by XTIVIA | Dec 9, 2015 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Perspectives
What would you like your business intelligence program to look like two years from now? Imagine that your software applications shared common data, and that data was clearly defined and understood by those who managed and used it. Imagine business teams...
by Srinivas Vadde | Sep 19, 2015 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Databases, Enterprise Infrastructure
20 years ago when I got a 80386 Windows-95 PC with ¾ inch Floppy Drive, 4 MB RAM (I don’t remember the HDD capacity – I believe it was around 120MB or so) from my infrastructure guy, I felt like I’m hero on the street advertising to everyone the great piece of...
by XTIVIA | Jul 19, 2015 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Databases
SQL Server Integration Services offers a useful tool to analyze data before you bring it into your Data Warehouse. The Profile Task will store the analysis in an XML file, which you can view using the Data Profile Viewer. Before we review how to use the...
by Kathleen Long | Feb 27, 2015 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Management, Data Warehousing, Databases
Not all data will come from a SQL Server database when you are creating reports in SSRS. There will be times you will need to create a data source to .CSV files, Excel spreadsheets, and MS Access databases. Recently, I had a customer request setting up sample data...
by Kathleen Long | Dec 8, 2014 | Blog, Business Intelligence, Data Management, Data Warehousing, Databases
While doing research for an upcoming add on to our standard Health Checks, I have been reviewing the different option to set in the configuration file for SQL Server Reporting Services. There are memory settings which should be addressed, especially if you are running...
by XTIVIA | Oct 31, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Data Warehousing
So I encounter the looping chain of synonyms error every once in a while and it seems pretty simple to understand, though I thought I would take a minute to demonstrate how it works. ORA-01775: looping chain of synonyms – Basically means that you created a...
