Ask a data engineer: The real self-service analytics platform

Fifty thousand tables and no idea

I have been called into a meeting as the data expert. When someone tries to flatter you for free, don’t fall for it. There’s always a catch. They will probably expect me to know every data point we have in our data warehouse, while I am as clueless as they are. We will end the meeting with even more unanswered questions than we started with, and a long …