Business intelligence is awash in so many products, buzzwords and technologies that it is often hard to see the forest for the trees. It is at times like this that I put on my industry analyst's cap and muse, "Hmm, what is this: manage, monitor or model?" This tripartite way of looking at the world has served my clients well, and I thought I'd pass it along.
2005-02-02
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A basic look at how you can start to build a data warehouse. This has some basics you need to do the design of the various fact and dimension tables.
2004-09-27
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A look at how OLAP and Anlysis services might fit into your business and some things to think about when a business intelligence system might be right for you.
2004-09-22
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This article written by Don Church discusses how to optimize your cubes schema, its worth a read.
2002-03-26
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Creating even the simplest of cubes has its pitfalls. This article by Daniel Gallager steers you through the sometimes treacherous world of OLAP.
2002-02-04
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Data Quality is as important as data integrity for most every application. This article examines how data quality can be improved in a data warehouse through the use of Meta Data.
2001-06-14
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I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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