Anyone knows how to do rman restore for RAC database to another server
with single instance.
Thanks.
Mike

Until now we were running on HP linux DL580 without issue.
There are some pressure to switch to IBM.
Is this a good idea to install 10G  on an IBM ?

This may seem like an easy thing, but I am having issues.
We are running 9i.  I need to write a script that will log into some
remote databases and perform some maintenance.
The basic connect in the script looks like this:

Hey All,
I got this piece of code I am trying to write and the cursor is not
working properly.  Please take a look at this.  It basically complains
about v_osid not being valid......

We have a web aplication busilt using pl/sql web toolkit - version etc
in sig.
It seems that when we do an
execute immediate 'create user...';

We will switch our name resolution service from ONAMES to LDAP (oid)
soon.
With the ldapsearch utility (or with any ldap browser), anyone can
connect anonymously to oid and execute a ldap query like this :

Hi, just like to have some quick command reference.
By the following command:
select to_date('20051231','YYYYMMDD') - to_date('20051101','YYYYMMDD')
from dual;

A friend asked me to install linux and oracle for him. The box have six
sata discs and I wonder if someone here would be kind to help me figure
out how to best use them.
I'm thinking:

I search a way to know by a request if a partition exist or not... can
you help me ?
Thanks

Before auditing a database I need to know the
transaction rate, how I can compute it
from the dictionary ?
Thank you

I have an sql script which I would like to perform an update with via a
command line parameter:
update cps_parameters set parameter_data=&1
where    parameter_group_name='AR_LOAD_DEBUG_MODE'

We have a problem. We are converting data of a database to an oracle
environment. Therefore we have a production server (win 2000 4
processors, a bulk of memory) and a test server (win 2000, only one
processor, less memory). The production server should be faster than

Simple question, so hopefully there's a simple answer.  I just
installed Oracle 9i client (9.2.0.1.0) for Windows XP.  I fired up
SQL*Plus and am trying to connect to our db server.  I am asked for
username, password, and host connect string.  How do I build that?  Our

9.2.0.4
Linux EL3
I have some long running sql (i presume) and one of the cpu's is nearly
100% so knowing the pid of the process that is eating this CPU is it

hello everyboby,
can anybody help me with the following issue ?
i administer a Terminal Server that we are migrating to W2K3. Now a
days the Terminam Server is running NT with Orcal 9 Client and ODBC