Implementing fuzzy search in SQL server - part 2: Levenshtein distance
The Levenshtein Distance, as discussed in my last post, is a way to measure how far two strings are...
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Handling the Leap Second - Linux
Last week I published a blog post titled " Are You Ready For the Leap Second?", and by looking at...
Disable Lock Escalation in SQL Server
If a lot of rows or pages are locked, the SQL Server escalates to a table-level lock, to save...
Logging for Slackers
When I’m not working on Big Data infrastructure for clients, I develop a few internal web...
Small files on MapR-FS
One of the well-known best practices for HDFS is to store data in few large files, rather than a...
Expanding the Couchbase Collector for Diamond
The code For the impatient ones, the couchbase collector can be found in github: Couchbase...
Making Oozie Logs A Little Easier On The Eyes
Today we’re having a quick one. Earlier during the day, I had to peruse an Oozie log for the first...
Magic Knobs in Replication Agents
Have you ever wondered about tuning your replication configuration to achieve better performance or...
Connection Resets When Importing from Oracle with Sqoop
I’ve been using Sqoop to load data into HDFS from Oracle. I’m using version 1.4.3 of Sqoop, running...
Oracle Database or Hadoop?
Some decisions sound easy, but its also easy to get them wrong. Today I had a choice of hanging...
