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There's a tendency for the % missing skills to be off-putting at a lower figure for women than it is for men.
We spent a lot of time focussing on the...
July 16, 2021 at 3:53 pm
In my organisation, regardless of whether it is web development, data engineering, DBAs, Data Analysts, Data Scientists everything gets put under a git compatible source control repositories.
Those repositories are viewable...
July 15, 2021 at 8:38 am
I've used a variety of ETL tools. SSIS is my least favourite by a long way.
There's an article for Python that illustrates why the CSVReader is so complex and it's...
July 14, 2021 at 7:26 am
My Dad is Amazon's greatest fanboy. At 82 the idea that he can order something and get it same day delivery just blows his mind. He can remember having to...
July 12, 2021 at 4:43 pm
The most important step is to understand the point at which you can actually roll back.
I think this is a really important point. That is a step on...
July 7, 2021 at 5:05 pm
The big thing that has changed for me in the past 10 years is the size and nature of the deployments. Project deployments were big things carried out at 2am...
July 7, 2021 at 8:28 am
Another thing I was never able to understand - why index tuning is a job for ops?
they are definitely a part of table design, and changes to it should...
July 2, 2021 at 9:56 pm
I've a goal to get a commit accepted into an open source project.
For me this sets a clear target and a quality gate to reach
July 2, 2021 at 8:31 am
I think the biggest gift from the shift to the DevOps culture is in thinking "how do I prove this works" before touching a line of code.
We test far more...
June 30, 2021 at 7:42 am
Kristof Kovaks produced a good thumbnail sketch of various NOSQL solutions and has updated his page at least once. https://kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis
Web session info and state then something like REDIS works...
June 28, 2021 at 8:21 am
Now, if you really want to have some fun, ask people to pronounce the word "tuple". If they get it right in your opinion, either give them Tulips or Tupperware...
June 19, 2021 at 9:57 am
Anyone yet to take me up on explaining why a relational DBMS is called "relational"? It's a pretty fundamental question for a DBA.
Dr Codd described a relation in a...
June 18, 2021 at 9:45 pm
If I was looking for a lead DBA beyond the technical experience I would be looking for someone who
June 18, 2021 at 8:41 am
I would agree with the CIO.
One company I worked at had a programme, sponsored by the CEO, to allow any employee to improve any pain point.
The programme took 1 day...
June 14, 2021 at 9:02 am
Looking back at my career I don't think those who played the blame game were particularly long lived, professionally speaking anyway. The higher up the organisation they go the more...
June 8, 2021 at 4:37 pm
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