I am trying to create a simple snapshot on my database using the
following:
CREATE SNAPSHOT thresholds_ak
as

Oracle's marketing literature pitches RAC clusters as a way to scale.
Someone I know who uses RAC claims it is a product for High
Availability only, and never for scalability; that the scalability
thing is mostly marketing bluster from Oracle. My acquaintance

Kaixo!
I need to start a project using .NET on the client and Oracle 8i on the
server side. I have ODP.NET, but the problem i have is that my
development workstation is also the oracle 8i server (don't ask...) So:

OK short question but probably not a quick answer....anyone give me the
pros and cons of using Java for my stored proedures instead of PLSQL.
Thanks In Advance

The documentaion states that the latest OJDBC14.JAR file from Oracle
10.2 is compatible with older releases as far back as 8.1.7, but I get
the following error when I try to connect to a remote 9.0.1 database:
java.sql.SQLException: Io exception: Connection reset

Is it possible to control Oracle on AIX permissions via NT? I know its
possible if Oracle was sitting on a NT machine but in my case, the
database is sitting on an AIX machine.
Thanks!

Hai Friends,
I encounter this problem when I log on to my database through PL/SQL
developer.
ORA-12638 Credential retrieval failed

Have just installed Oracle 10G R2 on fedora linux box with 1 GB memory.
It is VERY slow, i.e 15 seconds to connect with sqlplus from the linux
command line.
Where do I start to find out why this is happening?

I try to run a query on Oracle Enterprise v10.2.0.1.0 when I execute it on
iSQL+ it returns the results in milisecs. However when I execute the same
query using the JDBC driver Oracle tries too hard to process it (150 secs).
Query advisor warns me about the execution speed and I ...

How to design a generalized database that is used to store datas from
any other database. The thing is that the tables and datas of the
source database is not known while designing this target database. The
design should be a generalized one to store data from any database. Can

i have tried to modify the value of DBCA template, or rebuilded control
file by new value, but they are all effectless. who can tell me the
correct method? thks.

The "INDEX" hint let Oracle automatically choose index, however if
Oracle can introduce a new hint "INDEX_COL", it will really helpful.
Because we may use different index name for the same table in different
environment (PROD vs QA).

we store in a var field values in the format 123; 345; 567; In some
records the field contains duplicates, i.e. 123; 345; 123; 567; Is it
possible to selelct those records somehow, or even better get rid of
the duplicates?

does anyone know where to get some oracle sql trial exams to practise ?
thanks,
pavlik

We are interested in implementing grid manager on a single CPU system
to manage 20 - 30 DBs sometime during the next few months.  For reasons
not related to grid management we want to station this small server a
few miles away from our DB servers at one of our other locations.