Today EMC Greenplum (I guess that is the “official” name since the acquisition) launched their new product offering and as part of that announcement they published some performance numbers around data loading rates. Let’s examine what’s behind this loading rate number. Real-World Benchmarks Benchmarks and benchmark results are often criticized (and sometimes rightfully so) because they often...
Back on June 17th WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” was released and it offered up a handful of new features. Just a few days ago (July 29th) the 3.0.1 release went GA so I decided it was time to investigate what the new 3.0 ready themes had to offer. After looking through a handful of themes...
February 23, 2009 marks the 2nd anniversary of the Structured Data blog. Looking back, I guess I forgot to have a first anniversary, but oh well, I guess I’ll celebrate twice as much this year to make up for it. The past two years have been fun and I’ve enjoyed sharing my experiences and...
I’ve decided it was time for a new look for Structured Data so I’ve updated the theme. I think I have looked at enough posts and all looks well but if you find something that appears odd, unreadable or otherwise, do let me know by posting a comment on this thread and include the...
Up until this point the only public information sharing I have done has been via the Real-World Performance Round-table discussions at Oracle OpenWorld and, most recently, at the NoCOUG Winter Conference. Going forward I would like to use this blog as an additional channel for discussions with the Oracle user community. Just a bit...