Log Buffer #412, a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Edition makes it way through the realms of Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL and brings you some of the blog posts.

Oracle:

Introducing Oracle Big Data Discovery Part 3: Data Exploration and Visualization

FULL and NO_INDEX Hints

Base64 Encode / Decode with Python (or WebLogic Scripting Tool) by Frank Munz

Why I’m Excited About Oracle Integration Cloud Service – New Video

Reminder: Upgrade Database 12.1.0.1 to 12.1.0.2 by July 2015

SQL Server:

An article about how we underestimate the power of joins and degrade our query performance by not using proper joins

Most large organizations have implemented one or more big data applications. As more data accumulates internal users and analysts execute more reports and forecasts, which leads to additional queries and analysis, and more reporting.

How do you develop and deploy your database?

A database must be able to maintain and enforce the business rules and relationships in data in order to maintain the data model.

Error handling with try-catch-finally in PowerShell for SQL Server

MySQL:

MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.0.20 has been released

MySQL Cluster 7.4 is GA!

Connector/Python 2.1.1 Alpha released with C Extension

Worrying about the ‘InnoDB: detected cycle in LRU for buffer pool (…)’ message?

MySQL Cluster 7.4 GA: 200 Million QPS, Active-Active Geographic Replication and more