My Job
This is from a recent assignment I submitted. I thought it was relevant and decided to share. Enjoy! ~~ Business Intelligence Developer Position My position is ...
Author: bsullins
Life-long data geek, full-time author, and wannabe surfer dude
Short response to Sanju Bansal about BI and Performance
BI interfaces trying to make queries faster is a valiant effort
Centralized Business Intelligence
My approach as a BI professional has always been to organize the data into conformed structures, present that to end users for consumption in their ad-hoc analy...
SSRS 2008 Add-In for MOSS 2007
Quick one here…I was recently setting up a SSRS 2008 dev environment integrated with a MOSS 2007 dev environment and encountered some strange problems wit...
SSIS 2008 Package Configuration Issue
SSIS 2005 configuration strategy does not work in SSIS 2008
SSIS Event Log Business Intelligence
Tracking performance of SSIS processes using an ETL data mart
Microsoft Healthcare User Group Presentation
Wow, what a day yesterday. Gave a presentation at the Microsoft Healthcare User Group Conference with Rick Garcia of Methodist hospital to two completely packed...
Democratizing Business Intelligence using Gemini
If you’ve not heard of Gemini yet you’re in for a treat. I found these videos on youtube yesterday of the Gemini demo from the BI conference last ye...
Building a Project Timeline in MS Excel
Below is a recent screencast I recorded showing how to build a project timeline (gannt chart style) using MS Excel. It’s simple and easy and works great f...
Excel Tip – Defaulting to Non-Compatibility Mode
I was recently fighting with Excel because I was sick of it wanting to run in Compatibility Mode by default. Everything I found out there said that you simply n...