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Over 6 years ago
Answered a question: Do general purpose or OLTP Oracle databases really perform better on SPARC based servers?
Many companies are replacing SPARC (32-bit) and UltraSPARC (64-bit) hardware with x86-64 thinking they can just emulate the older stuff. But this usually fails. That's when the young kids learn that the older SUN architecture was doing something quite different (eg. Solaris…
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Over 6 years ago
Moving to MariaDB in an OpenVMS EnvironmentWe had been using an ISAM technology called RMS (records management services) for 20+ years so had been looking for a cost-effective way to move to a relational database since 2006. I first experimented with "Oracle-RDB for OpenVMS" which seemed very promising but budget…
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OpenVMS, VMS on VAX, OpenVMS on Alpha, OpenVMS on Itanium. CentOS-7 Answers
Over 6 years ago
Relational Databases Tools
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Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications industry. Skilled in OpenVMS application development (on Alpha and Itanium2) and MariaDB-10 on CentOS-7. Strong engineering professional with a Technologist focused in Electronics from Conestoga College.
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