
Vista and Cognos 8
I recently received my new company laptop; a fancy Thinkpad T61 with a 100Gb 72ooRpm HDD, 2Gig of memory and a Core 2 Duo. In short, a nice toy to play with. It came with Windows Vista pre-installed. Although this new OS looked quite spectacular on the 15″ widescreen, the changes are not all good. […]
MDX Basics - part 2
A couple of weeks ago I posted an article named MDX Basics - Part 1, of course, this title already suggested a second edition. In reaction to a comment on the first post (by Johan), this MDX is mainly targeted at Cognos products, although I believe it should be roughly the same for other […]
Wij zijn geen Nerds!
I am sorry, but this post is in Dutch. There were simply too many dutch verbal expressions, so it would be impossible to translate and still keep the underlying message intact.
Wij zijn geen BI Nerds! (deel 1)
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Fire and Forget: ETL and metadata
I’m a strong proponent of ‘fire and forget’. Once it’s built, ETL should just go to work and continue to work without failing. You shouldn’t need a whole army of administrators to keep your data warehouse filled with juicy up-to-date facts. Data logistics should be managed by exception, not by process.
This might seem like a […]






