Stumbled upon this great library of database models/schemas [http://www.databaseanswers.org/data%5Fmodels/] (searchable [http://www.barryw.org/dba/pi_data_model_search/index.asp]) for a vast number of business scenarios from auction web site to asset management to search engines.…
What to do if MySQL keeps crashing [http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/crashing.html]…
Top 10 Largest Databases in the World [http://www.businessintelligencelowdown.com/2007/02/top_10_largest_.html]. NERSC database up with 2.8 petabytes of data … yeah you heard it right – petabytes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petabyte].…
The article Yahoo! Pipes and The Web As Database [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_pipes_web_database.php] explores the emergent world of Yahoo! Pipes [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2007/02/13/yahoo-pipes-as-seen-by-a-ufo/]. The author sees some interesting parallels with Relational Databases in the 90’s, concluding that…
Google Code Search [http://google.com/codesearch] is out! krugle [http://www.krugle.com/] is another neat option for programming related search.…
Oracle SQL Developer [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/sql_developer/index.html] (formerly Project Raptor) is a new, free graphical tool for database development. I’ve been using Toad [http://www.quest.com/toad/] for Oracle (from Quest Software), but for the next roudup I’ll give Raptor…
The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 System Views Map [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2EC9E842-40BE-4321-9B56-92FD3860FB32&displaylang=en] shows the key system views included in SQL Server 2005, and the relationships between them.…
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine [http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html], the original research paper on Google.…