Douglas McDowell

Douglas McDowell is director of Business Intelligence at Solid Quality Learning, a SQL Server MVP, and a charter member of the Professional Association of SQL Server Regional Mentor program. He is an MCSE, an MCDBA, an MCT, and winner of Microsoft's Worldwide Business Intelligence Solution of the Year.
Email: dmcdowell@solidq.com

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Master Data Management Challenges

By Douglas McDowell, 01/25/2008

Microsoft is rebuilding Stratature's MDM solution for release later this year, so it's smart to start talking about MDM now.

My PerformancePoint Server Wish List

By Douglas McDowell, 12/18/2007

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 can enhance your BI and BPM capabilities. But the product could be even better—here's a wish list for new features and for how to ...

A Total BI Solution from Dell and Microsoft

By Douglas McDowell, 11/12/2007

Can’t Wait for SQL Server 2008!

By Douglas McDowell, 10/25/2007

Maybe it’s not too soon for SQL Server 2008, especially when you consider how 2008 offers strong BI enhancements in three key areas: Reporting Services, Database Services, and ...

2007 PASS Community Summit and PerformancePoint 2007 Launch

By Douglas McDowell, 09/25/2007

4 Darn Good Reasons for Not Building Cubes on Transactional Systems

By Douglas McDowell, 09/20/2007

Don't build that cube! OLTP–based cubes are usually poorly designed for BI and contain dirty data. Still not convinced? There's more.

Reasons Why You Might Think You Should Build a Cube on a Transactional Data Model

By Douglas McDowell, 09/20/2007

SSAS lets developers create OLAP cubes based on relational data models that aren't designed for BI. Does this mean you should build a cube? No, but here are some reasons why you ...

Back-to-Back SQL Server 2008 CTPs

By Douglas McDowell, 08/24/2007

What's the Best Way to Carve Up a SAN?

By Douglas McDowell, 08/22/2007

Your SAN engineer might not know the finer points of BI database storage. To stave off trouble, you need to be involved in the SAN configuration process.