Some bits from me:

Failure is not the end. I have no formal education because I failed in school. This didn't stop me from pursuing my career in technology.

Neat, I actually have not used the create external as select yet. I've always done external first and then CTAS after. Seems to be my natural progression.

I'm a huge gamer myself. I also used to work in the AAA game industry for 7 years. I am very familiar with such concepts on the example given when...

I don't know if this exists for Azure SQL, but it does for Azure Data Warehouse. They have a nice Audit/Threat Detection feature you can enable that allows you to...

I'm actually not digging this article too much, but I love the debate.

I really dislike the idea that selecting a new piece of technology, whatever it is, is...

So, essentially, you are just replicating their database that's it. Not really a data warehouse at that point. At least, not by my standards.

The objective a data warehouse...

Is telling a great story important when conveying insights from data? Absolutely. It's one the most saught out qualifications for most new data professionals today who work in some type...

Sounds like a pretty big ask. Here are some thoughts from me.

When I started down the path of data warehousing with SQL Server, I too had very little...