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Submitted by Niall Litchfield on Sat, 05/12/2007 - 19:31.

This page contains links to articles, tips, tricks etc related to the Windows operating system.

New to Oracle on Windows - Start Here

The starting place for Oracle Customers running on the Microsoft platform should probably be the Windows Server Centre on OTN. If on the other hand you are a .Net developer then you should definitely bookmark the .Net Technology Centre also on OTN. As befits technet you can obtain the latest database versions (for example the initial release for windows vista) here.

Oracle and Microsoft have also jointly put a site together microsoft-oracle.com that covers things from a corporate perspective.

Developers and DBAs alike should seriously consider a subscription to the Microsoft Technology Network as well. Unlike OTN it is a subscription based service for the full benefits, but a pretty cheap subscription (UK details here)

Articles

This section links to articles that either I have written, or else found useful, regarding Windows as a database platform.

The first article I have migrated is an article that was originally written for another web-site. It introduces the windows scripting environment up to, but not including the new powershell product

  • Windows Scripting for Oracle DBAs can be found here

    Tips

    Small tips will appear here as I come across them, tips worthy of their own article will appear above.

  • Enabling Windows Search to search .sql files

    • One of the irritations about windows search up to Windows XP is that it doesn't actually search all file types out of the box. In particular .sql files are not searched. This behaviour can be fixed by first creating a new windows registry key under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/.sql/ called PersistentHandler (note the case it is case sensitive) and then adding a new string value called default with a value of {5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}