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• REQUIRED value in open_resetlogs yourself to the database of v$

  Friends,

  We reboot physical DB more than 3 days that connected to primary DB...

  I've seen REQUIRED value in open_resetlogs in v$ database.

  What is REQUIRED?

  Database standby at the present time, the physics is active and can be access by the users of the report.

  We need run alter database open resetlogs;?

  It seems that we must recover DB day before physical DB primary

  Thank you

  newdba

  What is expected in a physical database ensures. It's like that in mine too:

  SQL > select open_resetlogs from database v$.

  OPEN_RESETL

  -----------

  Mandatory

  The reason is that ensures your physical database is being a constant recovery. At this point, any recovery made is "incomplete". Therefore, the only way to open the physical standby is to open with the RESETLOGS option. If you have tried to open now, RESETLOGS is NECESSARY as this column said.

  If you perform a failover operation, then primary writes a marker of end-of-Redo in the redo stream. When the EOR marker is sent to forward and applied for standby, Oracle will know that Eve has played full recovery and the database can be opened without RESETLOGS. This enhanced recovery of oil, which is sent to ensure that all completed transactions and the database is in a consistent state after you have applied the day before, is what allows to switch to sleep mode and then switch back to the primary origin.

  If you perform a failover operation, no marker for enhanced recovery of oil is present. The watch is open with RESETLOGS, and you can't switch back. You have to re-create the primary new waiting for what is now the principal (the original pending).

  HTH,

  Brian

• How can I retrieve the name of the server and the database to a system dsn

  Hello

  I am trying to create a database that will be used by many stores. Each store has its own server and the database and the access runtime version. I want to create a system dsn name, but allowing the administrator to modify the server and the database for that dsn and then, when you connect to the database, the database must be able to find this DSN and the 'new' name of the server and name of 'new' database and connect to point to this server and the database tables. I don't have a login form and I can get the name of the dsn, but I can't find a way to get the server name and database name for that dsn. Does anyone know a way to retrieve this from the registry. I can see it using regedit but have no idea on how to get this in vba access.

  This issue is beyond the scope of this site (for consumers) and to be sure, you get the best (and fastest) reply, we have to ask either on Technet (for IT Pro) or MSDN (for developers)
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• 'Versions of the application and the database do not match' on the comparison of the annex

  Moved the database to a Server 2003 to server in 2012.  This has been the only change PM receive the message "the application and the database of the versions do not match" when they try to make a comparison of the annex.

  Thanks for your help.  You have provided very concise solutions to my problem, I ended up having also do the following:

  Trip, click the password in the admim.cmd to ensure that the password has been set successfully and deleted the file BREBootStrap.xml (let it recreate itself)

• Listener (and the database instance) does not start automatically: ORA-12514: TNS:listener does not currently of service requested in connect descriptor

  Hi all... I am a newbie with oracle database.,.

  I have the problem of monitoring:

  I installed Oracle Database 11 g R2 XE on my CentOS 6.5 guest operating system.

  I changed the host name in my CentOS so (where installed oracle 11g R2 XE) after the installation was completed successfully.

  Installation-) before and during the hostname is localhost.

  (-) After the installation, I changed the host name in VMCentOS

  From the moment where I changed the host name, nothing starts automatically. In particular, the listener and the database instance does not start automatically.

  When I start the listener manually and I try to connect to the instance of database with SQLPLUS I get this error:

  ORA-12514: TNS:listener is not currently of service requested in connect descriptor

  I think that the problem is due host name changed because I have to test and debug the object, re-installed a machine virtual operating system CentOS, re-installed oracle database 11 g and I do not have this problem. The database instance and the listener starts automatically!

  Can someone tell me if, maybe, the problem is with the host has changed? ... and why?

  P.S.: After changing the hostname I also modified the listener.ora and the tnsnames.ora by changing the HOST with the correct host name.

  Hello

  It seems that you don't install Oracle Database Express Edition (XE). If you post this question in the wrong forum.

  When you install EA or there is no script that starts the database at startup.

  If you wish, you can create by yourself. For example search for instructions to Google how to create script.

  Kind regards

  Jari

• 2 How to remove an element from the tree and the database block tree?

  Hello
  
  2 How to remove an element from the tree and the database block tree?
  
  Kind regards
  
  Abdetu...

  The problem is caused by not sending forms is not a VALIDATION of the database because he thinks that there is no changes to save.

  Forms does know that changes to the data block, he does not know the changes made by the PLSQL INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE calls and procedure.

  Try to remove the line to block, rather than using a DELETION like that...

  go_block ('INSP_EQUIPMENT_TYPE');if form_success then   do_key ('DELETE_RECORD');end if;
  
  
  

  If you wish to continue using your original DELETE instead of my change above code, you can use different techniques to force forms to issue the COMMIT to the database, including this one...

          DELETE ...        FORMS_DDL ('COMMIT');
  

  Be careful... This will be the VALIDATION of the database, but the changes to the data block will not be sent to the database!

  I posted a few other ways to issue a VALIDATION of forms here
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• user and the database of departure

  Hi gurus,
  
  friendly request but me information on less than question, thanks in advance.
  
  * When the database is out of service - for starting db how authentication? How does the db recognizes users who begin?
  
  
  Thank you
  REDA

  You must log on as a user with privileges "sysdba" to start the database that is authenticated using password * 'orapwd' * file resides on the server. It is authenticated by the database itself. To learn more:

  http://docs.Oracle.com/CD/E11882_01/server.112/e25494/dba006.htm

• Most of the games directx9 + who have played a lot on XP and the beta version of Windows 7 was even faster as GTA4 drag along with the latest updates to HW and SW. Games & all the performance Console is to kill the pc (if im a 4 pc now)

  Hi, I bought Vista 64 bit earlier and it almost made me for the mac, but when I first tried win7 beta and it was great on a lower technical platform and could not wait for full details. so, I bought a brand new platform last i7 CPU and 6 GB DDR 3 channels and the latest Nvidia 275GTX 1765 MB Vram Grfx and could not do more than what was and is still ongoing. I installed my new win 7 64 bit 1 and was a bit off on how he has been slow to version beta on a platform nearly 5 years I used 7800GTX Athlon 64 4200, as what are you do looks great and moves faster than this in. * Vista. All my old game where _ while people with nearly the same and less spec flight here by so I switched to the 32 bit (good by my 3 extra GB installed) running. It was a little better, but the games that are 3 years old just down or blue screen. SO why go back in the power PC (XBox 360 + dales come to mind) are really trying to kill the power of the pc to the console, PDA etc.? So it seems that XP is the only one for some UM with games, virtual xp mode is a waste. So if you have something good, well, until a better operating system just to please let the people have because we are all put you into your work time back. Please notify.

  Hello microblackhole,

  I understand that Windows 7 gaming performance do not meet the requirements you're looking for.

  I wish to inform you that with Windows 7, you get to use 4 GB of Random Access Memory.

  The major problem with your computer, it seems that there are a few old games that break with blue screens.

  Windows 7 comes with Direct X 10 preinstalled. So you should try to understand what are the games that are broken.

  Here are a few methods that you can analyze the reasons why the games are block:

  Compatibility:

  Check if the games are compatible with Windows 7. You can run the troubleshoot compatibility utility to discover the solutions to run the games:

  1. open the program compatibility problems by clicking on the Start button, then Control Panel. In the search box, type troubleshooting, and then click Troubleshooting.

  2. under programs, click on run programs for previous versions of Windows.

  Read this article which will give you more information about this:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/open-the-program-compatibility-Troubleshooter

  Analyze the event viewer:

  I suggest you analyze the event viewer to find what could be causing the crash games.

  1. open the start menu and type event viewer in the start menu search bar. Open event viewer from the menu.
  2. in the case of Viewer click Windows logs in the left panel.
  3. click on application under Windows Logs logs.
  4. search for the error messages listed in the event viewer window Central Panel and double-click on the error to check if it log is related to games that are broken.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/open-Event-Viewer

  You can check the link which will help you analyze the entries below Event Viewer:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/what-information-appears-in-event-logs-Event-Viewer

  Thank you
  Irfan H, Engineer Support Microsoft Answers. Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

• Application Builder takes a lot of time and the Popup messages during construction

  Hi all

  My request is slightly larger with over 300 of VI. Between the build process that I receive pop-up messages requesting files from the library GMath etc... are changes u want to save the files... ? When you click on OK button it starts to save these files of the library and when he saves nearly half the number of files in the grave application builder fails and causes LabVIEW close. As the build process takes more than 2 hours and the final result is always a unsuccessful construction due to the accident of application builder I am wasting my time.

  Kind regards

  Pavan

  Here's what I'd do:

  • Open the main VI
  • Press Ctrl + Shift + Run to recompile all the screws in memory
  • Wait until the end
  • Save all the

  If there is, repeat for each dynamic called screw

• Computer automatically restarts and the disk driver hard name question.

  Original title: my PC has 2 problems

  Hi guys, I'm going to talk about my PC has 2 problems.

  1. The problem is when I turn on my computer and boot my system, after 20 minutes I'm playing games, it auto restart my PC several times. 2 weeks ago, my old diet was very serious problem and the cause cannot start my PC, so I bought one to replace. Until a few days ago, it worked with my PC. He still now, have the same problem, but that sometimes he can't start several times and then she came back to do it again. I thought that it will more work and not a problem. I am very nervous and furious...! >:(
  2. Another problem is that my drive hard(location is C:\), it cannot load my system sometimes as the first problem earlier. Not only that, when it is started my PC, I checked all my hard drivesof driver name(I have 2 HARD drive, everything is very old)right click on C:\, click 'Properties' and then click 'Material' tag for the driver name lists. I don't see a single HARD drive driver name(it's in D:\), not on C:\ Name of the driver drive HARD, but in 'My Computer', it takes C:\ icon to click. I don't know why a few months ago, it has worked until now, one is missing and we're still on the list of driver name.

  Hope everyone give me help.

  Hi Billy,

   
  1. do you get an error message/code?
  2. What is the brand and model of the computer?
  3. How many partitions on each disk hard you?
   
  -For the first issue with computer restart automatically, follow the steps in method 3: disable automatic system failure reboot from the link:
  How to solve problems of hardware and software drivers Windows XP
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/322205#M3
   
  If the problem persists, see the event viewer for the detailed error message.
  Follow the link for the procedure:
  Procedure to view and manage event logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/308427
   
  -For the second question, I suggest you to run a check disk and find if it helps.
  Reference:
  How to perform disk error checking in Windows XP
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/315265
  Important: When running chkdsk on the drive if bad sectors are found on the disk hard when chkdsk attempts to repair this area if all available on which data can be lost.
   
  Also check if all of the hard drive and the drive letters are displayed correctly.
  Follow the steps to access disk management:
  a. click on Start and then run.
  b. type diskmgmt.msc in the text box and press the enter key or press the OK button.
   
  If the problem persists, you can write to us and we will be happy to help you further.

• Is there a window display and the data window as in Nuke for sequels?

  Not sure what the best way to Word this, but that's.  I wonder if there is a comparable feature in After Effects to what Nuke called the "showcase" and the data window".  I will do my best to explain my problem.  I'm jumping backwards between After Effects and Nuke.  I used After Effects extensively since version 6.5 to 2005 or 2006.  I've been tinkering with Nuke for years now, but now I'm determined to get competent in it.  One of the features I noticed Nuke who seems to be lacking in After Effects is the "bounding box/display window" that appears as a white dotted line around an image in the display window.

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  It's exhausting to write so I would be surprised if anyone makes it all through in this.  Since I have to do, I'll leave this here, in the hope, I gave enough information for someone to recognize this situation.  I hope I'm missing something for After Effects to read and write these files in the same way Nuke.  I am new to the exr world.  I have always used the DPXs in the NEWSPAPER.  In order to work with linear files above them in EXRs is kinda weird too.  Thanks for reading if make you throughout this, I hope that he has no sense at all.

  With version 1.9, the plugin EXR changed its treatment of displayWindow. He used to ignore it, but now it crops the displayWindow throughout. Most people prefer this, but you can be the exception. Fortunately, there is a way to restore the old behavior with the instructions in this message.

  AE does not have this notion of dataWindow/displayWindow together, so there is no way to make an EXR this way. I suggest to make the buffer full off-AE, then perform an adjustment in Nuke to re - define the displayWindow. There is also the EXR command-line tools that can do.

  If an EXR file has a pixel aspect ratio other than 1.0 (square), which should be reflected in AE. If it wasn't for some reason, you should always be able to enforce in interpreting the film.

• External drive and the database is unable to re-connect after player swaps (?)

  • I have a problem for my existing database reconnected after adding a large SSD and replace a different hard drive in another Bay. Details below.
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  I think I'd be tempted to go to a previous backup for example before you removed something. Double-click the .lrcat file to start or start a catalog file vacuum > new Catlaog and open the backup into that.

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• Code and the database tables in different schemas

  Hello
  My version of db: database Oracle 11 g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64 bit Production
  
  I would like to understand the advantages and disadvantages of the following situation:
  We have only one request.
  The design of the db for this application has 44 paintings, of which 28 are base tables related by PK and FK relations. The other 16 are look upward and refer to tables that are not related to one.
  The team has decided to place the tables in a diagram 28 A and the other 16 in another schema B within the same database. (The reason for this is... because it's done in other projects to do it here too).
  Coming now to the code (stored procedures, functions, packages, etc.). Teams want to ask most of the code in the diagram B with the Ref 16 tables. (the reason being again the same).
  What are the advantages and disadvantages this?
  Please advice.
  
  PS:
  I have googled and find something on these lines:

  cons:  
  o harder to manage
  o harder to upgrade
  o harder to patch
  o harder to maintain
  o causes your shared pool size to increase 1,000 times (shared sql goes down the tubes)
  o takes more space
  o queries against the dictionary will be impacted
  o latching on the shared pool goes WAY up (latching = locks = serialization device = 
  slows you down)
  
  pros:
  o none that I can think of.

  From my experience, if you see natural divisions that give you smaller patterns, well contained, you should take advantage of them and start with separate schemas. If done correctly, it can greatly improve the maintainability of your application.

  Assume that your initial project will have 60 paintings and they might fall into three groups of 15, 20 and 25 tables respectively. There are also objects of code such as PL/SQL packages. Your choice is:
  -Use a single scheme of 60 paintings, suppose that with 100 objects in code.
  -Use 3 diagrams divided as described. The total code objects will probably be a little more that unique schema design, because they need to provide interfaces with others. So let's assume that schemas will have 30, 40 and 50 code objects each.

  Now, wait 3 years.

  The history of single-schema:
  -The single-schema is passed to 120 tables. There has been a corresponding increase in code, now more than 200 objects. But they are very complex. Over time, each piece of code will interact with the tables more and more and many other objects in code.
  -You (the architect or Manager) can not really apply any internal for this structure since no subsidy is required to add dependencies. Therefore, if you change a table there is a vast impact.
  -You can easily divide the responsibilities because everything affects everything else. You can't manage simultaneous development efforts because the impact widespread changes cause the same tables/components to be affected by multiple projects. If you have the project execution dependencies / as you have interdependencies technique/code.
  -You have a "big ball of mud" and it is very difficult to get out of this situation.

  Multi-schema history:
  -Each of the 3 original patterns has grown, but some more than others. A fourth was added a year ago, when there was a major expansion in a new district, as a result of "natural divisions.
  -On the inside of each of these schemas, it is always a challenge to impose internal structure. But those patterns more smaller and therefore more small problems.
  -Through schemes, subsidies are necessary to allow interaction, this is not a "wild west" where everyone can access everything (and introduce dependencies on everything). Teams to define interfaces (packages or the views that are specifically intended to be interface points) where the interactions with other scehmas are necessary.
  -If changes to a table are needed, the impact can be limited to the schema that contains naturally. You know that no one else has created dependencies at this table, because you were never issued grants on this.
  -The responsibility for these schemas was divided between 2 teams, each team having full responsibility for its 2 diagrams.
  -Teams can complete projects much more easily, even with a parallel development, because there is less than a "domino effect" with each change.

  Now, these benefits depend on "natural divisions that give you the diagrams smaller, well contained." If you make the wrong choice here, you will always have a mess. You design with the end in mind scenario.

• How files and the appropriate label color PMS separate for screen printing

  Hello

  I have to present a document Illustrator for a silkscreen t-shirt and instructions ask that I have "label own PMS color you expect the ink on the finished design." I don't know what that means, and even less how to do it. I googled and it seems to have something to do with the Pantone colours, but I couldn't find how to do this. The design is all one color, so I hope it helps me! In addition, it requires separate Illustrator files. I know this means separate into layers, but it does not design in layers. If I submit to the eps format does it matter that it's all in a single layer?

  Could someone please help me with some details on this?

  Thanks for any help you can offer.

  Mary

  .. .the instructions ask that «label own PMS colours...» I don't know what that means...

  This is an example of so-called 'experts' in the various industries of printing using inaccurate terminology that confuses potential customers, even when they are ostensibly trying to provide instruction.

  PMS stands for Pantone Matching System. PANTONE is a company that produces for commercial offset printing inks, and who publishes books swatch for these inks and color specifications. Because it has long been the player prevailing in this market for a very long before the general public graphic computers, he took the habit as a sort of de facto "standard" transmission of the colors you want. But isn't the only such system Pantone.

  To my knowledge, Pantone does not even produce screen printing inks (which are more like a painting, really). When people throw around the 'PMS' and 'Pantone' words like that, they often reveal their own misunderstanding of what really is Pantone. In all likelihood, the silkscreen that you use think Pantone Matching System is a kind of a standard universal color. They will most likely find the Pantone color number give you them, then either look at a reference or simply manually mix their screen printing inks for a match.

  ... I googled and it seems to have something to do with the Pantone colours, but I couldn't find how do...

  In most screen printing, your concern is to use spot colors in your design rather than process colors. PANTONE product specifications of colors for fairer inks spot. It produces references to the four-color, metallic inks and even fluorescent inks and inks. Different Pantone standards are represented in Illustrator as 'Libraries of nuances', which are accessible via the drop down Swatch palette menu.

  You can set any Color Swatch you use Illustrator as a spot color. When you do so, all this means is that, when the file is printed as color separations, each spot color is printed on its own plate of separation. "Plate" is a throwback term that refers to the plate on which are the images for individual inks in commercial offset printing. Silkscreen, a separate screen is built to carry the image for each ink used in the design.

  You can also name any Spot color swatch you define, using any name you want. The name has no functional effect on the printed result. Each plate separation of color is a black image, regardless. The actual color is determined by the actual ink that is loaded in the press (or serigraphy) when it is printed. That's why, when you are working in a program such as Illustrator for a project to print, you should not think in terms of inks, in terms of colors.

  For example: you can define a Spot color swatch in Illustrator. It can be set to display any color you want. You don't want to, of course, but in the interest of explanation, assume that you set the Spot color swatch to display in Illustrator as a green color. Then, you name than Swatch "Pantone 185", which is actually a red. If you now print the file as color separations to a PostScript printer (or "print" to PDF separate colors), everything to which you applied the named Swatch "Pantone 185" will be printed on a single sheet (or page PDF).» This sheet contains a picture in black and will be titled "Pantone 185.

  Actually, when you work with a local display store, I usually create tones color chart, and references to name them not according to Pantone (or other), but in the name of the actual brand of screen inks that will use the screen shop.

  So, really, your screen printer is just requiring you to build your design using a limited number of color swatches, with each defined as a spot color. He's still implying that you must name your swatches Spot according to the numbers of colors in the Pantone Matching System, simply because it is the library for the most familiar to designers color naming.

  The easiest way to do so is, for every ink that you want to print on the T-shirt:

  1. go in the Swatches palette flyout menu.

  2. select open Swatch Library > color books > Pantone Solid Coated (or solid Pantone unpaved; it isn't really very important to screen printing).

  3 scroll through the list and select the color you want. It will be added to the list of the nuances of your document.

  The design is all one color, so I hope it helps me.

  As someone else said, because your design is one color, you could simply design using the black one and then tell the silkscreen what color ink to use. But there are some caveats.

  You must print the as a composite file (normal, full color), not as separations. It is because if you simply use a shade that appears black on your screen, that swatch 'black' may in fact be built on a combination of RGB or CMYK values (depending on the colors in your document). To print separations colors can not result in a solid black on the black plate image. It goes same for design tips by using just one color. If you want the ink to be red, and you want to design using red, then red Swatch must be defined as a spot color. Otherwise, print as red as separations or composite will not give a solid black image.

  In addition, it requires separate Illustrator files.

  Once again, unclear. There is no such thing as a "separate Illustrator file." Any Illustrator file can be printed (or saved as PDF) as a color-separations. Once again, that the printer must be clear here, it is that you build your Illustrator file so that it can be printed as separations, with each split corresponding to an ink that is responsible in his silkscreens. In practice, this means just be sure to use only the color tones in your work.

  Yet once, this illustrates the fact that a technician working in a particular printing environment can be 'expert' in his shop, is not because he know didly on the software and the workflow used on the design front.

  For stores of the most banal local screen, the safest way to prepare an Illustrator file, which leaves nothing to question is:

  1. make sure you know how much different inks are used for printing design. (Don't forget: think inks; not "color".)

  2 build your design using nothing but the Spot color swatches and a Swatch for each ink. Do not use any process of nuances. In fact, recommended is to remove all the nuances that are not actually used in your design.

  3 ' print' an Illustrator, Adobe PDF document as "printer." (I think that you need to have Adobe Acrobat installed in order to view a selection of the printer Adobe PDF.) I don't know, because I am never without Acrobat Professional.) In the output of the print dialog pane, specify separations, not composite.

  This will result in a PDF file that contains a separate page for each ink. The image on each page will be black. That's exactly what the screen printing needs to print to 'positive film' (which nowadays are often translucent paper, not film) which it will use as masks then "burn" his screens.

  ... I know this means separate into layers, but I did not design it in layers...

  Do not confuse with layers color separation. They are totally independent functions. Layers is just a way to organize objects that you create in your file. Color separation is a print function. It occurs when you print to a device which includes the separation of colors (e.g.: a PostScript device) or when you export to a PDF of the color separation, as described above.

  It is a common misconception (miss-hypothesis) among beginners. Programs such as Illustrator may help you design with every object that is colored with ink of separation including residence in a layer that is dedicated to this particular ink, it would be absurd debilitating. Again, the layers is just a "fork" of the stack of objects in your file. These objects can be in any order on any number of layers and stacking. This has nothing to do with printing on color separations. (Stacking order comes into play when overprinting is involved, but even this does not yet require layers correspond to the inks of separation.)

  If I submit to the eps format does it matter that it's all in a single layer?

  EPS does not help. Think EPS is nothing but a file format that puts the contents of your Illustrator file in a 'black box' so that it can be "passed through" to the printer by programs that do not understand PostScript. If the content of your Illustrator file is built to target printing method, it will be the content of the EPS. Today, the PDF is more flexible and easier to work with than BPA anyway.

  JET

• When I want to send an e-mail from my MAC or even just retrieve one of 'drafts' ony very often (but not always) the topic is displayed and the message body is empty, both for me and for the recipient.

  When you try to convey and e-mail or retrieve from "drafts" more often that otherwise only the title will appear and the space where belongs to the body of the e-mail message is empty. If I try several times - out and then back in to email - I can finally get and send successfully. If I send it so that the field is empty the person who gets it just email empty with the exception of the line of the address and the subject.

  This has happened

  A few times a week

  See empty in Hotmail messages