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Directus wants to democratize data across the enterprise

TechCrunch

And while the company itself is only a couple of years old now, Directus CEO and cofounder Ben Haynes actually started toying with the ideas that led to launching Directus as early as 2004 after leaving the Air Force and starting a web consultancy business. Instead, it can sit on top of any SQL database. Image Credits: Directus.

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Attending Oracle’s CodeOne? Here Are 15 Sessions Everyone Will Be Talking About

OverOps

Moscone West – Room 2004. Moscone West – Room 2004. This QuickStart guides you from 0 to hero with simple steps for REST-enabling your database in the cloud. Pieter Van Puymbroeck, Database Administrator, Exitas NV. Sergey Kuksenko , Java Performance Engineer, Oracle. Wednesday, Oct 24, 4:00 p.m.

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Q&A with Greg Rahn – The changing Data Warehouse market

Cloudera

So, that’s kind of how I got introduced to databases and SQL systems. I then ended up working for a travel company and did database administration there. After having rebuilt their data warehouse, I decided to take a little bit more of a pointed role, and I joined Oracle as a database performance engineer.