This is a blog post completely unrelated to the technical content I’m used to cover. But I’ve been asked so many times how I do handle my mail that I thought having a blog post will save me time to explain. So, if you are not interested, wait for the next blog post, which will be about Business Intelligence again! First of all, I only use email. ...

Spring is a conferences’ season and the upcoming one is no exception. I will be speaking at PASS Business Analytics Conference 2013, which will be the first event this year, so I’d like to spend a few words about my sessions. PASS Business Analytics Conference 2013 April 10-12, 2013 | Chicago, IL – United States This conference is targeted to ...

You might already know that I and Alberto Ferrari will present the SQLBI Methodology in a Training Day at SQLBits 8. What you might need to know is that registrations are very good and there are not so many seats available. I don’t know whether it will be possible to get a larger room or not – so you have been advised, the sold out for this ...

If you lost the SQLBI Methodology session (or any other one) at 24 Hours of PASS in September, now you can watch the recordings on-line! I just looked at the presentation and unfortunately there are 6 minutes missing from our presentation. Thus, if you are going to watch it, this is the missing initial slide that introduces the one-hour long ...

Even this year I will be a speaker at the European PASS Conference 2009 (April 22-24, 2009 - Neuss, Germany). Last year I had a session discussing the Many-to-Many Revolution paper.This year I'm excited to introduce the SQLBI Methodology joining Alberto Ferrari on the stage. We got a lot of feedback until now, but this is the first time we ...

Today we published the draft of the paper ''SQLBI Methodology at work''. We applied the SQLBI Methodology to the well-known Adventure Works. As usual, we look forward to get your feedack in the dedicated forum.

This post is part of a Methodology discussion - other posts will follows. I will be happy to get your feedback! I am proud to announce a public draft of the first paper about the SQLBI Methodology. I and Alberto Ferrari tried to define a consistent methodology which covers the construction of the back-end of a BI Solution using Microsoft SQL ...

This post is part of a Methodology discussion - other posts will follows. I will be happy to get your feedback! Building a BI solution (like any kind of software project), it is normal to look for existing methodologies and best practices, just to avoid pitfalls and get better results. Usually, a methodology is not related to a particular ...

This post is part of a Methodology discussion - other posts will follows. I will be happy to get your feedback! One interesting question is “How do you measure the complexity of a BI solution?” If we need to decide whether a specific technique is suitable for a solution or not, it is very important to be able to classify that solution. We want to ...

In the last years I spent most of my time working on BI solutions based on the SQL Server platform. I had experiences with other architectures but I mostly used Kimball's methodology to design relational databases feeding SSAS cubes. However, Kimball only describes the relational side of a BI solution and gives you a basic model (the star schema) ...