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A different view on a “Database Appliance” concept

2010-07-21T12:57:41-07:00

As the open source faithful have gathered in Portland for the annual O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) Canonical, the company behind an ever popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, announced that it has paired up the latest version of the free DB2 Express-C v9.7 with the latest version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to deliver a free enterprise-grade cloud database appliance.

Not that kind of an appliance

Database appliances, especially for data warehousing, are all the rage. These database appliances deliver a package of hardware and database software that are put together and optimized by the DBMS vendor. Most of [...]

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Top 3 ways to return TOP 10 rows by an SQL query

2010-07-14T07:01:03-07:00

Limiting amount of data returned by a database to an application is probably the easiest and the most effective way to improve performance your application. DB2 provides 3 ways of accomplishing this. You can use DB2 SQL FETCH FIRST n ROWS syntax. You can use SQL syntax of another DBMS like MySQL, Oracle or Sybase, or you can do this in a database independent way by using the capabilities provided by the database API you are using in your application code. [...]

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Will Oracle lay off more MySQL people?

2010-06-10T17:35:34-07:00

This really interesting article just crossed my desk. It looks like Oracle’s latest SEC filing is a pretty good indication of massive layoffs still coming as a result of the SUN acquisition. There is no way to tell which part of the business the layoffs will be in but I wonder if MySQL is affected. MySQL is not exactly a cash cow for Oracle and the business seems to be drying up as many loyal MySQL customers are heading for alternative sources of support for MySQL. It is not really cool or fiscally responsible to get support for [...]

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Move over Oprah, DB2NightShow.com is moving up in ratings

2010-06-07T20:04:20-07:00

Late night television has been almost a competitive and turbulent as database market of late. We have the whole Jay Leno vs. Conan O’Brien – The Tonight Show dilemma. Then there is Oprah Winfrey announcing end of her show. And then there is Charlie Sheen talking about quitting Two and a Half Men; now this one will hurt.

But I digress. Scott Hayes of Database-Brothers Inc. has decided to combine his love for databases and passion for good entertainment to start a DB2NightShow.com. The format is more like Tonight Show but there is no band. The jokes are [...]

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Let DB2 tell you where to go and what to do there

2010-06-01T11:28:56-07:00

Last week I blogged about the rise in importance of location-based data. The timing was not a coincidence. I am a bit of a gadget freak and last week was a pretty important event in the world of gadgets and technology in general. For the first time ever Apple, a company specializing in mobile devices, became the largest technology company in the world, edging out Microsoft, a traditional computing company. Because pretty much every mobile device today comes with ability to capture location data, I am convinced that we are entering a stage where location data will become ubiquitous.

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DBAs, pay attention: PC is out, iPhone is in

2010-05-26T16:27:14-07:00

For the past 20 years, the world has experienced computing through an IBM invention called Personal Computer through the user experience controlled by Microsoft. A generation of users have come to expect to see the world through the Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office interface. Microsoft has reaped the benefits by becoming world’s largest technology company, making Bill Gates world’s richest person (second richest as of March 10, 2010) and creating an ecosystem of tens of thousands of technology companies. Today, May 26 2010 marks a very important event in the history of technology. Today Apple has surpassed Microsoft [...]

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Top 3 things for data: location, location, location

2010-05-25T15:50:59-07:00

Just like in real estate, location plays a huge role in making data relevant. When it comes to computing, we are no longer chained to our office desks and a large Windows machine. The computing device of choice today is an iPhone, or an a new Android based device, not an old and clunky desktop PC. The new generation and the new population uses phones to compute. In India alone, 15 million mobile telephone subscribers were added every months in 2008. That is like getting the entire population of Canada – every man, woman and child – as [...]

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Poking a little fun at Oracle

2010-05-12T21:57:38-07:00

Larry Ellison has quite the reputation for shooting his mouth off . Ever since Oracle acquired Sun he has been on a tear driveling out half truths on a regular basis. I suspect he is doing this just because he can; he is Larry Ellison after all. So what if he gets fined $10K by TPC. That is a trivial expense compared to the marketing value his “rants” generate.

Well, we decided to poke some fun at Oracle. Why? Just because we can.

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Steve Jobs: Flash is not open

2010-04-29T19:59:52-07:00

Last week I asked a question if Apple went too far in its attack on Flash. This question generated a lively discussion on reddit. While my point was that Apple iPhone SDK restricts choice of development tools/languages to be only Objective-C, most comments centered on the merits of Flash. Steve Jobs felt compelled to add more fuel to this fire and published an open letter Thoughts on Flash. In this letter Steve Jobs explains why Apple has banned Flash. Basic just is that he believes it is proprietary, buggy, security challenged, battery draining technology and that Apple’s (his) [...]

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Has Apple gone too far in its attack on Adobe Flash?

2010-04-22T16:28:17-07:00

I don’t speak for IBM and I don’t express opinions of IBM if there ever was such a thing. I spend the last 25 years in the IT industry and I have to say that I have rarely seen such blatant disregard for the freedom of choice as Apple has done in its now infamous Clause 3.3.1 of the Apple iPhone OS SDK License. It reads like this:

Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, [...]

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