Sunday, January 18, 2015

Log Buffer #406, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Edition covers blog posts from various bloggers of Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Oracle:

Sync tables: generate MERGE using Unique constraint.
What Hardware and Software Do YOU Want Oracle to Build?
There were a number of new features introduced in Ops Center 12.2.2. One of the shiny ones is an expansion of the backup and recovery capabilities to include Proxy Controllers.
Want to Be a Better Leader? Answer One Question.
Managing a remote Oracle Database instance with “Geographic Edition”.

SQL Server:

Learn how you can use SQLCop to prevent your developers from writing stored procedures that are named sp_ something.
Data Cleaning in SQL 2012 with Data Quality Services.
Stairway to PowerPivot and DAX - Level 9: Function / Iterator Function Pairs: The DAX MAX() and MAXX() Functions.
Options to Improve SQL Server Bulk Load Performance.
Dynamically Create Tables Based on an Access Table

MySQL:

Stored Procedures: critiques and defences.
JSON UDF functions 0.3.3 have been released.
Business Scalability, Operational Efficiency and Competitive Edge with MariaDB MaxScale 1.0 GA.
MySQL 5.7 labs and the HTTP Plugin – inserting, updating and deleting records in MySQL via HTTP.
Hyper-threading – how does it double CPU throughput?

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