strange ORA- 00980 - synonym translation is no longer valid

2003-04-04 Thread Dilip
Hi List, I have one Oracle Application database (Version 8.1.7.4 on Sun Sparc Solaris 2.6, instace name CRPHR). I have a table HR_LOCATIONS_ALL in HR schema and there is synonym HR_LOCATIONS_ALL in APPS schema forthis table. I am trying to create a snapshot inother database ( Version 9.2 on

RE: Cannot allocate new log - checkpoint not complete

2003-04-04 Thread Fermin Bernaus Berraondo
Dennis, This is our actual distribution: Datafiles belonging to data in a separate disk, name it /baandata Datafiles belonging to index in a separate disk, name it /baanindex And 3 redolog files, two of them in another two separate disks, and the third

RE: alter table add

2003-04-04 Thread Hallas, John, Tech Dev
Have you updated your cursor to add the new column? John -Original Message- Sent: 03 April 2003 21:54 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I added a column using alter table add ... i can see it from sql . can select it from sql . But if I try to use it in a pl/sql block or

RE: Cannot allocate new log - checkpoint not complete

2003-04-04 Thread Fermin Bernaus Berraondo
No problem with the archive log management scripts, I back up archived log files daily, no matter how many of them we have. -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nombre de Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY) Enviado el: viernes, 04 de abril de 2003 3:28 Para:

AW: Cannot allocate new log - checkpoint not complete

2003-04-04 Thread Stefan Jahnke
Sorry, that wasn't clear enough: I meant the backup time for one individual redo log will increase. Of course your right, ... the overall bytes to be backed up don't increase. Stefan Stefan Jahnke Consultant BOV Aktiengesellschaft Voice: +49 201 - 4513-298 Fax: +49 201 - 4513-149 mailto: [EMAIL

Re: RE: Autoallocate vs Uniform extent performance

2003-04-04 Thread Richard Foote
Hi Pete, Stop using my favourite answer :) I'm not suggesting this is particularly scientific but here's a quick test on dropping a moderate number of extents (9.2 on XP): SQL create tablespace biggish 2 datafile 'c:\bowie\biggish01.dbf' size 2000M 3 uniform size 16K; Tablespace created.

AW: Cannot allocate new log - checkpoint not complete

2003-04-04 Thread Stefan Jahnke
hi, see inline comments below ... There are some other effects I can think of. Up to you if these are important / significant to your users. If you make them bigger and you have a standby database then the standby might end up being further behind production (unless you have a script to

Database hang on Shutdown

2003-04-04 Thread SARKAR, Samir
Has anyone ever seen - and resolved - a database hang at shutdown when the message SHUTDOWN: waiting for active calls to complete. appears in the alert log. We get this occasionally and no matter how long we wait the shutdown never completes. A new connection to do an abort is not possible as

RE: Cannot allocate new log - checkpoint not complete

2003-04-04 Thread Connor McDonald
Its not really a particular redo log that is the issue. You've used up redo's (say) 1, 2, 3 and you want to cycle around to 1 but the checkpoint that would free up redo 1 is not yet finished. Thus its not a single redo log that is the problem - the IO rate of the checkpoint is not sufficient

Was: Auto vs Uniform - now number of extents

2003-04-04 Thread Connor McDonald
Ok, I'll go for something controversial and lets see if it can be shot down... On the assumption that every system's maximum physical I/O is a common divisor or multiple of the Oracle setting for SSTIOMAX (which is 1m in most relevant versions), then every extent for every segment should be 1m

RE: Cannot allocate new log - checkpoint not complete

2003-04-04 Thread Fermin Bernaus Berraondo
So do you think the following distribution will contribute to a better performance: data datafiles - device a index datafiles - device b redolog1 - device c redolog2 - device d redolog3 - device c instead of: data datafiles -

Re: Immediate v. Abort

2003-04-04 Thread Hemant K Chitale
There have been a number of emails on this thread a few months ago. Check the archives. Some people [including me] are comfortable with SHUTDOWN ABORT,STARTUP RESTRICT, SHUTDOWN NORMAL while others are NOT comfortable with the SHUTDOWN ABORT. It depends on your experiences with SHUTDOWN ABORT

Re: RE: Autoallocate vs Uniform extent performance

2003-04-04 Thread Hemant K Chitale
I count that as 127 thousand extents dropped in 6seconds. The CREATE TABLE + EXTENTS took 49seconds. No, I am not trying to draw any conclusions, just making an observation. I am comfortable with thousands of extents but wouldn't look at a million extents. Hemant At 12:23 AM 04-04-03 -0800, you

RE: alter table add

2003-04-04 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Another question Is the procedure selecting from a view on the table ? Or a synonym to a view on the table ? -- the view not having been recreated to include the new column. Hemant At 12:23 AM 04-04-03 -0800, you wrote: Have you updated your cursor to add the new column? John -Original

Re: dbshut script - why shutdown so much???

2003-04-04 Thread Ray Stell
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 06:58:37PM -0800, Connor McDonald wrote: All this discussion on shutdown does motivate me to ask why is everyone shutting down so frequently? -- Here are my reasons this past year: oracle security patches sun kernel patches power issues static configuration change 8i

RE: dbshut script - why shutdown so much???

2003-04-04 Thread April Wells
Title: RE: dbshut script - why shutdown so much??? Your reasons beat ours, Ray. We just reboot the box every weekend because we do and we always have. It is AIX, too. We don't even reboot our Win 2K machines as often. April Wells Oracle DBA/ Oracle Apps DBA -Original Message- From:

Re: Autoallocate vs Uniform extent performance

2003-04-04 Thread Rachel Carmichael
rumor hath it (as I've never actually had an object hit that high a number) that when you exceed 4K extents it's time to resize. This came from one of the instructors in Oracle University, one who is well-known to actually have more than a clue. He said this at the Data Internals class, before 9i

Re: linux intel support matrix

2003-04-04 Thread Ray Stell
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 06:33:53PM -0800, Ray Stell wrote: I went to look at the matrix today and found it dramatically changed. I found only 9.2.0 and Redhat AS. All the other free linux versions are gone as well as all 8i versions. Do you find the same, maybe the webmeister is messing

Re: oracle full table scan

2003-04-04 Thread Igor Neyman
Would you please? Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 3:28 PM Sorry, the attachments didn't make it, though they were only text. I can put them some accessible via the

SunCluster 3. 0 Veritas File system RAC

2003-04-04 Thread Vladimir Barac
Anyone using this configuration? Since I would like to avoid raw partitions, I was thinking of recomending Veritas File system... Is it certified / working? Anyone working with such combo? I will fire metalink page soon, but would like to have some input from listers! Thanks, Vladimir

submitting statspack.snap through dbms_job

2003-04-04 Thread Zabair Ahmed
Quick question, I want to submit statspack.snap at 10:00am and 14:00pm through dbms_job, it's friday afternoon and my head is hurting me from a heavy night and the manuals are as clear as mud. ThanksYahoo! Plus - For a better Internet experience

Re: Database hang on Shutdown

2003-04-04 Thread Jared Still
There's another thread on this list this week regarding shutdown. You should probably read it. Barring that, you should start using 'shutdown immediate' at the very least. If that doesn't work, use 'shutdown abort'. As for being unable to make another connection, the state of the database

RE: dbshut script - why shutdown so much???

2003-04-04 Thread Darrell Landrum
I once read an article in an IT publication (several years ago) in which the author stated that if you are still rebooting your Unix servers routinely, your Unix admins don't know what they're doing. Yes, the language was that harsh. I thought this was ludicrous for 2 reasons: 1) The author

PL/SQL- cursors and commits

2003-04-04 Thread Wiegand, Kurt
Title: PL/SQL- cursors and commits I've been 'experimenting' with the following code in 8.1.5 and it seems to work fine. However, my ORACLE PL/SQL book from O'REILLY (Steven Feuerstein Bill Pribyl 1997) leads me to believe that it should not work. They state As soon as a cursor with a FOR

RE: linux intel support matrix

2003-04-04 Thread Odland, Brad
What you see is correct. 9.2.0 is only supported on PAY versions of linux. 8.1.7 is still supported on various free versions. (funny how open only includes We just went through hoops trying to find a combination of free Linux and Oracle that we could run OEM OMS and names on... We settled on

RE: dbshut script - why shutdown so much???

2003-04-04 Thread Stephane Paquette
All our unix servers (+-25) are AIX 4.3. We reboot only if there is a problem. Stephane -Original Message- Landrum Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L I once read an article in an IT publication (several years ago) in which the author stated

Re: dbshut script - why shutdown so much???

2003-04-04 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your reasons beat ours, Ray. We just reboot the box every weekend because we do and we always have. It is AIX, too. We don't even reboot our Win 2K machines as often. there's also run away processes from poorly written third party software, or internally written for

RE: Cannot allocate new log - checkpoint not complete

2003-04-04 Thread Cary Millsap
Fermin, The checkpoint incomplete message is a statement that your DBWR is not keeping up with the pace of redo generation. You can try to paint over the problem by adding redo log files. This works when you create enough redo log file space that your peak redo generation event concludes before

RE: dbshut script - why shutdown so much???

2003-04-04 Thread Jesse, Rich
Oh joy! The ABORT argument again! ;) Is there a way to flush table monitoring counts before the ABORT, either in 8i or 9i? Rich Rich JesseSystem/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message-

RE: 8i to 9i clone

2003-04-04 Thread Gogala, Mladen
If you're talking about the RMAN cloning process, I've never tried it but it should be possible, at least in theory. RMAN cloning needs a) Valid backup b) The AUX instance. c) RMAN catalog. Now, I know that 8.1.7.1 RMAN executable can use the catalog created with 9.2.0.3 (tested personally), and

RE: dbshut script - why shutdown so much???

2003-04-04 Thread Jeremiah Wilton
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Darrell Landrum wrote: I once read an article in an IT publication (several years ago) in which the author stated that if you are still rebooting your Unix servers routinely, your Unix admins don't know what they're doing. Yes, the language was that harsh. I thought this

Re: alter table add

2003-04-04 Thread AK
yes I added that column in to cursor . varified everything . There was a synonym . I dropped and recreated synonym , but it doesn't work . Finally I removed the default clause in newly added column and recreated sysnonym , which worked . This was weired . -ak - Original Message - To:

RE: SQL Question

2003-04-04 Thread Chelur, Jayadas {PBSG}
Hi Madhavan, You are always welcome. I had to write a similiar one some time back and I remember it was quite a task then. Thankfully I had a head start this time !. Hope you get the stuff sorted out. Glad to be of help ... Regards, Jayadas -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, April 03,

Re: why ?????????

2003-04-04 Thread AK
which means query data dictionary for table defination , but why go to db blocks ? -ak - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 8:13 PM There are perfectly valid reasons for querying a table when no rows are

Re: Autoallocate vs Uniform extent performance

2003-04-04 Thread Rachel Carmichael
as has been pointed out to me privately (and it's really okay to correct me publicly!), it is not delete that would release blocks but truncate or drop. Resolution: do not post before at least two cups of coffee. My apologies to anyone I might have confused. --- Rachel Carmichael [EMAIL

RE: Cannot allocate new log - checkpoint not complete

2003-04-04 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Fermin I would definitely go for your second configuration. I don't think there is a problem with several redo logs on the same device, since Oracle is only writing to one log at a time. Actually, if I could devote two devices to redo logs, I would mirror the redo logs. You can easily recover

Re: PL/SQL- cursors and commits

2003-04-04 Thread Reginald . W . Bailey
Kurt: It appears that you are committing inside the loop in the same inner block that the update is in. The commit is freeing up the rows. I find it a good practice sometimes to do commits inside the inner block like that, on long transactions.

RE: RMAN: What blocks are backed up with a full backup?

2003-04-04 Thread Gogala, Mladen
What it doesn't write are the blocks that are not allocated to any extent. RMAN doesn't go into the logical structures, like tables and indexes, it looks into the tablespace header and reads the information from the bitmap information there. It cannot go into tables/indexes because it should also

Re: why ?????????

2003-04-04 Thread AK
Thanks , That's what I guessed . But was feeling lazy to do 10046 tracing . N E way thanks for the info . -ak - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 5:40 PM Ak, I think what you're seeing is the result of the

Re: oracle job question

2003-04-04 Thread AK
thanks for the reply . -ak - Original Message - From: CP To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 5:28 PM Subject: Re: oracle job question Yes, the value for JOB_QUEUE_PROCESSES should be 0 for any scheduled jobs to

Re: submitting statspack.snap through dbms_job

2003-04-04 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
Title: Re: submitting statspack.snap through dbms_job var jnr number exec dbms_job.submit(job=:jnr, what='statspack.snap(5);', next_date=trunc(sysdate)+10/24, interval='trunc(sysdate)+10/24'); exec dbms_job.submit(job=:jnr, what='statspack.snap(5);', next_date=trunc(sysdate)+14/24,

RE: dbshut script - why shutdown so much???

2003-04-04 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
In 9i Release 2 : exec dbms_stats.flush_database_monitoring_info Nothing of the sort in earlier releases... - Kirti -Original Message- Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:09 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oh joy! The ABORT argument again! ;) Is there a way to flush

RE: linux intel support matrix

2003-04-04 Thread Gogala, Mladen
I seriously advise against the Intel Itanic machines. If you need 64 bits you can either wait for the Clawhammer or switch to something else that already supports 64 bits. One little HP superdome would be a nice decoration in my living room. Intel Itanic has hit an iceberg. -Original

RE: PL/SQL- cursors and commits

2003-04-04 Thread Ashish
Title: PL/SQL- cursors and commits As the book says, it fails with following error(9.2.0.1 on Win2k). declare*ERROR at line 1:ORA-01002: fetch out of sequenceORA-06512: at line 12 -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Wiegand,

Things to validate / collect before Killing a session !!!!

2003-04-04 Thread Reddy, Madhusudana
Hi List, We all need to kill the user sessions in the situations of locking or sometime on end user / application support person's request . I would like to know best practices followed before killing a session , Any of you collect some information/statistics before kill ?? Please share your

Sub-query in order by clause

2003-04-04 Thread Ashish
Hello list, In Oracle 9.2.0.1, you can now order by using a single-row subquery Here is an example: SELECT emp.deptno, empno, enameFROM empORDER BY (SELECT deptnoFROM deptWHERE dept.deptno = emp.deptno ); Thequestion I have is what is theusefulness of this?Under which circumstances

Rollback and what table's DML caused an ORA-1555?

2003-04-04 Thread Jesse, Rich
Hey all, Fighting with a lot of ORA-1555s lately on 8.1.7.4 on HP/UX. Most of them are now coming from long-running Business Objects (B.O.) queries against our OLTP DB. I think I need to recreate the RBS tablespace (currently 1MB extents in LMT), but until I can get time to do that, I'd like to

RE: RMAN: What blocks are backed up with a full backup?

2003-04-04 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
This is accurate and far more correct than my quickly written statement was. I actually say this almost word for word in the book. This is why even a table truncate will not reduce RMAN space usage. Sorry, I'll endevor in the future to be more susinct! :-) RF -Original Message- To:

Re: RMAN: What blocks are backed up with a full backup?

2003-04-04 Thread Keith Moore
This matches the data I have collected, with the following addition: RMAN will backup any blocks that have ever had data in them, even if the extent has been deallocated or the object dropped. Keith - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Rollback and what table's DML caused an ORA-1555?

2003-04-04 Thread Stephane Faroult
Jesse, Rich wrote: Hey all, Fighting with a lot of ORA-1555s lately on 8.1.7.4 on HP/UX. Most of them are now coming from long-running Business Objects (B.O.) queries against our OLTP DB. I think I need to recreate the RBS tablespace (currently 1MB extents in LMT), but until I can get

Re: why ?????????

2003-04-04 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
Title: Re: why ? Oh, Oracle KNOWS that where 1=2 is always false, so it knows that the resultset will be empty. But it has to come up with a plan, so I assume it just takes the simplest plan it knows - a full table scan - knowing full well that it does not actually have to do the

RE: Rollback and what table's DML caused an ORA-1555?

2003-04-04 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Rich For what it's worth, here would be my priorities: 1. Ask the users to run the report at a different time. Maybe plot the transactions over a 24-hour period to display better time. They won't like this, and you may want to soften it with until we get the application modified. 2.

Re: oracle full table scan

2003-04-04 Thread Jared . Still
A zip file of the run_stats scripts can be downloaded from http://www.cybcon.com/~jkstill/download/run_stats.zip Jared Igor Neyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/04/2003 06:08 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

RE: Things to validate / collect before Killing a session !!!!

2003-04-04 Thread Wiegand, Kurt
Title: RE: Things to validate / collect before Killing a session I always check to see how much rollback they have in case I want to watch it rollback and I always make sure I get the pid for the associated UNIX process in case I decide I need to kill it. Of course, I always almost

Re: why ?????????

2003-04-04 Thread Jonathan Lewis
It's worth noting that even in the execution path you get a clue that the table isn't actually visited: Note the FILTER line - FILTER means too many things, but one of the meaning is: I'm not really going to do the child bit because I know that the result set will be empty This

Re: linux intel support matrix

2003-04-04 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seriously advise against the Intel Itanic machines. If you need 64 bits you can either wait for the Clawhammer or switch to something else that already supports 64 bits. One little HP superdome would be a nice decoration in my living room. Intel Itanic has hit an

RE: RMAN: What blocks are backed up with a full backup?

2003-04-04 Thread Gogala, Mladen
I apologize, I shouldn't be trying to teach the master. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 12:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L This is accurate and far more correct than my quickly written statement was. I actually say this almost word for word in the book.

RE: Autoallocate vs Uniform extent performance

2003-04-04 Thread Gogala, Mladen
You've also been to Scott Gosset's classes in NYC in the year 2001? He had a whole series of those classes. It was a very rare event indeed, given that he lives in Peoria, Il. I was very, very impressed with him and his knowledge. He warmly recommended Steve Adams book, which has really surprised

Re: Sub-query in order by clause

2003-04-04 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Wow ! I didn't realise that was possible - I'll have to see what Oracle can do with the execution plan. Your example could, of course, be rearranged to join emp to dept in order to order by some column of dept - and that might give us a clue why this could be useful. Pure hand-waving here - not

RE: Sub-query in order by clause

2003-04-04 Thread Nicoll, Iain
Don't really know but couldn't it be useful if you had ORDER BY ( SELECT deptname FROM dept WHERE dept.deptno = emp.deptno) -Original Message- Sent: 04 April 2003 17:34 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello list, In Oracle 9.2.0.1, you can now order by using

Re: RE: Autoallocate vs Uniform extent performance

2003-04-04 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I think you ought to refine your test: Create two tables at one extent each, then alternately allocate one extent to each table until you get to a very large number of extents. THEN try dropping one of them. Remember to set tablespace quotas for the user creating the table. It still won't

Re: Lies, damn lies and statistics

2003-04-04 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Stephane, Three things I don't need to tell you about your example: Prior to CPU-costing in 9, the order of single table predicates can have a dramatic impact on CPU without changing the amount of logical I/O. Logical I/O should always include the statistics buffer is pinned count - it's just

Re: linux intel support matrix

2003-04-04 Thread Ron Rogers
Bill, Welcome back!!! I haven't read you in a long time. Hope all is well. Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/04/03 12:29PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seriously advise against the Intel Itanic machines. If you need 64 bits you can either wait for the Clawhammer or switch to something else that

Re: Do triggers cause a context switch between SQL PL/SQL

2003-04-04 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I have always been puzzled by the expression context switch when talking about sql and pl/sql. To me, a context switch is something that happens at the O/S level when a process is suspended by the scheduler and a different process is resumed. If a trigger fires on an insert/update/delete, this

Re: Rollback and what table's DML caused an ORA-1555?

2003-04-04 Thread Gaja Krishna Vaidyanatha
Rich, The overcommiting is a definite suspect and is worth looking into. ALso, do you by chance have OPTIMAL set on your rollback segments? If so, I'd suggest you remove the OPTIMAL clause and try again. In my experience, I have had my share of hassles with OPTIMAL. Even when it was sized

RE: Things to validate / collect before Killing a session !!!!

2003-04-04 Thread Reddy, Madhusudana
Title: RE: Things to validate / collect before Killing a session Thanks Kurt !!! All, what Actually Oracle will do when we kill the JOB by " kill -9" , instead of "Alter System ". What about the Rollback ?? Any PARALLEL parameters in init.ora has any effect if

Re: Do triggers cause a context switch between SQL PL/SQL

2003-04-04 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Most of your cost there comes from the fact that the triggered approach turns an array process into a single row process. If you want a fairer comparison you need to ensure that your raw bulk load is only processing one row at a time. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk

Re: SunCluster 3. 0 Veritas File system RAC

2003-04-04 Thread Scott
Vladimir, You can either use Sun Cluster 3.0 using raw devices only with Veritas's Cluster Volume manager to manage the devices. or You can use Veritas's DBE/AC 3.5 edition and use the Veritas Cluster manager and Cluster File Systems (includes Cluster Volume Manager by Default) or raw devices.

RE: Autoallocate vs Uniform extent performance

2003-04-04 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Actually it was Bethesda a few years earlier but yes, Scott Gossett's classes. He is indeed impressive. I took Scott Heisey's class on 8i new features in Chicago in '96 or '97. Also a great instructor. I've never taken a class with Cary (I'm hoping to kinda change that at the Hotsos Symposium

Re: Do triggers cause a context switch between SQL PL/SQL

2003-04-04 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Don't worry about the fact that it is inefficient, worry about the fact that it simply doesn't work Person 2 inserts a row into table ''ApplicationFormCriteria'' but doesn't commit. The 'pseudo-RI' trigger fires and finds the parent row in 'ApplicationForm' so the row is deemed okay. Person 1

RE: dbshut script - why shutdown so much???

2003-04-04 Thread Jesse, Rich
One more foot in the grave of us diehard IMMEDIATE fans (nee anti-ABORT). Good to know that it's an option! Now if I can just get all of our various software vendors to support anything above 8.1.7.2.0... Rich Rich JesseSystem/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ Oracle Enterprise Manager]

2003-04-04 Thread Dory Edson
Hello friends, I'm a new member, my name is Dory Edson, and I live in Brasil. My question is about Oracle EnterPrise Manager I have installed Oracle 8.1.17i, and I can't start the Oracle EnterPrise Manager. (it can't find the service our server) Irealized that the service

[ Oracle EnterPrise Manager]

2003-04-04 Thread Dory Edson
Hello friends, I'm a new member, my name is Dory Edson, and I live in Brasil. My question is about Oracle EnterPrise Manager I have installed Oracle 8.1.17i, and I can't start the Oracle EnterPrise Manager. (it can't find the service our server) Irealized that the service

Re: OLAP Window Functions e.g. rank()

2003-04-04 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Which version of 8i ? They didn't appear until 8.1.6. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr One-day tutorials:

RE: Sub-query in order by clause

2003-04-04 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Sub-query in order by clause Why would you do that instead of SELECT emp.deptno, empno, ename FROM emp a, dept b WHERE dept.deptno = emp.deptno order by dept.deptname ; -Original Message- From: Nicoll, Iain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Don't really know but couldn't it

RE: RMAN Catalog: 1 vs. many - Opinions

2003-04-04 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Deepak You may also wish to consider not using catalog(s) -- control file backups. This might make it easier to add and remove databases in your environment. I'm presuming most databases are on their own server. If you want to be able to run a single query that will report any backup

RE: Do triggers cause a context switch between SQL PL/SQL

2003-04-04 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: Do triggers cause a context switch between SQL PL/SQL Jonathan it is switching from SQL context to PL/SQL context and vice versa. Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views

RMAN Catalog: 1 vs. many - Opinions

2003-04-04 Thread Deepak Sharma
We are in the process of moving from traditional hot backups to one using RMAN. Total databases are around 200+. Should we be using 1 or few RMAN catalogs, or 1 catalog per database? Thanks, Deepak __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File

Full table scan difference

2003-04-04 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
List - As I mentioned earlier, a new manager came from a site that regularly rebuilt tables. I protested the value of this, but his response was well, at least you could test it. So on a test instance I've been doing a CTAS to create a reorganized copy of the table in the same tablespace (LMT with

Importing Schema getting compilation errors on some triggers

2003-04-04 Thread Scott Stefick
Hello, Oracle 8.1.7.4 HPUX 11.11 App is Famis Maintenance Management System I have 3 instances TEST, TRAIN, PROD and I am trying to refresh the whole famis schema on TRAIN with the famis schema on TEST. Every time I try to do the import, I get compilation errors for 4 triggers (out of 75). I

RE: RMAN: What blocks are backed up with a full backup?

2003-04-04 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Teach me? Hell, there is more stuff in the world I don't know than I know of! I've been wrong before and I'll be wrong again and and I hate this, I FORGET STUFF. Easy stuff, simple stuff stuff I kick myself all over creation because I forgot it. Me the master, na Thats where

Re: Autoallocate vs Uniform extent performance

2003-04-04 Thread JApplewhite
Rachel, At a recent past job, under 8.1.6 on Win2k we had tables with out-of-line CLOB segments of 30,000 extents (1MB each). Every month we dropped one to make room for another (6 months of CLOB documents online). It always just took a few seconds for the drop. These were in DMTs. Later we

Re: linux intel support matrix

2003-04-04 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, Welcome back!!! I haven't read you in a long time. Hope all is well. Ron just got a 3 month contract after being out of work since the end of june. guess that's the end of my afternoon naps, and my afternoon beer, for a while.;-) -- -- Bill Shrek Thater

Re: Rollback and what table's DML caused an ORA-1555?

2003-04-04 Thread Jonathan Lewis
In general, you don't need to do this in recent versions of Oracle. Oracle knows that all the data in the tablespace MUST have been committed before the tablespace was switched to read-only (you can only switch a tablspace to readonly when there are no active transactions that started before

Re: Autoallocate vs Uniform extent performance

2003-04-04 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These guys are why I think I know nothing! yes my goddess, what ever you say my goddess.;-) you are the reason i think i don't know anything. so guess how far behind those guys i am.;-) -- -- Bill Shrek Thater ORACLE DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: RMAN Catalog: 1 vs. many - Opinions

2003-04-04 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: RMAN Catalog: 1 vs. many - Opinions I have setup a server for just rman catalog backed up to tape with clones offsite for DR. It makes it easier as scripts are parameterized to keep aware of backup statuses = etc. Having this on a centralized management server and can't believe

Re: Importing Schema getting compilation errors on some

2003-04-04 Thread Darrell Landrum
Scott, can you run this command in sqlplus and e-mail the results out to us... show errors trigger triggername [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/04/03 02:14PM Hello, Oracle 8.1.7.4 HPUX 11.11 App is Famis Maintenance Management System I have 3 instances TEST, TRAIN, PROD and I am trying to refresh the

RE: Rollback and what table's DML caused an ORA-1555?

2003-04-04 Thread Jesse, Rich
Excellent advice, Gaja! Yes, we do have OPTIMAL set. From the docs I don't see a way to remove the OPTIMAL setting once used. I assume this means new RBSs? Rich Rich JesseSystem/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

Re: Do triggers cause a context switch between SQL PL/SQL

2003-04-04 Thread Jared . Still
Jonathan, It's just being used in a different context. Jared Jonathan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/04/2003 11:23 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Do

Database link and connection

2003-04-04 Thread Stephane Paquette
Hi all, Oracle 8172 with dedicated connections. I've not played that much with database links. Users from application A will accessed data from another database B with a dblink. Real time access is needed so no snapshot, tables and stored proc are accessed. There are 300 users in application A

RE: Sub-query in order by clause

2003-04-04 Thread Nicoll, Iain
Jacques, As I believe has been pointed out already it may possibly be more efficient if dept is very small and emp is very large (especially if there are filters and a join would be done before a filter was applied). Alternatively it may be that Oracle believe it is more intuitive to people

Re: RMAN: What blocks are backed up with a full backup?

2003-04-04 Thread bill thater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Teach me? Hell, there is more stuff in the world I don't know than I know of! I've been wrong before and I'll be wrong again and and I hate this, I FORGET STUFF. Easy stuff, simple stuff stuff I kick myself all over creation because I forgot it. yup, simple stuff

Memory strangeness on Win2k

2003-04-04 Thread Paul Baumgartel
So I have DB (9.2.0.1) running on Win2K, with db_cache_size of 32M. Windows Task Manager shows 600+ MB of free physical memory. ALTER SYSTEM SET DB_CACHE_SIZE=50248000 SCOPE=BOTH fails with ORA-00384: Insufficient memory to grow cache. I'm going to try ...SCOPE=SPFILE, then bouncing the

RE: Sub-query in order by clause

2003-04-04 Thread Lyndon Tiu
Which way is faster? The subselect(nested select) or the join? Thanks. -- Lyndon Tiu Quoting Jacques Kilchoer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why would you do that instead of SELECT emp.deptno, empno, ename FROM emp a, dept b WHERE dept.deptno = emp.deptno order by dept.deptname ; -Original

RE: Full table scan difference

2003-04-04 Thread Cary Millsap
1. Dial 1-0-0-4-6. 2. Look at the latching and pinning statistics promoted at asktom, ixora, and jlcomp. Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Hotsos Clinic 101 in Chicago, London, Reykjavik, Ottawa, Denver - Visit www.hotsos.com for schedule details...

Re: recovery

2003-04-04 Thread Arun Annamalai
Hey 1. you dont need to do anything with redologs either backup or restore. 2. you can use the current control file(in which case you dont have to do anything) or use old control file. Incase, If you use old control file with combo of current relo logs then you need to use

RE: linux intel support matrix

2003-04-04 Thread Weaver, Walt
They make you work in the afternoon --Walt Weaver Bozeman, Montana -Original Message- From: bill thater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 2:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: linux intel support matrix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: Sub-query in order by clause

2003-04-04 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Sub-query in order by clause I see your point. The answer to my question why would you do that instead of ... is, of course, because the other way might be faster. Read Jonathan Lewis' earlier post, he had (as always) some good insight. -Original Message- From: Lyndon

Re: Importing Schema getting compilation errors on some triggers

2003-04-04 Thread Stephane Faroult
Scott Stefick wrote: Hello, Oracle 8.1.7.4 HPUX 11.11 App is Famis Maintenance Management System I have 3 instances TEST, TRAIN, PROD and I am trying to refresh the whole famis schema on TRAIN with the famis schema on TEST. Every time I try to do the import, I get compilation errors

RE: Importing Schema getting compilation errors on some triggers

2003-04-04 Thread Weiss, Rick
Scott: My first thought is to ask if there are any external references (other schemas, SYS packages, etc.) in the triggers that may not exist in TRAIN that do exist in TEST Rick Weiss -Original Message- Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 13:14 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hello,

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