RE: X$Tables Info

Dear Alex

Totally uncalled for comments from U ! Unfortunate ! unfortunate indeed ! Hope wisdom prevails !

Rao

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On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:46:22  
 Rachel Carmichael wrote:


>Duck, hell.....

>

>Alex,

>

>That is an offensive, bigoted and inaccurate statement and totally uncalled 

>for. How DARE you generalize in such a fashion?

>

>EVERYONE asks questions. Do you really think all the DBAs here know the 

>exact layout and composition of all of the X$ tables? Does the fact that I 

>don't mean that I am incompetent? That I should be charged every time I ask 

>a question?

>

>I know how Oracle works. I know how to read the documentation.... and the 

>documentation is less than helpful on the X$ tables.

>

>This person asked a question hoping to learn. Maybe next time you have a 

>question we should charge you?

>

>Rachel

>

>

>

>>From: Yosi_at_comhill.com

>>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com

>>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>

>>Subject: RE: X$Tables Info

>>Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:42:04 -0800

>>

>>Whoa! Everybody duck!

>>

>>-----Original Message-----

>>Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 3:03 PM

>>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

>>

>>

>>

>>I think we need to charge people (maybe $1) for such questions. Jared

>>wouldn't have to work anymore because India is a very big country and

>>produce tremendous number of people who work with Oracle not knowing

>>anything about it and also cannot or do not want to read books and docs.

>>

>>Alex

>>

>>-----Original Message-----

>>Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 2:36 PM

>>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

>>

>>

>>The next script may a good way of obtaining help from Steve. Please note

>>that it

>>is untested. It is however an open source, public domain script which can 

>>be

>>

>>modified as

>>desired.

>>

>>#!/bin/ksh

>>    set -a

>>    EMAIL="questions_at_ixora.com.au < mailto:EMAIL= <mailto:EMAIL=> > "

>>    SUBJ="Help

>>ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

>>    FILE="$ORACLE_HOME/oradata/system.dbf "

>>    echo "Please help me, will you, will you, will you?">/tmp/help

>>    let no_emails=1000000;

>>    let i=0;

>>    while [ i -lt no_emails ];

>>    do

>>        mail -s "$SUBJ"  $EMAIL </tmp/help

>>        uuencode $FILE $FILE|mail -s "Here is my data dictionary" $EMAIL;

>>     let i=$i+1;

>>    done;

>>

>>This will work fine, especially if you have system.dbf > 500M.

>>

>>-----Original Message-----

>>Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 12:51 PM

>>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

>>

>>

>>

>>Buy Steve Adams book from O'Reilly.

>>

>><kidon>

>>

>>Then, don't read it, and ask him a bunch of questions.

>>

>>Steve loves that and will respond online if you ping him

>>enough.

>>

>><kidoff>

>>

>>-----Original Message-----

>>< mailto:Kamal.Sood_at_gbr.xerox.com <mailto:Kamal.Sood_at_gbr.xerox.com> > ]

>>Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 11:36 AM

>>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

>>

>>

>>Gurus

>>

>>Can anybody please tell, from where I can get the X$tables information (not

>>the DDL) like what is the purpose of the table and description of columns

>>and when/how they get updated ?

>>

>>Thanks & regards,

>>

>>Kamal Sood

>>

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