Log Buffer #502: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Edition covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

EBS 12.1 Data Masking Template Certified with EM 13c

Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter and Integration Cloud Service

Oracle VAR_SAMP Function with Examples

Cloud Data Warehousing: Is it for real?

Using APEX_ERROR to manage custom error messages

SQL Server:

Keeping Fact Tables Online while Loading via Partition Switching

Five Useful SQL Server Management Practices

Estimated Number of Rows to be Read

SQL Server 2016 Enterprise Edition Performance Advantages

10 Ways to Save Money and Provide Comprehensive High Availability for SQL Server

MySQL:

Monitoring ProxySQL using Datadog

Setup ProxySQL for High Availability (not a Single Point of Failure)

Which backup features do you require for your MySQL database backups?

MySQL Cluster up and running in less than 4 minutes

Python and the MySQL Document Store