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SAI and N-O-SQL
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 22 April 2010

Yesterday (argh, the day before yesterday) I went to a SAI conference on nosql. In Belgium, SAI is a non-profit organization for IT people which focuses on knowledge sharing.

The conference that day was on nosql. The presentation given by OuterThought was very good and offered a nice introduction to …

Switching to database architecture
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Fri 11 December 2009

It's finally committed: I'm going to dive into the realms of database architecture. It's with some sentiment that I'm leaving the expertise field of Apache, J(2)EE and WebSphere, but seeing the database architecture field makes it up well. I'm starting to get acquainted with Oracle DB as first …