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You won’t believe how often we in support get asked about if SAPDBA is available for use with Oracle 10g. Even more customers tell us, how they dislike the BRTOOLS and want the SAPDBA back. Read More » We all hate the BR*TOOLS, don't we?

From time to time I get customers asking: ” When will the patch mentioned in note XYZ be available?”. Most often the disappointing answer has to be: “ The release date won’t be announced until the software is released.”… Read More » A useful hint on notes

In one of my former jobs, I had been in charge of a rather small project tracking tool for the engineering department. As buying equipment and ordering services were two of the duties of these engineers these tasks had… Read More » Suck that data out! Connect from Oracle to MaxDB

Years in database support, endless experience and access to a whole bunch of internal notes and guidelines have enabled me (as well as all DB Supporters in SAP) to repair corrupt databases. This obscure technique is of… Read More » I can repair your corrupt database!

In my last blog entry “Starting off with a classic…” I presented a classic issue that may appear when the database software is upgraded. The problem was that sometimes result sets are delivered to the user in a sorted… Read More » A classic in disguise…

Every now and then a new version of the database software comes along. Upgrades of Oracle or MaxDB often include major improvements concerning stability and performance. These improvements can and should be read as:… Read More » Starting off with a classic…