Interview Questions for Oracle Apps DBAs (11i/R12) - Part 9 Q. I am applying database patch using opatch.

I dont have oraInventory, can I app ly database patch ? No, you cant apply a database patch using opatch if Inventory is missing. Register ORACLE_HOME with global Inventory (in case inventory is mi ssing) using steps mentioned here 3.6.2 Creating the Central Inventory Q. How many concurrent mangers can be used ? what is the limit ? There is no such documente d limit on number of concurrent managers, as long as you have enough operating s ystem resource (memory). Q. Suppose my concurrent manager status is showing Inac tive ? what is the reason ? This could be because of multiple reasons, to name f ew a) Processes value for Concurrent Manager is 0 (System Administrator > Concur rent > Manager > Define > search for Manager > Click on the Work Shifts button a nd check value of Processes) b) Concurrent Manager was shut down by some one (Ch eck using System Administrator > Concurrent > Manager > Administer) c) There is no workshift defined against Concurrent Manager (or workshift removed from Manag er) . Q. What is transaction manager ? what is the significance ? Normal/Standar d concurrent manager execute long running, data-intensive application program as ynchronously, where as transaction manager support synchronous processing of parti cular requests. For more info and significance of transaction manager Check Orac le Applications System Administrators Guide - Configuration (zipped) Here (Page 1 76)

Q. My cloning is successfully completed but my apps listener is not getting up ? What is the problem ? First check log file of apps listener to find root cause at 1. $OAD_TOP/admin/log/$CONTEXT_NAME/adalnctl.txt 2. $ORACLE_HOME/network/admi n/apps_$SID.log (on Middle Tier) To name few 1. Failure to create proper apps li stener file via adgentns.sh during Rapid Clone process 2. FNDSM (Service Manager issues) Q. How frequently do you preform patching ? (For work ex < 1.5 yrs) Pat ching is done mainly to fix existing problem (bug) or for new features (enhancem ents). Frequency of patching vary from company to company and implementation sta ge. Q. How frequently you perform cloning ? (For work ex < 1.5 yrs) This again v ary from company to company. Frequency ranging from every few days or every few weeks to every few months. Q. How much time it will take to complete cloning ? C loning time depends on - Network speed to copy various tops (APPL_TOP, COMMON_TO P.., DATA_TOP) - Customizations (printer setting and any post clone issue) - Top ology (Number of middle tier, is system integrated with OID & SSO, Database is R AC or not, DMZ setup) Time for Rapid clone for single node Approx. 30 Minutes fo r pre-clone Approx. 1-2 hours for post clone on database tier Approx. 1-2 hours for Middle tier + Time to copy files from source instance to target Instance Q. What is the purpose of the appsutil folder in ORACLE_HOME in database tier ?

appsutil directory in database ORACLE_HOME is place holder for Autoconfig andRap id Clone related files on database Node. Q. After cloning my oraInventory got co rrupted ? can I apply my Opatch? No, you cant apply database patch using opatch ( Though you can apply apps patch using adpatch). Recreate inventory as mentioned above. Q. what command is used to kill the process which is using largest memory ? Vary as per operating system if you wish to kill o.s. process (kill -9 <pid>) Q. I am applying patch can I open another session and run adadmin ?(Thanks to A mit Pancholia for pointing this out) Yes & No (depends on stage of patching), yo u can run adadmin ifFND_INSTALL_PROCESSES is NOT locked (in use) by adpatch sess ion. If this table is in use by adpatch session then you cant run adadmin at same time. Q. I am applying patch can I open another session in another node and run adpatch ? Well, question is tricky. If you are using shared appl_top (applicati on tier) and usingdistributed patching (a.k.a. Distributed AD) feature then yes you can start patch from one node giving total number of workers and start X num ber of workers from node1 , then start another adpatch session from second node mentioning remaining workers to start from second node. (More on distributed pat ching in shared application tier environment coming soon ). Q. I am not able to s tart concurrent manager ? What is the problem ? This could again be for various reasons, to check root cause of problem check log file at $APPLCSF/$APPLLOG/$SID _MMDD.mgr (where MM is month & DD is Date on which Concurrent Manager was starte d) Oracle Apps DBA Interview Questions - Install

Here is list of first 10 questions for Oracle Applications DBA Interview . These questions are also useful if you are preparing for Oracle Apps DBA Certificatio n 1Z0-233 11i Install Patch and Maintain Applications Q. Explain Single Node or Multi Node installation Single Node - All components of Apps 11i i.e. Database, CM, Forms, Web Server on single machine. Multi Node - Apps 11i components on mor e than one Machine. Q. Explain single user or multi user installation ? Single U ser - Both Database and Application tier are owned by Single Operating System Ac count Multi User - 11i Database Tier is owned by one O.S. User where as Applicat ion Tier is owned by different user. Note* In both cases Apps is installed as us er ROOT Q. What is difference between express install or advanced install (syste m specific) Express Install - Single User, Single Machine install where Apps 11i is installed on default location, Not much options during install. Advanced Ins tall - Advanced install with option to define o.s. Users, Mount Points and advan ced installation. Q. What is difference between fresh database and vision databa se install types ? Fresh Database - Database is installed with Apps but with no data Vision Database - Database installed with Apps with dummy data Q. What are various components installed after 11.5.10 (11i) install ? 9iAS (1.0.2.2.2) web s erver, Developer 6i Forms & Reports, Discoverer, Jinitiator Q. What is O.S. leve l software requirement for installing Apps ? ar, ld, make & X Display server for all unix machines (linux, solaris, IBM, HP Unix ) with following additional as per O.S.

Linux- gcc, g++, ksh HP-Unix- cc, acc IBM AIX - cc, linkx1C For Windows you need Microsoft C++, MKS Toolkit, GNU Make Q. What is minimum approx. disk requiremen t for 11.5.10 (Note these disk requirement changes as per type of installation, languages installed and release ) For 11.5.10 Application Tier File System - 26 GB Database Tier (Fresh install) - 31 GB Database Tier (Vision install) - 65 GB Q. What is staging area ? Staging Area is special directory structure where you can dump 11i installation software so that you dont have to insert CDs during inst all and these disks will automatically be picked by Installer. Q. How you set up staging area ? Use adautostg.pl to create staging area orcreate required direct ory manually for staging like (following directories under Stage11i - startCD, o raApps, oraDB, oraiAS, oraAppsDB, oraNLS and inside these directories Disk1, Dis k2) Q. Is it possible to install apps without staging area ? YesThese questions a re very basic and for freshers who mention in their CVs that they have installati on experience, for advanced installation questions keep looking at this site Sta y tuned for some more questions on 1Z0-233 Oracle 11i Install Patch and Maintain Oracle Apps 11i DBA Interview Questions Lot of Oracle Apps 11i beginners ask me about Interview questions specially thos e who are with 2 years or less work exp. as Apps DBA. These apps 11i Technical I nterview Questions are Just for reference purpose &

understandingOracle applications 11i. Oracle Apps Interview questions which Inte rviewer can ask you depends on lot of things like your work experience,your CV, client s requirement, role for which you are applying. I don t take any guarante e for any answers , all answers mentioned here are based on my expertise & feedb ack I receive from you. If you think any answer is not right or want to discuss about any 11i apps question mentioned here Contact Me. As there is no short cuts for success and same applies to your role as oracle Apps 11i DBA so don t just rely on these questions but try to understand oracle application E-Business Suit e Via these questions without discussing too much lets start with very common qu estion which almost all Interviewer s ask from DBA with 2-4 years of Exp. (If yo u don t know answer don t worry believe me 90% apps dba beginners don t know ans wer. Q. What is wdbsvr.app file used for? What s full path of this file? What s significance of this file ? I ll again suggest you don t just remember answer & try to solve mystery behind this file. First where this file exists ? You can fi nd this file under$IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache/modplsql/cfg Based on file location I am sure you can say this is related to Apache, & looking into modplsql/cfg , I a m sure you will say its related to mod_pls (mod plsql component of Apache/Oracle 11i WebServer) configuration file. This file is used by mod_plsql component of Apache to connect to database. So when you type url http://hostname:port/pls/SID , whenever Apache(11i WebServer) finds that request is for /pls/ then Apache de legates this request to mod_pls component which in turn pick this file & check i f there is any DADwith name SID (in our example its VISION11I) & Sample entry in wdbsvr.app [DAD_VISION11I] connect_string = VISION11I password = apps username = APPS default_page = fnd_web.ping On typing http://hostname:port/pls/VISION11I , it will connect to database using apps schema & will return you page fnd_web.p ing ( where fnd_web is package & ping is procedure or vise versa). So story abou t this file doesn t stop here , this url which I mentioned about is quite useful in troubleshooting so you can check if database connection is working fine or n ot. Another thing you want to check about this file is since it stores APPS pass word you need to change here whenever you change apps password . I am putting on ly Oracle apps 11i technical questions for DBA as I don t have time to explain a nswers to all these questions , I ll pick each questions daily and answer them w ith explanation. If you want to submit any technical questions for oracle apps 1 1i which might be helpful for other s to understand applications Mail Me. I ll k eep updating Oracle Apps 11i Technical

Interview questions from time to time on this and sunsequent pages. Q. Explain A rchitecture of Oracle Apps 11i. Apps 11i is Mutli Tier architecture with Desktop (Client Tier), Middle Tier (Application Tier) and Database Tier. For detailed ex planation Click Here Q. What are various components in Application/Middle Tier. In Application Tier various components are Web Server, Forms Server , Reports Se rver, Concurrent Manager, Admin Server & Discoverer Server. What is APPL_TOP, CO MN_TOP, ORA_TOP..... XXX_TOP is top level directory in Oracle Application 11i fo r respective Component. To know more about various TOP s Click Here Q. What are issues you encountered during Oracle Applications 11i? Answer to this question w ill depend on issues you encountered. Don t lie infront of Interviewer. If you h ave not installed applications 11i accept it. Q. Whats US directory in $AD_TOP o r under various product TOP s . US directory is defauly language directory in Or acle Applications. If you have multiple languages Installed in your Applications then you will see other languages directories besides US, that directory will c ontain reports, fmx and other code in that respective directory like FR for Fran ce, AR for arabic, simplifies chinese or spanish. Whats main concurrent Manager types. ICM - Internal Concurrent Manager which manages concurrent Managers Stand ard Managers - Which Manage processesing of requests. CRM - Conflict Resolution Managers , resolve conflicts in case of incompatibility. Q. Where is Concurrent Manager log file location. By default standard location is $APPLCSF/$APPLLOG , i n some cases it can go to $FND_TOP/log as well. Q. Where would i find .rf9 file, and what execatly it dose ? These files are used during restart of patch in cas e of patch failure because of some reason. Where is appsweb.cfg or appsweb_$CONT EXT.cfg stored & why its used ? This file is defined by environment variable FOR MS60_WEB_CONFIG_FILEThis is usually in directory $OA_HTML/bin on forms tier. Thi s file is used by any forms client session. When a user try to access forms , f6 0webmx picks up this file and based on this configuration file creates a forms s ession to user/client. Q. What is multi node system ? Multi Node System in Oracl e Applications 11i means you have Applications 11i Component on more than one sy stem. Typical example is Database, Concurrent Manager on one machine and forms, Web Server on second machine is example of Two Node System. Q. Can you clone fro m multi node system to single node system & vice versa ?

Yes , this is now supported via Rapid Clone, Check if your system has all prereq . patches for Rapid Clone and you are on latest rapid clone patch. Q. Does rapid clone takes care of Updating Global oraInventory or you have to register manual ly in Global OraInventory after clone ? Rapid Clone will automatically Update Gl obal oraInventory during configuration phase. You don t have to do any thing man ually for Global oraInventory. Q. What is .dbc file , where its stored , whats u se of .dbc file ? dbc as name says is database connect descriptor file which sto res database connection information used by application tier to connect to datab ase. This file is in directory $FND_TOP/secure also called as FND_SECURE Q. What s things you do to reduce patch timing ? You can take advantage of following Mer ging patches via admrgpch Use various adpatch options like nocompiledb or nocomp ilejsp Use defaults file Staged APPL_TOP during upgrades Increase batch size (Mi ght result into negative ) Q. How you put Applications 11i in Maintenance mode ? Use adadmin to change Maintenance mode is Oracle Apps. With AD.I you need to en able maintenance mode in order to apply apps patch via adpatch utility. If you d on t want to put apps in maintenance mode you can use adpatch options=hotpatch f eature. Q. Can you apply patch without putting Applications 11i in Maintenance m ode ? Yes, use options=hotpatch as mentioned above with adpatch. Q. What are var ious options available with adpatch ? Various options available with adpatch dep ending on your AD version are autoconfig, check_exclusive, checkfile, compiledb, compilejsp, copyportion, databaseprtion, generateportion, hotpatch, integrity, maintainmrc, parallel, prereq, validate Q. adident utility is used for what ? ad ident utility in oracle apps is used to find version of any file . AD Identifica tion. for ex. "adident Header <filename> Q. What is adsplice utility ? adsplice in oracle apps is utility to add a new product. Q. How can you licence a product after installation ? You can use ad utility adlicmgr to licence product in Orac le Apps. Q. What is MRC ? What you do as Apps DBA for MRC ?

MRC also called as Multiple Reporting Currency in oracle Apps. Default you have currency in US Dollars but if your organization operating books are in other cur rency then you as apps dba need to enable MRC in Apps. How to enable MRC coming soon... Q. What is access_log in apache , what entries are recored in access_log ? Where is default location of thsi file ? access_log in Oracle Application Ser ver records all users accessing oracle applications 11i. This file location is d efined in httpd.conf with default location at $IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/log s. Entries in this file is defined by directive LogFormat in httpd.conf Typical entry in access_log is 198.0.0.1 [10/Sep/2006:18:37:17 +0100] "POST /OA_HTML/OA. jsp?.... HTTP/1.1" 200 28035 where 200 is HTTP status code & last digits 28035 i s bytes dowloaded as this page(Size of page) Q. Where is Jserv configuration fil es stored ? Jserv configuration files are stored in$IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Jserv /etc Q. What is session time out parameter & where all you define these values ? To know about session time out parameter & location where its defined Click Her e Q. Where is applications start/stop scripts stored ? applications start/stop s cripts in directory$COMMON_TOP/admin/scripts/$CONTEXT_NAME are Q. What are main configuration files in Web Server (Apache) ? Main configuration files in Oracle Apps Web Server are httpd.conf, apps.conf, oracle_apache.conf, httpd_pls.conf jserv.conf, ssp_init.txt, jserv.properties, zone.properties plsql .conf, wdbsvr.app, plsql.conf Q. What is profile options, What are various type of profile options ? Q. What is APPS listener ? Why its used ? Q. How do you sta rt/stop apps listener ? Q. If users complaining Oracle Applications 11i system i s running slow , what all things you will check at broad level ? What is Autocon fig ? Q. What is context file ? Q. Why appsutil directory under Database ORACLE_ HOME used for ? Q. How to create User in Oracle Applications 11i ? Can you delet e a User ? Q. How to check if Apps 11i System is Autoconfig enabled ? Under $AD_ TOP/bin check for file adcfginfo.sh & if this exists use adcfginfo.sh contextfil e=<CONTEXT> show=enabled If this file is not there , look for any configuration file under APPL_TOP if system is Autoconfig enabled then you will see entry like

# AutoConfig automatically generates this file. It will be read and ....... How to check if Oracle Apps 11i System is Rapid Clone enabled ? For syetem to be Rap id Clone enabled , it should be Autoconfig enabled (Check above How to confirm i f Apps 11i is Autoconfig enabled). You should have Rapid Clone Patches applied , Rapid Clone is part of Rapid Install Product whose Family Pack Name is ADX. By default all Apps 11i Instances 11.5.9 and above are Autoconfig & Rapid Clone ena bled. Q. Whats is difference between two env files in <CONTEXT>.env and APPS<CON TEXT>.env under $APPL_TOP ? APPS<CONTEXT>.env is main environment file which int urn calls other environment files like <CONTEXT>.env under $APPL_TOP, <CONTEXT>. env under 806 ORACLE_HOME and custom<CONTEXT>.env for any Customized environment files. Q. What is access_log in Apache ? access_log file keeps record of users accessing Oracle Apps 11i Webserver. Typical entry in access_log is like 198.0.0 .1 - - [25/Aug/2006 :03:15:13 +0100] "GET /OA_JAVA /oracle /forms /registry/Regi stry.dat HTTP/1.1" 200 4117 Which means client with IP 198.0.0.1 requested for f ile mentioned above on 25 Aug 2006 at 03:15 AM , 200 is status code returned by Apache which means page returned successfully (Status Code 302 means page redire cted , 404 page not found, 500+ Internal Server error) last digit 4117 in above entry of access_log means file size which is 4117 bytes. This file is quite usef ul in monitoring your Web Server. Please note above format might defer on your s ystem as this is dependent log_format in Apache configuration file ( httpd.conf) Q. Whats is location of access_log file ? access_log file by default is located in $IAS_ORACLE_HOME/ Apache/Apache/logs. Location of this file is defined in ht tpd.conf by patameter CustomLog or TransferLog Q. What is your Oracle Apps 11i W ebserver Version and how to find it ? From 11.5.8 to 11.5.10 Webserver version i s iAS 1.0.2.2.2, In order to find version under $IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/b in execute ./httpd -version ./httpd -version Server version: Oracle HTTP Server Powered by Apache/1.3.19 Server built: Dec 6 2005 14:59:13 (iAS 1.0.2.2.2 rollup 5) Q. What is Location of Jserv configuration files ? Jserv configuration files are located in $IAS_ORACLE_HOME /Apache/Jserv/etc . Q. What is plssql/database cache ? In order to improve performancemod_pls (Apache component) caches some da tabase content to file. This database/plssql cache is usually of type session & plsql cache

session cache is used to store session information. plsql cache is used to store plsql cache i.e. used by mod_pls Q. Where is database/plssql cache stored ? pls sql & session cache are stored under $IAS_ORACLE_HOME/ Apache/modplsql/cache dir ectory. Q. How to determine Oracle Apps 11i Version ? select RELEASE_NAME from f nd_product_groups; You should see output like RELEASE_NAME ---------------------11.5.9 or 11.5.10.2 Q. What is *.dbc file & whats is location of dbc file ? dbc as name stands for is database connect descriptor file used to connect to datab ase. This file by default located in $FND_TOP/secure directory also called as $F ND_SECURE directory. Q. What is content of dbc file & why its important ? DBC fi le is quite important as whenever Java or any other program like forms want to c onnect to database it uses dbc file. Typical entry in dbc file is GUEST_USER_PWD APPS_JDBC_URL DB_HOST ...., I will explain these parameters in other questions else in my BLOG Q. There are lot of dbc file under $FND_SECURE, How its determin ed that which dbc file to use from $FND_SECURE ? This value is determined from p rofile option "Applications Database ID" Q. What is RRA/FNDFS ? Report Review Ag ent(RRA) also referred by executable FNDFS is default text viewer in Oracle Appl ications 11i for viewing output files & log files. As most of apps dba s are not clear about Report Server & RRA, I ll discuss one on myblog and update link her e . Q. What is PCP is Oracle Applications 11i ? PCP is acronym for Parallel Conc urrurent processing. Usually you have one Concurrent Manager executing your requ ests but if you can configure Concurrent Manager running on two machines (Yes yo u need to do some additional steps in order to configure Parallel Concurrent Pro cessing) . So for some of your requests primary CM Node is on machine1 and secon dary CM node on machine2 and for some requests primary CM is on machine2 & secon dary CM on machine1. Why I need two Concurrent Processing Nodes or in what scena rios PCP is Used Why I need two Concurrent Processing Nodes or in what scenarios PCP is Used ? Well If you are running GL Month end reports or taxation reports annually these reposrts might take couple of days. Some of these requests are ve ry resource intensive so you can have one node running long running , resource

intensive requests while other processing your day to day short running requets. another scenario is when your requests are very critical and you want high resi lience for your Concurrent Processing Node , you can configure PCP. So if node1 goes down you still have CM node available processing your requests. Q. Output & Logfiles for requests executed on source Instance not working on cloned Instanc e Here is exact problem description - You cloned an Oracle Apps Instance from PR ODBOX to another box with Instance name say CLONEBOX on 1st of August. You can a ny CM logs/output files after 1st of August only becuase these all are generated on CLONEBOX itself, But unable to view the logs/output files which are prior to 1st August. What will you do & where to check ? Log , Output file path & locati on is stored in tableFND_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS. Check select logfile_name, logfile _node_name, outfile_name, outfile_node_name from fnd_concurrent_requests where r equest_id=&requestid ; where requestid is id of request for which you are not ab le to see log or out files. You should see output like /u01/PRODBOX/log/l123456. req, host1,/u01/PRODBOX/out/o123456.out, host1 Update it according to your clone d Instance Variables. Q. How to confirm if Report Server is Up & Running ? Repor t Server is started by executable rwmts60 on concurrent manager Node & this file is under $ORACLE_HOME/bin .execute command on your server like ps -ef | grep rw mts60 You should get output like applmgr ....... rwmts60 name=REP60_VISION where VISION is your Instance name. Else you can submit a request like "Active Users" with display set to PDF, check output & log file to see if report server can di splay PDF files. Q. What is difference between ICM, Standard Managers & CRM in C ICM stand for Internal Concurrent Manager, which controls ot oncurrent Manager ? her managers. If it finds other managers down , it checks & try to restart them. You can say it as administrator to other concurrent managers. It has other task s as well. Standard Manager These are normal managers which control/action on th e requests & does batch or single request processing. CRM acronym for Conflict R esolution Manager is used to resolve conflicts between managers & request. If a request is submitted whose execution is clashing or it is defined not to run whi le a particular type of request is running then such requests are actioned/assig ned to CRM for

Incompatibilities & Conflict resolution. Q. What is use of Apps listener ? Apps Listener usually running on All Oracle Applications 11i Nodes with listener alia s as APPS_$SID is mainly used for listening requests for services likeFNDFS & FN DSM. Q. How to confirm if Apps Listener is Up & Running ? execute below command lsnrctl status APPS_$SID (replcae SID with your Instance Name) so If your SID is VISION then use lsnrctl status APPS_VISION out put should be like Services Summ ary... FNDFS has 1 service handler(s) FNDSM has 1 service handler(s) The command completed successfully What is Web Listener ? Web Listener is Web Server listen er which is listening for web Services(HTTP) request. This listener is started b y adapcctl.sh & defined by directive (Listen, Port) in httpd.conf for Web Server . When you initially type request like http://becomeappsdba.blogspot.com:80 to a ccess application here port number 80 is Web Listener port. Q. How will you find Invalid Objects in database ? using query SQLPLUS> select count(*) from dba_obj ects where status like INVALID ; Q. How to compile Invalid Objects in database ? You can use adadmin utility to compile or you can use utlrp.sql script shipped with Oracle Database to compile Invalid Database Objects. Q. How to compile JSP in Oracle Apps ? You can use ojspCompile.pl perl script shipped with Oracle app s to compile JSP files. This script is under $JTF_TOP/admin/scripts. Sample comp ilation method is perl ojspCompile.pl --compile --quiet Q. What is difference be tween adpatch & opatch ? adpatch is utility to apply oracle apps Patches whereas opatch is utility to apply database patches Can you use both adpatch & opatch i n Apps ? Yes you have to use both in apps , for apps patches you will use adpatc h utility and for applying database patch in apps you will opatch utility. Q. Wh ere will you find forms configuration details apart from xml file ?

Forms configuration at time of startup is in script adfrmctl.sh and appsweb_$CON TEXT_NAME.cfg (defined by environment variable FORMS60_WEB_CONFIG_FILE) for form s client connection used each time a user initiates forms connection. Q. What is forms server executable Name ? f60srvm Q. What are different modes of forms in which you can start Forms Server and which one is default ? You can start forms server in SOCKET or SERVLET by defualt Forms are configured to start in socket m ode. Q. How you will start Discoverer in Oracle Apps 11i ? In order to start dic overer you can use script addisctl.sh under $OAD_TOP/admin/scripts/$CONTEXT_NAME or startall.sh under $ORACLE_HOME/discwb4/util (under Middle/Application Tier) Q. How many ORACLE HOME are Oracle Apps and whats significance of each ? There a re three $ORACLE_HOME in Oracle Apps, Two for Application Tier (Middle Tier) and One in Database Tier. ORACLE_HOME 1 : On Application Tier used to store 8.0.6 t echstack software. This is used by forms, reports & discoverer. ORACLE_HOME shou ld point to this ORACLE_HOME which applying Apps Patch. ORACLE_HOME 2: On Applic ation Tier used by iAS (Web Server) techstack software. This is used by Web List ener & contains Apache. ORACLE_HOME 3: On Database Tier used by Database Softwar e usually 8i,9i or 10g database.