Oracle president Thomas Kurian is taking time away from the company cnb.cx/2Q9QAS2

Coming in 19c: Hybrid tables Query data stored inside Oracle Database and other data stores #oow18

Great presentation Kyle Hailey this week at #AWS #reInvent telling #RDS customers how to tune their workloads with #PerformanceInsights! youtube.com/watch?v=RyX9tP…

Oracle 18c changed the checkpointing in a physical standby database (with the side effect of a bug). usn-it.de/2019/08/13/ora…

Nice blog post on CPU memory bandwidth, comparing sequential and random access, by Forrest Smith forrestthewoods.com/blog/memory-ba…

Interesting agenda. I signed up

Great insight into Yugabyte architecture

My first Google Spanner query

"when a system needs consistency, there are no shortcuts – only wishful illusions" blogs.gartner.com/merv-adrian/20…

To err is human, to really foul things up requires a cloud. nyti.ms/2m4sQlE

IKEA sets an example on how to do IoT security. mjg59.dreamwidth.org/47803.html

A Finnish museum has purchased the world's longest GIF and has committed to keep it running for as long as possible. arsguide.kiasma.fi/en/artwork/asl…

Blockchain powers open energy market for household solar energy. Really coop *real* blockchain application technologyreview.com/s/604227/block…

The story behind Oracle Database Analytic Views ... and Oracle's reboot of OLAP for today's in-memory databases: medium.com/mark-rittman/a…

Oracle 12.2.0.2 will be called release 18, and 12.2.0.3 will be release 19. support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/Do…

Join Mogens Nørgaard and the #OakTable in San Francisco during Openworld for Oak Table World! Technical depth, free entry and happy hour #OTW17SF

We're really excited to announce the open source release of KSQL, a streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka confluent.io/blog/ksql-open…

I just uploaded the slides of "Query Optimizer – MySQL vs. PostgreSQL", the presentation I gave today at #PerconaLive, on slideshare. The related scripts are on github. slideshare.net/ChristianAntog… github.com/ChrisAntognini…

Getting ready for Mogens Nørgaard birthday party. No available taxis in Copenhagen.