Something else that drives the approach is whether those in power think an Enterprise Data Warehouse is a server or an ecosystem

In my experience not all ETL tools are created equal.  Ab Initio still blows my mind.  Some of the open-source offerings, well, Ab Initio blows my mind.
I've seen ETL...

We use Apache Spark which reduces the need for ELT.  We wrestle with the "How do you unit test and integration tool?" question.  An awful lot of what we do...

We use hiera to store encrypted settings.  Reading the hiera eyaml file won't do you any good.
What little AD and Linux experience I have suggests that an app has...

If your application runs on Linux but has a SQL Server back end does anyone know how to get it to use AD?  I know some apps allow it through...

I am just coming to the end of a book called The Railways.  The Nation, network and people and briefly mentions parallels between the effect of the movement of information...

If a person behaves a certain way that is perceived to be detrimental I think it is important to ask why.  If Traffic Cop behaviour is deemed undesirable then why...

Who decides where is the line drawn?
My experience has been that a decision needs to be made  concerning the security of data or a continuity of service issue.  Its...

Using profiler, extended events etc reveals what is being thrown at the DB but not how it is assembled.  How it is assembled is important because you need to know...

Google Dremel.  They are also quite active in developing artificial intelligence.

In an OLTP setting I would prefer stored procs.
In a data science/BI scenario it is a much more free-flowing environment so much wider ranging access is required.  I have...