Dan Sotolongo at #current22: RDBMS and SQL have stood the test of time. Sets the scene for stream processing by covering core concepts of tables and steams
#current22 handling event time joins in SQL using functions.
The next problem is making sure we have all the data. It’s watermarks, but not really
Gosh, I'd forgotten the pleasures and pains of abstract review for a conference. Pet peeves this morning:
☠️ Vendors submitting piss-poor product pitch abstracts. It doesn't take a genius to see through your abstract and look you up on LinkedIn to put 2 and 2 together. (1/n)
If you're a vendor, be open about your talk and its content. Pitching per se is not evil, but trying to hide it is. If you have useful things to say then perhaps your talk will be useful for the confernce. But be up front and honest about it. (2/n)
☠️ DAs with piss-poor abstracts. This is *literally your job*. Either bring it, or GTFO.
There are so many resources out there to help with writing abstracts (and hey, DM me and *I'll* help too, srsly), but you cannot just phone it in. It looks bad on you, and your company (3/n)
So does @MySQL Heatwave "Lakehouse" actually act as a lakehouse as defined elsewhere and write *back* to object storage through a table format? Or it's just MySQL that can also query data that's on object storage? The latter is cool of course, but the naming is puzzling me.
The press release is unclear, other than in the fact that OMG OUR BENCHMARK SHOWED WE ARE FASTER, WHO'DA THUNK IT?!! oracle.com/news/announcem…
The technical brief (oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/my…) makes note of "the HeatWave internal format" for working with external data. There's lots of mention of CSV and Parquet and magic fairies^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmachine learning to guess at schemas.
Audience feedback at conference talks is *really* useful for speakers and organisers. It lets speakers understand what they're doing well (and perhaps what they're not). It helps organisers gauge the direction of content (more of this, less of that).
Reading these this morning makes me very proud of all the speakers at #Current22 😁
There's also some fair criticism in there that's great feedback to work with speakers and the program committee on
Looks like a fascinating set of talks at @coalesceconf#dbtcoalesce next week. I'll be firing up my 56k modem and dialling in for several of them including:
Keynote: The End of the Road for The Modern Data Stack You Know, from @jthandy and @margaretfrancis