Expert Oracle Exadata, 2nd Edition opens up the internals of Oracle's Exadata platform so that you can fully benefit from the most performant and scalable database hardware appliance capable of running Oracle Database. This edition is fully-updated to cover Exadata 5-2 and Oracle Database 12c. If you're new to Exadata,...

Jobs in data science abound, but few people have the data science skills needed to fill these increasingly important roles in organizations. Data Science For Dummies is the perfect starting point for IT professionals...

• Architect a Hadoop solution with a modular design for data collection, distributed processing, analysis, and reporting
• Build a multi-node Hadoop cluster on Windows servers
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• Learn how to install and configure Couchbase Server.
• Explore Couchbase Servers' extensive key/value API with examples from several popular programming languages.
• Apply Map/Reduce...

• Full of illustrations, diagrams, and tips with clear step-by-step instructions and real time examples
• Get up to speed on all the aspects of this new technology
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• Understand how to utilize the most frequently used PostgreSQL ecosystem-related tools and technologies
• A hands-on guide focused primarily on providing a practical approach...

• Install and configure PRD in Linux and Windows
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• Learn how to develop a complete business intelligence solution using SQL Server...

Welcome to the seventh volume of the must-have reference series for game developers, Game Programming Gems, the series that helped define the standards for game programming and continues to be an essential source for new, innovative techniques. "Game Programming Gems 7" provides the tools and inspiration that game developers need to...

This extensively revised fifth edition features clear explanations, lots of terrific examples and an illustrative case, and practical advice, with design rules that are applicable to any SQL-based system....

Fork algebras are a formalism based on the relational calculus, with interesting algebraic and metalogical properties. Their representability is especially appealing in computer science, since it allows a closer relationship between their language and models. This book gives a careful account of the results and presents some applications of...