News about Database software 355 Databases 2012-02-08T17:25:31 Neal Pointer barry.david.adams@googlemail.com Monash Research Integrated Feed 2012-02-07T06:49:30

I wasn’t the only one to be dubious about Forrester Research’s Hadoop taxonomy (or lack thereof). GigaOm’s Derrick Harris was as well, and offered a much superior approach of his own. In Derrick’s view, there’s Hadoop, Hadoop distributions, Hadoop management, and Hadoop applications. Taking those out of order, and recalling that no market categorization is [...]

d3ec6a18da4353ea13f9bdaa80a72216 About.com Databases 2012-02-07T04:42:41

The MySQL database server is one of the most popular open source databases in the world. Although administrators typically install MySQL on a server operating system, it's certainly possible to ...Read Full Post

db5db4fe3510e5529c80902a075c816b Monash Research Integrated Feed 2012-02-07T03:18:25

My clients at Odiago, vendors of WibiData, have changed their company name simply to WibiData. Even better, they blogged with more detail as to how WibiData works, in what is essentially a follow-on to my original WibiData post last October. Among other virtues, WibiData turns out to be a poster child for my views on [...]

ac73b8081459d85c71f3036c01ddadff Monash Research Integrated Feed 2012-02-06T13:27:06

I talked with the Sumo Logic folks for an hour Thursday. Highlights included: Sumo Logic does SaaS (Software as a Service) log management. Sumo Logic is text indexing/Lucene-based. Thus, it is reasonable to think of Sumo Logic as “Splunk-like”. (However, Sumo Logic seems to have a stricter security/trouble-shooting orientation than Splunk, which is trying to [...]

faeff7241b56e437cc095950fe5c3a22 Monash Research Integrated Feed 2012-02-06T05:16:20

Forrester has released its Q1 2012 Forrester Wave: Enterprise Hadoop Solutions. (Googling turns up a direct link, but in case that doesn’t prove stable, here also is a registration-required link from IBM’s Conor O’Mahony.) My comments include: The Forrester Wave’s relative vendor rankings are meaningless, in that the document compares apples, peaches, almonds, and peanuts. [...]

4c850b06d27f8a6b410e3044fc196aa2 The TechSoup Blog 2012-02-02T19:58:00

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c9c8adeeea3460b674d1519ad9bbce1d About.com Databases 2012-02-02T04:12:15

One of the most common uses of a database is generating mass mailings. In this tutorial, we examine the process of creating mailing labels using Microsoft Access using the built-in ...Read Full Post

88dd7b2bd19b3be4cf3424d5838d4516 Monash Research Integrated Feed 2012-02-02T04:00:24

I checked in with James Phillips for a Couchbase update, and I understand better what’s going on. In particular: Give or take minor tweaks, what I wrote in my August, 2010 Couchbase updates still applies. Couchbase now and for the foreseeable future has one product line, called Couchbase. Couchbase 2.0, the first version of Couchbase [...]

57bb3bbf81a0c22729f360a295e21095 Eddie Awad's Blog 2012-01-31T13:00:59

I had the privilege to be a guest blogger on the ODTUG blog. I wrote about Kscope and my role in putting together the Developer’s Toolbox track as well as why you should attend Kscope. Here is a short excerpt: This year’s Kscope is a special one to me. I volunteered to lead the Developer’s [...]

9264c187804c17ee50d1c092cc6a857b About.com Databases 2012-01-31T04:24:13

In a recent forum message, MRTK2012 wrote: "Could anyone please let me know how to append a wildcard in bcp file to insert data into database? In the below example I want ...Read Full Post

5e2321536adde05c4cd94e9a09c2637c About.com Databases 2012-01-26T04:03:22

With the release of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft included Change Data Capture (CDC) functionality for the first time. This highly anticipated feature provides administrators with the ability to perform ...Read Full Post

7ae560efb7e5dcc27581a9004c7bdfc6 Monash Research Integrated Feed 2012-01-25T16:47:59

I believe IT departments should support and encourage departmental analytics efforts, where “support” and “encourage” are not synonyms for “control”, “dominate”, “overwhelm”, or even “tame”. A big part of that is: Let, and indeed help, departments have the data they want, when they want it, served with blazing performance. Three things that absolutely should NOT [...]

9760959c34848677d525c4b92394cd76 Eddie Awad's Blog 2012-01-24T16:57:19

Martin Widlake thinks so: Comments are great, you can put 4000 characters of information into the database about each table, view and column. This can be a brief description of the object, a full explanation of what a column is to hold or even a list of typical entries for a column or table. But [...]

3851c5031523b990e2988889490c3db2 Monash Research Integrated Feed 2012-01-24T14:42:34

Microsoft is launching SQL Server 2012 on March 7. An IM chat with a reporter resulted, and went something like this. Reporter: [Care to comment]? CAM: SQL Server is an adequate product if you don’t mind being locked into the Microsoft stack. For example, the ColumnStore feature is very partial, given that it can’t be [...]

14c9a1bf48089cdcad609e4ea0e91bba About.com Databases 2012-01-24T04:23:00

In a recent forum message, Kulashnikov24 wrote: "I am creating a database for my contacts in which I intend to store their visiting details with date and time and also want ...Read Full Post

7fd989c06f05d082a561ad69fadbd0ef Monash Research Integrated Feed 2012-01-23T14:29:06

Department-level adoption of analytic technology isn’t the exception; it’s the norm. Reasons include: Many analytic challenges are inherently departmental. In many cases, central IT control of analytics isn’t needed. Departments move ahead without central approval or involvement because they can. That said, arguments for centralizing analytic technology include: A lot of data is used by [...]

dfca6a762fd8f956ace6fb2b351d6a5d About.com Databases 2012-01-19T04:57:11

Foreign key constraints allow you to create relationships between data elements stored in multiple database tables. In addition to facilitating cross-table database queries (called JOINs), these relationships also ensure ...Read Full Post

2750ae4121b83aad92f13d6097d312e1 Monash Research Integrated Feed 2012-01-18T07:57:09

Couchbase in general, and CouchDB project founder Damien Katz in particular, are to some extent walking away from CouchDB. That is: The Couchbase product will not be upward compatible with CouchDB. Couchbase will no longer offer a CouchDB distribution, and is doing the natural and responsible thing, namely … … donating to the Apache Foundation [...]

36479d2da7b75ff930b4a248ae6d4b7d Monash Research Integrated Feed 2012-01-18T05:28:30

I frequently badger my clients to tell their story in the form of a company blog, where they can say what needs saying without being restricted by the rules of other formats. KXEN actually listened, and put up a pair of CTO posts that make the company story a lot clearer. Excerpts from the first [...]

41a2f73a70a430a6b755e6e5e660d807 Monash Research Integrated Feed 2012-01-17T08:02:18

This post is part of a short series on the history of analytics, covering: Historical notes on analytics — the pre-computer era Historical notes on analytic terminology (this post) Historical notes on analytics — departmental adoption Discussions of the history of analytic technology are complicated by the broad variety of product category names that have [...]

734587350e9b8c3186bc8ba5dc4e4629 About.com Databases 2012-01-17T04:21:44

In a recent forum message, Maru314 wrote: "I recently had to normalize the attached table for my final exam of my database course. I got really turned around because all ...Read Full Post

86d516c16566439aa89e1b85b7d54e33 About.com Databases 2012-01-12T04:18:03

In a recent forum message, RogD1 wrote: "Hello, I'm new to this list so bear with me. Here is the gist... I have a soil pedon (a hole in the ground) ...Read Full Post

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