I miss a proper database related newsletter for busy people. There’s so much happening in the space, from tech, to licensing, and even usage. Anyway, quick tab sweep.

Paul Vallée (of Pythian fame) has been working on Tehama for sometime, and now he gets to do it full time as a PE firm, bought control of Pythian’s services business. Pythian has more than 350 employees, and 250 customers, and raised capital before. More at Ottawa’s Pythian spins out software platform Tehama.

Database leaks data on most of Ecuador’s citizens, including 6.7 million children – ElasticSearch.

Percona has …

Sun of database technologies is shining through the cloud technology. Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and various other databases are bringing forth some nifty offerings and this Log Buffer Edition covers some of them.

Oracle:

• How to create your own Oracle database merge patch.
• Finally the work of a database designer will be recognized! Oracle has announced the Oracle Database Developer Choice Awards.
• Oracle Documents Cloud Service R4: Why You Should Seriously Consider It for Your Enterprise.
• Mixing Servers in a Server …

This Log Buffer Edition throws spotlight on some of the salient blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

• STANDARD date considerations in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
• My good friend, Oracle icon Karen Morton passed away.
• Multiple invisible indexes on the same column in #Oracle 12c
• Little things worth knowing: Data Guard Broker Setup changes in 12c …

This Log Buffer Edition covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL blogs of the running week.

Oracle:

• While checking the sources of the Cassandra/NetBeans integration into GitHub yesterday, something went very badly wrong and ALL the source files in my Maven project that disappeared!
• AWR Reports, Performance Hub, historisches SQL Monitoring in 12c
• Oracle Database Mobile Server 12c: Advanced data synchronization engine
• ORA-39001, ORA-39000 and …

Yet again, this log buffer edition brings some rich blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

• Installing Oracle XE, ORDS and Apex on CentOS
• Major Growth is Expected in the DBaaS Space. Are Your Skills Ready?
• How to Hide Actions in OBPM 12c Workspace
• You can configure auto refresh for ADF BC cached LOV and this works out of the box, no special coding is needed.
• Search and …

This Log buffer edition covers Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL blog posts about new features, tips, tricks and best practices.

Oracle:

• Traditionally, assigning specific processes to a certain set of CPUs has been done by using processor sets (and resource pools). This is quite useful, but it requires the hard partitioning of processors in the system. That means, we can’t restrict process A to run on CPUs 1,2,3 and process B to run on CPUs 3,4,5, because these partitions overlap.
• Parallel_Degree_Limit, Parallel_Max_Degree, Maximum DOP? Confused?
• JDeveloper 12c – …

Introduction

This is the sixth and final post in the series on the Pillars of PowerShell, at least part one of the final post. The previous posts in the series are:

1. Interacting
2. Commanding
3. Debugging
4. Profiling
5. Windows OS

PowerShell + SQL Server is just cool! You will see folks talk about the ability to perform a task against multiple servers at a time, automate implementing a configuration or database change, or just obtaining a bit of consistency when doing certain processes. I tend to use it just because I can, and it is fun to see what I can do. There are a …

Addition of support for Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise extends Pythian’s leadership in extreme-scale database deployments and big data services

OTTAWA, Canada – July 8, 2015 – Pythian, a global IT services company specializing in helping companies leverage disruptive technologies to optimize revenue-generating systems, today announced the general availability of its consulting and follow-the-sun managed services support for both Apache™ Cassandra™ and DataStax®, the company that delivers Apache Cassandra to the enterprise. Cassandra is an open-source, distributed database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure.

Pythian leverages an extensive suite of managed services, tools, and database experience to get organizations up and running in their Cassandra and …

This Log Buffer Edition cuts through the crowd and picks some of the outstanding blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

• Continuous Delivery (CD) is a software engineering approach in which teams keep producing valuable software in short cycles and ensure that the software can be reliably released at any time.
• Query existing HBase tables with SQL using Apache Phoenix.
• Even though WebLogic with Active GridlLink are Oracle’s suggested approach to deploy Java applications that use Oracle Real Applications Clusters (RAC), …

This Log Buffer Edition gathers a wide sample of blogs and then purifies the best ones from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

• If you take a look at the “alter user” command in the old 9i documentation, you’ll see this: DEFAULT ROLE Clause.
• There’s been an interesting recent discussion on the OTN Database forum regarding “Index blank blocks after a large update that was rolled back.”
• 12c Parallel Execution New Features: 1 SLAVE distribution
• Index Tree Dumps in Oracle 12c …