The Failsafe Query
The Failsafe Query

Author: Michael Jenkins

Publisher: Unbound Publishing

Published: 2018-06-14

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 191261829X

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The search is on..... The Failsafe Query is a gripping thriller set in the contemporary world of modern British espionage. Sean Richardson, a disgraced former intelligence agent, is tasked to lead a team to search for Alfie Chapman, an Intelligence officer on the cusp of exposing thousands of secrets to the media. This includes a long lost list of Russian moles embedded since the Cold War, one of whom remains a public favourite in the British parliamentary system. The action moves with absorbing pace and intrigue across Central Asia and Europe as the puzzle begins to unfold through a deep hidden legacy. Tense, fast paced, and insightful, The Failsafe Query twists and turns to a satisfyingly dramatic finale. Praise for the Failsafe Query 'Oh my goodness, what a really excellent book. Absolutely gripping, tense and thrilling. Such intrigue.' – Pigeonhole reviewer. 'A 'best of British' espionage thriller Set amid a modern day spy-world. This riveting book will have you on the edge of your seat taking you on a roller coaster ride of twists and turns.' – Goodreads reviewer. 'A thoroughly captivating book. Action packed with a very clever plot. I was hooked in the blink of an eye. Quite unputdownable!' – Pigeonhole reviewer. 'This is must read. A modern day thriller that I did not want to put down. The plot is fast and well thought through - completely gripping.' – Goodreads reviewer. 'Gathers momentum, and builds towards a terrific climax. Brilliant !' - Goodreads reviewer Also available in the Failsafe Thriller series: The Kompromat Kill - The deadly hunt for a Nizari spy ring

The Failsafe Query
The Failsafe Query

Author: michael jenkins

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-10

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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'Some secrets were meant to be buried forever. Until now.' Sean Richardson, a disgraced former intelligence agent, is tasked to lead a team to search for a British intelligence officer on the cusp of exposing thousands of secrets to the media. It includes a long lost list of Russian moles embedded since the Cold War, one of whom remains a public favourite in the British parliamentary system. The action moves with absorbing pace and intrigue across Central Asia and Europe as the puzzle begins to unfold through a deep hidden legacy. As Sean gets closer to the truth, senior figures are left to nurse their anxiety knowing that if the secret is revealed, it will destroy their lives. On the verge of success, his eye is taken off the ball, and the Russians step forward ready to pounce. Tense, fast paced, and insightful, The Failsafe Query twists and turns to a satisfyingly dramatic finale. The first in a set of spy thrillers that have been expertly crafted with stunning plot lines, magnificent locations, and twists that leave you gasping for air. Perfect for fans of Frederick Forsyth, Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy, and Scott Mariani. What people are saying about Michael Jenkins spy thrillers: ★★★★★ 'Oh my goodness, what a really excellent book. Absolutely gripping, tense and thrilling. Such intrigue.' - Pigeonhole reviewer. ★★★★★ 'A best of British espionage thriller set amid the modern day spy-world. This riveting book will have you on the edge of your seat taking you on a roller coaster ride of twists and turns.' - Goodreads reviewer. ★★★★★ 'A thoroughly captivating book. Action packed with a very clever plot. I was hooked in the blink of an eye. Quite unputdownable! - Pigeonhole reviewer. ★★★★★ 'This is must read. A modern day thriller that I did not want to put down. The plot is fast and well thought through - completely gripping.' - Goodreads reviewer. ★★★★★ 'Gathers momentum, and builds towards a terrific climax. Brilliant !' - Goodreads reviewer Also available in the Failsafe Thriller set: The Kompromat Kill - The deadly hunt for a Nizari spy ring The Moscow Whisper - Hunting down the merchants of death

Snowflake: The Definitive Guide
Snowflake: The Definitive Guide

Author: Joyce Kay Avila

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2022-08-11

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1098103777

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Snowflake's ability to eliminate data silos and run workloads from a single platform creates opportunities to democratize data analytics, allowing users at all levels within an organization to make data-driven decisions. Whether you're an IT professional working in data warehousing or data science, a business analyst or technical manager, or an aspiring data professional wanting to get more hands-on experience with the Snowflake platform, this book is for you. You'll learn how Snowflake users can build modern integrated data applications and develop new revenue streams based on data. Using hands-on SQL examples, you'll also discover how the Snowflake Data Cloud helps you accelerate data science by avoiding replatforming or migrating data unnecessarily. You'll be able to: Efficiently capture, store, and process large amounts of data at an amazing speed Ingest and transform real-time data feeds in both structured and semistructured formats and deliver meaningful data insights within minutes Use Snowflake Time Travel and zero-copy cloning to produce a sensible data recovery strategy that balances system resilience with ongoing storage costs Securely share data and reduce or eliminate data integration costs by accessing ready-to-query datasets available in the Snowflake Marketplace

The Kompromat Kill
The Kompromat Kill

Author: Michael Jenkins

Publisher:

Published: 2019-05-13

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 9781090614193

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They were preparing for decades - now it's time to take them down.When a British Diplomat is kidnapped in the heart of London, followed by a brutal double-assassination in Chelsea, MI5 braces for the threat of deep sleeper cells coming alive.Hiding overseas with a price on his head, Sean Richardson is tasked to lead a deniable operation to hunt down and recruit an international model and spy. Moving across Asia Minor and Europe, Sean embarks on a dangerous journey tracking an Iranian spy ring who hold the keys to a set of consequences the British Intelligence Services would rather not entertain.As Sean investigates deeper, he uncovers dark secrets from his past and a complex web of espionage spun from the hand of a global master spy. As he inches closer to the truth, the rules of the game change - and the nerve-wracking fate of many lives sits in his hands...............

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012

Author: Robert Meersman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-01-17

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 3642336159

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The two-volume set LNCS 7565 and 7566 constitutes the refereed proceedings of three confederated international conferences: Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2012), Distributed Objects and Applications - Secure Virtual Infrastructures (DOA-SVI 2012), and Ontologies, DataBases and Applications of SEmantics (ODBASE 2012) held as part of OTM 2012 in September 2012 in Rome, Italy. The 53 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 169 submissions. The 31 full papers included in the second volume constitute the proceedings of DOA-SVI 2012 with 10 full papers organized in topical sections on privacy in the cloud; resource management and assurance; context, compliance and attack; and ODBASE 2012 with 21 full papers organized in topical sections on using ontologies and semantics; applying probalistic techniques to semantic information; exploiting and querying semantic information; and managing and storing semantic information.

Data Warehousing
Data Warehousing

Author: SCN Education B.V.

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 3322849643

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Rapid access to information is a prime requirement in any organization that wants to have a competitive edge in today's fast changing markets. How to retrieve information? How to capture data? How to format it? The answer lies in Data Warehousing. This HOTT Guide will give you access to all the essential information about the newest data storehouse: through articles by expert trendwachters on strategic considerations, how-to reports defining the various ways to extract the data needed for critical business decisions, technical papers clarifying technologies and tools, business cases and key concepts that will provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of a business solution that is already indispensable.

Mastering Snowflake Platform
Mastering Snowflake Platform

Author: Pooja Kelgaonkar

Publisher: BPB Publications

Published: 2024-01-12

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 9355519761

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Embark on the data journey with the ultimate guide to Snowflake mastery KEY FEATURES ● Learn about Snowflake cloud-based data architecture and its basics. ● Learn and implement Snowflake’s unified features with use cases. ● Design and deploy robust enterprise data architectures with Snowflake. DESCRIPTION Handling ever evolving data for business needs can get complex. Traditional methods create bulky and costly-to-maintain data systems. Here, Snowflake emerges as a cost-effective solution, catering to both traditional and modern data needs with zero or minimal maintenance costs. This book helps you grasp Snowflake, guiding you to create complete solutions from start to finish. The starting focus covers Snowflake architecture, key features, native loading and unloading capabilities, ANSI SQL support, and processing of diverse data types and objects. The next part utilizes acquired knowledge to look into implementing data security, governance, and collaborations, utilizing Snowflake's features like data sharing and cloning. The final part explores advanced topics, including streams, tasks, performance optimizations, cost efficiencies, and operationalization with automated monitoring. Real-time use cases and reference architectures are provided to assist readers in implementing data warehouse, data lake, and data mesh solutions with Snowflake. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Introduction to Snowflake and its three-layered architecture. ● Understand Snowflake’s native features. ● Understand the different types of data workloads and their architecture designs. ● Implement query and cost performance optimization using Snowflake native services. ● Introduction to Snowflake’s advanced features like dynamic and event tables. ● Snowflake’s capabilities with extended support to implement large language models. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is for data practitioners, data engineers, data architects, or every data enthusiast who is keen on learning Snowflake. It does not need any prior experience, however, it is beneficial to have a basic understanding of cloud computing, data concepts and basic programming skills. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Getting Started with Snowflake 2. Three Layered Architecture 3. Data Types, Data Objects and SQL Commands 4. Data Loading and Unloading 5. Understanding Streams and Tasks 6. Understanding Snowpark 7. Access Control and Managing Users Roles 8. Data Protection and Recovery 9. Snowflake Performance Optimization 10. Understanding Snowflake Costing and Utilizations 11. Implementing Cost Optimizations 12. Data Sharing 13. Data Cloning 14. Understanding Snowsight 15. Programming Connectors and Drivers 16. Workload Patterns with Snowflake 17. Introduction to Snowflake’s Advance Features

Oracle8 on Windows NT
Oracle8 on Windows NT

Author: Lilian Hobbs

Publisher: Digital Press

Published: 1998-03-23

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781555581909

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Oracle Databases on Windows NT is aimed at anyone who needs an appreciation of the facilities available from the Oracle Server on the Windows NT platform. It specifically focuses on how to use the GUI interface, Oracle Enterprise Manager, to create, design and manage an Oracle database on NT. However, this book is appropriate for anyone who using Oracle Enterprise Manager. By reading this book the reader will learn how to create a database and define all the components such as tables and indexes. It shows how to manage the database, tune it, and use it for Web-based applications. Other advanced features such as replication, distribution, and NT clusters are also covered. What is GUI? GUI stands for Graphical User Interface, which is what Windows is based on -- icons, pulldown menus, point and click functionality. Most Oracle databases are run on UNIX, which depends on code, and doesn't have the windows interface. Specifically written for the Windows NT database user Shows how to manage Oracle databases using the GUI interface Foreword by Dr. Jerry Held, Senior Vice President for Oracle Server Technologies

[COF-C02] Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification Practice tests - NEW & EXCLUSIVE
[COF-C02] Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification Practice tests - NEW & EXCLUSIVE

Author: Georgio Daccache

Publisher: Georgio Daccache

Published:

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13:

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Pass the [COF-C02] Snowflake SnowPro Core Exam on your First Try (Exclusive Latest Questions + Detailed Explanation & References) all new for the updated exam objectives. This New Preparation book gives you the opportunity to test your level of understanding and gauge your readiness for the [COF-C02] Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification exam long before the big day. This book questions cover 100% of the [COF-C02] Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification exam's domains and topics and include answers with full explanations and references to help you understand the reasoning and approach for each. In this book, you will find 200+ New Practice Questions similar to the ones you will find in the Official Exam. They are based on [COF-C02] Snowflake SnowPro Core Exam Guide and contains a full explanation of the answers. Our New and Exclusive book contains up-to-date practice exams that allows you to simulate the exam day experience and apply your own test-taking strategies with domains given in proportion to the real thing. COF-C02 consists of multiple-choice or multiple-select questions. The test consists of 100 questions. The time limit for the SnowPro Core Certification Exam is 115 minutes. The Exam tests an individual's foundational and advance knowledge of Snowflake in both the implementation and migration, which covers all topics within the Snowflake documentation. Welcome!

The Semantic Web – ISWC 2023
The Semantic Web – ISWC 2023

Author: Terry R. Payne

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-11-01

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 3031472438

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2023, which took place in October 2023 in Athens, Greece. The 58 full papers presented in this double volume were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 248 submissions. Many submissions focused on the use of reasoning and query answering, witha number addressing engineering, maintenance, and alignment tasks for ontologies. Likewise, there has been a healthy batch of submissions on search, query, integration, and the analysis of knowledge. Finally, following the growing interest in neuro-symbolic approaches, there has been a rise in the number of studies that focus on the use of Large Language Models and Deep Learning techniques such as Graph Neural Networks.