Log Buffer #283, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Besides of voices of Lata Mangeshkar, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and  Celine Dion, the thing which ticks my heart to no bound is the blogs written by various bloggers covering Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL related technologies. This Log Buffer Edition is brimming with those chords in Log Buffer #283. Enjoy !!!

Oracle:

Angela Poth says that teh Oracle VM templates enbale Oracle RAC deployments up to 10 times faster than VMware vSphere.

Jang Vijay Singh thinks Fusion applications design patterns (i.e. ‘FUNCTIONAL’ design patterns) are one of the most important resource to become publicly available as a result of Fusion apps development.

Andy Colvin talks about Exadata Flash Write-back.

Shashi Kumar blogs about browser based UI Customization with Oracle Identity Management 11gR2.

Brendan Tierney complies the list of links to the 2 different sets of Big Data videos that Oracle have produced over the past 12 months.

SQL Server:

Andy Lohan says that don’t Miss a PK in a Delete.

Denny Cherry has found some great things for you to read.

Brent Ozar is taking sp_BlitzUpdate out to the farm.

Mike Hillwig cranks that your server is not a workstation.

Your company’s data is pretty darn important. Your ability to interact with and glean insights from this data is key to your business in just about every industry. Mike Walsh has more.

MySQL:

A good blog post about character sets in MySQL.

Henrik Ingo draws some conclusions regarding state of the MySQL forks.

With 2 of the bigger Open Source projects Kris Buyaert cares about talking about certifications programs questions pop up again.

Daniel Van Eaden is having fun with performance schema.

Petri Virsunen guides as how to avoid a MySQL data blackout in Amazon.