Oracle 11g Certification Query

Hi all,
I have given my Oracle 11g exams for OCP certification. Now, i need to take one of the mandatory training to fulfill the requirements for certification. I am in Kuwait and when i select the country as Kuwait, the cheapest training course is of $1230. I am an indian, so when i select the country as India on the oracle site, the price reduces down to $540 for the same course. This is for the Live Virtual Class (LVC) rates. Can i book the LVC with India as country. Do I have to be present in India for the LVC training or only taking a course is compulsion.
Kindly advice.

Zuzar Sajjad Tutawala wrote:
Hi all,
I have given my Oracle 11g exams for OCP certification. Now, i need to take one of the mandatory training to fulfill the requirements for certification. I am in Kuwait and when i select the country as Kuwait, the cheapest training course is of $1230. I am an indian, so when i select the country as India on the oracle site, the price reduces down to $540 for the same course. This is for the Live Virtual Class (LVC) rates. Can i book the LVC with India as country. Do I have to be present in India for the LVC training or only taking a course is compulsion.
Kindly advice.If you take LVC training my understanding, and it has been discussed in previous threads, if you need to be prsent in the country from which hte LVC is being presented. So if you want to take it in India you will need to travel back there.

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As to your 'issue':
First of all: somehow cursor_sharing MUST have been set to FORCE. Oracle is a predictable system, not a fruitmachine.
Your statement the '0' is replaced by a bind variable anyway is simply false. If you really believe it is not false, SUBMIT a SR.
But your real issue is not Oracle: it is your 'application', which is a mess anyway. Allowing for alphanumeric numbers is a really bad idea.
Right now you are already putting workaround on workaround on workaround on workaround.
Issue is the application: it is terminal., and you either need to kill it, or to replace it.
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

11G Pivot Query with Oracle EBS

Hello all,
We are trying to use the 11G pivot query function with data from Oracle E-Business Suite. We have an 11G database installed with our Oracle APEX. We cannot seem to get the pivot function to work. At a glance, would anyone be able to see any glaring errors in our syntax. I am not certain it is possible to provide test data so...
We are trying to have column headings with the Period Names SEP-08 OCT-08 NOV-08, with rows of segment2 007751 and accounted_dr as the dataset.
When we run the sql we get an error ORA-00904: "PERIOD_NAME": invalid identifier.
Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.
select * from (
select segment2, accounted_dr, period_name
from gl_je_lines a, gl_code_combinations b
where b.code_combination_id = a.code_combination_id
and segment2 = '007751')
pivot
sum(accounted_dr)
for period_name in ('SEP-08','OCT-08','NOV-08')
group by segment2, period_name

lilhelp wrote:
Hello all,
We are trying to use the 11G pivot query function with data from Oracle E-Business Suite. We have an 11G database installed with our Oracle APEX. We cannot seem to get the pivot function to work. At a glance, would anyone be able to see any glaring errors in our syntax. I am not certain it is possible to provide test data Why not?
>
We are trying to have column headings with the Period Names SEP-08 OCT-08 NOV-08, with rows of segment2 007751 and accounted_dr as the dataset.
When we run the sql we get an error ORA-00904: "PERIOD_NAME": invalid identifier.
Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.
select * from (
select segment2, accounted_dr, period_name
from gl_je_lines a, gl_code_combinations b
where b.code_combination_id = a.code_combination_id
and segment2 = '007751')
pivot
sum(accounted_dr)
for period_name in ('SEP-08','OCT-08','NOV-08')
group by segment2, period_nameDon't use GROUP BY. When you use PIVOT, the grouping is implied by what is in the PIVOT clause and what is not.
Try this:
select    *
from        (
       select segment2
       ,       accounted_dr
       ,       period_name
       from       gl_je_lines          a
       ,       gl_code_combinations     b
       where       b.code_combination_id = a.code_combination_id
       and       segment2 = '007751'
pivot       (
       sum (accounted_dr)
       for period_name in ('SEP-08','OCT-08','NOV-08')
;which is just your posted query without the GROUP BY clause.

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