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NOW-Sort
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NOW-Sort: Fastest Disk-to-Disk Sort in the World. April 1, 1997:. NOW wins fastest sort trophies. The NOW team was awarded two trophies for having the fastest disk-to-disk sorts. The first of these was for the Datamation. Benchmark, and old industry standard that requires the entrants to sort 1 million 100-byte records as fast as possible. A 32-node NOW cluster was able to sort this amount of data in 2.41 seconds. Beating the old record by more than a full second! Update April 1, 1998:. Commercially supp...
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Synersov Alive: September 2010
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Monday, September 27, 2010. Test Driven Approach - Positive Impact for Developers - Conclusion. Going thru this lengthy of workshop series on TDD, I hoped I have covered enough here on positives impact from TDD approach. It takes a developer to practice it to see its worth. Often in software development, we fall into traps like: -. Lengthy requirement gathering period. Lengthy conceptualizing and creating over detail blueprint (architecture). Over design/engineering a software component at early stages.
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Synersov Alive: ETL Sorting or SQL Sorting (ORDER BY)
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010. ETL Sorting or SQL Sorting (ORDER BY). Often hear about ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) solution for better data integration between applications, systems or solution within an enterprise. What are the major consideration before choosing an appropriate ETL solution? Sorting, Merging, Unification, Transformation and Loading are quite commonly happen within Data Integration stage. Often, we heard of NSort. Erprise solution missing L. Question of the day. ETL Rules of thumb: -.