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  • RE: Visualizing in Space

    There's a ton of tools both commercial and OSS that help visualize data. Two of my favorites are Excel and IPython Notebook.

  • RE: Jump In

    The SQL Server community has been the main reason I haven't gone totally to over to OSS with database development. Think about that. (The fact that C# and F# rock...

  • RE: I Feel Like a Magician

    That's reality, but the problem is MS is not investing in the tooling or features beyond what's needed to get a sale. That's short term thinking that allows other tools...

  • RE: I Feel Like a Magician

    I'd agree with this. If you find SSIS difficult, use something else.

    It's not that SSIS is difficult, it's just that's limited by it's graphical interface and some/much of the...

  • RE: I Feel Like a Magician

    There are folks who successfully use SSIS every day; what they have is a pattern that works.

    Yes, but wouldn't they be more productive if Microsoft listened to the feedback...

  • RE: I Feel Like a Magician

    The only compelling arguments presented, the ones that should be cringeworthy for the Marketing department at Microsoft, are that unlike SQL Server, PostgresSQL is cross-platform, and you can acquire non-handicapped...

  • RE: I Feel Like a Magician

    Point being that by and large programmers I talk to have very little understanding of database administration (there are some notable exceptions). If the author likes Postgres for whatever reason,...

  • RE: I Feel Like a Magician

    BOTTOM LINE: SQL Server is an excellent product and is well supported by the vendor.

    Not the point the article writer is trying to make. He is a data analyst...

  • RE: SSMS Maturity

    Now if they would just nuke SSIS from orbit. Millions of man hours lost to its quirks...

  • RE: #SQLNewBlogger

    So, it makes it extremely hard to find anything to write about that is offering anything of value.

    Even though I can't blog about my job or the tools I...

  • RE: The New DBA

    They say you are defined by your rivals. So a DBA in a large organization is the arch-rival of the SAN/Virtualization Admin...

    😛

  • RE: #SQLNewBlogger

    One easy source of topics is SQL 2016. Lots of new features. Explore them. What questions do you have as you start on each? Write them down and work out...

  • RE: #SQLNewBlogger

    I'd blog more, but 95% of my coding is for my current job and getting anything even remotely related to the work I do released for any sort of publication...

  • RE: Skill Supply and Demand

    In those two cases, the only really valid reasons for scrapping a working system; the organization has an opportunity to adopt better, faster, new/emerging technologies.

    True.

    The question is: Are the...

  • RE: Skill Supply and Demand

    This isn't about RavenDB over SQL Server. It's about choosing any technology based on the staff and skills you have, or can get. Every technology has some based of users,...

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