Hi, group, I am reading RMAN (9206) and have a question about data block
level restore.
First question is, how could I create a data block corruption for testing
purpose?

Hello, I've downloaded from oracle.com this software to connect with a
Oracle server from my university:
    (Instant Client Downloads for Linux x86)
    Instant Client Package - Basic: All files required to run OCI, OCCI,

I get an Unique constraint violation for the following merge command
MERGE INTO destination D
USING ( SELECT * FROM DEP_ACCT
            where

_ENVIRONMENT_
I am running Oracle 10.1.0.3.0 on a Linux box with a 2.4.27 kernel.
_SUMMARY_
During the "create index" statement for a text index, I encounter a

In a 3 tier architecture is it possible to identify which client
machine browsers are making request to the database server .I mean
suppose from 2 differnt clients ,same user is connected to the
database, how can we distinguish between them.

The following:
begin
 execute immediate 'create table c (col1 number,col2 varchar2(30))';
 insert into c

Hi, Group,
I am running a disaster recovery.  I take a RMAN backup to disk on Node A
(d:/backup).  I moved all the RMAN backup files(datafile, autobackuped
controlfile etc) to Node B, but on Node B, I do not have disk D, only disk

Sybrand Bakker   May 8 2001, 10:00 am     show options
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My system is Windows XP.
Oracle 10g : 10.1.0.2.0
I can connect through sqlplus (and toad) with the following command:
sqlplus scott/tiger /

My system is Windows XP.
Oracle 10g : 10.1.0.2.0
I can connect through sqlplus (and toad) with the following command:
sqlplus scott/tiger /

I have Oracle 9i database server installed on a Windows machine, and the
Oracle installation installs Jserv and Apache 1.3x.  Is it possible to
use a separate Apache2 webserver and get that integrated with the Oracle
Jserv environment?

We have recently received an EMC CX500, which is going to be dedicated
exclusively for database use. The storage array is going to be
attached to 3 v40Z Opteron servers, which will be running
Red Hat AS 4.0

I am a bit confused about creating indexes. If I have a table with 5
columns, do I create an index for each column, or create an index for
all columns in the same index, or what??
I have noticed some applications create multiple indexes for a certain

I want to have a single statement to work on both sql server and
oracle, but am not able to convert the following to do so.
I am trying to update a column
UPDATE field_char f SET maxLength = 254

I used dbca to create database creation scripts (oraclr 10.1.0.2) and
for some reasons I ended up with:
oracle_sid=adcdm01
db_dbname=adcinfo  (hostname is adcinfops01)