I am learning 10gR2 RAC on ubuntu and have gone through the
installation of Clusterware successfully (no DB yet). But I am facing
some issues:
1. Shutdown nodeapps does not bring down VIP

I am a fresh graduate and would like to know the difference between
the skill sets required for an Oracle Applications Developer, an
Oracle Apps DBA and an Oracle DBA. Also can someone please shed some
light as to which of these three fields have a better opportunity and

10.2.0.2 Ent Ed, AIX5L
We are planning a new database and I'm having a little confusion on
what character set to use. We are not sure if in the future we may
need some double byte characters. For the most part we can suffice

is there a big lost in performance if there is a nonunique index on
the column that holds only unique values (like primary key)?
thanks
chris

Oracle DBAs,
I am seeing this when I try to startup:
bash sol oracle ~ 2 $ sqlplus '/as sysdba'
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.2.0 - Production on Sat Sep 1 17:17:41 2007

I have a Oracle 10.2.0.3 Target database which is being backed up
through RMAN
However the catalog being used is on a Oracle 9.2.0.8 database
The problems that I am having are