A few days ago Oracle offered me a position of Oracle ACE Director, and I accepted it. Thanks Oracle. I'm glad to see that Oracle has evaluated my activities and we can have a good relationships each other. Oracle has been great for MySQL so far and I'd be happy to keep contributions.

Since I live in Tokyo and my native language is Japanese, I usually do community activities in Japanese (speaking at conferences in Tokyo, publishing books written in Japanese, etc). I'd like to do more in English, and my employer DeNA thankfully supports it. Right now it's confirmed that I'll speak at OSCON.Data in July, and at Oracle Open World in October. Personally I haven't traveled to Europe for years so it's great if I have an opportunity to speak at MySQL/Linux conferences in Europe.

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. …

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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? …

While Oracle deserves some praise for its donation of OpenOffice.org code to the Apache Foundation, it is disappointing again to see a legitimate open source market contender that has been marginalized by miscommunication and mismanagement of the project by a large vendor.

OpenOffice.org, warts and all, was probably the most significant competition for Microsoft Office for years and in many ways demonstrated the advantages of open source, helping usher in wider use of it, as well as greater usability. OO.o was in fact my reason for originally investigating and moving to open source software more than a decade ago. Regardless of past mismanagement of community and technology, that competitive factor has been diminished greatly since Oracle took ownership of OO.o. Now, after prompting a fork — as has …

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 week of industry hijinks has passed, which means it must be time for another edition of the Developer Week in Review.

Apple offers some cover

After developer complaints that Apple was leaving them out to dry, in regards to the Lodsys patent threats being aimed their way, the House of Jobs stepped up to the plate and announced that they considered iOS developers to be covered by the existing licenses granted to Apple by Lodsys for in-game purchases.

This is a bit of a good-news, bad-news story from an intellectual property perspective, as it doesn't offer any relief to non-Apple developers from the patents themselves. Apple paid off Lodsys, which in a sense increases the perceived validity of the patents. Other non-Apple-based developers (such as Valve's Steam), could find …

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 …

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According to the Oracle website the following certifications are available for MySQL:

• Oracle Certified Associate, MySQL 5.0/5.1/5.5
• Oracle Certified Professional, MySQL 5.0 Developer
• Oracle Certified Professional, MySQL 5.0 Database Administrator
• Oracle Certified Expert, MySQL 5.1 Cluster Database Administrator

There were two new versions released since MySQL 5.0. MySQL 5.0 was released in …