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August 31st, 2007
August 29th, 2007
Installed Oracle 10g express edition
By John
I installed Oracle 10g express edition on my Thinkpad. I’ve had PL/SQL developer on my work machine for a while but I don’t use it much because I don’t have a database to play around with. I created some simple tables, triggers, and sequences in my test database.
At work we’ve been debugging some ETL (extract/transfer/load) issues with our Operational Data Store. Everyone has been using PL/SQL developer or TOAD. I’m kind of in the dark when I see people using these tools because I’m not sure what all they use them for. Sometimes they use them to find database objects; sometimes they use them to help see what tables are used by a view. Now I can get a sense of what PL/SQL developer does and what Oracle security looks like.
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No (good) remote network backup solutions
By John
I have been looking for a remote network backup solution for myself, and also for another person who wants to back up their office network. Here’s what I want:
- Nightly automated incremental remote (at least 90 miles away) backup of at least one machine, perhaps more, of at least 250 gb of data
- Ability to restore files, maybe not from bare metal, with up to 4 hours of “lag time” before data starts coming back
- The remote backup is someone else’s responsibility to verify. For example if the data’s going to a tape, and a tape goes bad, some other entity is responsible for detecting that within some period of time and asking for the data to be sent again
Notably, I do not need point in time restores and it’s OK if it takes a long time to restore the data.
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