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Introduction

A WikiWikiWeb is a collaborative hypertext environment, with an emphasis on easy access and modification of information. This wiki is about MaxDB, formerly known as SAP-DB, the opensource RDBMS from SAP-AG.

Mailinglist

• Subscribe/unsubscribe, Archive

• Searchable archive (starts later but shows threads)

Read suggestions on HowToAskQuestions before posting to the mailing list.

HOWTO's

• KnowHow to protect your database with cryptographic

• Migrate from release 7.3 to higher releases using backups: MigrateFrom73

• ToMigrate from 7.2.4 to 7.3.0 using consistent backups

• MigrateDbUsingLoader

• How to set up SAP-DB with Apache,PHP and ODBC on Linux

• SAPDB (Debian) Linux Quickstart Howto (for SAPDB versions up to 7.4.3)

• Getting started with SAPDB

• Windows Installation

• WindowsUninstall

• UsingMicrosoftApis

• CreatingNewDatabases

• StartingDatabasesFromInitScripts

• ShrinkingExistingDatabases

• ScriptsForAdmins

• DBMAuthorizationProblemTroubleshooting

Information

• ChangesIn74

• TroubleShooting

• Backup/Recovery

• StoredProcedures

• SupportedPlatforms

• SupportedSoftware

• WhereIs

• WhatIs

• MovingToSapDb

• DevelopingSapdb

• PetPeeves

• SapDbInTheNews

• ImplementationDetails

Help Wanted

• DocumentationFormats

• FeatureEnhanceProposals

Articles

• http://www.robelle.com/tips/sapdb.html (short introduction to SAPdb)

Disclaimer

Everyone is invited to participate, regardless if you provide or ask for advice. Just make sure to be reachable via email for questions. Because this Wiki works without any user authorization, create your personal page, and make it reachable like this: FirstnameLastname. When you add content, or insert comments or questions, provide a link to your personal page.

You can edit any page by pressing the link at the bottom of the page. Capitalized words joined together form a WikiName, which hyperlinks to another page. The highlighted title searches for all pages that link to the current page. Pages which do not yet exist are linked with a question mark: just follow the link and you can add a definition.

To learn more about what a WikiWikiWeb is, read about WhyWikiWorks and the WikiNature. Also, consult the WikiWikiWebFaq.

Links of interest

• RecentChanges: see where people are currently working

• HelpForBeginners: to get you going

• WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing

• MoinMoinTodo: discussion about the improvement of MoinMoin

• FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways

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