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This is Data Stuff, a weekly newsletter about databases by the distributed team of Justin Jaffray and Arjun Narayan, speaking with the illusion of a single monolithic server. The contents of this newsletter are purely the opinion of the composite fictional author, so, like, definitely not the opinion of Justin's or Arjun's employer.

  1. Data Stuff: Storage Wars

    Ellison and Amazon.

    In the ongoing war of words between Amazon and Larry Ellison, Amazon published best practices for migrating an Oracle database to Amazon RDS, and it’s chock full of saucy details. For instance, I wasn’t aware of the “Amazon Database Freedom Program”, which just gives free AWS credits to anyone ‘migrating from commercial engines’. “Are you operating with old world databases”, a slide asks, with hilarious icons that make it very clear who they’re talking about. It’s quite incredible the number and assortment of tools that Amazon has built to “free” people from their Oracle installations. Take a look....

  2. Data Stuff: Universal Truths

    This is the fourth edition of Data Stuff, a weekly newsletter about databases by Arjun Narayan and Justin Jaffray, which is still inexplicably written in the first person....

  3. Data Stuff: Etched in Stone

    This is the third edition of Data Stuff, a weekly newsletter about databases by Arjun Narayan and Justin Jaffray....

  4. Reporter might have to rollback Aurora story

    This is the second edition of Data Stuff, a weekly newsletter about databases by Arjun Narayan and Justin Jaffray....

  5. Data Stuff: Flora and Fauna

    This is Data Stuff, a weekly newsletter about databases by the distributed team of Justin Jaffray and Arjun Narayan, speaking with the illusion of a single monolithic server....