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:4233459000346171405 I use the database to declare (and enforce) as much application logic as I can. What I'd like to do is to enforce application constraints across related rows, if possible. As a contrived example, suppose we have a table of Agreements and a secon... 2011-12-20 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4246230700346756268 <u>Summary :</u> I have a large table (15k+ rows) of prefixes showing country level dialling prefixes (i.e. E164 country code + local prefix... eg. "1403" for Alberta/Canada). The contents of the table range from the more specific (e.g. "180979... 2011-12-25 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4248571600346737143 Hi Tom, I am working on a project , where it needs parallel jobs for the performance.Each of our packages run for nearly an hour .Some of them are handled through unix jobs .I am trying this apprach , pls suggest me . CREATE TABLE MAX.TEST_TIME... 2011-12-26 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4246884900346697122 Hi Tom, There was one doubt which i always had 1) after a checkpoint all the data which is written in redo logs is recovered by instance recovery if a crash occurs, but what for the data which is commited and not written to disk but writte... 2011-12-26 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4244239100346694274 Hi Tom, Merry Christmas and A happy new year to You... In batch process we run multiple streams.We have 2 instances.Let say in 60 streams.While doing bench marking we have found that if we divide process in 2 instance the timing was better than... 2011-12-23 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4242464400346393059 Hi Tom, I'm stuck at a Place where I need to use the value of a Global variable declared and populated inside one Package to be used in other package.How do I do that. I don't to dbms_output it. I need to print that VALUE of this Variable in the O... 2011-12-23 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4245158000346202557 Dear Tom, I have a database with 1000s of tables and 10,000s of objects. There are about 5 different applications that use the same data but the functions and procedures they use are partly shared and partly exclusive to each application. 50% of... 2011-12-24 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4245421000346226872 Hi. Simple question :-) Is it possible to check current value of sequence? I though it is stored in SEQ$ but that is not true (at least in 11g). So is it now possible at all? Regards 2011-12-24 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4246401300346330419 hi tom, 1.I want to know what is the optimal order for columns in a table. should i : Put the not null cols first? the short nullable cols(for example :varchar2(1)) before the long nullable cols(for example :varchar2(100))? or the nullable cols... 2011-12-25 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4251349800346225680 Hi Tom, Here I am again. My question is- Can I CC (carbon Copy) an email using UTL_SMTP in 10g? I was able to send email to multiple recepients by looping through the UTL_SMTP.RCPT() function. But is there a way to CC an email. I tried som... 2011-12-27