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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 6/12/2009
Oracle Data Warehouse Performance Issues? Solve It The Old-Fashioned Way With A Third-Party Accelerator!
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I read Curt Monash’s report on the current state of affairs at Dataupia and it got me thinking. I agree with Curt on his position toward add-on or external accelerator-type technology. See, one of Dataupia’s value propositions was to accelerate I/O for Oracle Database External Tables. To ...
Sun Is Said to Cancel Big Chip Project
bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 6/16/2009
Sun Is Said to Cancel Big Chip Project
— bits.blogs.nytimes.com — Sun Microsystems has canceled its Rock chip project after years of funding and toil, according to two... people briefed on the matter. (more) Sun Is Said to Cancel Big Chip Project

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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 6/18/2009
Staging Data For ETL/ELT? Flat Files Appear Magically! No, Load Time Starts With Transfer Time.
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — In my recent post entitled Something to Ponder? What Sort of Powerful Offering Could a Filesystem in... Userspace Be?, I threw out what may have seemed to be a totally hypothetical Teaser Post™. However, as our HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server and HP Oracle Database Machine customers know based on ... (more) Staging Data For ETL/ELT? Flat Files Appear Magically! ...

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kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 6/18/2009
Recorded Webcast Available: Exadata Storage Server Technical Deep Dive – Part IV.
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — This is just a quick blog update to point out that I updated my Papers, etc section... with a link to the recorded Exadata Storage Server Technical Deep Dive – Part IV webcast. (more) Recorded Webcast Available: Exadata Storage Server ...

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