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    Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL Instructor Guide • Volume 1 40049GC11 Production 1.1 October 2001 D33993 Authors Copyright © Oracle Corporation‚ 2000‚ 2001. All rights reserved. Nancy Greenberg Priya Nathan This documentation contains proprietary information of Oracle Corporation. It is provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and is also protected by copyright law. Reverse engineering of the software is prohibited. If this documentation

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    1. What assumptions underlie Oracle’s recognition of revenue for license fee. Are these assumptions reasonable given the firm’s business and operating policies? Oracle recognized its license fee either upon shipment of the product or at the time such agreements are effective. In most instance is this the date of the agreement. The assumptions underlying this method is that if the customer is creditworthy and the terms of the agreement are such that the amounts are due within one year and are non-refundable

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    ORACLE 10g ASM May 17th‚ 2006 Inderpal S. Johal Principal Consultant Agenda What is ASM Benefits of ASM ASM Architecture ASM Components DB Instance parameters to support ASM ASM Instance Monitoring using EM ASM Views Migrating from File system to ASM Miscellaneous Tips Q&A Data Softech Inc. Oracle 10g ASM 2 What is ASM ASM stands for Automatic Storage Management It is Oracle Cluster File System and Volume Manager Designed for Oracle Database Related Files Provide

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    Herodotus’s The Histories and Thucydides’sThe Peloponnesian war Historical causation is a facet of historical analysis that focuses on explaining what occasioned or affected historic event. Causation analysis‚ thus‚ investigates the social‚ political‚ moral background of movements‚ ideologies and environmental occurrence; nevertheless‚ these analyses themselves are influenced by the shifting ideas of assumptions about what the ‘cause’ means. Herodotus‚ the so called ‘father of history’‚ has stark

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    globalized world‚ with increased interconnectedness and invasive embedded nature‚ communities have significantly changed from Herodotus’ time. Although there are many aspects of community found in today’s societies that resonate with the societies Herodotus describes‚ the differences are significant. In the English language we have multiple words to express the same idea‚ but Herodotus only uses one‚ ethnos. This linguistic change reflects the changes that have occurred to societies across the globe.  

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    The accounts of Scythia in Herodotus’ The Histories are organized in concurrence with the timeline of the Persian invasion of Scythia‚ led by King Darius‚ where as the invasion progresses Herodotus repeatedly digresses about the history of Scythia until the Persians and Scythians meet‚ at which point the apparent essence of the accounts of Scythia in The Histories‚ the Persian invasion‚ is concluded. Although Herodotus’ description of Scythia seems to be a byproduct of the accounts of King Darius

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    petitioner. The Oracle of Delphi being in a unique position was regarded as an arbiter for the Greeks it assisted in decisions such as war‚ colonization‚ and advice. How Delphi became a power comes from its connection to mythology as a holy site and connection to the mentality of the Greeks. The other factors that contributed to the rise come from its distinctive ceremony when making predicting. The main function of the oracle’s

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    Herodotus and Tacitus‚ great writers of their time‚ reflect on their thoughts about their own civilizations and what views they had on the civilizations of their enemies at the time of their writings. While these men lived almost 500 years apart‚ and in different parts of the world‚ their writings both seem to express both displeasure and acceptance of other civilizations customs and ways of life. Herodotus‚ a Greek‚ focused his writings the Persians‚ the Greek enemy at the time. Since Herodotus

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    the centuries‚ the ancient historians Herodotus and Thucydides have remained dominant figures in terms of historical writing and documentation. Both men wrote about significant wars‚ though they did so in very different‚ yet somehow similar‚ styles. Both authors wanted to maintain methodological order‚ but order was vastly misconstrued between the historians. Therefore‚ it is vital for researchers to compare-and-contrast the two author’s approaches to history to emulate the style of such historical

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