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8:30-10| Future Communications seminar on videoconferencing . 55 John St.
 RSVP : MichaelBischoff;212-240-9700
19-21| K-Sig : Kdb ,  Kx Systems  database manager combining OLTP and OLAP
 facility for both relational and timeseries queries .  DavidBigio 
 1 Chase Manhattan Plz , Fl 39 . See  CoSy/Language/K 

|19:9| Joel Kaplan : K vector programing lang . scales amazingly - 100M
 records . get a lot of juice out of yor mental processes . Fast susi - can
 perform manipulation manips at mem spead . Nailed interprocess communication
 300 entry points into language avoided having to learn 50000 ep that don`t
 work . Like straping a nuclear engine under excel .
 For intelligent people .  lot of people never try to do hard problems .
 terse K gets faster - terse lisp slower .
|19:16| DavidBigio :
 3 DBs in 1 : RDBMS OLAP ROLAP  .   < 200KB .
 Kdb eliminates precalculations  - data requires only its own space .
 ( Joel working w 60GB db )  Is available on Linux .
 K for  Data scrubbing  , xformation  , aggregation .
 Kdb for Xaction processing , Decision Support .
 Browser large DBs w no software download to client
 ODBC out to Chrystal reports . ,  input to Kdb form from bunch of file
  formats ; eg : MDB ( MS Acess ) .
  A Million Records is not small potatoes by anyone elses standards .
 a : " name = asdk aslrel el  address = qwea duiuo phone =  125-3455 "

  DTB' CUT "=" , a
 syntax consitant w c .  so can embed c fns .

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