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DataOnWheels
Steve Hughes is a Principal Consultant at Magenic. His area of expertise is in data and business intelligence architecture on the Microsoft SQL Server platform. He was also the data architect for a SaaS company which delivered a transportation management solution for fleets across the United States. Steve has co-authored two books and delivered more than 30 presentations on SQL Server and data architecture over the past six years. He also provides insights from the field on his blog at http://dataonwheels.wordpress.com.
Archives: July 2012
O, There’s the Data: Using OData in SSIS
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is an open specification created Microsoft to enable exposing data in a standard way from a variety of sources. OData is natively supported in many of Microsoft’s products including PowerPivot, Excel 2013, SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services Tabular Model, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Entity…
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Posted in DataOnWheels on 23 July 2012
Excel 2013 Will Impact BI Users
As noted in that great text, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, “Don’t panic!” Excel 2013 will make even more capabilities available to BI users. This includes having xVelocity natively supported in the tool which makes much of the PowerPivot capabilities available in a spreadsheet which used to only be…
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Posted in DataOnWheels on 17 July 2012