[ADMIN] How to change datatype of a field

2002-05-25 Thread shreedhar
Is there any possibility to change datatype of a field. regards, S Baskar

Re: [ADMIN] How to change datatype of a field

2002-05-25 Thread Rajesh Kumar Mallah.
Hi Sreedhar, There are no commands as such but combination of CREATE TABLE AS SELECT f1,f2 from TAB and CAST might prove useful in certain cases regds mallah. On Saturday 25 May 2002 12:22 pm, shreedhar wrote: Is there any possibility to change datatype of a field. regards, S Baskar --

Re: [ADMIN] databases and RAID ...

2002-05-25 Thread Karl DeBisschop
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 15:58, Kris Deugau wrote: Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote: I am setting up a new database server. the data is critical that is why i am thniking to mirror the SCSI disks in RAID 1 configuration. I do not have a hardware raid controller. If it's that critical, you

[ADMIN] Problems in query

2002-05-25 Thread Denilson Guedes Duarte
I have this query: select c.cod_cliente, c.controle, c.dt_vencimento, c.dt_emissao, c.nro_doc_banco, c.nro_documento, c.recebido, c.ref_cidade, c.valor, (select u.username from ctareceber c left join username u on u.id=c.cod_cliente limit 1) as fldusername, p.id, p.nome, a.id, a.nome from

Re: [ADMIN] databases and RAID ...

2002-05-25 Thread Fred Moyer
If I was in your situation I would put both 18's into a sw raid 1 configuration. You may lose some speed on the writes since it's doing more work than writing to 1 disk but the redundancy will be well worth it should the day come when you need it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [ADMIN] databases and RAID ...

2002-05-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: Is there any rhyme or reason to the various RAID n designations? Or were they just invented on the spur of the moment? The paper that introduced the term RAID used a numerical classification for the various schemes. (So I guess the answer is yes.) The traditional levels

Re: [ADMIN] databases and RAID ...

2002-05-25 Thread Ragnar Kjørstad
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:29:01PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: 0 Nonredundant 1 Mirrored 2 Memory-style ECC 3 Bit-interleaved parity 4 Block-interleaved parity 5 Block-interleaved distributed parity [Hennessy Patterson] There are also other levels. One poster talked about

Re: [ADMIN] databases and RAID ...

2002-05-25 Thread Fred Moyer
adding my $0.02 JBOD : just a bunch of disks, not raid in my opinion Raid 0 : striping over disks, no redundancy, hence the Redundancy in Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks is zero. Raid 1 : Mirroring, full redundancy, Redundancy 1(00%) Raid 4: see thread Raid 5: see thread,Striping across

Re: [ADMIN] databases and RAID ...

2002-05-25 Thread Andy Ruhl
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Rajesh Kumar Mallah. wrote: I am setting up a new database server. the data is critical that is why i am thniking to mirror the SCSI disks in RAID 1 configuration. I do not have a hardware raid controller. could anyone give me some pointer , or suggest me if its

Re: [ADMIN] databases and RAID ...

2002-05-25 Thread Ragnar Kjørstad
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 12:45:12PM -0700, Fred Moyer wrote: Performance (fastest-slowest) hardware raid - software raid raid 0 - 10 - 1 - 5 Redundancy (most - least) hardware raid - software raid 10, 1 - 5 - 0 It's really not possible to compare RAID-levels