Log Buffer #376, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Editions collects and present you various blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL arena.

Oracle:

Oracle SOA Suite Achieves Significant Customer Adoption and Industry Recognition

The Perks of Integrated Business Planning

Why are we so excited about Oracle Database XE R2?

Skipping ACS ramp-up using a SQL Patch

Moving datafiles has always been a pain.

SQL Server:

Using DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS When Testing Performance

Data Mining Introduction Part 9: Microsoft Linear Regression

PowerShell One-Liners: Accessing, Handling and Writing Data

Stairway to SQL Server Security: Level 2, Authentication

Matthew Flatt was trying to measure the performance of a tool interacting with Microsoft Azure

MySQL:

Using UDFs for geo-distance search in MySQL

Amidst various blog postings on Docker, a security issue announced yesterday that detailed an exploit of Docker that makes it possible to do container breakout.

Discover the MySQL Central @ OpenWorld Content Catalog

Shinguz: Replication channel fail-over with Galera Cluster for MySQL

SQL queries preview before sent to server in MySQL for Excel