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I caught up with Ray Roccaforte at the annual conference of the user group on Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, and Analytics (BIWA). Of course, Oracle Exadata was a big topic of discussion at the conference, so I (Jeff) wouldn't let Ray go until he gave the Oracle Database Insider his quick take on the technology and its use for people in the BIWA SIG user group:
Oracle in the Cloud Webinar Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific
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eWeek published a story entitled, Top Database Stories of 2008. Their list says it's some of the top stories for the database space in 2008, (in no particular order).
While database announcements are 'big' news, somehow I think the real top stories are more about how a database technology helps businesses by saving them money/time/resources, but that's just my $0.02.
Do you agree with eWeek's top database stories of 08?