Re: BCHR Tuning

2003-01-29 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Ferenc, If I didn't say it before, I'll say it now: This was one of the better messages I've seen for a very long time. Jolly good laugh, as the English would say. Remind me to take you to lunch next time I'm in Melbourne (as if I'm in Australia very often ... ). Take care. Mogens

Database connections hanging--Critical Production issue.

2003-01-29 Thread Girijan Puthran
I am running an Oracle v 8.1.7.3.0 version db on Sun solaris 2.6 and the problem I face is that all of a sudden all new connections to the database just hang [ the conn is not made ] and if at all a connection can be established using svrngrl [ only this ] I find that no queries can be

Re: Global Stats

2003-01-29 Thread Jared Still
You may want to read up on table monitoring. Jared On Tuesday 28 January 2003 11:10, Koivu, Lisa wrote: Hi everyone, Back to the lovely world of Oracle :) I've been reading up on statistics. Out of the 8.1.7 doco: /* Partitioned schema objects may contain multiple sets of statistics. They

RE: Problem on P4 intel servers

2003-01-29 Thread Sony kristanto
Naveen, What is symcjit.dll, what happen if not renaming it ? Rgrds, Sony -Original Message- From: Naveen Nahata [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Problem on P4 intel servers The

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-01-29 Thread Broodbakker, Mario
Seema, Yes, there is. On NT4 it was called MS Cluster Service, not so much cluster 'scalability-wise', but it allowed for failover. Oracle supplied some software on top of that: Oracle Fail Safe. If you only want failover, it's sufficient to use those product, you don't need RAC or OPS. It

Re: Replication..

2003-01-29 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
The person I know who can answer this is the guy who was Mr Replication in Cary's SPG-group from the beginning, namely Dominic Delmolino. He was truly a pioneer with that stuff. I'll ask him and get back. Mogens DENNIS WILLIAMS wrote: Chaim - I agree with your note, but isn't that basic

Database Too Slow - Suggestions???

2003-01-29 Thread moyam
Hi Gurus, We have an OLTP 8i database on Win 2K RAM 1GB with about 10 million rows, Total size 100GB. Have done a bit of tuning here and there (see stats below). What do you read of these stats? SVRMGR Rem The init.ora parameters currently in effect: SVRMGR select name, value from v$parameter

Performance of DBMS_LOB.WRITE

2003-01-29 Thread Hemant K Chitale
We have a 3rd party application [Parametric Technology Windchill] where a new module has been implemented which copies in files into the database using DBMS_LOB.WRITE The LOBSEGMENT has a CHUNKsize of 32K and the Database BlockSize is 16K. There are high waits on direct path write. Queries on

strange behaviour of sequence

2003-01-29 Thread oraora oraora
Guys, one of my developers is using sequence to auto-increment the value of a column while inserting. he has created a sequence like this. SQL create sequence testseq start with 1; and then uses a INSERT statement as below in a JSP. insert into testtab values ('BREAD'||testseq.nextval);

RE: strange behaviour of sequence

2003-01-29 Thread Murray, Margaret
Jp: Is the sequence cached? Check out Note:62002.1 on Metalink - Applications which use Oracle sequences which have the CACHE option enabled will often 'skip' values. This article discusses the cache option, why numbers can be lost and how to minimize this occurrance. You'll either want to pin

RE: Problem on P4 intel servers

2003-01-29 Thread Mark Leith
symcjit.dll is Symantecs's Just-In-Time Compiler dll, it is basically a faster option to javai.dll for java app executions. Another work around, is to copy the files from the install disks to your hard drive, then search these directories for any occurrence of symcjit.dll, and replace them with

RE: strange behaviour of sequence

2003-01-29 Thread Naveen Nahata
Ther is something called 'cache' in a sequence definition which has a default value of 20. Which means 20 values of the sequence will be pre-fetched and kept in the memory. this is done to avoid latching issues. when u shutdown the instance the pre-fetched values are lost, and they are not

RE: Slightly OT: Development Vs. Production DBA

2003-01-29 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: Slightly OT: Development Vs. Production DBA DITTO! ... I personally like it when they come screaming to me (Iam the "production" dba for the most part)that the test database is all messed up... couldn't be them... they haven't touched their code... all they did is point the same

RE: strange behaviour of sequence

2003-01-29 Thread Broodbakker, Mario
Probably you use the (default) 'cache 20' and shut down the database between the 'BREAD4' and 'BREAD21' insert. Or you use OPS/RAC, which cause each instance to cache this '20' numbers. This can be avoided by using the 'nocache' option, but then you serialize access to the sequence number, which

RE: strange behaviour of sequence

2003-01-29 Thread BanarasiBabu Tippa
Hi Jp The gaps in sequences can most likely be attributed to the sequence being cached. The cache option (default) pre-allocates a set of sequence numbes and keeps them in memory so that sequence numbers can be accessed faster. When the last of the sequence numbers in the cache has been used,

RE: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-29 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Title: "Take Care of your DBAs" Thanks for this article. I will forward to damagement. Dave -Original Message-From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 3:24 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: "Take Care of your DBAs"

undo tablespace

2003-01-29 Thread Breno A. K. Magnago
I have a high procedure (many INSERT's and UPDATE´s). This procedure generate insert's in UNDO TableSpace for rollback. I want to know if exists any way for don´t generate insert´s in UNDO Tablespace. Oracle 9i / NT Thanks. -- Breno A. K. Magnago mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mercantil

RE: strange behaviour of sequence

2003-01-29 Thread Stephane Faroult
Guys, one of my developers is using sequence to auto-increment the value of a column while inserting. he has created a sequence like this. SQL create sequence testseq start with 1; and then uses a INSERT statement as below in a JSP. insert into testtab values ('BREAD'||testseq.nextval);

RE: undo tablespace

2003-01-29 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
Breno, There's no way to do this because it's the central pillar of Oracle's read consistency mechanism. It's possible to minimise or suppress redo but undo is out of your control. regards, Mike Hately -Original Message- Sent: 29 January 2003 11:39 To: Multiple recipients of list

Return the first row only

2003-01-29 Thread Krishnaswamy, Ranganath
Hi List, I have the below query which returns 13 records. In this I want to display only the 1st row. Is it possible to do this through rownum or any other function or pseudo column? If so, please let me know the same. Any help in this regard is very much appreciated. select 'shipment'

RE: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-29 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Title: "Take Care of your DBAs" Here's that "development DBA" alias again. sigh. Pat. -Original Message-From: Farnsworth, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 7:54 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: "Take Care of your DBAs"

Best backup software for daily backups...

2003-01-29 Thread Peter R
Hi Friends, We are going to upgrade our database(Oracle9i) with Unix server(AIX5.2), I would like to know best backup software for new production server with 250-350Gb database size. Ours is 24X7 shop, so we are going to take daily hotbackups. Any ideas and experiance from gurus!!! Thanks

Re: strange behaviour of sequence

2003-01-29 Thread Daniel Wisser
hi j.p.! try with SQL create sequence testseq start with 1 NOCACHE ORDER; regards daniel oraora oraora wrote: Guys, one of my developers is using sequence to auto-increment the value of a column while inserting. he has created a sequence like this. SQL create sequence testseq

RE: Peoplesoft Oracle

2003-01-29 Thread Dawtrey, Lindsay L
Title: Peoplesoft & Oracle HI Lisa Don't worry too much about fixing up the database it will only benefit the application. You can spread the tablespaces around, I have also found that the default install scripts shove all the indexes into one tablespace, you can go ahead and add more

RE: Windows 2000 Cluster on oracle

2003-01-29 Thread Rajesh Dayal
Yes you can go for Active-Active cluster configuration of RAC or else Active-Passive configuration of Oracle Fail Safe on Windows Cluster. Both of these are available on Windows 2000 cluster. Let me know, if you want more info. HTH, Rajesh -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday,

migration from Sybase to Oracle

2003-01-29 Thread Vijaya Chander V.S
Hi Everyone, We need to migrate data from a Sybase DB to Oracle 9i DB and both the data models defer a lot. Is there any tool available for this kind of migration. Can we do this migration with out any tool. If yes please let me know like how should we go about this migration. If there are

Re: Re: more consistent gets, but more quickly?

2003-01-29 Thread Jonathan Lewis
When Oracle 'expects' to visit a buffer more than once in a single call, it will hold the cache buffers chains latch long enough to create a pin (in this case a memory structure that associates the session with the buffer) and link it into the linked list of current users (x$bh.usprev, usnxt) of

RE: Return the first row only

2003-01-29 Thread Foelz.Frank
Select * from ( select 'shipment' table_name,ce.display_name,st.timestamp, sequence from shipment_timestamp st, customer_event ce, xm_field xm where shipment_id = 10402344721477 and ce.CUSTOMER_MOT_ID = 1040130035205 and xm.field_id = ce.field_id nd st.event_id = xm.event_id union select

Re: Best backup software for daily backups...

2003-01-29 Thread Ruth Gramolini
We are doing the same upgrade, and we will continue to use rman for all backups. Ruth - Original Message - From: Peter R To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 7:39 AM Subject: Best backup software for daily backups...

RE: Return the first row only - Solved

2003-01-29 Thread Krishnaswamy, Ranganath
Hi List, I found the answer to my query myself and here goes the solution: select x.* from (select 'shipment' table_name,ce.display_name,st.timestamp, sequence from shipment_timestamp st, customer_event ce, xm_field xm where shipment_id = 10402344721477 and ce.CUSTOMER_MOT_ID = 1040130035205

RE: tuning forms/reports application

2003-01-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: tuning forms/reports application Connor, Forms is dumb ... I mean it doesn't think it is important to use dbms_application info, you have to do it manually. The statistics parameter ... gosh .. never got it to work right against 7x, 8x and 9x ... For my developers, I tell them

Re: Follow-up: It's NOT possible to set role in db's logon

2003-01-29 Thread Louis BROUILLETTE
Hi Roy, I don't know if you solved your problem yet but I have a similar situation here. I have an Oracle account used by PHP programs (third party programs) to access some tables. I don't want anyone to log in to the database with this account unless the connection comes from apache and

Re[2]: undo tablespace

2003-01-29 Thread Breno A. K. Magnago
Mike, I asked it because I have a problem. Any insert data in UNDO tablespace generate insert in REDO Files. Is is correct ? When I execute a high procedure, many inserts in UNDO tablespace ocurres, so many inserts in REDO´s are genereate. I want to avoid this REDO´s generation. My tables and

RE: Perl

2003-01-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Perl Okay ... a question from a colleague ... How do you get python to work with Oracle ... for perl there DBD: and DBI: anything similar in Python? My knowledge of Perl is as good as my knowledge of Python ... /dev/null Raj __

Re[2]: Peoplesoft Oracle

2003-01-29 Thread dgoulet
David Lisa, 1st point is that were still on PeopleTools 7.53 so this may be somewhat dated. Anyway, go to Peopletools, utilities, use Peopletools options. Uncheck the Grant Access option low behold, PeopleTools will not try to create a user via the grant connect to syntax that is so out

toad question

2003-01-29 Thread Jeffrey Beckstrom
What privileges are needed for a "toad" user to view another users packages. Jeffrey BeckstromDatabase AdministratorGreater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority1240 W. 6th StreetCleveland, Ohio 44113(216) 781-4204

RE: Peoplesoft Oracle

2003-01-29 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Peoplesoft Oracle David, David, David. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for your detailed response. Wish I could buy you a beer... a virtual beer will have to do :) Have a great day Lisa -Original Message- From: david davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: Perl

2003-01-29 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
Hi, the issue of database access from python is addressed here : http://www.python.org/topics/database/ http://www.python.org/topics/database/ with specific modules (incliuding Oracle) listed here : http://www.python.org/topics/database/modules.html

RE: Global Stats

2003-01-29 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Global Stats Hi Jared, Actually I think monitoring won't work in my case. Data loads fire throughout the day and the docs say that in 8i, analyze can fire based upon table monitoring sometime within 3 hours after data changes. I would rather include a manual fire of analyze in

Re: problem install oracle 9.2.0 on redhat 7.3

2003-01-29 Thread Markus Reger
hi\ just in case you are still looking for a solution: the entry for the INSO_LINK seem sto be alright. If the retry doesn't succeed, then try to link the file manually cd $ORACLE_HOME/ctx/lib/ /usr/bin/make -f ins_ctx.mk install if this doesn't work then check the error log. I never had any

RE: Peoplesoft Oracle

2003-01-29 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Peoplesoft Oracle John, Henry, Lindsay, David, Thanks for your responses. At least I don't feel like I'm completely out in the cold here. John: My boy is huge, teething, not sleeping much, standing and taking his first steps, had his first bloody nose already. Sleep? What is

Re: Re[2]: Peoplesoft Oracle

2003-01-29 Thread david davis
Dick, The grant users option has been around since release 2 (was on installation table back then). I had not tested turning it off. Our practice is create the userid then change the default tablespaces then notify clients of new userid. It works for us, because the DBA's happen to be the

Re: Re[2]: undo tablespace

2003-01-29 Thread Rachel Carmichael
think CAREFULLY about this as it invalidates your recovery procedures. Nologging means there is nothing in the redo logs to be applied. and your backup is invalid. Other than that, I suggest you do some research in the Oracle docs. A VERY brief check (search on nologging) brought me this

RE: Re[2]: undo tablespace

2003-01-29 Thread Fink, Dan
Breno, 100mb of redo in 20 minutes is not all that high. I have seen far worse (as I am sure most on the list have as well). Why do you perceive this as a problem? Are you seeing poor performance or waits? Is the generation of redo (and archived logs) causing the system to halt

RE: Perl

2003-01-29 Thread Glenn Stauffer
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 09:04, Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote: Okay ... a question from a colleague ... How do you get python to work with Oracle ... for perl there DBD: and DBI: anything similar in Python? My knowledge of Perl is as good as my knowledge of Python ... /dev/null Python defines a

RE: Perl

2003-01-29 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: RE: Perl There are two resources: http://www.zope.org/Members/matt/dco2 http://www.computronix.com/utilities.shtml The installs are not as nice as DBI but the products work. We've been using cx_Oracle in production for over a year now and have no complaints. Here's an Oracle

[Q] grant select on column level security failed?

2003-01-29 Thread dist cash
I tried to grant select on column level security and failed (on 8.1.7 and 9.2). I heard some said column level security on work on insert update and reference. Is it true? any other way to pass around? SQL grant select (update_date) on pay_update to user1; grant select (update_date) on

RE: Perl - Was Unix time conversion function

2003-01-29 Thread Jesse, Rich
Because I'm picky. I ruled out OracleTool because it's web-based. While it may be an advantage at times (don't need to install on every machine I use), it's a whole number of layers I don't want to troubleshoot when in Crisis Mode. OraC is pretty cool. I looked at it when I got O'Reilly's

RE: Follow-up: It's NOT possible to set role in db's logon

2003-01-29 Thread Pardee, Roy E
That's a great idea--many thanks. I bet I could put up a table of permitted username/client program combinations just do a SELECT from it translate the no_data_found exception into a 'connect via your program verboten!' message... Thanks again, -Roy Roy Pardee Programmer/Analyst SWFPAC

RE: Perl

2003-01-29 Thread Denham Eva
Title: RE: Perl Good question Raj! Hey Steve give us the run down on connecting to Oracle with Python. I've downloaded the Activestate version to try! Denham -Original Message-From: Jamadagni, Rajendra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 4:04 PMTo:

Re: migration from Sybase to Oracle

2003-01-29 Thread Stephen Evans
vijay, oracle has a free product call 'Oracle Migration Workbench' that i understand is very good at transferring objects data from sybase to oracle. however, i do believe that schemas (ie table structures) need to be the same - or at least will be created the same in the oracle database. you

RE: toad question

2003-01-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Same as Oracle privs ... If you give execute, other user can see only package spec, if you grant 'create any procedure' they can see the package body/procedure/function body as well. * to see procedure/function/package spec you need on of 1. execute (if grant is made to public) 2.

RE: Advice needed on PL/SQL code

2003-01-29 Thread Richard Ji
Robert, Thanks for point that out. Also, if there is index on the table, redo will still be generated for index. Richard -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 10:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L /*+ append */ alone does not prevent redo generation. Only

RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle

2003-01-29 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle System Administrator says he doesn't trust that the rc commands will stop if the database doesn't want to shutdown and even if it does would want to shutdown with scripts beforehand so that a DBA could connect and resolve the issue. Other

RE: Re[2]: undo tablespace

2003-01-29 Thread Hately, Mike (NESL-IT)
You're correct in saying that your undo blocks are protected by your redo files. What type of operation are you performing on your table? I ask because only a small subset of commands support the NOLOGGING feature; the remainder will generate redo as usual. If you're not using a syntax that

Re: [Q] grant select on column level security failed?

2003-01-29 Thread Igor Neyman
Create a view (including only columns you want user1 to see) and let user1 use this view instead of table. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:24 AM I tried to

RE: Problem on P4 intel servers

2003-01-29 Thread Jesse, Rich
I completely forgot all about this, but the install I just completed went without a hitch. I'm running Win2K SP3 (bleah) and installed 9.2.0.1.0 downloaded from OTN last night. Is it possible that someone (perhaps in SP3) fixed this? Rich Rich Jesse

Re: toad question

2003-01-29 Thread emre . hancioglu
Only 'Execute' right should be enough. Regards M.Emre HANCIOGLU Masterfoods Services GmbH ISI Application Support Tel : +49 2162 500-2576 Fax: +49 2162 41497 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeffrey Beckstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] gcrta.org Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29.01.2003 15:48 Please

Re: Re[2]: undo tablespace

2003-01-29 Thread Stephen Evans
breno, i believe the 'no logging' option only applies to data that is direct loaded into your tables therefore, you may be able to bypass logging if you used sqlldr or 'create table as select' good luck, steve Breno A. K. Magnago [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/29/2003

RE: Re[2]: undo tablespace

2003-01-29 Thread Cary Millsap
I agree in principal with Dan's thesis, but I'll add something. Don't do things that generate unnecessary undo and redo, either. One common example is SQL that updates a column to a value that it already contains. For example, we see things like setting a flag='y' without checking that the flag

RE: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-29 Thread David Wagoner
Title: Take Care of your DBAs I love this article. I forwarded it to damagement too because they havent been showing enough love for the DBAs lately ;-). Best regards, David B. Wagoner Database Administrator Arsenal Digital Solutions Worldwide, Inc. 8000 Regency Parkway,

Re[4]: undo tablespace

2003-01-29 Thread Breno A. K. Magnago
Dan, Is the generation of redo (and archived logs) causing the system to halt due to the archive_dump_dest filling up? YES I'll work to minimize this situation. Thanks. -- Breno A. K. Magnagomailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 1:19:50 PM, you

Re: Upgrade 8.1.6 - 8.1.7 Patch 4

2003-01-29 Thread Peter Barnett
Upgrade 8.1.6 to 8.1.7 and then apply the patch. Read the docs carefully before applying the patch it is an ugly puppy. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im doing an upgrade from 8.1.6. to 8.1.7.4. Is there any benfit of doing the upgrade from 8.1.6 to 8.1.7, using ODMA then patching to

Re: Database Too Slow - Suggestions???

2003-01-29 Thread Rachna Vaidya
What is Buffer Cache Hit Ratio? LC Hit RAtio? What's the hardware? Run top or mpstat or sar to get the system stats... We had seen somewhat somilar bstat estat data... +Rachna - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 29,

RE: Problem on P4 intel servers

2003-01-29 Thread Lyndon Tiu
I believe the problem affects only 8i. 9i is ok. -- Lyndon Tiu Quoting Jesse, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I completely forgot all about this, but the install I just completed went without a hitch. I'm running Win2K SP3 (bleah) and installed 9.2.0.1.0 downloaded from OTN last night. Is

RE: Problem on P4 intel servers

2003-01-29 Thread Donald Bricker
The problem was with lower versions of the database. The newer version of symcjit.dll are included on the newer media. I am not sure what version started to include the correct dll version. I am guessing 9i release 1. Don Bricker Database Administrator / System Administrator Illinois

Export Oracle data to Excel

2003-01-29 Thread Jared . Still
Some of you will no doubt be interested in this: http://www.knownow.com/cworld/dm/excel.html Jared -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California

RE: Re[2]: undo tablespace

2003-01-29 Thread Charlie_Mengler
AFAIK, in 8i+ tablespaces can be created with theNOLOGGING clause LOGGING | NOLOGGING Specify the default logging attributes of all tables, indexes, and partitions within the tablespace. LOGGING is the default. The tablespace-level logging attribute can be overridden by logging

RE: Perl

2003-01-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Perl Thanks a bunch ... Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect that of ESPN Inc. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, but having

RE: Re[4]: undo tablespace

2003-01-29 Thread Fink, Dan
Breno, There is your problem. Don't try to solve it by trying to eliminate undo. I have run into that situation several times. The key is to set up the database management processes to handle the situation. Things to think about: 1) Increase the size of the device where

Re[4]: undo tablespace

2003-01-29 Thread Breno A. K. Magnago
Mike, What type of operation are you performing on your table? INSERT INTO A.TABLE1(COL1,COL2) SELECT COL1,COL2 FROM B.TABLE2@DB_LINK; I think that command support the NOLOGGING.Is is correct ? The table B.TABLE2 and all indexes are in NOLOGGING Option. -- Breno A. K. Magnago

Need help and documentation on moving database from Unix to W2K

2003-01-29 Thread Baswannappa, Shiva
Hi Gurus I am not a DBA, but I have request from client to move their oracle 8.1.6 database from a Unix server to W2K. Can somebody lead me to documentation in moving entire DB or any other resource that will help me accomplish the task? Thanks a ton in advance Regards Shiva

SQL question

2003-01-29 Thread Charu Joshi
Hello Listers, How to find out the COUNT of DISTINCT values of multiple columns? For eg. SQL SELECT DISTINCT ename FROM emp; -- This works. SQL SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT ename) FROM emp; -- So does this. SQL SELECT DISTINCT ename, job FROM emp; -- And this too. SQL SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT ename,

Rogue TNSNAMES.ORA files Revisited

2003-01-29 Thread Brian McGraw
A few days (or was that weeks??) ago, someone posted some problems they were having connecting to a database defined in their tnsnames.ora file. The problem was resolved when they found out that there was a rogue tnsnames.ora file residing in the same directory as the binary. The binary

RE: Need help and documentation on moving database from Unix to W

2003-01-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
1. Install software on W2K 2. Configure DB appropriately 3. Take a cold backup from your Unix DB 3.1 Make 4 copies, 1 for actual usage, one stand-by two for off site backup 4. Import on W2K database 5. Start Database, add a dollop of Whipped Cream and enjoy ... Raj

Re: Need help and documentation on moving database from Unix to W2K

2003-01-29 Thread Alan Davey
Why do they want to move to W2k? Was it running too quickly for them under Unix? ;^) You can use export/import to move the database. Hopefully the database isn't very big. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 1/29/2003 12:59 PM, Baswannappa, Shiva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

STATSPACK

2003-01-29 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Hello everyone, I hope this is a quick question. Can you run 8.1.7 Statspack on an 8.0.6.3 instance? Thanks in advance, Ruth -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Ruth Gramolini INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051

9iR2 standby databae archiving location

2003-01-29 Thread Glenn Stauffer
Has anyone run into this problem... I created a standby database using RMAN and have found that there is an archiving location defined for this standby database, log_archive_dest_11 which points to the $ORACLE_HOME/dbs directory. I didn't define a logging destination 11 and there isn't one

Perl scripts for hot backup

2003-01-29 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Here is a link that I found for a Perl script for hot backups. Just have seen a bunch of chatter about perl on the list lately so just wanted to throw this out in case someone finds it useful. http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid13_gci857677,00.html Dave -- Please see the

HP-UX 11i/8.1.7/DB Link Question

2003-01-29 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Hi Everyone! I have been tasked with finding out how often connections are made between databases using DB links. Does anyone know of a tracking or auditing tool, or perhaps a audit methodology, that would provide this information? Thanks, Mike ---

Re: off topic: iostat -x in linux

2003-01-29 Thread Craig I. Hagan
In linux, it seems difficult, I have tried linux iostat and sysstat-iostat, non of them seems to work properly with util column in iostat report. Though no activity on the server at all, iostat always report utilization of the partitions 100% Why? I also searched google and found

RE: Rogue TNSNAMES.ORA files Revisited

2003-01-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Rogue TNSNAMES.ORA files Revisited Yup ... learned it the hard way !! At-least AIX is *normal* (fingers crossed). Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is

RE: Need help and documentation on moving database from Unix to W

2003-01-29 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Shiva First I would suggest you consider whether this is a good use of your client's money. This is a somewhat complex task that will be a good learning experience for you personally, but may cost the client. You should also consider how you will be able to confirm the quality of your work

RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle

2003-01-29 Thread maheswara.rao
Title: RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle Paula, Shutdown abort is not recommended as the file checkpointing is not done during shutdown abort. If you need to perform shutdown abort, then, it is preferred to bring up the db with startup restrict (so that the users wouldn't

RE: Base conversion

2003-01-29 Thread James Howerton
Danny Thilaga, You might find this useful. ;-) ...JIM... [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1/28/03 2:10:28 PM Here ya go: create or replace package radix is /* base code courtesy of Thomas Kyte */ function to_base( p_dec in number, p_base in number ) return

RE: STATSPACK

2003-01-29 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I believe that an 8.1.7 statspack can run on an Oracle8 or higher database. Dave -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 12:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello everyone, I hope this is a quick question. Can you run 8.1.7 Statspack on an 8.0.6.3

RE: Perl

2003-01-29 Thread Stephen Lee
-Original Message- Is it better/faster than a ksh script? -- Whether you use perl or ksh, the main purpose of the script is to build a command line and run it for whatever backup method you are using. After that, virtually all of the time is used

RE: SQL question

2003-01-29 Thread Fink, Dan
Charu, The COUNT() function requires a single expression. ename, job is not a valid expression. ename||job is a valid expression since it will return a single value. Another alternative would be select count(*) from (select distinct ename, job from emp); Dan Fink -Original

RE: Perl

2003-01-29 Thread Ron Rogers
Perl People, Boy that sounds like a blast from the past with the purple people eater... There is an interesting Perl hot backup script at http://www.searchDatabase.com/tip/1,289483,sid13_gci876060,00.html Not understanding Perl yet and liking to keep things simple, The code seems link and

RE: Rogue TNSNAMES.ORA files Revisited

2003-01-29 Thread John Kanagaraj
Brian, The order in which the TNS connection searches are performed can also easily be determined by using the 'truss' command on Solaris. I used this to prove my case to a PHB of a smart-aleck Developer who was side-stepping our move to an Oracle Name Service in a prior assignment. I see what

10046 Tracing ...

2003-01-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: 10046 Tracing ... Has anyone used ftp://oracle-ftp.oracle.com/apps/patchsets/AOL/SCRIPTS/PERFORMANCE/TRCA.zip yet? I found it today and seems to be a nice utility. Sweet ... and it works even if you are not running Oracle apps. It is probably a better tkprof interface, but intuitive

RE: SQL question

2003-01-29 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: SQL question Joshi, SELECT count(*) FROM (SELECT count(*) FROM flight_legs GROUP BY d_actual_time, event_type); SELECT count(*) FROM (SELECT DISTINCT d_actual_time, event_type FROM flight_legs ); The first one took about 37 seconds in returning a count of 357331.

Re: SQL question

2003-01-29 Thread Rachna Vaidya
And, can you have two columns as arguements for COUNT? I guess its either one column or rows +Rachna - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:19 PM Hello Listers, How to find out the COUNT of DISTINCT

RE: SQL question

2003-01-29 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: SQL question Elegant or not, here's how I'd do it select count(*) from (select distinct ename, job from emp); -Original Message- From: Charu Joshi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:19 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject:

RE: Re[4]: undo tablespace

2003-01-29 Thread Jeremy Pulcifer
Title: RE: Re[4]: undo tablespace I think it might be a typo, or I've not had enuf coffee yet today, but the nologging on b.table2 wouldn't impact the redo logging; nologging on a.table1 would, tho... -Original Message- From: Breno A. K. Magnago [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Replication..

2003-01-29 Thread Paul Baumgartel
I believe that Advanced Replication was just a name change, introduced in either Oracle8 or Oracle8i. PB --- Mogens_Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The person I know who can answer this is the guy who was Mr Replication in Cary's SPG-group from the beginning, namely Dominic Delmolino. He

RE: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-29 Thread JayMiller
shooting hoops? Just out of curiosity, how many people on the list have a group of DBAs at their company that they shoot hoops with? Some good points, some odd ones. I'll echo Patrice's sigh (as someone who enjoys both parts of the job). Jay -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday,

RE: STATSPACK

2003-01-29 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ruth - I think you can, but you must run the 8.1.7 scripts there. Do you have the 3 Oracle magazine articles that introduced STATSPACK? I think this was mentioned there. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003

Netbackup client configuration info

2003-01-29 Thread Mohammed . Ahsanuddin
Hello everyone, For Tivoli (TSM) backups there is a file called inclexcl on each backup client, which lists the directories which are included and excluded for backup..(along with their management classes)..I was wondering if there is a similar file in netbackup configuration which can give the

RE: Perl - Was Unix time conversion function

2003-01-29 Thread Jared . Still
This sounds cool. You will of course share this, won't you? Re Jareds_tools - I just made a suggestion and got my name in the code. :) Jared Jesse, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/29/2003 07:30 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of

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