Then of course the FBI UCR database shows for example, 2008, of the 1.38 mil violent crimes reported, only 381k involved a firearm.
"This database provides an example of how other biologists could similarly collaborate to collectively produce an inventory of all life on Earth, " Appeltans says.
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For example, a genetic database created by Spectra Biomedical, a division of Glaxo Wellcome, found an unexpected correlation between migraine attacks, serious depression and variations in the dopamine D2 receptor (a molecule that sticks out of certain nerve cells).
For example, there is no national database on how much is being spent overall and with whom.
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Dr McNamara, for example, plans to analyse a database called the Ethnographic Atlas to see if he can find any correlations between the amount of cultural co-operation found in a society and the intensity of its religious rituals.
Chief executive Ryan Howard plans to mine what he says is a database of 40 million patients by, for example, helping pharmaceutical companies enroll patients in clinical trials, or monitoring a drug following its release on the market.
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For example, Schooner Information Technology has software for database acceleration that makes databases run 8 times faster than typical configurations by using boatloads of flash memory on commodity hardware.
For example, customer data could go into a relational database, linked to a non-relational database for unstructured data such as product reviews and recommendations.
David Evans, the editor of Online Dating Insider, an industry blog, cites the example of a hypothetical site with 15m profiles in its database.
An example is a business with a high-traffic, database-based web site.
DNA, for example, it is useful to compare it with a central database (such as GenBank) of existing sequences to see what it resembles.
For example, normal ATM transactions during the day will be stored in OLTP database real time.
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Three layers of checks must be passed before an aglet is allowed access to a computer, and one of these layers can be customised for example to reject aglets whose owners do not have subscriptions to a commercial database.
When an arrest is made, for example, a police officer enters the information and transmits it to the database, making the information available in the case file, which can be accessed and updated as the case continues through the system.
For example, end of day operations in a bank will use a data warehouse database.
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Fingerprint scanners, for example, which his firm specializes in do not store fingerprints on a central database where they could be snooped on by governments and other agencies.
Dangdang's husband-and-wife team soon realised, for example, that one of Amazon's key assets was a huge, searchable database of titles.
Google, for example, has come under fire in the past for the way it handles a massive database of user search data.
Mitsui Knowledge Industry (MKI) is an example of an organization realizing the value of big data by utilizing Hadoop and an analytic database.
LinkedIn Recruiter, for example, is a recruiting application that lets corporate recruiting teams mine the entire LinkedIn professional database to find and attract people.
Companies can buy a 10-processor system, for example, and allocate one processor to a firewall, one to caching, two to a database, and six to balancing application workload, thereby making those applications highly available.
An example of an application that does not work well in a simple cloud environment is a shared database, such as the typical Oracle database application, where the information is one big block of data that needs to be manipulated all the time by many computing processes and where access to the shared data needs to be synchronized and managed.
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