Data Conversion

We are considering upgrading our Enterprise Edition database from 10gR2 to 11g. My instinct tells me that its a bad idea to upgrade to the first release of a major version. I've been burnt in the past by upgrading to 9iR1 and 10gR1 (both of which I thought were useless). 11g has been out for a while now, is 11gR2 due to be released soon..?

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Hi all, 10.2.x on Linux ... Is there a "neater"/more efficient way of selecting the maximum value for a column based on the maximum value of another column. Gods that reads poorly, I'll try an example ... SomeTable ColX ColY ColZ .... MoreCols A 1 8 .... A 1 9 ....

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Shopplex.com, now trading as Teilhard Technologies, could be waiting until 2010 to test a wide ranging ETL patent in a Canadian court despite launching the claim in 2004.

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology My friends at the Suncoast Oracle User Group sent an email last night about an Oracle Developer Day event coming to town in a couple of weeks. The last Developer Day I attended was, I think anyway, on SOA and BPEL.

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This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq1.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at [link] .

Hello: I am trying to uninstall the 8.1.7 client from about 200 workstation using an rsp file. AFter the prerequisites apss, I am presented with qan inventory selectiono scree, or, if running with the -silent switch, I get an error message that no product has been selected for deinstallation. The log is shown below - the response file is read,

I know you are going to say that it all depends on the O/S, but if you can forget that for the minute, does it matter what the CPU is when your are compare the Intel Xeon Quads, AMD Quads and Sun SPARC chips. Does the cache make a big difference, since you think then SPARC / INTEL would be best and you would never consider AMD.

Hello, What if I download perl-5.10.0 and to upgrade, whether I need to reinstall the modules? Thank you~ Regards, Amy

Hi, the Perl Cookbook suggests in Recipe 11.10 "Reading and Writing Hash Records to Text Files" the following code to read a hash from a file: $/ = ""; # paragraph read mode while (<>) { my @fields = split /^([^:]+):\s*/m; shift @fields; # for leading null field push(@Array_of_Records, { map /(.*)/, @fields });

When you mis-state something, or do a poor job of explaining something, you need to stop and tell your audience

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Hello, all. I'm re-learning perl (again), and have put myself into a while loop which i've just broken out of ( while $problemSolved != 1 {thinkOfSolution ();trySolution();} ), I'd like to post my code, complete with example data, for you to look over, and give some suggestions on how to improve my style.