上个月，Gartner发布了全球云计算魔力象限（Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide）。Gartner的魔力象限因为他的简洁、权威，一直以来都广受关注，而各个入选的厂商也都会引用报告为自己进行侧面背书。今年入选全球云计算魔力象限的云服务商包括：AWS、Azure、Google Cloud Platform、阿里云、IBM、Oracle Cloud。相比去年，今年入选的要求更高了，入选的厂商从去年的14个，减少到了今年的6个。
“Our commercial cloud revenue, which primarily comprises Office 365 commercial, Azure, Dynamics 365, and other cloud properties, was $6.0 billion and $16.3 billion for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2018, respectively, and $3.8 billion and $10.4 billion for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2017, respectively. These amounts are primarily included in Office products and cloud services and server products and cloud services in the table above.” (more…)
-- available online in file 'sample1'
DECLARE
x NUMBER := 100;
BEGIN
FOR i IN 1..10 LOOP
IF MOD(i,2) = 0 THEN -- i is even
INSERT INTO temp VALUES (i, x, 'i is even');
ELSE
INSERT INTO temp VALUES (i, x, 'i is odd');
END IF;
x := x + 100;
END LOOP;
COMMIT;
END;
上周在纽约MariaDB年度用户大会（MariaDB User Conference，也简称M|18）上，CEO Michael Howard对MariaDB未来的产品策略做一个较为详细的阐述。MariaDB应该是除了官放MySQL之外最重要的MySQL分支。现在MariaDB在做版本10，这次大会上也发布了MariaDB 10.3.5（RC版）。近期官方MySQL也在快速的推进8.0版本（已经发布了RC版）的研发和发布。
