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Oh the list goes on forever.
BI, DBA, Big Data, Machine Learning, NoSQL, Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Data Vault, Star Schema, Data Model, Logical Model, Physical Model, KPI, Fact, Operationalize,...
May 4, 2016 at 11:53 am
kevin.a.larson (2/11/2016)
Case-sensitivity is probably the worst concept that has ever been introduced into programming in general. There is no good reason why IsOrderAGift and IsOrderaGift should be considered different fields.
See...
February 11, 2016 at 11:27 am
Another case where real database source control, rather than a custom deployment script, would have prevented this problem. The change script generated by Visual Studio database project publish would prevent...
February 11, 2016 at 6:59 am
I don't understand. What does it mean when you say "take time off from work"?
Let's see, over the past two years I have had to exit waiting lines at...
January 19, 2016 at 1:28 pm
I must admit when I heard "The DBA Tax" the first thing that popped into my head was "Buying Pizza for the DBA team so that they execute my change...
January 19, 2016 at 1:24 pm
jack.erdey 16020 (10/16/2015)Another way of looking at it is core competency. What is the purpose of an RDBMS? Its core purpose as a tool is to ensure the integrity of...
October 16, 2015 at 8:13 am
This has always bothered me: What really is meant by "business logic"?
Wikipedia defines it as "In computer software, business logic or domain logic is the part of the program that...
October 16, 2015 at 7:47 am
Don't even get me started on the marketing bull that is the term "data scientist" or "data science". Chemistry is a science. It uses lots of data. Physics is a...
June 3, 2015 at 8:46 am
Editor of the medical journal The Lancet recently argued that at least half of science is wrong.
http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736%2815%2960696-1.pdf
As one participant put it, “poor methods get results”.
This goes double in the...
May 30, 2015 at 6:26 pm
Not a bad article. This may be pedantic, but I am very hesitant to use the word "unstructured" when discussing data of any kind. "unstructured" data is simply noise -...
May 27, 2015 at 7:35 am
RonKyle (2/12/2015)
SQL is a poor realization of a "true" RDBMS
Can you explain this a little more. Why is it a "poor" realization? It seems fine in most cases...
February 12, 2015 at 7:21 am
jarick 15608 (2/10/2015)
I think the marketing hype of NoSQL has made a lot of managers and educators start to think that the RDBMS is dead.
Exactly. Little do they realize that...
February 10, 2015 at 2:40 pm
Thank you for bringing up Domains. Most developers have never even *heard* the term. I'm convinced that the relational model is no longer taught in CS or IT classes. They...
February 10, 2015 at 2:10 pm
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