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:485221567528 <code>This is reported by Surya Rao <surya.rao@reuters.com> in a mailing list and I reproduce it here: SQL> create table test (a number) nologging; Table created. SQL> select table_name,logging 2 FROM USER_TABLES 3 where table_name =... http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:18785088712670 <code>Tom, I have been through the forum and am still unsure of the best way to do what I need to do. There seems to be caveats to most methods and some methods mentioned apparently will work on some versions and won't work on others. In a nu... http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:5671284058977 <code>Hi Tom What's the difference between connections, sessions and processes? I read a note from Metalink about the difference but I simply dont get it! May you give a brief explanation? Thank you </code> http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:5533095920114 <code>Hi Tom, I currently have a simple search page that incorporates 9i Oracle Text by using the Context index on a CLOB column. What I'd like to know is if its possible to use a single query with CONTAINS that searches a CLOB column in Table A ... http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:1792735500346727875 Hi Tom, What is the relation between SYS user password and orapwd file ? What are the various methods to change the SYS user password. If I change the SYS user password using from sqlplus use password command or use alter user ... http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:3083286970877 <code>Tom: I have a table that initially stores information about items in a warehouse stored in different bins. Table look like this where manual inventories are done every 3 months. Effective date is the sysdate when record is inserted. Inv... http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:3516589324948 <code>HI TOM, Tnx for this oppurtunity again, Can You explain how does the ORA-4068 occurs and how can I go about it? How does oracle manages the freelist (8i) on LMT's? And how can we track the freespace, used space, and fragmentation on LMT'... http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:670117794561 <code>Hi there, I am running Oracle 8.1.7 EE on SUN Solaris. I created two databases SUGAR and TestDb (I need one to do some testing). Both are set remote_login_passwordfile = exclusive. The following shows how I had trouble to connect as SYSDBA.... http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4972732303253 <code>Tom, I find your book very useful. I tried many of your examples given in your book. The examples are very much meaningful and educative. When I tried your example (page no. 398.399) on sql loader, I faced a problem. Table: SQL> desc ... http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4951966319022 <code>Tom : I' ve recently read an article about Performance on Dbasupport.com an i couldn't believe what i was reading about commits I usually read your answers on this site and I' ve read your book as well and you always suggest to not commit fequ...