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Log Buffer #164: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Welcome to the 164th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs.
SQL Server
We have a delicious assortment of technical posts from
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Taste test: Innobackup vs. Xtrabackup
Firstly, I have to thank my co-workers Singer Wang and Gerry Narvaja for doing a lot of the work that resulted in this comparison.
After running both
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Over 4 Billion Buffer Gets?
Recently I was looking into a long-running statement and noticed a curious thing. One moment, I had just over 4 billion buffer gets, and the next I
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pythian: Pythian's Alex Gorbachev is running a webinar on monitoring MySQL with Oracle Grid Control. Check is out: http://tinyurl.com/l7hnq9
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pythian: RT @piontekdd #Oracle 11gR2 to be released tomorrow. @paulvallee of #pythian has some thoughts that I agree with http://bit.ly/XbzBM
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pythian: Join us for a webinar June 4: Migrating to an Open Source DB Platform. Paul Vallee speaking. Register at http://tinyurl.com/mcob6y
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DBA, Brookfield Energy
We are very satisfied by the service given to us by Andre and Shakir in support of our recent data quality and reorganization initiative.... more
IT Apps Manager, McGrath
Catherine did excellent on this CR. Her notes are very clear and shows her knowledge of the subject. She is prompt with communicating changes. I am... more
It Administrator, St. Joseph Publishing
Pythian did a very good job to fix our Oracle problem. I sent an e-mail to their support and got a call right away. Thanks to the sales team and the... more
