Let me try to phase my question better.
My goal is to do this:
I use Veritas's storage foundation to do checkpoint on Oracle(online
checkpoint.

I am using Linux with Oracle .
I heard that we can access the Windows XP desktop via Linux.
Someone tolld me that there is a technique available via which we can
click the icon of WindowsXP on linux screen and then can access the XP

Back in the days of Oracle 7 when they used to send you a complete
manual set every time you upgraded, or even just requested a patch, the
RDBMS manual set was about 30 long ( a foot for the metrically
challenged among us.)

hello all..
i am new at oracle. i have some experience in mysql but this oracle is
over my knowledge and i am stuck. my conf is: pentium 4 2.6 ghz and
256ddr ram.

it occurred to my that for some whose native tongue is not english, the
names of these two functions might seem a bit odd, as would the phrases
'upper case' and 'lower case'
so, trivia question: what's the derivation (etymology, if you will) of the

As far as i know there is no NET managed provider to connect from
VB2005 express editions to the new Oracle XE. It only talks to Sql
Server Express (replaces MSDE)
On the other side, ODT10201xe Oracle developer tools for NET needs

I am writing some coursework for students that describes the tools used to
monitor and tune database performance in Oracle. I have experience of doing
this in MS SQL Server, but not in Oracle.
What tools do you guys use in order to achieve this in Oracle? For example

I have a problem which I'm not sure how to deal with.
Here's the scenario (8i on AIX):
We have a system wherein some data warehouse tables are truncated and
repopulated each night with fresh data.

I am looking for oracle 8.1.7.4  EE version for Windows 32 bit. It is no longer available for download from Oracle.com
website. can someone please post it.
thank you

How does one determine the version of the jdk installed in the oracle
database.
I've tried the following but this does not provide the information I
need.

Please review the following two pl/sql blocks.
Our NLS_DATE_FORMAT is defined as DD-MON-RR.
------------------------------------------------------------
SQL> declare

Sorry for another newbie question.
The log switches were too frequent during normal operation, so I
resized my redo files from 30 M to 100 M each (three groups).
Everything worked fine then, but during a 1 million rows import, the

I would like to find the average temperature combining a  number of
locations where the record overlaps.
for a particular month I could use ...
sum(round(avg(decode(to_char(to_date,'mm'), '01',temp, null)), 1))

Something strange happened to me:
declare
v_rowid varchar(18);
cursor icur is

Help, we have client oracle ver 9.0.2 installed in AIX ver5 the profile
has been set. But when we give the command sqlplus, it is not starting
the appln and also does not prompt any error for the same. PLZ help in
the above problem.