Log Buffer #21: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

re: Log Buffer #21: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Dave Edwards — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:35:26 GMT

Adam: "There's no worse feeling than coming in on a Monday morning...only to discover that you've been snarfed over the weekend."

Hey Adam, speak for yourself -- I like getting snarfed over the weekend. No accounting for taste, I guess. And I'm not convinced that a dangling cursor is any more indecent than a hanging chad.

Dave. ;o)

re: Log Buffer #21: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Mike Kruckenberg — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:40:04 GMT

Nicely done, I like the tone and readability.

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Denis the SQL Menace — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:47:46 GMT

Thanks Adam you must have known I hate free time ;-)

Denis

re: Log Buffer #21: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Toby — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 15:04:18 GMT

"Metadata management under a new name"? That's a strikingly ignorant remark - as is your Linux slam, "most installations are incredibly unstable". Bias showing?

re: Log Buffer #21: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Paul Vallee — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:01:44 GMT

Toby, dude, it's a blog not journalism. Your editorial stance should be worn on your sleeve!

The answer isn't to slam Adam's work, it's to host your own Log Buffer, eh?

Cheers, and chill,

Paul

re: Log Buffer #21: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Greg Linwood — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:05:39 GMT

Linux was stable enough to blow SQL Server away under an Oracle TPC-C benchmark yesterday. Not only more transactions per sec than SQL Server's biggest benchmark, but it was also only using half the # of CPUs.. Heck, I'm a big SQL Server fan, but let's keep it real (c:

re: Log Buffer #21: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Adam Machanic — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:49:22 GMT

I don't know or claim to know about how stable Linux is or is not (at least, in its current state.) In a previous life, several years ago, I was a Linux administrator. We had one server that hadn't been rebooted for over a year and a half. I can't remember ever seeing a Windows box last nearly that long. So as far as I'm concerned Linux is/was pretty stable. But I was just reporting on what Brian Aker said about Linux. So if you have an axe to grind, it's with him, not me! I might be doing SQL Server today, but who knows what tomorrow will bring -- no playing favorites on THIS blog... I only play LEAST favorites (i.e., Oracle ;-p)

re: Log Buffer #21: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Greg Linwood — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:42:38 GMT

Sorry Adam - I didn't mean to single you out there, I was really just responding to the quote. It read to me as if nothing's happening in the Oracle / Linux world but the reality is Oracle & Linux just blew SQL Server away in TPC yesterday - more throughput on half the processor capacity is a big fat message that will probably outweigh the negative perception of security vulnerabilities in the long run. It's far easier to fix a few buffer overruns than to make the architectural changes necessary to squeeze more performance from the engine.

Cheers,
Greg

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Mladen — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:50:22 GMT

Hey there!
Multi connection Hi perf timer was my next step so here you go:
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp/archive/2006/12/02/39124.aspx

re: Log Buffer #21: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Jeff Hunter — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:26:34 GMT

Please, please, please tell the whole story.

http://marist89.blogspot.com/2006/11/where-am-i-deploying-mysql.htm

http://sheeri.net/archives/148

http://marist89.blogspot.com/2006/11/where-am-i-deploying-mysql-revisited.html

http://marist89.blogspot.com/2006/11/where-am-i-deploying-mysql-revisited_29.html

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Sheeri — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:34:11 GMT

It really doesn't matter *how many* security bugs they are, but really *how vulnerable* the software is. If there's only 1 security bug, but the bug is that it's using cleartext passwords, then it's a huge problem.

re: Log Buffer #21: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Adam Machanic — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:08:26 GMT

It could be argued that neither the number of security bugs, nor how vulnerable the software "actually" is, matters. What really matters is public perception of how vulnerable the software is -- which is probably not at all aligned to reality in most cases.

re: Log Buffer #21: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Peter W. DeBetta — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:28:55 GMT

A fix to Jeff Hunter's comment. The links aren't working, so I am posting them again...

http://marist89.blogspot.com/2006/11/where-am-i-deploying-mysql.html

http://sheeri.net/archives/148

http://marist89.blogspot.com/2006/11/where-am-i-deploying-mysql-revisited.html

http://marist89.blogspot.com/2006/11/where-am-i-deploying-mysql-revisited_29.html