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It Is Not About The Metadata!
A while back I was at a meeting in which the topic of discussion was how hard it was to find any documents on the SharePoint portal. The site collection in question was created four years ago and...
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Putting Quality Into Your Data – Part 2
Part 1 can be found at: http://sharepointmike.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/ If you previously installed SQL Server 2012 on a test machine but did not specifically select Data Quality Services (DQS) (the...
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February is History Month
February is designated as Black History month. Isn’t that just a bit prejudice? No, I am not saying the issue is as simple as being black or white. What I am asking though is what about all the...
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DQS – Building Your First Knowledge Base Domain
This week I want to take a look at how I can clean a column of names in an Excel spreadsheet using Data Quality Services (DQS). The fact that I am going to clean an Excel column instead of a SQL...
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Knowing When It Is Time To Start Over
Perhaps you have been in IT for a long time or perhaps you are just getting started. In either case, one of the hardest things to learn is knowing when to start over. If you have been in the business...
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DQS – Managing Your Domain Values
Last week I showed how to build a new domain for my knowledge base, but the domain contained a lot of similar values. In some cases the customer name was ordered as first name then last name. In...
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It Is Just Too Hard … NOT!
I saw my first glimpse of Windows 8 over six months ago at a local SharePoint Saturday event and shortly after that downloaded and installed the beta on my laptop to start getting familiar with it. I...
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DQS – Cleaning a Data File With Your New DQS Domain
With my initial customer domain created, I am ready to start cleaning customer names in Excel files or SQL tables. To begin, I open the DQS client home screen and select the option: New Data Quality...
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New Research: Similars Attract! Really?
A recent article in the Los Angeles Times from a research group at Binghamton University Binghamton N.Y. reported substantial evidence that the company we keep in high school affects everything from...
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What is Up With PowerPivot in Office 2013?
Just about two years ago I discovered this remarkable tool called PowerPivot and was blown away by two important facts. First this add-in to Excel 2010 allowed me to manipulate millions of rows of...
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Global Warming/Climate Change – Is It Real?
Every time the temperature gets too hot in the summer or too cold in the winter, or too windy, or too rainy, or too whatever, someone is either pointing at global warming as the reason or alternately...
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Tax Week-No Post
I’m neck-deep in taxes this week for my wife and my federal income tax, our daughter’s federal income tax and my deceased father-in-law’s federal and state income taxes. Please come back next week...
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An Ending – A New Beginning
Some of you know me personally and know how my wife has been battling cancer for the last three and half years. Others might know about her from a blog entry a few months back. I am sorry to tell you...
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Wisdom, Not Brilliance, Will Make a Difference
Ok, it has been a tough week for me, but I need to get back into things. I recently was catching up on listening to some of my older webcasts. One in particular from back in early 2009 caught my ear...
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Manually Building a Domain for DQS
Manually Building a Domain for DQS This week I return to my series on using DQS, Data Quality Services, which is a few functionality found in SQL Server 2012. I previously provided an introduction to...
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Remembering
It has been almost two weeks. In some ways it is hard to believe that you are gone. We were married for 12,577 days. Remember? I keep hoping that it is all a dream and I will wake up to see you...
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Using a Domain to Cleanse a SQL Table in DQS
Last time I showed how I can manually create a domain that could be used to clean SQL or Excel data. Did anybody try using it? I modified the AdventureWork Department table by making a few changes...
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Capturing Customers at IKEA
You may not all have a local IKEA store so I will start with a little background. IKEA is a store that sells ‘affordable’ home furniture and household items. Yes, a lot of the furniture requires...
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Removing Your Test DQS Projects
This week I have a short but important piece of information to share with you as you begin to explore Data Quality Services with some test data and test projects. If you have not only been following...
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Personally Identifiable Information – Beyond SSN
It seems that most people are now aware that collecting SSN information from people and storing it a computer system is a risk to that person’s identity protection. However, the risk does not stop...
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