Log Buffer #367, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Log Buffer is globe trotting this week from end to end. From every nook, it has brought you some sparkling gems of blog posts. Enjoy!!!

Oracle:

On April 16th, Oracle announced the Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance X4-2.

Do your Cross Currency Receipts fail Create Accounting?

Oracle Solaris 11.2 Launch in NY.

WebCenter Portal 11gR1 dot8 Bundle Patch 3 (11.1.1.8.3) Released.

What do Sigma, a Leadership class and a webcast have in common?

SQL Server:

Stairway to SQL Server Agent – Level 9: Understanding Jobs and Security.

SQL Server Hardware will provide the fundamental knowledge and resources you need to make intelligent decisions about choice, and optimal installation and configuration, of SQL Server hardware, operating system and the SQL Server RDBMS.

SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP Dynamic Management Views.

Why every SQL Server installation should be a cluster.

SQL Server Backup Crib Sheet.

MySQL:

Looking for Slave Consistency: Say Yes to –read-only and No to SUPER and –slave-skip-errors.

More details on disk IO-bound, update only for MongoDB, TokuMX and InnoDB.

Making the MTR rpl suite GTID_MODE Agnostic.

‘Open Source Appreciation Day’ draws OpenStack, MySQL and CentOS faithful.

MongoDB, TokuMX and InnoDB for disk IO-bound, update-only by PK.