Gaming, Data, and Behaviour
From time spent in certain game modes, to player damage with weapons, and how players move around maps, video game developers have had access to...
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Technology, Prediction, and the Problem of Change
Mini-disks, Sabre-toothed Chickens and Pizza Grease - a Deadly Serious Discussion of Technology and Prediction. “All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and...
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Postgres Conf 2018 Musings
Yours truly attended the Postgres Conf in Jersey City last week with my esteemed colleague Richard Jackson. It was quite a blast, to say the least...apart from...
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Hybrid Is The New Black
Gartner's 'Capabilities for Data Management Solutions for Analytics' Article What a mouthful 'Capabilities for Data Management Solutions for Analytics' is. At least 'DMSA' can be...
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Azure IO Testing
One of the first things we do here at VLDB when we have a yearning to set up a database on a cloud platform is...
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MPP & Redshift Musings
What On Earth is MPP? In computing, massively parallel refers to the use of a large number of processors (or separate computers) to perform a...
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Teradata AWS Access How To Guide
It was previously explained by ourselves here at VLDB how to setup a Teradata MPP (multi-node) system on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Well, now we’re...
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