(Lockwood Lyon) Big data is here, and fits nicely into an organization’s data warehouse infrastructure. Most large IT enterprises have installed one or more big data applications. These applications provide fast access to large stores of data, usually customer or sales data.
Editorials
- Concurrent Queries – Going to MARS
- I need your help (it only takes a few minutes)
- Where Should We Handle Null Values?
Other News
Getting Real About Memory Leaks
(Matt Heusser) Modern programming languages tend to separate the programmer from memory management; Java programmers don’t have to deal with pointers; they just declare variables and let the built-in garbage collector do its thing.
How Apache Spark makes your slow MySQL queries 10x faster (or more)
(Alexander Rubin) In this blog post, we’ll discuss how to improve the performance of slow MySQL queries using Apache Spark.
Different names for 12c CDB
(mdinh) Truthfully, I am feeling a little lazy to write a nice blog.
Dot Qualify Everything?
(Patch) There is talk about Dot Qualifying Everything in your PL/SQL Code. But what are the pros and cons in this approach?
Serving Oracle JET Application from WebLogic
(Andrejus Baranovskis) Oracle JET application can be served from WebLogic as static content (HTML/JavaScript), JET code will be downloaded and executed on the client. Read more about packaging and deploying JET applications in developer guide – Packaging and Deploying Web Applications.Here is demo J
Binding Methods to Class Instance Objects
(Nicolás Bevacqua) There’s a number of different ways we can ensure class methods have access to this. After some controversy on Twitter last week, we quickly go over the most common approaches, discussing their advantages and drawbacks.
How to turn AUTO_SHRINK off
(Jack Vamvas) I run a daily health check across SQL Servers . One of the checks made is whether the SQL Server configurable AUTO_SHRINK is turned ON.
Copying an on-premis Database to an Azure SQL Database
(Kenneth Fisher) Continuing my exploration of Azure the next logical step seemed to be copying an on-premise database up to the cloud.
Remotely Enable Always On
(Daniel Mellor) Always On Availability Groups is the new feature for High Availability in SQL Server 2012. It’s been out for awhile now, but unless you have Enterprise Edition SQL, you might not have been able to use it much.
