I am developing a Interface and problem is how to tell oracles
SQL*Loader that 6.456 means 6thousend4hundert ...
Thank You!
Christian Meier

I am trying to predict the growth of my database every month. Is there
any tool or method which I can use to predict the growth.
Wanted to know whether oracle database only maintains any of these
statistics in the data dictionary.

Hi, a little problem - trying to - using dbms_scheduler on windows XP.
Who has a clue apart from the lack of a decent operating system ? ;-)
db version is 10.2.0.1
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I have been given the job of installing Oracle 9i Rel 2 on an Intel box
running Fedora Core V4.
Does anyone out there know if this is possible and if so where I can find
some info. I have already tried an install but it failed straight away with

Dear Candidate,
'The Shapers' is an Executive Search & HR Solution Company based
out of Delhi/NCR. We are searching for people in IT Domain globally
(India & Abroad) and we are working with the best brands.

I recently stumbled upon the free open source PostgresSQL
(http://www.postgresql.com).
In my opinion, this is one of the most advanced, FREE/open source RBM
systems I have ever come across. It is practically easy to migrate

I saw on this group a discussion about replication throughput, but
apparently it didn't finish.
I'm interested in information about maximizing replication throughput.
We currently have a larger transaction rate going into replication than

I'm relatively new to stored procedures, is it possible to schedule
these to run, say daily, within the DBMS, or is a
call from an external app required?
Thanking any kind soul in advance for their assistance.

How important is it for the time to be sync between nodes in a RAC
cluster? Do they have to be within a microssecond, second, minute,..?
or does it matter at all?
Thanks,

Has anyone here ever participated or lead an group in a PL/SQL code
review? My project manager and I believe that our we need to
incorporation a code review/inspection into our process and I am trying
to assemble a list of resources that should help us in accomplishing

Hello Experts,
We have around 400 primary key indexes,all are based on running
sequences. The DDL that creates these sequences has pctfree of 10%.
I recently read that pctfree is absolutely meaningless for indexes that

Hi1
For testing purposes I tried to install oracle 10g (R2) on my XP notebook.
Apart from having to upgrade to 1G and installing that loopback thingie
there are a whole lot of processes running, perl, four javas and lots more

I spent years developing with SQL Server, now I'm learning Oracle. It's like
twice as expensive, seems to me a lot harder to maintain. I never ran into
something I couldn't do in MS SQL - why exactly would anyone go through the
extra expense and hassle of using Oracle instead? ...

I was hoping someone could lead to the correct path, for this question.
I am using Oracle 9i and indexed a couple columns with ctxsys.context.
The users will be searching terms that contain, a bunch of Reverse
Words and there Characters. So when the query gets to the API, it will

I am not able to get my Oracle 10g Database starting on System startup.
Listerner and emctl are running very vell but the Databases i have to
start by foot. At this time I have the following 2 Shellscripts in
rc.d/rc5.d/