• 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…

  • 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…

  • SharePlex! Dont be Dino dinner

      We all remember the movie that came out years ago about a dinosaur theme park where you could see living dinosaurs on an island. Everything worked great until the “bad” guys stepped in and crashed everything causing havoc and of letting the dinos out…

  • The 5 Ws of Your Oracle Transactions with No Database Performance Impact

     

    When a large customer appreciation company needed to categorize their Oracle auditing data by region, SharePlex came to their rescue.  They were already using SharePlex’s Change History feature to track the userid’s, timestamp, before and after data values…

  • Quest Customer Story - Don't Wait Days for Your Data - Cut Out the Middleman

    A large educational Institution recently approached us with a problem.   Their Student Information and Financial databases were in Oracle, and a data warehouse containing extracts from both of these used for decision making, including opening more sections…

  • Quest Customer Story - Use SharePlex to Ensure Availability of Your Master Data

    How Available Is Your Master Data?

    A major financial institution recently completed a project to consolidate all of their employee information, including credentials for building and online access, into a single database. Of course, they protected their…