Jamie Thompson is an MVP, but more to the point he is a very experienced SSIS developer and a prolific contributor to the SQL Server community. Surely this is why he was awarded an MVP by Microsoft. His recent blog post on GeoFlow (an add-in for Excel that delivers 3D visualisation and story telling) has [...]
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SQL Santa London
Today I had the very big privilege of delivering my Star Schema Database Primer presentation at the SQL Santa 2012 event, held today at Microsoft in London. The free event, put on by the SQLFAQ group, sold out two weeks prior to the date. A sure sign of the increasing popularity and usage of Microsoft [...]
Data Scientists are GO
Was Brains of the Thunderbirds a “data scientist” as well as a genius engineer? If not, which member of the Tracey family designed the world wide data capture system for monitoring disasters & crimes and the necessary analytics system for selecting from that feed the mission for the next episode? International Rescue might have started [...]
Star Schema Primer
Tonight I was privileged to be able to make my first presentation within the SQL Server community at the monthly SQL Server Southampton user group. The tagline of the presentation was “the core principles of the Star Schema database, used for decision support solutions and as the bedrock for Analysis Services cubes and the new [...]
Super(hung out to)Dry
The admission in April 2012 by SuperGroup (the parent company of fashion brand SuperDry), that the entry of a ‘+’ sign instead of a ‘-’ sign on some forecasting figures, led to its 3rd ‘profit’ warning being issued in 6 months. This led to a revised annual profit shortfall of £8m. Robust business intelligence (BI) [...]
SQL Server leads the (verti)paq
Over the last few years, many large organisations have very likely been taking a serious look at the Microsoft Business Intelligence product stack. It’s a no brainer to give it a try as in general the licensing is free, but there are other offerings. Some big players out there simply attract attention because of their [...]
