I was reading some RSS feeds the other day and noticed that Jeremy Schneider over at Ardent Performance Computing was working on getting Oracle RAC working on Amazon EC2.
http://www.ardentperf.com/2011/03/04/byo-oracle-rac-on-ec2/
He looks to have solved the whole Virtual IP issue by using another instance. Nice solution!

When I get a spare moment (don’t believe for a minute that the lack of posts means I am not busy) it would be good to take the scripts and get the whole Oracle RAC working in Amazon EC2 finally!

Other News:

I have had the chance to play with some columnar databases, Vertica and Ingres VectorWise and the performance is good. I used the TPC-H benchmark to test to a scale 20 (small only due to a lack of disk space). So the results are nothing like the recent Scale 100 benchmarks that Ingres VectorWise did but useful nonetheless. Sadly I can’t publish any scripts or results as the IP is owned by my current employer.

Currently I am focused on improving my skills in predictive modeling and analytics. This is using the data rather than just supporting/recovering and hand-holding the data a.k.a. being a DBA.

Listening to trance, in the zone and most definitely Having Fun!

Paul