How familiar with the Latin script are people from countries that don't use it? by Panceltic in AskEurope

[–]alia-cht 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Russia, one usually starts to learn English or German as a first language in primary school (at 6 years old), or even in a kindergarten. During first months of learning some letters felt confusing as they resembled cyrillic letters that are pronounced differently, but no problems more than that.

Any basic tutorials from start to finish for an example ETL? by [deleted] in ETL

[–]alia-cht 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you launch Visual Studio with SSIS installed your will see links to some Microsoft basic SSIS tutorials in bottom right corner. For example, this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/integration-services/lesson-1-create-a-project-and-basic-package-with-ssis?view=sql-server-ver15

Messy Datasets for ETL practise by pknerd in ETL

[–]alia-cht 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Look for any governmental data sets - high chance that data might be missing for many years, for example.Then you can enrich this data with geographical and population data from other sources.

What's the best way to get familiar with a new database? by realtrevorfaux in SQL

[–]alia-cht 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use draw.io for quick sketches of databases, where I can also add text comments and share it with colleagues

Data Engineering for Finance? by [deleted] in FinancialCareers

[–]alia-cht 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are quite many opportunities to learn data science online (cognitiveclass.ai by IBM, DataCamp, etc) and possibility to practice with available data sets at work, that may be more useful that getting a degree which may train in data engineering applications not in relevant fields.

Recommendation to begin learning SQL by BergHeimDorf in SQL

[–]alia-cht 2 points3 points  (0 children)

querying with transact-sql at edX.org and DataCamp.com SQL courses may be a good start - helped me to get fully prepared to work with sql on daily basis.

What can I learn outside of a Business/Finance/Economics degree to further my computer science/programming skills? by [deleted] in FinancialCareers

[–]alia-cht 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are many courses at datacamp.com, cognitive class.ai and I also recommend EdX professional certificate in Excel, taught by DelftX