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Jun 14, 2012 · Databases Administration

Check this article out. "Hortonworks sets itself apart from Cloudera and MapR by sticking with standards-based software and Apache's proven 1.0 code line." >>

Apr 25, 2012 · Databases Administration

Hive uses DerbyDB to store its metadata by default, if you have ever tried having more than one person, or multiple services, such as the Hive Web UI or Hive …

Feb 24, 2012 · Databases Administration

Sorry, I haven't really wrote anything in the last couple of months, but after a year or more of reading about Hadoop and poking at it. I have actually got …

Nov 23, 2011

We have traditions in our family but Thanksgiving was never one of those holidays that we were fanatic about. We always had a turkey dinner, but sometimes it was at …

Nov 18, 2011 · System Administration

If you have been around computer systems long enough everyone knows how import disk performance is, espeacially with database systems. There's the standard htparm -tT and dd test the everyone …

Nov 17, 2011 · Databases Administration

Now that MySQL has Stored Procedures, Functions and Trigger. I have found myself needing to back them up or make copies to move to a different MySQL server. It's actually …

Nov 15, 2011 · Personal

I like family adventures, taking the boys places that they haven't been before and hopefully somewhere that my husband and I will enjoy as well. When I saw the Groupon …

Oct 22, 2011 · Development

If you are like me and want to install git-core core from source instead of one to the many binary packages out or you just have a distro that does …

Sep 16, 2011 · Development

After being told that I would need to take five days to recovery from a recent surgery and being informed that they would prefer me not to work on any …

Jun 21, 2011 · System Administration

The other day I and a few of my colleges were talking about a easy way to deploy and undeploy war files from the command line like you could through …