It’s the scorching summer season in this part of the world, Pakistan. There are many summer woes as the temperature reaches to 45 centigrade and beyond, but that also brings in the most savored fruit of the world, the king of fruits, Mango. Pakistan is one of the largest producer and exporter of this fruit from paradise. There are many variates of mangoes and its hard to pick from them as they all are so sweet and eye catching. Same is the case with the database related blogs, when it comes to selection for the edition of Log Buffer. So once again here you are, about to savor the sweet blogs in Log Buffer #224.

Oracle:

Automatic Diagnostic Repository (ADR) has changed the way we think about logs and traces in Oracle. …

Social media is buzzing with the news and views of bloggers. From the database side of this glorious media, we have picked out some of the gems for you in this edition of Log Buffer, which is the Log Buffer #223.

Oracle:

Jonathan Lewis was presenting the keynote at the Turkish Oracle User Group conference and he blogs about a discussion over there.

A new Myth arrives Index Rebuilds and Nial litchfield has an interesting take on it.

Why is my SYSAUX Tablespace so Big? …

As the birds have started their yearly migration back to their homes from the warmer areas to the relative less cooler areas in summer, bloggers are also touching base with the technologies which they cherish most and coming back with some master strokes. This new cool edition of Log Buffer, the coolest blog carnival covering hottest topics encompass that home coming. Now Chill with Log Buffer #222!!!

Oracle:

Charles Hooper blogs about an Overly Complicated Use Case Example regarding Row Values to Comma Separated Lists.

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Another medley of database blogs under the famous banner of Log Buffer is in your virtual hands. This edition of Log Buffer, the Log Buffer #221 puts spotlight on the fresh and cool blogs from Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server arena.

Enjoy !!!

Oracle:

Martin is playing around with the Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.2 PSU 2 and found an interesting note on My Oracle Support regarding the Patch Set Update.

Jonathan Lewis has found another gem as an answer to a question posted on OTN forums regarding the …

When big news is released, the world of modern information shakes – and nowhere is this more visible than with the blogs. Log Buffer is the ideal joint for the shakers and movers of the blogosphere. This edition Log Buffer #220 sheds a spotlight on those hot spots.

Oracle:

Gary Myers blogs about the encouraging women in information technology and mentioned Pythian’s own Gwen Shapira.

Dom Brooks is getting a bit tired of the number of bugs in 11gR2 listed as “Fixed in 12.1″.

Tim Hall is …

There are plethora of thrilling business software trends on the horizon as the summer of 2011 starts. Many of these will significantly impact IT organizations seeking to align IT operations with business objectives. Awareness of such trends can help you to keep ahead of the competition. What better way to get abreast of these trends in a nutshell than the Log Buffer? Log Buffer #219 is in your hands to enjoy.

Oracle:

When Arup writes it, it stays written. In a very refreshing post, he is sure to convince anybody why he or she needs Tanel Poder’s class.

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Oracle’s assault on the global market goes on with full might and as it adds new products in it’s array, SQL Server also strives hard to get the attention of people through various public appearances, and MySQL is also not behind as its growing array of bloggers marches on. This week’s Log Buffer casts a shadow on some selective blogs from these three technology in its latest edition Log Buffer #218.

Oracle:

ASHMON is one of the popular tool for monitoring and Kyle Hailey has just mentioned that his this tool ASHMON not only graphs ASH data but graphs v$sysstat as well.

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Clouds are dispersing and the sun has started shining through. On the IT horizon, the cloud of Amazon has also dispersed and that is the biggest news of the previous week. Well clouds are elastic and they congregate and become solid after dispersion, and so Amazon will be fine too. And our blogosphere is fine too and here is the latest report about them in this week’s edition Log Buffer #217.

Oracle:

Arup Nanda asks. You want to find out the tables with the highest number of rows in a database. Pretty simple, right?

Jonathan Lewis blogs about as how to ensure that you never give the wrong answer.

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Log Buffer has become the mainstream carnival of the Oracle blogosphere. Technological advances in Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and other database systems, more and more conferences, and increasing numbers of bloggers are making log buffering more and more interesting, and this week’s edition Log Buffer #216 is a clear manifestation of that.

Oracle:

To err is human and to manage err is management. Alex Gorbachev fascinates us by adding his thoughts to a forum thread.

Christian Antognini and Oracle Internals are the perfect match. This time …