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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?".

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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." ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • RE: Do You Have Scary Code?

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

  • 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...

  • 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,...

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