Yes* No* * Delete as appropriate. Seriously -- if it's certified, then it's fine to run. This kind of thing would almost always come down to existing infrastructure preferences & skillsets. Performance-wise, in 99.99% of cases, your problem is not going to be the OS, it's going to be how you implement the software that you…

Ask your DBAs to restore the UAT schemas from the backups that they, as good DBAs, will have been taking on a regular basis?...

Federation by pointing OBIEE direct at source too, or GoldenGate to load the data warehouse as the data hits EBS

I can't say I've ever heard this being done. Not to say it can't be... You need to figure out how to get WLS to use Office365 as an authentication directory (maybe? Does Office 365 expose its LDAP?), and then figure out the SSO/SAML side of things. Some docs to start with:…

Please have your System Administrator look at the log for more details on this error. (HY000) That ^ (nqquery.log / sawlog / nqserver.log)

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