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SSIS is used primarily to import data into a database, particularly from flat files, but also from other databases. The typical SSIS packag...

ASR stands for automatic server recovery. It's a service whereby the iLO features of a HP server will reboot it, should it detect that ...

When an Oracle inventory is saved in a non-standard location, the Oracle Grid Control agent can be unable to enumerate the software that is ...

This was an annoying problem that took awhile to track down. In short: after our scheduled cold backups, an Oracle (11g) database would lo...

One would suppose that installing OEM on Windows Server 2008 would be like installing it pretty much in any other Windows environment; Oracl...

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a *really* powerful data transformation and import tool; it allows for all kinds of data manipulat...

So when I first started looking into SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), I was told that the learning curve was steep, and that it was w...

It's not too often any more that we need a floppy drive image created, but there are times (such as when accessing a server through iLO)...

In part one of this series, we got the operating system ready for the installation of Oracle. In part two , we got Oracle installed and ru...