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I believe many of you would agree that regardless of how insignificant you believe your corner of the Oracle technology may be, everyone has something to say. I attended my first show in Anaheim CA USA in 1990 and started presenting at shows the year after in Washington DC USA. It’s not hard to get over the hump, moving from I would love to present a paper at a show but I just don’t have the …

Amazon has just released their RDS Migration Tool, and Pythian has recently undertaken training to use for our clients. I wanted to share my initial thoughts on the tool, give some background on its internals, and provide a walk-through on the functionality it will be most commonly used for.

There are many factors to consider when evaluating cloud service providers, including cost, performance, and high availability and disaster recovery options. One of the most critical and overlooked elements of any cloud offering though, is the ease of migration. Often, weeks are spent evaluating all of the options only to discover after the choice is made that it will take hours of expensive downtime to complete the migration, and that there is no good rollback option in the case of failure.

In order to reduce the friction inherent in the move to a DBaaS offering, Amazon has developed an RDS Migration tool. This is an in-depth look at this new …

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

Oracle:

• Integrating Telstra Public SMS API into Bluemix
• Adaptive Query Optimization in Oracle 12c : Ongoing Updates
• First flight into the Oracle Mobile Cloud Service
• Oracle 12C Problem with datapatch. Part 2, the “fix”
• oracle applications r12 auto start on …

This Log Buffer Edition goes out deep into the vistas of database world and brings out few of the good ones published during the week from Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL.

Oracle:

• Overriding Default Context-Sensitive Action Enablement
• This is an alternative to if… then… else… elsif… end if when you want to use conditional statements in PL/SQL.
• Achieving SAML interoperability with OAM OAuth Server
• Release of BP02 for Oracle …

This Log Buffer Edition covers the top blog posts of the week from the Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL arenas.

Oracle:

• Momentum and activity regarding the Data Act is gathering steam, and off to a great start too. The Data Act directs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) to establish government-wide financial reporting data standards by May 2015.
• RMS has a number of async queues for processing new item location, store add, warehouse add, item and po induction. We have seen rows stuck in the queues and needed to release the stuck AQ Jobs.
• We have a number of updates to partitioned tables that are run from within pl/sql …