Log Buffer #292, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Edition is once again here, packed with rocking and rolling blogs from the database world. Log Buffer#292 comprises of select few posts from Oracle, MySQL and the SQL Server. Enjoy.

Oracle:

Pythian’s OCM Andrey Goryunov is attracted and enticed by the silent installation of EM Cloud Control 12c.

Bobby Durrett is helping a coworker learn how to do Oracle performance tuning and shares experience.

OS Provisioning is one of the major features of Ops Center. You can set up an OS provisioning plan and profile, which specify how an OS is deployed, and then use them to create new operating systems on any number of systems. Owen Allen is provisioning Oracle Solaris 11.

Mala Narasimharajan tells us that Oracle and ROLTA have joined forces to put together an educational webinar series on best practices for maximizing data integrity using analytical master data management.

Attack, Defense and Forensic Response in a Distributed Database Estate, Paul Wright writes.

Brandye Barrington is happy to announce the availability of a brand new Exam Prep Seminar titled Certification Exam Prep Seminar: Oracle RAC 11g and Grid Infrastructure Administration.

SQL Server:

Baby baby baby, where did our love/ data go? Mark Broadbent yearns.

Jason Brimhall is doing a SQLSat153 Recap.

Jason Strate is discovering binary pages in Sys.Indexes.

Jakub Dvorak informs that SQLTreeo now supports SQL Server 2012.

John Pertell blogs about collecting data with the PowerShell as like most DBAs he collects different statistics on SQL Servers.

MySQL:

Why would anyone use a 32-bit OS in 2012? Baron Schwartz wonders and asks.

Paul Campaniello is choosing a Next-Gen database and shedding light on the new world order of NoSQL, NewSQL, and MySQL.

MySQL Notifier is a quick tool for Windows installations to help you manage your instances, tells Dave Stokes.

Dimitri Kravtchuk is talking about Linux I/O and Fusion-io with respect to MySQL performance.

Mike Benshoof is minimizing downtime from lengthy AWS outages.