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stephen.lloyd 63174 (6/6/2013)
June 7, 2013 at 1:43 am
gclausen (6/5/2013)
Great article!! Do you think it is worth learning a little bit of Java for this?
I feel it is always useful to have at least one non-SQL development language...
June 7, 2013 at 1:32 am
Out of curiousity, did you also evaluate Mongo and are you planning one of these for that as well?
I haven't evaluated MongoDB as yet. I am more likely to...
June 6, 2013 at 4:10 pm
I get frustrated with the "use this free tool" approach. I'd pay for a tool that offered reliably high lossless compression capability.
The other point I'd make is that people...
June 6, 2013 at 5:40 am
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
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