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• Agile Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2012 Q&A

  Yesterday has been published my Q&A interview on my Pre-Conference Workshop at SQL Pass 2012 . It’s a good way to understand what will be discussed in the workshop, so if you’re interested or you’re into the Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Read More... Posted Thursday, August 30, 2012 4:38 PM by Davide Mauri | 0 Comments Filed under: Adaptive, Agile, Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse, Engineering, PASS, Summit

• “Adaptive BI: Engineering a BI Solution” slides available

  Many thanks to all who attented to my webcast on Monday. I really appreciated your feedbacks and I already got some very interesting suggestion that I’ll surely implement. If you have more feedbacks you can leave them here: http://speakerrate.com/talks/4577-adaptive-bi-engineering-a-bi-solution Read More... Posted Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:09 AM by Davide Mauri | 0 Comments Filed under: Adaptive, Agile, Business Intelligence, PASS

• BI Virtual Chapter: “Adaptive BI: Engineering a BI Solution”

  On the next 20th Semptember I’ll deliver a session on a topic that is IMHO really important but is not yet covered enough: Adaptive BI: Engineering a BI Solution Are you starting to create a BI solution....but where do you begin with? How to setup everything Read More... Posted Thursday, September 09, 2010 12:54 PM by Davide Mauri | 0 Comments Filed under: 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, Agile, Best Practices, Business Intelligence, Engineering

• Engineering BI (Or “On my PASS seminar”, prelude)

  I’ve always stated that creating a software solution is half and art and half an engineering process. Just like building an house, or a car, or any mechanical or electrical device, the art is that part of the work where someone has to create something Read More... Posted Saturday, August 28, 2010 4:27 PM by Davide Mauri | 7 Comments Filed under: Agile, Business Intelligence, Engineering

• QueryUnit 0.0.0.8 – Trust No One

  Yesterday I’ve release an updated version of QueryUnit, the version 0.0.0.8. QueryUnit now supports AreNotEqual, Greater, and Less assertions and is more capable of managing strings results. I must say that I cannot live anymore without a proper Unit Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:22 AM by Davide Mauri | 2 Comments Filed under: Agile, Business Intelligence, QueryUnit, Unit Testing

• The importance of Unit Testing in BI

  One of the main steps in the process we internally use to develop a BI solution is the implementation of Unit Test of you BI Data. As you may already know, I’ve create a simple (for now) tool that leverages NUnit to allow us to quickly create Unit Testing Read More... Posted Thursday, April 01, 2010 7:50 PM by Davide Mauri | 2 Comments Filed under: Agile, Business Intelligence, QueryUnit, Unit Testing

• QueryUnit POC v.0.0.0.6

  Yesterday I released a new version of QueryUnit , a tool I've created to easily perform unit testing on SQL Server and Analysis Services databases. The main feature of this new version is the ability to automatically launch the NUnit GUI so that it’s Read More... Posted Sunday, October 11, 2009 12:02 PM by Davide Mauri | 0 Comments Filed under: Agile, QueryUnit, Unit Testing

• SET IDENTITY_INSERT little bug(?)

  While I was working on a package to incrementally load a dimension in the DWH I’m developing for a customer, I stumbled upon a tricky little bug (I think, I still have to have a response from MS) that had – and will have – a little impact on how I create Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 8:52 AM by Davide Mauri | 5 Comments Filed under: Agile, Business Intelligence, Integration Services, SQL Server, SSIS, T-SQL

• QueryUnit Binaries Released

  Due to several requests I’ve also released the binaries of QueryUnit: http://queryunit.codeplex.com/ Enjoy! Read More... Posted Friday, July 31, 2009 6:16 PM by Davide Mauri | 0 Comments Filed under: Agile, QueryUnit, Unit Testing

• Agile BI Development: QueryUnit is born!

  Having a developer background I’m used to work trying to apply an Agile approach to projects. In these last years I focused my work primary on BI projects, and so I tried to apply an Agile approach also to them, since I really believe that Agile is the Read More... Posted Monday, July 27, 2009 7:29 PM by Davide Mauri | 6 Comments Filed under: Agile, Business Intelligence, QueryUnit, Unit Testing