Data, Process, Insights & things I write about
In my mini-series " Mind the gap" I will try to shed some light on where the little or big differences between MaxDB and Oracle databases are and what to keep in mind when working with them. Read More » ‘Mind the gap…’ (#3 – Backup/Restore – Part 1)
Today a customer asked about how to monitor recovery activity on MaxDB. The typical questions here are: " Is it still running?" and " How long will it take?" While the last question cannot be answered easily (and most… Read More » Questions to SAP Support: “Is my MaxDB recovery still running?”
Today I got a support message to work on that I believe is of rather broad interest. Therefore, I decided to “forward” it to the SDN so that all community members can benefit from it. Read More » Questions to SAP Support: Is ODBC access to the database a good idea?
Every day I’m faced with colleagues, customers, partners or SDN members asking questions about MaxDB. How can we set up an external backup tool? Why is my index not taken by the optimizer? Can I use MaxDB as a productive… Read More » What you don’t know about MaxDB…
While editing content for MaxDB Wiki here in SDN I wondered how I might return to an older version of the page. Unlike e.g. MediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org/ the WIKI engine behind Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org)… Read More » SDN Wiki Features – what features?
I have written some lines about database corruption and the ways to handle them in the past. The bottom line of everything I wrote (including support notes, SDN blogs, and replies in customer messages) has always been: Read More » Not my fault – whose then?
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
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
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 …’