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Yes it was me and I still feel that it is part of being an exceptional DBA.
June 16, 2022 at 2:04 pm
Aarron's and Jeff's advice is pretty sound.
As a senior, a sharing mentality and the nurturing of your teaching skills will be valued by those over whom you are senior.
One thing...
June 15, 2022 at 9:03 pm
When cubes came out column store technology was no where near where it is now and wasn't available in SQL Server.
Dimensional modelling and Data Vault 2.0 modelling remain relevant and...
June 8, 2022 at 10:02 am
In my experience there is using PaaS and there's using PaaS cost effectively.
I think a lot of companies have got a nasty shock when the 1st cloud bills came rolling...
May 14, 2022 at 10:08 am
For implementation and consultancy partners there can be certification requirements. For example the different tiers of AWS partnership requires a certain percentage of your staff hold
May 13, 2022 at 9:21 am
Just reread this article. I'd advise people to watch out for "boil the frog" behaviour.
Senior people come and senior people go and with them the culture of an organisation shifts....
May 11, 2022 at 7:03 am
If I have one regret in my career it is in not taking enough risks. While I have seen a few highly talented people soar in their careers. I have...
May 8, 2022 at 7:35 pm
We use Docker containers heavily and scan them using Dockle and Trivy as part of our CI/CD pipeline.
It came as a shock to find many marketplace Docker images riddled with...
May 4, 2022 at 6:27 am
The pre-commit hooks can be any language. Quite a few of them can be just YAML in the . pre-commit-config.yaml file.
https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks.
In the 1st example shown in the link...
April 28, 2022 at 8:16 pm
I've found HR policies cause problems that people work around and in doing so get the organisational equivalent of tech debt.
The bureaucracy involved in promoting a junior to senior is...
April 28, 2022 at 11:03 am
Rod, take a look at a package called pre-commit. The idea is that when you attempt to commit code to git it will run a whole bunch of checks.
Each type...
April 28, 2022 at 10:49 am
I worked on a project where we experimented with MySQL to see if it could do what we were already doing with SQL Server. We engaged with MySQL Ag to...
April 11, 2022 at 4:50 pm
I see hybrid events as the another example of the genius of AND Vs the tyranny of OR.
That said, while there are commonalities between remote and in person events, I...
April 2, 2022 at 9:28 am
I really like Vertica's export to Parquet feature and also the incredible speed at which it can import Parquet files directly from an AWS S3 bucket.
It's also no slouch at...
March 31, 2022 at 7:57 pm
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