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  • Aster Data with new CEO

    Aster Data Appoints New Chief Executive Officer, and current CEO Mayank Bawa will become Chief Customer Officer. I guess every startup has to go through that transition when the founding CEO has to hand over to a more seasoned exec. Wonder if the real motivation is prepping the company to be acquired, after all Quentin…

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  • Quick VoltDB Update

    451 was quick to note that VoltDB raised $5m in first round funding from undisclosed investors. Should get them further on their way to (more?) production deployments. They’ve also recently released version 1.1 with “features that enhance performance, integration and ease of production deployment”. Exactly what you’d expect from such an early stage product 🙂

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  • Oracle OpenWorld 2010

    Oracle OpenWorld 2010 is casting its shadows because it’s merely two weeks in the future now. I again didn’t manage to get sent… but the lucky few 😉 who will be there, here’s some advice: from the DWH guys on getting organized, from the OEM guys on the Top 11 Things to do, and you…

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  • HP Sues Hurd For Accepting Oracle Co-President Position

    I wasn’t going to write about Mark Hurd joining Oracle, but this is too good to ignore, or as Dave Kellogg puts it: This makes daytime soaps look boring by comparison. More in Techcrunch. And some more unique thoughts from Curt Monash.

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  • Sane SAN 2010

    In a world where SANs are just about to die from a DB perspective*, James Morle is going at them again with a series of Sane SAN 2010 articles. This is following his well received 2001 paper on the same topic, when even good DBAs had no ideas of what they’re dealing with. *) at…

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  • MongoDB is Web Scale

    Hilarious Movie: MongoDB is Web Scale! Via MyNoSQL.

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  • The problems with ACID

    Danial Abadi throws a lengthy post at the DB world: The problems with ACID, and how to fix them without going NoSQL, introducing an even longer paper that they’re going to present at this months VLDB2010 in Singapore: The Case for Determinism in Database Systems. This is good stuff, basically argueing that the reason people…

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  • Timesink

    OMG, I just wasted about 2h updating my Twitter Ruby script because I didn’t carefully read this error message: /home/maol/bin/politr_oauth.rb:39:in `authorize_from_request’: wrong number of arguments (3 for 2) (ArgumentError) from /home/maol/bin/politr_oauth.rb:39 Turns out my gem update run failed to update the twitter gem because of a missing ruby1.8-dev package on Debian, and I didn’t notice…

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  • HP buying Stratavia

    I know I’m late, but this is too important to let pass by. So HP is buying Stratavia, as reported by TechcrunchIT. It will fit nicely with what used to be Opsware and now seems to be called HP Data Center Automation Center. Quite a blow for GridApp, who I hear worked a lot with…

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  • DWH Workload Management

    Recent work has increased my awareness for Workload Managed in busy warehouses, so I read DB2 workload management with interest. And was chuckling whenI read this, because I can’t say I’ve never heard the following argument being brought forward in earnest! Sometimes, it seems, you simply don’t want queries to finish too fast. Why? Because…

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