Documentation

The undocumented GoldenGate ‘all’ role you should know about

Let me tell you a story about how I discovered an undocumented role in GoldenGate that could break your automation. Recently, I wanted to do a massive update of the role of a GoldenGate user on multiple deployments. First(…)

How to quickly download the new bunch of 21c Oracle Database documentation?

Last month, Oracle released its new 21c version of the database documentation. At that time, I was looking for a quick mean to get all the books of this so-called 21c Innovation Release. I could remember I used a(…)

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(…)

Partition exchange preview in MySQL 5.6

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).

Stop looking for Oracle Fusion and Oracle Grid Control documentation: use the dbi services firefox add-ons!

After my last post title "Stop looking for Oracle and MySQL documentation: use the dbi services firefox add-ons!" Some of you asked me for firefox search add-ons for Oracle Fusion(…)

Stop looking for Oracle and MySQL documentation: use the dbi services firefox add-ons!

Are you often trying to find some functionalities into ORACLE 10gR2, ORACLE 11gR2 or MySQL documentation ? Of course each time you are looking for this documentation you find unofficial documentation which is never corresponding to the version you are(…)

Reading Oracle documentation with an ipad – What Steve Jobs doesn’t tell!

The chrismas period is over and it is now time to enjoy the several gifts brought by Santa Claus. Under my Chrismas Tree I discovered this year an iPad.

How to connect to an Oracle database using the perl DBI module and DBD::Oracle “as sysdba”?

Well, I have read many posts about this, but was unable to find a suitable solution up to now … Google was not my friend(…)