Updated: 2011-09-30 19:20:53
Alex Williams noticed that there will be a NoSQL session at Oracle OpenWorld next week, and is wondering whether this will be a big deal. I think it won’t be. There really are three major points to NoSQL. Dynamic schemas. This is the only one of the three that truly depends on NoSQL. Scale-out short-request [...]
Updated: 2011-09-29 06:41:11
Are you interested in trying out pivot tables but perhaps have always been intimidated by this advanced spreadsheet functionality? In this first of a series of tutorials, we demystify ...Read Full Post
Updated: 2011-09-27 07:55:12
In a recent forum post, Tink82 wrote:
"I use Microsoft Access 2007 to create and print bar codes for books in a library. I have tried to print the bar codes, ...Read Full Post
Updated: 2011-09-26 06:50:35
I put up 14 posts over the past week, so perhaps you haven’t had a chance yet to read them all. Highlights included: My most important post of the week was a general guide to IT vendor strategy. That one has already spawned discussion at many companies, from the tiny to the multi-billion-dollar. The best [...]
Updated: 2011-09-25 12:48:18
Ingres, the company, is: Changing its name to Actian. Deemphasizing Ingres, the product. Emphasizing a set of products that don’t exist yet (or at least aren’t shipping), namely lightweight mobile apps that are business-intelligence-plus-an-action, and technology for building them. These are called “Action Apps”, and are discussed on the Actian company blog. Positioning all this [...]
Updated: 2011-09-25 06:04:35
Closing out my recent round of Teradata-related posts, here’s a little anomaly: Teradata is proud that Teradata 14′s workload management now explicitly manages I/O, to go with Teradata’s long-standing management of CPU. Teradata’s WLM still does not explicitly manage RAM. Aster is proud that Aster 5′s workload management now explicitly manages RAM, to go along [...]
Updated: 2011-09-25 04:50:02
Evidently further attempts to get information on this subject would be fruitless, but anyhow: Teradata emailed me a couple of months ago saying something like that at that point they could count 16 petabyte-level customers. In response to my repeated requests for clarification, Teradata has explicitly refused to identify the metric used in reaching that [...]
Updated: 2011-09-23 08:59:42
1. EMC Greenplum has evolved its appliance product line. As I read that, the latest announcement boils down to saying that you can neatly network together various Greenplum appliances in quarter-rack increments. If you take a quarter rack each of four different things, then Greenplum says “Hooray! Our appliance is all-in-one!” Big whoop. 2. That [...]
Updated: 2011-09-23 00:23:12
The DataStax and Cassandra stories are somewhat confusing. Unfortunately, DataStax chose to clarify them in what has turned out to be a crazy news week. I’m going to use this post just to report on the status of the DataStax product line, without going into any analysis beyond that. Pro tip: If you choose to [...]
Updated: 2011-09-22 19:06:30
Busy couple of days talking with reporters. A few notes on hybrid-columnar analytic DBMS, all backed up by yesterday’s post on Teradata columnar: Oracle does not actually offer columnar I/O; the other three systems do. But see the “I won’t be surprised” part in yesterday’s Teradata post. Aster does not offer columnar compression; the other [...]
Updated: 2011-09-22 18:44:31
It is widely rumored that there will be a leadership change at HP (Meg Whitman in, Leo Apotheker out). In connection with that, I found myself holding forth on points such as: HP needs to make outstanding enterprise systems again. They fell away from that target under Mark Hurd, but they surely can hit it [...]
Updated: 2011-09-22 06:56:45
It was obviously just a matter of time before there would be an Aster appliance from Teradata and some tuned bidirectional Teradata-Aster connectivity. These have now been announced. I didn’t notice anything particularly surprising in the details of either. About the biggest excitement is that Aster is traditionally a Red Hat shop, but for the [...]
Updated: 2011-09-22 05:29:26
Looking for an easy way to keep track of charitable contributions to your organization? This charitable contributions database template for Microsoft Access 2007 provides you with the ability ...<pRead Full Post
Updated: 2011-09-20 14:00:49
A BLOB data type stores unstructured binary large objects. A table column with a BLOB data type can be used to store all types of files such a documents, spreadsheets, images and plain text. You can manage BLOB columns by easily adding file upload and download functionality to a form you create using Oracle Application [...]
Updated: 2011-09-20 05:25:02
The data control language (DCL) provides database administrators with the ability to grant users database permissions, revoke permissions previously granted and deny users permissions that they might have previously inherited ...Read Full Post
Updated: 2011-09-15 06:29:58
Are you looking for a convenient way to reuse code among MySQL applications? With the release of MySQL 5, developers may now take advantage of a powerful tool once ...Read Full Post
Updated: 2011-09-13 06:26:13
In a recent forum message, JH asks:
"I am wondering if anyone can tell me if it is possible to mine and organize data from Adobe Livecycle Designer forms (fillable pdf ...Read Full Post
Updated: 2011-09-08 05:32:27
Are you just getting started with the Structured Query Language? If you're looking for some resources that will help you get a foothold in the world of relational database ...Read Full Post
Updated: 2011-09-06 06:18:35
In a recent forum message, Jakub wrote:
"I've just finished an SSMS add-in which, I suppose, might be helpful to many people in the SQL Server community. Core idea of this ...Read Full Post
