Mistakes to Avoid in a BI Platform Migration
Chris Webb covers five things to consider when migrating your BI platform, using Power BI as an example: Every report has a data source and getting source data in the right format for your BI platform...
View ArticleHistorical Dimensions in a Kimball-Style Model
Vince Iacoboni takes a stab at improving the Kimball model: We owe a lot to Ralph Kimball and friends. His practical warehouse design and conformed-dimension bus architecture are the industry...
View ArticleThe Power of the Star Schema
Patrick LeBlanc explains why star schemas are so important for Power BI: Are you using a flat table in your Power BI report? You may be missing out! Patrick explores what a STAR SCHEMA is and why you...
View ArticleData Mesh and Ownership Strategies
James Serra aims to clear up some confusion: I have done a ton of research lately on Data Mesh (see the excellent Building a successful Data Mesh – More than just a technology initiative for more...
View ArticleFun with Excel Cube Functions
Chris Webb has a new series on Excel cube functions combined with Lambda helper functions. First up, Chris collects items from a set: This example shows the fundamental problem that has always existed...
View ArticleDiving into Data Mesh
Ust Oldfield has a series on data mesh. First up is a primer on the topic: What is a Data Mesh? Data Mesh is new and was introduced in a few articles by Zhamak Dehghani, starting in May 2019. The...
View ArticleInterchangability between ADF and Synapse Integration Pipelines
Paul Andrew makes a discovery: Inspired by an earlier blog where we looked at ‘How Interchangeable Delta Tables Are Between Databricks and Synapse‘ I decided to do a similar exercise, but this time...
View ArticleSeven Principles for BI Skill Development
Brett Powell thinks about first principles: Data and analytics languages should be prioritized far beyond graphical interface tools/software/services and should form a solid foundation of a skillset....
View ArticleDefining an Analytics Engineer
Ust Oldfield defines a term: Analytics Engineering, along with Data Engineering and Report Engineering, is a specialised subset of skills that would previously be the preserve of a Business...
View ArticleThe Basics of Fact-Dimensional Modeling
Nikola Ilic gives us a primer on Kimball-style fact and dimensional modeling: Before we come up to explain why dimensional modelling is named like that – dimensional, let’s first take a brief tour...
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