Tag Archives: archiving

Archive to the Lake

Posted on August 7, 2023 by way0utwest

Microsoft Fabric was announced at Build in May 2023. This is the next evolution of data warehousing from Microsoft, folding in Synapse and a number of other technologies to create a simpler location for storing and analyzing data. We’ve published … Continue reading →

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The Challenge of Deleting Data

Posted on January 23, 2023 by way0utwest

We collect a lot of data in our databases. Not as much in bytes as a lot of the video/audio/TikTok/Instagram sites, but still enough that many of us are constantly adding storage to our systems. All this data is not … Continue reading →

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Long Term Storage

Posted on June 24, 2022 by way0utwest

Data storage has always been a concern for data professionals. Early on in my career, we dealt with large ESDI, IDE, and SCSI drives, all of which would fail unexpectedly in servers. Sometimes after a few years, sometimes after a … Continue reading →

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DNA for Data Storage

Posted on May 31, 2017 by way0utwest

In all my years of working with data, there’s one think I’ve learned: it always grow. Over the years, I’ve gone from having to store data in these sizes: A few KB on cassette tapes as a middle school kid … Continue reading →

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