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		<title>Exadata smart flash cache now supports redo writes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update 7-October-2011: the log write caching capability has been officially announced as “Exadata Smart Flash Log”. I saw a few Oracle product management slides at OpenWorld presentations; one slide deck online is here on slide 30. A sample graph is provided, showing how the peak response times drop significantly with the additional cache. These peaks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Buffer #206, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly news blog about blogs in the datasphere&#8230; As we kick off Log Buffer #206, our own Gwen Shapira shares a few of her weekly favorites: Oracle: Arup Nanda posted an excellent script on how to summarize backup information from the rman catalog. He also posted a tool for automatically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exadata storage server software 11.2.1.3.1 released</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of this afternoon, version 11.2.1.3.1 of Oracle&#8217;s Exadata storage server software, is out in the wild. This is the first publicly available version of the 11.2.1.3 branch, a major release including a full OS image with an update to Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5. A number of bugs causing cell server crashes and hangs have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogrotate #24: The Weekly Roundup of News for System Administrators</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Fraser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good afternoon and welcome to another edition of Blogrotate. Though I have been contributing to Blogrotate since its inception, this is the first time I have had the honour of posting it myself. Go me! Operating Systems Red Hat has announced the availability of a public beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Videos of Pythian Sessions from the 2010 O&#8217;Reilly MySQL Conference and Expo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a sneak peek at a video matrix &#8212; this is all the videos that include Pythian Group employees at the MySQL conference. I hope to have all the rest of the videos processed and uploaded within 24 hours, with a matrix similar to the one below (but of course with many more sessions). TitlePresenterSlidesVideo [...]]]></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>When the ALTER TABLE privilege is not enough to run ALTER TABLE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Singer Wang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently granted ALTER access in MySQL so a user could run the ALTER TABLE command . However after I granted the necessary privileges, the user was still not able to perform the tasks needed. Reproducing the issue using a test instance, I granted a test user the required privileges and MySQL reported no errors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogrotate #16: The Weekly Roundup of News for System Administrators</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/8513/blogrotate-16-the-weekly-roundup-of-news-for-system-administrators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Inkpen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to another edition of Blogrotate. This has been an interesting week in the IT world, with Microsoft security issues being the major focus of attention. Security Once again, security flaws in Microsoft Operating Systems caused major problems for system administrators this past week. It began with Microsoft&#8217;s Security Response Center&#8217;s posting of February&#8217;s security [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OVSAGE Meeting Presentation January 21st Notes</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/8259/ovsage-meeting-presentation-january-21st-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Inkpen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, January 21, Pythian hosted the Ottawa Valley System Administration Guild (OVSAGE) Ottawa Valley System Administration Guild (OVSAGE). The highlight of the meeting was an interesting presentation on security by the founder of OVSAGE, Scott Murphy. The focus was on the fact that security is a mindset, not a product. Scott&#8217;s presentation looked at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogrotate #13: The Weekly Roundup of News for System Administrators</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/7179/blogrotate-13-the-weekly-roundup-of-news-for-system-administrators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Inkpen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to another edition of Blogrotate. This has been a busy week in the IT world. Here are some of the most interesting highlights. Security Without a doubt, the topic of the week is security. The revelation that China has been hacking into Google and over 30 other US companies sent shock waves through the [...]]]></description>
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