Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly news update of happenings in the database world.
A big shout out to Pythian team members Andrey, Gwen, Fahd, and Don for their submissions. We have lots of news and recommended reading this week so let’s get going with Log Buffer #209.
Andrey Goryunov’s top
picks:
Dion Cho, the Oracle Performance
Storyteller, provides an explanation of parallel DML execution plan.
Christian …
[Read more]Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly round up of news and happenings in the database world.
We’re planning our publishing calendar for 2011. Happy to announce that we’ll have a few guest hosts in the New Year. Don’t forget if you’d like to host or edit a future edition of Log Buffer on your own blog, send a note to the Log Buffer coordinator.
We’ve had several contributions of favorite reads from the team this week. Enjoy this issue, Log Buffer #208.
Gwen Shapira’s picks:
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[Read more]Everyone loves the colorful and easy lighting fire logs you can buy in the store for between $3-5, and from our feedback we are savoring the fact that everyone also adores the vibrant and flamboyant Log Buffer.
Winter has started and the holiday season is approaching fast.
With the chillness of winter and festive mode induced by the
holidays, bloggers across the planet are coming up with more and
more exciting ideas. Let’s start with sizzling Log Buffer
#207.
Oracle Jewels:
Discussing the common errors by the DBAs, Hemant K Chitale from Oracle …
[Read more]Oracle:
Arup Nanda posted an excellent script on how to summarize backup information from the rman catalog. He also posted a tool for automatically purging time-based partitions.
Pythian’s resident Exadata expert, Marc Fielding posted links to the …
[Read more]A very warm welcome to the Log Buffer, the premier medley of fresh information culled from the blogs related to the technology which stores the world, yes, the databases.
In this edition, the Log Buffer #205, we have yet again found the pulse of the industry.
Oracle:
On the Oracle front, leading Oracle technologist Andrey Goryunov carries on his hands-on experiments of newest version of the Oracle database. This time he slices away chopt.
It’s always very informative and exciting to know about internals of RAC Stuff like what actually is maintained in the Voting Disk . Riyaj has it …
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Lots to cover this week, so let’s get on with Log Buffer #204. Enjoy!
Oracle:
Pythian’s Gwen Shapira dabbles with MySQL and explores MySQL troubleshooting for the Oracle DBA.
Venkat Janakiraman explores how connectivity works for BI EE 11g on …
[Read more]Welcome to Log Buffer. The weekly roundup of posts, and news of what’s happening in the database world.
At Pythian, we’re pretty much recovered from a hectic Oracle OpenWorld 2010, and I’m no longer an OOW virgin. What an experience! I had the pleasure of meeting many of you Log Buffer readers and contributors at the Annual Blogger’s Meetup at Jillian’s. Great to put faces to names. And I now officially feel like “Vanessa from Log Buffer”, as many of your t-shirts will show.
Many thanks to Marc Fielding for providing the hot items for this week’s post, in …
[Read more]Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly roundup of database industry news. We’re only a week or so away from Oracle OpenWorld. Everyone is buzzing with activity, promoting their speaking sessions and making last minute plans. For all of you bloggers who will be attending, don’t miss the annual Bloggers Meetup, announced recently by Alex Gorbachev. “Count yourself in” if you’ll be joining the gang so that accurate attendee numbers can be provided to Jillian’s to ensure everyone is well fed and watered ;)
In recent days, if anything has created massive tremors in the IT industry it is the news of Mark Hurd joining the …
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[Read more]Welcome to Log Buffer, a weekly review of the database industry. This week’s issue Log Buffer #198 is generously published by Sam DeFilippis, who manages Oracle Notes blogs, with latest postings on Oracle GoldenGate.
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Log Buffer, simply reach out to the
Log Buffer coordinator.
Please enjoy Sam’s issue …