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Comment · 5 years ago

I recently applied for a job in a data warehousing team that was using this. The way they were using it replace their transformation stage from legacy tools like SSIS,DataStage and Informatica, It was certainly impressive and looked great to work with. I can see dbt becoming a lot more common moving forwards.

Comment · 5 years ago

I had the worst cold of my life in July last year (could of been the flu, it was a struggle to walk from the lounge room to the bedroom), got tested thinking 100% I had COVID (partner was a COVID nurse, seemed likely I would get it). Got a negative result.

Comment · 5 years ago

Never said there wasn't...

Comment · 5 years ago

When watching TV during a football (Aussie rules football not soccer) game I see probably 15-20 gambling ads and so would the 0-17 year olds watching. There is also an ad with Matthew McConaughey drinking whiskey, although im not sure if that's during prime time or late hours. Never seen a smoking or vaping ad though.

Comment · 5 years ago

Is this just an ad for their 'recovery' software?

Comment · 5 years ago

What about Microsoft J# or Microsoft J++? A directly relatable example.

Comment · 5 years ago

Yeah I got excited to see a thread about z3 then I realized.

Comment · 5 years ago

OVH Definitely hosts a lot of seedboxes.

Comment · 5 years ago

I work for a company that uses it as a mission critical product. It provides the search in our SAAS. I'd say it mysteriously fails 3-4 times a year. But no one wants to invest or encourage anyone to look at it proactively or even re-actively. We've had JVM issues and indexers spiral out of control using 99%CPU only to stop at random hours later. It's definitely a product to learn before it fails.

Comment · 5 years ago

Side question sorry, what happened to the side business after the PE firm acquired it?

Comment · 6 years ago

Cockatoo was a huge pain the ass to get anything delivered to.

Comment · 7 years ago

To be honest I don't think the article highlights very well where this applies. I am a SQL Developer with SQL Server right now and in the past using Teradata I vaguely remember an aliased column could be referenced in the where clause if you didn't use the AS keyword.

Comment · 7 years ago

200ms on Firefox clicking show all.

Comment · 7 years ago

You may not use the CCTV in stores but I can assure you it is using you.

Source: I set up this tracking for a retailer.

Comment · 7 years ago

big expensive Oracle-ish databases

Don't forget Teradata.

I found the same thing with MicroStrategy. I spent a lot of time reverse engineering what I could from MicroStrategy jars to expose additional functions in their plugin interface (which is so incomplete it shouldn't be advertised). But the reality is its 20+ year old system with front end updates, can only put so many band aids on it.

I think the only thing keeping MicroStategy alive is its cube functionality and the businesses who have invested to much into it.