SharePlex is a database replication software that enables you to replicate from Oracle and PostgreSQL databases to a variety of platforms. Easily achieve high availability, increase scalability, integrate data, and offload reporting with this flexible…
As a database administrator, you’re probably known in your organization for your pragmatic approach to technology. Sure, it’s important to continually hone your skills, but when somebody comes up with a new application-question, it’s more important to…
We are seeing more and more interest in our Stat customers moving their EBS and/or PeopleSoft applications to the cloud. It seems most of the moves currently are to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). In some cases, customers are also moving Stat as well…
SharePlex® by Quest® was designed to address the HA/DR and horizontal scaling issues in Oracle databases. Building on this two-decade legacy, SharePlex for PostgreSQL now provides PostgreSQL database replication that solves many of these issues…
Database developers and DBAs have been using open-source databases, such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, for years. The platforms are mature, offer flexibility with low license costs and have a huge community following. Plus…
Our NEW webcast series is directed specifically at existing SharePlex product users. We call the series, “SharePlex Skills 101”, where we present topics that have a broad interest among administrators and users – people who use SharePlex often and are…
Dynamic data movement includes replication of data from a traditional RDBMS like Oracle to databases like MySQL, Azure SQL Database, Kafka and PostgreSQL.
Data is valuable because it contains all of the information that represents your organization. The…
Data to AWS Three Ways
A SharePlex Cookbook Part Two
In the first blog, I discussed data and a bit on SharePlex. Now for the recipes!
Here are the recipes - three different ways to get data from your Oracle database to either an Amazon File or…
Are you considering migrating some of your Oracle workload to the cloud? Here’s why you should consider Quest SharePlex to help you reduce downtime and mitigate risk; and why Azure is worth considering as a cloud service
Your data…
Discussing migrations or replication from Oracle to other database flavors such as MSSQL, MySQL or PostgreSQL, the most frequent question I get from my customers and prospects is how to facilitate the initial load of the existing data. There are quite…
In my earlier blog, we discussed various business uses for turning Oracle database transactions into “business events”, and how SharePlex can be used to capture Oracle Change Data and write that data to a Kafka message queue.
Confluent has…
As more and more Oracle users upgrade their databases to Oracle 19c and beyond, posts on the Oracle community mailing lists about changes in query performance are increasing. In most cases, users are seeing improved performance; but, as Scotty said in…
In my last blog, we discussed various business uses for turning Oracle database transactions into “business events”, and how SharePlex can be used to capture Oracle Change Data and write that data to a Kafka message queue.
In this blog, we…
Oracle and other relational databases are perfect for storing “transactions”, the results of interactions between people or systems. For example, when a customer purchases a widget from our store, we may need to perform the following steps…
Streams is Gone
If you're a current Oracle Streams user looking to upgrade to Oracle 19c, you already know that as of this release, Oracle has removed Streams. So, there are choices to be made. You can
Patching, Upgrading or Migrating your Oracle Database can leave you feeling that you're in the midst of the same tornado that swept Dorothy into the Land of Oz; and you might run into some of the same characters as well. Here's how SharePlex, Quest's…
If you’ve ever wondered whether it’s possible to undertake a cloud migration while simultaneously upgrading Oracle versions without losing any transaction data or incurring downtime, Hotwire has proven it is. And, they want to tell you all…
In a previous blog, I discussed the differences between high availability and disaster recovery. Then, in my second post in this series, I looked at how SharePlex can help with disaster recovery. So, in this final post, I’ll discuss how Quest SharePlex…
In my earlier post, I defined the differences between high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). I noted that in designing for DR, you want to build your secondary system so it will survive a large or widespread event, such as a hurricane, earthquake…
If you’re one of the busiest travel sites on the internet and want to perform an AWS cloud migration of your bookings database while simultaneously upgrading your Oracle version, you know that any interruption in service could be costly. It’s simply not…
In database replication, “immediately” never feels quite fast enough for your users, does it?
“We replicate transactions from production databases in real time,” you tell them. “You’ll see the change immediately, as soon as the transactions…
