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You have to have Enterprise Edition to be able to create partitions. Standard edition is limited to one partition per measure group, which is the default behavior. When creating multiple partitions, you need to make sure that for a measure …

But after befriending a well-to-do hotel patron, the young man started traveling the world, meeting the likes of Andy Warhol, John Lennon and Patti Smith, and living in New York, Paris and the Greek island of Crete. Almost four decades …

This year, Oracle OpenWorld will be held Sept 19-23rd in San Francisco. Also this year, JavaOne and Oracle Develop will be held Sep 19-23d in San Francisco. How can that be? Simple. Oracle has acquired the city of San Francisco. …

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Like previous versions of Fedora as well as version 10.04 of Ubuntu, Fedora 13 primarily uses graphics drivers with kernel-based mode setting (KMS). In some respects, Goddard once again takes the lead in terms of KMS support, as Fedora supports …

The core ideas of RYW consistency, as implemented in various NoSQL systems, are: Let N = the number of copies of each record distributed across nodes of a parallel system. Let W = the number of nodes that must successfully …

Immutability Fosters Concurrent Programming Sharing Is Cheap If you’re certain that an object will never change, then sharing this object becomes a simple matter of providing a reference to it. In Java doing so often requires a lot of defensive …

Definition 7.1 (Tampering and Tamperproofing). Let Id (P, E) and Ia (P, E) be predicates over a program P and the environment E in which it executes. P is successfully tamperproofed if, throughout the execution of P, Id (P, E) …

Here is a challenge that takes you away from those repetitive boring type of queries that you write over and over again, several times a day. All of us, the database people, are familiar with thinking in set based manner …