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Winter has started and the holiday season is approaching fast. With the chillness of winter and festive mode induced by the holidays, bloggers across the planet are coming up with more and more exciting ideas. Let’s start with sizzling Log Buffer #207.

Oracle Jewels:

Discussing the common errors by the DBAs,

Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly news blog about blogs in the datasphere… As we kick off Log Buffer #206, our own Gwen Shapira shares a few of her weekly favorites:

Oracle:

Arup Nanda posted an excellent script on how to summarize backup information from the rman catalog. He also

Welcome to Log Buffer. The weekly roundup of posts, and news of what’s happening in the database world.

At Pythian, we’re pretty much recovered from a hectic Oracle OpenWorld 2010, and I’m no longer an OOW virgin. What an experience! I had the pleasure of meeting many of you Log Buffer readers and contributors at the Annual Blogger’s Meetup at Jillian’s. Great to put faces to names. And I now officially feel like “Vanessa from Log Buffer”, as many of your t-shirts will show.

Many thanks to Marc Fielding for providing the hot items for this week’s post,

Welcome to Log Buffer. The weekly review of DBA industry news. Enjoy Log Buffer #199.

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Welcome to Log Buffer, a weekly review of the database industry. This week’s issue Log Buffer #198 is generously published by Sam DeFilippis, who manages Oracle Notes blogs, with latest postings on Oracle GoldenGate.

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Please enjoy Sam’s issue

Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly roundup of database industry news.

For your reading pleasure this week we have Log Buffer #196:

Charles Hooper blogs about an in-depth investigation on what can cause Oracle to ignore a hint.

Doug Burns reminds his readers that there are only two weeks left to

A short post marks Pythian’s 195th edition of Log Buffer, a blog of blogs encapsulating what’s going on in the world of database administration.

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Now on to Log Buffer #195. Alex Gorbachev starts us off with his suggested readings and funnily enough,

We’re well into summer and almost at our 200th edition of Log Buffer, a blog of blogs about the database world.

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Now on to our weekly reading in Log Buffer #194:

Oracle Exadata is a topic that is getting hotter and hotter. Following Pythian’s announcement of Exadata services Oracle’s