George MacDonald Fraser

Jan 22, 2025 | hoerzu.at | George MacDonald Fraser |Richard Maibaum |Michael Wilson

» Exotisch angehaucht, fast schon zirkusreif « BeschreibungJames Bond (Roger Moore) untersucht die Ermordung des Kollegen 009 in Ost-Berlin. Der Tote hielt ein gefälschtes Fabergé-Ei in der Hand. Das Schmuckstück führt Bond zur geheimnisvollen Octopussy (Maud Adams). Die Dame pflegt Kontakte zu Prinz Khan, der mitten in Deutschland eine Atombombe zünden will.

Sep 17, 2024 | fivetran.com | George MacDonald Fraser

The average Snowflake customer spends about $300,000 per year on the platform. 90% of this is queries. What do these queries look like? We might imagine the typical user of Snowflake to be an analyst, with all their company's data at their fingertips, answering questions about what is really happening in the business. Is this what a typical workload looks like?

Feb 29, 2024 | l8r.it | Michihiko Hachiya |Lily Ebert |James Stejskal |George MacDonald Fraser

LoveReading Says About Press Reviews Author LoveReading Says At times harrowing, and always incredibly humbling, Dr Michihiko Hachiya’s autobiographical account of the immeasurable pain and devastation that came in the wake of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima tells an extraordinary story of survival. “The hour was early; the morning still, warm, and beautiful.

Apr 7, 2023 | betterprogramming.pub | George MacDonald Fraser

DuckDB is a new SQL execution engine that has been getting lots of attention in the last year. There are many projects like it, so what makes DuckDB special? First, it's exceptionally simple to operate. It's a standalone C++ library with no dependencies, so it's easy to incorporate into larger projects. Second, it's fast. It incorporates the key idea, columnar-vectorized execution, that makes modern analytical databases fast. But just how fast is DuckDB?

Mar 5, 2023 | medium.com | George MacDonald Fraser

It's been a week since I started posting on Twitter. Things have been going pretty well considering that I'm relatively new to the platform. My first tweet got over 3,000 impressions in the first 2 days. I wanted to continue riding the momentum I've built up, but things didn't go as planned. My tweets still did alright, but I still expected more. Knowing what I know now, things would've looked very different.