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 a entire...

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 and open end...

Ed Wagner (11/5/2015)

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Sean Lange (11/5/2015)

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xsevensinzx (11/4/2015)

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Jeff Moden (11/4/2015)

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Brandie Tarvin (11/4/2015)

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Jeff Moden (11/3/2015)

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Man o man... yet another self-proclaimed DBA bites the dust in the interview process as has another self-proclaimed "expert"...

I mentioned the Excel BI tools and apparently they don't want use 'spreadsheets'. I'm pretty sure though that's down to a lack of understanding of the capabilities.

I've no idea about...

Brandie Tarvin (11/5/2015)

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BWFC (11/5/2015)

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Woolly nebulous request of the month alert.

I've been asked to look into ad-hoc reporting solutions so users can create their own reports.

All I know is it's a...

Jeff Moden (11/4/2015)

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Brandie Tarvin (11/4/2015)

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Jeff Moden (11/3/2015)

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Man o man... yet another self-proclaimed DBA bites the dust in the interview process as has another self-proclaimed "expert" Database Developer. It amazing...

That's what I use with SQL Server. There is no need to use R, when you...

sgtmango333 (11/4/2015)

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Spent all last week at DevIntersection 2015, concentrating on the SQL track since I am a DBA. I can tell you based on the questions coming from other...

I faced similar with my billion+ record table. I had about 150 million records in that table all of a sudden become invalid do to a bad data push. I'm...

Eric M Russell (10/27/2015)

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My (admittedly un-scientific) belief is that only a small percentage of organizations in private (or public) sector engage in what could be genuinely called "data science". Whatever...

Ahh, good stuff.

tguerrerovl (10/26/2015)

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I work with DBA's who are asked to do data scientist work. People does not understand the difference of this disciplines. Some of them have more than 10 years...

Jeff Moden (10/26/2015)

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xsevensinzx (10/26/2015)

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Eric M Russell (10/26/2015)

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..If you look through the jobs, many are development positions, but there are some good data ones. Data modeler, BI Analyst, Data Architect, Big...

Eric M Russell (10/26/2015)

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xsevensinzx (10/26/2015)

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Eric M Russell (10/26/2015)

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..If you look through the jobs, many are development positions, but there are some good data ones. Data modeler, BI Analyst, Data Architect,...

Eric M Russell (10/26/2015)

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..If you look through the jobs, many are development positions, but there are some good data ones. Data modeler, BI Analyst, Data Architect, Big Data Engineer, and,...