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Category: Technology

  • Harnessing the Power of PowerPivot in the Enterprise

    Check out Harnessing the Power of PowerPivot in the Enterprise for some advice on how to tackle the next big challenge after migrating MS Access DBs to more controlled enterprise offerings. Most companies have, at some point, spent a fortune transitioning, changing platforms of, or supporting mission-critical applications written in MS Access by users who…

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  • Vertica’s FlexStore for Flash

    Vertica used last week’s TDWI Conference to announce its FlexStore for Flash in Vertica & Flash: Runaway Performance at a Low Price. Good stuff, more vendors should provide that flexibility around different data tiers. Although I’m not sure we need all that (flexibility comes with complexity, and complexity it bad, but I guess you knew…

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  • TDWI Summary

    Merv Adrian has the authoritative write-up on the TDWI Conference last week in More TDWI Notes – ParAccel Rolling On, HP Stalled, Vertica Leading Insurgents, but Netezza also talks about it in Thinking about Right-Time Analytics in the Big Data Era at TDWI. Plus more on related announcements from Vertica at another day.

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  • Teradata Product Strategy

    I’ve had Teradata on the phone yesterday, maybe will talk about that later. For now, here’s what Curt Monash has to say about what he heard from them: Teradata’s future product strategy. Single DBMS, capable of meeting all analytic needs while running in a single instance, usually running on … … proprietary hardware … ……

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  • Oracle RAC on VirtualBox

    Oracle RAC on VirtualBox is now possible because VirtualBox now supports shared disks. Tim Hall of ORACLE-BASE fame has added a write-up of all the steps required to get 11gR2 RAC on VirtualBox up and running. Thx Tim!

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  • Oracle Mergers & Acquisitions: Who’s Next?

    Stephen Jannise of Distribution Software Advice put together a nice speculate post about Oracle’s next acquisition targets based on an analysis of the last five years worth of acquisitions: Oracle Mergers & Acquisitions: Who’s Next? Teradata, Informatica and Tibco are his straightforward ideas – go read his article for more.

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  • Just say No to NoSQL

    If today’s title sounds familiar to you, then that’s because yesterday’s title was Just say NoSQL. Here’s a little report on Why NoSQL is bad for startups from a person who has actually tried it, instead of the usual SQL fanboys who tout traditional RDBMS’ because that’s all they know.

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  • Just say NoSQL

    Following up on Friday’s post about NoSQL basics, here are two posts getting started with NoSQL. Getting Started with NoSQL focuses on how would someone start learning and using NoSQL databases and the path to follow in this new ecosystem. And Just say NoSQL is a series of quotes from analysts, Web 2.0 developers and…

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  • NoSQL Ecosystem

    Jonathan Ellis from the Cassandra project published a fantastic overview of the current NoSQL ecosystem in late 2009. He analyzed 10 popular NoSQL databases along three axes: horizontal scalability, data model and internal persistence design. It’s a great read, and still pretty much valid as of today. I stumbled upon it via Emil Eifrem from…

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  • The Importance of IMDB for SAP

    Former SAP exec Dennis Moore offers a theory as to why SAP cares so much about in-memory DBMS. It’s to integrate business processes, because SAP has no other software layer good at doing same (via RDBMS2). If […] SAP were to undertake a rewrite of its application server tier to replace all calls to a…

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