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Helping Students with a Data Professional Career

  • June 2, 2025 at 12:00 am

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  • June 2, 2025 at 8:06 am

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    Primarily aimed at new starters, I have written a Confluence page that lists learning resources I recommend. For these, I list the following

    • Technology of interest
    • Author or presenter
    • Price (many are free)
    • Pros and Cons

    In addition, I list people who are great teachers and their respective fields.

    If you are learning alone, it takes a while to build up a list of trusted resources, so talk to people who are on, or have been on the beginner's journey.

    If you are in a lead position, I recommend working with your colleagues to build a version useful to them.  I see this as giving someone a leg up rather than a crutch.

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  • June 4, 2025 at 8:41 pm

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    One of the things that most courses do NOT teach is how to rapidly create Random Constrained Data in the form of test tables and, perhaps, significant row counts of at least a 100K and, maybe, a million rows.  Most courses that I've seen are lucky to have 5 to 10 rows.

    The idea of being able to rapidly create such data should be a requirement in the courses, IMHO.

    Of course, there are tools (IIRC, Redgate has such a thing) that can do such a thing, as well.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

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