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by ora600 16y ago
Not interested in Guy-to-girl ratio (I get the right ratio for me at every nerdish meetup I attend), but now I know there are 3 Whiskey Lounges in SF.
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by ora600 16y ago
I have about 5 dentists in my immediate family (grandfather, dad, dad's wife, aunt and uncle). My dad is the head of the Perio department in the Hadassah Dental School in Jerusalem. Naturally, I had my teeth checked twice a year like clockw
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by ora600 16y ago
Why not set a minimum price per hour, and if the customer can't afford you, then say good-bye with no hard feelings? He is not evil and toxic, he just needs someone cheaper and may need to adjust his definition of "good" and "fast" accordin
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No Silver Bullet – Sharding and MongoDB(pythian.com)
1 points by ora600 16y ago|0 comments
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by ora600 16y ago
Here's what I do in these situations (I'm an Oracle DBA, but this should apply to most loaded shards): 1) Use connection pooling at the application layer to prevent overloading the DB of any specific shard. This means that if a shard has 16
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by ora600 16y ago
As a fair warning - going up Page Mill requires being in very good shape. Its 30-60 minutes of climbing, some of it steep.
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by ora600 16y ago
Which in my experience is horribly broken.
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by ora600 16y ago
Agree. I live in MountainView and still drive there for the coffee and ambiance.
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by ora600 16y ago
Supporting evidence: Two years back I tried Mint, Wesabe and the new Quicken online. From those three sites, only Mint could retrieve data for my WellsFargo visa. So I stayed. Quicken was the worse - they actually made changes to my account
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by ora600 16y ago
well, yeah - but I thought that the possible backstory due to the timing of the publication was exciting.
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Did Percona help Facebook troubleshoot their recent incident?(mysqlperformanceblog.com)
3 points by ora600 16y ago|2 comments
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by ora600 16y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but does anyone see what the tool actually does. I saw the constraint solver, but there are already many existing packages that do the same (Octave is open-source, I believe). What is all the excitement about?
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by ora600 16y ago
Sometimes cluster systems are mistaken for high-availability solutions while they are actually load-balancing solutions and can decrease availability due to added complexity and dependencies.
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by ora600 16y ago
I'm often encountering systems that are designed for very short queries processing small numbers of rows where the number of connections from the app servers is configured to be far greater than the number of CPUs. Since those systems are d
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No SQL overview - written by and for DBAs(pythian.com)
3 points by ora600 16y ago|0 comments
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by ora600 16y ago
Daniel Abadi is one of the authors of the HStore paper that VoltDB is based on. It looks like the deterministic order system is using similar requirements and assumptions.
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by ora600 16y ago
I'm not sure how to answer that. How do you know how much of Microsoft's time and money goes to developer support? How do you know that Oracle does any less? I don't have any real hard numbers. Microsoft MSDN for developer support and Oracl
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by ora600 16y ago
Don't get me wrong - Postgres is awesome and I would happily use it for any project. I'm not sure Postgres is easier to manage than Oracle and places any less maintenance overhead, but YMMV. Its just that RAC is a special technology with no
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by ora600 16y ago
Oracle used Sun's hardware to build the Exadata - which they very aggressively sell as a data warehouse solution. Competing with Netezza, Teradata, Greenplum and the likes.
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by ora600 16y ago
I would love to hear why you made this decision.
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by ora600 16y ago
Maybe I don't understand the concept of "developer mindshare" well enough but it seems to me that Oracle does engage with the user community and not just the business community. They do this through user conferences such as Collaborate and
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by ora600 16y ago
So I was hoping you will accept one of my other examples of companies with large numbers of bad employees that show no intention of going out of business any time soon. The cellphone market is highly regulated, but the large computer and so
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by ora600 16y ago
Sigh. HP? IBM? Oracle? Verizon? Although "market manipulation" is broad enough to include any large company at all. Same with "anti-competitive barrier rising". So, we can say that past a certain size companies become evil bastards and have
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by ora600 16y ago
You will not believe how many bad employees a large organization can carry and still grow and prosper. I mean, ever talked to an AT&T call center? Do you see them going out of business any time soon? There was this guy I worked with on
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by ora600 16y ago
SLAs seem to have the effect of dramatically changing the culture of the team that is now measured by the SLA. I remember two times when my managers announced an SLA. First time was "Every priority 1 ticket has to be answered within 24 hou
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by ora600 16y ago
I am actually talking about 4 different buildings in 3 different bay area towns. If there is a secret to picking buildings, obviously I'm not in on it. But - I looked at apartment ranking website, and on every single building there will be
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by ora600 16y ago
Agree, except the single family home. Because the quality of life in US apartment buildings is appalling. I don't want to hear every step that my upstairs neighbors take. I don't need to know when they go to the restroom in the middle of th
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by ora600 16y ago
Wondering what you mean by "license to BigTable". BigTable is using GFS, so it will not be much use to Oracle without GFS. Also, since Google nicely described some of the major ideas behind BigTable in a paper, there are few Open-Source imp
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by ora600 16y ago
Actually, the customers that use OEL are normally customers of the Oracle database. They get the OS for free as part of the license deal and enjoy not having to play the finger-pointing game with Oracle and RH support any more. You have no
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by ora600 16y ago
Speaking as Oracle consultant, very often you have no clue how much work is going to be there until you are there. We are very lucky if management actually listens to what you need. Which is often very simple things such as fix reoccuring e

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