I am trying to build a system where I can full-text index documents with
UTF8 or UTF16 data using Oracle Text. I am doing the filtering in a
third-party component outside the database, so the I dont need filtering in
Oracle, but only indexing.

Good morning all,
Not sure if this is the right place for this question...
Just starting with Interconnect and need to know if Interconnect can
handle, as input, variable length formatted text files.

I got this error at the end of an RMAN backup last night.  Looking
about on metalink, I see it as an unreproducible bug in older patch
sets (bug 3473790).  I see the workaround as recreating the control
file.

I have two tables :
Employee
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emp_id PK

   Does anybody have an example
xml to define a service for oracle
on Solaris 10?
.

Is it possible to find where a request originates in a multi-tiered
environment?
We are using Cold Fusion MX and Oracle 10gAS as our mid-tiers.
Occasionally when someone accidentally submits a long running query via

I´d like to checkout an own PL/SQL function that does the same like SUM. Can
anybody provide this piece of code or a link?
tnx a lot
Mark

I have recently had some very wierd behavior with a standby database under
Oracle 7.3.4 which required me to generate a new controlfile. Metalink
will probably not give me any useful information about this problem, and I
hope that the newsgroup can shed some light.

I need to find reason to migrate from Oracle Forms to a J2EE Web
application (using UIX / ADF Faces and using JHeadStart to make it
rapid development ). The main reason actualy because we want to make
J2EE as our standard.

what is the status of the market share in database industry NOW and in
5 years?

I've got a Oracle server working fine on an AIX computer. A homemade
monitor monitorice each 5 minutes the connection and the problem
becames when some queries are executed. Sometimes these queries make
FULL SCAN ACCESS to some tables. This is crap, but the questions that

I can't seem to get the tnsnames.ora and listener.ora to be 'correct'
when I go to add the failover server.
Here is the working listener.ora when SND is the only system listed:
LISTENER =

We are seeking an Oracle expert to advise us on a major development effort
of a large scale forecasting application, and I'm trying to determine the
best place to look for such a person.  A Google search will of course turn
up lots of possibilities, but I thought I'd ask the ...

I am planning to use SQL Loader to import data present in csv files to
Oracle 9i db. I have a few questions regarding SQL Loader.
1. Can i load selective columns from the csv file.
i.e. csv format is something like this

when i create a datafile on a VxFS FS and use vxtrace to see what
happens while running the create statment:
100862 35477413 START write vdev voltest dg M01 dev 0,100020 block
6329184 len 512 concurrency 1 pid 1259