Another medley of database blogs under the famous banner of Log Buffer is in your virtual hands. This edition of Log Buffer, the Log Buffer #221 puts spotlight on the fresh and cool blogs from Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server arena.

Enjoy !!!

Oracle:

Martin is playing around with the Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.2 PSU 2 and found an interesting note on My Oracle Support regarding the Patch Set Update.

Jonathan Lewis has found another gem as an answer to a question posted on OTN forums regarding the …

When big news is released, the world of modern information shakes – and nowhere is this more visible than with the blogs. Log Buffer is the ideal joint for the shakers and movers of the blogosphere. This edition Log Buffer #220 sheds a spotlight on those hot spots.

Oracle:

Gary Myers blogs about the encouraging women in information technology and mentioned Pythian’s own Gwen Shapira.

Dom Brooks is getting a bit tired of the number of bugs in 11gR2 listed as “Fixed in 12.1″.

Tim Hall is …

There are plethora of thrilling business software trends on the horizon as the summer of 2011 starts. Many of these will significantly impact IT organizations seeking to align IT operations with business objectives. Awareness of such trends can help you to keep ahead of the competition. What better way to get abreast of these trends in a nutshell than the Log Buffer? Log Buffer #219 is in your hands to enjoy.

Oracle:

When Arup writes it, it stays written. In a very refreshing post, he is sure to convince anybody why he or she needs Tanel Poder’s class.

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Oracle’s assault on the global market goes on with full might and as it adds new products in it’s array, SQL Server also strives hard to get the attention of people through various public appearances, and MySQL is also not behind as its growing array of bloggers marches on. This week’s Log Buffer casts a shadow on some selective blogs from these three technology in its latest edition Log Buffer #218.

Oracle:

ASHMON is one of the popular tool for monitoring and Kyle Hailey has just mentioned that his this tool ASHMON not only graphs ASH data but graphs v$sysstat as well.

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Clouds are dispersing and the sun has started shining through. On the IT horizon, the cloud of Amazon has also dispersed and that is the biggest news of the previous week. Well clouds are elastic and they congregate and become solid after dispersion, and so Amazon will be fine too. And our blogosphere is fine too and here is the latest report about them in this week’s edition Log Buffer #217.

Oracle:

Arup Nanda asks. You want to find out the tables with the highest number of rows in a database. Pretty simple, right?

Jonathan Lewis blogs about as how to ensure that you never give the wrong answer.

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Log Buffer has become the mainstream carnival of the Oracle blogosphere. Technological advances in Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and other database systems, more and more conferences, and increasing numbers of bloggers are making log buffering more and more interesting, and this week’s edition Log Buffer #216 is a clear manifestation of that.

Oracle:

To err is human and to manage err is management. Alex Gorbachev fascinates us by adding his thoughts to a forum thread.

Christian Antognini and Oracle Internals are the perfect match. This time …

Spring is making its way into everything, and the databases are blooming as the DBAs who manage them are savoring the fragrance of the changing weather and fresh new ideas in the world of blogging. In order to appreciate the springing blogging innovations, this week’s Log Buffer, Log Buffer #215 picks some of the flowers just for you.

Oracle:

Hemant, the Oracle ACE from Singapore writes superbly about OuterJoin with Filter Predicate as usual with a reproducible case.

When …

Database Servers are humming along, and the people who manage them, interact with them or are just in awe of them are busy in blogging about them. This inspires our next Log Buffer, Log Buffer #214.

Oracle:

Chet Justice, the Oracle Nerd breathes a sigh of relief as he gets to release some much needed space from his hard drive.

Jonathan Lewis reminds about a subtle difference between a predicate and the constraint.

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Warm welcome to the Log Buffer, a weekly amalgamation of database news across different technologies. Let’s get warmed up with sizzling Log Buffer #213.

Oracle:
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One of the leading performance gurus, Kellyn Pederson is letting us know how she is finding the initial months at Pythian and she rightly praises her fabulous team mates Mark Brinsmead, Paul Logan, and Andy Klock.

The famous Oracle Database Junkie – Arup Nanda, blogs more about Interested Transaction Lists.

Universal Connection Pool, Oracle’s next generation …

Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly news update of happenings in the database world.

Its the holiday season and many DBAs would rather cuddle at home with their family rather than do exciting work and blog about it. Can you imagine? Many thanks to Fahd Mizra who helped me by collecting DB2 news. Grab your snuggie and cuddle up with Log Buffer #210.

MySQL:

Giuseppe Maxia, the Data Charmer looked for a way to add comments into the binary log and created an interesting discussion on the topic.

You’d think that having some idle …