I want to stop my DB, but OEMC won't let me login, ora version 9.2.
Am a newbie to managing my own DB.
I'm trying to login as SYS and it refuses. I can switch over to my
DBArtisan SQL tool and it lets me login fine with same user/pwd combo.

I find C/C++ Library for work with Oracle OCI.
It MUST support Oracle 8,9,10 OCI!!!
Can anybody help me?

I am considering building a fast refresh materialized view on a single
table residing in 8.1.7 db.
This table is a part of ODS which is refreshed daily.
It is refreshed by applying archive logs from the db that it mirrors.

Oracle version 7.3.4.5.0 on HP-UX 10.20 (yes I know it's ancient :-)
Last night (perhaps during a hot backup, I'm not certain yet), our Oracle
instance came to a halt. The trace file has this, and:
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [2103], [0], [0], [1], [900],

I'm trying to find out which sessions, out of a set, are still alive:
select SessionId
    from (select SessionId from CVC_EDDY1 UNION select SessionId from CVC_EDDY2)
    where dbms_session.is_session_alive(SessionId);

I am working on oracle 8i under win2k dell server. Recently i ran
Statspack to observe the performance and found the following under
the heading
Instance Efficiency Percentage (Target 100%):

I test the following two queries in my 9.2.0.3 database. The response
time
is consistent.
select /*+ index(cl Total_contributionlog_idx) */ jackpotpool_id,

I try to open excel with data in xml format. The problem is, that if my
data consists any utf-8 spesific characters (like scandinavian
characters found in ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15 for example) excel refuses
to show the data.

Learn Oracle From Home
1.  Download this complete 376 page Book absolutely FREE
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The password protected PDF file so you will need acrobat reader. get

First off I would like to apoligize if I am posting this to the right
group. My question is if anyone here (I'm pretty sure) knows of a good
Oracle book that has administration and security rolled into one. My
situation is that we have deployed Oracle DB and App server and I need

Hi Oracle gurus,
I have a question on Undo. Is there any way to fix 20
Undo segments online when the database starts up?
When the Oracle 9i database starts up, 10 undo segments

I have a tool that need the request in a XML format like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <managementsuite core="CABEXP02" exported-utc="25/05/2005 13:36:26">
- <query>

I am using oracle 10.1.0.3 on Windows 2000 and JDK 1.4.2_06.
We have a packaged application which uses JDBC connection pool.
I want to enable Oracle's tracing using logon trigger.
Let use assume there are maximum of 5 connections in connection pool.

I want a job to run at 330 am on the 15th of every month.

Today, whenever I try to navigate to
http://tahiti.oracle.com
I get redirected instead to:
http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=4550:1:7275567375776076108