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  • RE: Hadoop many flavors of SQL

    YesSQL !

    Apparently coding MapRedice is ok for academics and geeks, but as Hadoop's usage expanded into the commercial realm (ie: paying customers), folks started asking:

    "Where's the SQL?".

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Early Adopters

    Gary Varga (11/20/2015)


    Eric M Russell (11/20/2015)


    I think there are maybe three types of MVPs: those who scout ahead exploring the latest version of SQL Server or how to push the...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Early Adopters

    I think there are maybe three types of MVPs: those who scout ahead exploring the latest version of SQL Server or how to push the product to it's limits, those...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Private Data

    When I backup files from my personal PC to the cloud, they are encrypted zip archives, so regardless of whether the account were accessed by a legal search warrant, passively...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Private Data

    Gary Varga (11/18/2015)


    Eric M Russell (11/18/2015)


    ...we witness a college intern, a guy who is a friend in fact, smoking illegal dope in the parking lot on his lunch break...

    I think...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Private Data

    djackson 22568 (11/18/2015)


    Gary Varga (11/18/2015)


    With regards to "just following orders", I agree that everyone should have their own red line. John's example is one that probably is beyond the red...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Private Data

    For an organization (like DropBox, Google, or Microsoft) who hosts personal data, I think they should respect privacy in a way similar to apartment building managers. First, the data is...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Private Data

    djackson 22568 (11/17/2015)


    Microsoft? Come on. They currently are the absolute worst vendor for spying! Sounds like a false flag argument.

    "Look at us, we value your privacy." ...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Data Sprawl

    I agree, do your data scrubbing and transformation as near upstream as possible. Transform it once in staging, or transform it 1,000x in the application layer. Many organization don't get...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Data Sprawl

    Gary Varga (11/16/2015)


    Abrar Ahmad_ (9/22/2015)


    [font="Verdana"]Learning new technologies/tools but related ones is good but as per suitability of business/job...[/font]

    Definitely!!!

    We cannot apply a universal rule to learning except that keeping ones skills...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: The Lost Laptop Crisis

    Some of us don't have the professional version of Windows on our personal laptops. In my case, I use DiskCryptor, an open source full disk encryption solution. Once installed, it...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Do You Have Scary Code?

    Even with a declarative set-based language like SQL, some developers (well, more like a lot of them) still manage to produce big piles of incomprehensible spaghetti code. Fortunately, however, it's...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Do You Have Scary Code?

    A foolish man builds his business on top of a million lines of source code.

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Leave Developers Alone

    It helps if all the team members on a project attend a 15 minute stand-up meeting each morning, and then if someone needs additional information from someone, then they break...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Contract to Hire

    Gary Varga (11/4/2015)


    Fail fast. Fail often.

    ...

    Indeed. If you read an autobiography or listen to an interview given by any successful person in any realm (business, politics, science, technology, writing,...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

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