by Brent Adcock | Jan 8, 2019 | Amazon Web Services, CloudBI, Data Integration |
Whilst waiting for an invite to play with the preview version of AWS Data Lake formation I thought that I would get started with seeing how I could consume the data from a data lake and play with the Redshift Spectrum product from Amazon Web Services. Redshift...
by Nick Borrell | Nov 27, 2018 | Oracle |
Recently I was asked during an interview how I would approach adopting new features in Oracle as part of an upgrade. At the time I feel I gave a pretty cursory reply and I just explained how I’d performed an upgrade (migration) across platforms and had implemented new...
by Tim Gray | May 16, 2018 | CloudBI, General, MongoDB |
MongoDB 3.6 has some awesome features, change streams being my personal favourite (see all the changes here), but what if we have an old MongoDB cluster running on 3.4 and want to use these cool features? Here is how! Note: This guide assumes you installed MongoDB...
by Thomas Evans | May 15, 2018 | AgileBI, Amazon Web Services, Analytics, Business Intelligence, CloudBI, Data Integration, General, Managed BI, Managed services, MongoDB, Open Source, Training |
If you’ve chatted with me in depth about BI/DW it’s highly likely I’ve mentioned Presto – an open source project I’ve been following for the last few years. Presto is a “SQL on anything” distributed SQL query engine which was...
by Anastasia Gorbatenko | May 1, 2018 | Analytics, Uncategorized |
When I had just started university at the beginning of the 21st century our software engineering teacher stood in front of my class of future mathematicians and stated: “Life will force you to learn to code”. So I learned to write good code while I studied maths. When...
