July 2015 - BI and Predictive Analytics

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SQL Server Polybase (2016)

July 20, 2015 by Derek Leave a Comment

What is SQL Server Polybase? Coming in SQL Server 2016 is the ability to query relational tables as well as data stored in Hadoop or Azure Blob storage. This technology will allow you to continue to leverage SQL Server for your data warehousing and access data stored in different formats and technologies to combine data … [Read more…]

HASSUG BI Developer Presentation on 7/14/2015

July 19, 2015 by Derek Leave a Comment

I presented on how to become a BI developer at the Houston Area SQL Server User Group (HASSUG). This session resulted from feedback we received in the user group on differences between database developers and BI developers. If you are interested in seeing the presentation content it is uploaded here: Becoming a bi developer from … [Read more…]

Tabular Modeling with SQL Server Analysis Services Cookbook – Context
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Power BI Key Influencers Analytics Example
What is Power BI Key Influencers Visualization? The Power BI Key Influencers visualization is designed to help you understand what data impacts the metric you are interested in. For example, I used the Titanic dataset to see what data was influencing the survival of a passenger. In this example, I want to see what factors […]
5 Keys to Get Employees Using Your Dashboards
Get Employees Using Your Dashboards I frequently work with companies that have existing reports and dashboards in place from legacy platforms. Often I hear that they invested in the product and built a solution and then were unhappy with the adoption by their employees. This is more common than it should be and has left […]

BI and Predictive Analytics

Leveraging Data to Make Better Decisions

Month: July 2015

SQL Server Polybase (2016)

HASSUG BI Developer Presentation on 7/14/2015