Re: 3 short questions, help

Don't know much about Informix.
1. Look at sequences.
2. Not sure on the Domain question unless you mean for olap, data warehousing.
Jim
"buz" <buzonunNOVALE_at_QUITAESTOwanadoo.es> wrote in message news:9lcce6$k8q1_at_cesio.mundo-r.com...
> Hi,
> I am a newbie with Oracle.
> 1.- What is the equivalent in Oracle to the Informix "SERIAL" column
> type I have used to generate unique id's automatically? If there is not
> quiv., which is the more approx. type?
> 2.-Does it work properly the "CREATE DOMAIN <domain-name> <data-type>"
> statement?, i want to use it.
> 3.-I am trying to install Oracle 8i for Linux (8.1.7) in a RedHat Linux
> 7.1 Intel (192 MB RAM).I have created the groups and the user oracle and
> i have setup the environment, but when I log as oracle user and execute
> the "./runInstaller" script from the CD, it does not do anything, it
> executes the Oracle JRE that consumes RAM and CPU resources as reported
> by top and runs forever (until I kill it) but nothings appear in the
> GNOME desktop (I have set the $DISPLAY).
> I've tried several times and even I've copied all the content of the CD
> on harddisk but the result is the same.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Buz.
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Received on Wed Aug 15 2001 - 04:37:52 CEST