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Funny you should mention Walmart. I went to visit them in ~1992 when they were the biggest user of Teradata at the time. Never used Teradata after that, but i'm
by sofaofthedamned 9y ago
Funny you should mention Walmart. I went to visit them in ~1992 when they were the biggest user of Teradata at the time. Never used Teradata after that, but i'm interviewing with them in the UK next week...
- Diederich 9y agoYup. WalMart was doing big data analytics, mixed in with a lot of real-time processing, many years before those became a thing in the rest of the industry. If you don't mind me asking, what kind of position are you looking at in the UK next week?
- sofaofthedamned 9y agoDevops. Yes Teradata were awesome at the time. Their secret sauce was the hashed index stuff,which I think was the source of their major patents. Our PM was not amused when I pointed out that, although hashed indexes were awesome, they did nothing when you were doing a wildcard search at which point you're doing a table space scan. Nobody has thought about this wrinkle...
- Diederich 9y agoDevops with WalMart in UK...so with ASDA then? Re: Teradata: I sat next to that group for half a year, but I had no other direct exposure to it. I did what one might call 'devops' for Network Engineering.
- sofaofthedamned 9y agoNo, this was for WH Smith. We went to Walmart to see how they used it. It was awesome, but misunderstood.