Managing Too Many Database Servers
This database-agnostic talk goes over: the bizarre becoming ordinary, the many types of infrastructure that do not scale and what does and does not work when building a DBA team.
Introduction to Riak
This video provides application developers with an overview of the Riak NoSQL database, including example code to help get started with the Java client library. Riak is a fault-tolerant, highly available distributed key/value storage engine.
Oracle Database – Lecture 3
This lecture covers the concept of the importance of good database design for Oracle. It covers the concepts of Objects and Entities and how to identify dependencies and relationships between the objects. It is an introduction to the design concept in preparation for creating ERD diagrams that will be discussed …
Test Automation with Big Data
In this interview with Noel Wurst, Tarun Bhatia speaks from experience working with big data in order to create highly effective mobile automation test projects. Learn how thinking outside the box has helped Tarun, and how it can help your test team, too.
Everything I Know About Fast Databases I Learned at the Dog Track
An emerging class of distributed database management systems (DBMS), known as NewSQL, provide the same scalable performance of NoSQL systems while maintaining the consistency guarantees of a traditional, single-node DBMS. These NewSQL systems achieve high throughput rates for data-intensive applications by storing their databases in a cluster of main memory …
Detect and Avoid Server Problems in Firebird
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since …