Log Buffer #392, a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

It seems its all about cloud these days. Even the hardware is being marketed with cloud in perspective. Databases like Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL are ahead in the cloud game and this Log Buffer Edition covers that all.

Oracle:

Oracle Database 12c was launched over a year ago delivering the next-generation of the #1 database, designed to meet modern business needs, providing a new multitenant architecture on top of a fast, scalable, reliable, and secure database platform.

Oracle OpenWorld 2014 Session Presentations Now Available.

Today, Oracle is using big data technology and concepts to significantly improve the effectiveness of its support operations, starting with its hardware support group.

Generating Sales Cloud Proxies using Axis? Getting errors?

How many page views can Apex sustain when running on Oracle XE?

SQL Server:

Send emails using SSIS and SQL Server instead of application-level code.

The public perception is that, when something is deleted, it no longer exists. Often that’s not really the case; the data you serve up to the cloud can be stored out there indefinitely, no matter how hard to try to delete it.

Every day, out in the various online forums devoted to SQL Server, and on Twitter, the same types of questions come up repeatedly: Why is this query running slowly? Why is SQL Server ignoring my index? Why does this query run quickly sometimes and slowly at others?

You need to set up backup and restore strategies to recover data or minimize the risk of data loss in case a failure happens.

Improving the Quality of SQL Server Database Connections in the Cloud

MySQL:

Low-concurrency performance for updates and the Heap engine: MySQL 5.7 vs previous releases.

Database Automation – Private DBaaS for MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB with ClusterControl.

Removing Scalability Bottlenecks in the Metadata Locking and THR_LOCK Subsystems in MySQL 5.7.

The EXPLAIN command is one of MySQL’s most useful tools for understanding query performance. When you EXPLAIN a query, MySQL will return the plan created by the query optimizer.

Shinguz: Migration between MySQL/Percona Server and MariaDB.