Installing and Managing Primavera P6 DataBases

This E-Book is prepared by Eng. Ahmed Mohamed Sghair, Reviewed and Edited by Eng. Yasmeen Sultan for our esteemed members, the book is named “ Installing and Managing Databases with primavera R 8.2”, all planning engineers and schedulers most stressful issues with Primavera, is installing it and Managing the databases, the database setup, size, backup…etc., so we will take you in a step by step tour through installing and managing all about primavera databases.

A P6 Planning Engineer & Scheduler is required to know much more than just how to schedule; he / she must plan, maintain, and repair the database. The only alternative you have is to trust that Primavera and their support staff have done this for you and knows what is best, but in this case you have to patient. To make it easier for you, our E-Book explains what a Database Server is and what you need to know to keep your CPM scheduling platform up and running. So our book is divided in to 6 chapters which will cover the following topics: 1. Database types 2. Differences between databases 3. Downloading and Installing P6 4. Creating and configuring a new database 5. Checking the database size 6. Backing up the databases We will attempt to describe these issues and solutions for both Oracle Express as well as MS SQL Express databases later in this book. This E-book is for planners help but not for the IT professional personnel.