Somehow over the course of the last two months, I've gotten away from Oracle RDBMS, and I'm dusting off the cobwebs collected in my brain since 2007. While I'm not back at the help desk, I'm back supporting another database solution provided by a monolithic software company; if you guessed Microsoft SQL Server, you win a Gold Star. So how did this come about? Oracle and Microsoft make strange bedfellows and it's only through the magic of Golden Gate that we are able to make these two platforms effectively share data. As it happens, Golden Gate does a really good job at replicating data across several platforms. The configurations and setup are relatively transportable from source database to target database. I guess this is an exercise in resume building.