I'm on Ubuntu Lucid. It looks like the partition table on my trusted backup drive has gotten damaged or corrupted (may have been improperly removed before unmounting, maybe). Because this is my backup ...

Database vendors have been advocating data partitioning techniques for managing large volumes of data over the past several years. Oracle has pioneered this trend with Oracle Database 8 and improved ...

Continuing the discussion on VLDBs and SQL Server we need to look at the daily load of millions of rows. As stated before, doing this to an existing table with indexes will force the system to do a ...

In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox. Today, you can ...