Years ago I was involved in migrating some databases from Sybase ASE to Microsoft SQL Server. The process was a manual one. We had to BCP out the data from ASE into flat files, we had to parse the stored procedures for what would be obvious syntax errors in Microsoft ...
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It was owned and sponsored by a single for-profit firm, the Swedish company MySQL AB, now owned by Oracle Corporation.
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Logman for performance data collection.
While experimenting with Extended events, I ran across a tool call Logman that ships with windows. Another similar tool is Tracerpt (which I want to test out later). As per technet: Logman creates and manages Event Trace Session and Performance logs and supports many functions of Performance Monitor from the ...
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Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Wishing everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Tagged: rants
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NoSQL vs. the world
About a year ago, Mike Dirolf drew an enormous circle covering a sheet of paper. “Here are the people who use databases,” he said, “and here are the people who have even heard of NoSQL,” and he drew a circle this big: ° . I think that interest has grown ...
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Relational Data, Document Databases and Schema Design
By now it should be obvious that I'm quite fond of alternatives data stores (call them NoSQL if you must). I've given quite a few talks on the subjects recently, and had the honor of being a guest on the (German) heise Developer Podcast on NoSQL. There's ...
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Cloud (AKA NoSQL) Databases and me
I’ve been an RDBMS guy now since about 1988. Around the time my first son Chris was born, the government department were I worked shifted from an ADABAS/MVS environment to an Oracle/VMS system, and I was dropped headfirst into joy of Oracle 5.1. Since then I ...