December 2008 - Posts

• Bar-Poo for DBAs and Developers

  Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 1:31 PM | 32 Comments
  
  

  DBAs and Developers seem to live in parallel universes. If and when they talk to each other, the air is often thick with misunderstanding. It seems that what we have here is a deep-seated communication problem. Although the two groups share a common technical Read More by Tony Davis | 32 Comments | Comment on this post

• Microsoft and the Grid

  Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2008 12:51 PM | 3 Comments
  
  

  David DeWitt and his team at Microsoft have been exploring the 'next frontier' of architectures for building the parallel and scalable database systems that will be needed to support the "petabyte" data warehouse. The way forward is the "share nothing" Read More by Tony Davis | 3 Comments | Comment on this post