MS Press Training Kit Exam 70-462 – A Review
This is a review of Training Kit Exam 70-462: Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases. It is written by Orin Thomas, Peter Ward, and boB Taylor (that’s how it appears on the book, not sure if...
View ArticleMicrosoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: The BISM Tabular Model – Review
The latest technical book I’m reading is Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services: The BISM Tabular Model, written by Marco Russo, Alberto Ferarri, and Chris Webb, published by Microsoft Press. This...
View ArticleMicrosoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services – A Review
The latest book I’ve been reading is Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services.The authors are Wee Hyong Tok, Rakesh Parida, Matt Masson, Xiaoning Ding, and Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, and the...
View ArticleMS Press Training Kit 70-461:Querying SQL Server 2012 – A Review
This post is my review of Microsoft Press Training Kit for Exam 70-461 Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2012. The authors are Itzik Ben-Gan, Dejan Sarka, and Ron Talmage. I’ve been taking Microsoft SQL...
View ArticleStrata RX Conference 2012 Video – A Review
This post is my review of the video set from the Strata RX Conference, held in San Francisco on October 16th – 17th 2012. I’m a SQL DBA for a company in the healthcare field, and as such I try to keep...
View ArticleMS Press TK for 70-463 – A Review
The last Microsoft certification exam I took was 70-448: SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence. Because that’s the freshest in my mind, and because I’m focusing more on the BI side of SQL lately, I’ve...
View ArticleMicrosoft SQL Server 2012 Step by Step – A Review
The latest tech book I’ve been reading is Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Step by Step, written by Patrick LeBlanc and published by Microsoft Press. This is an excellent book for anyone new to SQL. If your...
View ArticleMicrosoft Excel 2013 Inside Out – A Review
It seems like I’ve been using Excel for as long as I’ve been using computers, and I like to think of myself as a power user. I’m familiar with how to create pivot tables, how to write VBA functions,...
View ArticleRelational Theory for Computer Professionals video – A Review
O’Reilly media has released a new video set, C.J. Date’s Relational Theory for Computer Professionals. Unlike his previous O’Reilly videos this set is for those who aren’t familiar with database design...
View ArticleThink Bayes – A Review
The latest technical book I’ve been reading is Think Bayes, written by Allen Downey and published by O’Reilly Press. Mr Downey has written a few other books, Think Python and Think Stats among them....
View ArticleStrata RX Conference 2013 Videos – A Review
I’ve been working for a company in the healthcare field, first as a developer and currently as a SQL database administrator, for a number of years now. Lately I’m becoming more and more interested in...
View ArticleAnonymizing Health Data – A Review
This post is my review of the book Anonymizing Health Data, written by Khaled El Emam and Luc Arbuckle and published by O’Reilly Press. I work with patient data in my job as a database administrator....
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