Divide and conquer Many times you start scaling out without knowing it and this type of scale out is the opposite of consolidation. You identify those parts of your system that are resource intensive and move them off to be on their own. Its just that
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This week I attended a day of training on some of the new features for SQL 2008. I mention this because one of the presenters made a 'joke' about problems with databases being related to 'needing more ram'. The reason this is of interested is it touches
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Chaos Fosters Opportunity For the last 6 or so years, I have been working almost exclusively on technologies related to data storage and retrieval. This has included things like object persistence technology (Object Spaces), data warehousing for billion+
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