Log Buffer #440: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Edition carries on with the weekly culling of blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

Most people are now aware that in 12c, a VARCHAR2 has been extended from a maximum size of 4000 to 32767 bytes.

FDMEE is offered as the full-featured successor to Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management ERP Integration Adapter for Oracle Applications (ERP Integrator) and Oracle Hyperion Financial Data Quality Management (FDM).

Cybersecurity is Hot! In fact, so is the weather here in California at this moment.

How do you monitor an ZFS Storage Appliance with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c?

Using SYSBACKUP in 12c with a media manager layer

SQL Server:

Autogenerating SSIS file import packages using Biml

When to Quote in PowerShell

More on CXPACKET Waits: Skewed Parallelism

Streamline Log Shipping Failovers: DR Made Just For You…

Getting query text from SSMS into Excel with PowerShell

MySQL:

MariaDB 10.1.7 now available

Track and Optimize Server Connection Methods

Abstracting Binlog Servers and MySQL Master Promotion without Reconfiguring all Slaves

Testing MySQL partitioning with pt-online-schema-change

Third day with InnoDB transparent page compression