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Recent Articles and Presentations
- Oracle Database Performance Tuning Pt 1 (video)
  
  Lecture given at China Sun Yat-sen University
- Oracle Database Performance Tuning Pt 2 (Video)
  
  Lecture given at China Sun Yat-sen University Sep 2013
- Big Data revolution - Audio
  
  Audio recording of presentation given on Sep 22 2013 at Oracle Open World
- Big Data revolution - Slides
  
  Slides give at Oracle open world Sep 22 2013 (See below for audio)
- Why Hadoop projects fail — and how to make yours a success
  
  Venturebeat, June 2013
- Aussie developers and big data
  
  Quoted in this Australian ZDNet article on challenges in Australia skilling for the Big data world
- Optimizing Oracle with SSD
  
  Presentation given at Collaborate 2013
- Oracle, Hadoop and the big data revolution
  
  Presentation given at Collaborate 2013
- Top 3 Trends in IT and Big Data: A look back and the year ahead
  
  Enterprise Systems Journal Nov 2012
- Got Big Data?
  
  Recorded webcast for Modern Analyst Oct 2012 (similar to my Hadoop data revolution talks at OOW and OUGs)
- Hadoop and the Big Data revolution
  
  Database Trends and Applications, Oct 2012
- Microsoft MVP Kevin Kline and Guy Harrison on Big Data and Hadoop
  
  TechNet Radio Community Corner
- Datanami article on Quest and Big data
  
  Includes video interview with me rambling on about Hadoop at Strata 2011
- Wrangling with Big Data
  
  DM Radio October 2011
- RDBMS-Hadoop integration with SQOOP and other tools
  
  Hadoop World 2011, NYC November 2011
- Optimize Oracle on Vmware
  
  Oracle Open World 2011
- Best Practices for Optimizing Oracle RDBMS with Solid State Disk
  
  Quest Whitepaper September 2011
- Big data? Big database technologies
  
  Australian Voice and Data August 2011
- Big Data and Emerging NoSQL Databases shift to Hybrid Database Environments
  
  IDG Connectguest blog August 2011
- Hadoop World 2010 (video) - Exchanging data between Oracle and Hadoop
  
  From November 2010, but I just noticed the video was available. :-)
- RealWorld NoSQL: MongoDB at Shutterfly
  
  GigaOm article syndicated to the New York Times Feb 2011
- Oracle SQL High Performance tuning (ppt)
  
  Presentation given at Brainsurface "Virtahon" conference
- Oracle Parallel SQL part 3
  
  Toadworld Feb 2011
- Real World NoSQL: Membase at Tribal Crossing
  
  Part 5 of the GigaOm series
- Real World NoSQL: SimpleDB at Netflix
  
  Part 4 of the GigaOm series Feb 2011
- Real World NoSQL: Cassandra at OpenWave
  
  GigaOm article syndicated to the New York Times Feb 2011
- Real World NoSQL: HBase at Trend Micro
  
  GigaOm article syndicated to the New York Times
- Oracle Parallel SQL part 2
  
  Toadworld Jan 2011
- Oracle Parallel SQL part 1
  
  ToadWorld Dec 2010
- Exchanging data with the Elephant: Connecting Hadoop and an RDBMS using Sqoop (PPT)
  
  Hadoop World 2010, NYC October 12 2010. See above for the video.
- Interview with SearchCloudComputing.com
  
  24 Sep 2010. An unscripted chat with me and Carl Brooks about NoSQL, cloud databases and Hadoop
- 10 Things you need to know about NoSQL Databases
  
  TechRepublic, August 2010
- In Search of the Elastic Database
  
  Quest software whitepaper
- Top 10 strategies for Oracle performance (part 1)
  
  ToadWorld Newsletter Jan/Feb 2010
- Amphibians, Cetaceans and Cloud Databases
  
  Video of lightning talk given at Cloud Camp SF on 22 June 2010
- Top 10 strategies for Oracle performance (part 3)
  
  ToadWorld Newsletter May/Jun 2010
- Top 10 strategies for Oracle performance (part 2)
  
  ToadWorld Newsletter Mar/Apr 2010
- What's next for RDBMS?
  
  Article published in InfoManagement Direct, May 7, 2009
- Interview with Iggy Fernandez in NOCOUG journal
  
  Iggy interviews me about the Oracle Performance Survival Guide and other tuning related topics. This link is to Iggy's blog.
- Oracle Performance by Design
  
  Article in InformIT.com - December 2009
- Tuning MySQL SQL Code
  
  Toadworld July 2008
- End of the one-size fits all RDBMS?
  
  Database Trends and Applications, July 2008
- Is the next DBMS Revolution Looming?
  
  Database Trends and Applications, June 2008
- MySQL 5 Stored Procedures: Relic or Revolution>
  
  Linux Journal December 2007
Database Trends and Applications (DBTA)

Since 2004 I've been writing a monthly column on application trends for Database Trends and Applications (www.dbta.com). Starting in 2011 the column alternates with my "Notes on NoSQL" columnL Here are some recent columns
- Riak:
  
  June 2013
- Online games leading the way in Big Data Analytics
  
  May 2013
- SQL in NoSQL databases
  
  April 2013
- Facebooks new search algorithm
  
  March 2013
- Pig offers easy alternative to Map
  
  Feb 2013
- Hadoop's Next-generation YARN
  
  Dec 2012
- Google's newly percolated big data technologies
  
  Oct 2012
- Statistical Analysis and R in the world of Big Data
  
  Sep 2012
- Google Glass at last
  
  Aug 2012
- MongoDB - the new M in the Lamp Stack
  
  July 2012
- CouchDB and Membase marriage bears fruid
  
  Jun 2012
- Social Networking meets the Enterprise
  
  May 2012
- Amazon Impresses again with DynamoDB
  
  April 2012
- Sentiment analysis could revolutionise market research
  
  Mar 2012
- RDBMS vendors embrace Hadoop
  
  Feb 2012
- Oracle's public cloud
  
  January 2012
- Oracle joins the NoSQL movement
  
  December 2011
- What does Watson predict for the future of databases
  
  October 2011
- Machine learning drives competitive advantage
  
  September 2011
- Facebook changes are more than Twitter envy
  
  November 2011
- VoltDB
  
  August 2011
- Voice recognition
  
  July 2011
- Cassandra and Hadoop
  
  June 2011
- The Rise of the data scientist
  
  May 2011
- Graph Databases
  
  Apr 2011
- Collective Intelligence outsmarts Artificial Intelligence
  
  Mar 2011
- SalesForce's database in the clouds
  
  Feb 2011
- Eventual Consistency
  
  January 2011
- NoSQL Documented Oriented databases
  
  December 2010
- Exalogic - private cloud or modern mainframe?
  
  November 2011
- NoSQL: Introduction to Cassandra
  
  October 2010
- Movements in the private cloud
  
  September 2010
- Why NoSQL
  
  August 2010
- The Single Application vendor strategy
  
  July 2010
- Virtualization architectures do make a difference
  
  June 2010
- Hadoop sets its sights on the Enterprise
  
  Jan 2010
- Power Efficiency: A new Application design goal
  
  May 2010
- PowerPivot adds to Excels BI capabililties
  
  Apr 2010
- The Application Decade in review
  
  Mar 2010
- Web based applications gaining ground
  
  Feb 2010
- .NET 4.0 New features
  
  December 2009
- EBooks provide a good experience
  
  November 2009
- Augmented realities show real promise
  
  October 2009
- Map Reduce for Business Intelligence and Analytics
  
  September 2009
- Experiments in Web Search Performance
  
  August 2009
- Crystal ball gazing with predictive analytics
  
  July 2009
- VMware's Private Cloud
  
  June 2009
- Open Source in the Cloud
  
  May 2009
- Spreadmarts Bridge the Gap Between Corporate BI and End Users
  
  April 2009
- What Has Happened to RFID?
  
  March 2009
- New Opportunities for Small Software Developers
  
  Feb 2009
- Microsoft's Cloud Vision has Color and Depth
  
  Jan 2009
- The Challenge of Massively Parallel Desktops
  
  Dec 2008
- Application Data in the cloud
  
  Nov 2008
- Scaling the Web (2.0)
  
  Sep 2008
- Software Architecture: Why it Matters
  
  Aug 2008
- J2EE Application Servers 10 Years On
  
  July 2008
- Google’s Entry into the Cloud Computing Land Grab
  
  June 2008
- Amazon Establishes Early Lead in Cloud Computing
  
  May 2008