Energy Intelligence
Given that companies spend on average between 7 and 12 percent of their annual budgets on energy – a focus on reducing energy consumption can have significant bottom-line impact
2009-09-30
3,575 reads
Data Warehousing
How to Calculate Data Warehouse Reliability
This article outlines a more objective and analytical approach to the ETL and data flow architecture selection based on a set of variables with an objective to enhance the reliability of the overall data warehousing solution.
2009-09-29
4,823 reads
Ten Pitfalls In Establishing An Enterprise Architecture
Avoiding getting snared in these traps avoids having to spend a lot of money later to fix problems, Gartner says. In addition, EA benefits can be realized faster and the risk of program failure is reduced.
2009-09-23
4,327 reads
Implementing a SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse
This paper defines a reference configuration model (known as SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse) and a CPU core-balanced approach to implementing a symmetric multiprocessor (SMP)-based SQL Server data warehouse with proven performance and scalability expectations for sequential I/O data workloads.
2009-09-04
4,268 reads
Kimball University: Five Alternatives for Better Employee Dimension Modeling
The employee dimension presents one of the trickier challenges in data warehouse modeling. These five approaches ease the complication of designing and maintaining a 'Reports To' hierarchy for ever-changing reporting relationships and organizational structures.
2009-08-26
3,651 reads
Introduction to Fast Track Data Warehouse Architectures
This paper provides an overview and guide to SQL Server® Fast Track Data Warehouse, a new set of reference architectures created for scale-up (SMP) SQL Server based data warehouse solutions. It includes a summary of the resources available in the reference configuration, the distinguishing features of the approach, and the steps necessary to take full advantage of the new architectures.
2009-06-26
4,002 reads
Kimball University: A Data Warehousing Fitness Program for Lean Times
How can you do more with less? Follow this data warehousing/BI strengthening regimen to cut cost, avoid expenditures and bulk up the bottom line.
2009-03-24
2,851 reads
The Flaws of the Classic Data Warehouse Architecture, Part 1
Visit ten randomly picked customers that own a data warehouse architecture, and you will see that at least eight have developed a classic data warehouse architecture (CDWA). What do I mean by a CDWA? In a CDWA, data is copied periodically from production systems to the central data warehouse.
2009-03-20
6,058 reads
Calculations Made Outside of the Data Warehouse
At first glance, a client appeared to be violating a cardinal rule of data warehousing. However, Bill Inmon's further investigation revealed that perhaps their actions were acceptable.
2008-12-29
2,789 reads
CDC and Data Warehouse
The following article shows how Change Data Capture can be used to capture incremental data changes and use them in an ETL Process
2008-11-10
3,814 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Vicarous
By Steve Jones
vicarous – adj. curious to know what someone else would do if they were...
SQL Server Cross Platform Availability Groups and Kubernetes
Say we have a database that we want to migrate a copy of into...
Using Managed Identities with Azure SQL DB
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Forums
View works for me ...but doesn't return results for a user in SSMS but no errors
Hi I have this view to check if a job is running: SELECT...
Dark mode, other color schemes
All, if you are like me and do not care for the built-in color...
Question of the Day
Internal Checkpoints
Certain internal SQL Server actions cause internal checkpoints. Which of these actions does not cause an internal checkpoint?
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