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When it comes to dashboards, Microsoft’s business intelligence stack seems to have some overlap in it, so how can you decide what to use when? Dashboards are an overused term, so what I am talking about here is the ability to provide an interactive instrument
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Quite a few people have asked me where the decks are for the SQL Server unleashed event and I now have an answer: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/bb945096.aspx which I need to put on my blog so I can also remember myself! Also we have filmed this and
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If you have read my last two posts and are interested in applying BI to your business, how do you get started? I would be begin by deciding what success look like for your business, and this should be a balanced view taking in such factors as: Finance.
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Technorati Tags: softwre plus services , BI , Business intelligence , small business Georgina ( Curious George on the TechNet team) sent me some feedback about my last post , she wanted to know was there any evidence to support my assertion that BI was
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While many IT professionals equate business intelligence (BI) with large organisations, the reality is that there are many small and medium sized businesses who are quietly implementing BI because they see the benefit of it. I think there
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Following on from yesterday’s post, I wanted to encourage the DBA’s to demonstrate your influencing skills by persuading your managers to support your careers by sending you to TechED EMEA for IT Professionals, 3-7 November 2008 in Barcelona. If you haven’t
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Backing up a cube is not an ideal experience in SQL Server 2005 for two reasons, it’s a manual process to schedule a backup and as the size of the cube grows the backup time increases exponentially i.e double the size of the cube and the backup time and
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There are loads of add-ins and management stuff from Microsoft and other vendors to make taking care of SQL Server easier, and in case you haven’t noticed SQL Server 2008 has now been released so will those tools work with the new version? For the most
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If there was a war on perhaps the government would bring back posters like this one from World War II asking the public not use public transport unless it was absolutely essential. Petrol was rationed, so the price was irrelevant. Changing the subject
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Despite my love of SQL Server and my respect for Oracle, and MySQL the worlds number one database is excel. I know that many purists and DBA’s will shudder at me grouping a spreadsheet with a database, but look at this form the perspective of number
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I’m at the Insight Architects Conference today and I have just been sitting in on the keynote from John Collins of Freeform Dynamics . He was going through his latest research on the perceptions and take up of Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) and
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