O'Reilly Network -- Open Tools for MySQL Administrators

O'Reilly Network -- Open Tools for MySQL Administrators

How to Succeed in Business - Editorial - CIO

How to Succeed in Business - Editorial - CIO: "Has technology hit a tipping point in terms of its relevance and importance to the business?
I think so. In the early '90s, I would have characterized the CIO grade card [this way]: being under budget, enabling the company to grow and keeping the systems running. Those were the main drivers that could get you a decent grade as a CIO.
You still have to do those things. But now the world-class companies are saying, 'How can IT really help us change the world? How can IT help me change my business model and change our game against the competition?' That's the biggest fundamental shift."

Chris Webb's BI Blog: Time Utility Hierarchies (again) and Attribute Overwrite

Chris Webb's BI Blog: Time Utility Hierarchies (again) and Attribute Overwrite: "A few weeks ago I got emailed by my friend and ex-colleague Jon Axon (who is now - quick plug - working for a startup run by another friend of mine, Data Intelligence, doing cool stuff with pharmaceutical market research data and Analysis Services) highlighting some weird behaviour with calculations generated by the Time Intelligence Wizard. What he did was use the Time Intelligence Wizard to create a time utility hierarchy on the Date dimension in Adventure Works and then add the following, very straightforward previous period growth calculation to it:"