I need some help explaining the following situation.  I have tested the
case both in 9i and 10gR2.
Table:
EMPLOYEE

I have a 9i database on which I am trying to make a database connection
to a 10g database.  Whenever I try to connect, I get an error saying:
ORA-12645: Parameter does not exist.
I get the same error when trying to connect to the 10g database using

We are currently getting the following error
ORA-01460: unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested
When we try to insert a double-byte character from our ASP.Net
application through ODP.Net version 9.

I have a weird problem.
I am using an Oracle 9i DB and I wrote a stored procedure.
The procedure works like a charm when I use SQL+:
execute insert_stats('gggg',1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8);

I have managed to make really small test case.
So, lets's test it on a heap table first:
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Sat Mar 4 01:23:08 2006
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

I have a query which takes 0.2 seconds in 10G but takes 18 seconds in
8i.
the query is
SELECT n.story_id, n.date_of_story AS sdate, n.headline,

Hi frnds,
I am caught up in a very crazy yet obvious situation using pl/sql.
I wil try to explain the issue here in hope of gettin some
pointers/help

I have oracle 10.1 on linux Red Hat 4
I have to install 10.2 ( other oracle_home )
Can I use the same oracle unix user
to install and admin the new database ?

Hi frnds,
I am caught up in a very crazy yet obvious situation using pl/sql.
I wil try to explain the issue here in hope of gettin some
pointers/help

I have a log file with following pattern:
[<log ID>] <log message>
< several lines of detail messages
  .......

Ora 9.2.06 AIX
In a Peoplesoft environment a ran a dbms_stats.gather_table_stats on
the PS_JRNL_LN table. In that table, there is a column called
process_instance, which holds some kind of batch number.

1) Does windows NT support direct I/O?
Answer: Choose one of the answers that apply
A: No, only AIO
B: Yes, depending on hardware.

I'm getting beat up by the Sar/Oxy auditors because the DBA role is not
password protected. The only schemas that are granted this role are SYS
and SYSTEM. I've tried to explain that the DBA is a default role for
SYS and SYSTEM and setting a password is useless, but to no avail.

I am having problems with Oracle 9.2 on a newly-built pc running w2k
server. The software alone installed OK but I can't create a database.
To cut a long story short it hangs on this:
sqlplus /nolog

I have to execute some benchmarks with a 100MB database. Cause I have to
test the ram, I need to put all database in SGA. I try but I'm not able to
stop disk access. Every query accesses the disks.
Have you any hint to do this?