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		<title>Data Warehousing Best Practices:  Comparing Oracle to MySQL, part 1 (introduction and power)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Kscope this year, I attended a half day in-depth session entitled Data Warehousing Performance Best Practices, given by Maria Colgan of Oracle. My impression, which was confirmed by folks in the Oracle world, is that she knows her way around the Oracle optimizer. These are my notes from the session, which include comparisons of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This IBM Storage Fails Too Often, so Let&#8217;s Switch to EMC and Be Done&#8230; NOT!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<title>{Expensive &#124; High-End &#124; Modern} SANs Never Fail&#8230; Not!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have we heard the assurance of storage administrators (fueled by the SAN vendor&#8217;s claims) that their top-of-the-shelf SAN arrays simply cannot fail. Unfortunately, reality proves this wrong and we see it regularly with our customers. At the moment of this writing, one of our DBA teams has just completed failover to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where is Storage QoS?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the era of consolidation, storage has not been left out. Different systems are made to share the same storage boxes, fiber-channel switches and networks. Inside a typical storage box, we have front-end and back-end controllers, cache, physical spindles shared amongst different applications, databases, backup destinations, and so on. The impact of backup on normal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>750G Disks Are BAHD for DBs: A Call To Arms</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Vallee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading the morning newspaper with a cup of coffee, well, actually I was reading slashdot.org, and I tripped across this story about some new 750G disks @ 7200 RPM soon to be released by Seagate. This filled me with a sense of dread about having to, once again, go through the process of [...]]]></description>
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