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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Customer retention programs can require the identification of customers who are likely to stop the relationship with a retailer but can change their minds under the influence of incentives. This metric reveals customers with high revenue potential, hence it can be used in loyalty programs and usage expansion campaigns. Kadie, 1998.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

Note: ​​ Pages that are nev er modified ( never​​ dirtied) remain in the clean state until they are dis c arded at which time the checksum is validated for the constant page. Then ​​ write C ​​ obtains ​​ 01 ​​ and so on.

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