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title: "This week's database news, issue 48"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 48
published_at: "2015-02-20"
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This week's database news, issue 48

This week's database news, supported by Rackspace[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://dbweekly.com/issues/48)

DB WeeklyIssue 48 — February 20, 2015

Supported by [![\](http://dbweekly.com/images/rackspacetrans.png)](http://rackspace.com/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)

[Jim Starkey's NoSQL Lowdown: Why It Won't Solve Big Data](http://www.cio.co.uk/insight/data-management/jim-starkeys-nosql-low-down-it-wont-solve-big-data-3598479/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)CIOAn interview with Jim Starkey, database legend and inventor of both the ‘BLOB’ data type and triggers, taking a look at the history of BLOB and also how it relates to modern NoSQL (and what he doesn’t like about NoSQL).


[Gun: The 'Easiest' Database Ever?](http://gundb.io/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)GunDB“Gun is a persisted distributed cache, part of a NoDB movement. [..] Think of it as ‘Dropbox for Databases’.” The [discussion on Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9076558) is also interesting.


[Five Ways Rackspace is Making Adopting MSSQL 2014 and In-Memory Effortless](http://www.rackspace.com/blog/five-ways-rackspace-is-making-adopting-mssql-2014-and-in-memory-effortless/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)RackspaceSponsoredEven with these open source SQL alternatives becoming increasingly common, many enterprises still trust their mission critical database operation to Microsoft SQL Server. Recently, Microsoft released its latest iteration of the technology, Microsoft SQL Server 2014, with notable advancements in performance including in-memory functionality and added security with high availability. [Learn More.](http://www.rackspace.com/blog/five-ways-rackspace-is-making-adopting-mssql-2014-and-in-memory-effortless/)

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[Life in A Post-Database World: Using Crypto to Avoid DB Writes](https://neosmart.net/blog/2015/using-hmac-signatures-to-avoid-database-writes/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)Mahmoud Al-QudsiA look at some hashing-based approaches to _not_ using databases in situations where they might otherwise be used.


[NoSQL Is 'Dead' (video)](http://www.infoq.com/presentations/nosql-commonalities?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)InfoQEric Redmond explains the differences and commonalities amongst many kinds of databases and takes a stab at the marketing term ‘NoSQL.’ A 50 minute talk.


[Postgres' LATERAL JOIN Explained](http://illuminatedcomputing.com/posts/2015/02/postgres_lateral_join/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)Paul A Jungwirth“Lateral joins can be incredibly useful when you need them, but it’s hard to grok their ‘shape’ without a concrete example.”


[Boot 2 Docker: How to set up Postgres, Elasticsearch and Redis on Mac OS X](http://www.maori.geek.nz/post/boot_2_docker_how_to_set_up_postgres_elasticsearch_and_redis_on_mac_os_x?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)Graham JensonA quick tutorial on how to set up Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Redis as Docker containers using Boot2Docker on Mac OS X.


[Bowled Over by SQL Window Functions](https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/t-sql-programming/bowled-over-by-sql-window-functions/?utm_source=dbweekly&utm_medium=email)Dwain CampsEven if you’re not using SQL Server 2012, it’s interesting to see how to model the calculation of bowling scores in SQL.


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