SAP MaxDB

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!

For so many years now the DBMGui and the SQL Studio have been the primary graphical interfaces for developers and DBAs to access MaxDB instances. Beside the many good features and the relative high stability (i remember… Read More » Something new is coming up…

As it seems it has become popular to give his readers a glimpse on the bookshelf like it has been practised by many before me (see here , here or here) I will also reveal what is “behind” me. Literally the books are… Read More » Blogging standard…

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!

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…