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There is a very complete Oracle Note on this topic. The Note number is 66320.1. I have a printed copy right on my desk; we're converting our systems to Unicode (and what a joy this project is turning out to be!!) In short, the procedure is: 1) Change INIT.ORA file; unset parallel_server...

Is it a P4 Xeon? Look for the patch notes in MetalLink.

Hi! Well, the @d is the display variable, and the & character means to run as a separate process. For the rest, look in the help (cut-and-pasted below...) Cheers, Mike The Command field lets you send a UNIX command to the host. The command you type depends on your host system and how it is...

Ok...Oracle uses an spfile if-and-only-if you create it. Otherwise, it still uses the initSID.ora file. If you DO have an spfile, you can delete it so that Oracle will default back to the initSID.ora file. Next, once you make a change to initSID.ora, you must restart the instance. Since...

There is a command in SQL called 'audit'. I use 'audit connect' to keep a record of logins, logouts, and failed connect attempts. Be aware that a command like this can cause your SYS.AUD$ table to grow prodigiously. I have not investigated whether the audit command can track to the field...

Thanks for the suggestion, but...well...been there done that. I purchased RH9 and still had the problems with the FX2 board; RH9 has a very recent release of XF86. But then, I found out that Oracle does not run on RH9 yet, so that is why I am forced to use RH7 for the time being. Any other...

I just purchased a 2-CPU HP workstation off of E-Bay. I am trying to install RH7.3, but I cannot get the graphical console to work correctly. The machine came with an HP 'FX2' graphics card, for which I can find no specific driver software. The problem is that the generic stuff does not seem...

Instead of 'ps -eaf|grep myname', try using '/absolute/path/to/ps -eaf | /absolute/path/to/grep myname'.

I get this message when the Oracle archive log directory is full. Move some older log files out to make some open space. The DB should resume by itself. Then compress or move out some more files.