On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, aka OCI, MySQL Database Service, aka MDS uses the snapshot technology to backup your data.

This article is the second part of multiple part blog series. In part 1, we dealt with taking snapshots as backup. In...

On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, aka OCI, MySQL Database Service, aka MDS uses the snapshot technology to backup your data.

I will explain how it works in the multiple part blog series. In part 1, we will deal with taking snapshots as backup. In part 2, we will see how to restore data and for which usage.

Snapshots

The...

A relatively recent Db2 for z/OS enhancement that might have escaped your notice may well merit your consideration. Here's what I'm talking about: Db2 12 function level 507 (available since June of 2020, related to APAR PH24371) introduced CREATE OR REPLACE syntax for stored procedures. In a Db2 for z/OS context, CREATE OR REPLACE syntax was initially...

Question: I have some t-sql code added to a job step on a SQL Server Agent job. The problem is I need to run the code as RUNAS . I though of executing the job with a proxy account - so progressed with the Credential & proxy set up.    But I still can't view the Proxy\Credential in the RunAs list . Is there a way around this...