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It’s the 84th blog-tacular edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs! We begin with some Oracle security news. A tutorial of Oracle’s on defending against SQL injection attacks gets a good review on Pete Finnigan’s Oracle security weblog. Pete writes, “This is a superb tutoral, well written and positioned just right. . . . [...]

Welcome to the 82nd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Some MySQL news to start. They call the engine Maria. “They” being MySQL AB co-founder Monty Widenius, and Maria being his new storage engine for MySQL. On his new blog, Monty Says, Monty says Maria is, “. . . a crash-safe alternative [...]

Welcome to the 77th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. This is the last Log Buffer of 2007. . . a time for looking back at the year, looking ahead to the next, and generally focusing on time. It may not be the Oscars, but Firebird News is thrilled that Firebird is Sourceforge’s [...]

Welcome to the 75th edition (a.k.a. the Diamond Edition) of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Let’s get things started with some views of the recently finished UKOUG Conference & Exhibition. On blog.gralike.com, Marco Gralike put together a list of articles offering just that, including reporting from Doug Burns, Mark Rittman, Daniel Fink, [...]

Eddie Awad, Oracle blogger extraordinaire, has published the 73rd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Daniel Crook is on-deck, but won’t bat until January. That leaves plenty of room for others, so I invite you to get involved. Send an email to the Log Buffer coordinator (that would be me). Here’s Eddie [...]

Welcome to the 71st edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. There were so many blogs covering this week’s Oracle Open World that I could have devoted this entire edition only to that. But that would not be fair to those other DBMSs, all of which are fine DBMSs in their own [...]

Welcome to the 69th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. We start this edition with an item about getting started: K. Brian Kelley’s first installment of Becoming a DBA on Databases, Infrastructure, and Security. It purposes to answer the question, what does it take to become a DBA? “(The) definition of [...]

Welcome to the 66th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, raking up the blogs like so many fallen leaves. Fall back, spring ahead… Remember all the fuss last spring about the change in Daylight Saving Time? Well, it’s back, at least if you neglected it the first time. Thanks to [...]

Craig Mullins has weathered a very heavy week in the ’sphere and published the 63rd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, on Data Management Today. Log Buffer’s dance-card is almost empty now. LB wants your attentions! If you’re a new database blogger, editing and publishing an edition of LB on your [...]

Steve Karam, The Oracle Alchemist, saved the skin of a harried LB administrator this week (that would be me), stepping up at the last moment to edit and publish the 60th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Thank you, Steve! Next week, Arnold Daniels does LB#61 on Arnold?s wor(l)ds. [...]

Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski has published the 57th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, on </depesz>. Next week, J.Pipes will do LB#58, and #59 will appear on Chen Shapira’s I?m just a simple DBA…. To join the roll with these and other intrepid (!) LB editor-publishers, contact the Log Buffer admin. Hubert Depesz [...]

The 55th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, is published on the Ardent Performance Computing Blog, thanks to Jeremy Schneider. Hasan Tonguç Yilmaz’s Oracle Blog takes next week’s LB. Please send an email to the Log Buffer administrator if you’d like to edit and publish an edition of your own. Jeremy Schneider’s [...]

The 52nd edition of Log Buffer is up, edited by Dominic Brooks and published on his blog, OraStory. On deck, Daniel Fink. Boy, these Oracle people sure know how to blog! We haven’t heard from a MySQL blogger since Ronald Bradford did Log Buffer #47, from an PostgreSQL blogger since Robert Treat’s #27, [...]

Pawel Barut has published the 48th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, on his blog, Software Engineer Thoughts. Coskan Gundogar takes it up next week, but the schedule is quite open after him. Log Buffer wants you! Read the Log Buffer homepage and get in touch if you’d like to [...]

Welcome to the 46th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. PGCon 2007 has been happening just a few blocks from where I sit, and judging by what the bloggers have to say, organizer Dan Langille has done a great job putting together a very full conference. Let’s start with some blogs [...]

Welcome to the 44th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly compendium of database blogs. This one’s a grab-bag. Let’s start with some Oracle stuff this week. Christian Shay notes that Oracle 10g for Windows Vista, is available for download. That is sure to please Oracle doyen and fervent Vista booster Doug Burns, who also has [...]

Beth Breidenbach, having braved a week thick with posts from the MySQL Conference, has published the 42nd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, on Confessions of a database geek. Good one, Beth! Here’s Log Buffer #42.

Welcome to the 41st edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. There is rarely any shortage of commentary on conferences in the world of databases. This week is no exception, with one or two waiting in the wings and another fading into the past. That would be Collaborate ‘07. Here’s a sample [...]