The reaction to the hype of Hadoop is starting to get interesting … Computerworld has a great new article on what the big DB vendors are saying about the mass movement into Hadoop and its complimentary technologies.  Very interesting read.

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I was reading up on the Oracle Magazine – the Ask Tom section in the November/December issue (posted here) has a quick summary of some of the new features in 11g.  Two of them really caught my attention as they look really promising in dealing with some of the day-to-day scenarios we tend to tackle in warehousing.

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