Runs the consulting firm IN2BI (www.in2bi.com) dedicated to helping companies get the most out of their investment in Microsoft Business Intelligence tools. His field of interest is broad and ranges from presenting relevant information in dashboards and reports to efficiently collecting data in data warehouses.
He is the architect behind the following BI products:
- Webdashboard from his previous company In Summa (www.insumma.nl)
- Het DWH Deck from IN2BI.
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The requirements of a Data Warehouse solution continually change during its life time. For some organizations you’ll typically expect more changes than others. Think of maturity, history of organizational changes: mergers, acquisitions etc. You should adopt a solution type that will yield the ...
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I figured this out a few years ago but forgot most of it. With a new blazing fast lap-top and only one instance of SQL Server running these services automatically at start-up wasn’t a big problem. But now after installing SQL2012 I felt the need to set these services to manually start-up and wrote ...
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Fact- and dimension tables in our data warehouses are queried often. The queries used in our reports and the queries used for processing SSAS cubes create a large workload of select queries. These “select” queries benefit from indexes and will return results faster with appropriate indexes. ...
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Microsoft published the licensing options and prices. Two aspects stand out: A new edition: Business Intelligence (between Standard- and Enterprise Edition) A move to core based licensing (from processor based) The main editions and the differences in functionality: Standard ...
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Microsoft made significant Business Intelligence investments in SQL Server since 2000.
The next (2012) release will also include many new BI features. In the next posts I will explore some of these features. This post will act as an overview of / index to these articles:
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