Log Buffer #411, a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Edition brings you some blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

Suppose you have a global zone with multiple zpools that you would like to convert into a native zone.

The digital revolution is creating abundance in almost every industry—turning spare bedrooms into hotel rooms, low-occupancy commuter vehicles into taxi services, and free time into freelance time

Every time I attend a conference, the Twitter traffic about said conference is obviously higher.  It starts a couple weeks or even months before, builds steadily as the conference approaches, and then hits a crescendo during the conference.

Calling All WebLogic Users: Please Help Us Improve WebLogic Documentation!

Top Two Cloud Security Concerns: Data Breaches and Data Loss

SQL Server:

This article describes a way to identify the user who truncated the table & how you can recover the data.

When SQL Server 2014 was released, it included Hekaton, Microsoft’s much talked about memory-optimized engine that brings In-Memory OLTP into play.

Learn how you can easily spread your backup across multiple files.

Daniel Calbimonte has written a code comparison for MariaDB vs. SQL Server as it pertains to how to comment, how to create functions and procedures with parameters, how to store query results in a text file, how to show the top n rows in a query, how to use loops, and more.

The article show a simple way we managed to schedule index rebuild and reorg for an SQL instance with 106 databases used by one application using a Scheduled job.

MySQL:

How to setup a PXC cluster with GTIDs (and have async slaves replicating from it!)

vCloud Air and business-critical MySQL

MySQL Dumping and Reloading the InnoDB Buffer Pool

How to benchmark MongoDB

MySQL Server on SUSE 12