Re: Oracle 8.1.7 on Suse 7.2

Don't know about 7.2. but on 7.1 I installed the Java from www.blackdown.org and it took care of the problems I had with java.

Before doing that though, just try 'unset NLS_LANG' before running the java stuff.

See metalink for details.

Jared

On Saturday 15 December 2001 06:25, Gavin D'mello wrote:
> Hi I am facing a problem on Suse 7.2 and would be grateful if anyone could
> help me out ....
>
> I am installing Oracle 8.1.7 on Suse Linux 7.2, however the JRE in this
> bundle does not seem to work. SO before installation I changed the default
> JRE_DIR in oraparam.ini to /usr/lib/jdk1.1.8 ( my local jdk installation).
> The install ran smooth. However while doing a typical install Dbassist
> fails to load throwing errors like
> SIGSEGV received at bfffd530 in
> /u01/app/prodcut/oracle/jre/1.1.8/lib/linux/native_threads/libjava Process
> terminated
> dbassist line 103 : 10469 Segmentation Fault
>
> $JRE_EXEC -Duser.dir=USER_DIR -classpath $CLASSPATH DBCreateWizard
> $ARGUMENTS .....
>
> Thank You,
>
> Gavin
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 5:25 PM
>
> > This is not outdated -- the Oracle queries against the data dictionary
> > tables are tuned for RULE and so analyzing the SYS tables wreaks havoc
> > in the database.
> >
> > --- Amar Kumar Padhi <TS2017_at_emirates.com> wrote:
> > > My information on this may be a bit outdated. I had read it somewhere
> > > that
> > > statistics are not to be generated for SYS tables. Oracle will handle
> > > the
> > > dictionary information access, irrespective of the optimizer mode
> > > being
> > > used. The setting of the optimizer_mode should affect the application
> > > queries being generated for other schemas. So if you are using CBO,
> > > setting
> > > the Optimizer_mode to first_rows looks more applicable than doing an
> > > alter
> > > session every time. I am not able to comment on the poor performance
> > > when
> > > accessing the dict.
> > >
> > > rgds
> > > amar
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 11:00 PM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > >
> > >
> > > FYI,
> > >
> > > I just logged a call with Oracle re. Designer 6.0 vs.
> > > all_cons_columns.
> > >
> > > A developer noticed that whenever he queries that data dictionary
> > > table as
> > > part of generating database from server models, the process slows
> > > down to a
> > > crawl.
> > >
> > > If the target doesn't have any constraints, no problem.
> > >
> > > I am starting to wonder if it isn't because FIRST_ROWS was specified
> > > on this
> > > database, most of the developers are developing forms (6i) so I set
> > > the
> > > init.ora parameter accordingly.
> > >
> > > The Oracle documentation however implies that the CBO only switches
> > > to rule
> > > when there are no stats if optimizer_mode had been set to CHOOSE, if
> > > it's
> > > either ALL_ROWS or FIRST_ROWS it tries to use the CBO against the
> > > data
> > > dictionary anyway. How the CBO can run when there are no stats
> > > probably
> > > means it defaults to full table scans (?).
> > >
> > > OPTIMIZER_MODE = { all_rows | first_rows | rule | choose }
> > >
> > > The OPTIMIZER_MODE parameter specifies the approach and mode of the
> > > optimizer for your session.
> > >
> > >
> > > See Also: Oracle8i Concepts <../../server.817/a76965/toc.htm> and
> > > Oracle8i
> > > Performance Guide and Reference <../../server.817/a76992/toc.htm>
> > > for
> > > information on how to choose a goal for the cost-based approach based
> > > on the
> > > characteristics of your application
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > * all_rows specifies the cost-based approach and optimizes for best
> > > throughput.
> > > * first_rows specifies the cost-based approach and optimizes for best
> > > response time.
> > > * rule specifies the rule-based approach. (The rule-based optimizer
> > > does not use function-based indexes.)
> > > * choose causes the optimizer to choose an optimization approach
> > > based
> > > on the presence of statistics in the data dictionary.
> > >
> > > Is this correct? If so, then I suppose I should set the init.ora
> > > parameter
> > > back to optimizer_mode=choose, and tell each developer to put an
> > > alter
> > > session statement on their clients to alter their sessions
> > > automatically to
> > > first_rows. The developer using designer will then be able to run it
> > > in a
> > > timely manner.
> > >
> > > Please tell me if my suspicion is correct.
> > >
> > > If correct, it begs the question: why are first_rows and all_rows
> > > available
> > > for the init.ora file???
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Patrice Boivin
> > > Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
> > >
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