BI Thoughts and Theories

I’ve been meaning to post about this ever since I saw Jamie’s post on “ The SQL Developer Gap ”. I couldn’t agree more with what Jamie expressed. Prior to getting into serious BI development, I was primarily an application developer. This was at a time 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...

I've been a bit lax posting on my blogs and the MSDN forums recently. Fortunately, I have a good reason (at least I think it's a good one). :) My employer, Mariner , has graciously given me permission to open source a unit testing framework for SSIS packages. Read More...

One of the staples in agile (and many other methodologies) development is the idea of iterative development. That's the idea that, rather than doing an entire project in one big pass, it is broken up into smaller iterations. Each iteration ideally consists Read More...