Data Management & Warehousing

Tag: Technical Architecture

  • A Technical Architecture for the Data Warehouse

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    macleanwalker
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    In April 1995 I left Sequent Computer Systems to set up Data Management & Warehousing. Between the completion of the Perot/Europcar project and leaving I had worked with Ralph Kimball, who was training Sequent to develop a Data Warehousing practice and promoting his Red Brick technology (currently owned by IBM). This paper outlines the first two…

  • Client Server Very Large Databases

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    macleanwalker
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    In 1993 I was still working for Sequent Computer Systems as the Technical Leader for Databases. We won a contract to build a then massive 1000 user Unix system using Oracle 7.1 with ten 16 processor system and up to 50Gb of data in a client-server arrangement. Building this system that run Perot/Europcar car rental administration…