Episode 203: Spark in Action

Everyone has bad days; however, how those bad days develop are unique to each of us. In a special episode, we chat with Tracy Boggiano about her experiences with Mental Health, how she has dealt with ...

11 Aug 202159min

No one wants to lose data when disaster strikes; however, we need to plan for some data loss and putting all the pieces in place can be tricky. There are two metrics commonly used to measure data loss...

4 Aug 202141min

The scary part of upgrading SQL Server is finding out you have a problem AFTER the fact. In this episode, Mariano Kovo joins us to discuss the Data Migration Assistant tool from Microsoft. While the n...

21 Jul 202143min

As data practitioners, we want to get ahead of any problems that might come up and share those insights with others on our team. In this episode, Edward Pollack gives us a few scenarios we might consi...

14 Jul 20211h 7min

Organizations look to constantly improve and offer better services and the application tooling has been built to accommodate the process. Database tooling has been a bit slower to develop; however, in...

23 Jun 20211h 9min

Let's say you have completed a lift and shift VM hosting to the cloud. Great—you now use Iaas services. While you don't have to worry about the hardware, managing the software can be problematic. T...

9 Jun 202158min

Have you ever created a report in a visualization tool, spent all this time and energy creating something that looked really cool, went through more edits than you could remember only to deliver the r...

26 Mai 202156min

Carlos, Kevin, and Eugene reconnect after some time away with a new streaming time.  Long form conversation on a single topic is also the place we want to get back to in our podcast.  The show notes a...

28 Apr 202124min