Oracle *is* user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.

It's not a bug, SQL just misunderstood me!

Relax??

My Bosses decided that the 3-day weekend would be a perfect time to take down services and do offline maintenance/optimization.

I'll be working 24/7 until Tuesday morning!

Thanks! I needed That

RAID 1 for OS and applications on local disks, all data lives on the SAN in dedicated RAID 10 volumes.

About three years ago the college I work for hired a whiz-bang programmer/DBA with a Masters degree in Computer Science to oversee all of us peons who were building data-driven...

Thomas LaRock, you are my new hero!

Excellent timing! I am currently planning a move to a SAN environment and have been using the "best guess" model to plan the volumes. It's nice to finally be able...

Open a connection to the file with the delimited text driver and insert the new records? I'm guessing here - haven't tried it but it makes sense to me.

"MY investment is in the future because I plan to spend the rest of my life there."

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I really enjoyed this article and have shared it with my development team. The article brings to light some serious thought about ownership, which can be extremely important in the...

Thanks, Dave. I knew I'd get something positive and useful from this article.