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Presenting “Intro to DW/BI” at the Regions Bank Users Group
Today I have the privilege of presenting to the internal Regions Bank users group an Introduction to Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. The power point slide deck is available for download...
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Off and Running with PowerPivot for Excel 2010 at the Huntsville .Net Users...
Tonight, April 19, I will be presenting at the Huntsville .Net Users Group. The subject will be PowerPivot for Excel 2010. Attendees will get to learn all about Microsoft’s new self-service Business...
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Live Streaming from SQL Saturday 41
One of the sponsors for tomorrow’s SQL Saturday in Atlanta Georgia, a company named Set Focus, is going to be live streaming three presentations from the event. I just got the word that my session,...
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SharePoint Saturday Huntsville
It’s another Saturday, must be time for another speaking engagement. Today I’m in Huntsville Alabama speaking at their SharePoint Saturday. Now you may wonder what a SQL BI guy is doing at a SharePoint...
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CodeStock 2010
It’s June, must be time for CodeStock! For those who don’t know, CodeStock is a conference but on annually by the East Tennessee .Net Users Group. This year I am fortunate to have been selected for two...
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PowerPivot with Pluralsight
For the last few months I’ve been cooped up here in the Arcane dungeon, working on a new project. And now that’s it’s released I can finally share all the details. While I’m still happily employed...
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SSRS Training Resources
I’ve been asked to provide links to some useful resources for learning about SQL Server Reporting Services. Below are a list of my favorite blogs, books, and other sites to learn from. A quick...
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PowerPivot Training Resources
I’ve been asked to provide links to some useful resources for learning about PowerPivot. Below are a list of my favorite blogs, books, and other sites to learn from. A quick disclaimer, some of the...
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SharePoint BI (Business Intelligence) Training Resources
SharePoint is a huge topic unto itself, so I wanted to provide some links that focus on learning how to use SharePoint in the context of Business Intelligence. A quick disclaimer, some of the links...
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SQL Saturday #111–Atlanta
Today I’m presenting not one but two sessions at the Atlanta SQL Saturday. I wanted to provide copies of my slide decks here. Configuring SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services The Decoder Ring to Data...
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Atlanta Code Camp 2012
It’s time again for the Atlanta Code Camp! Still a few hours left to register, you can do so at http://www.atlantacodecamp.com/. Why would you want to come? Well for one to see me, I’ll be giving two...
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devLink 2012–Intro to Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence
Today I’m presenting at devLink 2012. My slides for this presentation can be found at: https://arcanecode.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/introtodatawarehousing.pdf The shortcuts from the slides are: SSAS...
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Intro to DW/BI at SQL Saturday #167 Columbus GA
Today, September 8th 2012, I’m presenting at SQL Saturday #167 in Columbus, GA. My slides for this presentation can be found at:...
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I’m Speaking! SQL Saturday Nashville and PowerShell Saturday Atlanta
Just wanted to let folks know I’ll be doing presentations at two upcoming events. The first is SQL Saturday #145 in Nashville. That’s this weekend, October 13th. I’ll be giving my “Introduction to Data...
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Creating a Data Warehouse Date Id in Task Factory Advanced Derived Column...
The company I work for, Pragmatic Works, makes a great tool called Task Factory. It’s a set of transformations that plug into SQL Server Integration Services and provides a wealth of new controls you...
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Run As Robert
Recently I was a guest on Richard Campbell’s podcast “RunAs Radio”. It was a lot of fun, we talked about Business Intelligence as it’s evolved and what its future might be with technologies such as...
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SSIS tip for Lookup Transformations
The Lookup Transformation is a cornerstone of almost any SSIS package. The vast majority of packages that load Fact tables use Lookups extensively. Many of these lookups reference the same tables over...
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Updating AdventureWorksDW2012 for Today
Like many of my fellow MVPs and Presenters, I use the Adventure Works sample data from Microsoft to do my presentations. Being a BI guy, I specifically use the AdventureWorksDW2012 version, the Data...
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Dealing with the Date Dimension Deployment Dilemma
For those of you who have routines that load up a date dimension, you know that it can be a little slow to run. There are times when I am deploying my database project (hey, you are using SSDT SQL...
View ArticleIntroduction to DW/BI–My Newest Old Course at Pluralsight
Way back in November of 2010, I published my second course with Pluralsight, Introduction to Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. Over that time a lot has transpired. While the basic...
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