{"id":1297,"date":"2007-07-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2007-07-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T12:00:00","slug":"todays-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/16\/todays-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few interesting blog postings I&#8217;ve been reading this week.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Lewis on <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathanlewis.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/14\/analysing-statspack-6\/\">another Statspack example<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nuno Souto on SQL Server &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dbasrus.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/vs-b-part-i.html\">in<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/dbasrus.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/vs-b-part-ii.html\">three<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/dbasrus.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/vs-b-grand-final.html\">parts<\/a>. What I particularly like about these postings is that the man has used both and is honest about their relative strengths and weaknesses, rather than sticking to the party line.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pythian.com\/blogs\/530\/rajs-mysql-top-five-wishlist\">Raj Thukral on MySQL<\/a> and, despite his Oracle background I know that Raj is pretty positive about MySQL in general. (I almost called him a MySQL fan!)<\/p>\n<p>Alex Gorbachev admires <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pythian.com\/blogs\/547\/total-recall-by-dude-extracting-oracle-data-after-raid-corruption\">&#8220;Kurt, the Dude guy&#8217;s&#8221; tool<\/a> (so to speak).<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Closson has so many interesting posts at the moment that I&#8217;ll just point you to <a href=\"http:\/\/kevinclosson.wordpress.com\/\">his blog<\/a> again &#128521;<\/p>\n<p>(Now, which blog does this posting belong in, again? I&#8217;ve forgotten already &#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few interesting blog postings I&#8217;ve been reading this week. Jonathan Lewis on another Statspack example. Nuno Souto on SQL Server &#8211; in three parts. What I particularly like about these postings is that the man has used both and is honest about their relative strengths and weaknesses, rather than sticking to the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/16\/todays-links\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today&#8217;s Links<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1267,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/18\/log-buffer-45\/","url_meta":{"origin":1297,"position":0},"title":"Log Buffer #45","date":"May 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It's my turn again and, looking back at Log Buffer #4, I was amazed to realise that we're up to number 45 already and that my previous attempt was last August. 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Even worse, it's not technical but (cough) opinion and analysis \ud83d\ude41I saw Justin Kestelyn's blog last week and my immediate reaction was slightly sympathetic, but I decided to sit back for a few days and watch the fun develop,\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 11 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1191,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/27\/dba-documentation-catalogue\/","url_meta":{"origin":1297,"position":4},"title":"DBA Documentation &#8211; Catalogue","date":"January 27, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Prompted by Linda's comment on a previous blog, I thought it might be worth writing a couple of postings on DBA documentation.The first thing you need is a Database Catalogue of some kind.Benefits1) Even an experienced DBA arriving on site won't know what servers exist, how to login to them,\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 11 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":993,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/14\/serendipity\/","url_meta":{"origin":1297,"position":5},"title":"Serendipity","date":"June 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I've received at least four emails and blog comments that amount to 'Why on earth would you choose Serendipity when Wordpress is the best'. 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