by Kate Loguteva | Jan 24, 2019 | Business Intelligence, Microsoft |
It’s typical in Business Intelligence that users are not getting data from the Data Warehouse database directly. Although the table structure should speak to them, one should be careful when querying Slowly changing dimension type 2 tables to get only point in...
by Bronwyn Scott | Dec 17, 2018 | Community, General, Microsoft, Optimal Company |
Hello and happy how-is-it-December-already?! What a year 2018 has been. We hope yours has been exciting, full of opportunity and you’re looking forward to a well deserved break very soon. This newsletter is the last for the year, so taking the opportunity to...
by Kate Loguteva | Dec 13, 2018 | Data Integration, Microsoft |
It is not uncommon for data warehousing to get the data from any possible source the organisation has. ETL developers like myself are enabling data collection from different database types, files and APIs. Recently I had to deal with something I haven’t came...
by Ben Lee | Sep 20, 2018 | Business Intelligence, Microsoft |
When you work with databases all day every day it’s easy to forget that many people new to the technology development space will not have used a relational database. Once I get over the moment of surprise, I think about the question if I wanted to learn now,...
by Kate Loguteva | Sep 11, 2018 | AgileBI, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Microsoft |
Microsoft has introduced a new feature of graph database in SQL Server 2017. This is not a new idea, graph platforms were on the market for a while now. I have decided to dive in to understand why graph databases are special and how they could be used in Business...
by Kate Loguteva | Aug 29, 2018 | Microsoft |
For the first time I am on the project that has big enough Data Warehouse tables that could be partitioned. While many data warehouses are big, in my previous projects a single table has rarely exceeded a few million rows, which means it is too early to think about...
