Author: Shanon Bailey
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Summer = Sunscreen
Last weekend, my family went camping. It was our first exposure this year to our medium yellow star and as always, we forgot about “carefully” applying sunscreen on our virgin skin. By the end of the day, my daughter’s fair skin looked like preschoolers finger painted sunscreen. She sported some lovely patterns of white and…
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SQL Server: Padding records on days when Bob isn’t grilling burgers…
I’m a huge fan of Bob’s Burgers. So today’s SQL tip will be featuring the Burger of the Day. We want to show burger records even on days when Bob hasn’t been grilling. Let’s setup our use case. Our goal is to capture a record per day in the month of January for every Bob’s…
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Waterlogged Data
It’s humorous to me that when talking about data, somehow we end up referencing water. Whether it’s data flow, data lakes, waterfall (not really data but had to throw it in). As a Pisces and a data lover, I’m rather down with this water concept. But with all these terms out there, I thought it…
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Lady with the Lamp
Lately, I’ve been fascinated to learn about women data pioneers. Florence Nightingale was a nurse. But did you know she was also a statistician? In fact, she was the first female to be elected into the Royal Statistical Society. That’s really cool! Flo (as I call her for short) created a way to graphically represent…
BI Over Beers 