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 developed by Facebook and publicly...
When I was a bit younger, faster, and didn’t have kids I was part of an adventure racing team which raced together over a few years building to an 800km 5-10 day race in Australia. One thing we did after most races and training missions was a review of how...
I'm Ben Lee I'm into report development, data integration and data modelling. In this blog I explain how I helped a customer manage their own help text. Recently I had the scenario where a customer wanted to be able to manage their own help text for a page in an...
So I had the pleasure along with the 19000 Attendees to attend the AWS re:Invent 2015 in Las Vegas, I wish. Unfortunately I wasn’t that lucky so I have had to settle for the next best thing, watching the sessions on youtube. AWS have their own YouTube channel which...
I have attended several AWS (Amazon Web Services) Lunch & Learns and an AWS Certification Appreciation Reception in the last couple of months. It is good to see AWS still providing these events as a way of promoting the services they offer and recognising their...
Recently I had to change my password (as we all do), but on this occasion it didn't work, while not completely anyway. This is my story and what I learnt. I changed my password when prompted during the login process and then logged into SAS Enterprise Guide and...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.3 - System Administration I I recently attended the above course, so thought I would share some of my thoughts, experiences and learning's with you. The course started with a look at some of the GUI tools. GNOME gedit Nautilus These...
I arrived on site Monday morning around 9:30 to a lovely welcome by children from a local school. After a safety briefing and apology as to why the site was not fully prepared, we grabbed buckets and formed a chain gang to move water out of the holes and then move...
Well it seems things may have turned to custard in Cambodia during the last week. With excess rain over the last week and the site preparation contractor pulling out we maybe working on plan B. But whatever the plan I am going to abide by our team mantra. 1. Remember...
Well it is only one week now until I fly out to Cambodia so time for an update. I've been to see the doc and got a couple of shots. Tetanus Diphtheria Whooping cough Hepatitis A There has been some discussion (some might call abuse) that I should have some other shots...