WikiLeaks Cable Offers New Insights into Oracle-Sun Deal (PC World)
Nothing too new or shocking in there, but the cable does offer some interesting insights.
Aug
31
2011
Aug
28
2011
Did you know that you can subscribe to Oracle Magazine for free? It doesn’t have much content on MySQL, but it’s not such a bad thing to stay at least a little bit in touch with what Oracle is doing with the Oracle database server, too. You can subscribe online free.
Further Reading:
- Subscribe
- Spring 2008 issue of MySQL Magazine
- Thanks Oracle for the ACE Award
- Oracle is not screwing MySQL …
Aug
26
2011
Oracle has launched Java 7, Steve Jobs has resigned, IBM has made new alignments with HP and so on. The industry is buzzing with the breaking news while one thing is rest assured that the brightest and most innovative days are ahead of the IT industry, and so blogging is anticipating some thrilling times ahead [...]
Aug
26
2011
Yesterday I was discussing with a fellow DBA about ways to check
the status of existing and/or past RMAN jobs. Good backup scripts
usually write their output to some sort of log file so, checking
the output is usually a straight-forward task. However, backup
jobs can be scheduled in many different ways (crontab, Grid
Control, Scheduled Tasks, etc) and finding the log file may be
tricky if you don’t know the environment well.
Furthermore, log files may also have already been overwritten by
the next backup or simply just deleted. An alternative way of
accessing that information, thus, may come handy.
Fortunately, RMAN keeps the backup metadata around for some time and it can be accessed through the database’s V$ views. Obviously, if you need this information because your database just crashed and needs to be restored, the method described here is useless.
Backup jobs’ status and metadata
A lot of metadata about …
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Aug
19
2011
Well like all good things, summer is also ending and its closing days are rapidly approaching. For most of the database techies, there is nothing to get remorseful, because they are thrilled to be back in full flow managing and loving their databases. They are gearing up, refreshing up, re-evaluating and reassessing themselves and also [...]
Aug
16
2011
Want to learn how to improve your performance with MySQL? Sign up
for the recently revamped MySQL Performance Tuning course.
This course brings you more in-depth hands-on experience with
techniques for tuning a MySQL Server.
This course is designed for database administrators, database
developers and system administrators who are responsible for
managing, optimizing, and tuning a MySQL server. Students taking
this course can benefit from:
- Understanding the basics of performance tuning
- Using performance tuning tools
- Tuning the MySQL Server instance to improve performance
- Improving performance of tables based on the storage engine being used
- Implementing proper Schema Design to improve performance
- Improving the …
Aug
16
2011
Want to learn how to improve your performance with MySQL? Sign up
for the recently revamped MySQL Performance Tuning course.
This course brings you more in-depth hands-on experience with
techniques for tuning a MySQL Server.
This course is designed for database administrators, database
developers and system administrators who are responsible for
managing, optimizing, and tuning a MySQL server. Students taking
this course can benefit from:
- Understanding the basics of performance tuning
- Using performance tuning tools
- Tuning the MySQL Server instance to improve performance
- Improving performance of tables based on the storage engine being used
- Implementing proper Schema Design to improve performance
- Improving the …
Aug
16
2011
Would you like to work with the biggest websites and social
networks in the world? Do you want to support large enterprises
with their database initiatives? Would you like to assist ISVs
and OEMs providing the technology that powers their
products?
In the MySQL Sales Consulting organization we do just that.
You’ll support MySQL partners, customers and prospects across
EMEA, evangelize our products, assist marketing and cooperate
with product management to shape the future of MySQL.
Sounds interesting? We're actively looking for senior
professionals to join the team!
Feel free to reach me on LinkedIn for more information or
have a look at the links below:
- …
Aug
15
2011
A few weeks ago we announced the Oracle VM Template for MySQL Enterprise Edition, which helps eliminate manual configuration efforts and risks by providing a pre-installed, pre-configured and certified software stack including Oracle VM Server for x86, Oracle Linux with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and MySQL Enterprise Edition.
On Tuesday August 23rd at 10.00 am PT, Oracle will be hosting an Oracle virtualization launch event.
If you’re based in the SF bay area, you’re …
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Aug
15
2011
A few weeks ago we announced the Oracle VM Template for MySQL Enterprise Edition, which helps eliminate manual configuration efforts and risks by providing a pre-installed, pre-configured and certified software stack including Oracle VM Server for x86, Oracle Linux with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and MySQL Enterprise Edition.
On Tuesday August 23rd at 10.00 am PT, Oracle will be hosting an Oracle virtualization launch event.
If you’re based in the SF bay area, you’re …
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