Read Only Tables [Orig Published Apr 2000]

In Oracle (all versions including 10g) you can make a tablespace read only, but not a single table. To make a table read only, you need to have that table in its own tablespace. If the tablespace has many tables, then you can either make all the tables read only or not. For large or … Read more

SQL*Net Configuration [Orig Published – Apr 1999]

Let’s set up SQL*Net (known stuff for most DBAs, but I get many questions on this subject often, so here I just provide some examples/templates for the configuration files) on the UNIX server and client PC using the TCP/IP communication protocol. In Oracle8 SQL*Net is called Net8. SQL*Net enables client-server and server-server communication across any … Read more