Log Buffer #404, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

With new year already in fast gear, bloggers are sparing no stone unturned to come up with innovative ideas. This Log Buffer edition is keeping pace with them as always.

Oracle:

While playing with 12c Scott tried the upgrade to the DEFAULT column syntax that now allows sequences.
This is an age old question and of course the answer depends on how you say “SQL”.
Happy New Year! Upgraded 12.1.0.1 Grid Infrastructure to 12.1.0.2 and applied the Oct 2014 PSU. Had an error during rootupgrade.sh as well, due to the ASM spfile being on disk instead of on ASM diskgroup.
If you (already) created your first Oracle Service Bus 12c application/project with SOAP webservices and tried to deploy it to your IntegratedWeblogic server you might be familiar with this error.
Using Drag-Drop functionality in af:treeTable to move data between nodes.

SQL Server:

Hadoop has been making a lot of noise in the Big Data world.
Lets look at two different ways of creating an HDInsight Cluster: Creating an HDInsight Cluster through Azure Management Portal, and creating an HDInsight Cluster through Windows Azure PowerShell.
Why you need test driven development.
SQL Server Data Import System to Alert For Missed Imports.
Create stunning visualizations with Power View in 20 minutes or less!

MySQL:

So assume you just uploaded the certificate you use to identify yourself to the MySQL server to Github or some other place it doesn’t belong…and there is no undelete.
MySQL Plugin for Oracle Enterprise Manager on VirtualBox: installation gotchas.
MariaDB slave restore using GTID & xtrabackup bug.
How small changes impact complex systems – MySQL example.
In this post, Louis talk about MHA GTID behavior, we test different cases and find something is different from previous versions.

Also Published at Pythian Blog.