PacktPub Looking For Python Projects

Do you have a good project? Do you want to write? The acquisition folks at Packt are looking for this: "... demonstrate 4-5 projects over the course of the chapters in order to demonstrate how to build scalable Python projects from scratch. These projects cover some of the most important concepts …

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SQL Hegemony and Document Databases

A surpassingly strange question is this: "How do I get the data out of MongoDB into a spreadsheet?"
The variation is "How can we load the MongoDB data into a relational database?"
I'm always perplexed by this question. It has a subtext that I find baffling. The subtext is this …
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SQL Hegemony -- the "Pivot Table" problem

As far as I can tell, the Pivot Table Problem™ only exists for people who have actively put on blinders so that they can only see data one way.
This leads to the following.
The context appears to be millions of rows of data. Hundreds of columns. It appears that …
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SQL Hegemony -- a sad state of affairs

It appears that there are people who don't recognize SQL as a tradeoff.

Here's a complex two-part question that can only come from folks who firmly believe in the magic of SQL.

The sentence that got my attention was "Python has basically made SQL obsolete as a language for data …

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