For some reason"data homeopathy" is a phrase bouncing around my head at the moment.

The saying goes that a statistician draws a mathematically precise line between an unwarranted assumption and a...

porter.james (6/28/2016)

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As much as I'd like to think our organization could use more data scientists, the reality is that the most accurate statistical models delivered by my colleagues were rejected...

The big challenge with statistics is in communicating what the results actually mean. Understanding that point 51.9 vs 48.1 has no significance in a small sample but becomes immensely...

I agree with many of the sentiments described here.

I'd add that we need to be clear IF we intend to upgrade to SQL2016 at ANY point.

Someone has to...

Good read. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.

Is the CTE tally table to encapsulate the tally table in a single function for when there isn't already...

My team had to engineer a system to be highly resilient to failure and secure in the cloud.

The separation required made the solution hugely more expensive due to the number...

And that's a scary thing. On a day to day basis you are exposed to the skills relevant to your current job. If you stay too long in...

It sounds like stretch databases are trying to do Enterprise Information Integration (EII).

From what I can gather you would write a query against the EII tool (thinking it was a...

Expertise has an expiration date.

I used to know transactional replication like the back of my hand. I'm rustier than a very rusty thing now.

...I think most...

I've learned so much about security over the past year and I've come out of it frightened.

Users, Groups, Roles and LDAP integration is the warm up before the 1st cup...

When the app dictates the database structure and the app is the only thing using the database structure then you are in a happy place. Every decision you make...

kerry_hood (6/10/2016)

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the negative side was that 12 people in Hull lost their jobs due to it. But without it, the whole company would probably have gone down and all...

My best stories mostly involve other people.

Years ago there used to be a CMS call Obtree. Three of us built a mechanism to allow content to be exported to...

Yes I understand that, and that having a link between...