This morning’s keynote was opened with a SQL-themed song (written by Rob Farley) performed by the dynamic duo, Rob Farley and Buck Woody. Here are links to videos: Keynote Intro with the performance (excluding lyrics) Keynote Intro with ”I Should Have Looked the Other Way” Lyrics Thanks go also to Wayne Snyder (@SQLWayne) who, as immediate past [...]

As a business intelligence consultant, I often encounter the situation described in this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by Steve Jones ( Blog | Twitter) – “What the Business Says Is Not What the  Business Wants.” Steve posed the question, “What issues have you had in interacting with the business to get your job done?” My [...]

If you’re a business intelligence practitioner like me, you might have certain expectations from a book entitled Business Intelligence Success Factors: Tools for Aligning your Business in the Global Economy. You might think it contains lots of practical examples for implementing BI projects. Or if you’re someone who uses (or wants to use) BI in [...]

Winding down on the authoring process of my latest book, Building Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008 R2 & Office 2010, I decided to look at my calendar to see what I should work on next, and saw that I have a lot of presentations to prepare! Here’s a list of events planned [...]