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Oracle Database Cloud Backup
johanlouwers.blogspot.com - 6/10/2009
Oracle Database Cloud Backup
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When you are looking into the architecture of a new database system a lot of things are to be considered. Besides the applications that will be using the database you will have to think about hardware, networking, storage, failover systems, backup and recovery, etc etc etc.Traditional backup is ...
kevinclosson.wordpress.com - 6/12/2009
Oracle Data Warehouse Performance Issues? Solve It The Old-Fashioned Way With A Third-Party ...
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — 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 ... (more) Oracle Data Warehouse Performance Issues? Solve It The ...

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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 - 6/4/2009
World-Record TPC-H Result Proves Oracle Exadata Storage Server is 10x Faster Than Conventional ...
— kevinclosson.wordpress.com — Even before there is any mainstream news about the freshly audited 1,166,976 QphH 1TB Scale World Record Oracle Database 11g with Exadata Storage Server result, I’ve gotten a couple of emails asking interesting questions. But first, a disclaimer. I did not work on that benchmark—unless you count ... (more) World-Record TPC-H Result Proves Oracle Exadata Storage ...

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