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Oracle Exadata vs SAP HANA

Before I left on vacation (now almost a month ago – can’t remember when I had such a long vacation if I ever had), Mark Fontecchio organized a short video conference between myself and John Appleby. The idea was to compare Oracle Exadata with SAP HANA in a shot video discussion. Unfortunately, video part didn’t really work but we did end up with at least a podcast — thanks Mark for organizing it.


Download MP3 — Oracle Exadata vs. SAP HANA
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Shuck & Awe #3: Hunting for Perl

[yanick@enkidu shuck]$ echo "original json_pretty taken from hanekomu's tweet"
[yanick@enkidu shuck]$ cat news.json | perl -0007 -MJSON -nE"say for @{from_json(\$_)->{interesting}}"

Want to help Perl 6, and collect some booty in the process? Moritz Lenz has issued the first of a series of Perl 6 challenges. Fulfill the challenge, and get a chance to win mind-bogglingly fabulous prizes (well, okay, t-shirts for now). This week’s challenge doesn’t even require Perl 6 knowledge — it’s all about creating a website for proto.

Talking of Perl 6, masak announced the release of Yapsi, a Perl 6 compiler written in Perl 6.

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Liveblogging at confoo: Can Twitter make money?

subtitle: Monetizing Social Media

Why is social media and social networking essential to you and your business? (because it will drive sales, but there’s very few analytics for ROI on social networking and social media)

Relying on advertising is no longer working for print newspapers and television. So why do we think it will work on internet media?
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Video: What the MySQL Is This, Anyway?

Giuseppe Maxia and I are in the exact middle of our leg of theMySQL Campus Tour. Yesterday’s session was recorded:

A PDF of the slides can be downloaded at http://technocation.org/files/doc/2009_04_Tour.pdf (21 Mb).

Click on the thumbnails for larger pictures of the standing-room only crowd, and lunch with the great folks at Cal Poly afterwards:



Links referred to in the presentation, or related to the presentation:
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Drizzle Podcast #1

It has been over a year since the last OurSQL podcast. First, I want to thank everyone who has written in to tell me how much they loved the OurSQL podcast, and how they want it back. Plans are in the works for that, mostly I got busy writing a book on MySQL geared towards folks who are new to MySQL, but not necessarily new to databases. The book is coming out in May and can be pre-ordered at http://tinyurl.com/mysqlbook.

But enough about the past…..In this first Drizzle podcast, Jay Pipes and I talk about what Drizzle is and how Drizzle is different from MySQL both technically and from a community standpoint.

The podcast can be downloaded (5.76 Mb as an mp3 file) or played right through your browser at http://technocation.org/content/drizzle-podcast-%25231. The show notes are also on that page.

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