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…