Log Buffer #504: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

This edition of Log Buffer covers Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL.

Oracle:

Data Pump or Data Pain Part02 – tablespace/user

Monday Spotlight: It’s About Security – Oracle Exadata SL6

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OGG Custom Adapters: How to include a unique identifier for every record in custom adapter?

One of the optimizer enhancements that appeared in 12.2 for SQL is the “band join” that makes certain types of merge join much more efficient.

Microsoft SQL Server:

How to import data to Azure SQL Data Warehouse using SSIS

Using Index-Organized Tables in Oracle

Query Performance Tuning – A Methodical Approach

SQL Server Temporal Tables: How-To Recipes

Fix Commvault Backup Failures After an Upgrade

MySQL:

MySQL may return results in non-deterministic order with ‘order by’

Shinguz: MySQL and MariaDB authentication against pam_unix

MySQL in the Cloud – Pros and Cons of Amazon RDS

With 500+ VividCortex Users, Shopify Eliminates High Latency Queries From Redis and MySQL

An Introduction to MariaDB’s Data at Rest Encryption (DARE)