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Data Modeling 201 for the cloud: designing databases for data warehouses

erwin

Remember that Seinfeld’s George Costanza did not land his dream job with the NY Yankees until he embraced doing the opposite of every idea he had, as seen in the video clip below. I first met Ralph in the early 1990’s while attending one of his seminars. Figure 3: A data model of an OLTP point-of-sale system.

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Take action with your library this Libraries Week

CILIP

We explore future leadership in the library, information and knowledge sector in the second CILIP #ChangingLives Seminar on Thursday 7 October with a keynote presentation from Dr Buhle Mbambo-Thata. s #ChangingLives Seminar Series , hosted by Shirley Yearwood-Jackman, Chair of the CILIP BAME Network, takes place on Thursday 7 October.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

But that was a tiny portion of the education with the vast bulk of it made up of reading books and magazines, going to seminars, hanging out on forums and frankly, also learning by making mistakes. Lesson 8: Put a Price on Your Time - and Your Family I stopped playing video games probably about a decade ago. We lost money on shares.

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