The End of an Era – SQLFool scripts are now open-sourced
Hello, dear readers. It’s been a while. For those who haven’t yet heard the news, I have switched to the dark side roles. I’m still kicking ass at GoDaddy and I’m still technical, but I now lead a team of big data engineers. As you can imagine, this means that I spend the majority of my time with Hadoop and its related ecosystem (Pig, Hive, Spark, etc.). This is very different than the performance-focused SQL Server role I had when I first created this blog. For those of you who make your living primarily or solely with SQL Server, please rest assured… SQL Server is still awesome, is still relevant, and still has a place in most enterprise data platform strategies. In fact, I’m presently working on egress automation of our Hadoop data warehouse to SQL Server for serving BI reports. Unfortunately, my change in technology focus means that my SQL Server blogging has largely come to an end, and with it, new posts on this blog. But while this blog may end, my blogging activities do not. For those interested, I have launched a new blog at Hadoopsie.com that chronicles my adventures in a non-Microsoft world with Hadoop, open-source, … Continue reading