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Jonathan Lewis @ dbi services: Oracle Optimizer workshop

Last week, Oracle Ace Director Jonathan Lewis held an Oracle Optimizer Workshop at dbi services BaselArea. I would like to share some of the key learnings of this really interesting exchange I experienced together with my colleagues.

Windows 8 customer preview now available!

Following my article about Windows 8, today, Microsoft released the customer preview. It's just a small article to announce this fresh news!(…)

Oracle Application Express (APEX) 4.1: a migration guide

  Oracle Application Express - APEX 4.1 Introduces many new features such as : Improved error handling and user-defined exception processing Application Express now supports the use of ROWID for updates, inserts(…)

Why Perl is my choice for scripting

I have been advising to use Perl for a long time in order to automate Oracle processes and operations. This week however, I tried for once to write a small procedure on a simple Linux shell (ksh and bash). This(…)

SQL Server 2012: new features for Reporting Services (SSRS)

I decided to take some times in this cold February's month to continue this small series. This time, I'm going to speak about Reporting Services (SSRS) and these new features.Like my other article "SQL Server 2012: New(…)

SQL Server 2012: new features for Integration Services (SSIS)

Like the others products of SQL server 2012, Integration Services has a lot of new features and enhancements.

Oracle WebLogic Essentials : avantages du clustering

J'ai eu le plaisir de suivre une formation chez Oracle University à Colombes (Paris). En tant que stagiaire, le cours s'intitulait Oracle Weblogic Administration Essential. Ce post traite de la notion de cluster Weblogic. J'y expose les avantages du clustering(…)

SQL Server 2012: Feature Pack

Since the third CTP version of SQL Server 2012 codename Denali, you have some features available to provide an additional value for Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 like the other SQL Server versions. This Feature Pack or Manageability Tool Kit are(…)

Oracle Database Firewall

Le marché du Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) devenant de plus en plus important avec des produits tels que Imperva, Guardium ou Sentrigo, je me suis intéressé au produit Oracle Database Firewall, qu'Oracle présente comme un substitut aux différents acteurs du(…)

MySQL Data High Availability with semi-synchronous replication

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