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Databases Channel

Articles

Critical Issues Facing the Data Center

Evolving business and technology environments bring a host of challenging business issues for the data center. This article discusses some of these challenges and suggests how to mitigate them.

Information Visibility: From Familiar Vision to New Reality

New classes of databases are making information visibility real.

Time and Time Again: Managing Time in Relational Databases, Part 28 - A Revised Roadmap

We will summarize what we've done so far and proceed to develop an amended roadmap.

Time and Time Again: Managing Time in Relational Databases, Part 27 - Original and Temporal Inserts (Concluded)

We will proceed now to a discussion of original and temporal inserts.

Structured and Unstructured: The What, Why and How of Convergence

Much of the strength and area of focus for the DBMS has been on storing structured data.

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Columns

Time and Time Again: State Transformations

This column describes the development of a taxonomy of state transformations on asserted version tables.

Time and Time Again: Scenario 1, Transaction 4

In this column, we process a delete transaction against our asserted version table

Time and Time Again: Scenario 1, Transaction 3

In this column, we process a second update against our asserted version table

Time and Time Again: Scenario 1, Transaction 2

In this column, we begin our discussion of bi-temporal updates

Time and Time Again: Scenario 1

With this column, the authors begin an example-driven presentation of asserted versioning.

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How does the newest release of MySQL measure up to the task of managing a several GB database, especially in reporting?

Is there a best practice associated with the number of distinct databases that should be used in the overall warehouse?

Do you have any specific suggestions about the use of a primary key in fact tables?

What are native connections? How are they different from ODBC connections? What are the advantages and disadvantages of native connections?

Do you think that multidimensional databases (MDDBs) are hindered by poor scalability?

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Is Your Database Eating Out The Heart of Your IT Infrastructure.

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Books

Oracle8 Data Warehousing

By Gary Dodge, Tim Gorman

Oracle Database Administration: The Essential Reference

By David Kreines and Brian Laskey

SQL Server 7 Data Warehousing

By Michael Abbey, Ian Abramson, Larry Barnes, Rajan Venkitachalam, Benjamin Taub and Michael J. Corey
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