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SQLSaturday in Houston
This upcoming Saturday I will be presenting two sessions at SQLSaturday in Houston (more info). I hope to see you there. Here are the abstracts: Best Practices to Deliver BI Solutions If your company...
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Presentation Slides for Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture
Thanks to everyone who attended my session “Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture” at the PASS Business Analytics conference. The abstract is below. I hope you enjoyed it! Here is the...
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Presentation slides for Houston SQLSaturday
Thanks to everyone who attended my two sessions at SQLSaturday in Houston (more info). Here are the abstracts and PowerPoint links: Best Practices to Deliver BI Solutions If your company is planning...
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Presentation slides for Modern Data Warehousing
Thanks to everyone who attended my session “Modern Data Warehousing” for Pragmatic Works last Thursday. The abstract for my session is below and the recording is available here. I hope you enjoyed...
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PASS BA Conference 2014: Sessions Recordings Now Available
All PASS Business Analytics Conference 2014 recordings are now available. If you purchased the online sessions, to view, log on to your myPASS account, enter your activation code, and watch the...
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IT books that should be on your shelf
I have a lot of books on my shelves dealing with business intelligence, data warehousing, master data management, and consulting. Below are my favorites: Data Warehouse Books: Ralph Kimball Books...
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SQL Server Agent job steps vs SSIS
When doing ETL, you have the choice of using T-SQL or SSIS (see When to use T-SQL or SSIS for ETL). If you decide T-SQL is the way to go and you just want to execute a bunch of T-SQL statements...
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24 Hours of PASS videos online
All the videos for the sessions at 24 Hours of PASS (Spring 2014) are available for free. Check the session schedule for a complete list. Also, many of the PASS virtual chapters have recordings of...
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Modern Data Warehousing Presentation
I will be presenting the session “Modern Data Warehousing” tomorrow (Wednesday, August 13th) at the Central New Jersey SQL User Group at 6:30pm. The abstract for my session is below. I hope you can...
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Presentation slides for Modern Data Warehousing
Thanks to everyone who attended my session “Modern Data Warehousing” at the Central New Jersey SQL User Group yesterday. The abstract for my session is below. I hope you enjoyed it! Here is the...
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IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS explained
You might be reading a lot about Cloud computing and see three acronyms frequently: IaaS, PaaS, Saas. Cloud providers offer their services according to these three fundamental models:...
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Non-obvious APS/PDW benefits
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has a lot of obvious benefits, which I discuss here. For those of you who find your database is getting...
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU2 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has recently released an appliance update (AU2), which is sort of like a service pack, except that it...
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Book: Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development Beginner’s...
I was fortunate to be a technical reviewer for a new book, SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development by Reza Rad. Below is the abstract. It’s a great book for those of you trying to learn...
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Should you move your data to the cloud?
Should you move your data to the cloud? That is the question. The answer is not simple. While moving data to the cloud is all the rage, the fact is a large majority of the Fortune 500 companies are...
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Fast Track Data Warehouse Reference Architecture for SQL Server 2014
I have previously blogged about the Fast Track Data Warehouse, a reference configuration optimized for data warehousing (see Microsoft SQL Server Reference Architecture and Appliances). That was...
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What is Azure Data Factory?
The Azure Data Factory is a service designed to allow developers to integrate disparate data sources. It is a platform somewhat like SSIS in the cloud to manage the data you have both on-prem and in...
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The Modern Data Warehouse
The traditional data warehouse has served us well for many years, but new trends are causing it to break in four different ways: data growth, fast query expectations from users,...
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU3 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU3), which is sort of like a service pack, except that it includes...
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Using Power BI to access on-premise data
The following blog describes how to use certain cloud-based Power BI for Office 365 products (Power View and Q&A) on a Power BI Site that will reference data on-premises. To do this you will use...
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