RE: UTL_FILE question

2004-01-31 Thread Niall Litchfield
Title: Message I would create a new version of the procedure that took the date from and to as parameters and output a file named appropriately for the date range. You would then just call this 24 times. Niall -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

SV: Date Format: Mystery

2004-01-30 Thread Jesper Haure Norrevang
Title: Meddelelse Rajesh, SYSDATE is of datatype DATE (that's what the documentation says), i.e. it contains century, year, month, day, hour, minute and second (without decimals). I have made a little test. FirstIdump a SYSDATE to see the internal representation. Then Icreate a table with

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-30 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Tanel, Oracle 9-2 SQL Ref manual. Lob storage clause. The options for lobs on creation are: CACHE NO CACHE CACHE READS I don't think the last one appeared until 9.2 I was wrong about caching only writes, though - one of the joys of trying to quote everything from memory. The CACHE

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-30 Thread Jonathan Lewis
It's just one example of my general suggestion that messing about with block sizes rarely has any direct performance benefit. But if you can put something out of the way where it can't do so much damage then the performance of everything else might benefit. Regards Jonathan Lewis

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-30 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi Jonathan, I don't think the last one appeared until 9.2 I was wrong about caching only writes, though - one of the joys of trying to quote everything from memory. Thank you for this note, I had somehow missed this important improvement. The CACHE READS option means that the LOB goes

SV: Date Format: Mystery

2004-01-30 Thread Jesper Haure Norrevang
Title: Meddelelse Sorry! I was mixingformat-masks. The last SQL should read (i.e. instead of ): select to_char(systimestamp, '.MM.DD HH24:MI:SS.'), dump(systimestamp) from dual; /Jesper -Oprindelig meddelelse-Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-30 Thread ryan.gaffuri
i apologize if someone posted this answer(i missed it if you did), but why do cached lobs require writes on the control file? and jonathan said that isnt 'necessarily' bad. is that because there isnt alot of I/O? so caching lobs are primarily useful for read only or read 'mostly' LOBs?

Re: Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-30 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! i apologize if someone posted this answer(i missed it if you did), but why do cached lobs require writes on the control file? NOCACHE NOLOGGING LOBs require writes to controlfile, because last nologging operation to a datafile has to be reflected somewhere, for being able to determine which

Re: SV: Date Format: Mystery

2004-01-30 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Friday, January 30, 2004, 2:24:25 AM, Jesper Haure Norrevang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: JHN Certainly som conversion is going on here. This might be the reason why JHN there has been confusion about 7 or 8 bytes in a DATE datatype. That's really interesting, that switch between 7 and 8 bytes.

Re: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to start a

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas Day
Go to the SERVICES and start the service. Dharminder

Trigger question

2004-01-30 Thread roland . skoldblom
Hallo, I would like to write the code to atrigger that makes insert into another table inly if there is the condition PREFERED_NUMBER = 1 and TELEPHONE_TYPE_ID in (1,2, 5) How can write this in a simple way? Thanks in advance. Roland -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

dba_jobs nls_env

2004-01-30 Thread John Dunn
How does dba_jobs decide what it's nls_env values are?. They seem to vary according to whether I queue the job from a windows client or from unix. John -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: John Dunn INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services

Re: SV: Date Format: Mystery

2004-01-30 Thread Garry Gillies
Hi, From Note: 69028.1 on Metalink The datatype returned is 13 and not 12, the external DATE datatype. This occurs because we rely on the TO_DATE function! External datatype 13 is an internal c-structure whose length varies depending on how the c-compiler represents the structure. Note that

Re: Trigger question

2004-01-30 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/30/2004 09:29:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, I would like to write the code to atrigger that makes insert into another table inly if there is the condition Oracle9i Application Developer's Guide - Fundamentals, Ch. 15. - Using Triggers. There are examples there, too. -- Please see

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to start a

2004-01-30 Thread Dharminder Softhome
Thomas, That is the real problem. I can start the database using Windows 2000 OracleServiceSID. But I want to start up the database using OEM only. Thanks. -Original Message- Thomas Day Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 9:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L start a Go to the

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Dharminder, Changes the service to AutoStart when the machine reboots. As Thomas said, the NT service has to be running for you to be able to start the database. The service will stay running even if you shut the database down. Think of the service as a backgrouond placeholder for the database.

RE: [Fwd: ! READ THIS - Oracle-L@fatcity.com is shutting down as

2004-01-30 Thread Thater, William
Jared Still scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: A repost of a previous message. This is the last day for this address folks. good-bye fatcity my old friend, won't get to talk to you again... -- Bill Shrek Thater ORACLE DBA I'm going to work my ticket if I can... -- Gilwell

Re: [Fwd: ! READ THIS - Oracle-L@fatcity.com is shutting down as

2004-01-30 Thread Joe Testa
last post(its kinda like first post on slashdot.org) joe Thater, William wrote: Jared Still scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon: A repost of a previous message. This is the last day for this address folks. good-bye fatcity my old friend, won't get to talk to you again... -- Bill

RE: [Fwd: ! READ THIS - Oracle-L@fatcity.com is shutting down as

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas Day
So, is anyone posting on the new list? I believe that I'm subscribed there but I'm only getting fatcity posts. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Thomas Day INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com

Re: [Fwd: ! READ THIS - Oracle-L@fatcity.com is shutting down as

2004-01-30 Thread Tanel Poder
Jared, I think you should ask the maintainers of orafaq.com to update their information about oracle-l as well, it's the first hit in google when you search for oracle-l. Tanel. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30,

Changes to RULE based optimizer between Oracle8 and 9i

2004-01-30 Thread Keith Moore
We move an application that uses OPTIMIZER_MODE=RULE from Oracle8 to 9i. Most of it is fine, but there are two queries that have a very different execution plan. In one case, the execution time increases from less than a minute to more than an hour. Neither query uses any of the new Oracle

RE: Changes to RULE based optimizer between Oracle8 and 9i

2004-01-30 Thread Bobak, Mark
Title: Message Keith, To my knowledge, RBO has not changed. That includes NOT dealing w/ IOT. So, I think if you execute a query that references an IOT, you'll implicitly invoke the CBO. That would explain why the plan is changing. So, did you change a table from heap to IOT when you moved

Re: [Fwd: ! READ THIS - Oracle-L@fatcity.com is shutting down as

2004-01-30 Thread Jared . Still
Thanks Tanel, Frank is on top of it already. Jared Tanel Poder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/30/2004 08:24 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: [Fwd: ! READ THIS - [EMAIL

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Jared . Still
The Windows service implements Oracle's VOS ( virtual OS ) This is not noticed on *versions, as there is no separate step. See James Morle's book 'Scaling Oracle 8i'. Jared Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/30/2004 07:44 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L

Re: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to start a dedicated ....

2004-01-30 Thread VĂ©lez
There is not enough memory to start a dedicated connection. sochange the server mode from dedicated to shared, (you can do it change some parameters in init_sid.ora file see oracle documentation). If you are going to change the server mode to shared and you have two databaseon the same machine,

RE: Changes to RULE based optimizer between Oracle8 and 9i

2004-01-30 Thread Goulet, Dick
Logic says one thing, experience says another. Question one, are the tables analyzed? If so, since RBO is deprecated in 9i even setting OPTIMIZER_MODE=RULE will invoke the CBO. Dick GouletSenior Oracle DBAOracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message-From: Keith Moore

** v$log.status

2004-01-30 Thread A Joshi
Hi, In view v$log there is a column status. This changes from current (if the redo log is in use) to atcive then to inactive. Documentation says : ACTIVE: The log is active but is not the current log. It is needed for crash recovery. It may be in use for block recovery. It might or might not be

Re: ** v$log.status

2004-01-30 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 01/30/2004 01:24:26 PM, A Joshi wrote: Hi, In view v$log there is a column status. This changes from current (if the redo log is in use) to atcive then to inactive. Documentation says : ACTIVE: The log is active but is not the current log. It is needed for crash recovery. It may be in use

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to start a dedicated ....

2004-01-30 Thread Dharminder Softhome
Mauricio I do not think it is a memory issue because I can startup the database using Windows 2000 OracleServiceSID service and it does not fail. Thanks. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Mauricio VilezSent: Friday, January 30,

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Dharminder Softhome
Tom, As stated earlier, here the intention is to startup the database using OEM only and without using windows service. As for as I understand if the OracleServiceSID is properly setup and if startmode for the service is set to automatic then it will startup the database automatically once you

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Thomas Day
That's true. Dharminder

Re: ** v$log.status

2004-01-30 Thread David Hau
There is a pretty good explanation in this usenet thread:

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Well, you can't. Windows is different from other systems in that you have these services that have to be running in the background. Once the services are running, you can use OEM to shutdown and startup the database. But the service has to be running first. Sorry. Have you looked at OEM Jobs?

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Igor Neyman
Dharminder, OracleServiceSID starts the database automatically, because by default the registry key ORA_SID_AUTOSTART IN HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME0 is set to TRUE. If you don't want your OracleServiceSID to start the database automatically, change the value to FALSE. This way

Re: ** v$log.status

2004-01-30 Thread A Joshi
Mladen, Thanks for info. So all the dirty blocks need to be written to disk after eachcheckpoint. After that is donethe status becomes 'INACTIVE'. Just that sometimes this is very unpredictable. My question : Ifa log switch always causes a implicit checkpoint then what is the need for this

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
-Original Message- Igor Neyman OracleServiceSID starts the database automatically, because by default the registry key ORA_SID_AUTOSTART IN HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME0 is set to TRUE. If you don't want your OracleServiceSID to start the database automatically, change

Re: ** v$log.status

2004-01-30 Thread Mladen Gogala
David Hau explained this much better and in much more clear fashion then me. Here is the most important part from the usenet thread he was referring you to: ** This makes sense if you think about where the various v$ dynamic

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Dharminder Softhome
Igor, What you have mentioned is right i.e. if I set ORA_SID_AUTOSTART to FALSE for the database in question and set OraceServiceSID startmode to Automatic then as windows starts it starts the OracleSID service (or I should say background services needed for the database to run and I believe I

RE: Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to star

2004-01-30 Thread Igor Neyman
Yes, I'm sure. If in the services control panel you change OracleServiceSID starup properties, it does not affect ORA_SID_AUTOSTART key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME0 (and does not change the way the database is started when the service is started). What it does, it changes the

Re: ** v$log.status

2004-01-30 Thread A Joshi
Thanks Mladen and David It is great to get such detailed info. If we take your example of three redo logs then you could have a situation where one is is 'CURRENT' status and two are in 'ACTIVE' status. As follows : GROUP# STATUS-- 1 ACTIVE2 CURRENT3 ACTIVE Now if group

UTL_FILE question

2004-01-30 Thread Viktor
Hello, Ihave a procedure that open a cursor anddumps some data for last 24 monthsto a file. The date range is static condition definedinside the cursor. Procedure is working great, but Iwhat I'm havingproblemfiguring outisif there is a way to create not one file with all the data, but multiple

Bye...

2004-01-30 Thread Jared . Still
bye...

Re: Bye...

2004-01-30 Thread Joe Testa
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RE: Bye...

2004-01-30 Thread Chris Stephens
NOO!! -Original Message- Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 7:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 last post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | bye... - -- Joseph S Testa Chief Technology Officer Data Management Consulting

RE: Bye...

2004-01-30 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
It's the end of an era. How long was the list hosted here? -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jacques Kilchoer INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services-- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California-- Mailing list and

ORA-01722 invalid number

2004-01-30 Thread Teresita Castro
I am running a query: select from WHERE COMPANY=2000 AND LOCATION='CDJ01' AND ITEMLOC.ACTIVE_STATUS='A' AND POVAGRMTLN.PROCURE_GROUP='SMAR' AND RTRIM(LTRIM(POVAGRMTLN.VEN_AGRMT_REF)) = 'COM1-21-LARROC NANCY' AND RTRIM(LTRIM(POVAGRMTLN.VENDOR))='21' and in the next part of the where

Re: ** v$log.status

2004-01-30 Thread Hemant K Chitale
LGWR will always write to the redo-logs in a round-robin fashion. So, on completing Group2, it would wait for Group3 to be INACTIVE. {One exception is when you ADD a new Log Group. If you added a new log file without specifying a Group#, it would be allocated Group#4, would be set to status

RE: Bye...

2004-01-30 Thread Paula_Stankus

Re: ORA-01722 invalid number

2004-01-30 Thread Wolfgang Breitling
My guess would be that company is not a number but because you do compare it to a number company=2000 Oracle does an implicit conversion to_number(company)=2000 and that fails when it hits a row where company is not numeric. If my guess is right try company='2000' At 07:59 PM 1/30/2004, you

Re: ORA-01722 invalid number

2004-01-30 Thread Joe Testa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 last post Wolfgang Breitling wrote: | My guess would be that company is not a number but because you do | compare it to a number company=2000 Oracle does an implicit | conversion to_number(company)=2000 and that fails when it hits a | row where

RE: Bye...

2004-01-30 Thread nelson flores
drop list ORACLE-[EMAIL PROTECTED] \rm r FATCITY bye -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 5:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Bye... bye...

Re: [Q] wait time on stat

2004-01-29 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Do you have any LOBs defined with the nocache nologging attribute ? 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 Next public appearances: Jan 29th

RE: [Q] wait time on stat

2004-01-29 Thread Niall Litchfield
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mladen Gogala Sent: 29 January 2004 01:54 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: [Q] wait time on stat Defaulty Windows installation usually creates log files of 20M. The person

Re: [Q] wait time on stat

2004-01-29 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! Do you have any LOBs defined with the nocache nologging attribute ? This was what I initially thought would be the problem, but then I thought, in case of nocache lobs you should see direct path writes (lob) a lot... Tanel. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RE: UNION ALL Query: Riddle

2004-01-29 Thread Wendry
I have the same problem like you Rajesh, the query also gives different rowcount each time executed eventhough there's no one updating base tables, in my opinion it's because of the sorting operation (your group by clause). In my case after I remove some group functions, the result goes well. Also

Re: [Q] wait time on stat

2004-01-29 Thread M Rafiq
Mladen, Here I will humbly disagree with you. It is not fault of Windows but the person who created the database and defined tiny size log files while creation. If he used custom database option he can define whatever size he wants. These options are same for both Windows and Unix. Regards

RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-29 Thread Rachel Carmichael
the OT list is significantly smaller than this list and I clean addresses every 6 months or so. It's not easy being a list owner, Jared has my utmost respect for the work it takes to manage this huge list. It took me 3 seconds to send the first message to subscribe and less than that to verify

RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-29 Thread babette . turnerunderwood
Oops ... Had a typo in the second sentence It should have read But if it clears out the dead subscribers, perhaps we should CHANGE list addresses every 6 months ;-) I was AGREEING that the changing list addresses was a minimal amount of work compared to the amount that we get back out of

RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-29 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I was agreeing with you. :) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops ... Had a typo in the second sentence It should have read But if it clears out the dead subscribers, perhaps we should CHANGE list addresses every 6 months ;-) I was AGREEING that the changing list addresses was a

RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-29 Thread babette . turnerunderwood
Phew, I would hate to have the Oracle Goddess in disagreement with me. I have already had a bad enough day Arguing with one of the other DBAs about how long a recovery took. (It was just testing that recovery would work... Proof of concept... Not testing for recovery timing AAAarrgh!)

Re: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-29 Thread Yechiel Adar
I really do not understand all this topic. I just sent subscribe, reply to the message that I received and that's all. Oh, yes, I had to update the e-mail address in my favorites. Another minute down the drain. Jared has enough work to do, without having to what is a minimal effort from you.

[Q] sql loader problem while load record more than one line???

2004-01-29 Thread dba1 mcc
We are migrate from MS Access to ORACLE(9.2.0.4) use SQL*Loader. The problem we have are some of MS Access dump records (ASCII output) have to several lines(EOL before end of record). For example: control file: load data infile 'data.asc' into table test fields terminated by ','optionally

RE: [Q] sql loader problem while load record more than one line??

2004-01-29 Thread Nikhil Khimani
This is a hack but ... you might want to look into ftp-ing a file to Unix, run a 'tr' or 'sed' to get rid of the EOL character. Thanks, Nikhil -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 10:34 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L We are migrate from MS Access to

Re: [Q] sql loader problem while load record more than one line???

2004-01-29 Thread Mladen Gogala
So, why don't you use migration workbench, when it's available? On 01/29/2004 10:34:27 AM, dba1 mcc wrote: We are migrate from MS Access to ORACLE(9.2.0.4) use SQL*Loader. The problem we have are some of MS Access dump records (ASCII output) have to several lines(EOL before end of record). For

RE: measuring TPM

2004-01-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
And these would be CPM (commits per minute) and RPM (rollbacks per minute). If you really want a transaction, you have to code it yourself, otherwise all you can get is CPM and RPM. If your transactions_per_minute ( or commits_per_minute) is low use this handy script to bump it up. create

RE: [Q] sql loader problem while load record more than one line??

2004-01-29 Thread dba1 mcc
Thank you for answer. I did not said clearly. Most records are fine. ONly some records have this problem. re-transfer from PC to UNIX will not fix problem. --- Nikhil Khimani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a hack but ... you might want to look into ftp-ing a file to Unix, run a 'tr'

RE: What to look for in STATSPACK report

2004-01-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
I still go to www.oraperf.com and it still greets me with the same interface and provides the same services that it did before Raj Rajendra dot Jamadagni at nospamespn dot com All Views expressed in this email

stored_outline issues

2004-01-29 Thread Fedock, John (KAM.RHQ)
I have been trying to get stored outlines to work.It seems simple enough, but it is working the exact oppositeas I think it should. Anyone else use these? I am on 8.1.7.4 on HP-UX 11.00 In a nutshell, I verify my query is using the correct explain plan. I grant 'create any outline' to

RE: FW: pl/sql array processing?

2004-01-29 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
There is no simple way, What is important for you ... value of the element or the index of the element in the pl/sql table? Looks like the index of the element is important for you. Tell us again what is the problem? is it that you have too many array elements? where does the time goes? it

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-29 Thread Barbara Baker
Jonathan / Tanel: I, however, AM having this problem. Didn't know where to look till I saw this message. (I love this list!) I've yet to capture the sid (and therefore track back to the table) where the 'direct path write' occurs. Definitions for the tables were supplied by the vendor. When I

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-29 Thread Jonathan Lewis
There is a note in one of the manuals about nologging lobs (or nocache lob, I forget which) that points out that the unrecoverable SCN for file that holds the LOB has to be updated in the control file whenever the LOB is updated. If you actually have a performance problem because of this - i.e.

Re: [Q] sql loader problem while load record more than one line???

2004-01-29 Thread Krishna Kakatur
You may want to add CONTINUEIF clause and try the load again ... infile 'data.asc' CONTINUEIF NEXT (1) != '' into table test ... For complete reference, see this URL: http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96652/ch05.htm#1005518 -- Thanks, Krishna

RE: [Fwd: ! READ THIS - Oracle-L@fatcity.com is shutting down as of

2004-01-29 Thread Goulet, Dick
RIP old friend! Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 12:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L A repost of a previous message. This is the last day for this address folks. --- [EMAIL

[Fwd: ! READ THIS - Oracle-L@fatcity.com is shutting down as of

2004-01-29 Thread Jared Still
A repost of a previous message. This is the last day for this address folks. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] is shutting down as of 1/31/2004 If you have already subscribed to the new location for Oracle-L, then you may discard this message. To those of you still reading:

RE: UNION ALL Query: Riddle

2004-01-29 Thread Jared Still
If what you are describing is completely accurate, ( no DML, change S_A_S fixes the problem ) then it would appear you have encountered a bug. A search on MetaLink is in order, and failing that, you need to open a TAR. Jared On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 04:59, Wendry wrote: I have the same problem

Re: merge command ???

2004-01-29 Thread Jonathan Lewis
Can't do it (until version 10) 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 Next public appearances: Jan 29th 2004 UKOUG Unix SIG - v$ and x$

Date Format: Mystery

2004-01-29 Thread Pillai, Rajesh
Hi All, See the following - 1) select to_char(sysdate,'-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS AM') from dual; result = 2004-01-29 12:52:06 PM 2) select to_char(sysdate,'-MM-DD HH24:MI: AM') from dual; result = 2004-01-29 12:52:2020 PM 3) select to_char(sysdate,'-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS AM')

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-29 Thread Jared . Still
That is an interesting use of an alternate block size Jonathan. Jonathan Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/29/2004 09:59 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To:Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: [Q] wait time

Starting Database from OEM 9.2 gives ORA-12500 Failed to start a dedicated ....

2004-01-29 Thread Dharminder Softhome
Hey all, Following is the environment. Windows 2000 Oracle Enterprise 9.2, OEM 9.2 I have two 9.2 database installed on my system. OEM is configured properly. One of the database is in automatic startmode and this DB contains OEM repository. I start the machine, open OEM, login to OEM and then

Re[2]: merge command ???

2004-01-29 Thread Jonathan Gennick
Hi, for Merge command, how to specify if matched, not to do anything, I tried NULL, not working. Thank you! MERGE INTO caption c3 USING [EMAIL PROTECTED] c1 ON (c3.caption_id = c1.caption_id) WHEN MATCHED THEN NULL -- don't need to do anything when matched! WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-29 Thread Tanel Poder
Jonathan, about which version are you talking here? (You do also have the option in more recent versions of refining the caching properties so the LOB can be readcache only, writecache only or read/write cache or nocache, I believe). I haven't found a way to explicitly set read or write

Re: Date Format: Mystery

2004-01-29 Thread Carel-Jan Engel
Rajesh, A look into the docs might help you: In date-format SS means seconds as of the seconds 00-59 in a minute. S means seconds since midnight, thus 0 - 86399 Compiling the statement the longest part is recocnized first. So: SS give 06 in your first example. gives 20, but twice: 2020

RE: Date Format: Mystery

2004-01-29 Thread Pillai, Rajesh
Carel-Jan, This explanation helps. Thanks a lot. Could you also answer if displaying centiseconds or milliseconds or 1/10th of a second in oracle is possible or not Thanks, Rajesh -Original Message-From: Carel-Jan Engel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, January 29,

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-29 Thread Tanel Poder
Comments below. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:04 PM Jonathan / Tanel: I, however, AM having this problem. Didn't know where to look till I saw this message. (I love this list!) So do I ;) I've

Re: [Q] wait time /lob def

2004-01-29 Thread Barbara Baker
Thanks, Tanel. Yes, I'll be at RMOUG. I'll be in the front row for your presentation. Again, thanks for the info. Barb --- Tanel Poder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments below. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January

RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-28 Thread waibals
Title: Message Hi List Manger- Couldn't a immigration of our subscribed accounts been the most logical and error free option ? All this fire would have been avaoided. CSW Simon. -Original Message-From: Lord David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004

RE: !!Please Read - Oracle-L is moving!!

2004-01-28 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
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RE: possible to load a string with paragraphs?

2004-01-28 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
one word ... CLOB field ... 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

RMOUG Training Days Upgrade

2004-01-28 Thread Daniel Fink
We have recently completed a successful upgrade P10 with the inclusion of the list's own Mogens Norgaard and the semi-retired Dave Ensor (the past Jonathan Lewis). For a full list of speakers, exhibitors and events, please visit www.rmoug.org. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ:

RMOUG Training Days Oracle-L gathering

2004-01-28 Thread Daniel Fink
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Re: RMOUG Training Days Oracle-L gathering

2004-01-28 Thread Rachel Carmichael
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RE: What to look for in STATSPACK report

2004-01-28 Thread Hemant K Chitale
There certainly _was_ a site called http://oraperf.veritas.com Hemant At 05:59 AM 27-01-04 -0800, you wrote: Anjo So what was the deal with oraperf.veritas.com if you don't mind my asking? I subscribed to it sometime before Christmas, but when I went to use it a week or so ago, it had

Question re. Oracle clustering on Red Hat Advanced Server

2004-01-28 Thread Boivin, Patrice J
When running on a clustered environment, do all the servers have to be identical? Oracle says that the beauty of using blade servers is you buy what you need now, then add later. What if later is two years later? You might not be able to buy the same machines, only more powerful ones. Does

measuring TPM

2004-01-28 Thread Charlie_Mengler
I've been asked to provide value for the Transactions Per Minute going through our primary OLTP production database. I believe I can use deltas in SCN values to measure transactions which do INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE and then COMMIT; Is there any way to measure/count the number of SELECTs which

RE: Question re. Oracle clustering on Red Hat Advanced Server

2004-01-28 Thread Jack van Zanen
Hi All I know is that we used to completely different machines to set up a windows test RAC. The requirement seems to be that the OS must be the same. Jack -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 4:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L When running on a

RE: measuring TPM

2004-01-28 Thread Stephane Faroult
Charlie, I understand a transaction as a succession of SQL statements between two successive COMMITs or ROLLBACKs - you will find inside V$SYSSTAT how many COMMITs and ROLLBACKs were issued. If you are interested, besides transactions proper, in the number of statements executed, then have

Re: measuring TPM

2004-01-28 Thread Mladen Gogala
Well, as you are well aware of, you cannot measure without impacting. I know of the following methods: 1) Turn on auditing, count all transactions from dba_audit_trail table within a day and divide by the number of minutes in 9 hours. That will give you an average TPM number during the working

RE: measuring TPM

2004-01-28 Thread Niall Litchfield
Check out 'user commits','user rollbacks' and (maybe) 'user calls' in v$sysstat. These get collected by statspack so you can plot a chart over time. Niall -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 January 2004 15:29

RE: measuring TPM

2004-01-28 Thread Goulet, Dick
Charlie, I use the following to determine this: EXEC SQL SELECT ROUND(VALUE/((SYSDATE-STARTUP_TIME)*1440),1) INTO :tp FROM V$SYSSTAT, V$INSTANCE WHERE NAME='user commits'; Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original

merge command ???

2004-01-28 Thread Janet Linsy
Hi, for Merge command, how to specify if matched, not to do anything, I tried NULL, not working. Thank you! MERGE INTO caption c3 USING [EMAIL PROTECTED] c1 ON (c3.caption_id = c1.caption_id) WHEN MATCHED THEN NULL -- don't need to do anything when matched! WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN

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