If we Installed Redgate tool "Schema Compare of Oracle" on a shared location, Can we access "SCO.exe" Command line from a different Machine or Network? If Yes, Can we run multiple instances at the same time?
If we have more than on Developer than how many licenses we required?
Redgate tool License is Machine specifics or Login specifics?
Redgate licensing is per-user. More information is available on the documentation site.
If the use is as part of a server automated process, such as CI or automated release, each user contributing database changes will need a Deployment Suite for Oracle license. If the use of the sco.exe command line is not a server automated process (eg, running on a desktop), one Schema Compare for Oracle license is required for each distinct user. Per-user licensing allows a user to install the tools on as many machines as they need, provided the named user is using the tool.
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Me and my team are developing a SQL Server database. We want to work on different PCs, but with the same database. Is it possible that we can synchronise our work on each PC, or share our database while working somehow?
If possible how can Team Foundation server be used for that?
You can use SQL Server Database Tools (SSDT) to represent your database as a series of scripts. These scripts can then be added to source control. Git is by far the most popular source control system there is and Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services have great Git support.
Each developer will use Visual Studio (or VS Code) on their own machine to do their database work. When the developer wants to share their changes, they commit them to source control. Other developers can then update their local version of the code with the new changes. SSDT adds support for bringing your database and database project in sync.
Now that your code is in source control you can go a step further and add things like continuous integration builds and automated deployments with VSTS Build and Release Management. That way you can automatically test database changes and even run unit and integration tests before deploying to test and production environments.
The following Channel9 video gives an introduction to these tools: Database Continuous Integration and Deployment with Visual Studio SQL Server Data Tools in < 10 minutes
If you only care about schema changes (and not data changes), you can use visual studio's SQL Server projects, and a source control system, to help manage this. You can then use the Schema Compare tool to compare your project to the server, the server to your project, or server to server.
There are some tools from the likes of Redgate, etc, that allow this process to be automated. I've not used those, but they may be another option.
I have implemented executing sqlcmd.exe to run a script (provided by hosting & ops DBAs) that copies a newly created database in the C# app that creates the database to a second server in an AlwaysOn Availability Group. Unfortunately we have no AlwaysOn Availability support in our development or integration environments so I have only been able to test executing sqlcmd to run the script and handling the script failure. Is it at all possible for me to simulate the AlwaysOn Availability Group environment on my developer workstation if a create a second SQL Server instance. I am running SQL 2014 Developer Edition at the moment but should it be required, will be able to upgrade to SQL 2016 Developer Edition.
If this is not possible we will be forced to deploy without full end to end testing and have the first end to end tests happen in the production environment.
I have fairly good developer level SQL skills; in other words I'm very comfortable with stored procedures and such but have very little knowledge of the new and advanced features for actually administering SQL servers.
You can but you will either have to create VM (Virtual Machines) using VMWare software or VMs using Microsoft (MS) technology. There are other VM products but these two are used for the majority of virtualizations of the SQL Server/Microsoft stack. If you use MS technology you can download the software for usually up to 90 days (free) without activating the software. I would do it on an SSD so it finishes in a timely basis and you probably need 12-16GB of memory on the host, developer, machine.
There are detailed online instructions on creating VMs for SQL Server on clusters. The best ones have screen shots.
I am new to oracle database products. I am planning to install oracle 11g express edition in my PC,it looks like a standard installer.But in many of the oracle database installation tutorial mentions oracle universal installer.oracle universal installer provides more open options,but those options and features not available in downloaded oracle 11g express edition.
difference between two https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17781_01/install.112/e18803/toc.htm#XEINW151 and http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/db/11g/r1/prod/install/dbinst/windbinst2.htm
so anyone explain me exactly what is oracle universal installer??Thx in advance.
As the name suggests oracle universal installer is a utility which can be used to install or uninstall multiple oracle products.
The utility can also check pre-requisites before installing a new software.
Only thing you need to do is to provide path to products.xml file inside oraparam.ini file. This can be location for the file on your physical machine or remote location may be hosted on oracle site.
The products.xml file actually have the information about the product being installed for example it is Oracle Client or DB.
For more information please check this link
FYI, this question would have been better asked on the DBA site since it has nothing to do with programming.
XE is a minimal installation for test/dev work so I guess they decided not to clutter it up with OUI, which I have never liked anyway. OUI is simply Oracle's Java-based installer that installs and keeps track of the majority of Oracle software you have installed on your system. There's nothing special about it, and you have no need to worry about missing out on something. If you were installing the standard database, it would try to start the network config tool that creates the TNSNames.ora file, for example. It's been a while since I used XE but I think it's install just creates a generic one for connecting to the XE instance.
I have data warehouse database on SQL Server Enterprise. Currently the SSIS that feeds the data warehouse is running on the same server.
I would like to move the SSIS execution on another server. What are the licensing options for SQL Server for running the SSIS? Can I use SQL Server Standard with server + 1 CAL license? SSIS runs under one service account.
Thank you.
From memory if the two instances are on a separate physical host then two licenses are required. If they are two VM's on the same host then only 1 enterprise license is required for the physical box.
Best to contact your Microsoft Rep or use the Microsoft License Audit Tool (Can't find it right now) for a definitive answer though as these things change over time.
Note: This answer applies to on-premise only, cloud etc. are special cases.
I am getting a little bit confused about the difference of the followings:
SQL Server Express
SQL Server Compact
localDB
My requirement is to develop a desktop application that will use basic RDBMS features. I need to package the application and allow the user to install a single distributed package. I don't want the user to install even SQL server express.
In this case, which DB I should use? SQLite is not considered as too much re-coding has to be done.
Thank you.
SQL Server Express is full featured DBMS, with some limitations in terms of database size and resources it is allowed to use. You can see it's limitations (relative to SQL Server) on microsofts site (Features Supported by the Editions of SQL Server 2012)
SQL Server CE is embedded database, meaning that it runs in user mode, it's easy to deploy (requires you to copy just few assemblies), lightweight but fast, can be run by a low privileged user. It's supported by NHibernate. However, has more limitations. To me most notable is that there are problems when you try to have multiple connections to same database. Although MS claims that this is supported, if you try this in Windows 2008 server, you will fail. And what's worse, such use scenario may lead to DB corruption. This means that you will effectively not be able to use some Management tool to update data while your service/website is running. Also, SQL Server Management studio doesn't support SQL CE anymore, so you will have to use a 3rd party tool, like Database.NET. It also does not support subqueries.
localDB, having not used it, sounds like a compromise. It's a standalone database which is executed in user mode (can be used by low privilege user), but must be installed so you will need administrative privileges for that part. Offers set of capabilities of SQL Server Express. It's much larger than SQL CE, and also requires to be installed (unlike CE which is just binary drop in). Shortest overview of this DBMS can be found here.