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All Aboard the Prescriptive Analytics Express
Prescriptive Analytics: Driving The Transportation Industry Racing down the tracks with the equivalent of 170 Boeing 747s in tow, the 440,000 pound (200,000kg) next-generation locomotive…
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Data Streams: How important are transactions?
Streaming Data How important are “transactions”? Streaming Data: A Definition Amazon Web Services defines Streaming Data as “data that is generated continuously by thousands of…
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Change Data Capture for Real-Time BI
Using Change Data Capture to Augment your ELT/ETL Solutions Reporting on near real-time data is a must in today’s landscape. To stay competitive, companies are…
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Continuous Data Integration
Exploding Data Volumes. Real-Time Demand. System Overload. What to do about it. Most organizations have a need to consolidate data from multiple systems to get…
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Data Lake or Data Warehouse?
Abandoning one for the other may not be the answer Over the last few decades we’ve seen an explosion in the use of Data Warehousing…
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SQL Server Replication: Transaction Logs
In preparation for a presentation session about transaction log fundamentals at a past Silicon Valley SQL Saturday event in Mountain View, I looked into understanding…
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Data Replication Between MSSQL and Oracle
Microsoft to Microsoft and Oracle to Microsoft We thought that, instead of writing about some deeply technical issue in this blog, we would answer a…
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Database 101. Back to basics: ACID
ACID in the context of database technology is the abbreviation for Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability. These concepts date back to the 1970s, and the…
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Root Cause Analysis in Database Replication
Problems don't always originate where they surface Most software is pretty complex to ensure it works well irrespective of the many ways it can be…
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API – Always Pretty Inefficient?
APIs are a great way to share data, and – especially in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environments – APIs have become a de-facto "standard" to integrate data.…
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Simple real-time data replication implementations!
The premise for this blog is an to attempt to give you, the DBA, a visual on the ease of implementing HVR. With the DBA…
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The Rise of the Machines in the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things is now a Reality It’s hard to ignore the rise of the Internet of Things whether in our personal or business…