Sun of database technologies is shining through the cloud technology. Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and various other databases are bringing forth some nifty offerings and this Log Buffer Edition covers some of them.

Oracle:

• How to create your own Oracle database merge patch.
• Finally the work of a database designer will be recognized! Oracle has announced the Oracle Database Developer Choice Awards.
• Oracle Documents Cloud Service R4: Why You Should Seriously Consider It for Your Enterprise.
• Mixing Servers in a Server …

This Log Buffer Edition covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL blogs of the running week.

Oracle:

• While checking the sources of the Cassandra/NetBeans integration into GitHub yesterday, something went very badly wrong and ALL the source files in my Maven project that disappeared!
• AWR Reports, Performance Hub, historisches SQL Monitoring in 12c
• Oracle Database Mobile Server 12c: Advanced data synchronization engine
• ORA-39001, ORA-39000 and …

Yet again, this log buffer edition brings some rich blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

• Installing Oracle XE, ORDS and Apex on CentOS
• Major Growth is Expected in the DBaaS Space. Are Your Skills Ready?
• How to Hide Actions in OBPM 12c Workspace
• You can configure auto refresh for ADF BC cached LOV and this works out of the box, no special coding is needed.
• Search and …

This Log Buffer Edition cuts through the crowd and picks some of the outstanding blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

• Continuous Delivery (CD) is a software engineering approach in which teams keep producing valuable software in short cycles and ensure that the software can be reliably released at any time.
• Query existing HBase tables with SQL using Apache Phoenix.
• Even though WebLogic with Active GridlLink are Oracle’s suggested approach to deploy Java applications that use Oracle Real Applications Clusters (RAC), …

This Log Buffer Edition gathers a wide sample of blogs and then purifies the best ones from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

• If you take a look at the “alter user” command in the old 9i documentation, you’ll see this: DEFAULT ROLE Clause.
• There’s been an interesting recent discussion on the OTN Database forum regarding “Index blank blocks after a large update that was rolled back.”
• 12c Parallel Execution New Features: 1 SLAVE distribution
• Index Tree Dumps in Oracle 12c …

This Log Buffer Edition covers various blog posts from the last week regarding Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

• Merging Overlapping Date Ranges with MATCH_RECOGNIZE
• The latest version of Enterprise Manager, EM 12.1.0.5, has been announced!
• Kdump is the Linux kernel crash-dump mechanism. In the event of a server crash, Kdump creates a memory image (vmcore) that can help in determining the cause of the crash.
• …

Pythian’s Oracle ACE, Fahd Mirza appears in this month’s Community: Peer-to-Peer review “In With the New“, as published in the September/October 2011 issue of Oracle Magazine.

Fahd states that “Oracle Exadata Database Machine” has most changed his life – changing the game, and setting very high standards of performance, support, scalability, reliability and unification.

Shout out to Fahd from your peers at Pythian!

I guess there might be just a little truth to Pythian’s growing reputation as an “Oracle ACE Factory” ;), as recently mentioned by Justin Kestelyn in the May 11, 2011 OPN PartnerCast:

Please join me in congratulating Fahd by adding a …