VOUG Membership - The transition of VOUG's listserv to Yahoo Groups that I mentioned in my message last week is now complete. I'm very excited about having us...
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Elizabeth Raines
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Feb 19, 2002 11:02 pm
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When stopping IFS using IFSSTOP.bat, it would seem that we also have to restart the oraias services (including the HTTP server). This is not good since the...
Clinton Rudd
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Feb 19, 2002 11:02 pm
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We are trying to upgrade from SUNLink SNA 9.1 to a current SNA stack that is supported by Oracle for the DRDA Gateway. Does anyone know of SNA software that...
Michael Riley
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Feb 19, 2002 11:20 pm
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This won't give you real time viewing of your code unfortunately. Output from this command only occurs after the procedure is finished. Also, if you exceed...
Himes, Pam M
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Feb 19, 2002 11:44 pm
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In 8i you could you autonomous transactions to write to a debug table -- this would be more 'real-time', but i do remember some strange side-affects when...
Mark C. Stock
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Feb 20, 2002 12:50 am
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When in doubt, take the easy way out. Create a JOB_STATUS table that could have 3 columns: JOBNAME, STATUS, STATUS_TIME. At intervals within your job, you...
Peat, David
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Feb 20, 2002 1:32 pm
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If you're using Oracle9i, you can use autonomous transaction to make writing to the job_status table easy. Otherwise, a commit to the job_status table affects...
David Medinets
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Feb 20, 2002 2:42 pm
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What about the good old-fashioned DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO package? You can use the package to log certain actions within your code. Then you can query...
Ralph Jones
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Feb 21, 2002 10:59 am
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This may be elementary but I need help with the DELETE command. If I want to select rows from one table based on matching columns in another table I could use...
Fred.M.Ridgway@...
Feb 21, 2002 4:49 pm
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Is there a way to search an Oracle database, or at least a table for ASCII characters? We seem to have some rogue data in some of our tables that is creating...
Kristen Reale
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Feb 22, 2002 4:11 pm
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+ Interjection by listserv moderator: + Lots of helpful replies to this posting, below... ... From: "Richard Quintin" <quintinr@...> Delete from TableA...
Virginia Oracle User'...
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Feb 22, 2002 4:13 pm
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IF x is a number for an ascii character and the_string is your string or column then use something like WHERE instr(the_string,chr(x))) > 0 the following...
KennethDavid Kline, III
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Feb 22, 2002 7:56 pm
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There is an ASCII function which is like CHR(10) as an example. Suppose you could search fields with the "LIKE" using the CHR function....
Himes, Pam M
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Feb 22, 2002 7:56 pm
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very good suggestion. V$SESSION will indicate what is currently running, but V$SQLAREA would only indicate what was running when statements are parsed, which...
Mark C. Stock
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Feb 25, 2002 5:10 am
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I've created the following function: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION squeeze_partnumber( inp_part_number IN VARCHAR2 ) RETURN VARCHAR2 DETERMINISTIC AUTHID...
David Medinets
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Mar 6, 2002 1:36 pm
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Hi all, ... Plan Table ... Plan Table ... Sql: select /*+ ordered */ ... From pvcatalog pvcat, stfdescm Cf, pvtechvw V, stockm s Where ( ...
Sri Harsha
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Mar 6, 2002 1:36 pm
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For whatever reason, the AUTHID CURRENT_USER clause in the function definition caused the error when the index was created. I'm hoping this is a bug because I...
David Medinets
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Mar 6, 2002 2:48 pm
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I am running Oracle 8i on Windows NT. I wanted to check for corrupt blocks in a data file, so I ran DBVERIFY. The following message was returned: "Specified...
Barbara Samlok
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Mar 6, 2002 2:51 pm
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1. Have the all the tables in the query been analyzed to either compute or estimate statistics? If not, the Cost Based Optimizer won't have accurate...
mjfierst@...
Mar 6, 2002 2:51 pm
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My guess is that AUTHID CURRENT_USER makes the function dependent on state information (who is the current user) and therefore cannot be deterministic and...
Henry R. Miller
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Mar 6, 2002 5:48 pm
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Hi David, Repect the order on those parameter: 1. AUTHID CURRENT_USER 2. DETERMINISTIC 3. PARALLEL_ENABLE So try this: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION...
Regis Biassala
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Mar 6, 2002 5:48 pm
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I'm new to this but, when you use functions (TRIM) on the columns aren't the indexs not used....
rspaeth2001@...
Mar 6, 2002 5:50 pm
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Actually, I just ran some simple tests, and it doesn't appear that using the TRIM function is enough to prevent using an index. But in general, you are right:...
mjfierst@...
Mar 6, 2002 9:59 pm
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According to the Oracle Utilities Manual under DBVERIFY parameters: BLOCKSIZE BLOCKSIZE is required only if the file to be verified has a non-2kb block size....
Mark C. Stock
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Mar 6, 2002 9:59 pm
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Hi David, Repect the order on those parameter: 1. AUTHID CURRENT_USER 2. DETERMINISTIC 3. PARALLEL_ENABLE So try this: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION...
Regis Biassala
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Mar 7, 2002 6:02 am
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I haven't studied your query extensively, but the first thing that strikes me is that it has a lot of ORs and function calls, both of which can disable ...
John Flack
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Mar 7, 2002 7:44 am
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Virginia Oracle User'...
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Mar 7, 2002 7:47 am
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I think I can see a valid reason for the CREATE FUNCTION to succeed, but for the CREATE INDEX to fail -- it would have to do with different scopes of the ...