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Brandon Roberts

@thatrobertsguy.com.bsky.social

RDBMS appreciator, data engineer, etc.

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I love the Miltons GF frozen pizzas from Costco. Kirkland brand is meh imo

05.01.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I definitely read your post the other way, but yeah, this way is bad too. I hadn’t noticed they don’t have a setting for it.

I will skip liking your upstream reply - solidarity!

04.01.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dopamine roulette

04.01.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A meme showing two red buttons. One says β€œthey should make more music” and the other says β€œI wish it was more like their old stuff”. A man is shown sweating over the choice of which button to push.

A meme showing two red buttons. One says β€œthey should make more music” and the other says β€œI wish it was more like their old stuff”. A man is shown sweating over the choice of which button to push.

Adjacent

04.01.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

we are so back, etc.

29.12.2024 21:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

RT’s voice was never my thing but I felt the exact same way the first time I heard the acoustic version of β€œPush” - he was not just a guy trying to pump out radio plays.

07.12.2024 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

inb4 the e/h2o bros show up

01.12.2024 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Totally understand this feeling πŸ˜†

29.11.2024 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can confirm the recipe is AWESOME

28.11.2024 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Vasectomy humor aside: I know folks who’ve lost their only son or only daughter out of some number of the other, and I can’t imagine how much it would hurt to be asked this especially early on.

Lots of these situations desperately need some new quips.

19.11.2024 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve got 4 boys and my standard was β€œwe did, 4 times”

Wish I’d thought to add the vasectomy bit though - Intrusive question, meet over sharing!

19.11.2024 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Off topic but delighted to see aplomb in the wild

15.11.2024 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The business requirement/problem (consolidate multiple instances of a table) and the use of storage layer vs. SQL to do so. I’ve bumped into this twice with similarly implemented ERP systems, but maybe it’s just not that common otherwise? Thanks for engaging on it!

15.11.2024 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like the corollary to this is everyone wants to believe they’re Rick Rubin

15.11.2024 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The ext table presents the same result (plus some metadata) as if you’d unioned all the source tables.

13.11.2024 17:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I wasn’t very clear in my wording - this is multiple physical source tables (one per business entity). I’m extracting each table to a separate file. All instances of a given table (entity1.customer, entity2.customer, etc) have the same columns, and I’m exposing them all using one DW external table.

13.11.2024 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

One or more file per entity, if that matters - N files per table.

13.11.2024 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I land them in a common data lake location and provide access using a view. It’s effectively a union but at the file level instead of SQL.

Is there a name for this?

13.11.2024 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

#dataBS I have a terminology question: I’m extracting more than one instance of a table from a single source (e.g., ERP customers). Same source db, same table definition, different data as they’re for separate entities.
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13.11.2024 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re not sure what else is in this one of ours but we’ve loved having Pyrs!

12.11.2024 06:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is that a Great Pyr? That expression is very familiar

12.11.2024 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

<screams in COTS design decisions>

08.11.2024 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Proposal: alt tag #dataBSerious for when things get real

05.11.2024 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely not. Poast on.

04.11.2024 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Clearly time for an SR πŸ˜„

31.10.2024 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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this is better

31.10.2024 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I probably missed that by a generation here in central CA

30.10.2024 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Having previously worked at an ag vertical company the novelty of this has worn off πŸ˜†

30.10.2024 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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