On my first BI job, where I was an ETL developer, my team was using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS) as a reporting tool. My job was to model the Data Marts and create the data flows into those tables. Our report analysts were good at SQL, I have even...
Recently I was working for a client and had a specific issue which led me to probe around various aspects of Qlik Replicate tasks, attempting to understand how Qlik Replicate works. While I did not manage to achieve what I was specifically attempting I did have a look...
Over the years, we've been building up our comic-style SAS function one-page guides, drip-feeding them to you. Well, guess what?! We put them all together and made a book so they're all in the one place, to make referencing them easier for you. Thank you...
Recently I watched a webinar organised by Snowflake, it was called "Data Warehouse Automation, Ingestion and Industry Leading Analytics with Snowflake and Qlik". In the past I could never find time for webinars, and it's amazing how life can give you opportunities to...
We do cool sh!t with data and over the years we have shared a lot of blogs to help you do cool sh!t with data too. If you want to jump right in and see if we have something that piques your interest here are all our how to blogs. If you...
Traditionally business intelligence is an enterprise solution, as only big businesses have multiple sources that require integration and analysis. It is assumed that the rest are small fishes that could be able to analyse their data with simpler accessible tools or...
When a user starts and runs code in a SAS session, a number of temporary folders and files are created in the SASWork and SASUtil locations. If that session completed and exits normally these folders and files are removed, however some SAS sessions exit abnormally,...
Reporting and analytics computations are usually very resource-consuming, therefore they are never executed on the same server where the crucial business application is running. Instead, data is copied into dedicated servers to be dissected and studied for insights....
Woohoo we've got a new website! If you're reading this blog you're already on it and we reckon you should click a few extra buttons than you were planning to and go check it out... Data really does make anything possible, and we're here to help you harness data...
One of the things many developers love about MongoDB and other NoSQL databases is the ability to store flexible objects in their native format. When you walk around the office singing its praises, experienced developers chime in and tell you that this is a quick path...