Big insider news on James Governor’s blog. If you don’t know who James Governor and Redmonk are, you should. They are giving the bigwigs (Gartner, IDC, Forrester et alia) a run for their money in technology analysis. Anyway, the news is this, and the details are very sketchy:

MySQL has signed a million euro deal The client is [...]

Guy Bowerman has published on Informix Application Development, the 37th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly compendium of database blogs. Log Buffer always wants more editors and story suggestions, so if you read it, please also look at Log Buffer’s homepage to see how you can get involved. Next week, LB will appear on Padraig [...]

We welcome back for a second time Lisa Dobson, who has published the 36th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, on the Oracle Newbies Blog. The editorship of Log Buffer is distributed amongst volunteers. There are a few editors lined-up for the coming weeks, but there’s always room for more. [...]

I was reading a couple of items on gapingvoid

• the hughtrain
• the porous membrane: why corporate blogging works

which inspired me to use our blog for a conversation with our customers (and with potential Pythian DBAs) about what it’s like to work with Pythian.

What exactly does an on-site DBA get from working with Pythian Remote DBAs?

1. Sleep.
2. Support: phone, IM or email some who either knows how to help or knows someone who knows how to help.
3. Teammates: You can delegate tasks which are either too hard or too easy onto Pythian.
4. Accountability. Every minute, every hour is documented for all to see, internally and by individual clients.
5. Understanding: Someone who knows what being a DBA is like.

You are on-site. Picture the Pythian on-call team standing behind …

Your common-cold-bedeviled editor tardily submits the 35th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, for your perusal. Starting with the latest about The DisaSTer™ (may or may not be real disaster), Herod T., Yet Another Oracle DBA, elaborates on his rant of last week with the provocative question, “When did oracle start [...]

Welcome to the 34th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of the database blogosphere. You may have heard by now of problems that the change in Daylight Saving Time presents Oracle databases and related systems. (If you haven’t heard and have some of these systems, you can start freaking out right about now.) We’ve [...]

Welcome to the 33rd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. We’ll look at some of the standout blog items from the week gone by. To start, you might be surprised by what is in your DBMS. An item on the Oracle Contractors Blog asks whether artificial intelligence is in Oracle, [...]

The 32nd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, has been published by Lewis Cunningham on An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology. Over to you, Lewis — Log Buffer #32.

Just a small thought to share. Oracle doesn’t really comply to the rule 11 of Codd’s 12 rules. It does have database links and tables can be grouped in different locations (databases) but it’s not possible to distribute a table transparently across several locations. MySQL Cluster, on the other hand, distributes rows of a table over [...]

Welcome, to the 31st edition of Log Buffer, the weekly survey of database blogs. The DB2 world is a good place to begin. On Monday, Craig Mullins published a DB2 for z/OS status check, What’s Up With DB2 Today? on his Perspectives on Database Management: “I thought it might be useful to examine what [...]