Re: unused blocks BELOW HWM - Thanks

Those stodgy old unix folks are much civilized than us anarchic DBA's.

Jared

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 00:15, Hallas John wrote:
> I agree with your reasoning Dennis. I have long felt that one of the
> problems with the list is that the original raiser of the question should
> have some sort of responsibility for summarising the various responses and
> posting a short summarised reply showing the solutions(s) that worked for
> him/her
> This type of question where various solutions were proposed is the ideal
> candidate for this type of summarised response. I used to be on a Unix list
> and that strategy was used quite well there.
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: 18 December 2001 19:10
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Naaah, I'm just the proverbial lazy DBA. Gene received many replies,
> including "it can't be done". Since he happened to point out that two of
> them worked and produced the same results (an excellent sanity check), I
> thought it would benefit everyone by telling us which ones worked. I
> realize that we could have each tried each of the strategies and discovered
> the two for ourselves, but my principle is if there is an easier way, why
> not? Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 11:35 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Uh, amen. Isn't that the purpose of the list?
>
> Or is there a *third* list, one "on topic", a second
> "off topic", and a third where all the answers really
> are?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:55 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Gene - Now that you've gotten your answer, would you mind to post both of
> the methods that you found to work so that the rest of us could learn?
> Thanks.
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 7:05 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Hi.
>
> This is just to thank all who replied to my post.
> Based on what I read, I have got two different ways of
> calculating that number and they seem to produce the
> same result.
>
> thank you all (you know who you are)!!!!
>
>
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