New Year is the time to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the coming year. It is the time to remember the golden olden blog posts. It is the time for new beginnings and new starts in life, and of course for new blog posts. Bloggers in the database arena are also enjoying [...]

Tis the season to be fearless in blogging and read the blogs around the database globe. To make your foray in intrepid world of database blogs, this Log Buffer Edition compiles some of the most interesting posts in this Log Buffer #250. Oracle: One of the nice new features of the 11.2 installer for the [...]

Why did you start blogging? If you haven’t why aren’t you blogging? In either case, the answer can be as short or long as you wish, but if you are reading this, this means that you are interested in blogging no matter whether you are blogging or not. Log Buffer is there to not only [...]

Simple messages are the most powerful. Keep it simple is the advice given by top technologists. One reason why blogs are extremely popular is their simplicity. This simplicity comes from the shortness and focus of the message of the blog. This Log Buffer Edition collects some simple yet powerful blog posts for you in Log [...]

Thanksgiving is here and the circular chain of thankfulness is going on. Clients are thankful that they have applications, applications are thankful to their databases, database are thankful to their DBAs, and DBAs are thankful to clients. And they all are thankful that there is weekly Log Buffer Edition, of which the latest is Log [...]

The just gone-by recession (or is it still here?) taught companies to stop investing in new technology hastily and first look inwards to extract some more juice from the existing humming machines. Administrators across the database technologies find themselves at the center stage of that and they are sharing tips and tricks regarding that in [...]

Getting stuck on technical problems is a norm in the life of any IT professional and DBAs are no exception. With evolving databases and their streaming new features make it more challenging. Blogs often provide the Eureka moment for those problems. So sit back and enjoy this Log Buffer Edition, which is Log Buffer #245. [...]

Managing the databases of any kind of any size in the production environment requires the administrators to remain up to date and on the toes every time. They need to learn fast and apply their knowledge fast. Keeping abreast of the newer features and the troubleshooting techniques is must for them and this Log Buffer [...]

From Percona Live, London to TechEd Australia to Oracle Open World USA, the blogosphere of Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and the related technologies is bustling with the eye witness accounts of these conferences, technical overviews, observations, predictions, and much more. This Log Buffer Edition covers all that and as usual more in Log Buffer #243. [...]

Whenever Oracle Open World ends, it not only leaves the technology professionals in awe and full of pride, it also makes them come up with new and great blogging ideras and this Log Buffer Edition covers that flowing notions from bloggers across the Oracle and MySQL beauties, in addition to SQL Server in Log Buffer [...]