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Monthly Archives: December 2007
Commodity Hardware (Disk and the Performance Myth)
I have been out on several client sites over the last 3-4 months and the one thing that I see time and time again is the proliferation of commodity hardware. Not only are smaller servers popping up all over the … Continue reading
DataWarehousing and Innodb PK
A quick note for the future here… I was out on a gig last week that is doing lots of data warehousing. Currently all of their tables are innodb based. Their fact table is growing rapidly, and is suffering from … Continue reading
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I Am Legend Falls Short
Well I was excited. Always a fan of Omega Man, I looked forward to the release of I am Legend. I got to the first showing yesterday with very high expectations. All I can say is wow am I really … Continue reading
Interesting Find – Single Quotes & Ruby
Had a client that was using active records with their large rails application. I was brought into look at performance and to make sure things were setup properly. Immediately I noticed several queries floating up in the slow query log. … Continue reading
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