(Doug Stuns, Tim Buterbaugh and Bob Bryla) The Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) is the recommended backup and recovery tool provided with the Oracle Database Server 10g software. RMAN was first introduced in Oracle 8, and Oracle has steadily made enhancements and improvements with each new release o
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Using Numerical Fields
(Robert Vollman) What is a number? The definition is one of the longest I’ve seen, but generally it refers to a quantity (or sum, total, count) of units. Quantities can be subjected to all sorts of calculations, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Oracle Performance Tools: Reduce Your IT Infrastructure Investment
When facing high wait times, dropped sessions, and application lock-ups, the typical company response is to invest in expanded server hardware capacity and additional Oracle licenses, plus the accompanying installation and project management costs. DBAs utilizing performance management software have
Some Thoughts After Watching AJAX FABridge Flex Demo
(Yakov Fain) There is this blog and a nice looking demo showing how AJAX can happily live together with Flex charting. This vendor’s AJAX grid component is populated with the data first, and then using FABridge the data is being passed to the Flex Charting component. Typically blogs demos like thi
MySQL Enterprise Database – Ready or Not?
(Jay Lyman) MySQL CEO Marten Mickos contends that MySQL is addressing key corporate customer needs — reliability, uptime, scalability and ease of deployment — but Gartner Principal Analyst Colleen Graham says it is still a long way from matching the features and functionality of enterprise databas
Defining the mainframe’s role in next-gen application workloads
(Wayne Kernochan) As a result of recent “specialty processors,” such as zIIP, zAAP, and zIFL, the mainframe has shown itself capable of handling new transaction mixes and workloads. Moreover, Linux support and support for service oriented architecture (SOA) ensures that most applications traditional
Tips for tackling MySQL 5.0
Testing, testing, testing. IT pros have been checking out the new MySQL 5.0 open source database since its recent release its commercial parent, MySQL AB. Some of those IT pros put our resident MySQL expert, Mike Hillyer, to the test, too. In this tip, he answers users’ questions about the ins and o
Risk involved in centralizing production servers
(Bill Cullen) At present we have five production servers, located at different locations in India. We would like to make them a centralized single server, and the process is going on. We are concentrating on connectivity issues and fall-back provisions. But being a Jr. Oracle DBA, I am curious, what
Dynamically Update Portions of Cached Web Pages with Post-Cache Substitution
(Julia Lerman) Post-Cache Substitution is one of the underdogs of ASP.NET 2.0. It seems to have gotten lost in the glitz and bright lights of other features, such as Membership and Personalization, DataSources, Web Parts, and Master Pages. I discovered the Post-Cache Substitution control when I was
Writing Service Broker procedures
(RemusRusanu) It’s been a while since I posted an entry in this blog and this article is long overdue. There were a series of events that prevented me from posting this, not least impacting being the fact that I’ve opened a WoW account…