TechEd North America 2013 videos online
Microsoft has posted ALL the session videos for TechEd North America 2013 and they are available for free! What a...
2013-06-20
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James Serra's Blog
Low-rate recruiters – The bane of my existence
There is nothing more annoying to me in my profession than getting calls and emails from recruiters who are looking...
2013-06-18
1,463 reads
Presentation Slides for Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture
Thanks to everyone who attended my session “Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture” for Pragmatic Works. There were over 500 attendees! The abstract...
2013-06-14
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Levels in IT consultancy
The Big 5 IT consulting companies (Accenture, Deloitte Consulting, PwC (formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP), KPMG, Ernst & Young) have various titles given to consultants along...
2013-06-13
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Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture Presentation
I will be presenting the session “Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture” this Thursday, June 13th at 11:00am EST for Pragmatic Works. Below is...
2013-06-12
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Business Intelligence Maturity Assessment
Do you ever wonder how your business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) environment compares to other companies and what...
2013-06-11
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IT recruiter’s response
I asked a recruiter to check out my blogs about consulting, and his response is below. He had some good...
2013-06-06
879 reads
SQL Server 2014!
Just when you thought you got a handle on SQL Server 2012, here comes the next version! SQL Server 2014 was announced...
2013-06-07 (first published: 2013-06-04)
6,961 reads
Power View for Multidimensional Models Released
As a followup to my blog Power View for Multidimensional Models – Preview Available, the final version is now available via...
2013-05-31
1,830 reads
Ralph Kimball Books
If you are involved in Business Intelligence, then the books by Ralph Kimball are required reading:
The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit: Practical...
2013-05-30
2,535 reads
Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: A New Analysis Page
By Steve Jones
We have multiple teams (8) working on Redgate Monitor. Some work on the Standard...
Case Studies: Real-World Success Stories of FinOps Implementation
By HeyMo0sh
Learning any kind of theory is easy, but adapting FinOps and watching it rescue...
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
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Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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