Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

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. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

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Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Among its many capabilities, a Citus cluster can: Create distributed tables that are sharded across a cluster of PostgreSQL nodes to combine their CPU, memory, storage, and I/O capacity. Columnar storage of tables can compress data, speeding up scans and supporting fast projections, both on regular and distributed tables.

C++ 81

C++ Database Storage Testing 81

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. © ​​ 2004 Microsoft Corporation. ​​ All rights reserved.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

KB sectors run on smaller sectors   14 System and sample databases   15 Determining the formatted sector size of database   15 What sector sizes does SQL Server support? SQL Server 2005 introduces the snapshot database feature for point-in-time databases ​​ and online DBCC operations.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Many of our customers have, with the click of a button, created DynamoDB deployments in a matter of minutes that are able to serve trillions of database requests per year. Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%. This was the genesis of NoSQL databases like Dynamo at Amazon.

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Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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