This week, Daniel Krook brings us the 78th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Up next week is Hasan Tonguç Yilmaz for his second LB. You too can do one — send a note to me, the Log Buffer coordinator to get started. It’s fun! Here is Daniel Krook’s Log [...]

Welcome to the 77th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. This is the last Log Buffer of 2007. . . a time for looking back at the year, looking ahead to the next, and generally focusing on time. It may not be the Oscars, but Firebird News is thrilled that Firebird is Sourceforge’s [...]

Welcome readers to the seventy-sixth edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. As I mentioned in LB#75, this is Yule Log Buffer, a special edition for the busy holiday season. In lieu of a full edition, I’m throwing this one open to you, gentle readers, by asking for your [...]

Welcome to the 75th edition (a.k.a. the Diamond Edition) of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Let’s get things started with some views of the recently finished UKOUG Conference & Exhibition. On blog.gralike.com, Marco Gralike put together a list of articles offering just that, including reporting from Doug Burns, Mark Rittman, Daniel Fink, [...]

Niall Litchfield has published the 74th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Please step up and do a Log Buffer of your own! You’ll have some fun, bring new readers to your blog, and learn a few things in the process. Send a note to me, the Log Buffer coordinator, [...]

Eddie Awad, Oracle blogger extraordinaire, has published the 73rd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Daniel Crook is on-deck, but won’t bat until January. That leaves plenty of room for others, so I invite you to get involved. Send an email to the Log Buffer coordinator (that would be me). Here’s Eddie [...]

The 72nd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, making its second appearance on Sheeri Kritzer Cabral’s blog, The MySQL She-BA. Eddie Awad is on-deck for LB#73. After him, there’s lots of room, so please send an email to the Log Buffer coordinator (me) if you’d like to edit and publish an [...]

Welcome to the 71st edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. There were so many blogs covering this week’s Oracle Open World that I could have devoted this entire edition only to that. But that would not be fair to those other DBMSs, all of which are fine DBMSs in their own [...]

Welcome to the 70th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. In honour of the start of cold-and-flu season, we start with an item on blob streaming. Paul McCullagh, the developer of the PBXT storage engine for MySQL, has made available his presentation on the BLOB streaming project, on his PrimeBase XT blog. [...]

Welcome to the 69th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. We start this edition with an item about getting started: K. Brian Kelley’s first installment of Becoming a DBA on Databases, Infrastructure, and Security. It purposes to answer the question, what does it take to become a DBA? “(The) definition of [...]