Just woke up. Checked my Twitter and boom! two hot news:

Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire BEA Systems, Inc. Sun Microsystems announced that it has agreed to acquire MySQL for $1 billion in cash

What a lovely database themed morning. Expect more coverage from the blogosphere today.

Update: But wait, here is a […]

Welcome to the 73rd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database related blogs. Without further ado, here it is, in no specific order:

Lewis Cunningham of An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology, in his RAT smelling post, asks about Real Application Testing (RAT) and its relationship with other acronyms like Fake Application Testing (FAT), […]

With support for stored procedures, functions, and triggers in MySQL 5.0, last month, O’Reilly published a new book titled MySQL Stored Procedure Programming. The book is co-authored by non other than my favorite Oracle PL/SQL guru and author of many Oracle books Steven Feuerstein.

As far as I know, this is Steven’s first book that is […]

I stumbled upon an article about open source databases. I’ve always thought that MySQL and PostgreSQL were the only open source databases out there, but it turns out that there are quite a few more.

Here is a list of open source databases that are mentioned in the article:

I stumbled upon a a technical white paper that provides a feature comparison between MSSQL 2005 (Yukon) and Oracle 10g databases. Here are a few points I noted from the paper, quoting: