December 2021 Archive

Reconciling Disparate Datasets

• December 06, 2021
• 8 minutes
• inspiration, php, tech

A few weeks ago I was asked to help update a centralized inventory dataset, which to us is definitely a "tertiary" system. Several hundred device records were associated with our part of the organization, and every time I opened the list I quickly "noped" out of doing anything with it. But the time came when I needed to actually do something with it lest I wind up on someone's naughty list.