Entries Published On August, 2013
Go Work for a Consulting Firm
A few years ago, I decided to break into consulting and boy was that a good decision. Background I’d been working full-time at large (fortune 500) company that was being crushed by the inability to turn around reports quickly, analyze data across the many disparate data systems, and wasted effort as each region reproduced a …
Speaking @SQLSaturday #237 – Charlotte BI Edition
This weekend the selections for speakers @ SQLSaturday #237 (Charlotte BI Edition) went out and guess who made the cut – your’s truly! Excited is an understatement…this will be my first time presenting at a SQLSaturday *period* and I am totally honored to have my presentation submission selected: The 20-Minute Tabular Model It’s a beginner level session …
SSIS Data Viewer Objects are Static
Recently, while debugging the logic involving a derived column component in an SSIS data flow, I learned something new and thought I’d share 🙂 Before we dive into the details, let’s quickly review a few of the common methods for troubleshooting issues in an SSIS data flow: using error output paths that write to flat …
20-Minute Tabular Model @PASSBIVC
Just wanted to thank everyone again for attending my 20-Minute Tabular Model presentation to the PASS BI virtual chapter last night (this morning, yesterday afternoon — depending on your timezone). Hopefully we achieved that which we set out to achieve which was covering the high-level differences between Tabular and Multidimensional and building a basic Tabular …