Handy Linux Commands For Oracle Professionals

Arup Nanda, an Oracle Ace, Oracle Magazine's DBA of the Year in 2003, and co-author of PL/SQL For DBA's, wrote two handy Linux guides for both Oracle developers and DBA's. (It should be noted that most of these Linux commands work in the many flavors of both Linux and Unix, and depending upon the shell being used, these commands rarely need any modification at all.) Part 1 covers basic file commands, while part 2 covers more advanced file commands.

Migrating To SQL Server From Oracle, Part 4

If you're migrating an Oracle database on a Unix server to SQL Server on a Windows server, Microsoft has a TechNet guide to help the migration. This guide is specifically for SQL Server 2000 on Windows 2003 Server or Windows 2000 Server. The guide hasn't been updated for SQL Server 2005 or Windows Vista or Longhorn. There's no word yet on when it will be updated, so if you plan to migrate to SQL Server 2005 or to Windows Vista or Longhorn, it may pay to hold off a little longer so that all the issues can be covered in the guide after thorough testing with someone else's guinea pig.