You won’t throw your warehouse out when you bring in Big Data
When I talk about Big Data I regularly encounter people with concerns or delight of changing all of their business intelligence software. There are better and worse tools for every
Security for data warehouses
…there is a constant tension between securing data and making information accessible. I encounter this trade-off at every client. Unfortunately my clients are usually addressing this dispute as a cold
Thoughts on TDWI’s “Hadoop: A slam-dunk DM platform”
As a Business Intelligence Architect, I appreciate Hadoop as a powerful tool in my arsenal. Hadoop is the right tool for massively-parallel processing of Big Data. But Hadoop is not
How to pass parameters to a SQL view
Have you every wanted to pass a parameter to a view? It’s a standard request that can be a bit difficult to implement. … Unfortunately, there are more than a
Documentation Debt
If we did no documentation there would be chaos. … Documentation Debt is the concept that we want to focus on. … Every document needs to provide value that exceeds the
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