Data Conversion

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Hi guys, I created two database but I have some problem : 1.How I can startup two data base or one of them ? 2.After create second database the listener is point on first data base ,How I can start listener for second database ? 3.Can not login to second database? Thanks

Problem Statement: I’ve written a Stored Procedure which has several insert statements. After inserting these statements ,its calling other stored procedure which again has some insert statements. Now if the second procedure has some error, everything should be rolled back. The skeleton of the procedure is as follows.

We are trying to upgrade our database from Oracle 9i to 10g. We have a CHAR(30) column in a table. When we perform string comparisons using '=' operator (Eg.....where col = 'XYZ' ) the trailing spaces are ignored, which is perfectly fine (both in 9i & 10g). When we use LIKE operator without specifying any wildcard char in

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] .

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In this week i wrote a emacs program and tutorial that does archiving a website for offline reading. (See [link] ) In the process, i ran into a problem with the unix “cp” utility. I've been a unix admin for Solaris during 1998-2004. Even the first time i

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my $s = "The sneaky cat sneaked sneakily." ; I would like a simple s/// statement which would replace only the $nth occurrence of "sneak". ($n is a variable). Can't find the answer. Is this possible? Thanks, Jerry Krinock

Hi, My PERL is VERU rusty. Not used in years and have to now implement a CAPTCHA on an old project because of high levels of form SPAM. This is my code so far: *************** use strict; use warnings; use Authen::Captcha; print "Content-type: text/html", "\n\n"; my $captcha = Authen::Captcha->new(

Hello all. First of all I'd like to tell you all that I'm a total Perl newbie, just have read the excellent and fun "Learning Perl" and a bit of "Programming Perl" in finnish... I have created an IRC bot based on Bot::BasicBot, but when I use the Bot::BasicBot's forkit() method to run for example a Yahoo! search in

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Oracle 9i 9.2.0.1.0, Windows XP Pro In playing around with the 9i on my desktop I've come across something which has me a bit baffled. In the first code segment I have a cursor where I return a row based on a database table. I then BULK COLLECT into the nested table which is defined on the database table. This

I frequently have the need to take copy of a variable and edit it (for printing or some such). I code it like this: my $ugly_variable = some_function(); # Or read from a file maybe my $nice_variable = $ugly_variable; # Take a copy ... $nice_variable =~ s/nasty/nice/g; # ... and then make it look nice

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Hi I installed oracle 10g on my system the installation was successfull but in the enterprise manager console 1.database instance is down 2.Listener is up and running 3.Agent Connection to Instance Status Failed Details ORA-12505: TNS:listener does not currently know of SID given in connect descriptor (DBD ERROR: OCIServerAttach)