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I am interested in the "WHAT" of Hadoop. As in what would it be used for in business? Would you or someone give some hard examples of uses?
This...
June 6, 2013 at 2:55 am
Hi David, I attended Justin's talk at SQLBits, don't know if you were also there in person (a good introduction I thought).
I was the guy at the front to whom...
June 6, 2013 at 2:40 am
There is a saying in the Agile world. If it hurts do it more often.
What it means is that if you have a pain point then work through the...
June 5, 2013 at 8:16 am
paul s-306273 (6/5/2013)
Nice article, but I doubt I have the confidence to try this at home...
With Virtual Box and Ubuntu its pretty easy to get started with Linux.
Using the Cloudera...
June 5, 2013 at 7:11 am
You are correct. Turned out to be a 3rd party app holding a schema lock.
May 31, 2013 at 1:38 pm
We are working on "infrastructure as sofware" where the entire build and more importantly the setup of a virtual machine is at the control of the command line.
Unfortunately this is...
May 24, 2013 at 2:46 am
NuoDB used to be NimbusDB. As far as I can tell NuoDB release one was in January this year.
The NewSQL arena seems to have had quite a few...
May 15, 2013 at 1:42 am
Spot on Steve.
We haven't made a commitment to the cloud as yet but vendor lock-in is a major consideration.
It has to be said that Microsoft have made a huge investment...
May 14, 2013 at 1:20 am
I've just been on a data visualisation workshop and we were shown visuals that really blew my mind.
Then the presenter said, "now tell me what the visual is actually telling...
May 10, 2013 at 1:55 am
At SQL Bits Connor Cunnigham gave the keynote speech on SQL Azure. Engineer for failure. 99.9% availability, unpredictable performance, multi-tenancy meaning you have 180 connections to a single...
May 6, 2013 at 3:25 pm
The lack of investment in research is mirrored in the lack of investment in training.
I worked for a guy who reckoned that a new employee only became really valuable after...
May 6, 2013 at 3:12 pm
Nice post. As ever the devil is in the details!
One suggestion I would make if anyone has to go through a database file move and consolidation is to double-check...
May 1, 2013 at 1:13 am
Thanks Jeff,
I recommend reading two books by Max Eggert on interviews and CVs. They were brilliant, succinct and (lets not deny it) inexpensive.
One of them said there are only...
April 30, 2013 at 2:08 am
lrbrister 44677 (4/26/2013)
And after 35 years in the industry I now realize...I need down time
So:
1. Have...
April 26, 2013 at 7:12 am
I don't think 1 billion transactions per day is that scary any more but then it depends what you mean by transaction. A transaction can be a simple record...
April 22, 2013 at 4:23 am
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