Thursday, 4 September 2014

Connecting SqlServer to Oracle

Install Oracle ODAC
ensure the tnsnames.ora on your widnows PATH has the alias you want to connect to

create a linked server using oracle OLE Provider
  When you link the users:
     The datasource is the name of the tns alias
     If you get a username/password issue - check the radio buttons to be sure your current sql server connection is not using a user that you have not mapped

You can then use the export data tool to make a reasonable job at copying data over (does noyt do a good job with triggers)


   

Thursday, 5 June 2014

Totally Useful Test For MTU

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Networking_Hardware/Firewalls/A_3110-Setting-WAN-MTU-Size-For-Sonicwall-Appliances.html

Run
ping www.google.com -f -l 1500

and reduce 1500 in increments of 100 until it stops saying packets can't be fragmented
then increase again until you find the max number that doesn't give this error
then add 28