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James Rowland-Jones doing the SQLSaturday Vienna keynote At SQLSaturday Vienna last month, James Rowland-Jones (SQLbits organizer, former MVP, consulting company founder, and now Microsoft principal program manager, which is a pretty big deal) said in his keynote speech (paraphrased): “If you’re working with data, breadth is the new depth.” And years ago, Buck Woody (legendary Microsoftie currently doing machine learning and data science) told me: “In a mature market, be a specialist. In an immature market, be a generalist.” Both James and Buck are absolutely right. We’ve all got stories of parents and grandparents who worked in a factory, spent their…