When use MS OLE oracle driver to connect to Oracle, I got the error
"Test connection failed because of an error in initializing provider.
Oracle error occurred, but the error message could not be retreived
from Oracle."

My opinion follows:
In an attempt to screw anyone and now its DBA base, Oracle is doing yet
another thing ... Oracle on Demand .. also know as the end of the
in-house DBA:

I don't buy it
http://eyeonoracle.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/09/13/the-oracle-dbms-is-a-lega
cy-technology/

We are using DBMS_LOGMNR. I wonder, is there some way to increase
perfomance of Oracle Logminer?
Maybe there is some analog of the  db_file_multiblock_read_count
parameter..

We have a code generation process which spits out a tremendous amount
of data loading code.  We selectively add indicators to these table
fields based on certain criteria, such as data type, nullablility,
etc.

i need help to get the example of contextual search engine using
oracle as a guidance for my project. Has anyone have develop
contextual search engine?.....please help me!!

An application uses package variables and the server is in dedicated
server mode. What is going to happen to the package variables if I
switch from dedicated to mts? Nothing? My intuition says that I would
not be able to use package variables anymore but I could easily be

I have to do some work in a project where a former colleage used Oracle
procedures.
They look like this:
PROCEDURE delete_product (

on Oracle 10g. from the command line, if I type "connect myusername/
mypassword@orcl", oracle accept my credentiels and let me in. Now, in
the same session, if I retype the same previously command but with an
inccorect password (connect myusername/myWRONGpassword@orcl), Oracle

In case anyone hasn't noticed:
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No release dates yet.
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I am using sql loader to import some data into our oracle 10g database
from a sybase database.
The data is pulled from the sybase database by our own tool and
everything is put in files (two per table: .ctl and .txt file). Our

I need to update the hour part of a date field, say the field name is
createddate.
Like if its value is 17-SEP-2007 21:00:00, I need to update it as 17-
SEP-2007 20:00:00

I was in schema1 (not the actual name) in TOAD -Oracle 9i - and tried
select count(*) from schema2.table1; (not the actual names)
I got an 'invalid or unknown table'  error, although, as you
will see below, schema1 has read access to schema2.

I have got a full database [Oracle 7] export file which I am importing
to a 10g database. There are a total of about 12 schemas.
On 10g, I simply created a blank database and then all the tablespaces
and ran the import. But it ran into a lot of errors with creation of