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

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. I also helped out in the run-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

To a certain extent, such a high diversity of recommendation techniques is attributed to several implementation challenges like a sparsity of customer ratings, computational scalability, and lack of information on new items and customers. Marlin, 2004. Fisher, 2007. Levin, 2013. MA08] Introduction to Information Retrieval, C.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

In versions ​​ earlier than ​​ SQL Server 2004 SP4, SQL Server latch enforcement protection involved more protection transitions. ​​ For example, ​​ the I/O speed of a snapshot database could limit certain query scalabilities.

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