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2024 PASS Data Community Summit Prep

Posted on November 1, 2024 by way0utwest

Next week is the 2024 PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle. I’ll be traveling Monday to the event to see a few thousand fellow data professionals, developers, managers, and more. I expect quite a few people to be traveling this … Continue reading →

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A New Word: Bye-over

Posted on November 1, 2024 by way0utwest

bye-over – n.  the sheepish casual vibe between two people who’ve shred an emotional farewell but then unexpectedly have a little extra time together, wordlessly agreeing to pretend that they’ve already moved on. I used to feel a bye-over was … Continue reading →

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Counting Groups with Window Functions: #SQLNewBlogger

Posted on October 30, 2024 by way0utwest

I looked at row_number() in a previous post. Now I want to build on that and do some counting of rows with COUNT() and the OVER clause. I’ll show how this differs a bit from a normal aggregate. Another post … Continue reading →

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The Cloud Security Problem

Posted on October 30, 2024 by way0utwest

Your management gets a great demo from a cloud vendor and decides that the organization needs to implement the new service/application/etc. quickly. Your team tries to comply, furiously learning and experimenting with integrations, software changes, infrastructure configuration, and more. Things … Continue reading →

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