BI Thoughts and Theories

We encountered an issue recently in an ETL process during the extract portion. When extracting from one very large table, using a NOLOCK hint, we were encountering errors indicating that the data was changing while we were extracting it. Since no other Read More...

When I originally started this blog, I wanted to cover agile development in BI/DW projects, as well as technical topics about BI. However, it didn’t work out quite that way. I’ve posted a few thing here and there about agile development on this blog, Read More...

The launch event in Charlotte went very well – we had over 100 people in attendance, and the sessions were packed. We had a lot of good information on the new features in SQL Server 2008, covering the new T-SQL features, server consolidation, dimensional Read More...

There is a SQL Server 2008 Firestarter event at the Charlotte Microsoft campus next Thursday, January 15th. If you want to learn more about the new features in 2008, or just get a chance to network, it’s a great opportunity. We’ll have 5 SQL Server MVPs Read More...