Thoughts on Data Vault and Automation
Thoughts on Data Vault and Automation There is a really great discussion going on with samples and all. A must read for BI professionals. Click on the title to go to the blog.
Thoughts on Data Vault and Automation There is a really great discussion going on with samples and all. A must read for BI professionals. Click on the title to go to the blog.
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During my evaluation of several data warehouse automation tools such as BIReady, Quipu and RapidAce, I have come to some sort of conclusion that is crucial to the success of using these tools. As most of these tools take the source data models as a starting point, you better make sure it is correctly modeled. …
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The issue that I had with the ODBC connection has been solved. I was using a 64-bit driver and should have been using the 32-bit driver for MySQL. Thanks to Jan Vos of BIReady for helping me out! I will now continue my evaluation and post an update soon. However, I’m under NDA, so I …
Last weekend I received the demo license for BIReady and tried to play with it. However, I wanted to make it a real case study and not use the included demo databases which were already shown to me. And there I stumbled on the first issue. BIReady’s repository must be a MS Access database, something …