A few months ago, I described how to set up and configure the Windows Debugger in order to be able to generate a call stack for a hanging MaxDB thread (see Debugging the MaxDB Kernel on Windows – How to get a Call stack… Read More » Debugging the MaxDB Kernel – How to get a Call stack the easy way

Doing the same thing over and over again over a long time usually gives the opportunity to recognize some pattern. One pattern I found in solving customer messages is the following: The less friendly and the more… Read More » How to “win” in SAP customer messages

More and more customers decide to use MaxDB and with that, the number of customers asking for a comprehensive list of differences or a comparison increases as well. In my mini-series " Mind the gap" I will try to shed… Read More » ‘Mind the gap…’ (#2 – Data storage)

Database performance problems are one of the more complex tasks that brighten the day of a database software supporter. Each and every single day since I’m doing support for Oracle and MaxDB there had been messages, in… Read More » Parameters. parameters, parameters … the mantra of db performance troubleshooting

Recently two customers reported independent from each other that their LMTS/ASSM tablespace shows much “fragmentation”. What they meant was, that the repeatedly got errors like: ORA-1688: unable to extend table… Read More » Fragmentation in Oracle LMTS tablespace!

More and more customers decide to use MaxDB and with that, the number of customers asking for a comprehensive list of differences or a comparison increases as well. In my mini-series " Mind the gap" I will try to shed… Read More » ‘Mind the gap …’

Today I spoke with Jörg Hoffmeister (Product and Development Manager of MaxDB and liveCache). He told me that finally the " MaxDB Internals" Documentation has been released to the public. Many thanks for that Jörg! Read More » MaxDB Internals Documentation available for free!

Ok, today I’ll show you how to install, setup and use the Windows Debugger to get information about hanging MaxDB kernel tasks. The first thing we need is obviously a hanging MaxDB session, so let’s produce one! Read More » Debugging the MaxDB Kernel on Windows - How to get a Call stack from hanging tasks

Not to long ago I was analyzing a performance issue on a customers system. In the course of this I needed to see some aggregated data, so I opened a transaction where I can put in custom sql and ran it without removing… Read More » A dumb mistake … again and again …

I’ve recently written about it (Something new is coming up…). We presented it on the Las Vegas TechEd (and it will also be shown in Munich). One question was present all the time: When will the new MaxDB Tool for… Read More » MaxDB Database Studio 7.7 is available!