I’m a bit late with that “news” but I have the second article about Oracle 10g Grid Control Extensibility published in Q3 2007 issue of IOUG SELECT Journal magazine. If you are interested in that topic I should reference you back to my presentation from IOUG where I created a sample MySQL monitoring plugin. It wasn’t [...]

Steve Karam, The Oracle Alchemist, saved the skin of a harried LB administrator this week (that would be me), stepping up at the last moment to edit and publish the 60th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Thank you, Steve! Next week, Arnold Daniels does LB#61 on Arnold?s wor(l)ds. [...]

There’s an interesting dynamic going on right now in the DBA world. MySQL’s growth and installed base, as a function of its size three or five years ago, is perhaps five if not ten times larger than it was. In 2002 when Pythian’s MySQL services launched, we took on the platform at the explicit request [...]

The 58th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, has been published by Jay Pipes (a.k.a J.Pipes) of MySQL AB on Design, Develop, Discover, Define. Chen Shapira is standing by for the next edition. Publishing a Log Buffer on your own blog is a great way to introduce yourself and your blog [...]

A lot of things have already been said about the Real Application Testing Option — from the price to the most interesting technical details — by Ken Jacobs, Arup Nanda, and even by me. Why add something? Because while Database Replay gets most people’s attention, Real Application Testing offers another interesting feature called SQL [...]

So you have created your standby database using the RMAN DUPLICATE command, you have set the minimum log switch individual using ARCHIVE_LAG_TARGET, and you have sorted out those nasty “datafile missing” errors using automatic file management. Management is now happy with the Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR)… but not really. They review the documentation generated from [...]

I just read a fascinating article on clustering architectures for databases from Kevin Closson of Polyserve (now HP). Kevin, for those of you who don’t know him, is a Golden God, at least according to StorageMojo Robin Harris, but all I can say is that he has one of the most informed and incisive views [...]

Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski has published the 57th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, on </depesz>. Next week, J.Pipes will do LB#58, and #59 will appear on Chen Shapira’s I?m just a simple DBA…. To join the roll with these and other intrepid (!) LB editor-publishers, contact the Log Buffer admin. Hubert Depesz [...]

Now for some logrolling at its finest. I thought I’d try to help Sheeri, the MySQL She-BA, spread the word about the 21st episode of her OurSQL podcast as it is the second of a two-part interview with Pythian pres. Paul Vallée. The topic is, “The Rise of the MySQL DBA.” [...]

The 56th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly compendium of database blogs, has been published on Hasan Tonguç Yilmaz’s Oracle Blog. LB always wants more editors, so please contact the Log Buffer administrator to join in the fun. Editions by Hubert Lubaczewski, Jay Pipes, and Chen Shapira are in the offing. Here is [...]