I spend a lot of time interviewing candidates for various positions at Key2. I am generally conducting preliminary phone screens to gauge interest, personality, and manage expectations. The one thing I always listen for in the first conversation I have with a candidate is – do you enjoy what you do? Do you like the [...]
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What is a Great Consultant?
We are currently looking for great consultants to join our growing team. It is a very simple thing to say, but not an easy thing to find. Great consultants come in many different forms. Great does not relate to years of experience or skill level, the number of college degrees obtained, or even the number [...]
Step By Step PowerPivot using Excel Data
This post is a step by step beginner’s guide to PowerPivot. I will show the basics of creating a PowerPivot workbook using Excel data. PowerPivot has dramatically improved the way in which we can analyze our data in Excel. Using PowerPivot in an Excel PivotChart provides the added benefit of Slicers. Slicers are a cool new [...]
SQL PASS Summit – Day 1
I am here at the SQL Pass Summit in Seattle. Yes it is raining. The Day 1 Key Note had the standard welcome note, how SQL PASS is doing, get excited for the week….. They then went into several quick demos of the new products • Parallel Data warehouse (PDW) A scalable approach for storing [...]
Atlanta Microsoft BI Users Group
The Atlanta Microsoft Business Intelligence Users Group is having it’s 1st meeting tonight. The group is a chapter of PASS and is focused on Microsoft BI. The kickoff meeting will be “Self-service BI with PowerPivot” by Teo Lachev Monday, Aug 23 6:30PM Matrix Resources 115 Perimeter Center Place Suite 250 (South Terraces Building) Atlanta, GA [...]


March 29th, 2011
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