User`s guide

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Contents
Preface ................................................................................................................................................................. xi
Audience....................................................................................................................................................... xi
Using Oracle Database Documentation................................................................................................... xi
Documentation Accessibility.................................................................................................................... xii
Related Documents .................................................................................................................................... xii
Conventions Used in this Manual............................................................................................................ xii
1 Release Notes
1.1 Oracle Database Editions for BS2000/OSD............................................................................. 1-1
1.2 Options Not Supported.............................................................................................................. 1-1
1.3 Features not Supported.............................................................................................................. 1-2
1.4 Known Restrictions, Problems, and Workarounds ............................................................... 1-2
1.4.1 General Notes....................................................................................................................... 1-3
1.4.2 Oracle Spatial........................................................................................................................ 1-3
1.4.3 Oracle Real Application Testing........................................................................................ 1-3
1.4.4 ALTER DATABASE … RESIZE......................................................................................... 1-3
1.4.5 IEEE Standard Floating Point Number Restrictions....................................................... 1-3
1.4.6 SQL*Loader .......................................................................................................................... 1-3
1.4.7 Oracle Scheduler.................................................................................................................. 1-4
1.4.8 INIT.ORA Parameters......................................................................................................... 1-4
1.4.9 Archiving to Tape................................................................................................................ 1-4
1.4.10 Import and Export .............................................................................................................. 1-4
1.4.11 Oracle Data Pump Import and Oracle Data Pump Export............................................ 1-4
1.4.12 Globalization Support......................................................................................................... 1-4
1.4.13 Oracle Call Interface............................................................................................................ 1-4
1.4.14 SQL*Plus ............................................................................................................................... 1-4
1.4.15 ADRCI ................................................................................................................................... 1-5
1.4.16 Connecting from Oracle Database 10g clients................................................................. 1-5
1.4.17 Utilities in the POSIX environment .................................................................................. 1-5
1.4.18 Oracle Net Services.............................................................................................................. 1-5
1.4.19 Oracle Net BEQ Protocol .................................................................................................... 1-5
1.4.20 Oracle Protocol Support for TCP/IP................................................................................. 1-5
1.4.21 POSIX Subsystem ................................................................................................................ 1-6