Oracle10g 10.2.0.3 (64 bit)
RHEL 4.3 (64 bit)
4 node RAC cluster
Often we see all db connections from the application/client go to one

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Can you explain what is this problem ????
I'm using Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production.
When I run PL/SQL Block in SQL +; I have find error like:
ERROR at line 1:

Group,
I am learning to use RAC.(10.2.0.1)
I can not remove listener from ocr
[root@vlinux1 bin]# /opt/oracle/crs/bin/srvctl config listener -n

I'm new into reading statspack reports, and i would like to hear your
opinion on some findings i find odd.
It's a 1hour snapreport from an oracle 9 on a 2CPU windowsmachine with
one thirth-party application and a handful of users. Dataloading is

I'm on Oracle 9i. Is there any built in function that would return the
first token or string from a string?
For example, given string  = "     bob    lfcr   bill"
I want to return "bob"

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Rainbow Tables for CAIN:
- only for system account
- up to 8 characters passwords;
- 100 torrent files;

In the explain plan below
why the intermediate cost for index full scan is 5979
and the final cost is 65.
Something I did'nt understand ?

Oracle servers on Windows servers crash after converting to OID from TNS name resolution.
 Open a command prompt window (note: I have not seen this in the Windows version of SQL Plus or TOAD. You must use a DOS command prompt window). Make sure the windows workstation has SQLNET ...

Is there a web page that discusses SQL puzzles? Maybe a web page that
tackles programmer problems?
I heard that Joe Celko had a column that did just that.  I tried to
find it on my own but no success.

This bugged me a bit today:
create table steptest(a number);
alter table steptest add (constraint steptest_check1 check (a in
('J','N')));

Oracle 10.2.0.3.0 RAC on multiple Linux boxes.
I am still at the RTFM (Oracle Streams Replication Admin Guide) stage of
investigating the use of Streams to enhance a current brute force partial
replication of data from an OLTP source database to a data warehouse

Hello, oracle noob here.
I've got a function that returns a string that looks like this
---- begin
<yyyy>

Hi to all!
I'm executing a query from a my application using paramters for the
WHERE clausole.
It's possibile force the value of one parameters to work like a jolly