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  • Reply To: Data Science, BI, and Reports

    I feel like articles written by the referenced author are extremely bias and have no real value to add to the discussion. The guy is basically arguing over semantics like...

  • Reply To: Why no posts?

    I mean, there are many other uses in other industries for sure. I had an interview with a wood pellet company for alternative fuel. They wanted to explore using ML...

  • Reply To: Why no posts?

    It's nice to see someone that's eyeballs deep in it in a good way.  With that in mind, I'm incredibly curious as to what questions you're using ML to answer.

    Well,...

  • Reply To: Why no posts?

    I've been highly inactive for like a year it seems, but here is my input.

    I am still 100% invested in Azure Data Warehouse and Azure Data Lake Store with Azure...

  • Reply To: Building or Buying Analytics

    I specifically work as the data architect for the analytics & data science team. I am that technical resource responsible for making the data happen for the team to use....

  • Reply To: What is the best method to upload a large text file (20 million rows) - SFTP?

    Sounds like you have huge bottlenecks somewhere. I download compressed 1GB files that are more than 20 million rows where I'm able to unzip, re-encode to a new file, and...

  • Reply To: What Keeps You Employed?

    I tell most people I am a software engineer. If they ask specifically, I tell them I am a data architect and then explain what that is to me and...

  • Reply To: Microsoft and Minecraft and Training Kids

    So, I'm a huge gaming nerd. I failed out of high school because I cared more about playing online games than school work.

    I didn't have Minecraft in the late 90's...

  • RE: Dealing with Technical Debt

    It's often hard to do it right the first time. A lot of the large projects I've worked on where hundred million dollar online video games where getting it right...

  • RE: Dealing with Technical Debt

    Matt Miller (4) - Wednesday, March 13, 2019 6:45 PM

    Like if or not - we have to get funded if we...

  • RE: Should the Data Lake be Immutable?

    I mean, I often take the approach mentioned here so I can just INSERT new datasets of both new and existing values. The same applies for the data lake. The...

  • RE: The RDBMS is Often the Right Tool

    Aaron N. Cutshall - Wednesday, February 27, 2019 7:58 PM

    The issue I have is when those techniques are implemented in a...

  • RE: The RDBMS is Often the Right Tool

    Aaron N. Cutshall - Wednesday, February 27, 2019 8:22 AM

    What really gets me is that so many of the NoSQL databases now...

  • RE: Fast Enough

    Think it has more to do with the fact our methodologies with the traditional RDBMS is slow, not the tech itself in most cases that are not Google-like companies. In...

  • RE: Partition vs Distribution - Parallel Data Warehouse MPP

    Well, partitioning by date is good if your queries take advance of the partition keys. In your case, that would be queries that filter on date. It's also good to...

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