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Take Your SQL Skills To The Next Level With These Popular SQL Books

datapine

17) “SQL Database Programming” (2015 Edition) By Chris Fehily. The all-encompassing nature of this book makes it a must for a data bookshelf. 18) “The Data Warehouse Toolkit” By Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross. It is a must-read for understanding data warehouse design. Viescas, Douglas J. Steele, and Ben J.

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10 Years Later: Who’s the GOAT of Data Catalogs?

Alation

December 2012: Alation forms and goes to work creating the first enterprise data catalog. Later, in its inaugural report on data catalogs, Forrester Research recognizes that “Alation started the MLDC trend.”. January 2015: Alation acquires its first customer. April 2016: Tesco Group becomes first customer outside North America.

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Convergent Evolution

Peter James Thomas

That was the Science, here comes the Technology… A Brief Hydrology of Data Lakes. This is where the observant reader will see the concept of Convergent Evolution playing out in the data arena as well as the Natural World. This is the essence of Convergent Evolution. In Closing.

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How SumUp made digital analytics more accessible using AWS Glue

AWS Big Data

Unless, of course, the rest of their data also resides in the Google Cloud. In this post we showcase how we used AWS Glue to move siloed digital analytics data, with inconsistent arrival times, to AWS S3 (our Data Lake) and our central data warehouse (DWH), Snowflake.

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Watch Out for Business Intelligence "Gotchas"

Howard Dresner

But I’ll make an exception now – I predict that we’ll see even more success in BI initiatives in 2015 if organizations eliminate these “gotchas” from their practice. As I often tell journalists and inquirers, I don’t have a crystal ball and don’t make predictions.

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How Amazon Devices scaled and optimized real-time demand and supply forecasts using serverless analytics

AWS Big Data

Clients access this data store with an API’s. Amazon S3 as data lake For better data quality, we extracted the enriched data into another S3 bucket with the same AWS Glue job. Every dataset in our system is uniquely identified by snapshot ID, which we can search from our metadata store.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 6

Domino Data Lab

In my experience, hyper-specialization tends to seep into larger organizations in a special way… If a company is say, more than 10 years old, they probably began analytics work with a business intelligence team using a data warehouse. Lack of data, or data quality issues (silos). Friction ensued.