Log buffer #548: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This log buffer edition covers blog posts from Cloud, Oracle and MySQL.
Cloud: Google Stackdriver lets you track your cloud-powered applications with monitoring, logging and diagnostics. Using Stackdriver to monitor Google Cloud Platform (
GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS) projects has many advantages—you can get detailed performance data and can set up tailored alerts. This post is courtesy of Sam Dengler,
AWS Solutions Architect. Message brokers can be used to solve a number of needs in enterprise architectures, including managing workload queues and broadcasting messages to a number of subscribers. New Cloud
Filestore service brings GCP users high-performance file storage. One of the
biggest trends in application development today is the use of APIs to power the backend technologies supporting a product. It’s no secret that data is an essential part of running a business, no matter how large or small a business may be. Many companies host their business data using relational
databases.
Oracle: How can I print to
PDF? How can I get a document/report with my data? How can I export my data from APEX to Excel? Almost a year ago, Oracle released Oracle
GoldenGate 12c (12.3.0.1.x). At that time, there were two architectures released: Microservices and Classic. Both architectures provided the same enterprise-level replication. The only difference was that one enabled a RESTful API interface with HTML5 page and the other was still command line driven.
Ubuntu 16.04: Installation of Chrome browser fails with libnss3 (>= 2:3.22) [2]
UTL_FILE_DIR and 18c
DevOps in OAC: Scripting Oracle Cloud Instance Management with PSM Cli
MySQL: One
problem that’s a lot less common these days is swapping. Most of the issues that cause swapping with MySQL have been nailed down to several different key configuration points, either in the OS or MySQL, or issues like the swap insanity issue.
MariaDB 10.3 is now generally available (10.3.7 was released GA on 2018-05-25). The article What’s New in MariaDB Server 10.3 by the MariaDB Corporation lists three key improvements in 10.3: temporal data processing, Oracle compatibility features, and purpose-built storage engines. MySQL 8.0 InnoDB Cluster on
ARM64 with Oracle Linux and the Raspberry Pi 3B. Detecting Incompatible Use of
Spatial Functions before Upgrading to MySQL 8.0
JFG Posted on the Percona Community Blog - A Nice Feature in MariaDB 10.3: no InnoDB Buffer Pool in Core Dumps