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Implications of IBM Watson

$$SWYNK$$ Featured Article(s) Tips for designing SQL Server 2008 tables (Part 2) In this article, you can find some useful tips to design SQL Server 2008 tables. Featured White Paper(s) Structuring the Unstructured: How to Dimensionalize Semi-Structured Business Data Written by Interactive Edge The Business Intelligence industry … (read more) Implications of IBM Watson If you heard the presentation of […]

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Reader’s Comments Today I’ll share a number of comments from our readers covering Disk Partition Alignment and Visual COBOL. Disk Partition Alignment Leif Writes: This is true for Windows Server 2003 and earlier where the default alignment was 16K, 32K or 48K depending on the storage system behind, but for Windows Server 2008 and later (atm. Windows Server 2008 R2) […]

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Invisible Indexes in Oracle 11g

(SBH) Invisible Indexes are another feature which was introduced in Oracle 11g. It is nothing but a normal index on tables whose usability by the optimizer is set by a parameter. Oracle optimizer would ignore an invisible index on the table if the initialization parameter OPTIMIZER_USE_INVISIBLE_IND