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  • Can't install Developer 2000 on same machine as 9i

    I have Windows XP and Oracle 9i installed on it. However, whenever I try to install Developer 2000 on it it says that that an Oracle home directory by the name of Ora 9.0 already exists on it. 

  • Patches for installing 9i on RHEL4

    Which patches are required for installing Oracle9i on RHEL4 and from where can I download these patches? 

  • Migrating DB2 UDB database to Oracle on Linux

    In the next couple of weeks I need to migrate from a DB2 UDB database running on an AIX system to Oracle running on Redhat Linux. It doesn't appear that I will be able to use the Oracle Migration Workbench because from the documentation it only supp... 

  • Table locking in Oracle 10g

    One of my customers is using Oracle 10g (10.2.0.2) with Weblogic 8.1 SP5. For some unknown reason, one of the tables is locking up and not releasing itself for a long time. Are there any known issues in Oracle 10g regarding tables locking up? This di... 

  • Blocked while updating procedures

    I am working on a seamless upgrade of a project. The project uses Hibernate and Oracle. My task is to upgrade the DB from version 1 to version 2 while the project is running. While updating procedures, I get blocked. It keeps on waiting for several h... 

  • Getinfo procedure error

    I have two different versions of Oracle, 8.0.5 and 10.1.0.2, on Win2000 SP4. I have to upgrade my database to 10g. But under normal working conditions I get a Perl.exe.OCIDLL getinfo procedure error. How to resolve this error? 

  • Opening recovered database with UPGRADE option

    I have a backup of an Oracle 8i database which I needed to restore on Oracle 10g Server. I created a new database on the server, placed all the datafiles and redo logs and then re-created the controlfile and did a recover database using the backup co... 

  • Migrating from stand-alone server to blade server

    Currently I have a database (8.1.7) on a stand-alone AIX server. I have a new blade server loaded with Oracle 10g that is attached to a SAN for the data storage area. Is there any command or utility in Oracle that will allow us to migrate this databa... 

  • Functional advantages of 10g over 8i

    What are the functional advantages offered by Oracle 10g over Oracle 8i? 

  • Exporting 10g database to 8i

    I want to export a 10g database and import to 8i. I know the solution which consists of using the 8i export utility on 10g. Is there any other way that I won't need to install 8i client for 10g?