What Are You Doing Right Now? (387 Viewers)

[Jem83]

First of all, an awesome congrats on acing your master's thesis!

Second, thanks for the great Colombia write-up. I've yet to go, and I've been fascinated about going there. There seems to be a real current positivity coming out of there given their past with FARC, the cartel drug wars and Escobar, etc. Tons of problems still, but also now hope. Which you can't say for, say, Venezuela right now.

int:

Thanks a bunch, Greg! arty:

Absolutely, there's genuine optimism over there now, for sure. The problems with FARC and the drug cartels remain, particularly in Medellin and Bogotà and in a lot of the surrounding regions. But I sir, for now, am a costeño, having only visited the coastal cities of Cartagena, Santa Marta and Barranquilla far up north-west in the country. FARC presence is close to non-existant there, so it's a really nice place to visit if you're a tourist. On my next trip I will also check out Medellin and Bogotà, which I expect to be quite an experience.

 

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[Bjerknes]

Thanks guys

Best of luck to you, Andy! It's an amazing feeling once it's done.

For me, though, that feeling initially lasted for about 5 minutes, until I was overcome by a feeling of emptiness and sadness. Having studied for so long (7,5 years in my case, the Law master took 5 years to complete but I had 2,5 years of History studies before I transferred to law), the "student" lifestyle really becomes part of one's habits and even one's identity. The routines, the classes, the lecturers, fellow students, the bookcrunching, the faculty, libraries, everything. A part of me will always miss it. It was a weird feeling to have to turn the page on all of that in just a snap. However, it didn't take long before I felt great again!

A master degree takes a lot of hard work, and I'm genuinely happy to see you so close to reaching your goal! Hope you find the proper way to celebrate it once it's done. You've earned it!

It is certainly not an easy task. I started my MBA in Finance about two years ago and began taking courses full-time while working full-time. Thank goodness I did so, as otherwise I'm not sure if I would ever finish.

Although, I cannot say that I will miss the papers and long nights like you will. Perhaps I will go for a PhD eventually after I obtain some professional certificates and learn SQL, but I will not look forward to that either.

First of all, an awesome congrats on acing your master's thesis!

Second, thanks for the great Colombia write-up. I've yet to go, and I've been fascinated about going there. There seems to be a real current positivity coming out of there given their past with FARC, the cartel drug wars and Escobar, etc. Tons of problems still, but also now hope. Which you can't say for, say, Venezuela right now.

int:

Ps: And I've always loved James and all going back to his Porto days, but no Jackson Martinez love? The NT never seemed to really capitalize on him.

I have heard better things about Colombia as well. This Winter we will hopefully travel to Nicaragua where some neighbors have a beach house on the Pacific near the town of Leon. He's been to Colombia before as well, it would be interesting to get his take on it now. But Nicaragua seems like a hidden paradise -- at least until the Chinese started building the new canal.

 

[Dostoevsky]

What do you need SQL for?

 

[Martin]

It is certainly not an easy task. I started my MBA in Finance about two years ago and began taking courses full-time while working full-time. Thank goodness I did so, as otherwise I'm not sure if I would ever finish.

Although, I cannot say that I will miss the papers and long nights like you will. Perhaps I will go for a PhD eventually after I obtain some professional certificates and learn SQL, but I will not look forward to that either.



I have heard better things about Colombia as well. This Winter we will hopefully travel to Nicaragua where some neighbors have a beach house on the Pacific near the town of Leon. He's been to Colombia before as well, it would be interesting to get his take on it now. But Nicaragua seems like a hidden paradise -- at least until the Chinese started building the new canal.

the structured query language?

 

[Bjerknes]

the structured query language?

Yes, our company uses that to manage our databases. I never had any of that in college so I want to learn it to advance.

 

[Martin]

Yes, our company uses that to manage our databases. I never had any of that in college so I want to learn it to advance.

i imagine it's for analytics?

 

[Bjerknes]

What do you need SQL for?

Everyone seems to use SQL now to run queries on large databases to retrieve information. There are a lot of queries I have to request from the IT department for financial information that I wish I could run by myself.

 

[Martin]

What do you need SQL for?

"everyone should learn how to code" is a popular saying these days

 

[swag]

It is certainly not an easy task. I started my MBA in Finance about two years ago and began taking courses full-time while working full-time. Thank goodness I did so, as otherwise I'm not sure if I would ever finish.

Although, I cannot say that I will miss the papers and long nights like you will. Perhaps I will go for a PhD eventually after I obtain some professional certificates and learn SQL, but I will not look forward to that either.



I have heard better things about Colombia as well. This Winter we will hopefully travel to Nicaragua where some neighbors have a beach house on the Pacific near the town of Leon. He's been to Colombia before as well, it would be interesting to get his take on it now. But Nicaragua seems like a hidden paradise -- at least until the Chinese started building the new canal.

PhD. If that's a real ticket to where you want to go, by all means. But be careful - a PhD can hurt you even more than it can help you if you're not careful.

As for Nicaragua, I've heard some better things about it lately. A friend's recent wife is Nicaraguan, and she's the bomb. It's not Honduras, and on the coast you should be extra good.

the structured query language?

And here I thought SQL was an RG3-like fanciful nickname for Shaquiri.

 

[Bjerknes]

i imagine it's for analytics?

Pretty much. I deal with all sorts of financial data that I need to retrieve for accounting purposes. SQL doesn't seem that difficult to learn, maybe I wouldn't have to take a class for it.

 

[swag]

Everyone seems to use SQL now to run queries on large databases to retrieve information. There are a lot of queries I have to request from the IT department for financial information that I wish I could run by myself.

I thought you'd be running Hive and Hadoop in your field by now.

 

[Bjerknes]

PhD. If that's a real ticket to where you want to go, by all means. But be careful - a PhD can hurt you even more than it can help you if you're not careful.

As for Nicaragua, I've heard some better things about it lately. A friend's recent wife is Nicaraguan, and she's the bomb. It's not Honduras, and on the coast you should be extra good.

That is good advice, I probably wouldn't need it for my career. But since education benefits would cover some of the expense, perhaps it would pay off in the long run.

Nicaragua is now the safest country in Latin America, apparently, along with CR.

And here I thought SQL was an RG3-like fanciful nickname for Shaquiri.

 

[Dostoevsky]

Everyone seems to use SQL now to run queries on large databases to retrieve information. There are a lot of queries I have to request from the IT department for financial information that I wish I could run by myself.

Is Access out of date? As far as I know everybody uses it here when it comes to large databases. If we're talking about the same thing

 

[Martin]

I thought you'd be running Hive and Hadoop in your field by now.

you can go pretty far with SQL anyhow

also, there's like an emerging trend now to restore the expressivity of SQL or something SQL like on top of nosql

 

[Bjerknes]

I thought you'd be running Hive and Hadoop in your field by now.

They very well might be. Seems like they come up with these new database languages every year now.

 

[Martin]

Is Access out of date? As far as I know everybody uses it here when it comes to large databases. If we're talking about the same thing

Access is a toy, Dusan.

 

[swag]

you can go pretty far with SQL anyhow

also, there's like an emerging trend now to restore the expressivity of SQL or something SQL like on top of nosql

Hive was always positioned more as a SQL-supportive query end. But I can't keep up with all the Big Data wankers out there, so what do I know.

 

[Bjerknes]

Is Access out of date? As far as I know everybody uses it here when it comes to large databases. If we're talking about the same thing

Some use Access, but I think it sucks compared to what SQL can do. But I'm not Martin or Greg so I have no idea, really.

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Access is a toy, Dusan.

There you go...

 

[Dostoevsky]

Some use Access, but I think it sucks compared to what SQL can do. But I'm not Martin or Greg so I have no idea, really.

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There you go...

Access is a toy, Dusan.

Banks still use it for lage databases. I never said it's better than SQL, though, just asking.

And I heard new Access is a lot better than previous versions. Dunno really .

 

[Martin]

Banks still use it for lage databases. I never said it's better than SQL, though, just asking.

And I heard new Access is a lot better than previous versions. Dunno really .

There's some confusion of concepts here, I'll give a brief clarification.

In the 70s we got structured databases (meaning the structure of the data is defined, it's not arbitrary) and there were a lot of competing vendors, which resulted in some standards. SQL is a standard language that allows you to write queries that a database server executes (and gives you the results back). Access is one such database product (compatible with SQL), but it's meant for personal use by individuals and runs on your desktop.

There is a whole space of more serious database products like Mysql, postgresql, Microsoft SQL server and most prominently Oracle which are extremely widely used by companies everywhere. This forum stores its data in Mysql and the forum software uses SQL to get it in and out of the database.

But SQL databases, for technical reasons, are basically limited to a single machine. If you have the amount of data that Google has then it doesn't fit on one machine and hence was born NoSQL, a complete separate line of database products where the data is stored on multiple machines.