Today’s webcast will be all about Power BI – and setting up a solution. Click here to register (it’s free) Here’s the description: Power BI has a many moving parts that can make it difficult to know when and where each part of the tool is necessary. In this session you will get a clear end to end journey through […]

I saw a recent post talking about the failure of Big Data Projects… and it made me wonder about the metrics we would use to judge success/failure. I know that there are very well worn statistics about more traditional projects and the failure rate at companies when it come to waterfall methods and such. The statistics that I’ve seen are […]

Clearly, “data” on its own isn’t very helpful. That’s like saying “let’s look at a bunch of numbers, k?” and then presenting your worksheet with columns of information with no headings, no indication of what you’re looking at or what it represents. Yikes. You won’t have that position for very long. The job of making sense of it all is […]

Choosing a provider is incredibly important when it comes to the cloud. There are some fundamental differences in approach between the providers. There are several components to selecting a provider and, for a while now, I’ve felt like one of the biggies is less obvious – the approach you want to take to managing your resources. My own experience with […]

Sessions, sessions and more sessions. From experts, authors and MVPs that are really here to share their expertise and lessons learned… free. Doesn’t get any better. You can register today! I’m really excited about the upcoming SSWUG.org Virtual Conference. Where other online events (and even some in-person events!) have a few sessions about SQL Server that you have to pick […]

It’s incredible what you can do with your data centers, the ease of access to functionality, tools and such is increasing daily, and already stunning. It does come with a cost. I was reading this article from DBTA and I think they hit the nail on the head for why cloud services may surprise some people when it comes to […]

I’m a huge fan of Watson and the technology behind it. This is an interesting partnership on a few different levels – and it raises some questions as well. Essentially, the overall partnership between IBM and Salesforce is one of adding new intelligence and machine learning to customers that are shared between the two providers. Presumably, you can combine the […]

Self-driving cars, hosted and shared environments, apps, tools and sites. We expect them to work, work correctly, and work always. Is this too high a standard? Now, before I am accused of excusing providers, I’m not. I expect that Amazon’s S3 systems will remain online and available as advertised. I expect that Microsoft’s login services and email and such will […]

There is a free webcast today – and you have time to register (assuming you’re catching this in the morning, or want to watch on-demand a bit later). Here’s the description of the session: Data science is becoming an increasingly influential practice within organizations. In this session we will cover how to build data science teams, with a focus on […]