Refresh. Added another page. But yes, square brackets and...

This is what I like that everyone despises.

(Note: I tossed random aliases and tables as fillers.)

And this one...

If it helps any, I have personally avoided table partitioning for many years even in Standard edition with very large and wide tables in the hundreds-of-millions. Proper indexing, understanding my...

I really find it hard to say "no" simply because I'm the only resource. If I can't make it happen, then the team member is out of luck and the...

Great article.

I would say that one thing to highlight the most in the cloud is bandwidth (in, out, regional, etc), latency, managed (S3) vs. unmanaged (EMR) and ensuring you're not...

David.Poole (11/24/2015)

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maciej.skrzos (11/24/2015)

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Great article Dave, thanks!

I've also done some research on Hadoop recently. I noticed new trend among Big Data Engineers - replacing Hadoop with Spark. I can't find...

Eric M Russell (11/24/2015)

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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...

David.Poole (11/22/2015)

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Apart from the stress and distractions nothing binds a team together like adversity and a shared challenge. It is a chance to learn one hell of a lot...

I'm still new in developing my data professional career, but here is my two cents.

I personally view what I do and what others do (better) as experts in all things...

I haven't worked with SQL Server as long as many of you guys. However, working in the software industry for a long time now, early adoption of anything is rarely...

My opinion on this just from my own experience is that some level of management knows about something. As you get higher to the top, the information tends to get...

Andrew..Peterson (11/6/2015)

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xsevensinzx (11/6/2015)

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I wish I could try it more, but AWS has such a strong offering and flexibility for my distributed processing needs.

That and the fact I can spin up...

Least it has the database engines listed. :hehe:

Get's even worse with the use of 'NoSQL' or 'Hadoop'.

Lynn Pettis (11/6/2015)

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xsevensinzx (11/6/2015)

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Brandie Tarvin (11/6/2015)

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xsevensinzx (11/6/2015)

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Jeff Moden (11/5/2015)

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Precisely. I couldn't have said it better myself. It's a bit like interviewing a mechanic. If they can't describe...

Brandie Tarvin (11/6/2015)

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xsevensinzx (11/6/2015)

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Jeff Moden (11/5/2015)

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Precisely. I couldn't have said it better myself. It's a bit like interviewing a mechanic. If they can't describe the difference between...