Monthly Archives: June 2011

IBM announces computer memory breakthrough

IBM researchers have successfully stored multiple bits of data in the cells of phase-change memory chips. This will allow the creation of non-volatile memory with as much capacity as NAND flash but with vastly greater performance and longevity for ente… Continue reading

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Oracle 12 naming ?

At a social today, someone mentioned that oracle 12 would break from the ‘g’ Grid naming as in 11g, to ‘c’, as in cloud. So release 12 will be named oracle 12c. Interesting. I wonder what other options are available … Continue reading

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Netezza gives enterprises big data they can digest

Giving enterprises big data they can digest Netezza sprinkled an appliance philosophy over a complex suite of technologies, making it easier for enterprises to get started. But the real reason for IBM’s offer was that the company reset the price/performance … Continue reading

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IBM study defines futuristic networked devices for healthcare

IBM came out with a study this week that looks at what future healthcare applications and devices, be they PCs, tablet or smartphone might look like. Continue reading

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Data Warehouse Appliances – Simplifying the Delivery of Analytics

So if you would have told me 5 years ago that myself and several key architects from my data warehouse Best Practices Team would be sitting at the opening day together of the IBM Netezza User conference – welI would have fallen out of my chair laughi… Continue reading

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Netezza Variable ?

Basically I have a query built that includes four sub queries.I use a timestamp in each one of the sub queries WHERE clause, and is becoming tedious to update this everytime I run the query. Is it possible to DECLARE a variable as a time stamp and then… Continue reading

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For data warehousing, “light-concurrency” means wait-times.

You might think this analogy is a little crazy when thinking about computers and computer software, but let me explain a little more.

In today’s global, dynamic environment, agile and pervasive analytics and business intelligence is critical to s… Continue reading

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Facing wildfire threat, Los Alamos National Lab closes

The Los Alamos National Laboratory was forced to close this morning as an advancing wildfire closed in on the U.S. research facility. Continue reading

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Oracle 12 released ?

Get hold of a copy of the latest oracle release on download.oracle.com. SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 – Production on Fri Jun 24 21:58:46 2011 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle 12g Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.1.0 – … Continue reading

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Updating a host for an ACL.

A database reported an error in the alert log. Fri Jun 24 12:00:00 2011 Errors in file c:apporaclediagrdbmsmydbmydbtracemydb_j001_13056.trc: ORA-12012: error on auto execute of job 220070 ORA-24247: network access denied by access control list (ACL) ORA-06512: at “USER1.PROCESS_USER1_DATA”, line 191 … Continue reading

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