Agile Database Development-5 Tips to Get You Started

Today, the majority of application developers are embracing the agile approach. Agile has thus become standard practice for many organizations. However, database developers, particularly those working on relational databases, have not readily adopted agile development methods, partly because they need ...

Preparing For A Career in Data Analytics, From Self-Taught Mastery to Advanced Degrees

So, you're thinking about enhancing or building your data analysis knowledge but don’t know where to start. You may be considering a bachelor’s or master’s degree, or the possibility of different certificates and trainings. Maybe you have a bachelor's degree ...

Microsoft Excel for Web Analytics and Big Data

No one has time to spend ages mining for Excel answers from mountains of text to quickly find and fix Analytics issues. These issues can be something like: Finding and removing duplicate URLs Extracting domain names from the URLs Converting upper case URLs ...

Could Microsoft Cosmos Challenge Hadoop?

A new Microsoft data crunching framework is set to launch on the company’s Azure cloud, according to a report from Redmond pundit Mary Jo Foley on ZDNet. Dubbed Cosmos, it’s a potential competitor to both Hadoop and eventually Google’s homegrown ...