From time to time I start to believe that there are certain problems that would not come up anymore, once the topic is documented well… Read More »Questions to SAP-Support (MaxDB): “Data is gone after reboot – where the heck is it?”
Hello, community! Just a minute ago I got to work on a message where a customer asked: “Hello support team, could you please tell me how… Read More »Questions to SAP Support: “How to prevent MaxDB from creating backups to the RUNDIRECTORY?”
In my mini-series “Mind the gap…” I will try to shed some light on where the little or big differences between MaxDB and Oracle databases… Read More »‘Mind the gap…’ (#4 – reading query execution plans)
The default reaction When working in support you get to see a lot of bugs, mistakes and errors. That’s of course how things are going… Read More »Now step back and start thinking!
After the tremendous (and very unlikely) success of the first MaxDB: Space oddities blog, I immediately decided: this must be the voice of the market… Read More »MaxDB – Space oddities, take II
MaxDB – Space oddities Recently a customer came up with the assumption that there is space somehow missing from the database. Although he deleted a… Read More »MaxDB: Space oddities
You may have already wondered about whether a specific index is sensible or if you can save space by dropping it. For this MaxDB provides statistic… Read More »MaxDB: Some notes on the INDEX_USED statistic
Before starting with this blog, I’ve to apologize for being so late with this issue of “Mind the Gap”. Since the last part of this… Read More »‘Mind the gap…’ (#3 – Backup/Restore – Part 2)
Unlike Oracle, MaxDB does not have a CONTROLFILE to store the location of its files. Instead, all file locations are stored as common parameters. A… Read More »Questions to SAP Support: “How to move MaxDB volumes?”
A customer was facing a problem when generating SQL scripts by using SQL. As this is a common habit in the Oracle world he tried… Read More »Questions to SAP Support: “How to generate a SQL Script via SQL on MaxDB?”