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Today I re-learned a nice option to overcome ORA-60 problems with parallel data loading scenarios. As most of you will know (from reading note “84348 - Oracle-Deadlocks, ORA-00060” or Michael Braunstein’s Blogs Chasing… Read More » Quick help for ORA-60 deadlock in BW systems

Working in support provides the opportunity to witness the behaviour of individuals and organisations in the face of failure. Systems stop working, processes break down, money gets lost. As many companies today have… Read More » Designed to dissappoint

Of course, you look at the other players in your industry, right? You want to know what they are doing and how they do it, right? Maybe you could learn a thing or two as well. Read More » Wait a minute – why don’t we have that?

People use assumptions to make decisions. They do this all the time and insofar, developers are people as well :-) To be a bit more specific, also database developers make assumptions, One of them is for example that… Read More » MaxDB weekend magic - save 50% total storage space!

Last week I edited note 23345 and after some additional administrative tasks, it had been released yesterday with version 61. Why do I tell you this and why do I write a blog about this? Read More » Note 23345 revised – so what?

Hi folks! Sorry for missing out the last days. The training had been tough, going out afterwards even tougher ;-) and as soon as the training was over, real-life support work set in again. Therefore all I can provide… Read More » Oracle 11g training, Day #3 and #4 -FLASHBACK!

Ok, second day Oracle 11g training - what have we done today? Basically, two topics were addressed: SECUREFILES and TABLE COMPRESSION SECUREFILES # Securefiles is (no not the new black) but the new LOB implementation for… Read More » Oracle 11g training, Day #2 – Savepoint!

Ok, management wisely decided to afford the Oracle 11g training for me and my primary support colleagues (thanks, thanks, thanks!), so this week we find ourselves sitting in a meeting room with Juergen Kirschner (yes,… Read More » Oracle 11g training, Day #1 – Savepoint!

Sometimes support messages have to go a rather long way to finally get a solution. The following problem came up in a support message recently and since neither the analysis steps nor the solution were obvious, I decided… Read More » SAP Support Case “Why is Oracle writing out so many archivelogs in my BI recently?”

Ok, MaxDB is most often used with a NetWeaver on top of it, so this blog is about a niche topic of a niche product. Wow - that should be enough understatement and un-buzzing for now. Read More » MaxDB Optimizer Statistics handling without NetWeaver