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Hadoop BoF Session at OSCON
I have a BoF session next week at OSCON next week: Migrating Data from MySQL and Oracle into Hadoop The session is at 7pm Tuesday night – look for rooms D135 and/or D137/138. Correction: We are now in E144 on Tuesday with the Hadoop get together first at 7pm, and the Data Migration to follow at…
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Making Real-Time Analytics a Reality — TDWI -The Data Warehousing Institute
My article on how to make the real-time processing of information from traditional transactional stores into Hadoop a reality has been published over at TDWI: Making Real-Time Analytics a Reality — TDWI -The Data Warehousing Institute.
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Replicating Oracle Webinar Question Follow-up
We had really great webinar on Replicating to/from Oracle earliest this month, and you can view the recording of that Webinar here. A good sign of how great a Webinar was is the questions that come afterwards, and we didn’t get through them all. so here are all the questions and answers for the entire…
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A New Home for Tungsten in the UK
I was suitably heartened to hear about the new mine opening up in the Devon here in the UK to mine the element Tungsten. I comment on this to my associates at Continuent, where comments were made by Csaba as to the appropriate quotes in the article: “Tungsten is an extraordinary metal.” “It’s almost as…
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Continuent at Hadoop Summit
I’m pleased to say that Continuent will be at the Hadoop Summit in San Jose next week (3-5 June). Sadly I will not be attending as I’m taking an exam next week, but my colleagues Robert Hodges, Eero Teerikorpi and Petri Versunen will be there to answer any questions you have about Continuent products, and, of…
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Real-Time Data Movement: The Key to Enabling Live Analytics With Hadoop
An article about moving data into Hadoop in real-time has just been published over at DBTA, written by me and my CEO Robert Hodges. In the article I talk about one of the major issues for all people deploying databases in the modern heterogenous world – how do we move and migrate data effectively between entirely…
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Cross your Fingers for Tech14, see you at OSCON
So I’ve submitted my talks for the Tech14 UK Oracle User Group conference which is in Liverpool this year. I’m not going to give away the topics, but you can imagine they are going to be about data translation and movement and how to get your various databases talking together. I can also say, after…
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Passion for Newspaper Comics? Watch Stripped
I’m a big fan of comics – and although I am a fan of Spiderman, Superman, and my personal favourite, 2000AD – what I’m really talking about is the newspaper comics featuring stars like Garfield, Dilbert, and Calvin and Hobbes. Unfortunately being in the UK, before the internet existed in it’s current form, finding these comics,…
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Revisiting ZFS and MySQL
While at Percona Live this year I was reminded about ZFS and running MySQL on top of a ZFS-based storage platform. Now I’m a big fan of ZFS (although sadly I don’t get to use it as much as I used to after I shutdown my home server farm), and I did a lot of…
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Smart-er Watches | Safari Books Online’s Official Blog
Smart watches are the next big tech/consumer product that will hit the mainstream, but are they really mature enough yet, or is there still work to be done? I’ve collected some of my thoughts on the Smartwatch revolution here: Smart-er Watches | Safari Books Online’s Official Blog. But it will surprise nobody when I say…