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:898037600346141261 Hi Tom, I wanted to have your feedback regarding the following architecture. We have following infrastructure. - OLTP Database : 4 node RAC with 9TB SAN Storage. - MIS Database : 2 node RAC with 16TB SAN Storage. To distribute the loa... 2008-05-29 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:974699100346868838 Hi Tom, When an user is created using "create user" it will create a user as well as a schema with the same name as user. Also, there is a way to create only schema as well, using "create schema". But how do I create a user without and associated ... 2008-06-26 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:926636700346915804 Hello Tom, I have a large table (20 million rows) partitioned by date (2 million rows/part) that includes an hour column. The hour data is stored in the '99' format as we only have 24 values/day. However the client wants the data displayed as '999... 2008-06-09 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:889858200346858019 Hello Tom, thank you kindly answer my question : <code> create table t1 (c1 number, c2 char(1), c3 date); </code> <code> insert into t1 values (1,'p','01/01/2000'); insert into t1 values (1,'p','01/01/2000'); insert into t1 values (1,'c'... 2008-05-27 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:912855200346794738 Hi Tom, How do I simplify or automate the creation or removable or reloading of Oracle Objects and allow the execution to continue from the step it failed? I usually create one script that contains all the SQL statements. The script is somewhat an... 2008-06-04 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:868691300346807468 Hi We are using GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE in stored procedure(part of the package). The functionality of the stored procedure is to return a cursor containing data from various internal tables of one application to another. The destination syste... 2008-05-19 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:912859800346801944 Hi Tom, I am trying to find if there is a way to track/log slow queries just like how mysql has a way of doing it. So obviously we should have a way to define time threshold that would identify the queries to be running slow. Typically this can be... 2008-06-04 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:974460000346404979 I've seen package code where there are procedures defined within a procedure, then the "within" procedure is called once in the main procedure - actually I've also seen 3 "within" procedures and the only thing the main procedure does is call these 3 ... 2008-06-26 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:913615100346951619 Hi Tom, I need to tune a query like this one, it is only part of the original query,the source_table has 4 million rows. The query consuming lot of resource. When I saw the query, first thing came to my mind was Analytic Functions, after sea... 2008-06-04 http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:889849600346845810 Hi Tom, I've tried looking on your answers but couldn't find a good solution to my case. In my company we use EJBs and plain java and connect to the database using oracle's thin JDBC. Basically what I have to do is an end-of-day procedure that ... 2008-05-27