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Author Archives: Eric Wisdahl
Book Review: SQL Server Hardware
Overview First off, I really enjoyed this book. I have been following Glenn Berry’s posts for a few years now and when I heard that he was finally going to write up his musings on the aspects of hardware as … Continue reading
Pool League Project: Post 1 Introduction
Overview Our pool league generally plays once a week (we miss some weeks for holidays and events). To this point there have been 9 “seasons”, only the past two or three of which I have been a part. However, we … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Intelligence, Pool League Project, Samples
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Book Review–Database Benchmarking
Database Benchmarking by Mike Ault, Kevin Kline, Dr. Bert Scalzo, Claudia Fernandez, Donald K. Burleson Overview I will give this book one thing, it was relatively easy to read. I finished it in just a few days while working on … Continue reading
2012–Goals
A Look Forward This year I think that my goals will be focused a little differently, probably a little more on home life with some of the events I have planned for this year. Some of these will be boring … Continue reading
2011–A look back
A Look Back As has been my habit for the past few years, I wrote out goals at the beginning of 2011. I try to no longer make resolutions, as I am not sure that resolutions are really a good … Continue reading
Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA
Overview From the moment I heard that Jonathan Kehayias and Ted Krueger were writing a book together (and that Gail Shaw was going to be doing the Technical Editing) I knew that I would be grabbing it as soon as … Continue reading
Expert Cube Development with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
Overview I have had my eye on this book for awhile as I have been looking for a good analysis services book. After it was recommended to me a few times at the PASS Summit, and after looking at it … Continue reading
SQL Saturday #85 Orlando, FL
So, this post is long overdue. I was able to go down to SQL Saturday #85 in Orlando on 24 September 2011 and I had a bunch of fun doing so. Speaker’s Party Well, we got rained out a little … Continue reading
SQL Saturday #89 Atlanta, GA Recap
Yet another great event has come and gone. Even though the drive was somewhat long and painful to get up to Atlanta (Alpharetta), I still had a blast. There were so many great presentations going on that it was extremely … Continue reading
Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit (2nd Edition)
I believe I bought this book a week or two after it came out (January 2008) with the intention of reading it immediately. Unfortunately, life happens and I have no idea what came up but I’m sure it was good. … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Review, Data Modeling, Data Quality, Data Warehouse, ETL
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