Log Buffer #486: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Edition collects blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

OBIEE 11g: Outer join in the Physical Layer now possible

Internet of Things (IoT) Cloud Service available

Oracle Database Cloud (DBaaS) Performance Consistency

Data Redaction and Data Pump in #Oracle 12c

Oracle MiniCluster Knowledge Zone launched!

SQL Server:

Backup Strategy in Azure SQL?

There were many enhancements in SQL Server 2014 and one amongst them is the fact that a statement now operates with parallelism. How does that help us if we need to use it on tables with clustered columnstore indexes?

Adding Slicers to a Reporting Services Report

Creating PowerShell Stacks and Expression Evaluators

An Introduction to In-Memory OLTP Database Objects

MySQL:

MySQL Failover Design Considerations

Working Around MySQL Cluster Push Down Limitations Using Subqueries

Percona XtraDB Cluster on Ceph

5 Monitoring Myths That Deserve to Be Busted

MySQL Document Store — The NoSQL Zipcodes

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