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Oracle Licensing help available
Quantix are one of Oracle seven Certified Advantage Partners in the U.K and we specialise in providing best value licenses and support for Oracle Technology Licenses such as Oracle Enterprise, Standard Edition, RAC and management packs. As you know Oracle have increased thier licensing costs by 18% from June 1... 15 Jul 2008 13:20

Non-*.ctl Control File Naming Convention
To all, I had a vendor tell me yesterday, that it was a good idea to name all of your database related files *.dbf, including control files. This immediately set off a red flag as it violates OFA. Anyone doing this, and if so what is your rationale? The vendor said it made UNIX find commands easier.?!? The ... 15 Jul 2008 14:22

Small scale - programmer driven - schema object/data restore
Hi - We have a small Oracle server used by three programmers. We would like programmer working on Schema A to be able to backup the schema (at T1) and subsequently (at T2) restore it for the purposes of testing etc. We would also like on customer sites when applying schema changes via DDL to backup the structure... 17 Jul 2008 12:42

Can Oracle Be Trusted With Your Data?
Richard Brautigan wrote: ( See http://www.fdv-93-005153.org/Threats/childersshotqe6_small.gif ) Have you ever wondered why Larry Ellison abruptly "resigned" from the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors, there, at Oracle Corporation ... and hasn't been invited back? Have you ever ... 15 Jul 2008 13:20

db_file_name_convert
Been looking for documentation to answer this question but haven't found any so I thought I'd ask here. Suppose you have two sets of file name conversion strings in db_file_name_convert for a database that you're cloning. What happens if the file name in the target db (source db) actually matches *both* of t... 14 Jul 2008 14:44

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Slow performance on count(*)?
Has anyone seen this before? It seems new to me: We're running Oracle 10.2.0.3.0 on Solaris. We had statspack turned on; now we wanted to turn it off. I removed the job, and then I wanted to clean out the statspack tables. After doing so by simply running "delete from perfstat.stats$snapshot" (and having rest... 15 Jul 2008 14:22

impdp very very long ...
Hello all I am the happy heir of a server running Red Hat Enterprise 3 with Oracle 10.2g. This server is used for integration purposes. Every night, the prod db is exported to a dump file using expdp, and then we use impdp to import the schemas, one after the other. The export (5GB) is done in about 30 minutes... 23 Jul 2008 14:19

Help! Tue SGA_MAX too large! Database cannot start!
On Jul 14, 11:57 am, l...(a)tech-trans.com wrote: Hi!, I tuned the SGA_MAX to 3G. Then, the database could not startup! How can I do now! Help! Ming If that is Oracle XE (you have posted regarding that edition on other posts) that value is not permitted. Its covered in the docs. You might wa... 14 Jul 2008 15:45

Help! Tue SGA_MAX too large! Database cannot start!
Hi!, I tuned the SGA_MAX to 3G. Then, the database could not startup! How can I do now! Help! Ming ... 14 Jul 2008 12:39