Ask Tom MOST POPULAR http://asktom.oracle.com These are the questions on Ask Tom that have the most "hits" en-us Copyright 1999-2006, Oracle Corporation AskTom 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. SQL Tuning http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::NO::P11_QUESTION_ID:8764517459743 <code>I am new in tuning sql statements. Can u give a methodology of tuning the sql statements. </code> SQL Query http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::NO::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... How to Update millions or records in a table http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::NO::P11_QUESTION_ID:6407993912330 <code>Good Morning Tom. I need your expertise in this regard. I got a table which contains millions or records. I want to update and commit every time for so many records ( say 10,000 records). I dont want to do in one stroke as I may end up i... CURSOR http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::NO::P11_QUESTION_ID:1288401763279 <code>Hi Tom, I want to declare multiple cursors based on the values passed through a procedure ie, only where conditions of the cursors will change. The body of the procedure is same for all the cursors. Pls. suggegst a solution. Than... What don't you like about Oracle? http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::NO::P11_QUESTION_ID:48704116042682 <code>Hi Tom, I was wondering if there are some thing you don't like about Oracle? I personally wish more things came setup, out of the box such as autotrace, intermedia text, scott schema etc. Any thoughts on this? -Alex </code> Analytics question http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::NO::P11_QUESTION_ID:12864646978683 <code> I have a table from a 3rd party application that is used to track an order through the various manufacturing operations. A subset of the information looks like this: ORDER OPN STATION CLOSE_DATE ----- --- ------- ----------... extracting data to a flat file. http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::NO::P11_QUESTION_ID:68212348056 <code>How can i extract data from flat file to oracle table with plsql ? </code> Pivot Query http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::NO::P11_QUESTION_ID:766825833740 <code>Please state an example of pivot query. I know that in cardinality I've 2 columns, so how can I show them in columnar form and I know the cardinality is 4. Please also illustrate method of Varray and Nested Tables. Regards Puneet </code... SQL Query http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::NO::P11_QUESTION_ID:4725668677832 <code>Hi Tom, I have a table like this create table temp1 (f_name varchar2(100), f_date date, f_amount integer ); Records in this table will be like this: Ajay 15-JUL-02 500 Bhavani 15-JUL-02 700 Chakr... Tuning SQL Statements Using Explain Plan http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::NO::P11_QUESTION_ID:231814117467 <code>Hi Tom , I am new in tuning sql statements. Can u give a methodology of tuning the sql statements and to predict the output of explain plan. When i use explain plan for a particular query, i am able to understand what the result means. can u p...