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?”
So after a loooong wait time, it’s finally available to be downloaded by the SAP customers. What a relieve! Over is the time where tens… Read More »Oracle Patchset 10.2.0.4 is released – finally.
With release 11g Oracle made many feature enhancements to the database and some of them are now down-ported into the soon-to-be-released patchset 10.2.0.4. One new… Read More »Oracle Patchset 10.2.0.4 – neat DBMS_STATS enhancement
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…’ (#3 – Backup/Restore – Part 1)
Today a customer asked about how to monitor recovery activity on MaxDB. The typical questions here are: “Is it still running?” and “How long will… Read More »Questions to SAP Support: “Is my MaxDB recovery still running?”
Today I got a support message to work on that I believe is of rather broad interest. Therefore, I decided to “forward” it to the… Read More »Questions to SAP Support: Is ODBC access to the database a good idea?
Every day I’m faced with colleagues, customers, partners or SDN members asking questions about MaxDB. How can we set up an external backup tool? Why is… Read More »What you don’t know about MaxDB…
When faced with error messages like ORA-1578 Oracle database users just got the task to handle a database block corruption. I’ve already written about this… Read More »Some hints to make handling of oracle datablock corruptions more efficient
While editing content for MaxDB Wiki here in SDN I wondered how I might return to an older version of the page. Unlike e.g. MediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org/ … Read More »SDN Wiki Features – what features?
I have written some lines about database corruption and the ways to handle them in the past. The bottom line of everything I wrote (including… Read More »Not my fault – whose then?