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Hi Does anyone have any good sites or experience of using Oracle on x64 and whether Linux or Windows offers better performance? I am looking at hardware and want find the best solution. Thanks Phil.

Hi I have applications (ASP & CGI) running on a Windows 2000 Standard Server IIS 5 and they run well. I am having to move the applications to a newer server for support reasons which is running IIS 6. This is a new faster server with Windows 2003 Standard Server SP1 and I was expecting a...

Hi I am looking into implementing SSL with iSeries Access V5R2 but I am concerned that the encryption process will slow performance. We are using telnet at the moment and I have seen something that quotes the transmission rate drops to 25% of the unencrypted transmission. Is this true? Can...

Hi I'm new to java but I am trying to put inside a function the ability to create a prompt with a dropdown box of defined options and then use that to open a link (i.e. select a report name and then open it). This is within another application and is a button link to redirect the user. I...

Hi I'm tryng to run VNC with inted to display a CDE desktop (have always used Exceed but this always requires a local installation on PC). I have found various things on the internet as to how to set this up but I still can't get it to work. The problems I have are: 1. xstartup is working...

Hi I'm looking for compression software for Solaris 8 that is freeware but has reasonably good compression and is fast. I am taking a hot and cold backup of an Oracle database (tar file is about 6GB) and I can't use gzip as the file is too large, bzip2 works but is so slow (about 6 hours for...

Hi I'm trying to compress a tar archive within a script to dsave space but I have run into problems. I can't seem to get it to work even from the command line. The file I have is approx 5GB and I am using bzip 0.9.0c that was shipped with Solaris 8 2/02. I can seem to compress other files...

Hi My Oracle DBA has been doing some anaysis on our Sunfirev880 box running Solaris 8 and Oracle 9. We have redo logs on one of the FCAL disks that has a ufs file system, but to improve performance he has suggested changing just this drive (single mount point) to a raw file system. Not being...

Hi I have a disk which I have run the dd command on to copy the boot disk as a backup. I no longer need this and want to restore the disk for use (currently I can't mount this disk for obvious reason and I have retained the fstab entry). What is the best way to go about this, I have been...

Hi I'm trying to create an sql to report on 2 tables where I have a max run time permitted for a job and the run history of a job. I want to identify all those jobs where the MAX of the run history is within 90% of the max run time permitted. Can anyone help me how I can do this, the SQL is...

Hi I have implemented a new minimum password length (part of company policy) and I now need to expire all passwords where they do not meet this length (8). Can anyone suggest a good way of doing this. thanks Phil.

Hi I have installed Oracle 9.2.1.0 onto Solaris 8 and as part of running the root.sh script. This has installed Legato Networker backup software and is attempting to backup the server as well as sending annoying product registration mails. I need to remove this software but the instructions I...

Hi Anyone come accross the problem of when you install Arcserve 11 the performance of the server drops? We have a quad processor Dell server with 4GB RAM and an Oracle 8.1.7 database that was previously being backed up by Arcserve 2000. We had to upgrade to back up a client server also...

Hi It has been a year or so since I have done any serious programming in Access and I cannot even remember the basics! I need to find details from a table against a particular part number but the code I have used is something I found in one of my old Access 97 databases. I have enabled DAO...

Hi I need to change user to execute commands in a script and I have seen on other discussion groups that sudo is the best way. Can anyone tell me how to use it on Solaris, I can't find it in man pages - do I need to install it? Thanks

Hi I have created a series of menus to execute korn scripts that run Oracle SQL commands on a database. At the moment it is running the scripts in the foregound 'interactively', which locks the session. What I want to do is to be able to run these scripts in a background process without any...

Hi We are setting up ReportNet at the moment and have noticed that many of the database (Oracle) object types are blob. This obviously can have performance issues. We are running it on Win 2000 server, but what is the best OS platform to run it on? Thanks

Hi I have a problem with translating characters from Western European ANSI to Eastern European ANSI characters. Does anyone know how to install and use both code pages or is there another 'Universal' code page that contains both Western and eastern European code pages that can be loaded to...

Hi I have an SQL Server database and I am trying to create some reporting from it. All works well execpt when it comes to one field which is a text or ntext data type and I don't seem to be able to do any trim. I want to trim trailing spaces as it makes the report very long otherwise, but I'm...

Hi Can anyone tell me how to change the date format of a field. Currently it is mm/dd/yyyy but I need it as dd/mm/yyyy. Thanks