Got my new toy today, having only ordered it Thursday night, it arrived Monday. Normally Dell stuff comes from Asia, maybe they had some of these on hand locally.
A Dell 2407WFP 24″ LCD monitor with a 1920×1200 resolution.
Hmmm, not bad. I should mention $1,199 Delivered ($300 off normal price)
Clean data is one of those terms everyone uses and few define precisely. Row counts match? No nulls in key columns? Values within expected ranges? All useful checks — and all insufficient once you move from a table view to a visualization view.
Read moreSynthetic benchmarks have their place, but I have always preferred working with real data. Not client production data — that stays private — but publicly available datasets that reflect the messy shapes, skewed distributions, and indexing challenges you encounter in the wild.
Read moreI recently had the pleasure of presenting Planning your upgrade to MySQL 9.7 at COSCUP 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan. COSCUP (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters) is one of the largest open source conferences in Asia, and the community there is always engaged and technically sharp.
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