Archive for February, 2008

Auto Undo Management in Oracle

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Oracle 9 introduced a new way to manage rollback / undo data – an Undo Tablespace. To utilize Automatic Undo Management, create a tablespace in the database of type UNDO:

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Redo Log File in Oracle

Monday, February 25th, 2008

The redo log file holds transaction information. Each Commit causes a flush to the log. You have multiple log files defined – one is “active” or “online”, the others are “offline”. Oracle rotates through these files as each gets full. Switching active files has overhead so the suggestion is that each file can hold roughly 30 minutes or transactions.

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Using Multiple MySQL Ports in the Same Application

Monday, February 25th, 2008

This is a code example of this command:

SET_DATABASE_PORT OF MYSQL TO PORT
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Issues With Oracle’s Recyclebin

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Oracle introduced since 10g a new feature the Database Recyclebin, which as a Operative System recyclebin brings the ability to restore tables (files in OS) that are dropped (deleted).

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Installing MySQL in Linux CentOS/Red Hat

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Installing MySQL in Linux, is not difficult to do. This article is a step by step guide on how to do it:

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