• Migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL with Near-Zero Downtime using SharePlex and Ora2Pg

    Introduction

    Database migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL has become increasingly common as organizations seek to reduce licensing costs, embrace open-source solutions, and modernize their database infrastructure. However, such migrations present significant…

  • Enhancing Unified Data Management: How Snowflake Horizon Upgraded Trusted Data Foundation Empowers Extended Governance Capabilities

    Quest Software has established itself as a key player in data management, offering solutions that span the disciplines of data modeling, performance monitoring ,data and database replication, data catalogs, metadata management, data intelligence, data…

  • Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of SharePlex

    Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of SharePlex

    This post shares some highlights from the SharePlex 25th anniversary webcast that was held last month. In this celebratory webcast, five long-time Quest staffers shared their experiences in a round table discussion…

  • An Oracle GoldenGate vs SharePlex by Quest Comparison

     

    SharePlex is a database replication software that enables you to replicate from Oracle and PostgreSQL databases to a variety of platforms. Easily achieve high availability, increase scalability, integrate data, and offload reporting with this flexible…

  • Moving your Oracle EBS and/or PeopleSoft workloads to the Cloud

    We are seeing more and more interest in our Stat customers moving their EBS and/or PeopleSoft applications to the cloud.  It seems most of the moves currently are to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).  In some cases, customers are also moving Stat as well…

  • Initializing a non-Oracle target using SharePlex and Data Pump

    Discussing migrations or replication from Oracle to other database flavors such as MSSQL, MySQL or PostgreSQL, the most frequent question I get from my customers and prospects is how to facilitate the initial load of the existing data. There are quite…

  • Patches, Upgrades and Migrations, Oh, My!

    Patching, Upgrading or Migrating your Oracle Database can leave you feeling that you're in the midst of the same tornado that swept Dorothy into the Land of Oz; and you might run into some of the same characters as well. Here's how SharePlex, Quest's…

  • "Sorry, you're just not my type." - Change Data Types Between Databases

    “Sorry, you're just not my type.”

    The one sentence, no one ever wants to hear, after the first date with someone you thought you had a made a great connection with. The sudden empty feeling in your stomach and the emotional letdown from…