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Calculating business days in HiveQL

December 30, 2015

One of the common tasks in data processing is to calculate the number of days between two given...

October 31, 2013

Have you ever wondered about tuning your replication configuration to achieve better performance or...

October 3, 2012

Last year at Oracle OpenWorld, the most frequent questions about Hadoop and Big Data were either...

January 16, 2012

Some decisions sound easy, but its also easy to get them wrong. Today I had a choice of hanging...

January 10, 2012

Today Oracle announced that it’s Big Data Appliance is available. You can see the press release...

May 19, 2011

Recently, one of our customers had a problem with one of their replication slaves where a sql...