Author: Johnny

Posted on: October 24, 2017 Posted by: Johnny Comments: 0

Should you trust your gut, when making a decision?

Your gut should play a role in your decision making. Understanding how to incorporate your guts value, makes big difference. Don’t solely rely on it, and don’t ignore it. Follow the three steps, and you can trust your gut.

Posted on: March 12, 2016 Posted by: Johnny Comments: 0

Cardinality: The Power of Leverage and how to use it in your business.

Cardinality is the “lever” of relational databases. It’s what allows one table to “relate” to another table. The classic example is to think of a customer table and a sales order table. One customer may have several orders. However, you don’t want to have to repeat all the information about that customer on every sales order.

Posted on: April 3, 2014 Posted by: Johnny Comments: 0

Reconciliations: From raw to report

It’s 2am and you’re reconciling data. Something’s off, and it’s hard to tell where. I wrote about how to cut data reconciliations by 90% before, but here’s a different spin on reconciliations: look at it from creation to display. What you need to do is jump from the end of the problem to the beginning of the problem. Here’s my suggestion on how to do this:

Posted on: April 16, 2012 Posted by: Johnny Comments: 0

7 Steps That Save You Hours of Troubleshooting

The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model is used all the time, we just don’t think about it in these terms. While there are 7 layers to the model we don’t always need to use all of them. Using the process is what is most important

Posted on: March 26, 2012 Posted by: Johnny Comments: 0

Certified Bull

A certification seal for bull. Use it in PowerPoint presentation or Word and Excel documents.

Posted on: March 23, 2012 Posted by: Johnny Comments: 0

What Major Company Online Privacy Changes Mean For You

Our currency in an online environment is our behavior tracking. Where we go online, what we buy, who we buy from, who we are connected with, and what we think about brands/companies/issues are what we pay with in exchange for free searches, social networking, and entertainment.

Posted on: January 27, 2012 Posted by: Johnny Comments: 0

2011 Was About Changing Your Mind

2011 was about changing your mind. Why the change? What happened that caused this change? Are we getting to a point in business where we’re being transparent with our customers, and as a result we see what’s normally been discussed behind closed doors?

Posted on: October 8, 2011 Posted by: Johnny Comments: 0

How to learn faster and get up to speed

YouTube is an amazing tool for learning languages and programs. A perfect example is SteveFox1973 who makes basic Microsoft’s Sql Server Integration Services (SSIS) videos.