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  • RE: A New New Microsoft

    I personally don't see the benefit for a medium sized company to go on the Cloud.
    In my personal life, I prefer owning than renting (whether we are speaking...

  • RE: Customize Software or Process

    I work in a big organisation and I've seen the IT department, especially the software development part, to increase in spending from a mere £120K to more than £2M a...

  • RE: SOS

    I find it hard to understand who is this piece of software is for. At first, after reading the doc, I thought it was for junior DBA/BI. This is true...

  • RE: The Downsides of AI

    Very nice article. In banking, in loan application, you are not allowed to use algorithm such as Neural Networks which "hide" the processing of the data. Which means that you...

  • RE: Who's Smarter? Humans or AI Systems?

    jay-h - Thursday, July 27, 2017 1:46 PM

    In the US colonial era, over 90% of human activity was dedicated to raising and...

  • RE: Who's Smarter? Humans or AI Systems?

    Remind me of Dune from Frank Herbert and its Butlerian Jihad. So nothing new here. But it is based on the rather silly assumption that a true A.I. is able...

  • RE: The Poor State of Secure Coding

    These firms that don't take security seriously are going to get a rude awakening once GDPR comes into full force. This is maybe the biggest change in the I.T. space since...

  • RE: Why DevOps? Employee Satisfaction

    I have tried to find out what is actually DevOps for some times now. Please can someone tell me what is DevOps in the context of a BI Developer or...

  • RE: The Second Career

    I had another career, in accountancy before becoming a BI Dev. But like in the article, I know some BI used to be in the Army, professional rugby and even...

  • RE: A Wide Variation in Skill

    A very nice article. For me, there are things that I don't understand until I see them from a different perspective. For example, T-SQL way of doing the pivot or...

  • RE: Writing the Correct Query is Important

    Eric M Russell - Monday, January 16, 2017 8:34 AM

    SQL suffers from the same predicament as HTML and JavaScript; it's an accessible high-level...

  • RE: Writing the Correct Query is Important

    The issue, in my experience, is rarely coming from the queries: "It is the data stupid!" would say uncle Bill.
    You might have created a report several years ago and...

  • RE: Your Technology Budget

    Well, I'm a very materialistic person and this make me sad. This year alone, I purchased for fun a very expensive camera (even thought I'm not that into photography), a...

  • RE: Democratic Data Science

    Data Science is just a buzz word for what used to be called Business Intelligence. I did a BI MSc and we studied Data Mining, Statistical Analysis, Optimization, Operational Research,...

  • RE: Should I Stay or Go?

    Good article.

    It reminds me that for a very long time, I wasn't that interested in SQL dev, Business Intelligence, etc. I had a very expensive and demanding hobby and...

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