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Data engineers vs. data scientists

O'Reilly Media - Data

Finally, their results need to be given to the business in an understandable fashion. A data scientist can create a data pipeline after a fashion. In this case, the data scientist solved the problem after a fashion, but didn’t understand what the right tool for the job was. seconds to accomplish the same thing.

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Committed Database

The Daily WTF

Database administrators tend to be pretty conservative about how databases are altered. If accepted, the DBAs could write a change script, and apply it in the next database maintenance window. All this created a problem: the "big boss" wanted three new boolean fields in the database, and wanted it yesterday.

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Value Proposition of the Cloudera Operational Database over Legacy Apache HBase Deployments

Cloudera

Operational efficiency across activities such as platform management / database administration, security and governance, and agile development (e.g., The major capabilities that improve day-to-days tasks of a platform / database administrator include the following: .

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Rotate Your TLS-SSL Certificate on RDS-Aurora Before February

Datavail

If you are a database administrator on AWS, cloud/application/security architect you’ll want to follow the steps outlined below. As an AWS Partner, we can help you meet this deadline for your bulk RDS instances and Aurora clusters in tactical fashion. Source material for this guide can be found here.

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Are You Agile Enough for Polyglot Programming?

CTOvision

Rather than approaching it like a big bang, an agile approach using polyglot programming enables you to tackle one piece at a time in a modular fashion, developing components iteratively. Your database administrators, who know SQL, will feel right at home with JSON, and pick it up in a heartbeat.

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Business intelligence tools overview: end-to-end BI solutions, ETL tools and libraries, data warehouses, data visualization libraries

Altexsoft

Imagine you’re a business analyst in a fast fashion brand, and you have a task to understand why sales of a new clothing line in a given region are dropping and how to increase them while achieving desired profit benchmark. According to the official website, it has three main characteristics: self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing.

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New DBAs Are Shifting to Cloud – Who Will Manage Your On-prem Oracle Apps?

Datavail

According to RightScale’s 2019 “State of the Cloud” report, 94 percent of organizations use the cloud in some form or fashion. Yet as database administrators retrain and prepare for this new world of cloud, there will be fewer DBAs left to manage their on-premise software.

Cloud 59