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Quest Backup Reporter

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Since April 21st there is the new Quest Backup Reporter. With this it is really simple to create reports on Oracle RMAN backups. The backup reporter gets the data from the control files and/or the RMAN catalog, if this exists. It is very interesting that in the control file more information about the backup is saved than in a RMAN catalog and this is exactly the reason why you can use both sources simultaneously with the backup reporter.

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Switch from WE8 Character Set to Unicode

As mentioned in my blog “Character Set Conversion with CSALTER – Does that actually work?” it is however possible to change the character set of the database with CSSCAN or CSALTER, but that does not help if you saved US7ASCII characters in the database, as it is quite usual in Europe, because only the data dictionary is being adjusted but not the data in the tables.

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Automatic Memory Management – it’s great isn’t it?

As you might have read in my previous blogs I did some tests with Oracle 10g and 11g on Linu 6 Update 1 – and it works even though there is no official support from Oracle. Due to a presentation for the German Oracle User Group (DOAG) I did some tests with Automatic Memory Management and in this blog I like to share some experiences with you.

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