Log Buffer #280, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Edition is sparkling with fresh and budding blogs. This Log Buffer #280 is is encompassing Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL blogs. Please give your feedback in the comments. Enjoy
Oracle:

Kent Graziano shares the best practice about how to create the best data model ever.

To compress or not to compress, Apun Hiran makes the decision easy.

Murali Veligeti blogs in detail about creating custom workflow in the Weblogic Portal.

Bruno Borges starts blogging with a thud as he starts at Oracle and he talks about enabling WebLogic 12c FastSwap with NetBeans.

Sherry LaMonica has a cool post about data parallelism using Oracle R Enterprise.

SQL Server:

Be the Next contestants tackle SQL Server Security – but do they pass the test?

Starting from August 2012, SQLBI is working with Project Botticelli to provide videos about DAX and the new SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular model.

What gets logged for SELECT INTO operations? Kalen Delaney asks.

Phil Brammer is giving a quick tip – Run SSIS 2012 packages synchronously and other execution parameters.

If you could pick your manager, what ideal qualities would he or she have?

MySQL:

Gerrit is offering some good tips to increase the performance of your MySQL queries.

Frederic Descamps is giving an advice about avoiding SST when adding new Percona XtraDB Cluster node.

Aaron Brown highlights performance of MySQL Semi-Synchronous replication over high latency connections.

Sean Hull is juggling apples and oranges in the data center.

MySQL Enterprise Backup has always provided a simple, reliable online backup solution for InnoDB backed applications. Rob Young has more.