You’ve got to sympathize with folks who try to change education from positions within federal (U.S.) government. Read more.
Tags: higher education business models, higher education costs
Commentary | Gary Lewis, July 2, 2009 11:03 am | 
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Recently I installed an XML database and duplicated one of the performance tests I’d done earlier with the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED). Response time dropped from 195 seconds to 2 seconds. Read more.
Tags: xquery
Query Tools | Gary Lewis, July 1, 2009 3:30 pm | Comments (0)
Bookmarks | Gary Lewis, June 25, 2009 9:25 am | Comments Off
Recently I asked folks on an XQuery listserv if XQuery might play a role in a p2p web anticipated by such recent announcements as Google’s Wave and Opera’s Unite. Below is an edited version of that conversation. Read more.
Tags: web queries
Query Tools | Gary Lewis, June 19, 2009 7:52 am | Comments (2)
Oracle SQL Primer is now available for download as a single PDF. Read more.
Uncategorized | Gary Lewis, June 15, 2009 8:41 am | Comments Off
Universities have long fostered a myth which, frankly, sticks in my craw because it is so patently sleight-of-hand. Read more.
Tags: higher education costs
Commentary | Gary Lewis, June 11, 2009 8:24 am | Comments Off
Bookmarks | Gary Lewis, June 10, 2009 10:36 am | Comments Off
I’ve posted a book I wrote in 2001 that is available (free) for download. If, on the off chance you ever need a good book on ad hoc query writing with SQL, then this book has lots to offer. You can also download it from the header tab called SQL Primer. Read more.
Uncategorized | Gary Lewis, June 9, 2009 1:26 pm | Comments Off
In a continued search for a worthy web query tool, I spent a fair amount of time playing with Zorba’s XQuery and the 20,000 time series from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) database. I continue to be impressed. Read more.
Tags: web queries
Query Tools, Research | Gary Lewis, June 8, 2009 4:14 pm | Comments Off
Bookmarks | Gary Lewis, May 15, 2009 11:05 am | Comments Off
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