Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture Presentation
I will be presenting the session “Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture” this Thursday, June 13th at 11:00am EST for Pragmatic Works. Below is...
2013-06-12
927 reads
James Serra's Blog
Business Intelligence Maturity Assessment
Do you ever wonder how your business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) environment compares to other companies and what...
2013-06-11
4,139 reads
IT recruiter’s response
I asked a recruiter to check out my blogs about consulting, and his response is below. He had some good...
2013-06-06
879 reads
SQL Server 2014!
Just when you thought you got a handle on SQL Server 2012, here comes the next version! SQL Server 2014 was announced...
2013-06-07 (first published: 2013-06-04)
6,960 reads
Power View for Multidimensional Models Released
As a followup to my blog Power View for Multidimensional Models – Preview Available, the final version is now available via...
2013-05-31
1,830 reads
Ralph Kimball Books
If you are involved in Business Intelligence, then the books by Ralph Kimball are required reading:
The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit: Practical...
2013-05-30
2,535 reads
Business Intelligence Requirements Gathering
There are three fundamental steps in building a data warehouse for a BI solution (see Why you need Business Intelligence):
Identify...
2013-05-28
4,890 reads
I’m presenting at the PASS Summit!
I am fortunate enough to have been selected to give a presentation at the PASS Summit 2013 in Charlotte, NC on October...
2013-05-23
742 reads
Consulting company: Perm/Salaried vs 1099/W2
One of my pet peeves is seeing a top-notch BI architect/developer working as a salaried/perm employee of a consulting company...
2013-05-21
1,993 reads
When the person you hire is not the person you hire
This is something I just heard about recently, but then experienced it for myself.
This story was told to me: A...
2013-05-16
889 reads
Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: AI Query Analysis
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
Forums
would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
Not Just an Upgrade
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Not Just an Upgrade
Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers