Re: Looking for an online mentor

On 12/8/2016 4:19 PM, Metare Solve wrote:
> - The project is to build my Tableau skills, for one. There are a lot
> of (work from home) jobs out there that call for Tableau skills and I
> know the best way to learn something is to do it. I think using the
> SQL database as a source will enable me to learn a lot of things in
> one stroke.

I don't know anything about Tableau, but I don't see anything on their
fluff-heavy website mentioning postgresql, rather, it all seems
cloud-centric and fluffy, they mention Microsoft SQL Server, Hadoop,
Oracle, 'web sources', CSV files, and others, but no mention of
Postgresql. and, wow. $1000 for a single seat license of the desktop
'personal' version, $2000 for the 'professional' version ? yikes.

mostly it seems to be a tool that extracts data from pre-existing data
sources and crunches and presents it in 'executive dashboard' sort of
formats, it doesn't actually use the source database as anything other
than a place to fetch from.

pgadmin is just a database administration tool, its one way of managing
databases, creating and modifying table structures, etc, but its not
really suitable for production data entry and stuff, for that you'd
normally have application software, or use ETL tools to bulk load data
from other sources, etc.

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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz