Re: New TPC benchmarks

2003-12-16 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
Matthew, SAN's incur (much?) more codepath. If that makes things run faster that's excellent and fantastic. If removing a bunch of code and 8 or 9 layers between a server and a disk plate makes things slower there's something else wrong. Time and again we see how a laptop or desktop PC disk

Re: Re: New TPC benchmarks

2003-12-16 Thread Jonathan Lewis
I agree with the benefits of being able to wave benchmark papers around and saying But look what they HAD to do ! The line from one of the HP ones (1M tpcc) that I really liked was: quote Most of the space on the arrays in the tested system was unused during the performance tests, but is

standby database configuration in 9iR2 SE ?

2003-12-16 Thread Prem Khanna J
List, Can someone give me a doc/URL for the steps invloved in standby database configuration ( manual recovery mode ) on 9iR2 SE ? I do have a doc for standby database configuration ( managed recovery mode ) for 8i EE . except automatic log transfer which is not a feature of SE , will the

RE: standby database configuration in 9iR2 SE ?

2003-12-16 Thread Juan Miranda
Standby is only for Enterprise Ed. -Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Prem Khanna J Enviado el: martes, 16 de diciembre de 2003 8:24 Para: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Asunto: standby database configuration in 9iR2 SE ? List, Can

RE: standby database configuration in 9iR2 SE ?

2003-12-16 Thread Prem Khanna J
No Juan . SE also has the feature but Managed Recovery is not possible as in EE . A metalink doc says : quote Basic Standby Database is a feature of SE . that is it Allows the DBA to manually clone a database, and to copy and to apply log files to the standby /quote anyway i'm looking for

Re: New TPC benchmarks

2003-12-16 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Not just hash clusters, single-table hash clusters with user-defined, and very carefully designed hash key. Not something you can usually get away with in a dynamic table of 19 billion rows. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who

RE: RedHat Advanced Server v3.0, anyone?

2003-12-16 Thread Juan Miranda
I am sorry. De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de [EMAIL PROTECTED]Enviado el: martes, 16 de diciembre de 2003 0:34Para: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LAsunto: RE: RedHat Advanced Server v3.0, anyone? MetaLink is an official Oracle support mechanism for paid

alter tablespace offline

2003-12-16 Thread Jeroen van Sluisdam
Hi, This weekend I was migrating an oracle 7.3.4 environment to oracle 9.2.0.4 and we encountered a strange problem in issueing alter tablespace name offline. I had to reorganize tablespace and when testing this I did this manually and no problem at all. I put the statements in a

Re: Re: New TPC benchmarks

2003-12-16 Thread Nuno Souto
- Original Message - I beg to differ. When I ask for 2 external storage units of 14 drives apiece (DAS), and they look at me like I obviously have no clue about their intentions of a 3 drive RAID something other than 10 config, a configuration that they can download just by showing

Re: New TPC benchmarks

2003-12-16 Thread Nuno Souto
Gives a whole new meaning to the expression surrogate key... Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 7:19 PM Not just hash clusters, single-table hash clusters with

RE: alter tablespace offline

2003-12-16 Thread Sinardy Xing
Hi Jeroen, What is problem? Error msg or something? Sinardy -Original Message-From: Jeroen van Sluisdam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: 16 December 2003 18:12To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: alter tablespace offline Hi, This weekend I was

RE: alter tablespace offline

2003-12-16 Thread Jeroen van Sluisdam
Hi Sinardy, Instance was terminated when opening Errors in file /opt/oracle/product/admin/DECA/udump/deca_ora_28080.trc: ORA-00376: file 6 cannot be read at this time ORA-01110: data file 6: '/migratie_deca/DECA/DATA/tools01.dbf' Error 376 happened during db open, shutting down

RE: alter tablespace offline

2003-12-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
did you also rename the datafile within the database? the error message on the line starting with ORA-01110 tells you that the database thinks the file should be at /migratie_deca/DECA/DATA. If that is the original location, that should tell you that as far as Oracle is concerned the datafile is

RE: alter tablespace offline

2003-12-16 Thread Jeroen van Sluisdam
Hi Exact steps are: 1) alter tablespace tools offline 2) shutdown immediate 3) move the file on os-level 4) startup mount this failed 5) Here I wanted to exec the rename I know it's weird but this really happened and When I tried this with a new testdb again and used alter tablespace name

Re: table partitions

2003-12-16 Thread Jay Hostetter
Your high value for each partition can just be the beginning of every month. For example: CREATE TABLE ACCOUNTS ( STATEMENT_DATE DATE NOT NULL, ACCOUNT_NUMBER VARCHAR2(8)NOT NULL, BILLING_CYCLE VARCHAR2(2)NOT NULL,

Re: table partitions

2003-12-16 Thread Jay Hostetter
Resending, since my message was truncated... Your high value for each partition can just be the beginning of every month. For example: CREATE TABLE ACCOUNTS ( STATEMENT_DATE DATE NOT NULL, ACCOUNT_NUMBER VARCHAR2(8)NOT NULL, BILLING_CYCLE

RE: 8i pl/sql question

2003-12-16 Thread John Flack
Does myFunction1 often get called with the same arguments? In your example, the second argument is never repeated, but in the real thing, would the same second argument be likely to repeat? If myFunction1 gets the same arguments, will it always return the same value? If so, then it is a

Re: table partitions

2003-12-16 Thread Ron Rogers
Rick, If you partition on the date field then you set the partition limit with a date type limit. PARTITION aadedup01 VALUES LESS THAN ('02-01-2003') TABLESPACE aadedup01_data, PARTITION aadedup02 VALUES LESS THAN ('03-01-2003') TABLESPACE aadedup02_data, PARTITION aadedup03 VALUES LESS THAN

RE: table partitions

2003-12-16 Thread Wartiak Rastislav
From what I understood, he's asking how to put all January records in one partition, all Feb in another etc. So you end up with 12 partitions for as many years as you wish. I could not think of any other solution then the one he does not want to. rw Your high value for each partition can just

Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Oracle is posting healthy profits. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16700686 Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City

9iAS - SSL certificate renewal and wallet manager

2003-12-16 Thread Ben
Hi My SSL certificate is going to expire and I need to renew it. I am running 9iAS 9.0.3 on Solaris8. All the documentation seems to be about setting up the original certificate and I can't find anything on renewals. Has anyone done this? I have requested a new certificate from Entrust using the

Re: Free Memory in v$sgastat

2003-12-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
Sinardy, where does oracle say anything like that about free memory? Please, quote me an article or URL. Second, if you are not using MTS, your PGA is a part of your dedicated server address space, not SGA. It does exist, though. Similarly, UGA goes to shared pool instead. Buy yourself The Book

Re: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread ryan_oracle
the question for technical people is where the sales are located. are they in the US? or somewhere else From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/16 Tue AM 08:59:26 EST To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Good news from Oracle Oracle is

Re: New TPC benchmarks

2003-12-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
In good, old times when I was much younger then today, things that were benchmarked were called MIPS, which was short for Marketing Invention for Pushing Sales. Today they have TPC transactions which are equally relevant to the real world, but have no good translation. Whoever chooses hardware

SAN Comparison Question

2003-12-16 Thread Jay Hostetter
One of our hardware guys is seeking an opinion on SANs. He is comparing the Hitachi Thunder 9500 to the HP EVA 5000. Does anybody have any pros or cons to offer for either one? Good or bad experiences? Thank you, Jay **DISCLAIMER This e-mail message and any files transmitted with it are

Re: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
Of course they are. Support and development cost them much less now that they've outsourced it to Elbonia. The quality of the code is another matter. Fortunately, they have broad and wide open beta testing program so that we all know what we can expect. If the first relase of 10g is usable, I'll

RE: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
check the subject heading for tech note 33174.1 Type: REFERENCE Status: PUBLISHED Howzzat? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod

Re: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread KENNETH JANUSZ
If you are an owner of Oracle stock as I am, I don't care where the sales are. They all help make the stock price rise. However, I do prefer that the sales be in the USA. My $0.02, Ken Janusz, CPIM - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

How to refresh

2003-12-16 Thread Smith, Ron L.
I need to do a refresh of a test database using production data. We use import for this. In the past we have always dropped the schemas (4 or 5), recreated the schemas, and then did a full import with ignore=n. This time the user does not want to lose any of the new functions and procedures that

RE: How to refresh

2003-12-16 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ron - You should consider refreshing the instance by cloning your production database. This way you get an exact replica in all respects, and you can test your backup as a bonus. If you are interested in this method, tell us how you backup your production database. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch,

RE: How to refresh

2003-12-16 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Ron - As far as losing the new functions, this is one reason we've moved to a 3-instance layout. Production, staging, and test. This takes off a lot of the pressure for overwriting test as you describe. Other than that, it becomes a matter of negotiation. Describe what your options are, and let

RE: How to refresh

2003-12-16 Thread Bobak, Mark
Ron, Of course, your milage may vary, but this is what I do: 1.) exp [EMAIL PROTECTED] file=prod_data_exp.dmp owner=list,of,comma,separated,schemas direct=y 2.) connect to test_db. 3.) Disable all constraints. When you script this, make sure you order it so that referential constraints

RE: How to refresh

2003-12-16 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Like I said. There are new packages, procedures, functions, etc... in TEST that we do not want to lose. Ron -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Ron - You should consider refreshing the instance by cloning your production

RE: How to refresh

2003-12-16 Thread Pandian, Thiru
For this kind of situation I do normally like this Store all table names in single file. Exp constraints=n triggers=n indexes=n tables=`cat tables.lst` file=table_data.dmp grants=n Import the full file or by fromuser, touser option. -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 16,

RE: How to refresh

2003-12-16 Thread Igor Neyman
You can always disable triggers and constraints in existing schema before running import (and then, enable them after import is done). Also, specify CONSTRAINTS=N and TRIGGERS=N when exporting. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Smith, Ron L. Sent: Tuesday,

RE: 8i pl/sql question

2003-12-16 Thread Guang Mei
The first argumant (myID) is a variable that is different every time the function gets called. The second argument is a hard code number (just as in my orginal message). So I guess I could not use DETERMINISTIC here. I have not heard of DETERMINISTIC before but I will take a look of this becuase

RE: How to refresh

2003-12-16 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Seems like last time I tried to disable constraints Oracle complained and wouldn't let me due to dependant objects or something. Ron -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:15 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L You can always disable triggers and constraints in

Re: How to refresh

2003-12-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
What are all the problems with triggers and constraints? If you're talking about unique/primary/foreign keys, disable constraints and those pesky things that protect the integrity of your data will no longer be in your way. Of course, you will not know whether your data is inconsistent or not, but

Re: How to refresh

2003-12-16 Thread Carel-Jan Engel
Hi Ron, For just testdata you might take a look at http://www.databee.com/main.htm, this can help you. Dennis' method will work, but doesn't answer your question, because a production copy will overwrite all new functionality as well. However, his suggestion isn't as bad as it might seem on a

RE: How to refresh

2003-12-16 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Ron, here's an ugly way to do this: Empty your TEST database of data. Drop constraints Indexes. Perform and export of the TEST database with ROWS=N - this will export all Functions, packages and procedures. Import data from production. Import the stuff from step 2 above. This should overlay

RE: How to refresh

2003-12-16 Thread Igor Neyman
Here is a sample of the script I run to disable FK constraints: declare lTables DBMS_SQL.VARCHAR2_TABLE; lConstraints DBMS_SQL.VARCHAR2_TABLE; nJ BINARY_INTEGER; BEGIN SELECT table_name, constraint_name BULK COLLECT INTO lTables, lConstraints FROM user_constraints WHERE owner = 'IPN_DBA'

RE: 8i pl/sql question

2003-12-16 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
what does myfunction1() do? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email are strictly personal. QOTD: Any clod can have facts, having an opinion is an art ! -Original

Re: How to refresh

2003-12-16 Thread Carel-Jan Engel
Hi Ron, For just testdata you might take a look at http://www.databee.com/main.htm, this can help you. Dennis' method will work, but doesn't answer your question, because a production copy will overwrite all new functionality as well. However, his suggestion isn't as bad as it might seem on a

RE: 8i pl/sql question

2003-12-16 Thread Guang Mei
Below is the code for myfunction1 in the package, It calls a bunch of other functions, such as getBlastMatches, escapeGene, genes.gene2protein and addItem. Guang --- type blastMatch is record ( geneName gene.name%type, percent number ); function myfunction1 (seqid in number,

RE: OffTopic : sed : Alternate (2,4,6..) replacement

2003-12-16 Thread Stephen.Lee
Will this work? -- #!/usr/bin/ksh THINGY=0 cat swt | sed 's/:/ /' | while read A B JUNK; do if [ $THINGY -eq 1 ]; then B=that THINGY=0 else THINGY=1 fi echo $A:$B $JUNK done

RE: How to refresh

2003-12-16 Thread Smith, Ron L.
Thanks! I'll try it. Ron -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 9:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Here is a sample of the script I run to disable FK constraints: declare lTables DBMS_SQL.VARCHAR2_TABLE; lConstraints DBMS_SQL.VARCHAR2_TABLE; nJ

Re: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
Raj, you proven once again that you're an invaluable source of good information. Let me share it with the others. The note that Raj is talking about has the tfollowing title: ORA-600 [12235] Oracle process has no purpose in life ! I guess it will be accompanied by ora-600 [x] Look

RE: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Whoops somehow one line got snipped by listguru ... S_u_b_j_e_c_t: ORA-600 [12235] Oracle process has no purpose in life ! ... really? Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in

Re: OffTopic : sed : Alternate (2,4,6..) replacement

2003-12-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
It will replace colons with blank and display $A:that Junk on even number of iterations. which is used to evaluate the if condition. On 12/16/2003 11:04:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will this work? -- #!/usr/bin/ksh THINGY=0 cat swt |

RE: How to refresh

2003-12-16 Thread Ramón Estevez
I do that every night, but I drop the user to be refresh in the test db, is not a big DB. Ramon E. Estevez [EMAIL PROTECTED] 809-535-8994 -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 11:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi Ron, For just testdata you might take a

RE: How to refresh

2003-12-16 Thread Odland, Brad
If the developers have code in dev they should have DDLs that generate the triggers and changes. I hate it whenDevelopers think they can get away with telling some else to own thier code...Database CODE in my mind always includes the scripts to generate the object in addition to the funtioning

Re: RedHat Advanced Server v3.0, anyone?

2003-12-16 Thread Jared . Still
No, no lawsuit. Just receiving threatening correspondence from an attorney was enough to ruin my day. Jared Eric King [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/15/2003 03:49 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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2003-12-16 Thread zhu chao

Re: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread jo_holvoet
Or perhaps ora-600 [x] I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition ! mvg/regards Jo Mladen Gogala [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/16/2003 17:19 Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:

RE: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Pete Sharman
Mladen, you seem to be getting more warped, bitter and twisted each day! :) I think you need a holiday, or at least a good bottle of whiskey. If you contact Connor McDonald, he has a list of VERY nice scotches (up to 11,000 pounds IIRC) that you might like to pass on to someone to choose a nice

RE: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Whittle Jerome Contr NCI
Title: RE: Good news from Oracle More like ora-600 [x] Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! I'm sure Jared will soon agree. Jerry Whittle ASIFICS DBA NCI Information Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 618-622-4145 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Why is that there are so many Monty Python lovers among us oraclites? The other day, Bambi has used the velocity of a laden swallow thing from the Holy Grail, almost everybody knows Brian and some other sketches. Do we have any lovers of the Red Dwarf and

RE: How to refresh

2003-12-16 Thread John Flack
The methodology we developed for one client goes like this: There are three databases - dev, test, and prod. dev starts as a clone of prod, and fixes, changes and enhancements are developed and unit tested there. One of the REQUIRED products of development is a script that will upgrade prod to

RE: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Boyle, Christopher J.
Oh, smeg -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 12:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Why is that there are so many Monty Python lovers among us oraclites? The other day, Bambi has used the velocity of a laden swallow thing

RE: table partitions

2003-12-16 Thread Rick Stephenson
Yes, this is what I was looking for. I don't care about the year, and don't want to worry about adding new partitions for every new month that comes along each year. This table will only needs to contain six months worth of data. I will not be archiving it at all. I wanted to truncate the

RE: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Odland, Brad
Smeg! Love a hologram...forget that pompus self rightous illusion... -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 11:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Why is that there are so many Monty Python lovers among us oraclites? The

RE: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Bellow, Bambi
$ oerr tns 0 0, 0, Not An Error // *Cause: Everything is working as it should. // *Action: Don't worry: Be happy. Different song... less Pythonesque... -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Raj, you proven once

Re: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Thomas Day
Everybody loves Monty Python, don't they? I liked Red Dwarf well enough to make the effort to see it. Are we all big LOTR and B5 fans as well?

RE: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Thater, William
Mladen Gogala scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Why is that there are so many Monty Python lovers among us oraclites? The other day, Bambi has used the velocity of a laden swallow thing from the Holy Grail, almost everybody knows Brian and some

(OT !!!!!!!) Re: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread jo_holvoet
Most definitely ! Smoke me a kipper and all that. I'm heavily biased in favour of anything British as far as comedy goes : Blackadder (absolute no. 1), AbFab, ... mvg/regards Jo Mladen Gogala [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/16/2003 18:29 Please respond to ORACLE-L

RE: table partitions

2003-12-16 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Rick - Well, a simple way to do it might be to create 5 years of partitions, based on date as described. Then map all the Jan partitions to the same tablespace, Feb partitions to the same tablespace, etc. Instead of truncating a partition, just drop it to reclaim the space. Crude, but might meet

Re: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Before Jared sends you all to my list nope. hated LOTR (the books and part 1) and never saw Babylon 5 --- Thomas Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everybody loves Monty Python, don't they? I liked Red Dwarf well enough to make the effort to see it. Are we all big LOTR and B5 fans as

Re: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
Pete, I wholeheartedly agree with you. That is why I took two weeks off as of this Friday. Unfortunately, as far as Scotch is concerned, I'm more of an Irish Cream guy. Bailey's, Feeney Irish Cream and St Bredans Irish Cream are my favorite poisons. Connor, I hope that you're not disappointed.

RE: table partitions

2003-12-16 Thread M.Godlewski
Alternatively you could create the table based on a time_key and map that to the time table. Then the partitions key could change meaning as the years go by. i.e. time_key 1 = January of 2004 time_key 2 = Februrary of 2004 ... truncate the partitions as needed and reuse by changing the date in

RE: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Pete Sharman
Well, that Irish Cream stuff usually includes whiskey anyway, though of the Irish variety of course. I have fond memories of my university days when a friend used to make his own Baileys by the 5 gallon bucket. Same great taste, only creamier. Ah, those were the days! :) Pete Controlling

Re: Exclusive Password file, multiple databases

2003-12-16 Thread M.Godlewski
April, Look for a syntax error.April Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I have been trying Google and Tahiti for 2 days, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to clue in my database. 9.2.0.2 on AIX 5l I am running multiple databases and am trying to get all of the instances running

RE: Good news from Oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Thater, William
[EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: Or perhaps ora-600 [x] I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition ! NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!;-) -- Bill Shrek Thater ORACLE DBA I'm going to work my ticket if I can... -- Gilwell song

After 256 connections : ORA-12154

2003-12-16 Thread jaysingh1
Dear Gurus, We are getting the following error if we try to create more than 256 connections from the same client. The problem is easily reproducible bt writing simple java program and keep creating connections(do not close it). Did anyone encounter this kind of issue and how did you solve it?

RE: After 256 connections : ORA-12154

2003-12-16 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
What is the setting for processes in the database? What is your per-process-file descriptor limit? If you are on Solaris following may apply to you ... Solaris only Problem Description --- You have a JDBC program connecting to the database. This program may run standalone or

Re: Exclusive Password file, multiple databases

2003-12-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
Id the file name $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/orapw$ORACLE_SID? The file MUST BE properly named in order for oracle to recognize it. On 12/16/2003 01:54:24 PM, M.Godlewski wrote: April, Look for a syntax error. April Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I have been trying Google and Tahiti for 2

RE: After 256 connections : ORA-12154

2003-12-16 Thread Odland, Brad
Anytime you see a number like 256 it is likely you are hitting some limit. My guess is you are running out of memory in your application on that client. If you are trying to open that many connections from a single client you should start to look at connection manager to pool these connections

RE: After 256 connections : ORA-12154

2003-12-16 Thread Bobak, Mark
Hmm...my first thought is that this could be an OS/network configuration limitation on the client side? Though it does seem odd to raise an ORA-12154, after many successful connections What OS is the client? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 2:39 PM To: Multiple

RE: FW: Sun sets Solaris x86 free

2003-12-16 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Mladen, I notice that the linux vendors are charging for their distributions... The free linux argument doesn't hold true anymore, in my opinion. Patrice. -Original Message- Sent: December 15, 2003 8:29 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On 2003.12.15 07:09, Boivin, Patrice

RE: FW: Sun sets Solaris x86 free

2003-12-16 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Linux is just not an option in some environments. : ) Patrice -Original Message- Sent: December 15, 2003 9:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L That's right, it is just another crap. I would rather use Linux instead of Solarix for x86. - Original Message - To:

RE: alter tablespace offline

2003-12-16 Thread Hand, Michael T
Jeroen, The errors look like its from the database open not the mount. As Rachel has already mentioned the file rename has to take place after the mount but before you open the database. Mike -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:04 AM To: Multiple recipients of list

Re: After 256 connections : ORA-12154

2003-12-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
My first thought is that JDBC has an array of connections indexed by a byte-sized index. Let me paraphrase Marie Antoinette, lady famous for her shrewd dietary advice. Let them use DBI. Marie Antoinette's dietary advice came back to haunt her and gave her a huge albeit very short pain in the

Linux install for Oracle - Details reqd

2003-12-16 Thread quriyat
Hello all I am planning to install Linux; the idea is to install Oracle RAC. I have two questions: Q1. Which Linux is best suited for it(RH?/SUSE?/Mandrake?). I know i can get Oracle download from OTN but it should be installable on the particular flavor of Linux. Also, i would like to know

RE: NT - Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-16 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
Title: Message I'll throw gasoline on the fire here... On Win2K you may hit resource limits when you get to 1.5G or so memory used on a 4G server... Because Windows allocates half the memory to the kernel processes, half to the user processes. Patrice. -Original

Re: Linux install for Oracle - Details reqd

2003-12-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 12/16/2003 03:29:25 PM, quriyat wrote: Hello all I am planning to install Linux; the idea is to install Oracle RAC. I have two questions: Q1. Which Linux is best suited for it(RH?/SUSE?/Mandrake?). I know i can get Oracle download from OTN but it should be installable on the

RE: connection pooling from an application server to oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Orr, Steve
Correction... Homo sapiens does not have the largest brain in the animal kingdom. Elephants have larger brains and sperm whale brains weigh in at a whopping 20 pounds. So this is not necessarily a case where size matters, it's the spirit within that makes the difference. Of course the size of the

RE: table partitions

2003-12-16 Thread raju pa
And make sure all your indexes are local."M.Godlewski" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alternatively you could create the table based on a time_key and map that to the time table. Then the partitions key could change meaning as the years go by. i.e. time_key 1 = January of 2004 time_key 2 = Februrary

Unreadable time_stamp format

2003-12-16 Thread Nguyen, David M
Title: Unreadable time_stamp format I need to view time_stamp column in USER_ACTIVITY_LOG table but it displays unreadable format as shown below. Is there a way to decode it to be readable? SQL desc USER_ACTIVITY_LOG Name Null? Type -

Re: Unreadable time_stamp format

2003-12-16 Thread Jared . Still
column time_stamp format 9 head 'TIME STAMP' Nguyen, David M [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/16/2003 01:39 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Unreadable

Re: connection pooling from an application server to oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
Steve, you're a genuine cornucopia of almost useful information. I stand corrected. Sperm whales have larger brain then humans, which makes them smart enough to forgo Java. Legend has it that they are using a whale version of perl, based on whistling. (This is the place to insert I'm a believer

RE: After 256 connections : ORA-12154

2003-12-16 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Jay - You have received some great suggestions on this and no doubt you are researching them. I'll offer a slightly dumber long shot, but easy to check. What is your PROCESSES set for this instance? Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday,

RE: NT - Win2K causes performance degradation..

2003-12-16 Thread Murali_Pavuloori/Claritas
We run oracle 9.2.0.3 on Win 2000 and have observed that whenever the memory on ora.exe process reaches around 1.4G, our application runs into Listener unable to start a dedicated server process At this point no one will be able to connect to the db and we are forced to restart. We are exploring

SQL*Plus with readline

2003-12-16 Thread Daniel Hanks
I know there's a lot of folks who grumble about the spartan-ness of SQL*Plus, but the only real feature I wish it had was GNU readline capability for command history and editing. I've looked at some wrappers (yasql, gasql), as well as replacements (henplus, which is quite nice, actually), but

RE: Unreadable time_stamp format

2003-12-16 Thread Nguyen, David M
Title: Unreadable time_stamp format Now I got. USER_NAME TIME STAMP -- eholley 1069716948959 jmdavis 1069715246467 jmdavis 1069715324466 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobak,

RE: connection pooling from an application server to oracle

2003-12-16 Thread Bellow, Bambi
To extrapolate, then, do you think that Neanderthals(at a cranial capacity of over 1700 cc) would have been using Oracle 11h, or do you think they would have prefered OODBMSs? -Original Message- Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 3:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On

Re: Unreadable time_stamp format

2003-12-16 Thread Mladen Gogala
Now that's great! Here is my contribution, pasted directly from SQL Reference: TIMESTAMP (fractional_seconds_precision) Year, month, and day values of date, as well as hour, minute, and second values of time, where fractional_seconds_precision is the number of digits in the fractional

RE: Unreadable time_stamp format

2003-12-16 Thread Bobak, Mark
Title: Unreadable time_stamp format Which I assume means you have no idea how to get a readable date out of that? A thought, it could a be a julian date of some kind. I tried several different guessesnone of which panned out. These types of things usually work better when you have the

Re: SQL*Plus with readline

2003-12-16 Thread Carel-Jan Engel
At 14:09 16-12-03 -0800, you wrote: I know there's a lot of folks who grumble about the spartan-ness of SQL*Plus, but the only real feature I wish it had was GNU readline capability for command history and editing. I've looked at some wrappers (yasql, gasql), as well as replacements (henplus,

Re: SAN Comparison Question

2003-12-16 Thread Mogens Nørgaard
I would go for the one that promises to have a RAID-5 implementation that doesn't suffer from the usual RAID-5 problems. Heh-heh. Mogens Jay Hostetter wrote: One of our hardware guys is seeking an opinion on SANs. He is comparing the Hitachi Thunder 9500 to the HP EVA 5000. Does anybody have

RE: Unreadable time_stamp format

2003-12-16 Thread Stephen.Lee
Possibly a Boolean date? -Original Message- Which I assume means you have no idea how to get a readable date out of that? A thought, it could a be a julian date of some kind. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL

RE: OffTopic : sed : Alternate (2,4,6..) replacement

2003-12-16 Thread Stephen.Lee
OK. You got me going on this for a solution when GNU sed is not available. (See what you did.) Instead of the ksh example, here's a non-GNU sed one that works. It works on GNU sed too. sed ' $!N s/\(^.*\n.*:\)\(this\)\(.*$\)/\1that\3/ p d ' Here's an awk that is essentially the

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