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Re: Request for test help

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:07:30 -0700
Message-ID: <1184699247.811699@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


joel garry wrote:

> On Jul 16, 6:23 pm, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:

>> Tom Swier wrote:
>>> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:54:50 -0700, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Can anyone get this to work in any version of 10gR1 or 10gR2?
>>>> col instart_fmt noprint;
>>>> col inst_name format a12 heading 'Instance';
>>>> col db_name format a12 heading 'DB Name';
>>>> col snap_id format 99999990 heading 'Snap Id';
>>>> col snapdat format a18 heading 'Snap Started' just c;
>>>> col lvl format 99 heading 'Snap|Level';
>>>> set heading on;
>>>> break on inst_name on db_name on host on instart_fmt skip 1;
>>>> ttitle off;
>>>> SELECT TO_CHAR(s.startup_time,' DD MON "at" HH24:MI:SS') INSTART_FMT,
>>>> di.instance_name INST_NAME, di.db_name DB_NAME, s.snap_id SNAP_ID,
>>>> TO_CHAR(s.end_interval_time,'DD MON YYYY HH24:MI') SNAPDAT,
>>>> s.snap_level LVL
>>> >FROM dba_hist_snapshot s, dba_hist_database_instance di
>>>> WHERE di.dbid = s.dbid
>>>> AND di.instance_number = s.instance_number
>>>> AND di.startup_time = s.startup_time
>>>> ORDER BY snap_id;
>>>> SELECT dbms_undo_adv.undo_advisor(<starting_snap_id, <ending_snap_id>,
>>>> 1) FROM dual;
>>>> For example:
>>>> SELECT dbms_undo_adv.undo_advisor(587, 600, 1)
>>> >FROM dual;
>>>> If you do not have a license to access the two dba_hist tables
>>>> please do not do so at your employer's expense.
>>>> I would like to know the exact version number of 4 decimal places
>>>> and whether it succeeds or fails. Thanks.
>>> Tru64 UNIX does the same thing.
>>> Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1B (Rev. 2650); Fri Jul 28 10:53:10 EDT 2006
>>> ******************************************************************
>>> SQL*Plus: Release 10.1.0.3.0 - Production on Mon Jul 16 10:06:53 2007
>>> Copyright (c) 1982, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved.
>>> Connected to:
>>> Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.1.0.3.0 - Production
>>> With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
>>> SQL> SELECT dbms_undo_adv.undo_advisor(13354, 13529, 1) FROM dual;
>>> SELECT dbms_undo_adv.undo_advisor(13354, 13529, 1) FROM dual
>>> *
>>> ERROR at line 1:
>>> ORA-14552: cannot perform a DDL, commit or rollback inside a query or
>>> DML
>>> ORA-06512: at "SYS.PRVT_ADVISOR", line 3658
>>> ORA-14551: cannot perform a DML operation inside a query
>>> ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_UNDO_ADV", line 703
>>> ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_UNDO_ADV", line 752
>>> Elapsed: 00:00:01.17
>>> SQL>
>> Thanks everyone that helped. Oracle has now opened an official bug on
>> this and I expect we won't be seeing it in 11gR1. Though it would also
>> seem no one in four years has tried that particular overload before.
>>
> 
> This is one thing I've been pondering for years - does no one at
> oracle have the job of simply trying everything in the major
> production releases to see if they work?  I'd think a lot of it could
> be automated... why wait until customers are complaining?  I can
> understand using complaints to order priority, I can understand some
> things just aren't important, I can understand there are a lot of
> things, I can't understand not even trying.  Since I don't understand,
> all I can do is speculate the systems in place put too much emphasis
> on tracking bugs rather than quality, so that leads to a mentality of
> "if it isn't an easily proven bug, it probably isn't important."
> 
> jg
> --

I'd be pleased if someone would just develop an installation testing protocol that insisted that all installations must work on a clean operating system installation.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Tue Jul 17 2007 - 14:07:30 CDT

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