Data Management & Warehousing

Tag: Programming

  • An Introduction To Social Network Data

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    An internal training presentation from May 2012 Social Networks such as Facebook are everywhere. They gather a wide range of data about each and everyone of us who joins their ranks. This presentation looks at what data they collect and how it is used by application developers and marketeers. It also looks at how to…

  • Implementing Netezza Spatial

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    An internal training presentation on implementing Netezza Spatial functionality What is Spatial Technology? It’s the ability to analyse information in a geographic context: Where is the nearest petrol station? Which road am I on? How many ATMs are in this area? It’s not maps and images These come later with tools that help present the…

  • A Linux/Mac OS X Command Line Interface to AffiliateWindow

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    This article was written for a client due to the fact that we were unable to test the Affiliate Window API with the documentation available at the time Introduction Affiliate Window offer a tracking and management solutions for maintaining an affiliate program. This works by directing sales to a merchant from an affiliates’ website. In…

  • Fly Fishing File System

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    San Francisco USENIX Conference 1992 – Contest The conference contest, “Name That File System”, was a great success, with several hundred (yes, you read that right) entries. The rules read as follows: In the beginning, there was the file system, and it was good enough for the disk technology of the time. Then disks got…

  • KeySum – Using Checksum Keys

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    In 1997 we were working on a project for Swisscom Mobile and needed to innovate a way of using a checksum key on a database. Here is the solution we design: Introduction Keysum is a new and interesting technique (not a product) in the generation of keys within a database. It has particular application within…