I am working for a software dev company doing a port to Oracle (from
SQL Server). Currently, when deploying the initial software (or
changes to the software) the database changes are made using sql
scripts. DML handles changes to the data. This issue is that the

Oracle version: 9.2.0.8
We are facing a problem with one of our jobs that runs on say database
db_a and writes on db_b.
Job, at times, aborts giving error "ORA-02049: timeout distributed

Ok, I'm developing another oracle application where the distinction
between NULL and '' will be important.
Given Oracle doesn't adhere to SQL standards for the distinction, is
there any best practices for comparing, and storing blank strings in a

Not sure if this is the correct area to ask this question but it is a
start.
First of all I am new to Oracle so forgive me for how basic I will be.
We are running 9i on a 2003 server.  Hard drive space is limited, and

I'm trying to add a new FGA policy, but I get message "DBMS_FGA must
be declared".
Is there a previous step before the creation of the policy?
I'm using 10g on Windows XP.

Dumb question, How could i do the the following in that tool?
set define off
I try from SQL, but i get invalid option.
I'm trying to stop my procedure compile from interpreting & as prompt.

We getting the following error in our database:
ORA-04031: unable to allocate 2097152 bytes of shared memory ("shared
pool","unknown object","hash-join subh","QERHJ Hash Table Entries")"
We have already tried the following:

how can i get output like this
1 = 1
1+2 =  3
1+2+3 = 6

I have a table that has a column that is a data type of "LONG". The
data in this column is actually text (it's descriptions). Don't know
they history of why it was set up this way, but I cannot change it.
So, I am trying to use SQL to pull this column along with other

Please suggest if there is any way to suppress output in export/import.

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Hello friends,
I have 2 tables. One store employee information attributes as columns
of table in horizontal form.
Other store same employee's more information in a vertical form, in a

NLHE MTT. Blinds 75/150. Full table. Your stack is 7000 - odd; a bit above
average.
UTG limps, folded to you, you limp along with 66. If you disagree with this,
please say so. Folded to SB, SB folds, BB checks, so three to the flop. No

All,
Our company is charged with supporting various clients, some of which
are still on 81x.  We keep many versions in house on our Solaris
environment, but we have outgrown it and a moving to RHEL4 on x86-64.