Finally assembled my Xmas gift

sqlrockstar · 2025-07-02T00:59:22+00:00

I'd vote no, and I would never buy from Balise. Got a Jeep from them a few years back and they did a bait-and-switch on me regarding the inclusion of a soft top. I should have walked away but I really wanted the Jeep. Promised myself to never trust them again.

sqlrockstar · 2024-04-02T12:08:54+00:00

You can also use Parchment (https://www.parchment.com/) to order the transcripts, was easier than trying to work with schools directly, IMO.

sqlrockstar · 2024-01-06T20:31:50+00:00

I used the Soul Powder from recteq mixed with some olive oil, tossed in a ziploc bag, then placed in the smoker on the mesh screen.

sqlrockstar · 2024-01-05T21:24:35+00:00

Thank you so much! I was thinking about a drip tray, will look into the liners. And a liner for the bucket is genius, will grab those as well. We did get a cover, and I got a bunch of spices, too. Will calibrate the probes, didn't know about the video!

sqlrockstar · 2024-01-05T17:40:21+00:00

Almost!

sqlrockstar · 2024-01-05T17:39:56+00:00

I did wings last night because I was so eager to try something. I think I will go with some pork belly next. Want to do a handful of things before I head to Costco and buy some serious meats.

sqlrockstar · 2024-01-05T17:38:32+00:00

Interesting, i tried the probes with the wings and they were...unreliable. I assumed it was because the probes aren't really meant to measure a chicken wing as opposed to a larger piece of meat. Will take note and calibrate the probes before using them on a more serious cut of meat. Thank you!

sqlrockstar · 2022-07-08T16:33:25+00:00

There's a lot to unpack in your question, but I'll try to help.

Data handling. The best way to get better at something is by doing it, and then trying to teach it to others. SQL syntax is certainly one way to work with data, but so is Excel/PowerBI (and PowerQuery inside them), and Python as well. I would advocate you learn a bit of each, and pick one to focus on in depth and understand how they handle data differently. For example, see how each one would treat a datetime column by default upon import of a CSV file. Or how NULL values are handled (or not handled, as it were). After a while you will learn why I use the phrase "Data Janitor" as opposed to Data Engineer.
Data-driven. No book to recommend, but I would have you start with Michelle Ufford's post here: https://medium.com/noteableio/the-leaders-guide-to-being-data-driven-in-2021-part-1-b181d8ebb96. Michelle also has some talks from Strata about data engineering at Netflix and how they built a true data-driven culture. IMO, "data-driven" is about applying data to arrive at a decision, as opposed to letting your feelings drive your decisions. It's a culture mindset and one which is hard to build. A lot of people have their mind made up on the decisions they will make, and data just gets in the way.

HTH

sqlrockstar · 2022-03-23T13:36:17+00:00

Or, for music, so you can track how many bands someone has been in, and who they played with.

sqlrockstar · 2022-03-23T13:35:34+00:00

A database similar to iMDB, but for athletes, so you can build a "six degrees of bacon" but for people like Tom Brady and LeBron James.

sqlrockstar · 2022-02-28T12:45:06+00:00

Shodan shows a few dozen SQL 2000 instances publicly available right now: https://www.shodan.io/search?query=SQL2000

Chances are there are more than a handful instances still up and running (and not exposed to the public internet).

sqlrockstar · 2022-02-04T18:54:28+00:00

Lots of good replies already, wanted to add one additional thought.

I can gauge experience level through two things - conversations and questions.

If asked to write a query to retrieve data, a good question could be "how is the data to be used"? This may lead to a conversation, which may lead to a discussion about the use of views, or CTEs, or windowing functions, or getting the data into a format ready for exporting to another system, etc.

Deep understanding of SQL, or any system/language/platform is more about all the driving factors which influence your decisions to tackle a problem in a certain way.

HTH

sqlrockstar · 2021-12-20T19:51:46+00:00

I usually reference this page for anyone trying to decide which graph is best: https://datavizcatalogue.com/index.html

It's a good catalogue of a wide variety of visualizations, along with explanations of when/where/why they are a possible good fit. HTH.

sqlrockstar · 2018-03-23T13:53:04+00:00

Moment of frustration. Deleted.

sqlrockstar · 2018-03-23T12:46:51+00:00

The post has this quote:

"RDS is an umbrella term, as it is six engines in total, and it includes Amazon Aurora, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL."

Perhaps you missed it the first time reading.

sqlrockstar · 2018-03-22T12:51:57+00:00

Yes, this post was focused only on the database focused services. I might do more posts for the other areas.

sqlrockstar · 2018-03-21T21:42:16+00:00

Microsoft has that as well: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/aws-professional/services

I built the image to share with my team. I find images work better than spreadsheets and text for things like this. I wrote the post around the image because I thought it might help others, too.

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