Log Buffer #460: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Edition covers blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL for this week.

Oracle:

APEX shuttle item with one direction

Wondering about which tasks and work products are essential for your project?

Using Spark(Scala) and Oracle Big Data Lite VM for Barcode & QR Detection

Cloning 10.2.0.3 Oracle Home on fully patched 11.31 HP-UX hangs

An UNDO in a PDB in Oracle 12c?

SQL Server:

SQL Azure Performance Benchmarking

Monitoring In-Memory OLTP: What’s Important?

Find and Remove Duplicate Records SQL Server

A Database to Diagram For

Getting started with R scripts and R visuals in Power BI Desktop

MySQL:

MySQL Support People – Percona Support

How to Install Redmine 3 with Nginx on Ubuntu 15.10

The magical abandoned .ibd files after crash recovery with MySQL 5.7.10

How To Speed Up MySQL Restart (hint: just like before, but this time for real)

OmniSQL – Massively Parallel Query Execution