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Database world – high availability: SQL Server vs Oracle

27.10.2011 by Hervé Schweitzer

Last week, I attended for the first time the Microsoft TechDays. The 2011 Swiss “edition” took place in Bern. For me it is new challenge, because I newer worked deeply with the Microsoft Database Platform “SQL Server”.

Application integration & Middleware

Partition exchange preview in MySQL 5.6

25.10.2011 by Yann Neuhaus

MySQL 5.6 proposes improved partition maintenance through "partition exchange". Even if not yet available, dbi services performed some tests on the MySQL Community Edition5.6.2 m5 release (still under Development).

Hardware & Storage

SQL Server 2012 ‘Denali’ : AlwaysOn High Availability – Restore is blocked

17.10.2011 by Stéphane Haby

During our test to create a failover clustering with the new function 'AlwaysOn High Availability', we had a few difficulties to overcome like the restoring of databases of the secondary cluster node. In this article, we will just explain you(…)

Hardware & Storage

Windows Server 8 Hyper-V 3.0: a real step forward in virtualization

14.10.2011 by Stéphane Haby

As we are on Microsoft Connection Days 2011 in Lausanne yesterday, we have a presentation of Windows Server 8 and specifically of Hyper-V 3.0.I take this opportunity to introduce some news about this.

Business Intelligence

SQL Server vNext : ‘Denali’ is 2012 and ‘Crescent’ is PowerView

13.10.2011 by Stéphane Haby

Today, Microsoft gives us his secrets of the next SQL Server version.

Technology Survey

OpenWorld 2011 is over … Having a last glance on ASM & disk failures

07.10.2011 by David Hueber

So we are now arrived at the end of the largest Oracle OpenWorld ever. Around 45'000 people had joined San Francisco to exchange around IT and especially Oracle technologies.It has been a great conference with much of interesting sessions(…)

Technology Survey

OOW Day 4: Cloud, get ready Oracle is coming!

06.10.2011 by David Hueber

This has been a long day, started with gathering some news about the Enterprise Manager 12c and finished with a huge concert on Treasure Island. However the highlight of the day was clearly Larry Ellison's Keynote. Since this afternoon (pacific(…)

Technology Survey

OOW Day 3: Oracle Database Appliance and Cloud Computing with OEM

05.10.2011 by David Hueber

In my second blog about OpenWorld, I gave an overview of the Engineered Solutions portfolio, which just got enhanced with Exalytics. Today I'm going to focus a bit more on the Database Appliance product and how this box works. I(…)

Technology Survey

OOW Day 2: Next generation Data Center Management & OEL future

04.10.2011 by David Hueber

So Oracle OpenWorld's day 2 is now over…with some rain… However we had some interesting sessions such Fusion Middleware, RMAN or NoSQL. In this post I'm going focus on two of them, introducing a coming Data Center Management(…)

Technology Survey

Welcome to OpenWorld 2011 …

03.10.2011 by David Hueber

So the first Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is over. This introduction day was dedicated to Oracle Users and Oracle Partners Forums and the Welcome Keynote. It already showed some interesting stuff and finished with a new announcement(…)