I'm hoping someone here can help me with my question.
We're responsible for creating a "developer doc" called a System
Architecture Document (SAD). Our SAD is supposed to contain the
following:

Enterprise Edition Version 10gR2 64-bit On Solaris Operating System
x86-64
Additional Info in the cert matrix says this is "Planned for December."
Anybody know how this is looking?  I would like to go there if it

Does oracle Export also export the Blob data, or they do have to be
exported Explicitely.
And how to export The Blob Data.
Thanks

Regarding v$tablespace view there are three new columns added in new
version of database 10G. These new columns are BIGFILE, FLASHBACK_ON
and INCLUDED_IN_DATABASE_BACKUP.
Could someone inform me which type of information these new columns

Friends
I am trying to identify pros and cons of SAN verus NAS versus direct
attached storage for OLTP as well as OLAP databases. Common sense tells
me that direct attached storage should give me best performance,

In my understanding, Oracle RDBMS is not a complete in-memory database.
Allotting a large System Global Area(SGA) will just make large part of
the database to be loaded into memory, but still the updates will be
written onto the Disks.

I have the following 2 tables:
Table 1 - Pricing:
This table holds pricing details of all Items (roughly 150,000 items).
One Item has three types of prices Standard, Promotion, and Discounted.

We have a set of tables (all the same structure) called
EXPAND_ROUTE_001, EXPAND_ROUTE_002, .... to EXPAND_ROUTE_010.
I need to write a stored proc that can join to one of these tables
selected by the user of an application, at runtime. Is there a simple

I am totally new to Oracle. I have a very simple question. I have a
legacy application  written in C++ and using Oracle RDB (on ALPHA/VMS).
The backend is changed from Oracle RDB to Oracle 10g (on ALPHA/VMS). I
want to know how to call Oracle 10g Stored procedures from C++?

I need to delete relative record from table B when the table A is updated.
Table C is joing the tables A and B.
Thanks
Jsutha

I am having serious issues with PHP5/Apache on Solaris 10 (sparc) with
Oracle 10.2.0.1.0 Enterprise.
I can't connect to it using PHP and get the following:
Warning: ociplogon() [function.ociplogon]: _oci_open_server: Error while

I have a oracle test server 10.2.0.1 on windows 2000, created a db with
UTF-8 charset.
CREATE TABLE TEST (C1 VARCHAR2(20);
INSERT INTO TEST VALUES ('');             --BIG5 tranditional

I want to import excel sheet to Oracle database. But not manually. It
should be automatic. Is there any way...?
thanks

Does anyone know the real difference between these hints?  I've read
the documentation in the "Oracle 9i Database Performance Tuning Guide
and Reference" and the "Oracle 9i SQL Reference".  Both seem to say the
same thing just in different fashions, essentially, combining indexes

As the title suggests, is there a way for RMAN to backup external
files?  For example, init.ora files, shell scripts, rman command line
files, etc...