T-SQL Tuesday #136 – My Favorite Data Type

T-SQL Tuesday is hosted this month by Brent Ozar (blog|twitter). The subject is what is your favorite or least favorite data type. As Brent describes it, “Your mission: write a blog post about your favorite data type“. Following is my opinion for T-SQL Tuesday #136 – My Favorite Data Type. Around 2005/2007, I was charged […]

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Welcome (back) to my new (old) site

Somewhere around 2013 I was so awed by Microsoft’s Office 365 offering that I went “all-in” and moved my website to the then-nascent platform. Earlier this year the powers-that-be “sunsetted” the public-facing website portion of that product, so here we are, back in the open-source world. I’ve been stupendously lazy about my web-site over the […]

MDX for Date Formatting

This is a simple MDX snippet, but it comes up often enough that I think it’s worth a blog entry. A frequent question that comes up is how to format dates for display in MDX, especially in the parameter boxes on Reporting Services reports. The best practice is to let whatever front end you are […]

Business Intelligence Roundtable: Enrich your analytics with Open Data

Tuesdays topic was Business Intelligence Roundtable: Enrich your analytics with Open Data. Slide deck is posted here.

Interesting social media experiment: Fast Company, the influence project

Interesting social media experiment: Fast Company, the influence project:

June 15th, 2010 – ITA Roundtable slides

Slides are linked here. Topic was “late-breaking news from the MS BI Conference”

Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference Recap – Day 1

Well, the grandiose plan was to blog each session as they happened, but between keeping my existing clients happy and keeping up with all the events of TechEd/MSBIC, that did not happen. I was really on the fence about attending the Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference, based in part on existing client demand, but largely on […]

#MSBIC Keynote

Ted KummertMS Uses BI to ship, track defects. Recollection of BI Conference 2008 – the fairy tale. Managed self-service business intelligence. State of BI today 20% have BI. There are many things that end users should be able to solve on their own. e.g. Add some data to a report. BI practitioners can then focus […]

TechEd Keynote – brief comments & impressions

I am keeping these brief on purpose – just my impressions in 5 sentences or less (I hope). Bob Muglia Cloud Apparently there is this thing called the cloud . . . Say it: Cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud. In the cloud, magic elves create software that works automagically. Oooo … Cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud. Seriously […]