I have an oracle 10g database in archivelog mode.  It runs for a few
days generating archive log files and I do a hot backup, a few more
days go by and I do another backup.
Assuming the last two backups are good and I only need the last one

UI Tool : VC 2005,
Database: oracle
OS - Window XP
Hi Everyone,

i connect through svrmgr30 but it shows me an error:
ORA-12203: TNS:no se ha podido conectar con el destino
SVRMGR>
SVRMGR> connect internal

We have an oracle 8.1.0.5 instance over sun solaris, during a hard user
deletetion instance crashed, and during startup this is what always happens
(down):
From oracle metalink lookup SIGSEGV is a segmentation error.

I have problem, Please help.
There is table called t:
with t as (
    select 1 Col1, 1 Col2, 1 Col3 from dual union all

Source: Informix
Target: Oracle 10gR2 std Edition / LINUX RHEL AS v.4
Dear all,
i have to migrate data from several plain text files corresponding,

We are looking into the possibility of virtualizing a number of our servers
with VMWare ESX. This includes some Oracle 10g servers. We know Oracle isn't
"officially" certifying this setup, however, i'm convinced that in our
situation it might work well. OracleVM might be an ...

I have been asked to move an SAP system using an Oracle database from
Solaris to AIX (on an IBM P590).
Most of the move is straightforward, except the Oracle database
transfer. It would make my life so much easier if I could simply

Currently im using 17gb for temp tablespace.
Im received a error stating, "cannot allocate temp segment for temp
tablespace".
I increased the temp tablespace with 8gb of space. but again im

Oracle 10.2.0.3.0, Windows 2003 Server
Is there ANY possible way that an index marked as unusable can become valid
other than by either rebuilding or recreating?
Thanks

Does anyone have any experience with EM Agent configuration with
Vertias Active/Active clusters?  I found Metalink note 406014.1 and it
seems to imply that only one agent would run on each node in the
cluster and the VIP's would be able to bind to the same default port -

When I enter the credentials in SQL Plus, it hangs. This  happens both
in the server machine (Oracle 10.2.0) and the clients. But I am able
to login using the command prompt in the server. Tnsping works
correctly. Nothing is logged in the alert log for the login attempt.

i need to zip a csv inside an oracle procedure.
I create this file (120 MB) inside a procedure and i leave it in a
shared folder but i need to zip it
Is it possible calling an oracle command?

Consider a test table - mytable:
                      id        number   pk
                      name   varchar2(20) not null,
                      addr     varchar2(100) not null default 'local'

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