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jma24

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John Appleby

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    Comment #48379716

    Give me a 48 and we'll talk.

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    Comment #48231238

    Better sell it fast before the M5 ones come out.

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    Comment #48211970

    It's a really interesting PoV, and one I'm in polar opposition to. Context engineering is allowing me to do things I've always wanted to do but don't have the time/energy. I'm writ…

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    Comment #15891116

    Fascinating read Dennis - do keep it up.

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    Comment #8404251

    The much bigger problem with Oracle In-Memory is that a lot of operations like joins and sorts often happen in the SGA, in row form. So you end up needing a truckload of SGA for te…

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    Comment #8404247

    Oracle designed their Database In-Memory Option specifically for these sorts of scenarios. But it's a fairly crudely designed column store cache and MemSQL are right to bash them. …

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    Comment #8404239

    Doing some basic math... Wikipedia is around 80m rows a day, so 4 months of Wikipedia is around 9.5bn rows. But they show 17bn on the graph. Typical columnar compression gives abou…