Grant Fritchey (12/17/2015)

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Thanks for all the help guys. I'm thinking that I'm going to back off and rethink my blog post. I can't get my head around what I need...

RonKyle (12/16/2015)

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I use those, too, though I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one. I've been told by other...

I normally work till 7pm on most days. But, that's because I really enjoy what I do. I don't get anything extra for my effort directly, but I like to...

I would say that machine learning has it's usefulness. However, it's not easy to make work. If so, we could predict the...

The biggest problem I have is that sometimes it's not as easy to explore new areas without the expertise to guide you on the right course. For example, I primarily...

Jeff Moden (12/14/2015)

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One of the best jobs had one of the absolute best job descriptions I've ever seen. Here's the whole thing as they wrote it.

"What we need is...

Orlando Colamatteo (12/14/2015)

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Python is losing market share to R every day in data science circles and PowerShell is a more strategic language on Windows for handling those pesky sys admin...

Not to side track, but question:

Why prove the usefulness of R to the DBA as opposed to a general purpose language like Python that can accomplish the same thing? I...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/14/2015)

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xsevensinzx (12/11/2015)

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Personally, I look at this problem as the same way I do when doing any ETL development. You must verify consistency before moving on.

In...

1)

SELECT

2)

CREATE VIEW

3)

CREATE PROCEDURE

4)

CTE

5)

Checking index fragmentation query (adding a lot of new indexes and rebuilding existing lately for a new rebuild.)

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/9/2015)

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xsevensinzx (12/4/2015)

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I really don't understand this article at all.

NoSQL is such a broad topic that you really can't push out blanket statements about everything...

Personally, I look at this problem as the same way I do when doing any ETL development. You must verify consistency before moving on.

In the classic data warehouse -> data...

I think we are.

We develop new and maintain existing systems and engines within software systems, which as we all know is a related science referred to as computer science.

To say...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/9/2015)

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william-700725 (12/9/2015)

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I would suggest that the growth in the volume of data stored does not reflect a growth in actual information.

If you look, how...

Considering most AAA games are 10GB and above...