The 55th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, is published on the Ardent Performance Computing Blog, thanks to Jeremy Schneider. Hasan Tonguç Yilmaz’s Oracle Blog takes next week’s LB. Please send an email to the Log Buffer administrator if you’d like to edit and publish an edition of your own. Jeremy Schneider’s [...]

Like an invincible psycho with a knife, Log Buffer is back, with a Friday the 13th issue (”Larry’s Revenge!”). Daniel Fink of OptimalDBA is the lucky one to do this 53rd edition of the weekly review of database blogs. Please read Log Buffer’s homepage and drop me a line if you’d like to [...]

Taking the cue from Jay Pipes, as so many other bloggers have done, I present the five things I would most like to see in a future release of MySQL. 1. Metrics, Metrics, Metrics! The more the better. I want to be able to debug issues on the database, but MySQL lacks good metrics on [...]

The 52nd edition of Log Buffer is up, edited by Dominic Brooks and published on his blog, OraStory. On deck, Daniel Fink. Boy, these Oracle people sure know how to blog! We haven’t heard from a MySQL blogger since Ronald Bradford did Log Buffer #47, from an PostgreSQL blogger since Robert Treat’s #27, [...]

Please note this late-breaking news related to this story. Then still please sign our letter! 15 years ago, with the release of Oracle 7.0.12, Oracle gave the world?or at least its customers?something really great: the Oracle Wait Interface (OWI). The OWI is one of the reasons that Oracle?s database product and its customer base are what they [...]

So you ran into some basic limitations with MyISAM when your site got busier. Even single row updates would lock the whole table and slow things down to a crawl. Then you updated to InnoDB to get the benefit of row-level locking, but now the site is even slower than before. What gives? Well, we [...]

Or, Why is My Transaction So Big? My team and I still use old-style rollback segments for one of my client’s 10g production databases. We just never found the need to switch to automatic undo management. There are a number of 1GB rollback segments. They are that size because they need to be able to support [...]

The 49th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, has been published by Coskan Gundogar on Coskans Approach to Oracle. The slot for the landmark 50th Log Buffer is still up for grabs. Get in touch to take it on and join the big conversation this is LB! Coskan Gundogar’s Log Buffer #49.

I came across Oracle Coherence today. Seems like this is another approach to clustering than Oracle RAC. Here is the marketing quote from the Oracle website: Oracle Coherence is a JCache-compliant in memory distributed data grid solution for clustered applications and application servers. Oracle Coherence makes sharing and managing data in a cluster as simple as [...]

Pawel Barut has published the 48th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, on his blog, Software Engineer Thoughts. Coskan Gundogar takes it up next week, but the schedule is quite open after him. Log Buffer wants you! Read the Log Buffer homepage and get in touch if you’d like to [...]