Week 4

Current Week Objectives: Work with Cassandra and Hadoop on Linux

Current Week Accomplishments/Hours Worked:

Day 16 - 1/30/17 |

I started this week off by learning about Hadoop. This database is new to me and I have never used it before. I did some research about Hadoop and what it is used for in a database.

Day 17 - 1/31/17 |

A new task came up today with the windows 2012 server. I was able to remove the administrator password by using a recovery disk that was burned onto a usb. We did not know the password for the server before, but now we were able to get it back. We have to configure the servers for Abington Arts Center. We sat down with a group of people and talked about what they wanted on the server. We will be testing this in a Virtual Machine before doing it on the actual server.

Day 18 - 2/1/17 |

I got back to working with Hadoop and installed it on Linux while following a guide. It took awhile for me to get it up and running, but in the end I got the cluster running. I watched some videos on how Hadoop works as a database and how I can use it.

Day 19 - 2/2/17 |

Day 20 - 2/3/17 |

I sat down with Joe and talked about a database called Oracle. Oracle is a must need to know for a DBA. so I need to work on MySQL and Oracle for my next assignment. I learned about functions and classes in MySQL and how they are used. I installed MySQL on Linux today and configured all the settings for the database. I was able to use MySQL commands easily and create a table with data.

Week four total = 23 Hours

Next Week Objectives: Understand the basics of MySQL, SQLite, and Oracle

Key Lessons Learned/New Skills Acquired: I learned how to run Cassandra on a single node cluster. I also learned how to run hadoop on Linux and create a cluster.

Issues and Concerns: I was not able to run Cassandra and Hadoop on my first try. I had to kept running into errors and was not able to start either databases on Linux. I ended up figuring out what the problem was and fixed it so it would run correctly on Linux.