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Log Buffer #258, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Fahd Mirza — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:54:45 +0000

Database blogging is more than about announcing that your last night’s backup was successful. While that’s extremely important to keep track of, the database world across Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server technologies has grown way beyond. This Log Buffer Edition also extends beyond and more in this Log Buffer #258. Oracle: Laimis has produced a [...]

OSWOUG, RMOUG and Hotsos – Oh My!

Gwen Shapira — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:22:57 +0000

I’m traveling quite a bit in the next few weeks, here’s where you can find me: On February 14, I’ll present an Exadata war story and big data introduction to OSWOUG (Oregon and South Washington Oracle User’s Group). If you are in Portland, drop by and say hello – I will be educational and entertaining. [...]

Faster, hairy yak, shave, SHAVE!

Yanick Champoux — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:30:43 +0000

As previously reported, last week-end’s activities could be summarized as me going to town on a yak herd with a lawnmower. And although the rest of Saturday and this morning haven’t been as fast and furious as Saturday morning, there’s a few more things to report: The wish of Genehack has been answered, and a [...]

HP Cloud starts to Rain!

Mohammed Mawla — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:30:21 +0000

So HP Cloud is finally yielding for some beta rain since their announcement late Sep. It started late September when I signed up for private beta testing. They sent me this when I signed up Thanks for your interest in HP Cloud Services. We will be sure to follow up with you when access becomes [...]

Introducing Dist::Zilla::Plugin::CoalescePod

Yanick Champoux — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:30:57 +0000

Yup. Plucking the alpaca’s eyebrows again, I’m afraid… You see, because of merciless peer pressure, I’ve revived Perl::Achievements. I thought that would keep the wolves at bay, but noooo… Not a hour after the announcement was sent, I got a new feature request. I really should not but… okay, I wanted to do it anyway [...]

perl-achievements, the return

Yanick Champoux — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:11:10 +0000

So there I was, leisurely perusing my twitter feed… Oh, an entry by brian d foy? Should be interesting. So I clickety clicked, and let my eyes wander and almost immediatly fall on Yanick already has perl achievements (although it’s not on CPAN, wtf Yanick? :) As I strongly believe that the measure of a [...]

When DBCC INPUTBUFFER disappoints

goswami — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:30:22 +0000

Today we have an alert from one of the client server about blocking, I have immediately start looking at it using below statement SELECT * FROM MASTER..SYSPROCESSES WHERE BLOCKED != 0; Yes, I’ve found the culprit SPID that is occupying more resources, using DBCC INPUTBUFFER(SPID). so, instead of seeing what exactly this SPID is doing [...]

Log Buffer #257, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Fahd Mirza — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:00:15 +0000

With new year many new projects, new technologies, new frameworks and new ideas are springing up at the speed of light and bloggers in the database arena are keeping up with this pace and this Log Buffer Edition is also living up to that pace and covers some of those posts in Log Buffer #257. [...]

Installing Oracle VM Manager 3.0.3 under Dom0 host, or How to save resources on your sandbox

Yury Velikanov — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:41:09 +0000

If you are wondering why anyone would possibly need to Install Oracle VM Manager in such an unsupported way, please read my previous Oracle VM 3 related blog post. In this post, I will share with you my experience installing OVMM 3.0.3 under OVM 3.0.3 Dom0 host, including: A short and sweet action plan to [...]

Log Buffer #256, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Fahd Mirza — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:00:28 +0000

Searching for the blogging inspiration? On the look-out for that Eureka moment for your next blockbuster blog post? Finding the exact ingredients for your dream rambling? Well in the Log Buffer Edition, there are some awe-inspiring posts in this Log Buffer #256. Get Inspired, keep blogging. Oracle: If there is a notable technical database conference [...]