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Oracle Exadata 2
Yikes it been a long time since my last post. Let’s get started catching up Just watched Larry Himself unveil the new Exadata 2 database machine. Clearly this will put an end to the idea that Or… more →
The Irish DBA
Oracle Exadata 2
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Gord Irish wrote 2 months ago: Yikes it been a long time since my last post. Let’s get started catching up Just watched Larry … more →
Oracle & MySQL
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Gord Irish wrote 7 months ago: Yes it remains to be seen what Oracle will do with MySQL. Will Oracle see it as a threat to Oracle D … more →
Kickfire
Gord Irish wrote 1 year ago: Kickfire is impressive, I like it. They’re setting both price/performance and pure preformance … more →
New Directions
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Gord Irish wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been looking at several new things lately. My SQL I remember when MySQL first hit the sce … more →
Data Warehouses
Gord Irish wrote 1 year ago: I never really liked those star and snowflake schemas, they seemed to be building too much of the su … more →
My Sun SQL
Gord Irish wrote 1 year ago: The bottom end of the database market may get a shakeup now that Sun has bought MySQL. We’ll h … more →
EnterpriseDB
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Gord Irish wrote 1 year ago: THis isn’t news but I just recently gave EnterpriseDB a spin. If imitation is the sincerest fo … more →
Oracle 11g Partitioning
Gord Irish wrote 2 years ago: An example of how the new Parent/Child partitioning works in Oracle 11g Imagine a standard master … more →
Oracle 11g New Features
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Gord Irish wrote 2 years ago: A friend asked me what are the significant new features of Oracle 11g. Here is what I wrote up for h … more →
Oracle 11g
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Gord Irish wrote 2 years ago: The launch date for 11g approaches, July 11, 2007. I think this will be the version of Oracle known … more →
Other Voices
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Gord Irish wrote 2 years ago: There are lots of articles on the topic of the changing DBA role now. Here’s a few examples In … more →
What's Next
Gord Irish wrote 2 years ago: If much of the traditional DBA job is disappearing, what are DBAs left to do? At DBAzine.com there i … more →
"Google Databases"
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Gord Irish wrote 2 years ago: Software as a Service databases wil also have a impact on DBAs. I call these the “Google Datab … more →
The A Word
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Gord Irish wrote 2 years ago: What does the A in DBA stand for, Administrator, Analyst or Architect? Typically it is an Administra … more →
Further to the Kick off
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Gord Irish wrote 2 years ago: The impetus for this discussion comes from the automation in Oracle 10g and Nicholas Carr’s as … more →
Kick off discussion of the future of DBAs
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Gord Irish wrote 2 years ago: The premise of this is that the traditional role of the DBA is rapildy disappearing and I’m wo … more →
