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Things I Learned Writing SQL with Gen AI(thedataist.com)
1 points by cgivre 4y ago|0 comments
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Apache Drill 1.21 Released: Support for Delta Lake, Cross Cloud Queries and More(drill.apache.org)
3 points by cgivre 4y ago|1 comments
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by cgivre 4y ago
The Apache Drill Project Management Committee is pleased to announce the release of Drill 1.21. If you're not familiar with Drill, it is a federated, schema-free, MPP query engine that lets you query virtually any data source using st
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by cgivre 4y ago
Data analysts spend so much time fighting with their data. But imagine you could just ask a question and get data. Introducing DataDistillr, an innovative new product which integrates the power of the latest GPT models along with a powerf
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by cgivre 5y ago
I think that really sums it up. The other issue I've seen is lacking documentation. I've been a Drill committer for several years and co-authored the O'Reilly book, Learning Apache Drill. I'm STILL finding undocumented
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by cgivre 5y ago
The last release (Drill 1.19.0) was a very significant release, firstly because it was the first release without MapR. Secondly, however, it had a lot of refactoring and offered some major improvements including connectivity with ElasticSe
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by cgivre 5y ago
For me the ease of use and versatility. Having tried the others, Presto, Impala, Dremio, none really work as well for my use cases. The fact that I can write a query to join data from an API with a PCAP, with zero schema prep is really in
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by cgivre 5y ago
lol
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by cgivre 6y ago
I am!! Glad to hear you liked the book!
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by cgivre 6y ago
Drill does ;-) Drill also has a streaming Excel reader that works very well with large Excel files...
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by cgivre 6y ago
Try it out! I'd agree that if you have 1 CSV you don't need Drill. If you have more than one, is where it starts to get interesting. Also there is PyDrill which enables you to execute a Drill query and put the results directly
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by cgivre 6y ago
For what?
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by cgivre 6y ago
As the author of the above post, I thought I'd respond to the comments below. Firstly, I'm glad to see that people noticed... :-) Firstly, to paraphrase Monty Python, "Drill's not dead yet." There are some efforts