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0 pointsdharmab2y ago0 comments

I'm glad you learned that lesson for less than $1k. I think everyone who's ever worked with large amounts of data in BigQuery has a story like that, and sometimes the number is six or seven digits.

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fifilura2y ago

Most of the time, it feels a little bit embarrassing, but the cost is just a very small part of your regular salary and overall operating cost. If your boss hits you with this, they don't have the correct perspective and priorities.

My record is $20k and it raised some eyebrows. But it was not really a mistake, just a sub-optimal backfill.

The data was filling a need for making appropriate business decisions, and compared to all the money lost by business developers making investments on a hunch, this was a very small bump in the road.

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0 pointsdharmab2y ago0 comments

I'm glad you learned that lesson for less than $1k. I think everyone who's ever worked with large amounts of data in BigQuery has a story like that, and sometimes the number is six or seven digits.

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fifilura2y ago

My record is $20k and it raised some eyebrows. But it was not really a mistake, just a sub-optimal backfill.

The data was filling a need for making appropriate business decisions, and compared to all the money lost by business developers making investments on a hunch, this was a very small bump in the road.

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