The Cloudera docs have been undergoing some reorganization lately. That applies double to the Impala documentation, which moved from beta to GA status and has been restructured at the same time. For posterity (and a little Googlerank mojo), here's the current layout of the Impala docs in mid-May 2013:
Cloudera Impala Release Notes
New Features in Impala
Incompatible Changes
Known Issues and
Last week we held the UKOUG Database SIG in Leeds as I described in a recent post. It was a well attended event in a central location with excellent refreshments available. – Thank you to UKOUG’s Anna Crellin for organising the day so well.
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Thanks to everyone who attended my webinar on using hints for Oracle testing and performance tuning. As usual, it was a great event and I appreciate the comments and questions.
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