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I’m at the Microsoft BI Conference in Seattle and thought it might be worthwhile trying to keep a blog of all the hot news at it unfolds.  My record in this area isn’t great – I only managed part one of two parts when I tried to blog about the 3-peaks walk in 2007 so the chances of seeing another blog on this subject are about the same as ...

    I'm back! It’s been a while since my last blog post but reader-pressure has forced me to come out of retirement. Firstly I received an email from Tammy Freeman asking me the following: “One of my tasks at work is to come up with documentation on cost-efficient training plans for … data architecture.  We are ...

The NFL came to the UK the other week, when the New York Dreadnoughts took on the Miami Flange Brackets at the “Wembley Bowl” in London (England).  Apparently one million people applied for tickets to see 120 fat men rolling around in the mud, a claim not quite backed up by the 9000 empty seats in the stadium.  Still, it was ...

 ….I couldn't believe I was only at the half way point. After bitter arguments, stress, rain lashing into my face, arms aching and sweat running into my eyes due to being overburdened by the amount of gear I was carrying, I started the long trudge back to the agreed meeting point…. This was my journey back to rain ...

It's becoming increasingly common for me to walk into the office and be asked I would be able to spare half an hour to install 250GB of RAID 5 disk in a development server.    Like many of our clients, my co-workers are confused by the roles and increasingly grand titles we consultants have given ...

For the last 20 years, the “largest, heaviest and most unusual object” ever found at the summit of Ben Nevis is a piano.  On  July 14th, that record will be broken not once, but twice by the 2007 Conchango 3-Peaks Challenge team*. The challenge consists of climbing the UK’s three highest mountains – Snowdon, ...

I've just returned from my local supermarket where I went for a bit of shopping and to buy some cold and flu remedy for the family.  The supermarket is unfortunately situated adjacent to a slaughter house - if the wind is blowing in the wrong direction, as it was today, the walk from the car to the store is one filled with ...

It has been a while since my last post.  There are a number of reasons for this - lack of time, the fact that blogging comes quite low on my list of fun things to do and mainly because the blog posts I had lined up on my laptop were dealt a severe blow following a United Airlines flight from LAX to Oakland (where my ...

In my last post I explained a little about the Master Data Management (MDM) problem that we have faced on my current project. At its very core building an MDM system is a data modelling exercise and in this post I'm going to talk about the data model iterations that we have gone through in an attempt to solve the problem. In order to talk ...