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    SQL for trading...?

    It would be too slow for market data. I tried it and it works only on small set of data. Also it is not designed for such kind of analysis.
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    Windows 7 - To InStall Or Not - Dat is the ?

    If you don't believe me that disk partition alignment is essential, then you can read below. Here is information from Microsoft: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd758814.aspx ...A best practice that is essential yet often overlooked is disk partition alignment... ...For...
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    Windows 7 - To InStall Or Not - Dat is the ?

    Partition aligning is always important. Try to find what Dell recommends for DB servers. It is very simple concept - reading unaligned sectors is 2 times slower than reading aligned ones.
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    Windows 7 - To InStall Or Not - Dat is the ?

    1) Partition aligning - works for all cases. 2) Sector size - you can leave it as default. You can gain a lot even if you do 1) only.
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    Windows 7 - To InStall Or Not - Dat is the ?

    The only way to know is to try it yourself and make a lot of benchmarks. The partition alignment is a common sense when you understand how it works - it is the same with CPU memory. The other factors - it depends. It is a part of our research for what can be achieved from available hardware...
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    Windows 7 - To InStall Or Not - Dat is the ?

    My mistake I mistyped the term - not "interleave optimized" - it is a little more complicated. First you have to create a partition at an explicit disk offset for required cylinder alignment using diskpart.exe ======================= For example: ======================= Diskpart> select...
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    Windows 7 - To InStall Or Not - Dat is the ?

    yes, this is always that way with new installations.
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    Windows 7 - To InStall Or Not - Dat is the ?

    It is faster; saves energy; works very stable on a range of computers - I am using in house a cheap 1999 year computer for a server as well as brand new Dell Workstation, Lenovo Workstation, others too; many new technologies - DirectX11, Direct2D is scalable and fast - works with GPU graphics...
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    Windows 7 - To InStall Or Not - Dat is the ?

    I always do a fresh install after formatting the hard disk. Besides I have a new info on how to format the hard drive for maximum speed. So better start a new install from a freshly formatted and disk interleave optimized hard drive.
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    Windows 7 - To InStall Or Not - Dat is the ?

    Using Windows 7 since beta for ~6 months. Stable still in beta. Using RTM for ~ 2 months - very reliable. Last week there was an update.
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    Charting software with good importing facilities

    we are developing a product with such capabilities. please register at http://www.thspro.com/contact-us and I will send to you more info.
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    SQL for trading...?

    [B] I am glad too it is so important. Column oriented is a part of the picture - it is still too general. Time series oriented comes closer to what we need. Still there is one more component - computations. kdb has its own language. If we have to use a computer language the first thing I...
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    SQL for trading...?

    ;) General purpose solutions are always a compromise. From other side a custom tailored solution is not easy. But after weighting the options we came to conclusion the time learning and testing all these products would be better spend if we begin coding from scratch a custom tailored...
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    SQL for trading...?

    This made for each tick will slow down processing significantly.
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    Stock Screener Recs - MSN "retiring" Stock Screener

    We are working on something new and interesting - a real time screener and alert system. Still in beta - please register - we will notify you for next steps: http://www.thstart.com/contact-us
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    Ticker Tape?

    We are working on something new and interesting - a real time screener with similar and more functionality. Please register at: http://www.thstart.com/contact-us and I will notify you when we are close to testing it.
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    Virtualization1

    He is already out so you are safe ;) If you want to be a system administrator for every Linux program out there you are installing then go with Linux. Linux was pushed by the big hardware companies like IBM, HP, etc. as a way to sell more iron. The open source angle is also misleading -...
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    Virtualization1

    2008 R2 WITHOUT HYPER-V - I am working with it right now.
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    Virtualization1

    It depends from the load and type of application. I programmed my server with our code generator to make a quick computations with max performance. It is like a bursts, then the usage is going down and thus power efficiency. Also there are a lot of old programs not optimized to use all processor...
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    Virtualization1

    That is right. I installed Windows 7 on ages old 32 bit computer and configured it as a server. Runs much quicker than 32 bit XP. Updated 1 Dell 8250 with WS2008R2 and several other 64 bit workstations with Win 7. Configured for max power saving. The 1 month electricity bill came and...
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