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Genius! Many thanks.

How can I use VI to find a "/"? For example, I have a script which moves a lot of files to another directory. The directory structure in the script is wrong so I want to search for "$HOME/stnd_by/one" and replace it with just "$HOME/one" if I do: :%s/stnd_by//g I end up with "$HOME//one" on...

Mutley, many thanks, Excactly what I needed. Thanks.

I want to be able to show the details of all tables, ie, the table name, the colums and their lengths. Something similar to "desc" in Oracle. I need to do this to all the tables in my MS Sql database and to get a list of the data output. I.E: Table1 name of table 1 column1 length column2 length...

Hi, How can I view the physical disk layout in linux? Not a df -k to show the partitions, but how many disk and of what size are present on the machine. A bit like windows when you go to computer manager and look up disk manager. Thanks.

I am haveing trouble with our virus software. Basiclly the software creates a user account which is then used to access the repository server to get updates for user workstations. This account keeps locking out which is stopping the updates from taking place on a number of computers. I...

Many thanks, will play around with your code to see whats what and how it all ties together.

Im trying to create a linked server in MSSQL query analyser to connect the MS SQL database running on Windows 2000 to an Oracle 9i system running on Linux. I have managed to get Oracle to talk to MS SQL but now need it working the other way around so that I can select data from MS SQL. The...

Thank you so much, you have made me see the wood for the trees! The MS SQL database I am working on has table names named so confusingly it is very difficult to decipher what is what. Take the code: "iScalaDB"."dbo"."_GL030106_CC" "_GL030103_CC" There is a table called "_GL030103_CC" in the...

I am currently migrating a lot of SQL procedures that used to run on MS SQL and are now being accessed from Oracle 9i using Hetrogenous Connectivity. The following is the MS SQL select statment, but I am having real trouble getting it to work in Oracle. Its the inner join section that is...

I am currently migrating a lot of SQL procedures that used to run on MS SQL and are now being accessed from Oracle 9i using Hetrogenous Connectivity. The following is the MS SQL select statment, but I am having real trouble getting it to work in Oracle. Its the inner join section that is...

Help! Im getting thoroughly confused and irate! I am trying to connect an oracle 9i database which is running on Linux Red Hat Enterprise 4, to a MS SQL database which is running on Windows Server 2000. I have read the following document...

Oh and thanks for all the replies.

Found it! Found that I had LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 set in my users profile, but this wasn't being exported with the script for some reason. All working now as expected!

Yep, the user is oracle9 which is in only the DBA group and is the one I login aswell as the one who runs the cron script. Ive just tried the script in cron and it failed with same errors. Im gonig to strip out all the ENV variables and just have ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID and ORACLE_HOME and...