Naysayer within us keep on erecting new obstacles, especially when it comes to the creativity. Our database bloggers are winning this fight within and producing gems of blogs. This Log Buffer edition celebrates their victory.

Oracle:

Andy Baker is shrinking a Linux OEL 6 virtual Box image (vdi) hosted on Windows 7.

So what is Active GridLink for RAC? Ruma Sanyal tells us.

Curtis is installing Oracle Golden Gate 12c (12.1.2) along side Oracle Database 12c (12.1.0.1).

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Extreme performance is the key to excellence. One example of it is the winning of 34th America Cup by Team Oracle USA, another example is the Pythian’s legendary love of  data, and this Log Buffer edition loves the blogs again, as it does weekly.

Oracle:

The 10 commandments of being a good DBA manager.

Oracle ADF Mobile #{row.index} is Not Supported After Installing Upgrade Patch

With Oracle Real Application Clusters the Oracle database can be configured to restart as each node in the cluster is restarted.

The …

Education is everything. Education can pull you out of poverty, it can propel you into upper echelons. Education can make you see what’s truly important in the life. Education can enable you to appreciate the people. Blogging is all about education. This Log Buffer brings education about database arena from the blogs.

Oracle:

Large CLOBs and attention to detail needed while reading Oracle Support notes.

Here is a simple way to get SQL_ID of large and similar queries in Oracle.

Robin Moffatt is sharing tips adn tricks for the OBIEE …

Tablogs are the blogs written, read, and managed on tablets. They are not only growing in numbers, but the volume of content is also immense. So much ease and so much power through touches ensure that you only spend time creating and learning. This Log Buffer edition appreciates that.

Oracle:

Michael Abbey is taking a quick look at table-level recovery with Database 12c including sample script and output.

Jeremy Schneider has written a brief post to mention an undocumented resource manage limit.

Here’s an important point JL learned from Maria Colgan’s “10 tips” presentation on …

Oracle OpenWorld 2013 is just days away, and Pythian is once again everywhere at OOW. Pythian’s famous Annual Oracle Bloggers Meetup — one of your top favorite events of OpenWorld, is once again here at OOW.

Oracle:

As this year is heading to a close, it will complete 21 years of partnership between Intel and Oracle.

Have you started to pay closer attention to social, cloud, mobile, and/or big data technologies and trends?

NetBeans IDE 7.4 RC 1, released today, has a long list of features, including support for …

The journey is old, but the milestones are new. It’s the same old quest for excellence. Innovative questions are being asked and answered in the blogs across the Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL branches of technologies. This Log Buffer Edition relishes just that. Let’s start this Log Buffer with the exquisite blog post by Dana Pylayeva.
Oracle:

EMlight might not be as important now with Oracle 12c coming out and with Oracle’s EM Express, but EMlight is still pretty cool.

The maximum size for VARCHAR2, NVARCHAR and RAW columns has been extended to 32767 bytes with the Oracle …

With organizations gearing up to the new round of technologies as the database vendors announce newer versions and features, the bloggers are busy covering all of those details with practical advice. This Log Buffer Edition brings you that advice.

Oracle:

Marco Vigelini has written one post regarding creation of a pluggable database PDB using the files of the seed PDB$SEED and his second post describes how to create a pluggable database by unplugging an existing PDB and plugging it into another container.

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This week’s Log Buffer Edition casts light on selected blog posts from different database logs across the globe slicing and dicing different ideas. Enjoy!

Oracle:

Saurabh Verma is correlating SQL statements in DB Sessions with ODI Sessions in ODI 11.1.1.7.

David Allan is writing about file transformation debatching within ODI.

An interesting thread about OEM 12c support for the database 12c release is currently on the oracle-l mailing list. Martin has more.

Anyone who has been around Oracle performance over the years knows the grief that …

This Log Buffer Edition starts with an awesome post by Dana Pylayeva from Rakuten LinkShare, a long term Pythian client, about her deep and insightful reflections about security. And as usual, it also brings together all the sparkling gems of Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL. Enjoy!

Oracle:

Alberto illustrates the algorithm used by Oracle (in 11.2.0.3) to fast refresh a materialized view (MV) containing only the SUM aggregate function.

Tim Hall writes about Oracle 12c Multitenant Option : CDBs and PDBs. …

Does size matter? This question has been teasing mankind since the beginning. But now, due to improvements in technology, size doesn’t really matter. Databases now have the features to tackle all data: big, medium, small, or very small. This Log Buffer Edition is here once again to bring you your data news of all sizes.

Oracle:

Marco tells us how to create a pluggable database by cloning an existing local PDB and talks about a bug in Oracle 12c.

Niall installs …