A few months ago I switched my laptop from Windows to Ubuntu Linux. I had been connecting to my corporate SQL Server database using RODBC on Windows so I attempted to get ODBC connectivity up and running on Ubuntu. ODBC on Ubuntu turned into an exercise in futility. I spent many hours over many days [...]
Lately I have been struggling for what type of database to use for my analytics work. SQL Server is a really good database but I always get the feeling it was built for stuff other than what I want to do with it. I keep feeling like I am digging post holes with a spade [...]
I’ve been struggling for a while on which database to use for my working data. I used to use MS Access quite a lot. The problems with MS Access include but are not limited to:
2 GB file size limit, at least historically
Versions change with each edition of MS Office
Sort of tough to write SQL scripts
Very [...]