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I've been trying to remotely connect to a relational database of medical data. I've been smashing my head against a keyboard for days trying to get my fucking code to work. I can't even connect to their db on their Jupyter Spark cluster
Ooh medical data, bet there is some security involved that "gets in the way".
It absolutely is. I'm dealing with genetic data, so I'm on their high security tier. Right now, the signs point to some poorly documented environment variables that aren't sourced on startup for some reason