RE: Oracle DBA evolution path - please share your opinion

2001-02-27 Thread lerobe - Lee Robertson
Its not a rastafarian DBA introducing himself is it :-) -Original Message- Sent: 26 February 2001 20:43 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Does anyone know what iDBA is? --- Mohammad Rafiq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since version 4 and 5, it is constantly claimed by Oracle that

RE: Unix Cron job help

2001-02-27 Thread lerobe - Lee Robertson
You could set up a marker file at the end of job A. ie if [ 'successful' ] # insert what ever code you would do to check this. then touch job_ok else 'more code if failure' fi # End of script. When job B kicks in just test for existence of file job_ok before backing up to

US7ASCII

2001-02-27 Thread abimanyu
hi all... my database user US7ASCII as a database character set. with this character set. .. can i insert some germany words corectly ? or it will be a problem if i insert some germany words ? regards abimanyu "I'll be back!" Arnold Schwarzenegger -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: US7ASCII

2001-02-27 Thread Libal, Ivo
if you have same character set on both sides - server and client then you have no conversion need and you can store special characters without problems, but whenever you will need conversion (client with other character set than us7ascii) then you will fall into troubles. Regards Ivo Libal

exsessive paging, which ora process ?

2001-02-27 Thread Rahul
List, our AIX suddenly stpped responding... and we had to kill some of the oracle (LOCAL=NO) processes to return the system back to normal... apparently the paging space filled up..and OS was unable to create any more proceses is there any way to know which oracle process is responsible for

Restore Scenario

2001-02-27 Thread kangwen
If archivelog database perform online dairy backup (all tablespaces datafiles, controlfile to trace binary), dairy archived redo logs to tape. Only perform full backup (offline, archivelog on) once a year. If it happened that all datafiles, controlfiles redologs gone, which copies of

RE: Restore Scenario

2001-02-27 Thread Martin Kendall
Hi Kangwen, You should use whichever is the latest set of files from either your annual offline backup or the last online daily backups. Martin -Original Message- Sent: 27 February 2001 10:01 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L If archivelog database perform online dairy backup

Datawarehouse datamodeling : 3 questions

2001-02-27 Thread paquette stephane
Hi, I'm currently testing the Oracle 8i new datawarehousing functionnalities. Are you using materialised view for aggregate dimension ? The second question is what do you do with yes/no flags. They can be put in the fact table or they can be put in a profile dimension. Is there another way ?

Whenever - SQL PLUS

2001-02-27 Thread Eriovaldo do Carmo Andrietta
Hi Friends : Does anyone use command whenever in sql plus. I have cron working with sqlplus ( as sqlplus file.txt) then when occurs some errors or not it return messages, because i am setting serveroutput on. Well, I would like to control it. and giving message only when unsucessfull

RE: ignore this test !!!!

2001-02-27 Thread rammohan
GOOD BUT I DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANT CAN YOU ELOBORATE THOUGH IT IS TEST MAIL. CAN YOU? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:16 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L test PS: Hampir lupa,

RE: process parameter

2001-02-27 Thread rammohan
IT DOES USE -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L why need to change the semaphores ??.. isnt AIX uses kernal extensions for the same ? -- From: Viraj Luthra[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To:[EMAIL

RE: Whenever - SQL PLUS

2001-02-27 Thread Trassens, Christian
Hi, When you use whenever, you'll have the opportunity to continue the execution of your script or exiting with a code error at the first one. Hence, you must be sure whether you want to exit or continue with the transaction. And in the first case, you will send a message error only through

RE: process parameter

2001-02-27 Thread Trassens, Christian
AIX doesn't use semaphores. You must run the script rootpre.sh to create the /etc/loadext This is because AIX uses post-wait drivers. Regards. -Mensaje original- De: rammohan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: martes 27 de febrero de 2001 12:30 Para: Multiple recipients of

RE: Unix Cron job help

2001-02-27 Thread William Rogge
The easiest way, from my perspective is to code the 'A' job to create a file of zero bytes (touch command) upon successful completion. Then code job 'B' to remove the file as the first step or exit if not there. -Original Message- From: David Jones [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

anyone interested in XML

2001-02-27 Thread Bunyamin K.Karadeniz
Hi all , Nowadays , I have to write an XML application for querying from Oracle dtabase and showing the results in a web browser . What must I do ? I have read a book of XML but I did not understand how I will connect to database and load the query results to xml tags. Is there any

Re: process parameter

2001-02-27 Thread Brian Wisniewski
Raman, this isn't a settable parameter within AIX. The post-wait kernel extension takes care of this. Taken from the installation guide.. Oracle Post-Wait Kernel Extension The Oracle post-wait kernel extension implements an optimized mechanism of inter-process communications without the

Re: Unix Cron job help

2001-02-27 Thread Joseph S. Testa
in the cron job write out a file that tells success or not and have job b read it. joe David Jones wrote: Dear Lister: I have two cron jobs which run at 10:30 PM 2:00 AM, job A performed a DB hot backup and job B will put those backup files into tapes. The problem is job B is based on

Re: anyone interested in XML

2001-02-27 Thread Marin Dimitrov
http://technet.oracle.com/tech/xml/#techinfois the place to start reading from For returning data to XML u have several options: - use the Oracle XML SQL Utility (http://technet.oracle.com/tech/xml/oracle_xsu/) which will "generate an XML document (string or DOM) given a SQL query" or

Oracle 8.0.5 client Developer 6.0 - Installation error

2001-02-27 Thread magesh
Dear all First I installed the Oracle 8.0.5 client S/w at the client m/c , when i try to install Developer 6.0 at the client m/c Itz giving the Some DLL error ...I am using the ORACLE_HOME="c:\orawin95" ,Client m/c has win 98 OS . or If i installed Developer 6.0 first , than Oracle client

anyone knows project builder?

2001-02-27 Thread MOHAMMAD AMER
hi list ! I'm trying to be a little bit standard and put my system in a setup file that can be installed from 'Oracle installer',but the tool named project builder keeps giving me errors and sometimes it crahses when I include much files,so did anyone use it?

Re: exsessive paging, which ora process ?

2001-02-27 Thread Brian Wisniewski
Rahul, I cut this from a MetaLink forum response. The entire conversation can found at http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=FORp_id=41122.999 Your question may be able to be found if you have root access and the time to search through each procees or

RE: process parameter

2001-02-27 Thread Joan Hsieh
That true, AIX don't have those parameter. My system adm. told me they are self adjustable. I don't know it is correct or not? Joan -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 12:40 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L why need to change the semaphores ??.. isnt AIX

Re: Oracle 8.0.5 client Developer 6.0 - Installation error

2001-02-27 Thread ludivine . alligier
There had been a Y2K problem with some releases of Developer 6.0. Maybe it should be due to it . The installer on Developer6 CD can't run perfectly after 01.01.2000. The installer must be the 3.3.1.1.0.c or greater. Try to check it, maybe ! -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

Re: anyone interested in XML

2001-02-27 Thread Bunyamin K.Karadeniz
Thank you Marin, - Original Message - From: Marin Dimitrov To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 4:20 PM Subject: Re: anyone interested in XML http://technet.oracle.com/tech/xml/#techinfois the place to start reading

Tapes and rman

2001-02-27 Thread Berindei Alex
Hi, I want to use Oracle Rman utility on NT to backup a 8.0.5 database on normal tape. Do you know if I need to use a "Media Manager" and, if so, from where can I get one? Is there any which comes with Oracle Enterprise Edition? I don't have any special tape device, but a normal one on a Dell

RE: US7ASCII

2001-02-27 Thread abimanyu
At 01:26 AM 2/27/01 -0800, Libal, Ivo wrote: if you have same character set on both sides - server and client then you have no conversion need and you can store special characters without problems, but whenever you will need conversion (client with other character set than us7ascii) then you will

Re: Database Startup Trigger is not pinning all packages

2001-02-27 Thread cjgait
As others have pointed out on this thread, I was wrong, and you can in fact pin packages in a startup trigger that have not been loaded into memory. I was confusing this with functions and procedures (and cursors) which have to be in memory before they are pinned and will raise an error if

RE: LONG RAW into BLOB

2001-02-27 Thread Karl \Trey\ Gruel
Use the TO_LOB function. For example: INSERT INTO my_blob_table SELECT id_num, TO_LOB(my_raw_field) FROM my_raw_table; TO_LOB must be used in the select list of a subquery in an INSERT statement. -- Karl Gruel [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: TEMP tablespace segment management

2001-02-27 Thread Joan Hsieh
I agree, I did offline and online off the peak time and I did create another temp to redirect all the user in day time. My apology to the list. The answer is not complete. Joan -Original Message- Christian Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 12:26 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

delayed block cleanout

2001-02-27 Thread Russell Brooks
Hi, In order to avoid ORA-1555s due to delayed block cleanout during a particular conversion, we are running full table scans before the conversion. Someone has asked if bouncing the system prior to the conversion, which would be much faster, would suffice. I think the rollback segment

Re: Tapes and rman

2001-02-27 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Yes, if you want to backup directly to tape you have to use a Media Manager. I backup to disk and then put the backups on tape with an OS backup which avoids the cost of more software. Ruth - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: delayed block cleanout

2001-02-27 Thread nlzanen1
Hi, You are right bouncing the database won't do the trick. The next access to the block will do the cleanout no matter if the database has gone down in between. Jack

Conversion of datatype

2001-02-27 Thread Eriovaldo do Carmo Andrietta
I have this sentence in a pl/sql block : w_nseqline := w_seqline; select lpad(to_char(w_seqline, '9'), '0') into w_nseqline from dual; w_nseqline := w_seqline; w_nseqline is char(6); w_seqline is number(6). I want the result '1'

RE: anyone interested in XML

2001-02-27 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Where does one find the dbms_xml package? Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Marin Dimitrov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 5:20 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re:

Re: Conversion of datatype

2001-02-27 Thread Chaim . Katz
Is this what you're looking for? w_nseqline := lpad(to_char(w_seqline),6,'0'); Ch "Eriovaldo do Carmo Andrietta" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/27/2001 10:05:27 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Chaim

Re: Conversion of datatype

2001-02-27 Thread Michal Zaschke
use: select ltrim(to_char(w_seqline, '9')) into w_nseqline from dual; Eriovaldo do Carmo Andrietta pe: I have this sentence in a pl/sql block : w_nseqline := w_seqline; select lpad(to_char(w_seqline, '9'), '0') into w_nseqline from dual;

Re: Stand by db

2001-02-27 Thread Steve . Parker
Just a note that Automated Standby is not included in the standard version of Oracle. Steve Parker Technical Consultant LIS -- Logistics Internet Systems Ltd. Knaves House, Knaves Beech Business Centre Loudwater, High Wycombe Buckinghamshire , HP10 9QR,

Re: Conversion of datatype

2001-02-27 Thread Brian Wisniewski
I threw this together and it works fine. I had to have the char field be 7 when the number was set to 6 otherwise I received ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small SQL declare 2 test_int number(6) := 1; 3 test_char char(7); 4 5 begin 6

Re: Stand by db

2001-02-27 Thread Rachel Carmichael
one thing I do know is that if for some reason the archived logs are not moved to the standby site automatically (network down, etc) then you will have to do it yourself.. so you need something to check for gaps and move them From: "Kevin Kostyszyn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

RE: MetaSlop (OFFTOPIC)

2001-02-27 Thread Jesse, Rich
Perhaps if they converted their PL/SQL to Java, they'd get the claimed 10x performance? Or maybe Oracle is still trying to lookup an ORA-12154 error on Metalink... sigh That's OK, I don't really NEED to get my unIntelligent Agent running today. Maybe I can just guess at the problem -- it's

RE: Unix Cron job help

2001-02-27 Thread John Carlson
If you use "whenever sqlerror exit 9", then you can test the return code for either "0" or "9" just as you described. ( You can use any number you choose, 9 is just an example. ) HTH John Carlson http://www.cj.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/27/01 06:46AM Can you send me shell script you are

RE: delayed block cleanout

2001-02-27 Thread Steve Adams
Hi Russ, Yes, a bounce will not achieve anything, and neither will a full table scan if it is done in parallel or if 'delayed_logging_block_cleanouts' is TRUE (which is the default at 7.3 and 8.0). @ Regards, @ Steve Adams @ http://www.ixora.com.au/ @ http://www.christianity.net.au/

RE: MetaSlop (OFFTOPIC)

2001-02-27 Thread Khedr, Waleed
They need to open a TAR! -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 12:06 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Perhaps if they converted their PL/SQL to Java, they'd get the claimed 10x performance? Or maybe Oracle is still trying to lookup an ORA-12154 error on

RE: MetaSlop

2001-02-27 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
You will get a similar message if you ask Metalink to give you a list of all the bugs for a particular version of Oracle. At least that's what it returned last Fall. Maybe their TEMP tablespace is too small. : ) Patrice Boivin Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) -Original

confused about # of extents per segment performance issue

2001-02-27 Thread dana mn
Apparently, it's a widely held myth that a large # of extents (let's say "BETWEEN 5 AND 1000") per table segment is bad for performance. Yet the same sources who label the belief mistaken persist in pushing for fitting all of a table in the INITIAL extent. And that confuses the heck out of me.

Re: anyone interested in XML

2001-02-27 Thread jkstill
If you are doing XML and Oracle, this book is a *must* have. It will help you tremendously. It explains XML, Oracle's XML tools, and how to tie it all together. I'm working through it now, and it's much better than trying to piece it all together from various sources of Oracle docs.

Re: Jared's Web Site

2001-02-27 Thread jkstill
Hi Matt, My web site has moved: www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/util Jared PS. you planning to be at IOUG? On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Adams, Matthew (GEA, 088130) wrote: I've misplaced my URL for Jared's Web Site. Can someone be so kind as to provide it? thanks matt R. Matt Adams - GE

RE: process parameter

2001-02-27 Thread jkstill
SMITTY is the AIX system administration tool. type 'smitty' at the shell prompt. Anyone can run it, though you're likely to be very limited as to what you can do with it unless you have an ID zero account. Jared On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, rammohan wrote: hi, what exactly is smitty utility?

Re:RE: MetaSlop

2001-02-27 Thread dgoulet
For those interested, right from the horses mouth, or other orifice as you desire: News Notes MetaLink Performance - An Update We apologize for the slow response times recently on MetaLink. All over the world our customers are coming to and using

RE: process parameter

2001-02-27 Thread jkstill
Christian, Do you know of a good article on the web to explain the workings of post wait drivers? Thanks Jared On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Trassens, Christian wrote: AIX doesn't use semaphores. You must run the script rootpre.sh to create the /etc/loadext This is because AIX uses post-wait

No Subject

2001-02-27 Thread Chuck Hamilton
I'm considering the switch from Oracle Names to Oracle Internet Directory. One feature I liked about names was the dynamic discovery. Does dynamic discovery also work with OID? For example if one of my databases fails over to another machine in it's cluster, the names server is automatically

RE: Slow performance of code using dblinks ver 8.1.6.2

2001-02-27 Thread Haunschmidt Andreas VASL/FAS
Hi Rafiq! Thanks for sending me your PL/SQL code. You do a lot of aggregations over the dblink, also remote joins can be slow. Suggestion: Reverse the situation, do the selects local and insert remote. Run the code on the 7.3.4.5 instance without @OLAP_APPS_LINK in selects and insert

Re: confused about # of extents per segment performance issue

2001-02-27 Thread Tim Sawmiller
This really depends on the type of access. If it's random using indexes, the extents don't matter much. If you do a lot of full table scans, and the extents are scattered all over, there may be a performance degradation. YMMV as always. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/27/01 01:06PM Apparently, it's

RE: Restore Scenario

2001-02-27 Thread Paul Baumgartel
Speaking of dairy: Jared, your web site features an "Oracle Initialization Parms Comparison". When I see "parm", I think of Parmesan (or, more properly, Parmigiana) cheese. Shouldn't that be "params"? Or "settings"? Paul Baumgartel InstiPro, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212 813-0829 x103

Enqueue types TC and JI

2001-02-27 Thread yong huang
"Hagedorn, Linda" posted a message a few weeks ago about enqueue types JI and TC. Anjo Kolk says the following: TC is the incremental checkpoint, if I remember correctly the JI for the job queue processe. He's working on a new version of the wait events paper but not sure when it'll come out.

Re: Conversion of datatype

2001-02-27 Thread Eriovaldo do Carmo Andrietta
Right, but in pl/sql it does not work correcty ... Why ? I also did it in sql plus. It works correct but in procedure , no. Eriovaldo do Carmo Andrietta ICQ #102604225 - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001

Re: Tuning, RAID5, and fragmentation and DBWR

2001-02-27 Thread dana mn
Thanks Dave, Don, and Patrice. It's hardware RAID, a Compaq GS140 machine, and Oracle on VMS [not my choice of OS/hardware]. Limited to one large RAID5 volume. I'd like to make the most of what's there, because for political reasons nothing else will change. Does it make any sense to increase

RE: anyone interested in XML

2001-02-27 Thread dieter . oberkofler
Hi! You might want to take a look at my shareware tool TabExp that allows you to export any table into a XLM file. Check it out at: http://www.materialdreams.com/products.html Try to use the 4.0.1 Bata 1 Version and have a look. Regards DO email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web:

RE: RE: MetaSlop

2001-02-27 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: RE: MetaSlop You know, for an announcement to a bunch of serious hardcore tech people, it was sure SHORT ON DETAILS. front end web servers... additional hardware uh huh sure fine whatever. The courtesy of a message with some real meat would be nice, instead of

Re:RE: MetaSlop

2001-02-27 Thread Jim Conboy
Man, these guys just invite the wise-ass comment, don't they? Such as: Well maybe if the product worked better/was less confusing/had better documentation we wouldn't all be in Metalink! Oh no! If 4 new servers brought the system to its knees just think how bad it'll be when the rest of the

RE: Restore Scenario

2001-02-27 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
LOL.. That was good..Jared ! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 12:22 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Restore Scenario On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If

Re:RE: MetaSlop (OFFTOPIC)

2001-02-27 Thread dgoulet
Jesse company, Might I ask how many of you who've had a problem with MetaStink have taken the time to file a TAR with customer service on Metalink? I know I've filed 5 in the last week. The squeaky wheel normally gets the grease! Dick Goulet Reply

RE: RE: MetaSlop

2001-02-27 Thread Paul Baumgartel
And if you were running a comparable system, what would *you* say? Paul Baumgartel InstiPro, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212 813-0829 x103 (office) 917 549-4717 (mobile) -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 2:51 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Man,

export / import 8.1.5 to 8.0 ?

2001-02-27 Thread Yttri, Lisa
Title: export / import 8.1.5 to 8.0 ? Hi all - Is it possible to export an 8.1.5 database and import it into an 8.0.x database? Does the compatibility or anything else special need to be set in order to make this happen? Thanks - Lisa

RE: RE: MetaSlop

2001-02-27 Thread Glenn Travis
RE: RE: MetaSlopI just affraid that now that "customers are coming to and using this valuable knowledge base in staggering numbers.", Oracle now has ammo to charge more or charge separately for this service. It gets them $$ and will lower the usage. Dare they? -Original Message-

RE: anyone interested in XML

2001-02-27 Thread Scott . Shafer
Check out http://www.bookpool.com/.x/43g4gev0ii/ss/1?qs=Building+XML+Oracle for even better prices on "Building XML Apps with Oracle" --Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 12:11 PM To: Multiple recipients of

RE: Slow performance of code using dblinks ver 8.1.6.2

2001-02-27 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Hi Andreas, Thanks for your suggestion for improvement. I shall pass on this to development team for their evaluation. Right now we are testing our migration to 8.1.6.2 and observed that slowness. We are also working with our UNIX/Hardware team to check network issue and confirm that the

ODS

2001-02-27 Thread Murali Vallath
Hello Everyone, This new term Operational Data Store(ODS) has many definitions, like staging area to the data warehouse, data mart, A data warehouse or reporting database, a archive area etc etc. updated almost real time. From your experience, is this being used in the Oracle world. What

RE: RE: MetaSlop

2001-02-27 Thread Glenn Travis
This reminds me of an experience I had recently. I wanted to open a new checking account. I decided on a particular bank based on the fact that they waive numerous service charges if you do direct deposit, all ATM transactions ( 2 teller visits a month), get your checks as images, etc... Well,

Re: RE: MetaSlop

2001-02-27 Thread Jerry C
This is the worst I can ever remember. It's an unusable joke. Try their marketing hype site (www.oracle.com) and see how fast it comes up... - Original Message - To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 4:21 PM I would not leave

MetaSlop -- More Screeching and Droning.

2001-02-27 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: MetaSlop -- More Screeching and Droning. Our own esteemed Paul Baumgartel wants to know how our equally esteemed Kevin would have handled the MetaCrack announcement. There are several possibilities, depending on what is ACTUALLY going on in the Armani Sweatshop on Ellison Lane.

RE: MetaSlop -- More Screeching and Droning.

2001-02-27 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Title: MetaSlop -- More Screeching and Droning. OH MAN!!!Once again Ross has gone on before the rest of us and I just can't say anything after that!! Apache running on linux based Palm Pilotsoh...oh the pain in my stomach:) -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Tuning, RAID5, and fragmentation and DBWR

2001-02-27 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey Dana, Are you kidding? A GS140 running OVMS would be my choice of OS/Hardware! OK, OS bigotry aside... ;) The RAID5 *WILL* give you performance problems! RAID5 is the worst performer for write operations. The LGWR,and associated slave processes (and to a somewhat lesser extent, the

RE: RE: MetaSlop - Another Response Scenario for Paul.

2001-02-27 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: RE: MetaSlop - Another Response Scenario for Paul. Scenario Two: ## For Immediate Release ### Ap/UPI/AFP/Reuters --- Redwood Shores, 27 Feb 00 Oracle Denial of Service Attack Oracle Corporation announced today, in a

RE: RE: MetaSlop

2001-02-27 Thread Kimberly Smith
Instantly -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 1:37 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This is the worst I can ever remember. It's an unusable joke. Try their marketing hype site (www.oracle.com) and see how fast it comes up... - Original Message -

Re: MetaSlop -- More Screeching and Droning.

2001-02-27 Thread Jerry C
Title: MetaSlop -- More Screeching and Droning. Hey Ross! Another classic - I may frame this one and put it on my (virtual) office wall. Check this out: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=metalink.oracle.com - Original Message - From: Mohan, Ross To: Multiple

Anyone install 8.1.5 on Solaris 2.6 INTEL??

2001-02-27 Thread Dasko, Dan
The ins_oemagent.mk keeps blowing up trying to find SUNW_1.4 in libthread.so. Now, I know that oemagent and odg aren't necessary, but I'm just trying to get them running anyway. Additionally, Net8 config assistant blows up complaining that Metalink is down, oh, wait that's another topic.

RE: RE: MetaSlop - Another Response Scenario for Paul.

2001-02-27 Thread Kevin Kostyszyn
Title: RE: RE: MetaSlop - Another Response Scenario for Paul. I have to leave before I get fired for laughing too loud!!! Ross is officially the site comedian and witmaster!! -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mohan, RossSent:

Creating activity in a database

2001-02-27 Thread Viraj Luthra
Hello all, I am running oracle 8i on aix 4.3.3; I need to create a storm or some good activity in a database. Is there some one who has some ready made scripts or suggestions as to create this kind of activity. I want to measure my performance metrics under such conditions. Thanks in

Error while getting blobs

2001-02-27 Thread Krishna Prasad
Hi, i'm getting a strange error while retrieving blobs using the standard getBLOB(1) construct... it looks like the length of the resulting BLOB appears to be 0 in some cases - but the EXACT query issued 2 seconds later retrieves the BLOB properly... I have a polling daemon that is constantly

Creating activity in a database

2001-02-27 Thread Viraj Luthra
Hello all, I am running oracle 8i on aix 4.3.3; I need to create a storm or some good activity in a database. Is there some one who has some ready made scripts or suggestions as to create this kind of activity. I want to measure my performance metrics under such conditions. Thanks in

list of common ORA errors users get

2001-02-27 Thread John Dailey
Hi again List... hope everyone is having a pleasant afternoon/evening/morning: I'm looking for a list of common questions about Oracle errors that end-users might encounter. For example, basic stuff like "no listener", "Archiver error", "Oracle not available", "max # of extents reached", etc,

RE: Creating activity in a database

2001-02-27 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: RE: Creating activity in a database I need to create a storm or some good activity in a database. Rename your company's host name to metalink.oracle.com and wait for the storm to begin. (Don't worry, you won't have to provide any actual content, just put up a few pages like Come

RE: MetaSlop -- More Screeching and Droning.

2001-02-27 Thread Mohan, Ross
Title: MetaSlop -- More Screeching and Droning. Thank you Sir! (we almost used Sunguard to cover our Sequent servers, but they never really went down enough to merit the cost, but...Sunguard appeared to have the most "adult" setup) -Original Message-From: Rao, Maheswara

Re: RE: MetaSlop - Another Response Scenario for Paul.

2001-02-27 Thread Jim Walski
Title: RE: RE: MetaSlop - Another Response Scenario for Paul. Ross, I think a certain ex-president ( last name something like clinton) needs a spin doctor like you. Thanks for the great laughs! Jim -Original Message-From: Mohan, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Multiple

Table Storage Estimates

2001-02-27 Thread Sanjay Kumar
Hi, I have a table which has a structure similar to the following. MID NOT NULL VARCHAR2(24)NAME VARCHAR2(512)PRIORITY NUMBER(38)PERSISTENT CHAR(1)EXP_DATE DATEBODY LONG RAW I estimated the table storage for this table using the formula given in the Oracle documentation. It

RE: Creating activity in a database

2001-02-27 Thread Viraj Luthra
Can you illustrate pt. 3 please; some one told me that I must run the database in ARCHIVELOG mode in order to get a good activity in there. Is that true? How does it matter? Rgds, raja -- On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 15:06:51 Mohan, Ross wrote: in all seriousity, 1) Rational does Performance

ORA-00059: maximum number of DB_FILES exceeded

2001-02-27 Thread Charlie Mengler
I just got the following - SYS: DBW.WORLDALTER TABLESPACE DAILY_SALES_TBL 2 ADD DATAFILE '/db19/oracle/DBW/daily_sales_tbl.dbf' SIZE 1802272768 3 / ALTER TABLESPACE DAILY_SALES_TBL * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00059: maximum number of DB_FILES exceeded I fixed a similar problem

Calling Operating System Command from PL/SQL (both unix and nt)

2001-02-27 Thread Heikki Jantunen
Hi all, could you pls. show examples how to call os commands from pl/sql (both unix and nt). Thanx in advance, Hessu _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. -- Please see the official

RE: ORA-00059: maximum number of DB_FILES exceeded

2001-02-27 Thread Rahul
just change the db_files param in init.ora..and bounce.. -- From: Charlie Mengler[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 10:50 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: ORA-00059: maximum number

RE: ORA-00059: maximum number of DB_FILES exceeded

2001-02-27 Thread John Dailey
Hi Charlie... the parameter DB_FILES is set in the init file... you have to bounce the instance after you increase it. The parameter you are thinking of is MAXDATAFILES which is in the control file. And you are correct; you would need to ALTER DATABASE BACKUP CONTROLFILE TO TRACE, edit that

questions: Oracle files on AIX

2001-02-27 Thread manoharp
All the datafiles of oracle shall have 640. That is -rw-r-. Owner of the files will be oracle and the group shall be dba. The users access and updation of all the oracle files are controlled by oracle only as per the profile of the individual oracle user. Manoharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Off Topic RE: Restore Scenario

2001-02-27 Thread kangwen
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