Bert Jan Meinders

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Posts by Bert Jan Meinders

Installing Oracle Grid Control 10 release 2 on SuSE 9.3 ES

11/5/2006 - 6:43 pm

Posted in DBA, Database, Databases, General, J(2)EE/Java, Oracle, Technical Architecture, Tools | No comments

With all those fancy plug-ins for Microsoft tools release 2 of Oracle Grid Control 10g seems to be a must-have. However, according to many postings on the internet, installation on SuSE Linux is quite a job and release 2 is not (yet?) available for Windows. So, there’s a challenge that I couldn’t resist and I [...]

Software Deploying using ANT

27/4/2006 - 6:13 pm

Posted in General, Software Engineering, Web/Java | 4 comments

Some time ago a customer of AMIS asked me to setup the automatic deployment of  the software for their application. Till then this was done manually, took an awful lot of time and was rather error-sensitive.
The application itself is a multi-tier application with an Oracle database, a Micro Focus COBOL application server and an Oracle [...]

ASM made easy

4/1/2006 - 12:10 pm

Posted in DBA, General | No comments

Great article about ASM on the website of Howard Rogers: http://www.dizwell.com/oracle/articles/desktop_asm.html   For both Linux and Windows.

My First Oracle XE

1/12/2005 - 10:05 am

Posted in DBA, Database, Databases, General, J(2)EE/Java, Oracle | 19 comments

After the announcement of Oracle XE I got really curious about the possibilities of a free Oracle10g database. OK, it is limited to 4GB and it doesn’t allow things like partitioning but still… very usefull for smaller companies and web applications. So, I downloaded the Win32 version from OTN to my laptop (1.1GHz cpu, 512MB memory) and [...]

New Release Times Ten

8/11/2005 - 9:53 am

Posted in DBA, General | 1 comment

Oracle announces release 6 of their In Memory database, more details here. Faster, bigger, better and easier… well, let’s try it first.

Functional Partitioning

21/10/2005 - 3:53 pm

Posted in DBA, Database, Oracle | 2 comments

We all know partitioning for performance issues or for storing historical data. But partitioning can also be used for functional purposes such as creating a savepoint in batchrun. Such a savepoint can be used to undo a specific part of a batch without the use of home made software.
Lets say that we have a payroll [...]