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Also his YouTube videos are highly worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=michael+stonebraker https://www.youtube.com/results?search_quer

• assface 12y ago
  Fun Fact: Stonebraker used to party with Michael Jackson in the early 1980s when Thriller came out: https://youtu.be/LCXWF-OEIkc?t=6m17s https://youtu.be/LCXWF-OEIkc?t=6m17s
  • leonardinius 12y ago
    Fun fact, it's Pete Carter as Michael Jackson https://youtu.be/LCXWF-OEIkc?t=639 https://youtu.be/LCXWF-OEIkc?t=639
    • denzil_correa 12y ago
      He got me there for a moment. Pete Carter also says that Stonebraker wrote lyrics for "Beat It".
  • brudgers 12y ago
    Whoever it is, it's not Michael Jackson [1]. http://mcs.open.ac.uk/mj665/ http://mcs.open.ac.uk/mj665/ Whoosh.
• daddykotex 12y ago
  "On what hardware platform does Oracle runs the best?" ... "Extaclty right, on a 35mm projector..." hahaha
• Joeri 12y ago
  I can highly recommend his video "Everything you learned in your DBMS class is wrong" http://slideshot.epfl.ch/play/suri_stonebraker http://slideshot.epfl.ch/play/suri_stonebraker It opened my eyes to why traditional block-based RDBMS's were definitely going to go away and replaced by in-memory engines.