Location of user .dbf files

Hi
I am a fresh database student.
I have created a table by name employee. In which location these tables are stored.
Please help me.
Thnx

Hello,
You may have straightly the logical (Tablespace) and physical (Datafile) location of a Table with the query below:
select A.owner, A.segment_name, A.segment_type, A.tablespace_name, A.extent_id, B.file_name
from dba_extents A, dba_data_files B
where A.file_id = B.file_id
and A.owner = '<owner_of_your_table>'
and A.segment_type = 'TABLE'
and A.segment_name = '<your_table>';In fact, a (non partitioned) Table is a Segment. The Segment has one or several Extents and each Extent may
be located in separated Datafiles (of the same Tablespace ).
Hope this help.
Best regards,
Jean-valentin
Edited by: Lubiez Jean-Valentin on Mar 20, 2010 8:33 AM

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bobonacus wrote:
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>
shutdown immediate
startup
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>
>
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Most builds of Windows will execute *.vbs scripts when you double-click them. If that doesn't happen then you might need to visit the Add/Remove Programs or Programs & Features control panel to enable the Windows Scripting Host. I can track down details if you have issues.
Backing up and restoring data is an area that is often glossed over. Most people don't try to learn much about it until they've lost something important. (Me too )
If your iTunes library was in the usual layout then normally copying the whole iTunes folder from the User's Music folder in the old computer to the User's Music folder in the new one will usually work fine. Ideally this is done before iTunes is installed so that there is no empty library to replace, and all settings are picked up from the old library. This post contains more details.
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Garageband custom "user-loops" files missing

I'm using Garageband '09 (Version 5.1 (398) and I am having trouble locating my custom "user loops" files.
I know that custom made apple loops are saved in
Library/Audio/Apple Loops/User Loops
I have about 100 loops saved in the folder, but in Garageband I have over 200 saved custom made loops that work fine. I am able to use all of the loops, only about half of them have files in the correct place.
Doing a spotlight search does not find anything, even when I search for the custom loop name exactly and search "This Mac" and "Library".
One strange thing I've found is when viewing the loops browser, at the top there is a dropdown labeled "Loops" that offers the filters "My Loops" and "Shared Loops on my Mac". It seems that I can only find the files for "My Loops" and the "Shared Loops on my Mac" are the missing ones.
Is there another place these files could be saved? I can use them in Garageband so they must be somewhere.

How can I create loops that are "My Loops" vs "Shared Loops on my Mac" on purpose.
Check your Preferences setting:
In the "Loops" tab of the Preferences panel - the "My Apple Loops" option.
If you share your loops with all users on your mac (users havg different accounts) then the loops will be installed in the System Library, but if you do not share, your loops will be installed in your user library. If you log in from a different account you will not be able to use them.
Regards
Léonie
I don't have Logic installed, but both installation places should make it possible for Logic and MainStage to use the loops. It is the standard place where applications are looking for Apple Loops.

Adobe flash updater appears to lock user profile files in Windows 7

Hello All,
I don't own any Adobe products, but I wanted to put this up so that others who run into this issue can find it, and hopefully Adobe will look into it if it's common.
This evening, I had just restarted my computer (Windows 7 RC), and after an usually long load time, I found myself loading into a profile other than my own. Windows informed me that it has been unable to access my user profile and so had booted me into a temporary profile. I noticed that the reason for being unable to access the profile was that it was being accessed (locked) by another program. I rebooted.
This time when I logged in, I was taken to my own profile, but before it loaded, I received a message from windows stating that it has been unable to open the user profile, and at the same time I saw a prompt from the Adobe Updater asking me if I wanted to upgrade to the next version of Adobe Flash. After closing the dialogs, my profile contained everything for my desktop, but my windows settings appeared to have all been disabled (meaning Windows Aero was turned off and everything looked...odd--like an older version of windows squeezed into the updated Windows 7 interface).
Taking a guess that the prompt from the Adobe updater may have been responsible for locking the profile while it was awaiting a response (somehow I guess it was running BEFORE windows loaded the user profile), I uninstalled all my adobe products and rebooted.
Issue solved. Presumably, installing the update when you first see the prompt and not waiting for another time after a reboot would also bypass this issue.
So it appears that the Update prompt locks the Windows user profile in Windows 7, which causes a problem because (maybe only on machines that don't auto login?) it appears to run before the profile loads: so it has a user profile file locked waiting for a response from the user, which can't come because the profile hasn't been loaded by Windows (so the user can't see the prompt), but Windows can't load the profile because the file is locked...sort of a soft dead lock (since I was sort of able to get in eventually).
Wanted to get this out, and was also wondering if anyone else has seen this issue.
Cheers,
-jfc

Trying to install FB 4.5 - comes up with this error on my machine - anyone have any concrete ideas on how to overcome this...
I've tried rebooting, removing activex plugins etc but of no help....
WARNING: DW031: Payload:{650C9D09-D5BD-4532-8BEE-01DBC1DF5537} Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 4.5.0.0 has been updated and has been selected for repair. The patch {CEAC4FFA-E7DE-4434-890A-F0AC7792DE5E} Adobe Flash Builder 4.5_4.5.1_AdobeFlashBuilder-mul 4.5.1.0 will be uninstalled now.
WARNING: DW031: Payload:{650C9D09-D5BD-4532-8BEE-01DBC1DF5537} Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 4.5.0.0 has been updated and has been selected for repair. The patch {CEAC4FFA-E7DE-4434-890A-F0AC7792DE5E} Adobe Flash Builder 4.5_4.5.1_AdobeFlashBuilder-mul 4.5.1.0 will be uninstalled now.
----------- Payload: {551D0A52-5E4A-4898-9FFF-FEAA5E89585A} Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX 10.0.0.0 -----------
ERROR: Error 1722.There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action NewCustomAction1, location: C:\DOCUME~1\nanunh\LOCALS~1\Temp\InstallAX.exe, command: -install activex -msi
ERROR: Install MSI payload failed with error: 1603 - Fatal error during installation.
MSI Error message: Error 1722.There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action NewCustomAction1, location: C:\DOCUME~1\nanunh\LOCALS~1\Temp\InstallAX.exe, command: -install activex -msi
ERROR: DW050: The following payload errors were found during install:
ERROR: DW050: - Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX: Install failed
Please search the above error/warning string(s) to find when the error occurred.
These errors resulted in installer Exit Code mentioned below.
Exit Code: 6 - Silent workflow completed with errors.
[ 1460] Mon Aug 15 17:52:20 2011 INFO
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Location of User Template - English.lproj for AD Plugin

When OSX creates accounts on a local machine, it pulls the default set of account folders (/Library, /Pictures, /Music, etc) from /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/... This is an excellent way to pre-configure new user accounts with specific prefs, etc.
When setting up the AD plugin to authenticate from an AD server, one checks the "Use UNC path from Active Directory to derive network home location" button to have the users' home folder mounted as a sharepoint from whatever is specified in the AD for the user. This works as expected for both WIN and OSX users.
BUT
New users' home folders (empty) are populated with a /Library folder which does not come from /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/...
Can anybody point me to 'real' location of these template files?
Derek Smith
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