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@jeff you have triggered post traumatic stress!
I too have suffered a load process that took 10 minutes to loai 3000 records.
What hurt was that I used SSIS to...
June 25, 2015 at 10:01 am
The trick is to pick the winners. The problem is identifying them.
There are hundreds if not thousands of NOSQL solutions. What is it that allows one to succeed and...
June 23, 2015 at 1:41 pm
In terms of building a mechanically working data store within a NOSQL store my experience is that it is actually easier. The more difficult ones are those that have...
June 23, 2015 at 1:24 am
From a business perspective down time is down time. They may begrudgingly accept that some planned down time is necessary but it will be remembered and used when explaining...
June 19, 2015 at 1:36 am
sql Sarah (6/17/2015)
June 17, 2015 at 10:06 am
I've got a slightly bigger problem. How to archive a Teradata appliance.
The solution I've gone with is Hadoop. It ain't cheap but it is cheaper than having to...
June 10, 2015 at 1:40 am
If you have a default that means "not specified" then all well and good. If you have a default that presumes someone filled something in then that is dangerous,...
June 9, 2015 at 6:46 am
For some reason I kept hearing "by the time a man thinks his father may have been right he has a son who thinks he's wrong".
Back in the 1980s I...
June 9, 2015 at 6:40 am
HR = Human Resources. If I am going to buy (hire) a resource then both I as a manager and the future employee both have an acceptable range in...
June 7, 2015 at 2:18 pm
GoofyGuy (6/1/2015)
That happy situation probably applies only to database developers in companies who are developing databases for in-house use only.
Indeed, as Mr Russell explained to me already (twice).
😉
You write...
June 2, 2015 at 2:08 pm
There is a mantra of "If it hurts do it more often". The meaning of which is that if you have to do a task over and over again...
June 2, 2015 at 1:54 pm
I had a task that required iterating through a result set from a query. On a whim I tried it in a WHILE loop and then tried it by...
June 2, 2015 at 1:47 pm
I used them before I understood them. The problem is that if your audience don't understand maths and/or don't trust your figures they go with gut feel.
A million to...
May 29, 2015 at 10:37 am
This strikes me as a natural progression from the Netflix chaos monkey and other simian army tools.
May 27, 2015 at 5:17 pm
Nice one Gail and good point Jeff about the experiment needing to be reproducible.
Reproducible implies that the conditions of the experiment should have been meticulously recorded. One point I...
May 25, 2015 at 2:20 am
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