http://asktom.oracle.com These are the questions on Ask Tom that have the most comments en-us Copyright 1999-2006, Oracle Corporation http://asktom.oracle.com/i/asktom2.gif http://asktom.oracle.com 50 50 Ask Tom is a forum where Tom Kyte, Oracle's Database Guru, answers questions regarding Oracle technology, specifically the database. http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4621300400346847863 I have the following senario of a an address table where each id has at least one address or more. Some address type have more than one sequence number where the highest sequence number indicates the latest modified address. Table: MyAddr addr_... 2012-03-28 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4842844200346075553 Hello Tom I have a below requirement in hierarchical queries. If a node is removed from the middle of a hierarchy, all children of the removed node should automatically be assigned as children of the removed node?s parent.. How it can be don... 2012-05-07 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4694004400346543034 Tom - I am 100% on your side on Database Dependent Applications . I am not a big fan of Database being treated like a Black box. But the other side ( So called Object Purists / Database Independent Folks ) attribute the success of Peoplesof... 2012-04-11 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4791844700346949386 hello tom: we have a target table msisdn_ua1 which has more than 100 million rows,and we want to merge the rows in table file_temp with about one million rows into msisdn_ua,the sql we use as follow: <code>MERGE /*+parallel(t1,8)*/ INTO msisdn_ua ... 2012-04-27 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4775602500346488654 Dear Tom, I was reading Administrator's guide documentation and there are frequent references to "database services" but what exactly is database service is not clear. I am a developer who is also interested in learning Administration. I ... 2012-04-24 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4816804800346092235 Hi Tom, Hope you are doing. Request your help on the following. Please help. <code>create table t (date_from date,date_to date,attr1 varchar2(1), attr2 varchar2(1)); Insert into t Values (TO_DATE('09/29/2010 06:00:13', 'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:... 2012-05-02 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4788313300346641315 Hi I am new to oracle plsql and want advise on a Biz scenario: Biz want to run a shipping label report and each shipping has one record. They will choose particular shipping record and based on provided parameter they want to see number of labe... 2012-04-26 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4816600400346901248 Dear Tom, We were given a function that returns a REFCURSOR. Function is in a package. When I execute the following statement, I am getting entire resultset in a single row. How can I return a resultset in a grid in oracle sql developer. ... 2012-05-02 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4696684400346719356 Hi Tom, How do I count the number of records inserted/updated/deleted that have not yet been commited in a session? Development has a package with some bugs where they were committing(do to the logic flow). We are trying to make an alert so th... 2012-04-11 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4609443400346574802 Hello Mr. Kyte (all). We have an internal library/toolkit of SQL code snippets that our developers can refer to for examples when building packages, queries, stand-alone pl/sql objects, etc. and it's getting to be an unwieldy mess. We're wonderin... 2012-03-26