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Entity-Relationship Diagrams With Sonic the Hedgehog
On first glance, Entity Relationship Diagrams may look like a spaghetti mess. This post hopes to demystify how they fit together with Sonic the Hedgehog
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Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Beautiful Data Visualisations
This is the story of the Seattle music scene of the 90s, Throwback Thursday, and some beautiful data visualisations
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A Guide to Searching With System Tables
Your database doesn’t just contain your data. It also contains data about your data. Here’s how to use System Tables to search
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Your First Tech Talk: What You Need To Know
If you take nothing else from this post, remember that people are there to see you succeed. You have something to offer and should give a tech talk a try
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Which AWS EC2 Service Is Right for You?
AWS EC2 is a service that provides virtual machines in the cloud. You pay for the capacity you use and choose from ‘families’ of instances
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The Great Migration: from SQL Server to AWS Aurora
This is a retrospective covering some of the learnings of ‘Project Aurora’. A nine-month project to migrate 60 users from SQL Server to AWS Aurora
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What Career Switchers Should Know
This is the story of my career journey so far, inspiration, advice, and tips for career switchers also looking to move into the tech industry
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Databases Are Like Dance Classes
As I was having a hard time switching off from work this week, I thought: a ballet lesson would be a great way to discuss database concepts
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SQL Concepts From A to Z
This post covers the SQL concepts that pop up during training. If you have a junior analyst in your life, keep reading
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AWS Concepts From A to Z
The AWS list of services grows each month, here’s a list to help you get to grips with some of them
