Log Buffer #356, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer edition drops right from the clouds to check what bloggers are doing with their Oracles, SQL Servers, and MySQLs. Enjoy!

Oracle:

The Oracle E-Business Suite provides a large number of diagnostic and monitoring solutions.

A free e-book: Consolidate Your Applications on Oracle WebLogic Server.

Problems when doing a V2V or P2V of a windows server to Oracle VM.

Oracle Social Relationship Management: Access the Specialization Exams Today.

SQL Server:

Skipping Columns (& other tricks) Using BCP Format Files (SQL Spackle) .

Search multiple SQL Server Error Logs at the same time.

An Overview of Project Conversion – Level 14 of the Stairway to Integration Services.

Free e-book: Performance Tuning with SQL Server Dynamic Management Views.

Calculating the Median Value within a Partitioned Set Using T-SQL.

MySQL:

Percona Server: Improve Scalability with Percona Thread Pool.

MySQL and PostgreSQL JSON functions: Do they differ much?

Select into outfile and load data infile are not complementary by default.

MySQL Workbench 6.1.1 BETA has been released.

Noel Herrick have covered some strange default behavior around nulls in MySQL.