By: Brad Lathrop How the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Impacting Data Industries We wrote an article earlier this year that discusses three of the most important business intelligence trends for 2020, which were derived from an excellent annual research...
By: Matt Wisor In early November, Microsoft announced the release of Azure Synapse Analytics at the Ignite Conference in Orlando. The new analytics service is intended to help businesses bring data warehousing and big data together for deeper, more...
By: Andy Kim Introduction If you ask a SQL professional to name some data types, you might hear: varchar, int, datetime, decimal, or something to that effect. Rarely do people mention the spatial data types of: geography and geometry. This is because most SQL...
By: Matt Wollner Power BI Desktop has been on a roll with monthly updates making it easier for users to get insight out of their data. Drag and drop visualizations are making it easier than ever to craft simple, complete dashboards. The highlighting...
By: Jeff Levy SQL Server 2019 – Key Features At the 2018 Pass Summit conference in Seattle, I had the opportunity to attend many sessions about the new Big Data features being introduced in SQL Server 2019. One of Microsoft’s biggest announcements...
By: Matt Wollner KICKOFF! Fantasy football season is back, and if you’ve done any research at all, you’ve probably noticed that the number of websites offering player projections is endless. You – if you’re like most people – probably have a site...
