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What’s so sacred about relational anyway?
Dedicated to NoSQL and Big Data expert Gwen Shapira for forcing me to think. Bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day—American philosopher Ralph Waldo...
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Oracle 12c Gives Fresh Life to the Relational Database Movement
Reblogged from So Many Oracle Manuals, So Little Time: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Francisco (April 1, 2013) – In a dramatic move calculated to give fresh life to the moribund relational database...
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A Brief History of Exadata Time by Juan Loaiza
The full article is available in the 106th issue of the NoCOUG Journal. “we leveraged our 20–30 years of database experience to determine what would be the ideal platform for running the Oracle...
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Top 12 reasons why you should NOT attend the NoCOUG conference tomorrow...
#12 All NoCOUG emails automatically go to your spam folder, including this one. You rely on Outlook for career guidance. #11 They won’t send a stretch limousine to pick you up and take you back. #10...
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Ten more reasons not to attend the NoCOUG summer conference on August 15
You’ve already read the “Top 12 reasons why you should not attend a NoCOUG conference.” Here are ten more to keep you away from the summer conference on Thursday, August 15 at Chevron in San Ramon. #10...
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No! to SQL and No! to NoSQL
See also : What’s so sacred about relational anyway? The opinions of relational theoreticians C. J. Date and Hugh Darwen about SQL are well known but they have not previously commented on the NoSQL...
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Solve the Oracle Database murder mystery and win a free ticket for yourself...
You may remember this children’s song from kindergarten or you can listen to this YouTube video: “Ten green bottles hanging on the wall Ten green bottles hanging on the wall And if one green bottle...
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No! to SQL and No! to NoSQL
Reblogged from So Many Oracle Manuals, So Little Time: See also : What’s so sacred about relational anyway? The opinions of relational theoreticians C. J. Date and Hugh Darwen about SQL are well known...
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Solve the Oracle Database murder mystery and win a free ticket for yourself...
Reblogged from So Many Oracle Manuals, So Little Time: You may remember this children’s song from kindergarten or you can listen to this YouTube video: “Ten green bottles hanging on the wall Ten green...
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Be Very Afraid: An interview with the CTO of database security at McAfee
Security should be on everybody’s mind after the revelations of Chrome’s password insanity and the claim that cloud computing companies may lose as much as $35 billion dollars because of the...
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The Mistakes of the Relational Camp: Mistake #1: The de-emphasis of physical...
See also : No! to SQL and No! to NoSQL The inventor of the relational model, Dr. Edgar “Ted” Codd believed that the suppression of physical database design details was the chief advantage of the...
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SQL or NoSQL? A Buyer’s Guide
See also : No! to SQL and No! to NoSQL The NoSQL camp claims to have the lead in performance, scalability, and availability. Should you use SQL or NoSQL for your next project? A well-known database...
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The Mistakes of the Relational Camp: Mistake #1: The de-emphasis of physical...
Reblogged from So Many Oracle Manuals, So Little Time: See also : No! to SQL and No! to NoSQL The inventor of the relational model, Dr. Edgar “Ted” Codd believed that the suppression of physical...
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SQL v/s NoSQL: Amazon v/s eBay and the false premise of NoSQL
Update: The recording is now available at http://www.confio.com/webinars/nosql-big-data/. The slide deck is at...
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SQL v/s NoSQL: Amazon v/s eBay and the false premise of NoSQL
Here is the poll data from the Confio-sponsored webinar “NoSQL and Big Data for the Oracle DBA” and my answers to the questions asked in the chat. The recording of the webinar is now available at...
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Statements in support of NoSQL and Big Data technology by the inventor of the...
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”...
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The Twelve Days of NoSQL: Day Four: Sharding
On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me Four colly birds. (Yesterday: Functional Segmentation)(Tomorrow: Replication and Eventual Consistency) Let’s recap what we have covered so far....
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The Twelve Days of NoSQL: Day Five: Replication and Eventual Consistency
On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me Five golden rings. (Yesterday: Sharding)(Tomorrow: The False Premise of NoSQL) By now, you must be wondering when I’m going to get around to...
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The Twelve Days of NoSQL: Day Six: The False Premise of NoSQL
On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me Six geese a-laying. (Yesterday: Replication and Eventual Consistency)(Tomorrow: Schemaless Design) The final hurdle was extreme performance, and...
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The Twelve Days of NoSQL: Day Seven: Schemaless Design
On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me Seven swans a-swimming. (Yesterday: The False Premise of NoSQL)(Tomorrow: Oracle NoSQL Database) As we discussed on Day One, NoSQL consists of...
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