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The Cost of Dollars per Terabyte
Let me be blunt: using price per terabyte as the measure of a data warehouse platform is holding back the entire business intelligence industry. Consider this… The Five Minute Rule (see here and here) clearly describes the economics of HW technology… suggesting exactly when data should be retained in memory versus when it may be moved [...]
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Posted in Amazon Redshift, Business intelligence, data warehouse, Database Hardware, Five-minute rule, Netezza, Redshift, solid state drive, Teradata
Tagged Memory, Netezza
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More on The Future of Hadoop and of Big Data DBMSs
First, you should look at Google’s Spanner paper here… this is the next-gen from Google and once it is embraced by the open source community it will put even more pressure on the big data DBMSs. Also have a look at YARN the… Continue reading
Posted in Apache hadoop, data warehouse, Database management system, google+, hadoop, HANA, IMDB, in-memory database, MapReduce, Netezza, NoSQL, Open Source
Tagged big data, database, Memory, Netezza
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Dell: HP’s blade comparison unfair
Comparing HP BL660c to Dell M610 is not an “apples-to-apples” comparison
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Posted in BL660c, blade servers, Dell, Global, intel xeon e5-4600, it infrastructure, IT Optimization, latest servers, m610, Netezza, North America, poweredge, servers, United States
Tagged HP, IT, Memory, Netezza, ProLiant, virtualization
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‘Forget storage subsystems, think memory’ says Fusion-io chief
How do you cost-effectively achieve a billion IOPS from a rack of just eight servers? Start by tearing up the ‘tier zero’ storage rule-book Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Netezza, Peter Williams, Server Virtualisation, storage virtualisation
Tagged Memory, Netezza, storage
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I Want to Buy a Zoo, Not an Oracle System
Most people don’t think about going to the zoo in the middle of winter. But it’s actually the very best time to go. No crowds, the zebra fried oreo shacks are closed, and the animals are at their very best. And, after all, isn’t that what it’s really all about? Last week, I had a [...]
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Cisco/Oracle Super Saturday TPC-C
So now they’re trying to put another one over on us. “Super Saturday” for retailers, where you shop till you drop the Saturday before Christmas, has been officially moved to tomorrow, one week early. To give us more sales and more time to shop until we drop. I’m just getting tired of being told that [...]
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Granting select on x$krbmsft.
Finding files in a directory can be done, starting with granting select on the sys.x$krbmsft table. I do not recommend doing this, but it can be done. There’s a number of sources for this information, I just implemented on an … Continue reading
Metalink warning for PGA Memory Management.
Metalink complained that we were not using Automatic PGA management in an 11.1.0.7 database. On oracle 11.1, the MEMORY_TARGET and MEMORY_MAX_TARGET can be set and include the SGA and the PGA. It seems that the warning is still raised where … Continue reading
Posted in Oracle
Tagged 11.1, 11.1.0.7, Automatic~PGA, Memory, MEMORY~management, Metalink, PGA, SGA_TARGET
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How to enable Automatic PGA Management.
Posted in Configuration., Oracle, Parameters
Tagged alter system, MANAGEMENT, Memory, PFILE, PGA_AGGREGATE_TARGET, SCOPE, SPFILE
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