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Padraig's Blog: January 2009
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009. Drizzle: A Pretty Cool Project. Is a pretty cool project whose progress I've started following in the last few weeks. I'm trying to contribute in a tiny way if I can by confirming bug reports. If I had more time, I'd like to try resolving some bugs. Hopefully, I'll find some spare time to do that in the future. I think its definitely a project worth keeping an eye on though. Check it out if you have the time. Saturday, January 24, 2009. Iterator iter ;. Map has the important ...
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Padraig's Blog: Drizzle: A Pretty Cool Project
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009. Drizzle: A Pretty Cool Project. Is a pretty cool project whose progress I've started following in the last few weeks. I'm trying to contribute in a tiny way if I can by confirming bug reports. If I had more time, I'd like to try resolving some bugs. Hopefully, I'll find some spare time to do that in the future. I think its definitely a project worth keeping an eye on though. Check it out if you have the time. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Drizzle: A Pretty Cool Project.
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Padraig's Blog: Blogging at posulliv.com Now
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Blogging at posulliv.com Now. I've decided to start blogging with WordPress now as it just makes putting code samples and things like that so much easier! Also, I had a domain name for a while so I figured I might as well use it and it will encourage me to blog more. I really want to blog more at the moment since I'm working on an interesting project for my database course this semester. You can find my blog here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Padraig's Blog: What is Direct Data Placement
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Monday, January 5, 2009. What is Direct Data Placement. I'm currently studying Oracle's white paper. On Exadata and came across the following paragraph:. Further, Orace's interconnect protocol uses direct data placement (DMA - direct memory access) to ensure very low CPU overhead by directly moving data from the wire to database buffers with no extra data copies being made.". Now, I found some information on direct data placement in a number of RFCs; RFC 4296. The paragraph from Oracle's white paper make...
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Padraig's Blog: A Subtle Bug
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Saturday, January 24, 2009. I was able to track the issue down a single piece of code and produce a simple test case which produced the same problem. Essentially, the problem was due to a piece of code like the following:. Iterator iter ;. Compiling the above code on Linux with gcc 4.2.3, the output is as follows (which is what is intended):. Compiling and running the same code on Windows causes an issue. The following output is produced (and execution halts):. Thus, one possible reason for the issue is ...
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Padraig's Blog: February 2009
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Blogging at posulliv.com Now. I've decided to start blogging with WordPress now as it just makes putting code samples and things like that so much easier! Also, I had a domain name for a while so I figured I might as well use it and it will encourage me to blog more. I really want to blog more at the moment since I'm working on an interesting project for my database course this semester. You can find my blog here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Blogging at posulliv.com Now.
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Padraig's Blog: Configuring Oracle as a Service in SMF
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Sunday, November 30, 2008. Configuring Oracle as a Service in SMF. In Solaris 10, Sun introduced the Service Management Facility (SMF) to simplify management of system services. It is a component of the so called Predictive Self Healing technology available in Solaris 10. The other component is the Fault Management Architecture. For an example). A traditional startup script could still be created and placed appropriate. Adding Oracle as a Service. To create a new service in SMF, a number of steps need to...
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Big Honking Databases: July 2009
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Technology and business issues affecting BI. [Opinions expressed here are my own, and in no way constitute an endorsement or opinion of my employer]. Tuesday, July 28, 2009. How I Learned to Love Mondrian (confessions of a WISA guy). I’ve been playing with Pentaho’s Mondrian. For almost a year now on and off. I have to say, everytime I mess with that stack I am more and more impressed by its richness and capabilities. The reason I did was twofold. Which comes as a Windows service). Next, I deployed the M...
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Big Honking Databases: On Bringing the Good News While Clearing Out Fungus.
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Technology and business issues affecting BI. [Opinions expressed here are my own, and in no way constitute an endorsement or opinion of my employer]. Monday, October 19, 2009. On Bringing the Good News While Clearing Out Fungus. I wanted to spend a little time sharing some good news with you. I am going to be Technical Evangelist for a relatively new company called GoodData. GoodData is backed by heavy-hitting investors including Andreessen Horowitz. GoodData also cleared another funding. This means the ...
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Padraig's Blog: Semester Project Finally Finished
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008. Semester Project Finally Finished. We just finished our semester project yesterday for the class I am taking on High Performance Computing. It was a pretty interesting project based on the topic of software fault injection. More details can be found in the project report here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). DBMS2 - DataBase Management System Services. Semester Project Finally Finished. View my complete profile.
