http://asktom.oracle.com These are the most recently asked questions on Ask Tom 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:1612281449571 <code>Let's say we have a table of documents with key of doc_id. This table contains millions of documents(rows). There is also a table that assigns one or more industry codes to each doc: create table doc_ind ( doc_id integer, ind_co... http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:3305559676987 <code>Tom, Two Very simple questions for you. A. In a datawarehouse environment there are instances when after loading say more than 500 million records one discovers that one of the loads that loaded 200 million records was not correct and ne... http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:76812348057 <code>I have a Search field in my form. When my user enters a value in the Search field, I want to display the first 10 rows which match the query, then the next 10..and so on. I will give him 2 button (Previous 10 & Next 10) options. How do I ... http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4347075367803 <code>Tom, I was working with External tables and Oracle came up with an error when I tried to insert, update or delete from external tables, as shown below. SQL> delete from student_ext; delete from student_ext * ERROR at line 1... http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:1082232742209 <code>thomas, happy holiday. I have question(s) related to rman 1. what is the difference between - to back up the current control file and to backup up control file copy(backup controlfile copy) 2. when using either of above command ta... http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4248554900346593542 Tom, I have a table with 2.8 million rows, and one of the columns is a BLOB b/c this table holds binary attachments. I need to convert these BLOBS to their plain text equivalent to index the file contents in a system external to Oracle. I am s... http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:2320123769177 <code>I am trying to use bind variables for the 1st time. I have a part of the code here from a test stored procedure- Declare x number; y number; z number; a date; b date; c number; d number; e number; execute immediate '... 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:... http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:28805759638277 <code>Tom, I'm required to produce a monthly report with shutdown/startup activity for a database {hopefully there will be nothing to report:)} I just want you to comment on my aproach, and maybe you'll have a better idea on how to automate this.... http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4843459400346642911 Tom, please consider this: I have a database/table with a DATE column that has no index and has the format "DD-MM-YYYY". I would like to use a standard format in my PL/SQL code that does not lead to implicit database conversions between da...