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		<title>Log Buffer #213, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fahd Mirza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warm welcome to the Log Buffer, a weekly amalgamation of database news across different technologies. Let&#8217;s get warmed up with sizzling Log Buffer #213. Oracle: ====== One of the leading performance gurus, Kellyn Pederson is letting us know how she is finding the initial months at Pythian and she rightly praises her fabulous team mates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Buffer #209, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly news update of happenings in the database world. A big shout out to Pythian team members Andrey, Gwen, Fahd, and Don for their submissions. We have lots of news and recommended reading this week so let&#8217;s get going with Log Buffer #209. Andrey Goryunov&#8217;s top picks: Dion Cho, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Buffer #205, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fahd Mirza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A very warm welcome to the Log Buffer, the premier medley of fresh information culled from the blogs related to the technology which stores the world, yes, the databases. In this edition, the Log Buffer #205, we have yet again found the pulse of the industry. Oracle: On the Oracle front, leading Oracle technologist Andrey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Buffer #204, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly roundup of happenings in the database world. Lots to cover this week, so let&#8217;s get on with Log Buffer #204. Enjoy! Oracle: Pythian&#8217;s Gwen Shapira dabbles with MySQL and explores MySQL troubleshooting for the Oracle DBA. Venkat Janakiraman explores how connectivity works for BI EE 11g on Microsoft SQL [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Buffer #182, a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the 182nd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Make sure to read the whole edition so you do not miss where to submit your SQL limerick! This week started out with me posting about International Women&#8217;s Day, and has me personally attending Confoo (Montreal) which is an excellent conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Buffer #160: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the 160th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. MySQL Blame it on MyISAM, says Mark Callaghan of High Availability MySQL, on considering sql_mode and type coercion. &#8220;I think that MyISAM has its place,&#8221; writes Mark. &#8220;It does fast table scans, but InnoDB is much faster on just about everything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Buffer #158: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the 158th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. SQL Server Simon Sabin has a TSQL Challenge &#8211; counting non zero columns. He says, &#8220;I&#8217;m working on a project where I need to cycle a flag amongst a set of columns. To achieve this I am storing a position value [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Buffer #157: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the 157th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly, cross-platform review of database blogs. SQL Server We start with Michelle Ufford, the SQL Fool, who gives us the poor (wo)man’s graph, a fast and ingenious way to create handsome text-based graphs. What is the importance of running regular consistency checks? Paul S. Randal returns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Buffer #154: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the 154th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Let&#8217;s dive right in, shall we? Oracle On Radio Free Tooting, Andrew Clarke says, &#8220;No SQL, so what?&#8221; taking as his keynote something Nuno Souto said: &#8220;&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.&#160;Google, Facebook, Myspace, Ning etcetc, and what they do as far as IT goes, are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Buffer #153: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Edwards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the 153rd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Let&#8217;s start by revisiting a perennial issue with Craig Mullins addresses with the question, Are DBAs Obsolete? &#8220;Before we go any further, let me briefly answer the question posed in the title of this blog entry: &#8216;No Way!&#8217;,&#8221; writes Craig. &#8220;Every [...]]]></description>
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