Techfuse, a New Laptop, and How Microsoft Azure Helped Save the Day
On Tuesday, April 22, I had the opportunity to speak at the Techfuse conference in Minneapolis. I was presenting a...
2014-04-24
679 reads
DataOnWheels
Oracle Tips for MSBI Devs #6: Supporting SSAS Tabular Development
As SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular Models become more popular, models will use Oracle databases as sources. One of the...
2014-04-14
1,111 reads
Ten Years and Counting …
On March 8, 2014, I reached ten years of service at Magenic Technologies. When I started in 1999 (don’t do...
2014-03-14
800 reads
Setting Up Tabular Models on Windows Azure
In my last post, I discussed how to set up Oracle in Windows Azure. During a customer call, there were...
2014-03-12
2,742 reads
Oracle Tips for MSBI Devs #5: Working with Oracle on Windows Azure
As you have likely noticed in my series, Oracle Tips for MSBI Devs, I have done a lot of work...
2014-02-24
883 reads
Rochester – Welcome to the PASS MN Family
It started as a vision for expanding the reach of the Minnesota SQL Server User Group a year ago. At...
2014-01-23
672 reads
Work Ethic and Family – A Tribute to My Parents
A tribute is an expression of gratitude or praise. A couple of years ago, I started a series about individuals...
2014-01-09
658 reads
Exploring Excel 2013 for BI Tip #14: Sparklines and Pivot Tables
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2014-01-07
1,224 reads
2013 – A Year In Review
It is in our nature as humans to look back in order to understand where we have been.
Warning – some of...
2014-01-03
716 reads
Exploring Excel 2013 for BI Tip #13: Connecting Slicers in Pivot Tables Sourced from a Power Pivot Model
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2013-12-17
845 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Foilsick
By Steve Jones
foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to...
Accelerated Database Recovery for tempdb in SQL Server 2025
Accelerated database recovery was introduced in SQL Server 2019 and provides fast recovery, instantaneous...
Measuring What Matters: Operationalizing Data Trust for CDOs
By Chris Yates
Trust is the currency of the data economy. Without it, even the most advanced...
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