Log Buffer #530: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

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

Cloud:

New – AWS PrivateLink for AWS Services: Kinesis, Service Catalog, EC2 Systems Manager, Amazon EC2 APIs, and ELB APIs in your VPC

Open Source at re:Invent 2017

Announcing General Availability of Azure Reserved VM Instances (RIs)

Transforming your VMware environment with Microsoft Azure

New lower prices for GPUs and preemptible Local SSDs

Introducing VRay GPU rendering and CaraVR support on Zync Render

TensorFlow – Getting Started with Docker Container and Jupyter Notebook

Oracle:

Oracle issues after upgrade to 12.2

Docker-CE: Get Started Tutorial – processes / files / HTTP headers

Using a hardware token to log on to linux

CRS-2674: Start of dbfs_mount failed

How Not to Make WIT Result in WTH

SQL Server:

Databases in Azure… Where to begin? Create a Database and log in!

DBAs and the ITIL Framework, Part II: Asset Management

Azure SQL Database Virtual Network Service Endpoints and Rules

How to Track SQL Server Changes with sp_BlitzFirst

Cosmos DB Free for One Year and Other Azure Services Always Free

MySQL:

Configuring a MySQL Database on Amazon RDS

From MySQL 5.6 partitioning to 5.7 and beyond

Further improvements on INFORMATION_SCHEMA in MySQL 8.0.3

ClusterControl 1.5 – Announcing MariaDB 10.2 Support

Docker Compose and App Deployment with MySQL