Re: Queries Help

2003-01-30 Thread oraora oraora
Hi Ranganath, the query for ur first question is update testtab t1 set t1.code = ( select t2.type from testtab t2 where t1.rowid = t2.rowid ) , t1.type= ( select t2.code from testtab t2 where t1.rowid = t2.rowid ) ...will let u know if i can get a query for ur second question. Regards, Prem

Change NLS variables in logon trigger...

2003-01-30 Thread Daiminger, Helmut
Title: Change NLS variables in logon trigger... Hi there! I' having a logon trigger on 9.2.0.2 which sets DBMS_SESSION.set_nls('nls_language','''GERMAN'''); DBMS_SESSION.set_nls('nls_territory','''GERMANY'''); But I'm getting the following error message: ORA-00604: error occurred at

RE: ORA-04098 Problem - Any Ideas??

2003-01-30 Thread BanarasiBabu Tippa
Title: ORA-04098 Problem - Any Ideas?? Hi Denham EVa Try SQL ALTER TRIGGER SYS.JIS$ROLE_TRIGGER$ COMPILE ; -- If recompilation fails or if you are still not able to connect, disable the trigger SQL ALTER TRIGGER SYS.JIS$ROLE_TRIGGER$ DISABLE ; then your command thanks Banarasi Babu

Oralce 8.1.7 Error message in P IV system.

2003-01-30 Thread M Ramesh Indonet -hyd
Hi to all, Please help me in this regard. While I have installed Oracle 8.1.7 in P IV machine. after booting the system it atomatically starts HTTP server service, then whatever work i wated to do on that machine it's not allowing by givein message line java.exe error. whenever i stop the HTTP

RE: Queries Help - Solved

2003-01-30 Thread Krishnaswamy, Ranganath
Hi List, I am answering my own questions. Sorry for posting the questions in a haste. 1. Select e.empid, e.salary, m.mgr_id, m.salary from emp e, emp m where e.mgr_id = m.empid and e.sal m.sal 2. Select Code Type, Type Code from Table_Name; Thanks and Regards, Ranganath -Original

RE: Queries Help

2003-01-30 Thread Naveen Nahata
Simpler SQL select * from testab; CODE TYPE -- -- 5 1 6 2 SQL UPDATE testab SET code = type, type = code; 2 rows updated. SQL select * from testab; CODE TYPE -- -- 1 5 2

data migration strategies

2003-01-30 Thread Vijaya Chander V.S
Hi, (B (BThank you for your responses. (BWhat kind of strategies should be followed while migrating data from Sybase to Oracle (Band non-propriatory databases to Oracle so that the down time is as low as possible. (BThe Sybase database size is 2TB and other DB's total make up to 400GB (Bany

RE: Queries Help

2003-01-30 Thread Naveen Nahata
Solution to second query: SQL SELECT * FROM emp; EMPID MGRID SALARY NAME -- -- -- -- 1 1000 A 2 1500 B 3 1 1500 C SQL SELECT * 2 FROM emp e1 3 WHERE mgrid IS NOT NULL

RE: forms6i question

2003-01-30 Thread Sameer Ghadge
thanks to all for the help. I kept the separate cache. (Still question comes to mind ,was there a majorissue in giving read access to the block buffer, it would save lot of validation code) Regards Sameer -Original Message-From: Duncan Mills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent:

RE: SQL question

2003-01-30 Thread Charu Joshi
Thanks all, My question was related more to the 'design' of SQL language. To my mind the expression COUNT(DISTINCT a,b) looked a natural extension of the syntax COUNT(DISTINCT a). Even COUNT(DISTINCT(a,b)) would look good enough to me. Probably it's too trivial a thing to bother about. Using the

AW: Change NLS variables in logon trigger...

2003-01-30 Thread v . schoen
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last used time of an index ??

2003-01-30 Thread oraora oraora
guys, can i find out the time when an index was last used in Ver 8.1.6 ? Regards, Prem Khanna J. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: oraora oraora INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San

RE: ORA-04098 Problem - Any Ideas??

2003-01-30 Thread Denham Eva
Title: ORA-04098 Problem - Any Ideas?? Thank You, Banarasi Babu that worked fine. Regards Denham -Original Message-From: BanarasiBabu Tippa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:19 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: ORA-04098

OEM User Defined Job Environment

2003-01-30 Thread Bill Buchan
Hi all, I'm a bit confused by some OEM/Linux concepts. I'm trying to run a user defined job which is a simple script: #!/bin/ksh env /tmp/envfile However, my preferred credentials on the node are for myself, WBUCHAN. The /tmp/envfile is created, owned by WBUCHAN, but contains lines

RE: Global Stats

2003-01-30 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Hi Gopal, Thanks for the information. I was not aware of this. Regards, - Kirti -Original Message- From: K Gopalakrishnan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thu 1/30/2003 1:03 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Cc: Subject:RE: Global Stats Hi Kirti:

RE: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-30 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
I am happy up here in Halifax, Canada -- for the first time in a decade we have a REAL winter! Snow banks 4 feet high, about a foot of snow cover on the ground, the air is crisp and cold, -10 degree Celsius outside during the day (colder than most freezers). Makes me want to go camping in the

Re: Best backup software for daily backups...

2003-01-30 Thread Peter R
Thankyou Ruth, What about Veritas Netbackup and Tivoli software for bakcups, Which one do you think is best and effective in long term and easy to admin. Thanks again for your only response. From: Ruth Gramolini [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list

Making dispatchers re-read tnsnames.ora?

2003-01-30 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
Dispatchers and job queue processes read tnsnames.ora on process startup in case they need to make an outound database link on behalf of one of he sessions using that dispatcher. If you make a change to the tnsnames.ora, dispatchers and job queue processes won't register it unless you restart

Re: Best backup software for daily backups...

2003-01-30 Thread Ruth Gramolini
I work for the State of Vermont and money is always an issue. Rman is included with Oracle so there is no additional cost. I have no experience with other backup software for Oracle. It has worked for me and I have been using since I started here. Ruth - Original Message -

Re: 10046 Tracing ...

2003-01-30 Thread Ray Stell
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:24:07AM -0800, Jamadagni, Rajendra wrote: 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. nice metalike

Re: STATSPACK

2003-01-30 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Thanks! I have the 8.1.7 scripts, do I have to install them in the 8.0.6.3 databases? Ruth - Original Message - From: DENNIS WILLIAMS To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:49 PM Subject: RE: STATSPACK Ruth - I think you

8i: how to find current scn number?

2003-01-30 Thread Daiminger, Helmut
Title: 8i: how to find current scn number? Hi! How do I find out the current scn number that the database is at? In 9i I could use dbms_flashback package... This is 8.1.7 on Solaris 8. Thanks, Helmut

Re: SQL question

2003-01-30 Thread Jared Still
Vladimir, Thanks I hadn't considered || as a function, though it is. At first, I was going to take your word for it, but then decided this would be an interesting test. :) But first, I agree, you must know what you're looking for, neither of these would work in all situations. First, I built

Re: STATSPACK

2003-01-30 Thread Ruth Gramolini
Thanks Scott! That's just what I need. Ruth - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:19 PM Subject: RE: STATSPACK

RE: Advice needed on PL/SQL code

2003-01-30 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Beth, Since your archiving process involves many tables, I think the best approach for you would be as follows: Create a work table that will hold the primary key value for the master table. the first step of your process would involve selecting the records to be archived from the master table,

RE: Re[2]: Re[2]: Peoplesoft Oracle

2003-01-30 Thread Henry Poras
Dick, PeopleSoft's methodology changes slightly in version 8. Instead of creating an Oracle user for each PeopleSoft user, there is just a single Oracle user created as the ConnectID (default username is 'people'). The people user works just like all of the individual usernames created in earlier

RE: migration from Sybase to Oracle

2003-01-30 Thread Adrian Roe
Best option is to use bcp to get the data out of Sybase ino a flat file, then use SQL*Loader to get the data into some Oracle staging tables. You can then use pl/sql procs to move the data to it's final destination. Ade -Original Message- Sent: 29 January 2003 12:49 To: Multiple

Re: data migration strategies

2003-01-30 Thread Stephen Evans
vijaya, partition your bigger tables so that they can be loaded by sqlldr via direct path in parallel drop indexes (especially global indexes) before loading do some testing first to determine optimum number of parallel streams from a cpu usage standpoint and an io contention standpoint. try

Re: STATSPACK

2003-01-30 Thread Jared Still
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 16:38, Viktor wrote: Jared, You've got all the knowledge, for real! Is there a possibility of I wish. performance decrease when running statspack in Oracle 8.0.5? Thanks, I'm running level 0 snapshots every 15 minutes on 8.0.4 with no noticeable impact. Jared

RE: last used time of an index ??

2003-01-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Prem That is a 9i feature. One way in 8i is to regularly sample the SQL in the buffers, run explain plan on it, and scan the results for that specific index name. Another way is to drop the index and see if anyone complains ;-) Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Examples of dbms_job.submit intervals and arguments

2003-01-30 Thread Bob Metelsky
Yes, thanks that's helpful but Here is a job, Im trying to simply call some sql but apparently I cant pass sql as an argument. Or my string variables in the sql are double single quotes?? Im not sure if they should be double single quotes or just double quotes Should this work?? It submits

Re: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle

2003-01-30 Thread Jared Still
I'll echo that sentiment. 'shutdown abort', 'startup restrict' was a regular part of my shutdown scripts beginning in 1994 with 7.0.16, as 'shutdown immediate' wasn't all that reliable, even in situations where it should have worked. Jared On Wednesday 29 January 2003 15:53, John Kanagaraj

RE: Middle Tier spawning sessions, possible performance issues

2003-01-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
R - I haven't yet been the victim of .net (thankfully), and I hope someone with direct experience will reply. But just in case, I'll mention a couple of ideas. Try to sample the SQL that is being inflicted on Oracle. Microsoft interfaces tend to have default settings for the lowest common

RE: Best backup software for daily backups...

2003-01-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Peter - Robert Freeman has instructions for configuring RMAN to both Veritas Netbackup and Tivoli. The book is Oracle9i RMAN Backup Recovery. This might give you some ideas. Someone on this list suggested that it was easier to learn RMAN by backing up to disk, and you could then add an MML later.

Middle Tier spawning sessions, possible performance issues

2003-01-30 Thread rgaffuri
I'm far more of a developer than a DBA, but when someone told me this it set off a big red light in my head. We are using an Oracle Backend with a .net front front. One of our .net guys told me that the middle tier they are using 'spawns' sessions. We have 2 pretty distinct skillsets here so

RE: last used time of an index ??

2003-01-30 Thread Sutton, Reed
Prem, I found this on Google. Some guy named Thomas Kyte? He sounds like maybe he might know what he is talking about ;-) Unfortunately I don't have his book here with me now so I am not sure exactly what code he is talking about, but this should be a good start for you. Question: Has

Re:RE: Re[2]: Re[2]: Peoplesoft Oracle

2003-01-30 Thread dgoulet
Henry, Thanks. I'll remember that, IF we ever upgrade to PeopleSoft8. Getting migrated over from ManMan to PeropleSoft has been such a chore that there is a move afoot to stay on 7.53 for a few years more. Dick Goulet Reply Separator Author: Henry

RE: Slow database, too MANY buffers???

2003-01-30 Thread Cunningham, Gerald
Hi all, I'm late to the party on this, but I'm trying to understand what the results of Jonathon's query mean. I have a database that I suspect has a too large buffer cache. Here's the SGA: SQL show sga Total System Global Area 864323352 bytes Fixed Size 280344 bytes

RE: Examples of dbms_job.submit intervals and arguments

2003-01-30 Thread Chaim . Katz
Bob, I think the job is just missing the begin and end to make it a pl/sql block. dbms_job.submit (:jobno, 'begin UPDATE TIME SET STATUS = ''O'' WHERE STATUS = ''I'' ; end;', trunc(sysdate+1), 'trunc(SYSDATE+1)', TRUE, :instno); (If there are no rows in TIME, the job will fail with an

RE: Making dispatchers re-read tnsnames.ora?

2003-01-30 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Yeah! Put it in Oracle*Names. -Original Message- From: Jeremiah Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 7:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Making dispatchers re-read tnsnames.ora? Dispatchers and job queue processes read

Re: Best backup software for daily backups...

2003-01-30 Thread Jay Hostetter
We use RMAN to backup to disk. From disk, our sysadmins backup the files to tape. I believe they are using Legato Networker. They frequently have problems with their backups - I don't know the specifics. I just know that there are many times that I have been thankful that we never

Borderline OT - Unix for Oracle at home

2003-01-30 Thread Fink, Dan
I am looking to add a unix box to my collection of wintel machines at home. It will be used solely for running/testing Oracle, so I don't need bells whistles. My thoughts are either Linux/intel or Sun Ultra workstation. While it would be convenient to be able to network it into a DSL

RE: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-30 Thread Gogala, Mladen
We would not be able to feed our families on our physical abilities but I definitely would try beating Lisa in the game of Ping Pong. -Original Message- From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

RE: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-30 Thread Gogala, Mladen
It's nice to have four seasons. As long as the temperature doesn't drop under 60 during any of those four seasons. Four feet of snow? Here in CT, we had few inches and the traffic collapsed. What do you drive? Sherman tank? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net --

RE: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-30 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Take Care of your DBAs Hi Dennis, Point taken. Most of us can't feed ourselves on our physical abilities... my point was that most of the people I have met in IT are not into regular exercise of any type and thought I was crazy for going running over lunch. Sorry I did not mean

RE: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-30 Thread Jesse, Rich
OK, that's it. My mountain bike is coming out TODAY. I don't care if it's 10F out. There's no snow, so it won't be as fun, but that's alright. And, Lisa, in '99 I pedalled 450 miles from Superior to Madison, WI in a week. I admit that I spent some time in Rehab afterwards for rough cartilage

RE: Best backup software for daily backups...

2003-01-30 Thread Gogala, Mladen
Legato Networker! -Original Message- From: Peter R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 7:39 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Best backup software for daily backups... Thankyou Ruth, What about Veritas Netbackup and Tivoli

RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle

2003-01-30 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I guess I'll go with this method since I have a couple of cold backups that hang on the SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE and will remain hung until I rectify the situation. I have had TAR's on this but this could not be resolved. I'm just more confident to see others doing this. Does anyone have this

Re: Borderline OT - Unix for Oracle at home

2003-01-30 Thread Ron Rogers
Dan, I have an intel 850mz with 512 Ram 4 disks, 1-20g 2-40g and 1 80g and a SCSI Cdrom and SCSI 4mm tape drive Loaded with RedHat 7.2 and Oracle 8.1.7. It contains the same data as the production server and is faster by 3 fold. The production is Dell 6300 450 mz 1 Gig and 2 Raid1 and 5 Raid5

Re: 8i: how to find current scn number?

2003-01-30 Thread Ron Rogers
Hemlet, SELECT * from V$LOG; will give the status of the logfiles and numbers; Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/30/03 08:25AM Hi! How do I find out the current scn number that the database is at? In 9i I could use dbms_flashback package... This is 8.1.7 on Solaris 8. Thanks, Helmut -- Please see

RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle

2003-01-30 Thread Fink, Dan
I know I am going to catch major grief for this, but I avoid shutdown abort when possible. Shutdown immediate can take some time, as it will do transaction rollback in serial (where recovery at startup can do it in parallel and as needed). The main reason I avoid it is that there are known bugs

Creating a simple stored procedure

2003-01-30 Thread Bob Metelsky
How can I create this simple stored procedure Obiviously I don't have much experience but I would not think this being as difficult as it appears I want to run an update on a table (eventually from a job) I just need to get the sp working... Any examples Ive seen are much too complex for this

RE: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-30 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: Take Care of your DBAs Dennis, Or on our looks including this guy I see in the mirror every morning! I do ride my bicycle quite a bit. Over 5000 miles last year including one 204 mile ride in under 15 hours on a 95 degree day. Enough of my braggingfor now. Jerry Whittle

AW: java

2003-01-30 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Hi Henry I don't know anything about Peoplesoft, but it is very unlikely, that any kind of java based installer needs Java 3D. Java 3D is more comparable to the OpenGL libary and I just can't imagine the need for it in an installer, unless you want some neat 3D features like animated scenes of

Oracle, Siebel and rule-based optimization

2003-01-30 Thread Michael Fontana
I would like to ask a question of this esteemed and knowledgeable audience about running SIEBEL applications on Oracle. Siebel insists that their CRM application will only run with acceptable performance if rule-based optimization is chosen, yet, as we all know, there are documented examples of

RE: Middle Tier spawning sessions, possible performance issues

2003-01-30 Thread Adrian Roe
250 connections from the middle tier does sound a bit suspect, way over the top. I'm assuming 'spawns' relates to establishing connections as and when required and then disconnecting when done. I think you will find that there is quite an Oracle overhead in handling all of the connect/disconnect

RE: Borderline OT - Unix for Oracle at home

2003-01-30 Thread Thomas, Kevin
I've got Suse8.1 setup at home with a DSL connection and am planning on putting Oracle 8 onto the box. Good setup, easily installed. Go for it ;O) -Original Message- Sent: 30 January 2003 15:14 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I am looking to add a unix box to my collection of

Re: Borderline OT - Unix for Oracle at home

2003-01-30 Thread Alan Davey
For $500 you can build your own Intel/AMD machine with 1GB of RAM that will blow the doors off the Sun Ultras. You may need to spend a little more if you need some hard drives and a cheap video card. Install Linux, Oracle and enjoy. -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On

RMAN backup/restore to disk on 600G - terabyte Databases?? SPEED?

2003-01-30 Thread Spears, Brian
Hi, I looking at implementing RMAN backup and recovery to disk (fast disk) on a high avail. system...so recovery time is crucial.. Anybody know how fast I might restore a full backup of a 600gig to a Terabyte database. The machine probably will have 10+ cpus HP machine and EMC disk

Re: Global Stats

2003-01-30 Thread Jared Still
Lisa, From Steve Adams site: Despite the potential for improved statistics gathering, many DBAs have not yet adopted modification monitoring. One of the concerns that people have is that the monitoring might have a significant performance overhead. In fact, this is not the case. The

RE: Creating a simple stored procedure

2003-01-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Creating a simple stored procedure Have the owner of MyTab grant to appropriate privileges directly, it seems you have them through a role. Also check for a synonym for MyTable as well. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc.

Restricting the range of values in a field

2003-01-30 Thread Aidan Whitehall
Is there any way you can specify that the only permissible values (is it called a domain?) that can be entered in varchar2 field in an Oracle table to, for example, A, B and C? We can restrict what values users can enter at the application level, but it would be nice to be able to also restrict

Re: Middle Tier spawning sessions, possible performance issues

2003-01-30 Thread Anjo Kolk
You are kind of on the right track. The number of sessions doesn't really matter. What matters is that they logon/logoff all the time. That is the worst thing that you can do in an Oracle database. Why? The session will allocate the cursors, parse them, close them everytime the session will

Re: Borderline OT - Unix for Oracle at home

2003-01-30 Thread Gene Sais
I agree w/ Ron. Intel Linux is the least cost alternative. I just dumped an old Sparc 5 and bought a PIII 450 128mb ram for $139 + shipping. You can't beat the cost of old intel machines, plus I can get hardware/software anywhere. Gene [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/30/03 11:30AM Dan,I have an intel

RE: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-30 Thread Ron Rogers
You gentlemen do not know what it is like to have snow related traffic problems. In Atlanta a snow flake can cause a multi-car pileup with a 3 hour commute delay. Why just having cold weather (20 degrees F) will cause schools to close. Boy I miss New England. Transplanted CT Yankee, Ron [EMAIL

RE: Restricting the range of values in a field

2003-01-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Restricting the range of values in a field create or replace trigger my_restrictions on my_table after insert or update as declare unacceptable_values exception; begin begin if :new.my_restricted_column not in ('Blah1','blah2','Blah3') then --- Grrr .. user errored spank_user;

RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle

2003-01-30 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle Okay so Jared - you had scripted the shutdown abort then startup restrict then shutdown immediate even on OLTP's in your rc's without even waiting to see what would happen with a shutdown immediate - right. Well, if it is good enough for

RE: Making dispatchers re-read tnsnames.ora?

2003-01-30 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Gogala, Mladen wrote: Yeah! Put it in Oracle*Names. Will it make a difference? Does a dispatcher really re-query Names every time it tries to make a connection? No caching of service addresses? You promise? Off I go to convert my 300-instance organization to rely on a

RE: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-30 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Take Care of your DBAs Hoops ??? they built a extremely nice Basketball court for us (open 24 hours) ... but I have never ever been there, no time. A new 4/5 thou sqft workout area is being built too. One in a while I go to the new cafe where they have those 63 plasma TVs

Last access in table

2003-01-30 Thread Adriano Freire
DBA's, How can i see the last(date) access(DML) in a table? Thanks Adriano

Re: TNS name lookup failure with SAP

2003-01-30 Thread Kip . Bryant
---BeginMessage--- Hi Russ, When you run R3trans -d, it creates a trans.log file in the current directory. This will help you debug this. Errors in that log file can be used to look up possible problems in SAP's OSS. On the app server I assume you've edited the .dbenv hidden files and are

RE: Creating a simple stored procedure

2003-01-30 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Bob, where does the table mytab exist? - probably not in the same account as where you are creating the sp. in this case, you need to do two things. change the sp to say: update {schema}.mytab where {schema} is where the table exists. secondly, from {schema} you need to : grant select,

Re: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-30 Thread Alan Davey
Beer Pong is a lot of fun too. ;^) -- Alan Davey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 212-604-0200 x106 On 1/30/2003 10:09 AM, Gogala, Mladen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We would not be able to feed our families on our physical abilities but I definitely would try beating Lisa in the game of Ping Pong.

RE: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-30 Thread Weiss, Rick
You ought to see what happens in Phoenix when it rains. Wrecks, traffic snarls, yuck. It must be the fact that they never see anything remotely resembling water (except in pools). Oh yeah, that's right. I left there years ago for Montana. Never mind. Snow, rain, four seasons. This is living

RE: Creating a simple stored procedure

2003-01-30 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: Creating a simple stored procedure Hi Bob, first of all who are you creating the sp as? If it's not the table owner, is there a synonym declared? Is update granted via a role? If it is, grant update directly to the procedure owner. Or forget all this and run the proc as the

RE: Restricting the range of values in a field

2003-01-30 Thread Pardee, Roy E
How about: alter table my_table add (constraint domain_ck check (my_column in ('A', 'B', 'C') ) ) ; Cheers, -Roy Roy Pardee Programmer/Analyst SWFPAC Lockheed Martin IT Extension 8487 -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 8:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Lisa - My bad. I've gotta learn to put more emoticons in my messages. :-) Actually I thought you had an excellent point, sorry for taking it in a different direction. I run and lift weights regularly (no coordination required) and feel regular exercise should be a part of the DBA's week. Medically

RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle

2003-01-30 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
I have had a SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE hang for over 4 days on a test database that had little if any activity going on it so it could not be doing rollbacks for 4 days. It is something else that is a feature of 8i. I'm not keen on the SHUTDOWN ABORT either but I cannot have my database hang

RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle

2003-01-30 Thread Jesse, Rich
Dan, you won't be running alone. I had a bad corruption experience with 7.3 on NT (who hasn't), that I highly suspect was due to ABORT, but have never confirmed. Yes, depending on the situation, I have used ABORT with a followup IMMEDIATE many times without problem since then. My issue with

RE: Borderline OT - Unix for Oracle at home

2003-01-30 Thread Kevin Lange
Hey Dan; I currently am running a Sun Sparc 20 at home with oracle 8.1.7.4 and am adding 9.0.2. I got mine off of e-bay as you were talking about. The Sun software wasprety easyto load and configure so far. I have a DSL setup and its working just fine. I can even get to the DB from here

RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle

2003-01-30 Thread Michael Fontana
At 08:10 AM 1/30/2003 -0800, Fink, Dan wrote: I know I am going to catch major grief for this, but I avoid shutdown abort when possible. Shutdown immediate can take some time, as it will do transaction rollback in serial (where recovery at startup can do it in parallel and as needed). The main

RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle

2003-01-30 Thread Gene Sais
I used to see the shutdown immediate hang on OpenVMS (Oracle 7.x) platforms, never did happen on my Unix machines, and I never did have to support Oracle on Windoze :). I did notice if I stopped the developers from submitting jobs via dbms_jobs and forced them to use VMS batch jobsthen

Updating a huge hash partitioned table.

2003-01-30 Thread Reddy, Madhusudana
Hello All, I have a requirement to update a table which is hash partitioned and having a local prefixed index with keys (STORE, SKU, ACTION_DATE, TRAN_TYPE) . I have to update only one column called 'WH' to a new value where store=store#, wh= 0 and tran_type = -1. Explain plan shows me FULL

RE: Borderline OT - Unix for Oracle at home

2003-01-30 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey Dan, I picked up a Unix Workstation cheap (they were going to junk the 500Mhz Alpha here at work), installed RH7.1, and it's been running at home ever since. I've got a Linkys BEFSX41 fire-walling VPNing router that I plug my PC (Winders/Linux) and Alpha into, which then in turn plugs into

RE: 8i: how to find current scn number?

2003-01-30 Thread Gogala, Mladen
alter system checkpoint; select CONTROLFILE_CHANGE# from v$database; -Original Message- From: Ron Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:35 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: 8i: how to find current scn number? Hemlet,

RE: 8i: how to find current scn number?

2003-01-30 Thread Fink, Dan
As I recall, the act of executing a query will cause the value of the global scn to change. SCN is used for 2 purposes, for querying and committing. Someone on the list has a discussion of scns on their website, but I am drawing a blank as to which guru it is. -Original Message- Sent:

RE: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-30 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
Title: RE: "Take Care of your DBAs" Me offended, not possible. Maybe the offender, but not offended. Yea, yea I know, take this to the OT list so we can take it straight to the gutter! Dave -Original Message-From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, January

RE: Oracle, Siebel and rule-based optimization

2003-01-30 Thread Vergara, Michael (TEM)
Michael: Would you please post a summary of findings here on the list? I too have a Siebel implementation going on, and we are experiencing performance issues, and have set all the Siebel-specified initSID.ora parameters. I am in California, and the database is 'across the pond' in

RE: RMAN backup/restore to disk on 600G - terabyte Databases?? SP

2003-01-30 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: RMAN backup/restore to disk on 600G - terabyte Databases?? SPEED? Brian, If time is of the essence and you have EMC BCV's, look at Time Finder. I believe that's EMC's piece of software that allows you to sync and split a third mirror. That will be much faster for recovery than

RE: Restricting the range of values in a field

2003-01-30 Thread Fink, Dan
Check Constraint! -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:01 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Is there any way you can specify that the only permissible values (is it called a domain?) that can be entered in varchar2 field in an Oracle table to, for example, A,

RE: Borderline OT - Unix for Oracle at home

2003-01-30 Thread Richard Ji
Dan I personally run Linux/Oracle on all of my own test/dev boxes. But I'd like to vote for Solaris/Oracle. I would also recommand the Sun Blades, which are based on PC architectures and the advantage is it uses PC RAM and IDE hard drive, so it's cheaper than the Sun parts. You can get a

RE: SQL question

2003-01-30 Thread sundeep maini
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ( SELECT DISTINCT col1, col2. FROM ..) --- Charu Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks all, My question was related more to the 'design' of SQL language. To my mind the expression COUNT(DISTINCT a,b) looked a natural extension of the syntax

RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle

2003-01-30 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle Yes on Solaris, Aix, etc. -Original Message- From: Farnsworth, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:21 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle

RE: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-30 Thread Michael Fontana
At 08:00 AM 1/30/2003 -0800, Ron Rogers wrote: You gentlemen do not know what it is like to have snow related traffic problems. In Atlanta a snow flake can cause a multi-car pileup with a 3 hour commute delay. Why just having cold weather (20 degrees F) will cause schools to close. I've got you

Re: Restricting the range of values in a field

2003-01-30 Thread Igor Neyman
Read docs about CHECK constraint. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 11:00 AM Is there any way you can specify that the only permissible values (is it called a

RE: books recommendations

2003-01-30 Thread Harvinder Singh
http://www.ebooks.com/items/item-display.asp?IID=41070 http://www.wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?0-471-22436-7 -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi harvinder Can you please point me to the High-Performance Oracle: Proven

RE: Debate on rc commands Solaris and Oracle

2003-01-30 Thread Stephen Lee
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RE: Middle Tier spawning sessions, possible performance issues

2003-01-30 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: RE: Middle Tier spawning sessions, possible performance issues I read somewhere that for apps that constantly logon/logoff (like web apps), one possible thing to do is increase the cache size for the AUDSES$ sequence. Anyone done this and seen improvements? Curiously, Steve Orr

Re: Restricting the range of values in a field

2003-01-30 Thread Pat Hildebrand
Sounds made to order for a check constraint on the column of interest. Pat Is there any way you can specify that the only permissible values (is it called a domain?) that can be entered in varchar2 field in an Oracle table to, for example, A, B and C? We can restrict

RE: Take Care of your DBAs

2003-01-30 Thread Glenn Stauffer
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 10:09, Gogala, Mladen wrote: It's nice to have four seasons. As long as the temperature doesn't drop under 60 during any of those four seasons. Four feet of snow? Here in CT, we had few inches and the traffic collapsed. What do you drive? Sherman tank? -- If

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