Right on Cue: Facebook and Hadoop (Data Hoarding) Now, I’m not saying data on Facebook is "hoarding" but consider what’s there. They are setting a fine example of how to manage a massive store, make it readily available and dealing with exponential growth, all in one… they’ve just moved their Hadoop cluster to a new facility and, I have to […]
Other News
Are You Virtual?
$$SWYNK$$ Are You Virtual? This is an old topic. Surveys and questionnaires abound for longer than a decade regarding the adoption of virtual operating systems and services. I’d like to revisit the topic as the game has changed considerably over that last few years. Most servers, even the low end servers for departmental or small business use, ship with 64bit […]
Data Hoarding Feedback
Data Hoarding Feedback I received some great feedback from people facing down the data hoarding issues that plague so many systems. The original question was essentially "we all hoard data… great. But what do you do about it??" It seems that the successes for people come from a multi-step process of addressing too much information stored. First, figure out the […]
Are you Ready for IPv6?
$$SWYNK$$ Are you Ready for IPv6? According to information I gleaned from IPv6.com, the new internet protocol has a lot more going on than expanding the number of available network addresses. It has features enabling new hardware and software to work more efficiently. Summarizing their site, they list 10 key improvements over the 30 year old IPv4 internet protocol. • […]
Rendering User Control ASCX via XSL in SharePoint
(Pranav Sharma) Last time we discussed how to integrate a custom user control into an XSL transformation. There are two key points to note about the previously discussed approach before we explore an alternative and perhaps a better integration process-
Streaming XML content parsing with StAX
(Matt Casters) Today, one of our community members posted a deviously simply XML format on the forum that needed to be parsed. The format looks like this:
JSON Binding with EclipseLink MOXy – Twitter Example
(Blaise Doughan) In a previous post I described how the Jettison library could be used with any JAXB implementation (Metro, MOXy, JaxMe, etc) to produce/consume JSON. Now I’m happy to give you a sneak peak at the native object-to-JSON binding MOXy JAXB will be offering in EclipseLink 2.4.
The DBA Survival Guide: The 10 Minute SQL Server Overview
(Buck Woody) Hopefully you’re a trained technical professional with lots of experience running large-scale database systems. If so, you can learn a lot about SQL Server programming and advanced concepts like Business Intelligence (BI) here at InformIT. Perhaps you’re new to SQL Server and you’re pre
Do You Still Use That DB2 Program?
(Craig S. Mullins) A recurring problem for programmers and IT folks in general is determining whether or not a particular program is still required. As your organization grows and the number of programs increases, keeping track of them all can become quite difficult.
Setting optimizer search depth in MySQL
(Max) A customer of ours had an interesting problem regarding a query that was taking too long, around 55s. Looking at the query with the query profiler we found that it was spending most of its time in the “statistics” phase.