Data Management & Warehousing

Tag: Unix

  • 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…

  • Client Server Very Large Databases

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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…