Log Buffer #288, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

California’s jewel San Fransisco is sparkling with the colors of Oracle, as the world’s premier Oracle conference Oracle Open World draws very near. Database lovers from across the globe are gathering up in SFO to undergo a life-enchanting experience. This Log Buffer Edition covers that, and the posts related to MySQL and SQL Server in Log Buffer #288.

Oracle:

Gwen Shapira is all set to party and present hard at this Open World.

Michael S. Abbey, who is making some sort of record by having attend Oracle Open World for the last 16 years has some great tips for the first timers at OOW.

Awe, glee, excitement and expectation is the name of game when it comes to OOW mela.

RAC attack at the Oracle Open World is one again there to warm you up.

Marc Fielding has produced a great blog post about ORA-27090 and its trouble-shooting.

Yes, it’s OEM 12c’s anniversary at the Open World.

Shay Shmeltzer has an interesting post about OOW and JaveOne.

SQL Server:

Allen White is scanning the error log with the power shell.

Buck Woody talks about keeping the otpions open in a cloud solution.

Alexander Kuznetsov has done a good book review of SQL Server 2008 book.

Rick Heiges discuss another way to learn SQL Server.

When you work as DBA, many people will approach you with a complaint like “Application is taking ages to load the data on a page,could you please check something going wrong with database server?”

MySQL:

Ivan Zoratti is blogging about meeting of Cloud with the Enterprise.

Kristian Kohntopp got an email about rising replication delays in a certain replication hierarchy and hence this blog post.

Dimitri Kravtchuk is revealing solutions while analyzing MySQL performance issues and generating various graphs presented in his reports.

Sean Hull lists down ten ways he avoids trouble in database operations.

Andy Dustman is taking us back to the history and gives brief history of MySQLdb.