Posts tagged…Database
Forking MYSQL?
Fri, May 15 2009This still looks like trouble to me.
"The MySQL relational database system is arguably one of the most important pieces of open source server software in existence" Extract from Ars Technica
The 'free' database, that Oracle now owns, competes with its most important commercial product. If Ellison forces users to buy a license or switch to a 'fork' of the code, the disruption would be enormous.
Website engine in new hands
Tue, Apr 21 2009I'm a fan of Burton Malkiel's analysis of equities markets; I invest mainly in indexes. Consequently, it's not all that often that commercial A&M actions threaten something of value to me. But this is different.
Oracle's proposed purchase of Sun affects the future of a key asset in which I have a huge consumer surplus. You, too, probably. Just last year, Sun bought the open-source database MySQL…
Read more…SPS database
Wed, Aug 27 2008It's out of date. It contains records only up to May 2007 because…well, there weren't many users and the WTO was talking about mining it's own data to create something similar. As far as I know they haven't done that yet. So if you find this database of quarantine barriers is useful, please post a comment or email me to let me know.
Activities in 2007
Mon, Dec 24 2007
A map (click for a better view), at no particular scale, of some of my activities in 2007. A lot of traveling, some outstanding meals—grilled Croker fish and wild greens in Abuja, barbecue mutton with sweetbreads in Karachi—some fascinating characters, and good friends. There were a couple of marathons (the SPS database; trade & tariff simulations on 51 grains markets) and at least one job that…
Inquit Database of SPS notifications
Tue, May 29 2007here to open the IQ SPS database in a new window”
I’ve built a new database of WTO notifications of Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures, covering all measures notified to WTO from September 1999 to April 2007 May 2007. [UPDATE] The database contains some 6,170 6265 records [UPDATE] of which about 150 corrections. On average, governments are notifying about 75 new measures every month. The rapid…
Access to the Inquit Standards Database
Mon, Feb 19 2007The Inquit database of SPS and TBT standards is still available has been retired and replaced with new database of SPS measures (see this story). The data on SPS measures and TBT measures had a number of errors due, mostly, to the inconsistent way that Members filled out their notifications in the first few years of the WTO system. The new datbase is much more accurate, and links directly to the…
Tariff analysis database
Fri, Feb 09 2007The UN ITC’s Market Access Map is a remarkable database of tariffs and preferences for about 170 countries. Inquit has helped ITC create an on-line training suite that will give you some feeling for MacMap’s power
Market Access Map is a subscription database that provides up-to-date information on WTO member economies’ ‘scheduled’ and applied tariff rates in about 170 economies, including…