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About efficiency
Intro A few weeks back I needed to test working with the “parquet” file type. It turned out I couldn’t (as much as I tried) get my Docker container’s RStudio to take the “arrow” package and install it (it would always fail, but that’s beyond the point for this particular post). A side note about…
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Working with MS SQL
Intro So in the past I’ve looked into Postgres and/or (a bit of) MongoDB. Both nice alternatives to consider! But in some cases, one has to use other flavours of SQL, say in some corporate settings: Think for instance Oracle, or MS SQL Server, or if you’re Cloud inclined… Azure SQL đ One of the…
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Diminishing returns of parallel processing
Intro Itâs been a while without new entries here, as usual because I was busy one way or another. In keeping with the Masterâs studies, one of my excuses is the homework for the âhigh performance computingâ course. Recently we worked on OpenMP, and then with MPI. Both are cool and those that read this…