Just want to know if it is good practice to use SELECT FOR UPDATE without
NOWAIT in my program.  I am worrying if some misbehaved sessions get
timeout'ed while locking some critical table, my whole application would
potentially be brought down.  However, if NOWAIT is used, I have to ...

I just installed Oracle 10G(1013) on RedHat 3.0, (NOT RAC), after the
installation finished, I was asked to run root.sh, which the output is like
this:
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I'm only just getting into 10g myself.
I was wondering what general opinion do the folks
in this group have of 10g?  I suggest that any
ORACLE RAC comments go in a similarly titled (but

I have problem with "case sentitive" in Oracle.
When I use the UPPER function, sql statment not acces by index.
How I can disable de "case sensitive" of oracle