dietztm (7/22/2015)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/20/2015)

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dietztm (7/20/2015)

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Why not learn Power Pivot too? It's not THAT hard. I know that many of us are allergic to Excel (from an end-user...

Most of the people I work with are data driven. I'm not actually designing the reports. They are being designed for me and I do my part to make them...

I worked in the video game industry for 7 years. Asking us to dress business/business casual is like death. They even frown on it during the interview process even though...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/16/2015)

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CI/CD also doesn't mean no QA. Your CI builds that pass automated tests should then be available for QA people to run further tests, whether...

jckfla (7/16/2015)

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If consumers would more readily reject what wasn't exactly what they need or what doesn't work right, manufacturers would have no option but to make sure quality and maturity...

It took us an average of 3 to 5 years to develop a high-end video game that had online capabilities with large-scale multiplayer (100+ players simultaneously) capabilities in a persistent...

Quote from Kimball on what they refer to as Measure Type Dimensions:

Sometimes when a fact table has a long list of facts that is sparsely populated in any individual row,...

Data will find correlation with experience among other characteristics of the data. It's not really a choice between the two. There is no right or wrong. It's just that we...

Graph databases are always great in the digital marketing industry. We use them to show paths consumers make online through their sale or lead conversion cycle specifically on a website...

I'm no guru, but here is my 2 cents. Define what you mean in your context of a data mart.

If you are referring to a relational database using a star...

SQL-DBA-01 (7/10/2015)

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Thanks Pramod for the nice question!!!!

Just to give everyone a bit more detail about "polybase" :

PolyBase allows you to use T-SQL statements to access data stored in Hadoop or...

In my area, I work in the digital marketing industry. I focus primarily on analytics and reporting.

In this area, data is insanely valuable. How it's acquired, managed and scales...

Jeff Moden (7/6/2015)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/6/2015)

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...the problem is MS is not investing in the tooling or features beyond what's needed to get a sale. That's short term thinking...

When I worked in the video game industry, we always crunched. As development was in Oslo, Beijing, Montreal and Raleigh, we all had different standards for how overtime was handled....

TomThomson (7/4/2015)

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But the important thing to remember is that passion and education tend to go together - those with pasion will usually find some way of acquiring the education, even...