Does anyone know if the current Oracle Database 10g release for PowerPC
will run fine on Mac OS X 10.4 for Intel (through Rosetta)?
I am planning to buy the new MacBook Pro!
Thanks.

I have a funtion that bulk collects data into collection types and then
loops thru each collection record to do some data manipulations. I am
using the following select statement to assign some value to a
collection item in the loop.

I have to move one of my names servers because we are retiring a machine
soon, since I am going to be (hopefully) switching to OID sometime this
year I only need a temporary home for it. We just started using VMware
for testing and development environments, and I though that a VM ...

Hi, all.
I'm still (gak) working through various permutations of rman
functionality (8i on AIX).
At this point, I'm trying a full-on disaster recovery: backup the db

I am trying to accomplish this:
select forms_library.is_local(recruit_id)@xen from recruit@xen where
rownum < 3;
Receiving this error:

I got the following message while attempting to run Instance Manager with
OLAP
services (Oracle 9i release 1):
"XPINSMGR-10565: Cannot access OLAP Services from the database. Cause: An

Universal Software Corp. is currently recruiting for a Sr. Oracel
Developer/DBA to work on site with our client in the MetroWest area.
In this position we expect the consultant to adie in the design and
delivery of an enterprise wide solution.  To be successful in this

We are migrating from sql server 6.5 to oracle 9 release 2.
I am using bcp to extract the data of Sql server tables into a flat
file (.dat) which also has  image data type in it. when i use SQL*
Loader script to load it, sql loader throws an error.

I'm using Oracle 10.1.0.4.0.
I like this syntax for looping through
a resultset:
FOR crs_test IN (

I found a nice tutorial
http://www.codeguru.com/Csharp/.NET/net_asp/tutorials/article.php/c8477/
, however I am not sure that this is going to work as easy as I had
hoped. The tutorial assumes you have both Oracle and your IIS on one

Buffer Nowait %:  100.00       Redo NoWait %:   99.96
           Buffer  Hit   %:   99.98    In-memory Sort %:   99.98
           Library Hit   %:   99.50        Soft Parse %:   99.17
        Execute to Parse %: -416.16         Latch Hit %:   94.28

I've been trying to execute code ( logged on as user LIVE )  to gather
system stats & get the following
BEGIN
*

when I create a database with sqlplus, I run catalog.sql and catproc.sql to
create data dictionary and packages. When I run catproc, I see on the monitor
some errors about DIANA and other packages, but I can't understand what's
happen. the database is created, but I want to see the ...

Oracle 10GR1 on Linux:
I've got a table containing about 160000 rows to which I've added a
nested table column. Each nested table contains several hundred
entries. I have created the nested table with no particular measures

I just recently upgraded from Oracle 8 to Oracle 10g. I have a
Microsoft Access application which has attached tables from the Oracle
database using the Oracle ODBC driver. Previously everything worked
just fine. Since upgrading to 10g and installing the new client