What better to do during the holiday season than to read the Log Buffer? This log buffer edition is here to add some sparkle to Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server on your days off.

Oracle:

• Ops Center version 12.3.1 has just been released. There are a number of enhancements here.
• Oracle R Enterprise (ORE) 1.5 is now available for download on all supported platforms with Oracle R Distribution 3.2.0 / R-3.2.0. ORE 1.5 introduces parallel distributed implementations of Random Forest, Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) that operate on ore.frame objects.
• Create a SOA Application in JDeveloper 12c Using Maven …

This week, the Log Buffer Edition digs deep into the world of Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL and brings you some of the best blog posts around.

Oracle:

• Regardless of what type of industry or business you are involved in, the bottom-line goal is to optimize sales; and that involves replacing any archaic tech processes with cutting-edge technology and substituting any existing chaos with results-driven clarity.
• Oracle Private Cloud Appliance 2.1.1 Released.
• Every version of the optimizer enhances existing mechanisms and introduces new features, while 12c …

The show goes on. This Log Buffer Edition picks some blogs which are discussing new and old features of Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

• Directory Usage Parameters (ldap.ora) list the host names and port number of the primary and alternate LDAP directory servers.
• Data Visualization Cloud Service (DVCS) is a new Oracle Cloud Service. It is a subset offering of the currently supported Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS).
• ORA-24247: network access denied by access control list (ACL).
• Latches are low level …

This Log Buffer Editions picks few blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

• If you grant the DBA role to a user, Oracle also grants it the UNLIMITED TABLESPACE system privilege. If you then revoke the DBA role from this user, Oracle also revokes its UNLIMITED TABLESPACE system privilege.
• Lost SYSMAN password OEM CC 12gR5.
• How Terminal Emulation Assists Easy Data Management.
• Using EMCLI List Verb …

This Log Buffer Edition covers some of the niftiest blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

• OBIEE 11g and Essbase – Faking Federation Using the GoURL.
• You can use one of these to link an exception name with an Oracle error number. Once you have done this, you can use the exception name in the exception block which follows the declaration.
• This is a short post to help out any “googlers” looking for an answer to why their 12.1.0.5 EM Cloud …

This Log Buffer is dedicated to the top quality news from the arena of Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

• We had a question on AskTom the other day, asking us to explain what a “latch” was.
• Jonathan Lewis thinks column groups can be amazingly useful in helping the optimizer to generate good execution plans because of the way they supply better details about cardinality.
• Today it’s all about developing software that makes access to your product easier.
• …

This Log Buffer Edition covers the weekly blog posts of Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

• An Index or Disaster, You Choose (It’s The End Of The World As We Know It).
• SQL Monitoring in Oracle Database 12c.
• RMAN Full Backup vs. Level 0 Incremental.
• Auto optimizer stats after CTAS or direct loads in #Oracle 12c.
• How to move …

This Log Buffer Edition covers some more Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL blog posts from across the world.

Oracle:

• Should I monitor the MGMTDB database?
• Connecting MAF Applications to Mobile Cloud Service
• JRE 6, 7, and 8 now certified with EBS 11i, 12.1, and 12.2
• The database writer copies data blocks from the buffer cache onto disk. The db_writer_processes initialization parameter determines how many processes will do this task. Its default value is 1 or cpu_count / 8, whichever is greater. I found an Oracle 9 database on a …

This Log Buffer edition works it way through some of the coolest blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL of the past week.

Oracle:

• What if I’m a developer or QA person using a copy of production database to do my work. What if my copy of production is now out of date and I want to refresh my data with the data as it is on production.
• Direct path and buffered reads again.
• Copy Data Management for Oracle Database with EMC AppSync and XtremIO.
• Little things worth knowing: automatic …

This Log Buffer Edition covers some blog posts of Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL from this past week.

Oracle:

• Oracle Utilities Application Framework V4.3.0.1.0 includes a new help engine and changes to the organization of help.
• Very simple oracle package for HTTPS and HTTP.
• Tim spotted a problem with the PDB Logging Clause.
• How to Pass Arguments to OS Shell Script from Oracle Database.

SQL Server:

• How efficient is your covered …