Monthly Archives: December 2016

Wet Monkeys and a New Year

Soon many of us will be singing Robert Burns’ poem “Auld Land Syne”, and depending on the amount of alcohol consumed it may or may not sound similar to its Scottish origins. As this final post of 2016, a new...
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Finding your focus in a big ocean of ideas

If you have not heard of EOS (Enterprise Operating System) , it is a set of operating tools and concepts aimed at helping businesses grow and operate efficiently.   There are many consultants out there doing very similar things, but the...
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Data flow in decoupled solutions

Many of the current products we have released into the wild are using an architecture such that the standard product is not tightly coupled with any particular sites custom ETL transforms. We gain many benefits from this approach, such as:...
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The Seven Sins against TSQL Performance

SQL MVP Grant Fritchey posted his “The Seven Deadly Sins against TSQL Performance” article quite a while ago, but it is still relevant today. If you are new to TSQL, or just want to understand some common things that kill...
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When acronyms are out of control and the new face of healthcare

Recently I was reading an article Jim put me onto: Measuring health care performance is their business, and business is good. It talks about the many businesses that have sprung up to take advantage of complexities health providers have in...
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