I am preparing an Oracle upgrade from 8.1.7.4 to 9.2.0.5 on a Windows 2000 environment. The server has 3 instances on it, and the possibility of upgrading them one at a time is a real one. My question is, is it OK to just run the upgrade assistant against each database one at a time, [...]
How can I able to get and work with Oracle in Linux platform. I am using RedHat Linux 9.0.
Hello, i have to set up an Database Replication for both read and write access to a tables data from anywhere. Who knows a good description with an example for the set up and administration?
Does anyone have any experience and/or issues with implementing a logical standby database for disaster recovery? We have enough disk for 1 standby database and the users want to query it as well as have it for disaster recovery.
Presently we have a 9iOracle database sized at approximately 50MEG on an HP-UX 11.11 server on a SAN. Our software app vendor is telling us that we should have the database on RAID 10 for better performance. They have done benchmarking with DB sized at what ours will be in the future. (Multi terabyte). Their [...]
We just upgraded to Oracle 9.2.0.4. When we try to compile a program, we get the following error: ld: fatal: file /u100/app/oracle/product/9.2.0/lib//libclntsh.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 error when trying to compile with GCC version 2.95.3. I was wondering if anyone had run across this, and, if so, is it telling us to upgrade gcc, or [...]
Hello how is everyone today? When your removing all Oracle components and services from a Windows 2003 Server what method is used more. The manual method or using Universal Installer? Can you please provide me a link to white papers that take me through the process of using the Universal Installer to uninstalling all the [...]
Any suggestions on implementing a procedure that passes an array as output parameter and using this as an input to a second procedure and manipulating it?
We currently support several systems running Oracle 8 that are upgrading to 9i. From a support perspective, can someone help me identify any key differences that might need special attention the my Oracle 8 experience does not cover? Thank you.
What is difference between RAC and parallel server?
I was out of the Oracle world for three years (using 7.4?), and now knee deep in alligators with little time to review market offerings. I am using Oracle Enterprise Manager for 9i and very happy with it. An Embarcardero vendor has contacted me a couple of times, but I’ve had little time to investigate [...]
We are trying to use connect by ..prior feature of oracle. Having said that we had used this type of queries and now we are facing this loop error for connect by prior. Any suggestions.
We have a table which already has a primary key. We want to make this have a composite primary key with another column. Is there any other way to do this without dropping the primary key and recreating a composite PK. Thanks in advance.
I have looked onto the web for finding duplicate records. However most the queries given finds one of the duplicate records. Our requirement is to find both (or multiple) duplicate records from a table. We are using Oracle 9i. Regards
We have a table with 70 columns and everyday we move data from thsi table to its history table which is basically same in structure. The daily table has about 4 million records that is tranferred to the history table. To move data from this daily table to the hostory table we are using bulk [...]
Any of you guys have any experience on this? Any tips or probably a step-by-step guideline to follow going about this?
In an Oracle 9.2.0.4 database I have a user with DBA as the default role. But I had to grant explicitly via “grant SELECT on …” to this user to allow it to select from DBA_ROLE_PRIVS and DBA_USERS. Since the DBA role grants all system privileges WITH ADMIN OPTION, why is it necessary to grant [...]
I have spent most of my DBA life on HP/UX. I just recently installed an App on Win 2000 and was able to easily set up schema exports, but I can’t get the full database export to work. I am running it as SYSTEM and made sure that SYSTEM has the DBA role as well [...]
HI, I need to create a data warehouse in Saudi Arabia, on Oracle 9.2.0. The database will store almost everything in English, but will need to store Arabic names in Arabic, and will need to handle both gregorian and hijri date formats and display them correctly. This same database may later need to support Chinese [...]
Hi, I am using Oracle Warehouse Builder 9i to implement my data warehouse. Normally, it generates dblinks containing a TNS reference: create database link <hostname>@<connector> connect to <user> identified by <password> using ‘<hostname>’; But sometimes it generates dblinks containing a TNS *definition* instead: create database link <hostname>@<connector> connect to <user> identified by <password> using ‘(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP) [...]





