On AIX5.2 :
SALES_P-bones:/oracle/admin/sales_p/scripts$ sqlplus "/ as sysdba"
SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.7.0 - Production on Wed Mar 22 09:11:40 2006
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I have a 6 month old dump file of a database.  I also have all of the
.DBF files however the system01.dbf is corrupt and can not be
recovered.
Is there any chance of salvaging this data?

Question for nulls, I suppose...
If I do this:
SQL> select dump('') from dual;
DUMP

I want to execute the following sql in a data source in Cognos Decision
stream.
SELECT
A.CALENDAR_DATE,

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I need some database-related clip art / illustrations, preferably
royalty-free. Failing that, I just need some good visual examples of an
artsy, sketched-out database cylinder. I've tried the usual suspects,
e.g. istockphoto.com but found nothing.

I have test table with three columns  NAME, NAME2 and NAME3 :set out as
follows:
NAME                    NAME2
ridwan                     thandeka

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I was just playing around with Oracle dates and found something
peculiar.
SQL> select to_char((trunc(sysdate)-732757),'DD-MM-YYYY AD HH24:MI:SS')
from dual;

Today many applications (SAP, SIEBEL, MANUGISTICS, PEOPLESOFT, and so
on) does not have a client direct access to connect to the database.
They use an Application Server that has only one connection to the
database and the users get connected to this application server.

Oracle server Version 8.1.7.4.0 .
According to some googling I've done, there is an issue with respect to
zero length strings and varchar2.  I suspect the following differences
in a select count(*) are caused by it.  Can someone simply confirm for

My query
select key1,
      key2,
      key3,

I'm using
Server side:
Oracle server 10.2.0.2 (Windows Server 2003)
Client side (Windows XP SP2):

I have a table:
CREATE TABLE MESSAGE_LOG_DW
(
 SENT_MESSAGE        VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE),

All:
I am trying to verify the storage platforms, technologies and vendors
certified to support RAC on Oracle 10gR2, but have not been able to find
this