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Finding Distinct Values Quickly

SQL Performance

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. Implementing the current requirement using that technique is quite straightforward, though the code is necessarily longer than anything we have seen up to this point: WITH R AS. ( The code may be easier to read and understand than the recursive CTE.

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Solaris to Linux Migration 2017

Brendan Gregg

It uses a Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) to provide a Solaris-kernel interface on Linux, so that unmodified ZFS code can execute. There's also a ZFS send/recv code path that should try to use the TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE flag (as suggested by a coworker), to avoid a kernel hang (can't kill -9 the process). LTS (April 2016).

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

” Each step has been a twist on “what if we could write code to interact with a tamper-resistant ledger in real-time?” Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. Mental contortions led to code contortions led to frustration. And, often, to giving up.