Marwin >Well, I am a final year B.E. student doing a project on Grid and we selected >the oracle 10g >database for the project. Now, we have installed the database, client and >evrything but are >confused about how to test the grid. We know the DBA commands from 9i(since I >am preparing to be a >DBA) but need to know where we can get grid specific commands for 10g. Any >help will be gladly >accepted, I suggest you to read my paper "Is Oracle Database Moving Toward Grid Computing?" (http://www.trivadis.com/Images/grid_computing_en_tcm17-11759.pdf). Even if it is 1.5 years old is up-to-date with 10gR2. HTH Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l