Rod at work (6/29/2016)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/28/2016)

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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...

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 by...

Seems like there are many more cost-effective ways to handle old, infrequently-accessed data--for example, unloading data to Amazon S3 or Glacier. Stretch is maybe more convenient to manage... but I...

Again... every time you try to claim that you're not sexist & defend your (rather tangential) point, you use gendered insults to refer to job...

Interesting that in a thread about bias you'd be using sexist language like "man up princess"...

In my workplaces I've occasionally seen "lacks communication skills" or "fitting in with the team" used as euphemisms to refer to candidates who speak with an accent or come from...

I've noticed this problem a lot regarding data warehousing--people use the jargon but have a vague idea of what it means.

For example, a consultant with 20+ years of experience comes...

A quick google search returned no relevant results explaining this property. Perhaps this is something Microsoft could do better to document.

Yeah, I think you generally "should" avoid writing code that is syntactically incorrect 🙂

this is the part where i pretend i know what "may" is in dutch, and guess right 🙂

Appreciated this question--I seldom think to use CROSS APPLY in that way. I'd be curious what the execution plans look like for this type of a join (does it need...

got it right by sheer luck... still have no idea what federations are, since i don't use azure 🙂

Yep, never used this one & can't think of a good reason to 🙂

I'm not sure "reducing CXPACKET waits" is really a good goal to have, unless you suspect that the query would be more efficient with less parallelism... I think of CXPACKET...

typo i'm guessing?