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There are a lot of practises that have been available for years and this is one of them. Over the past few years I've gone on a bit of...
January 26, 2015 at 6:23 am
Andrew..Peterson (1/23/2015) Does anyone remember COBOL?
Have you seen the contract rates for COBOL programmers!!!!!
Do I remember COBOL? Everytime I look at a NOSQL document database.
January 24, 2015 at 5:59 am
I've been surprised by the cost of some NOSQL solutions. By the time you do the sizing and capacity piece plus DR the costs can be considerably more than...
January 22, 2015 at 6:52 am
I think SQLCLR hit a cultural barrier. DBAs were hesitant and perceived it to be a Trojan horse to allow all sorts of sins to be inflicted on the...
January 19, 2015 at 3:33 pm
I'm finding that business people don't have all the answers to ITs questions. "What are your requirements?" elicited an unusually frank conversation from an extremely successful career woman....
January 15, 2015 at 12:15 pm
From what I've read AWS EMR is an implementation of MapR
January 13, 2015 at 12:33 pm
Unsupervised digital landfill. Doesn't sound as nice as a lake does it?
Actually Hadoop fulfils a data lake need reasonably well. Lets suppose that you have data that you...
January 12, 2015 at 2:24 pm
Eric, you've reminded me of a good point. There seem to be five key Hadoop distributions.
Cloudera = open source with Cloudera Navigator, Manager and Director...
January 11, 2015 at 6:32 am
BYOD or Choose Your Own Device taking off. Serious thought going into legitimate synchronisation between private and company devices.
More automation but staff doing more and possibly different things.
SQL2015 delayed but...
January 2, 2015 at 4:33 am
I wrote this article just over 18 months ago and in that time the entire Hadoop ecosystem has evolved considerably. The whole Big Data space is moving so fast...
January 1, 2015 at 12:04 pm
My greatest fear is that some tech debt ridden piece of crud gets delivered to live and becomes my headache to support for ever. I get penalised for not...
December 27, 2014 at 3:08 am
GoofyGuy (12/22/2014)
December 24, 2014 at 9:02 am
For me it is the people I work with who make it fun.
We have silos as a solution to a defined problem but the silos themselves cause problems. The...
December 23, 2014 at 3:54 am
As part of a data governance and stewardship role I have to consider who in my organisation should have access to personally identifiable information, in what context and for how...
December 18, 2014 at 1:08 pm
Caveat. All answers have an implicit "It Depends"
Q: Why add another unique key when a naturally occurring one already exists?
A: If you have a package...
December 18, 2014 at 12:58 pm
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