Tag Archives: Business Intelligence

Pop Tarts and Hurricanes

Posted on August 24, 2011 by way0utwest

What do people buy most of before a hurricane? Wal-Mart determined that batteries are the number ones sales item before a hurricane, but the second most sold item was surprising: pop-tarts. That’s the type of intelligence that can come from … Continue reading →

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The Face of BI for SQL Server

Posted on January 20, 2011 by way0utwest

Donald Farmerannounced recently that he was leaving Microsoft for QlikView. For many people, Donald has been the face of BI for Microsoft. His many talks on all aspects of the platform have entertained and informed thousands of SQL Server professionals … Continue reading →

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Skunk Works

Posted on January 19, 2011 by way0utwest

The abstract at the top of this article is great: “Using SQL Server, you can build a BI platform without getting your organization’s top brass involved.” Not that I condone you going off on your own to do work without … Continue reading →

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Data Scientists

Posted on January 18, 2011 by way0utwest

Would you like to be a data scientist? In some sense I think that many of us working with SQL Server are amateur data scientists. Whether it’s building a report, or just writing code to summarize data, we are working … Continue reading →

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