Log Buffer #433: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Edition covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL blogs of the running week.

Oracle:

• While checking the sources of the Cassandra/NetBeans integration into GitHub yesterday, something went very badly wrong and ALL the source files in my Maven project that disappeared!
• AWR Reports, Performance Hub, historisches SQL Monitoring in 12c
• Oracle Database Mobile Server 12c: Advanced data synchronization engine
• ORA-39001, ORA-39000 and ORA-39142
• ORA-15410: Disks in disk group do not have equal size

SQL Server:

• SAN and NAS protocols and how they impact SQL Server
• SQL Style Habits: Attack of the Skeuomorphs
• Is It Worth Writing Unit Tests?
• Large SQL Server Database Backup on an Azure VM and Archiving
• Reporting Services: Drawing a Buffer on a Map

MySQL:

• MySQL Tcpdump system : use percona-toolkit to analyze network packages
• Replication in real-time from Oracle and MySQL into data warehouses and analytics
• Altering tablespace of table – new in MySQL 5.7
• MySQL QA Episode 8: Reducing Testcases for Engineers: tuning reducer.sh
• MySQL upgrade 5.6 with innodb_fast_checksum=1