Eugene Meidinger on Nostr: Personally, it was utterly frustrating when I was first trying to learn about data ...

Personally, it was utterly frustrating when I was first trying to learn about data warehousing and people would just say "You want this to be in a star or snowflake schema." Why? Tell me why.

Dogmas do me no good when I'm out in the weeds and trying to improve performance.

Many reports or designs are inherited. And unless you plan on telling people to burn it to the ground and start over, you have to give people a triage path.

If the model is small and refreshes are fast, who cares about PQ versus calculated columns?