Monthly Archives: June 2011

It is summer time !

Posted on June 30, 2011 by inovia

Right now the weather in Paris is pretty hot. People tend to take large breaks to lunch. Our employees decided to turn this situation into a team building event. Every day, two different persons cook summer recipes for everyone. It … Continue reading →

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Auto partitioning on Postgresql – Part 1

Posted on June 27, 2011 by inovia

We will share a simple approach to migrate existing tables to partitioned versions of them with Postgresql. The partitions will be created on demand with just a few lines of codes. It is useful during off-line migration, and can be … Continue reading →

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Search engine vs Database in BI part 1: data structure

Posted on June 27, 2011 by inovia

BI apps face a real data deluge these days. The engineers need new approaches to deal with this. Is a search engine, well known for handling humongous data sets, adapted to a BI context ? Business intelligence is the science … Continue reading →

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The importance of optimism in a project

Posted on June 27, 2011 by inovia

Being optimistic is not the most apparent quality of a co worker: we culturally prefer realist people, people that can evaluate the half both half empty and half full. In France, we tend to be a bit too much pessimistic … Continue reading →

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