Posts Tagged ‘ Scripts ’

Counting in unix with ‘uniq-c’. Or how many of something does this thing have?

September 20, 2008
By gary

Recently we were looking for common components that might indicate why some of our tests failed. One of the sysadmins at our Sunnyvale lab came up with a quick script which did the job. He used ‘uniq -c’ to great effect. In this example I look in my iTunes directory structyre...
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Sorting TPC-H lineitem table.

August 19, 2008
By gary

Sometimes it is useful to sort the lineitem table, in the order that Query-6 will read the data back. Query-6 looks like so :- set timing on; select sum(l_extendedprice * l_discount) as revenue from lineitem where l_shipdate >= to_date( '1995-01-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD') and l_shipdate < add_months(to_date( '1995-01-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD'), 12) and l_discount between 0.07 - 0.01 and 0.07 + 0.01 and l_quantity < 25; exit; and...
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Useful Oracle scripts

December 12, 2007
By gary

space.sql Display tablespace size and current utilisation. SQL> @/u/little/mycode/sql/dba/space % % MaxPoss Max Tablespace Name KBytes Used Free Used Largest Kbytes Used ------------------- ------------- ------------ ------------ ------ ------------ ------------ ------ m SYSTEM 1,048,576 ...
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