Comments on: Log Buffer #115: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

By: David Edwards

David Edwards — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:28:18 +0000

Hey Lukas, thanks. No need to apologize for putting your stuff into LB. That’s totally legit.

By: Lukas

Lukas — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:05:59 +0000

Ok, plugging my own stuff once more. And it isn’t even fresh, but did not get mentioned before on here. Topic of discussion is MySQL’s “The NULL-safe equal to operator”:
http://pooteeweet.org/blog/1296

By: David Edwards

David Edwards — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:11:49 +0000

@Chen, Xaprb, Craig: Thanks, guys! Interesting stuff.

Here’s an item from Slashdot that caught my eye:

Data Centers Crucial To Lehman Sale — discussing an article on the value of data–our bread-and-butter–in the wake of the current disaster. It’s not at all the stuff of DBA work, but it makes you think.

By: Craig S. Mullins

Craig S. Mullins — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:07:00 +0000

Thought I’d share this:

The Tao of DBA
http://www.neonesoft.com/blog/blogs/cmullins/archive/2008/09/04/The-Tao-of-DBA.aspx

By: Xaprb

Xaprb — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:46:38 +0000

Hey! I’m glad you are feeling better. Good enough to go visit manscaping, I warrant.

The big news in my corner of the world is a new Maatkit release.

By: Chen Shapira

Chen Shapira — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:51:39 +0000

Rob Van Wijk in his blog “About Oracle” showed how to simulate print_table using grouping sets: http://rwijk.blogspot.com/2008/09/simulting-printtable-with-grouping-sets.html
Very cute demonstration of a rarely used feature.

Greg Rahn in his blog “Structured Data” covers the buzz around Openworld this year: http://structureddata.org/2008/09/19/extreme-buzz-about-oracle-openworld/