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  10 essential performance tips for MySQL

  As with all relational databases, MySQL can prove to be a complicated beast, one that can crawl to a halt at a moment's notice, leaving your applications in the lurch and your business on the line.

  By Baron Schwartz | 14 May, 2012 20:11

  Tags: software, mysql, data management, Database Design, Database Administration, applications

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  Master MySQL in the Amazon cloud

  For many MySQL database admins, Amazon Web Services represents the brave new world of cloud computing -- one fraught with disappearing servers, disk I/O variability, and other shared resource challenges, not to mention questions regarding the security of data.

  By Sean Hull | 30 April, 2012 20:15

  Tags: Amazon Web Services, applications, cloud computing, Database Administration, data management, IaaS, internet, mysql, software

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  Review: SQL Server 2012 stands tall

  As we've come to expect from new SQL Server releases, SQL Server 2012 has so many new features that it's impossible even to mention them all. Nearly everyone is well served, from the BI-hungry users of Reporting Services to the IT folks who oversee query performance and uptime. SQL Server 2012 brings improvements across the board, with only a few disappointing exceptions.

  By Sean McCown | 25 April, 2012 20:13

  Tags: applications, data management, DBMS, Microsoft, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Windows, operating systems, software, sql

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  Oracle's Mark Hurd spells out analytics vision

  Oracle has rolled out a series of announcements aimed at portraying itself as the industry's dominant player in business analytics, as well as one relevant to customers of rival SAP.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 05 April, 2012 04:44

  Tags: applications, business intelligence, data management, Mark Hird, oracle, sap, software

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  IBM releases DB2 version 10, the first big upgrade in four years

  Sensing a change in the way customers store and analyze data, IBM has updated its flagship DB2 relational database management software to handle a wider range of data processing duties. The company has also updated its InfoSphere data warehouse software.

  By Joab Jackson | 03 April, 2012 14:07

  Tags: applications, data management, data mining, data warehousing, IBM, software

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  The big promise of big data

  For Twitter, making sense of its mountains of user data was big enough of a problem that it purchased another company just to help get the job done.

  By Joab Jackson | 14 March, 2012 04:04

  Tags: applications, cloudera, data management, data mining, MapR, oracle, software

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