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Centralized Data in Parallel

Centralized Data in Parallel I was reading Kevin Kline’s article “CPU in Flux” in the September 2011 edition of “Database Trends and Applications. Kevin touched on a topic I have had on my backburner for some time now, Multiple CPU systems. The main thrust of his article is that CPU manufacturers have changed course in order to get more power […]

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Centralized Data

Centralized Data Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence systems have become key assets for company success. More focus is being placed on centralizing data from different data sources providing a centralized view of customer information. Less emphasis is being placed on designing new sources of data. If you are not convinced of this shift in technology, simply look at job postings […]

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Reading Text Files

A very common need when programming almost any application is the ability to read data from a text file. Fortunately VB.NET excels at this sort of thing. In the tutorial that follows we will show exactly how you can read through a text file, parse the information, and use it in your Visual Basic app

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Introduction to: SPARQL

(Juan Sequeda) SPARQL is the standardized query language for RDF, the same way SQL is the standardized query language for relational databases. If this is the first time you look at SPARQL, but you’re familiar with SQL, you will see some similarities because it shares several keywords such as SELECT