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Data Warehouse Introduction
In this blog, I will argue for and against key architectural choices that face the data modeler who wants to build a big data warehouse. I will do my utmost to avoid hand waving and references to...
View ArticleMicrosoft Announces Plans to Introduce Hadoop Interoperability
For those of you who have not yet seen it, Microsoft recently announced that they will be looking at Hadoop connectivity to the database stack: Parallel Data Warehouse News and Hadoop Interoperability...
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Physically Placing the Maps in the architecture
Before we leave the maps behind, I need to live up to my promise of describing the storage characteristics of tables visited during the journey through the warehouse architecture. This must include the...
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The Big Picture – EDW/DW architecture
Now that the cat is out of the bag on the Kimball forum, I figured it would be a good idea to present the full architecture that I will be arguing for. I was hoping to build up to it slowly, by...
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Don’t Become a One trick Architect
We are near the dawn of a new workload: BigData. While some people say that “it is always darkest just before the dawn”. I beg to differ: I think it is darkest just before it goes pitch black. Have a...
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A DW Venn Diagram
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The Information Staircase
With the Big Data wave rolling over us these days, it seems everyone is trying to wrap their heads around how these new components fit into the overall information architecture of the enterprise. Not...
View ArticleHow I hire a DBA or Database Developer
Livedrive is currently looking to hire a rock star DBA and developers with a strong understanding of databases. We have 100TB of mySQL data online and a SQL server mirror running at 15k tx/sec non stop...
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High Availability, at High Speed
In the quest for 100% uptime, a great many hours must be invested in careful design. Even when you think you have eliminated every Single Point Of Failure (SPOF) – something new always shows up. It...
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