The phrase business intelligence is pretty old, 1958. In the early 90’s the term came to refer to the “concepts and methods to improve business decision making by using fact based systems.” So business intelligence is the means for taking all of the data in your organization and pull out the relationships. By finding these…
Month: March 2008
SQL Session – Automating Perfmon & Trace
If you’re not already a member of the Charlotte SQL Server User Group, go now and sign up. This group is a great resource of knowledge and connections to the SQL Server community in Charlotte, NC. Their plan is to get together once a month and discuss a new and interesting topic on SQL Server….
Killer Feature Reporting Services 2008
Reporting Services in SQL server 2005 does amazing things. But it has one drawback. To make it fly you have to be using Visual Studio. That’s fine for us, the IT Professionals, but what about the rest of your staff, the non-IT Professionals? They get report builder which is very easy to use but is…