In this post, I will explain how to install Oracle Fusion Middleware Forms and Reports 11g R2 for a high availability architecture on a Windows platform. For the Linux platform, it’s approximately the same, even though the node manager is a daemon.

Starting with MySQL 5.5 it is possible to configure semi-synchronous replication. As you probably know, MySQL replication is asynchronous by default. Asynchronous replication means that events/transactions applied on one server are not immediately applied on the other one.

Last week, I attended the Microsoft TechDays for the first time. The Swiss 2011 "edition" took place in Bern. For me this is really a new challenge because I have never worked deeply with the Microsoft database platform "SQL Server".

During our test to create a failover clustering with the new function 'AlwaysOn High Availability', we had a few difficulties to overcome like the databases restore on the secondary cluster node.

In this article, we will explain how to avoid it before encountering the problem.

Finally after a 18 hours, door-to-door, journey I arrived at San Francisco for Oracle OpenWorld 2011. My trip started in Basel, with a stop in Paris and then an 11 hours flight to San Francisco. Even with the on-board movies these kind of flights are still quite boring, but the funny things is that I really thought I was flying with "Air Oracle"…