Posts by André Araújo
Last Friday in the Sydney Oracle Meetup I talked about Oracle Flashback technology and how it helps to reduce downtime. The session generated great interest among the attendees, which led to interesting discussions and many questions about the subject. Some of the questions couldn’t be answered during the meeting so I’ve followed up on them and I’m posting the answers here since they may be of interest for many others.
t’s only one week to go now and the program for the AUSOUG National Conference Series 2009 is out. I’ll be presenting on the first day in Perth (Nov 10th) about Oracle Flashback technology. I’m looking forward to attending the conference in Perth, not only because I’ll be presenting there but also because it’s my first time in Western Australia.
This post originated from a quick discussion we had internally on how to quickly and easily compare schemas between two Oracle databases. I learned about Sheeri Cabral’s post with a quick comparison solution for MySQL databases and I though of using a similar approach for Oracle. I did some testing and it worked quite well. There certainly are tools in the market, free or not, that do this for us, and even generate scripts to correct differences. The steps below only go as far as to tell you what the differences are. However, they don’t require any additional tool and can be easily executed in any *nix or Windows environment.
Have you ever been asked to restore a database and wondered which backup files were available? And if many were available, which ones you should use, and in which order? Okay, this is not a difficult thing to do, but when you do it over and over again, it becomes tedious, and the automation bug in you starts to look for a better and quicker way to handle it. The bug in me found the following answer.
I love puzzles. So when I heard about the NoCoug SQL Challenge I felt tempted to give it a go. The Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCoug) has challenged us to find a good way to calculate the probability of getting different sums for x throws of a n-sided die using only SQL. The probabilities for the faces of a single die are stored in a table and that’s all you need to start playing with the problem. The SQL Challenge rules can be found on the NoCoug website, along with some other relevant information.
Early in 2008 I came across a toolkit that Microsoft had released a couple of months before, called RML Utilities. I downloaded RML Utilities from the Microsoft website, started playing with it, and found it quite interesting. More than one year after that, and one cumulative update later, I still find that relatively few people in the SQL Server world know about this toolkit. When I ask a SQL Server DBA about RML Utilities it’s not uncommon to hear in reply: “RML-what?” Here’s a review.
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