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The benefit of placement firms
Why do companies use placement firms to find IT contractors instead of using internal recruiters? Who better to answer that question that a recruiter who has been in the business for many years and now...
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Why You Need a Data Warehouse
Introduction You likely have heard about data warehousing, but are unsure exactly what it is and if your company needs one. I will attempt to help you to fully understand what a data warehouse can do...
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SQL Server 2014: In-memory OLTP Engine, code-name: Hekaton
What looks to be the biggest and best new feature in SQL Server 2014 is called the “In-memory OLTP Engine”, code-name: Hekaton. In short, Hekaton is a SQL Server In-memory OLTP Engine. Hekaton...
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TechEd Europe 2013 videos online
Microsoft has posted ALL the session videos for TechEd Europe 2013 and they are available for free! Some great videos on the latest products and versions. Check them out here. There are four videos...
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Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture Presentation
I will be presenting the session “Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture” this Wednesday, July 31st, at 10pm EST for the 24 hours of PASS, PASS Summit Preview. Info about the event, and the...
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SQL Server 2014: Columnstore Index improvements
In SQL Server 2012, a new feature was added called Columnstore Indexes that resulted in huge query performance improvements. In SQL Server 2014, there have been two major improvements on this feature:...
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PerformancePoint: Show Details greyed out
In PerformancePoint, when using a analytic grid or chart or a scorecard, if you are not able to use the “Show Details” option (a drillthrough action) because it is grayed out, one or more of the...
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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” for 24 hours of PASS, PASS Summit Preview. The abstract is below and the recording of the session will be...
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Best Practices to Deliver BI Solutions Presentation
I will be presenting a brand new session entitled “Best Practices to Deliver BI Solutions” tomorrow, August 6th, at 11am EST for Pragmatic Works. You can register here. The abstract for my session is...
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Why use a SSAS cube?
What are the advantages of using SSAS Cubes over a regular data warehouse for reporting? Note I’m not asking why report on a data warehouse instead of a OLTP database. which is covered at Why You Need...
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Presentations slides for Best Practices to Deliver BI Solutions
Thanks to everyone who attended my session “Best Practices to Deliver BI Solutions” for Pragmatic Works. The abstract for my session is below and the recording will be available soon here. I hope I...
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Best Practices to Deliver BI Solutions
If your company is planning to build a data warehouse or BI solution (see Why you need Business Intelligence), you need to be aware that BI projects have high failure rates. Gartner says between 70%...
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Dear recruiter: I will not help you do your job for free
I literally get 10-15 calls and emails a week from recruiters asking if I can help them to find a data warehouse or business intelligence person for an opening at a client they have. 90% of these...
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SQL Server 2014: AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn was introduced in SQL Server 2012, and there are some enhancements in SQL Server 2014: Now support up to 8 secondary replicas that remain available for reads at all times, even in the presence...
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A placement firm’s “guaranteed” replacement
I have heard large placement firms say they are better than smaller firms because “They offer the client a guaranteed replacement in case the resource doesn’t work out or leaves project early “. I...
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Recruiters, pay rates, and client budgets
If a recruiter sends me a job description, the first question I ask is, “What is the pay rate”. If it is not in the ballpark of what I make, I shut the conversation down as continuing would just be a...
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Winner of the worst recruiter of the year!
Every week I get a bunch of emails from recruiters about jobs that I am not qualified for (see Low-rate recruiters – The bane of my existence). Some obviously use keyword searches and just spam any...
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Resume hoarders
Unfortunately in my line of work as a consultant, I am contacted far too often by resume hoarders, who are “recruiters” who sole job is to collect resumes, with no attempt at all to try to match the...
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Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture Presentation
I will be presenting the session “Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture” today at 11am CST for the PASS DBA Fundamentals Virtual Chapter. Info about watching the presentation online is...
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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” for the PASS DBA Fundamentals Virtual Chapter. The abstract is below and the recording of the session...
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