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Webinars
- Oracle RAC Workload Management with Alex Gorbachev (Quicktime, 26.8 Mb)
- Oracle RAC — Why VIPs? with Alex Gorbachev
- Oracle 10g Block Change Tracking Inside Out (ppt 555kb)
- Partitioning in MySQL 5.1 by Sheeri K. Cabral
Papers & Books
- MySQL Administrator's Bible by Sheeri K. Cabral
- Oracle RAC Workload Management Whitepaper by Alex Gorbachev
- 8 Rules for Designing More Secure Applications with MySQL
- Pythian in eWeek: The Backstory by Paul Vallée
- What is Behind Pythian’s Growth and Market Success? by Paul Vallée
- The Seven Deadly Habits of a DBA ... and How to Cure Them by Paul Vallée
- The Quick and Easy RMAN Restore
- Downloading from OTN Directly to your Database Server
- How to Install 32-bit Oracle on an x86-64 Platform
- Oracle 10g Block Change Tracking Inside Out by Alex Gorbachev
- Extending Oracle 10g Grid Control
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Blog
Log Buffer #210, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
shapira
Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly news update of happenings in the database world. Its the holiday season and many DBAs would rather cuddle at home with their family rather than do exciting work and blog about it. Can you imagine? Many thanks to Fahd Mizra who helped me by collecting DB2 news. Grab your snuggie [...]
Give Me Reason, Take Me Higher
Fahd Mirza
Give Me Freedom, Give Me Fire Give Me Reason, Take Me Higher Database administrators can get rusty pretty much quickly, and then they fall in a routine. In a typical company, they install and manage the same set of database servers. Soon they know the ins and outs of those databases. They know the pulse of their [...]
MetaCPAN FTW!
Yanick Champoux
Right now, Galuga has a widget that lists my CPAN distributions. But it’s a boring old static affair that is updated manually. Surely in this age of the Web 2.0, I can do better than that. My first instinct that to go straight for my CPAN author page and extract the information off the HTML: sub [...]
Getting Around Expiration Dates via Reincarnation (and Catalyst)
Yanick Champoux
Web applications typically have a bunch of static files — images, css and javascript, that kind of stuff — that almost never change. For all but the simplest apps, it’s usually a good idea to let the browser know that it can cache and reuse those files, so that we can all save a little [...]
