Comments on: Log Buffer #76: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

By: TongucY

TongucY — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:45:19 +0000

Other than already mentioned here is my list for this week;

Apex contra ADF study of Dimitri and Lucas on Amis
http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=2671

Simulating Tom Kytes’s print_table with unpivot of Rob
http://rwijk.blogspot.com/2007/12/simulating-printtable-with-unpivot.html

How about Apex certification? of David
http://dpeake.blogspot.com/2007/12/would-you-like-to-be-certified-oracle.html

Data Pump Rocks of Charles
http://orajourn.blogspot.com/2007/12/data-pump-rocks.html

Top Ten Oracle BI&DW Events of 2007 of Mark
http://www.rittmanmead.com/2007/12/21/top-ten-oracle-bidw-events-of-2007/

In memory backdoors in Oracle of Pete
http://www.petefinnigan.com/weblog/archives/00001137.htm

and Alejandro Vargas Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture Seminar Notes of mine :)
http://tonguc.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/alejandro-vargas-oracle-maximum-availability-architecture-seminar-notes/

By: Dominic Brooks

Dominic Brooks — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:56:09 +0000

I’ve been enjoying Richard Foote’s prolific blogging on indexes this week. A bit of disagreement in the comments only adds to the interest.

By: Robert Treat

Robert Treat — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:29:08 +0000

If you think of your database as a place to store data, you’re missing out on the most important parts of why we use relational databases. Jeff Davis talks about the impedence mismatch, far too common amongst developers and dba’s, between the idea of storing data and codifying what data means in his post on Database Formalities. A great read for anyone who works with databases.

By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:30:49 +0000

One of the most interesting readings this week was a blog post by Erick Schonfeld about Amazon SimpleDB. Interesting concept and I would be really interested to see how it works in real life. Daniel Fink has done it again -- controversial but definitely yet another interesting post. This time Dan spoke out on a worried trend in the IT industry.

By: Paul Vallee

Paul Vallee — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:21:18 +0000

It was published after the log buffer, but not by much.

Alex Gorbachev asks Where is QOS for storage?. After all, we’ve had it for networks for a long, long time.

By: Paul Vallee

Paul Vallee — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:19:36 +0000

Well, I would be remiss if I did not recommend Christo’s excellent Goodie on memory management for Oracle on Linux. Jonathan liked it too.

By: David Edwards

David Edwards — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:08:56 +0000

I’ll get the ball rolling with an item on O’Reilly radar by Tim O’Reilly: Google Admits “Data is the Intel Inside”.

I think the observations made are important to DBAs because it is largely them (you?) that shapes and controls all this data. DBAs are the gatekeepers to this extraordinarily important and desirable resource. Do DBAs — and those that depend on them — recognize this responsibility?