First saw this off of Planet MySQL:

 New Vendor Neutral Database Certification (Dave's Stuff)

Following the link to the CIW site, there are six domains that are being tested:

1. Relational Database Fundamentals
2. Relational Database Design and Application
3. Normalization and Database Design
4. Structured Query Language (SQL)
   
5. Relational Algebra and Databases
6. Transactions, Concurrency Control and Security

I wonder how much traction this independent certification will get, given the flavors each of the various database platforms use of SQL and …

The 79th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, has been published on H. Tonguç Yilmaz Oracle Blog. Next week, LB#80 will appear on Chen Shapira’s I’m just a simple DBA on a complex production system. Have you done one yet? Publishing Log Buffer is an excellent way to introduce yourself and your [...]

I was blog-tagged by Doug Burns - his post is here: I *hate* chain letters …. I hate them too, I literally never pass them on no matter what vile fate that condemns me to (so far nothing has happened so maybe those are idle threats). But this one includes a chance to talk about myself [...]

I try to do a decent job of advocating for caring about good backups and business continuity strategies in my 7 Deadly Habits article. But this one beats them all:

Just too funny and great not to share. Found via this reddit article, where there is a lively discussion underway.

Welcome to the 77th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. This is the last Log Buffer of 2007. . . a time for looking back at the year, looking ahead to the next, and generally focusing on time. It may not be the Oscars, but Firebird News is thrilled that Firebird is Sourceforge’s [...]

I’ve written in the past about how enterprise management vendors can act as “Gatekeepers of the Datacenter” by virtue of what technologies they do or don’t support as part of their management solutions. This rather lame dynamic is a big part of the reason why a lot of otherwise great technologies dont make it all the way into the traditional enterprise.

The problem gets further compounded when one of these “Gatekeepers” is also a platform or stack vendor. See, it’s hard to resist the temptation of delivering the absolute best management for IBM products from a Tivoli solution while shortchanging non-IBM ones. Or, to lay this on one of the aspiring members of the big 4… how about getting support for SQL Server on Oracle’s Enterprise Manager. Hmmm… I’m gonna guess it sucks because Oracle wants you using their database. Besides, who uses OEM that isnt already an Oracle db customer?

Lucky for us, Hyperic has always …

Hello everyone, I think this will be a great log buffer. Dave has been sick these past two days and as a result, we do not have a comprehensive log buffer ready the way we or a volunteer usually do. This was bound to happen to log buffer at some point and today it has happened. So I [...]

Well, it’s better late than never! Frank Wiles has published the 65th edition of Log Buffer the weekly review of database blogs, on the Revolution Systems Blog. For the record Frank published it right on time on Friday - it’s just us that’s late. Sorry about that. Log Buffer #65.

A short note to let everyone know that I’ll be heading to Dubai later today to participate in Pythian’s exhibit in the Business Solutions Hall. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, GITEX is like COMDEX for the Middle-East - it’s literally the third largest tradeshow in the world where COMDEX is #1 - [...]

There’s an interesting dynamic going on right now in the DBA world. MySQL’s growth and installed base, as a function of its size three or five years ago, is perhaps five if not ten times larger than it was. In 2002 when Pythian’s MySQL services launched, we took on the platform at the explicit request [...]