Log Buffer #370, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

With promising clouds hovering over the skies of database technology, this Log Buffer Edition gathers some selective droplets for Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.
Oracle:

ACM: organizing the chaos and flexing rigid process structures through adaptive case management by Lucas Jellema.

How to Build GlassFish 4 from Source.

Make Your Oracle Database Run Faster on Oracle Linux.

How to: Run Repository Creation Utility (RCU) on Solaris.

A Customer Centric Approach To Supply Chain: Supply Chain Journey Mapping (SCJM).

SQL Server:

Stairway to PowerPivot and DAX – Level 1: Getting Started with PowerPivot and DAX.

Free eBook: SQL Server Backup and Restore.

12 SQL Server XML Questions You Were Too Shy To Ask.

Context Is Everything – Check Your Settings.

How column COLLATION can affect SQL Server query performance.

MySQL:

Many Sphinx users utilize MySQL as a data source. Divendo is one of them.

Another reason for Xtrabackup error “log block numbers mismatch”.

MySQL Audit Plugin now available in Percona Server 5.5 and 5.6.

New Release Webinar on May 13th: Introducing ClusterControl 1.2.6 – Live Demo.

The Perfect Server – Ubuntu 14.04 (nginx, BIND, MySQL, PHP, Postfix, Dovecot and ISPConfig 3).