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What Is an Oracle Tablespace
What Is an Oracle Tablespace? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle Tablespaces and Data Files An Oracle tablespace is a big unit of logical storage in an Oracle database. It is managed and used by the Oracle server to store structures data objects, like tables and indexes.
2007-05-04, 5214👍, 0💬

What Is a Initialization Parameter File
What Is a Initialization Parameter File? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Oracle Basic Concepts An initialization parameter file is a text file that contains a list of initialization parameters. The file should be written in the client's default character set. Sample initialization parameter files are provided on...
2007-04-21, 5210👍, 0💬

How Many Anonymous Blocks Can Be Defined
How Many Anonymous Blocks Can Be Defined? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to PL/SQL An anonymous block is stored in the user's current session without any name. So you can only define one anonymous block at any time. If you define another anonymous block, the new block will replace the previously de...
2007-04-25, 5207👍, 0💬

What tools can do a 'diff' to discover the differences between 2 versions of an FMB file?
What tools can do a 'diff' to discover the differences between 2 versions of an FMB file? Use an Object List Report. File > Administration > Object List Report This generates a text file of the form. Compare these to find the difference easily. FORMS API Master -- This will help us to compare two Fm...
2011-03-15, 5204👍, 0💬

What Is the Relation of a User Account and a Schema
What Is the Relation of a User Account and a Schema? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle User Accounts, Schema and Privileges User accounts and schemas have a one-to-one relation. When you create a user, you are also implicitly creating a schema for that user. A schema is a logical container for the ...
2007-05-02, 5204👍, 0💬

How To Start Your 10g XE Server from Command Line
How To Start Your 10g XE Server from Command Line? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to Oracle Database 10g Express Edition You can start your 10g XE server from command line by: Open a command line window. Change directory to \oraclexe\app\oracle\product\1 0.2.0\server\BIN\.Run StartDB.bat. The batch...
2007-04-24, 5201👍, 0💬

How To Connect a SQL*Plus Session to an Oracle Server
How To Connect a SQL*Plus Session to an Oracle Server? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to Command-Line SQL*Plus Client Tool In order to connect a SQL*Plus session to an Oracle server, you need to: 1. Obtain the connection information from the Oracle server DBA. 2. Define a new "connect identifier" c...
2007-04-28, 5194👍, 0💬

What Is Open Database Communication (ODBC)
What Is Open Database Communication (ODBC)? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Oracle Basic Concepts ODBC, Open Database Communication, a standard API (application program interface) developed by Microsoft for Windows applications to communicate with database management systems. Oracle offers ODBC drivers to allow ...
2007-04-22, 5194👍, 0💬

How To Convert Characters to Dates
How To Convert Characters to Dates? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL Basics You can convert dates to characters using the TO_DATE() function as shown in the following examples: SELECT TO_DATE('07-MAY-2006', 'DD-MON-YYYY') FROM DUAL; 07-MAY-06 SELECT TO_DATE('2006/05/07 ', 'YYYY/MM/DD') FROM DUAL...
2007-04-23, 5188👍, 0💬

How Many Categories of Data Types
How Many Categories of Data Types? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL Basics Oracles supports the following categories of data types: Oracle Built-in Datatypes. ANSI, DB2, and SQL/DS Datatypes. User-Defined Types. Oracle-Supplied Types.
2007-04-24, 5184👍, 0💬

How To Export Several Tables Together
How To Export Several Tables Together? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Loading and Exporting Data If you don't want to export the entire schema and only want to export several tables only, you can use the "expdp" command with the "TABLES" parameter as shown in the following tutorial exercise: >cd \oraclexe\app\o...
2007-05-01, 5180👍, 0💬

How To Open and Close an Explicit Cursor
How To Open and Close an Explicit Cursor? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Cursors in PL/SQL An existing cursor can be opened or closed by the OPEN or CLOSE statement as shown in the following sample script: DECLARE CURSOR c_list IS SELECT * FROM countries; CURSOR t_list IS SELECT * FROM employees WH...
2007-04-29, 5180👍, 0💬

What Is a Procedure
What Is a Procedure? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Creating Your Own PL/SQL Procedures and Functions A procedure is a named program unit. It consists of three parts: Declaration Part - Defining the procedure name, calling parameters, local variables and local procedures. Declaration part is required. Execution...
2007-04-26, 5178👍, 0💬

How To Check Your Oracle Database 10g XE Installation
How To Check Your Oracle Database 10g XE Installation? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to Oracle Database 10g Express Edition If you want to check your fresh installation of 10g Express Edition without using any special client programs, you can use a Web browser with this address, http://localhost:8...
2007-04-24, 5178👍, 0💬

How To Establish Administrator Authentication to the Server
How To Establish Administrator Authentication to the Server? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Creating New Database Instance Manually This is Step 2. There are two ways to establish administrator authentication to a new database. Use a password file. Use operating system (OS) authentication. Using OS authenticati...
2007-04-22, 5178👍, 0💬

How To Install Oracle Database 10g XE
How To Install Oracle Database 10g XE? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to Oracle Database 10g Express Edition To install 10g universal edition, double click, OracleXEUniv.exe, the install wizard starts. It will guide you to finish the installation process. You should take notes about: The SYSTEM pas...
2007-04-24, 5176👍, 0💬

How To Create a Testing Table
How To Create a Testing Table? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL DML Statements If you want to practice DML statements, you should create a testing table as shown in the script below: CREATE TABLE fyi_links (id NUMBER(4) PRIMARY KEY, url VARCHAR2(80) NOT NULL, notes VARCHAR2(1024), counts NUMBER,...
2007-04-22, 5173👍, 0💬

How To Convert Numbers to Characters
How To Convert Numbers to Characters? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL Basics You can convert numeric values to characters by using the TO_CHAR() function as shown in the following examples: SELECT TO_CHAR(4123.4570) FROM DUAL 123.457 SELECT TO_CHAR(4123.457, '$9,999,999.99') FROM DUAL $4,123.46...
2007-04-23, 5170👍, 0💬

How To Define a RECORD Variable to Store a Table Row
How To Define a RECORD Variable to Store a Table Row? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Working with Database Objects in PL/SQL If you have a table, and want to define a RECORD variable to store all the data elements of a row from that table, you can use table_name%ROWTYPE to define the RECORD variable as shown in...
2007-04-27, 5168👍, 0💬

How To Download Oracle SQL Developer
How To Download Oracle SQL Developer? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to Oracle SQL Developer If you want to download a copy of Oracle SQL Developer, visit http://www.oracle.com/technolo gy/software/products/sql/.If you are using Windows systems, click the "Oracle SQL Developer for Windows" link. Th...
2007-04-26, 5168👍, 0💬

How To View the Data Files in the Current Database
How To View the Data Files in the Current Database? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle Tablespaces and Data Files If you want to get a list of all tablespaces used in the current database instance, you can use the DBA_TABLESPACES view as shown in the following SQL script example: SQL> connect SYSTEM...
2007-05-03, 5167👍, 0💬

How To Define an Anonymous Procedure with Variables
How To Define an Anonymous Procedure with Variables? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Creating Your Own PL/SQL Procedures and Functions Anonymous procedure is a procedure without any name. If you have some variables to declare, you can define an anonymous procedure by using the DECLARE keyword in SQL*Plus as show...
2007-04-26, 5163👍, 0💬

How To Create a Table in a Specific Tablespace
How To Create a Table in a Specific Tablespace? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle Tablespaces and Data Files After you have created a new tablespace, you can give it to your users for them to create tables in the new tablespace. To create a table in a specific tablespace, you need to use the TABLES...
2007-05-03, 5159👍, 0💬

What Privilege Is Needed for a User to Insert Rows to Tables in Another Schema
What Privilege Is Needed for a User to Insert Rows to Tables in Another Schema? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Managing Oracle User Accounts, Schema and Privileges For a user to insert rows into tables of someone else's schema, he/she needs the INSERT ANY TABLE privilege. The following tutorial exercise gives y...
2007-05-01, 5159👍, 0💬

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