Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis: Oracle Text
Oracle has built-in functionality to analyze text. Sanil Mhatre demonstrates how to perform a sentiment analysis on data stored in a table using Oracle Text.
Be aware of the risk that you are taking when using AWS EC2 I3 instance type
The AWS I3 storage optimized instance family has a potential problem if you choose to use it for storing your data.
Unix vs PowerShell
I saw an article on using awk, sed, and grep on Linux. I used to know how to use those, though I was by no means an expert. However, working with a stream of text with an input and output was a valuable skill I've used over and over in my career. There are plenty […]
Our Top Findings from The State of Database Monitoring Survey
Over 2500 global database professionals answered questions on their experiences with database monitoring in our annual survey earlier this year. We’re creating four reports from the findings and in our first, The real-world challenges of growing server estates, you’ll discover both insights and trends along with advice for how to tackle the most common challenges.
SQL Server identity column
The SQL Server identity column is used to populate a column with incrementing numbers on insert. In this article, Greg Larsen explains how it works.
The State of Data Growth
Data continues to grow at incredible rates. That's good for those of us that make a living with data.
Array and Custom Data Types in PostgreSQL
Introduction Just like every other database, PostgreSQL has its own set of basic datatypes, like Boolean, Varchar, Text, Date, Time, etc. We can easily store data like numbers, characters, date, time, etc. using these supported datatypes, but what if we need to store multiple data elements in a single column? Suppose we are storing the […]
New Old Architectures
The idea of event driven, rather than tightly coupled architectures is one that Steve thinks data professionals should learn more about.
Oracle sequences – 12c features including “identity”
Oracle added several enhancements to the sequence object in version 12c, including an “identity” column feature. Jonathan Lewis explains how to work with these new features.
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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