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Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Windowing functions and analytics have been around for quite some time and many people already make use of this awesome stuff in the PostgreSQL world. Timeseries  are an especially important area in this context. However, not all features have been widely adopted and thus many developers have to implement functionality at the application level in a painful way instead of just using some of the more advanced SQL techniques.The idea of this blog is to demonstrate some of the advanced stuff so that more people out there can make use of PostgreSQL’s true power.Preparing data for analyticsFor ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Monyog; Author: Robert AgarTuning database performance is a complicated task that can be a thorn in the side of the database team. There are many interconnected components and environmental aspects that come under consideration when attempting to optimize the performance of your database systems. A DBA can be hard-pressed to determine where to begin their optimization efforts. An initial investigation may concentrate on the network and hardware on which the database is running. These inquiries may uncover issues that can be easily identified and addressed. It may be a simple matter of adding some disk space ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: A Dennis. You have data that you want to visualize. You need to explore your graphing options using SAS, but you don’t know where to start. Help is here with the recently revised Base SAS guide, Introduction to SAS® Platform Graphing. This guide is helpful for novice SAS users as well as more experienced SAS users. It gives you a quick look at the available SAS Graphing software, and then helps you select the software to use. Do you know the graph type you want? A cross-reference locates appropriate graphing software to use based on that ... Read More

Feed: Yellowbrick Data. Author: Joshua Miner; According to Gartner, global retail sector spending will reach almost $203.6 billion dollars in 2019. Gartner states that software is the fastest-growing category of technology spending, “as retail CIOs prioritize analytics, digital marketing, mobile applications, e-commerce platforms and artificial intelligence (AI) as the technologies most crucial to their organization’s mission.” Table 1. Retail IT Spending Forecast (Billions of U.S. Dollars) The Yellowbrick solution’s high-performance design gives retailers faster, higher quality insight, even as data volumes increase. This enables retailers to win the fight for the customer through a personalized experience and targeted advertising, and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Data lakes are an increasingly popular way to aggregate, store, and analyze both structured and unstructured data. AWS Lake Formation makes it easy for you to set up, secure, and manage your data lakes.In Part 1 of this post series, you learned how to create and explore a data lake using Lake Formation. This post walks you through data discovery using the metadata search capabilities of Lake Formation in the console, and metadata search results restricted by column permissions. Prerequisites For this post, you need the following: Metadata search in the console In this post, ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Marcia Surratt. The Output Delivery System (ODS) Graphics procedures provide many options to give you control over the look of your output. However, there are times when your output does not look like you thought it would. View more Problem Solvers posts This blog discusses how to solve some common output-related problems that we hear about in Technical Support. All of the examples in this blog relate to creating scatter plots and bar charts from the same data set, SASHELP.CLASS. This data set, included in your SAS® installation, provides information about heights and ages for both ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; DreamHost is easily one of the best web hosting services we’ve reviewed. It offers a long list of plans, each feeling well-rounded with its price, in addition to excellent speed, superior security and inexpensive pricing. HostGator, on the other hand, has a few problems, namely in the privacy and speed departments.  In this DreamHost vs. HostGator comparison, we’re going to see how they stack up step-by-step, isolating the variables that make them shine and the ones that make them sink. At the end, you’ll know which is the best option for hosting your site. That ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Tamar Gal. Let’s explore the complexity and vulnerability of IT infrastructure and how to build a modern IT infrastructure monitoring solution, using a combination of time series databases with machine learning. iCloud recently joined Google, Facebook, Amazon on the list of major companies that have experienced massive cloud outages. Check out ZDNet’s series of articles detailing the outages. The outage caused disruptions to the likes of YouTube, Snapchat, and Gmail, among others. iCloud’s failure also affected all their third-party apps and ApplePay, which resounded globally. We have quickly embraced the cloud as more ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Frederic Descamps; Answering this question is not easy. Like always, the best response is “it depends” ! But let’s try to give you all the necessary info the provide the most accurate answer. Also, may be fixing one single query is not enough and looking for that specific statement will lead in finding multiple problematic statements. The most consuming one The first candidate to be fixed is the query that consumes most of the execution time (latency). To identify it, we will use the sys schema and join it with events_statements_summary_by_digest from performance_schemato retrieve a real ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.16-7 on August 15, 2019 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).This release is based on MySQL 8.0.16. It includes all bug fixes in these releases. Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.16-7 is now the current GA release in the 8.0 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.16 includes all the features available in MySQL 8.0.16 Community Edition in addition to enterprise-grade features developed by Percona. For a list of highlighted features from both MySQL 8.0 and Percona ... Read More