This is just lovely. I'm the lead of a company's data warehouse project, having inherited it from someone who was a DBA that read a book and then made the whole thing ...

I tend to joke that I'm a digital janitor and now I'm a big data janitor. Well, things are going well enough, but cleanup on a live system with users and zillions of reports is incredibly difficult. Part of the issue is isolation and size: too many have too much access to too much data. It's overwhelming and it also leads to a lot of high cost because queries aren't understood and they're run against massive datasets.

I've been educating myself as well as I can between fixing errors and this book is just the thing I need to calm my nerves. It totally makes sense how the stages are set and even just this blog post overview has given me ideas of how to carve some things up.

Kudos, cheers, and all that. Happy Halloween!