms for each other as far as I

RE: RE: RE: Manager decrees his data warehouse design. Hel

2002-02-28 Thread Jared . Still
] cc: Subject:RE: RE: RE: Manager decrees his data warehouse design. Hel I guess the reverse of SAME is EMAS, where Everything Makes Absolute Sense. : ) NAS, is that the same thing as a SAN? Network - Attached Storage Storage Area Network Here we have a couple of SANs

RE: RE: RE: RE: Manager decrees his data warehouse design.

2002-02-28 Thread Michael Cupp
What is the avg rate for a NAS? Where is a good place to buy? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:03 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Actually, they're different. SAN = faster, more $$$ (e.g. EMC) NAS = slower, less $$$ (e.g. Network Appliance) -JC

Re: Re Re: Due apologies for DDLs

2002-01-04 Thread Stephane Faroult
Cyril Thankappan wrote: U r right ..I still dunno 'much' about perl.. as for dbms_metadata it is a built in pl/sql package saying 'select dbms_metadata.get_ddl(object_type,object_name,schema_name) from dual; gives the entire ddl creation script. However, 'interestingly'

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