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A very warm welcome to the Log Buffer, the premier medley of fresh information culled from the blogs related to the technology which stores the world, yes, the databases.
In this edition, the Log Buffer #205, we have yet again found the pulse of the industry.
Oracle:
On the Oracle front, leading Oracle technologist Andrey Goryunov carries on his hands-on experiments of newest version of the Oracle database. This time he slices away chopt.
It’s always very informative and exciting to know about internals of RAC Stuff like what actually is maintained in the Voting Disk . Riyaj has it here.
Jonathan Lewis does a little thought experiment with list partitioning.
HugesPages almost always provide value to the Oracle databases on the Linux Systems, and many people wonder why they are not the default. Kevin Closson touches some points regarding HugesPages, and he also notes down some finer points like the dislike of AMM and Hugespage for each other.
Hardly anyone would refuse a gift consisting of chocolate, ice cream, flower and designer watch. Yes, now you can have Tanel Poder, Cary Millsap, Jonathan Lewis, and Kerry Osborne at one Virtual Oracle Conference.
Tim Hall, like many other people is perturbed over the plagiarism of his articles.
Oracle recommends that you use JRockit JDK with your Oracle products and the reasons are described by JaySenSharma at his Weblogic Wonder blog.
DB2:
Now, RPM and DEB packages for DB2 Express-C are available for the download. Get it from here.
Troy Coleman, blogs about the ripple-creating news that Last week IBM announced the general availability of DB2 10 for z/OS.
The keynote session for the third day of the IOD conference features the authors of Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, and Craig Mullins highly recommend that.
SQL Server:
If you are curious about the title “Plumbing The Depths of SQL Server / PowerShell Integration, then don’t miss SQL Server Connections conference on Nov 1-4 in Las Vegas and attend the session by Bob Beauchemin.
Though not earth-shattering and sky-ripping, but very valuable nonetheless this post by Jeff about calculating the median.
And following is the ever-green SQL Server Myth buster posts by Euan.
MySQL:
Zack Urlocker rambles on how open source software, cloud and software as a service are helping to bring about the consumerization of IT.
Here is one more effort where the bencmarking of MariaDB is being done.
Have a nice weekend.
Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly roundup of happenings in the database world.
Lots to cover this week, so let’s get on with Log Buffer #204. Enjoy!
Oracle:
Pythian’s Gwen Shapira dabbles with MySQL and explores MySQL troubleshooting for the Oracle DBA.
Venkat Janakiraman explores how connectivity works for BI EE 11g on Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2008.
Iggy Fernandez explores SQL 101: Which Query is better, in part II to a post he covered in summer of this year.
Chet Justice, on Oraclenerd reviews how to use forgotten function OBIEE: Evaluate
Tanel Poder announces last chance for early-bird rates to sign up for the virtual conference on Systemic Oracle SQL Optimization featuring himself, Cary Millsap, Jonathan Lewis & Kerry Osbourne.
DB2:
Lots going on at the IOD 2010 conference over the past week. Craig Mullins covers the event with news, a video of attendees, and the final keynote.
MySQL:
Sheeri Cabral shares how she determines MySQL fragmentation.
Baron Schwartz posts the third in a series of posts on MySQL limitations – one thread per connection. In case you missed them, part 1 covered single-threaded replication, part 2, the binary log, and part 3, subqueries.
SQL Server:
On In Recovery, Paul S. Randal invites readers to participate in a survey to determine wait times on systems. Chime in with your feedback by commenting on his blog post or sending him an email after reading the instructions. Paul is also calling for participants for T-SQL Tuesday #12 – Why are DBA skills necessary.
And lastly in Postgres news, PG West 2010 is happening next week. There are a number of posts on the need for replication in PostgreSQL 9.0. Joshua Drake stirred the pot, responded and created a Replication poll to find out what you really think. Cast your vote!
Happy Haunting weekend.
We’re well into summer and almost at our 200th edition of Log Buffer, a blog of blogs about the database world.
Remember if you find a link or interesting blog post that you think Log Buffer should mention, send a note to the editor at Log Buffer and be sure to include the link, and a short note outlining why you think that particular post would be of value to other DBAs, or what you learned from reading it.
Now on to our weekly reading in Log Buffer #194:
Oracle Exadata is a topic that is getting hotter and hotter. Following Pythian’s announcement of Exadata services Oracle’s Greg Rahn stresses how important it is to “capitalize on the opportunity to re-engineer with Exadata and fully exploit the power of the Oracle Database Machine platform”. Also speaking of Exadata, Kerry Osborne talks on his blog, about the Oracle 11g Release 2 new feature, Parallel Queuing, and how it applies to data warehousing workloads on Exadata. Marc Fielding begins his grand tour of Exadata, writing to share his implementation experience.
Jamie Thomson outlines a number of reasons why a SQL server or BI developer should learn .net. And with more activity on SQLblog.com, Jonathan Kehayias writes about a bug in SQL Server 2008 and why you shouldn’t create large tables in the Model Database.
On In Recovery, Paul Randal posts on Benchmarking: Introducing SSDs (Part 2 – Sequential Inserts), following his first set of tests and analysis of the results. In Part 1 and Part 1b he covers not overloaded log file array.
Willie Favero addresses the demise of private protocol, one last time (he hopes) on his blog Getting the Most out of DB2 for z/OS and System z.
Ronald Bradford posts a quick one on installing MYSQL on Oracle Enterprise Linux and other good advice for optimizing SQL performance using the art of elimination.
Barry Leslie announces PBMS is now in the Drizzle tree.
And to sum things up, Gwen Shapira shares a few of her favorite recent archives, a little older than our weekly news, but valuable nontheless.
Not strictly a database topic, but certainly an important lesson for data architects. Brian Carper shares the difficult life of an edge case. Keep him in mind next time you develop an online shop. The same Brian Carper shares why he migrated from MySQL to NoSQL (Tokyo Cabinet) and why he moved back to SQL (Postgres this time).
Joshua Drake warns the end of life is near for Postgres 7.4, 8.0 and 8.1 and that anyone using these versions should upgrade.
Jonathan Lewis explains the difference between unrecoverable and nologging operations.
Martin Widlake gives an overview and demonstration of a little know view, DBA_TAB_MODIFICATIONS.
And, lastly to close things off on a light note, Iggy Fernandez highlights some of his favorite Dilbert-on-Databases Cartoons.