Not Allowed to Insert Blank DVD+R

When I attempt to insert a blank DVD+R I get the error message "This operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient access privileges."
1) I am the administrator on this computer (and the only user). This is a new problem.
2) In "System Preferences/CD/DVDs" I have set "Open Finder" as my preference for how to handle blank CDs/DVDs.
3) In "System Profiler" I see the DVD media shown correctly, but there is no disc icon on the desktop. (Discs with content do show correctly.)
Info: Early 2005 PPC PowerMac 2.7 GHz G5, 5.5 GB RAM, 250 GB HD, 1 TB internal HD, ATI Radeon X800 XT graphics. Running Mac OS 10.4.11.
From System Profiler:
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S222L:
Firmware Revision:          SB03
Interconnect:          ATAPI
Burn Support:          Yes (Vendor Supported)
Profile Path:          /Library/DiscRecording/DeviceProfiles/PatchBurn-tsstcorpcddvdwshs222l.drpr ofile
Cache:          2048 KB
Reads DVD:          Yes
CD-Write:          -R, -RW
DVD-Write:          -R, -RAM, -RW, +R, +RW, +R DL
Burn Underrun Protection CD:          Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD:          Yes
Write Strategies:          CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media:
Media Type:          DVD+R
Blank:          Yes
Erasable:          No
Overwritable:          Yes
Appendable:          Yes
Opening Toast 9, and attempting to write TS files to the (invisible) disc, Toast sends the error message "Mac OS Error (-50)."
Any ideas? Thanks!

Good info Bill, see if this cures it...
First, Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.
Then move these files to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Reboot & test.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.
Occasionally a PRAM Reaset is needed...
PRAM reset, CMD+Option+p+r...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238

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Hi,
I have a table with many LONG fields (28). So far, everythings works fine.
However, if I add another LONG field I cannot insert a dataset anymore
(29 LONG fields).
Does there exist a MaxDB parameter or anything else I can change to make inserts possible again?
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- Create and Insert command and error message
- MaxDB version and its parameters
Create and Insert command and error message
CREATE TABLE "DBA"."AZ_Z_TEST02"
     "ZTB_ID"               Integer    NOT NULL,
     "ZTB_NAMEOFREPORT"           Char (400) ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_COMMENT"                LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_00"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_01"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_02"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_03"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_04"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_05"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_06"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_07"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_08"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_09"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_10"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_11"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_12"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_13"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_14"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_15"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_16"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_17"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_18"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_19"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_20"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_21"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_22"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_23"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_24"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_25"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     "ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_26"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
     PRIMARY KEY ("ZTB_ID")
The insert command
INSERT INTO AZ_Z_TEST02 SET ztb_id = 87
works fine. If I add the LONG field
"ZTB_LONG_TEXTBLOCK_27"         LONG ASCII DEFAULT '',
the following error occurs:
    Auto Commit: On, SQL Mode: Internal, Isolation Level: Committed
    General error;-7032 POS(1) SQL statement not allowed for column of data type LONG
    INSERT INTO AZ_Z_TEST02 SET ztb_id = 88
MaxDB version and its parameters
All db params given by
dbmcli -d myDB -u dbm,dbm param_directgetall > maxdb_params.txt
are
KERNELVERSION                         KERNEL    7.5.0    BUILD 026-123-094-430
INSTANCE_TYPE                         OLTP
MCOD                                  NO
RESTART_SHUTDOWN                      MANUAL
SERVERDBFOR_SAP                     YES
_UNICODE                              NO
DEFAULT_CODE                          ASCII
DATE_TIME_FORMAT                      INTERNAL
CONTROLUSERID                         DBM
CONTROLPASSWORD
MAXLOGVOLUMES                         10
MAXDATAVOLUMES                        11
LOG_VOLUME_NAME_001                   LOG_001
LOG_VOLUME_TYPE_001                   F
LOG_VOLUME_SIZE_001                   64000
DATA_VOLUME_NAME_0001                 DAT_0001
DATA_VOLUME_TYPE_0001                 F
DATA_VOLUME_SIZE_0001                 64000
DATA_VOLUME_MODE_0001                 NORMAL
DATA_VOLUME_GROUPS                    1
LOG_BACKUP_TO_PIPE                    NO
MAXBACKUPDEVS                         2
BACKUP_BLOCK_CNT                      8
LOG_MIRRORED                          NO
MAXVOLUMES                            22
MULTIO_BLOCK_CNT                    4
DELAYLOGWRITER                      0
LOG_IO_QUEUE                          50
RESTARTTIME                         600
MAXCPU                                1
MAXUSERTASKS                          50
TRANSRGNS                           8
TABRGNS                             8
OMSREGIONS                          0
OMSRGNS                             25
OMS_HEAP_LIMIT                        0
OMS_HEAP_COUNT                        1
OMS_HEAP_BLOCKSIZE                    10000
OMS_HEAP_THRESHOLD                    100
OMS_VERS_THRESHOLD                    2097152
HEAP_CHECK_LEVEL                      0
ROWRGNS                             8
MINSERVER_DESC                      16
MAXSERVERTASKS                        20
_MAXTRANS                             288
MAXLOCKS                              2880
LOCKSUPPLY_BLOCK                    100
DEADLOCK_DETECTION                    4
SESSION_TIMEOUT                       900
OMS_STREAM_TIMEOUT                    30
REQUEST_TIMEOUT                       5000
USEASYNC_IO                         YES
IOPROCSPER_DEV                      1
IOPROCSFOR_PRIO                     1
USEIOPROCS_ONLY                     NO
IOPROCSSWITCH                       2
LRU_FOR_SCAN                          NO
PAGESIZE                            8192
PACKETSIZE                          36864
MINREPLYSIZE                        4096
MBLOCKDATA_SIZE                     32768
MBLOCKQUAL_SIZE                     16384
MBLOCKSTACK_SIZE                    16384
MBLOCKSTRAT_SIZE                    8192
WORKSTACKSIZE                       16384
WORKDATASIZE                        8192
CATCACHE_MINSIZE                    262144
CAT_CACHE_SUPPLY                      1632
INIT_ALLOCATORSIZE                    229376
ALLOW_MULTIPLE_SERVERTASK_UKTS        NO
TASKCLUSTER01                       tw;al;ut;2000sv,100bup;10ev,10gc;
TASKCLUSTER02                       ti,100dw;30000us;
TASKCLUSTER03                       compress
MPRGN_QUEUE                         YES
MPRGN_DIRTY_READ                    NO
MPRGN_BUSY_WAIT                     NO
MPDISP_LOOPS                        1
MPDISP_PRIO                         NO
XP_MP_RGN_LOOP                        0
MP_RGN_LOOP                           0
MPRGN_PRIO                          NO
MAXRGN_REQUEST                        300
PRIOBASE_U2U                        100
PRIOBASE_IOC                        80
PRIOBASE_RAV                        80
PRIOBASE_REX                        40
PRIOBASE_COM                        10
PRIOFACTOR                          80
DELAYCOMMIT                         NO
SVP1_CONV_FLUSH                     NO
MAXGARBAGECOLL                      0
MAXTASKSTACK                        1024
MAX_SERVERTASK_STACK                  100
MAX_SPECIALTASK_STACK                 100
DWIO_AREA_SIZE                      50
DWIO_AREA_FLUSH                     50
FBM_VOLUME_COMPRESSION                50
FBM_VOLUME_BALANCE                    10
FBMLOW_IO_RATE                      10
CACHE_SIZE                            10000
DWLRU_TAIL_FLUSH                    25
XP_DATA_CACHE_RGNS                    0
DATACACHE_RGNS                      8
XP_CONVERTER_REGIONS                  0
CONVERTER_REGIONS                     8
XP_MAXPAGER                           0
MAXPAGER                              11
SEQUENCE_CACHE                        1
IDXFILELIST_SIZE                    2048
SERVERDESC_CACHE                    73
SERVERCMD_CACHE                     21
VOLUMENO_BIT_COUNT                    8
OPTIM_MAX_MERGE                       500
OPTIM_INV_ONLY                        YES
OPTIM_CACHE                           NO
OPTIM_JOIN_FETCH                      0
JOIN_SEARCH_LEVEL                     0
JOIN_MAXTAB_LEVEL4                    16
JOIN_MAXTAB_LEVEL9                    5
READAHEADBLOBS                      25
RUNDIRECTORY                          E:\_mp\u_v_dbs\EVERW_C5
_KERNELDIAGFILE                       knldiag
KERNELDIAGSIZE                        800
_EVENTFILE                            knldiag.evt
_EVENTSIZE                            0
_MAXEVENTTASKS                        1
_MAXEVENTS                            100
_KERNELTRACEFILE                      knltrace
TRACE_PAGES_TI                        2
TRACE_PAGES_GC                        0
TRACE_PAGES_LW                        5
TRACE_PAGES_PG                        3
TRACE_PAGES_US                        10
TRACE_PAGES_UT                        5
TRACE_PAGES_SV                        5
TRACE_PAGES_EV                        2
TRACE_PAGES_BUP                       0
KERNELTRACESIZE                       648
EXTERNAL_DUMP_REQUEST                 NO
AKDUMP_ALLOWED                      YES
_KERNELDUMPFILE                       knldump
_RTEDUMPFILE                          rtedump
UTILITYPROTFILE                     dbm.utl
UTILITY_PROTSIZE                      100
BACKUPHISTFILE                      dbm.knl
BACKUPMED_DEF                       dbm.mdf
MAXMESSAGE_FILES                    0
EVENTALIVE_CYCLE                    0
_SHAREDDYNDATA                        10280
_SHAREDDYNPOOL                        3607
USE_MEM_ENHANCE                       NO
MEM_ENHANCE_LIMIT                     0
__PARAM_CHANGED___                    0
__PARAM_VERIFIED__                    2008-05-13 13:47:17
DIAG_HISTORY_NUM                      2
DIAG_HISTORY_PATH                     E:\_mp\u_v_dbs\EVERW_C5\DIAGHISTORY
DIAGSEM                             1
SHOW_MAX_STACK_USE                    NO
LOG_SEGMENT_SIZE                      21333
SUPPRESS_CORE                         YES
FORMATTING_MODE                       PARALLEL
FORMAT_DATAVOLUME                     YES
HIRES_TIMER_TYPE                      CPU
LOAD_BALANCING_CHK                    0
LOAD_BALANCING_DIF                    10
LOAD_BALANCING_EQ                     5
HS_STORAGE_DLL                        libhsscopy
HS_SYNC_INTERVAL                      50
USE_OPEN_DIRECT                       NO
SYMBOL_DEMANGLING                     NO
EXPAND_COM_TRACE                      NO
OPTIMIZE_OPERATOR_JOIN_COSTFUNC      YES
OPTIMIZE_JOIN_PARALLEL_SERVERS        0
OPTIMIZE_JOIN_OPERATOR_SORT           YES
OPTIMIZE_JOIN_OUTER                   YES
JOIN_OPERATOR_IMPLEMENTATION          IMPROVED
JOIN_TABLEBUFFER                      128
OPTIMIZE_FETCH_REVERSE                YES
SET_VOLUME_LOCK                       YES
SHAREDSQL                             NO
SHAREDSQL_EXPECTEDSTATEMENTCOUNT      1500
SHAREDSQL_COMMANDCACHESIZE            32768
MEMORY_ALLOCATION_LIMIT               0
USE_SYSTEM_PAGE_CACHE                 YES
USE_COROUTINES                        YES
MIN_RETENTION_TIME                    60
MAX_RETENTION_TIME                    480
MAX_SINGLE_HASHTABLE_SIZE             512
MAX_HASHTABLE_MEMORY                  5120
HASHED_RESULTSET                      NO
HASHED_RESULTSET_CACHESIZE            262144
AUTO_RECREATE_BAD_INDEXES             NO
LOCAL_REDO_LOG_BUFFER_SIZE            0
FORBID_LOAD_BALANCING                 NO

>
Lars Breddemann wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> this really looks like one of those "Find-the-5-errors-in-the-picture" riddles to me.
> Really.
>
> Ok, first to your question: this seems to be a bug - I could reproduce it with my 7.5. Build 48.
> Anyhow, when I use
>
> insert into "AZ_Z_TEST02" values (87,'','','','','','','','','','','','','','','',''
>                                           ,'','','','','','','','','','','','','','','','')
>
> it works fine.
It solves my problem. Thanks a lot. -- I hardly can believe that this is all needed to solve the bug. This may be the reason why I have not given it a try.
>
Since explicitely specifying all values for an insert is a good idea anyhow (you can see directly, what value the new tupel will have), you may want to change your code to this.
>
> Now to the other errors:
> - 28 Long values per row?
> What the heck is wrong with the data design here?
> Honestly, you can save data up to 2 GB in a BLOB/CLOB.
> Currently, your data design allows 56 GB per row.
> Moreover 26 of those columns seems to belong together originally - why do you split them up at all?
>
> - The "ZTB_NAMEOFREPORT" looks like something the users see -
> still there is no unique constraint preventing that you get 10000 of reports with the same name...
You are right. This table looks a bit strange. The story behind it is: Each crystal report in the application has a few textblocks which are the same for all the e.g. persons the e.g. letter is created for. Principally, the textblocks could be directy added to the crystal report. However, as it is often the case, these textblocks may change once in a while. Thus, I put the texts of the textblock into this "strange" db table (one row for each report, one field for each textblock, the name of the report is given by "ztb_nameofreport"). And the application offers a menue by which these textblocks can be changed. Of course, the fields in the table could be of type CHAR, but LONG has the advantage that I do not have to think about the length of the field, since sometime the texts are short and sometimes they are really long.
(These texts would blow up the sql select command of the crystal report very much if they were integrated into the this select command. Thus it is realized in another way: the texts are read before the crystal report is loaded, then the texts are "given" to the crystal report (by its parameters), and finally the crystal report is loaded.)
>
- MaxDB 7.5 Build 26 ?? Where have you been the last years?
> Really - download the 7.6.03 Version [here|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/maxdb-downloads] from SDN and upgrade.
> With 7.6. I was not able to reproduce your issue at all.
The customer still has Win98 clients. MaxDB odbc driver 7.5.00.26 does not work for them. I got the hint to use odbc driver 7.3 (see [lists.mysql.com/maxdb/25667|lists.mysql.com/maxdb/25667]). Do MaxDB 7.6 and odbc driver 7.3 work together?
All Win98 clients may be replaced by WinXP clients in the near future. Then, an upgrade may be reasonable.
>
- Are you really putting your data into the DBA schema? Don't do that, ever.
> DBM/SUPERDBA (the sysdba-schemas) are reserved for the MaxDB system tables.
> Create a user/schema for your application data and put your tables into that.
>
> KR Lars
In the first MaxDB version I used, schemas were not available. I haven't changed it afterwards. Is there an easy way to "move an existing table into a new schema"?
Michael

ORA-01733- virtual column not allowed here - Insert using inline view

Does anyone know why I am getting ORA-01733- virtual column not allowed here
SQL> select * from v$version;
BANNER
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
PL/SQL Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
CORE 11.1.0.6.0 Production
TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
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SQL> INSERT INTO
2 (SELECT
3 location_id,
4 city,
5 l.country_id
6 FROM countries c, locations l,regions r
7 where l.country_id = c.country_id
8 and r.region_id=c.region_id
9 and r.region_name = 'Asia')
10 VALUES (5500, 'Wansdworth Common', 'UK');
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Rollback complete.
-----error with WITH CHECK OPTION
SQL> INSERT INTO
2 (SELECT
3 location_id,
4 city,
5 l.country_id
6 FROM countries c, locations l,regions r
7 where l.country_id = c.country_id
8 and r.region_id=c.region_id
9 and r.region_name = 'Asia' WITH CHECK OPTION)
10 VALUES (5500, 'Wansdworth Common', 'UK');
INSERT INTO
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01733: virtual column not allowed here
I was expecting
ORA-01402: view WITH CHECK OPTION where-clause violation
for the second one. Is there anything I am missing here ?

Randolf
Thank you very much for the update to this old question
After reading the link I think I should ignore this error and accept it as ORA-01402
The information you asked me to check did not lead me an understanding of different error types.
SQL> ----view for ORA-01733
SQL> create view test_v_1
2 as
3 SELECT
4 location_id,
5 city,
6 l.country_id
7 FROM countries c, locations l,regions r
8 where l.country_id = c.country_id
9 and r.region_id=c.region_id
10 and r.region_name = 'Asia' WITH CHECK OPTION;
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SQL>
SQL>
SQL>
SQL> select * from user_updatable_columns where table_name='TEST_V_1';
OWNER                          TABLE_NAME                     COLUMN_NAME                    UPD INS DEL
HR                             TEST_V_1                       CITY                           YES YES YES
HR                             TEST_V_1                       COUNTRY_ID                     NO NO NO
HR                             TEST_V_1                       LOCATION_ID                    YES YES YES
SQL>
SQL> ----view for ORA-01402
SQL>
SQL> create view test_v_2
2 as
3 SELECT
4 d.department_id,
5 d.department_name,
6 d.location_id
7 FROM hr.departments d,hr.locations l
8 WHERE l.location_id=d.location_id
9 and d.location_id < 2000
10 WITH CHECK OPTION;
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SQL>
SQL> select * from user_updatable_columns where table_name='TEST_V_2';
OWNER                          TABLE_NAME                     COLUMN_NAME                    UPD INS DEL
HR                             TEST_V_2                       DEPARTMENT_ID                  YES YES YES
HR                             TEST_V_2                       DEPARTMENT_NAME                YES YES YES
HR                             TEST_V_2                       LOCATION_ID                    NO NO NO
SQL>
SQL>
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insert into test_v_1 values (5500, 'Wansdworth Common', 'UK')
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01733: virtual column not allowed here
SQL> insert into test_v_2 values (9999, 'Entertainment', 2500);
insert into test_v_2 values (9999, 'Entertainment', 2500)
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01402: view WITH CHECK OPTION where-clause violation
SQL>A. Coskan GUNDOGAR
Oracle DBA
http://coskan.wordpress.com
“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.”
James Joyce

Imac optical drive will not allow disc insertion. (blocked)

Hello out there.
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VenturaGutek
Any optical drive software that is worth its salt should enable burning of data discs (4.7GB or 8.5GB in the case of DVDs) as well as of specialized file formats. That said, however, one of the commonest reasons for failure to burn, even failure to recognize an optical drive, is extension conflict. This was especially true of Roxio's Toast v5.x, when using which it was necessary to disable all Apple extensions, USB and FireWire, so that control of the drive could be taken by Toast extensions. I had to do this only recently to get a friend's LaCie DVD-R burner to be recognized as a DVD (rather than CD) burner by a B&W under OS 9.2.2, let alone to burn DVDs. That possibility was the reason for asking about your software. However, if you are using only Apple software, there should be no issue of software conflicts of this nature.
Without wishing or intending to fob you off, I suggest that you will get much more up-to-the-moment guidance from active fellow-sufferers than is likely in this antediluvian category if you approach them in the iDVD specialist forums, which are divided into iDVD 6, 5, and 4 and under.
Apple IIe; 68K: 11DT + 4PB; PPC: 5DT + 3PB; G3: 6DT System 6.0.8 to OS 10.4.x

IDVD will not allow me to make dvd.

When I open iDVD I click on the Create a New Project. I type in what to save it as and where and choose the aspect ratio and click Create. Then nothing happens. The screen that is supposed to appear so I can create the dvd menu and such does not appear. It appears if I click on File - New or Open. Or if I click iDVD - Quit iDVD. Then the screen appears with the options to save/don't save/ and cancel. If I click on either of those buttons the iDVD program freezes up and I have to force quite it. I have used iDVD several times before and it started doing this recently. I would appreciate it very much if somebody could help me with this.

Log into another user account on your Mac and see if you can create and save a new project there. If not then a reinstall of iDVD seems indicated. To do so you'll have to first delete the current application and all files with "iDVD" in the file name with either a .PKG or .BOM extension that reside in the HD/Library/Receipts folder, reinstall iDVD from the disk it came on and reapply the latest updaters.
If it does open and save it could be a preference file other than iDVD's that's the culprit. To see if that's the case try the following:
Trouble Shooting Preferences in Leopard/Snow Leopard
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4 - If the problem is fixed:
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C - When the Copy window pops up check the "Apply to All" check box and then click on the Don't Replace button.
Click to view full size
5 - If the problem is NOT fixed, empty the working Preferencess folder and move the contents of the Preferences folder on the desktop back into it.

ORDER BY not allowed in INSERT..SELECT ?

I'm trying to INSERT..SELECT into a table, the SELECT should be ordered by a clause, but Oracle (8.1.7) does not permit that.
INSERT INTO SumTable
SELECT Field1,Field2
FROM FullTable
WHERE field1 = 1
ORDER BY field2;
I get: ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended
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I have to take issue with this. rows are inserted based on the blocks on the freelist.
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SQL> analyze table fred compute statistics;
Table analyzed.
SQL> select blocks from user_tables where table_name='FRED';
BLOCKS
0
SQL> insert into fred (mycol) select id from feeder where id <=32000;
32000 rows created.
{ So we now have a tightly packed table. Blocksize 8k by- the-by )
SQL> analyze table fred compute statistics;
SQL> select blocks from user_Segments where segment_name='FRED';
BLOCKS
48
{ Ok : 48 blocks. Now we will get rid of 1/2 of the rows scattered throughout the 48 }
SQL> delete from fred where mod(mycol,2) =0;
16000 rows deleted.
SQL> analyze table fred compute statistics;
Table analyzed.
SQL> select blocks from user_Segments where segment_name='FRED';
BLOCKS
48
{ Ok : Still 48 blocks since we haven't been inserting only deleting }
[ if we looked at user_Tables now it would show most if not all of the blocks on the freelist given the 99 PCTUSED }
{ now let's chuck in another 16000 ordered rows }
SQL> insert into fred (mycol) select id from feeder where id <=16000 order by id
16000 rows created.
SQL> analyze table fred compute statistics;
Table analyzed.
SQL> select blocks from user_Segments where segment_name='FRED';
BLOCKS
48
{ look ! no extra blocks !
-> it must have filled the non-contiguous holes in the blocks
-> the rows are not physically ordered.

HT201343 Why does apple not allow me to stream DVD's from my macbook pro to my apple TV?

Why does apple allow me to mirror everything but DVD's to my apple tv? I get the checkerboard of death on both screens when i try to mirror a DVD!?!?!?!

Probably digital rights protection?

"you have inserted a blank DVD"...but it isn't blank!!

Tried a DVD a few weeks ago and after a while a message came up saying it had encountered an error and could not continue playing. When we tried the disk again we just got the "this is a blank DVD, what would you like me to do" message that comes up when you insert blank DVDs. We tried two other disks - one of them got the message, and one of them didn't and played fine.
It has happened a few times since - in the middle of playing it will encounter an "error" and just keep giving me the blank DVD message.
I tried a cleaning disk and that worked at first, but soon enough it was up to its old tricks again, and now it is even claiming that the cleaning disk is a blank DVD.
CDs have always played fine, even when it previously refused DVDS, but when I put one in to check just now, not all songs were listed and three or four were listed as being 15 hours long.
So is this a problem with the drive rather than with DVD player?
Does it sound dirty or just plain broken?
I've just been reading the "firmwear killed my superdrive" thread, and I did update firmwear around the time the trouble started, though I don't use the DVD player that often and can't remember if it was before or after. Could that have caused this? But if so, surely it would be broken all the time and not able to intermittently read disks?
Help please!
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Try repairing your permissions on your hard drive. Any time you do an update you should repair permissions. This link should help. Mac OS X: Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks
You should also reset the SMC (System Management Controller) and PRAM (Parameter Random Access Memory). Mac OS X: What's stored in PRAM?

Topic: "Please insert a blank DVD-R disk". DVD burning prob

Hey everyone out there,
My imac is a week old now and i'm starting to experience dvd burning problems. Here is the low down. Used 1-step dvd feature in idvd5 to burn a mini-dv tape from my sony dcr-hc42. It burned succesfully on the 1st 2 tries. On the 3rd try it says to "insert blank dvd-r disk" and spits out the blank dvd. I've read different posts that say to try using dvd -r disks - only suggestion I could find. I have been using dvd -r disks - in fact I've tried 3 different kinds (sony, TDK, memorex) all with the same result. I also got a suggestion to dl toast and test the burner with toast - Same result. It won't even read the blank dvd-r in the drive. Is my burner having problems or is this a problem with ilife 5. It's still new and under warranty so I'll give apple a call and post their directions here. Any other suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!
Where would I be without this forums!!! (on my windows computer, bleh!) =)
arn

Hey Jordan,
I dl'd patchburn and it does the same thing as it did with idvd and toast. It says "please insert a blank dvd-r disk" then ejects the disk. D'oh!!! I just finished talking with apple tech support and here's the low down:
we tried reading the blank disk with finder. Wouldn't even show up on desktop. Then we popped in a movie dvd - read just fine. We went in to system preferences (cds/dvds) - everything a ok. Finally, popped in the mac os disk and did a new archive install - same result =( The tech told me to take it into an apple store which I will be doing soon. Their explanation was that since it was reading the data dvds fine, the problem was the head that detects blank dvds was malfunctioning ( i guess it has 2 heads - 1 to read the data and 1 to detect blank disks). Either way it's covered under warranty ( 1 week old) so hopefully they'll take care of it. I'll post more news once I get it back - crossing my fingers X .....
By the way, thanks for the replies. This forum system is awesome.
arn =)

SR5110NX does not write to blank DVD disks.

The DVD/CD reader/writer in the SR5110NX desktop does not recognize that a blank DVD is in the tray. It "sees" and writes to CDs. It reads and displays and interprets software disks. I have tried different disks by different manufacturers and have tried the Microsoft software fixes from the web. Is this a driver/software problem for which HP/Compaq has a FREE downloadable fix?

26-2011 06:31 PM
04-26-2011 12:53 PM
Hi lurawan,
I'm wondering if there is a codec or driver issue.
Do regular DVD movies play?
Have blank DVDs ever worked in the drive?
Have you tried different brands of blank DVDs? Sometimes drives don't work as well with some brands.
...an HP employee just trying to help where I can, but not speaking on behalf of HP.
Reply:
Regular DVD movies do not play. They are not recognized or "seen" or "felt" as being in the DVD drive.
Unknown if blank DVDs have ever worked in the drive. It will write to blank CDs.
Different types of blank DVDs tried are Memorex DVD+R DL; Sony DVD+R. Just ordered Verbatim DVD+R to try them.
It reads and interprets software disks. Just doesn't seem to recognize DVDs.

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