Author: Markus Perdrizat
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Looking backwards over a decade of Microsof BI
Andrew Fryer is Looking backwards over a decade of Microsof BI. And while a lot has changed on the technology stack, he feels that the requirements for BI professionals is still the same. I guess it’ll be a while until my dream of a real AI being able to understand what we want without us…
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Machine Generated Data
Curt Monash has been trying to define Machine Generated Data (but Daniel Abadi doesn’t fully agree) because machine generated data is what’ll be fuelling a lot of the future growth of DB systems. Understanding MGD and its growth pattern will help design next gen DBMS. Funny enough a recent Economist piece, It’s a smart world,…
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Architecting A Database Archiving Solution
Julie Lockner has a series on Architecting A Database Archiving Solution up on the Informatica Perspectives Blog. Project owners who have done their research understand why they need an archiving solution: either to address performance degradation or increased costs (or both) due to uncontrolled data volume growth in their production databases. If that sounds familiar…
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2011 Predictions
This is the time of the year where everybody is speculating about the next year, so here’s a quick wrap-up of the Data industry’s predictions, in no particular order: TDWI Ramon Chen of RainStor Curt Monash of DBMS2 Noel Yuhanna of Forrester RainStor Informatica Progress DataDirect Riverlogic Steve Sarsfield of Talend That should give you…
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Sharding With SQL Azure
Microsoft’s announcement of a new whitepaper about Sharding With SQL Azure reminded me that MS is very good about documenting everything around SQL Azure, and there are a lot of excellent whitepapers for all aspects of SQL Azure. Go read them if you’re interested!
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Oracle Direct NFS Clonedb Feature
Kevin Closson introduces us to the Oracle 11g Direct NFS Clonedb Feature in a mini-series (part 1.5). Sounds very interesting from what I hear. And I wonder if this is a(nother) sign of Oracle going against NetApp, i.e. maybe even a sign of soon to be announced features or products that will further de-value NetApp…
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EDW Without A Database?
Forrester’s James Kobelius asks: An Enterprise Data Warehouse Without A Database—Is That Even Conceivable? Turns out the discussion is more around RDBMS vs. non-relational DBMS such as Hadoop, and he’s suggesting that we’ll see a rise of non-relational systems because of the rise of less structured content. Forrester’s school of thought also marks it perfectly…
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SQL Server 2005 SP4 RTM
One thing I completely forgot to report is that SQL Server 2005 SP4 RTM [is] Now Available for Download. Go get it while it’s hot, but also don’t forget to keep planning for your SQL 2008 R2 migration – after all the useful life of SQL 2005 is coming to an end soon.
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Time Off
Just a quick update because you may have noticed that I’m not posting as frequently as I’d like to – this is because I started playing Assassin’s Creed 2, and I’m still not through yet. And of course it doesn’t help if you stumble across the giant Boingboing joke thread… read here for one that…
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BMC Acquires GridApp
Now I know why I kept this space open and didn’t post an article in the morning… BMC is swallowing GridApp. Just as I kinda predicted three months ago. We’ll have to wait and see what that means for the other vendors in the enterprise automation space.
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