Category Archives: Trends

The data explosion: Welcome to the era of analytics

The data explosion: Welcome to the era of analytics

With this glut of data, new analytics and Business Insight (BI) software have been developed to enable businesses to access previously unavailable data. Ten years ago, BI projects garnered little attention and investment compared to other enterprise systems like CRMs.

October 2019 Roundup: Virtual DBA Service Q2 2019 Roadmap, Azure Illuminate, SQL Server 2019, Analytics and BI Trends

October 2019 Roundup: Virtual DBA Service Q2 2019 Roadmap, Azure Illuminate, SQL Server 2019, Analytics and BI Trends

Last week I spent the week in the UK assisting organisations accelerate their journey to Azure with modern data warehouse solutions. Whilst in the UK, I spent the night in Chester.

SQL Server Security Auditing: Checking Who Has Access to What

SQL Server Security Auditing: Checking Who Has Access to What

With changes often needed around security to ensure people have access, how does an organisation ensure who has what level of access? How can you identify potential security threats? The answer is to review or audit the security of your SQL Server environment on a regular basis. Here’s our suggestions for what to consider including in a SQL security audit:

May 2019 Roundup: WARDY IT Solutions’ feature on Industry Leaders, Azure Billing Models, Power BI Automation

May 2019 Roundup: WARDY IT Solutions' feature on Industry Leaders, Azure Billing Models, Power BI Automation

Last week I spent some time judging the final presentations for the Information Systems Consulting course at QUT. I am part of the QUT Alumni and it was good to spend some time back where I first gained an interest in Information Technology. The students had a fictious customer project where they needed to design a marketing solution and present this to their cohort.

April 2019 Roundup

April 2019 - SQL Server News Stories Roundup

Over the last few days my daughter has been in hospital with repository issues. The last time I spent any time in a hospital was when my wife gave birth to this bundle of joy in the same hospital 19 months ago. In this time the technology in the hospital has changed dramatically, with each nurse now empowered with a mobile phone running a number of health applications to measure and capture vital statics.

January 2019 Roundup

January 2019 SQL Server News Roundup

Whether a business has its doors open or not, they are still a 24×7 operation with systems that need to run, overnight processes and websites to take orders. The database environment underpins these operations and it’s vital these critical systems are effectively managed, no matter what time of the day or night.