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Wie kann ich Indexes und Daten mittels Data Pump trennen?

Diese Frage habe ich in den letzten Jahren öfters gehört. Zumindest seitdem die DBAs Oracle Datapump verwenden anstatt des alten Export/Import Tools. Angeblich war es früher mit dem Import-Parameter-Tool „INDEXFILE“ viel einfacher. Tja, die Wahrheit ist: Mit Datapump geht es noch(…)

Mysqldump issue – SELECT command denied to user

During one of my last MySQL mission, I encountered a “security error” with mysqldump. The mission was about migrating a MySQL database from one box to another MySQL version and from Windows to Linux with different users. In order(…)

SQL Server 2012 SP1: Second Cumulative Update available (CU2)

A couple of days ago, Microsoft published the second Cumulative Update (CU2) for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1. If this CU covers an issue you are experiencing, you should install it quickly. Otherwise, it is not mandatory. Which issues(…)

SQL Server View problem in LightSwitch 2012

I recently faced a problem in Visual Studio LightSwitch 2012 with SQL Server views. I attached an external datasource to my project and when I tried to import my view (which is very simple) I experienced some issues. Here(…)

Bug on Oracle 11.2 “ORION FAILS WITH ORA-27061”: Patch available!

In march 2011, my colleague Gregory Steulet published an article about Simulating and testing I/O performances with Orion. In this article, he wrote about a bug concerning Orion on Oracle(…)

Configuration des options en Oracle 11g EE avec ‘chopt’

La configuration des options sous Entreprise Edition avant Oracle 11g pouvait être un véritable parcours du combattant. Donc, une attention particulière devait avoir lieu avant l’installation des binaires Oracle; à savoir quelles options devaient être installées! Depuis la version 11g,(…)

Oracle Automatic Memory Management: real memory usage!

When using Automatic Memory Management for Oracle, it is sometimes difficult to monitor the memory usage and in particular to find the right tools to get the right information about currently allocated structures. The instance which will be analyzed has(…)

SQL Server 2012: First Hotfix for Service Pack 1 available

This month, Microsoft has released the first hotfix for SQL Server Service Pack 1. Analysis This Hotfix concerns the installation of SQL Server components and Analysis Services. If you have installed the RTM version with Analysis Service and successfully installed(…)

Resource FAILOVER dans Grid Infrastructure

Dans le cadre d’un cluster Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g R2 utilisé pour gérer des bases de données en mode FAILOVER, j’ai été amené à me pencher sur l’algorithme de basculement d’une ressource et des paramètres le régissant. On trouve dans(…)

Scripts to duplicate an Oracle database virtual machine: step one

In my last posting of November 9, 2012, Manage templates manually with Oracle Virtual Box, I have presented a solution to duplicate virtual machines using Oracle/ Virtual Box. I did not show the scripts in this first publication, but(…)