Large SQL Server and SQL Azure Projects
This video discusses the top SQL Server projects, their architecture and how they scale. We divide the customers into OLTP and DW and present a brief architecture and numbers.
NoSQL and ACID
At the NoSQL Now conference in San Jose, Dave Rosenthal of FoundationDB presented the case for why he believes future generations of NoSQL databases will need to support ACID transactions in order for developers to more easily build, deploy and scale applications.
Building Analytical Applications on Hadoop
Data scientists – the analytical professionals who straddle the line between statistician and software engineer – are in demand like never before. Due to the scarcity of data science talent, it has become increasingly important for data scientists to spend less time answering one-off questions and more time building analytical …
Patterns for Key-value Stores
As nosql gathers more and more momentum I have discovered that there is a need for good patterns. You want to organize the data as well as possible. With good organizing it will be easier to find the data again.
Heavy-Traffic Enterprise MySQL
Paul Berry, Chief Technical Officer of the HuffingtonPost presenting strategies for survival under high-traffic on a MySQL database along with Jim Bartus, HuffingtonPost Lead System Administrator.
Database Monitoring Setup Best Practices
There’s little that’s more important than protecting your database and the data/information within it. The most common form of “attack” comes from SQL injection and, even though monitoring systems vendors as well as your company’s IT staff are highly aware of how critical it is to protect your database from …