I have tried to make Instantclient work with PVCS Tracker (Windows)
but..
[MERANT][ODBC Oracle 8 driver][Oracle 8]ORA-03134: Connections to this
server version are no longer supported.

Is there any third party tools to connect microsoft active directory with Oracle?
OID seems to be very complicated.
thanks
andrew

I have a question about column width and its effect on comparisons. If I
compare two columns and then widen one of the columns, then compare them
again, I think the comparison should be the same regardless of the width
change. Am I right?

db 9.2.0.5
OS AIX 5.2
Character set: UTF8
How can I determine in bytes how much space is taken up by date data and

We are operating databases in 9i and 10g...
The command "drop user user" is not returning anything
(the session freezes and when you kill it, it does not go away unless
you kill -9. This is happening even if you are logged in as a DBA or

Hello all. I am new to Oracle stored procedures. I have an Oracle
account on the university server. I can create and drop tables all day
long, but I cannot seem to create any kind of stored procedure. I have
tried very simple select procedures, etc and always get:

Anyone knows why I keep getting the OS check failed while installing
Oracle 10g on AIX 5.2 ML 5 (oslevel -R = 5200-05)
I believe as long as I am AIX 5.2, I should be okay.
Ora Dummy

I am trying to extract all data from a relatively small table into a
flat file and extract runs for too long. When looking at wait events I
see 46 seconds wait on 'SQL*Net message from client'
and 3 seconds wait on 'db file scattered read', all other waits are

I found these two links in the SQL Server usenet group and
think they will be both of value, and appreciated, by those
here that have to deal with those schooled in UML that think
they understand relational databases.

for a particular program, when i do a ps -ef on that process, the
userid and password shows up.
like .....
$ps -ef abc

I have been testing ASM to see how viable it is for a 24x7 production
environment.
I thought that I would share my findings:
(1) It seems that the Oracle dbca (Database Configuration Assistant)

Our Database system is using Oracle 9.2 on window 2000 servers.  It is
running in Archive Log mode.  I am not a dba, but as far as I know,  the
Archive Log mode is a "System Setting"; all sessions' update will run in
that mode.

In the doc. about the this hint they say

I have to copy data from one table to another..like this:
insert into mytable2 select * from mytable1;
but number of columns of mytable2 is greater than those of mytable1,
so I get the : ORA-00947: not enough values

After a shutdown immediate database doesn't start anymore. In the OH the
cause is described very short, so that I didn't understand what is wrong
and what I could do.
Any Hints?